Latest / The Ben Ferguson Podcast / Calling Trump a ‘Threat’ Wasn’t Rhetoric — It 'is' the Democrat Playbook

Transcript

Calling Trump a ‘Threat’ Wasn’t Rhetoric — It 'is' the Democrat Playbook · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 0:00
  Speaker 2: For years now, Democrats have made one thing crystal clear.
• 0:05
  Speaker 2: They do not just oppose Donald Trump politically. They believe
• 0:09
  Speaker 2: he represents a fundamental threat to the country itself. That's
• 0:13
  Speaker 2: part of the reason why they've said over and over
• 0:16
  Speaker 2: again that they want to put Donald Trump in prison.
• 0:20
  Speaker 2: Well now they're running off the issue we're now being
• 0:23
  Speaker 2: told in the midterm elections. And by the way, this
• 0:27
  Speaker 2: has been years in the making. Just remember what Kamala
• 0:30
  Speaker 2: Harris said. She said that Donald Trump was an existential
• 0:33
  Speaker 2: threat to the United States of America. Joe Biden and
• 0:37
  Speaker 2: the Democratic Party have gone even further, describing Trump as
• 0:41
  Speaker 2: an exidential threat to all of us and again our
• 0:45
  Speaker 2: democracy their favorite word. Now, when you think about wording
• 0:49
  Speaker 2: existential threat, that means, in their view, not just wrong,
• 0:54
  Speaker 2: but dangerous to the survival of the system itself. And
• 0:57
  Speaker 2: that's true when it comes to the Democratic Party. Donald
• 1:00
  Speaker 2: Trump is a threat to their system. Now, Democrats in
• 1:04
  Speaker 2: the House and beneath the top leadership, they've used even
• 1:08
  Speaker 2: more blunt words. Alyssa Slogan warned in an official Democratic response,
• 1:14
  Speaker 2: the democracy is at risk if Trump's actions go unchecked.
• 1:20
  Speaker 1: At rallies across the country.
• 1:21
  Speaker 2: Over the weekend, you know, the No King's rallies, You
• 1:24
  Speaker 2: had prominent democrats and activists echoing the same message, framing
• 1:29
  Speaker 2: Trump is a danger to the republic and warning about
• 1:32
  Speaker 2: authoritarianism and threats to again their favorite new word to
• 1:36
  Speaker 2: love democracy. Well, now we're learning what they actually want
• 1:41
  Speaker 2: to do when it comes to if they gain power back,
• 1:45
  Speaker 2: if Democrats take the House. We learn now from the
• 1:48
  Speaker 2: No King's rallies in their own words, that they are
• 1:52
  Speaker 2: laying the groundwork for law fare because if Trump is
• 1:57
  Speaker 2: quote a threat to democracy, an existential threat, someone putting
• 2:01
  Speaker 2: the system at risk, that in their minds, aggressive investigations
• 2:05
  Speaker 2: aren't political, they're necessary. That's what they said over the weekend.
• 2:11
  Speaker 2: What does that actually mean. Number one, relentless investigations in
• 2:15
  Speaker 2: a Donald Trump and the people around him, his inner
• 2:19
  Speaker 2: circle now not just oversight, but their mission, they say,
• 2:23
  Speaker 2: would be to dismantle and politically weaken what they view
• 2:28
  Speaker 2: as a dangerous movement, meaning who the American people chose
• 2:32
  Speaker 2: to be their president. The Democrats also said over the
• 2:36
  Speaker 2: weekend very clearly that if they went back the House,
• 2:40
  Speaker 2: they will expand their probes into federal agencies. They say,
• 2:44
  Speaker 2: especially around quote elections, the Department of Justice actions under
• 2:49
  Speaker 2: Trump's leadership and executive authority, all because Democrats have already
• 2:54
  Speaker 2: signaled concerns about democratic norms being undermined, even though they're
• 2:58
  Speaker 2: the king pins of doing massive amounts of executive orders
• 3:03
  Speaker 2: when Joe Biden was president. Now we also have to
• 3:06
  Speaker 2: talk about who they're going to target. We have now
• 3:09
  Speaker 2: learned that Democrats aren't just going to target their political adversaries.
• 3:13
  Speaker 2: They want to target corporations and anyone they believe was
• 3:17
  Speaker 2: an ally to President Donald Trump or conservatives. If they
• 3:22
  Speaker 2: believe Trump's policies threatened democracy. They now say that companies
• 3:26
  Speaker 2: tied to those policies will become part of their investigation.
