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DOJ Arrests Don Lemon
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| The DOJ has now arrested Don Lemon. | ||
| The left says it's because he was journalisming. | ||
| The DOJ says no, it's because he was actually organizing violation of the law. | ||
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| Well, Don Lemon has been arrested, the former CNN talking head/slash host who went out on his own and formed his own podcast and who then either trailed or was involved with a protest that pretty clearly violated the FACE Act, which was designed to guarantee access to abortion clinics for people who didn't want to go through protests and also designed to protect churches in their actual attempts to perform their services. | ||
| Well, it turns out that he has now been arrested by federal agents. | ||
| The federal government had been targeting Lemon ever since he went at very least hand in glove with these protesters to a church in order to disrupt services. | ||
| According to the New York Times, the former CNN anchor Don Lemon was arrested late Thursday night on charges he violated federal law during a protest at a church in St. Paul, Minnesota. | ||
| Now, that case had been rejected last week by a magistrate judge. | ||
| Lemon claims that he was simply reporting as a journalist when he entered the city's church January 18th to observe a demonstration against immigration crackdowns in the area. | ||
| The protesters then got up and disrupted the service where an ICE official serves as a pastor chanting ICE out. | ||
| The Trump administration tried to charge eight people over the episode, including Lemon. | ||
| The magistrate judge approved charges against three of the eight people and rejected the evidence against Lemon and the others as insufficient. | ||
| So the DOJ petitioned a federal appellate court to force the judge to issue the additional warrants. | ||
| They were denied. | ||
| Abby Lowell is the lawyer for Don Lemon, sort of a lawyer to the political stars. | ||
| He put out a statement, quote, Don Lemon was taken into custody by federal agents last night in Los Angeles where he was covering the Grammy Awards. | ||
| Don has been a journalist for 30 years. | ||
| His constitutionally protected work in Minneapolis was no different than what he has always done. | ||
| And Lowell said this unprecedented attack on the First Amendment and transparent attempt to distract attention from many crises facing this administration will not stand. | ||
| Don will fight these charges vigorously and thoroughly in court. | ||
| Now, again, the claim that's being made by the Trump administration is that when these people invaded a church and disrupted services and started shouting at the pastor in violation of the FACE Act, that Lemon wasn't just a person who followed them in there with a microphone or even a journalist who knew beforehand that he was complicit in the organization of the event, that he was involved in a conspiracy to disrupt services here for political purposes. | ||
| And those are the charges apparently that are being pursued here, conspiring to deprive rights and interfering with someone's religious freedom in a house of worship. | ||
| Now, again, Lemon claims that he quote unquote didn't even know they were going to this church until we followed them there. | ||
| Kind of clear that that much at least is not true. | ||
| Here is a clip from the day of Lemon was pretty clearly in cahoots with the protesters. | ||
| Speaking to an organization there that's gearing up for resistance and protest. | ||
| I've been surprised, pleasantly surprised to see the community coming together. | ||
| Diverse community, if you see this when we first pulled up, we're like, wait a minute, which operation are we at? | ||
| And as it turns out, because we're like, well, this is kind of MAGA-coded, right? | ||
| Saw the American flag or whatever, but these are resistance protesters. | ||
| They're planning an operation that we're going to follow them on. | ||
| I can't tell you exactly what they're doing, but it's called Operation Pull-Up. | ||
| And it's Nekema Armstrong, and she has been doing this since George Floyd, Dante Wright, and others, where they surprise people, catch them off guard, and hold them to account. | ||
| And so that's what we're doing here. | ||
| And then we're after that, after we do this operation, you'll see it live. | ||
| And these operations are surprise operations. | ||
| Again, I can't tell you where they're going and where we're gathered right now. | ||
| However, and then we're going to head over to Whipple. | ||
| There we go. | ||
| Everybody's ready to go. | ||
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Let's go. | |
| Okay. | ||
| Thank you guys for being. | ||
| Thanks for allowing me to be here. | ||
| Thank you guys. | ||
| How are you? | ||
| Good. | ||
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We're on. | |
| We're not telling what it is, what's going on, but thank you. | ||
| Tell us why you're doing this. | ||
| This is Nakema, Levy Armstrong. | ||
| She's on the show. | ||
| I'm Levy Armstrong, civil rights attorney, longtime activist here in the community. | ||
| And, you know, we protest and do activism in all kinds of ways. | ||
| This is Operation Pull-up, more of a clandestine operation. | ||
| We show up somewhere that is a key location. | ||
| They don't expect us to come there. | ||
| And then we disrupt business as usual. | ||
| So that's what we're about to go do right now. | ||
| We've had a lot of success with the times we have done Operation Pull Up. | ||
| So again, they're sort of in a random parking lot, and then they proceed to go to the church and disrupt the services. | ||
| Now, Lemon said once the protest started in the church, we did an active journalism, which was report on it and talk to the people involved, including the pastor, members of the church and members of the organization. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| That's called journalism. | ||
| Now, that seems to be not particularly true, that it was only once the thing started that he decided to join on and that he was really not joined with them. | ||
| He was just reporting on it. | ||
| And pretty clearly, they're blurring the lines. | ||
| Now, to be fair to Lemon and just speaking legally, there is a fine line between a journalist doing a ride-along, even with people who are committing criminal acts, which, by the way, is legal. | ||
| Journalists do this on a fairly regular basis, and journalists being involved in the planning and commission of the crime. | ||
| And that's what is being accused. | ||
| It's being accused that Lemon was involved in the planned and commission of this crime and that he was an integral part of that, presumably, because they wouldn't have done it if they didn't have Lemon there covering it. | ||
| That they required him as part of the plan. | ||
| That is going to be the case that is made by the federal government. | ||
| Now, naturally, people are claiming that this is a crackdown on the First Amendment. | ||
| They're suggesting that this is an attempt by the Trump administration to quote unquote silence people. | ||
| That seems a stretch to me. | ||
| We'll have to see what evidence they have, particularly in terms of prior planning from Lemon and the people who are involved in this. | ||
| Was he involved in recommending sites that they should go to? | ||
