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00:00More Democrat-led states are restricting their cooperation with ICE.
00:03This week, Maryland Governor Wes Moore signed legislation that will prevent local officials
00:08from performing immigration enforcement functions under ICE's oversight.
00:13In Maryland, we will not allow untrained, unqualified, and unaccountable agents
00:18to deputize our brave local law enforcement officers,
00:23because Maryland is a community of immigrants.
00:27Now, sheriffs across Maryland are speaking out.
00:32The law-abiding citizen.
00:34I'm angry. I'm frustrated.
00:36It is the biggest betrayal to law enforcement and public safety that I have ever seen.
00:42Though sheriffs say there are some workarounds to cooperate with ICE,
00:45such as contacting the agency if an illegal is going to be released,
00:49there is a risk that they could face consequences, which has happened in some other cities.
00:53In Detroit, a sergeant and officer were suspended without pay
00:58after they contacted Border Patrol following a traffic stop
01:01in which the driver provided a fraudulent license.
01:05Now the sergeant is suing the city to keep her job.
01:09She called her lieutenant and said,
01:11What do I do?
01:12We can't identify this man.
01:14What do I do?
01:14And the lieutenant, knowing the policy, and following the policy,
01:19identify this man, do.
01:22And the lieutenant, knowing the policy, and following the policy,
01:26told her, call Border Patrol.
01:30David, this is very interesting.
01:31And one of the things that's fascinating to see is how robust the pushback was from the sheriffs.
01:36There are many other states and cities across the country that have some sort of sanctuary law or policy,
01:41and you don't see that quick of a reaction.
01:44They step right up there and they say, you know,
01:45we want to continue working together on this issue with our fellow law enforcement
01:50and see that collaboration.
01:51In other places, you can see very much the opposite.
01:54So what do you make of this latest, well, now this is a state,
01:58joining that sanctuary city issue?
02:00Yeah.
02:01First of all, when you look at sheriffs across the country as a whole
02:04and most of their departments and the oath they swear,
02:07they are in opposition to this.
02:09They work across multiple jurisdictions as far as city and municipalities.
02:15And Westmore wants about unqualified and untrained agents.
02:20Well, if we're to apply his logic,
02:22then why don't you take that and put your police officers into doing the job?
02:26Problem is you're running into the Westmoors.
02:28And by the way, in Miami, Eileen Higgins, the mayor of Miami,
02:32is proud that only three officers out of some 1,500
02:35are trained to work with federal law enforcement
02:37or allowed to work with federal law enforcement.
02:40I can tell you Miami officers don't like that either.
02:43What we're going to see is a growing,
02:46and it has been growing for some time,
02:48but I think more of an effort by law enforcement officers
02:51to find a way to report,
02:54to find a way to let it be known,
02:55because they care about their communities,
02:58they care about safety,
02:59they care about stopping criminals,
03:01whether illegal alien criminals or domestic criminals.
03:04And American people need to be them,
03:09and you do that by getting rid of the Westmoors of the world
03:12when they run for re-election or for other office.
03:15And that comment, you know, slyly denigrates those in law enforcement
03:19that have served across multiple administrations,
03:21whether they were in ICE or Border Patrol for 10 or 20 or 30 years.
03:24Joey, your thoughts on this new back-and-forth happening in Maryland?
03:27Yeah, let me tell you something about Westmoor.
03:29Westmoor was awarded a Bronze Star in 2024
03:32for something that he supposedly did 18 years before.
03:36In 2006, he started using that Bronze Star
03:39that apparently had been put in,
03:40but no one had seen enough to think it should be granted.
03:43As early as 2006, he started claiming that medal.
03:45The reason why I point that out is if you are a recipient of a Bronze Star,
03:49especially any type of valor award that is combat,
03:53you get to be a hero.
03:55I stop saying you are because I have an award like that,
03:58and I'm not a hero.
03:59But I bring that up for this reason and this reason only.
