Severino on the Trump Cabinet - December 30th, Hour 3
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Joining me right now is the Vice President of Domestic Policy at Heritage, and he was Trump's former director of the Office of Civil Rights.
He is Roger Severino.
How are you, Roger?
I'm doing great.
How are you?
Great.
Good to have you on with us.
Thank you for joining us today.
You know, in your role in the Office of Civil Rights, you work to ensure equal access to education, to promote educational excellence.
There's a lot of things that you were responsible for.
What would you pass on to that next director?
What would you suggest for some of the things that they really need to focus on going forward within these next four years?
Well, Trump set the tone.
He said wokeism is on the way out.
It hurt our country.
It got us away from our founding principles of one nation that is colorblind under the Constitution, and it was replaced with DEI.
So the Biden administration did everything it could to institutionalize DEI, not only in the federal government, but in private businesses, in education, as you mentioned, in healthcare.
All of these areas are going to take a lot of effort to undo.
Well, it all depends on the appointees.
So with the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division, for example, Harmee Dillon has been selected by President Trump, and she's going to be fantastic in that role.
I was there as a career attorney at DOJ Civil Rights for seven years.
It's a tough job.
You got to be savvy.
You have to be wise as a serpent and be able to deal with some tough career folks who are not going to be open to the colorblind, original, equal protection vision of the Constitution.
There was a whole bunch of folks who refused to sign on to briefs when the previous Trump administration was around.
So you might be on your own.
But the real question is: okay, once you get the right people in, can we move fast?
We have four years under Trump.
We might have four years later with President Vance, but you got to just say, these four years, what can we do to undo the four years of damage of DEI woke policies on racial preferences in education, racial preferences in business, and to restore the Martin Luther King vision of America?
You know, Roger, that's a really good point, especially when you said they've got to move fast.
And I'm hoping that based on what we've seen so far from Trump and the lineup that he's already put together, he's learned from his past mistakes.
You've got to get in there and hit the ground running.
And I think last time it just took a little too long.
I have a feeling that he may just be able to get these people, the people he has working with him in this administration to move quickly.
Do you think that as well?
Yes, I think his appointments so far have been a lot of folks that are disruptors that are willing to take the public heat, not afraid of criticism, not looking for the next career ladder and a feather in their cap.
That's exactly what you need to take on these entrenched interests.
So I already mentioned the sort of race industrial complex.
We see what happened with the Harvard case, for example, where Asians and whites were being discriminated against.
They had flat quotas, especially on Asians.
There were too many Asians, they thought.
And that has to end.
And we haven't mentioned yet the question of boys and girls' sports.
That's another part of manifestation of DEI in schools, in competitions, in colleges, dorm rooms, lockers, showers.
And that all came out of the civil rights industrial complex that was unfortunately taken away from the law and imposing new gender ideologies into areas that civil rights laws were never designed for.
And that's another really important area where the administration has to move fast because it's going to go to court, it's going to get litigated, and it may end up all the way at the Supreme Court.
And you want to get it all done within the first four years.
Yeah, absolutely.
So you expect that that would be one of the greatest challenges.
I would suspect there are many, many challenges.
And if you could just go through a couple of the others that you anticipate and how confident you are that we will be able to just clear those hurdles.
Okay, well, I mentioned the office I used to leave, which is civil rights at HHS.
Right.
Trans issue, it wasn't so much about education there.
It was about forcing hospitals and doctors to perform cross-sex surgeries on including minors and providing the puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones.
Whether or not they thought it was good medicine, so long as they had the technical skill to do, say, a hysterectomy on a child, they would be required to do it if they had a psychologist note saying that they should do it.
These sorts of treatments have been outlawed in several states.
We're getting up to two dozen where putting restrictions on these sort of treatments on minors because the world has realized it was a tragic mistake.
These experimental treatments are causing far more harm than good.
And there was a Supreme Court argument recently where it was abundantly clear that ACLU lawyer said, look, this notion that there's an increased suicide risk, and if you don't do these treatments, there will be increased suicides was false.
And that was the lie that's been told to force doctors to do these things, to force insurance companies to pay for it.
And the Biden administration went all in on these mandates.
