The Trish Regan Show - Dems FURIOUS at DHS Kristi Noem—For Saying Exactly What They Said a Decade Ago
Aired: 2025-06-18
Duration: 14:45


=== Senator Padilla's Acting Role (11:54) ===

[00:00:00]  Democrats totally live it.
[00:00:01]  They're furious.
[00:00:02]  You know what?
[00:00:03]  This is just, you know, Donald Trump taking on too much power.
[00:00:07]  But I got to ask you, when you got a senator like this guy, Padilla, who, you know what?
[00:00:11]  I'm in the news business and I had never seen him before.
[00:00:14]  Just saying.
[00:00:15]  And he goes into a press conference at FBI headquarters and he's like theoretically rushing the stage.
[00:00:20]  I mean, I don't know what he's doing there.
[00:00:22]  He's yelling.
[00:00:22]  He's dressed in plain clothes and he's rushing up.
[00:00:25]  I mean, what are they supposed to do?
[00:00:26]  What is Secret Service supposed to do?
[00:00:29]  Fucking sakes, Christine Nome just had her purse stolen, right?
[00:00:32]  In D.C. recently.
[00:00:33]  They had to take him down, they had to stop him and they, of course, used that as a moment.
[00:00:40]  I'm sender Alex.
[00:00:42]  I have questions for the secretary, because the fact of the matter is a half a dozen violent criminals that you're both hitting on your, on your hands off, how many of our ice agents have been doxed for doing their duty and how they have been targeted?
[00:01:01]  Wow, I mean, you guys saw that right in the very beginning.
[00:01:04]  He sort of identifies himself, right.
[00:01:06]  We see him kind of say, i'm Alex Pedia, i'm senator, Alex Pedia.
[00:01:10]  How do you know he's not a state senator?
[00:01:11]  You don't know what's going on.
[00:01:12]  I'm senator Alex Pedia.
[00:01:14]  I have questions for the secretary, because the fact of the matter is a half a dozen violent criminals that you're rotating on your, on your hands off, hands off, hands off.
[00:01:27]  Okay, so they take him back there.
[00:01:29]  And this is where they're upset right, because they're saying, oh well, this is violent because they wrestled him to the ground and they handcuffed him, and now you got the likes of, you know spartacus, mr Cory Booker, out there in New Jersey going nutso on it all, and plenty of other people going a little bit nutso on it.
[00:01:44]  But under the circumstances, you guys, in dealing with what we're dealing with, I mean, unfortunately, right?
[00:01:49]  Like, that's just what we're dealing with right now.
[00:01:51]  And I hate it and it saddens me.
[00:01:53]  And you look at what happened in Minnesota.
[00:01:55]  I'm sorry, but everybody is on high alert and they should be on high alert.
[00:01:59]  So you don't go barging into something like that and expect that there's going to be no ramifications.
[00:02:03]  No, that's not how it works.
[00:02:05]  Christy Noam reacting to the situation.
[00:02:07]  I would say, as we were conducting a press conference to update, Update everyone on the enforcement actions that are ongoing to bring peace to the city of Los Angeles.
[00:02:15]  And this man burst into the room, started lunging towards the podium, interrupting me and elevating his voice, and was stopped, did not identify himself, and was removed from the room.
[00:02:26]  So as soon as he identified himself, you know, appropriate actions were taken.
[00:02:31]  But I would say that, you know, I had a conversation with the senator after this.
[00:02:35]  We sat down for 10 to 15 minutes and talked about the fact that nobody knew who he was.
[00:02:39]  He didn't say who he was until he was already had been.
[00:02:43]  lunging forward and people were trying to detain him for quite a period of time.
[00:02:47]  And that this, you know, we're leaders, we're public servants.
[00:02:51]  And if he had requested a meeting, I would have loved to have sat down and had a conversation with him that coming into a press conference like this is political theater.
[00:02:58]  It's wrong and it does a disservice to this country and the people who live here.
[00:03:01]  So we sat down, had a conversation.
[00:03:04]  We probably disagree on, on 90% of the topics, but we agreed to exchange phone numbers.
[00:03:10]  We'll continue to talk and share information.
[00:03:12]  And I think that's the way it should be in this country.
[00:03:14]  I wish he would have acted.
[00:03:15]  Let's be civil.
