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- 0:04Speaker 1: It's 6 Eastern, 3 o'clock Pacific, from coast to coast
- 0:07Speaker 1: and around the world.
- 0:09Speaker 2: The Democratic brand right now has about the appeal with
- 0:12Speaker 2: the American voter as the Crackle Barrel rebrand has.
- 0:15Speaker 1: From America Out Loud Talk Radio, it's time for Truth
- 0:19Speaker 1: Be Told with Booker Scott.
- 0:21Speaker 3: At the beginning of the Iranian conflict, everyone in Congress
- 0:25Speaker 3: was talking about the War Powers Act. Donald Trump had
- 0:28Speaker 3: to come to Congress, and he had to get permissions.
- 0:31Speaker 3: before he did what he did in Iran. Obviously he didn't,
- 0:34Speaker 3: but neither has any other American leader since World War II.
- 0:39Speaker 3: None of them have. I'm Booker. This is The Truth
- 0:42Speaker 3: Be Told, and it's so great to have you here
- 0:45Speaker 3: with us tonight. And every night we're going to get
- 0:47Speaker 3: into Iran a little bit. We have some more fraud
- 0:50Speaker 3: that is happening in Ohio. There's fraud everywhere, but The
- 0:55Speaker 3: Daily Wire has found some in Ohio. We'll get into
- 0:57Speaker 3: that story. Also, a very important discovery was made in
- 1:02Speaker 3: Appalachia last week. Lithium was found in the ground, and
- 1:06Speaker 3: that's huge. We'll get into that story with EPA Chief
- 1:09Speaker 3: Lee Zeldin in just a few minutes. Let's get back
- 1:12Speaker 3: to the Iranian conflict that has now been going on
- 1:15Speaker 3: for over 60 days. The ceasefire took place April 7th.
- 1:19Speaker 3: Now Donald Trump is at a point where he may
- 1:22Speaker 3: have to start firing on Iran again. Maybe the infrastructure,
- 1:27Speaker 3: I'm not sure. It seems like he's at that point.
- 1:31Speaker 3: I played a clip for you over the weekend that
- 1:34Speaker 3: said that it is imminent. I don't know that it's imminent,
- 1:37Speaker 3: but there is nothing happening with the negotiation because nobody
- 1:40Speaker 3: knows who is in charge in Iran. And the Strait
- 1:43Speaker 3: of Hormuz is not completely open. The blockade seems to
- 1:47Speaker 3: be working. And now Donald Trump is has ships escorting
- 1:51Speaker 3: other ships through the Strait of Hormuz. We had six gunboats,
- 1:55Speaker 3: six speedboats of Iran that were killed just on Monday.
- 2:00Speaker 3: CENTCOM reported that. That was after they were attacking a U.S.
- 2:05Speaker 4: Ship.
- 2:06Speaker 5: So the U.S.
- 2:07Speaker 3: Military fired back and destroyed those six speedboats. That's the
- 2:11Speaker 3: only Navy that Iran has anymore, are speedboats with a
- 2:14Speaker 3: couple of outboards on them. But they can do damage.
- 2:17Speaker 3: They run around the Strait of Hormuz. They can send
- 2:21Speaker 3: rocket propelled grenades and other type of weaponry at ships.
- 2:25Speaker 3: And that's enough to keep people from trying to go
- 2:27Speaker 3: through the Strait of Hormuz. And we're not getting things
- 2:30Speaker 3: moving through there, whether it's oil or other products for
- 2:34Speaker 3: the rest of the world. And it's causing a problem
- 2:36Speaker 3: in many places. You're keeping up with the news. You
- 2:38Speaker 3: know that that is happening. Now, Donald Trump is in
- 2:41Speaker 3: that 60 to 90 day window, though, from that from
- 2:45Speaker 3: the very beginning. You know, we talked about this at
- 2:48Speaker 3: the beginning of this conflict that It is not necessary
- 2:51Speaker 3: for the president if he deems there is a threat
- 2:54Speaker 3: to America that he can use force as he has
- 2:57Speaker 3: done in Iran. And even the War Powers Act gives
- 3:00Speaker 3: the president 60 days. And 60 days, then really the
- 3:04Speaker 3: troops are supposed to be moving out of there. There
- 3:07Speaker 3: are no ground troops in Iran. So I don't know
- 3:09Speaker 3: if that's another part of the argument or not. We
- 3:12Speaker 3: have a Navy there and we have Air Force, but
- 3:15Speaker 3: we have no one on the ground in Iran as
- 3:17Speaker 3: probably some special forces. Sure, they're there. But no troops.
- 3:22Speaker 3: Everybody was talking about ground troops. And we talked about
- 3:24Speaker 3: it on this show that that was not going to
- 3:26Speaker 3: be a part of this. You could tell because there
- 3:28Speaker 3: was no buildup. There was never at any point a
- 3:31Speaker 3: buildup of troops anywhere in the world. And it would
- 3:35Speaker 3: take probably a couple of months to get a half
- 3:37Speaker 3: a million troops there. You have an Iranian army of 650,000, 300,000
- 3:40Speaker 3: in reserves. So just call it a million. You have
- 3:42Speaker 3: a You're not going to go in there with 3,000
- 3:49Speaker 3: or 4,000 Marines and another 3,000 from the 82nd Airborne.
- 3:53Speaker 3: So ground troops in Iran was never going to happen.
- 3:56Speaker 3: So what does Donald Trump do now? In some ways,
- 3:59Speaker 3: I think his back is against the wall at this point.
- 4:03Speaker 3: He's not getting what he wants from Iran, probably because
- 4:07Speaker 3: Iran doesn't even know who's in charge over there. So
- 4:10Speaker 3: what do they do? What does Donald Trump do here?
- 4:13Speaker 3: You're running into the midterm. It's six months away from
- 4:15Speaker 3: right now. And this thing is not ending. Gas prices
- 4:20Speaker 3: are over $ 4 a gallon. Inflation may start creeping up.
- 4:24Speaker 3: And Donald Trump has to feel some of that pressure.
- 4:27Speaker 3: But he also has to feel the pressure of, we're
- 4:29Speaker 3: not going to leave here until we do the right thing.
- 4:31Speaker 3: And the right thing is making sure that Iran never
- 4:34Speaker 3: has the capability of a nuclear weapon. That's something Donald
- 4:38Speaker 3: Trump has been consistent on for years, he has. He
- 4:42Speaker 3: told us last June after Midnight Hammer that their nuclear
- 4:46Speaker 3: capability had been completely decimated, and we found that that
- 4:50Speaker 3: was not the truth. So here we are again. It's
- 4:53Speaker 3: going to be interesting to watch what happens here. I
- 4:56Speaker 3: think we're on the verge of Donald Trump having to
- 5:00Speaker 3: be offensive again in Iran to get them to move.
- 5:04Speaker 3: The Iranian people, whoever is in charge, they know they're
- 5:08Speaker 3: in trouble. economically and in other ways in this country,
- 5:12Speaker 3: if it continues down this path, which there is no
- 5:15Speaker 3: other path that it will continue down, then there will
- 5:18Speaker 3: be an uprising of the people in Iran. And then
- 5:22Speaker 3: possibly there could be the regime change that everybody wants,
- 5:25Speaker 3: and it would be for the people and by the people.
- 5:27Speaker 3: It's something I've talked about since the beginning of this conflict. Meanwhile,
- 5:31Speaker 3: I think we'll start hearing from people in Congress that
- 5:34Speaker 3: say the War Powers Act, we have to vote on it.
- 5:37Speaker 3: And I don't think that that's going to happen. I
- 5:39Speaker 3: don't believe that John Thune or Speaker Mike Johnson, either one,
- 5:42Speaker 3: will ever bring that for a vote. Maybe the Democrats
- 5:45Speaker 3: will try to force it. I still believe that President
- 5:48Speaker 3: Donald Trump is in his right to do what he's
- 5:52Speaker 3: doing there in Iran. Again, there's been a ceasefire since
- 5:55Speaker 3: April 7th. So really, we went about 45 days with
- 5:59Speaker 3: that conflict as far as an offensive conflict. But I
- 6:02Speaker 3: believe we're about to see more of that. Let's go
- 6:05Speaker 3: to something Tucker Carlson told The New York Times last week.
- 6:08Speaker 3: Let me play this audio for you. Listen to this.
- 6:11Speaker 3: This is Tucker Carlson.
- 6:12Speaker 2: And Trump engenders cowardice in the people around him through intimidation.
- 6:16Speaker 2: And there is a kind of quality that he has
- 6:17Speaker 2: that's spellbinding. And I think it probably literally is a spell.
- 6:22Speaker 2: And the effect is to weaken people around him and
- 6:26Speaker 2: make them more compliant and more confused. And I've experienced
- 6:29Speaker 2: this myself. You spend a day with Trump and sort
- 6:31Speaker 2: of like you're in this kind of dreamland. It's like
- 6:33Speaker 2: smoking hash or something.
