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Mike Rogers - October 17th, Hour 3
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That's what caused inflation, energy, more than anything else, including their stupid spending on the Green New Deal.
One thing they've been saying, a lot of your press hits get criticized.
You know, folks say you come off as very scripted.
They say you like to stick to your talking points.
And some media says you have that would be called disciplined.
Oh, okay.
You had not had a conversation with Joe Biden since that happened.
Have you had a conversation with him?
Not since then, though.
So, but I'm prayerful about it.
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We have the Kamala files, her radicalism in her own words that the media ignores and the walls files.
We also put up Brett Baer's interview.
She did not have a good night last night.
And it's very interesting.
One of the things, Kamala first came out and said, we're going to have all this money available for black entrepreneurs.
And now, like everything else that she proposes, you know, she has to back off once they get a negative reaction.
It's sort of like, oh, yeah, I'm going to co-sponsor the Green New Deal.
Oh, never mind.
I co-sponsored it, but I don't even believe in my own bill.
You know, oh, I'm against fracking and drilling, but oh, no, I never really meant that, even though I wanted to sue oil companies also.
Oh, I support government health care, Medicare for all, no private health insurance, but oh, that's not popular either.
So I don't mean that either.
Oh, this is just a vanity project building a wall, but no, no, no, we definitely need walls.
I support free housing, health care, education, legal driver's licenses, college education, sex change operations for illegal immigrants and convicted felons.
But oh, no, yeah, no, I'm going to follow the law.
That was her favorite line lines.
I'm going to follow the law.
Well, the question is, do you want to change the law if you become president?
And so we find ourselves in a situation where, you know, she's looking now to pander and get more African Americans because polls are showing that she's bleeding support with African American men in particular.
There was a CBS morning news town hall on this, and you hear from one, hear from some Michigan community leaders, you know, saying a lot of African Americans are not into Kamala Harris and her campaign.
Listen: A lot of black males are not into the Harris campaign.
And I think this should have been done a while ago.
We have tens of thousands of people that do not intend to vote and don't give a damn about Kamala, Trump, or anyone else because they don't see how this campaign, this candidacy makes one bit of difference in their lives.
Then we sent our very own Sarah Carter, and she was speaking with African-American voters about Kamala Harris and the promises to them, and here's how they responded.
Why do you think she's announcing this new economic policy now?
Well, because most folks don't know what her economic policy is.
So to come out with something, especially targeting black men, we need to know that.
Yeah, it's just like you telling somebody, well, if you come over here, I'll give you that.
It's more so in the hindsight.
You know, vote for me, and this is what is going to happen.
That's new to me.
That's a big thing.
Why are you thinking doing it now?
I like that.
Better get a black man to vote for you, for sure.
But us black men.
Why now?
But why not?
You said you're going to vote for Trump.
But why not?
Why?
As black men, when Trump was in office, us black people, it was easier for us to survive.
So in other words, it really does transcend race, doesn't it, when you think about what issues matter to people?
They feel Biden-Harris inflation every time they go to the grocery store.
They feel it every time they fill up their gas tank.
They see that Harris-Biden open borders has created a national security disaster, which is also a financial disaster and a crime wave, the likes of which we haven't seen before.
They see it with their own eyes.
They see this defund, dismantled, Nobel law madness hasn't worked out particularly well either.
And they look everywhere they look in the world.
They see nothing but chaos and insanity.
Anyway, one race that has tightened significantly is in the great state of Michigan, and that is the Senate race.
And that is Senate candidate Mike Rogers has made incredible progress.
And anyway, here's his latest ad.
These days, the most expensive vehicle to operate is your grocery cart.
I'm Mike Rogers.
My parents were raising five boys on a teacher's salary.
Boy, you sure can't do that today.
Washington politicians are wasting your tax dollars on corporate welfare and giving hotels and health care to illegals rather than making life more affordable for families.
You shouldn't have to choose between putting gas in the tank and putting food on your table.
I'm Mike Rogers, and I proved this message.
I'll change Washington by putting you and your family first.
All right, so Mike Rogers, who's running against Slotkin in Michigan, is now making huge inroads in what is a very, very important swing state.
And I would say this to the people in Ohio and the people in Pennsylvania and the people in Nevada, people of Montana and the people of West Virginia, Michigan, Wisconsin.
If you're going to vote for Donald Trump, why not send in a senator and a congressman in your district, in your state, that will support his policies?
Anyway, Mike Rogers joins us now.
How's your campaign going?
Looks like it's tightened considerably, and it's getting tighter by the day.
Yes, sir.