And that's another thing that would have to be reversed as soon as possible for the benefit of children.
And of course, you know, people are being forced to participate in these things when it hurts kids more than it helps.
Right.
And if they object to it as well.
So yeah, that is so important, too, when we talk about today's youth and all of the things that they are up against.
And we should be protecting them and considering all ways that we can protect them.
So I'm glad to hear all of that.
So you feel pretty confident in terms of where that department is going to go.
You feel that if there's going to be a successor to you, having served for President Trump in the past, that things are looking pretty good right now.
But challenging, but challenging.
Yeah, they're looking great.
I think his nominees, they're going to get some tough questions, some more than others, but I think they're going to all get through.
The president has the will of the people behind him.
He won soundly, and he has a mandate from the American people.
So he has to get his nominees through.
There is a Republican Congress that I really don't see too much rough sailing ahead.
Again, there are going to be some fair questions, some tough questions, but I really like RFK Jr.
for HHS.
He's shaking things up.
Maha, make America Healthy Again.
It brings a new excitement and a new wrinkle because now conservatives are saying, look, this is part of our tradition too, right?
We want health.
Teddy Roosevelt, he was the picture of robustness and conservation and outdoors and preservation of something we're going to pass on to our generations.
And if we're not healthy to enjoy it, there's something seriously wrong.
And R.F. K. Jr.
has shown a spotlight on that.
So the Maha side of things, I think we're really excited about at the Heritage Foundation.
We just hosted a summit with Callie Means, with Dr. Redfield from CDC.
It's been phenomenal.
And Martin Kuhldorf, it's just brought this new coalition of folks that Trump has this magic.
He's able to bring working class people.
We've been willing to bring young people who are interested in health all together in this moment because they've been forgotten.
And those days seem to be coming to an end.
Yeah, it's fascinating to see the teams that he's putting together and what they're going to be responsible for.
And I wonder sometimes, too, I mean, he must have really learned from those first four years.
And in some ways, I almost feel like we needed that time in between because he's really got it together, it seems like this time.
He really, I mean, these are things that were unheard of before.
These are areas that we have never really focused on before, and as you said, should have.
And these are our issues as well.
And I just feel like, I don't know, I get the feeling that maybe it was a good thing.
I hate to say it because we went through a lot in the last four years with the economy and the security of this nation.
But at the same time, I feel like he's coming back and he's more robust and he's really got a hell of a plan.
Yeah, he's acting like he has nothing to lose.
And that's great.
That gives tremendous freedom because he already won.
He's got the wind at his back.
And this is his moment.
This is his last term.
And he's going to make the most of it.
And you're right.
The four-year in-between was that's that's four years of regrouping and planning and making sure that the lessons learned from the first time, especially vetting the right folks to be loyal that won't turn and look out for themselves when they get appointed.
You know, there were many swamp creatures that unfortunately did get in under the first term.
A lot of people cut tail and ran after January 6th.
And I happened to be there all four years, and I was there during transition.
And the difference is stark.
And things are moving very quickly this time around and getting the appointments through.
And a lot of the planning has been pre-done.
And that's really important to see because it takes, especially with the regulations, so many regulations under Biden that have to be undone on the environment and ESG, on the race issues, on transgenderism, on the quashing of small businesses.
So many things have to be undone.
And they left a lot, which means you have to hit the ground running.
I would hope you'd have a flurry of shock and awe of executive orders, drafted regulations out within the first hundred days to get the things moving.
Because as I mentioned earlier, some of these things take years to get through all the way in the litigation because the left is not going to go quietly.
They're going to say, look, this was our domain.
We're going to fight to the nail.
They're going to bring cases in select jurisdictions.
Expect a lot of challenges in San Francisco, expect them in New York.
But we got to go all the way to the Supreme Court.
And there, we got a pretty good conservative majority that I think will back Trump on his deregulatory efforts.
Of course, we have Doge, Vivek, and Elon, right, and a whole nother new wrinkle to everything on the outside pushing to cut government spending, cut the red tape, free the shackles on the American economy that is the administrative state and all the regulations that just kill initiative, right?
And we can't ask permission to do to breathe from the federal government.
It has to be a new day.
And Doge, Elon, Vivek, and Trump make a wonderful team.