[00:03:16]  Like, why couldn't he have gotten an appointment?
[00:03:18]  Appointment.
[00:03:18]  Even CNN, guys, even CNN knew that this was the wrong approach, right?
[00:03:25]  There's no doubt about it.
[00:03:25]  I mean, she was holding a press conference and doing a press statement.
[00:03:28]  He's not a member of the press.
[00:03:29]  It wasn't like a hearing where it was an open forum for senators to ask questions.
[00:03:32]  He clearly showed up to a public event to create a moment and do what you're saying, sort of show his constituents, not just Democrats, but that he's fighting from his perspective.
[00:03:43]  Hmm.
[00:03:44]  Right.
[00:03:44]  So it's called acting, like PR.
[00:03:48]  Let's get my moment in the sun.
[00:03:49]  Nobody knows who I am.
[00:03:50]  Well, now we're going to make sure they do.
[00:03:53]  And it's not appropriate, right?
[00:03:54]  It's just not appropriate.
[00:03:55]  And this is why he's now facing censure.
[00:03:57]  Mike Johnson bringing this up on Friday.
[00:04:00]  They are looking at censuring him.
[00:04:01]  They are looking at taking him off committees.
[00:04:03]  It's just not how a public servant should be conducting themselves.
[00:04:09]  Now, is it La Monica?
[00:04:11]  La Monica MacGyver learned this one the hard way.
[00:04:13]  Was she facing 17 years in prison for her little escapade?
[00:04:17]  I mean, at least this guy wasn't, you know, pushing up physically, trying to aggressively.
[00:04:24]  Move the ICE officers away.
[00:04:27]  I mean, at least he didn't do that.
[00:04:30]  Just saying.
[00:04:30]  Here's Mike.
[00:04:31]  But the Senate does its disciplinary actions over there, and we do ours over here.
[00:04:36]  We have a certain set of measures, as you all know, and it ranges from censure to removal from committees to ultimately expulsion from the body.
[00:04:44]  And do you support that for the Senator?
[00:04:47]  It's not my decision to make.
[00:04:47]  I'm not in that chamber.
[00:04:48]  But I do think that it merits immediate attention by their colleagues over there.
[00:04:53]  And that they need.
[00:04:54]  I think that.
[00:04:55]  That behavior at a minimum is, it rises to the level of a century.
[00:04:59]  I think there needs to be a message sent by the body as a whole that that is not what we are going to do.
[00:05:03]  That's not how we're going to act.
[00:05:05]  We're not going to have branches fighting physically and having senators charging cabinet secretaries.
[00:05:10]  We got to.
[00:05:11]  No.
[00:05:12]  That's not right.
[00:05:14]  Anyway, we're now in a situation where things have escalated and Donald Trump is saying, okay, I'm going to send in possibly the National Guard to the likes of New York.
[00:05:26]  Illinois, not just California anymore, because I have lawmakers there.
[00:05:33]  I have attorney generals there.
[00:05:35]  I have governors there in each of these states that don't actually want to enforce the law.
[00:05:42]  And when they're not willing to enforce the law, then we got a problem, right?
[00:05:46]  Because the law is the law.
[00:05:48]  And until you actually change the law, you do have to actually enforce it.
[00:05:52]  I mean, otherwise, why the heck do you have it?
[00:05:53]  Christine Nome making this really, really crystal clear.
[00:05:56]  And what I want to point out by showing you this sound.
[00:05:59]  Is that, you know, she's not out in left field.
[00:06:01]  Okay.
[00:06:01]  This is like normal talk.
[00:06:02]  Christy sounds like a normal person as head of DHS.
[00:06:06]  You know what?
[00:06:07]  If you don't like the law, you can change it.
[00:06:09]  It's the left that somehow thinks in New York and California and Illinois, they can be completely their own countries with their own set of rules and their own set of laws.
[00:06:18]  And that's not the way it works.
[00:06:22]  My only question to you, I'd say a question back to you, is which laws in the United States should be enforced and which ones shouldn't?
[00:06:29]  I mean, my job, here's the deal, guys.
[00:06:31]  My job is not to pick and choose which laws we enforce and which ones we don't.
[00:06:35]  We have laws in this country and they matter.
[00:06:37]  If you want the law changed, go to Congress.
[00:06:39]  When's the last time you went to Capitol Hill and told your senator or representative to change it?
