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Protecting Our Borders Now - February 5th, Hour 3
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So the battle over the border bill continues.
It's dead on arrival in the House.
There was never any need for the Senate.
They could never improve upon H.R. 2, which was already passed by the House.
But this new budding, you know, BFF relationship between Mitch McConnell and Chucky Schumer has resulted in a bill that Republicans are saying in the House is just simply dead on arrival.
They'll work with the Senate.
Here's Mike Johnson, the Speaker, saying, we're willing to work with the Senate, but they have to be serious about it.
This bill's not serious.
And so ultimately what's going to happen is the Senate will pass this thing.
Then it's going to take just a couple of Republicans, rhinos that like Ken Buck of Colorado will be one.
They need to peel off one or two more, depending on who shows up on any given day.
And that's how they're going to try and sneak this bill through.
But here's Johnson saying, no, conservatives are not supporting it.
Even former President Trump, though, called for legislative change on this issue.
You have one of the slimmest majorities in the House in history.
Don't you have to compromise to get something done?
What you passed in the House can't pass in the Senate, Mr. Speaker.
You know that.
We are willing to work.
We are willing to work with the Senate.
I am not disclosing that.
And I've been very consistent for the 100 days that I've had the gamble.
We're willing to work, but they have to be serious about it.
If you only do a few of those components, you are not going to solve the problem.
And Kristen, that's not a Republican talking point.
That's what the sheriffs at the Border Patrol agents, the deputy chief of U.S. Border Patrol, a 33-year veteran of the agency, told us.
He said, it's as though we're administering an open fire hydrant.
He said, I don't need more buckets like the president's proposed.
I need to stop the flow.
And we know how to do that, but Joe Biden is unwilling to do it.
Now, that's his take.
And we've gone over in the last hour all the things that we see that's wrong with this bill and the difference with H.R. 2.
James Lankford is urging the critics to read it and don't go off a Facebook post.
No, actually, everybody's reading it.
You know, what we have given you is a summary of what's actually in the bill.
It does not end catch and release.
Instead, it just facilitates catch and release for certain populations.
By the way, as American First Legal pointed out, that should be a red flag.
It exempts UAC from the new break glass removal authority, which means it's worthless.
And again, none of this was necessary.
They didn't have to put any of this in there.
The bill effectively codifies the administration's absurd asylum officer rule that dozens of attorneys generals are challenging in court.
As American First Legal put it, they might as well call it the Asylum Officer Empowerment Act.
Anyway, there's a lot to get to, but here's James Lankford, you know, saying this and defending it.
And, you know, well, as Republicans, are we going to leave the border open or closed?
That's not what the question is.
Anyway, here's what he said.
So we actually have this bill came out yesterday, Sunday.
The first procedural vote is Wednesday, and that procedural vote is literally just open it up to be able to go through it and to be able to say, are we going to debate it this week?
That's what Senator Lee is actually talking about.
It's interesting that he said he's already opposed to it.
He needs three weeks to be able to read it, but he's already opposed to it.
So again, people have got to be able to read it, go through it themselves.
Don't just go off a Facebook post somewhere what the bill says.
This dramatically changes asylum.
It dramatically changes deportations.
We no longer have a 10-year backlog.
It builds more wall.
Those are the key things that it actually does.
But read it for yourselves.
Don't just believe what's online.
Yeah, unfortunately, he would step out and be able to say that right away before obviously he had had a chance to be able to read it as well and to be able to go through it.
The key aspect of this, again, is: are we as Republicans going to have press conferences and complain the border's bad and then intentionally leave it open after the worst month in American history in December?
Now we've got to actually determine: are we going to just complain about things or are we going to actually dress and change as many things as we can?
If we have the shot, and it's amazing to me, if I go back two months ago and say we had the shot under a Democrat president to dramatically increase detention beds, deportation flights, lock down the border, to be able to change the asylum laws, to be able to accelerate the process, no one would have believed it.
And now no one actually wants to be able to fix it and says, I don't want to even debate it.
I don't want to discuss it.
We have to decide as Republicans, what are we going to actually do about the border, leave it open or actually leave it closed?
Anyway, joining us now, I think it's, what, 370 some-odd pages?
He's read every one of them.
Greg Jarrett, Fox News legal analyst, sir, how are you?
I'm well.
Thank you.
