Hour 3 - Border Czar, Tom Homan
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0:33T's and C's apply. Third hour of Clay and Buck kicks off right now.
0:38Thanks, everybody, for being here with us.
0:40We are joined by Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy.
0:46Senator Cassidy, appreciate you being here, sir.
0:49Hey, guys. Thanks for having me.
0:52Appreciate it very much. Let's start with where you are on the DHS funding situation
0:57here. I mean, I'm sure you want TSA funded, but I haven't checked in on
1:03New Orleans Airport, whether it's been affected at all.
1:06That would obviously be a big deal in your home state that you represent.
1:09But it looks like there might be a turning of the tide here.
1:14You now have ICE helping out, possibly even National Guard helping out.
1:19Do you think this changes the calculation for Democrats, or is this just going to
1:24continue on this brinksmanship ship where the American people who are trying to travel end
1:29up suffering? I think Chuck Schumer thinks he's got a winning issue, and he's going
1:33to ride that horse. And I am, you know, I'm a doctor.
1:37Excuse the term, but I am urinated off.
1:39I mean, we got people waiting five hours to get through a line.
1:43We got TSA agents trying to pay their bills and haven't been paid for six
1:47weeks. And most, I mean, I think all the demands that the Democrats had have
1:54been met. Okay, then they pull back and say, we want more.
1:57It's like the Iranians with the Strait of Hormuz.
2:00They think they've got a winning issue.
2:01They're going to continue to hold it hostage until they extract as much as they
2:05can. And they don't care the cost to the American traveler, and they don't care
2:09the cost to the person who works for TSA or FEMA or Coast Guard.
2:14It is just, man, you just deserve to be angry, brother.
2:17In your state, New Orleans, it has been among the worst of all airports that
2:23we've seen, not far from you, Houston, has also been bad.
2:26What are you hearing at the New Orleans airport?
2:29For people out there that are maybe traveling to or from, it's a big tourist
2:33destination, it's spring break. What are you hearing from people at New Orleans about what
2:37they're able to do? What would you say to people that are going to be
2:41or thinking about traveling through New Orleans in the near future?
2:44So, first, the woman I spoke to who was going to come meet me, after
2:48three hours standing in line, which stretched out into the parking garage, she missed her
2:53flight and said, I'm sorry, I can't come see you.
2:55I talked to the airport administrator.
2:58Sunday and Monday are the busiest travel days.
3:02Usually by mid -morning, things are kind of clearing up.
3:05And so if you're traveling out of Louis Armstrong Airport, try and get a later
3:10flight in the afternoon. If you're in the morning, go very early, particularly if you're
3:15on Sunday and Monday. But, you know, the very fact that we're having this conversation
3:21and Democrats agreed to a deal months ago and then they then pulled back and
3:28then they agreed again and then they pulled back, they don't want a deal.
3:31They want an issue. And the issue that they want continues to evolve, which makes
3:38me think what they really want is a political selling point, that somehow that they're
3:43the savior, even though they're the ones screwing it up.
3:46Hey, guys, this is really frustrating.
3:49When do you think this gets resolved?
3:51I mean, there would seem to be a little bit of optimism.
3:54But again, as we've mentioned, this is happening all over the country.
3:56We're hearing about it a lot.
3:59If you had to guess, I mean, it is a political issue now.
4:03Democrats have decided to make it one.
4:05And you may have heard we had the ICE suggestion help to emerge from this
4:11program from one of our callers.
4:13Where is this going and how do we fix it?
4:15Well, the president's going to try and, you know, for those positions that an ICE
4:20or a National Guard could help with, the fellow that stands at the or sits
4:25at the exit so they make sure you don't double back in, clearly, you know,
4:30one of the three of us could do that, right?
4:33I mean, that's just like, sorry, you can't do that.
4:35And so that won't require training.
4:38There's some other things that, you know, the person sitting at the x -ray machine,
4:43that person, she requires a lot of training.
4:46And so some things they can do and some things they can't.
4:49I think I was told at one point New Orleans Airport had an 83 %
4:53sick -in rate. And then somebody else told me 43%.