| Was he involved in organizing transportation? | ||
| Was he involved in determining how they should protest? | ||
| Those are going to be the questions that come up in court. | ||
| But it's pretty clear that Lemon was involved in some capacity. | ||
| I'm not going to prejudge this thing legally, but for people to claim that there is no shot at all, that the federal government has no case at all, that basically they're just arresting him for being a journalist on the scene. | ||
| That is a stretch to me. | ||
| So I'm not going to proclaim guilt or innocence. | ||
| The alleged crime, again, would be conspiracy that he actually conspired, and we'll have to see the evidence of that. | ||
| But the attempt to treat this as this is a violation of the First Amendment, it's an attempt to destroy journalistic capability and all the rest. | ||
| I do not think that that is accurate either. | ||
| Again, the way the rest of the press is covering this is as a journalistic crackdown. | ||
| You may have noticed the journalists have been covering what's going on in Minnesota a lot, and none of them have been arrested. | ||
| The only person who's been arrested at this point is Lemon. | ||
| And presumably, that's because the federal government is going to have to present evidence that he was involved in a conspiracy to violate the FACE Act. | ||
| Well, joining me on the line is Mary Margaret Olihan. | ||
| She, of course, is our Daily Wire White House correspondent. | ||
| A lot happening this week. | ||
| Mary Margaret, thanks so much for the time. | ||
| Good morning, Ben. | ||
| Great to be here. | ||
| So let's talk about what's going on with ICE and Minnesota. | ||
| Obviously, the big news of the day is the arrest of Don Lemon by the Department of Justice. | ||
| What is the sentiment around the White House around the current situation with regard to ICE in Minnesota? | ||
| And also, what have you heard regarding the Lemon arrest? | ||
| Well, actually, Ben, I was at the screening of Melania at the Kennedy Center last night, and I bumped into Harmine Dylan, who told me she had recently been in California for some meetings. | ||
| And at the time, I thought maybe she had just been there, you know, to enjoy the California weather when it's so freezing here in Washington, D.C. | ||
| But turns out her meetings probably had something to do with this arrest. | ||
| Don Lemon is now facing charges from the DOJ as the DOJ had warned that he would. | ||
| And, you know, this has been predicted by the DOJ that it's been coming. | ||
| I believe Harmit has hinted about this online. | ||
| She's the assistant civil rights, or she's the assistant attorney for the civil rights division at the DOJ. | ||
| And now it has, in fact, happened. | ||
| We haven't seen a ton of reactions from the White House yet. | ||
| This is breaking news, and everyone, of course, is kind of reeling from this news. | ||
| Lemon and others are trying to portray it as a, you know, a violation of his rights as a journalist. | ||
| But we do know that he was part of this attack, if you want to call it that, on this church. | ||
| These people were praying. | ||
| And this attack occurred because the pastor had alleged ICE associations. | ||
| But Ben, as we know, he was leading a service worshiping God with these other churchgoers. | ||
| And at the end of the day, these protesters went into this church and disrupted this worship of God. | ||
| And the DOJ has deemed that this incident constituted an attack. | ||
| And something that I found really interesting, Ben, and I know you do as well. | ||
| Our colleague Luke Roziak had reported earlier this week that the top staffer for Hennepin County's Soros-backed prosecutor was among those protesters that stormed into that church. | ||
| So James Lundy, one of those protesters, works as an intergovernmental affairs coordinator for Hennepin County. | ||
| And he's married to St. Paul City Council member Anika Bowie. | ||
| And he's running for a seat in the state legislature as a Democrat. | ||
| This is all as the Department of Justice was pursuing federal charges against the protesters. | ||
| And he was the very staffer that would interface with the federal government. | ||
| Now, Lundy was arrested with Don Lemon early this morning, according to Pam Bonnie. | ||
| He was arrested with three other people in connection with this coordinated attack on the city's church in St. Paul, Minnesota. | ||
| And it just shows you the level of intertwinement between these protesters, between these activists, and a lot of these local city officials in Minneapolis. | ||
| Mary Margaret, on a broader level, obviously what's going on in Minnesota has eaten up an enormous amount of the administration's time and effort. | ||
| And there has been some pretty obvious conflict inside the administration in terms of the viewpoints expressed publicly with regard to the killing of Alex Predi, for example, the deployment of Tom Homan to Minneapolis. | ||
| What's the mood inside the White House? | ||
| What are you hearing in terms of potential conflicts between, say, Stephen Miller, Christy Noam, Tom Homan? | ||
| Because the approaches seem to be pretty different. | ||
| And obviously, the demotion of Greg Bovino, the movement of him away from Minneapolis, says something about the administration's shift in approach. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| I mean, Tom Holman's presence in Minneapolis is kind of a repudiation of Christy Noam and Bovino, Christy Noam-Lewandowski team. | ||
| We know they were here at the White House earlier this week meeting with the president, Christy Noam and Corey Lewandowski for a private meeting for, I believe, two hours after it was announced that Tom Holman was heading to Minneapolis. | ||
| And now he is in fact there. | ||
| He gave this presser yesterday morning where he just kind of calmly delivered his thoughts on the process to the whole country, perhaps the whole world. | ||
| And he calmly told everyone that things were not going to proceed as they had been. | ||
| We've been hearing from Jenny Terr, who's our fantastic immigration reporter, that there's going to be some changes and already have been some changes to who DHS is apprehending, who their targets are. | ||
| She's been doing a lot of great reporting on that. | ||
| And I know she's got some great DHS sources that are sharing that information with her. | ||
| But as of right now, you know, we saw right away from the White House top figures condemning Alex Predty as a domestic terrorist. | ||
| I think we've seen a little bit more caution and restraint in recent days as we wait for the results of this investigation into what exactly happened there. | ||
| But the release of that footage, the clip from a BBC-affiliated outlet did show us a side of Alex Predty that many people, you know, many people across the board, but especially on the left, had wanted to say didn't exist. | ||
| You know, he was portrayed to us as a very kind, loving soul, ICU nurse who would never have harmed anyone. | ||
| But that footage did, in fact, show that he was kicking the taillights out of ICE officers' vehicles, begging them to assault him. | ||
| And keep in mind, you know, I'm in Washington, D.C. I've been on numerous news shows this week where I've had everyone telling me that this was a kind and good man and that, you know, the Trump White House was unfairly demonizing him. | ||