He didn't need to pass the bill to begin with.
By the way, Joe Biden doesn't need support from Congress either because all he has to do is put in place everything he rescinded in the first hundred days in office.
Yeah, absolutely.
If you can close the border, as Trump did, with executive order, and then Biden opens it with executive order, you can close it again with executive order or just enforce the existing law, 18 U.S.C. 1325 and 1326.
It makes it a federal offense to come here illegally.
It's that simple.
Look, you're right.
I have read this bill.
It's a mess of a bill.
And frankly, Shauna, this is what happens when Republicans put a guy like Senator James Langford in charge of crafting it.
You know, when you're rewriting immigration law, a skilled lawyer, not an ordained minister, should be doing it.
It's not that Langford is incompetent.
He's simply not equipped.
And it shows, I mean, you read through this bill, the fine print, 5,000 illegals per day will get to come here and stay before an expulsion mandate kicks in.
Do the math.
That's 1.8 million migrants each year.
Langford doesn't seem to understand that.
He said the 5,000 number is, quote, absurd and untrue.
No, it's not.
It's printed in the bill.
For God's sakes, read it.
You know, I think Langford has some reading comprehension problems.
I think you're right.
It does nothing to end the perpetual settlement agreements like Flores, which have undermined border security for decades.
And you're right, too.
You know, this idea, the Secretary may use it, the break glass emergency authorities, that's a disaster.
You know, they can use that if there are 4,000 or more illegal immigrants encountered each day, 28,000 a week, 121,000 a month, 1.46 million a year, but they must use it when there are more than 5,000 a day.
Oh, okay.
So at that point, you're going to trigger what should be border security.
There shouldn't be anybody that's allowed to enter this country illegally.
Nobody.
End of sentence.
You know, we have it's this is madness.
And by the way, we're going to pay a price for this.
Oh, yeah.
Well, we already are.
I mean, it's unsustainable.
It's bankrupting cities.
And the rampant crime is just unaffordable, the safety cost associated with this.
But, you know, as I read through this, I mean, it was very clever.
For example, it pretends to halt catch in a release, but you have to read further because it actually doesn't.
It doesn't enforce the existing asylum law, which 90% of applicants don't even qualify.
Instead, it does the opposite.
It loosens asylum, allowing even more bogus claims to pass through.
And then there's this is my favorite, the self-destruct button, which means Joe Biden can simply supersede all of the provisions in the law if he wants to on any given day.
Essentially, what happened here is James Langford got snookered.
He got rolled by Chris Murphy and Kristen Sinema.
You know, Langford, I think, just doesn't know any better.
He's not equipped to recognize all of the hidden legal machinations that are buried in this Goliath 370-page bill.
This doesn't tighten the border.
It loosens, it erases the border and does nothing to stop the flow of millions of people already breaking the existing law by entering the country illegally.
I'd be negligent if I didn't ask you.
Apparently, over at MSDNC, lawyers there are beginning to freak out because they don't think that any of the Trump trials, well, they're beginning to think that the likelihood is much greater than they thought that none of these trials will take place before the election.
Do you see that unfolding as well?
I think there's a very, very good possibility when you take a look at each and every one of them.
Obviously, there are serious problems now with Fonnie Willis's case in Fulton County.
There's a hearing next week.
And, you know, this case may get transferred out from under her.
And I think if fresh eyes were to take a look at it, for example, at the AG's office or a different DA's office, they'd say, wait a minute, this is a perversion of racketeering laws.
So I'm not sure that one's going to move forward.
There are obvious problems with the J6 case in Washington, D.C., brought by Jack Smith as special counsel.
It is now being held in abeyance pending appeals.
And then, you know, down at the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case, I still don't know how you can present to a jury highly classified top-secret documents for which jurors cannot possibly receive security clearance.
So there's problems with all of these cases.
By the way, on the documents case, the Biden camp's in total freakout mode because apparently photographic evidence is likely to be released with Special Prosecutor Her's report.
And I guess it looks just like what we saw from down in Mar-a-Lago, a bunch of papers that shouldn't have been in Joe's possession in his garage, in two libraries, and in his house in Delaware.
Yeah, and, you know, I'm reminded of Joe Biden's reaction when he said, well, you know, it's not like the documents were left out on the street.
They were next to my Corvette in a locked garage.
