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dana perino
Meanwhile, the Trump administration is firing back against the Illinois governor for ratcheting up anti-ICE rhetoric.
And Peter Doocy is live at the White House.
He's got the back and forth for us.
Hi, Peter.
peter doocy
And Dana, despite everything that William was just reporting, the loudest voices against this White House's effort to deport criminal illegal aliens are just getting louder.
jb pritzker
The thing that we're demonizing is when ICE agents aren't following protocols.
They aren't acting like law enforcement should act.
They're instead literally racially profiling.
We've seen it.
All you have to do is go online and look at some of the videos.
Just to be clear, because I think many people that are listening maybe haven't seen that.
You don't think if you're an ICE agent and you do these things, we think you ought to be held accountable.
peter doocy
Held accountable could mean arrested.
This is a live picture here, I believe, in Broadview, Illinois.
The idea is that federal agents could be arrested by state officials.
And if that happens, the highest levels of the Justice Department are threatening Democratic officials with charges for obstruction.
pam bondi
You cannot disclose the identity of a federal agent, where they live, anything that could harm them.
Pritzker, same ballgame with him.
And, you know, Pelosi got a letter today from Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche.
So did Brooke Jenkins, that DA in San Francisco.
We told them, preserve your emails, preserve everything you have on this topic, because if you are telling people to arrest our ICE officers, our federal agents, you cannot do that.
peter doocy
The biggest concern among folks here in the West Wing of the White House remains the threats of violence against federal officials carrying out the immigration orders of the president.
But there is more and more talk now about these threats to arrest these guys as well.
ronald reagan
My fellow Americans, the thing about tariffs is that they come and go, but friends also come and go.
Neighbors come and go.
But the Donald will always be president.
And your neighbor might cry about that.
And that's okay.
We'll put a tariff on it.
unidentified
For AI Reagan, I'm not ready for it.
benny johnson
That sounds amazing, Jerry.
Can we keep doing that?
Can A.I. Reagan wish me a happy birthday?
Can AI Reagan do a shout out to the chat?
Look, ladies and gentlemen, look at the beautiful chat right there.
What up to the chat?
Today is free-for-all Freud.
Yes.
Let's have a roaring and rocking good time today.
We have some amazing guests.
Senator Kennedy will be on the show.
You know, Senator Kennedy.
He's just the best.
He's just one of those guys that like spits it like it is.
Anyway, he'll be joined by Patrick Bett David, legendary PBD.
And we also have Mike Davis on the show to go full flamethrower on what's going on in the Senate right now.
An amazing bombshell story that did not get enough press about how many people signed off on the spying of U.S. senators all the way up to the very tip top.
Mike Davis going scorched earth today.
As is the DOJ sending Nancy Pelosi potential retain your documents letters, you will be prosecuted letters, which is a remarkable turn since it was Nancy Pelosi saying, how dare anyone attack our sacred democracy?
She's the one calling for attacks on federal agents now.
Oh, Jan, all the FBI agents and all the Antifa members dress as NAGA.
They attacked Janie.
They attacked cops on January 6th.
I'm against attacking cops.
Don't attack cops.
You can go back years.
How long can we go back?
Years.
ALX knows this.
We've always said the same thing.
Don't hit cops.
I don't care.
Don't hit a cop.
Doesn't matter what the circumstances are.
Okay?
You got to go with it.
We got law and order in this country.
But the more we learn about January 6th, the more we learn what an unbelievable op it all was.
300 FBI agents in the crowd.
And Nancy Pelosi is losing her mind now.
She's demanding that the left attack cops, hit cops.
I thought she was against that.
No, ladies and gentlemen, all she was was against our movement.
She wanted to imprison us.
She wanted to put us in concentration camps.
This is what Nancy Pelosi wanted to do.
And she accomplished that, by the way.
Thank God for President Trump winning the election.
They really did literally bite off more than they can chew.
And that's tough for Nancy Pelosi with her dentures.
We're going to shoot those dentures right out.
Nancy Pelosi's dentures are going to fly out of her mouth when we show you the brand new footage of the January 6th pipe bomber.
And is he dead?
Is that what's like going to happen next?
One of the most honorable men in all of Congress just told us, this guy's dead.
Like, have they killed the J6 pipe bomber?
An insane story developing live on our show, along with live on our show, Letitia James to be arrested live on our show.
They say arraigned, but I'm going to call it an arrest because, well, one, they both start with A. And two, it's free for all Friday.
And that's just the way we're going to roll.
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The DOJ is saying, if you interfere with federal agents doing their job, then you are behaving criminally and illegally and you're going to get popped.
This is what the highest levels of the DOJ are saying now.
I find this fascinating because, well, I physically watched what happened in Chicago as federal agents.
Yeah, this is good, boys, but I want to get like the full, yeah, give me the full lineup.
I posted it.
Give me the full lineup.
Yeah.
Full lineup from Chicago because I physically watched it.
I watched these guys get attacked.
Yo, listen, you know, I may be one of the few people that can actually, and this audience may be one of the few audiences that has actual clarity on an issue like this.
I have always been against feds, federal agents, and police officers being attacked, hit.
I don't want it.
I don't like it.
I won't ever say that this is something good that's happening.
I don't want it to happen.
I watched it happen with my own two eyeballs in Chicago, and I watched a bunch of people get arrested.
And the arrests were really funny because it was like actually a meme.
The individuals that were arrested is like straight out of a left-wing cartoon.
It was amazing.
These guys, thank you.
Thank you, boys.
Here we go.
Let's go.
Pop them up.
I mean, it's amazing.
It is remarkable.
It was like, got to catch them all.
It's like almost like a Pokemon of brain dead, smooth brain libs sitting in a row.
Like you just got, I mean, you got like the you just got a whole collection here.
It really is.
It's remarkable.
They're all overly medicated, very doughy, very weak, very, oh no.
Oh, yikes.
Move along.
And every one of them, I mean, this was me filming.
Every one of them was attacking cops.
They were all attacking police officers.
And I watched it all happen with my, you know, and I've watched this happen before.
Watched this happen during the summer of BLM and Antifa, but nobody got arrested.
Now they're getting arrested.
They don't understand how to process this.
Now federal authorities are actually following the law and arresting.
And I heard them say that, you know, as they were preparing to do this, if you interfere with a federal law enforcement agent, you get arrested.
And this is what happened with a member of Congress, Lamonica MacIver.
It's what's happening with these douches right here.
You just, you get arrested.
You just, you get arrested.
You can't do that.
When a federal agent is attempting to follow through and do their job and enforce the law, you're not allowed to hold them back.
And you shouldn't do that.
You shouldn't fight cops.
You shouldn't fight ICE.
You shouldn't do it.
unidentified
It's a bad idea.
benny johnson
Anyway, what I'm saying here is that they're weaponizing their little brain-dead militant wing on the left.
And we've seen, obviously, the horrific results of this.
And now the top party leadership is doing exactly the opposite of what they should be doing right now.
Like this is the opposite.
So instead of chilling out and telling everyone to calm down, instead of diffusing it all, they're rashing it up and putting further targets on the back of ICE agents, on the back of law enforcement, and on the back of people who support them.
We've seen it, ladies and gentlemen.
DOJ warns California officials to stand down or face prosecution threats against ICE agents.
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche warns Gavin Newsom and Pelosi and other state officials, I guess, interfering with federal agents.
So now what they're going to do, mark my words, what they're going to do.
So now they're so desperate to prevent the deportation of their voters that they are going to order law enforcement to fight the feds.
You're going to have a blue on blue crisis in this country.
And it's not going to be pretty.
And the Democrats are the true insurrectionists.
We've said this for a very long time.
We can prove it throughout the show.
We have four or five different sequential stories that will prove it.
But man, this one cooks.
Here we go.
U.S. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, many would argue the most powerful man in law enforcement, issued a formal letter to California officials Thursday warning them against attempts to arrest or impede federal law enforcement officers enforcing immigration laws.
The letter, which is addressed to Governor Gavin Newsom, State Attorney General Rob Bonata, Nancy Pelosi, and Attorney Brooke Jenkins of San Francisco, stressed that federal agents and officers are carrying out lawful duties in the interference by state and local officials are illegal and futile.
The letter comes after Pelosi issued a statement Wednesday threatening to arrest federal agents if they break California law.
Well, federal law is the superior law of the land.
You have a real tough time arguing this in a Clarence Thomas court.
There's something called the supremacy clause in our country.
Mike Davis will be on soon.
We can talk about that.
We also want to talk about some other major scandals breaking that Mike Davis is revealing right now.
It's bombshell stuff.
If convicted, Democrats noted President Trump cannot pardon agents.
unidentified
Huh?
benny johnson
Reports of a planned mass immigration raid in the Bay Area are an appalling abuse of law enforcement power, says Pelosi.
While the president may enjoy absolute immunity courtesy to the rogue Supreme Court, those who operate under these orders do not.
The people of San Francisco will continue to stand by patriotic immigrants who are the constant reinvigoration of America.
Whoa.
So they're saying, so not only are they outing a ICE operation, presumably they got wind of, but now they're saying that they're going to start prosecuting ICE agents.
Blanche shared his response on X. We just sent a letter, stand down or face prosecution.
No one threatens our agents.
No one will stop us from making America safe again.
This is wild.
As we did, as we showed you yesterday, here are the people that Nancy Pelosi is talking about.
Nancy Pelosi is talking about Sham Shame Xing Jing.
I don't know.
I don't remember his name.
The guy who just, give me his actual proper name.
Okay.
It's going off the top of the dome here.
It's hooked on phonics.
Okay.
The guy who just like slaughtered a bunch of Californians as they're sitting there.
One of them was like a baseball club.
We're now learning about the people that were slaughtered.
These are the people that Nancy Pelosi is talking about.
Nancy Pelosi says, we stand with patriotic immigrants who are the constant reinvigoration of America.
Let's show them.
Klein, let's show them.
Show them what constantly reinvigorating America looks like.
Show them the crash yesterday.
Like this is what Nancy Pelosi, this is what Nancy Pelosi is talking about.
This is the constant reinvigoration of America.
Get me the California one too.
This guy was given a license in California and we just learned ALX Gramney, the attorney general of Florida, who just told us that this guy failed his test like 12 times.
James Uthmeyer, the attorney general here, this dude failed his test 12 times, his driving test.
Here's a Chinese immigrant also got a California CDL, commercial driver's license, just slaughtering people.
Attorney General of Florida announced last night, not here, but their producers are grabbing it, that these people at Nancy Pelosi are saying are the constant reinvigoration of America.
And please get me the California footage.
Thank you.
These are the people that Nancy Pelosi is here arguing in favor of.
Just want to make it extremely clear.
I think the visuals will help.
You just grab my tweet, whatever.
The visuals will really help this out.
Here's what Nancy Pelosi is arguing, invigorates California right here.
They drunk off his ass, criminal alien.
I want the full, I want a full screen, please.
Drunk off his ass, criminal alien, smashing, no, the video, like format the video, please.
unidentified
Yeah.
benny johnson
Smashing in and slaughtering California families.
This is who Nancy Pelosi is talking about.
These are the patriotic immigrants who are the constant reinvigoration of America.
Got it?
Got it.
Let's go ahead and learn more about them, shall we?
It's in my tweet, Klein.
You just load up my tweet.
Sorry, bothered me all yesterday.
Like that did something.
It's like the wrong aspect ratio.
Anyway, here's what the Attorney General told us last night about Harlander Singh.
This is a guy who slaughtered a couple people in Florida, not too far from where I live.
As we continue our investigation to California, Washington, and Harlander Singh, we learn that Singh failed his written exam 10 times.
He took his behind-the-wheel training course at a private commercial driver's license school in Washington State, another blue state.
That school will be hearing from my office soon.
Thank God.
