So last night, two disappointing things happened. One, of course, was the release of a Senate Compromised Border Security Building, both with all the details of that momentarily. The other was the Grammys. And I'm gonna start with the Grammys, mainly because, frankly, Tom McDonoughly, if we had performed facts at the Grammys, it would have been at least 10 times better, because that was a terrible show.
Can I just point out at this point that Trevor Noah is truly an awful host? Trevor Noah is legitimately most boring host in the history of the Grammys, because he has basically decided that his job at the Grammys is to simply flatter the celebrities around him, as opposed to doing the Ricky Journeys where you go in and you insult all of the celebrities, which is way more entertaining for everybody else. Trevor Noah goes in and he tells a bunch of jokes about how Taylor Swift helps the local economy, and everyone is so beautiful. Ah-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha, and Billy Joel is so successful.
Oh, yeah, it was terrible. Also Stevie Wonder can no longer sing, and I say this as a long-time Stevie Wonder pan. But the only reason I point out all of this out is because culture is upstream of politics, and as much as we're gonna talk about the Senate Border Building just a moment, the reality is that there are maybe 7 to 10 million people in the United States where we're gonna have any idea that a border bill is even on the table or being contemplated, whereas there'll be hundreds of millions of people who will listen to all the garbage music that emerges from the Grammys and the messaging put out from the Grammys. Doesn't mean that everybody listens to what all these dolts in Hollywood have to say about politics.
It does mean that they do have some impact. So we begin with a brief review of the Grammys. We'll start with this. The fashion of the Grammys, these people are not like you.
They're not connected to lives that you lead. They do not follow your moral strictures. They're not interested in promoting immorality that you wish to teach your children. And yet if you leave them with access to your kids via YouTube or via iTunes or anything else, it will in fact have an impact on your kids.
So this is a human. This human is called Doja Cat, which I don't understand because she's not a cat. Apparently, I have been informed by reliable sources that she literally named herself after pot and a cat. Not kidding you, because she didn't come out from mom and her mom was like, behold, I shall name her Doja Cat.
She obviously is not only a class act in every way. She also is just wearing a sheer bodysuit that doesn't even attempt to cover her nipples because this is where we are right now. Now I assume she can afford the entire dress. If not, then we should see if we can start a fun to actually buy the extra two inches of cloth that it would take to cover her entire nipple, but apparently not, because free the nipple because liberation because this is what Hollywood wants.
And it wasn't of course just Doja Cat, the idiocy. Lenny Kravitz showed up. I don't understand why people bother to wear clothes that are not clothes. Again, this looks as though he got into some sort of mad-max world, strange, bordello fight.
I don't, yeah, this is full of hungry games. I always enjoy it when people like Lenny Kravitz wear giant crosses. Surely Jesus would approve of this outfit. He probably figured out how to dress like this in church.
For those who cannot see, he's wearing what appears to be leather pants and then a leather shirt, but most of the shirt is missing. So he's got full on sleeves, but it's not covering anything below maybe his breastbone. And I feel like we should redistribute in the name of social justice, his sleeve material to his chest, just for the safety of all involved. And Lenny Kravitz, again, these are the people who make the culture, the old children, in BOB.
And then of course, we have Billy Eilish, who apparently is dressed like the goth, pot smoking girl from Hogwarts. I don't know what exactly is happening here. Her hair used to be green. Now her hair, now that she's declared herself queer, her hair is red.
I know what the correlation is right there, wearing some most liberally ugly clothes you will ever see. Okay, so these are the people who have decided to beautify America with their art. We have more on this in one second. First, we are experiencing a lot of global instability as we plunge into primary season.
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It's mostly just absolute cowardice and foolishness. So Annie Lennox, she was supposed to pay tribute to people who had passed away during the last year. And they did a bit in favor of a ceasefire in Gaza. So I need to hear Annie Lennox on a ceasefire in Gaza.
Well, by the way, 140 hostages are still being held by Hamas. This is what I need to hear from our cultural letters here. This is for ceasefire peace in the world. She's an artist for ceasefire peace and raises her fist.
I mean, first of all, this is the immemorium segment, lady. Like this is Wendy's, but this is why you're supposed to be paying tribute to all the people who died. And she is calling for a ceasefire in Annie Lennox. Yeah, good.
We're all gonna listen to Annie Lennox. Now, and then of course, you had the same sort of idiocy coming out of the recording academy CEO Harvey Mason, Jr. He did an entire stick where he proclaimed that the Nova music festival massacre in which come off slaughtered hundreds of people at a music festival in Southern Israel. They did it because they were Jews.
OK, but instead, because the music industry is all that watering morality down to the point where it makes no sense. Effectively, he makes the case that people were slaughtered because they were at a music festival as opposed to because they were Jews, which is weird. Since this didn't happen in like the middle of say, Montana, it happened in the Jewish state in Antisthoshan. That's what it was about.
For all of the white supremacist, all right, conspiracists who think that Hollywood is going to run by the Jews. I just want to hear that Hollywood can't even say that attacks on Jews are attacks on Jews. They instead have to make it about attacks on music lovers. Every one of us, no matter where we're from, is united by the shared experience of music.
It brings us together like nothing else can. And that's why music must always be our safe space. When that's violated, it strikes at the very core of who we are. We felt that at the Vodeclon concert hall in Paris.