04:01How does a man who supposedly has laid his life
04:04on the line for this country that could have called himself a hero
04:09for his own political gain,
04:11look at police officers, at sheriffs,
04:13at people who put their lives on the line for their communities
04:16every single day and tell them that they're wrong
04:19and support things like what's happened in Detroit here,
04:21going after this sheriff's deputy or a police officer
04:24for doing the right thing.
04:26This is what I'll tell you about Maryland.
04:28Maryland's as much of two different states as any of them out there
04:30because if you go to the eastern shore of Maryland,
04:32you're going to see some people with some rough knuckles
04:34that go out and farm every day,
04:36that go out and earn their living the most honest way,
04:39that love their country, that love their state,
04:41that love the people that they earn their lives,
04:44and want to see that this country has created, abided by,
04:48and then you get into Baltimore and you might as well arm yourself
04:51because you're going right into a combat zone.
04:52Maybe that's where Wes Moore earned his Bronze Star.
04:55Maybe it was actually in Baltimore and we just don't know that
04:58because that is a combat zone because of the policies of people like Wes Moore.
05:02It's great to have the look and to have the words
05:05and to even have the shadow box,
05:06but when it's all fake like your Bronze Star,
05:08you know what?
05:09Maybe just shut up and let the sheriffs do their job, Wes.
05:12Joey, you are 100% an American hero without a doubt.
05:15No, I'm not, and that's okay.
05:16I appreciate it, but no.
05:18That's not the point of that and that's not what I am.
05:20Well, he made a great point,
05:21and I also want to go back to this Detroit situation
05:24because when you really dig into the nuts and bolts of this thing,
05:26and I wish we had more time to really go through the whole list of the interaction here,
05:31but the reason that this Detroit police sergeant called Border Patrol
05:35is because the Border Patrol driver could not be identified
05:40after providing a photo of a fraudulent electronic Michigan driver's license.
05:45She called Border Patrol,
05:46and this is where the whole rub and the whole dust-up is.
05:49First of all, I don't understand why Democrats think
05:52that there are some illegal aliens that are sacred cows that are like,
05:55oh, you're an illegal alien, but you don't need to be deported,
05:58but you do, maybe, but the Maryland dad, I mean, this whole thing,
06:02there are no sacred cows.
06:03If you're an illegal alien, you can be deported.
06:05I'm glad we solved that.
06:06But also, let's think about all the cases we've now heard of,
06:10of illegal aliens or refugees with driver's licenses
06:14who not only have DUIs, whatever, drunk driving,
06:17but they do a U-turn in the middle of an interstate and kill people.
06:21So this police sergeant said, hey, this person gave me
06:24a fraudulent electronic Michigan driver's license.
06:27That obviously raised an alarm.
06:29So that person did the right thing, and now they're being punished for it?
06:33Yeah.
06:33I mean, this is really on the ridiculous side of ridiculous, if you ask me.
06:37And I think by noting that, you take on that issue that there are laws
06:41and sanctuary policies in one state that will affect other states all across.
06:46That's a great point, Tommy.
06:47And they all golly at the end of the day.
06:50Up ahead, President Trump continues to push Republicans to pass the Save America Act
06:54as new undercover video shows how easy it is to commit voter fraud.
06:59But first, we could finally be getting an answer to a major question.
07:03Are aliens real?
07:05We will explain after a quick break.
07:06The State of the Union is on Tuesday,
07:09and we're hearing a special guest might make an appearance.
07:14The Martian ambassador is going to say a few words.
07:17Come on down, Mr. Ambassador.
07:20Come on down, Mr. Ambassador.
07:34And that might not seem so far-fetched
07:38after Barack Obama admitted we're not alone in the universe.
07:44Are aliens real?
07:47They're real, but I haven't seen them,
07:49and they're not being kept in, what is it?
07:53Area 51?
07:53Area 51.
07:54There's no underground facility.
07:57Unless there's this enormous conspiracy,
08:01and they hid it from the President of the United States.
08:05Could that be what the new Obama library's for?
