Let's talk about the latest on the federal ice raids and the subsequent protests happening around the country. The flashpoint happened in Los Angeles, California, when overnight curfew was lifted at nine a m.
Eastern.
The curfew covered about one square mile in downtown LA with a protest against ice raids and troop deployments in the city had been concentrated. Similar protests took place in other cities, including in New York, Seattle, Chicago, Austin, Texas, Las Vegas, and of course, the nation's capital, Washington, DC. Meanwhile, three Democratic governors defended the state's immigration enforcement policies before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee today.
Illinois Governor JB.
Pritzkert, Minnesota governor and former Democratic Vice presidential nominee Tim Wallas, and New York Governor Cathy Hockel testified at what the committee describes as quote a hearing with sanctuary state governors.
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This was the sea in Los Angeles just this afternoon, as Homeland Security Secretary Christy nom was speaking.
About the raids and protests.
That's Democratic Senator Alex Badia of California, who was confronted by security and forcibly removed from that press conference. Badia spoke out during nomes initial remarks to reporters and attempted to shout questions at the secretary. The senator was shoved out of the room, taken to the ground, and handcuffed.
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That's why they've been talking about Steven Aate Smith being a candidate for president of the United States.
That's why you should be looking at Governor Wes Moore of Maryland.
You should be looking at Josh Shapiro, Governor of Pennsylvania. You know, the people that don't engage in this kind of nonsense.
You talking about propping yourself up.
It's all nonsense. It's all used as a tool to divide us. On one hand, we have the President of the United States focusing our attention on illegal immigration and really highlighting it to the umph degree to make himself look good. Because you can't point to the terrorists right now. You can't necessarily point to the economy right now. You can't you can't look at the war in Ukraine with Russia.
You can't point to that right now. You can't point to doge in what they're doing because Elon Musk and you have had your little tiff over the last week, week and a half, So you can't point to that right now. So what's a winning hand to play? It's this, it's immigration, it's migrants, it's those who are undocumented or here illegally. That's a winning hand and that's what he's doing. So you got that side. And on another side here you have this, Senator Alex Badia, can Christy Nole speak?
Could you have waited till she finished to ask your questions? To shout your questions? You are a senator, right, you couldn't wait? So that was just you out of control because you were just losing it.
Hup. You are United States senator.
Couldn't compose yourself and let the head of Homeland Security finish her thoughts before you ask the question?
Couldn't do that? Harm? Couldn't do it? Hah.
I know you got an explanation for it. I know you got an explanation for it. And in fairness to you, because that's what we do here.
Or to Stephen A.
Smithsrow, I'm gonna be fit to you by making sure the people hear what you have to say. Go ahead, Senator alexbdir, go ahead, let's hear you.
If this is how this administration responds to a senator with a question, If this is how the Department of Home mad Security responds to a Senator with a question, you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers, to cus to daily abords out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California and throughout the country. We will hold this administration accountable.
Really, how are you gonna do that unless you win at the post? How are you gonna do that? I'm all lives, take your time away. How are you gonna do that?
Because I don't see how it's gonna happen. Senator Alex for did did you recognize that you sound a bit similar to a couple of other people. Let's take it to consideration. California Governor Gavin Newsom, according to a Wall Street Journal, reading from an article right here, hitting all of the greatest resistance hits democracy is under assault before our eyes. Authoritarian regimes begin by targeting people who are at least able to defend themselves, who are at least
able to defend themselves. He's assaulting the First Amendment. He's taking a wrecking ball to our founding father's historic project. This is what Gavin Newsom was saying about the Trump administration.
Doesn't that sounds similar to you? Sounds similar to me.
I'm just looking at certain things like this and I'm saying to myself, where's that gonna get you? Because at the end of the day, when you bring up the fact that you don't like what Trump is doing, and you're coming to the defense of migrants of immigrants, while it's admirable from a humanitarian perspective, all of us as human beings, as God fearing individuals, we don't want to see anybody suffering the way some of these migrants have been suffering. Make no mistake about that. This is not
what that's about. This is about playing a winning hand or creating a winning hand, or incorporating a winning formula. Are you doing that? Set it up a deal? Are you doing that? Governor Newsom? Because this ain't a winning argument. The polls showed that. I don't want to hear anything about how there's no mandate with Trump.
He didn't win fifty percent of the vote. Ain't either.
He won a popular vote, he won an electoral college vote, he won every swing state. He increased his votes with young voters, black voters, Hispanic voters.
Facts.
It was an indictment against you as a party. And what has happened since that time? Now he's gotten into office and you're raising Holy hell because he's engaging in a level of extremism. To my degree, I feel this way. I don't like what I see Trump doing in Los Angeles at all. You heard Kevin Fraser come on the show just the other day and point out how overblown
some things are. Right now, had this conspicuous presence that's been placed on the city of Los Angeles, where you got four members of the National Guard, four thousand members of the National Guard, and at least seven hundred members of the United States Marines protecting federal property, etc. Is
all of that necessary? It does seem a bit extreme, But if you're a politician and you're trying to play a winning hand, if there's nobody in the streets throwing stuff at you, if there's nobody in the streets viewing hatred at you and being a bit belligerent, what would they have to show for the cameras. What would they
have to show? And you, as a Democratic party, you have to remember what the backdrop of all of this is law and order from Trump, because they didn't appear to be law and order when Biden was in office. Open borders, you set nothing. Migrants coming through the streets of America, you set nothing. We got medical in Los Angeles paying over a billion dollars for migrants, but don't have some don't have enough for Los Angeleans who are born right here in the United States of America.