We felt that at the Manchester Arena in England. We felt that at the Route 91 Harvest Music Festival in Las Vegas. And on October 7th, we felt that again when we heard the tragic news from the Supernova Music Festival for Love, that over 360 music fans lost their lives. And another 40 were kidnapped.
That day and all the tragic days that have followed have been awful for the world to bear as we mourn the loss of all innocent lives. We live in a world where the world is like the most. Oh, it's disgusting. Okay, stop, stop this fool, stop him.
I mean, again, the lack of moral clarity is just insane right here. So first of all, I should point out that three of the attacks that he talked about, three of the four attacks are Islamic terror attacks. In Manchester, concert explosion was an Islamic terror suicide bombing in May of 2017. The bottle-clon terror attack was in fact an Islamic terror attack.
And of course, what just happened in Southern Israel is a terror attack. And what happened in Southern Israel is a specific anti-Semitic terror attack. And this idea is like there's a whole world and then linking that with what happened in Las Vegas, where we still don't have a motive, by the way. And the weirdest mass shooting in the history of the United States is super strange.
And every day we mourn the life. Or you could take a moral stand against the people who murdered music-goers who happened to be Jewish because they were Jewish in Southern Israel. But we can't even do that. Again, no moral clarity whatsoever from the recording artists shocker.
Okay, then you had the obnoxious. So one of the most obnoxious things about the artists at the at the Grammys is the absolute self-centeredness. So we begin with Miley Cyrus. So Miley Cyrus has an awful song called Flowers.
She had two songs last year that were both big hits, one is called Flowers. And this was all about how independent ladies don't need a man. And then the other song that Miley Cyrus had last year was one called used to be young, which is actually a more interesting song because it's all about how basically she blew her youth. So of course, the one that makes her more famous and the one they give an award to is Flowers, which is a really, really garbage song.
My favorite part of this is where she assumes everyone in the concert hall knows her lyrics because she's just so famous. Everyone knows the words. These people here should hire some. Also, I don't know.
She hijacked her hair from like a 1980s mannequin last night. Very weird look for Miley Cyrus. Why are you acting like you don't know this song? Because no one because you don't know your song.
And then there was Jay Z who decided to do a full Kanye and show up on stage. He was giving some sort of lifetime achievement award, I suppose. And he decided to talk about how the Academy was was not paying enough attention to Beyonce. Yes, you're right.
Beyonce has not gotten enough attention in her life. Clearly, the lack of attention on Beyonce is destroying her career. What can we do to help Beyonce? Here we go.
I don't want to embarrass this young lady, but she has more grannies than everyone and never one out in the year. So even by your own metrics, that doesn't work. Think about that. But most grannies never one out in the year.
That doesn't work. You know, oh, yeah, that's it. Yeah, it's true. We have to.
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One is I don't believe her in anything that she does. I find her entirely inauthentic. Like literally everything she does feels like it has been scripted down to my nudist detail, including last night's second. I don't care whether she's dating Travis Kelsey and I hope that for the sake of the country they get married and have babies.
That all these 31 year old feminists with seven cats can decide that marriage is actually good for them. And we can have the Taylor Swift baby boom. That would be good for America. I also don't believe that she's some sort of deep state scy op.
If she's a deep state scy op, they need to pick somebody who can act. Because Taylor's in the most awkward moment last night. She wins the album of the year. And she gets up and then promotes her next album.
And she so clearly does not care about being there. She's so clearly does not even want to be there. Whenever they cut her in, she's like dancing the audience. She's dancing like I would dance in the audience, which is to say awkwardly and with a sense of rage about having to be in this place at this time.
She gets up on stage and she basically is like, okay, I'm here to pick another trophy. I have 12 of these already or 13 of these, whatever man. I just put this one in the garage with all the rest of them. Also, I have a new album I'll be releasing the cover later.
Bye. I want to say thank you to the fans by telling you a secret that I've been keeping from you for the last two years. Which is that my brand new album comes out April 19th. It's called the torture poets department.
I'm going to go and post the cover right now backstage. Thank you. I love you. Thank you.
She doesn't love you. She doesn't care about you. She doesn't know you. I love my favorite.
My favorite. I actually hear was Miley Cyrus. The cutaway Miley Cyrus in the audience was really, really funny. The cutaway Miley was like, oh my God, I can't believe this lady.
And honestly, points to Miley Cyrus for that. Then she released the actual cover. And the cover is of course a lady half-clad in bed because this is Hollywood. And it's called the tortured poets department.
All's fair in love and poetry. New album. The tortured poets department out April 19th. 11.8 million likes.
Like almost immediately on the instas. Oh, oh, okay. These are some of her brilliant lyrics. Some of her brilliant lyrics.
Quote, and so I enter into evidence. My tarnished coat of arms. My muses acquired like bruises. My talismans and charms.
The tick tick tick of love bombs. My veins of pitch black ink. All's fair in love and poetry. Sincerely, the chairman of the tortured poets department.
Oh, she's a tenth grade girl. And she's 34. And again, I hope she gets married to Travis Kelsey and has babies and grows the f up. Because I can't stand anymore of reading the lyrics of her albums.
That read like a 17 year old girl made another album about how tortured she is and how sad she is, but really inside she's deeply happy, but she's really sad. Don't care. It's stupid. And so that is your music industry.
That's your Grammy's update. Now, onto more serious matters. So the Biden administration is in a bind. The bind that they are in is that Americans do not trust their mind emigration.
