The Will Cain Show (Full Episode) | January 14, 2026
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00:00Well, good afternoon. Live from Texas, this is the Will Cain Show, where we start with a Fox News
00:11alert.
00:42No end in sight to the chaos in Minneapolis. No court decision yet either on the immigration crackdown.
00:49This, as we're learning, the ICE agent struck by Rene Good's vehicle suffered internal bleeding to his torso.
00:57As a reminder, here's how his injuries were described by Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Fry.
01:03The ICE agent walked away with a hip injury that he might as well have gotten from closing a refrigerator
01:13door with his hips. He was not injured. I've seen worse injuries from doing that.
01:20And so give me a break. No, he was not ran over. He walked out of there with a hop in his step.
01:30Shameful, absurd. And the absurdity is really ramping up when it comes to other Democrats.
01:36Good afternoon. It's a cloudy day. It's one week
01:43from the horrifying
01:47murder
01:48that we all saw on video
01:51happen in Minnesota.
01:53Minnesota. And it is cloudy because we know that we're weeping at what we're seeing happen around the country.
02:02You know, if you're wondering who that Congresswoman is, she's the same one who said, quote,
02:09I'm Guatemalan with much pride before I am American.
02:13It seems that it is a cloudy day, raining.
02:17Elected officials who are very clear about which country comes first.
02:20And it's not ours.
02:22But back to Minnesota and Minnesota Democrats.
02:25Mayor Jacob Fry was on Fox News this morning with an interview with Griff Jenkins.
02:30And he says that none of this is actually about crime.
02:36We've worked with the DEA, the ATF, the FBI to prosecute and charge violent crime.
02:43We've worked to get perpetrators of violent gun crime off the street, narcotics off the street.
02:49In fact, the work that was conducted was so successful,
02:53it resulted in the lowest number of shootings on record on, for instance, the North Side.
02:59We are willing to work with people when it's about murder and when it's about crime.
03:05But the truth is that this ain't about that.
03:09So he says to you that it's actually not about crime.
03:13And that's something you're also hearing when Congresswoman Ilhan Omar says when it comes to crime, where's the proof?
03:19We've seen somebody already get murdered.
03:24We don't want to see anything like that take place.
03:28They have not been able to tell us what is the purpose for this search.
03:35They haven't been able to produce any evidence that they are finding people who are undocumented, who have committed crimes.
03:43So here's some evidence for the Congresswoman.
03:46I hope she's watching.
03:47I know that according to the ratings, it's probable we have your attention, Congresswoman.
03:52But I will go slow.
03:54The DHS literally highlighted the worst of the worst arrested in Minnesota just this week.
04:01Armed robbery, criminal sexual conduct, drug manufacturing.
04:06One of them has 12 criminal convictions.
04:09That seems like a purpose, an obvious one.
04:13But that evidence wasn't obvious to Jacob Frey.
04:18This, however, is the largest immigration enforcement action on record in the United States.
04:25And so I would just ask you, why is the largest scale immigration enforcement action taking place where we don't even have that many undocumented immigrants?
04:34Why would it not take place in Texas or Florida or Utah, where you do actually have those large numbers of undocumented immigrants?
04:42Because that's where it would actually make more sense.
04:45I can answer that question.
04:46I can answer the question as to Texas versus Florida versus Minnesota.
04:51The answer is priorities.
04:53Let me explain to you, or rather, let me have White House Borders Art, Tom Homan, explain what we mean by priorities.
05:02He explained it yesterday on Wilkane Country.
05:04Why is there a surge in Minneapolis?
05:08Because they're a sanctuary city, sanctuary state.
05:11If you let us in the jail to arrest the illegal alien public safety threat that you locked in a jail cell,
05:19give them straight to us in the jail rather than to release them back in the public.
05:24So you are forcing us to go into the community and find these public safety threats.
05:29Come to the table.
05:30Work with us.
05:31Help us arrest illegal alien public safety threats in the safety and security of a jail,
05:36which is safer for the agent, safer for the community, and even safer for the illegal alien,
05:41because anything can happen on a street arrest.
05:42So, you know, they can help fix this if they work with us.
05:46You can watch the entirety of that interview with Tom Homan by heading over to Spotify, Apple, or over on YouTube.
05:52But here's what Homan is saying.
05:55In Texas and Florida, they cooperate with ICE.
05:59In Minnesota and Illinois, they do not honor the ICE detainer.