- 6:34Speaker 6: It's interesting.
- 6:35Speaker 3: It's like smoking hash or something. Very interesting, Tucker says.
- 6:39Speaker 3: Do you really believe that that's what it's like to
- 6:41Speaker 3: be around Donald Trump for a day? And if it is,
- 6:44Speaker 3: how weak is Tucker Carlson to come away feeling like
- 6:48Speaker 3: he has smoked hash all day? I wonder how many
- 6:51Speaker 3: days in Tucker Carlson's life has he actually smoked hash
- 6:55Speaker 3: all day to understand what that would feel like. I
- 6:59Speaker 3: doubt that he has. He doesn't know what he's talking about.
- 7:01Speaker 3: Tucker Carlson is spreading more bullcrap. That's what he does.
- 7:05Speaker 6: Very interesting.
- 7:06Speaker 2: And there may be a supernatural component to it. I'm
- 7:08Speaker 2: not a theologian, but it's real, and anyone who's been
- 7:10Speaker 2: around him can.
- 7:11Speaker 3: Tell you it's real. And Tucker has to remind us
- 7:13Speaker 3: that he is not one that studies that spirituality, like
- 7:16Speaker 3: there may be something divine about Donald Trump. Tucker Carlson
- 7:21Speaker 3: is full of crap, and I'm tired of him, Candace Owens,
- 7:25Speaker 3: and Megyn Kelly doing what they are doing. It's ridiculous.
- 7:29Speaker 3: By the way, there are two U.S. service members missing
- 7:33Speaker 3: in southwestern Morocco following an annual multinational military exercise that
- 7:39Speaker 3: is sparking an ongoing search and rescue effort by U.S.
- 7:43Speaker 3: and allied forces. This news came out over the weekend.
- 7:46Speaker 3: There are war games exercises going on there known as
- 7:49Speaker 3: African Lion. It started in April and it runs across
- 7:53Speaker 3: four countries in the African continent. And it is the
- 7:57Speaker 3: United States military's largest annual exercise in Africa. So right now,
- 8:03Speaker 3: two U.S. military members are missing there. So keep them
- 8:07Speaker 3: in your prayers. Here's another story I want to hit
- 8:09Speaker 3: on quickly. This never made any sense to me why
- 8:12Speaker 3: we had all of those Hollywood people and politicians going
- 8:17Speaker 3: to Ukraine at the beginning of that Ukraine-Russian war. By
- 8:19Speaker 3: the way, they are still negotiating Ukraine and Russia. Ukraine
- 8:23Speaker 3: continues to bomb into Russia. Russia's really not moving in Ukraine,
- 8:28Speaker 3: and Putin thinks there's going to be a coup in Russia.
- 8:31Speaker 3: But let me get back to this story. USAID bribed
- 8:34Speaker 3: Hollywood frauds to travel to Ukraine and pose for photos
- 8:38Speaker 3: with Zelensky. You remember that at the beginning of this war?
- 8:42Speaker 3: We had all these Hollywood people going over there, and
- 8:46Speaker 3: we started sending billions and billions of dollars. Here's a list,
- 8:49Speaker 3: and here's what they got paid. This may make you sick,
- 8:53Speaker 3: because it did me. Ben Stiller. He went to Ukraine.
- 8:57Speaker 5: Why not?
- 8:58Speaker 3: You're in the middle of a war zone. Let's have
- 9:00Speaker 3: Ben Stiller go over there. Take a picture with Zelensky.
- 9:03Speaker 3: He was paid $ 4 million of your taxpayer money from USAID.
- 9:08Speaker 3: Sean Penn. Sean Penn got $ 5 million. Orlando Bloom, $ 8 million.
- 9:15Speaker 3: Jean-Claude Van Damme, $ 1. 5 million. Angelina Jolie. Remember, she went
- 9:22Speaker 3: to Ukraine and right there in the middle of the
- 9:24Speaker 3: war zone that we were sending billions and billions of
- 9:27Speaker 3: dollars to, they paid her $ 20 million. USAID paid Angelina
- 9:35Speaker 3: Jolie $ 20 million of your taxpayer dollars to go to
- 9:39Speaker 3: Ukraine and take a picture with Zelensky, all part of
- 9:42Speaker 3: a ploy to get the American people on the side
- 9:46Speaker 3: of Ukraine so that we could send them $ 200 billion
- 9:48Speaker 3: plus another $ 100 billion in ammunition and weaponry, which we
- 9:54Speaker 3: continue to do with weapons. Last week, Dr. Moran's a
- 9:58Speaker 3: close confidant and senior. advisor to Dr. Fauci. He was indicted,
- 10:04Speaker 3: and there is some more news. What about Fauci? Statute
- 10:07Speaker 3: of limitations for him is coming up within a week.
- 10:11Speaker 3: There may be some more investigations going on with Fauci.
- 10:15Speaker 3: If anything's going to happen with Fauci, it's going to
- 10:17Speaker 3: happen within the next week. If not, forget Fauci. Forget it.
- 10:20Speaker 3: Let's move on. But here is Director of National Intelligence
- 10:24Speaker 3: Tulsi Gabbard, and she just confirmed with The Megyn Kelly
- 10:28Speaker 3: Show that she's leading a full investigation into Fauci for
- 10:33Speaker 3: alleged perjury.
- 10:34Speaker 7: But the thing that we are working with Jay Bhattacharya,
- 10:38Speaker 7: the new NIH director on, with as well as Secretary Kennedy,
- 10:43Speaker 7: is Looking at the gain-of-function research that, in the case
- 10:50Speaker 7: of the Wuhan lab, as well as many of these
- 10:53Speaker 7: other biolabs around the world, was actually U.S.-funded.
- 10:58Speaker 3: And it was funded through Echo Health Alliance and Peter Daszak.
- 11:02Speaker 3: It was Echo Health Alliance that money came to from Fauci.
- 11:06Speaker 3: Peter Daszak was the name there. You can look all
- 11:08Speaker 3: of that up. You may remember most of that story.
- 11:11Speaker 3: But that's how gain of function was done in the
- 11:13Speaker 3: Wuhan lab. Let me remind you again of three things
- 11:16Speaker 3: that happened in that Wuhan lab in September 2019. This
- 11:20Speaker 3: information is now declassified. The first thing that happened was
- 11:24Speaker 3: the genetic sequencing is gone. It disappeared. That means lifelong
- 11:29Speaker 3: scientists who have put all of their work into this,
- 11:33Speaker 3: this gain of function, this, whatever it was, all of
- 11:37Speaker 3: that genetic sequencing disappeared.
- 11:39Speaker 8: Dr.
- 11:39Speaker 3: Robert Redfield testified in a hearing in March 2023 on
- 11:43Speaker 3: Capitol Hill that that never happens. He had worked in
- 11:47Speaker 3: dual-use labs for most of his career, and he says
- 11:50Speaker 3: that just doesn't happen. It's your life work. You don't
- 11:53Speaker 3: lose it. But they did. So that's one thing that happened.
- 11:56Speaker 3: Another thing that happened is the People's Liberation Army of China,
- 12:01Speaker 3: they came in and took control of the Wuhan lab
- 12:03Speaker 3: in September 2019. And the third thing that happened is
- 12:07Speaker 3: was air filter system, the air system within the Wuhan
- 12:11Speaker 3: lab was completely changed to a new one. So that
- 12:14Speaker 3: tells you that something happened in that Wuhan lab that
- 12:18Speaker 3: created COVID. And the gain of function through Fauci, Peter Daszak,
- 12:23Speaker 3: is probably the reason why. Let's go back to Tulsi Gabbard.
- 12:27Speaker 7: And leads to this dangerous kind of research that in
- 12:30Speaker 7: many examples has resulted in either a pandemic or some
- 12:36Speaker 7: other major health crisis.
- 12:38Speaker 8: Let me ask you specifically, because we already know that
- 12:40Speaker 8: EcoHealth Alliance was partnering with this Wuhan lab to create,
- 12:44Speaker 8: to do gain-of-function research.
- 12:45Speaker 7: That's right.
- 12:46Speaker 8: We just have never been able to have somebody say,
- 12:48Speaker 8: and it was that exact experiment that led to this
- 12:51Speaker 8: COVID bug. But have we gotten there? What's the new
- 12:55Speaker 8: thing that you're digging in on?
- 12:57Speaker 7: We are working on that with Jay Bhattacharya and look
- 13:01Speaker 7: forward to being able to share that.
- 13:02Speaker 6: Hopefully very soon. Okay.
- 13:04Speaker 7: That specific link.
- 13:06Speaker 6: Correct.
- 13:06Speaker 7: Between the gain of function research and what we saw
- 13:09Speaker 7: with COVID-19.