| Well, you know, the video does not necessarily change the other videos we saw involving the death of Alex Preddy, but it does show us, as we know, that this was not the man that he was painted to be. | ||
| He was violent. | ||
| He was antagonizing ICE. | ||
| And we don't know if there were other incidents involving him in the same way. | ||
| So I think the Trump White House views that video as a partial vindication for their rhetoric on this, which they've gotten a lot of criticism for. | ||
| And President Trump himself actually put out a statement this morning talking about Alex Predi and has some very harsh words for him and talked about the video and how it showed that a lot of people have been lying about Alex Predty and going so far as MSNBC did to kind of face-tune him and make him a more handsome man, more appealing to the crowds online who have been glorifying him as a saint. | ||
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Opportunity Ask Spokesman
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| So this is a tumultuous, ever-moving news cycle. | ||
| And I have to believe we're going to see more footage coming out soon. | ||
| Tom Holman's presence in Minneapolis, I think, has had a slightly calming effect for now, but it remains to be seen what will come next and whether Christy Noam will ultimately be replaced here. | ||
| We're hearing some names floated and that would be quite the shakeup here in Washington. | ||
| Mary Margaret, you had the opportunity to ask spokespeople for Gavin Newsom about his recent press office comment. | ||
| He has this sort of checkered history with the press office. | ||
| Obviously, I asked him on his own podcast about the fact that his press office had suggested that ICE was engaged in state-sponsored terrorism, the killing of Renee Good. | ||
| And then his press office put out a statement via their ex account, which is always quite lit, suggesting that Greg Bovino was a member of the SS, that he was a member of the Gestapo. | ||
| And you had the opportunity to ask the Newsom team about that. | ||
| Their response seemed to be, shall we say, less conciliatory than Newsom's response directly to me when I asked him about similar matters. | ||
| Absolutely, Ben. | ||
| I mean, the contrast was startling. | ||
| And you have to wonder if Newsom is perhaps more interested in being a charmer in person than his staff is in echoing what he exactly means. | ||
| Look, I watched that clip of you and Newsom, where he really conceded that his rhetoric on ICE was putting, was not a, not a good idea at the bare minimum. | ||
| And then when I reached out to his spokesman earlier this week, as I was writing a story on all of these Democrats comparing ICE to Nazis, to Gestapo, to the SS, I said to his spokesman, do you stand by this portrayal of Greg Bovino as Gestapo? | ||
| And his spokesman replied with a very sassily worded message saying, yes, we do stand by it. | ||
| That's what he looks like. | ||
| And I followed up and said, does Gavin Newsom support these portrayals from people like Tim Walsh of ICE as Nazis? | ||
| And again, the spokesman followed up and said, well, what else do you consider people who murder people in cold blood? | ||
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Calls to Support Local Coverage
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| So there's no backing down in that quarter. | ||
| Newsom, absolutely. | ||
| Newsom's staff is portraying this in a very aggressive light. | ||
| And no matter what Newsom is saying to you on his podcast or portraying himself as a moderate on this issue or any other, it appears that his staff is not actually interested in that image. | ||
| And he might be trying to play it both ways. | ||
| Well, Mary Margaret Olihan doing a fantastic job as always from the White House. | ||
| She's our Daily Wire White House correspondent. | ||
| Mary Margaret, really appreciate the time. | ||
| Thank you, Ben. | ||
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Political Immigration Chaos
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| Now, all of this just highlights the continued conflict in Minnesota. | ||
| Democrats are trying to claim victory in Minnesota that they've gotten the Trump administration to back off from immigration enforcement. | ||
| The Trump administration, meanwhile, is saying, listen, we just are trying to work with you guys in order to effectuate the enforcement of immigration law. | ||
| President Trump last night was asked at a premiere for Melania, which is the documentary about his wife, the first lady. | ||
| He was asked about whether there was a drawdown that was going to happen in Minneapolis, and President Trump said no. | ||
| We're going to be pulling back immigration enforcement agents out of Minnesota. | ||
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We're trying to keep our country safe. | |
| We'll do whatever we can to keep our country safe. | ||
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So, yeah, pulling back? | |
| No, no, not at all. | ||
| Well, that is, I think, the correct approach. | ||
| Obviously, the federal government cannot pull back thanks to the heckler's veto or the rioters' veto. | ||
| Tom Homan, again, the person who should have been in charge of this operation all along. | ||
| He is in Minneapolis. | ||
| He says he's going to stay there until everything that has to be done is done. | ||
| He says, I've been enforcing the law under six presidents, and I will continue to enforce the law today. | ||
| For the people out there who don't like what ISA is doing, if you want certain laws reformed, then take it up with Congress. | ||
| Again, ISIS making this up. | ||
| They're enforcing laws enacted by Congress and signed by president. | ||
| The same laws have been on the books for the last six presidents I worked for. | ||
| I started with President Reagan and ending with President Trump. | ||
| Every administration, we enforce the same laws. | ||
| If you don't like what ISA is doing, instead of protesting this building, go to protest Congress. | ||
| Tell me we want changes. | ||
| I wish that Homan had been in charge of this operation from the beginning. | ||
| I think the Trump administration would be in much better PR shape, were that the case. | ||
| Democrats, for their part, continue to push the pedal to the metal, believing that they have the upper hand here. | ||
| Jacob Fry, the mayor of Minneapolis, he's out there proclaiming that America has rejected the quote-unquote law of the jungle. | ||
| Well, actually, disobeying federal law, violating federal law, obstructing the enforcement of federal law, and instead allowing those who violate the law to take control of the city, that's the law of the jungle, not the federal government doing its job. | ||
| Time and again, America has rejected the law of the jungle. | ||
| Time and again, America has rejected this notion that might makes right. | ||
| That notion and that belief that we are of something greater than simply force has allowed our country to rise in international influence and allowed great cities to be laboratories of democracy. | ||
| We must reject the notion that might makes right again and again. | ||
| Man, is he obnoxious? | ||
| I mean, truly, just the white Zorhan Mamdani. | ||
| He is insipid. | ||
| This notion that America rejects the law of the jungle by embracing chaos in the streets is totally nincum poopish and un-American. | ||