08:09His call is calling out for disclosing these close encounters.
08:14Have you seen any evidence of non-human visitors to Earth?
08:18Well, he gave classified information.
08:20He's not supposed to be doing that.
08:22So aliens are real?
08:23Well, I don't know if they're real or not.
08:24I can tell you he gave classified information.
08:26He's not supposed to be doing that.
08:29Ah, Trump knows the truth is out there.
08:32And he's calling for the release of government files
08:35related to extraterrestrials and UFOs.
08:39But Obama's now trying to cover his tracks,
08:42and he's backtracking on his claims,
08:44saying he saw no evidence of alien life.
08:48All right, guys.
08:50I'm just going to say quickly and toss it right over to you, Tommy,
08:53that I don't believe in all this vast, wide universe
08:56with so much out there, the possibilities that we're alone.
09:02That we're alone.
09:03Know it yet.
09:04I haven't seen them yet, unless they wipe my memory.
09:07But I got to say, I'm leaving the possibility open.
09:10Maybe that's what happened to Joe Biden.
09:12Now, listen, the age of disclosure,
09:14I talk about it every time we talk about this alien topic,
09:16because that documentary changed my mind.
09:18I thought all this alien stuff was woo-woo.
09:20And then I watched that documentary.
09:23So if you haven't watched it, I encourage you to watch it.
09:25And I think that there's so much we're going to uncover.
09:27I would just say this, though.
09:28It took this long to get the Epstein files.
09:31I don't know about the alien files.
09:33I think we might have to wait a little bit longer for that.
09:35But I'm hopeful.
09:36I'm hopeful, Joey.
09:38So you talk about, was it the age of disclosure?
09:41Age of disclosure, yes.
09:42I am a huge fan of ancient aliens.
09:43I hope Fox Nation will buy that franchise soon.
09:46I think they're about to come out with another idea of, okay,
09:51common sense almost tells us we're probably not in this universe alone.
09:55If you're going from biblical literature, it doesn't explicitly say it was just us that was ever created.
10:00So it doesn't really have to contradict your religious beliefs or anything like that.
10:04I think that there's other life out there that might be traveling further away from us or faster, traveling away
10:11from us faster than the speed of light.
10:12So there's a lot to be humbled by when you think about this vast universe we live in.
10:18President Obama said three things, and I don't know which of these or if all of them was classified.
10:23He said, R.A. and Joe said, yes.
10:24Unless, he said, we don't have them in some hidden bunker in Area 51.
10:29And then he said, unless, and then he said, the deep state has them and they don't tell POTUS about
10:38it.
10:38So I don't know which one of those was the classified information, but one of those three statements is classified.
10:43And President Trump said, hey, you spoke too much.
10:47I think President Obama was, I think it was a moment of levity.
10:49I think he was telling you what he believes.
10:51I don't think that we have verified that there are alien life forms that have visited us.
10:57That's the key that we haven't verified that they have visited us.
11:00I don't know.
11:01I feel like we have a very hubris point of view here.
11:04It's like, well, only the alien encounters in the United States matter.
11:07Like, you know, if the aliens are out there, they're probably visiting places that have less lights on at night.
11:11It'd be a lot harder to hide a conspiracy in those places.
11:14Yeah, and I mean, the Caribbean's beautiful.
11:16I was an alien.
11:17I might want to go to Antigua for a little while and hang out.
11:19But there is something to it.
11:21By the way, I'm with you on ancient aliens.
11:23I love this stuff.
11:27You explained the alignment around the world from the Aztecs to the pyramids to more.
11:33Come on.
11:34Molly, are there aliens in Boston?
11:37Not in office.
11:39I was just going to say, well, it depends on who you're asking.
11:42You know, when you talk about the Aztecs, what was it?
11:44The Spanish arrived, and they thought the Aztecs were gods because they didn't understand what they were seeing.
11:49So perhaps what we are seeing is just something we don't understand right now, whether it's alien life or there
11:54was some discussion of if it could be some sort of advanced technology created here on Earth.