4:56Either way, that's a lot of people to replace.
5:00And a lot of those are going to require at least some training.
5:02So I like the president trying to get out there and get ahead of it.
5:06I think we should. We're still going to have some problems.
5:09Can you just remind everybody, Senator, that what it is that the Democrats actually want?
5:16Like, what are the concessions that they are demanding?
5:20It seems to me like they essentially want to be able to call the shot.
5:24Thank you. Thank you. with an executive law enforcement branch or the law enforcement function
5:30of an executive branch agency and they're just using this issue it's like they're taking
5:36travelers hostage or at least their time hostage until they can get what they want
5:41yeah it really is remarkable they don't want funding for ice and they don't want
5:46any money to like transport somebody here illegally back to their home country now in
5:52the working families tax cuts bill we actually republicans anticipated they might do this in
5:57the future and so we increased the funding back then for ice to an amount
6:03sufficient to pay for ice operations even if democrats pull this trick so we can
6:09actually you know navigate that that's you know that we thought ahead so we can
6:14navigate that but they also want the um they also want the ice agents not
6:20to have to wear a mask now the problem with that is if you get
6:24a facial image you can dox the person and then as somebody points out they've
6:28got their street brigades who will then go out and terrorize the person his family
6:34her children they'll follow them to their home we know that because in portland that's
6:40what the kind of radical left street brigade did to uh federal agents in portland
6:47and harassed the heck out of the family so the mask are protecting the families
6:55of the agents tom homan said listen we can put numbers on their outfits if
6:59you want to know who's responsible for an action you'll put a number up there
7:03one two three four and it'll be number one two three four and we can
7:06trace that number back if someone behaves inappropriately uh so so so so they so
7:13i think what they really want in that case is to intimidate the officer in
7:18their family they also want body cams the uh the um administration the white house
7:23has said we'll give you body cams we'll increase the money going for body cams
7:27uh we want to be able to keep the film we'll keep the film so
7:31the demands are being met except for the demands which would put the safety of
7:35the families at risk and those are the ones they're dug in on which kind
7:40of like you really want the families at risk but that's what they want we're
7:44talking to senator bill cassidy of louisiana um you are working on a bill that
7:51is trying to get uh overall the insider trading shutdown this is something that is
7:58overwhelmingly popular with our audience we hear about it all the time certainly nancy pelosi
8:04has had the greatest success uh of of anybody this side of warren buffett um
8:09what is uh the likelihood of a bill getting passed what are you trying to
8:13do yeah we're trying to restore faith in congress full disclosure i'm running for re
8:18-election one of my opponents uh congresswoman letlow has done extremely well in the stock
8:24market including trading on stocks that in which the companies have appeared before a subcommittee
8:29upon which she serves but but this should be about restoring the faith in the
8:34american people that congress is not a place you come to do well financially it's
8:40a place you come to do good for the nation and for your state and
8:44for your constituents and and and it should be a place you got you you
8:48come to do good um so the fact that nancy pelosi and her stock trading
8:52has become a punchline tells you the problem that should not be a punchline that
8:57people in congress are using inside information or their families are someone said well it's
9:02her husband okay right they never talk um they never have pillow talk uh so
9:08so i think this is just about making helping the american people if you will
9:12restore the faith that you come here to do good for the american people not
9:16to do well for yourself senator what are your thoughts on where the war with
9:23iran stands right now i know there's ongoing negotiation the president is saying militarily this
9:29has been an incredible display of our capabilities uh and and has been very effective
9:35at degrading iranian capabilities state of hormuz is it open is it going to open
9:41soon that's a big question people have gas prices obviously some concern there where do
9:45you come down on all of this clearly the iranians sending a sending a ballistic
9:51missile 2500 miles towards our our naval base diego garcia shows us that they were
9:59developing ballistic missiles they just declared it they said they weren't and they obviously were
10:03uh next they obviously were trying to get enriched uranium and uh despite their denials