06:15Instead, they release the criminal, and that turns one arrest into a small parade of ICE agents tracking people throughout the neighborhood.
06:24It's more dangerous for agents.
06:27It's more dangerous for the public.
06:29And this entire conversation didn't used to be controversial.
06:37Tough conditions.
06:39Tell people to come out of the shadows.
06:40If they've committed a crime, deport them.
06:43No questions asked.
06:44They're gone.
06:44We are a nation of immigrants, but we are also a nation of laws.
06:50It is wrong and ultimately self-defeating for a nation of immigrants to permit the kind of abuse of our immigration laws we have seen in recent years,
06:59and we must do more to stop it.
07:02I'm not cherry-picking.
07:04It wasn't just the Clintons.
07:06Our obligation as elected officials to keep the American people safe, and our borders are our first line of defense, one of our early lines of defense to do that.
07:22Democrats support also enforcing laws, current laws, against those who came here illegally and those who hire illegal immigrants.
07:32Clintons, Pelosi, there's more, and maybe even more clearly, Barack Obama.
07:41If you're a criminal, you'll be deported.
07:44If you plan to enter the U.S. illegally, your chances of getting caught and sent back just went up.
07:52The actions I'm taking are not only lawful, they're the kinds of actions taken by every single Republican president and every single Democratic president for the past half century.
08:02And the numbers reflect that people were deported under President Barack Obama.
08:07The numbers are not reliable because he counted turning away people at the border as a deportation.
08:12But it's not so much about the numbers.
08:15It's about the rhetoric.
08:17More than that, it's about believing the law mattered.
08:21So what's changed?
08:22It isn't the law.
08:23It's sanctuary policies.
08:25And President Trump is now saying that that free ride is over.
08:32Additionally, starting February 1st, we're not making any payments to sanctuary cities or states having sanctuary cities because they do everything possible to protect criminals at the expense of American citizens.
08:45And it breeds fraud and crime and all of the other problems that come.
08:49So we're not making any payment to anybody that supports sanctuary cities.
08:53All right.
08:55Joining me now from Minneapolis is U.S. Border Patrol commander at large, Gregory Bovino.
09:01Thank you so much for being with us.
09:03You've served at CBP for a long time, Greg.
09:05You've been there since 1996, I believe.
09:08What's the difference between how things are being handled today versus how they were handled by other presidents?
09:13Sure, Will.
09:17Thanks for having me.
09:18It's good to see you.
09:19You know, 30 years ago, back in the 90s and early 2000s, Will, we worked together.
09:25And that was from the president all the way down to those state and local law enforcement agencies.
09:30We worked together.
09:31It was almost a coalition to keep communities safe.
09:34I could rely on a state and local agency to advise me or notify me if there was a criminal illegal alien anywhere in their jurisdiction.
09:42That was anywhere, anytime.
09:45Contrast that, Will, with what's happening now, say here in Minneapolis, is we have to go out there and find those individuals ourselves.
09:54Because that cooperation in those sanctuary jurisdictions, which President Trump and Secretary Noem have outlined time and time again, those sanctuary jurisdictions refuse to do that.
10:04The contrast is absolutely amazing and also, Will, take a look at those jurisdictions that do cooperate with us, i.e. Louisiana.
10:13We always go back to Louisiana.
10:15We just got back from Louisiana.
10:17The cooperation we received there in Louisiana was fantastic.
10:21And we got done what we needed to get done there in New Orleans and the state of Louisiana with almost zero violence.
10:28So, just to be clear, when you were operating at CBP under President Clinton and President Obama, it was different than what you're dealing with today when it comes to cities like Minneapolis and states like Minnesota?
10:43Absolutely.
10:44Day and night difference.
10:46I served in California and other locations.
10:48As you know, California is now a sanctuary state, but back then, the state and locals in California would work hand-in-hand with Border Patrol, ICE, and other law enforcement agencies to remove these criminals before they became a problem.
11:05And that's all we're after.
11:06That's what we want to do here in Minneapolis and any other sanctuary jurisdiction.
11:11Let's remove these people before they can continue to hurt American citizens and American interests.
11:18And one more point of clarification.
11:21Jacob Fry, the mayor of Minneapolis, says that the reason you're in Minneapolis is because of politics, because it's a blue city inside of a blue state, led by Democrats.
11:31That it is a political maneuver by President Trump to surge ICE and CBP into Minnesota instead of, for example, Texas.