11:59But now they're looking at the physics involved and saying, no, probably not in some of these interesting interviews we're
12:03seeing on documentaries like The Age of Disclosure.
12:06I think Peter Doocy, who's just delightful in general in life and has such a great sense of humor, did
12:10a great job with President Trump.
12:12And it was funny to see President Trump kind of go back, but wait, go back, but wait about, wait,
12:18Obama.
12:19And Peter's like, no, the aliens.
12:20We all want to know about the aliens.
12:22And I think the president, with that later true social, acknowledged that.
12:26What I would bring up, though, is some of this stuff that we don't understand and can't be explained.
12:29Perhaps it's not alien life and the vastness of our universe, but the interdimensional question, which raises a whole other.
12:36Oh, now we're into the world.
12:38I know, now we're off.
12:39I don't know.
12:40Okay, call the Marvel Universe.
12:42Here we go.
12:43Punch the monkey.
12:45Yes.
12:46The best song for the best segment.
12:48It's time now for The Weekend Buzz.
12:55First up, you asked, we delivered a lonely monkey from Japan.
13:00On the world, Punch the monkey has gone viral for carrying a stuffed animal,
13:05which took the place of his mother after she cruelly abandoned him.
13:09And social media has fallen in love.
13:11Is anybody else on sad little baby orangutan Twitter?
13:17By my boy Punch?
13:18Yeah, bro, this has got me crying, bro.
13:20Where the monkey that was living in the Japanese zoo got abandoned by his mom.
13:26And so he had this stuffed monkey that he thought was his mom.
13:29He has a fake monkey and it's a stuffed monkey and he carries it around with him.
13:36So, there is Punch the monkey, which I love to look at much more than the TikTokers.
13:41Joey, I know that sometimes you like to hunt animals.
13:45But I know that there is a soft side in your...
13:48...tang-a-tang stuffed mother.
13:50And you cry.
13:52You cry.
13:53I don't cry.
13:54I also have no interest in eating primates, so there's no hunting involved here.
13:58That's not...
13:59Listen, all I want to know is we should really get the back story on Punch's mom.
14:03Like, you know, maybe she couldn't help it.
14:05Maybe she had to give him up for adoption.
14:06Life was getting tough.
14:07The circumstances weren't there.
14:08She couldn't take care of him.
14:10Maybe he's a hellion.
14:11Maybe he just raises heck all the time.
14:13Maybe he's the bad guy.
14:14But I'm just glad somebody has adopted him and I just hope he treats them right and he's grateful for
14:18it.
14:19Molly, this is the content that we need.
14:22I could spend the next hour watching this video.
14:24He is precious.
14:25He is precious.
14:26I'm glad he's found comfort.
14:27And apparently the whole internet is glad that he has found comfort.
14:30And there's really not much more to say about that.
14:32I don't think we need to weep for Punch.
14:33Punch appears to be well taken care of.
14:35Well, Molly, if you saw the video of the other monkeys beating up on Punch and then Punch running back
14:40to his stuffed mama...
14:43...had you comment...
14:44He was just trying to give a little nerve pull.
14:45It was playful.
14:46I'm so captivated by this video.
14:48Look at Punch ran back to his stuffed mother.
14:50What say you?
14:51Don't worry.
14:52When Punch is well taken care of, he'll grow up.
14:54Then he'll be a 200-pound orangutan.
14:57Nobody will mess with him.
14:59There's what I have to say.
15:00They do seem a little bit nervous about that stuffy there.
15:02Listen, it's the content that unites everyone and that's why it's important.
15:06But next up, something that maybe doesn't, that's roster dating.
15:09So Gen Z is now dating multiple people at once.
15:12The whole generation, apparently, to keep their romantic options open.
15:15But social media is torn on that trend.
15:18You do not want to put all your eggs in one basket.
15:20So even if you had a fun time with that person, get back on the apps.
15:24Keep chatting.
15:25Keep going on dates with new people.