[00:06:44]  That's what they need to do.
[00:06:45]  This is the perfect time for Congress to make a decision on how they want people in this country to be able to have an opportunity to come here legally and to fix this.
[00:06:53]  We, as law enforcement officers and as a national security department and agency, my job is to uphold the law.
[00:07:00]  And that's what I will continue to do.
[00:07:04]  Right.
[00:07:05]  Okay.
[00:07:05]  Now, this is not something that should be in any way, shape, or form controversial.
[00:07:13]  Okay.
[00:07:13]  It didn't used to be controversial.
[00:07:15]  The law is the law.
[00:07:16]  In fact, President Obama was asked about this law back in 2013 on Telemundo.
[00:07:23]  And gosh, I got to tell you, he sounds a lot like Christy Nome, head of Donald Trump's DHS.
[00:07:28]  Let's listen.
[00:07:29]  Last time we spoke, you said that you weren't king, you were president.
[00:07:32]  There are only certain things you could do unilaterally.
[00:07:34]  As time goes on, 1,000 deportations on average a day, people are wondering, and our Twitter feeds and Facebook feeds, that's the question everybody asks.
[00:07:43]  Won't you at least consider unilaterally freezing deportations for the parents of deferred action kids?
[00:07:49]  Yeah.
[00:07:50]  Here's the problem that I have, Jose, and I've said this consistently.
[00:07:54]  My job in the executive branch is supposed to be to carry out the laws that are passed.
[00:08:01]  Congress has said here's the law when it comes to those who are undocumented.
[00:08:07]  And they allocate a whole bunch of money for enforcement.
[00:08:11]  And, uh, what I have been able to do is to make a legal argument, uh, that I think is absolutely right, which is that given the resources we have, we can't do everything that Congress has asked us to do.
[00:08:27]  What we can do is then carve out the DREAM Act, uh, folks, saying young people who have basically grown up here are Americans that we should welcome.
[00:08:40]  We're not going to have them operate under a cloud, under a shadow.
[00:08:44]  But if we start broadening that, then essentially I would be ignoring the law in a way that I think would be very difficult to defend legally.
[00:08:55]  So that's not an option.
[00:08:57]  And I do get a little worried that advocates of immigration reform start losing heart and immediately thinking, well, somehow there's an out here.
[00:09:11]  If Congress doesn't act, We'll just have the president sign something and that'll take care of him.
[00:09:16]  We won't have to worry about it.
[00:09:18]  But he's saying, legally, he can't.
[00:09:19]  And you can debate the Dream Act, but I think the moral of the story is the Dream Act was kind of a band aid.
[00:09:24]  And he was saying, I can't legally do this, similar to what Christy Noam is saying.
[00:09:28]  Hey, you want to change the law, you want to fix the law, then go for it.
[00:09:32]  You do that.
[00:09:32]  This is what Tom Homan was trying to explain to the little bartender, 1AOC, who has presidential aspirations, believe it or not.
[00:09:39]  Scary, I know.
[00:09:40]  But anyway, she doesn't get it.
[00:09:42]  He's trying to explain to her a couple years ago in this fantastic.
[00:09:46]  Sometimes you guys may have seen me place before because it's just this unbelievable moment where he's so crystal clear on it, he gets it, and she just doesn't.
[00:09:56]  She doesn't.
[00:09:57]  I mean, he sounds like Obama right here trying to talk some sense into little Miss AOC.
[00:10:01]  You're not the author, but you signed the memo.
[00:10:05]  Yes, a zero tolerance memo.
[00:10:08]  So you provided the official recommendation to Secretary Nielsen on family separation for the United States to pursue family separation.
[00:10:17]  I gave Secretary Nielsen numerous recommendations on how to secure the border and save lives.
[00:10:22]  But it says here that you gave her numerous options, but the recommendation was option three, family separation.
[00:10:28]  What I'm saying, this is not the only paper where we've given the Secretary numerous options to secure the border and save lives.
[00:10:35]  And so the recommendation, of the many that you recommended, you recommended family separation.
[00:10:41]  I recommended zero tolerance.
[00:10:43]  Which includes family separation.
[00:10:46]  The same as is with every U.S. citizen parent gets arrested when they're with a child.
[00:10:53]  Zero tolerance was interpreted as the policy that separated children from their parents.
