Capitol Report Full Broadcast (Sept. 3)

Good evening. Tonight on Capitol Report, 18 million barrels of oil moved through the Strait of Hormuz in recent days. How traffic through the critical waterway is close to pre-war levels. If you go back three months ago, how much oil and gas was coming out of the Strait under Iranian threats, it was virtually nothing. Now it's almost back to where it was before the conflict even started. So my advice to the Iranians is stop acting like crazy people and stop shooting at commercial shipping. The Trump administration launches the Foundry School, how this program seeks to rebuild American manufacturing from the ground up. He said, we're going to change that. We're going to reinvest in American workers. We're going to reinvest in American industry. An IRS proposal could strip universities of their tax exempt status. Why the Trump administration says it's targeting discriminatory policies. Venezuela, Cuba and the United States, Congressman Diaz-Balart tells NTD how the U.S. is helping Venezuela recover from years of socialist mismanagement. This is Capitol Report, live from our global headquarters in our nation's capital. Here's Steve Lance. I'm Jack Bradley in for Steve Lance tonight. The U.S. continues to secure the Strait of Hormuz amid Iranian efforts to disrupt commercial shipping. Vice President J.D. Vance says oil shipments are returning to near pre-war levels, and President Trump is saying the U.S. is beginning to stockpile weapons. Iran continues to fire missiles at commercial shipping vessels. Vice President J.D. Vance says that's what's keeping this conflict ongoing. But despite that, the U.S. Navy is successfully defending those oil tankers so well that they're now moving through the Strait at nearly pre-war levels. If you go back three months ago, how much oil and gas was coming out of the Strait under Iranian threats, it was virtually nothing. Now it's almost back to where it was before the conflict even started. So my advice to the Iranians is stop acting like crazy people and stop shooting at commercial shipping. About 18 million barrels of oil are now moving through the Strait every day. That's not far from the roughly 20 million barrels per day that crossed before the conflict began. But Vance says keeping that going comes down to two choices. We really have two options here. We could leave and the entire world would be way worse off because there would be no guaranteed access to oil and gas. By the way, the Gulf Arab countries are telling us that would be the worst thing in the world. Or we can accept the Iranians are going to shoot at ships like crazy people, and we're going to do what we have to do in order to ensure that their efforts don't lead to a worldwide energy crisis. That's why President Trump says that reports of U.S. munitions stockpiles being heavily depleted during the Iran conflict are false, and that the military is stockpiling weapons in the meantime. Writing on Truth Social, for the treasonous scum that refuses to accurately report on our military operation in Iran, we have virtually unlimited amounts of mid to high-grade ammunition, far more than we could ever use for this or for any other war, which is highly unlikely, that could improbably take place. The president did not mention specific reports that he's calling treasonous, but throughout the war with Iran since February, there have been multiple reports citing anonymous sources claiming U.S. munitions have been depleted. The president also writing of stockpiles of ammunition, we are taking them for ourselves, the USA, rather than selling them to others, but the sales to allies will soon again begin. The message from the White House is Iran is losing its grip on Hormuz, and the U.S. is stockpiling weapons. Private schools and colleges could risk losing federal tax-exempt status if they engage in racial discrimination. The Treasury Department and the IRS announcing a new proposal today. Under the proposed rule, a private school will lose federal 501c3 tax-exempt status if it discriminates on the basis of race or national or ethnic origin. Now, the rule would apply across admissions, educational policies, scholarships, loans, athletics, and every school program. The Trump administration estimates that the proposal would affect as many as 18,000 private educational institutions, from elementary schools to universities and trade schools. The Treasury Secretary, Scott Besen, says under President Trump, this administration is standing up for America's students by ensuring racial discrimination has no place in American education. Schools rebranding race-based preferences as equitable, inclusive, or diversity-enhancing does not change their discriminatory nature. And this new IRS proposal could have a far reach at some of the nation's most prominent universities. Later in our show, our panel will unpack this at higher education, but first, starting this year, Florida requires public schools to teach the history of communism, including the atrocities committed under the communist regimes abroad, like China and its Cultural Revolution. Joining me now to discuss is Erica Donalds, Chair of Education Opportunity at the America First Policy Institute. Erica, great to see you tonight. Thanks so much for joining us. Thanks for having me. Now, I want to get right to it. Florida required instruction on communism for decades until that requirement was repealed in 1983. Why is it so important for children to learn about the dangers of communism now? Well, it's hard to believe that with over two million people in the state of Florida, residents whose families or they themselves fled communist or socialist authoritarian regimes, that this was removed when I was just three years old and has not been taught in our schools. But it does show in the polling, Gen Z has a more favorable view of socialism than capitalism, and would go so far as to have a favorable view 38% of them of communism. So that shows that we are not doing our job in the schools to show how dangerous communism and collectivism has been around the world for all of human history. You know, Florida has been on the frontline of this. It