| Fry, by the way, then says your city is next. | ||
| Well, no, it's not. | ||
| My city is down here in Florida where we enforce the laws and actually work with the federal government in order to ensure that criminal illegal immigrants are deported. | ||
| So actually, I'm not worried that my city is next. | ||
| Mayor Fry. | ||
| This is not a time to bend our heads into despair or how to fear that he may be next because if we do not speak up, if we do not step down, it will be your city that is the next. | ||
| No, it won't. | ||
| And this whole narrative, I think the Democrats, as I've said before, are winning this battle, but they are going to lose the war because it turns out that in the short term, Americans like not having ugly pictures on their TV. | ||
| And in the long term, they do need workable policy that solves their problems. | ||
| Tim Walz, supposed voice of moderation, is not moderating at all either. | ||
| He did an interview with the Atlantic in which he claimed that we are nearing the point of a civil war in the country. | ||
| Quote, I mean, is this a Fort Sumter? | ||
| He says it's a physical assault. | ||
| It's an armed force that's assaulting, that's killing my constituents, my citizens. | ||
| Again, I'm not sure I've seen a politician as eager to capitalize off tragedy as Tim Walz in the recent past. | ||
| It's pretty astonishing. | ||
| The guy was in serious political trouble, so bad that he had to withdraw from his third-term gubernatorial run in Minnesota. | ||
| And now he's trying to make his way as leader of the resistance. | ||
| He was asked specifically by a columnist for the Atlantic, Isaac Stanley Becker, if he thought that America was barreling toward an internal armed struggle. | ||
| And he said, quote, I don't want to alarm people. | ||
| But he said some of his constituents think he should call in the National Guard and arrest ICE. | ||
| Okay, first of all, they don't have the power to do that. | ||
| The fact that Walls continues to up the ante here, despite the fact that Homan is pretty clearly just looking for some sort of off-ramp and the continued enforcement of federal law, demonstrates how politicized this has become for Walls and for Fry. | ||
| He put out a statement yesterday: quote, Minnesota is grieving, but we're resolved. | ||
| The support we've received from across the country has energized us and given us hope. | ||
| It's time for the federal government to draw down their forces and let us get back to allowing freedom, opportunity, and security for everyone. | ||
| But again, this is the government that has administered billions of dollars in fraud. | ||
| This is the government that has prevented the implementation of federal immigration law. | ||
| Democrats in the state seem to want the chaos. | ||
| Again, I've said this all along. | ||
| It's a chaos operation that they are attempting, and it has been successful on a PR level. | ||
| But in the end, Americans are not going to like the idea of chaos in their streets. | ||
| The federal government ejected from cities where they're just simply attempting to arrest and deport illegal immigrants. | ||
| The media, by the way, are doing their best to run cover for all of this. | ||
| So CNN's Brianna Keillor was interviewing the ex-ICE director for President Trump. | ||
| And he was saying, listen, they're trying to refocus on arresting criminal, illegal immigrants. | ||
| And Keillor continued to try and up the ante. | ||
| But the prioritization are going to be criminal aliens, public safety threats, and national security threats. | ||
| Is that an admission that those things were not the priority before? | ||
| I don't think so. | ||
| I think it's always been the priority, but I think what President Trump said the other day, this is an adjustment. | ||
| Am I hearing you right? | ||
| You're saying you don't actually expect any changes in terms of who is going to be prioritized? | ||
| I don't know in terms of what the priorities seem to be criminals before, but I think it'll be a very tailored and focused approach. | ||
| So when Homan is actually emphasizing the prioritization of criminal aliens and public safety threats, he's not actually emphasizing anything new. | ||
| I just want to be clear. | ||
| That's your read on this. | ||
| He's not emphasizing anything new. | ||
| He's not. | ||
| Let me finish this. | ||
| You've asked it like three times. | ||
| I mean, I'm trying to answer the question. | ||
| Because it sounds like you're just saying no. | ||
| I mean, the truth is that Homan is not emphasizing anything new. | ||
| It is just that the people who were before him in the PR line did a poor job of explaining what the administration was doing. | ||
| Meanwhile, in terms of enforcing the law, the Department of Justice has charged Ilhan Omar's alleged attacker on Thursday, as should happen. | ||
| The person charged was a 55-year-old charged with, quote, forcibly assaulting, opposing, impeding, intimidating an officer and employee of the United States while she was performing her congressional duties at a Tuesday night town hall in Minneapolis. | ||
| This is when she was sprayed with what apparently was apple cider vinegar. | ||
| That is what the DOJ should, in fact, be doing. | ||
| Ilhana Omar is out there promoting herself on the back of this, as per our usual arrangement. | ||
| She still has no answers, by the way, as to why her husband's winery is suddenly worth tens of millions of dollars. | ||
| And so I know that there's always been an attempt to smear my character, to smear the character of the community that I ethnically belong to. | ||
| There's always this sort of sad reference to the fact that I'm a refugee. | ||
| It seems like these people seem to have a problem with the fact that I am living the American dream. | ||
| No, that is not the problem. | ||
| The problem is that the American dream is not coming here, possibly under fraudulent immigration circumstances, and then proceeding to run for Congress on the basis of really disliking the country and all of its allies and maybe participating in some shady financial practice. | ||
| None of that is the American dream. | ||
| That's the problem people have. | ||
| But good on the Trump administration for enforcing the law. | ||
| The Democrats continue to undermine the law. | ||
| So Mikey Sherroll, the new governor of New Jersey. | ||
| And it seems as though the National Democrats are swirling more and more around a radical interpretation of the circumstances. | ||
| And that's going to be a fail for them. | ||
| It really is. | ||
| It is not smart. | ||
| Mikey Sherrill announces that she is going to seek surveillance for ICE agents in New Jersey. | ||
| We are not going to allow any ICE raids to be staged from state properties. | ||
| And we are also going to be standing up a portal so people can upload all their cell phone videos and alert people. | ||
| Like, if you see an ICE agent in the street, get your phone out. | ||
| I mean, this is the routine they're running now. | ||
| ICE is the enemy, ICE are Nazis, and all of the rest. | ||
| Speaking of which, the number of Democrats who have called ICE Gestapo at this point is incredibly high. | ||
| That now includes Governor Gavin Newsom. | ||
| The governor's press office wrote on January 25th on ex Gestapo Greg, referring to Greg Bovino, says filming ICE agents with your cell phone is assault and justifies them shooting you in cold blood. | ||