Yeah, I agree with you.
And I just think this is all so great to watch and unfold.
And you mentioned, you know, undoing some of these regulations.
One of the things I found the most fascinating, I remember this in Trump's first term, was just how quickly and how many regulations he did undo.
Unfortunately, he's got to go back to the drawing board again and strike some of those.
But he did, I thought that was most impressive, in fact, in his first term.
Yeah, he put in the two-for-one rule.
For every new regulation, we had to undo two regulations.
So in office, we put in a conscience regulation, which protected people from being forced to pay for abortions.
Nuns were being required to pay for abortion insurance in California, and we got rid of that under Trump.
But I also had to find two regulations to undo for that, right?
Because normally it's a one-way ratchet where the big government always seems to win.
And we need to change that default presumption.
It always has to be we have to find a way to shrink government, to get it off people's backs, stop running our lives.
And maybe we'll have a three-for-one rule or a four-for-one rule.
I've heard some talk of.
There's been talk of impoundment challenges to say, look, is it really constitutional for Congress to say that once money is appropriated, the president must spend every single penny of it?
Maybe that's up for revisiting, right?
Finding ways to say, okay, we have the status quo we've inherited.
Let's have some new thinking and figure out a way to say, look, all the guidance that was issued under Biden, let's submit it to Congress so that Congress has a chance to undo it under the Congressional Review Act.
So much of our life is governed by guidance.
Just think back to COVID, how many things were determined as to whether we could go out for lunch to a restaurant, et cetera, based on guidance coming out of CDC.
Let's give Congress a chance to undo the guidance permanently under the CRA, the Congressional Review Act, right?
We have to think creatively.
And under Trump, we have that opportunity now.
I agree with you.
One of the other things that you had said earlier, and I wanted to touch on, was that you said he's got a lot of people coming in, a lot of his appointees and nominees that aren't afraid.
They're not afraid of criticism.
And some of them are coming out.
I think particularly of Tom Homan, who, you know, he was retired.
He was done, but he's got to come back.
A lot of them are coming back because they care so very much for this country.
And they want that last opportunity.
And many of them believe, Roger, that this is a last opportunity.
Oh, absolutely.
You know, the last great chance.
Folks, Homan's amazing.
There's nothing in it for him, really.
He's in it for the country.
And, you know, he's going to fight the hardest fight of securing our borders.
And it is about time.
That was one of the marquee issues that drove it home for Trump.
He is the one that will secure our borders.
And we're seeing just the horrific consequences, not only what happens to wages and the disorder.
We have somebody who was literally burned alive on a subway in New York City.
Somebody who was here illegally, it seems, was the one who did it.
And the American people had that enough.
And Holman would be the one to undo it for love of country.
And you got Pete Hegseth, right?
He would be taking a gigantic pay cut to be defense secretary because he doesn't want to do it for the money.
He's a man of character.
He fought for our country and would be a tremendous leader.
And he has such credentials that bode well because he would be a disruptor and not beholden to the vested interests of the industrial complex or the military contractors.
He's coming up with a fresh new vision and approach.
And if these sort of folks that President Trump is stacking his cabinet with, that gives me such tremendous hope.
I'm glad to hear that coming from you, Roger.
We've been talking to Roger Severino, and he's the vice president of domestic policy at Heritage, and he's Trump's former director of the Office of Civil Rights.
And Roger, you have, a lot of us are feeling right now going into the new year a sense of just like expectancy, and we feel pretty good about it.
And you just made us feel a whole lot better, Roger.
Thank you for all that you have done, and we appreciate you.
And happy new year to you.
Happy New Year.
Thank you.
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Tom, thanks for joining us today.
How are you?
Hey, thanks for having me.
I'm doing good.
Good.
Hey, listen.
So let's start with one of the most concerning things, I think, as a result of an open border that we've had, and that's the children.
And I know from you before, you've said that there are at least 300,000 children who are essentially missing in this country.
And the government, these last four years, they were supposed to be tasked with follow-up work and all the check-ins.
But when we say missing, we say it because many of them are not easily located.
And we've all heard the stories.
How will you help and locate these children?
And is that one of your priorities?
It is.