11:39Now, you just heard probably White House boarder czar Tom Homan say the reason is those numbers aren't necessary in Texas because Texas cooperates.
11:49Instead, Minneapolis is releasing criminal illegal aliens requiring then that you and ICE, CBP and ICE, put more agents into that city.
11:59And it's had a spiral effect, I know, because now further agents have been deployed to Minnesota to deal with agitators.
12:05Is that how you would describe the numbers and why they are they are the way they are in Minnesota?
12:14Yes, it's about crime, crime, crime, crime.
12:18I was just brief before I came on your show, Will, just a few minutes ago.
12:22And three illegal aliens, I believe one from Thailand, one from Central America, and I believe one from Zambia, were apprehended just a few hours ago.
12:31All three had significant rap sheets.
12:35All three violent assaulters serve multiple prison terms.
12:38They were let loose to roam the streets here in Minnesota.
12:42So this this mission is a crime mission, first and foremost.
12:45That's why we're here is to go after those violent criminals, those fraudsters, you know, the the billions and dollars in fraud that's happened here in Minnesota, Minneapolis.
12:55That is why we're here, plain and simple.
12:58OK, Commander Vivino, thank you so much for your time.
13:05All right.
13:05Yesterday, as you remember, I debated Congressman Maxwell Frost on all of this, including due process.
13:11All you have is a viral video and you condemn the man who, by the way, I think you are liable.
13:19I think I would be careful if I were you, Congressman, for defamation.
13:22You, Steve Kerr, Doc Rivers, anyone else.
13:25I think you should be careful because you have crossed over the line of defamation.
13:28But for our purposes here today, I think you have no fidelity to due process.
13:36Oh, oh, yes, I do.
13:37And the fact of the matter is, and I'll say it again and again and again and again.
13:41Renee Nicole, good to not get the due process that she deserves.
13:44I will say that the officer deserves due process.
13:46I am also going to call out what I saw in the video.
13:51Our spirited debate led to a lot of spirited debate online.
13:55Your feedback.
13:56We want to take a look at a couple of viewer comments.
13:58Let's start with Mad Conductor, who provided me with, by the way, one of my George Costanza moments.
14:06I wish I would have said during the middle of that debate.
14:09Mad Conductor says this excuse for a congressperson didn't just clash debating you.
14:14He showed how short thinking works.
14:16While claiming Renee wasn't given due process, he failed so that if she would have gotten out of the car, due process would have started immediately.
14:24It's an excellent comment.
14:25The detention, the attempted detention of Renee Good was the beginning of due process.
14:30From that, we would have seen perhaps arrest, perhaps charges, perhaps adjudication and perhaps sentencing.
14:36But that detainment was the beginning of due process, and she fled violently from due process.
14:44Also, the Ha says over there, don't put Representative Frost on anymore.
14:49There was no debate, just two men talking over each other.
14:53I'm sympathetic to your comment, the Ha.
14:55I get a lot of comments after these Democrat debates.
14:57They often fall into one of four categories.
15:01Wow, Will, you ruled.
15:03Or wow, Will, you let him talk too much and he dominated you.
15:07Or will you interrupted him too much?
15:09What's the point in inviting a guest on if you're going to interrupt?
15:12Or finally, why do you even invite them on?
15:15It's a waste of time.
15:16I find it instructive to hear the other point of view.
15:18I find it needs to be challenged.
15:20I won't let a politician run off and filibuster and run into talking points, but I do like to hear what they have to say.
15:26So I want to keep interruptions to a minimum.
15:29I think there's something to learn from all of that.
15:31But I do appreciate the comments about people not wanting to hear two men talking over one another.
15:36I try my best, within our time constraints, to limit interruptions.
15:40All right, let's do a quick check on the markets.
15:42All three indexes today closing in the red.
15:44Still ahead, is the independent party the new political powerhouse in America?
15:51Pennsylvania Democrat Senator John Fetterman will join me live.
15:55And coming up one year in, and President Trump has delivered on a major campaign promise, and that is securing the border.
16:02What does that mean?
16:03What are the effects, economically and in security, for average Americans?
16:09Next.
16:14Welcome back.
16:27The border is quieter.
16:30And quiet sometimes tells you more than you think.
16:33Quiet can actually tell the story.
16:35And the story is about effects far beyond the border.
16:39Let's take a look over at the wall.