• 3:32
  Speaker 2: They also want to take they say, big action towards
• 3:35
  Speaker 2: big tech and AI. Their framing as protecting you from misinformation,
• 3:41
  Speaker 2: election interference, and the algorithm influence, but in reality, they
• 3:46
  Speaker 2: want to go back to total control of AI and
• 3:49
  Speaker 2: social media, just like we witness under Joe Biden and
• 3:53
  Speaker 2: Barack Obama's time in office. You know when they were
• 3:56
  Speaker 2: sending lists of people they went to silence or shut
• 3:59
  Speaker 2: down on on Twitter, on Instagram, it was a conservative
• 4:03
  Speaker 2: hit list of anyone they wanted to silence. Now under
• 4:06
  Speaker 2: the justification, of course, of combating threats to democracy, they
• 4:10
  Speaker 2: want social media to crack down even more on individuals
• 4:15
  Speaker 2: they say shouldn't have free speech and should have their
• 4:19
  Speaker 2: content moderated by these social media platforms. There's no reason
• 4:23
  Speaker 2: to believe, by the way, that big Tech wouldn't go
• 4:25
  Speaker 2: back to exactly what they did before, going after any
• 4:29
  Speaker 2: person the Democrat or a member of Congress or a
• 4:32
  Speaker 2: governor sends them that there's a conservative that is getting
• 4:35
  Speaker 2: too big or too powerful online that they want a silence.
• 4:39
  Speaker 2: And here's the reality. When Democrats say Trump is just wrong,
• 4:44
  Speaker 2: that's politics. When they say the threat to democracy, that
• 4:48
  Speaker 2: is something entirely different. Because once you cross that line,
• 4:53
  Speaker 2: and they've crossed it, you are no longer debating policy.
• 4:57
  Speaker 2: You are now justifying using governm tools, government power, government
• 5:03
  Speaker 2: legal systems to stop someone you believe is dangerous because
• 5:08
  Speaker 2: you don't like them. And that's why the twenty sixteen
• 5:13
  Speaker 2: election was so shocking for Democrats, how quickly they decided
• 5:17
  Speaker 2: to weaponize the government to go after Donald Trump, to
• 5:21
  Speaker 2: overthrow the will of the people. The scary part is
• 5:24
  Speaker 2: in twenty twenty six, ten years later, that's exactly the
• 5:28
  Speaker 2: same playbook Democrats are going to use this time, because
• 5:32
  Speaker 2: if the Democrats win, they won't just claim a mandate
• 5:35
  Speaker 2: to govern. We now know they'll claim a mandate to investigate,
• 5:40
  Speaker 2: a mandate to subpoena, a mandate to go after what
• 5:44
  Speaker 2: they've already defined is a threat to the country itself.
• 5:48
  Speaker 1: So when you step back and look.
• 5:50
  Speaker 2: At everything we just laid out tonight, the rhetoric, the warnings,
• 5:55
  Speaker 2: the language Democrats are using, you start to understand what's
• 5:59
  Speaker 2: really This isn't just about oversight, this isn't about subpoenas,
• 6:04
  Speaker 2: and this is definitely not just about accountability. This is
• 6:08
  Speaker 2: about the weaponization of our government, putting it on steroids
• 6:12
  Speaker 2: what they did in twenty twenty, in twenty sixteen, And
• 6:16
  Speaker 2: because when one party repeatedly tells the American people that
• 6:20
  Speaker 2: a former president and anyone that supported him, anyone involved
• 6:24
  Speaker 2: in the movement, anyone that supported him on election day,
• 6:28
  Speaker 2: is a threat, an existential threat to democracy, that changes
• 6:32
  Speaker 2: the entire ballgame.
• 6:34
  Speaker 1: That's not just politics anymore.
• 6:36
  Speaker 2: That's justification, justification for aggressive, overreaching investigations, something they've already
• 6:44
  Speaker 2: done before. It's justification for endless subpoenas, something they've already
• 6:49
  Speaker 2: done before in the Democratic Party towards Donald Trump and
• 6:52
  Speaker 2: anyone around him. The justification for dragging people into hearings again,
• 6:57
  Speaker 2: something that Democrats have already done before, seeing testimony and
• 7:01
  Speaker 2: putting targets on the backs of anyone connected to an
• 7:04
  Speaker 2: agenda or a person or an individual they oppose. And
• 7:10
  Speaker 2: history tells us something very important. When politicians convince themselves
• 7:14
  Speaker 2: they are saving democracy, they will push the limits of
• 7:18
  Speaker 2: power to do it. So don't think for a second
• 7:22
  Speaker 2: that this would be a normal return to divide a government.
• 7:25
  Speaker 2: I want to be clear. The no King's rally proved
• 7:29
  Speaker 2: one thing. It's this, It won't be. It is a
• 7:32
  Speaker 2: green light. That's what they're asking for. A green light
• 7:36
  Speaker 2: for committee chairs to launch investigations and then more investigations,
• 7:41
  Speaker 2: and then more investigations into any conservative, Christian or Trump supporter.
