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reporting there are no signs of life seen at the crash site of a helicopter that was carrying president ebrahim raisi and others. news of ruiz's death comes nearly 24 hours after the helicopter crashed. it was in a remote part of the country during dense fog, rescue efforts have been hampered by bad weather and pretty rough and tough terrain, and a number of other top officials, including the country's foreign minister, were also on board. the chopper was heading back to the country's capital when it reportedly went down. the crash comes at a fraught moment in the middle east with the war raging in gaza. and then, of course, weeks after iran launched a drone and missile attack on israel in response to a deadly strike on its diplomatic compounds in damascus, so hardliner raisi became president in a historically uncompetitive election in 2021. iran's supreme leader is stressing the business of iran's government will continue no matter what. under the iranian constitution, iran's first vice president

takes over if the president dies. so joining us now is lieutenant colonel darren gob, army veteran and blackhawk hawk helicopter pilot, you know, thank you for joining us, lieutenant. you know, from a military standpoint, i want your your take on what we're seeing happen and unfold in iran right now. hey. good morning. ashley. yeah, thanks for having me on, you know, this is something we've been watching all day with the expected result that we had an and, as, as you mentioned in your, in your preview here was that this is, you know, on the heels of a really a failed attack on israel that the world got to see, the iranian people got to got to hear about it. and eventually see regardless. so they have a significant number of challenges going on, both internally and with their external relationships. you know, saudi arabia and jordan would also watch this very closely and see if, if inside iran, if the people take

advantage of this as an opportunity to potentially force some change upon their current regime, do you think that this is going to force any change? i know that's been a question that i've been asking, you know, all of our guests tonight or this morning. and i think the sentiment is it probably won't i lean towards it probably won't have significant change. it's up to the iranian people what they do with this in the end. but iran also tends to have a habit of using their internal police forces and their military to, to crush any kind of rebellion that might arise. and i am most likely and going to lean towards the fact that they're just going to promote from within and continue their current policies and with that, with limited change, or maybe even no change at all. hardly. you know, when it comes to israel, that's also been a big talking point with this, especially with the drone strike a couple of weeks ago. and, you just, you know, iran's got their hand in all kinds of,

of dirty laundry right now. and, this is not a good look on the world stage for iran. but what do you think is real? how do you think they're responding to this, especially considering what's transpired with them here recently? well, first of all, i think israel is going to be like iran and the way that their their business is going to proceed as it has been, they've got a mission. they're focused on it with the eradication of hamas and gaza, what happens in iran does not have to and probably will not change that focus. what could change for israel is if they look at the potential for the people of iran actually to potentially rise up even more and use this as an opportunity for change, they could take part in that in some way to help work through the iranian people, or push the messaging onto the world stage to help, remove that regime. maybe come back to something more favorable and friendly to the

to middle east and central asia and other allied or friendly nations might actually help with that as well. but that's just one of the range of possibilities that that goes from. almost nothing happens to , we see a complete change in iran. again. i'm going to lean towards not much changes, but also i'm also going to lean towards israel, will continue to conduct their operations as they have been and remain focused on that. so you know, do you think this distracts iran at all, obviously with the foreign minister and the president being on that helicopter that went down according to the iranian state media, you know, i'm at a loss for words as to what really their, their part was in this because they still had to answer to the supreme leader. it's not like they were calling the shots with everything. and then if you think about it, president raisi, he also backed

the, october 7th attack on israel. so he's he's not well liked at all, especially by the iranian people. i mean, he's not even liked by his own people. so, you know, as a whole, how do you think this makes iran look on the world stage when it comes to people like the us? but then if you look at russia, saudi arabia, all of our adversaries, north korea, how do you think they're responding as well? well, ultimately, i think they're just they're going to look at this as khamenei is still in place. and like you said, that is the ultimate power in iran and where everybody else turns to for iranian decisions on the on the world stage and frankly, on the internal stage to iran itself. so without a change there, i don't think you're going to see a lot of other changes specifically with that list of countries that you already mentioned. so, russia is certainly going to look at