| Now, I'm just going to point out here that I literally asked the governor not to use this kind of language with regard to ICE. | ||
| He had called the shooting of Renee Good state-sponsored terrorism via his press office, and then he had backed off of that, saying that that was a mistake. | ||
| He was asked by the Daily Wire if he stood by his Gestapo Greg remarks, and Newsom's spokesperson, Izzy Garden, responded, quote, absolutely. | ||
| Gestapo Greg is an SS soldier cosplay. | ||
| This is such a political mistake for Democrats. | ||
| Truly, it is crazy. | ||
| It is akin to the abolish the police, ACAB, all cops are bastards kind of stuff that Democrats were pushing back in 2020. | ||
| Short-term gain, long-term pain for Democrats. | ||
| This is really quite foolish. | ||
| By the way, that's a point being made by David Axelrod. | ||
| David Axelrod yesterday said, you know, you guys suggesting that Democrats ought to defund ICE, that is a huge political fail. | ||
| I think people believe you should come to the country legally. | ||
| And if you don't, you know, there should be some there should be some penalty for that. | ||
| They do believe that. | ||
| Well, you know, the problem that we've seen before when people said abolish the police or defund police. | ||
| I don't think people, most people mention, I don't think most people who said it believe that there should be no policing function in cities, but the implication was that there could be. | ||
| So I don't think Democrats want to get into that again. | ||
| I do think they want fundamental root and branch reform. | ||
| And if it means getting rid of the name ICE, which has become a very bad brand, that's one thing. | ||
| If it means that we're just going to abandon immigration enforcement, I don't think Democrats or Republicans would support that in large numbers. | ||
| And he is right about that. | ||
| And yet Democrats seem to be embracing this position, which is quite insane. | ||
| Some are not. | ||
| Governor Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania, who wants to campaign as a moderate, presumably when he runs for president in 2028, he says that he is hoping that all levels of the government cooperate. | ||
| Do you support state and local authorities cooperating with ICE on their job? | ||
| We're not a sanctuary state in Pennsylvania. | ||
| Philadelphia is a sanctuary city, but we're not a sanctuary state. | ||
| And I do believe in law enforcement collaboration at all levels, local, state, and federal. | ||
| But I also believe that all of your partners need to be working together on a mission that is constitutional, working together on a mission that reduces crime, that brings law and order to a community, and that protects people's constitutional rights. | ||
| Again, this is going to be the proper Democratic position, but that is not what they're going to say in the moment. | ||
| And that is what's amazing. | ||
| The Democrats always feel the necessity to try to outrace their most extreme supporters. | ||
| Hillary Clinton is jumping into that, by the way. | ||
| I don't know why people still think that people want to hear from Hillary Clinton. | ||
| I don't know why Democrats want to hear from Hillary Clinton. | ||
| If Hillary Clinton had run a half-decent race in 2016, the entire Trump era probably never would have happened. | ||
| Just kind of astonishing. | ||
| Whenever they bring her back up, try to revive her. | ||
| It's kind of insane. | ||
| She has an entire piece at The Atlantic entitled MAGA's War on Empathy. | ||
| And it's all about how, of course, Republicans don't care enough. | ||
| And that's what's really the problem is Republicans don't care enough. | ||
| And this is such tiresome nonsense. | ||
| It's tiresome. | ||
| And the reason it's tiresome is because caring about things does not necessarily mean that you have the solution to the problems. | ||
| The question in politics is how do you solve the problems of people? | ||
| Caring is not enough. | ||
| Being empathetic is not enough. | ||
| And empathy, when misdirected towards specific groups at the expense of other groups, is a real problem, as psychologist Paul Bloom has written about extensively. | ||
| But according to Hillary Clinton, it's all about the lack of empathy. | ||
| Again, what she's doing here politically is she's pushing on what is a sore spot for the Trump administration, because the Trump administration sort of makes a virtue out of bravado. | ||
| And so she's trying to push back against that by being the kinder, softer party. | ||
| That's what she's doing here. | ||
| She says, the crisis reveals a deeper moral rot at the heart of Trump's MAGA movement. | ||
| Whatever you think about immigration policy, how can a person of conscience justify the lack of compassion and empathy for the victims in Minnesota and for the families torn apart or hiding in fear, for the children separated from their parents or afraid to go to school? | ||
| That compassion is weak and cruelty is strong has become an article of MAGA faith. | ||
| Trump and his allies believe the more inhumane the treatment, the more likely it is to spread fear. | ||
| And that's the goal of surging heavily armed federal forces into blue states. | ||
| Other recent presidents, and then she names Biden, Obama, Bush, and Clinton, managed to deport millions of undocumented immigrants without turning American cities into battlegrounds or making a show of keeping children in cages. | ||
| Okay, this is just, it's just horsepucky. | ||
| Okay, it's just nonsense. | ||
| It's not true. | ||
| Barack Obama is the children in cages guy. | ||
| And the vaunted empathy of Barack Obama led to riots in the streets. | ||
| The vaunted empathy of Joe Biden led to some of the worst policy failures in the history of the United States. | ||
| But I guess when Democrats don't have political victory, they have to go for empathy instead. | ||
| Well, on the political level, it appears that President Trump and Chuck Schumer, the Senate minority leader, have now reached a deal to stave off a government shutdown. | ||
| According to Fox News, Senate Democrats and the White House reached a deal to fund the government. | ||
| Lawmakers aren't out of the woods on averting a partial shutdown. | ||
| So apparently, Schumer and Trump labored over a deal from late night Wednesday until Thursday evening after the top Senate Democrat unleashed several funding demands and the White House accused Schumer of blocking a meeting with rank-and-file Democrats. | ||
| Trump said in a post-on-truth social, the only thing that can slow our country down is another long and damaging government shutdown. | ||
| Schumer said the separation of the five bipartisan bills the Democrats asked for, plus the two-week DHS continuing resolution has been agreed to. | ||
| So they've staved off a government shutdown for a couple of weeks here. | ||
| And a full government shutdown will not happen. | ||
| Now, the question is going to be what happens with DHS. | ||
| President Trump said, I'm working hard with Congress to ensure that we are able to fully fund the government without delay. | ||
| Republicans and Democrats in Congress have come together to get the vast majority of the government funded until September, while at the same time providing an extension to DHS. | ||
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| The deal brokered would have the DHS funding bill stripped from the six-bill package. | ||