16:40You know, for most of this century, the U.S. has been gaining more immigrants than it lost.
16:47This chart shows net migration over time under several different administrations.
16:52No matter who was the president, the United States had a net positive migration of immigrants.
16:58And you can see the spike during the years of the Biden presidency.
17:03Now, that is changing under President Trump.
17:05New estimates show the United States lost more immigrants than it gained in 2025.
17:12And that is the first time it's happened in about a half a century, in part because of self-deportations.
17:21DHS says nearly two million people have self-deported since January of last year.
17:27So with this drastic drop, what are the benefits?
17:31Are there benefits to Americans?
17:33Yes.
17:34Let's start with security.
17:35DHS says 70% of ICE arrests have criminal histories in the United States.
17:40So that means our streets are safer.
17:43Here's a specific example.
17:45One you heard about in the news for quite some time.
17:48And now again, it's quiet.
17:50Fentanyl.
17:51Why?
17:52Drug overdose deaths from synthetic opioids, which we know come from China and Mexico, have dropped from almost 80,000 to below 50,000 in the past year and a half.
18:03There are also economic benefits to the changes in migration.
18:08Workers are getting a boost.
18:10Last year, there were job gains of two million for native-born American workers.
18:15For foreign workers, the numbers 383,000.
18:18So what are the other benefits that Americans can expect going forward when it comes to this drop in migration?
18:27Joining me now is Heritage Foundation economist Peter St.
18:31Peter, it's great to see you again.
18:32It's been way too long.
18:34When you look at this, I've highlighted security.
18:37I've highlighted drug overdose deaths.
18:41We've talked about job gains.
18:43What other effects will we see from this change in migration?
18:47Probably the single biggest one is going to be on welfare.
18:52So when you talk about those job gains, you want to focus in on what specific kinds of jobs we're talking about.
18:58So when we had these caravans coming over the borders, they were not bringing dentists and neurosurgeons with them.
19:05Right.
19:05This was a very specific, low-skill demographic.
19:09A lot of them did not even speak English.
19:11So the kinds of jobs that they took, it's not just that they took jobs from Americans.
19:15It's that they took jobs from low-skilled Americans.
19:18Now, those low-skilled Americans are very frequently on welfare.
19:22And, in fact, if they can't get a job because an illegal is doing it for $7 an hour or because they can't speak Spanish,
19:29there's actually a lot of crews out in California, for example,
19:32where you literally have to speak Spanish to work in construction in America.
19:36So if they cannot get a job, then you're talking about maybe $150 billion-plus in welfare that's going to the illegals.
19:44But then you've got maybe double that that's going to Americans who are forced on the welfare because they cannot get a job
19:52when illegals are taking them at $7 an hour.
19:56Now, that's all not even including—we're just talking about the numbers we know about with those estimates.
20:01So now with the Somali fraud, the numbers could be much bigger than that.
20:07Well, there's two other angles I want to ask you about, Peter.
20:09First, this is from PBS just at the end of last year.
20:13In Miami-Dade County public schools, about 2,500 students have entered the district from another country so far this school year.
20:19That's down from 14,000 and more than 20,000 two years ago.
20:24So fewer illegal immigrant children in the schools, Peter.
20:28I'm curious what you have to say about that.
20:30And there are others who are also saying we've seen a drop in home prices over the past several months.
20:36Does that reflect a drop in demand from starter homes or apartment rentals because there are fewer illegal immigrants in the housing market?
20:45Yeah, that's happening on both counts.
20:49So we're seeing home prices leveling off.
20:51We're actually seeing rents come down for the first time since COVID, since pre-COVID.
20:56And that's focused in the cities that are deportation heavy, so places like Austin.
21:02Of course, what's happened is that illegals have been hogging up the entry-level houses,
21:06many of them paying for it with government benefits, by the way.
21:09And then once they're hogging them up, actual Americans have to go move in with mom, can't start a family.
21:16They're essentially locked out of the housing markets.
21:18Now, when it comes to education, and this is something that people are forgetting about,
21:22again, going back to that mix of who the migrants are, they did not bring schoolteachers with them.
21:26So they are using American schoolteachers.
21:29So our schools are overcrowded.
21:32Speech pathologists, for example, we've been trying for years.
21:35We have an autistic daughter.
21:36We could not find a speech pathologist.
21:37Why?
21:38Because they're being hogged up by illegals who are doing ESL.
