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Congressman Byron Donalds - March 11th, Hour 3
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Toll free on numbers eight hundred nine four one Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
I I I still for the life of me cannot comprehend that Joe Biden is apologizing for using the word illegal, uh an accurate term to describe Lake and Riley's murder suspect during the State of the Union.
He's apologizing left, right, and sideways over this, and it's infuriating to me and infuriating to many others, but yet he didn't take the time like Donald Trump did to meet with Lake and Riley's family, nor did he take the time to apologize to the family for getting her name Lake and Riley.
It's Lake and Joe, Lake and Riley's name wrong at the State of the Union address by calling her Lincoln Riley, and the family was offended.
They said so this weekend in a tweet I believe the mother put out.
And I can't blame them.
Here's Joe regretting using the term illegal, caring more about the murder suspect than the person murdered here.
During your response to her heckling of you, you used the word illegal when talking about the man who allegedly killed uh Lincoln Riley.
Undocumented person.
I shouldn't have used illegal.
I should undocumented.
And look, when I spoke about the difference between Trump and me, one of the things I talked about on the border was that his the way he talks about vermin, the way he talks about these people polluting the blood.
I talked about what I'm not gonna do, what I won't do.
I'm not gonna treat any any of these people with disrespect.
Look, they built the country.
The reason our economy is growing.
We have to control the border and more orderly flow, but I I don't care at all.
So you you regret using that word.
Yes.
All right, joining us now is our friend uh Florida Congressman Byron Donald's is with us.
I uh this I get apoplectic over this.
I cannot believe this is where this guy's head is at.
We've had nearly ten million illegal, unvetted Joe Biden illegal immigrants that he's allowed into this country from some of our top geopolitical foes, Iran, Syria, uh China, Russia, Egypt, Afghanistan.
And of course, never mind the the cartels, the drug smuggling, the human trafficking, and and everything else associated with this.
He's allowed it, he's aided and abetted in this, and he cares more about the word not saying the word illegal than he does about correcting the name of the victim here, cares more about the murder suspect than the victim.
Please explain this to me, Congressman, because I have no understanding of it.
Sean, I'll have an explanation for this.
This is the same Joe Biden who always brings up Bo Biden any time that somebody has a tragedy, frankly, on his watch, and he tries to have some foe sympathy, which really isn't for the families, it's a faux sympathy for him.
The same Joe Biden who has watched our border be eviscerated, has watched our cities be overrun, has watched cops be beat up in the street, has seen American citizens be killed by illegal immigrants, but he doesn't reverse course.
Listen, the biggest way to show that you are sorry about something is to change your your your tactics, to change your actions.
He's not going to change, which is why he's got to be removed, Sean, because this man cannot be trusted with the presidency.
He is proven to be a failure.
And and what's going on with with Lake and Riley's parents, the fact that they found it to be offensive is the correct response, and the fact that they chose to be with Donald Trump as opposed to Joe Biden speaks volumes as to what is happening in our country.
This man needs to be defeated.
The family should be upset, and it's not just the family of Lake and Riley.
It's the family of so many Americans who've lost loved ones, either directly because of illegal immigrants in the United States or because of massive fentanyl overdoses, because Joe Biden has allowed the drug cartels to make billions and billions of dollars because he would rather uh appease the the radical left and be a radical himself than do what's right uh on behalf of the American people.
I I really can't say it any better, and I I really am trying to understand this.
How is it possible?
I I always thought when a president takes an oath to support our constitution, y you're a lawmaker, you're a congressman.
Uh uh c correct me if I'm wrong.
Isn't every law based on that document fundamentally isn't that the foundation of every law in this country.
It is, Sean, but when you have a party and you also have a president who do not care about the rule of law, to quote Barack Obama, they think more about using a pen and a phone than actually having to pass laws.
And so and then they like to project what they're doing on everybody else.
If you truly care about democracy, if you truly care about the rule of law, then you cannot support Joe Biden and you cannot support these radical Democrats.