Here we go.
Here's the Bill Malusian report.
Senior official in the Florida AG's office tell me the initial results of their investigation show that Harlander Singh, the Indiana illegal, the Indian illegal alien from the country with the single worst road death and driving conditions in the world,
where 87% of driver of deaths on the road are caused by drunk drivers who don't know what the hell they're doing, not following the laws and driving recklessly, if there even are laws, is charged with killing three people in a crash in Florida in August.
We can reveal that Singh failed his commercial driver's license test 10 times in a two-month window.
He failed 10 times.
And they still handed him a license to do this.
unidentified
To do this.
benny johnson
They still, the state of California still handed him a license.
This is who Nancy Pelosi says is reinvigorating America.
This is Nancy Pelosi's version of reinvigoration.
Patriotic immigrants.
This is what Nancy Pelosi is talking about.
These people are despicable.
They're suicidal.
They're doing it all for power.
They want to replace us.
They want to replace the population of the country.
They want to do it in a way that gets them maximum political power and that causes such destruction, horror, terror on the native populations of this country that we'll surrender all of our rights to the government to just protect us from the horrors that they have visited upon us through unlimited criminal migration from the world's worst
countries into our nation.
Thank God the president's administration is doing their best to just even try and reverse this trend.
It is the single great, it's why I call Joe Biden the worst president of my lifetime, and there's no one even close.
And I don't know if he was sentient or not, but whatever happened, the policies during his administration will cripple this nation if we do not reverse them and reverse them immediately.
unidentified
We'll see.
benny johnson
President Trump has record deportations.
And we need to pump those numbers up.
Those are rookie numbers.
But anyway, this is who Nancy Pelosi is fighting for.
Just like good stark relief here.
Let's just tell everyone who Nancy Pelosi is fighting for.
And why?
Why is Nancy Pelosi fighting for this?
You know, it's amazing.
Why would Nancy Pelosi and the politicians of California fight so damn hard to keep these murdering sociopaths that are slaughtering Californians in California?
Please understand something critical about this and grab me the Electoral College map.
What it's going to do in 2030, please.
California is Prop 50 is probably going to pass in California.
They're going to be able to rig their elections and try and like add new Democrats' seats.
We'll see, but it looks like it's going to pass.
So they'll do that.
They'll only be able to do that for two cycles.
Because in 2030, California will lose five congressional seats.
California is going to collapse.
Their population has collapsed.
Their powers collapse.
Their electoral power is collapsing.
New York, along with the state of New York, Democrats will lose a net 10 seats.
This is just if current trends remain.
The way that they count the census is that they count all persons in a district.
That is actually the way that the census is written.
You would actually need to have to do a constitutional amendment, like a major executive order that withstands the courts, which it might, and then do a constitutional amendment that says citizens, not persons.
That's the way it was written.
I don't like it.
Might be the number one thing I don't like about our founding documents.
Should have written citizens.
But anyway, they count persons.
And as you can see here, California is already going to lose.
Is that, what does it lose?
Four?
Okay.
What about New York?
Two?
Yeah.
Rhode Island's going to lose one.
That's blue state.
Oregon's going to lose one.
So there you go.
Illinois is going to lose one or two.
These are just estimations.
With an accurate census count, it may be much higher.
So that's 10 electoral votes.
And they already lost the popular vote to Donald Trump.
They already lost the electoral college to Donald Trump in a landslide.
So they're desperate.
They're horrified.
You know, these ICE enforcement operations.
Actually, ALX, can you grab me that?
Them doing enforcement at the Gavin Newsom rally.
It's so funny.
They're running ICE enforcement operations like at Democrat rallies in California.
People won't show up because there are so many criminal aliens living in California.
But to understand, you just got to understand the reason why they're rapidly fighting this and they're saying they're going to arrest ICE agents now who are deporting people is because they are physically deporting their power.
You can hear it.
You can see it.
The grains of sand traveling through the hourglass.
As every criminal alien deported, arrested and deported out of California, including this like hilarious video of them deported, like arresting people at Gavin Newsom rallies.
Gavin Newsome held a rally and ICE showed up to just arrest a bunch of people.
Every criminal alien they deport slowly but surely whittles away at the Democrat superstructure, which is predicated entirely upon the state of California dumping 53 electoral votes into their column every single election cycle.
According to the AP, that's already going to go down by three or four votes.
How are you going to make up that math?
This is a survival game for Democrats.
This is why they're engaging like this.
You know, animals, bees don't sting.
Dogs don't bite unless they really feel threatened.
And that's what's happening with the Democrat Party.
Democrat Party is saying we're going to arrest ICE agents because they understand that their political future depends on they can't put more criminal aliens in.
The criminal aliens won't go in.
So they better hoard them like Pokemon characters.
You better hoard, you better get as catch as many as you can.
You got to put them all.
I think there are like some ICE.
Did the DOJ, did Homeland Security release like a Pokemon themed meme?
I think they did.
I think they actually did.
They did do a Pokemon themed meme.
Democrats and ICE are doing the same operation.
Democrats are trying to hoard as many criminal aliens into their districts as possible and hide them.
And ICE is trying to catch them.
They're both trying to catch them all.
It is much like a Pokemon game.
I know that.
I know DHS released a Pokemon video.
Anyway, it's genius.
It's beautiful.
This is why they're losing their effing minds.
Here is J.B. Pritzker and Pelosi threatening to put ICE agents in prison.
I can't wait to hear about the supremacy clause from Clarence Thomas on this one.
jesse watters
How's Chicago responding to this attack on federal agents?
They're doxing the agents.
Apparently, Democrats' master ICE tracker isn't good enough.
lori lightfoot
We want to unmask the ICE agents, the CBP agents who are committing crimes in our city.
Every single one of those agents, height, weight, hair color, they wear their vests in a particular way.
They're wearing insignias, even the masks that they wear, the shoes that they wear, the cars that they're driving.
We have a right to compile that information and put together a profile of each of these agents that's alleged to have committed crime.
jesse watters
Lori's profiling police more than MS-13.
Chicago should be keeping track of the heightweight hair color and tats of illegals, not ICE.
Ribs is licking his big old lips.
He's putting ICE agents under investigation so he can put them in prison.
jb pritzker
The commission will collect testimony, hold hearings, and gather information and first-hand accounts.
We can do the work so those who break the law are held to account.
So this chaos will stop.
And so nothing like it ever happens again.
jesse watters
Nancy Pelosi called for something that we've never heard of before.
Our state and local authorities may arrest federal agents if they break California law.
And if they're convicted, the president cannot pardon them.
San Francisco police arresting ICE agents for enforcing the law.
I'd like to see San Fran Pete slap cuffs on Holman's boys.
I'd like to see that.
This is civil war type stuff.
benny johnson
It's true.
It's true.
It's total and complete desperation.
Got to catch them all.
Well, I was right.
We're right.
Pepperid Farmer members.
Here we go.
Got to catch them all, the Pokemon.
This is what they did.
So here's the original.
I got to show them.
This is the original tweet from Homeland Security.
Got to catch them all.
And here, ladies and gentlemen, is the Pokemon video.
unidentified
I want to be the very best that no one ever wants.
To catch them is my real test.
To train them is my cause.
I will travel across the land, searching far and wide.
It's Pokemon to understand the power that's inside Pokemon, gotta catch'em all It's you and me I know it's my destiny Pokemon Oh, you're my best friend In a world we must defend Pokemon, gotta catch'em all A heart so true Our queries are full of fruit You teach me and I'll teach you.
benny johnson
Where's the Academy?
unidentified
Where's the hospital?
Look at the cars.
Okay.
benny johnson
All right, ladies and gentlemen.
unidentified
them.
benny johnson
Pambonni's response to this and Todd Blanch's response to this have been very strong.
They say, no, no, no, you're not allowed to impede a federal officer.
We'll arrest you, actually.
Maybe this is the end that they've been looking for.
Mike Davis will be on the show in just one second.
He's getting tested right now.
I can't wait to hear him respond to this along with some other big breaking news out of the Senate judiciary.
unidentified
But here we go.
benny johnson
Here's Pam Bondi saying, no, no, no, you don't.
Uno reverse.
Do you know Uno?
Do you speak Spanish, Pelosi?
Uno reverse.
Let's go.
pam bondi
No.
And Jesse, first time I've seen the Lori Lightfoot video is just now on your show.
She will be getting a letter from us tomorrow to preserve anything that she's done as well to make sure that she's not violating the law.
It appears she is.
You cannot disclose the identity of a federal agent where they live, anything that could harm them.
Pritchger, same ballgame with him.
And, you know, Pelosi got a letter today from Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche.
So did Brooke Jenkins, that DA in San Francisco.
We told them, preserve your emails, preserve everything you have on this topic, because if you are telling people to arrest our ICE officers, our federal agents, you cannot do that.
You're impeding an investigation.
And we will charge them if they think I want they have not met me because we will charge them if they are violating the law.
We will protect our federal agents.
benny johnson
So that is a crime.
Something that is not a crime is challenging an election.
Mike Davis with this banger this morning.
I know we were going to switch topics here, but we have Mike Davis in the bullpen and we want to speak with him.
Challenging an election is not a crime.
Only in the third world hell hole is it a crime, so maybe San Francisco.
The Electoral Accounts Act of 1887 specifically allows challenges to presidential elections.
This is why Democrats didn't go to jail for challenging their losses in 68, 2000, 2004, and 2016.
Yet the Biden Justice Department pretended that Trump's 2020 election challenge was a crime.
They then use that as a pretext to spy on and prosecute their political enemies.
It's a blatant criminal conspiracy against our rights under 18 U.S. Code 241.
It's time to put Merrick Garland, Lisa Monaco, Chris Way, and Jack Smith, and so many others before a grand jury.
And what is Mike talking about?
Very quickly here, the Chuck Grassley tweet, and then we'll have Mike Don to explain.
Just received this doc from the DOJ proof that the Biden Attorney General Merrick Garland, Lisa Monaco, and Christopher Wray personally approved opening Arctic Frost.
Now, this is something that opened up a spying operation on sitting U.S. senators.
Ladies and gentlemen, this by Chuck Grassley, somebody who Mike Davis worked for in the Senate for many, many years.
He's a proud ally of our show and the president of the Article 3 project.
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome Viceroy Mike Davis.
unidentified
Hello, Viceroy.
mike davis
How you doing, Ben?
Actually, before we go to Arctic Frost, I want to jump in on what Pam Bondi and Todd Blanche are doing on these politicians who think they're going to arrest federal ICE agents.
Let me translate what Pam and Todd have said, right?
They have said that it is these are federal crimes.
If you interfere with ICE agents when they're trying to arrest illegal aliens, that's harboring that obstruction of law enforcement.
It's conspiracy.
It's assault on a federal law enforcement officer.
So let me just make this very clear to someone like Gavin Newsom.
Hey, Gavin, if you do this, you're going to become a prison bitch, right?
So and to J.B. Pritzker or whatever his name is in Illinois, the governor of Illinois, just like we're going to put Big Tish's fat ass in prison, if you do this, we'll put your fat ass in prison.
That's the translation to what Pam Bondi and Todd Blanche are saying.
Because if you think you're going to arrest ICE agents or interfere with ICE agents or dox and endanger ICE agents, they're going to put you in prison.
So you don't want to play this game.
Pam Bondi is tough as nails.
If you think that she's some sweet lady, this sweet blonde, you're going to be badly mistaken because she will put you in prison.
So keep messing around and find out what Pam does to you.
benny johnson
Please explain, Mike, how would it be possible for a San Francisco police officer to wander up to a federal agent and arrest them?
How does that even work?
mike davis
It wouldn't work and it would be so dangerous because it would be an illegal arrest and it would authorize deadly force by these ICE agents.