15:26And you keep the others around because...
15:29Get back on the apps.
15:31Keep chatting.
15:32Keep going on dates with new people.
15:33And you keep the others around because it's good for attention.
15:36It's good for getting what you want short-term.
15:38It's not going to help you long-term.
15:40This generation's got it all backwards in the fact that they think it's a flex to have multiple partners.
15:46It's more of a flex to be loyal.
15:50All right, David.
15:51You were saying this ain't new.
15:53This ain't new.
15:54As the guy who used to host a relationship talk show way back in the 90s, this is not new.
16:00It's called dating until you make a commitment.
16:02That's it.
16:03All right.
16:04Well, we're going to save a little time for this one.
16:06Couples are ditching the first dance at their weddings, and they're finding unusual, maybe annoying replacements.
16:12Some challenge each other in a pickleball match.
16:14Others play Mario Kart.
16:16And a few are having lightsaber duels.
16:19Joey, I don't know about you, but the last thing I want to see if I'm forced to go to
16:23a wedding...
16:24I mean, throw vegetables at them.
16:26Mario's awesome.
16:26I would go to that wedding.
16:27I'll pay my own way.
16:29I am putting myself out there.
16:31Invite me to any wedding that recreates Mario Kart.
16:33I can throw it at the camera.
16:35All right.
16:35Well, coming up, instead of celebrating Black History Month, Democrats are using it to call Trump racist.
16:40How original.
16:41But first, President Trump is ready to get back on that campaign trail while the Democrat establishment's candidates are in
16:47trouble,
16:47and it could jeopardize their midterm chances.
16:50We've achieved more in one year than most administrations achieve in eight years, and we're just getting started.
16:56We're going to have you keep on working, keep on fighting.
16:59You know, at more rapid pace than we ever thought possible.
17:05President Trump is touting his agenda as Republicans gear up for the midterms, and while Democrats think they have the
17:12edge, voters may disagree after they take a look at the candidates.
17:16Hello, everyone.
17:17I am Tommy Lahren, along with Joey Jones, Molly Lyon, and David Webb.
17:20This is the final hour of the big weekend show.
17:22So, Republicans have an uphill battle this year as they currently hold just a one-seat majority in the House,
17:29and Democrats hold a slight lead in the polls, and the Senate Republicans are defending 22 of the 35 seats
17:36up for grabs to hold their current three-seat majority.
17:39Now, Democrats have some tough races, though, including in Georgia, where Senator John Ossoff is running for another term.
17:45He's trashing not just President Trump, but all of America, claiming we're a sick nation.
17:52I think Donald Trump's, Donald Trump himself is a symptom of a deeper disease in our society.
17:59I mean, how is it that a demagogue who promised to tear it all down was twice elected to the
18:06presidency on false promises?
18:08It's because the system really is rigged.
18:13Hmm.
18:14We'll see if this message resonates with Georgians.
18:17We'll ask Joey, especially with President Trump already going after Ossoff for abandoning the working class.
18:23Go to trumpaccounts.gov.
18:26People are putting in money, and the people themselves are putting millions of Americans who will benefit from these pro
18:33-job, pro-worker, pro-child policies.
18:35But Georgia's senator is real stiff.
18:40We don't want people like that representing Georgia.
18:43Who would think that Georgia has a stiff?
18:46All right.
18:47Meanwhile, Democrats have another problem, that far-left takeover of their party.
18:52In Maine, Graham Plattner, who famously sported a Nazi tattoo, is gaining steam in his campaign against the wildly popular
18:59voter ID bill.
19:02In classic Susan Collins fashion, she is yet again showing up for Donald Trump when he needs her most.
19:08She has announced her support for the SAVE Act, which, under the guise of trying to protect our elections, actually
19:15restricts access to them.
19:17Sure. And in Illinois, Democrats are so worried about the establishment choice, Lieutenant Governor Julianna Stratton could lose the primary.
19:26Illinois Democrats are worried about the establishment choice, Lieutenant Governor Julianna Stratton could lose the primary.