was the first state to ban or among the first to ban critical race theory in public schools. How is that policy preventing, helping to prevent ideological indoctrination and the whitewashing of history in the classrooms? Well, we believe in teaching history, but we want students to learn the whole history of both America and of the world. That is what has been missing. And when you talk about CRT and some of the programs that were in not just Florida schools, but of course, some of them are still in schools around the country that had a biased view of American history, very radical and racially driven. And that was damaging racial relations. You just did a story about how now the Trump administration is saying that private schools can no longer have entrance based on race. We have become such a racially charged society. And a lot of it is because of the curriculum that we saw in our public schools and that thanks to governor Ron DeSantis were rooted out here in Florida. And Erica, I just want to mention some numbers here. We have a Cato survey finding that 54% of Gen Zers have a favorable view of socialism. And there's another survey that found that only 13% of eighth graders are proficient in U.S. history. So what happens when we fail to teach our younger generations the reality of socialism? Well, we have a travesty of civic literacy here in our country. Those numbers are abysmal. And that is why our students are growing up and not knowing how to be civically engaged. They don't know the rights in the First Amendment. And how are they going to defend them if they don't even know what they are? Many of them, and I believe the number is 40%, think that violence is okay in response to speech that you don't like. This has long term implications for American culture and for Western civilization as a whole. We have to do a better job of teaching our children as they grow up how to be civically engaged. What are their rights under the Constitution? Why did our founding fathers frame the American population and our society this way? Why is this the best that has ever existed in the history of the world so that they can defend this republic and ensure that it continues for generations to come? I mean, our Constitution and the entire history of the U.S. was founded on the basis of Judeo-Christian values of kindness and respecting others. This poll that you mentioned in violence, it just goes completely contrary to that. What's driving this decline in education and the rise in socialism in our schools? Well, radical ideology coming from groups like the teachers unions and others that have had a stranglehold over our schools for a generation, decades well before my time involved in education policy. We as parents just started finding out about this. I know when I was on the school board, I saw for myself the bias in the textbook that our taxpayer dollars are paying for. Only in Florida and not very many other states is there even a process for parents and community members to see the curriculum materials and be able to identify the bias to get it out of our schools. We have a lot of work to do in our country to root out some of this bias, not just where teachers may be teaching based on their own political beliefs, many of whom we know are left-leaning, but also that's actually in the textbooks that are being used in these classrooms. It's so important that we have school choice. It's important that we push for curriculum transparency, allow parents and community members an option to be able to challenge books that are biased, but we have a lot to answer for as the adults in the room to make sure that our students are prepared to defend this republic. Indeed, we wish you the best, Erica Donalds. Thank you so much for sharing your time and expertise with us today. Thank you for having me. A federal judge blocks President Trump's latest effort to restrict birthright citizenship. U.S. District Judge Deborah Boardman ruling yesterday that the order is, in her words, almost certainly unconstitutional. The ruling prevents federal agencies from denying citizenship to children covered by the case. President Trump signed the new order in August after the Supreme Court rejected his earlier attempt to end birthright citizenship. This new order also sought to deny citizenship to children if one of their parents works for a foreign government while in the U.S. and engages in fraud or a commercial transaction to obtain citizenship or is classified as a, quote, alien enemy. The Justice Department argued that the latest order was more narrow than the original sweeping proposal and an injunction was inappropriate, but the judge rejected that argument. Here's the Attorney General Todd Blanch responding to this court ruling yesterday. We crafted the EO around and in concurrence and understanding what the Supreme Court said in their decision. And so we expected, we didn't expect this judge to say we were right. And so this is not something that is a surprise to us, but make no mistake about it. It was not our intention and we did not go in any way different or we complied with the Supreme Court. And what we're doing now is making sure that we're protecting American citizens and that we're complying. What did the framers mean when they talked about who could and who could not be citizens in this country? And so we'll continue to fight as President Trump has talked about for many years. And we'll, if we have to go back to the Supreme Court, we will. And what do everyday Americans think about birthright citizenship and birth tourism? NTD Sam Wong was out on the National Mall here in DC to hear from the people. Birthright citizenship is all over the headline right now. Where do you stand on this issue? Personally, I feel like it's been abused. I mean, obviously the whole birthright citizenship thing was because of slavery originally, but we're way beyond that at this point. I am not for natural citizens, people that are born here, especially with all the people coming from China and just getting their citizenship for their kids. But if you're an immigrant and you plan on living here full time, I have no problem with it. If the Constitution