A locked garage, and we have more pictures than we can count of that garage being wide open with his beautiful stingray and classified documents right next to it.
and hunter uh driving the stingray uh with a couple of uh young women so he has well it does beat the pictures of him you know naked with waving a gun around with uh let's just say women of the night next to him yeah Yeah, but I think Joe Biden still thinks that's Russian disinformation.
I think he's still relying on those 51 liars, former Intel people.
You know, even though the FBI has now come out in court documents and said, this is the real deal.
The contents are real and authentic.
They're all Hunter Biden's.
It's his laptop.
Yeah, well, they're still believing that lies.
All right, quick break right back more with Greg Jarrett on the other side.
All right, we continue with Greg Jarrett, Fox News legal analyst.
So what do you think the odds are that there are no trials where we stand now?
Because especially, I just think that I don't even think Alvin Bragg's decided what the case is going to be about.
If he has, he hasn't really told anybody that I'm aware of.
The RICO case is ridiculous, especially there's not one person that made a plea deal that admitted to any racketeering anything.
So I'm not thinking, how do you have a racketeering organization when there's no more people left to accuse of being a part of the organization?
It's kind of stupid.
The January 6th one, I think he can't get a fair trial there no matter what.
That would have to be ultimately, I guess, decided by the Supreme Court after it makes its way through the appellate court.
Yes, and then, of course, the closer you get to the election, let's say these cases get pushed off to the summertime, then you're running up against the long-standing DOJ policy of not taking legal action in any case that might affect an election.
So, yeah, I think there's a very real chance that if these cases get pushed beyond the spring into the summer, that they may not take place at all until after the presidential election next November.
Define the date.
At what point do you think they have a very hard time bringing or starting a criminal case with the top presidential candidate?
At what point is that going to be interference?
I think about 120 days, essentially, is really the cutoff.
The original DOJ policy was 90 days, but by practice, that's been extended to about 120 days.
So, you know, I mean, I think that's really the cutoff here.
And I just don't see any of these cases overcoming the legal obstacles that would allow them to be brought to trial in front of a jury.
I mean, the Alvin Bragg case, he still hasn't identified the underlying crime.
And it can't be an illegal campaign contribution because the federal government already determined that the money paid wasn't a campaign contribution by definition.
So, you know, all of these cases, you know, were politically motivated.
They were timed, but they didn't take into consideration the pretrial motions and appellate arguments that inevitably play.
Greg Jarrett, Fox News legal analyst, great number one New York Times best-selling author, sir.
Great to have you as always.
Thank you for being with us.
We do, Sean.
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Oh, and there was a good moment at the Grammys last night.
Linda, you know what I'm talking about.
It was a pretty cool moment.
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So I actually watched more of the Grammys than I ever thought that I would last night.
Did you watch a lot of it last night, Linda, or did you just check out clips online later?
I have not watched the Grammys in about a decade.
No design.
Yeah.
I would say you and I are about the same on that.
I don't know why.
Maybe because there's no football.
There's nothing else worthwhile watching.
It's a few points.
And so, anyway, I'm just checking it out and I'm watching it.
And I'm kind of interested in it, waiting for the big I hate Trump bombs to drop.
I didn't see any if it happened.
I didn't watch all of it, so I wouldn't know.
But there was a cool moment, and then I got a kick out of it.
Sweet Baby James hit me with what people were saying online when country star Luke Homes got together with Tracy Chapman.
Now, he had done a remake of her hit song Fast Car, which is an awesome song.
I've always liked it.
And anyway, they sang it together.
And it's like everyone thought the world was healed just by two people being on stage.
I'm not sure what their implication was, but I don't know.
It was just a kind of a cool moment, a song that everybody likes.
And maybe I guess they're looking at it from two people from two genres of music that may be considered different and getting together and singing it.
By the way, she's paid all the rights on that song.
She makes money for every single download that Luke Combs gets on this.
And she deserves every penny of it because it's such a great song.
Here's how it went down last night.
I mean that song's been in my head because I would listen to it like three times Have you listened to it since, Linda?
I mean, listen, I'm a huge Tracy Chapman fan.
I loved her.
You know, I always thought she was amazing, super talented.
I love some of her lesser-known songs.
But FASCAR was obviously, you know, the mainstream.
It was on all the top 100.
And my daughter loves Luke Hombs and listens to him all the time, has all of his sweatshirts.