Because look if you talk to a Democrat member of Congress who's reasonable away from the cameras and away from their party, they agree with you and I about all the tragedies that are happening.
But this radical left, the same radical left that supports Hamas over Israel, these radicals are the ones who are running the Democrat Party.
And as long as they're in charge of the Democrat Party, you can't compromise with them.
You have to defeat them.
I I I don't think I could say it any better than the way you have said it, but it's on every single issue.
Congressman, we have an election in two hundred and thirty eight days.
I'm not particularly worried about your race uh you've become a real star in the Republican Party.
I've gotten to know you personally I even have interviewed your wife on this program.
Uh I think you married way up as a side note but um there are only there only seems to be a small group even among House Republicans that are willing to fight you're among that group and I'm having a hard time understanding some of your colleagues because if Republicans don't unite on this one issue where they have enough leverage if they were all if they'd all unite together they could actually get the borders secure.
They really could and I'm under I'm having a hard time understanding why they don't do that.
Well look I'll be real blunt with you Sean we have a lot of members who are more concerned about having a majority than actually using um using the majority to accomplish the agenda.
The concerns up here on Capitol Hill are that if you truly fight for the border that we could end up losing seats and you don't have a majority in the future and I just disagree with that.
I think if you look at what's happening with our southern border and also what's happening in our cities because of our southern border this is the issue that has united Americans and the party that actually stands truly about leading to fix that border is the party that that's going to be rewarded.
Um look the the conversations I've had with the many of my colleagues has been but we always get blamed but the media is not on our side.
But Sean guess what the media is never going to be on our side and guess what?
The media is always going to blame us no matter what we do.
You might as well stand on principle and actually lead as opposed to trying to work with a Democrat party that does not want to fix the border.
The modern Democrat Party has wanted open borders for 30 years, and now they have it.
And look what's happened to the country.
Let me play Donald Trump talking about meeting before a rally this weekend with Lakin Riley's family.
Listen to this.
But one of the lives that was taken from us was an incredible 22-year-old nursing student right here in Georgia, Lakin Riley.
Right?
Look at the signs.
Wow.
Wow, wow, wow.
From the time she was in the first grade, Lakin's dream.
dream was to spend her life caring for others and I met her beautiful mother and family backstage sister friends some of her friends or roommate they said she was like the best she was always the best she was they admit that she was the best and she was the first in her class she was going to be the best nurse she was the best nursing student.
She was always the best she was the brightest light in every room they told me and she was the whole world to her parents and to her sister just uh to the whole family.
Incredible then the unthinkable happened you know Congressman I I don't know you try to put yourself in people's place and as a parent I think about this and I could tell you straight up you want to break me destroy me you know hurt my kids.
I how does this family ever recover?
How do our friends recover?
How do our relatives recover?
I don't think they can I don't think they ever will be this they'll never obviously be the same again.
How do you how do you ever recover from something like that?
I think the the personal tragedy the only thing that helps you is obviously staying united as a as a family unit and then trusting God that's that's how you are able to to to continue um I think the the pain and the tragedy that's never going to go away.
That's always going to be a part um but and I Sean, look let me also say this.
If this if Donald Trump was president and this had occurred, you know the media would have that family on the news speaking wire to wire non stop.
The fact that the big media doesn't actually doesn't interview her mother, doesn't interview her father demonstrates how in the tank the media is, and it's really disgusting because it's not shining a light on the number one issue facing our country.
Um this c these kind of tragedies can be avoided.
Listen, you can't pre you can't protect everybody in life all the time.
We know this.
Tragedies do occur.
We know this.
But then there's also things that are just preventable.
And what happened to Lake and Riley was preventable.
What's happened to so many families is preventable.
And this president does not care.
He's already moved on to trying to cover up and not call the illegal alien a legal alien, calling the person a migrant or whatever the case might be.
It it's really disgusting, but for that family, at the end of the day, it's being united as families what's gonna help you um get past the pain and and the grief and potentially uh try to find a way to continue to live life.