• 7:47
  Speaker 2: It's a green light to go after every administration official.
• 7:51
  Speaker 2: It's a green light to go after private companies that
• 7:54
  Speaker 2: donate to Donald Trump or that are conservative minded. It's
• 7:58
  Speaker 2: a green light to go after tech leaders and force
• 8:01
  Speaker 2: them back into submission where they will do whatever the
• 8:04
  Speaker 2: Democratic Party says, including silencing Americans, and it's a green
• 8:09
  Speaker 2: light to go after political allies of the president of
• 8:12
  Speaker 2: the United States of America. I would be one of those.
• 8:15
  Speaker 2: By the way, this green light is to dominate the
• 8:19
  Speaker 2: headlines with one goal in mind, stop Trump, weaken the movement,
• 8:23
  Speaker 2: reshape the political battlefield heading into the presidential elections in
• 8:27
  Speaker 2: twenty twenty eight. And here's the part that matters most
• 8:30
  Speaker 2: for every single person listening right now. This doesn't stay
• 8:34
  Speaker 2: in Washington because when government turns its focus towards investigations
• 8:38
  Speaker 2: at this scale, it will impact the economy, It will
• 8:42
  Speaker 2: impact the stability of multiple businesses, it will impact the
• 8:47
  Speaker 2: future of innovation and the tone of political speech in
• 8:51
  Speaker 2: this country as well, because when subpoenas start flying for
• 8:54
  Speaker 2: no reason, when it's law fair, people don't just get questioned,
• 8:58
  Speaker 2: They get cautious, they get quiet, and in some cases
• 9:01
  Speaker 2: they get pushed out. So as an American, the choice
• 9:05
  Speaker 2: in twenty twenty six is actually bigger than just control
• 9:08
  Speaker 2: of the House. It's about what kind of country we're
• 9:10
  Speaker 2: going to be. Are we going to be a country
• 9:12
  Speaker 2: where elections settle debates or a country where elections trigger investigations?
• 9:18
  Speaker 2: Are we going to move forward are we going to
• 9:21
  Speaker 2: spend years locked in political trench warfare where one side
• 9:24
  Speaker 2: uses every tool it can to go after the other.
• 9:27
  Speaker 2: Because the Democrats, they made it clear over the weekend,
• 9:31
  Speaker 2: the warning signs are here. They told us what they're
• 9:34
  Speaker 2: going to do. Believe them. They've told you what to fear.
• 9:38
  Speaker 2: Believe them. And if they win, they've told you exactly
• 9:42
  Speaker 2: what they're prepared to do to all of us. And
• 9:45
  Speaker 2: that's exactly why it's so important that walking away from
• 9:48
  Speaker 2: these No King rallies, you understand exactly what they were
• 9:52
  Speaker 2: calling for. The Trump administration wants the Senate to ditch
• 9:58
  Speaker 2: their recess oh over the shutdown and get back to
• 10:01
  Speaker 2: the work of the American people. President Trump calling out
• 10:05
  Speaker 2: the Senate and saying it's time to return.
• 10:08
  Speaker 1: Into your job.
• 10:10
  Speaker 2: As the Department of Homeland Security shutdown continues with no
• 10:13
  Speaker 2: end insight, the President is also encouraging Congress to come
• 10:17
  Speaker 2: back to Washington to permanently fix this problem and to
• 10:20
  Speaker 2: fund and reopen the Department of Homeland Security entirely. That
• 10:25
  Speaker 2: is what the White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt said
• 10:27
  Speaker 2: at the press briefing. I want you to take a
• 10:30
  Speaker 2: listen to part of what she had to say at
• 10:32
  Speaker 2: the White House.
• 10:34
  Speaker 3: Overall morale among TSA staff plummeted as well, all of
• 10:37
  Speaker 3: this creating an unacceptable heightened security risk because of the
• 10:41
  Speaker 3: Democrats unwillingness to do their basic job of funding DHS.
• 10:45
  Speaker 3: President Trump determined that the circumstances constituted an emergency compromising
• 10:50
  Speaker 3: American security. That's why last week he accordingly signed a
• 10:54
  Speaker 3: presidential memorandum directing the Secretary of Homeland Security to work
• 10:59
  Speaker 3: with the Director of the Office of Management and Budget
• 11:01
  Speaker 3: here at the White House to use those funds with
• 11:04
  Speaker 3: a reagionable and reasonable and logical nexus to TSA operations
• 11:08
  Speaker 3: to provide TSA employees with the compensation and benefits that
• 11:12
  Speaker 3: would have accrued to them but for the Democrat led
• 11:16
  Speaker 3: DHS shutdown. This bold and necessary action by President Trump
• 11:20
  Speaker 3: will ensure our TSA workers receive their hard earned paychecks.