| Schumer and Democrats have been adamant that if the bill were sidelined, they would vote for the remaining five. | ||
| So there will be a short-term funding extension for DHS. | ||
| That came after there was a test vote that happened yesterday on the funding package where Senate Democrats and seven other Republicans basically killed that funding bill. | ||
| So that is the current status of negotiations. | ||
| Democrats, for what it's worth, are trying to cripple DHS without defunding DHS. | ||
| As the Daily Wire's Virginia Kruda and Jenny Tayer report, they're attempting a backdoor amnesty by changing the law. | ||
| One issue that apparently has Democrats coalescing is a requirement we've talked about on the show that federal agents acquire judicial warrants rather than administrative warrants for immigration arrests. | ||
| And they're really pushing hard on this. | ||
| One source told the Daily Wire there would be no more immigration arrests. | ||
| It's the functional equivalent of getting a warrant before issuing a speeding ticket. | ||
| It's the entire reason why administrative arrests exist in the first place. | ||
| If every single illegal alien who is charged with entry without inspection was treated like a criminal arrest, they would have, among other things, right to counsel provided by the United States. | ||
| And that would be impossible. | ||
| So the goal, presumably, for Democrats would be to kill immigration enforcement. | ||
| Republicans are not going to go for any of that. | ||
| So Democrats are going to continue to try to campaign on this. | ||
| I think Homan is bringing down the temperature. | ||
| President Trump is trying to bring down the temperature. | ||
| And it seems to me that Democrats are now engaged in a massive overstep, which I assume is one reason they're focusing in like a laser beam on the Don Lemon arrest, trying to claim that Trump is shutting down the First Amendment for going after Lemon. | ||
| And we'll see the evidence provided by the DOJ in pursuit of a conviction of Don Lemon in terms of violation of the FACE Act. | ||
| In other big news, the president has now selected a new Fed chair. | ||
| That person is Kevin Warsh. | ||
| There is some speculation that might be Kevin Hassett. | ||
| Warsh is definitely a better pick. | ||
| According to the Wall Street Journal, President Trump said on Friday that he would nominate Warsh to be the next chairman of the Federal Reserve. | ||
| He put out a statement saying, I've known Kevin for a long period of time and have no doubt he will go down as one of the great Fed chairmen, maybe the best. | ||
| On top of everything else, he has central casting and he will never let you down. | ||
| You got to love the fact that President Trump kind of picks his cabinet officials based on how they look on TV. | ||
| Warsh is quite good on TV, by the way. | ||
| And his economic philosophy is really interesting. | ||
| It is growth-oriented for sure. | ||
| He had served on the Fed's board of governors from 2006 to 2011. | ||
| He would succeed, obviously, Jerome Powell in mid-May. | ||
| It is Trump, by the way, who decided that it would be Powell and not Warsh originally. | ||
| He will have to be confirmed by the Senate. | ||
| Senator Tom Tillis, who sits on the banking committee, wrote on social media that Warsh is a qualified nominee with a deep understanding of monetary policy. | ||
| But he also wants the DOJ probe of the Federal Reserve and particularly of Jerome Powell to go away before there is any sort of confirmation, because the idea is that that is a pressure tactic on whoever is the Fed chair to lower the interest rates. | ||
| President Trump wants lower interest rates. | ||
| Warsh left the Fed 15 years ago. | ||
| He has spent much of the time since cataloging how he thought the institution was going astray. | ||
| The Wall Street Journal says that the transition could mark the most significant changing of the guard at the Fed since 1979, when Paul Volcker took over and dramatically reoriented the institution's approach to inflation. | ||
| Every chair since Greenspan replaced Volcker has emphasized continuity with his or her predecessor. | ||
| Warsh wants a clear rupture, a wholesale rethinking of the Fed's asset holdings policy framework, role in the economy, and relationship with the executive branch. | ||
| So, what exactly does he want? | ||
| Well, the Wall Street Journal editorial board is very much in favor of the Warsh pick. | ||
| As they point out, Warsh has been arguably the leading voice in public life for reforming the Fed. | ||
| He left the board of governors in 2011 after Chairman Ben Bernanke made vast bond buying a permanent part of Fed policy rather than an emergency resort. | ||
| Warsh at the time said that the Fed in its quantitative easing, that is where the Federal Reserve essentially buys bonds from banks to inject liquidity into the economy. | ||
| So we have this weird rigma role in the American government where the Treasury Department issues bonds. | ||
| The bonds are sold via this special VIP group of banks. | ||
| A huge chunk of those bonds are then sold to the Federal Reserve, which holds the bonds and puts a bunch of assets, like money, on the balance sheet of the banks. | ||
| And then the banks lend that money out. | ||
| That is one of the ways that you end up with more money in the economy because the Federal Reserve basically creates a number on paper. | ||
| It passes that number along to the banks. | ||
| The banks then lend that money out. | ||
| That's how you inject liquidity via quantitative easing. | ||
| Warsh is an inflation hawk, but he has a plan to both lower the interest rates and keep inflation low. | ||
| He says that the Federal Reserve has taken on far too broad a role in economic policy, which, of course, is exactly right. | ||
| He wrote in April 2025, in my view, forays Farafield, for all seasons and all reasons, have led to systemic errors in macroeconomic policy. | ||
| The Fed has acted more as a general purpose agency of government than as a narrow central bank. | ||
| He says they've wandered into fiscal policy with their bond buying, basically buying up a bunch of assets in order to bolster federal spending. | ||
| And that's not even including the climate change and financial regulations pushed by the Biden administration. | ||
| So what exactly is Kevin Warsh's plan? | ||
| Well, first, you sort of have to understand how the Federal Reserve generally injects liquidity into the economy or removes it. | ||
| There are a lot of vehicles for doing so. | ||
| The two main ones in the past several decades have been one, something called open markets operations. | ||
| This is where the Federal Reserve buys those bonds from the banks, as we mentioned. | ||
| They, of course, are getting them from the Treasury Department. | ||
| This injects money into the bank accounts of the banks, and then the banks lend that money out, right? | ||
| So that means more liquidity, more availability for loans in the economy. | ||
| And then there is something called the federal funds rate, which is the interest rate offered by the Federal Reserve for banks to keep their money there. | ||
| So if you keep your money in a Federal Reserve bank and you're a bank that has its reserves there, the Federal Reserve offers a particular interest rate. | ||
| When that interest rate is low, that encourages banks not to put their money with the Federal Reserve, but instead to lend it out for the prospective gain. | ||
