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Bye. I love this American Hi, folks. As you can tell, this is not My good friend Todd Starnes, you've got your liberty-loving Latino Chris Salcedo. Filling in for Mr. Starnes, do not confuse me with loudmouth leftist Latinos out there.

I actually love my country. Love my state, the United States of America, and the great state of Texas, where I'm broadcasting to you from today in the remote studios, hooking up to. To the Todd Starn Show. Lots to talk about in this program today, what's going on in Minnesota. I am eager to hear what you folks have to.

to say about this because there are some things going on that a lot of conservatives are going, huh? What? We're we're we're doing we're doing what?

So that is very much on my mind. This Well, I guess what I'm going to classify, not just me, a lot of people are classifying it as. or a conspiracy to overthrow the government of the United States by Democrats and by foreigners with this signal chat controversy that is developing up in Minnesota. But I want to start here. First off, for those of you who don't know who I am, and there's plenty of you out there probably, it may ring a bell.

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901-260-5926. We'll be talking extensively about what's happening in Minnesota. And what your opinion of what's happening in Minnesota is. And what President Trump and the administration is doing to respond to what's going on up there. But I I do because we're going to touch base on what's happening with this weather.

touching base with a somebody that's based in Mississippi because this weather, this cold freeze, and I'm in Texas, the entire state of Texas frozen solid right now. Starting to thaw in a little bit on the Gulf Coast. But it's just, it was a humdinger. It's not as bad as it was back in 2021. and the snowmageddon that impacted Texas, killing 250 people.

But it's wreaking havoc over a broader swath of our country. What I heard.

Well, initially coming into the storm, it was 100 million Americans. that were under the gun.

Now I'm hearing after it hit and they saw the scope, two hundred million Americans impacted in some form or fashion because of the weather system that moved in. This well, it's not a nor'easter, what do they call it? The polar vortex? Polar vortex. Yes, the religion of man made global warming at its finest, folks, the Democrats.

The Democrats' religion of man-made global warming freezing us solid.

So bottom of the hour, we'll have a discussion about that. And by the way, I was just talking with Helen before we got on the air. For Christmas I got A ring doorbell. My children gave me the ring doorbell, which I've been meaning to get. First off, the doorbell that I had.

Kind of a hit and miss kind of thing. I mean, if Amazon came to the door or somebody was making a delivery or they just wanted to get my attention, right? It was hit or miss whether or not the doorbell would work.

So I was jonesing to replace it anyway.

So I got the ring doorbell. And I sat out there, and boy, I have a brick facade on my house.

So I'm sitting out there. I had to bum, because I didn't have one, a drill bit. A drill bit that drills into concrete. And man alive, you'd think the drill bit made for concrete would have just gone in, out. No, no, no, no, that's not how it works.

I actually had bruises. on my chest. Because I was having to lean in so much because of the positioning of the doorbell just to get it installed to make room for the screws, had to drill into some concrete. And it was, man, it was painful. Each hole, and I had to drill four of these things, each hole took me about 10 minutes.

to drill.

So it was quite an endeavor. My time off over a vacation. Vacation and you know I was a yeah. I'm like, oh, oh, oh, man manly men doing manly things. I wanted to.

Do this and get it done.

So I installed the ring doorbell. And It works fine, and I had to buy a supplemental ring doorbell because it didn't interface with the current doorbell I had.

So And these are cool. If you have not heard of these, you can actually buy a tone. And you can program the tone. And I begged and pleaded with Mrs. Salcedo, please let me program the new doorbell that when you ring it, It causes a whole bunch of dogs to bark inside, you know, the sound effect of a whole bunch of dogs to bark.

You know, ding-dong, instead of hearing ding-dong, you hear rot, rot, rot, rot, rot. I desperately wanted that, but I was overruled by Mrs. Alcato.

So we. We went with a conventional ding-dong ding-dong.

So I installed the dang doorbell and I have the app, and then all of a sudden, I start getting messages from everybody else around me. That has the ring doorbell. And it's stuff like, hey, I found this critter. I found this pooch. I found this cat.

Does it belong to anybody? I'm like, okay, okay, that's fine. That's neighborly. I can get behind that. Then all of a sudden it started getting into, hey, did you hear that gunshot?

Was that a gunshot? I don't know. Does anybody know where a good dentist is? And it's all this just arbitrary stuff come across my phone. I'm a media guy, so I pay attention to everything that comes across my phone because you never know.

It could be Todd Starn saying, hey, man, you want to fill in on the radio show, right?

So, every single one of these things comes across my Ring Doorbell app. And then the storm hits. And folks, just when you think I was okay, maybe we're on the right track in this country. My faith in humanity and my countrymen is restored. Then all of a sudden, I started getting these messages on the ring doorbell.

The storm hits, folks. It's the temperature is dropping like a rock, and the roadways are getting slushy and they're getting icy, and nobody wants to go out. And people are saying Are any restaurants open? And I'm like What? My household, we're stocking up a couple days before the storm hit.

We stocked up on some essentials. And we've got a fairly decent sized pantry. It's not the best in the world, but a fairly decent sized pantry. You know, we got the top ramen for something that you want to do instantaneously. We got some of the roasts and stuff we froze.

I've been getting into the Traeger grill a lot lately. Did my first whole. Chicken. The Traeger, and it came out great.

So now, everything that I can possibly put on the Traeger, I'm putting on the Traeger, right? It's not just. for smoking a brisket anymore.

So the messages start flowing in, and people are like. Giving each other SOS messages. Where is there an open restaurant?

Somebody comes in and says, Hey, the Domino's Pizza on the corner of blankety blanket and blankety blanket, it's open. Oh, and the clouds parted, and the ray of sunshine came down. And people, it was like they were saying, Oh, we found the promised land to have a Domino's Pizza open. During the height of the storm. And I'm sitting there thinking, I'm saying to Mrs.

Salcedo, why does it. Why don't people just cook? Right? Talking to Helen, she said she put some roast in the crock pot. Yeah.

That you just put some roast in the crock pot. We got a pressure cooker for Christmas, too. My mom, that my wife, a pressure cooker. You ever cook with one of these things? You can put full-on uh frozen stuff in You to style it up?

And about 20 minutes later, fully cooked, juicy, beautiful. My mom scared me to death when we were kids because we had one of those old-fashioned ones, you know, the little like, kind of like a, for lack of a better description, a sprinkler on top. It goes, right? Then that's just the steam being the the the release valve for the steam. And my mom warned us, that thing's like a bomb.

You mess with that, it could explode in your face. And so, my sister and I deathly afraid all of our lives of the pressure cooker. Boy, what came out of it was really good, was really yummy. But uh Yeah. Have we had enough of recipes with Salsido?

Okay, so at the bottom of the hour, we're going to be checking in, talking about the weather hitting. Deep South, I mean, wicked ice impacting a lot of people. Power outages all over the place. We're talking about tens of thousands. of people, hundreds of thousands across all of the states impacted of people still without power.

Here in Texas, we had about twenty thousand people at the height of the storm.

So we'll get an update on that and what's going on with the cold temperatures this This Arctic blast, of course, remember, folks, the example of man-made global warming, the left's religion, hitting us full force. And then we're going to get into what's happening. in Minnesota. President Trump making a change, some saying pulling out. Going soft.

On what's happening in Minnesota. It all, I guess, it depends on how you interpret what's happening there, plus, this signal gate. Conspiracy and controversy.

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It's a Todd Starn show. Chris Elcedo, you're a liberty-loving Latino sitting in right now. I I I really uh I I really want to I'm a conservative. I'm not a Republican. I haven't been a Republican in a long time.

So I'm going to call balls and strikes. For those of you not used to my frankness, I just want to forewarn everybody. By the way, coming up at the bottom of the hour, we'll talk to Brad White, Mississippi Department of Transportation. He's the executive director there. We'll talk to him about what's going on with the emergency response.

A lot of our fellow countrymen, including we here in Texas, are under the gun from this massive blob of cold air that dropped a lot of ice and mixed precipitation all over the place, and it's not going anywhere anytime soon.

So we'll get an update on the lay of the land and look at the forecast, too, because my understanding is this blob of cold air not going anywhere. I want to read something to you. In the meantime, this is President Trump yesterday. And I don't mind telling you I had a bit of unease When I read this, this is President Trump on True Social. Governor Tim Awalls called me with the request to work together with respect to Minnesota.

Of course, he didn't use AWOLS, folks. That's my pet name for the. the communist sympathizer who is the governor of Minnesota. Governor. Tim Waltz, White, the President, called me with a request to work together with Respect to Minnesota.

It was a very good call, and we actually seem to be on a similar wavelength. I told Governor Walsh that I would have Tom Holman call him. And that we are looking for, what we are looking for are any and all criminals. that they have in their possession. The governor very respectfully understood that, and I will be speaking to him in the near future.

He was happy that Tom Holman was going to Minnesota, and so am I. We have had such tremendous success in Washington, D.C., Memphis, Tennessee, and New Orleans, Louisiana, and virtually every other place that we have touched. And even in Minnesota, crime is way down, but both Governor Waltz and I want to make it better. President Donald J. Trump.