And as we're telling those Trump voters, don't stop at the top.
You've got to go down and support folks like me who will go back and get President Trump's nominees taken care of and start implementing the closed border policy and get our economy in shape.
And it is tightening.
And I was listening to your bit there, Sean, on black males.
And we've really worked the black community across southeast Michigan.
And we are making inroads because they know that for 50 years, the Democrats come at election time and tell them, hey, we're going to make your life better.
And the last four years has been absolutely miserable for the citizens of Detroit.
And they get it.
And so we're having at least conversations where we weren't having conversations before.
Same with autoworkers.
Despite the fact that the union leadership endorsed Kamala Harris, the autoworkers are not there.
They understand what these horrific EV mandates have done to the auto industry in the few short years that these mandates have been in place.
And same with Arab Muslims.
They understand that they feel they've been betrayed by the Democrats.
Now, they may not be voting in big droves for Republicans, but what we do know is they're not going to vote for a lot of these Democrats.
So that's how we've been closing this gap and really getting people to understand both light Democrats and independents that there's a better way forward and it will be more affordable when we're in office.
What percentage of the time does Democrat Slocum vote with Harris and Biden?
100%.
Now, here's the funny thing.
You talked about in the beginning when you're about Kamala Harris saying that I hate the wall, but now I'm for the wall.
I hate mandates.
Now I'm not.
Our opponents are doing the same thing.
And we're seeing this with candidates in all these competitive Senate seats.
They are now running as Republicans.
They know that their policies have been a disaster.
They are running as fast from the Biden-Harris agenda as they possibly can get.
And my opponent in her clothes in the debate was making appeal to Republicans after voting for the trillions of dollars, after for voting for the EV mandates over and over and over again.
It's really unbelievable to watch.
And that's why I think you're seeing these polls tighten.
If you don't know who you are when you want to go back to the United States Senate, you're going to do some really bad things.
And I think people are starting to figure out that these Democrats know their policies aren't working, but they don't know who they are.
My understanding is Slocum is running as far away from Kamala as you can possibly get.
Is that true?
Oh, absolutely.
They're on a bus tour, and they wouldn't even invite her on the bus tour.
And again, they are so worried about real people who are just abandoning the Democrat Party.
It's a quick story that my wife and I were working in the UP State Fair, and we had lines for about three hours.
We were at the Republican booth.
There were lines, six and eight and ten people in line just waiting to talk to us.
Person after person were saying, Sean, I'm not really a Republican, but I cannot survive under the Democrats.
They would grab a Donald Trump sign and a Mike Rogers sign and march right down the midway.
And we're just hearing that over and over and over again.
And I think they're in a bit of panic.
And you can see it in their ads and the way they're campaigning.
And they're running away from, now they're running away.
They were running away from Biden.
Now they're running away from Harris.
And, you know, it's just that, you know, you're a little bit tethered to their policies because you voted for them.
And so we're just reminding folks, listen, if you want more affordable groceries and a secure border and you don't want to kill jobs in places like Michigan with these EV mandates, then it's time to change Washington.
You need to send Mike Rogers back to the United States Senate.
Let me ask you another question.
And I think this is important.
What are her most radical positions that she's taken?
Oh, my gosh.
And do you think the people of Michigan know that?
No, I don't, because she's done a fine job.
And by the way, money is pouring into these competitive Senate seats, millions and millions of dollars targeting Republicans.
I've never seen anything like it.
And so they've been up on TV saying she, oh, I'm a moderate.
I work with everybody.
Problem is she voted to have biological men compete against women in schools and even use their locker room.
I mean, all these things that would not be considered normal.
The very fact that she voted to ban gas engines, and she's from Michigan.
We have 1.1 million people who are associated with building gas engines.
And by the way, hybrids are a combination of both.
So you get less emissions, but you also get to keep auto workers working.
If you think about what she did on the border, voted for amnesty, voted to give illegals money, I mean, voted for all of those packages that would allow them to have room and board, voted to make it easier for illegals to vote.
All of those things are just not in the mainstream, and she voted for all of it.
And then the trillions and trillions of dollars of wasteful spending, you know, in those bills, there were golf courses and resorts, and they were saying this is for the middle class nonsense.
And she also voted to raise the gas tax in there as well.
I mean, she just, and then she'll come out and say, Sean, oh, I'm for the middle class.
Well, I got bad news for you.
Your votes are anything but for the middle class.
Well, your race is now within the margin of error.
Mike Rogers, we're going to watch this very closely.
Like we're watching Dave McCormick in Pennsylvania, like we're watching Bernie Moreno in Ohio.