So does Gavin Newsom want a shootout between San Francisco police and federal ICE agents?
I don't think he wants that because then he could be charged for felony murder for doing that.
So you want to F around, Gavin?
You want to become a prison bitch?
I think Pam would love to put you in prison.
So don't even think about it, Gavin or JB or these other Democrats, slob politicians.
It's not going to fly.
We had this warning right after the election on Big Tish.
Now she's facing a federal indictment.
Pam's not messing around.
She's not Bill Barr.
She's not scared to do her job.
She will absolutely indict you and throw you in prison.
benny johnson
We just went through four years of me watching federal law enforcement do things that I really disagreed with, right?
When the FBI would raid Roger Stone's house, when they'd raid innocent Jay Sixers homes, little grandmothers in Indiana.
You know, they treated these people like terrorists and they'd raid them.
Never once did it ever cross my mind that what should happen is a bunch of local cops should go round up the feds.
Like that's that's insane, Mike.
That's insane.
And you've been on the show for years talking about some of these federal law enforcement actions that we disagreed with.
But never once did you suggest that what should happen there is that we should fight the federal law, like well, federal law enforcement with local law enforcement.
mike davis
I mean, it's outrageous.
Even the Mar-a-Lago raid, which was clearly an illegal political hit by Joe Biden on Trump, did, I mean, what if you had Governor DeSantis send in state troopers to fight with the FBI to prevent the Mar-a-Lago?
I mean, it's just insane.
benny johnson
Well, people would die.
Yeah, it's suicidal.
It's really reckless, frankly.
mike davis
Well, it's outrageous.
And so these Democrat politicians are playing a deadly game when they think they're going to have their state and local police officers go arrest federal ICE agents.
That's going to lead to deadly force by ICE.
It's going to lead to people dying, and it's going to lead to these politicians, again, getting charged with felony murder.
benny johnson
So can you talk me through the supremacy clause and would any state have any ground in saying, no, no, we're totally sovereign and the feds have no power here?
Can you extrapolate that to like the sanctuary city poison and cancer in our country?
Can you explain, Mike, like how is that even I think like it comes from California and Illinois because people lived in those states have bought into a lie that federal law doesn't apply to their states?
mike davis
Yeah, in the United States of America, the federal government runs our immigration system.
Congress sets the immigration laws and the president enforces those laws.
And under the supremacy clause, no one can interfere with that.
So I realize these Democrat politicians want to mass import these illegal aliens from third world Marxist hellholes to bring these Democrat politicians more money and power.
And frankly, for the Marxist politicians to subvert our country, to destroy our sovereignty, to destroy our country from within.
But this idea that you can have a sanctuary city is it's illegal.
They are harboring illegal aliens, which is a federal crime under eight USC.
I think it's 1124 harboring an illegal alien.
There's conspiracy.
There's obstruction of federal law enforcement.
There's assault on federal law enforcement.
And again, if this leads to deadly force, these politicians can get charged with felony murder for causing these deadly clashes between state and local police and federal law enforcement.
So these J.B. Pritzker, the fat piece of garbage governor of Illinois needs to back down on this because it gets same with Gavin Newsom, the little bitch boy in California, because Pam Bondi will definitely put them in prison.
benny johnson
I think that what we're getting here.
I mean, this is probably the correct time to put this up.
But what we're getting here is we're getting a very special version of Mike Davis is called Prison Mike.
And it's quite famous, actually, in pop culture.
It looks like this.
This is Prison Mike.
People know it.
People love it.
Millions and millions.
Beloved by millions.
This is a very special version of Mike Davis that you're getting this morning.
I didn't know that this version of Mike Davis was coming on the show, and I'm thrilled about it.
I'm thrilled.
Please just if we can belabor the point just one more time, Mike, because I want to focus on Pelosi here.
For years, you and I have talked about January 6th.
And we've talked about many, many different angles of January 6th.
But there's one thing that I think you and I both agree on, which is that you should never attack a police officer.
And we've never, ever made any, you know, any conciliatory actions to say, don't just don't attack cops.
All right.
And that's why I don't care if you're wearing Antifa, Black Block or Red Hat.
Bye.
Don't attack cops.
Nancy Pelosi banged the drum for years that the, you know, the highest evil that occurred on January 6th was the attack of federal law enforcement.
Yet here I have before you, here's the article.
I want to take Pelosi at her own words.
Here's the article that I can read from Nancy Pelosi's own press release encouraging the attack of federal law enforcement.
Here we go.
Just pop it.
You had it, Klein.
unidentified
Thank you.
benny johnson
Thank you.
Please.
Reports: This is from Nancy Pelosi.
Reports of a planned mass immigration raid in the Bay Area are appalling abuse of law enforcement power, says Nancy Pelosi.
The president may enjoy immunity courtesy of his rogue Supreme Court.
Those who operate under his orders do not.
The people of San Francisco will stand with our patriotic immigrants.
We will reinvigorate, who reinvigorate America.
And then Nancy Pelosi goes on to say that potentially California will lose, you use law enforcement against ICE agents.
Not only is she outing an ICE raid, she must have gotten wind of a mass ICE raid in the San Francisco area, so she's interfering there, but then she's encouraging what seems to me encouraging an attack on federal law enforcement here.
It's particularly rich from Pelosi, who ran on Jay, who like who milked January 6th dry over the attack of federal law enforcement.
Your thoughts, Mike?
mike davis
This is, I'm just seeing this for the first time.
This is outrageous that these Democrat politicians are trying to create an armed conflict with federal immigration officials, with state and local police.
I mean, these state and local police do not want to be in armed conflict with federal law enforcement.
They have families, right?
They don't want to get shot.
Their families don't want them to get shot.
This is absolutely insane.
This is the most reckless rhetoric I've seen out of politicians in a very long time going back to the Civil War.
I mean, these Democrat politicians are calling for state and local police to go into armed conflict with federal ICE agents doing their job, rounding up and expelling illegal aliens.
And let's just remind these Democrats: it is not lawful.
It's against federal law.
It's a crime for illegal aliens to be in our country.
And if you want to change the law, change the law.
But the president is enforcing the law.
The president campaigned on the fact that he's going to secure our border after Biden let in 20 million illegal aliens and flooded our country with criminals and people who do not share American values.
President Trump campaigned on the fact he's going to secure our border and expel these illegal aliens.
And he got President Trump got an overwhelming electoral mandate from we the people to do this.
312 electoral votes, all seven swing states, the popular vote.
President Trump kept the House.
He won a comfortable margin.
And the Senate, President Trump is doing what he promised American voters he would do, which is enforce federal immigration law that Joe Biden and his team refused to enforce for four years and actually did the opposite, mass imported people into America who hate our country, including people from these third world Marxist hellholes.
They tried to transform our country.
They're trying to change our populace.
These Democrats are violating we the people's most crucial sovereign power to control our border and control our populace.
And President Trump is reversing that and fixing that.
And if these Democrats are so desperate for these voters for their house seats for a reapportionment and for power that they're willing to go into armed conflicts with federal ICE agents, then these Democrat politicians need to go to prison.
benny johnson
We have it right here.
We'll always make sure that we back you up with U.S. code, Mike.
Here we go.
Eight U.S. Code 1324.
Harboring criminal aliens.
Very serious crime.
mike davis
Yeah.
benny johnson
You know, kind of begs the question: like, wait a second, couldn't you charge every sanctuary city governor and mayor with this like right away?
mike davis
You absolutely can.
benny johnson
Let's put it to test.
Yeah.
mike davis
When you are providing financial supports to illegal aliens, you are violating U.S.C. 1324, a very serious federal felony called harboring.
And so if these Democrat politicians want to keep playing their games, Pam Bondi is not going to flinch.
She is tough as hell, and she will indict these Democrat politicians for harboring, for conspiracy, for assaults on federal law enforcement.
They do not want to play this game with Pam Bondi because they'll lose.
benny johnson
Excellent.
Mike, I know that you have a flight to catch.
I did want to get to Arctic Frost.
This is obviously something that is not getting the kind of attention that it deserves just because it's been, I think, has been lost in a couple of different news cycles.
We talked about it with Rand Paul just the other day.
The irony of all ironies that some of the senators that love spying by the federal government were the victims of spying by the federal government.
Here's Chuck Grassley from this morning and Mike's response.
Mike, can you just please outlay the landscape here for what Chuck Grossley discovered?
mike davis
Yeah, Senator Chuck Grassley, my former boss, both of our home state senators from Iowa, he's dogged.
He's determined.
He's been the king of oversight for 60 plus years in Congress, and he really got the goods here.
You have a memo from former FBI director Chris Ray to Attorney General Merrick Garlands, Biden Attorney General Merrick Garlands, through Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco, where they used the 2020 electoral, the presidential election challenge, which is totally permitted by the Electoral Count Act of 1887 and the First Amendment.
They used that as a predicate, as a pretext to open a criminal investigation on President Trump, his top aides, his allies.
And they were stupid enough in the Biden Justice Department to actually do it on U.S. senators.
I always say presidents and their teams come and go, but senators last decades.
And the Biden Justice Department was dumb enough to spy on nine U.S. senators.
And now U.S. senators who have not shown much interest in any of this lawfare over the last eight years are suddenly, keenly interested and very outraged by this.
And so you have senators who generally are pretty milk-toast, are pretty fired up right now.
And they are calling for investigations and calling for indictments.
This is maybe the spark that we need it, Ben, to light a fire under people's asses to get these investigations going.
I will also point out that my good friend Jason Red and Kiñones got confirmed as the U.S. attorney in the Southern District of Florida and Miami.
And I've been calling for a criminal probe for the last three plus years since the Mar-a-Lago raid for a grand jury to investigate conspiracy against rights under 18 U.S.C. Section 241 for these lawfare Democrats, how they politicized and weaponized intel agencies and law enforcement, going back eight years to Crossfire Hurricane to take out Trump, his top aides like Steve Bannon, Peter DeVaro, Jeff Clark, his supporters on January 6th.
I've been very publicly calling for that on your show and 5,000 other media hits for the last three years.
There's now a special grand jury that Jason just motioned the court and the Southern District of Florida to open in Fort Pierce.
That's going to be impaneled in January.
I think that sounds like a great place to open up this grand jury on Crossfire Hurricane and against these lawfare Democrats.
Maybe, just maybe that's going to happen, as I've been talking about for three years.
And I will say this, I've been publicly calling for this for three years.
I'm going to make damn sure that these lawfare Democrats go to prison during the four years of President Trump's second term because these are Republican tactics by these lawfare Democrats.
They took our country to the brink.
They tried to bankrupt Trump for non-fraud.
They tried to throw him in prison four times for non-crimes.
They tried to take him off the ballot in Colorado and Maine and elsewhere unconstitutionally.
They tried to take off his head when Joe Biden underfunded Trump's Secret Service protection, said he was the biggest threat to democracy and to put a bullseye on Trump.
So as I've promised and as I will deliver, justice is definitely coming.
So lawyer up, motherfuckers, because justice is definitely coming.
Pardon my French.
We made headlines again, Ben.
benny johnson
Mike, this is something that you are manifesting.
You're manifesting live right now.
Here we go.
Letitia James being arraigned.
This is the live shot.
I hope you have a confidence monitor so you can see it.
There are literally dozens, dozens who have showed up for Letitia.
This is live outside of the some of them need walkers and wheelchairs there.
And there's one, there's one little microphone and a stand outside of the court.
This is the live shot.
It's happening, Mike.
You promised our author.
So you just to give a little bit of runway to what she just so eloquently explained to the audience.
Yeah, here we go.
This is Letitia James will exit out of this door soon and we'll wobble over and we'll tell the cameras something.
Man, it'd be great to get your reaction live to that.
I know you have a plan to catch.
What I'm trying to explain to the audience here is this.