• 11:24
  Speaker 3: It should not have come to this point, but President
• 11:26
  Speaker 3: Trump will always do what's right by the American people,
• 11:29
  Speaker 3: and he found a way to do that to get
• 11:31
  Speaker 3: TSA paid. Ensuring that these federal workers who perform critical
• 11:35
  Speaker 3: public safety responsibilities, can feed their families, pay their rent,
• 11:39
  Speaker 3: and show up to work is something the President was
• 11:41
  Speaker 3: honored to do. But this moment should be an eye
• 11:44
  Speaker 3: opening one for the American people. Let's be clear about
• 11:47
  Speaker 3: what is happening. Democrat members of Congress are more than
• 11:51
  Speaker 3: happy to put your safety at risk because they oppose
• 11:54
  Speaker 3: the President's administered in his administration's efforts to enforce our
• 11:58
  Speaker 3: nation's immigration law. Democrats refuse to fund ICE because they
• 12:02
  Speaker 3: want millions and millions of illegal aliens to pour into
• 12:05
  Speaker 3: the country just like they were under the Biden administration.
• 12:09
  Speaker 3: They want murderers and rapists and thugs to remain in
• 12:12
  Speaker 3: your communities rather than be removed by ICE and border
• 12:15
  Speaker 3: patrol agents. The Democrats created this mess. They are the
• 12:19
  Speaker 3: reason for long lines at airports and tens of thousands
• 12:22
  Speaker 3: of employees going without pay. Once again, President Trump is
• 12:26
  Speaker 3: cleaning up their mess because he cares more about the
• 12:28
  Speaker 3: American people than destructive, petty partisan politics.
• 12:32
  Speaker 2: Now, President Trump recently signed an executive order to pay
• 12:36
  Speaker 2: Transportation Security Administration employees who had gone without paychecks since
• 12:41
  Speaker 2: the shutdown began in mid February, but Levitt said that
• 12:46
  Speaker 2: was not the answer. Quote, the President just can't keep
• 12:49
  Speaker 2: signing presidential memorandums and proclamations every time Congress fails to
• 12:54
  Speaker 2: do their job.
• 12:55
  Speaker 1: She's absolutely right about that.
• 12:57
  Speaker 2: One, Carolyn Levitt said, Democrats are holding our entire country hostage.
• 13:02
  Speaker 1: That is also a fact.
• 13:04
  Speaker 2: They're picking and choosing which programs and agencies they want
• 13:07
  Speaker 2: a fund just because they don't like the administration's policies.
• 13:11
  Speaker 2: And that's not how Congress is supposed to work, or
• 13:13
  Speaker 2: how funding is supposed to work.
• 13:15
  Speaker 1: For that matter.
• 13:16
  Speaker 2: They voted several times against funding DHS over partisan and
• 13:19
  Speaker 2: political reasons. That is part of the reason why we
• 13:22
  Speaker 2: have the shutdown right now. And over the weekend, things
• 13:26
  Speaker 2: got even a little stickier when House Republicans rejected a
• 13:29
  Speaker 2: bipartisan Senate deal to temporarily fund THEHS and instead past
• 13:35
  Speaker 2: their own funding measure late Friday, extending a week's long
• 13:39
  Speaker 2: budget standoff that has disrupted travel for so many Americans.
• 13:45
  Speaker 1: Now, before I get into more of what the House
• 13:47
  Speaker 1: bill says, let.
• 13:48
  Speaker 2: Me talk to you real quick about our incredible friends
• 13:51
  Speaker 2: that I want you to get involved with, called Patriot
• 13:54
  Speaker 2: Mobile and the amazing work they're doing to stand up
• 13:57
  Speaker 2: for all of our values. All right, so let's get
• 14:00
  Speaker 2: back to the funding here for a second. The stopgap
• 14:02
  Speaker 2: bill which proposed funding DHS in full for eight weeks.
• 14:07
  Speaker 2: That actually passed two thirteen to two oh three after
• 14:10
  Speaker 2: Republicans in the lower chamber refused to take up a
• 14:14
  Speaker 2: Senate pass deal that excluded money from Immigration and Customs
• 14:18
  Speaker 2: enforcements and custom and Border protection.
• 14:21
  Speaker 1: A funding measure.