You know, the president gave me three priorities.
So secure the border, run a deportation operation, and a task force will find these children.
You know, there's over 300,000 children that this administration can't find.
They're not responding to call-ins or such.
So a lot of them are missing an action.
So we've got to find these kids because ICE has already found some enforced labor.
They're going to find many more.
Some of these children are going to be enforced labor.
Some of these children are going to be enforced sex trafficking.
Some of these children are going to be just fine.
But we've got to find them because a lot of these children need to be saved.
And that's something we're going to do.
It's going to be difficult.
I'm going to say that up front because I don't think these sponsors are vetted appropriately.
Whistleblowers from HHS and some sponsors are fingerprinted.
Some identification used to verify who they were not checked out.
So I'm sure some of these sponsors have been fogging information.
So it's going to depend how good is the information that HHS ORR got from these sponsors.
And I'm being told it's probably not going to be good.
But it's not going to stop us.
We're going to expand the resources we have to try to save these kids because they need to be saved.
Yeah, you're right.
I mean, the situation is so bad that even the New York Times, I think it was last year, maybe it was this last year that we're leaving behind, but they did a big story on that.
Talked about children in forced labor.
There was a guy in Florida that had several children, and they're finding that some of these kids are working like eight to 12 hours a day.
They're working at night.
They're in jobs that are a great hazard to their well-being.
And this is going on.
And I remember reading a story once, too, about a woman who pointed this out, was working for the government, said, I have a concern about this.
And the next thing you know, she was fired.
So we know that's over.
That part is over.
And I think a lot more people are going to be paying a lot more attention to these children.
I have an even CHMV program where they're flying thousands to our airports from Cuba, Nicaragua, Haiti, and Venezuela.
When they first announced that program, I wrote if they do this, it's going to be systematic trafficking because to come in this country from those four countries, you got to prove you have a sponsor that can take care of you.
And I guarantee you, some of those sponsors are traffickers.
Oh, yeah, I'll sponsor you, but when you get here, you're going to work for me.
And so we're going to have to locate some of these people too.
And we know a lot of fraud occurred in that program because they shut it down for a while because of massive fraud.
And my sources, one source from Went Inside of CVP, told me, for instance, you had one adult male who sponsored over 1,400 people.
And he's dead for several years.
So who in the hell responds to these people?
Who really sponsored him, right?
So look, we got a lot of people to find, and we got to find them.
And we're going to do it.
But I'm telling you right now, it's going to be hard.
So that's why, especially with the children, we're going to bring in some private sector organizations that work trafficking on their own.
We're also going to count on the American people.
We have to deputize every American citizen, especially parents, right?
Parents have an innate ability to recognize when something's not right with a child.
So we want people who look and pay attention.
If you see something, say something, and make a phone call, we're going to provide a 1-800 number.
And look, even if one out of every 100 phone calls turn up that a child is being abused, that's one child we can save.
So we're going to count on American people to step up this thing, too.
So that's something, you know, bringing the private sector is going to be great because I think every American citizen is sick over this issue.
I think they're all going to volunteer to step in and do what they can do to help us.
I agree.
That's the ugliest part, I think, of this whole wide open border.
This is a crisis, and I am so concerned for those children.
And that's one of the main reasons I'm glad that you're going to be there.
I've got a question for you.
I read that Mexico was planning to affect an alert app for migrants.
So if they're facing arrest here in this country, I think it was a foreign minister that said, if you find yourself facing imminent arrest, you press an alert button and that sends a signal to the nearest consulate.
So what happens if the migrants reach out to the consulate, Tom?
I don't understand.
What's this all about?
Well, I don't really care to reach all the councils now.
So, you know, look, when we remove people, we usually work with the councils anyways to make sure that the person is actually a citizen of that country.
And we make flight arrangements and remove arrangements.
So we reach out to the council all the time.
So if they reach out to council and fine, it's not going to change your case.
We're going to remove them.
It might even help us.
So I don't really know what, I haven't seen what they're doing, haven't talked to them down there, but they can reach out to counselors all they want.
It's not going to stop their intermittent removal and may even help.
WebSeeker, I don't really know quite what that app is.
I've asked a few people to find out for me.
