But I just, I think there ought to be a little sniffing around, to be quite honest.

Well, definitely.

I mean, anybody that can say the election process is 100% secure is lying to themselves and to the rest of us.

When you have things like mail-in ballots that are still on the table, when you have states that are not implementing stringent voter ID checks and laws, then there are vulnerabilities And those vulnerabilities exist.

And you've got 50% of the country that are perfectly fine with that being in existence.

And that's a problem.

Because their party wins.

But that said, by the end of their term, they were more popular than ever.

Be mad at this criminal alien who rammed government vehicles with his five-year-old in the car.

I mean, this suspect is responsible for the actions.

As the saying goes, every action has a reaction.

And the suspect here took the initial action of not complying with lawful demands.

This was somebody who's previously evaded immigration and customs enforcement.

He knows exactly that they were looking for him.

And they got his location.

Was the sort of balance struck at that time that has not existed since?

Do you think that that's what this is lining up to be?

I do.

I think the immigration fraud here is the low-lying fruit.

I think DOJ already has what they need in that respect.

And if the goal is to denaturalize Representative Omar, I think they're there right now.

I think this is a much, much bigger case, and they need accountability.

This is now gonna go, go into the financial fraud, uh, sector here, and they've got a lot of information.

And, uh, and again, now the same last question I asked Sam, you know, are, are we right to believe that with the DOJ and all federal agencies launching such a big case that this just doesn't smell like a pure immigration, like, uh, okay, no, she was 18 not 17 or, or, or f- fudging that around, but this looks bigger than that.

I mean, that's a serious problem right there in and of itself, isn't it, Charles?

Well, that's correct.

And look, she has nobody to blame for this situation but herself.

I, I know she loves to rail against the president and the administration, but this isn't their problem.

They're not the ones that established probable cause here.

It was the DC federal courts that established there was probable cause to issue that search warrant.

And what does that mean? That means that federal judges, uh, had a reasonable belief that the crimes alleged had been committed, and more, to a different extent, the issuance of the search warrant, uh, declared that there may be evidence of that crime at that specific location.

But that's a tremendous amount of money, a tremendous burden to the American taxpayer, isn't it?

What do you think?

Yeah.

Another guy that shouldn't have been in the country to begin with, has a rap sheet longer than both our arms.

And, uh, you know, look, they're gonna make ICE the bad guys.

You've got idiots, and you've got dangerous idiots.

Mandami falls in the category of dangerous idiots, because he actually has some responsibilities here in New York, where he's implementing policies that undercut not only the NYPD, but federal law enforcement from taking these dangerous public safety threats off of the street.

But, you know, look, they're gonna ...

Such, such bullcrap.

You could not become a ward of the government, but they've turned it completely upside down, haven't they?

That's right, and I always like to provide your listeners with the statistics.

Look, when we looked at this problem in Minneapolis and Minnesota at large, we saw that in the first year of coming to the country, uh, it was somewhere around 85%, uh, for entitlements.

Well, guess where it was 10 years from there? At about the same percentage.

So, you know, this is...

Not only are you becoming a public charge, uh, financially, but you're overwhelming the infrastructure of the communities that you live in.

We're talking about police, fire, schools-

Honest, uh, that's not going anywhere, is it?

How deep is this problem and what is really being done? Should people be concerned or not?

Well, it's a reminder that the United States needs to be responsible for all of its resources in its entirety, whether we're talking about weapons, we're talking about chips that we're putting in, aircraft and helicopters and other technologies.

All of that needs to be brought home.

It's why, Dr. Gina, it's very hard to go out and look at some part of our national security that's not related to the economy or related to technology.

National security touches everything.

Energy, for example.

So the more of it that we can bring into the United States within our own borders and have control over, the better, because there are going to be situations where we're gonna need to surge these types of resources like weapons.

So how do you see the issue of Iran coming up when President Trump is slated to host Xi Jinping later this month? What will that conversation be like?

And as far as I'm concerned, every damned one of them need to be facially recognized, denaturalized, and deported.

Yeah, there are some questions like that one that we simply don't need the answers to or the justification or to waste time deeply exploring.

Just the mere fact that they want to see death to this country and to the citizens of this country is enough to take action.