• 14:22
  Speaker 2: That locks in the status quo is dead on arrival
• 14:26
  Speaker 2: in the Senate, and Republicans know it. That's what Senate
• 14:29
  Speaker 2: Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said in a statement, saying, quote,
• 14:33
  Speaker 2: Democrats will fund critical homeland security functions, but we will
• 14:38
  Speaker 2: not give a blank check to Trump's lawless and deadly
• 14:41
  Speaker 2: immigration militia without reforms. To be clear, that would be
• 14:46
  Speaker 2: Chuck Schumer saying that ICE agents are deadly militia members,
• 14:51
  Speaker 2: not members of our government that we should be proud
• 14:54
  Speaker 2: of now. The late night vote came after Speaker of
• 14:57
  Speaker 2: the House Mike Johnson called the earlier Bypart and Senate
• 15:00
  Speaker 2: bill a joke for withholding money for the agencies responsible
• 15:05
  Speaker 2: for carrying out Trump's deportation policies. The Senate immediately went
• 15:10
  Speaker 2: on a two week recess after voting to fund DHS,
• 15:14
  Speaker 2: and that is where President Trump has come back in saying,
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: what are you doing. It's time to get back to work.
• 15:21
  Speaker 2: There is a difference between these two individual bodies, There's
• 15:25
  Speaker 2: no doubt about it. Democrats are also celebrating this. There's
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: also some members of Congress who are so angry about this.
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: They're saying, we shouldn't get paid GOP Representative Cammick and
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: I want you to hear what she had to say
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: on Fox News Channel with Harris Faugner.
• 15:43
  Speaker 4: Come in a cat Cammick, Republican of the Great State
• 15:45
  Speaker 4: of Florida, member of the Energy and Commerce and Agricultural Committees.
• 15:49
  Speaker 4: Great to see you today. Let's just get to the
• 15:51
  Speaker 4: browse tax and please don't be offended by this, but
• 15:54
  Speaker 4: you'll have all of our money. And the fact that
• 15:57
  Speaker 4: Democrats have now gotten to the point where they are
• 16:00
  Speaker 4: just dysfunctional. They can't pick us first any of that.
• 16:04
  Speaker 4: Is it time to start cutting paychecks now?
• 16:06
  Speaker 5: Absolutely, it needs to start with the senators. They should
• 16:10
  Speaker 5: not be collecting a paycheck which members of Congress, both
• 16:13
  Speaker 5: the House and Senate, get paid on a monthly basis,
• 16:15
  Speaker 5: and their check is deposited in the last few days
• 16:18
  Speaker 5: of the month. They right now are collecting a paycheck
• 16:21
  Speaker 5: while our hardworking men of Homeland Security, from FEMA, Coastguard,
• 16:25
  Speaker 5: DHS collectively, and of course TSA. They are not getting
• 16:29
  Speaker 5: paid now. To your point, Harris, yes, we do have
• 16:32
  Speaker 5: a literacy crisis in this country. But for Pete's sakes,
• 16:35
  Speaker 5: I wish that the Democrats and the Senate would stop
• 16:38
  Speaker 5: treating us all like we are morons. We can read,
• 16:42
  Speaker 5: and if they were to read the bill they sent
• 16:44
  Speaker 5: over to us, they wanted to withhold the paychecks of
• 16:48
  Speaker 5: ICE of CBP Homeland Security Investigations, which investigates sex crimes
• 16:54
  Speaker 5: against children. These folks are out to play politics with
• 16:58
  Speaker 5: people's lives and it's disgusting. They should not be getting paid,
• 17:01
  Speaker 5: certainly not while there are other people who are sleeping
• 17:04
  Speaker 5: in their cars and missing paychecks and really scrambling for
• 17:08
  Speaker 5: everything that they can do to survive.
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: Now, as Republicans are trying to figure all of this out,
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: and I agree, those members of Congress should not get
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: paid while this is happening. The Democrats are trying to
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: figure out how.
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: To spend this.
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: ABC News is Jonathan Carl on Sunday Morning this week,
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: asked this question to Sener Van Holland about what did
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: the Democrats really get out of this? And I want
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: to listen carefully to his answer and.
• 17:33
  Speaker 6: Is he going to now use it?
• 17:35
  Speaker 7: So when the Senate passed that bill, and there was
• 17:38
  Speaker 7: that brief moment that looks like you know, dawn had broken,
• 17:42
  Speaker 7: you put out a statement saying that Republicans had quote
• 17:45
  Speaker 7: finally relented. What did Democrats get out of this? Even
• 17:49
  Speaker 7: if that passed?
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: What did you get out of this?
• 17:51
  Speaker 7: This DHS shutdown's going on for well over a month.
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: What have you gotten for it?
• 17:56
  Speaker 6: Well, the issue here, John, is we let people know
• 18:00
  Speaker 6: number one, that we want to fully fund TSA. We
• 18:03
  Speaker 6: could get rid of these lines at the airports immediately,
• 18:06
  Speaker 6: but we also made clear that we're going to demand
• 18:10
  Speaker 6: reforms of a lawless ICE operation. After allsh agents killed
• 18:16
  Speaker 6: two American citizens in Minneapolis.