this because iran is one of their suppliers for things like drones. china is going to look at this because they're a they're a friendly nation towards chinese aims in central asia and the middle east, but ultimately, i think the most powerful change that could come of this, if the iranian people wanted it to happen, would be for that population to rise up and decide to throw off the current regime, stranger things have happened with smaller events throughout history, so it's a possibility, and i think many of us would support it. but, again, and you think that's a possibility, even though it might be a small possibility, you think that is still on the table? i think we have to leave it on the table and support it. if it does look like it could happen, it's up to the iranian people ultimately. but we can't discount it, history teaches us that small sparks can light a big fire. and even if it's not immediate, it can take time. and it can happen. right. and i do have to get this in reuters is now reporting that israel, released comment that it is not

involved in this death. i think that was a smart move on israel to get that out there, you know, especially with the conflict going on between the two. what do you think? oh, i agree either way. but, as a helicopter pilot and a search and rescue expert, when i looked at the terrain, i looked at the conditions as it's being reported and the facts as we know them. it seemed fairly clear that what you had was a combination of, terrain, altitude, weather considerations and things like that that probably lead us towards an accident where pilots lost. would you have taken off and got lost in the fog? based on the video that we're seeing? i know this is the only video we have, but based on what we're seeing, would you have taken off in that, especially with leaders of a country, in your in your care, based on what we've seen, i would say that it's very unlikely that we would have that i would have taken off. and i've done, i've done some

pretty hairy things in helicopters and in the mountains in fog. i couldn't imagine it's dangerous, but that same kind of leadership sometimes leads to the pressure to get the job done, no matter what. so, i think we give it some time to figure that out, but it seems pretty clear to me that there's no reason for israel to claim any kind of responsibility towards this when, i've seen this far too many times, even within our own military and civil aviation in the united states, a bad conditions can lead to bad accidents. yeah, it's just the timing of it, it's not good for iran, no matter which way you look at it. any of your final thoughts, especially, you know, being a helicopter pilot. any final thoughts on this situation, as a whole? well, i think ultimately the biggest thing we have to see is the response of, of the iranian people, whether or not they take an opportunity to seize this, to make some major changes or not. regardless of

how it happened, it did happen. so, that big picture global, global, scenario, i guess you say you could say, it will be up to them as far as the, the, the narrowly focused situation of the accident itself, it looks pretty clear to me that this is just one of those cases where bad things happen sometimes. and, what we don't know is the ultimate result. and that's the question. do you think we'll actually out right. do you think we'll actually ever get those answers? because you see that the iranians, iranians, i'm sorry, the iranian government, as my previous guest have said, they've just been trying to sweep all this under the rug, by not releasing information, whether it's they just didn't know. but that's not really what the other guests have been leaning towards. so, i mean, you know, what's your take on it? well everything that the regime in iran says should also be taken with a grain of salt

because they may just be trying to get this over with as quickly as possible to cause the least amount of turbulence. and specifically with their own people, they've already seen their own people lighting off fireworks and having small displays within public spaces that could grow. so it's to their own advantage to keep this as quiet as possible. least turbulence as possible, and continue on with, their objectives as a nation, it's going to be hard to do that, though, with the way technology is already so i guess we'll see. but i think i would back up anything iran says with other sources as best you can. okay lieutenant colonel darren gough, thank you so much for your time this morning. we really appreciate it. all right. thank you ashley. you're welcome. joining us now is matthew shoemaker, former intelligence officer with the defense intelligence agency, matt, thanks for staying with us on this story. we, as you heard me and the lieutenant, the colonel talking just there, he said that he thinks the

biggest issue that the iranian government is going to have right now are the iranian people. what do you think, ashley? thanks for having me back on. i would agree with the lieutenant colonel there. i would i would probably add to that that the thing that i'm going to be looking at over the next few days and the next few weeks in particular, is going to be how the iranian people will, respond to this. i know the lieutenant colonel mentioned that they're going to there's been some you know, fireworks displays, that there's been some low level celebratory reactions to it. but i'm i want to see over the next particularly 72 hours in particular, how do people respond, you know, with an immediate response of happiness. but then ultimately just shrug it off and continue on with their daily lives? or does this turn into something more? do they do they use this as an opportunity to try and change the way that they they