Now look. My first reaction was, can you trust Governor Tim Awols? And the answer is no. He's a leftist. You can't trust him.

Leftists lie. It's Salsato's show axiom number five, folks. Leftists lie. They always lie.

So That was a bit of my angst right off the bat. Then, when I found out that Tom Homan wasn't just coming in. to add support to the operation already underway in Minnesota. That Tom Holman was coming in, and forces were being drawn down. A Bovino was being sent out.

Some members of the Border Patrol, some members of ICE being pulled out of Minnesota. It seemed to be an acquiescence to the editorial pages of the New York Post, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and others who were saying, Hey, It's time for a reset here. And of course, those calls for a reset are in reaction to. Uh the The aftermath of the most recent shooting, which was some in the Department of Homeland Security. A little overzealous in their interpretation of the moron, and let's call him a moron who showed up.

to a an To an ICE operation/slash border patrol operation. Armed Which is not against the law in and of itself. The problem is when you decide, hey, I'm going to show up armed and I'm going to get into physical confrontation and try to stop. Federal agents from doing their duty. That's when it becomes a problem.

In possession of a firearm, in commission of a felony, that's an extra special kind of felony, isn't it, folks? At least that's what the law says. But The inartful, I guess we could be charitable, inartful reaction from DHS spokespeople in the wake of that. has All of these Center, maybe it's too charitable saying they're center-right. We'll just call them center, center publications, and center-left, like the New York Times.

Not even center left, extreme left on the New York Times. to have them call for a quote unquote reset. Right? And it seems that the President is doing Just that. A reset.

And I don't know that sends the right message. In particular to somebody like me or liberty-loving Latino, I voted for this. I've got some sound bites, which I'll play for you a little bit later on, that buttress the fact the majority of the United States. The majority of our people here in this country, as a matter of fact, I could play a little bit of this right now. This is CNN.

and have a listen to what the polling says. Yeah, I sometimes I like blunt questions because they sort of get at the underlying feelings that people have.

So this is about as blunt a question as you can get. Deport all immigrants here illegally. I will note the ABC News poll asked about undocumented immigrants.

So we have slightly different questions, but these were all taken within the last month. And there's real uniformity here. Yeah, real uniformity. By the way. Folks Can we stop deporting immigrants who are here illegally?

We call them illegal aliens. That's the legal term of art. It's in our statutes. Please stop with the politically correct BS. First off, if you believe in economy of words and economy of syllables, you could just say illegal aliens.

You don't have to say immigrants who are here illegally, stupid. Come on, stop it. But listen to this.

Now, actually, you know what? Before I'm going to pick this up. On the other side of our interview, when we check in with Mississippi to see how they're faring against the weather. But let me just give you these numbers. New York Times 55%.

Marquette 64%. That's the highest and lowest. That's where Americans are. They want all illegal aliens out of here. You know what I call those numbers, folks?

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Filling in today for Todd, who is out. I think I'm in tomorrow as well. Todd's got to see that guy about that thing. And, well, you know, it's quite urgent when that guy needs to know about that thing.

So let's continue on. The business of the country moves on. And right now, a lot of our country is frozen solid and at a standstill. Let me bring on Brad White. He is Mississippi Department of Transportation's Executive Director.

Mr. White, welcome. Thank you. Appreciate you having me. The pleasure is all mine, sir.

And what you guys are going through in Mississippi, we too are going through in Texas and other parts of the country, lots of ice, lots of chilly temperatures that the folks in the South just aren't accustomed to getting all the time. Tell me what the current situation is. That's right.

Well, in our delta area as well as North Mississippi, we've got where the swath of the storm came through Mississippi. We've got about fifteen thousand miles of state maintained highways, over three thousand bridges that were impacted in that area. Our biggest problem that we're facing is ice. Ice is something you can't plow the way you do snow. It compacts and gets into the aggregate of the roadway.

So our best friend in treating that is Mother Nature. As you mentioned, it's not normal for Mississippi to have below freezing temperatures for a duration of seventy two hours or more, and that's complicated things. Today will be the first day we've had since a storm came through, where temperatures will get above freezing in areas.

So we're hopeful that, that'll be a big help. Other than that, just the weight of the ice on trees and limbs and power lines have complicated things. We've got a lot of trees down in areas. Mississippi is a rural state across much of this impacted area where there are power lines entangled in the trees that have fallen. I mean, that slows our crews from being able to go through that because we've obviously our first priority is to keep our people safe.

But we've dispatched crews from the central and southern part of the state to North Mississippi to help support our maintenance forces up there. We've spent all of yesterday coordinating with power companies trying to figure out how we could work hand in glove to best tackle this one step at a time. And I do believe that we're going to have about a three day window of really good weather or relatively good weather that will allow us to, by the end of the week, this should look a lot different. Ice is a nightmare. And I'm not talking about the folks in uniform.

I'm talking about Mother Nature's ice. The guys in uniform are pretty cool. That's right.

Yeah. The ice that's on and I remember in Texas, we had an ice storm. and driving down the freeway. It was like cobblestones. It was like you couldn't get above 10 miles, 15 miles an hour, because it would just ruin your car.

It was that compact. And I can imagine that's what you guys are dealing with in some form or fashion across the highways and byways of Mississippi. What is the current power outage there? How many customers still impacted? The last count I heard was somewhere in the neighborhood of one hundred and forty thousand.

They're without power. That's down. I mean, last night I was at our Mississippi Emergency Management Agency's briefing with Governor Reeves, and that number was north of 150,000.

So obviously, they are making progress. But this was a pretty substantial storm. And because it affected just a little swath through the Delta and North Mississippi, if you drive just a few miles south into our capital city of Jackson or the Gulf Coast, I mean, you've got pretty weather and no sign of ice or snow or anything anywhere.

So it can give the I don't know that there's a full appreciation across the state, maybe even the region, for how severe this got in the areas that got impacted. And as you said, President Trump stepped in early and issued a emergency declaration that covered the region from Texas back up towards New England, and it was desperately needed. Yeah, absolutely. The President has been very proactive. Actually, this dates back to his first administration.

Very proactive on emergencies that impact states regardless of their political affiliation. Folks, we're having a conversation with the executive director of the Mississippi Department of Transportation, Brad White. Brad, how many people succumbed to the elements? A lot of people losing power. Maybe some people had a rough go of it, maybe stranded out there in the elements.

Again, not used to it in your part of the country. How many people officially have passed away because of the storm? I believe the last count I heard was about three fatalities that were related to the storm. For an area like we're talking about, I'm thankful that the number is that low. Of course, any casualty is a tragedy.

We have in this path a lot of universities from Delta State University, Mississippi State University. Of course, our O Miss is right in the heart of Oxford, where it was impacted greatly through this. You've got a lot of college students and others that have kind of been stranded in those areas without power. I know that Governor Reeves and our MEMA agency has set up warming stations throughout the region where local emergency management personnel can try to help those that need it to get to a spot where they can have food and some warmth until power is restored and the roadways are back open. Yeah, we've got about well, I heard estimates at the beginning of the storm, 100 million people impacted.

It got as high as 200 million from my understanding.

So the need is great. And normally your neighbors that would help out, whether it was with a hurricane or other type of natural disaster, your neighbors are equally impacted because it hits so many of us in this region. My question to you is, if folks around the rest of the country, maybe out Out west that weren't impacted by these types of severe weather happenings with severe cold. What is the most need? And what organizations are you guys going through and asking for the general public, the country's help in donations and such?

Well, I'm not really in charge of that area of it. I would direct them to the Emergency Management Agency of Mississippi. I think that they're coordinating with a lot of different charitable organizations that are doing that.

Some doing that on their own. I know that they would probably have a list of those that would be working on that. I can tell you from our standpoint of the Department of Transportation, we started planning for this as soon as we began hearing that it was a potential for a storm to come.

So over a week ago, we began mobilizing personnel strategically around the state, making sure we had the equipment ready, making sure we had the right type of equipment, making sure we had the right materials. This was the largest uh Pre-treating effort. In our state agency's history, we put out over two hundred thousand gallons of brine, which is a material that's designed and it's an ideal situation to help prevent freezing or to slow that effect in a lot of over the bridges and a lot of the roadways. We put over one thousand tons of salt out in this area, and that's before we get into sand and other things that we've done. Just over the weekend along, our maintenance crews of about four hundred eighty-five individuals have logged over twenty thousand man hours.

And now we're sending additional crews up from the other areas of the state that are no longer impacted by this.

So I really believe if we can have some cooperation from Mother Nature and some time that we've got a strong network of sister agencies and And our friends in the private sector that are working together to meet the need. And we're pretty self-reliant. And I fully expect in the coming days that we'll see a lot of progress made. Right. That's the nature of my last question.

Aside from the lives being impacted and, of course, the cost to the state to get everything up and moving again, there is commerce. Our roadways are very much delivery points. for us to get, for example, Amazon. I was anticipating an Amazon package a couple of days ago. It's not here.

And I can imagine a lot of people across this region are going through the same thing. Ballpark it if you get the Mother Nature cooperation with everything that you have on standby. What are you thinking to get the roadways open about two or three days, four days? What do you guys estimate? I feel like we'll make a lot of progress over the next three days, weather permitting if it is cooperative.