| If a bank, just like you, if you can keep your money in the bank at 2% or invest it at 7%, you're going to invest it at 7%. | ||
| The same thing is true of banks. | ||
| So in the past, we have participated in massive open market operations, right? | ||
| That's what we're talking about with Ben Bernanke. | ||
| That's what we're talking about with Alan Greenspan. | ||
| And that's really what we've been talking about for the past several years, consistent bond buying by the Federal Reserve, injecting liquidity into the economy that way. | ||
| That's what quantitative easing was kind of broad scale. | ||
| And also, we had a low federal funds rate, which, again, encouraged banks to inject more liquidity into the economy. | ||
| Kevin Warsh believes this is a screwed up way of doing things that encouraged inflation under Joe Biden because you were injecting liquidity both via buying bonds and also by keeping the FFR low, but also stagnation as we move forward because of the inflation, we're now having to increase the federal funds rate, right? | ||
| That's what we mean. | ||
| We say we're increasing the interest rate in order to quash inflation. | ||
| We're making it so that banks would rather keep their money at the Federal Reserve than actually send it out for investment. | ||
| So he thinks that essentially we gummed up the works, that the banks sold bonds to the Fed, which made money for the banks. | ||
| And then the banks, instead of spending that money or putting that money out into the world, parked their money at the Fed to earn the 5% interest rate. | ||
| And so the investment economy, he thinks, is stuck. | ||
| So his goal is to have the Federal Reserve sell off a gigantic portion of its bonds. | ||
| This would remove reserves from the banks and also mean the Federal Reserve is no longer subsidizing the least effective parts of the economy, the government-driven parts of the economy. | ||
| Also, simultaneously lower those interest rates, which is what President Trump wants. | ||
| And this would then encourage banks to invest in Main Street and business rather than just parking their money at the Federal Reserve. | ||
| This would simultaneously reduce the risk of a major bond-lead implosion when all of those bonds come due and the Federal Reserve has to pay it off and inflate the currency in order to do that. | ||
| And it would stimulate economic growth. | ||
| And so his assumption is normally when you end up selling a bunch of bonds back into the market, that means that the bond rates for future bonds have to rise. | ||
| Because if you can buy a bond really cheap right now, when the market is flooded, then in order to get people to buy new bonds, you have to have a higher facial interest rate. | ||
| What he's hoping is that that won't happen because instead, people will invest in bonds based on the fact that they know that the American economy is growing. | ||
| So driving more money into the AI investment arena via lower FFR and also getting rid of the bonds at the Federal Reserve level, he's hoping this will ungum the works, essentially. | ||
| And you'll get an honest level of inflation in the economy that is very low and also high growth rates. | ||
| That is what he is looking for. | ||
| And all of that is predicated on significant long-term growth for the United States. | ||
| This is what he was writing back in November of 2025 or a piece for the Wall Street Journal. | ||
| What he said was, America's real comparative advantage is its workers of all stripes everywhere from factory floors to drilling rigs, corporate cubicles to garage startups who devise new ways of doing business. | ||
| The result is a revitalized nation of doers, risk takers, and entrepreneur Mark Andreessen's simple framing, builders. | ||
| He says Wall Street and Silicon Valley are booming, and U.S. workers are finally getting a step up in their real take-home pay. | ||
| Even so, the benefits of the American juggernaut are yet to be fully realized. | ||
| Among the chief obstacles is the Fed. | ||
| What is to be done? | ||
| Well, first, the Fed should discard its forecast of stagflation in the next couple of years, as if subpar growth and inflation 40% above target is the best that can be done. | ||
| AI, he says, is going to bring prices down. | ||
| So that will be disinflationary. | ||
| Because if productivity goes up, that means higher supply. | ||
| That means lower prices. | ||
| He says that AI will increase productivity and bolster American competitiveness. | ||
| And that should drive significant increases in real take-home wages because things are going to be cheaper. | ||
| So they'll be more affordable. | ||
| Second, he says inflation is a choice. | ||
| The Fed should reexamine its great mistakes that led to the great inflation. | ||
| It should abandon the dogma that inflation is caused when the economy grows too much and workers get paid too much. | ||
| Inflation is not caused by that. | ||
| It's caused when the government spends too much and prints too much. | ||
| And he says that is largely because the Federal Reserve is making money appear out of thin air to buy the bonds. | ||
| So stop doing that. | ||
| That's what creates inflation. | ||
| Inflation is not when banks lend out money. | ||
| Inflation is really more when the Federal Reserve is injecting liquidity into the economy that didn't exist before. | ||
| Third, he says the Fed should take responsibility for regulatory failures, including a deposit run on banks in late 2022 and early 2023. | ||
| He says the Fed's rules and regulations have systematically disadvantaged small and medium-sized banks, and that has slowed the flow of credit to the real economy. | ||
| And fourth, we should stop trying to hold ourselves to the regulatory standards of Europe. | ||
| All of this seems basically right to me, but the key is this. | ||
| It's a big bet, a really big bet on the growth of AI. | ||
| That's really the thing that he's counting on. | ||
| Now, there are risks to the strategy because there are costs and benefits to every strategy. | ||
| If, because the bonds are being resold to the banks, the reserves of the banks runs low, then theoretically, if there is any sort of squeeze on the banks, then banks would have to increase their own interest rates to the public and mortgage rates and credit card rates and all of it would go up. | ||
| Or it's possible that a decrease in the FFR, the interest rates, could cause the economy to heat up a lot and people will start taking out money to speculate wildly. | ||
| And then you get some sort of inflationary result. | ||
| His point is that that's not real inflation. | ||
| Real inflation is when the government is full-scale creating money on a computer and it just goes out into the world, which really only happens via open market operations. | ||
| Or it's possible that the interest rates on bonds could spike as the market is flooded with bonds that are now being injected back into the economy. | ||
| And if those interest rates have to spike, then our debt becomes significantly more burdensome and the bond market softens and it's harder for us to actually spend on the governmental level. | ||
| What's the bottom line here? | ||
| Warsh's strategy is to bet on growth and innovation in the private sector, which is why he's a good pick. | ||
| He is a good pick. | ||
| Warsh does have a strategy. | ||
| It is definitely not a risk-free strategy, but there's no such thing as a risk-free strategy. | ||