- 13:10Speaker 3: Tulsi Gabbard there says they have more information to share
- 13:13Speaker 3: on that. Was it Echo Health Alliance, Peter Daszak, through
- 13:17Speaker 3: Anthony Fauci that actually funded COVID? That would make a
- 13:22Speaker 3: lot of sense as to why Fauci covered up so much,
- 13:25Speaker 3: and they tried to make it about bad soup and
- 13:28Speaker 3: the Wuhan wet market, as opposed to being a gain-of-function research,
- 13:32Speaker 3: as we know that it probably was at this point.
- 13:35Speaker 3: We'll have to wait and see what comes out. Before
- 13:38Speaker 3: we get to the story on fraud in Ohio, let's
- 13:41Speaker 3: get to EPA Chief Lee Zeldin, who's doing a great job,
- 13:46Speaker 3: and this massive new lithium deposit that was just discovered
- 13:50Speaker 3: in Appalachia. And let's go to this. This was on
- 13:54Speaker 3: News Nation. This week, they found huge deposits of lithium
- 14:00Speaker 3: in Appalachia.
- 14:01Speaker 6: Lithium, of course, being a crucial component in EVs, crucial
- 14:05Speaker 6: to the future.
- 14:07Speaker 9: What does this mean for America and especially for the heartland?
- 14:10Speaker 10: Being able to reduce our reliance on China, being able
- 14:13Speaker 10: to reduce our reliance on foreign sources. Critical minerals, rare earth,
- 14:18Speaker 10: from extraction through processing needs to be ramped up inside
- 14:21Speaker 10: the United States. You hear a lot about unleashing energy dominance.
- 14:25Speaker 10: We also care about batteries and magnets and chips and semiconductors.
- 14:30Speaker 10: And when we have these own resources within our own country,
- 14:34Speaker 10: we should not only be extracting them here, we should
- 14:36Speaker 10: be processing them here, and we should do it proudly
- 14:39Speaker 10: knowing that we tap into these resources so much better
- 14:43Speaker 10: for our environment than so many other countries elsewhere around
- 14:46Speaker 10: the world.
- 14:47Speaker 5: This was a great find.
- 14:48Speaker 10: We should be tapping into these sources.
- 14:50Speaker 3: And that can ultimately help a lot with national security,
- 14:53Speaker 3: because if you're not having to worry about China going
- 14:56Speaker 3: to Greenland to get rare earth minerals out of the ground,
- 14:58Speaker 3: because we have plenty here and we don't need that,
- 15:01Speaker 3: then it kind of changes things in national security and
- 15:05Speaker 3: the things that Donald Trump has to do and is
- 15:07Speaker 3: continuing to try to do to keep Americans safe and
- 15:11Speaker 3: also our future with rare earth minerals and artificial intelligence
- 15:15Speaker 3: and the huge global economy that it will become by 2030,
- 15:19Speaker 3: the experts say, $ 15. 7 to $ 22. 3 trillion, equivalent to China
- 15:26Speaker 3: and India's GDP combined. It's a lot of money. That's
- 15:30Speaker 3: why you hear about artificial intelligence almost on every newscast
- 15:35Speaker 3: and almost on every commercial that you see. Everything is
- 15:38Speaker 3: artificial intelligence, artificial intelligence. Daily Wire is Ben Shapiro's news organization,
- 15:44Speaker 3: and they came across some more fraud in Ohio near Columbus.
- 15:49Speaker 3: There is a huge empty building that all of these
- 15:52Speaker 3: companies that do Medicare are allegedly in, and $ 65 million
- 15:58Speaker 3: ran through there. I'm not sure yet about the timeframe,
- 16:01Speaker 3: how many years that was. But the building is completely empty,
- 16:04Speaker 3: and now Vice President J.D. Vance is going to get involved.
- 16:07Speaker 3: He's now handling a lot of that fraud as part
- 16:10Speaker 3: of his job as the Vice President of the United States.
- 16:13Speaker 3: We no longer have Doge, but we have J.D. Vance
- 16:16Speaker 3: that's taking lead on that. We'll have to wait and
- 16:19Speaker 3: see what is going to come from that. Every state
- 16:22Speaker 3: has waste, abuse, and corruption. We're going to meet a
- 16:26Speaker 3: young man coming up next that wants to do away
- 16:28Speaker 3: with all of that. He's a young Republican running for
- 16:32Speaker 3: the statehouse in, of all places, New York. He's full
- 16:36Speaker 3: of energy. He's full of ideas. You're going to meet
- 16:39Speaker 3: him coming up next.
- 16:40Speaker 10: We pray for rain and thank him when it's falling
- 16:44Speaker 10: because it brings a grain and.
- 16:45Speaker 6: A little bit of money.
- 16:47Speaker 5: We put it back in the plate.
- 16:49Speaker 10: I guess that's why they call it God's country.
- 16:53Speaker 1: More Truth Be Told with Booker Scott in minutes on
- 16:56Speaker 1: America Out Loud.
- 16:58Speaker 3: Someone asked me the other day, how do you even
- 17:00Speaker 3: get a sense of what's going to happen next? It's hard.
- 17:03Speaker 3: I don't know that we can, the way the news
- 17:05Speaker 3: moves so fast. But you know what I told them?
- 17:09Speaker 3: I said, I've been checking out Poly Market a little bit.
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- 17:39Speaker 3: It's about understanding the probabilities and where the momentum is shifting.
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- 17:46Speaker 3: maybe you're a news junkie, but you want to take
- 17:48Speaker 3: a little deeper look at what people really think, go
- 17:51Speaker 3: to Polymarket. It's a fascinating tool. Polymarket.com. And welcome back
- 18:14Speaker 3: to The Truth Be Told here on America Out Loud
- 18:16Speaker 3: Talk Radio. I'm Booker Scott. And from time to time,
- 18:20Speaker 3: I like to introduce you to young Republicans that are
- 18:23Speaker 3: trying to make a difference out there in local races,
- 18:26Speaker 3: because that is the most important thing in this country
- 18:29Speaker 3: is local, local, local. I can't say it enough. I've
- 18:32Speaker 3: said it for years, but I'm going to keep saying
- 18:34Speaker 3: it until somebody gets it. You have to be involved
- 18:37Speaker 3: in a local GOP, really, to make a difference in
- 18:40Speaker 3: your county, your city, your state. and ultimately the country.
- 18:45Speaker 3: That's how it works. So tonight, I want to bring
- 18:47Speaker 3: into the conversation now a young man from upstate New York.
- 18:51Speaker 3: He was born and raised in Cicero. His name is
- 18:53Speaker 3: James Corll. James, welcome to the program. So glad to
- 18:56Speaker 3: have you. Awesome.
- 18:57Speaker 6: Well, thank you very much for having me, Booker. I
- 18:59Speaker 6: really appreciate the opportunity.
- 19:01Speaker 3: Well, you graduate from Le Moyne College in New York,
- 19:03Speaker 3: and right after that, you go to work there in
- 19:06Speaker 3: the state senate. Is that correct?
- 19:08Speaker 1: That is, yeah.
- 19:09Speaker 9: For three years, I had the incredible opportunity to work
- 19:12Speaker 9: for Senator Mark Walzik. Senator Walzik represents the north country
- 19:18Speaker 9: of New York State. It's a big, beautiful district that
- 19:21Speaker 9: takes about four and a half hours to get to
- 19:23Speaker 9: end to end. And under his tutelage, I learned so
- 19:26Speaker 9: much about the legislative process. As his legislative director, I
- 19:30Speaker 9: saw Albany at its best and.
- 19:32Speaker 6: More often than not, Albany at its worst.
- 19:35Speaker 9: And I decided that at the end of my tenure
- 19:38Speaker 9: in his office that I'd just seen enough of Albany.
- 19:43Speaker 9: I knew that I was making a decent impact in
- 19:46Speaker 9: my role with the Senator's office, but I thought I
- 19:48Speaker 9: could make an even bigger impact if I ran for
- 19:51Speaker 9: state Senate myself.
- 19:52Speaker 6: So that's what's led me to where I am today.
- 19:54Speaker 3: You don't mind me asking your age. How old are you?
- 19:58Speaker 3: I'm 23 years old. Okay, that's great. I think last
- 20:01Speaker 3: time in your district, you also had a young Republican running.
- 20:05Speaker 3: I don't think he quite won. Maybe you can pull
- 20:08Speaker 3: this out this time. You have your hands full in
- 20:10Speaker 3: the state of New York. You have Kathy Hochul. And then,
- 20:13Speaker 3: of course, in New York City, you have Mandani. And
- 20:17Speaker 3: your objective to go to Albany and represent your constituents
- 20:21Speaker 3: would be to try to keep all of that money
- 20:24Speaker 3: that may be headed to New York from doing that.
- 20:26Speaker 3: What other kind of issues do you see there? for
- 20:30Speaker 3: your constituency in the north central part of New York.
- 20:33Speaker 6: Yeah, absolutely.
- 20:34Speaker 9: So my campaign is focused on three central issues. I'm
- 20:39Speaker 9: focused on affordable energy, affordable living, and affordable government.