I am under no illusion that everything will be completely open and everything will be fixed by that same time frame. I mean, this was a very serious storm, so I would hate to put false expectations out. We do need to manage those expectations. Our biggest challenge here, though, is to try to encourage those that are in the affected area that if they don't need to travel to stay home. One of the problems we're having.

that is impacting the commerce that you mentioned are people that want to get out, want to site C, want to want to try to get from point A to B when they don't have to get there, and they end up jackknifed or in a ditch. And when tow trucks have to be deployed, they're blocking maybe the only passable lane that we had on an interstate in that area, and that causes a lot of problems, which leads to people being impatient, which leads to them making other bad decisions on the roadway.

So those that don't have to be out, we need them to stay in so the commerce and emergency vehicles can continue to get through. Brad White, everybody. He's the Executive Director of the Mississippi Department of Transportation. Sir, appreciate the time, the expertise, and the update, and keep us posted. Thank you so much.

Bye-bye. You bet. Bye-bye. Telephone number for the Todd Starnes show, folks. Chris Alcedo, by the way, in case you're just tuning in, it's not your imagination.

It is I, your liberty-loving Latino, filling in for Todd Starnes. And if you want to talk to me, 901-260-5926, 901-260-5926. On the other side of the break, you and I will start discussing in earnest the various aspects of what's happening in Minnesota.

Some concerning moves being made in some people's minds. I want to know what your opinion is.

Some people's minds from the administration appearing to pull back a little bit. But if you listen to Caroline Levitt, the White House press secretary.

Sounds like they're maintaining their firm insistence that the rule of law be adhered to. The Trump administration is anyway, not Republicans, but the America First Coalition. When we get back, we'll start addressing all of it and laying it out for you and getting your phone calls in on the Todd Starn Show. All right, folks, Todd Starn Show. It's Chris El Cedo sitting in your liberty-loving Latino.

Happy you've tuned into the program. I got to get to the phones before we start outlining everything in earnest. You've already heard President Trump. He said he had a great conversation with Governor Tim Awals. And you've got Tom Holman coming in, but instead of Tom Holman, Adding to the heft and clearing the streets of Minnesota of criminal illegal aliens.

He's swapping out. Bovino is leaving.

Some agents are leaving. And it's got many of us questioning what's really going on here. There's two ways to look at this. Two weeks ago, you could say that, well, we're standing down, the administration is listening to the editorial pages of the Wall Street Journal, mistake. Listening to the editorial pages of the New York Times, definitely a mistake.

Or or President Trump is saying, well, in response to all of your lawlessness, I have two choices. I can either pull back and get some cooperation from you, Tim A. Walls and Mayor Fry. Or I can double. the presence that we have in the federal government.

I can surge even more. Federal agents into Minnesota. Listen to what Caroline Levitt was saying just yesterday. Number one, Governor Waltz Mayor Fry and all Democrat leaders should turn over all criminal, illegal aliens currently incarcerated in their prisons and jails to federal authorities, along with any illegal aliens with active warrants or known criminal histories for immediate deportation. Number two, state and local law enforcement must agree to turn over all illegal aliens who are arrested by local police.

And then thirdly, local police must assist federal law enforcement in apprehending and detaining illegal aliens who are wanted for crimes, especially violent crimes. If Governor Walsh and Mayor Fry implement these common sense cooperative measures that I will add have already been implemented in nearly every single other state across the country, Customs and Border Patrol will not be needed to support ICE on the ground in Minnesota. In other words, if you had Democrats who believed in the law, you wouldn't need to have the federal government come into the various left-wing states and municipalities. Sanctuary These sanctuary jurisdictions or states.

So that's what she's saying, and it sounds like they're holding firm on that criteria. Let me get out of the phones. Let me go to Clear Lake City, Texas. On Patriot Talk 920 AM and Mike is calling in. Hey, Mike, what do you say?

Hey, hello, thanks for taking my call. Say, unfortunately, I have an extra hour in the afternoon now that your show's off. I even had you, Carl Higby and Rob Schmidt on record.

So now I got to find somebody else to replace you. That's very kind of you to say, man. But we're still here. We're still around. You can hear the Chris El Cedo show, see the Chris El Cedo show.

So, what's on your mind, man?

Well, I needed to ask you um Is there a trust do you have a trusted source for the primaries as far as Voting for constitutional conservatives and not rhinos. There's so many Republicans running in so many different races. I don't know who to vote for.

Well, yes. Uh the the the answer is yes, and it's you. The good news is you only have four people you have to pay attention to. You know, your representative, your s uh your your representative to Congress, your state rep to your uh legislature, your senate. Senator to your legislature and You have a senator that goes from your state to the and in our case, in the state of Texas, you've got the fake Republican by the name of John Cornyn.

So really only four people you need to know. Of course, the AG's race going on and all that kind of stuff. But yeah, you know your district better than anybody else. The people running statewide, the people running for national offices, you're going to be able to soak that all in from reporting on the Todd Starn show, from the Chris Alcedo show, from everybody else out there. But your particular district, you should be the expert on your particular district.

That's how you make sure that those who you're sending to government represent you.

Well, I'm there as far as the state and national races are concerned, but what about like? Republican Party chair or my precinct two commissioner. And in races like that, you just made my point. The pre your your precinct, that's your neighborhood. That's your neighbors, that's your area.

Everything else pretty much could could be handled. You've got to show up to these places, you've got to hold their feet to the fire, and you've got to know who these people are, what their policies are, what their track record is. And there are very few races that impact you directly in your hometown that you really have to keep track of.

So that's what I urge all Americans to do. I know, Mike, I hear the frustration. You're frustrated that even though you vote the right way, things are still not getting done to your satisfaction. I understand that. And it seems to me.

Yeah, go ahead, Mike.

Well, I was gonna say, what what concerns me most is like say the uh the tribunal phrase I mean sorry, the the the Senate race with Corn and Paxton and Hunt. I mean, Paxton threw his hat in the ring so early on and then Hunt throws his in so late in the game. I don't know, I get the impression Hunt's in bed with the establishment. I'm afraid that he's going to take votes away from PAX and then we're going to get stuck with Corning again.

Well, that's not what's happening. I can tell you the polling is showing just the opposite. That individuals, Ken Paxton, in every single poll, is running away with that race for Senate. In the state of Texas for the primary. What's happening is Wesley Hunt, for those who don't think that Ken Paxton is their cup of tea.

People are going to Wesley Hunt as the quote-unquote establishment person who is seasoned inside of government already. That's who they're defaulting to. Nobody. Other than people who want to keep the same pro-Democrat status quo, nobody is going for John Cornyn. Only fake Republicans who want to keep the status quo going is voting for John Cornyn.

So thank you, Mike. Appreciate the call from my home state of Texas. Folks, let me, I told you I would continue on. With The concerns that I have over what's happening with the administration and what is being perceived in some corners as either pulling out or acquiescing to left-wing extremism, the violence being unleashed against ICE, against the rule of law. By by leftists.

New reporting coming out, new poll. It was just put up online. Brand spanking new. Those supporting mass deportations. 52%.

Those opposed, 42%. You know what I call that folks? A win for mass deportation. See you next hour. Live from the Liberty University Studio in Memphis, Tennessee, it's America's conservative blowtorch.

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He is one of the biggest Conservative influencers out there, and he is writing. Extensively about one of these elements. I'm about ready to go over with you.

So, those of you on hold, hang tough. I'm going to get your calls in right quick. Let's start off here. We talked about in the first hour how the polling suggests, I give you one example, polling suggests that Americans still, the majority of Americans still want illegal aliens out of our country.

So the perception, and I want to say it could still be perception. That The Trump administration, because it's in election year and they're listening to people that are saying. The beloved independence might be getting nervous. The independents are, they don't like what they're seeing, the optics. The reality is.

is a side, but it's the optics. And my question To those in the administration who are making this case and to maybe President Trump's team who may be listening to these people, saying it's time for a reset. We need to reset what? Enforcing the law? Right.

This here is a left-wing reporter. Along the lines of those who are begging for a reset in Minnesota, listen to his question. People in Minnesota want to know when this surge will end. Has there been a date set? Is there a certain number of people you want to apprehend?

Not illegal aliens, folks, just people, according to this fake news reporter. Are there a certain number of people?

So, is there a certain number of compliance with the law you'll get to before you'll go away and stop enforcing the law? That's what this fake journalist. Wanted to know. Before you decide to ease the surge, we continue to apprehend dozens, if not hundreds, of these criminal illegal aliens a day. We're going to continue conducting that mission.

We're not going to put a date or a timeline to stop. This mission, this mission's ongoing until there are no more of those criminal illegal aliens roaming the streets of Minneapolis. Is there a number, though? You have to have a file. There is a number and it's called all of them.

Yes. That's the number, all of them. Asked and answered a different way, how much illegality are you willing to tolerate? The answer is zero. In a nation of laws, we cannot have well, you know, we're just going to expect that because Democrats are butthurt, because Democrats need to have a whole bunch of illegal aliens in this country, that we're just going to look the other way.