And if you're going to vote for Donald Trump, you certainly should give him a Republican Senate and House so his agenda could actually get done.
Anyway, I appreciate you being with us.
If people want to get in touch with your campaign or learn more about your campaign, how do they do it?
Rogers, R-O-G-E-R-S for Senate.com.
RogersforSenate.com.
Sure could use the help.
Last three weeks, as you know, Sean, is critical.
Every little bit you can help.
If you want to send a little bit of money, great.
If you're from Michigan, you want to do something more, knock on the door, make a phone call.
And by the way, our ground game, I think, second to none in the country, we hit 40,000 doors just on Saturday alone.
So we are moving out.
We are going to win this thing, but we need all hands on deck.
Anybody want to reach out and get a hold of us?
We'd appreciate it.
All right, Mike Rogers, we appreciate it.
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Let us say hi to Don and Lake Ron Concome on my old stomping rounds.
Don, welcome aboard.
19 days to go.
Here we go again.
Oh, we've been through this so many times, have Sean?
You know, Don is a good friend, longtime listener, has been with me from the beginning, and I'm very grateful.
Neale, we're going on 30 years of friendship.
He's a great guy and a longtime caller.
And we've been through a few of these battles together.
Quite a few.
Quite a few.
And listen, the left is saying that Kamala was tough during her evasive interview with Brett Baer last night.
Well, they're trying to go in for the save after it was a disaster, but that's okay.
It was absolutely a disaster.
The left is saying that she, mostly on social media, that she demonstrated leadership.
There was no leadership.
She avoided all respectful questions.
She took no responsibility of her failures.
She wanted a different audience to blame Donald Trump, and that's what she wanted.
That's why, you know, the arrogance that she showed, it shows why 90% of her staff walked out on her.
Oh, there was no joy, but there was a lot of anger in her last night and a lot of ducking, dodging, weaving, blaming.
I will follow the law.
I mean, that asidine comment that she kept making over and over again.
We're not asking if you follow the law.
We're asking what laws you want to implement based on your previously stated positions.
It wasn't that hard.
Last night, Brett Baer kind of like took an example from your page book when he showed the video of the video of Jocelyn Nungery's mother blaming the Biden Harris administration for the death of her daughter.
Couldn't even say she's sorry.
Bill Clinton, of all people, was right.
Lake and Riley, Jocelyn Nungari, Rachel Martin, they'd all be alive today and dozens of others.
You know, names nobody hears about.
And the dozens raped, including children, and the other hundreds and hundreds of victims of violent crime.
It's sad.
Only because of the constraints of time, Don.
Always great to hear from you.
19 days.
Say your prayers every night.
There's a lot on the line in this election.
And everybody, I urge you, assume that your vote is the deciding vote in this election.
We'll continue.
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It has been nothing short of amazing what we have been able to watch and witness the IDF and the Israelis do in fighting back against what was the worst terrorist attack in their history.
And that is the loss of the equivalent of 40,000 Americans in a day.
I have a hard time with people like Kamala Harris, who wants you to be courageous and never use the term illegal alien or radical Islamic terrorist again when you have terror groups like Hamas in their charter calls for the destruction of Israel, Hezbollah, the same thing.
We have a forefront war that they are now fighting.
The Houdi rebels, Hezbollah in the north, Hamas out of Gaza in the south, and then 200-plus ballistic missiles fired directly from Iran at Israel.
And it's expected that Israel is going to respond.
We have seen military might and military intelligence that will be studied for likely the next hundred years at least.
They took this guy out, Sinwar, today, who's been the head of Hamas and was the architect of the October 7th terrorist attacks.
And they've got every terrorist in the world running for cover, hiding, and being defeated.
You want to be the next guy in line to run Hezbollah or Hamas?
And if you're the supreme leader of Iran, which is the head of the snake, and they've been providing weapons to the Houthi rebels and to Hamas and Hezbollah, and they're the ones firing the ballistic missiles, every story I've read is that the supreme leader is hiding deep, deep, deep underground in a protected bunker, scared to death to poke his head out because probably the Israelis will get him next.
And you can't blame them.
They have basically declared, you know, they say it verbally, death to Israel and death to America.
Death to Israel, death to America.
Here's Trey Yanks.
They are releasing a statement shortly.
Okay, so what this confirm message is, this means that the Israelis, as of right now, have confirmed with both dental records and DNA evidence that Yahya Sinoar is dead.
And we've been waiting for hours to report this news to you because we always want to be right before we are first.
And as we reported before, when there was a targeted operation against the leader of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, Fox News knew right away because our sources were on the phone.