are governed? that that's really what i'm going to be looking at over the next three days in particular. but but going forward, probably over the next week or two as well. yeah. the lieutenant colonel, he said that he thought it might be a small possibility, but he said there is the possibility that the iranian people could could rise up. what do you think? do you think that's, on the table? i think it's certainly on the table. i think to some extent there is a bit of wishful thinking, in the west that that would happen. i mean, the iranian people have been protesting against the government, at the very least since 2009, during the disputed presidential elections of that year, and each and every time that the government seems to crack down, just as hard, if not harder than the last time before that. so. so what? there certainly is. you know, possibility for the iranian people to rise up over this. but i don't want to, you know, get over our skis and, and start thinking, you know, that this is, you know, going to

happen or anything like that. it certainly is a distinct possibility. they certainly have a track record of, of protesting and rising up to a certain extent. but but very rarely does anything really come of that. so we'll see what happens. more than anything, and that's really the state of things right now. i think from an intelligence perspective that really is going to be the question that the intelligence collectors are going to be tasked with, of what is it? what exactly are they seeing on the ground? what are people react? how are people reacting to the death of the iranian president? and do they see this as a way that they can can influence the way that things are going to go? and last time we spoke, about an hour ago or so, i'd mentioned that the iranians are going to have an election for the new president in the next 50 days, but they have a guardian council actually, that gets to determine who gets to be on that ballot and who is disqualified. now, in 2021, you know, the guardian council was

extremely strict in terms of who they allowed on virtually no moderates, were allowed on that ballot, which is why president raisi was able to get in, i believe, with 60, some 61, 62% of the vote, even though the vote was only about 49% turnout. so it was very low for the iranians, if that happens again, you know, we'll see if people decide to rise up or if they just shrug it off. i also, before i let you go, i just do want to also point out that raeisi backed the october 7th attack on israel, so he was not well liked by the iranian people, as well. so, matthew, thank you so much for sticking with us on this story. we appreciate it. absolutely. thank you. of course, again, if you're just now joining us, iranian state media is reporting president ebrahim raisi and other top officials have been found dead after their helicopter crashed sunday morning. the news comes nearly

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possible, he's violating the impoundment act and the take care clause of the constitution. he's using the federal bureaucracy to register voters in targeted democrat, areas, and he's unconstitutionally appointed through his attorney general, a rogue prosecutor whose entire job is to harass, smear, indict. and they hope, convict donald trump of something. which brings us to executive privilege, which i talked about in my opening statement. he has waived executive privilege over and over and over and over again to push our presidential documents during the trump administration ordering the archives to give it to the january 6th commission under nancy pelosi. he's all but destroyed executive privilege. and then a few days ago, all of a sudden, he asserts executive privilege at the request of the attorney general, who's facing a contempt vote in the house to cover up his audio of his interview, the text of which is

out in the public in order to protect himself from the election, which has no constitutional basis. so what do you make of all this? you know, mark, one of these days you're going to say something i disagree with, but it hasn't happened yet. at every word of what you just said is exactly right, that this is a brazen president. this is a brazen department of justice. merrick garland, you and i both know merrick garland. he spent 24 years as a judge. he actually had a good reputation as a court of appeals judge. i had some glimmer of hope that that that he might do the job with integrity. he has proven to be the most partizan and the most lawless attorney general in our nation's history. and you are right, this administration. listen, i've said a number of times, donald trump broke the democrat party. they hate him so much that their minds have been shattered and they've convinced themselves that trump is adolf hitler. and because

trump is hitler, anything, anything, anything is justified to stop him. you talked about these ridiculous trials in over 200 years. we have never once indicted a president or former president in our entire country's history. until this past year, when the democrats have done so four times. every one of these cases is, number one, an abuse of power because they hate donald trump. but number two, it is an assault on the american people. it's an assault on democracy. i got to say, i actually think sigmund freud is rolling over in his grave because the democrats engage in freudian projection at a level i've never seen. they beat their chest. they say we're defending democracy and they are engaged in an assault on democracy. and you mentioned the assertion of executive privilege. i actually view that as just mockery because it is a ludicrous claim, as you know. well, executive privilege exists to protect the conversations between the