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: So there it is yet again what you have as
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: Democrats saying Ice is evil, the Ice of the Gestapo,
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: ICE's murderers, Ice are the worst among us. They're not
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: backing down from that talking point. And if that means
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: shutting down our government or having you waiting four or
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: five hour lines at the airport, and if that means
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: they think they're getting closer to their victory of defunding
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: or dehumanizing Ice.
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: Clearly they're willing to do it.
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: You may remember that Michigan synagogue attack that happened. We
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: now know that that individual was a Hesblah inspired active terrorism.
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: That synagogue attacker was actually the brother of a hes
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: Blah commander. We're now learning from Israel and the FBI
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: is confirming that that Michigan synagogue attacked her was yes,
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: a terrorist. So all the dots are being connected. So
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: why is the media not talking about this? For that
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: exact reason. I just explained to you, Senator Cruz, and
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: I broke it down even more and I want you
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: to hear what he had to say.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: Take a listen, all.
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: Right, Senator, So let's get to this first big story here,
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: and this is one of the ones that concerns me
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: so much about what is happening in this country right now.
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: We've also seen this happen in Europe, and we are
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: now seeing that there are more attacks. We're seeing churches
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: that are being burned around the world, and we're now
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: seeing this synagogue attacker that attacked on behalf of hes Blah.
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: It happened right here in Michigan. We know a lot
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: more now than we did before.
• 19:56
  Speaker 8: Yeah, you remember when this story broke, when the man
• 19:59
  Speaker 8: drove his truck into the synagogue that was also a school.
• 20:03
  Speaker 8: There were over one hundred kids there. He was trying
• 20:05
  Speaker 8: to kill as many young children as he could, and
• 20:08
  Speaker 8: the media coverage they referred to him as Michigan Man.
• 20:12
  Speaker 8: It was reminiscent of Maryland Man, the guy who was
• 20:15
  Speaker 8: MS thirteen gang banger and human trafficker. That was just
• 20:18
  Speaker 8: a Maryland man who for some reason was deported. No
• 20:21
  Speaker 8: one could imagine why. Well, here it was Michigan Man,
• 20:24
  Speaker 8: and then they had all this sympathetic coverage. Michigan Man
• 20:28
  Speaker 8: was upset that his brother had been killed in the
• 20:30
  Speaker 8: Middle East. What they didn't mention is his brother was
• 20:33
  Speaker 8: a commander for Hesbela, and so he was a terrorist.
• 20:37
  Speaker 8: So hesbela terrorist in America unhappy that a different Hesbela
• 20:42
  Speaker 8: terrorist had been killed, and so he tried to kill
• 20:45
  Speaker 8: as many children, as many Jews as possible. Here are
• 20:48
  Speaker 8: the details the attack earlier this month. This is from
• 20:52
  Speaker 8: CNN on a synagogue in West Bloomfield, Michigan, was a
• 20:55
  Speaker 8: quote Hesbela inspired act of terrorism purposely to targeting the
• 21:00
  Speaker 8: Jewish community and the largest Jewish temple in Michigan, The
• 21:04
  Speaker 8: FBI said a news conference on Monday. The assailant, I'man Ghazali,
• 21:09
  Speaker 8: was a naturalized US citizen from Lebanon's now put a
• 21:13
  Speaker 8: pin in that that we need to change our vetting
• 21:16
  Speaker 8: for naturalized citizens. He rammed a pickup truck into the
• 21:21
  Speaker 8: synagogue on March twelfth, as more than one hundred children
• 21:26
  Speaker 8: were attending school inside. After waiting in the synagogue's parking
• 21:30
  Speaker 8: lot for more than two hours, authority said, Gazali drove
• 21:33
  Speaker 8: the truck far into the building, hitting a security officer
• 21:36
  Speaker 8: before the vehicle became wedged in a hallway. Security officers
• 21:41
  Speaker 8: for the synagogue began changing gunfire with Ghazali, who eventually
• 21:45
  Speaker 8: shot and killed himself inside the truck. During the chaos,
• 21:49
  Speaker 8: the truck's engine compartment caught fire and caused extension extensive
• 21:54
  Speaker 8: damage to the building. The truck was filled with over
• 21:58
  Speaker 8: two thousand dollars of commercial grade fireworks and about thirty
• 22:03
  Speaker 8: five gallons of gasoline, which he used to enhance the explosion.
• 22:09
  Speaker 8: No one else was killed. One of the temple's lead
• 22:12
  Speaker 8: security officers was injured after being hit by the vehicle.