Mike Davis came on the program and told us that this would happen.
What you're witnessing live right now, there's a live shot of the courthouse in Virginia, actually, where Letitia James is being arraigned this morning.
Mike Davis was laughed at by all the press and all the media and everybody wrote stories attacking Mike because he went, he had the temerity to go on this program and said Letitia James will be arrested.
Trump will win and Letitia James is a criminal and there will be criminal charges brought against her.
That lady that's about to like put Trump in prison for 90 years, that lady, she's the one who's going to go to jail.
And Mike said that years ago.
And here we are, live with Mike Davis on the air, Letitia James to exit out of the Virginia courthouse where she's being arraigned this morning.
And so when Mike Davis says, listen, we're going to impanel a grand jury.
There's going to be a grand jury impaneled for Crossfire Hurricane.
You should believe him.
You should believe that these are just appetizer indictments.
Mike, your response to seeing this glorious and historic moment live on screen.
mike davis
Cheers to Trump U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan in the Eastern District of Virginia.
All the other pussy attorneys in the U.S. Attorney's Office said there was no evidence to support an indictment.
And then Lindsay went in there in about two days, she put together a grand jury indictment and then a grand jury of our peers in Alexandria, Virginia, in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. and deep Democrat Alexandria, Virginia, indicted New York Attorney General Tish James, Big Tish, for mortgage fraud.
And what here's the, here is the delicious irony of this, Ben, is remember, it was Big Tish who tried to bankrupt President Trump for President Trump paying back sophisticated Wall Street banks on time, in full, as agreed with interest, because Big Tish said that Trump overvalued Mar-a-Lago because she's, she said that Mar-a-Lago was only worth $18 million.
Mar-a-Lago is 20 acres of the most prime real estate in the world.
It's in Palm Beach.
It's the only property that touches both the intra-coastal waterway and the Atlantic Ocean.
A tennis court at Mar-a-Lago is worth more than $18 million.
Mar-a-Lago is worth more than $8 billion.
And for Tish James to try to bankrupt Trump on a mortgage fraud theory as part of a lawfare campaign to bankrupt him, to throw him in prison for life for non-crimes, to take him off the ballot and take off his head.
As you said, Ben, these are the appetizer indictments.
The main course, I hope, will be down in the Southern District of Florida when Big Tish is investigated and indicted as part of the criminal conspiracy against rights under 18 USC, Section 241.
Again, I've publicly called for that for the last three years.
I will fight every day for the next three and a half years to make damn sure that happens because we can never let these lawfare Democrats do to our country what they tried to do over the last eight years.
They need to go to prison.
So the most severe legal, political, and financial consequences for politicizing and weaponizing intel agencies and law enforcement to go after their political enemies.
And I'm glad that Arctic Frost is coming out because I'm very happy these senators who have been awfully quiet for eight years are finally finding their voices after they got targeted.
benny johnson
Senator Kenny Kennedy is on in just a moment and I look forward to asking him about it.
Just since in closing, Mike, just since we have this historic moment on screen, just keep up, Letitia, keep this up.
I love this.
I love that it's happening live with Mike on the air.
I just love it.
I don't know if she'll come out, Mike, but she's supposed to exit the courthouse.
mike davis
How good is your production team?
unidentified
Oh, man.
mike davis
Did you get my clip from right after the election?
Oh, sure.
We did predict it this would happen and it made headlines.
If we could put that up and then we can show Big Tish coming out here, waddling out to the microphone.
unidentified
Wow.
mike davis
It's just glorious.
benny johnson
I mean, you can see here, it looks like they're preparing for Big Tish.
They're reinforcing the sidewalk.
unidentified
Remember what she said.
benny johnson
They're pouring extra cement.
mike davis
She's going to come out and play some ghetto victim here.
She's going to get more of a ghetto accent.
She's a very wealthy woman up in Manhattan.
So don't let her play her ghetto accent and go all Chanique on us.
But remember what she did.
She lied about having a second home in Virginia when she knew it was an investment property to put one of her crackhead great, great, great nieces into this place.
It was an investment property.
She got a lower interest rate because she lied about this being a second home instead of an investment property.
It created higher risk for this property.
And everyone else who doesn't lie on their mortgage applications, who does not commit mortgage fraud, has to assume that risk because Big Tish lied.
These are serious charges.
It's bank fraud.
It's making false statements to a financial institution.
She could face 30 years in prison.
I doubt she'll get that much time, but she could certainly go to the clank if this jury in the Eastern District of Virginia follows the evidence.
If this Democrat judge follows the law, Big Tish will go to prison.
benny johnson
We have the headlines that went worldwide.
Mike, as you ask, you ask and you shall, the Viceroy has the supremacy of this program.
And when the Viceroy is on, he asks and he shall receive.
Here is Mike Davis, famously telling everyone what's happening actually live on our screen right now.
Here we go.
unidentified
Give this to Big Tish James, the New York Attorney General.
mike davis
I dare you.
I dare you to try to continue your lawfare against President Trump and his second term.
Because listen here, sweetheart, we're not messing around this time, and we will put your fat ass in prison for conspiracy against rights.
And I promise you that.
So think long and hard before you want to violate President Trump's constitutional rights or any other.
benny johnson
We did it.
I mean, you did it, Mike.
And then here we go.
And then pop it, pop courthouse.
Up.
There you go.
Show them.
Show them.
Show the people.
Now it's happening.
There it is.
Fast forward, like fast forward.
What would that be, Mike?
Nine months.
There you go.
mike davis
And I would say this.
Look, I generally would not take Glee and people being in indictment, but I am very gleeful that Big Tish is being indictment because she participated in this conspiracy against Trump to try to take him out, legally, politically, financially, physically, take him out when they underfunded a Secret Service protection.
These lawfare Democrats try to destroy our country.
They can go to hell.
And in the meantime, they can go to prison.
benny johnson
If you had, that's what we call Mike Drop from the great Mike Davis.
Mike, thank you for being on the program.
Thank you for your clarity and tact and your ability to explain these consequential moments with such force and the capacity to also give us a little bit of hope that we will see justice in our time.
That is what we all want.
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Mike, thank you.
Godspeed, man.
mike davis
Thank you, Ben.
unidentified
We're going to be some headlines on this one.
mike davis
We triggered all the right people again.
unidentified
Basic.
See you, brother.
mike davis
Thank you.
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What do I mean by that?
We've been playing his clips for a while.
And, you know, I just, we've created something for you as an intro, and we hope the senator doesn't mind watching the greatest hits because we're very happy to have Senator Kenny on the show.
But for those of you who may be unfamiliar with his game, well, we've built him an introduction video.
Let's rock.
unidentified
Smell kilatay drinking avocado toast eating.
john kennedy
Life is hard, but it's harder when you're stupid.
Can I take cocaine with my spouse?
unidentified
No, sir.
john kennedy
No, sir.
I did not call Senator Sanders an ignorant slut.
I'm not talking about buying it, but let's suppose I came in one day and the cocaine was there.
People who are bibling, they speak English and stupid.
I don't know why we have to give money to countries that hate us.
They should be able to hate us for free.
Looks like we're giving Lindsey Lohan the keys to the mini-bar.
President Biden is sort of like Kevin Bacon at the end of Animal House, the cantina bar scene out of Star Wars.
They wanted it like Ben wants J-Lo.
I'm like Bluetooth in Animal House.
I'm just fat, drunk, and stupid.
Frankly, I can't because I can't get my head that far up my rear end.
Stick it up there, fact checker.
They can kiss my ass.
Somebody at the White House has been smoking the devil's lettuce.
Okay.
We cannot run the greatest economy by putting fairy dust and unicorn urine in our cars.
You're made to get off the pot.
My car doesn't run off fairy dust.
My car doesn't run off unicorn urine, the spending porn on pet projects.
It's just shock full of spending porn.
There's an enormous amount of spending porn.
Next time you get in trouble, call a crackhead.
Call a criminal.
Call a meth head.
It must suck to be that dumb.
I don't mean disrespect, but the mayor needs to take her meds.
Christmas ornaments, drywall, and Jerry Epstein.
Name three things that don't hang themselves.
benny johnson
Ladies and gentlemen, right now is the great senator from Louisiana, Senator Kennedy.
unidentified
Let's go.
benny johnson
Senator, welcome to the program.
I really appreciated that super cut.
Sort of needed a vibe shift.
Do you come up with that?
Do you come up with all those on like off the top of the dome?
And also, man, I just want to be able to call Bernie Sanders an ignorant slut.
I'm just, I'm jealous of you, actually, Senator.
john kennedy
Well, I mean, I plead guilty.
Nobody writes my lines for me.
God bless me with a good memory, Ben.
And I remember the way someone writes a clever phrase.
Sometimes I make it up.
A lot of the expressions come from the small town that I was raised in.
Maybe I shouldn't say some of them, but God gave me the right to remain spouting, but not the ability.
And President Trump and I are alike in that respect a little bit.
We're both pretty candid and we both play outside the pocket.
So I can't deny everything because you just played it, man.
But what you see is the truth.
It's just the way I express myself.
benny johnson
Some of the things that you brought up were some scandals that are now being featured by the White House, Senator.
I'm sure perhaps you've seen this, but now the White House is featuring the Lewinsky scandal, the Hunter Biden crack cocaine scandal, and some of the larger scandals of Democrat presidents.
No, boys, this isn't the one.
Come on.
Yeah, ALX.
There you go.
unidentified
Yeah.
benny johnson
Scroll down to the events timeline.
Yeah.
Well, no.
ALX will help you out.
It seems to be like honesty from this White House as my team's getting this together.
It seems to be like the honesty that the American people have always wanted out of politics.
There you go, buddy.
There you go.
Here we go.
The Bill Clinton sex scandal, the Muslim Brotherhood visit, and the crack cocaine scandal for the Biden White House is now proudly featured on the White House website.
And these are all things that happened.
Also, the Trans Day of Visibility, where they were pretty much filming a porno on the White House lawn during Joe Biden.
I think that people like honesty in politics.
I think that's why you're a bit of a rock star with our audience.
I think it's refreshing to have politicians that sort of talk like you and behave like a normal person.
john kennedy
Yeah, they do, Benny.
And you see that in your work.
Look, so many people in Washington think they're smarter and more virtuous than the American people, and they think the American people are stupid.
Now, it's true that most Americans don't read Aristotle every day because they don't have time.
They're too busy earning a living.
They get up every day, they go to work, obey the law, pay their taxes, try to do the right thing by their kids, but they get it.
And they've known for years that politicians in Washington bubble wrap it or in some cases, just lie.
President Trump came along.
And look, you know, President Trump.
I mean, he grows anxious when he has an unexpressed thought.
Now, that is in politics.
That's a plus and a minus.
I've told him before, as Mr. President, I told him this early in his first term.
I said, people hang on your every word.
So you do have to be careful what you say.
But on the other hand, I think most Americans find his transparency refreshing.
I remember when President Biden wouldn't give a press conference.
No one could ever talk to him.
President Trump talks to the American people two or three times a day.
And he's very unique in that respect.
He's also very candid.
And I think he understands that candor is a mighty weapon.
I would never put myself at the level of President Trump, but I do think we have that in common.
We both say exactly what we think.
And frankly, we both don't get enough credit for the things that we don't actually say, but could say.
benny johnson
You brought up Joe Biden.
And since now we have the White House set here, and you are on the Judiciary Committee, so perhaps, you know, perhaps you can illuminate for us what exactly happened with that cocaine in the White House.
john kennedy
We'll never know unless the Justice Department tells us.
We'll probably never know who leaked a draft of the Dobbs decision from the U.S. Supreme Court.
They've covered that up.
I'm sure someone at the Supreme Court said, no, no, don't go any further because they don't want to undermine the legitimacy of the Supreme Court.