[00:10:58]  If I get arrested for DUI and I have a young child in a car, I'm going to be separated.
[00:11:02]  When I was a police officer in New York and I arrested a father for domestic violence, I separated that father from my parents.
[00:11:08]  Mr. Holman, with all due respect, legal asylees are not charged with any crime.
[00:11:15]  When you're in the country illegally, it's violation of 8 United States Code 1325.
[00:11:18]  Seeking asylum is legal.
[00:11:21]  If you want to seek asylum and go through the port of entry, do it the legal way.
[00:11:25]  The Attorney General of the United States has made that clear.
[00:11:28]  Okay.
[00:11:29]  You see, again, you want to change the law, go change the law.
[00:11:33]  In the meantime, you actually need to enforce the laws that you do have on the books.
[00:11:37]  And if states are going to get in the way of the federal government enforcing the law, then at what point does the federal government have to say, okay, you know what, we're taking over, we're in charge?
[00:11:49]  And that's the point at which we have reached in states like New York and California.

=== Enforcing Existing Border Laws (02:03) ===

[00:11:54]  with Donald Trump.
[00:11:55]  Now again, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals is going to be looking at this again this week.
[00:11:59]  They put the order in on Friday that indeed the National Guard could be federalized.
[00:12:04]  And the question becomes, is that going to stand?
[00:12:06]  Like, where does the law come out on that?
[00:12:10]  I'm going to get into the nitty gritty.
[00:12:11]  But first, I just want to again remind you, because this is sort of bizarre.
[00:12:15]  I mean, I'm like, guys, whatever happened to the world?
[00:12:19]  We're suddenly now, like, you're a bad person if you think that the law should be enforced.
[00:12:25]  I mean, remember, remember.
[00:12:28]  When Clinton and Obama were saying this.
[00:12:29]  This administration, the Bush administration, has done nothing to control the problem that we have.
[00:12:38]  We've had 5 million undocumented workers come over the borders since George Bush took office.
[00:12:44]  It has become an extraordinary problem.
[00:12:47]  And the reason the American people are concerned is because they are seeing their own economic position slip away.
[00:12:55]  And oftentimes, employers are exploiting these undocumented workers.
[00:12:59]  They're not paying the minimum wage.
[00:13:01]  They're not.
[00:13:02]  observing worker safety laws.
[00:13:03]  As president, I will make sure that we finally have the kind of border security that we need.
[00:13:08]  That's step number one.
[00:13:09]  Step number two is to take on employers.
[00:13:12]  Right now, an employer has more of a chance of getting hit by lightning.
[00:13:17]  Yeah, he said he was going to take that on.
[00:13:18]  I guess that didn't really work out for him.
[00:13:21]  But again, everybody kind of felt very strongly one way.
[00:13:26]  Like it didn't used to be controversial to say, you know what, we have borders and we need to enforce the borders.
[00:13:31]  Open borders.
[00:13:32]  And that's a Koch brothers proposal.
[00:13:35]  The idea, of course.
[00:13:37]  I mean, that's a right wing proposal which says essentially there is no United States.
[00:13:42]  But it would make a lot of the global poor richer, wouldn't it?
[00:13:45]  And it would make everybody in America poorer.
[00:13:47]  Then you're doing away with the concept of a nation state.
[00:13:50]  And I don't think there's any country on the world which believes in that.
[00:13:55]  If you believe in a nation state.

=== The Nation State Debate (00:47) ===

[00:13:58]  Well, you know, hey, a decade later, suddenly we do.
[00:14:01]  What the heck happened?
[00:14:03]  Donald Trump happened.
[00:14:04]  I get it, right?
[00:14:04]  Like, so anything that Donald Trump stands for, they do not stand for.
[00:14:09]  Weird.
[00:14:11]  And then there's the, you know, the gerrymandering, redistricting thing that I think has become quite real.
[00:14:18]  And, you know, before you dismiss it as some kind of conspiracy theory, don't forget, if it wasn't for the appellate court in New York striking this down, you'd have 800,000 non-citizens voting in the next election there in state elections in New York.
[00:14:32]  And this has come up out in Berkeley, California, where you have now people that are non-citizens, that are voting for school board members.
[00:14:39]  It's getting to the point where now we understand a method to the madness.
[00:14:42]  Maybe back then they didn't see it, now today they do.