president and his senior advisers. now, mind you, the radical left doesn't care about executive privilege. if it's a republican president. and that's why peter navarro is in jail, right now, because he asserted executive privilege when congress tried to get him to divulge his conversations with president trump, and they sent him to jail over it, and they're about to send steve bannon to jail over the exact same thing. but in this instance, there's not even a credible claim of executive privilege. why? because when joe biden was talking with robert, her, he wasn't talking to a subordinate. he wasn't instructing a subordinate in his administration what to do. look, if joe biden were having a conversation with merrick garland about the priorities of the department of justice that could well be covered by executive privilege. but in this instance, robert her was a special counsel. he was investigating joe biden for multiple felonies. joe biden was effectively a criminal defendant. that is not executive privilege. he was not setting policy at that moment, robert. he was not there as a

subordinate. he was there as a prosecutor. and the claim is laughable. and by the way, robert hurt concluded, yes, joe biden committed multiple felonies. he did so knowingly, willingly, brazenly, over and over and over again. and then on behalf of the biden department of justice, he said. but we're not going to charge him because joe biden is not competent to stand trial. he's too old and senile. no jury would convict him. and yet, nonetheless, this person, not competent to stand trial, has the nuclear codes and remains our commander in chief when we come back. ted cruz, isn't that the point which is this? the 25th amendment is intended to deal with situations like this where you have basically a disabled president. we know he's disabled. that's why they treat him like a, a, a, a calf in a cage. you know, that's why they don't let him out. that's why when he's shuffling from the helicopter, the staff blocks him. that's why he's had less press conferences than any president. that's why he doesn't do much public speaking

without his talking points. he. he is the least available president of the public. they're trying to cover this up. that's why the debate standards have been set. no audience. he wants his own journalists. she can't interrupt them. everything is built around joe biden's mental disabilities. don't we? as a people, they talk about the public interest. don't we have a right to know that the democrats are going to nominate a man who may not be fit for president mentally and physically, rather than calling that politics? isn't that exactly what our republic is about, that we need to know who these candidates are, given the power of the presidency, i want you to answer that. when we return

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helicopter crashed in a remote part of the country, and it was during dense fog. reese's sudden death, along with the death of iran's foreign minister and the other officials, come as iran struggles with internal dissent and its relations with the wider world, joining us now to talk more about this aftermath of the deadly crash is fox news correspondent madeline rivera

from our nation's capital this morning. good morning. madeline. hey, good morning ashley. so just to give you some details regarding this crash. so search and rescue authorities for hours had been scouring this remote area in the northwestern section of the country near its border with azerbaijan. but there was bad weather. this area was remote. it was covered with dense forests. it was filled with mountains and it made the search and rescue efforts a lot harder. add to that. add that to the fact that adding that to adding to the complications here were bad weather with rain and fog, and at one point, search and rescue teams had to actually call off their search. but then a turkish drone identified wide heat in the area. search and rescue teams got to the crash site. they found no signs of life. an iranian state media then confirming that iran's president ibrahim raisi, the

foreign minister, as well as others have died. ashley and a lot obviously coming out about this madeline overnight and obviously more to come throughout the early morning hours and during the day. and we will come to you as the news breaks. madeline. thank you so much. you got it. joining us now, matthew shoemaker, a former intelligence officer with the defense intelligence agency, matthew, you've you've been a crutch for us this morning. and we really appreciate your time all morning long. but i do want to talk to you about how this is going to affect the united states and american soil, if at all, any, you know, because as people are starting to wake up, they're looking at this thinking, you know, in the middle of missouri, why should i care about this? so why should the average american care about what's happening in iran right now, with this news coming out? absolutely. and, ashley, thank you very much for having me on again, why people should care is because the