21:41So across the board, the resources that Americans actually need, things like houses, health care,
21:47maybe you can't get an appointment at your dentist or your surgeon because there's an illegal in front of you in line,
21:54again, using your money to jump the queue, right?
21:57These skills Americans have not been able to have access to at any price,
22:01and finally we're starting to get that now that we've got two, two and a half million people who've left.
22:06So fascinating.
22:06Welfare, education, housing, drug addiction, safety on our streets,
22:11all positive improvements since this net negative migration, the first we've seen in over half a century.
22:17Peter St. Onge, great to see you.
22:20Great to be on.
22:21Thanks, Will.
22:21All right, President Trump signing a bill today allowing schools to offer whole milk and 2%.
22:27It's reversing Obama-era restrictions that limited options to fat-free or low-fat milk.
22:32Now, to promote it, here's President Trump sporting a milk mustache.
22:37Health and Human Services Secretary RFK Jr., who was at the signing,
22:40just talked about President Trump's incredible health and his crazy diet.
22:48His incredible health.
22:50Who has the most unhinged eating habits?
22:53The president.
22:54Oh, you know, the interesting thing about the president is that he eats really bad food,
23:04which is McDonald's, and then, you know, coffee and Diet Coke.
23:10I don't know how he's alive, but he is.
23:13I have to credit Joe Rogan and Vice President J.D. Vance, who noted this some time ago,
23:17but almost every president has gotten grayer in office.
23:20Barack Obama, George W. Bush, and somehow, weirdly, after almost two terms
23:24and four years out of office, where he was continually in the public spotlight
23:28and fighting multiple indictments, President Trump lives healthier today than he did in 2015.
23:35All right, coming up, I'm joined by Senator Josh Hawley,
23:38who's asking what seems to be incredibly a tough question.
23:41Can men get pregnant?
23:43I take care of people with many identities, but...
23:47Can men get pregnant?
23:47I take care of many women that can get pregnant.
23:50I do take care of people that don't identify as women.
23:53Can men get pregnant?
24:03Welcome back.
24:04Listen to this exchange between a medical doctor, a medical doctor,
24:09and Senator Josh Hawley, who's asking a very basic question.
24:13Can men get pregnant?
24:15Again, the reason I paused there is I'm not really sure what the goal of the question is.
24:20The goal is just to establish a biological reality.
24:23You just said a moment ago that science and evidence should control, not politics.
24:28So let's just test that proposition.
24:30Can men get pregnant?
24:31I take care of people with many identities, but...
24:35Can men get pregnant?
24:35I take care of many women that can get pregnant.
24:38I do take care of people that don't identify as women.
24:41Can men get pregnant?
24:44Again, as I'm saying...
24:46Let me just remind you of you testified to a moment ago.
24:48Science and evidence should control, not politics.
24:52So, can men get pregnant?
24:54You're a doctor, I think.
24:56Science and evidence should guide medicine, I...
24:59Do science and evidence tell us that men can get pregnant?
25:02Biological men, can they get pregnant?
25:03I also think yes-no questions like this are a political tool and...
25:07No, yes-no questions are about the truth, doctor.
25:09Let's not make a mockery of this proceeding.
25:12Senator Hawley joins me now.
25:15Senator, if this were an Ivy League professor,
25:17I'd have only a certain level of surprise or concern.
25:21If it were a Supreme Court justice nominee, my concern would go up, and it did.
25:26With Kintaji Brown-Jackson.
25:27But this is a medical doctor.
25:29This is actually terrifying when it's coming from supposedly a woman of science.
25:34Oh, and there as an expert, Will, she was called by the Democrats to be an expert on the subject of women's rights and health care.
25:40And she can't even say if men can get pregnant.
25:43Will, it just shows they have not abandoned this lunacy at all.
25:46And let's not forget, just yesterday, Democrats were at the Supreme Court of the United States arguing with a straight face that men ought to be able to play in women's sports.
25:55In fact, they were arguing that men have a constitutional right to play in women's sports.
26:00This isn't theory.
26:01This isn't hypothetical.
26:02This is nuts.
26:03They're trying to force this on our girls, our daughters, our wives, everywhere.
26:08These people are just out of control, and we've got to call them out on us.
26:11It just makes me think it's like an introductory question when you walk into a medical professional's office.
26:15Before you ask anything about a screen or a test, ask, hey, can men get pregnant?
26:20And from there, decide whether or not you want to accept medical advice.