What did I say when I was on television? What have I been saying on the Chris El Sato show about the big beautiful bill? Lots of good stuff in it, right? But let's not put too fine a point on this, folks. The Republican Party voted to fully fund all of the corruption.

And all of the fraud that we are now uncovering in places like Minnesota, in places like New York, in places like California, places like Illinois. The Republicans said with a straight face to their own voters, yes, the price, the price for the good stuff that Trump wanted in the big, beautiful bill, the price is you must fully fund all the Democrats' fraud. To which I say, No! No, you must accept. You know, a certain amount of breaking the law for the Democrats' sake.

The answer is no. I don't and will not accept that. CNN Says we shouldn't have to because guess what? People who consider themselves to be Americans, real Americans, they don't want. Lawbreakers in our country.

Yeah, sometimes I like blunt questions because they sort of get at the underlying feelings that people have.

So this is about as blunt a question as you can get. Deport all immigrants here illegally. I will note the ABC News poll asked. Illegal aliens, please.

So we have slightly different questions, but these were all taken within the last month. And there's real uniformity here. That's what I really think you see. You see real uniformity. Deport all immigrants who are here illegally, 55% of the New York Times.

Marquette, 64%. CBS News, 57%. ABC News with a slightly different question, 56%.

So what you're seeing essentially here is very clear indication that a majority of Americans, in fact, when they're asked this blunt question, which I believe gets at the underlying feelings, do in fact want to deport all immigrants who are here illegally. Yeah, all illegal aliens.

So, do all of those folks who were in President Trump's ears saying, oh no, We're going to lose the midterms because of the bad optics created by Democrats, might I add? All of it's created by Democrats.

So we must uh we must cave into it and create good optics and bright optics. The American people. At the worst case scenario, folks, 55% in the New York Times. Poll and consider the New York Times audience, right? 55% say they want all illegal aliens out of here.

Fifty-five per cent. Trump is just going after the the individuals who diddle children. the rapists, the murderers. Trump's just going after those individuals who have multiple deportation orders that have spanned decades.

Some of them decades, folks. They've been ordered to remove from this country, and we just don't do it. Why? Because we've got to keep the Democrats happy. It would be bad optics.

Seriously? Seriously. To which I say not only no, but hell no.

So, you've got a majority of the country. I will point out 55% from the New York Times to all of those advising the president. You know what they call that? A win. For those who stand on the side of the rule of law and the Constitution.

Marquette. Reflects nearly two-thirds of the country saying, I want all illegal aliens out of this country. Boom. What do you call that? An electoral win.

So that's why I'm a little suspect, a little worried that in an election, in a midterm election, which is a base election, all midterms are base elections, it seems the Republican Party is hell bent on making sure its base is dispirited and doesn't show up. As they sit on their collective rear ends in Congress and don't act to codify any of this America First Agenda into law. And President Trump? Who's had a good conversation with Tim Awalls. A communist sympathizer.

and the leftist mayor of Minnesota. Mayor Fry It just Doesn't Feel right, and if you get the vaunted independence, folks, how much good is that going to do you if you alienate your conservative base? There's another element to all of this. And it has to do with How many of you know what signal chat is? SignalChat is an encrypted app.

That allows up to a thousand people to share things confidentially among themselves. The a signal chat was started. By individuals who are anti-American leftist kooks, freaks, and nuts. It was started With the expressed purpose Of stopping the U.S. government from enforcing U.S.

immigration law. That's why it was formed. Right? They're colluding. against the government of the United States.

Data Republican That's uh at DataRepublican on X. Has uncovered according to the reporting has uncovered just what kind of people are on this Signal chat Again, Committed to an insurgency against the government of the United States of America. Put another way, a conspiracy. against the federal government of the United States. Breaking.

A Signal Gate donors list available for download. Who is included? Politicians Gee, I wonder which political party those politicians belong to. Foreign leadership. Leadership in foreign countries, folks, colluding on this signal chat, this secure signal chat.

They have been confirmed. According to Data Republican.

Now, what kind of people are we talking about?

Well, according to At AF Post, AF Post online. The Minnesota Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan has reportedly been linked to the massive signal chat that has been tracking, harassing and collecting the plates of potential ice vehicles, again, with the expressed intent of stopping the federal government from enforcing U. S. law. A suborning of the of the Government of the United States.

Uh at Zero hour, the number zero hour one on X. puts up a picture of a woman who was allegedly a Reuters reporter.

Now I folks, I've been able to independently verify Trust me, as much as I'm around media, I don't know all of them. Right? This Young lady Who has been identified by at zero hour one is allegedly. A Reuters reporter. She is allegedly implicated for being on this.

Encrypted signal chat. Again, the signal chat that was founded. Two To basically undermine the government of the United States of America and prevent it from enforcing U.S. law. Which is an insurrection by any other definition.

Is it not? And my question to maybe the press secretary? Uh Isn't that problematic If you have a journalistic operation, and to my knowledge, Reuters has not been writing about this signal chat. Uh, Gateway Pundit is writing about it. A lot of other conservative individuals are writing about it, but this individual.

It appears on the surface, and we don't know this for sure, there's going to be an investigation. I'll get to that too. But it appears that this, that the reporters on this signal chat. are pulling a Don Adon Lemon. Coordinating.

With this. We're hearing individuals that are on this signal chat. are now fleeing the United States because they've been caught. and they know of the crime of which they're guilty.

So, folks, I want you just to keep this in mind. I'm going to get into this in greater detail after I get some of your phone calls in. A guy by the name of At Amuse is going to be joining us at the bottom of the hour, and he's written extensively on this. He'll add more. The call-in number here, 901-260-5926.

901-260-5926 puts you in touch with your liberty-loving Latino, filling in for the one, the only Todd Starnes. Be right back. Welcome back, kids. You got the Chris El Sados. Host of the Todd Starn Show.

Your liberty loving Latino filling in. 901-260-5926. 901-260-5926. That's the phone number. We go to North Carolina, WSIC, and Charles is hanging on.

Hey, Charles, what do you say? Hey, Chris, hey, good to talk to you, and I will start following you on Twitter. Todd, I'm sorry, Chris, I think that Trump needs to change his whole messaging right now. I think they're attacking this problem with illegal aliens piecemeal. and it's not working.

What I think you should do, and you give me your opinion after I tell you, is uh I think he should go before a Do a nationally televised address for a joint session of Congress. And once again, lay out exactly how all this illegal immigration originated. And how the Biden administration carefully orchestrated. it with the intent of changing the electoral map. He needs to go back and show the images of the border being overrun with these illegal invaders.

uh the death, the drugs, everything. Then I think in the same speech, Chris, he needs to look at Mike Johnson and say, Mr. Speaker, I don't want one dime going to illegals in the form of health care. Food stamps. Housing Or any of this money going like the six billion that they're talking about.

And then lastly, I think he just needs to come out and say what we all know what this is about, it's about politics. He just needs to come out and say, you know what? There's probably 15, 20, 30 million illegals in the country. There's a way to identify them. and every single one of them are going to be subtracted from the census When it comes to determining congressional apportionment, Each state, let's say California's got 8 million, New York's got 5 million.

I mean, I'm just using this as an example. But we're going to go back and we're going to recalculate the population and we're going to reallocate the uh the four hundred and thirty five seat in the in the U. S. Congress. because right now it's being disproportionately represented by states that have illegal aliens.

And that needs to be corrected. And I know that's going to create constitutional holy hell, but it needs to be done. But people are sick and tired of this pussy footing around. I want every single one of these illegal invaders gone. I don't care whether they're a violent criminal or anything.

Charles, I have questions for you, okay? First off, everything you've articulated-not everything, but a lot of what you've articulated-President Trump has called for. He has called for a reformation on the census. He has called for Congress to codify his executive actions in stopping illegal immigration. He is actually also calling for the U.S.

Congress to outlaw sanctuary cities and sanctuary states, saying you cannot subvert. Federal law. You cannot openly subvert federal law.

Now, Here's my question. It's not just Joe Biden. That did this. How many years have we been dealing in this country with massive uncontrolled illegal immigration? Probably twenty years or more.

Uh it's a it's more like fifty. It's more like a half a century.

Now, Um Can you tell me one thing the Republican-controlled Congress did during the The Beijing Biden era, the President Otto Penn era, one thing the Republicans did to stop one illegal alien from coming over that border. They did absolutely nothing, and that's what makes it even more disgusting. Can you tell me what the Republican Party has done for the last 10, 20, 30, 50 years? Not Trump. Trump is America First.

He's not the Republican Party. He's the America First coalition. He took over the Republican Party, but. Tell me what the Republican Party has done to stop rampant, uncontrolled, illegal immigration and to stop them from accessing all of our entitlement. Entitlements in this country.

What has he done? Nothing. Nothing. So I would submit to you that this just isn't a Democrat problem, that the Republican Party has colluded with the Democrats. For Over 50 years.

To impose illegal immigration on this country against the will of our people. You're tired, I'm tired, we've all been tired, but it still keeps. Happening. And I would submit to you. That there is A vast majority, as we already demonstrated, of people in this country who want no more illegal immigration and no more illegal aliens.

But I would also submit to you. that a majority of the U.S. Congress, Republican and Democrat, do want it, and that's why we continue to have it. At Amuse, up next on the Todd Starnes Show with me, your liberty-loving Latino, Chris Salcedo.