And I've got to tell you, look, there's no secrets here.

When you see people that shouldn't be in this country, and some that were born and raised here, marching up and down Fifth Avenue of Manhattan, swearing allegiance to Hezbollah and Hamas and these dangerous terrorist ideologies.

It's time to take action.

If that's not a wake-up call 25 years after the attacks of September 11th, then I don't know what is.

Now they come here because Democrats draw them because they're coming from crap holes, and they think that free hotel room, free child care is like winning the lottery, so I'll vote Democrat.

Yes.

And yet he allowed it to happen, and now as a result, yes, there's no doubt, we have Sharia law being practiced within our own borders here in the United States, in, in cities and communities and neighborhoods and in individual homes.

A- and that's because we allowed this mass illegal immigration into the country, exploitation of legal pathways into the country, and we have allowed these communities to segregate themselves with, with no intentions on ever assimilating to the values and our culture, uh, with- here in the United States, uh, or allowing themselves to mix with the rest of the population.

And here's what we have.

Yeah

... with this Socialist Party, thi- this is, this is really the first significant sign that we're seeing because what you're seeing here is almost 50%, uh, of the country that's going to have to come up, uh, with an answer here.

Are, are they going to go toward the soulish- socialist values, uh, that they spew where, you know, it's defunding and elimination of the police, elimination of our immigration laws, immigration customs enforcement? They basically wanna see the entire apparatus around law and order in this country-

That seems to be the ultimate motivation here.

Right, and all facilitated by the Democrats, by the way, beginning with the Biden administration.

And, and no surprise here, uh, our friends, uh, China are involved in this, uh, latest scheme that was uncovered by Trump's DOJ.

You know, here, uh, this is a tale of two tapes because, you know, our massive immigration system has many components to it, but the Trump administration has really done an unprecedented job in really tightening down our overall immigration system.

And as a result, attempts of fraud are going to go up.

Uh, there's still more work to do.

I think the administration would admit that in areas like green cards, which this scheme was related to, and visas.

Yeah

And deception may be a strong word, but is there an avenue for that?

Well, well, look, I, I think, first of all, um, the way you described being a member of the White House traveling press pool is exactly on point.

And, and that is there is an inherent risk, uh, when you travel as a member of the press pool with the President of the United States.

You are traveling with what many would accept as, as being the number one, uh, targeted person on the face of the earth.

And I don't think that's an overstatement, especially in light of the numbers and the, the, the volume of threats that we see President Trump facing in this day and age, and, and the things that the United States are involved in as a country.

And so I think that's a fair statement.

It's a fair assessment.

... see us at?

So how should we think about that?

Well, we used to joke around and always say it was the greatest contradiction in security.

And that is you are protecting the most recognizable person on the face of the earth who wants to also be the most accessible.

Right.

We were first tested with this back with Bill Clinton when he was president.

And you want to give them that access that they need, and you want to do it in the safest possible way.

So this is the tightrope that the Secret Service walks each and every day.

It's really extraordinary.

Chuck Marino, to you, what is the difference for the Secret Service to try and protect the president against sort of the crazy lone wolf assassin, we've seen that targeting President Trump, we saw it target Ronald Reagan and others, versus some kind of state-sponsored targeted attack?

Yeah, they're both challenging.

It predominantly sits where the threat originates from here with Iran.

Likely many of these threats against Trump are coming directly from the government, from the IRGC.

And then also you have their proxies, Hamas, Hezbollah, where it can be confirmed that they are operating at the direction of Iran, but it's also the material support, the financial support that a nation state can give to advance a plot against the president.

That's where these resources become dangerous.

And I do agree that in a nation state scenario, the only response is likely going to be a military response.

Explain.

Yeah, I think this is the Supreme Court signing off on the number one incentive that promotes illegal immigration, and that's birthright citizenship.

And they fail to take into account, Rita, the context of the current global threat landscape.

Look, it's no longer 1868 when the 14th Amendment was first ratified or 1940.

When it was codified, we've got to look at this in terms to the current environment and the environment of recent decades.

And that is many individuals who are going to violate the law should not be entitled to birthright citizenship.