So I've heard his version of it.
So I always think it's great when people collaborate and kind of, you know, do things together.
There's not a lot of people who do remakes and take people's songs and make them different or unique.
And I think that Luke Combs did do that with Tracy Chapman's song.
He did just enough different where it was like, oh, this is really cool.
This is a nice version of this, you know?
So it was cool to see them do it together.
I kind of agree with you.
I think it was just a cool moment.
And you could tell Luke Christmas.
I mean, I don't think it's going to create peace or anything between Israel and Palestine or anything.
I think, well, that's a bunch of nonsense.
But I like that it was in the same moment.
It was, I mean, for once, you get a little bit of good news.
Maybe put a little bit of the tension that constantly exists aside for a minute.
Clark in Utah.
Clark, how are you?
Glad you called, sir.
And thanks for checking in.
Happy Monday.
Thank you.
I'm calling about our warmonger, Biden.
I believe that everyone that has died in the Middle East was caused because he turned on the spigot for oil for Iran.
And they have, against our law, already sold over almost a million barrels to Russia.
I think they've made, I've seen estimates as high as China alone putting $100 billion with a B dollars in their coffers.
Then you got the $6 billion in ransom payment.
Then you got the $10 billion waiver that Joe Biden gave the mullahs in Iran.
Meanwhile, with all that extra money, what's been happening?
Nearly 200 attacks against U.S. soldiers.
Now, some people will critical of me on Friday because I said I was very clear.
I don't want war with Iran.
I don't want a long protracted war.
However, maybe I'm a little too old school, but if you're firing and you're having your proxies and you're fomenting terror against and targeting American troops abroad, which they have done nearly 200 times now, which lends itself to the inevitable moment where Americans are killed, and that happened not this past weekend, the weekend prior, then there's got to be a proportional response.
There's got to be something called a deterrent.
And I think that it was meaningless, and it was a check-the-box moment for Biden.
And I don't think he has the wherewithal to pull off what would need to be pulled off here to actually stop all the proxy fighting that Iran is responsible for and all the terror they're responsible for.
It's not going to deter them at all.
I agree completely, but we're still not talking about the reality that Joe Biden is the cause of the war.
I just got done agreeing with you.
Yes.
He made the mullahs in Iran rich again by turning a blind eye to the sanctions and the oil sales.
Yes, you are correct.
No, no blind eye.
He turned on the spigot.
Well, it's six or one, half a dozen of the others.
He helped the Iranian mullahs get rich again.
I agree with you.
Look at it then.
He is responsible for every single Hamas person, every Palestinian person, every American person that those three sad ones now that have been done.
He's responsible for every I'll tell you what, I'll take it a step further.
All the illegal immigrants, the nearly 10 million he's allowed in the country, every crime they commit, or in the future, if I'm right, that there's terrorists among the population of 10 million because they're all unvetted.
If I am right, and I think I will be proven right, although I pray I am proven wrong, he will have blood on his hands.
Those cops that got the crap beat out of him, you can thank Joe Biden for that too, because he refuses to enforce our border laws and secure the border.
And this bill is a joke in the Senate, and it should be dead on arrival.
Simple law that the House needs to pass right now.
And whether they sign it or not, I mean, whether the Senate passes it or he goes to Joe Biden and he puts it off, it shows where we are in terms of the war that we have at the border.
There could be a simple law, probably of under 2,000 words, to require all immigrants seeking asylum in the United States to go to the embassy and their own country to get the paperwork to come here.
Okay, a real asylum case, they probably couldn't do that, but that's what the beauty of the state of Mexico policy was: that they stay there while their asylum claims are being looked into.
But, you know, under this bill, you know, Joe Biden basically can render all of it irrelevant anyway at any time he wants, which is the worst provision in the entire bill because everything that's written here, oh, but Joe can declare a state of emergency and do whatever the hell he wants again anyway.
And that's what he would do.
And if anything, it codifies into law's ability to do it.
Anyway, Clark, good call.
You're right on the money.
Appreciate it.
Roman, Massachusetts, next Sean Hannity show.
Sir, glad you called.
Hi, Sean.
How are you?
I'm good, sir.
Hope you had a good weekend.
I did.
Sean, I want to talk to you about the Denver police officers that were attacked last week.
Excuse me.