Yeah, maybe it'll take time like he did with East Palestine after the train derailment and and maybe he'll show up a year later as if that's gonna matter.
Um this is the sad thing.
Now I mentioned the countries that that really scare me the most where they're crossing our southern border.
Why are people from China, Russia, Iran, Syria, Egypt, Afghanistan.
Why are they showing up there, Congressman?
And why do I why do I believe with a hundred percent certainty that I am right that among the nearly ten million Joe Biden unvetted illegal immigrants are terrorist cells that are in our country that are plotting, planning, and scheming a nine eleven, an October seventh, or worse, in this country.
And it's not a matter of if it's when.
I pray to God I'm wrong, Congressman.
I I'd never want to be be more wrong than on this topic.
But I don't think look, Sean, I I want you to be wrong as well.
I really, really do.
Um and so this is why I think even by polling now you're starting to see where the American people are supporting deportations.
Um we have to send a lot of these people home.
They just simply cannot stay.
First, we just don't have room for 'em.
That's number one.
But number two, uh you know, if the intelligence community is flagging some of these people that have come into our country, they gotta be the first to go.
Send them back to their countries.
Um if they have a country that doesn't want to take them, like we're being told Venezuela doesn't want to take a lot of these people back.
That's not my concern, Venezuela.
You gotta take them back.
We'll drop 'em off on the beach and you deal with it.
Um but that's what we're gonna have to do.
And we're we're gonna have to get serious as a nation.
Well, Joe Joe's too busy made Iran rich again and turned a blind eye to them selling oil on the world market in spite of of obviously sanctions we have in place and had no problem approving the ten billion from Iraq to be paid and wanted to give six billion for hostages.
It's it's crazy, Sean.
This is progressive policy at its worst.
Look at what they've done, you've already said it, but what they've done in the Middle East, what they've done basically in in in eastern Europe, this is when you're weak, and this is when you try to cut deals with your adversaries.
These other countries, these other leaders, they do not care about Joe Biden.
They do not care about the American people.
What they care about is advancing their agenda, and now they're doing it to the detriment of our national interests and the interests of our allies.
You cannot continue this.
And so I I gave a speech and I said, Listen, who puts this in harm's way are the men and women in uniform.
You know, like you have the dad of of one of our soldiers that was killed at Abbey Gate in Afghanistan during that disastrous withdrawal, and and they arrested him for disturbing the president.
Meanwhile, you have the the crazy uh code pink uh uh protesters slowing down presidential motorcades in the streets of Washington, DC, and they're allowed to just disrupt with with impunity.
When you have uh when that is your world view, that it is okay to quote unquote just beat back our enemies our our our our allies, but you want to do everything and bend over backward for our enemies, you are going to have decline on the world stage.
That's where Joe Biden has led us.
Congressman Byron Donalds of Florida, uh friend of the program.
Uh thank you, sir.
A voice of reason uh in the wilderness, unfortunately.
Well, we have two hundred and thirty-eight days, Congressman, praying for the best for our country.
Thank you, sir.
Eight hundred nine four one Sean.
Our number of your calls coming up straight ahead.
All right, let's get to our busy phones.
Mark is in Massachusetts.
Mark, hi, how are you?
Glad you called, sir.
Happy Monday.
Thank you for taking my call, Sean.
Um, I don't know if you caught the interview of Stephanopoulos on um Nancy Mace.
First of all, like everybody else, no if you go back to the days of Bob Schiefer and and Tim Russert and and others, uh Brinkley and and company, though those Sunday shows actually meant something, had influence and rated.
None of them rate anymore.
Nobody nobody pays attention.
I've tried to explain this to Republicans.
I'm like, why are you going on those shows?
Nobody watches them.
Anyway, they feel that it uh they may have pick up opportunity.
I did pick up clips of it.
I'm I'm aware of of it, but I I I didn't, by the way, I feel sorry I learned in that interview.