The reason Americans do not trust their mind emigration is because they basically declared that they are in favor of open borders. Joe Biden is currently polling at, I can do not. 37% has a 37% approval rating. That is not real operating.
Not remotely. On immigration, he is deeply under arrest in NBC poll, by the way. That same NBC poll has him losing to Donald Trump by five points. 47 to 42 and it has Republicans ahead on the generic ballot by four points right now.
These are very bad numbers for Joe Biden. Not only that. Again, on immigration, American people don't trust Joe Biden. And they think that he has the unilateral ability to actually stop the massive wave of illegal immigration that we have been seeing because in fact he does.
And so what they believe correctly is that the Biden administration has made an overt decision that they wish the border to remain open. And so when he protests and he says he doesn't actually have the ability to shut the border and no one believes him, especially when you have Alejandro Mayorkas, the head of the Department of Homeland Security, who is currently theoretically impeached by the House, suggesting that we actually need more migrants in the United States. He actually said this during interview with the New York Times, well wouldn't it be more orderly? Wouldn't it be responsible governance to be able to deliver a lawful pathway to fill what we have, which is a labor need and cut the exploitative smugglers out and give the individuals a path to arrive at lawfully safely in an early way to perform labor that we need.
They can send her a mint in his home. They can return home and they work as done. Isn't that an element of a workable immigration system? And when asked, what I'm hearing you say is you'd like to expand legal pathways in order to relieve some of the pressure on the southern border where people come illegally legally and he said yes.
And to fulfill one of the goals for immigration system. So you have to be yes to more migration according to Alejandro Mayorkas. And so they don't really care whether it's legal or illegal, it ends up being basically the same thing. This is why presumably Joe Biden continues to keep the border open.
Now the game that Democrats are playing is they're trying to get Republicans to take ownership of the open border. The way they get Republicans to take ownership of the open border is to craft a quote on what bipartisan immigration bill so that when things continue to sock, they can then say Republicans helps craft the bill. It's their fault. Now all the political dynamics are moving against Democrats.
Democratic representative, but Robert Menendez of New Jersey, he says that support for mass deportations has now doubled, which of course is true because this is why it's not a good thing. It's true because this is what happens when you decide to let in literally six to seven million illegal immigrants over the course of the last three and a half years minimum. The new thing on pullout this morning, 31% of Americans support prioritizing mass deportations of all people living in this country legally. That's from 15% in 2019.
The language is tougher. From President Biden all the way on down. Is that more about polling and politics or do you believe it's actually language about policy? I think it's a lot of the politics I've gone on the last several years, people see the situation at the border and they respond to the Republican narrative around what's happening at the border.
Listen, there's a global migration challenge between global climate change between failed governments and our hemisphere. There's a challenge that we have to address that will cause and also how it's appearing at our border. But when you look at what Republicans, what Republicans talk about, when you talk about mass invasion, like you hear Texas Republicans talking about, when you talk about things like replacement theory, these are things that have gained hold in our lecture because that's what Republicans are talking about because they think it's if they can, if they can come up with conspiracy theory that's dangerous enough that Americans will trust them. So we see the rise in support for mass deportations.
It's in response to a dangerous Republican narrative. Oh, it's the dangerous Republican narrative. That's the problem. Okay, not the gigantic wave of illegal immigration by the way.
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Actually, would go and commit crimes in New York and then they would go spend the money in Florida and then they would come back to New York. And so the question was asked by CNN anchors, why are they coming back to New York? Why don't they just stay down in Florida? And the illegal immigration expert, John Miller, who's the chief law enforcement and intelligence analyst for CNN.
He says, the reason they come back to New York is because they won't be deported if they're in New York. And CNN anchors are like, oh, that's awkward. These individuals, I went over their rap sheets yesterday. Multiple charges, grand larceny, robbery, attempted robbery, grand larceny, grand larceny.
This particular crew operated on moped and scooters. They were doing organized retail theft. They were doing snatches on the street, iPhones, iPads, clothing, so on and so forth. One of them that they are still seeking has 10 charges on one day because he's part of a pattern that's been going on.
And I'm looking at the dates that their arrest started, which is probably closed when they got here. They've only been here a couple of months. So what the detectives are telling me is they have crews here that operate in New York, do all their stealing, then go to Florida to spend the money and then come back and be like, well, when they just stay in and steal in Florida. And they think, there you go to jail.
They're like, oh, they didn't see names like, oh, you mean being loose on immigration means that migrants take advantage of that? No, that's totally crazy. Oh, that's super awkward. Well, how came Jeffries, of course, attempting to get a Republican's take ownership of this?
The House Minority Leader, he wants the Republicans to take this up in the House because he realized like I probably half a Republican's in all Democrats who vote in favor of this. And so Jeffries was asked, why don't you just dis-aggregate what's in this bill? So this giant border bill is not actually a border bill. It contains about $60 billion in aid Ukraine.
It contains $14 billion in aid to Israel. It contains, as we'll see, $3 billion in aid to Gaza, which presumably goes directly into terrorist pockets because that's how it works when you send aid to places that are governed by terrorists. And it gives money for the border, like $20 billion for various border priorities, including by the way, a bunch of money to quote unquote nonprofit groups to facilitate illegal immigration services. Now we're down at the border.
Let me just tell you, these nonprofit groups are literally facilitating illegal immigration out of the border. They have signs at the border saying like, go this way to avoid border patrol. Come over to us. They basically are creating sanctuary pathways into the United States.