| The biggest thing that he is doing is he is saying that the Federal Reserve should no longer be the chief policymaker when it comes to the economy. | ||
| Instead, the Federal Reserve should basically be there as a backstop, and that's kind of it, which is the original concept of the Federal Reserve. | ||
| It was instituted to prevent runs on banks. | ||
| And he's saying they should basically go back to that, set a low overnight rate, keep that feds rate low. | ||
| And that's kind of the main mandate. | ||
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| That is the thing that he is pushing. | ||
| And that seems eminently correct to me. | ||
| Now, Democrats do have a problem moving forward here. | ||
| The biggest problem they have is the 2030 apportionment forecast. | ||
| This is a map. | ||
| The map shows the 2030 apportionment based on 2025 population estimates. | ||
| This is from Carnegie Mellon University. | ||
| It shows Texas picking up four seats, Florida picking up four seats, California losing four seats. | ||
| It shows states like Arizona picking up one. | ||
| It shows North Carolina picking up one. | ||
| All of the loss of seats is happening in blue areas. | ||
| It's happening in Illinois. | ||
| It's happening in New York. | ||
| It's happening in a wide variety of blue areas. | ||
| Michigan also would lose a seat. | ||
| Wisconsin would lose a seat. | ||
| Bottom line is that under that scenario, if this had been the map in 2024, Trump would have won 11 more electoral college votes. | ||
| So the map is moving pretty strongly against Democrats in terms of the demographics because so many places are picking up population in red areas. | ||
| There has been a significant blue-to-red move. | ||
| Our company, Daily Wire, did this. | ||
| My family did this. | ||
| The population changes that are occurring are really significant. | ||
| Nine states have gained more than 60,000 residents from July 2024 to July 2025, according to the American Redistricting Project. | ||
| Those states are Texas, Florida, North Carolina, Georgia, South Carolina, Washington, Arizona, Tennessee, and Virginia. | ||
| Of those nine states, seven are pretty solidly red. | ||
| Five states have lost population in that same period: West Virginia, New Mexico, Vermont, Hawaii, and California. | ||
| The only one of those that's red is West Virginia. | ||
| And the population losses would be greater for a lot of those blue states if you don't include foreign in-migration. | ||
| This is a major problem for Democrats. | ||
| And so Democrats basically have to hope that either Republicans go over their skis here and pursue policies that are wildly unpopular, or they have to moderate. | ||
| They have to. | ||
| And it's kind of incredible that Democrats are seeming to radicalize even as the map moves away from them. | ||
| It's a hell of a political move. | ||
| Meanwhile, it does suggest it creates at least the motive for the possibility of problems in the voter roles. | ||
| Promilla Jayapal, leader of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, she's out there railing against voter IDs still. | ||
| All the ways in which voters are intimidated, including, as you mentioned, new ID requirements that Republicans are trying to get into many places. | ||
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And so we're both in the courts, but we also want to make sure that we're doing everything we can to not scare people off from voting. | |
| Again, is that about scaring people off from voting, or is that about allowing people who should not vote to vote? | ||
| Voter ID should be a basic prerequisite for voting. | ||
| This should not be particularly controversial. | ||
| It is nonetheless. | ||
| John Thun, the Senate Majority Leader, is pushing for the SAVE Act to be updated to require ID at the polling places. | ||
| My understanding is that they are still modifying the bill. | ||
| It includes right now a requirement that you be a citizen to register to vote, but it doesn't include a requirement that to vote you be a resident. | ||
| So, in other words, if you're going to have what we call voter ID or photo ID when somebody goes into the ballot box to vote, that's not currently covered in the bill. | ||
| So, that's been fixed and addressed. | ||
| And I think the new bill that comes out hopefully will deal with that. | ||
| Now, earlier this week, the FBI did search the main election office in Fulty County, Georgia, looking for records related to the 2020 race. | ||
| According to the Wall Street Journal, a U.S. official familiar with the warrant said it authorized agents to look for physical ballots, voter rolls from that year, ballot images created by scanning ballots and tabulator tapes from every voting machine in the county. | ||
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| And the warrant was signed by a magistrate judge. | ||
| Apparently, the goal was to look into possible violations of federal law. | ||
| Tulsi Gabbard flew down to Georgia and was part of the effort. | ||
| Now, obviously, some of this is designed. | ||
| There is a thing that goes on in the Trump administration where various cabinet officials try to stay in President Trump's good graces by sort of humoring his ideas. | ||
| But we'll follow the evidence wherever it leads, as of course we should. | ||
| If it turns out that the DNI and the FBI end up uncovering serious evidence of fraud sufficient to change election results, obviously that should all be prosecuted. | ||
| We all want honest elections, or at the very least, we should. | ||
| Alrighty, coming up, we'll jump into the latest on Iran. | ||
| Will there be some action there this weekend? | ||
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| What was it like, Marlon, to be alone with God? | ||
| Is that who you think I was alone with? | ||
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Marathin, I knew your father. | |
| I am yet convinced that he was not of this world. | ||
| All men know of the great Taliesin. | ||
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Who am I father? | |
| Are the gods war for my soul? | ||
| Princess Garris, savior of our people. | ||
| I know what the bull got offered you. | ||
| I was offered the same. | ||
| And there is a new pirate work in the world. | ||
| I've seen it. | ||
| A god who sacrifices what he loves for us. | ||
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We are each given only one life, singer. | |
| No. | ||
| We're given another. | ||
| I learned of Yazoo the Christ, and I have become his follower. | ||
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He's waiting on an Ernol, and I think you can give him one. | |
| Trust in Yezu. | ||
| He is the only hope for men like us. | ||
| Fate of Britain never rests in the hands of the Great Life. | ||
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Great light, great darkness. | |
| Such things mattered to me then. | ||
| What matters to you now, Mistress of Lies? | ||
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You, nephew. | |
| The sword of the high king. | ||
| How many lives must be lost before you accept the power you were born to wield. | ||
| Still clinging to the promises of a god who has abandoned you. | ||
| I cannot take up that sword again. | ||
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You know what you must do. | |
| Great life, forgive me. | ||