We talked to them.
We got the information and could confirm it.
This was different because this was not expected.
This surprised the entire Israeli defense echelon and the public here in Israel.
But again, as we can report right now, Yaakya Sinwar has been killed inside Gaza by Israeli forces.
His body is currently in Israel after being tested to match the DNA to the mastermind behind the October 7th massacre.
Now, I have seen pictures that I have been told by very reliable sources of Mr. Sino's body, and he looks very dead to me.
That's the only way I would put it.
Shrita Parsi is with us, executive vice president of the Quincy Institute, expert on U.S.-Iranian relations.
I don't think by any measure, what we have been watching the Israelis systematically do here, which is taking out the leadership of Hamas and Hezbollah that are being supported, you know, fighting proxy wars against Israel on behalf of Iran has been nothing short of miraculous.
What's your reaction to the death of Sinoar and the death of Nasrallah?
Well, the death of Sinwar, without a doubt, adds a moral boost to the Israelis and another tactical success.
The question is if this is translated into a strategic success, there's no indications at this point that the Israelis are going to do what they said earlier on they would do, which is that once the top three people of Hamas inside of Gaza had been eliminated, that that would be the end of the war.
Instead, we're seeing indications that the war is going to continue.
And increasingly, we're hearing folks from inside Netanyahu's coalition government calling for annexation and complete reoccupation of Gaza.
If that is the route that the Israelis choose to go, then I don't think that this will end up becoming a strategic success because the violence and the insecurity that Israel has experienced will only continue.
Well, I mean, at the end of the day, if Iran, which frankly has gotten rich because the Biden-Harris administration have allowed them to sell their oil in the world market and ignored the sanctions that were being employed by President Trump, if they have the money and they're providing the weaponry and reports that on October 7th,
along with Sinoar, that you had the Iranian Revolutionary Forces and the Qud forces helping to plot and plan and scheme the worst terror attack in Israeli history.
Isn't this really the when you get to the root cause of this conflict, doesn't it come down to Iran?
And it looks like Israel is, according to reports, picked its targets and ready to respond to the ballistic missiles that were fired at them?
No, because first of all, U.S. intelligence as well as Israeli intelligence indicated that the Iranis were completely taken by surprise by the October 7th attacks.
That is absolutely every source I have.
Every person that I know both in Israel and the United States that knows anything has told me just the opposite.
They were not surprised at all.
They were involved in it.
That is, again, not what the U.S. intelligence can be.
Are you denying that Iran is providing Hamas with the weaponry to fight Israel?
Hamas is definitely receiving weaponry and training by the Iranians.
That's a very different question, though, as to whether the Iranians were involved in the planning of this.
Again, the U.S. intelligence picked up that the Iranians were completely surprised by it.
Another person who was surprised is actually Sinwar.
I don't know who your sources are, because I have a lot of sources in the intel community, and I heard the exact opposite, and you're the only person I've ever heard contradict that, besides some of these lunatics in Congress and on college campuses.
Check and see what Bill Burns and what the CIA said about this.
But let's move on.
The question that you asked is whether they were what I was going to tell you is that what Sino seemed to have calculated is that by the attack that he had made against Israel on October 7th, it would actually get Hezbollah and Iran directly and much more involved into the fight.
And what we saw instead is that the Iranians actually completely stood out.
If this had been coordinated between Iran, Hezbollah, and Hamas, then you would have seen simultaneous attacks on a large scale by all three of them.
And that is not at all what happened, on the contrary.
Why would Israel have done just the opposite?
First, they took on Hamas out of the south in Gaza.
Then they went after Hezbollah in the north out of Lebanon.
And after the Iranians first engaged, I think the Israelis shocked the world how deeply they were able to penetrate into Iranian airspace.
Did that not surprise you?
Because it surprised me.
Well, what happened was that first the Israelis attacked the Iranian embassy in Damascus.
That begotten response from the Iranians.
And then the Israelis attacked again when they took out Hania in Tehran.
Are you talking about before or after October 7th?
No, this is all after October 7th, of course.
And that was quite a surprise to the extent that how they managed to do it.
The Israelis have conducted assassinations deep inside of Iran, including the head of the Iranian nuclear program, which was done through an AI robot.
So the fact that the Israelis had the capacity of doing that was not a surprise.
What I think has been a bit of a surprise is that the Iranians have ballistic missiles and hypersonic missiles that are capable of penetrating Israeli airspace defenses, including the Arrow 1, 2, and 3, the David Sling, the Iron Dome.
But their ballistic missiles did not land inside of Israel for the most part.
