This show proudly sponsored by Real American Freestyle Wrestling. I want to find out what Britt Yoom thinks about all this. He's Fox News' senior political analyst. Britt, in a way, we're seeing some unprecedented things. You see a governor and mayor unwilling to allow the federal government to crack down on crime and illegal immigrants.
Where's the how's this end? You know, Brian, we haven't seen anything like this really since the nineteen sixties. when there was resistance in the south to the desegregation of schools. You remember the famous scene of George Wallace, then the Democratic governor of Alabama, standing in the schoolhouse door, so to speak, to prevent uh black students from r uh going to school at the University of Alabama. And uh federal troops were then uh mobilized and he backed down.
Um but that's the kind of resistance we're seeing now in some of these cities. And all kinds of wild conspiracy theories are being spun about what the President is planning to do. You played some of it just a minute ago. They're going to, you know, bring in the troops. They're going to it's been argued that he's going to cancel the 2028 presidential election and all the rest of it.
And this is sort of where we are. The president does have the legal right to use federal forces, federal troops, to protect federal facilities. They can't arrest anybody, really. Their powers are limited, but they have a right, the legal right to do it. But Democrats have seized on this and are trying to resist.
Just think what would happen if they cooperated. I know. I mean, Memphis is an example. You got a Democratic mayor, and you have also DC. You have a Democratic mayor who said, well, you know what?
I could kind of use the help here. It helps in Tennessee that you have a Republican governor, right? It makes all the difference if they if the Democratic governors and mayors in these cities decided to cooperate. But the problem for them is very simple, Brian. There is one imperative in the Democratic Party these days, and that is resist Trump, fight.
Trump, oppose Trump in every way you can. And their constituents seem to want to see them fighting. And it doesn't really seem to matter to them. that a lot of the fighting is flailing, but nonetheless, that's what they wanted. Them to do, and that's what they're doing.
And that's where a lot of these hysterical conspiracy theories spun by people like the governor of California, Gavin Newsom, and others, Chris Murphy of Connecticut, the senator from Connecticut, that's why they're spinning this stuff. And you know what both have in common? They both see themselves as presidential candidates, as is Governor J.B. Pritzker. But you know what they're seeing?
Again, a couple of things. The first chapter of this story was written during the Biden years when he let eight to 10 million people in illegally. And we said, What's going on here? They said there's no problem. And then we look at O'Hare Airport and they were using it as a as a as but you know, basically living as living quarters.
And we're seeing what happened at the Roosevelt Hotel and 36 hotels in New York City, overflow of illegal immigrants.
Well, Trump comes in and says, I'm going to get them out.
Well, now all the resistance is getting them out. 2 million self-deported, 600,000 have been deported, and there's millions are still left. And he's going for the worst to the worst in the perfect world. But now there's resistance to having them out. And I'm just wondering: so, in other words, it's okay to come in illegally, but when we ask you to leave and you don't, and we force you out, many of which have criminal records, now Democrats say that's my hill to die on.
I'm going to bat for illegal immigrants who can't vote and many of which have committed crimes. It's an odd place to take. Take your stand.
Well, it is, except for this, Brian. There's a Harvard Harris poll out that asks a bunch of questions. One of them being, you know, do you support the deportation of people here illegally? And it's broadly supported, with a huge majority of Republicans supported, a smaller majority of Independents support it. But only 36% of Democratic peop Democratic voters support the deportation of illegals.
The number gets much higher if you phrase the question as deporta the deportation of people here illegally who've committed crimes. But on the simple question of simply deporting people For being here illegally, it's only 36% support, which gives you an idea of what these politicians, these Democrats. Yeah, yeah. In these states, you're looking at. And it goes back to my original point: as we all know, these guys are running for president, and those are the people they're looking to impress.
But the use of race. is is so wanton and and so uh I think Has no place in this conversation, but listen to Governor Pritzker go after this, cut three. They're raiding neighborhoods where instead of going after the bad guys, they're just picking up people who are brown and black and then checking their credentials. Are you a US citizen? I don't know about you, but I don't carry around papers that say I'm a US citizen.
You have a license though, don't you? Number two is black and brown. What are you talking about?
So you're accusing ICE officials. He called them thugs, by the way, ICE officials, and I guess of, and I guess Border Patrol, ATF, FBI, who's ever working in these cities of being racist. Hey, you're Hispanic, you must be illegal. I mean, what an accusation.