In any case, here's a came Jeffries trying to make the claim that we need to pass all this as a package. The reason he wants that, of course, is because the goal here is to get Republicans to sign off on a border bill so that they can't run on it in the 2024 election. Here he was, and we need a comprehensive bill. You saw the Speaker yesterday say that he's going to bring a stand alone, Israel bill to the floor of the house.
Your response? Well, we'll evaluate that legislation over the next few days, and then on Tuesday morning house Democrats will meet as a caucus. So you might be open to it? Well, to decide the way forward as it relates to America's national security priorities, clearly we've got to support Israel's ability to defend itself against Hamas and to defeat Hamas.
We also need to make sure that we're doing everything possible to bring the hostages home, including American citizens, and to be able to search humanitarian assistance to Palestinian civilians who are in harm's way in Gaza through no fault of their own. Beyond that, we also have to address the national security priorities of the American people in other parts of the world, first and foremost, certainly to support Ukraine's effort to push back against Russian aggression. Also to support our allies in the Indo-Pacific, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, the legislation being put forth by House Republicans does none of that. The responsible approach is a comprehensive one to address America's national security priority.
Of course, the opposite. The actual responsible approach would be to approach each one of these bills as a separate giant bill. These are big bills. And in fact, it is something that Republicans are currently pursuing.
Republicans very early on in this process tried to pass a $14 billion aid to Israel bill. They did so by having IRS tax offsets. The goal was to cut in one place in order to spend another. That was responsible bill, but Democrats rejected it and they did so on the basis that they didn't like the offsetting stuff.
So now the Republicans are like, okay, we'll call your bluff. We will put forward a bill in the house that just passed the aid to Israel. Reject that at your own peril, which seems to me smart politics. Because, you know, again, Democrats are going to claim that they actually support Israel and face a genocidal terrorism.
Then presumably they should be able to do that without any preconditions, just pass the clean bill. Just do it. If Democrats won't, that suggests that perhaps they have another set of priorities. Okay, so what exactly is in this border bill?
So for example, that ends catch and release. I've read the bill, like, three hundred seven pages long. There's maybe four year 50 relevant pages. A lot of it is about Ukraine aid.
A lot of it is about crackdowns on drug cartels that are trapped in fentanyl and all the rest. But the key border provisions do not, in fact, end catch and release. There's nothing in there that requires detention of everybody until they can be fully adjudicated in a court. And there is no building of giant facilities that would allow for the mass detention of people plus.
It also leaves in place the so-called floor settlement, which suggests that children cannot actively be detained with parents, which means that children get released into the country and then in order to reconnect the parents, you actually end up releasing the parents into the country as well. So we're going to go through some of the provisions in this bill. The bill is not good. The bill may be slightly better than the way that Joe Biden is currently practicing, but it certainly does not mandate anything from Joe Biden that he isn't already able to do under current law.
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One, it first has $2.3 billion for refugee and entrance assistance activities. Hey, that are currently legal. That would be a $2.3 billion giveaway to many of the nonprofit organizations that I was talking about. And by the way, down at the border, some of these nonprofit organizations are actively facilitating immigration, not just people across the border and then they want to disappear into the interior.
And so these nonprofits literally just bring them food, bring them water, shuttle them into the interior of the country. And there have been pretty serious allegations that some of these nonprofits are outright engaging legal activities like helping to break down the border wall when border patrol isn't actually present. There is about $3 billion for USAID and Gaza. So as I said, it's not just aid for Israel.
It's also aid for Gaza. There's a provision in there that requires USAID to give a report to Congress about how much of that aid is being redirected and stolen by Hamas or other terrorists. There's nothing there that mandates to cut off in funds if a certain percentage of those funds end up being handled by terrorists. It has $3.4 billion in hiring and associated costs for US citizenship and immigration services, including $112 million for an $3 billion.
For non-personnel operations, including transcription services. So presumably for all the judicial hearings and $500 million for facilities and $49 million for training related expenses. What exactly would those training related expenses be? Well, for border patrol, they would have to be trained to include de-escalation strategies and methods, identifying screening and responding to vulnerable populations, the impact of border security operations on natural resources.
So we're going to get some environmentalist lectures, the border patrol, and they have to be lectured on quote, relevant cultural, societal, racial and religious training. So we have diversity training for the border patrol officers. Very, very interesting stuff. Now, the core of the border provisions of this bill do not end catch and release.
And they create a sort of mandatory quote unquote shut down, but they don't actually shut down the shuttling into the country. They just shuttle everybody over to ports and entry. So here is what it says. And a lot of this is the direct text of the bill.
Section 235B under the bill quote non-custodial proceedings. This is the part right. I said, I don't understand. I'm hearing from various centers, including Kirsten Cinnamah, that this ends catch and release.
I don't understand how under section 235B quote, the secretary based upon operational circumstances may refer an alien applicant for admission for proceedings described in the section if the alien indicates an intention to apply for protection determination or expresses a credible fear of persecution or torture. Now, again, these will be non-custodial proceedings. As you may understand, the language of English custodial proceedings would be where you get held non-custodial proceedings are where you get released into the interior of the United States. In fact, it says that clearly aliens referred for proceedings under this section shall be released from physical costs, not may be released, shall be released from physical custody and processed in accordance with the procedures described in the section.