19:33They blasted out an ad to remind voters that she really, really hates Donald Trump.
19:40F*** Trump.
19:41F*** Trump.
19:43F*** Trump.
19:44F*** Trump.
19:45F*** Trump.
19:45F*** Trump.
19:46Vote Julianna.
19:46They said it, not me.
19:48I'm Julianna Stratton.
19:52Joey, I mean, I think that's all they have is F*** Trump at this point.
19:56But in some places, I guess it works.
19:58Yeah, you know, listen, when it comes to Ossoff, I mean, you know, Trump's right.
20:03How does he represent Georgia?
20:04This guy was like a mediocre filmmaker or something like that, and he got into doing campaigns.
20:11And really, he's the winner of a lot of bad decisions by the Georgia good old boy club that used
20:16to get in the room and smoke a cigar and decide who the heir apparent was going to be.
20:19That guy disrupted the same way that Trump disrupted the Republican Party.
20:23Unfortunately, I'll never forgive Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue for giving us Ossoff, because that's really what happened.
20:31I hope that Georgia gets this act together, and if we have a deep bench, it starts to show itself.
20:36We need something other than your run-of-the-mill regular politician that's moving into a place because he thinks
20:42he's the heir apparent.
20:43We've got a lot of talented and outstanding people in Georgia, and I hope some of them show up and
20:47make their names known.
20:48Well, a lot of people say Joey Jones should run for something, but he's too busy co-hosting the Big
20:54Weekend Show.
20:54Joey can't run.
20:56Joey doesn't have legs.
20:57Oh, Joey, the correct answer was, Tommy, I would never leave you on the Big Weekend Show.
21:02Never.
21:02All right, Molly, all jokes aside, though, I know that there are a lot of far-left crazy candidates, like
21:08the guy that had allegedly the Nazi tattoo, right?
21:11Oh, it's been covered.
21:12That was covered up in October.
21:14He covered the tattoo as well.
21:15He covered the tattoo.
21:17Yes, I can't believe we're here, but we also had candidates that talked.
21:21I think there's new lows to stay at the moral bucket of the Democrat Party, but in some places it
21:27works, and I'm a little concerned about the far-left takeover because it leaves us with people like Mom Donnie.
21:33As you look ahead to the midterms, you're going to be covering it extensively, as we all will.
21:37What do you think we should be looking for here?
21:39Well, I think the F strategy is very interesting that has been laid out by the Democrats.
21:42We've seen it creeping into their vernacular over the recent course of a year, so it'll be interesting to see
21:47how much that covers and heads into the midterms and how much attention it really gets.
21:50I think it might get some initial attention that they're seeking, but I don't think lasting long, just merely saying
21:57curse words is going to work.
21:58When you look at Maine, the Plattner, he's also running against his primary opponent is Janet Mills, who's the governor
22:05in Maine.
22:06They're both focusing quite a bit on Susan Collins, who's the longtime senator up there.
22:10She keeps winning.
22:12There's a Democrat that makes a run here, and there's a lot of media and press, but then she continues
22:17to score a victory.
22:18So it's interesting to see their focus on her so specifically, not as much on President Trump.
22:23So there are some places where they say all politics is local, and you've got to really go after the
22:28person who has continued to draw in the votes from both sides of the aisle, as Susan Collins has.
22:33They've got a tough race against her up there.
22:35David Webb, I'm a little tired of Republicans saying there's going to be a red wave, though, and when Trump's
22:40not on the ballot, that red wave never seems to crash.
22:43So I love to look at these far-left, wacko candidates, and I like to laugh at them, but as
22:48I said earlier, I never underestimate them.
22:50How are you feeling about the midterms?
22:52In politics, it's whether you win or lose, because first you win, then you make policy.
22:58The Democrats get this, so they do whatever they have to do to get the win.
23:02This is where Republicans often fail at the win.
23:08The Republicans often fail, sometimes at their own, I'll call it what it is, political stupidity.