I think what they don't realize is that by not telling people what they can see about what they can see with their own eyes, that you undermine the legitimacy of the court.
But the American people, they're just, you know, they're just tired of the games.
Here's what the American people see, Ben.
They see too many people at the top getting bailouts, and they see too many people at the bottom getting handouts.
And the people in the middle who carry the country on their backs get the bill.
And they are sick of it.
And President Trump came along and started talking about that.
And he hasn't stopped.
And I think our country is better for it.
benny johnson
You say it undermines the legitimacy of the Supreme Court.
And I can see, you know, I can see the argument and the rationale from that from uppity and scared of their own shadow, Supreme Court justices.
I can see how that argument would hit.
But it's something to undermine the legitimacy of the court.
It's a totally separate thing to use the federal government's spying powers to spy on senators.
And that's what's happening right now.
That's a wild scandal that's unraveling from your colleague and the man in charge of the Judiciary Committee, Chuck Rassley.
And some of the people, some of the individuals who've been pro-spying, actually, by the federal government and pro-FISA courts, like Lindsey Graham, are the ones who are being spied on.
And this seems to have, I mean, I think it should hit like a bombshell inside of the Senate.
Can you explain, Senator, what's happening here?
john kennedy
I'll try.
I watched it happen.
Let me go back to the Supreme Court just for a second, Ben.
benny johnson
Please.
john kennedy
Look, the American people saw the Dobbs decision leaked.
And for the Supreme Court not to tell the American people who leaked it and for the American people not to be able to see that that person is punished undermines the integrity of the Supreme Court.
That's the point I was trying to make.
Of course.
In terms of your question about the senators, it's just one more chapter in a disgusting saga.
I watched Attorney General Merritt Garland make the decision to prosecute a former president of the United States on legal grounds that were iffy at best, who also happened to be the Attorney General's boss's chief opponent in an election.
The press calls it lawfare.
It's just weaponization by your justice system.
That's not supposed to happen in America.
That happens in countries whose powerball jackpot is 287 chickens and a goat.
It doesn't happen in America.
And that wasn't the only instance of lawfare.
Ms. James in New York, the district attorney in Georgia, Jack Smith.
And it wasn't just directed at President Trump.
It was directed at anybody who supported him.
It was directed at many, many, many Republicans.
Today, we found out from Senator Grassley that Attorney General Garland and FBI Director Chris Ray authorized the subpoenas to get the phone records of the United States senators.
I've got to tell you, I was shocked at that.
I just assumed this was Jack Smith going disco without telling anybody.
But it was signed off by people at the very top.
Now, I don't know what's going to happen criminally.
I know the Attorney General and the FBI is looking at it.
I can tell you what's going to happen civilians.
The Justice Department is going to get sued by these senators and by everybody who was wronged.
Merrick Garland's going to get sued.
Chris Ray is going to get sued.
The telecommunication companies, the telephone companies that turned over these records are going to get sued.
There's something called a rule of law in America.
And if I can make one more point, I don't mean to talk so much, Ben, but I watched when Biden did this and his people, Mary Garland could have stopped it.
He didn't.
I don't know why.
But they unleashed spirits they couldn't control.
They unleashed spirits they couldn't control.
You just don't use the Department of Justice as a weapon to hurt your political opponents.
And it worries me.
I mean, all we have in, well, not all we have in America.
One of the things we have and shares the most is the fact that our criminal justice system has legitimacy and it applies to justice even-handed.
And now a lot of these people are being called to account and they should be.
benny johnson
Senator, wouldn't this be worse than Watergate?
Given the awesome power of the Justice Department and the technical capacity to gather data, you don't have to rummage through file drawers anymore with a flashlight, holding a flashlight in your mouth in the dark of night, a bunch of goofballs at the Watergate.
You can actually take some of the most personal, you can scrape some of the most personal and private and perhaps classified.
All of it should be classified under the Fourth Amendment, obviously, from the U.S. Senate.
Senator, how are you supposed to conduct business?
How is any senator supposed to do their job if the wrong Justice Department can just illegally spy on everything that you're doing?
Isn't this worse than Watergate?
john kennedy
Well, it's sure getting there if it's not there yet.
And it's not just Ben, it's not just the U.S. senators.
They did this to 92 organizations.
They did it to turning point.
They did it to apparently everybody they thought was a political enemy of President Biden or that they just didn't agree with politically.
And what has surprised me today, it's really disappointed me, is that the Attorney General of the United States, Judge Garland, Justice Garland, Judge Garland, almost a justice, signed off on this.
And apparently, at least according to Senator Grassley and his whistleblowers, so did the director of the FBI, Chris Wright.
I never wanted to believe that.
I really thought this was all Jack Smith just being a cowboy.
But apparently everybody signed off on it.
And I can tell you if the Attorney General signed off on it and the FBI director signed off on it, President Biden signed off on it.
You think an attorney general is going to do something like this?
You think an attorney general is going to prosecute a former president of the United States who also happens to be his boss's political opponent without telling the president of the United States who appointed him, Dream Weaver.
If you believe that, you believe in the tooth fairy.
You believe in the Easter Bunny.
You believe Jimmy Hoffman died a natural death.
Of course, President Biden knew all of this stuff.
And they did it anyway.
They did it anyway.
They ought to put a bag on their heads, man, for what they did to the institutions of this country.
benny johnson
Yeah, it's wild to watch the reversal because at the top of the show, we were covering how Pam Bondi is herself firing off quite a few letters right now to members of Congress.
Nancy Pelosi is one of them.
Gavin Newsom is another, because there are Democrat governors and law Democrat governors and lawmakers across the country that are now threatening, I guess out of total and complete suicidal desperation, to arrest ICE agents.
So they're going to take their local cops in San Francisco or Chicago, and they're going to arrest federal agents.
And this seems like a really stupid thing.
You have a book out with the same title, How to Test Negative for Stupid.
But this seems like maybe the dumbest thing I've seen this side of Merrick Garland signing off on a spy warrant for U.S. senators that voted for him.
Your reaction to this news.
john kennedy
Well, if it wasn't for double standards in Washington, D.C., there wouldn't be any standards at all.
The people that are doing this, they're the same people who watched a district attorney in New York run on a platform of, if you elect me, I will put former president, then former president Donald Trump in jail.
And they didn't say a word.
You know what they said?
Nothing.
Zero.
Zilch.
Nada.
I mean, it's got to stop.
And I do.
I talk about it in my book.
Some of the stories in my book are funny.
That's true.
Some are bizarre, but they're all true.
And I wrote this book for three reasons.
I wanted to try to give the American people, tell them, use these stories to explain to them what the Senate in Washington is really like from the inside, to explain to them why in Washington, normal is just a setting on the clothes dryer, and to explain to them why it doesn't have to be this way.
If we just have a little return to fairness and common sense.
And all this stuff has got to stop.
But the only way to stop it is to hold people accountable.
And that's going to be done.
And the American people can then make a decision once they have all of the facts.
benny johnson
Come from Louisiana.
It's a very law and order state.
It's not a sanctuary state.
This is a state that's obviously trending in the right direction.
A lot of common sense in that state.
They send guys like you to the Senate.
So that's good.
john kennedy
No, we believe in Louisiana that illegal immigration is illegal.
Duh.
You know, they don't believe that in some other states.
benny johnson
What's going to happen?
What's going to happen here?
I know that you're a big fan of law enforcement.
I know law enforcement backs you and endorses you.
This seems suicide.
These policies really scare.
I mean, it does seem like Civil War stuff, Senator.
These policies are really very desperate and seem, again, suicidal.
But there are Democrats.
J.B. Pritzker did it yesterday.
Gavin Newsom, Nancy Pelosi, all three of them have now threatened to arrest ICE agents with state police.
What's going to happen there?
john kennedy
Well, the error of their ways, Benny, is larger and more significant than just ICE agents, as significant as that is.
These people believe that cops, ICE agents, law enforcement officials, National Guard, these people believe that cops are a bigger problem than criminals.
They do.
These people believe that if a cop has to shoot a criminal, it's automatically the cop's fault.
But if a criminal shoots a cop, it's the gun's fault.
That's what these people believe.
And I remember when all of them said, defund the police, defund the police.
I was running for reelection at the time.
I made a campaign commercial.
Got me in a lot of trouble.
But I said, if you hate cops just because they're cops, the next time you get in trouble, call a crackhead.
And I believe that.
And that's really what this, they're just, they're picking on ICE agents now.
But this started way back under President Biden.
And he watched it happen, allowed it to happen, encouraged it.
They just hate cops.
And once again, they think cops are a bigger problem than criminals.
Now, in terms of illegal immigration, the American people support immigration, legal immigration.
They don't support illegal immigration.
They see the southern border like they see their front door.
Most Americans lock their front door at night.
They don't lock their front door because they hate everybody on the outside.
They lock their front door because they love the people on the inside, and they just want to know who's going in and out of their country.
In that case, their home.
And that's how they see illegal immigration.
But these howdy duties that you're talking about, that's not, they think that if you support a secure border, that vetting people at the border is racist.
You're racist.
You're nazi.
It's not racist.
It's prudent.
Every other country does it.
benny johnson
When it comes to double standards, something that is playing out live right now, Senator, and I don't know if you have a confidence monitor and can see the screen, but it's really a delightful thing to watch.
Here's the courthouse in Virginia where Letitia James has been arraigned.
She's currently in the act of being arraigned.
I know you just mentioned her in your last answer.
And I want to get your message to Letitia James, given the fact that she's now being charged with potentially 30 years in prison for the crimes that she accused President Trump of.
Seems to be God's irony, and it's hilarious, but your take, Senator.
john kennedy
No one is either above or beneath the law.
The law applies to all of us.
Now, here's what Ms. James is accused of.
When you go to the bank, and you know this, Benny, and get a mortgage, that mortgage is guaranteed by the federal government, which means it's guaranteed by the taxpayers in America, every single one of them.
And if you lie on the mortgage application to get a lower interest rate by saying, I'm going to live in this home, when you're really not, it's a second home, or you're leasing it out, or it's a beach house.
But if you lie to get a lower interest rate, you're defrauding the federal government.
But more importantly, you're defrauding the American people.
You're cheating.
You're stealing.
And it's serious.
And I know it happens a lot and it needs to be prosecuted more.
But if Ms. James did that, and she has the right to a defense.
But if she did that, it's a crime, man, and it's serious.
It's serious as four-hearted tax and a stroke.
And they can say, people can say, well, it's just political prosecution.
She's going to have a right to prove that she didn't do it.
But if she did do it, the law applies to her.
And it applies to everybody, frankly, who commits fraud against the American people.
benny johnson
You talk about how Louisiana is a law and order state and how it's going in the right direction.
I'm here broadcasting in Florida.
I agree.
And there's so many good states, so many states that are moving in the right direction.
We're talking about Letitia James.
She's from New York.
New York is not moving in the right direction.
They are, by every right, weight, and measure, and every political prediction market going to be electing a communist as the mayor of New York City.
This is, of course, the center of capitalism around the world.
This is a bit of a strange dichotomy there.
Obviously, AOC is from New York City.
What's going on in New York, Senator?
john kennedy
It breaks my heart, man.
I think New York is the greatest city in the world.
And you've been to a lot of other cities, and I have too, man.
I love New York.
Here's what's going on.
To win in New York, as you know, everybody's a Democrat.
But this is not the Democratic Party of years ago.
The loon wing, the Bolshevik wing, the socialist wing of the party is in control.
And the person who heads that wing is Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez.
And she has said, elect Mr. Mamdani, who is a proud socialist, who hates the Jewish people, who's promised to arrest Mr. Netanyahu if he ever steps foot in New York, who believes in free rent and free buses and free food and free kittens and free sex.
And I don't know.