And until alien including a head of household who has been referred for proceeding under this section shall be supervised under the alternatives to detention program of US immigration and customs enforcement immediately upon releasing physical custody and continuing further duration of such proceeding. So, if one person claims asylum, you're going to treat them all as if they've been claimed asylum and they're going to release them into the interior. Again, none of this applies to unaccompanied minors. If an alien receives a positive protection determination, they're immediately issued employment authorization.
So, if they are adjudicated that they have refugee status immediate, like before they leave the building, they get a card that effectively says they can work in the United States. And of course, we know versus Flores, which says that their campaign family separations that remains in place as well. Now, section 3202 of the bill actually loosens the definition of what it means to claim asylum. There's been some talk about the strengthening the definition of what it means to claim asylum.
We'll talk about that in one second. But the baseline claim of asylum actually gets loosened here by definition. Section 3202 says you have to declare a credible fear, right? The original definition that gets changed, it used to say that there had to be a significant possibility that the alien could establish eligibility for asylum.
Okay, that was changed to a reasonable possibility. So, now in order to claim asylum, you just have to show a reasonable possibility that you could establish eligibility for asylum. So, this bill actually loosens the definition of a credible fear. It actually makes it easier to claim asylum, not harder.
Now, the alien does have to show to receive actual asylum that there are no reasonable grounds for concluding the alien could relocate to another location in the aliens' country of nationality. Or in the case of an alien having no nationality, another location in the aliens' country of last habitual residence. What does that mean? That means that if you travel up from Honduras to the United States, you have to show number one, if you want actual legal asylum.
You have to show that you couldn't have just relocated inside Honduras, and two, that you couldn't have relocated in Mexico as you were passing through Mexico. Right? That would be the definition of the problem. Because of course, the vast majority of people claiming asylum are not doing so legally.
Even the definition of asylum is somewhat irrelevant if people are simply claiming that they have a reasonable possibility of establishing asylum and then released into the interior. And all of this, of course, depends on the actual implementation. Because if you have a bunch of border patrol officials who have been instructed by the administration to be really loose about how they apply these rules, it doesn't matter what the law says. They will just allow people through.
And then those people never show up again. So, people who are saying this is a strict border bill are focusing in on the redefinition of reasonable grounds. Right? So, that if you actually claim asylum and then you show up for your secondary date, or you show up and you say, I have a credible fear out of return to my home country, that you have to make a reasonable showing.
Not a, not a, again, a significant possibility, a reasonable possibility that you can't relocate in your country of origin, or that you can't stay in Mexico. And all you have to say, presumably, is I can't stay in my country of origin because I have a credible fear that in my country of origin anywhere I go they'll trap me down and kill me. How exactly are you going to adjudicate that? Is the asylum officer going to say, I don't believe you?
How does that work? And if you say, okay, well, you could theoretically stay in Mexico and they say, no, no, no, the drug cartel is going to follow me in Mexico. Is that enough? Or are we just shifting around definitions so that people can continue to escape into the interior?
By the way, if you want to shut the border, you need to do one of two things for both. One, remain in Mexico. No one crosses the border until they have been effectively adjudicated as a true refugee. You stay in Mexico until you get your court date.
That's what Donald Trump had in place and Joe Biden abrogated it. Two, if you shop on the border and we're not going to do a main Mexico, we have vast detention facilities and you stay in the detention facilities until you are admitted or ejected. But so long as we're not doing either of those first two, the definition of asylum becomes almost irrelevant and herein lies the problem. We're going to get to the quote, quote, emergency provisions of the bill that people are hanging their hats on to claim this is strong on the border in one second first.
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Okay. Meanwhile, the other element of this border bill, so-called border security bill that is supposed to make conservatives feel more comfortable is what's called border emergency authority. So here is how the system works. You're hearing a lot about this particular system in the media today.
So I'm actually reading the sections from the bill that are relevant to you know what's going on. First, the secretary, this is of Homeland Security, may activate the border emergency authority if during a period of seven consecutive days, there's an average of 4,000 or more aliens who are encountered each day. Okay. So just to get that straight, you're talking about a 70 period in which you average 4,000 border encounters a day.
That by the way is actually an under count because as we'll discuss in one second, the way that you actually do the border count does not apply to children from non-contiguous countries, i.e. Mexico or Canada. So that border count does not include kids who are arriving from Honduras or El Salvador, for example. It does not apply to aliens not from Mexico or Canada and it doesn't count god away.
So people who simply rush across the border and we don't actually arrest them at the border. We control doesn't actually encounter them. That doesn't count. So if you have a thousand people, 2,000 people who are entering between ports of entry and they are just escaping into the interior and we know they're there because we have cameras all along the border.
I've been down to the southern border as you can see over a daily wide. We did a whole documentary on this. Those people don't count toward the count. So there's a wild under count, but if you're at 4,000 a day, right, which again is going to amount to over the course of a year 1.46 million people entering the country.
If you're at 4,000 a day, then the secretary is allowed to activate this border emergency authority. The secretary must activate the border emergency authority if during a period of seven consecutive calendar calendar days, there's an average of 5,000 or more aliens who are encountered every day. That would be 1.825 million people per year. So that is the cutoff point where the secretary must activate emergency authority.
What does that mean? That emergency authority? Well, right now, if you arrive at San Miguel Gate, which is where I was in that video down in Arizona, that is not a port of entry. If you arrive at the port of entry, border patrol will still pick you up and there's a detention center a mile away.