10:10everyone knows they were doing it for a nuclear weapon so you put the two
10:14together they were trying to develop a nuclear weapon and they now have ballistic missiles
10:19that could go all throughout europe and all throughout um where many of our bases
10:24are so the president's decision to go after them will be judged on a success
10:29but the motivation behind it to keep them from developing nuclear weaponrys and to keep
10:33them from being able to deliver it that seems to have been hmm i see
10:38their point it seems like that's the case after all uh in terms of the
10:41straight hormuz uh our allies like uae and and uh the europeans and and uh
10:48um the saudi arabians uh it's going to be tough on them if if iran
10:54ends up controlling the strait of her moves and i have to think that the
10:58president his administration are going to make sure that that doesn't happen we're talking to
11:02senator bill cassidy okay chaos uh when it comes to college athletics i know that
11:07you have a bill that you are working on there a lot of people all
11:12over the country particularly in your state of louisiana where lane kiffin is now the
11:16lsu football coach are very focused on nil maybe might be a new basketball coach
11:21headed that way too what uh what say you what's the goal first i know
11:26that clay loves lane kiffin i'm sure that clay just like has a poster of
11:30lane in his bedroom i don't know that far so so even people put it
11:41this way everybody i think thinks that the athletes should have had some revenue sharing
11:46the universities are pulling in an incredible amount of money uh and they weren't sharing
11:50any of it tommy tuberville former coach at auburn is on my committee he goes
11:55he had been pushing for revenue sharing for the longest and it's an open secret
11:59that payments were being made so just bring them above the table uh have some
12:04control over it that sounds good what's happened and there's an athlete back home college
12:10temple it's about 70 years old but he's played basketball with lsu a mentor to
12:14a lot of folks going through lsu he'd tell kids you stay at lsu you
12:19keep your nose clean at the end of four years you got loyalty to an
12:22institution they have loyalty to you and if you're one of that 99 .5 percent
12:27of athletes who don't have a pro career you're going to have another career that
12:32sets you up for success now kids are changing schools sometimes twice in one year
12:38there's no loyalty to the athlete and no loyalty from the athlete to the community
12:43or the school and they graduate they don't go to the pros and they end
12:47up with nothing sometimes not a degree that has to stop we gotta we gotta
12:52take care of the athlete the student athlete i talked to nick saban about this
12:56one of his kids transferred to another university lost 56 credits he was 18 credits
13:04away from graduating when he transferred he lost 56 credits now it's easy to imagine
13:10that young man never graduated so he ends up doesn't play pros doesn't have a
13:15degree and no loyalty from the university we're trying to make this so it's for
13:21about the student the student knows the cost the student does well and it's not
13:26some agent enticing them into the transfer portal that ends up doing better sleep senator
13:34we appreciate time when is the primary in louisiana may 16th oh very soon yeah
13:40may 16th i think it's like 55 days or something like that so get out
13:45there vote vote often thank you sir thank you all righty you know clay we're
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16:17in clay travis buck sexton show we mentioned Caroline Levitt is right now was recently
16:23having a press conference we will play one of those cuts for you in a
16:27moment but I wanted to hit you with this uh Trump has announced that he
16:32is going to be taking his state visit trip to China on May 14th and
16:3815th. Buck you and I were just talking off air I do think it's worth
16:43kind of thinking through this to me that's the back end of the absolute longest
16:50time that he sees this uh action in Iran ongoing and I think you said
16:58you thought good chance it's done by May uh by April 1 I told I
17:03said the other day I would be stunned if it's still going on by May
17:071 and I think the timing on this is significant because usually for those of
17:11you who know the overall cost of oil and gas goes up in the summer
17:14your gallon of gas goes up uh because uh in the summer driving season demand
17:20then prices almost always go up and then they come back down around September I
17:24would be very surprised if he's not done by May 1 at the latest because
17:29that allows the pricing to kind of uh calm down although it's already taking place
17:34that the pricing is calming down I would almost guarantee you everything in Iran is
17:39going to be done by May 14th and 15th and in fact there is a
17:42story out there right now that Netanyahu has ordered Israeli bombings to accelerate rapidly over