Okay, so this is breaking news.

So you are you and the FBI and perhaps other intelligence agencies are fully aware of this coordinated effort to attack federal law enforcement, to impede them and potentially insurrect. And so there is now an open investigation into these chats and into this coordinated network. Yeah, what's the problem?

Some of them are fleeing.

Some of them are very scared now. You can see their chats. They're very, very worried now that they have been exposed.

Well, they should be. If they broke the law, you should be worried. It's that simple. If you didn't break the law, there's really nothing to worry about. Kosh Patel, the FBI director on Benny Johnson's show, The Benny Show.

Confirming that there is an investigation into this encrypted signal chat. what what I would classify as an insurrection against the United States. A conspiracy to undermine the United States Government from enforcing its laws. It's 100% illegal. This signal chat is reportedly populated with Democrats with.

With alleged journalists. and with foreign nationals. And it's incredibly serious. It is incredibly serious, folks, that we have some in a political party in this country partnering with so called journalists and foreign entities to undermine our ability and our federal government's ability to enforce its laws. It's absolutely crazy.

That this isn't a bigger story, but that's what ABC fake news, CBS fake news, and NBC fake news, and CNN and MSNBS, they're all about. Right? Fake news. Let me bring on a good friend of mine at Amuse. He is one of the biggest influencers on X, X 2.0, Free X.

He is writing extensively about SignalGate, is what they're calling it. Alexander Muse, welcome. Hey, thank you, Chris. Good afternoon. Great to have you here on the Todd Starn Show.

Look, let's discuss what you've been writing about. I saw this and then I saw the scope. Of what this of who was participating and what their mission was. Their mission was to stop the federal government from enforcing U.S. law, and they were colluding and collaborating and coordinating on SignalChat, an encrypted app, to do it.

Tell me what you've written about. Tell me what you found. I mean, I think it's fascinating. We've been gifted this look into this insurgency, and it's really revealing who's in the signal chat.

So we have this private signal chat limited to one thousand participants. It has everyone from Minnesota Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan She's in there under an alias. We've got City Council members like Arun Chowdhury. We've also got Walz's, the Governor Walz's advisors, Amanda Kohler, a bunch of other folks are in this, including members of the media, NPR, Reuters, So we've got this this Really sophisticated intelligence collecting group that are basically tracking where everyone is staying, where all federal officials are staying within the state and in Minneapolis, particularly. We know when they leave those locations, and they have very sophisticated comms where they're doing a live broadcast from their cars, basically saying these two officers have left this location, I will follow them.

And then, as people follow them, other people are dispatched to those locations.

So the whole time this is going on, everyone is assigned roles. You might be a spotter, you might be a disruptor. Renee Goode was a member of this group. She was a trained activist, taught to go in and disrupt. activist Additionally, Alex Petit was also a trained member of this group.

He was dispatched to that location. Um obviously as we know carrying a gun and and interfering and obstructing justice. And so It's insane. And then, as you mentioned just moments ago, it's funded by foreign Malign actors. We know exactly who's funding.

There's about a $600,000 fund, about 5,000 donors to this particular fund. It was organized by a Canadian operative. I won't mention his name on here, but we also have a similar situation with a Chinese businessman who's connected directly to the CCP. We have these four malign actors basically dumping cash into this insurgency, and this insurgency is littered with democratic operatives at the highest level. The only reason we know about it is a conservative journalist Was able to infiltrate and chronicle and expose, take screen captures, and then put it all out there.

Data Republican is publishing about this. Gateway Pundit is publishing about this and others. And Cam Higby, Cam Higbee, I think, was the journalist who did the infiltrating, wasn't it? I think so. Cam was who I learned of the story through it.

And so he was screenshotting all of these encrypted communications. He had somehow infiltrated the communications and began sharing it. If you don't follow Cam Higbee, follow him now on X. He's a great follower. He's breaking interesting stories.

And most importantly, he's on the ground in Minnesota where this is going on. Most recently, last night, he posted a video where they attended a meditation session that was meant for people who have been working with the resistance They needed a break from their resisting, and so they did this hilarious. meditation program. And he sat in on the meditation program and he was actually texting questions to the host and hilarity ensued.

So I would check him out if you don't follow him already. Alexander Muse is our guest right now, folks, at Amuse on X. You can follow him, one of the most prolific posters on X, a conservative influencer. His articles are beautiful, and he's writing one such article. Uh on this Look, I have said when I saw the scope of what they were doing and their mission.

Which is They are, it's Democrats in collusion with the fake news press, in collusion with foreign enemies and sometimes allies of the United States. To basically prevent the U. S. government from enforcing its own laws. There's a word for that, insurgency/slash insurrection, or am I being.

too extreme in my evaluation of this. I mean, what else do you call a group that has come together that coordinates and colludes to prevent the U. S. government from being able to enforce law? It's right from the CIA handbook.

It's exactly what we were doing in other countries.

So, if we don't like the regime or administration, we set about to destabilize them. And we've seen this happening in our country. I mean, Greg Bovino has been, I think, reassigned back to California. And part of the strategy of these movements and these insurrections is to go after the men who enforce the law and dehumanize them and convince everyone to get rid of them. We thought when the soldiers returned from Vietnam, we now know because of declassified documents that it was Russia, it was Cuba, it was China that was fomenting the hate of our soldiers.

My father returned to San Francisco airport from Vietnam and he was spit upon and yelled at when he was in uniform. And we're seeing the same thing with ICE officers. I was at A private club last week with the number three top official at ICE, and even he was nervous about his identity being revealed. They are being. Ostracized, yelled at, et cetera.

And it's these groups. these IceWatch groups in these signal chats. that are telling other operatives where ICE agents are and setting upon them with verbal violence and in some cases physical. And I think that's what we're going to see soon, Chris, that this is going to turn violent against them.

So far we've been lucky. We have we've had one officer here in my area, in the Dallas area, who was hit with a bullet by what turns out to be an Antifa representative. But these people are making it they are dehumanizing these people such that regular normal Democrats will feel comfortable shooting them. Yes. Yes.

You know, one of these Antifa higher ups Who cross-dresses like a woman and puts on high heels? The one calling for arming up and killing ICE agents. He's now, he's claiming he's on social media, claiming he's on the run. Uh uh Alex, you actually went through the process of printing out the left's manual. They have a manual.

on how to conduct this insurgency of theirs. What's in that thing? Yeah, thanks to Cam Higby, we've got copies of the training materials. And so the training materials are straight out of. Basically, special forces training materials that we have here in the United States that we actually use against others as against our enemies.

And it tells you everything you do: how to protect your communications, how to assign tasks. How to compartmentalize so not everybody knows everybody else.

So, all of the little tactics that you might use in Afghanistan and in Iraq and any other location where we were dealing with insurgencies, we had a manual on how to deal with them, whether we were the insurgents or whether we were the anti-insurgents. And so, thanks to Cam and folks like and those people on the ground out there that we have their playbooks, we know what they're trying to do, and there are several groups. The 1776 project is doing counterinsurgency work where they're basically calling the numbers and reporting activities aren't actually happening to kind of distract the IceWatch folks. Yeah. Compartmentalizing, having one cell not knowing what the other cell is doing so they have plausible deniability and they can't give each other up.

That sounds an awful lot like a terrorist insurrection. That's terrorism 101, and that's being undertaken by. Elements of the Democrat Party in this country, and it's shocking, and I. I hope that the Trump administration sees this and decides not to retreat in the face of this insurgency, but vows to investigate and expose it. Alexander Mews, at Amuse on X.

If folks want to follow you other than at on Twitter, Tell us what they can do. Is there a website that you have or is it just on X? Yeah, you can find me at amuseonx.com. You can also find me amusement. On Substack, I have a newsletter that I published there.

But yeah, I appreciate it. You know, I write an op-ed every day, and I work on trying to figure out what policies we should be adopting, and then I push for them. I've been posting on X since 2007, primarily conservative headlines. And, you know, I really love coming on your show and obviously now Pod.

So thank you so much for having me. No problem. Thank you, buddy. Appreciate it. Alexander Muse, folks.

All right.

So now I want to see what you guys, I'm going to get your feedback on what you guys have heard. This is what we're up against. We have elements of the Democrat Party now in an open insurgency. They called us insurrectionists, folks. As I have said of the Democrat Socialists, every accusation.

Is a confession. They are guilty of that which they are accusing us of. Telephone number is 901-260-5926. 901-260-5926. You got Chris El Sato in for Todd Starnes.

Be right back. Welcome back to the Todd Starns show, folks. You found me, Chris El Cedo, sitting in for Todd today. I want to go to North Carolina, WTKF, where Chris is hanging on. Chris, welcome to the program.

It's me, Chris Alcado, in for Todd Starns. What's on your mind? Yeah. He must be listening on the delay. Go ahead, Chris, if you can hear me.

Go ahead, sir. Chris? Yes, sir. Yeah. You are a liberty-loving Latino.

Indeed. This is a this is a liberty loving Polak that's been following you ever since you were born, practically. That's an exaggerat that's an exaggeration, but what a disappointment when you no longer Where On Newsmax. Yeah, and those things happen in the business, you know. The contracts come to an end, and folks decide to go in different directions.