So I'll save my opinion so I know it's actually in the app.
But the bottom line is, if you're in a country where we get, you got a problem.
And when we're looking for it, look, and I've said clearly from day one, their priority out of the gate, day one, public safety threats and national security threats.
And we got a lot of them.
We know at least over 700,000 illegal ambulance with criminal convictions walking the street.
So we'll be busy with them for a while.
Then we're going to look at fugitives.
So we're going to prioritize what we do.
We're going to take the worst first because the worst are the biggest dangers to this country and our communities.
It only makes sense we take them first.
So we'll see the Mexican, we'll see what the app does, but it's not, I'm not sweating it.
How hard is it going to be to take out the worst first, like targeting the gang members, for example?
Well, look, it's going to be a dangerous job, right?
What's going to make it more dangerous and less efficient is these sanctuary cities that are going to try to block us and prevent us from doing this, which I wake up every day just shocked that any elected mayor, any elected governor really doesn't want public safety threats removed from their communities, especially if they're illegally.
I mean, they're not more responsibility for protection in the communities.
So look, we can arrest a bad guy in the safety and security of a jail, which is safe for the officers, safe for the alien, safe for the community.
But when these sanctuary cities want to keep release from the community, that endangers the community.
The community doesn't want a public safety threat reached back into the community.
So it's going to be dangerous on the community, especially the integrant community.
That's where most live.
So it's going to make the immigrant community unsafe.
It's going to make our officers putting them at extreme risk.
It's going to be unsafe to the alien.
So I would think any elected representative, you're responsible to the citizens of your jurisdiction, to your constituency.
The right thing to do is work with ICE, especially on public safety threats.
We don't want you to be immigration officers.
We want you to be cops working with cops.
Help us take public safety threats out of the community, make them safer.
And but they don't want to help.
They get the hell out of the way if we're coming.
But it's going to make it more dangerous for the officers.
So I'll be going to bed every night hoping and praying that every member of ICE goes home to the family at the end of the night and Borg Patrol too.
When we start taking our cartels out of business, cross-border crime is going to increase and I'll be worried about every Borbatro like now they're on the line.
So I hope American people keep the ICE and Borbato and your prayers because it's a hard, dangerous job in these sanctuary jurisdictions are just making it more dangerous.
That's a good point.
And that's something for all of us to keep in mind then.
You know, I did hear you talking recently somewhere about how things are going to be better, to your point right now in New York City very quickly once the process begins.
And it's not, you know, and we all know, we're not stupid out here.
We know, and that's why Trump won, it's not just New York City.
It's cities all throughout this country that are going to become very much safer as a result of the process.
Well, I think illegal family crime would certainly go down.
I think once we secure the border, fentanyl deaths should decrease.
Sex trafficking will decrease.
Once we can secure the border, we rest more rather than having over 2 million gone away.
We'll be arresting most everybody because the border patrol will be on the border, 100% vigilant on the border rather than mixing sandwiches, changing diapers.
So we have the agents back on the line.
One thing I want to mention real quick, I see a lot of hip pieces recently about Tom Holman talking about family detention, how cruel that is.
Yes.
I want to remind you, listeners, family detention is the opposite of family separation.
But I've seen MSMAC notice here, well, it's all about family detention officers.
They start talking about separation.
Family detention doesn't have anything to do with family separation.
Family detention keeps families together.
And why am I even talking about maybe bringing them back?
It's an option.
Why?
Because it's going to give us a few days to investigate that family, do some DNA tests, and make sure they're actually families.
The Biden administration stopped DNA testing.
We know many of these families weren't even families.
These children were trafficked by an unrelated adult who played a cartel to rent a child.
We know that we have many of those investigations at ICE.
We know cartels are renting children.
So this is about saving children.
This is about saving children from sex trafficking.
This is about making sure our family is a family before we release them into the United States with an adult male that they're not related to who may abuse them.
So when people say, well, Holman was family detention, how cruel.
No, Homer's trying to save some lives.
Homer is trying to save some children from sex trafficking and forced labor trafficking.
If they want to claim to be a family, all I'm asking for, let's take a few days to make sure they're a family.
Let's do some cheek swabs and make sure they're actually related.