23:14A couple things.
23:15Ossoff, like Biden, Neanderthals, like Hillary, irredeemables, just called tens of millions of Americans diseased.
23:25Remember that.
23:26That's what he thinks of you.
23:28Now, I'm in the camp of play your game better.
23:31The Republicans, and you talk about President Trump, it's great that he's going there, he's going to Georgia, he's hitting
23:36the trail, he's doing all these things.
23:38The Republicans have a deep bench, so let's think strategically.
23:42You have J.D. Vance who can be out on the campaign trail.
23:45You have cabinet secretaries doing amazing jobs, Elise Zeldin at EPA.
23:49You have others.
23:50What he's got is a team of surrogates who can speak, think of a Sean Duffy, to what they're doing.
23:57Imagine a Sean Duffy on the campaign trail while he's doing his job, talking to the three and a half
24:03million long-haul truckers in the United States, plus all the others, and saying to them, look what we're doing
24:09at FMCSA to help you with regulations.
24:11Look what we're doing to fix the infrastructure.
24:13Look what we're doing to weed out, excuse me, it'll do this.
24:18And use them.
24:20All right.
24:20President Trump is continuing to pressure Republicans to pass the Save America Act.
24:26I'll tell you what, Republicans have to win this one.
24:30We'll never lose a race.
24:31For 50 years, we won't lose a race.
24:33We want voter ID.
24:35We want proof of citizenship.
24:38And we don't want mail-in ballots except for the military far away, except for people that are ill, disabled,
24:47or people that are away.
24:50Even for a vacation, we'll be generous.
24:52So generous.
24:53But Democrats are still against it.
24:56I wonder why.
24:57And not just in the Senate.
24:592028 presidential hopeful and podcaster Gavin Newsom explained his reason for opposing it.
25:05Being an adult.
25:07We're not talking about the other aspects of the Save Act that go well beyond ID, and it goes to
25:12the, I mean, which is also part of Jim Crow, the history.
25:16And that is, when it comes to registration, you've got to find your birth certificate.
25:19If you know where yours is, I have no clue where mine is.
25:22Well, the Save America Act couldn't come at a more important time as we gather more evidence exposing how problematic
25:28voter fraud is, such as this undercover video between a muckraker reporter and a New York City board of elections
25:35worker.
25:36I'm a green card holder from Canada.
25:40Okay, yeah, you've got to be a citizen.
25:42We can't stop you from submitting the application.
25:45They don't do, like, a full background check, but once in a while, you know, we have people who come
25:51in here and they have legal situations and they register.
25:56You're not going to report me or something?
25:57No, no, I'm not.
25:58No, we don't report anyone.
26:02Joey, I was told by Democrats that that kind of thing, that it never happens.
26:07Yeah, they love to say, well, you know, we only found these many cases.
26:11That doesn't mean that's all there was.
26:13I mean, so that's all they found.
26:14They didn't have a chance to look at 150 million votes.
26:17That's the problem.
26:18I mean, look at what's happening in Fulton County right now.
26:20I mean, there are a lot of things out there that people have a lot more questions than answers, and
26:24I understand a lot of this was litigated after the election in 2020, but we didn't really get answers that
26:28were palatable.
26:30We didn't get answers that were concrete.
26:32The one thing that both parties can agree on is in the last 10 years, both parties have said our
26:37elections are wrought with fraud.
26:39So why can't both parties agree to fix them?
26:41There is no good argument against proving that you are a citizen in order to vote.
26:47There's not a good argument against it.
26:51There's not a good argument against it.
26:53The only argument there is is don't make it burdensome on the people that are citizens, and that's what they
26:58should be debating on how to take that burdensome part away.
27:01Yeah, and you've told us before, too, that, you know, if it is a slight burden, it's one that you
27:07can carry to vote in our elections.
27:09You know, where's your sense of patriotism?
27:11Where's your sense of duty?
27:12Like, do something for this country.
27:14It is the most prosperous country in the world.