Well, and I don't think it's very well based. But look, he's pushing the buttons that you try to push if you're a Democratic politician in the age of Trump. And, of course, there's a very broad consensus, and there has been for a long time, against discrimination against people based on their skin color. And so that is something that Democrats have championed, and it's something their constituents respond to. Most of the country responds to.
So if you can make that charge stick, it would be effective. I just don't know that they can make it stick. It's Gate Worth. And this mayor, you know, who has 19 percent approval rating, Brandon Johnson. This is what he says is happening, cut five.
I said very candidly. That The right wing in this country. wants a rematch of the Civil War. I just I want that to sit in right now because the President of the United States of America has declared war on the people of Chicago and people across America. I mean Have you have ever th have you ever heard anything like that, Brett?
It's utter claptrap. And you know, uh this is a a mayor in sort of desperate political con uh situation here where he's so unpopular and claiming that you know they want to refight the Civil War. Uh it's it's nonsense. But I you know, you can see what he's doing. He's reaching out to the minority constituencies and and constituency in his city to try to re regain some some footing.
Uh I don't think it's going to work, but there you are. But I would say a couple of things that are happening. I think People are a little tired of people just grabbing race and just running with it to the point where we're getting almost numb to it, especially when it doesn't exist. And number two is Um as you look at the the battle between the in the Civil War, does he remember what side was what? I mean, the Republicans want to refight the Civil War.
Yeah, with Abraham Lincoln as our leader. I mean, he doesn't even understand history to understand what's going on. Also, they're working to get crime. They're working to stop crime. Does anybody think crime is not a problem in Chicago?
So they're going to make that hill to stand on? Don't you remember the city council meetings when you saw African-American families standing up complaining about the social services that are going to illegals and not to them? How they overrun their cities and littered their streets and making it unsafe for their kids to go to school? I mean, those people are also listening to this. Yeah, Brian AR.
And I think this issue, immigration, and particularly illegal immigration, a big piece of why Trump was elected. It's something he's made a priority. Resistance to illegal immigration, stopping it from coming in, getting people out. It's all broadly popular.
So it works for Trump politically. But in these particular areas, urban areas in particular, where Democrats dominate, where the voters tend to vote Democratic or liberal, it's a different world. And so they're responding each of them to the constituencies that they face. Trump, of course, is To a broader constituency of the whole country. And so that helps to explain the difference.
But I just don't think. Broadly speaking, Brian, that Democrats can ultimately win on this issue if they are seen by the public. As being in support of illegal immigrants and illegal immigration. And the Republicans got to do a better job of telling us who you are picking up. Are they criminals?
Are they pedophiles? Let's see their picture. Let's sign exactly what you're doing.
So don't make it so fill the message gap. Lastly, on this shutdown, we always cover these stories, but now we're on day six or seven. And I'm not sure how this ends, but I know the one thing that they have is this air traffic control situation. We have a shortage. Yesterday was three hundred twenty seven delays, twenty one cancellations.
That number likely to get worse as paychecks are missed. Your thoughts about how this ends since you've seen so many.
Well, I it you know, it it will last until uh the the results of it, the consequences of it become dire. And what you're seeing now with these air traffic situation and flight delays, people feel that. They feel that across the country. Nobody likes it. Uh it's a sign of failure and and that'll be the impetus for a deal, which could come sooner rather than later in my opinion.
Um but that's what'll drive it. Uh what's being argued over here is what amounts to subsidies that were imposed as kind of an emergency measure during COVID to help people people pay uh for their health insurance. Um you know, it was never instituted to be permanent and it had an expiration date. That expiration date is coming. That was how the law was supposed to work.
The Democrats want to extend these subsidies. At a time when we're, what, $37 trillion in debt, Republicans are resisting that. Want the law to go ahead and take effect. But I think Republicans are probably going to cave on this eventually, not to. not necessarily to get the government open, but afterward because you got an election coming up, midterm elections, very tough situation for the Republicans, especially in the House.
and people losing subsidies that they'd come to count on for their health insurance. Is an issue that could hurt the Republican Project. Absolutely. Oh, it's very interesting times, Britt Hume. Thanks so much.
Always appreciate it. Thanks, Brian. Good to talk you as always. Yeah, Brady always makes us smart. It's Will Kane Country.
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