• 22:16
  Speaker 8: Had he lived, he would have been charged with providing
• 22:18
  Speaker 8: material support to Hesbela, the Iranian backed terrorist group in Lebanon,
• 22:23
  Speaker 8: said Jerome Gorgon, the US attorney for the Eastern District
• 22:25
  Speaker 8: of Michigan. Gorgan added that Gazali was inspired by Hesbelon
• 22:31
  Speaker 8: propaganda to carry out the attack. Quote, this man acted
• 22:36
  Speaker 8: under Hesbola's direction and control. He intended to kill others,
• 22:41
  Speaker 8: not just himself. In the days after the attack, US
• 22:45
  Speaker 8: official said Gazali was located in federal government databases as
• 22:48
  Speaker 8: having connections to quote known or suspected terrorists associated with HESBLA.
• 22:55
  Speaker 8: Stopped there for a second, so they searched the databases.
• 22:57
  Speaker 8: The databases showed that he had connected to known or
• 23:00
  Speaker 8: suspected terrorists. Then why the hell was this guy let
• 23:03
  Speaker 8: in the country in the first place. Why did they
• 23:05
  Speaker 8: allow him in? Why did they naturalize them as a citizen.
• 23:07
  Speaker 8: I have a feeling that information in the databases didn't
• 23:10
  Speaker 8: magically appear in the last fifteen months. It's been there
• 23:13
  Speaker 8: a long time. It's just prior administrations didn't care. We
• 23:17
  Speaker 8: didn't get to the bottom of that. A week prior
• 23:20
  Speaker 8: to the attack, members of Gazali's family in Lebanon, including
• 23:24
  Speaker 8: two brothers, were killed in an Israeli airstrike as the
• 23:27
  Speaker 8: US and Israel entered its second week of conflict with Iran.
• 23:31
  Speaker 8: Now this is where the media clutched their pearls. Well,
• 23:33
  Speaker 8: his brother was killed, so naturally, when your brothers killed,
• 23:36
  Speaker 8: what you do is try to murder a hundred kids.
• 23:38
  Speaker 8: That's the normal reaction to that. But then here's the
• 23:42
  Speaker 8: killer paragraph that follows, the Israeli. Israeli military said one
• 23:47
  Speaker 8: of the brothers, Ibrahim Muhammad Ghazali, was a Hesbola commander
• 23:52
  Speaker 8: in charge of managing weapons operations in the raigning proxy
• 23:56
  Speaker 8: groups botter Unitzali began planning for the attack days earlier,
• 24:02
  Speaker 8: so the FBI said, with his plans intensifying on March ninth.
• 24:07
  Speaker 8: A review of Gazali's online activity dating to January. January
• 24:12
  Speaker 8: was before the war in Iran started, showed repeated searches
• 24:17
  Speaker 8: for pro Hesbela and Iranian news outlets, as well as
• 24:20
  Speaker 8: videos related to gunfire and ammunition. Beginning March ninth, FBI
• 24:24
  Speaker 8: said he closely followed speeches in live coverage involving hesbelas
• 24:28
  Speaker 8: Secretary Terry General Naim Kassem, along with reporting about an
• 24:33
  Speaker 8: Iranian fatwah, a religious ruling concerning Islamic law calling for
• 24:39
  Speaker 8: total jihad against the US military. He also researched Jewish
• 24:43
  Speaker 8: cultural education and religious centers throughout the Detroit metro area,
• 24:48
  Speaker 8: viewing multiple pages of upcoming events at Temple Israel, and
• 24:52
  Speaker 8: searched specific terms and phrases such as quote the largest
• 24:57
  Speaker 8: gathering of Israelis in Michigan Orthodox synagogues and Israeli's near me.
• 25:04
  Speaker 8: That day, after two people declined to sell them a weapon,
• 25:07
  Speaker 8: Gazzali bought an Ar fifteen style rifle, ten magazines at
• 25:11
  Speaker 8: about three hundred rounds of ammunition at a gun store
• 25:14
  Speaker 8: in Dearborn Heights. Runyon said, Now, it's interesting that two
• 25:17
  Speaker 8: stores declined to sell it to them, and yet the
• 25:19
  Speaker 8: one in deer Born was willing to. I think that's
• 25:22
  Speaker 8: something else. You've owned a gun store.
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: I was gonna say that is a massive red flag.
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: Like if you turned down somebody, and there's two stores
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: they clearly like were doing their jobs, by the way
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: a gun stores, and.
• 25:35
  Speaker 8: So tell us as someone who has owned a gun store,
• 25:37
  Speaker 8: like this guy goes in and says, I want to
• 25:39
  Speaker 8: buy an ar Why would a gun storre say no.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a couple of reasons.
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: One, you profile and you can see if someone seems
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: angry or agitated. You can also you're supposed to be
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: looking to see if an individual you think is doing
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: a straw purchase, which means they're buying for someone else illegally.