17:50the next 48 hours because he thinks Trump may wind down operations even sooner than
17:57that so just FYI uh that information is out there and uh may be worth
18:04kind of keeping in the back of your mind I would assume that whatever the
18:08deal is it will include Israel has to stop bombing too so if Trump says
18:14there's a deal I don't I don't think Iran signs a deal or agrees to
18:17some deal with the Trump administration and they're still getting bombed by Israel I would
18:21assume that there's some coordination uh going on there but look the administration is uh
18:28it seems very bullish on getting the concessions that they want from Tehran and they
18:36seem to think that this is going uh more or less according to plan and
18:41that's not just the blowing up all the Iranian military stuff that's getting to the
18:45outcome that they want here so that's that's certainly encouraging and I I hope that
18:50this is this is something that we'll be able to look back on and say
18:53was a master stroke from the Trump administration no doubt what could be a master
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19:59down tom homan uh look if he's busy he's got to save the country he
20:04can call us whenever he wants so he's got to take a brain check no
20:08problem um but we'll get him soon if not now i would say the following
20:13clay uh yesterday the supreme court heard arguments about something that very much affects the
20:20border has to do with whether you can well what's at issue here is a
20:26policy that was started uh about a decade ago i think it was a little
20:29more where when they would have ports of entry overwhelmed they would stop people inside
20:37of mexico still and be like look we're not we're not taking any more here
20:40and you'd have to wait in mexico until uh your number was called so to
20:45speak and there's not there's a lawsuit submitted all the way to the supreme court
20:49where no surprise open border groups and all the rest they want it to be
20:55you they can't have this policy in place it's currently not active by the way
21:00but it could be if there were surges at the border um but they want
21:06to be able to say this is by the way the case is gnome versus
21:09al otro lado it's the practice is called metering which is a turn back policy
21:16yeah started uh started under actually the obama administration and because they got they had
21:23such a uh crazy situation going on at the ports of entry at the very
21:27end of the obama administration and then the trump administration expanded it no surprise there
21:33so they would stop people before they could actually set foot on u .s soil
21:38say sorry not allowed and the lawsuit clay is whether because under the immigration nationality
21:46act non -citizens non -citizens allowed to apply for asylum if they are physically present
21:50in the u .s this reminds you ever see the old cartoons where like the
21:54the banditos or the bad guys would slide across the border from texas into uh
22:01into mexico and then the sheriff you know that's it you're not on uh you're
22:05not on u .s terra firma anymore and you know then they could say haha
22:08you can't do anything about it um this is a similar situation except it's stopping
22:14them before they're on u .s soil and the immigrants rights group al otro lado
22:20and a bunch of individual asylum seekers also brought this suit saying hey we're basically
22:27in america so we should be able to if we get all the way to
22:31the border we should be able to be covered under in america as an on
22:36u .s soil i think the court's going to come down six three and say
22:40no actually in america means in america and we have now uh from dhs tom
22:48holman with us tom thanks for being the time i don't know if you heard
22:51my um my preamble there for a second but can can you just explain to
22:55people real quick this uh physically present in the united states for asylum seekers what
23:01is this metering policy how'd this get going i'm sorry i just got on my
23:06flight was late i just got into a room i didn't hear that clay i'm
23:09sorry oh no that's buck it's okay so there's a there's a under the immigrate
23:14anyway you know what just tell me this let's actually jump into the airport thing
23:17because that's what everybody cares about i was trying to do a elegant radio turn
23:21there but instead let's just get to what everyone cares about which is ice in
23:25the airports how's this going what are the next steps what are you seeing first
23:30but it's buck buck sacks and i'm glad i'm talking i don't know what mountain
23:34talk to i got i got more jobs than marco rubio hey look bottom line
23:38is uh what's happening in the airports is was trump's uh president trump's idea who
23:42called me up in less than 24 hours but the flanagan i think it's a
23:45brilliant idea idea but look you know what that uh ice is being paid uh
23:50president trump has to get to the airports to help because a lot of tsa