- 20:44Speaker 6: And I'll walk you through a little bit of each
- 20:45Speaker 6: part of those.
- 20:46Speaker 9: For affordable energy, New York State pays 50% more for
- 20:52Speaker 9: our electricity than the rest of the country. And the
- 20:55Speaker 9: reason for that is Albany, since 2019, has continually passed
- 21:00Speaker 9: renewable energy mandates onto utility companies, which then pass them
- 21:04Speaker 9: along to ratepayers. We are putting up solar fields and
- 21:08Speaker 9: wind turbines in upstate New York, which, in my opinion,
- 21:12Speaker 9: makes no sense. Just outside of my district is the
- 21:15Speaker 9: city of Syracuse, and Syracuse is the eighth cloudiest city
- 21:19Speaker 9: in the country.
- 21:20Speaker 3: Not working, is it?
- 21:22Speaker 6: Now, if you're asking me.
- 21:24Speaker 9: Booker, I don't think it makes much sense to have
- 21:26Speaker 9: solar panels in the eighth cloudiest city in the country.
- 21:28Speaker 1: No.
- 21:29Speaker 9: Instead, my position on that is to increase our investment
- 21:33Speaker 9: in nuclear power.
- 21:35Speaker 6: Actually, in my district, there are three nuclear reactors.
- 21:39Speaker 9: Investing in them, investing in new nuclear technology is something
- 21:43Speaker 9: that's really going to help us bring costs down for
- 21:45Speaker 9: consumers because since 2019, we've been taking energy offline and
- 21:51Speaker 9: not putting enough online at the same time. So that's
- 21:55Speaker 9: a little bit about my affordable energy strategy in a nutshell.
- 21:58Speaker 3: Well, let's stay there real quick because you guys have
- 22:01Speaker 3: the Nine Mile Point nuclear reactor site, which is the
- 22:05Speaker 3: oldest still running nuclear site in the country, 1988. But
- 22:10Speaker 3: when you were in Albany, what kind of pushback do
- 22:13Speaker 3: you have from the Democrats there in Albany in the
- 22:16Speaker 3: statehouse that would push back against nuclear? It's clean. It's
- 22:20Speaker 3: more affordable. Why would they or are they pushing back
- 22:24Speaker 3: against that?
- 22:25Speaker 6: Yeah, that's a great question.
- 22:28Speaker 9: A lot of Democrats are pushing back on nuclear, I think,
- 22:31Speaker 9: for the sole fact that it's not solar and it's
- 22:34Speaker 9: not wind power. And a lot of environmentalists think that
- 22:38Speaker 9: nuclear is unsafe because of accidents that happen in Chernobyl.
- 22:43Speaker 9: One thing they don't acknowledge, though, is the fact that
- 22:46Speaker 9: nuclear technology is extremely safe, is extremely reliable. It doesn't
- 22:51Speaker 9: take up acres of prime farmland like solar does. And
- 22:55Speaker 9: like you said, Nine Mile, which is within the district,
- 22:59Speaker 9: has been running successfully since 1988. It's been producing clean energy.
- 23:04Speaker 9: It powers 1.8 million homes across New York State. And
- 23:09Speaker 9: I would like to be forward-thinking about this, not just
- 23:12Speaker 9: investing in our current nuclear fleet, which is vital and important,
- 23:16Speaker 9: but also investing in new nuclear technology, such as small
- 23:20Speaker 9: modular reactors.
- 23:21Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 23:22Speaker 9: Nuclear small modular reactors that can be built on a
- 23:25Speaker 9: couple acres of land produce a lot of power for communities,
- 23:30Speaker 9: but also provide a lot of good paying jobs for
- 23:33Speaker 9: communities that might have been left by the wayside. There's
- 23:37Speaker 9: a large part of my district, which I consider part
- 23:40Speaker 9: of the Rust Belt. I know a lot of people,
- 23:43Speaker 9: your viewers probably think the Rust Belt stops at Ohio
- 23:45Speaker 9: or Pennsylvania. It really continues across the I-90 corridor, in
- 23:49Speaker 9: my opinion, starting with Buffalo and continuing to Syracuse and
- 23:53Speaker 9: even going further west to Canajoharie, Johnstown, and Gloversville out
- 23:58Speaker 9: in eastern New York. There's a lot of communities that
- 24:01Speaker 9: are hurting right now, and small mods or reactor technology
- 24:06Speaker 9: has the potential to revitalize a lot of these former
- 24:09Speaker 9: industrial sites.
- 24:10Speaker 3: If you're listening to this program, read about what James
- 24:13Speaker 3: is talking about there. I've done a little bit about it.
- 24:16Speaker 3: There are only two companies in the country right now
- 24:19Speaker 3: that are certified to do this, and it's not the
- 24:22Speaker 3: same type of nuclear reactor that you may remember Three
- 24:26Speaker 3: Mile Island in Pennsylvania doing. And I think a lot
- 24:28Speaker 3: of Americans still have that that almost melted down. I
- 24:32Speaker 3: think that was in the 80s, maybe. I don't know.
- 24:35Speaker 3: I remember it like it was yesterday. I just don't
- 24:36Speaker 3: remember the year on that. But read into that technology
- 24:40Speaker 3: that is available. It is clean and it will make
- 24:43Speaker 3: things more affordable for energy without having to go to
- 24:46Speaker 3: solar and electricity. windmills. And James, I don't know about you,
- 24:50Speaker 3: but I've never met a conservative yet that doesn't want
- 24:53Speaker 3: to preserve the earth that we have. They just don't
- 24:55Speaker 3: want things mandated to them. They don't want to be
- 24:58Speaker 3: told by the government that you have to do this.
- 25:01Speaker 3: You know, we're more capitalist. We want things to work
- 25:04Speaker 3: through the market to get to the point of everybody
- 25:07Speaker 3: driving an electric vehicle if that's what everybody wants to drive.
- 25:10Speaker 3: So I'm sure you probably feel the same way. What
- 25:12Speaker 3: are some other things that you are concerned about for
- 25:15Speaker 3: the people that you want to represent?
- 25:18Speaker 9: So another big part of my platform is affordable living.
- 25:22Speaker 9: And as a young person in New York State, I
- 25:24Speaker 9: want to be able to own my own home.
- 25:26Speaker 6: And raise a family here in central New York.
- 25:29Speaker 9: However, a lot of young people like myself feel like
- 25:32Speaker 9: they're being priced out of the local market. And the
- 25:35Speaker 9: reason for that is there's a couple different reasons. The
- 25:39Speaker 9: first one is microns. I'm not sure if your ship
- 25:42Speaker 9: is familiar, but there's a chip fab that will be
- 25:45Speaker 9: going into central New York built by a company called Micron.
- 25:49Speaker 9: And I think Micron is going to be transformational for
- 25:52Speaker 9: the region. The issue, the downside with it, though, is
- 25:56Speaker 9: house prices are skyrocketing because with Micron coming, there are
- 26:02Speaker 9: a lot of people with higher purchasing power than young
- 26:05Speaker 9: people coming in and buying.
- 26:06Speaker 6: Up housing stock.
- 26:07Speaker 9: The second reason why housing prices are going through the
- 26:11Speaker 9: roof is, again, mandates from Albany. There was a proposal
- 26:15Speaker 9: last year from Albany to put fire sprinklers in all
- 26:22Speaker 9: new construction.
- 26:24Speaker 6: Even if the consumer doesn't want it, it would be mandated.
- 26:28Speaker 9: That would cost $ 30, 000.
- 26:29Speaker 6: Adding $ 30.
- 26:31Speaker 9: 000 onto a cost of a new home for young people,
- 26:35Speaker 9: it's unattainable and it's unaffordable. And when you see young
- 26:39Speaker 9: families leaving central New York and leaving New York state
- 26:41Speaker 9: in general, 36% say they are leaving because of high
- 26:46Speaker 9: housing costs.
- 26:48Speaker 6: So that's something that's really crucial.
- 26:50Speaker 3: You know, James, it's a problem all across the country.
- 26:53Speaker 3: I know we're speaking specifically about New York, central, north,
- 26:58Speaker 3: upstate New York. But this is all across the country
- 27:01Speaker 3: that people your age, they feel like that American dream
- 27:05Speaker 3: is a nightmare at this point. They can't afford it.
- 27:07Speaker 3: They don't know how they're going to ever own a home.
- 27:09Speaker 3: And if they do, we know now that most people
- 27:12Speaker 3: own their first home at 40 years old. And that's
- 27:15Speaker 3: not America. That's not the America dream that I grew
- 27:18Speaker 3: up with. That's not the one that we want to
- 27:19Speaker 3: leave for the generations after us. And there are many
- 27:23Speaker 3: problems with that. And this is one way to tackle it,
- 27:26Speaker 3: I guess, is getting bipartisan support for policies that create
- 27:30Speaker 3: first-time home savings programs. What do you have in mind? Yeah, absolutely.