That happens. They couldn't seem to make up their mind what they're going to do. They had that E. D. on, and then now they got Ed Henry.

Well, that's going to be my good buddy Ed Henry's slot.

So E. D. Hill was in there just to fill in the time. until uh Ed could get in there full time and And I believe, from what I understand, not that I have any inside knowledge, mind you, I understand that. That's going to be the permanent solution there.

I see.

Well, anyway, I uh you were always a regular And as was uh Todd. And uh I just happened to turn my car radio on and uh Dialing, and all of a sudden I says, Hey, I know that voice, and I recognize your voice instantly, and so forth.

So, I just want you to know that we really appreciated it because. Um I've got a lot of Texas in me and you're still are you still in Dallas? I am in, yeah, I'm in North Texas, and I still broadcast in the great state of Texas, still broadcasting on the Chris Alcedo show. In Texas and beyond with the miracle of the internet.

So, yeah. The Chris Salcedo show lives on, and the Salcedo Storm podcast is still out there.

So, plenty of ways to access me.

Okay. That's what I wanted to know because I want to stay I want to stay in connection with you.

Well, that's that's well, since you're practically family, you know, since you've been watching me your entire life, I mean, it's it's uh that that's That's in there, buddy. You're in the know. You're in the game, as they say. What do you make of what's happening in Minnesota, Chris?

Well Uh, I have a different take on things, frankly. I mean, I'm a adjunct professor in political science and and I'm and I'm very, very uh keen uh on uh Islam, Mark Sessibin and so forth and And I'm so biased against those three Muslims that happen to be in our Congress because in my opinion, they've I know you didn't ask me this question, but I've got to air it. In my opinion, because they are practicing Muslims, that means that they abide by whatever the Quran tells them. And the Quran in one hundred sixteen different places in seven hundred sixteen different surahs at least It it commands a a practicing Muslim to destroy every every demo every country, every democracy, every religion except Islam.

So how in the world could they, in good faith without committing perjury, how could they actually recite their oath of office to To protect and defend the laws of the United States and the Constitution of the United States at the same time. Aaron Powell, wait a minute.

So, in case we're tempted to believe. That's only uh Islam. Because by the way, I have uh individuals I know who are who are Muslims Who have gone through a bit of a reformation, the sect of Islam they belong to. And they they have no desire to supplant the Constitution of the United States. I would submit to you that Delia Ramirez who is a sitting member of Congress, who was born in the United States, she goes on to foreign soil and says she considers herself as a sitting Congresswoman.

She considers herself to be a Guatemalan before she's an American. Right? So this attitude I don't think is is an attribute necessarily of Islam. I think it is an attribute that is universal among those with left-wing thought. Those who are socialists and Marxists and Communists At heart.

That's what they all believe. That's what so they may find common ground in the radical sects of Islam and find some good cannon fodder there, but guess what? Delia Ramirez finds loudmouth leftist Latinos out there all the time to do her bidding, right?

So I think it's a mindset. If you are against a government of, by, and for the people, It doesn't matter where you came from. There's a name for it in this country, sadly. We call them Democrats.

Well, that's right.

Well, well, that's my point. I mean, but the point is if you really do believe it and abide by the oath down to your bottom heartstrings, Um how can you do that if you if you show allegiance to uh another god?

Well, yeah, and also, well, this whole Sharia law thing, Chris. I mean, we are dealing with it here in the state of Texas where we have Sharia courts. Because somebody was asleep at the switch here in Texas. Sharia courts showing up in North Texas. That's 100%.

Sharia is antithetical to the Constitution of the United States, incompatible. There is only one law of the land here in the United States, and Sharia-compliant courts, or sorry, communist China-compliant courts and police stations, none of that garbage flies.

So Yeah, none of it is compatible. with being an American. Which I guess is why so many leftists Either encourage or look the other way when this kind of stuff happens. It's Chris El Cedo, folks. We have all of next hour for you and I to hash out what's going on in Minnesota.

and the president's response to it, stick around on the Todd Starn show. Live from the Liberty University Studio in Memphis, Tennessee, it's America's favorite gun totem, Bible-clanging, deplorable America. Brad. I love this American. Todd start.

All right, kids, here we go. It's hour three of the Todd Starn show. You got me, your liberty-loving Latino, Chris Salcedo. Filling in today and tomorrow. Call in telephone number for you: 901-260-5926.

901-260-5926. I'm going to get to your calls right quick because we have a lot to discuss about what's happening in Minnesota, about the levels the Democrats will go to. Every accusation they made against us turns out they're guilty of. including insurrection. Including the misapplication of law, it's all them, it's what they're doing.

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Okay? Speaking of goodies, let me get out of the phones. You guys are jonesing to come in and what we've been talking about. Bob is in Memphis, Tennessee, K-W-A-M. Bob, welcome.

Thank you, Chris, and I appreciate you and I appreciate your And uh the My point is why our Republicans and some conservatives are joining the liberals in accusing Secretary Noam saying that you should wait till all the investigation is done before you make the judgment. excuse me, I mean, from all appearance, it seems like it was domestic terrorism. Why would somebody show up with a gun loaded gun at such a volatile situation? And people are forgetting. Nobody's saying that.

The J six people had no chance. I mean, they put them in a jail first. And black administration, Obama administrat Biden They're all jump to the conclusion Right up the scene. And nobody told him, well, wait till the investigation is done, till you. And and this was It bothers me to say why are conservatives don't have Spine to say, you know what?

That's what it looks like. That's what we said. And now they're cow tie.

Well, Bob, look, I don't know of any conservative. I know plenty of Republicans out there. Are saying this stuff. I know of no. conservative who is out there coming down on Christy Noam.

And if you find one, let me know because if the conservatives know and understand what this game is. They know and understand what's actually happening in Minneapolis. If you find a conservative, you've got to let me know. But I am aware of. Republicans on the editorial boards of the Wall Street Journal, the Editorial boards and the New York Post and the New York Times, no Republicans there, are saying this stuff.

And look, Uh the the messaging In the fog of war, and this is a war. The Democrats have declared war on the rule of law and declared war on the United States. That's what an insurrection is, folks. They are saying we don't want the United States to enforce their immigration law.

So the Democrats have declared themselves other than us. They're colluding with allegedly. Foreign actors, enemies of the United States to undertake this. And I understand that we ought to have our facts straight, but When these Republicans will bend over backwards to give the benefit of the doubt to every Tom, Dick, and Harry leftist out there, and won't give Secretary Noam and her people on the ground some grace to get all the facts straight when they're just being asked, they're on television all the time, being asked to tell us what you know, they're telling you what they know. And so I I am, as far as I know, man, there are no conservatives out there doing this.

Now, what do you think? About what's happening in Minnesota. Do you want to see any pullback whatsoever? on not only on Matsuing on Minnesota, but on the country writ large. Illegal aliens don't belong here.

And from this conservative's perspective, this liberty loving Latino's perspective, they deserve to be out of here. What are your thoughts on it? Absolutely. And they should be is just it's basic common sense that if they're here illegally That means they should be out of here. There's no if and buts about it.

I don't know why they even the country is at a point where we have a debate about who's a man and who's a woman. I mean, you know, being classifying them as our neighbors, our fellow neighbors and citizens, did That was Governor uh Wall said that he'd be killing US citizens. I mean, they're deporting you as citizens. That's untrue. That's not happening.

Now, I know there are some who are claiming, wait a minute, I belong there.

Well, and the administration has looked at everybody with a deportation order. They looked at this, a couple of individuals' claims saying, no, you have no legal predicate to call yourself a U.S. citizen. You can't vote. You are not here legally.

You're gone.

So And that is our government's determination to make. And the leftists want to side with the illegal aliens, saying, well, they're as pure as the wind-driven snow.

Well, frankly, folks, if they were, they wouldn't be illegal aliens now, would they? No. And what I mean by conservative, those who were claimed to be conservative, Republican politicians, they used to be.

Now they are not in politics and yet claiming to be conservative. And that's what I mean by those conservatives, people who hold Very conservative values across the board generally. But then it comes to this and they are kind of They are not my point is Democrats will be throwing you in jail first. unassumingly they'll commit crimes illegal and constitutional things, and here we are Republicans or what you know. They are afraid to take action against criminals.

Yeah, where was the Wall Street Journal, Bob? Where was the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times and the New York Post when Beijing Biden was denying American citizens due process, throwing them in the Washington, D.C. gulag, praying grandmas? Where was the call for caution? Where was the call to tap the brakes or do a reset?

None of that. None of that for American citizens. Oh no. But when it comes to illegal aliens, all stops must be pulled out so that we can accommodate criminal illegal aliens and do it the right way. I am sick and tired of Americans being treated as second class citizens.

In our own country. Thank you for the call, my man. I appreciate it. Folks, telephone number here is 901-260-5926. 901-260-5926.

We'll take more of your phone calls on the other side of the break on the Todd Starn show. My name is Chris Salcedo, your liberty-loving Latino. Be right back. Uh Welcome back. It's the Todd Stern Show, folks, and you got me, Chris Salcedo, filling in.