There might have been one or two, but according to reports.
And they shot nearly 200 of them.
There were 300 projectiles that were fired back in April.
Out of those, only nine ballistic missiles made its way through.
But from the standpoint of what you want to do, you want to have a much better success rate.
But there were nearly 200 ballistic missiles fired recently.
There were 200 fired recently, and out of those, a very large number.
I mean, the images are just on Twitter for everyone to see.
A very large number of them did penetrate.
And that's part of the reason why the Biden administration has put the FAAD defense missile, which system, which is much more advanced, on Israeli SOLNA, together with U.S. forces.
So now, actually, the Biden administration has put American troops in a war zone without authorization from Congress.
All right.
Well, at the end of the day, isn't it Iran that is fomenting terror?
At the end of the day, isn't the root cause of the chaos in the Middle East and the fomenting of terror from the number one state sponsor of terror, Iran?
And if that's the case, doesn't that mean that the United States should be more proactive instead of Harris and Biden lecturing the Israelis not to go into Rafah, the Israelis not to, quote, escalate, to be happy that they didn't get hurt, hit with more missiles, and take that as a win, which is what they said after the first missile attack from Iran.
Isn't it really, shouldn't it really be the goal of Israel and with the support of the United States, at least morally, to go win the war on those people that murdered and kidnapped and raped and tortured and beheaded people?
Because it's all on video.
If you haven't seen it, I'll send you the video.
So here's where I think you're wrong on that, Sean.
This is the exact same reasoning.
There's nothing wrong.
I'm asking a question.
Let me answer, though.
This is the exact same reasoning we heard about going into Iraq.
Saddam Hussein was the root of all evil, the destabilization, the terror in Afghanistan.
You just admitted that the weaponry came from Iran to Hamas.
You just admitted that.
Hold on, hold on.
Let me explain.
Just because weapons are going there doesn't mean that that's a root cause.
The root cause is the...
Hamas's charter calls for the destruction of Israel.
What do they think they're going to do with it?
The important factor is not what's in Hamas's charter.
The most important thing for the United States is not to get dragged into another needless, senseless war in the Middle East.
We've seen what's happening.
I'm not saying that the United States should put boots on the ground.
I am saying morally, America needs to have moral clarity, right and wrong.
And the country that was attacked that lost the equivalent of 40,000 Americans in a day was Israel.
It was attacked by Hamas, and their charter matters because it calls for their destruction.
Where their weapons come from and where their resupplies come from is Iran, by your own admission.
That means Iran is fighting a proxy war.
That the logic that you're presenting is the exact same logic that got us into the Iraq war, which was an absolute disaster.
And the logic you're presenting will then get us into another trackmire in the Middle East probably.
So let Israel fight it out on their own.
Then stop telling them to restrain themselves and let them go win their war against radical Islamic terrorists and those that support them.
The idea that the Biden administration is restraining is, I have to say, is quite laughable.
They just under U.S. You really don't listen or read very much, do you?
Because they have repeatedly told Israel to show restraint.
Repeatedly.
The United States, under Biden, has given more than $20 billion in military aid.
And they've given $200 billion to Ukraine.
Nothing in comparison.
with no restrictions at all compared to what they have done in Ukraine.
In both cases, it is actually fueling escalation and increasing the risk of the U.S. getting dragged into an unnecessary...
Let me just tell you the naivete of your thinking.
What you're not understanding is that those that believe in this caliphate, those that believe in convert or die, those in Iran and their proxies, Hamasballah and others, and Islamic Jihad and the Houthi rebels, they want that they want, and the Iranians chant, death to Israel, death to America.
The difference between you and me is I'm listening to what they're saying and watching their actions, and I'm taking it seriously.
And you seem to want to have this little esoteric discussion that America shouldn't have the moral clarity to define that the murderers, the rapists, the kidnappers, the torturers, the beheaders, and the people that support them are the ones that are in the wrong here.
And if we don't stop them now and they become a nuclear-armed power, the world will rule the day in the words of my mother.
You want to go to war everywhere.
That's essentially what you're saying.
No, I don't want to go to war.
You really don't listen.
Because I said, let Israel do their own fighting, but stop putting handcuffs on them and restraints on them and lectures on them.
Don't go to Rafah.
No, no, no.
Don't escalate.
Don't fire back after they fire weapons at you, the Iranians.
That's what the Harris Biden administration has done.
And then waive sanctions so they can get rich and build more weapons and provide it to more of their proxies.
I've got to go.
Appreciate you being with us.
Thank you, 800-941, Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
All right, that's going to wrap things up for today.
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