- 27:35Speaker 6: So that's a great question.
- 27:36Speaker 9: So there is currently a bill being flown in the
- 27:38Speaker 9: state Senate, which my boss supports. What that would do
- 27:43Speaker 9: is it would be a tax-free savings account for young
- 27:47Speaker 9: people buying their first home. It would be up to $ 10, 000
- 27:51Speaker 9: they could put into this account, and they could count
- 27:53Speaker 9: that against their state taxes to incentivize that first down
- 27:58Speaker 9: payment on a home. And I think that's critical, again,
- 28:01Speaker 9: with young people being stretched thin with the affordability crisis
- 28:05Speaker 9: going on, trying to pay for child care, trying to
- 28:07Speaker 9: pay off student loans. Having a tax-free account to put
- 28:10Speaker 9: money into so that you can actually afford that first home,
- 28:14Speaker 9: I think that's a critical step.
- 28:16Speaker 3: Are you talking about seeding that account with state money?
- 28:19Speaker 3: Is that what that is? No, no.
- 28:22Speaker 6: So this would be individuals. Individuals would be able to
- 28:25Speaker 6: put money into it.
- 28:26Speaker 9: It would be almost like a 529 account specifically for homebuyers.
- 28:32Speaker 3: And you think that this will help? You know, this
- 28:35Speaker 3: is really just putting money away for savings. So how
- 28:39Speaker 3: will that help? someone that is incapable of saving anyway?
- 28:43Speaker 3: What's the advantage for them?
- 28:44Speaker 6: Yeah, well, I think a couple of things.
- 28:47Speaker 9: I think that by having this program, it will just
- 28:50Speaker 9: incentivize young people to save more for their first home.
- 28:54Speaker 9: I think that if we advertise this program, we say
- 28:59Speaker 9: that this is an option for young people to put
- 29:02Speaker 9: their money in for their first home.
- 29:04Speaker 6: I think that'll work. I think that will work wonders.
- 29:06Speaker 9: I think the 529 program has been very successful in
- 29:10Speaker 9: getting people to put money away for their kids' education.
- 29:13Speaker 9: I think the same exact thing could be done for housing.
- 29:16Speaker 3: You know, James, sometimes when these programs come up, and
- 29:19Speaker 3: I've talked about it before with some of the programs
- 29:22Speaker 3: that Donald Trump is doing. By the way, he signed
- 29:24Speaker 3: an executive order last week that would allow people that
- 29:28Speaker 3: make less than $ 75, 000 to have credit and $ 1, 000 be
- 29:35Speaker 3: seeded into an account that would be done every year
- 29:39Speaker 3: as long as it lasted to sort of take away
- 29:42Speaker 3: Social Security and take away that stress of Social Security
- 29:45Speaker 3: being gone. By the time someone 18 years old has
- 29:49Speaker 3: done that and they're ready to quit working, they would
- 29:51Speaker 3: have five hundred thousand dollars cash. It's the same thing
- 29:53Speaker 3: as a 401k. If you make less than thirty five
- 29:56Speaker 3: thousand dollars, then it's the same program for you. The
- 30:00Speaker 3: problem I have with some of these accounts, and let's
- 30:02Speaker 3: talk about the babies, you know, Donald Trump did that
- 30:05Speaker 3: as well. You're going to put $ 1, 000 into an account
- 30:09Speaker 3: to seed it for a child born in 2025 and beyond.
- 30:14Speaker 3: And the hope is that family members will continue to
- 30:17Speaker 3: give to that. My opinion is the families that have
- 30:21Speaker 3: money will do exactly that. And those that don't and
- 30:25Speaker 3: wouldn't do it anyway will. They're going to end up
- 30:27Speaker 3: with $ 1, 000 plus compounded interest. When they're 18 years old,
- 30:30Speaker 3: they're going to end up with about $ 5, 000. So in
- 30:33Speaker 3: some ways, I think those types of programs can create
- 30:36Speaker 3: a greater divide between the haves and the have-nots. But
- 30:39Speaker 3: I sort of got off track there. Let's get back
- 30:42Speaker 3: to you and your campaign to run for the state
- 30:45Speaker 3: Senate there in New York. And let's talk about your
- 30:48Speaker 3: budget in that state. You have an incredibly large budget
- 30:52Speaker 3: of over $ 250 billion. It's a lot of money. How
- 30:57Speaker 3: do you spend it?
- 30:57Speaker 6: Yeah, absolutely.
- 30:58Speaker 9: Well, the one thing that I always tell people is
- 31:00Speaker 9: that budgets are about priorities. It all means are clearly
- 31:04Speaker 9: messed up. Our governor proposed a $ 260 billion.
- 31:08Speaker 6: Budget this year.
- 31:10Speaker 9: It's probably going to end up in the neighborhood of $ 263,
- 31:12Speaker 9: $ 264 billion. It's not even completed.
- 31:16Speaker 6: Yet, by the way. It was due April 1st.
- 31:19Speaker 9: And here's my simple philosophy, I'm sure you and your
- 31:22Speaker 9: viewers agree, is that government money should be focused on
- 31:25Speaker 9: the nuts and bolts of what people need, not what
- 31:27Speaker 9: we want. It is chock full of special interest money.
- 31:32Speaker 9: I'll give you a couple examples. Last year, the state
- 31:35Speaker 9: legislature appropriated $ 800 million to a film tax credit that
- 31:42Speaker 9: for every dollar we invest into it, we lose 70 cents.
- 31:47Speaker 6: It's a clear giveaway to special interests.
- 31:50Speaker 9: That's money going straight to Hollywood, right out of the
- 31:52Speaker 9: pockets of people in my district. Another $ 400 million went
- 31:57Speaker 9: to a similar program, but for Broadway musicals. It's such
- 32:02Speaker 9: a contrast. We're giving money away to these types of programs.
- 32:05Speaker 9: When there's people in my district, they don't even have
- 32:08Speaker 9: access to public water. And so I go back to
- 32:11Speaker 9: saying that budgets are about priorities. All these are messed up.
- 32:14Speaker 9: And those are just two examples of things that need
- 32:16Speaker 9: to be changed in our state budget.
- 32:18Speaker 3: And tax on gas, too, in the state of New
- 32:20Speaker 3: York is incredibly high. You talk about repealing gas tax.
- 32:25Speaker 3: What's your thoughts on that?
- 32:28Speaker 6: Yeah, absolutely.
- 32:29Speaker 9: So right now we have some of the highest gas
- 32:32Speaker 9: prices in the country, in New York State.
- 32:34Speaker 6: And like you point out, the gas tax.
- 32:36Speaker 9: My proposal, what it would do is it would continually
- 32:40Speaker 9: phase down the gas tax until gas reaches a certain price.
- 32:43Speaker 9: I think in the bill that I specifically mentioned online,
- 32:47Speaker 9: it would be $ 3. That will probably need to be
- 32:50Speaker 9: amended in the near future because that bill was written
- 32:53Speaker 9: in 2022. But I think the less taxes, the better,
- 32:58Speaker 9: but also just cutting the waste in the government spending.
- 33:02Speaker 9: My old boss, he introduced a piece of legislation called
- 33:06Speaker 9: the Commission on Government Efficiency, or COGE, that if enacted
- 33:11Speaker 9: would create a bipartisan panel to root out fraud, waste,
- 33:14Speaker 9: and abuse in New York State government. I'll give you
- 33:17Speaker 9: another example on that right.
- 33:18Speaker 1: Now, too.
- 33:20Speaker 9: One point two billion dollars of state money has gone
- 33:24Speaker 9: to Medicaid premiums for people who don't even live in
- 33:27Speaker 9: New York state. And when Albany talks about, oh, a
- 33:31Speaker 9: couple million dollars here, a couple billion dollars here, I
- 33:35Speaker 9: think we really lose sight that that's not the government's money.
- 33:40Speaker 9: That is money from taxpayers that are then voting the
- 33:43Speaker 9: bill for these programs. So I think that's a perspective
- 33:46Speaker 9: shift that I would like to bring to the New
- 33:48Speaker 9: York State Senate if elected.
- 33:50Speaker 3: We're coming up on another break, and we're going to
- 33:52Speaker 3: end our conversation here in just a couple of minutes.
- 33:54Speaker 3: But before we do, I want to go back to
- 33:56Speaker 3: something you said a few minutes ago, and that was
- 33:59Speaker 3: the needs of the people, the people that you want
- 34:02Speaker 3: to represent in New York. We talked about energy. We
- 34:05Speaker 3: talked about home buying. We talked about taxes and fraud
- 34:08Speaker 3: and all of those things. But to those people that
- 34:11Speaker 3: are your neighbors there in upstate New York, what do
- 34:15Speaker 3: they need right now from you, from you? the state
- 34:19Speaker 3: house from the country, what are they looking for? As
- 34:22Speaker 3: you go knock on doors, press the flash, talk to people,
- 34:26Speaker 3: what are you hearing?