23:54workers are calling in or they're just playing quitting so we're going to do two
23:57things number one we're going to shore up the security of that airport to keep
24:00the you know airways safe and we're going to support tsa so jobs that don't
24:05require like the x -ray training uh other security jobs whether it's checking identification whether
24:10it's no luggage whether it's you know providing security around the checkpoints whether it's you
24:14know you know whatever tsa needs us to do to move those lines quicker and
24:19to keep security at the highest level that's what we're doing but i want to
24:24add one more thing i see a lot of stories about ice immigration and enforcement
24:27airports no you're damn right you know our purpose is to help tsa provide security
24:32and get people to the checkpoints however these hfi officers and ero officers they see
24:38illegal activity they're going to absolutely take action so yeah we're doing a little bit
24:42of everything right now do you expect that this is clay thanks for coming on
24:46you were just talking with buck i know how busy you are um do you
24:49expect you just said you're damn right uh yeah you just said you're damn right
24:54um do you expect that tsa will be able to help you uh with ice
24:59arrest people because and you tell me if i'm wrong here but what i think
25:03about is people are showing up with ids we know exactly who they are it
25:08seems like it could potentially be a very easy place to figure out if you're
25:12arresting the right guys or gals oh you want to talk about talking enforcement offers
25:17absolutely because everybody's got a show an id come through and we can tell every
25:21uh special agent your officer has a at the cell phone with the capability of
25:25accessing our databases so yeah you know this work we're going to force immigration when
25:30we see it look like table we get a lead or target lead you know
25:35from tsa saying we got information on this one or that one yeah we're going
25:38to do we're going to do our job we're going to do you know open
25:41a criminal investigation whether you know if we got reasonable suspicion to question somebody or
25:46probable cause arrest somebody that's exactly what we're going to do we're going to work
25:49with our brothers and sisters in tsa to keep the airport safe and you know
25:54and someone's transversing the airport they're not in the country we can we find out
25:58about it and we have reasonable suspicion that you know we're going we're going to
26:01take an enforcement action we're absolutely going to do that we're talking to tom holman
26:05uh i don't know if you saw but philadelphia's district attorney i believe his last
26:10name is krasner said threatened to arrest ice agents at the airport uh what's your
26:16reaction when you hear uh soros funded da's making comments like that that's ridiculous and
26:24you know bottom line is uh federal law always trumps local state law so you
26:30know we're reforming our duties as uh enacted by congress we're not making this up
26:34we are enforcing immigration law and we're going to do it all apology i mean
26:37i've been up on the hill negotiating trying to get this government back open and
26:41they basically they said they don't really want to abolish the ice they want us
26:45just reform us no the language they're proposing they want they know they just want
26:49to shut it down they want to take tools away from ice i'm not going
26:52to do that they've been hamstrung for four years under joe biden now they're finally
26:56doing their duty they're upholding the oath they took they're enforcing laws that congress wrote
27:00and was signed by president and that's exactly what we're going to do so you
27:05know i'm i'm frustrated they obviously see some sort of benefit on not funding the
27:11department of homeland security right we're in in hebrews elevated threat posture right now.
27:17And we got people from, you know, cybersecurity that aren't working.
27:23We got people, you know, the Coast Guard ain't being paid.
27:26We got people with, you know, TSA not being paid, FEMA not being paid.
27:30These people are putting this country at great risk during an elevated threat posture.
27:34It's just unbelievable that they're not willing to come to the table and meet with
27:38us. I've met with them.
27:39They talk about reform and immigration, but I've been explaining to them the policies of
27:44enforcement has not changed in 30 years.
27:46We had the same policies under Obama, under Clinton, under Bush 1 and Bush 2.
27:52So it's not a policy issue.
27:54It's an execution issue. And we fixed that.
27:58You know, there were some problems in Minneapolis.
28:00And I went up there and President Trump asked me to go up there and
28:03address it. We addressed a few issues, but most of the men and women, 99
28:07% of them are doing the right thing and we're on the right mission.
28:09But I'm not going to sit there and negotiate, taking authorities or away from ICE
28:15to enforce the law. It's just, it's ridiculous.