This is about protecting children.
If that's cruel, then I'll be cruel.
No, what's cruel is not doing that.
My God, Tom.
My God.
Yeah, I agree with you.
You know, like I said, the media is already sending out, they're lying about what we're talking about.
They're misrepresenting what I've been saying on the media.
And we know it's come.
We know it's coming.
Look, they do not want us to close this border down.
They don't want us to force immigration law.
But, you know, and they say what we're doing is cruel.
What's cruel is opening the border up where over 10 million people came to our border when these families sold everything they had to get to the criminal cartels to come to the country.
And this administration knows nine out of ten of them will get an order removal.
You brought in the most vulnerable people in the world spending every penny they've ever had to make this dangerous journey, knowing they're going to end up with an order deportation.
That's cruel.
When you have a half a million children being trafficked in this country under this administration, that's cruel.
When you can't find over 300,000 of them, that's cruel.
We have a record number of illegal aliens dying crossing that border, historic number, almost 4,000 that died crossing that border, that's cruel.
When you got a 600% increase in sex trafficking, that's cruel.
When you got a quarter million Americans dying for fentanyl come across an open border, that's cruel.
So you want to talk about cruel, you need to look in the mirror.
What we're trying to do is secure the border because secure borders saved lives.
Just not of illegal aliens.
It saves lives of American citizens.
That's what we're going to do without apology.
Call it what you want.
That's coming.
It's going to happen.
Wow.
Well said.
And one of the things about you, Tom, is that you really don't care what they say about you as long as you have that opportunity to get the job done.
And you didn't have to come back, but I know in your heart that you believe this is something that you absolutely had to do.
Absolutely.
Look, I'm not going to huge pay cut coming back, but I'm okay with it.
You can't say no to president.
And I've been complaining about this border for four years.
So when President Trump called me one day, he said, okay, you want to come back and fix it?
How do you say no?
So, yeah, I'm going to come back and fix it.
And frankly, you know, people say a lot of bad things about me.
I got a security detail right now because all the death threats.
It's unfortunate.
You make death turns against me and my family.
It's just like those who enforce law all of a sudden, we're the bad guys and those who break the law victims.
I don't care what people think about me.
All these negative hit pieces.
As a matter of fact, if I get to live in my mind's rent free, that's kind of cool.
I just wish my family wasn't put in danger.
But bottom line is, not going to shut me out.
I'm not going away.
I'm going to do this job.
Say what you want about me.
You can't cancel me, so I don't care.
But when they cancel you, when they write a hit piece on you, then you can't kind of go in the darkness.
You don't want to talk to me anymore.
You don't want more hip pieces.
No, when I see read a hit piece, you just pour gas on my inner fire.
It just fires me up.
So write what you want.
Say what you want.
Tom Holman is not going away.
I'm going to get this done.
This is why we love you so much, Tom Holman.
We really do.
We appreciate you.
Our prayers for you, your family, for all of those supporting your efforts on the border.
We pray for your safety.
And Tom, I just wish you a happy new year.
And thank you.
Thank you for being where you are and doing what you're doing.
God bless you.
Keep up what you're doing.
We need to educate American people and you're one form of education.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Take care.
All right, Tom Homan, our new border boss.
Keep him in your prayers, people, their families.
All of these people, they are at risk.
They really are.
We're so blessed to have them.
We really are.
We'll be back with more of the Sean Hannity show.
It's been a wonderful time with you today, filling in for Sean Hannity.
My name is Rose.
Check me out, Rose Unplugged, and she is called by him.
You know, I was sitting here thinking about Tom Holman and so many others who are so brave and so committed and so love this country.
And we were so excited, you know, that we've got a new thing happening in 2025, particularly where the country is concerned, right?
And we forget, too, that in that excitement, there's also risk.
And we have men and women who are willing to take those risks for us.
That moves me.
It really does.
They love you.
They love this country more than they fear the risk.
And I would just encourage you as we go into this new year to keep these people in your prayers and their family members.
It's unfortunate that we live in a society where there are some who will actually threaten the family members of those who are serving.
Keep them in your prayers.
And I would encourage you to step out in faith this 2025.
Ask God what he's got for you and then get out there and do it.