- 34:27Speaker 6: Yeah, absolutely.
- 34:28Speaker 9: I think it's pretty basic. They're looking for a representative
- 34:32Speaker 9: who's going to show up. I think they want somebody
- 34:34Speaker 9: who's going to hear them out and hear their concerns.
- 34:38Speaker 6: I'll give you an example of this.
- 34:41Speaker 9: So my opponent, in response to skyrocketing utility bills, has,
- 34:46Speaker 9: instead of trying to address the root problem, has continued
- 34:50Speaker 9: to put on seminars about how to get people onto
- 34:54Speaker 9: government assistance programs for utilities.
- 34:58Speaker 3: For energy.
- 34:59Speaker 9: Now, there's a lot of people, of course, that need
- 35:03Speaker 9: those programs. I'm not advocating to abolish those, but.
- 35:07Speaker 6: We're not getting to the root problem.
- 35:10Speaker 9: We're not addressing the root problems here in New York
- 35:12Speaker 9: State of how do we get energy prices lower. So
- 35:15Speaker 9: I think that's what the people are looking for, not
- 35:18Speaker 9: looking for ways to address the symptoms, but ways to
- 35:21Speaker 9: address the underlying causes of the problems that we're facing
- 35:24Speaker 9: right now.
- 35:25Speaker 3: His name is James Corll. And James, I'm going to
- 35:28Speaker 3: give you the last word here. I want to thank
- 35:30Speaker 3: you for coming on the program. I really do. I
- 35:32Speaker 3: appreciate it. Love to hear from young conservative minds like yours. And,
- 35:37Speaker 3: you know, you're full of energy. You're ready to go
- 35:39Speaker 3: tackle this thing. And I hope that you have success.
- 35:42Speaker 3: You win your campaign and you end up in the statehouse.
- 35:45Speaker 3: And as we go to the break, I'm also going
- 35:47Speaker 3: to play one of your commercials that you have on Facebook.
- 35:51Speaker 3: I'll be doing that. But I'm going to give you
- 35:52Speaker 3: the last word here. You're running for the state house.
- 35:56Speaker 3: Tell people why they should vote for you.
- 35:58Speaker 9: Yeah. So as a young man in upstate New York,
- 36:01Speaker 9: I've seen too many of my friends leave central New
- 36:03Speaker 9: York and they leave for good. Democrats always talk about
- 36:07Speaker 9: how young people are our future.
- 36:10Speaker 6: If that's the case in upstate New York, our future
- 36:12Speaker 6: is moving. They're moving to Florida, they're moving to Texas,
- 36:15Speaker 6: and they're moving to South Carolina.
- 36:17Speaker 9: We need a young representative with a fresh perspective on
- 36:20Speaker 9: how to get things done in Albany and bring passionate
- 36:23Speaker 9: energy to the chamber.
- 36:25Speaker 3: James, thank you so much for joining us. We're going
- 36:28Speaker 3: to listen to that commercial now, but thank you so much.
- 36:30Speaker 3: I appreciate it.
- 36:31Speaker 6: Thank you for having me, Booker. Young people are leaving
- 36:34Speaker 6: New York. And it's costing us. My friends are leaving.
- 36:38Speaker 6: Not because they want to, but because they have to.
- 36:42Speaker 6: Only half of New Yorkers own their homes. New York
- 36:45Speaker 6: is the most taxed state.
- 36:46Speaker 9: In the country. And while young people can't afford New York,
- 36:49Speaker 9: New York can't afford to lose us.
- 36:52Speaker 4: Young people are our future.
- 36:54Speaker 6: If that's true, our future's moving out. Let's fix this
- 36:58Speaker 6: problem now. before our future is gone for good.
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- 38:04Speaker 3: I want to do something a little bit different here
- 38:08Speaker 3: in this segment. because something bothered me Sunday night when
- 38:12Speaker 3: I ran across it on Facebook. I'm originally from Nashville, Tennessee.
- 38:17Speaker 3: I've mentioned that a couple of times. When I was
- 38:19Speaker 3: a young child, I was in Nashville and in Brentwood,
- 38:22Speaker 3: just south of Nashville. And my dad, for whatever reason,
- 38:26Speaker 3: I still to this day don't know, probably will never
- 38:28Speaker 3: find out. He's been dead for six years now, so
- 38:32Speaker 3: I won't be able to ask him at this time anyway.
- 38:35Speaker 3: Maybe one day. Maybe, maybe one day. But I never
- 38:38Speaker 3: found out why exactly he wanted to farm because he
- 38:41Speaker 3: is from Chicago. He was from Chicago, Illinois, had no
- 38:44Speaker 3: experience on a farm, but that's what we did. We
- 38:46Speaker 3: bought 11 acres and it was in a bedroom community
- 38:50Speaker 3: called Murfreesboro, Tennessee. It's about 25 miles southeast on the
- 38:54Speaker 3: way to Chattanooga from Nashville. And that's where I finished
- 38:58Speaker 3: growing up. Elementary school, middle school, high school, even went
- 39:01Speaker 3: to college there. Back then it was a university town.
- 39:04Speaker 3: Middle Tennessee State University is there. it was a sleepy
- 39:08Speaker 3: little town, really. It was a small community. It was
- 39:10Speaker 3: a great place to grow up. I loved it, and
- 39:13Speaker 3: I still have a lot of friends there. I still
- 39:15Speaker 3: follow them on Facebook, and I also follow the local
- 39:19Speaker 3: radio station, and that's where I'm going to go with
- 39:21Speaker 3: this segment because of the program that was on Sunday
- 39:24Speaker 3: night that caught my attention. Have you heard about 287G?
- 39:30Speaker 3: Do you know what that is, Section 287G of the U.S.
- 39:33Speaker 3: Immigration and Nationality Act? Well, it authorizes the Department of
- 39:37Speaker 3: Homeland Security to deputize selected state and local law enforcement
- 39:43Speaker 3: officers to enforce federal immigration law. So in Murfreesboro, Tennessee,
- 39:49Speaker 3: which is Rutherford County, which by the way, it has
- 39:53Speaker 3: grown a lot since I grew up there. We moved
- 39:55Speaker 3: there in 1976, I believe. And like I said, it
- 39:59Speaker 3: was a sleepy little town. A nice little country town
- 40:02Speaker 3: is what it was. Now it's huge. It has exploded.
- 40:06Speaker 3: Nashville has exploded and so has Murfreesboro and Rutherford County.
- 40:10Speaker 3: It is now the third largest county in the state
- 40:13Speaker 3: of Tennessee. You have Memphis, Shelby County, Nashville, Davidson County.
- 40:17Speaker 3: They're one and two. And then you have Rutherford County.
- 40:20Speaker 3: Murfreesboro is number three. Actually larger than Chattanooga and larger
- 40:24Speaker 3: than Knoxville. A couple of other big cities there in
- 40:27Speaker 3: the state of Tennessee. The Rutherford County Sheriff is Mike Fitchew,
- 40:31Speaker 3: and he has said that he would never use his
- 40:34Speaker 3: deputies to go after illegal immigrants. That's what he said.
- 40:38Speaker 3: But then there was a little change in the last
- 40:40Speaker 3: couple of weeks there in Rutherford County and Murfreesboro. with
- 40:43Speaker 3: this Section 287G. Sheriff Fitchew has agreed to this 287G,
- 40:49Speaker 3: which would allow when they arrest an illegal immigrant and
- 40:53Speaker 3: there is a detainer for them by ICE, that they
- 40:57Speaker 3: will hold the illegal immigrant. To me, it's a no-brainer.
- 41:01Speaker 3: It makes perfect sense. Why would you not be for that?
- 41:05Speaker 3: If this were a regular criminal, let's say that it
- 41:08Speaker 3: was someone that had committed murder in Montana, Would Sheriff
- 41:12Speaker 3: Fitchew and his deputies not hold that person for extradition
- 41:17Speaker 3: to Montana? Of course they would. So if you have
- 41:21Speaker 3: an illegal immigrant that is a criminal, which at this point,
- 41:25Speaker 3: that's really all Donald Trump and the DHS and ICE
- 41:28Speaker 3: are rounding up. They're not rounding up children in schools.
- 41:31Speaker 3: That's not what they're doing. They're not rounding up just
- 41:35Speaker 3: illegal immigrants at this point. They're rounding up the criminals,
- 41:39Speaker 3: the ones that have murdered, the ones that have raped.
- 41:43Speaker 3: That's who they're trying to get off the street. For
- 41:45Speaker 3: the life of me, I can't understand why anyone wouldn't
- 41:48Speaker 3: want that. Just because they're illegal immigrants, for some reason
- 41:52Speaker 3: they want to give these people a pass. That's what
- 41:54Speaker 3: the left is saying. And when I went to Facebook
- 41:57Speaker 3: and I came across this story, it was a live
- 42:00Speaker 3: radio program in my former hometown of Murfreesboro, Tennessee. In Murfreesboro, Tennessee,
- 42:06Speaker 3: Rutherford County voted heavily for Donald Trump in the 2024 election.