28:18I'm tired of it. We're speaking to Tom Holman, border czar for this Trump White
28:23House. And Tom, can you speak to where are we in terms of illegal removals,
28:30deportations, one year and change into this administration?
28:34And what are expectations? What is on the horizon for deportations going forward?
28:41Is there a plan to ramp up?
28:44You know, so basically how far have we come to this point and where are
28:48we going over the next year?
28:51Well, you know, last year we got about, you know, a little over 700 ,000
28:56removals between the patrol and us.
29:00The closest year to that was under Obama administration in 2012 when I was in
29:05ERO, we removed 409 ,000.
29:08So we blew that out of the water.
29:09And, you know, I actually got a presidential rank award for that.
29:12You know, how the Democrats have changed.
29:14I got an award in 2012 for 409 ,000 removals and, you know, highest reward
29:19available. Now, all of a sudden, I can't, I'm not allowed to deport anybody.
29:23But, you know, if we have 700 ,000, we're already making records, but we just
29:26brought 10 ,000 more. Well, not quite, we got almost at 10 ,000, but we're
29:31hiring 10 ,000 more enforcement officers, which is going to just increase those men and
29:35women on the street. The sanctuary cities and all this, all this crap going on.
29:40Yes, it's less efficient. We have to work harder.
29:43We have to work smarter because they won't give us access to the jails.
29:46But, you know, like with Minnesota, you know, it was terrible up there, but, you
29:50know, I went up there and I sat down with the governor, sat down with
29:52the AG, I sat down with the mayor and I explained to him, you don't
29:54want, you don't want all 3 ,000 people in your street.
29:57Then let me in a damn jail because one agent can arrest one bad guy
30:01in a jail. But when you release them, I got to send a whole few
30:03jobs team to find them.
30:04And because of all the hate and, and, and, and, uh, the threats up there,
30:08then we got to send a security team to back up the arrest team.
30:11So you got a dozen guys out there that could have done the job with
30:14one person in the jail.
30:15And we got unprecedented cooperation in the county jails throughout the state.
30:20We, you know, we got state prison system working with us.
30:22It made sense. It made sense because less people are needed to do the job.
30:26But, you know, in the sanctuary cities, that's what it is.
30:29Back in the day when I was an agent, we had access to all the
30:32jails. One agent can arrest one bad guy, but they released them.
30:35Now we got to send six or seven people for all sorts of states or
30:37reasons to find them, find someone that doesn't want to be arrested, which is, of
30:41course, much dangerous for the community, danger for the, uh, more dangerous for the alien
30:45because anything can happen in the street.
30:46The rest are much dangerous for the agents.
30:48But with 10 ,000 more agents, we'll beat last year's number.
30:52But, you know, things like, now we got agents at the airport now and rather
30:55than on the street into, but, you know, the priority right now is get the
31:00airport secure, move those lines through and help our brothers and sisters in TSA.
31:05But soon as the shutdown ends, and I think it's going to come out to
31:09reconciliation because this negotiation is going nowhere.
31:12I mean, we, we, we give a little bit, they take away a bunch.
31:17It's just, it's just ridiculous.
31:19So, uh, when we get the government back open, then I can get out there
31:23and, and get back to the main mission.
31:25But I want to be clear, we're going to leave a contingent at the airport
31:28because we got human trafficking through the airport.
31:31We got currency smuggling through the airport.
31:34We got alien smuggling through the airport.
31:35We've always had a small footprint there, but what we're seeing now, we may have
31:39a bigger contingent there to enforce immigration law there too.
31:43We're talking to border czar Tom, Tom Homan.
31:45You told us before that you thought there were 20 million illegals in the country
31:50after Biden opened the border and let everybody in.
31:53You just talked about, I think the number was 700 ,000.
31:56How many people do you think are voluntarily leaving?
32:00Um, you know, people out there who see what's going on and just say, Hey,
32:04maybe this is not the place for me.
32:05Do you have, I know there's been numbers out there, but what kind of sense
32:08do you have about voluntary departures?