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So I'm trying to get all the information out there and Sending emails to folks and Hopefully, we can dispel the mystery before too long.

Now, I want to play something for you folks. An occupier of the Oval Office. who was responding to the Democrats' current. Objections to getting rid of criminal illegal aliens.

Now, this man. Got the nickname to Porter-in-Chief. His name was Barack. Hussein Obama. And Barack Hussein Obama was called the porter-in-chief because when a border agent stopped an illegal alien wannabe at the border and said, You can't come in here illegally.

They counted that as a deportation. That's how he got the reputation of being the deporter-in-chief. He was. basically conning all of you you union folks out there. Because you you union folks are getting your unions busted by all the illegal aliens being brought in by Republicans and Democrats to take away your jobs.

And of course, the Democrats want them to change the complexion of this society, not reverent and adherent to the Constitution. The Republicans want the cheap labor and ta-da. America is screwed. But Barack Hussein Obama giving lip service to his alleged policies, which turned out to not be true, but it doesn't make the words any less. True.

What he was uttering. This is a response to all you Democrats out there saying, come on, man, you can't deport all illegal aliens. You got to have some illegal aliens in the country. There are those in the immigrants' rights community. Who have argued?

passionately. That we should simply provide those who are illegally with legal status. Or At least ignore the laws on the books and put an end to deportation until. We have better laws. And often this argument is framed in moral terms.

Why should we punish people who are just trying to earn a living? Why should and I would say, why should we punish Americans? Who abide by the law and expect everybody else, including their government, to live by the law? Which by the way, folks, if your government didn't want illegal immigration, it wouldn't be here. There are governments all over planet earth that can stop illegal immigration.

Hell. President Trump just proved you can do it. You can stop illegal immigration. The reason why we have an upward estimated 25, 35 million illegal aliens in this country is because Republicans and Democrats colluded to make it so. Period.

That's why. I recognize The sense of compassion. That drives this argument. There is no compassion. By allowing illegal aliens to harm and exploit.

Law-abiding American citizens. No compassion whatsoever. It is not compassionate. to for a country to ignore its laws, harming its own citizen. harming its own citizens.

There is no compassion there. It's an utter betrayal. But I believe such an indiscriminate approach would be both unwise and unfair. It would suggest to those thinking about coming here illegally. that there will be no repercussions for such a decision.

And this could lead to a surge In More. illegal immigration. And it would also ignore the millions of people around the world who are waiting in line to come here legally. Ultimately Our nation. Like all nations.

has the right and obligation to control its borders, and set laws for residency and citizenship. And no matter how decent they are. No matter their reasons. The 11 million who broke these laws should be held accountable.

Sorry. 11 million. Even back then, it's a farcical number. It's been 11 million for decades. Tens of thousands of illegal aliens every single year have been allowed to infiltrate our country.

By both Republicans and Democrats. Let me get to Jerry, who's in Iowa. Jerry, I appreciate your patience. Welcome to the Todd Starnes Show with me, Chris El Sedo. What's going on?

God bless you, Chris.

So years ago I attended a civil war in Central America, not as a combatant, but kind of sneaking around a little bit as a Christian, because in some places you had to sneak around as a Christian because it could be hazardous to your health.

So I I just want to comment that people who think that they're going to hide in the middle on this conflict here Um and not declare their loyalty. And what you don't understand is there are already community organizers embedded now. in your city and they're creating lists. And you think you're not going to declare your loyalty.

Well, eventually, they're going to you're going to be on one list or the other. And I know this sounds crazy, but the goal has always been to get to El Norte. And by the just Aside, I did learn Spanish from a Cuban lawyer who did organize against Castro. But if you think you're going to ride the middle and not choose sides, Well, you're going to be rudely surprised because Communists do not like Christians, Jews, or pro-Americans.

So, um I think the scripture says, you know, well, I think the solution to all this is the gospel. of Jesus Christ. It really is. And in the end, you're going to have to choose this day whom you will serve. And it's going to be more than just inside the four walls of the church because they are coming after you.

You don't know it yet. And I I hate I hate that this happened to my country. I was told when I was in Central America, I said, the communists, they said, you will never attack the U.S. from the outside. It will have to be an infiltration, and you'll have to get.

The Democrats and the Republicans hating each other. It'll take a while. But someday somebody, and this was told to me years ago, Somebody will roll a grenade into a mall in Texas, and when it blows up in slow motion, then the two sides will begin to kill each other.

So, this so you're just sooner or later, you're going to have to decide if you're going to do anything. To be on one side or the other. And I'm passionate about this. I just didn't know I would live to see the day when the Marxists we're truly going to get this far. And you give just people are going to have to take a stand.

So I I love thank you.

Well, if if only we had thank you for the call, and if only we had. A robust Republican Party. If only we had, I mean, right now, the Republican Party can't even unite to oppose socialism. Do you realize that? They if there was an initiative on the floor.

Of to ban socialism and communism from the United States, from ever infiltrating government. We couldn't get all the Republicans to vote for it. Because right now, all of these All of these Propose laws that would codify the America First Agenda into law, they're being opposed not by Democrats. But by complicit Republicans like John Cornyn, Republicans like Mitch McConnell, like Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins, the Adam Crying Kinsingers of the world, the Paul Ryans of the world. That's really what's going on.

And there's a new political divide in this country, kids. It's not Republican, Democrat, if only. If only our two-party system wasn't a farce. Right now, There is a divide in this country, the only divide. It's America first and America last.

And there are political members of each political party on both sides. Of this.

So The caller was right. Jerry was right about one thing.

Sooner or later you're going to have to come down on the side. And as for me as for this American, I'm going to come down on the side of my country, the United States, the Constitution, the rule of law, where we in the conservative movement have always Ben. But I think there are going to be some people that have to choose. Republicans. You Republicans.

Are you going to have to choose your voters? Your country over your love and devotion to Democrats, you're really going to have to choose. All right.

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Alright, uh let's see. How do I It's a really weird system that we've got today, folks, for all of our phone calling screening and all this kind of stuff. Letting me know who's on hold.

So let's go to Jake in Memphis. Jake, what do you say? Hey, how you going? My name's Chase. Oh, Chase.

Hey, Chase. Yeah, have file. I'm good. I just uh had a had a few different things. I think even you and Todd I believe a lot of conservatives are going about this all wrong.

I think it's a lot more serious than. We even try to talk about and Honestly, I think we're already in a war. We're already in here. And I think conservatives don't do it enough. I don't think Donald Trump's doing enough.

Right now, the insurrection act should have already happened. When you had piss bottles and rocks being thrown at your federal officers, the National Guard should have been federally deployed, and Trump should have done more. to take care of the problem now. Because here's the situation. We know most American voters are uneducated.

Most American voters vote with their emotions and Aquataris' brain and their logic, Lotter gonna have the IQ too both of them. That's why you see all these low IP neighborhoods and low IT people being the ones that Democrats go at. They try to play with their emotions, promise them a bunch of stuff that Can't happen, won't happen, but they're stupid, so they fall for it and they don't give us that. Been doing it the last 30, 40 years. 70 years 70 years now.

Okay, well, I'm 37, so I'm going off my life. But my biggest thing is, um We're not doing enough. And my biggest fear is. Trump's not doing enough. We're not doing enough as conservatives that in twenty twenty eight Election comes around, Democrats win.

It's going to be way worse than we could have imagined underbuying. Oh, sure. They are in fact. I mean, I'm one of the people you can look me up on Facebook. It's Chase Sweet on Facebook.

I have probably been banned on Facebook records numbers of times. I get banned every day.

Well, Chase, I don't want to toot my own horn here, but today, just in our visit today on the Todd Starn show, I have said that the Democrats are undertaking an insurrection against the government of the United States. I mean, it's pretty lofty, but I will say this. I have one mission this year. It is to make sure that leftists don't have control over me and mine or you and yours ever again. You know why?

Because I saw what they did the last time they got power. And it was abhorrent. It was terrible, completely anti-American. Uh you're right on the Insurrection Act. Uh The people that voted for the rule of law to be restored, it shouldn't be subjected to an election year.

It should be something that is consistent.

So, I take your lament that we ought to be doing more.

Now, let me ask you this. Uh Wah. How much engagement have you undertaken in your particular neighborhood? to get people together And say that you're going to send a message to your Elected representative and tell them they better start voting the right way. They better start doing things to codify the America First.

Agenda into law rather than just executive orders. How much have you done? I've done a little bit on social media. I went out and actually publicly spoke a few times in my area I live in. I live around DeSoto County.

I've spoken a few times there. I've I've done a a little bit as far as Trying to write letters to representatives in Mississippi and things of that nature. Yeah. Well, what about your own? What about your own?

Let me ask you: who is your. Congressperson. The congressperson for For you you for where you live, yes, where you live. Really? Right now, we just had an election, and I'm wanting to stay.

I literally am not kidding, I just moved to a new house last week.

Okay. Well, okay, well, who represents Yeah, we have trip. Trent Kelly should be mine fields. I'm looking at my address right now to make sure it didn't switch over because we live right there on that line. Right.

It's still Trent Kelly.