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: You'll see that happen a lot of times with wives
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: that will come in their husband would be a felon,
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: or someone that's disqualified from only a weapon, or a
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: friend will come in. You'll see people that walk in
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: the store, they'll look at a gun, they'll take a
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: picture of it, they'll leave, and then literally thirty seconds later,
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: a minute later, someone comes in and tries to buy
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: the exact gun that you just showed to someone else.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: Like, there's multiple things that you look for here.
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: But then there's also conversations if you see that someone
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: comes in and by the way, if you believe that
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: they're drunk or high or on some sort.
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: Of drug, you can refuse.
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: And if you just have a really bad feeling it's
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: something doesn't feel right, you can say I'm not going
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: to sell you a gun, and you have the rise
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: of store owner to do that. But when you hear
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: the two gun stores did this and most Yeah, that
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: says a lot because something there I would love to
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: see and go back and here because I'm sure there's
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: going to be an interview.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: What was it?
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: And then where the authorities alerted to this? And yet
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: a third store was able to sell them the gun.
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: They didn't check in on that afterwards. That also is
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: very concerning.
• 26:58
  Speaker 8: Yeah, the story continue. He practiced shooting the new weapon
• 27:01
  Speaker 8: the next day and bought the fireworks. An order of
• 27:05
  Speaker 8: dozens of water containers arrived on the eleventh day before
• 27:08
  Speaker 8: the attack, and he immediately started filling them with gasoline,
• 27:11
  Speaker 8: making four trips to gas stations so he would not
• 27:14
  Speaker 8: arouse suspicion. He also bought two torchlighters, which authorities believed
• 27:18
  Speaker 8: he used to set his truck on fire. On the
• 27:21
  Speaker 8: day of the attack, Gazali sent his sister, who authorities
• 27:25
  Speaker 8: believe lives in Lebanon, numerous videos and messages quote affirming
• 27:30
  Speaker 8: his Hesbela inspired ideology. Ten minutes before he drove his
• 27:34
  Speaker 8: truck into the synagogue, Gazali sent his sister two videos
• 27:38
  Speaker 8: in Arabic indicating that he was at the largest gathering
• 27:41
  Speaker 8: of Israelis in the state of Michigan, had booby trapped
• 27:45
  Speaker 8: his car and would forcibly enter and start shooting people.
• 27:48
  Speaker 8: The FBI said, God willing, I will kill as many
• 27:52
  Speaker 8: of them as I possibly can. Gazali recorded himself saying,
• 27:55
  Speaker 8: according to Runyan, look, these are the kind of threats
• 28:00
  Speaker 8: we're facing. By the way, this podcast covered when the
• 28:04
  Speaker 8: Iranian fought well went out, and we have covered at
• 28:08
  Speaker 8: length the radical Islamic terrorists that the Biden administration allowed
• 28:13
  Speaker 8: to flood into this country and the lack of vetting,
• 28:16
  Speaker 8: and tragically all of this happened at the same time
• 28:20
  Speaker 8: we had the Department of Homeland Security shut down because
• 28:23
  Speaker 8: the Democrats have defunded it. And I'm sorry to say,
• 28:26
  Speaker 8: this guy is not the last radical Islamic terrorist left
• 28:29
  Speaker 8: in the country, and yet Senate Democrats do not seem
• 28:33
  Speaker 8: to care at all.
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: Well, let's go back in time just a little bit
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: to remind people this was part of what President Trump
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: had said we need to do, which was to go
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: back into vet Can you give an update on that,
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: And is some of that vetting stop because of DHS
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: lack of funding and all these fights and the government
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: shutdowns that have happened.
• 28:52
  Speaker 8: Well, some of that vetting would be happening at the
• 28:54
  Speaker 8: State Department, some of it would be happening at DHS,
• 28:57
  Speaker 8: and so I don't know the status of that ve.
• 29:00
  Speaker 8: We have not gotten a report. We obviously have a
• 29:03
  Speaker 8: brand new Secretary of Homeland Security, Mark Wayne Mullen. By
• 29:06
  Speaker 8: the way, I will point out, every Democrat but two
• 29:09
  Speaker 8: voted against confirming him. So their position is they don't
• 29:12
  Speaker 8: want a secretary of DHS. And by the way, they
• 29:14
  Speaker 8: all like Mark Wayne. He was a colleague in the Senate.
• 29:17
  Speaker 8: They knew him, he was well liked on both sides
• 29:19
  Speaker 8: of the island. Was not personal. They wouldn't vote to
• 29:22
  Speaker 8: confirm it bugs Bunny as head of DHS. Their party
• 29:27
  Speaker 8: is the open borders party. Anyone who has focused on
• 29:31
  Speaker 8: securing the border Today's Democrats oppose.
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: Make sure you share this podcast with your family and friends,
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: put it up on social media wherever you are, and
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: we appreciate you listening every day.
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: We'll see you back here tomorrow.