I've been in law enforcement for 28 years, and what I witnessed on TV, them getting kicked in the head, and just for telling a group to move along, you know, the illegal Venezuelan criminals that attacked them.
My heart went out to my fellow brothers.
I don't like to see that at all.
And then the added extra, you know, when one of them was coming out of the PD, the double bird flip.
That was beautiful.
That's kind of, you know, he's a poster child for what they're, you know, figuratively and literally doing to this, illegally owners are doing to this country.
Just giving every American citizen the bird.
The gratitude is oozing out of him.
Just for the picture, that picture is way more than a thousand words.
You know, a week later, Alvin Bragg, Alvin Bragg has way more to worry about than Donald Trump right now.
Alvin Bragg, Kathy Hochle, Bluster.
He's defending the decision to let them out.
And just for the record, Even if these cop-eating illegals that flipped us the bird after they got out because of his no-bail insanity, they can't be deported under New York state sanctuary laws.
You know, Kathy Hoka, oh, we got to send them back after she had been on tape repeatedly begging people to come and how open their state was for all the illegals.
Yeah, until the bill comes due and she and Mayor Adams all of a sudden don't know what to do.
But don't worry, I guess they're giving away $53 million in debit cards to illegal immigrants.
By the way, something they've never done to veterans that I've ever heard of in all the years that I lived past tense in New York.
Well, sure, absolutely.
There's homeless veterans living on the street and getting kicked out of their residences in Massachusetts, all across the country to make room for the illegals.
Now, where's the gratitude for the veterans that served our country?
And the $53 million that Adams is giving, he was just complaining that he didn't have enough money to support and house this influx.
There's another $137 million that they approve for more expensive New York City hotel rooms.
Have you ever stayed in a New York City hotel?
It's not cheap.
Yeah, I'm sure it's not.
They put them up at the Waldorf.
I'm sure the accommodations will be great for them.
Well, the Roosevelt Hotel, I mean, it may not be the best New York facility, but for people here illegally, but also add to that a billion dollars that the Biden people have been giving illegal immigrants down at the border.
So not only is he aiding and abetting the law breaking, not only does he get free transportation, not only does he force this unfunded mandate onto states, then he turns around and uses taxpayer money to give to the illegal immigrants.
Tell me, show me where in law he has the right to do that.
You know, everybody else, you know, we cited 18 USC, 18, what, 35 or whatever the number is.
I've gone through the law so many times, and it's very clear he does not have a right to do any of this, including transport people.
That's called human trafficking for the rest of us.
Indeed.
Sean, I want to go over one thing quickly.
You know, the American people, the working class, remind me of the horse Boxer in the book Animal Farm.
Okay.
And Boxer, it was a sad story, but he was a beloved character.
He worked until he died, and he just worked himself to death.
And that's what reminds me of the working class American taxpayer, what's going on right now.
Joe Biden, with a stroke of a pen on his first day, got rid of all of Trump's border policies, everyone.
With a stroke of a pen today, right now as we speak, he can reinstate them, enforce the border policies that are in place now.
We don't need a new law.
We don't need tit-for-tat with, you know, I'll give you, well, give me $5,000 a day and I'll give you, like, it's absolute ridiculous.
It's nonsense.
This does not have to, because once that is signed, if it passes, it's not going to get through the House.
But once it passes, they're going to fudge the numbers.
It was $4,999.
And no, it was really $10,000.
Let's look at these numbers.
I think it's more than 30 million illegal aliens crossed over the border.
The number of eight has been around for about three or four years.
I talk to a lot of agents and a lot of people that work down there.
They think it's close to the 10 million number.
That's what they think.
When you look at Godaways and everything in between, look, this is now, you know, this is Biden's policies.
He's trying to do a head fake, act like he cares.
They're trying to switch the blame to Republicans because they know House Republicans are not going to go for a phony border security bill, and they'll just try and blame it all on them.
And I think Republicans in the House are like, you can pass that bill all you want.
We're not going along with it.
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All right, that's what I wrapped things up for today.
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We'll go over the disastrous Senate version of a border security bill.
Stephen Miller, Tommy Larry.
By the way, Dr. Phil McGraw's down there.
He's adamant about this.
He's really passionate about it.
We'll get into that.
Sarah Carter, Christy Noam, Newt Gingrich, Laura Trump.
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