You're processed within 72 hours during the country. The border emergency authority would allow the secretary of homeland security if there are 4,000 and mandate that the secretary of homeland security if there are 5,000 tell everybody you can't be processed here. You have to be processed at a local point of entry, where you have to go to a port of entry in order to be processed. Now, it's unclear whether if you show up at the border, border patrol simply drives you there.
Maybe, maybe that now you're on American soil, are you pushed back across the border that you drop you back across the other side of the gate? Or do they now put you in a bus? And instead of them busting you like a mile away, they simply bust you into the local port of entry. When it comes to the port of entry, during any activation of the border emergency authority, the secretary shall maintain the capacity to process and continue processing, a minimum of 1,400 in admissible aliens each calendar day.
So he can't shut down the border's ports of entry. He has to actually continue at a minimum to allow 1,400 people a day into the country via these places. And now, does that solve the problem? Somehow, I'm failing to see how it does, if so.
And then as it turns out, they poke a bunch of holes in this supposed emergency authority. So, for example, the secretary shall not activate the border emergency authority during the first calendar year for more than 270 calendar days. During the second calendar year for more than 225 calendar days, during the third calendar year for more than 180 calendar days. So even if you're getting 15,000 people a day, in year two, you can only activate it for 2025 days.
During year three for 180 calendar days. So half the year it simply doesn't apply. There's no way to actually maintain this. You can't, it's not like an open-ended border authority shut it down if you have 5,000 a day.
Even today, that only applies for 270 calendar days. So why precisely, let's say that you're the drug cartels. Why not facilitate? These people won't be processed, right?
They're not processed because they're literally stopped from processing. If the border security, if it's shut and it supports the entry camp process, everybody. So let's say you're the drug cartels. Why not now?
Bring 10,000 people a day. Do it for 270 days. And they can do this. Just do it every day, 5,000, 6,000 people a day.
They got rejected for 270 days. Now it's exhausted, the border authority. Now you can't use the emergency authority anymore. So you still have to process everybody who shows up.
Or keep it at 5,001. And if you give it at 5,001 for 270 straight days, then on day 271 of the year, you flood the border with 20,000 people. The drug cartels are capable of doing this. They run the border.
I've been down at the border. They have literal drug cartel drones that are flying over the American side of the border and monitoring every specific border patrol agent. According to this bill, the secretary shall suspend activation of the border emergency authority not later than 14 calendar days after the date on which there is during a period of seven consecutive calendar days, an average of less than 75% of the encounter level used for activation. So in other words, the border emergency authority has to be then revoked within 14 days of the number going down to 1,250 border encounters per day.
That is by law. What's more, there's another whole that's poking this, which is if the president finds it is in the national interest to temporarily suspend the border emergency authority. The president made a right to the secretary to suspend the use of the border emergency authority on emergency basis. So Joe Biden, let's say that that Mayorkas is mandated.
They're 5,000 a day for seven days. He's mandated to kick in the emergency authority. Biden can suspend it. Biden can say, not don't want you to do it.
Now, the secretary shall suspend the border emergency authority for not more than 45 calendar days within a calendar year, not withstanding any limitations on use of authority. So that means that the secretary can then overrule the president after 45 days. When you talk about 270 days, what you really mean is if the president uses this authority, you're already down to 225 days. In year two, you are already down to 180 days.
And in year three, you're already down to 135 days that border emergency authority could even be used even if they wanted to. By the way, all border cases, all cases under this bill can now no longer be resolved by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, which is a much more conservative circuit court. Instead, it kicks all of them over to the DC Circuit Court of Appeals. Why?
You know why. The DC Circuit Court of Appeals left one course and said we'll do exactly what Democrats want them to do. Does this thing shut the border in any serious way? There are a lot of people claiming this is a very harsh border control method.
It doesn't mandate nearly anything. The thing that it mandates is not an end-decaching release. The thing that it mandates is not, in fact, it basically makes the new supposed cap 1.8 million and it really is not 1.8 million. It's well in access to 2 million.
It doesn't count any of the God-ways. Basically, the new normal is 1.8 million. People are saying, well, you know, but that's a shout. That's where the secretary of Homeland Security must do the thing.
You can do it under. Yes, but there are a lot of people who are going to pick this thing in at 4999. I'm not. I see no evidence that he will.
More than that, he can poke holes in this every which way. The goal here for Democrats is very clear. Get Republicans to sign on to the bill so they can then claim that anything that happens after this is somehow also Republicans' fault. That's the goal.
And does it create any longstanding serious changes to the system? The only longstanding serious change to the system that would be positive and it would be the changes to the actual standard for asylum. That would actually be a good change to the system. But is that worth buying into Joe Biden simply applying the law as he sits here anyway?
Again, political ownership of the issue versus a change to law. Joe Biden is bucking the law as it currently stands as the affirmative obligation as president of the United States to enforce border law. He is not doing it. Passing more law is not going to change that fact.
It's simply going to make Republicans politically complicit in whatever Joe Biden does with the border. Okay, so the reason that Joe Biden is doing all this is because he feels the threat from his left. He feels the threat. So he's trying to basically have the baby with his border bill that's going nowhere.
By the way, Speaker of the House, my Johnson says this thing is even coming up for a vote. See, it's like, now, when I didn't bring this up for a vote, it's a bad bill. We're not doing it. The reason that Joe Biden is pushing so far left on things like immigration is because he truly believes the only way he's going to win is to get out the left wing base.