iranian government in particular, has been at the forefront of international issues, not just in the middle east, but but all over the world, over the past number of decades since the iranian revolution, in 1979, you know, in the immediate, over the next few days and probably the next week or so, i know earlier in the program, you had meant you had asked about oil prices, you know, just by the by the very nature of how the oil industry works is that it's oftentimes a knee jerk reaction to, to anything that goes on in the international sphere. i expect, you know, the same sort of knee jerk reaction to happen over the next few days or so until people settle down and realize that for the most part, you know, the oil and gas sector coming out of the of the middle east is not, should not be affected by this immediate event that just happened, yesterday, but, you know, under

normal circumstances, that's going to affect the way that every day americans, you know, fill up their gas tank. so that certainly is going to be one reason why, you know, as an intelligence officer with the military, you know, this affects our own service members, in particular. you know, i have friends and colleagues who are stationed out in the middle east where certainly going to be very interested. you know, to see what happens, you know, for their own particular safety and, you know, the friends and relatives of those service members here in the united states are certainly going to be very concerned, just based off of that alone, and so there are many various different reasons why americans should care, about what's going on in iran and why should we should care about what goes on in the middle east in general, you know, and, matthew, you bring up such a good point with talking about our service members stationed in the middle east. i mean, is this just essentially a waiting game? they just have to wait and see how this all plays out. that's going to be probably what ends up happening over the next 48

hours in particular. you know, we'll see what happens in terms of how the iranian government, responds, responds in terms of what sort of assistance may continue or may not continue with regards to how they interact with with hamas, how they interact with hezbollah, how they interact, down in yemen, you know, that's, you know, they have their fingers in so many different pots and trying to stir the pot to put it lightly, we'll see if that continues. i expect that it will, but for our service members in the region, they're going to be certainly taking a look at, you know, what sort of force protection that they might need to shift or change based off of this. so right now, people are just in a little bit of a waiting game, you know. reuters, they said that, israel released a statement saying they had nothing to do with this situation, you know, i was

speaking to lieutenant colonel gob, and he was talking he was a helicopter pilot. and he said, you know, based on the video and the terrain that he saw, that this was more than likely he you know what? they're what the iranian state media is saying it is. and when that chopper went down, do you think it was necessary for israel to release that statement? i think israel is in between a rock and a hard place. there sort of if they do, if they don't, if they don't say anything, then they run the risk of the iranians interpreting silence as consent or silence as some sort of involvement, that's the risk that the israelis decided they didn't want to take. but at the same time, though, too, you know, saying, oh, i you know, we didn't have anything to do with this. you know, the iranians are certainly very paranoid about anything that the israelis might do. so it could set, you know, alarm bells off in the iranian government that maybe the israelis are lying, maybe that

they actually did have something to do with it. so they were in a little bit of a rock between a rock and a hard place in terms of what to do. they they certainly chose to at least come out and say that they weren't part of it, it probably was, a good move on their behalf to say that, at least publicly, on the world stage, from a just a public relations perspective, that they didn't have anything to do with it. so they might be able to glean some international support and backing. if the iranians tried to if they misinterpret that or if they think the iranians or if they think the israelis are lying. so the israelis certainly, you know, they they they're in quite a quite a spot themselves in terms of what to do with regards to this, everyone seems to just be waiting at this point. it's a waiting game. and as we keep saying, you know, it's just going to it's especially the next 48, 72 hours, it's going to be, key in seeing how this plays out, matthew, thank you so much once

again, for your time. i appreciate it. absolutely. thank you for having me on, ashley. you're welcome. joining us now is al reza jafarzadeh, the deputy director at the national council of resistance of iran. ali reza, thank you so much for coming on with us this morning, you know, you're an expert with raisi, tell us a little bit about him and in his background because, you know, he came into power as president , if you want to call it power. but he did become the iranian president in 2021, and he is not very well liked, according to, you know, the, the iranian people. and he also backed and supported the october 7th attack on israel. so tell us a little bit about him, thank you so much for having me on this show. we are definitely ibrahim raisi is actually as far as the people of iran are concerned,