Uh it it breaks my heart to hear anybody that was ever a victim of rape, and apparently Nancy Mace brought that up in the course of her interview.
Um for Bill Clinton again when and called Juanita Broderick, Paula Jones, Kathleen Willie back in those days.
There's a lot of video of him going after those girls just the way Bill did and Hillary did.
So I think someone should play Stephanopoulos um calling out Nancy Mace for uh supporting Donald Trump on a twenty-year-old uh civil rape that she doesn't even remember where it took place.
And i I mean, Mace, I I think Mace to be honest with you, should have Well, look, I mean, I'm not gonna get involved in a case I don't know anything about, but I will tell you this.
I had an opportunity to interview Juanita Broderick after Lisa Myers did.
I did the second interview.
Um, and I found her to be one of the most credible people I've ever interviewed in my life.
And if you remember the show, the war room, it was a documentary on the Clinton campaign.
There's George Stephanopoulos when the whole bimbo eruption issues came up and Jennifer Flowers, etc.
etc.
Uh him talking to a reporter screaming at him, you'll n I'll make sure you never work in this town again.
Well, now he's a newsman over at ABC News.
Oh, okay.
Uh no, he was the guy on the phone with Paul Bagala and Rombo Deadfish and all these other people.
Uh yeah, they were the ones that talked to Clinton all throughout his presidency and during his impeachment time.
But this is from the show The War Room.
actually have it in our archives.
Another good night for Bill Clinton.
Three debates, three wins.
Bush was on the defensive all night long.
I think he was put on the defensive by Bill Clinton over the economy and by...
What is names address?
I can send you a facts with names, addresses, phone numbers of of who you had an affair with.
It wouldn't make it true.
Yeah, I just believe me.
Believe me that it's been looked at by every major national news organization.
Everything.
And it is completely bull.
If you went on the radio and said that Blue Clayton is uh the father of the illegitimate black child, you would be laughed at.
We're not gonna win this.
He is gonna be president.
Well, no, but I mean, don't think of it like that.
Think of let's take it at two levels.
Number one, of course it's not gonna matter.
But number two, think of yourself.
I guarantee you that if you do this, you'll never work in democratic politics again.
Maybe you don't want to.
I'm not saying it matters.
You will be embarrassed before the National Press Court.
People will think nobody will believe you.
And people will think you're scummy.
The governor walks out, the president.
Walks out with Hillary and Chelsea.
They wave, they smile, they hug.
I'm as uh as happy as I can be, and I'm so proud.
Paula Jones, Kathleen Willie, uh, Juanita Broderick, and Monica Lewinsky.
If you do this, I guarantee you'll never work in Democratic Party politics again.
And and he and he's the guy badgering her yesterday.
Uh I'm I don't I know ABC wouldn't do it, but they should they they they should have they should have fired him for that interview.
Well, this happened long before he ever got hired.
They didn't care.
I mean, uh I don't know what's worse.
But you know, whatever.
Uh I mean I I probably Nancy Mace does not know this history.
And uh too bad she didn't, because she could have brought it bro he ca she could have thrown Juanita Broderick right in his face, thrown his words from that documentary, if you will, uh, writing in his face.
And uh, you know, if I get the opportunity, I doubt Georgie will ever have me back on again, nor that I ever really want to go on ABC all the times I did.
But uh I would have no problem bringing it up, I'll put it that way.
Anyway, I appreciate I I appreciate the call, Mark.
Gotta get to some other callers here.
Uh let's say hi to Michael in DC, our nation's capital.
You talk about a swamp.
Well, this is the swampiest of all swamps.
How are you, sir?
Hey, how you doing, Mr. Handy?
And thanks for taking away.
What's going on?
My uh my uh topic is about why blacks, uh people of color are voting for Donald Trump.
And what happens, I want to say three uh three I'm a um educator in uh DC, and I teach civics, world history, African American studies, and world history.