26:23I do want to ask you this, Senator.
26:25President Trump came after you hard the other day.
26:27This is just a few days ago.
26:28He posted on Truth Social.
26:30He said the following, which we can put up on the screen.
26:33Republicans should be ashamed of the senators that just voted with Democrats and attempting to take away our powers to fight and defend the United States of America.
26:40He listed several senators, including you, Senator Josh Hawley.
26:44He said you should never be elected again.
26:46You've changed your vote on the War Powers Resolution now, not voting with those senators.
26:51Tell me why you voted the original way and why you changed.
26:56Well, for me, this has always been about ground troops, will, ground troops into Venezuela, occupying Venezuela.
27:02That's not something that I think I would want to do.
27:04And listen, I talked to the president.
27:06I talked to the secretary of state.
27:07I talked to the Department of Justice.
27:08I thank the administration for all of their outreach.
27:11And what the secretary of state said to me very clearly is, we're not doing that.
27:14We don't have ground troops in Venezuela.
27:17This is not another Iraq.
27:18We're not going to occupy Venezuela.
27:19And you know what?
27:21That's good enough for me.
27:23OK, there's the answer.
27:25Appreciate you answering that, Senator.
27:26Appreciate you joining us today as well.
27:28Take care.
27:28Thank you for having me.
27:30All right.
27:31I had DHS sources confirming the ICE agent struck by Renee Good's vehicle in Minnesota suffered internal bleeding.
27:38So how can the left still defend their claim of murder?
27:42Pennsylvania Democrat Senator John Fetterman responds to his colleagues next.
27:49Fox News alert out of Minneapolis.
28:01DHS confirming the ICE agent who was struck by Renee Good's car suffered internal bleeding in his torso.
28:08He's the same agent who was seriously wounded last June after he was dragged by a car during an attempted arrest.
28:13Now, this comes as anti-Ice protests continue to escalate.
28:17Some Democrats are fanning the flames by calling the ICE agent a murderer.
28:24Have you interviewed any eyewitnesses?
28:27Have I personally interviewed them?
28:28No, that's not my job.
28:30My job is to speak truth to power.
28:31It's really interesting.
28:32When I look at that video, I see murder.
28:35And I think you should call it that if that's what happened.
28:38My next guest is urging his party to follow the facts and turn down the political temperature.
28:44Joining me now is Democratic Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman.
28:47Senator, thanks for being here.
28:49I just want to say at the outset, you and I had a nice conversation the other day.
28:52I was very hard on you on your run for Senate.
28:55And I was too hard on you for your run for Senate.
28:58You have recovered miraculously.
29:00You are an independent, interesting voice.
29:02It's one that I have a lot of disagreement with, but I was wrong about you.
29:06And I want to own that publicly.
29:07And I'm really glad to have you here today on The Will Kane Show.
29:11Oh, of course.
29:13I mean, that's I understand.
29:15I mean, you know, there's a we're all in the we're all in the business.
29:18And now it's like and that's why I want to have a conversation with anyone that's playing it straight.
29:22And that's what this is going to be.
29:24And I'm delighted to be here with you all today.
29:26So you have urged your colleagues to follow the facts when it comes to what's happened in Minnesota.
29:31What have you learned?
29:34What do you think is the conclusion after you follow the facts?
29:38Well, what I'm what I'm seeing is that it was a tragedy.
29:41I mean, it's absolutely I wish it never happened.
29:43I think we we could all agree on that.
29:45But but it's really what's happening.
29:47It's like we step step back.
29:49And now where we've brought that to as a Democrat, when I arrived in in the Senate back in 23,
29:55it was very clear to me that we are failing at our border.
29:58And if you look at at the kinds of things that we've had, this is starting to happen.
30:03Now, these are this is from The New York Times.
30:05That's encounters at our border.
30:07And it was sky skyrocketing.
30:09You know, and it's like that's unsustainable.
30:11When you reach almost 300000 people, that's unsustainable.
30:14And we need to, you know, as a Democrat, it shouldn't be unreasonable to want to secure our border and do it in that way.
30:21And now let's also let's also talk about ICE.
30:24Now, absolutely.
30:26Again, what happened in Minneapolis was absolutely tragic.
30:29And then now if you think now this is from The Washington Post.
30:33You know, this is the latest statistics.
30:36These are people that ICE now are, though, it's like now 67 percent have criminal charges pending ones or that that.