He wants everything to be free.
My experience has been that everything that's supposedly free, somebody else had to work for.
But maybe he's living on a different planet than me.
And it's because of the change in the Democratic Party.
It's the reason we're in a lockdown.
We're in a shutdown.
We're in a shutdown for one reason.
Senator Schumer, who I know well, and I don't hate anybody.
I really don't.
But I know Senator Schumer well.
And he wants the loon wing of his party to love him because he's scared he's going to get beat in the next election.
And they don't love him because Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez has told them not to love him.
And that's why he shut down government.
And it's a total mess.
And Chuck doesn't know what to do right now.
He shut it down.
He doesn't know what to do.
He's walking around looking like a guy who lost his luggage.
He doesn't have the slightest idea.
But he has shut down the entire federal government.
And we're not going to give in.
He says he'll open it up if we give him one and a half trillion, not billion, trillion dollars.
Now, as I've said before, I'm not going to do that.
My mama didn't raise a fool.
And if she did, it was one of my brothers.
And every one of my colleagues in the Senate agrees with me.
So we're just going to stay shut down.
I hate it, but it's up to Schumer.
And it's really up to Ocasio-Cortez.
benny johnson
This is one of the main promises of Zorhan Mondami, AOC, and presumably, I guess, Chuck Schumer now, since he's from New York, lives in New York, so he'll be living under these policies right here.
Here is his website.
We seem to be the only show that really focuses on this, but I think it's worth focusing on.
It says that the main policy, the main platform for Zorhan Mondami is going to be taxing white people more in New York.
He says it right there in black and white.
It's time to tax whiter neighborhoods more.
Not only is this patently illegal, obviously, and we've had Harmy Dylan on to explain that, but also it's just blatantly racist.
Is this what Chuck Schumer is shutting down the government for?
Policies like this, Senator?
john kennedy
He's shutting you down because he's scared to death of the loon wing of the party, illustrated by Momdani, Mr. Mondani, and Congresswoman Lake O-Cortez.
Look, you bring up race, Benny.
These people are obsessed with race.
They're obsessed with it.
The truth is, look, America is not perfect, but we're good.
Like every other country in the history of civilization, America caught the disease of slavery.
But we beat it back.
And after we beat it back, we passed civil rights laws in 1866 and 1871 and 1875 and 1960, 1964, 1968, 1990, 1991.
And the truth of the matter is, I know they're racist in America, but America is not a racist country.
Most Americans don't think that much about race because they understand that souls have no color.
To most Americans, I mean, most Americans think that, you know, they think in practical terms, hey, black, white, brown to a bear, we all taste like chicken, man.
This is America.
But these folks are obsessed with race and they're obsessed with gender.
And they think the American people are supportive.
They think our kids ought to be able to change genders at recess.
And somehow that's in the Constitution.
I'm rather fond of the Constitution.
I read it periodically.
It doesn't say that.
But that's, and you would have thought that after the last election, they would have learned something, or at least they would have taken their meds or gone to therapy or put down the bong, but they not so far.
Now, as a politician, as a Republican, I guess I should be grateful.
If I didn't know better, I'd think that Mondami at Momdandi is a Republican plant.
But it's bad.
It's bad for New York and it's bad for America.
benny johnson
Yes, yes.
Senator, I really appreciate your time.
You did talk about how you have a relationship with Chuck Schumer and how lost he is.
In closing here, I did want to just ask you, since you know him so well, what did he think about this sombrero meme?
Like, does he secretly like it?
Is he secretly chuckling at this?
Does he have a sense of humor?
Or are they really that offended at this, Senator?
john kennedy
You know, I saw the meme.
I knew immediately that it had come from President Trump.
I think, Chuck, look, let me just say it again, Benny.
I don't hate anybody.
I look for grace wherever I can find it, man.
And when I say my prayers, I ask God, don't let me hate.
But Senator Schumer has been in Washington his entire life.
And Chuck sees everything through a political lens.
And when this came out, he may well have laughed, but then he immediately thought, how can I try to use this to my political advantage?
And it is what it is, I guess.
I wish that people would talk less and worry less about memes and worry more about getting the government back open because President Trump is ready to go.
I talked to him the other day about it, but he's not going to give in on this and he should.
benny johnson
In Louisiana, I mean, you should take Chuck Schumer down to Louisiana.
You should teach him how to grill an actual burger.
john kennedy
I invited him how to do it.
I invited Chuck one time to come down to Louisiana and I would take him duck hunting.
And I said, Chuck, he said, something to the effect of, well, we don't have many guns.
You know, I haven't been around guns.
I said, Chuck, I'll take the gun and I'll explain it to you.
The end with a hole in it is the dangerous part.
Don't point that at yourself.
But he hasn't accepted my invitation.
benny johnson
You can tell him not to put the cheese on the raw hamburger when you're grilling it.
This is like a bad idea.
john kennedy
Yeah, that was.
You know, that's one I'm sure he'd wished he'd had back.
Okay.
benny johnson
Well, ladies and gentlemen, a man who has witnessed a lot of stupid in Washington, D.C., and who's actually regaled us with many stories on this live, but also in his book, How to Test Negative for Stupid and Why Washington Never Will.
It has a five out of five stars here on Amazon.
It's an Amazon charts bestseller, and it's John Kennedy's new book.
You should pick up a copy today and follow, of course, the great senator on social media here on X, where he has 1.6 million subscribers, The Legend, and what I would argue is the most honest man in the Senate.
That's what we're going to call him, the great Senator John Kennedy.
Thank you, Senator.
john kennedy
Thank you, Benny.
You're a total ball.
You're a total baller, man.
Thanks, Benny.
benny johnson
I'm a rock star.
We're playing that on repeat.
john kennedy
You're a rock star, man.
Now, Davis, Davis is, I don't know.
We'll have to debate Davis.
unidentified
Yeah, he wanted me to ask you about the spying.
benny johnson
So I'm glad we're going to.
unidentified
I know.
john kennedy
I listened to your interview.
I'm going to have to go to church twice now after listening to Davis.
But I know Mike.
I know Mike well.
He's a wild man.
benny johnson
Oh, yeah, that's right.
You got to bring that holy water when Mike's on.
You got to just make sure you're ready to go.
That's right.
It's always an exorcism with Mike.
God, thank you for the palate cleanser.
Senator, God bless you.
Thank you so much.
unidentified
Godspeed.
john kennedy
Thank you, man.
benny johnson
Ladies and gentlemen, a man who needs absolutely no introduction, Patrick Bett David, host of the PBD podcast and the president and CEO of Valuetainment, joins the show live right now.
Oh, man, what a great show.
What a great show.
Mike Davis, Senator Kennedy, and PBD.
This is awesome.
It's great to have you.
patrick bet-david
Benny, I thought we were doing this on Manect.
That was the one thing we tell you.
You said you're going to do this on Manect.
And why are we doing this on this?
But anyways, I'll forgive you.
Go ahead.
benny johnson
I'm all in.
We're doing it here because we want to be able to show you this live shot of someone who I know is near and dear to your heart, PBD.
And that is the Attorney General of the state of New York who's exiting the courthouse live right now.
This perfect time.
PBD, you always just kill it.
The perfect timing.
She's exiting the court or hopefully soon to be exiting the court after being charged with the same crimes that she accused Donald Trump of.
She's facing 30 years in prison.
You love the state of New York.
What's going on in New York, PBD?
patrick bet-david
I mean, listen, one thing first, the movie, I can't wait for an Oliver Stone type to produce Trump's movie.
I'm being very serious here.
I want somebody like a very big name director to make that movie.
And even if it's a three-hour movie or one of these 12-episode shows, we would be glued to it because there's never been a bigger story in the history of America for redemption than what he's been able to do.
And then now the entire world moves to what he says, whether it's China stopping not doing a deal with Russia, the two buyers that they had, whether it's, you know, everybody else was paying attention to what he says.
But New York is a mess.
You saw the debate that took place on Wednesday night with Mamdani, Sliwa, and Cuomo.
I think Sliwa crushed it on the debate.
I thought Cuomo finally showed up.
I thought it was Mamdani's worst showing of the debate, of the two debates that they had.
He was actually nervous.
He was being called out a little bit by the guys and he was being challenged by it.
And it was tough for him when we're actually talking about policies.
However, the problem with New York City is 65% of their registered voters in New York City are Democrats.
The state is 48%, which means Sliwa stands a bigger chance of becoming the governor of the state in a couple of years than being a mayor.
And the only person that can actually do anything to beat Mamdani is Cuomo.
If Sliwa steps out, but he's not going to be doing it.
There's a lot of different speculation that's coming up because New York City, for me, the great city of New York City, the financial capital of the world, if this Mamdani guy gets elected, it's going to be a very interesting place, New York City.
benny johnson
What happens?
What happens in the state of Florida?
You've obviously built an empire here.
I know that you have the love of love of New York.
You have ownership in the Yankees.
You are a house divided, perhaps, but will there be a major outflow from New York of capital and resources, innovation, entrepreneurship?
Will that actually happen?
Or are those just idle threats if they work to communists?
patrick bet-david
Andrew Schultz said when he had Mamdani on, he says he doesn't believe anybody is leaving New York City.
That's what he's saying.
And he said he's okay paying that additional 2% that Mamdani wants to raise for New Yorkers as long as the people get the help from New York.
I was at Watermill this summer.
And when I'm talking to realtors, everybody there was talking about Mamdani.
And they said, I cannot tell you how many people are already planning on selling their homes in Manhattan and are already looking at investing outside in places of Hampton and outside of New York City.
Realtors in Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Palm Beach, Boca Raton, Boynton Beach, they're waiting for Mamdani to get elected.
Realtors in Nashville, Tennessee, in great areas of Brentwood, Tennessee, nice areas, Franklin.
They're waiting for this thing to be taking place because people will be leaving.
However, as we say this and we look at New York City, for me, I don't want to see this happen.
I have a challenge long-term.
There's a couple of things when you think about, you know, when you have kids, sometimes as a parent, you're like, yeah, go, let your kids fail because that's how they learn.
You're like, yeah, yeah, he needs to go through that.
She needs to go through that.
So as parents, we sometimes, you know, our parents did that to us as well.
There are certain things we can't allow to happen.
I think having people with different religious ideologies running for office short term won't be a problem.
In 30 years, it's going to be a massive problem.
Pew Research came out saying by 2070, Christians will no longer be the majority religion in America because of what's happening with them.
And even though Muslims only have 4 million in America, I think that's the number that they're here.
They're climbing much faster and Christians are declining.
And the average age of a Christian in America, the 200 million Christians that we have in America is roughly 54, 55 years old.
The average age of Muslim is 35 years old, which means they have fresh legs.
They're young.
They're energetic.
They're not going away.
They're making more babies.
They're loud.
They put the fear on other people.
God forbid you say something about their Prophet Muhammad versus us.
We're a little bit more chill, easygoing.
You're seeing Christians rise up a little bit more and be tougher, especially after what Charlie Kirk, the great Charlie Kirk, did with Turning Point USA.
You're seeing the younger ones coming up.
There's generation Alpha that's 13 and under, that's kind of coming up, talking a little bit more confidently.
But I think long term, if we kind of look aside and we don't see what's going on to Europe or what's going on to UK, and we're kind of like, yeah, it'll never happen to us.
You may not be the beneficiaries of those negative policies and what happens to American politics, but your kids and grandkids will be.
So as leaders, our job is to make sure we leave this country better for them than it was prior to us coming.
That's our job.
That's what we're supposed to do as leaders.
I'm concerned New York City could be a case study for everything else.
However, on the bright side of it, if Mamdani wins, if I was a betting man and I'm going to polymarket or Calci and I'm betting on who becomes the governor, if Cuomo wins, I think the Democrats becomes governor of New York.