And what happened was that thank God for Elon Musk purchasing Twitter, because our people, people of color, they only have one source of CNN.
They had no idea.
So what CNN did, they decided to not air all the stuff about immigration.
So when he showed up to the border, you know, he was a dollar, he was a day late, dollar short.
And black people, what happened was that all of a sudden they were all for Biden, then all of a sudden you've been fussing up for a hundred years about reparations, which is another topic, you know.
Um Jeffreys and Schumer didn't bring that up, but decided to give all the money to Ukraine, and then all the immigrants came across the bill, and they dump them into your cities, Boston, Baltimore, New York, Atlanta, Miami.
Now they're just they're putting you out of your schools, your homes, your tax, they're getting checks and gift cards, and you black people, y'all have been here for an entire time, you're not getting it.
Hey, well.
Oh, you all missed the vote because you all didn't see the trick that Uncle Joe played on you all and and and vowed for your votes and skipping the elections last year in Iowa and all of it, going straight to South Carolina.
He played the whole okay dope, but he has been doing for thousands of years with Senator Bird and put him in chains.
You ain't black and vote Democrat and signing and and orchestrating the crime bill him to Bill Clinton signed off on it.
Hey, Trump was getting people out of jail.
He now knows how I feel.
That's why you he said that black and CNN try to twist it.
He uh they now see, hey, you know, I know how I feel to be, you know, have a double standard.
And you talk about doing a uh the um the uh State of Union speech, you're gonna go after uh a high end tax uh high-end businesses for taxes, make their parents fair share of all the money you and your um or you and your uh uh son have been not paying taxes on being getting money for China and all that kind of stuff, and uh all the allegars across the world.
Now black people see it.
Oh, now you all want to vote for Trump.
I've been I've been I'm an independent, Mr. Handy.
I'm independent, and and yet they have to do their homework.
I try to tell them they don't like people like me and Charles that's on Fox.
They don't like Lawrence, they don't like uh Kevin, they don't like Harold.
You're all considered Uncle Thomas.
It's sad.
It really is.
It's it it is it's sad to me that if you are African American and conservative, that it's it's oh, you can be called any name in the book.
And the the great irony here, you've mentioned by the way, uh you were talking about in the the one case, remember Alice Marie Johnson.
I actually still stay in touch with her occasionally.
I I love that woman.
And the day she got out of prison on one drug charge, she got a life sentence.
And thank God Donald Trump uh, you know, gave her the pardon and she was able to be reunited with her family.
She's done so much good work uh since her time out of prison.
She was doing gr a great ministry in prison.
It was unbelievable.
She never she never thought she'd get out.
But it's bigger than that.
Historically black colleges, more support than ever before.
The lowest unemployment rate ever, you know, obviously till the pandemic it with African Americans and African American youth unemployment.
Those were the Trump policies.
But, you know, if you want to talk about a history of of racial politics, you can't ignore Joe Biden.
You mentioned a couple of them.
You know, remember what he I never forget what he said about Obama.
For the first time, you have a mainstream African American that is articulate and bright and clean.
I'm like, what?
What?
You know, that storybook, man.
First time ever?
Storybook.
I'm like, I couldn't believe it.
Never mind his history of praising the former Klansman as his mentor and friend, Robert Bird, or partnering with Bird to stop uh school bussing and the integration of our public schools.
He I mean, Kamala Harris took him up on that issue in one of the debates, but then magically becomes the vice president and she forgot all about that history.
I don't know what to say.
I mean, and then now he's running a clan ad trying to associate Trump with the Klan.
He just, you know, in the t but the mob, the media, trust me, then they're not gonna ever point it out.
I think I'm the only one that's ever played that h or told people about that history.
That I don't I don't know if think Donald Trump would do very well if he did he said and he partnered with a former Klansman against school busing, etc.
And then saying he didn't want schools to become quote racial jungles.
Uh your president Joe Biden said that.
You think most Americans know that?
I don't think so.
Because I think only the people that may listen to programs like this know it.