30:48So that's more than two thirds, you know, the people now.
30:51Now, there are some people that aren't involved in any kinds of illegal things.
30:55You know, but so me, I think two things can be true.
30:58You know, round up all the criminals, deport them.
31:01They shouldn't have ever been here and they definitely have to go.
31:05And now I don't know, want to see more and more things happening in Minneapolis now, too.
31:09So two things must be true.
31:12And I strongly reject the extreme on either side, you know, about this now.
31:17So we must be true.
31:18And, you know, I watched you earlier in your show.
31:21You just pointed out President Obama deported, you know, millions of people.
31:27And there wasn't having the same kind of outrage here.
31:30You know, here is from from Democrats.
31:32And now is that happening?
31:34Why do you think Democratic politicians sound so different than they did as recently as President Obama and certainly very differently than it was under Bill Clinton?
31:42Yeah, I mean, it's clearly more and more, you know, I occupy a more of a difficult space where, you know, I have I happen to believe that things are true and it's really reasonable thing.
31:56And now increasingly that's getting more and more difficult right now if it happens to agree with the president or with the other side in this, you know, very, very polarized kind of time.
32:07But, you know, I would rather just be very honest and just kind of play it straight.
32:11You know, I would rather be a great, honest senator than one that's just only going to play to just one side.
32:17I represent Pennsylvania, the most purple state in the country.
32:21I don't just just represent Democrats.
32:24I represent 13 million Pennsylvanians and I try to just play it straight.
32:29And I have to think that's I think that's my responsibility.
32:33Senator, what do you think?
32:34And if you and I had a long conversation, it'd be interesting to explore where our agreement overlaps and where our disagreement diverges.
32:41I'm curious, what do you think you're in my there's been some people even on this channel that have asked you, would you ever switch over to being a Republican?
32:48And you said, no, I'm a Democrat.
32:50But I'm curious, why?
32:52Like, what do you think?
32:54And you don't know everything that I believe, but what would you suspect would be our biggest point of disagreement?
32:59What keeps you a Democrat?
33:03It's just I'm a Democrat.
33:05And honestly, if I if I change my party this afternoon, my votes really aren't going to change.
33:11It's not much different for those things.
33:13And now for me, I just it's again, that's why I'm trying to describe in our more and more polarized time.
33:20I try to be the voice of reason.
33:22And people stop me in public all the time just to appreciate that, whether it's a Democrat.
33:27And increasingly, a lot of Democrats, I mean, Republicans stop me now, too.
33:31My parents, all my families are Republicans.
33:34I grew up with them in a conservative part of Pennsylvania.
33:37I never saw Fox News or people that watch Fox News or Republicans as the enemy or that they're bad people.
33:44They're trying to destroy our Constitution or any of those things.
33:47I strongly reject that.
33:49So for me, where I'm at in this space here is someone that represents Pennsylvania.
33:54You know, there's going to be things like, for example, the strike in Iran.
33:58That was absolutely the right thing.
34:00I you know, I was the only Democrat that can support those things.
34:02Why can't we all agree that destroying the Iranian regime would be good for the entire region?
34:08Standing with Israel, secure our border.
34:12You know, these are reasonable things.
34:13I would also refuse to shut our government down.
34:16Always, always I refuse to do that.
34:19Pay everybody, especially like the military and those folks, those those folks that had that magnificent action in Venezuela.
34:28Could you imagine those people weren't getting paid for those 45 days that our government was shut down those things?
34:34Now, many of those decisions, you know, hurt my standing in parts of my base.
34:38But I would rather be just play it straight rather than just try to just maybe pander or just say things that I don't actually believe in my in myself.
34:47Well, more people, I think, are moving your direction.
34:49There is a new Gallup poll that shows like 45 percent of voters call themselves independent.
34:53It's an all time high.
34:54I am up against tight time, but I'm going to have you explain something to me.
34:57I'm a Texas guy.
34:59Wawa versus Sheets.
35:00You lost.
35:02The Steelers lost.
35:03So you had to say this.
35:05You held the sign up.
35:06Wawa is better than Sheets.
35:07So my staff was just telling me, Senator, Sheets is like Western PA and Wawa is Eastern PA.
35:13So you're a you're a Sheets guy.
35:16Well, I definitely a Sheets guy.
35:18But but, you know, I lost a bet, you know, in that picture to the mayor of Philadelphia.