What argument do you think is going to win.
No one what sins believes that President Trump is totally right. This is not about right and wrong with him. This is about him knowing he has the benefit of the doubt on his side because of what you did over for over four years when he was out of office. If you were Gavin Newsom, as the Wall Street Journal alluded to, you know what you could have done to
alleviate this. Since you want to take the Trump administration to court and say that he had no business federalizing the National Guard, you could have caught.
The National Guard.
You could have made sure that law enforcement throughout the city of Los Angeles had a very strong, vibrant, conspicuous presence where there it might have alleviated the possibility of him calling in, meaning Trump calling in the National Guards in the Marines.
You could have done that, but you didn't. And because you did it.
You gave him the opening to do it, because it makes you look like you're week on on crime, you're weak on lawlessness, you're weak on borders, all the things that got him elected.
You're playing into his hand. And not only did you do it, Governor News now.
Set it up a deer did it because we all know you could have waited for her to finish speaking. Now, I will say this, they had no business putting cuffs on Senate upidea escorting him out of the room, even forcibly was within bounds. The Secretary for Homeland Security was speaking. You let her finish. You don't want to let her finish, then, hey, they definitely should have removed you from the room.
That is it.
They didn't need to put you on the they didn't need to handcuffed you.
All they needed to do was keep you out of the room.
You are a United States senator, very disrespectful, comes across as authoritarian President Trump.
Cross of the line, without question, without question.
But they didn't arrest him. They did let him go, and within minutes he was outside holding his own press conference.
That is Senate up a deal. So let's take that into consideration.
Now that I've said what I had to say about the Democrats, who I think I'm playing right into Trump's hands and looking like absolute fools doing so, that doesn't absolve the Republicans, especially the number one member of the GOP these days, that is the forty seventh President of the United States. I want to race everybody out there listening. I almost caught a heart attack when I heard President Trump say what I'm about to show you.
He said, play that tape please. We have a great country and we're going to keep it that way.
And when it comes to Los Angeles or other cities, if we see other cities are gearing up and these people are agitators, they're paid, they're professionals, they're insurrectionists, their troublemakers, they're all of those things. But I believe they're paid, and we're going to find out through Pam Bondi and her great staff are great people.
Justice who they are. Oh no you didn't, No, you didn't.
Is that President Trump that just called somebody insurrectionists. People who are protested in the streets. Dare I say looterers, people that are defacing property with graffiti and stuff like that.
You called them insurrectionists.
But those folks that stormed the US Capitol in twenty twenty one, bulldozing through barricades and capital security, they warn't surrectionists.
But you're calling these folks directionists. Really, really?
January sixth, defendants pardoned by Trump. Over one thousand and five hundred of them were pardoned by Trump. Where video is everywhere of them starming the United States Capital, going into chambers, sitting behind the desk of Nancy Pelosi, chanting, killed former Vice President Mike Pence. One woman was shot by Secret Service. There were a couple of people who died. And you call these folks in Los Angeles insurrectionists.
See, ladies and gentlemen. This is what I meant by when I.
Said, this is what the politicians have done to us, not all of them. There is good on both sides, there's bad on both sides. But this is what the nation's capital, the elected officials legislating and holding purview over our country, has done to us. They serve to divide us.
They're not about bringing us together. They're about keeping us divided so we can butt heads with one another, create and then living the chaos we do create while they chill up on Capitol Hill having dominion over our lives.
This is why these parties need to be purged. This is why there needs to be a cleansing in the nation's capital.
I myself, I'm a fan of Governor Wes Moore Maryland. I'm a fan of Jos Shapiro of Pennsylvania. I'm a fan of Marco Rubio, as crazy as that may sound to some of you because of what you see him doing as Secretary of State and heading our national security intelligence as well national security Rather, I get it. But seasoned politicians that know how to articulate themselves and are about legislation, are about policies and about laws in our land as opposed to creating chaos is what I'm down for.
Guys like John Kasick, former governor of Ohio, Chris Christi, former governor of New Jersey. Not popular with a lot of people, popular with me. Nikki Haley, I would have voted for her. You don't need this chaos, This is exactly what I was afraid of, exactly what I was afraid of. Gavin Newsom clearly believes his strategy is to be antithetical to anything that is Trump. By showing his behavior can remen can emulate Trumps, and other Democrats are
gonna follow suit. Maxine Waters, God bless her. In her eighties, she goes to some event daring federal officials to shoot her.
Really, really, that's how we're going to behave.
Like I said when I started, no wonder folks have me as a candidate for the presidency of the United States of America. Now, to be clear, I might cust some people out from time to time, ain't no doubt about that. But I would be about bringing people together and working on compromise. That's the kind of candidate we need, not me, but somebody committed to galvanizing instead of polarizing. The way this is going right now, times are only
gonna get uglier before they get better. Because who's really sincere when they're talking about how we need to get better.
I don't see any evidence of it. I just don't