But if Mamdani wins, I think Stefanik's percentage goes up 30% overnight.
unidentified
Wow.
benny johnson
That's very interesting.
So you're going to be able to see a shift.
You're going to be able to see an action reaction in this.
And it's amazing that you brought this up because it's something that I wanted to ask you, PBD.
Mamdani is only polling because of the foreign-born population of New York.
Poll after poll after poll shows that without just native New Yorkers, he wouldn't even be registering right now.
Yet 25% of New Yorkers don't speak English.
What is that exactly?
Can you find other nations' capitals around the world where that's the case?
What is wrong with America and assimilation?
This I do not understand.
And this seems to be something that is wholly and totally unique to the immigrant, to the mass migrant of today, versus migrants of, let's say, the ancestors back in the 1920s, 30s, famously Italian and Irish and so on, gangs in New York, Martin Scorsese, maybe Martin Scorsese for the Trump video, Trump movie.
I'm not sure.
I don't know.
I don't know.
But what I'm trying to say here is, what's going on in New York?
Like, here's the poll.
We can just pop it up.
You know, Ender Cuomo wins if it's just New Yorkers voting, but it's not New York anymore.
New York is no longer New York.
patrick bet-david
Well, if you think about the idea of them allowing 15 million illegal immigrants to come here, then you got to sit there and say, look, that was a pretty good strategy on what you guys were trying to do because they can get their votes.
And then if you can move them around to all over the country, maybe we can flip Texas.
Maybe we can flip some of these places.
Maybe we can do that.
Having said that, there's two parts that I have.
My one side that I'm overly paranoid with us being a little bit too tolerant with what's going on.
We're being a little bit too tolerant with, yeah, you know, if they want to pray five times a day and you hear the Islamic prayer in cities like Dearborn and the citizens are like, listen, we don't want to hear these prayers.
It's too loud.
It's disrupting my entire life.
Yeah, listen, you guys do your thing.
Mehedi Assan comes out and says, if you guys want to do it, we should be able to do it too.
And some Americans are like, I don't know what to say.
Maybe they're right.
They're going to play that game.
So wait till you see how offensively Muslims, many of them, are going to play in America.
Wait till you see the more and more and more influence they get in politics.
They're going to press and go like this.
And then all of a sudden, everybody that's campaigning is going to try to make them happy because they'll be walking on extras.
The challenge with New York City is a perfect case study of tolerance.
You know, it's a perfect case study.
Let's see what happens.
But the arrogance of thinking people won't leave, they have a short memory.
They don't remember what happened in 2020, 2021, 2022 during COVID, which two states lost a trillion dollars of money under management.
Two states.
One of them was California.
A trillion dollars of wealth left California.
And the other one is New York.
New York lost a trillion dollars of wealth in California.
When Cuomo was the governor, if you remember, Amazon, Jeff Bezos, wanted to bring 25,000 jobs at an average salary of $150,000.
The Blasio and AOC said, hell no, don't bring it here.
Cuomo's like, what are you talking about?
These are good jobs.
No, if they bring it here, rent's going to go up and we don't want those jobs here.
Bezos like, you don't want me?
No problem.
I'll take these jobs elsewhere.
You're going to get that and then some with Mamdani if he becomes mayor.
benny johnson
Should we have a sharper acuity for assimilation when it comes to immigration in this country?
It seems to be something that has been utterly and completely lost.
And you talk about a Muslim-majority community.
I mean, you can see what's happened in Minneapolis.
You know, I'm from the Midwest, man, and Minneapolis ain't Minneapolis anymore.
And there have been, it's now one of the most crime-ridden hellscapes.
This used to be one of the cleanest, most pristine cities, and nobody would ever dream of Minneapolis being someplace that's dangerous or scary.
But now it's just become something that is unrecognizable from when I was growing up.
patrick bet-david
But the good news is, if there is a president brave enough to touch this subject, it's the one we currently have right now.
I don't think we have anybody else that would be willing to touch that subject except for him, if there is one.
And if there's ever been a time to do it, it's him right now because it's a second term.
You can be a lot more aggressive on your second term than your first term.
You see, the challenge here, Benny, is when we allow people who come here who hate America, who hate this country, who hate what we stand for, who hate the values that we have, who hate and bitch and whine about everything that we got going on.
When you have that level of hate, what the hell are you doing here?
Why don't you go back to Pakistan?
Why don't you go back to the country that you so love so much more than you do America?
Go back to Afghanistan.
Go back to the countries that you're at.
But if you come to America, you best love this place.
The day we landed in America, November 28th, 1990, I was the happiest young boy alive.
I was 12 years old.
I was looking for Rocky in the airport.
I was looking for gremlins.
I was looking for, you know, Drago to see maybe they're still shooting another movie here.
I was looking for all these guys when I went, came down here to the States.
We were so grateful to be here.
I served the U.S. Army, went to the 101st Airborne Division.
I got out.
I felt like I owed America.
I, it's my responsibility to give to this great country that allowed me to become who I am.
I may be born in Iran, but I'm made in America.
And I think, I think we need more of that expectation of people that are coming here.
Back in the days, if you wanted to come to America, it's like, what are you going to do for America?
What are you going to bring here?
What skill sets are you going to bring?
What are you going to create?
What are you going to develop?
How are you going to make this place a better place?
Now it's like, nah, just leave it open.
Come on in.
And I think Bernie Sanders yesterday or two days ago on Tim Dillon talked about, well, yeah, you know, we have to have a strong border.
And Trump did a better job on the border.
We messed up on the border.
So Biden should have done a better job.
Now you say that.
Now you say that with 15 million people here.
So I think the assimilation that's taken place, you have to hold them accountable to proving that you love America or else go back home.
It's very, if you want to enunciate your citizenship, it's a few thousand dollars.
You don't want to be here?
One way ticket.
Sign off.
You will never be a citizen here ever again.
You're giving up your right to ever be a citizen in America if you hate it here.
I would love to see that offer being made from the top.
I literally would love to see for not illegal immigrants, illegal immigrants deport and do what you're doing according to the way that they're doing it.
But think about some legal Americans that we have.
What would happen tomorrow if the president came out and said, we are willing to pay $5,000 to anybody that wants to enunciate their citizenship in America if you hate it.
And we will pay you a one-way ticket to leave this country.
We'll give you another $10,000.
I would love to get rid of people that live here who are legals, who hate America.
Let's legally enunciate your citizenship and leave this place.
If this place is so bad, go to a different place.
benny johnson
Completely base.
By the way, just a word of advice, PBD, if you are looking for gremlins, then you should go to a No Kings rally and look at the women.
I can show you.
We're actual literal gremlins.
unidentified
Beautiful.
benny johnson
We live and exist.
Beautiful.
Okay.
So what happens next?
What happens next in our economy?
I go to these young, I got these young kids, man, and we go to these schools and we're, you know, we're just, we're just trying to keep carry the energy, you know, carry some of the energy, right?
That was dispersed, you know, that, that, that Charlie carried, right, for all of us.
And we're giving these talks on these campuses and these kids are saying, I want to, like, I want a house.
And it's just not even in the cards.
You know, I can't even think about owning a home.
And I am going to take that as like a major issue for me.
I'm going to carry that forward, PBD.
That's going to be like my life's work is to try and make homes more affordable.
I'm not exactly sure what kind of policies we're going to craft or what we're going to suggest.
We're in the early stages of this.
But since you are such a sharp businessman and since you care so very much about young people and the American dream, you know, you can't start a family in a one-room apartment.
When you rent your entire life, you become kind of a nihilist and you don't actually have ownership of the land and the property.
And our forefathers understood this.
Buying a home, picket fence, having a yard, like having a place for your dog to run around, your kids to have a swing set, that's so out of reach for young people right now.
And that seems like such a curse that has been leveled by both parties on the young.
How do we fix that, PBD?
patrick bet-david
It's a great question.
And I'm glad you're on that mission.
It's a very important mission for the last 25, 26 years.
I've been in the financial space.
I start off with Morgan Stanley, Dean Witter, day before 9-11.
I got my Series 7663126 Life and Health.
I've sold stocks, bonds, mutual funds, options, insurance variable annuities, you name it.
And I've been doing needs analysis on clients for many, many years.
And when you look at today's times and you hear the younger generation talking about, hey, when you try to buy a house, baby boomers, it was two and a half times your salary to buy a house.
Today, if you want to buy a house, it's eight, eight and a half times your salary.
How do you want me to buy a house?
On top of that, you guys were developing two bedroom places and three bedroom places.
Nowadays, developers have no incentive to build a two or three bedroom.
All they're building is four bedrooms.
Three bedrooms have gone like this.
Four bedrooms have gone like this.
Well, a new starter home, I don't need four bedrooms.
I don't need to spend that much money.
But developers are also in a pinch because to them, they're sitting there saying price of everything has gone up since 2010 till today.
I believe the price of concrete has gone up 150%.
So that's going up.
They're trying to build.
There is not an incentive.
Companies like BlackRock are buying all these buildings and we're shifting towards more a renting space where some people are just maybe even giving up.
Why would I even want to buy a house right now?
I can't even afford to buy a house.
How do I do it?
And they're right.
The younger generation is in the right of what they're going through.
And on top of this, you have to also consider what is happening right now with AI and the speed of things disrupting is going to be very quickly.
Overnight, Google stock drops 2.9%.
Why?
Because ChatGBT launches something called Atlas.
If you put Chad GBT's Google called Atlas next to Google's search engine, just search something together.
Why would you ever go to Google?
If you look at the two together, why would you ever go to Google?
Google's sitting there.
You had a couple of years to get your part right with Gemini and combine together.
You didn't.
And by the way, 60% nearly of Google's revenue comes from just ads from their search engines.
They're about to lose that market share to ChatGBT, to Atlas.
So disruption, speed of disruption is super fast.
Back in the days, newspapers will be disrupted.
You had about a 10-year to prepare for it, 15 years.
Radio, you had preparation, social media, preparation.
Today, it's just going quickly.
So some of it's going to be very nasty.
To the young kids that were watching, the reality of it is the following.
You know, when I was younger and I'm coming up and my parents got a divorce and had nothing going on, I don't have a four-year degree.
I don't have a two-year degree.
I'm in the army.
I'm getting out of the army thinking what I'm going to be doing.
We have to redefine what the American dream is.
What is the American dream?
The American dream to me is the word equity.
And I don't mean equity like, you know, ESG equity.
I mean equity as in equity could be in a home.
Equity could be in cryptocurrency.
Equity could be in stocks.
Equity could be for company you work for that shared some equity with you that's building valuation for you.
Don't think one dimensional that equity only equals me having a home.
I sit down and I talk to guys.
And when I worked at the previous insurance company, I told them I had a meeting with them.
I wrote a wrong, long 16-page email.
And I said, look, I want to know what I need to do one day to be the CEO of the company and I want to own equity in this company.
And they're like, that's not going to happen.
I'm like, okay, cool.
Six months later, I left and started my own insurance company and we grew it.
And eventually we sold it for $250 million.
And when we sold it, 450 of my employees and insurance agents had equity in the company.
450 got stock options that they could activate if they wanted to.
And a lot of people's lives changed.
Pursue equity.
Don't these marketers many years ago convinced us that the American dream was home ownership.
It's not.
It's equity.
Don't just think you're living the dream because there's a lot of people that are living a dream that are not owning house.
Now, don't get me wrong.
Do I own a home today?
I do.
Do I prefer owning a home?
Of course.
I don't need to call someone's permission to change a wall or do this or do that.
But I think if you're younger, buckle down, increase your valuation, increase your market valuation.
People will be paying for you if you're willing to do that.
And then if you work at a company that's giving you some opportunities on equity long term, solve for equity, not just home ownership.
unidentified
Yes.
benny johnson
I mean, I think that they are inextrably linked, right?