And many of these that are violating law are also sponsored by many of our nation state adversaries like China.

You know, you can just kind of pop in and have a baby and they're a citizen.

Explain.

Yeah, I think this is the Supreme Court signing off on the number one incentive that promotes illegal immigration, and that's birthright citizenship.

And they fail to take into account, Rita, the context of the current global threat landscape.

Look, it's no longer 1868 when the 14th Amendment was first ratified or 1940. when it was codified.

We've got to look at this in terms to the current environment and the environment of recent decades.

And that is many individuals who are going to violate the law should not be entitled to birthright citizenship.

And many of these that are violating law are also sponsored by many of our nation state adversaries like China.

You know, you can just kind of pop in and have a baby and they're a citizen.

Explain.

Yeah, I think this is the Supreme Court signing off on the number one incentive that promotes illegal immigration, and that's birthright citizenship.

And they fail to take into account, Rita, the context of the current global threat landscape.

Look, it's no longer 1868 when the 14th Amendment was first ratified or 1940. when it was codified.

We've got to look at this in terms to the current environment and the environment of recent decades.

And that is many individuals who are going to violate the law should not be entitled to birthright citizenship.

And many of these that are violating law are also sponsored by many of our nation state adversaries like China.

You know, you can just kind of pop in and have a baby and they're a citizen.

What could we do? What is the one thing?

Well, we need a lot more adults in the room, it seems, especially in politics who, you know, sometimes, especially what we're hearing from the left here, they don't think that their words have consequences or that their words don't serve as a call to action when they do.

We've got to remember what people are saying falls on a wide variety of different people.

And they're going to interpret those words in some cases as a call to action.

And that's a very dangerous place, considering that the Secret Service is paying attention to lone actors, organized groups, nation states that are adversaries.

So they're paying attention to this wide variety of threats.

And I think the last thing that they would say that they need is elected officials kind of stirring the pot here and activating somebody who probably, if they had not been incited to act, wouldn't have acted on their own.

How concerned should Americans be about the security gaps and staffing problems the department is faced with right now?

But when you were in the Secret Service, you were overseen by a different branch of government, correct? Uh, a different department of the government, right?

Well, I was.

When I started, uh, the Secret Service fell under the Treasury Department and then moved over to the Department of Homeland Security.

So I advised, uh, then Secretary Janet Napolitano, uh, from 2009, uh, through almost 2012.

And, and what I can tell you is, uh, all of the components which the Secret Service is, uh, of DHS, they all play an essential role.

A- and I think unfortunately, uh, the Department of Homeland Security has been MIA in their oversight and support of the Secret Service.

The department has been too narrowly focused, uh, on immigration and border security issues.

How much harder is it now, especially in this age when there's so much divisive rhetoric?

You were an advisor to the Department of Homeland Security, which Secret Service is now part of that, but when you were in the Secret Service, you were overseen by a different branch of government, correct? Uh, a different department of the government, right?

Well, I was.

When I started, uh, the Secret Service fell under the Treasury Department and then moved over to the Department of Homeland Security.

So I advised, uh, then Secretary Janet Napolitano, uh, from 2009, uh, through almost 2012.

And, and what I can tell you is, uh, all of the components which the Secret Service is, uh, of DHS, they all play an essential role.

A- and I think unfortunately, uh, the Department of Homeland Security has been MIA in their oversight and support of the Secret Service.

The department has been too narrowly focused, uh, on immigration and border security issues.

How much harder is it now, especially in this age when there's so much divisive rhetoric?

What do you think we learned from that? What do you think the Secret Service has learned from that? You know, we have another campaign that's gonna be ramping up here after the midterm elections in '27.

Well, you hope they're, uh, they're coming away with the lessons learned.

In Butler, Pennsylvania, obviously we saw a catastrophic failure of the overall security plan to take into account, uh, the roof of, of that building, uh, which, which looked right down on the stage, and it, it was astounding.

That miss was, was not picked up during the advance process where the Secret Service scouts out these locations ahead of time, but, but also on the day of the event.

Somebody should have caught that, and, and it was almost catastrophic.

It was still a significant failure.