So it is still Trent Kelly. Yeah, so, so, and you know who your, and this is what I would tell everybody: find out who your representative in Congress is, find out who your senators are, find out who your representative and senator to your state house is, and those are the people. That you need to be putting a lot of pressure on. Because it's their job to protect you, not criminal illegal aliens. You.

And As you're organizing, as you're bringing to bear your social media presence and getting an action plan together, take some of your fellow citizens with you. And that's when you start letting these elected officials know that when you start getting 100 Maybe a thousand people that are pledging to vote a certain way if your elected representative isn't representing you, that's when you start getting their attention. And that and it's in particular in an election year. Thank you for the call, brother. I appreciate it.

And keep on doing what you're doing. Keep on organizing. Keep on preaching it. Get out there and organize. That's how we change things.

When we make life more difficult for these Politicians in Washington and in our own neighborhoods. We make it l difficult for them to sit on their duffs and do nothing, right? That's when we start getting results. Let me go to Gary in Spring, Texas. Gary, welcome.

Hey, how's it going there, Chris? Man, it is good to hear you in a different venue today.

Well, thank you kindly, Gary.

So you are listening in Spring, Texas, so you're listening on 920. What's the haps? What do you got on your mind today?

Okay, this is what I want to talk about, Chris. I believe that a lot of folks probably think that Donald Trump may have caved. But I have a different theory, and it's it's just my opinion, my conjecture. And that is I believe I read where Wealth Call Donald Trump. The president said that, yes.

Yeah, and since he called me, I heard about the signal chats that they had that got busted. and find out about the lefty's taking off running. and they go all go all the way back to who you call AWOL.

So I think what happened is AWOL knows he's in trouble.

Now he wants to cooperate. and give uh Donald Trump supposedly Um The criminals, so to speak.

Well, Gary, first off, A Walls is not. I don't want to give the implication that A Walls is implicated in this Signal Chat conspiracy to subvert the government of the United States. I don't want to give that impression, number one. But number two, I did say as much in the beginning, there's two ways to interpret what's going on. that President Trump laid down the law saying, Hey, If you don't get this under control, I am going to double the surge.

I'll give you something. I'll send Bovino out and I'll bring in Tom Holman, but you have got to get your local officials and your local constabulary to start giving us support, or else I'm going to double the presence. And we're going to, and we're really, you think this surge has been tough on your illegal activity there in Minnesota. Wait till you see what's coming.

So let's leave Gary room for that possibility as well. And we did. And it's all depending on how you're looking at this.

So you think President Trump got A Walls and Jacob Fry to? To finally acquiesce. Is that what you think? I think it's because, like you say, I believe, and based upon the way this article is written, I believe that it. That that they're saying.

It could go all the way up. Two. And he found out And now he wants to Uh Talk kindly all of a sudden because it is believed, based upon this article I read, that he and Fries implemented because it goes all the way up to the top of the food chain.

So since that happened, he called Trump. Trump didn't call him. And so now all of a sudden he's ready to relieve the criminals and cooperate. This is what I believe is going on because of the fact that he's, again, Trump trying to save faith for him by saying, oh, we're on the same wavelength. We're just agree on this and that.

I think he was just doing that just to try this out and say, okay, I'm going to give you a chance. I wouldn't be surprised if Trump told him, look, we know this about you. We know this. We got this information. If you don't do what I want in this situation, this is going to happen.

But I'm going to cover you. But if you stab me in the back, I'm going to put down 15,000 more. Uh, everything, and I'm coming into your place, and I'm all tears up. It could be so, what you're saying, what you're saying, I agree with, but I still think it's deeper than that. I'm just like I said, I'm just giving my opinion, and that is, I believe Trump knows a little bit more because these people got busted.

Now they want to run the Cuba and everywhere else. Why are they running? And why they had their sick and check giving out all the information and license plate numbers and all that.

So I think what it is is. A while no he's been That the cover's blown and it could possibly, we don't know for sure, but it could possibly, which me personally, I'm gonna say it for me, he knows it's gonna get back to him. Why would you call Trump first? If you can't understand him and we need to go up against him and wait in the governor. I would submit to you that Governor A.

Walls knew the writing was on the wall when he pulled out of the race. When he knew that the corruption and fraud scandal that has gripped his state, because as the Chris El Cedo show says, fraud equals Democrat or Democrat equals fraud. Wherever you find a Democrat in charge, you're going to find fraud. And so that's, I think, Awalls was already, you know, pretty much caught as far as that is concerned. And now you're looking at potential insurrection against the government of the United States.

Don't forget, Tim A. Walls sat out there and declared that he was at war with President Trump. And maybe legal got involved. I don't know, man. Gary, thank you for the call.

Maybe legal sentence. Sent Governor Awall saying, Hey, here's all your public statements. It's a good case for insurrection.

Now we got the signal chat. Idiocy going on, and now you've got your stand-down orders that everybody knows that are out there. And online, folks, I'm seeing some postings today that all of a sudden the Minneapolis Police Department is actually acting. to actually enforce the law. Maybe there's something to what Gary was saying.

All right, folks, we've got more phone calls to get to here on the Todd Starn Show. My name is Chris El Cedo, filling in. And if you want to get in some last words, 901-260-5926-901-260-5926, Todd Starn Show with me, Chris El Sato, don't go anywhere. Uh Hey, folks. Glad you made it back.

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901-260-5926. Let's go to Mike, Moorhead City, North Carolina. Mike, what's on your mind? Hey, Chris, thank you for taking my call. It's a pleasure to speak with you, and I've tuned into you when you went to the five o'clock slot on Newsmax.

And immediately, you went to the top of the list over Carl and Rob Squared. You look sharp, but the questions you would hammer your politicians with, you wouldn't let them get off the hook, it was fantastic. Held their feet to the fire. Thank you. But my question today is the filibuster.

Now, I'm in here in North Carolina, and I didn't write to Tillis. He's gone, he's out in November, and he's worthless. But I wrote to Bud. And Bud sent me back a totally squish answer that we can't get rid of the filibuster because then if we're not in power, then we wouldn't have the ability to use it. Right.

And I love what you said. It's not repub and dem, it's America first or America last. And the Democrats, they're it's all out warfare. They've come out and said when they get back in power, that they'll get rid of the filibuster, they'll fill the Supreme Court. They'll do everything as radical as the last administration under Biden.

But I wanted to get your thoughts on that because this is our time to act. You know, I mean, if it's a war, let's use the weapons of war. And our filibusters are a great one. You know, they say the Senate is the place where legislation goes to die. Johnson's House has sent over 200 significant pieces of legislation to the Senate, and they've acted on nothing.

And here we're a whole year whole year into the first Trump administration. And you know, people say, well, Trump hasn't done this and Trump Fun, is it not a squish? Won't get anything done. True. And so I think I just wanted to talk to you and get your thoughts on that, the filibuster and where we're going to be.

On the filibuster, look. There is no constitutional predicate for the filibuster to exist. And as you've rightly pointed out, the first thing the Democrats will do. When they get in, if they get power, which by the way, it seems Senator Thune is working overtime to make sure the Democrats take over the United States Senate. Because, as you rightly point out, over 200 pieces of legislation are languishing, Republican legislation languishing in the so-called Republican-controlled Senate.

They have not done any work, to my knowledge, because it was Senator Kennedy in November who was saying they've been sitting on their dust for five months at that time and not working on the second reconciliation bill.

So it seems that Operation Run Out the Clock Is in full force, and that's exactly what John Thune is doing in collusion and collaboration with Democrats. And what's missing, in my opinion, is Republicans on the House side calling these people out by name. Basically, saying we'd love to get some stuff done, but the Senate.

Now, look, I hope you wrote back to your senator. Was it Ted Bud? And you said to him, when you said, man, hey, Look, the minute the Democrats get in there, you're telling me that you want to be able to use the filibuster. They're going to get rid of it if they get power back. And they're going to get power back if you continue to do nothing to advance and solidify, to protect us.

To protect us, the America first agenda. That's the whole reason why we want you to do these things, because we saw what Democrats did the last time they were in power. They abused the system. They violated our constitutional rights. And it's.

It's sick and sad. Mike, great call. Thank you very much for the For the inspiration to go on that little bit of rant. Let's go to Georgia next. Rick, you're the last call.

What's going on, man? Hey, Chris, how are you doing? I'm well, sir. Thank you for calling in. What's on your mind?

Chris, I'm a moderate Democrat. I know you don't talk to us much. I'll be as honest as I can with you. Um The immigration part You know, you've heard of taking the good with the bad.

Well, in this case, you take the bad. We have to take the bad with the good. There's some people who are going to come in here, the bad ombres. But Y'all figured us out, but there's nothing you can do about it. Yes, we have brought all these people in.

Biden brought all these people in. Yes, we're going to the Supreme Court is not going to take them out of the census.

So we're going to turn blue blue states bluer, we're going to turn purple states blue, and we're going to turn red states purple. And uh Well, I mean, that's that's the game plan, man. That's the game plan. That's what they're planning on doing. I wouldn't bet on the Supreme Court just yet making that decision.

Folks, I'll be back tomorrow. Todd Starnes. Show Chris Alcato filling in. And we'll continue this conversation. Bye.