35:23But then I got a bet with with my colleagues from Texas, you know, and I was just all about he has to wear a lot of crazy kind of Steelers swag and deliver a barbecue to myself and Dave McCormick's office.
35:36But we lost.
35:37So now I have to, you know, he is going to design, you know, maximize kind of humiliation for me to wear Texan swag and deliver permanees.
35:48You know, that's a very Western Pennsylvania thing.
35:51Yeah, I'm over to public bets.
35:54That's going to be a hoodie, gym shorts, a hoodie, cowboy boots with shorts and a cowboy hat.
36:00I'm in when that happens.
36:02I want to be there.
36:03I want to see that, Senator.
36:05Yeah, well, OK, well, regardless, now, you know, my friend from Texas just confirmed that we want to maximize and make it as uncomfortable as possible.
36:17We deliver our sandwiches to his office.
36:19All right.
36:20Well, Senator Fetterman, thank you for doing this.
36:21I hope we do it again soon and I hope we can continue to have these interesting conversations.
36:26All right.
36:27OK, thank you.
36:28All right.
36:28Coming up, what do you do?
36:30What do you get if you combine skiing, a horse?
36:34You get a snowy obstacle course and it's a fast paced sport.
36:37It's called skijoring.
36:39Skijoring?
36:41I'm going to join two pros next.
36:52All right.
36:53Welcome back.
36:53Have you ever heard of skijoring?
36:56Me neither.
36:56This extreme winter sport has skiers flying through a snow covered course while being pulled by a horse.
37:04Now it's reaching a major milestone, launching its first pro skijoring series in North America that kicks off this weekend.
37:10And joining me now are two of the pros, father, daughter duo, Tyler and Devo Peterson.
37:16OK, just on a tire, it looks like Tyler rides the horse and Devo, you're on the skis.
37:21Do I have that right?
37:22You're a tandem.
37:23Is that the jobs?
37:26I'm having a little trouble with their audio.
37:36I don't know if everybody else at home is as well, but having some trouble with Tyler and Devo's audio on skijoring, which you can see on your screen right there.
37:43If we can get their audio sorted out, why don't you put that video back up, though?
37:47And I can quickly explain to everyone what this new sport is.
37:52Man or woman rides a horse going, I don't know how fast, which would have been one of my questions if we can get that audio sorted out.
37:59And pulls a skier water skiing style through a course where they go through gates, like downhill skiing, jump over ramps, and I assume try to be the fastest.
38:11They're pulling against gravity often, I'm sure, falling backwards.
38:14You lean forwards when you water ski.
38:16It's a combination of Western culture and downhill skiing, and this is what it's like.
38:20And it does look pretty dang fun.
38:24I don't know if I'd rather be the guy on horseback or the guy flying through the air, but I'm up for trying ski-joring, if you can ever get me out there, with either role.
38:33Before we go today, let's stick with the Western culture.
38:36How about Landman?
38:37Landman.
38:38Taylor Sheridan Show.
38:39It's not shying away from safe space politics.
38:42The latest episode is featuring the character Ainsley, not our Ainsley, their Ainsley, taking on a woke roommate.
38:50I use they, them.
38:53You know, I've always been curious.
38:56Why they, them?
38:58Because there's just one of you, and those are plural pronouns.
39:01Just never really understood the hoopla pronouns.
39:04That roommate, by the way, right there, later telling Ainsley not to eat meat products or use air freshener because of toxic airborne petrochemical.
39:12That roommate could be right, by the way, about the petrochemicals and air freshener.
39:16I don't know.
39:17We'll stick with meat, though.
39:19Before we go, let's do a little will of the people.
39:21All right.
39:22Bob says, everyone knows Frost doesn't do well in Florida.
39:28Cute, Bob.
39:29Little reference to Congressman Maxwell Frost from Florida.
39:33Meanwhile, Paul says, the Will Kane Show is by far the best on TV.
39:36Not only is he smart.
39:37He's knowledgeable, thoughtful, and always willing to debate the other side.
39:40And that is true.
39:42Everyone, no matter the point of view, is welcome here.
39:45You just have to be able to take the cross-examination or the agreement, as we found with Senator John Fetterman,
39:49which the Ha says I made up for yesterday's talk-over fest with Frost in our conversation today with Senator Fetterman.
39:57Fetterman, it was a good job.
39:59By the way, he apologized for his original opinion, too, of Senator Fetterman.
40:02It's now time for The Five.
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