And, and now here we are again talking about the security plan at the Hilton Hotel, uh, a site that has been visited numerous times, does not have a, a very good history, uh, in the eyes of the Secret Service with the attempted assassination of President Reagan in 1981.

How much harder is it now, especially in this age when there's so much divisive rhetoric?

What do you think we learned from that? What do you think the Secret Service has learned from that? You know, we have another campaign that's gonna be ramping up here after the midterm elections in '27.

Well, you hope they're, uh, they're coming away with the lessons learned.

In Butler, Pennsylvania, obviously we saw a catastrophic failure of the overall security plan to take into account, uh, the roof of, of that building, uh, which, which looked right down on the stage, and it, it was astounding.

That miss was, was not picked up during the advance process where the Secret Service scouts out these locations ahead of time, but, but also on the day of the event.

Somebody should have caught that and, and it was almost catastrophic.

It was still a significant failure.

And, and now here we are again talking about the security plan at the Hilton Hotel, uh, a site that has been visited numerous times, does not have, uh, a very good history, uh, in the eyes of the Secret Service with the attempted assassination of President Reagan in 1981.

How much harder is it now, especially in this age when there's so much divisive rhetoric?

When you look at the totality of things going on, uh, at DHS, what do you think were maybe some of the other things that, that really stuck out that, that may have caused a, a problem the president no longer was interested in dealing with?

Yeah, I think it goes further back than that, Jessica.

You know, the Secretary of Homeland Security, I think, is on a daily basis the hardest cabinet position in any administration.

And so typically, you're gonna get the opposite parties that are constantly giving you grief, whether it's about the president's policies on things like immigration or border security.

But when you start to anger those in the same party, that's where it becomes problematic.

And where I think it started with Secretary Noem was, for some reason, really slowing down the process to get emergency disaster relief in the hands o-of these local and state officials.

And I think this is where we saw the frustration come from Thom Tillis when he was talking about FEMA aid getting, uh, to North Carolina more rapidly, uh, based on the disaster that they had, specifically in Asheville, North Carolina, as a result of the storms.

What are your thoughts about the impacts of this shutdown over DHS funding right now in light of our situation with Iran?

When you look at the totality of things going on, uh, at DHS, what do you think were maybe some of the other things that, that really stuck out that, that may have caused a, a problem the president no longer was interested in dealing with?

Yeah, I think it goes further back than that, Jessica.

You know, the Secretary of Homeland Security, I think, is on a daily basis the hardest cabinet position in any administration.

And so typically, you're gonna get the opposite parties that are constantly giving you grief, whether it's about the president's policies on things like immigration or border security.

But when you start to anger those in the same party, that's where it becomes problematic.

And where I think it started with Secretary Noem was, for some reason, really slowing down the process to get emergency disaster relief in the hands o-of these local and state officials.

And I think this is where we saw the frustration come from Thom Tillis when he was talking about FEMA aid getting, uh, to North Carolina more rapidly, uh, based on the disaster that they had, specifically in Asheville, North Carolina, as a result of the storms.

What are your thoughts about the impacts of this shutdown over DHS funding right now in light, uh, of our situation, uh, with Iran?

Your thoughts?

Well, they did fail and they'll continue to fail as long as people in the United States are accepting of this type of behavior as normal.

I mean, look, solving any problem where they say first you have to identify the problem.

And this is a significant mental health crisis in this country.

And outside of this country, quite frankly, we just saw a horrific mass shooting in Canada.

Now we're seeing it again here in the United States.

We've seen this over and over again.

Your thoughts?

what do you make of this?

That's rich.

Well, yeah, Iran is becoming the gift that keeps on giving.

We're not convinced they're giving up their nuclear program or their push to gain nuclear capabilities, especially within the region, which would just shake up The region for sure and create a nuclear arms race.

You also had the protesters that have since died down, but many of which were scheduled for executions, which based on those threats by President Trump were reported to have been delayed and not housed.

So we've got a lot of concerns over there.

I would say the stability of the Ayatollah is still in question, as well as the regime over there.

Charles, let me ask you your prediction, and I know it's hard to say, but what are your percentages in terms of whether or not Trump can get this Ukraine-Russia war to end by the end of his term? What percentages would you put on it exactly?