as you correctly said, they view him as a mass murderer because he was involved in the massacre of some 30,000 political prisoners in the summer of 1988, based on a religious decree that was issued at the time by then supreme leader khamenei, who is the predecessor to khomeini, and that, fatwa, that religious decree ordered the murder of all of the political prisoners in all of the prisons across iran who remained loyal to the main iranian opposition movement known as the mek, now, 90% of all of those murders belong to this movement. now, this massacre was kept secret for years, but of course, now it's a proven fact and everybody knows about it. the un has been investigating it. and actually, raisi himself has boasted about this murder and saying he's proud of it. so

he's viewed as a mass murderer by the iranian people and very much hated by the people of iran. now, as far as the regime is concerned, obviously this is a major blow to the supreme leader khamenei, because, you know, he has worked for years to elevate raisi to the position that he has now before he became president for several years, he was appointed as the head of a major financial foundation in the second largest, and most populated city in iran, in mashhad. that's actually my hometown and he was able to funnel vast amounts of money and resources to the revolutionary guards and the proxies in the region, such as hezbollah and all of those groups. and then he was appointed as the head of the judiciary, which brought the

judiciary under the complete control of supreme leader khamenei. and it was then in 2021, as you correctly said, that he became the head actually handpicked by the supreme leader to become the head of the executive branch as the president, which basically allowed him to allocate much of the country's resources and money and everything they had to the revolution guards. and it was under raisi that the executive branch became really a tool in the hands of revolutionary guards and the workforce that you see appointed, the first commander of the ghost force, which is all they do. terrorism as the new interior minister for himself, which gave the authority to the revolutionary guards to leverage the, you know, and suppress the uprisings. so that's the kind of background that he's coming from. he has no education whatsoever since he was only 19

years old. he was became the he became the deputy prosecutor of the city of karaj, which was the fourth, fourth most populated city in iran. and, you know, he was he came from a clerical schools directly to become part of the regime. and all he has done in his life, basically being involved in putting people in jail, torturing them. and then the 1988 massacre of 30,000 political prisoners, you know, you talk about, all of this with rosy. i want to know about the iranian people. how are they reacting to this? well, it's very interesting because the iranian people reacted to raisi long time ago when he was actually running for office, there was a large boycott of the elections. at the time, it was the lowest, voter turnout ever. when, you know, raisi

wanted to get into office, then, you know, his main mission was to prevent the uprisings, the protests in iran , you know, because of his background as being a murderer and a killer. but he failed because in 222, in september, you had a huge protest breaking out, expanding to over 200 cities with a chance of death to the dictator, death to khamenei, death to raisi. so that's the sentiment of the people. now, of course, from the time that the plane crashed, the helicopter crash, that was almost about 18 hours ago, the regime really didn't really release the information, even though it was evident that he and other people on the helicopter were dead. but they wanted to manage the situation because they were. khamenei was extremely afraid of the population and the kind of reaction that they will have and they will see as a weakness

of the regime. and they may, you know, restart another round of protests and uprisings, which they may not control, so that, you know, by playing around, by dragging this issue for several hours, it gave the regime enough time to have the security forces installed in various parts of tehran, the capital, and other cities, and they were managed to line up all their vectors within the regime and just preparing themselves how to deal with this situation. situation. khamenei had a special meeting with the supreme national security council members, which are, you know, the top people who are, you know, movers and shakers of the regime, all because as you correctly said, the regime is extremely, afraid of the consequences of, of this, you know, the, the, the death of, of, raisi. i clearly, the main concern that the regime has is that it may,

because, you know, his death could actually trigger a series of repercussions and crisis within the regime, and it could incite the youth, especially the rebellious youth, with added momentum. they feel okay now, this guy who was supposed to be the, you know, the hammer and, you know, killing people, and they're boasting as you said, about what their proxies are doing in the region, the hezbollah and all of the things happening since october 7th. and now suddenly this guy himself is dead, along with the foreign minister and others. so that shows that highlights the weakness of the regime. and it just is a big boost to the population. we have a lot of reports coming from within iran that people were very jubilant, they were, you know, spreading cookies and candies to each other. yeah. and it makes you wonder. it makes you wonder