So, you know, let you go.
Um, they give them a pass every time black people give them a pass.
But now instead of not getting the money, if you start talking money, now the black people are mad.
We want our money.
You know what I'm saying?
The reparations is a whole different thing.
You gotta go to you gotta go to Spain, you gotta go to Portugal, Africa, you know, you gotta go to a lot of people.
But now you see what's going on.
And also the economic part of Mr. Hand is the last part.
Our system does not the way our tax-based system is the middle class would be drowned out.
We cannot afford that, sir.
We cannot afford this.
Money get led in 500 people.
Let me ask you some more basic question.
You said you're a professor and you're a historian, and my high school uh, you're you're an educator, which means you have a great knowledge of history, I'm I'm sure.
And and I'm asking, just let's look at predominantly minority neighborhoods in in this country.
How are those schools doing?
Well, because I believe every every child was built was created by God, and inside of every child is gifts that God gave them.
And that's unique as as unique as people's fingerprints.
Everyone has their own fingerprint.
And I see that in predominantly minority neighborhoods, you have some of the worst school districts in our country.
How how about law and order and safety and security?
I think you would agree with me.
That would be a cre prerequisite to pursue happiness.
How were these predominantly minority neighborhoods doing in that department?
Can you answer that?
Because I know the answer because I've looked at the statistics.
Let's talk about statistics.
So what they've done is that they said that um these numbers both, the crime rate is low, uh, the attendance rate is low.
What happens that they're not counting, like they don't do suspensions anymore.
They don't do suspension, they don't count because it makes their numbers look bad.
Those schools are not doing good anymore.
Malcolm X, W. Du Bois said the key to success in America is education.
All right.
So what they've done is that they've bought these foreigners, they bought these foreigners from all these countries to come and teach our kids.
There's a language barrier.
You can't the kids are understanding.
The kids are based on everything's based on standardized test scores, right?
So you have kids coming in from different parts of the world because English is just a second language.
English is their second language, correct?
So what happens is that they're they're taking the same test as all the replicas that speak English as their first language.
And those test scores are down.
We've they're not given the resources for enough Hispanic teachers.
They're not giving enough uh resource for people coming in that speak Arabic.
They're not getting enough teachers that come in that from China and stuff like that.
But what does that mean?
They're gonna take they're gonna take the resources that were slim to begin with, and and cities like Baltimore, they have what, 13 high schools, not one kid proficient in reading and math, uh, or the horrible, uh atrocious record of public schools in New York City, and and they're gonna have to now distribute that money and all of Joe's illegal immigrants, their children.
Now English as a as a second language, we're gonna take limited resources away from the kids that that desperately need more teachers, not less.
Let me ask you a question.
Have you ever thought of running for office?
Because you you sound like a rock star.
I I knew you were going to say that.
And if you looked me up in FCC fellow uh fellow election, FCC uh was gonna run in 2015 before Obama did.
But this thing is about money, super packs, and stuff like that.
I don't have it.
Well, you you you found your purpose in life.
I'll put it that way.
And by the way, please keep doing what you're doing.
Stay in touch with us.
God bless you and and your mission that you're on and the work that you do.
Uh any any kid in your class, I would say is blessed and lucky.
God bless you, man.
Appreciate it.
All right, that's gonna wrap things up for today.
We got a great Hannity Nine Eastern on the Fox News Channel.
Uh, you heard about this gold star dad arrested at the State of the Union.
We'll have his first interview tonight uh among our many guests.
Also, Newt Gingrich on Jack Dub Joe, uh, Matt Gates, Vivek, Vivek Ramaswamy, and oh, Jimmy Fela went out.
We back at doing a Hannity investigation on spring breakup.
Man, it is it is worse than ever.
And we'll get reaction, Tommy Larry and Charlie Hurt, Nine Eastern, set your DBR on Fox.
We'll see you tonight back here tomorrow.
Thank you for making this show possible.
Thank you.
Thank you.
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