This is a wrong calculation by him. The way that he's going to win, if he does win, is by winning a few white folks and winning over suburban women. That's the actual way that he wins. The problem for Joe Biden is that he's a bad candidate.
Joe Biden yesterday, he suggested this is the weirdest race that he has ever been in. Well, yeah, I know, join the club, dude. Well, look, I'm feeling good about where we are. I really am.
You know, folks are starting to focus in. And the guy we're running against, he is not for anything. He's against everything. No, I mean, it's a weirdest campaign I've ever been against.
It's even worse than in terms of his behavior than the last time in 2020. So this is the weirdest race he's ever been in. I mean, I'll give him that. This is a super weird race.
But Donald Trump is, by the way, up right now. I mean, the polls are what the polls are. And again, Donald Trump's sort of like weird, distractable nature is one of the reasons that I think people like this, like, okay, I like the distracted guy, rather than the guy who's laser focused on doing dumb crap. And Donald Trump spent the weekend actively telling people that he looks like Elvis Presley.
I'm not kidding. He actively did that. He went on his social page and he put out an actual image of himself in which he is mashed up with Elvis. And he says, some people have been telling me I look like Elvis.
And most Americans like to find it. I'd still rather have that than what you have currently MSNBC did a very uncomfortable interview with the black voter where black voters like the economy is going from and I don't like economy right now. So no, you're hearing that. There's people in your orbit who are voting for Donald Trump or considering it for sure.
A lot of my friends are obviously my younger. We've only voted once, you know, for the actual president and Trump is kind of all we know. And they're kind of trying to buy it. They're like, well, we were we're biting.
We weren't with Trump. And that's kind of the only thing I'm hearing over and over and over and over again is that we're trying to get it. We're getting to that. We had money.
By the way, many of the issues that have been raised against Donald Trump, including the classified documents, the problem is that Joe Biden has done the same sort of stuff. According to Axios, President Biden's team is now concerned that special counsel Robert hers investigation into Biden's handling of classified documents will hurt his real life campaign by needs don't expect criminal charges. But they believe that hers report will include embarrassing details, possibly with photos on how Biden's door documents because again classified documents were in his garage and also in a private office that he used. So if the entire rip on Donald Trump is that he's very careless of classified documents because he put boxes on the stage in Mar-a-Lago, well, I mean, that's awkward for Joe Biden.
According to Axios, Anthony Coley, a former senior advisor to Mar-a-Garland caught the Biden's team attention recently when he wrote the Biden in those in his orbit, had known to blame by themselves for Garland appointing special counsel. Coley said Biden's team was not initially transparent about the documents and put Garland in a no win situation. So this could certainly hurt Joe Biden's real life campaign because again, one of the points he's using against Trump is he's irresponsible the adult or back in the room. And then it turns out he's done a lot of the same stuff that Donald Trump has done.
And this is why he keeps doubling down on the on the wild left wing policy. So he is now pandering to the worst parts of his base, a piece that receives enormous blowback over the weekend. But happens to be true is by a person named Steven Stilinski over at the Wall Street Journal talking about Dearborn Michigan. So the Biden team has now been deploying its resources to Dearborn Michigan to try to win over Arab American voters in Dearborn.
Dearborn, of course, is part of the congressional district of Rashida Tlaewe, which tells you where they are politically. A lot of people are very pro-terror in that particular region of Michigan. And this piece is titled Welcome to Dearborn Americans at Jihad Capital. And this, of course, is also how could you say?
Here's what the piece says, quote, thousands March in support of Hamas, Hezbollah in Iran, protesters, many with the U.S. covering their faces, shout into Fada into Fada. From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free and America is a terrorist state, local emons, firing and semantics, this isn't the Middle East. It's the Detroit suburb of Dearborn Michigan.
Almost immediately after October 7, long before Israel began its ground offensive endaza, people were celebrating the horrific events of that day in pro-Kamask, rallies and marches throughout the Dearborn. Local enthusiasm for Jihad against Israel and the West extends beyond celebration of Hamas. The Islamic Center of America, a leading Dearborn mosque held a memorial service December 30th for a Hezbollah operative killed in an Israeli airstrike, the Khadi Institute, which runs an Islamic Montessori school and builds itself as a youth community center, held in commemoration of the martyrs on January 5th, honoring Qasem Soleimani, and Abu Khmakdi, al-Muhanjis leader of the Iran-backed popular mobilization forces in Iraq, both were terrorists when they were killed in a U.S.A. January 3rd, 2020.
Support for terrorism in Southern Michigan has long been a concern for U.S. counterterrorism officials, a 2001 Michigan State Police Assessment submitted to the Justice Department after 9-11, called Dearborn, a major financial support center, and a recruiting area on potential support base for international terror groups. So, who exactly is Joe Biden pandering to? The answer is a lot of the people in Dearborn Michigan, because he believes that if he doesn't get their votes, he's going to lose Michigan and therefore lose the election.
And all he needs is cover from the media, which he's getting. The entire New York Times now dedicated to the proposition that the crisis in the Middle East was not caused by Khmakdi actively attacking and murdering some 1200 Jews and kidnapping 240 others. That the crisis in the Middle East is Israel fighting back against Khmakdi. And so literally every day they're just plastering on the front pages, the suffering of the poor people of Gaza, all of which, by the way, could be ended right now.
All Khmakdi has to do is walk out of the tunnels with their hands up, with the hostages in tow, release the hostages, go into exile, and all of the violence stops tomorrow. That's the end of the violence. And then when rebuilding phase. But the New York Times is not calling for that.