32:12Well, according to DHS data, it's, it's over 2 million, uh, at first year under
32:16Trump, over 2 million, uh, either through the, uh, the home app, CBP home app,
32:22or just leaving a CBP tracks a lot of people when they, you know, uh,
32:27they land in foreign airports, but we don't really know who goes south to the
32:31border, travel south, but, uh, DHS and through some independent studies said about 2 million.
32:36I think the more and more, and let me, and let me tell you something
32:39about ice operation, about the secure, right?
32:41We have the most secure border ever.
32:43We've got to give a lot of credit to what's happening, what ICE is doing
32:46in the streets right now, because we sent a clear message.
32:49There's no longer a free ride.
32:50If you're in this country legally, we're looking for you.
32:53When the whole world sees ICE out there doing massive operations, that sends a strong
32:59message. Don't give your life savings to the cartel, because you're not going to be
33:02released from the border like the Biden administration did.
33:05If you happen to get by the Border Patrol, we're looking for you.
33:08No more free ride. So I think because of what ICE is doing nationwide, it's
33:13a big factor in why we have the most secured border in the history of
33:17this nation. Tom, home and borders are.
33:20We know how busy you are.
33:21We appreciate you. Anything else you would want to put out there?
33:23Yeah. Just want to say something real quick.
33:25Tom, thank you for what you're doing, you know, and thank you for representing the
33:30men and women of ICE and DHS so well.
33:33With all the nonsense the Democrats have been trying, I just was watching some TV
33:37show last night, totally maligning ICE.
33:40You're a true professional. You're serving your country.
33:43And, you know, thanks from me, from Clay, and from the whole audience.
33:46We really appreciate you and all the men and women of ICE who are doing
33:49their job under the Constitution of this country.
33:52Let me add one thing, Dan.
33:53I appreciate those words. Thank you.
33:55But, you know, God bless the men and women of ICE and Borgs.
33:58I was a Borgs agent.
33:59I know what they're dealing with.
34:00I was an ICE agent for a long time.
34:01I know what they're dealing with.
34:02And I wish these members of Congress, rather than vilifying the men and women of
34:06ICE and calling them, you know, Nazis and the secret police, which just increases the
34:10threats against them, increases the violence against them.
34:12You know what? Grow a set.
34:15Put a badge on your chest.
34:17Put a gun on your hip and come out with us.
34:19See what they're dealing with and see what you have caused from the constant negative
34:23rhetoric and comparing them to the Nazis, which increases the threat against them, which increases
34:28the doxing against them, which has increased assaults over 1 ,400%.
34:34So, rather than sitting there calling us names, strap a gun to your hip, put
34:38a kevlar vest on, and come do what we do and see if you can
34:42stand on the line. I guarantee you, none of them can.
34:46Absolutely. God bless, Tom. To you and all those that you're representing out there, thank
34:50you so much. Clay? Yeah, thank you to Borgsar, Tom Holman.
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37:01Closing up shop on the program.
37:03Our thanks to Tom Homan.
37:04You're damn right, he said, when asked if they would arrest people at airports.
37:09That may ricochet around a bit.
37:12David's been waiting a long time from Utah.
37:15Fire away. Question here. Gentlemen, both of you are superb history nerds and analysts.
37:22And I want to be accurate if I continue to refer to Jimmy Carter's forever
37:28war as being brought to a conclusion by President Trump.
37:34Do you have any book titles or authors you would recommend on history analysis of
37:40Iran, the Ayatollahs, things leading up to the current conflict?
37:50You got The Persian Puzzle by Kenneth Pollack.
37:54That would be a good place to go.
37:56It's a little older. You got King of Kings by Anderson.
38:01I'm trying to think, Clay.
38:03I got to hold on.
38:05This is not my wheel of expertise here, so I'm letting you spin away.
38:10By the way... Iran's Ministry of Intelligence, A Concise History.
38:13That's by Ward. That's new, by the way.
38:16That's just out this year.
38:18So do Persian Puzzle, do Iran's Grand Strategy by Nasser.
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