- 42:12Speaker 3: It was 60-40, 60% Donald Trump, 40% for Kamala Harris.
- 42:17Speaker 3: Close to it. It was a blowout. There is no
- 42:20Speaker 3: doubt that Rutherford County, Tennessee, is a red county. It
- 42:24Speaker 3: is also a Donald Trump county. It is a MAGA county.
- 42:27Speaker 3: That's really what it is. So when I came across
- 42:30Speaker 3: this story and this show, I was shocked at what
- 42:34Speaker 3: I heard. I'm going to play some of this for
- 42:37Speaker 3: you because I think it's important for us to understand
- 42:40Speaker 3: the other perspective and what the other side is saying.
- 42:43Speaker 3: Because what they are saying is nothing like I'm saying.
- 42:46Speaker 3: I say this all the time about illegal immigrants. It's
- 42:50Speaker 3: time for them to go. We need to get these
- 42:52Speaker 3: criminals out of here. It needs to be done now.
- 42:57Speaker 3: So when people start talking the way these guys did,
- 43:00Speaker 3: and really what they're doing is calling Sheriff Fitzhugh onto
- 43:03Speaker 3: the carpet for making an agreement with the Homeland Security
- 43:07Speaker 3: in this 287G. They don't want their deputies to hold
- 43:12Speaker 3: criminal illegal aliens in their jail. But I was shocked
- 43:17Speaker 3: at what I heard on this local small radio station
- 43:21Speaker 3: in Murfreesboro, Tennessee from Ed Raymer. is the guy's name
- 43:25Speaker 3: who does the show on Sunday night. Along with him
- 43:28Speaker 3: was the Democrat National Committee chairman for Rutherford County. His
- 43:33Speaker 3: name is Matt Fee. And here he is talking about
- 43:36Speaker 3: what happened two weeks ago when Fichu said, we're not
- 43:41Speaker 3: going to do this. We're not going to have our
- 43:43Speaker 3: deputies going after illegal immigrants. And then the activism that
- 43:48Speaker 3: they created to get people to show up to a
- 43:51Speaker 3: council meeting, county government meeting, to try to make their
- 43:56Speaker 3: voices heard so that the sheriff would not do this agreement.
- 43:59Speaker 3: Here is the DNC chairman in the county of Rutherford County, Tennessee.
- 44:04Speaker 3: His name is Matt Fee.
- 44:05Speaker 4: I think I noticed a social media post from someone
- 44:08Speaker 4: that said, hey, Rutherford County is now pending a 287G
- 44:13Speaker 4: agreement with ICE. So just so everybody knows, a 287G
- 44:20Speaker 4: is basically like a– it gives– local police ability to
- 44:26Speaker 4: do work for ICE in, you know, either as themselves
- 44:32Speaker 4: or in the jail or whatever. You know, so having
- 44:38Speaker 4: noticed that, you know, that was the first time it
- 44:40Speaker 4: had come up. I don't know how long it had
- 44:41Speaker 4: been pending, but basically you go to ICE's website and
- 44:44Speaker 4: you can see all of the, you know, law enforcement
- 44:48Speaker 4: agencies that are pending any kind of agreement with ICE
- 44:51Speaker 4: or all the ones that are actually active. And it
- 44:54Speaker 4: was noticed, excuse me, you know, Rutherford County is now
- 44:57Speaker 4: showing pending for a warrant service officer. So I mentioned, hey,
- 45:03Speaker 4: you know, if you want to say something about it,
- 45:05Speaker 4: there's a public safety meeting coming up on Monday. You know,
- 45:08Speaker 4: let's go there and say you want to talk about
- 45:11Speaker 4: the sheriff's report.
- 45:12Speaker 3: Sure.
- 45:13Speaker 4: And so that's how we got there. There was multiple
- 45:16Speaker 4: groups involved, especially RemixTN. They're like an immigrant advocacy group.
- 45:27Speaker 4: And they did a lot of work with coordinating and
- 45:29Speaker 4: getting people to sign up for public comment at that meeting.
- 45:33Speaker 3: So they go to the public meeting and they make comments.
- 45:36Speaker 3: Everybody that spoke was against this 287G. If you go
- 45:41Speaker 3: to ice.gov slash identify and arrest, if you go to
- 45:47Speaker 3: that website, you will see every state and county and
- 45:52Speaker 3: city that is involved with ICE and the 287G agreement.
- 45:57Speaker 3: I can tell you this. I'm looking at the map now. California, Oregon, Washington,
- 46:03Speaker 3: and Illinois, those are four states that have no agreement
- 46:07Speaker 3: with ICE. That is not surprising. You also have a
- 46:11Speaker 3: little bit of Delaware, a little bit of Vermont, the
- 46:14Speaker 3: entire state of Connecticut, the entire state of New Jersey.
- 46:18Speaker 3: All of those states have no agreement with ICE, which
- 46:21Speaker 3: means these illegal immigrants that are committing crimes and have
- 46:26Speaker 3: committed crimes where they came from, are running free in
- 46:29Speaker 3: these states, and these states are doing nothing to help
- 46:32Speaker 3: Donald Trump and ICE get these people out of here.
- 46:34Speaker 3: But I want to go back to the radio show
- 46:36Speaker 3: on 1450 WGNS in Murfreesboro. Listen to the comments now
- 46:42Speaker 3: from Ed Raymer as they continue the conversation.
- 46:45Speaker 5: Here's the rub. At the public safety meeting, as we mentioned, everyone,
- 46:51Speaker 5: those that spoke, all against. Now, what we're talking about
- 46:54Speaker 5: with ICE, we're talking about the guys that are coming
- 46:56Speaker 5: in with the masks, And they don't have to have
- 47:00Speaker 5: a reason, to my knowledge. They can come in and
- 47:02Speaker 5: just pick you up and take you off and, I guess,
- 47:06Speaker 5: do what they want.
- 47:07Speaker 3: Okay, that's a lie. That's not true. And I don't
- 47:09Speaker 3: even know why Ed Raymer on this radio show is
- 47:12Speaker 3: saying that. He doesn't know what he's talking about, and
- 47:15Speaker 3: he probably shouldn't be talking about it. Both of these
- 47:18Speaker 3: guys are leftists. They're Democrats. Again, in a city and
- 47:21Speaker 3: a county that was heavily favoring Donald Trump in the
- 47:25Speaker 3: 2024 elections. The things that he says are important to
- 47:29Speaker 3: understand from the perspective of the left and what they
- 47:34Speaker 3: are saying against Donald Trump and the things that his
- 47:36Speaker 3: administration is doing. You hear him say that these ICE
- 47:41Speaker 3: people are wearing the masks. You know, it's obvious that
- 47:44Speaker 3: they watch MSNBC because that's the narrative that they are
- 47:48Speaker 3: teaching people over there. Well, they're wearing masks. I've covered
- 47:51Speaker 3: it on this show before so that they are not killed.
- 47:55Speaker 3: It's for their protection is what it's for. Let's go
- 47:58Speaker 3: back to Ed Raymer. He is the host of the show.
- 48:00Speaker 3: Let's let him run his mouth a little bit more.
- 48:03Speaker 5: Trump has given them where to do this. They're going
- 48:06Speaker 5: to fool around. Someone's going to get hurt. And basically,
- 48:11Speaker 5: we don't know who these people are. Right. To my knowledge,
- 48:16Speaker 5: they're a bunch of thugs.
- 48:17Speaker 3: He's talking about ICE there. We don't know who these
- 48:20Speaker 3: people are. Well, let me tell you who they are.
- 48:22Speaker 3: Ed Raymer and WGNS.
- 48:25Speaker 5: They are.
- 48:26Speaker 3: federal law enforcement officers. They have gone through training. They
- 48:30Speaker 3: have gone through background checks. They are wearing masks so
- 48:34Speaker 3: that other people don't try to hurt them because leftist, liberal,
- 48:38Speaker 3: stupid Democrats in some of these cities have tried to
- 48:42Speaker 3: hurt them. They have doxed them. Politicians have doxed them.
- 48:47Speaker 3: So why wouldn't they wear a mask? They are not thugs.
- 48:50Speaker 3: They are federal law enforcement officials. And what you're talking about,
- 48:54Speaker 3: Ed Raymer and WG & S, is dangerous. You are dangerous.
- 49:00Speaker 3: Not Donald Trump and not ICE.
- 49:02Speaker 4: So here's the thing, right? We were talking about this
- 49:05Speaker 4: a little bit earlier before we came on the air.
- 49:09Speaker 3: And listen how much Matt Fee uses the word right.
- 49:12Speaker 3: I talked about it last week about a linguistic tie-down.
- 49:16Speaker 3: When someone isn't confident in what they're saying or they're
- 49:18Speaker 3: trying to sell you something, they will use right in
- 49:21Speaker 3: a rhetorical way. This guy has a real problem with it.