They want Israel to agree to a ceasefire leaving Khmakdi in place, leaving them alive, which is insane, which is why the New York Times is putting out pieces about suffering in Gaza with all sorts of the pictures in the hospitals and all the rest of the stuff. Again, the people responsible for this are Khmakdi. All this is terrible. I wish you weren't happening.
You know what was happening? The Israeli population, Israeli government. You know how I know that? Because they weren't doing this from 2005 to 2023.
None of these pictures were available in 2005 to 2023. Why? Because it wasn't a mass bombardment of military areas of Gaza because Gaza, despite the fact that they were in fact Khmakdi's firing rockets in Israel, had not slaughtered 1200 Jews. Meanwhile, Nicholas Christoff doing his usual routine.
What can we possibly say to the children of Gaza? That's literally the title of APs from the Exquible Nick Christoff over at the New York Times. What can we possibly say to the children of Gaza? I mean, the thing that you can say to the children of Gaza is maybe your parents should not have supported a terror group and maybe your parents right now should expel that terror group from their leadership.
Maybe that would be the solution. Nick Christoff says, my government is on the side engaged. My president Biden is referred to as indiscriminate bombing. This is not the same.
It's a liberal targeting civilians. But this time, as a taxpayer, I'm helping to pay for those bombs. No, you can pay for bombs of indiscriminate bombing for a while because you've been sending aid. As an American taxpayer, I have to.
We've been sending aid to the Gaza Strip via Khmaz and all that aid, building terror tunnels and rockets. So we've been paying actually for indiscriminate bombing for quite a while. But this, of course, is the idea here is that Israel is supposed to essentially preemptively stop its war against Khmaz, which of course is ridiculous. So the Democratic Party is caught between a rock and a hard place, because on the one hand, there's still some Democrats who realize that, hey, Khmaz should be defeated.
On the other hand, they are wedded to this peculiar idea that unless Israel is forced into concessions to terrorists, the Middle Eastern conflict becomes more broad and inevitable, which of course is a lie. You know what creates Middle Eastern conflict? Weakness. As always, perceptions of weakness are death in the Middle East.
And it's the United States attempting to make Israel weaker by restricting their activities against Gaza. That is the entire thing. You cannot hold these two thoughts at once. You cannot say that you wish terrorism to lose and also that you wish Israel to negotiate with terrorists.
You can't do those two things. But that's exactly what the Biden administration is doing. So on the one hand, you have a King Jeffries correctly saying that the United States should not put conditions on allies defending themselves. That's correct.
How about on the aid to Israel several members, progressive members of your caucus have said that they want some conditions now on aid Israel, including your fellow New York Congress when you're under Ocasio-Cortez. What do you say to them? Well, Israel has a right to defend itself and also, of course, a responsibility to conduct its war in a manner consistent with the international rules of conflict. We shouldn't put conditions on the ability of any of our allies to defend themselves, particularly against a brutal terrorist regime like Hamas.
He is right about that. At the same time, you have Jake Sullivan, the national security advisor, saying we needed two states solution. And they keep saying this over and over as though you can just wish cast states into existence, which is totally crazy. With whom?
With whom? There's no government that ought to be a government of any self-respecting state. There is no de-radicalized population. De-radicalized population in places like Gaza Strip and West Bank is like 20% of the population at maximum.
Maximum. What the hell is he talking about? Do you see any prospect at all? He seems to have been ruling in our pre-premonition, Netanyahu, of some kind of a long-term deal that leads to a Palestinian state.
Well, the U.S. position on this is very straightforward. The only long-term answer to peace in the region, to Israel's security in the region, is a two-state solution with Israel's security guaranteed. A Palestinian state that also has security guarantees for Israel.
That's what we're going to keep working for. We were doing that before October 7th. I think since October 7th, the need to work on that has only increased and we would like to deliver an outcome over time that has a little bit of... I'm sorry, that's so crazy.
Stop in there. That's so nuts. When he says that since October 7th, we need to give more concessions to the people who actively did the terror attack. That is preemptive surrender.
That's crazy. It's like, I'll cut out attacks in the United States on 9-11. And the U.S. government immediately says, what can we do for you, Osama?
What are your demands? You want our best out of the Saudi? Okay. You know what?
Maybe we can do that. We need to accelerate that. We need to make that happen for you. What in the actual...
What in the end? And the answer is because they don't actually have a plan in the Middle East. They don't. Their plan in the Middle East is to fought around non-sensically because they do not understand the Middle East in any real-way shape or form.
And what that amounts to is randomly lashing out at empty buildings and occasionally hitting a camel in the ass, yelling at the Israelis that they probably should kill fewer Hamas members or that urban war is really bad and war is bad. Yeah, everyone knows. And then making weird concession signals to Iran. Like this is their actual plan.
Dana Bash called Jake Seldin on this. She's like, you know, you keep saying that you don't want to enter into a regional conflict. Isn't this already? A regional conflict to Iran's terror arms, extended to Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Yemen, like there is...
Like they're all over the place. Just yesterday, the U.S. and U.K. responded to Houthi rebels in Yemen.
They're engaging in routine attacks on shipping in the Red Sea. And they're on your daily strikes between Israel and Hezbollah. And much of this is rooted in the war between Israel and Hamas. My colleague Peter Bergen, smartly pointed out that this conflict involves 10 countries at least four major terrorist groups.