To the human desire to say, I own something, right?
I have something in my name.
It's mine and I'm earning it and I'm paying for it.
And it's something that no one can take from me, actually, if I do the hard work.
And so, you know, that's always been such a great motivator.
I hope that people understand that.
I don't know.
I don't know what'll happen, man.
In New York, I just want to toss up the poll here from Polymarket.
You mentioned Polymarket.
Bro, this is dismal.
Look at that.
94% to 6%.
You're not going to sell your share in the Yankees, though.
patrick bet-david
No, I'm not going to do that.
I mean, the Yankees nowadays, that's a non-duplicatable asset.
It's the greatest sports team recognizable franchise in the world, that Yankees logo people wear in countries, and they don't even know it's the Yankees.
They just love the logo.
It's so recognizable.
No, I don't think they're going to be affected by it.
That's a very, very tough asset to get a hold of.
However, the only thing we got left here last minute is if this 94-6, if you remember what Polyev Polyev did, Pierre Polyev did from Canada, the worst campaign in the history of campaigning, maybe even worse than Kamala Harris.
He was afraid to go to talk to podcasters.
He had a massive lead on Carney.
Within two, three weeks, all of a sudden, Carney came in and took his lunch and won.
And everybody was so furious.
Oh my God, what happened with Pierre?
He should have won.
He was eating apples so professionally.
He's such a good-looking guy.
Carney came and said, get out the way.
So if Sleewa drops out, if a couple things happen the last few days, there is maybe a small chance that it could happen.
But at this point, Mamdani is probably going to be the mayor of New York City.
benny johnson
Man, Polyev, like I would have loved to have had him on our podcast.
Melk Boy said that we invited him.
You invited him.
Why the hell didn't he do your podcast?
patrick bet-david
You're a scary guy to him.
You scare him because these types of politicians, you know, Benny, they're expert campaign managers say, don't go to pro-Trump people because Canadians won't vote for you.
Well, good for you.
You just lost your campaign and you didn't know how to be a diplomat dealing with President Trump and you didn't want to get on a flight and come and build a relationship with him.
And Carney, that Carney won, you lost in one of the worst embarrassing losses in the history of politics in our generation.
benny johnson
It's too bad, but it's a good lesson to learn.
And it's a good lesson for every politician to learn that authenticity is the currency of the internet.
It is the currency.
It always has been.
And you should be very comfortable with yourself and your ideas.
And they'll be challenged.
And the people that can actually live by their values, they're the ones that are going to win.
That's why I'm bullish on JD in 2028.
I just think Democrats can't live by their values today.
That's proven, proven in this conversation, actually, and proven with Letitia James getting out of the court and walking out of the courthouse in Virginia.
Thank you, PBD.
Obviously, you're a legend.
You got millions of followers here on X, 1.4 million followers, millions and millions more on YouTube.
And he's just one of these guys.
Like PBD is just one of these guys that just like shoots so clear and so straight.
And that's such a beautiful story.
I actually did not know your full American heritage story.
We'd have a very different country, PBD, if more people approached our nation like that.
patrick bet-david
Appreciate you, Benny.
Thanks for having me on.
benny johnson
Godspeed.
patrick bet-david
Take care.
God bless.
unidentified
Bye-bye.
benny johnson
Ladies and gentlemen, somebody won't be sleeping nicely tonight is Leticia James.
She has just exited the courthouse.
We are going to be going to that courthouse conversation.
We just paused it for just a moment.
It was live just seconds ago, and we will have it for you here.
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Ladies and gentlemen, here's someone who, again, will not be having a good night's sleep tonight.
It is Letitia James and she was just live moments ago at the courthouse.
Let's listen.
Oh my.
unidentified
Welcome back to work.
Welcome back.
Welcome back.
Thank you.
Thank you.
I want to thank all of you.
I want to We stand with you.
We stand with you.
Freedom, democracy.
letitia james
So I want to thank all of you.
I want to thank each and every one of you.
I want to thank you for your prayers.
I want to thank you for your emails.
I want to thank you for your support.
It has strengthened my spirit and has and it has anchored my souls.
And so I want to thank you.
But this is not about me.
This is about all of us.
And about a justice system which has been weaponized.
A justice system which has been used as a tool of revenge.
This justice system, which has been used as a tool of revenge and a weapon against those individuals who simply did their job and who stood up for the rule of law.
And a justice system which unfortunately is nothing being used as a vehicle of retribution.
But my faith is strong.
And my faith is, I have this belief in the justice system and the rule of law.
And I have a belief in America and all of its individuals who have stood with me, not only in New York, but all across this nation.
I've heard from just about every jurisdiction in this nation who have said, stand up and be tall and never ever cow down or back down or break or bend.
So there's no fear today.
No fear.
No fear.
Because I believe that justice will rain down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.
And I'm here to say that my work and my job and all that I do all throughout my public career, I've stood up for the rights of New Yorkers and Americans and I will not be deterred.
And I will not, I will not be deterred.
I will not be distracted.
I will do my job each and every day, and that's why I'm headed back to New York because there's work to be done standing up for the rule of law.
God bless you and thank you all.
And I appreciate you.
unidentified
Just quickly, quickly, ALX, quickly.
benny johnson
I just, I know, I know that we got to go, but quickly.
Give me Hillary Clinton.
I ain't no ways tired.
unidentified
Give me that.
benny johnson
Like, get me that.
We got to play it.
We got to play it.
Ladies and gentlemen, get me that.
Well, too sure she doesn't know where she's going.
unidentified
Oh, she's there.
benny johnson
Hug her degenerate family members.
Like, what exactly are you talking about, lady?
We've all read the indictment.
You lied, and you're guilty.
So what are you talking about, lady?
That don't make no sense, people would say where I'm from.
So she gave some type of like black preacher.
By the way, wow, that is really something.
Show them this one.
I'm sorry that I have to, but show them this one, Klein.
Goodness gracious.
Show them that one.
Wow.
unidentified
Holy smokes.
benny johnson
It's just a...
The real ones will understand what I'm saying when I say this.
Okay?
The entire speech should have been, you guys.
Should have been sloth.
You could have just said that.
And people would have been.
It would have been heartwarming, right?
People would have said, oh, man, I remember the goonies.
unidentified
Okay.
benny johnson
You know, like, and we all felt bad for sloth.
And, Yeah, this is something like nobody exactly, exactly.
Go back and forth between tell me I'm wrong.
Tell me I'm wrong.
I dare you.
I dare you.
I double dog dare you.
Tell me I'm wrong.
Hey, God.
Like, give her Snickers.
Like, you know, give her Arisa's pieces.
unidentified
Hey, you guys.
benny johnson
Like, that's what she should have said.
And people would have felt nostalgic about it.
They would have said, wow, like, you know, there's less makeup on sloth, but that's fine.
And they would have said, well, you know what?
Maybe we should just let her go.
unidentified
Right?
benny johnson
Maybe we should.
It keeps getting worse.
Oh, these are real screenshots.
Whatever, you know.
And fortunately, unfortunately, she didn't take that tact.
She took the Hillary Clinton, I'm losing to Barack Obama tact.
There's a special moment in American history where Hillary Clinton was losing to Barack Obama.
So she decided to act black.
There's no other way to explain it.
She went to a Southern Baptist black church where all Democrat politicians go to absolve themselves of the worst possible sexual crimes and crimes against our nation.
They go to a Democrat-run black church, and then they actually start talking and acting like black people at the church.
I don't know how else do you explain this video?
Here we go.
This is what Letitia James just did.
They pull like the southern black preacher thing, which Letitia James can kind of get away with, I guess.
It's still like cringe.
But Hillary definitely cannot get away with this.
Here we go.
unidentified
I feel no ways tired.
I come too far from where I started from.
Nobody told me that the road would be easy.
I don't believe he brought me this far to leave me.
benny johnson
We got to bump the audio on that, boys.
Next time the clip plays, bump the audio.
I think it's a little low because it's an old clip.
This is Hillary Clinton desperate, desperate to try and beat Barack Obama.
You can see there in the Chiron, you can see she's the 2008 presidential candidate.
And so she's trying, I guess, to like out-preach Obama in the black church.
Bold strategy, Cotton.
Let's see if it pays off for you.
And Hillary Clinton pulled just one of the all-time greatest, just one of the all-time greatest panders in history.
There's never been a greater pander.
Can you play just the first couple?
Give me it one more time.
unidentified
Tired.
I can't handle it.
benny johnson
I can't take it.
unidentified
I don't feel it.
Come too far.
benny johnson
What?
unidentified
What is that?
benny johnson
No way to leave, Mayor.
unidentified
Oh, it's like, lady, we've heard the way that you talk.
benny johnson
That's the best part about Trump.
Just doesn't have to.
He just doesn't have to lie, you know?
You just don't have to lie.
It sucks.
You're lying.
Stop it.
I talk the way I talk.
It's where I was raised.
You talk the way you talk.
It's like everyone, you know, ALX, just a bit of Massachusetts accent.
Boy, talk to the amazing Ashley on our team.
You will get straight Philly.
Like, it's just the way that you talk.
It's the way that people talk.
It's fine.
It's fine.
Jerry doesn't even speak.
Jerry communicates in memes.
Like he has like a neural link.
It's just a meme.
You know, that's all Jerry does.
Why do you lie?
Why do you have to lie?
And all Democrats do this.
Like AOC does this.
Like it's Jasmine Crockett.
I'm a girl from the Obama.
unidentified
I'm a girl from the Bronx.
benny johnson
Is that a sound effect we have?
That's God.
That's amazing.
I'm a girl from the Bronx.
We got to play that more often.
unidentified
Okay.
All right.
benny johnson
We're going to go through all the sound effects for the show.
Ladies and gentlemen.
We have a sound effect, actually.
Can we ka-ching?
Can we can we do the ka-ching sound effect?
unidentified
Ding!
benny johnson
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Let's go to our verse of the day.
Ladies and gentlemen, we're going to rock and roll.
What a fun show this was.
What a great way to end the week.
You know, it's just been a tough week.
They're all tough weeks, right?
We're just fighting the commies.
Okay?
Just fighting the commies.
Salt and light, ladies and gentlemen.
Our verse of the day from Amos.
Nice.
Let justice roll on like a river.
Righteousness like a never-failing stream.
I will not disgrace our verse of the day by reading it like Hillary Clinton.
I won't.
I won't do it.
I won't do it.
But I'm sure you can hear it in your head.
I know.
I come to you for.
Won't do it.
Let justice roll on like a river.
Righteousness like a never-failing stream.
A perfect verse for today.
We've been seeing justice, justice in our time.
That is the role, actually, of a properly constituted and godly government.
And ladies and gentlemen, that is what we have in this nation.
This, the greatest nation on earth.
I hope you have an amazing weekend.
It's your boy Benny.
In the end, we win.
See you.
unidentified
Not as smart as I did.
Crumbs in the border.
Look out for BBDs.
It's time for love and order.
Run, Benny, run to the next town.
ronald reagan
What do you want?
unidentified
Give us candy?
It's not Halloween.
benny johnson
It's July.
ronald reagan
What are you doing?
unidentified
Can we have a home loan?
Maybe some card loans?
No, get out of here.
ronald reagan
The thing about tariffs is that they come and go.
And neighbors also come and go, too.
But the Donald will be president forever.
So your neighbor will complain.
And that's when you add more tariffs, which makes them cry more.
It do be like that, Mr. Carney.
unidentified
The biggest ships in the sea, all owned by the oldest kings.
And a dying legacy, media deal weeds.
Soon will the Benny Show come to mind the salt from Livster Fun.
Be the gold and bring the gun.
We sail for number one Soon will the Benny show come to mind The salt from lives for fun Leave the gold and bring the gun.
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