- 49:25Speaker 3: He can't say two sentences without saying right. which is
- 49:29Speaker 3: a tie down to further the conversation on something that
- 49:33Speaker 3: you don't know what you're really talking about. And you're
- 49:35Speaker 3: just trying to sell something to someone. Here he goes.
- 49:38Speaker 4: The agreement that was pending at the time was for
- 49:42Speaker 4: a warrant service officer. To my knowledge, what that means
- 49:46Speaker 4: is that if someone is brought into the Rutherford County
- 49:49Speaker 4: Jail and ICE has a civil warrant against that person,
- 49:54Speaker 4: then Rutherford County Sheriff's deputies can serve that warrant without
- 49:59Speaker 4: on that person in the jail. Whereas before, ICE would
- 50:02Speaker 4: have to come and do that themselves.
- 50:05Speaker 6: Okay? Okay.
- 50:06Speaker 4: So even though it may be, let's call it the
- 50:09Speaker 4: least of the bad options in these 287G agreements with ICE,
- 50:14Speaker 4: to me, the fact of the matter is that Rutherford
- 50:17Speaker 4: County is entering into an agreement with ICE. I don't
- 50:21Speaker 4: care what model it is. I don't care that you're,
- 50:25Speaker 4: you know, whether it's the one that sends... deputies out
- 50:29Speaker 4: into the community to do, you know, task force work.
- 50:32Speaker 7: Right.
- 50:32Speaker 4: I don't want that one. I don't want them doing
- 50:34Speaker 4: anything on ICE behalf.
- 50:36Speaker 3: Why not? Why wouldn't you? Because these are criminals that
- 50:39Speaker 3: Donald Trump and ICE are getting out of this country.
- 50:42Speaker 3: They are bad people. These are people that murdered Lake
- 50:45Speaker 3: and Riley, Nungaree. And I could go on, list the
- 50:48Speaker 3: names over and over. It happened for years. It's still
- 50:52Speaker 3: happening every day. Why wouldn't you want these people out
- 50:54Speaker 3: of your country? Do you want them to live next
- 50:57Speaker 3: door to you, Matt Fee, Ed Raymer on WGNS radio?
- 51:01Speaker 3: You want these people for your neighbors? They committed rapes.
- 51:05Speaker 3: They molested children, murderers. You don't know who they are.
- 51:09Speaker 3: Joe Biden never knew who they were. None of these
- 51:13Speaker 3: people were vetted. So now ICE is making an agreement
- 51:16Speaker 3: with a town like Murfreesboro, Tennessee, Rutherford County, Tennessee. And
- 51:21Speaker 3: the sheriff there, Mike Fitchew, I actually went to high
- 51:24Speaker 3: school and middle school with both of his daughters. They
- 51:28Speaker 3: don't want to make an agreement there in Rutherford County
- 51:31Speaker 3: that the jail will just hold these bad guys that
- 51:34Speaker 3: ICE has a detainer on. They would rather have them
- 51:36Speaker 3: released onto their streets. And these people think they make
- 51:40Speaker 3: any sense. They think Donald Trump is the bad guy,
- 51:44Speaker 3: that ICE is the bad guy. I want you to
- 51:47Speaker 3: understand this perspective because this perspective is out there. all
- 51:51Speaker 3: over the country. If it's there in a place like Murfreesboro, Tennessee,
- 51:56Speaker 3: it's everywhere. Let's go on with it.
- 51:58Speaker 4: Because it's just like what you said. You know, we
- 52:00Speaker 4: see these videos and reports every single day right now
- 52:05Speaker 4: where ICE is just disappearing people off the street for
- 52:10Speaker 4: almost no reason whatsoever, except for the fact that their
- 52:13Speaker 4: color of their.
- 52:14Speaker 5: Skin is.
- 52:17Speaker 3: A couple of things here. I don't recall seeing videos
- 52:20Speaker 3: of ICE disappearing just anybody off the street. And it's
- 52:24Speaker 3: not because of the color of their skin either. It's
- 52:26Speaker 3: because the crimes that they have committed, they are criminals.
- 52:30Speaker 3: I'll say it again. They are criminals. And these people,
- 52:34Speaker 3: Ed Raymer and Matt Fee, they are lost. They have
- 52:38Speaker 3: no idea what they're talking about.
- 52:40Speaker 4: Doesn't look like they should be here.
- 52:42Speaker 8: Right.
- 52:42Speaker 2: Right.
- 52:43Speaker 4: Or not that they shouldn't be here, but that, you know.
- 52:46Speaker 5: No, they don't think they should be here.
- 52:49Speaker 4: They just assume that they're undocumented.
- 52:52Speaker 5: And ladies and gentlemen, I want to say this. I
- 52:55Speaker 5: don't want to put any words in the chairman of
- 52:58Speaker 5: the Democrat Party's mouth. I don't mean to do that.
- 53:01Speaker 5: But I'm telling you, this bunch is dangerous.
- 53:04Speaker 3: This bunch. He's talking about you. He's talking about Donald Trump.
- 53:08Speaker 3: He's talking about ICE. He's talking about everybody that would
- 53:12Speaker 3: have illegal immigrants taken out of this country. That's who
- 53:17Speaker 3: they're talking about. In a small town, well, it's grown.
- 53:21Speaker 3: It's bigger than it used to be, but it's still
- 53:24Speaker 3: a good old boy network. In a small place like Murfreesboro, Tennessee,
- 53:29Speaker 3: they voted for Donald Trump 60% compared to 40%. This
- 53:33Speaker 3: is the narrative that is being fed to that community
- 53:37Speaker 3: there on a local radio station. It's amazing to me.
- 53:41Speaker 5: Someone is going to get hurt. Someone's going to get killed. Now,
- 53:47Speaker 5: I know you say, oh, well, that's Murf Burgh, Tennessee.
- 53:50Speaker 5: Let me tell you something. They didn't think it would
- 53:53Speaker 5: happen in Washington, D.C. either, but it's happening.
- 53:56Speaker 3: They didn't think it would happen in Washington, D.C., but
- 53:59Speaker 3: it is happening. What is he talking about? Well, he's
- 54:02Speaker 3: talking about the National Guard coming into Washington, D.C., You see,
- 54:07Speaker 3: from the left and their perspective, this is tyranny. They
- 54:12Speaker 3: believe that Donald Trump is a dictator. That's what they
- 54:16Speaker 3: think about Orange Man. And you hear it here in
- 54:19Speaker 3: these voices of Ed Raymer and Matt Fee on WGNS Radio.
- 54:25Speaker 3: That's what they believe. That is the narrative. That is
- 54:28Speaker 3: the information that they are putting out. They are putting
- 54:31Speaker 3: out propaganda. This is not truth. This is propaganda.
- 54:36Speaker 5: And now there's talk of Chicago.
- 54:38Speaker 9: Yeah.
- 54:39Speaker 5: And now major cities. And I've been watching the news
- 54:41Speaker 5: this weekend. And I know, I know, okay, the cable
- 54:44Speaker 5: news things, I know they need something to keep them
- 54:46Speaker 5: on the air. But many of the states are now,
- 54:48Speaker 5: they're looking at redistricting because of the very problems we're
- 54:52Speaker 5: talking about right now.
- 54:53Speaker 3: So he thinks that the leftist states like California are
- 54:58Speaker 3: talking about redistricting. And there's nothing to redistrict in California
- 55:03Speaker 3: and Illinois.
- 55:03Speaker 7: Right.
- 55:04Speaker 3: They have gerrymandered those states so badly that conservatives have
- 55:09Speaker 3: absolutely no voice in Congress when it comes to those
- 55:12Speaker 3: states because they have already gerrymandered all they can. The
- 55:16Speaker 3: left is talking about redistricting in those states as a
- 55:20Speaker 3: response to what Texas is doing. It has nothing to
- 55:23Speaker 3: do with what Ed Raymer thinks it has to do with.
- 55:26Speaker 5: That's what's causing all this.
- 55:27Speaker 4: I mean, they don't want to hear from the other side.
- 55:29Speaker 7: Right.
- 55:29Speaker 4: I mean, redistricting is because they.
- 55:32Speaker 5: Know in this county don't want to hear from us.
- 55:34Speaker 4: They know that people are upset with the way that
- 55:38Speaker 4: things are going.
- 55:39Speaker 5: Right.
- 55:40Speaker 4: The economy.
- 55:41Speaker 8: Right.
- 55:42Speaker 4: Your prices are going up.
- 55:43Speaker 3: Right? A right speaker. They drive me crazy. Thank you
- 55:47Speaker 3: for joining us tonight and every night. And don't forget,
- 55:50Speaker 3: you were told 2,000 years ago that you are the
- 55:53Speaker 3: salt of the earth. And salt without flavor, it has
- 55:55Speaker 3: no value. So whatever you do, keep being salty. Have
- 55:59Speaker 3: a great night.
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