what's going to happen once that, i guess, excitement from this news wears off and how that turns out. aliriza, thank you so much for coming on with us this morning. we really appreciate your

miller, you made a very important point. that is the purpose of immigration is to serve the american people. the purpose of immigration is to serve people all over the world and to accommodate them. and, of course, the american people oppose this, are not even consulted. this is top down, iron fisted police, state government by the biden administration. now, what do you make of the fact that in addition to the flights, in addition to the open borders, in addition to all of it, they want to fly palestinians from the gaza strip into the united states, even though we see what's been taking place. the last few months, where the river to the sea crowd and we've seen what's been taking place in the last few years, the lack of our system, the even assimilate people anymore because of what the democrat party has done to these institutions. make no mistake, mark, if joe biden remains in office through next year, they will bring the gaza strip to america. and specifically, i think it's clear you've seen

senator tammy baldwin, the senator from wisconsin, come out in favor of the gaza relocation plan to america. they're going to concentrate that in the midwest. so they're going to turn the midwest into the middle east. we've seen for years how the government works with refugee organizations to concentrate these flights to transform the midwestern states specifically. that's where i believe you will see that concentrated. to your point, mark, this is this is not a pleasant fact. this is not something that we enjoy talking about. it's not something that brings us any pleasure. it just is what it is. the population in the gaza strip has been indoctrinated since the day they were born to import that ideology, that violence, that hatred, that enmity into our own cities is not just madness, but it is pure malice. it is pure hatred of america and americans. the neighboring states will not take gazan migrants. the neighboring

states that share the same culture and language, not specifically the gaza culture, but but share the same historical background. they won't take refugees from that region, and yet they're going to bring them into the united states, because people who live there, people in egypt, understand, people in jordan, understand hand that this is a population that is thoroughly, dangerously radicalized. you also talked about assimilation more broadly, mark, they are pursuing negative assimilation. the left is and what i mean by that is they are pushing theories in school, theories of race and theories of culture that are designed to tear us all apart. teaching about hierarchies of oppression, teaching about colonial heritage of evil american settlers. they are pushing diversity, equity and inclusion policies, all of which are designed to atomize and balkanize society to turn us into a dysfunctional tower of

babel. and then to your earlier point, you give new migrants welfare. you give them free public health care, you give them free housing, you give them free food. and then what? a conservative parties are going to come along and just take it all away. their whole plan is to bring in migrants and addict them to both. an ideology that is harmful to america and to hook newcomers on welfare, and then to build a big government state and a permanent political majority. what you're describing, then, is a tyrannical democrat party that puts its own power first. that doesn't give a about the country as is in fact, is actively destroying the country, in our schools, in our immigration policies, in the way the constitution is shredded and the targeting of an opponent, donald trump and so forth. a democrat party that is effectively an alien party, an autocratic party. no, it is autocracy. you see that with

the unhinged, merciless weaponization of law enforcement against donald trump, the, the total complete corruption of our justice system to jail joe biden's political enemy, while at the same time to jail his chief political rival, while at the same time, joe biden says, spends law enforcement across the entire southern border of the united states, invites in adversaries, invites in, spies, invites in, terrorists, invites in, cartels, gets our children killed with fentanyl, gets innocent girls and women beaten to death in the street. a criminal in 1600 pennsylvania avenue violating law right and left issuing illegal executive edicts. right and left, as you said, suspending title nine. all of it. one law breaking edict after another. and then turning law enforcement as a weapon to take out his political rival. that is autocracy. ignoring the laws of the united states, ignoring the constitution, defying them willfully and deliberately

changing this country without the consent of the governed, and then using his justice department and his henchmen in his party to try to stop his political rival from participating in a free and fair election. that's authoritarianism, mark. well, stephen miller, that is profound. you run the american first legal, your founder. they are doing fantastic work over there, my wife contributes to it, too, i want everybody to know that because i'm proud of it. but i want to thank you very much for all you do. and god bless you, my friend. god bless. thank yu mark

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