27:16Go get your birth certificate.
27:18Get your proof of citizenship.
27:19Do that much.
27:20You get all that documentation to get a passport to go to a stupid Mexican resort, but you can't do
27:25it to vote?
27:26I mean, David, Gavin Newsom says that's a little odd.
27:30Yeah, I've been black my whole life, and I'm pretty sure that while I'm black my whole life and in
27:37my life, I have to go vote because I know where my identification is.
27:42The insult in that clip with Gavin Newsom and Jim Clyburn is that Jim Clyburn is one of the most
27:50guilty of a form of Jim Crow in its original version, which came from the Democrats, by telling black people
27:56that you have to go this route because there's no other option.
28:00Gavin Newsom, Governor Hairgel, Governor Hollywood, will not be president outside of California or in his own mind.
28:07But I will say this to the Republicans, go out and speak to people in these communities.
28:14Voter ID is in most of the modern world.
28:18In Somalia last year, they launched a voter ID program when the, I guess, leading Somalian in Little Mogadishu in
28:28Minnesota does not want you to provide ID here in America.
28:32The, the idiosyncrasies can do this, there's provisioning if you don't have, there's all kinds of ways.
28:40But proving you're an American citizen to cast a vote, to choose who leads America is simple logic.
28:49And I'm with you, Joey, this is a burden.
28:52Actually, it's not even a burden.
28:53If you think it's a burden, this is one you can easily carry.
28:57Yep, it's an easily overcome burden, I would say.
29:01And Kamala Harris has been unburdened by what has been a good line that I thought we'd resurrect.
29:06All right, Molly, but how we talked about this originally was that Senate Republicans need to do something about it.
29:12Because we can talk all day how ridiculous Democrats are.
29:14And that's right, and that's true.
29:16But Senate Republicans, President Trump is saying, you guys have to get this across the finish line.
29:21I don't know.
29:22Yeah, no, I agree.
29:23And I think that there does not appear to be the political will in the Senate to see this happening
29:30or to make it such an issue that it becomes part of this government shutdown battle that's going on.
29:34And I don't know if you have the timeline between now and the midterms for some sort of action to
29:38actually take place.
29:39I don't know if it's going to happen.
29:39Look, the talking filibuster is the next step.
29:43And Leader Thune, if you're paying attention to the American people, not to David Webb, to the American people who
29:49overwhelmingly support voter ID and registration to vote that requires your proof as an American citizen, get going with the
29:58talking filibuster.
29:59That's the next step.
30:00That will make it an even bigger fight.
30:02Let me help you with a little strategy.
30:03Every one of you take time, because the filibuster can be any topic.
30:08Use it to also keep it going by talking about issues that matter to Americans.
30:14Stop playing this game of letting Democrats take the lead in the messaging.
30:21Step up.
30:22The talking filibuster is next.
30:24You're back.
30:25The key thing that opponents bring up when they're opposed to the SAVE Act is how burdensome it is to
30:30women, particularly young women, to women that are getting married, who are moving frequently in their youth, that they would
30:34then have to find these documents, pay for documents, get the marriage license, get their passport.
30:40Half of Americans or roughly half don't have passports.
30:42And the cost involved in all of this to re-register and re-register and re-register if you're a
30:47young woman.
30:49That is one of the key arguments I see.
30:51The other big challenge, really, broadly across the board, no matter what side of the aisle you're on on this
30:55issue, is that there simply is no federal database of citizens that can reliably be dependent on when states are
31:01even working to check a potential act.
31:03So we'll see how it all plays out.
31:05But I don't think it's going to play out quickly enough for the midterms.
31:07But we'll see.
31:08Well, it has to, because the American people are watching, Senate Republicans, and we're watching closely.
31:13Let's see if you can get something done with the majority we gave you.
31:17Still ahead, search for Nancy Guthrie has entered day 21, and we have the latest on that investigation.
31:23But first, another act of transgender violence this week.
31:27Is this a sign of a larger problem in that trans community?
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