says you're born on this land, you're a U.S. citizen. That's the way it is. That's the way it works. Most people's problem is, and I think my problem would be, is that people who come here with the intention to give birth here, I think that's a problem. I don't think it's a good thing for our country to just be able to have anyone walk in, especially with all of the businesses literally created for birth tourism. That's not what we're here for. There are cases of Chinese nationals, for example, coming to the United States for the purpose of just giving birth. What do you make of the national security implications of that? Well, that definitely is the biggest concern. I mean, obviously, that and just, you know, I think after the Supreme Court ruling, you know, and I believe in Mexico, they started putting up billboards saying, you know, how to, you know, come to the United States to give birth across the border. Oh, I think it's totally wrong. It's a huge national security problem, in my opinion, because if they're not going to live here and then come back and vote, they're going to vote in blocks once they're 18. And that we'll probably see that pretty soon because this has been going on for quite a while. There's Chinese birth places here, people can sign up, they can come in, they can give birth in the United States, birth tourism. If they want to fix it, change the law. Someone that comes here to be delivered by birth, and then they never come back until who knows what possible nefarious reasons they come back here for. The people that live here should be here because they love this country and just want to make it a better place to be. Coming up, what's the president's broader plan for the U.S. oil deal with Venezuela? What does it mean for the global economy and security? We'll have analysis from Florida Congressman Mario Diaz-Balart when we come back. I'm Kirk Heiser, and did you know the average funeral costs around $10,000? And if you don't have enough insurance to cover funeral costs, credit card debt, and other expenses, your family is going to get stuck with the bill. Don't let that happen. Call right now. And if you're over 50, you can get up to $30,000 in affordable life insurance, and your acceptance is guaranteed. That's right. If you're over 50, you can't be turned down for this insurance, regardless of your health. 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The artist is showing us the value of maintaining our culture and respecting our culture. Welcome back. I'm Jack Bradley. The Trump administration is focused on securing the Western Hemisphere. How will the U.S. oil deal with Venezuela help to accomplish that goal? Earlier, I spoke with Florida Congressman Mario Diaz-Balart. Congressman Diaz-Balart, thank you so much for joining us. Congressman Diaz-Balart, thank you so much for joining us here today. Good to be with you. Now, I want to start with the Venezuelan oil fields, the massive deal that the U.S. has just done. Eight months ago, the U.S. sent forces to capture Maduro. Now, we have one of the biggest oil deals of all time. Seventeen oil fields, the U.S. has majority control, 65 million barrels, billion barrels worth of oil. What is the significance of this, and what is the Trump administration trying to achieve through this? It's actually a good deal for the United States. It's also a really good deal for Venezuela, and it's a great deal for the national security interests of the United States. Those oil fields, not all of them are totally in production right now, but a lot of those that are, are right now being done by Chinese companies. And those are out. They basically are being kicked out of that. Just seven months ago, Maduro was in control. All of our adversaries were in Venezuela. That's changed dramatically. It, however, has to lead to elections in Venezuela. Until there are free democratic elections, it will not be done. It will not be over. And the administration is very clear about that. They've stated that this is the second phase of three phases in that transition towards elections. In the meantime, the administration has wanted to, in essence, shore up the Venezuelan economy as much as possible. Venezuela was the richest country in South America. Then socialism or communism took over, and it became among the poorest. So the administration is first trying to stabilize the economy. It's also helping our economy. It's also helping our national security. Second phase is starting to now change the institutions so that you can have real democratic elections. And the third stage, which is the final stage, is to have true elections so the Venezuelans can choose democratically their leaders. And then that will be the end of this very important transition that is only possible because of the leadership of President Trump and his administration. It seems like that first step is being accomplished. We had 60 Cuban bodyguards during the time of Venezuela's dictator Maduro capture. We had Chinese and Russian companies buying those whale fields. And just most recently, today, the State Department announced that they're sanctioning Raul Castro's grandson, among several others. As for regaining the control of the Western Hemisphere, why is that important to do? When you look at the Western Hemisphere pre-Trump, it wasn't looking good. You had Venezuela, which was a wholly owned subsidiary of Cuba, of the Cuban dictatorship. China was there. Iran's presence was there. Obviously, Cuban presence was there. And that now has changed dramatically. But let's be clear. Look, the person who's there now, this is not an ideal person. She's part of the regime. But she is being forced to do everything that the Trump administration is demanding of her. Maybe slower than we would like, but she's doing everything that the Trump administration is demanding of her in order to have a transition towards true democratic elections. They're strengthening the economy. Because when you have elections, you hope that the new democratic leader will inherit a country that's somewhat functioning, that isn't in total chaos, that has got some security, semblance of real security, somewhat of an economy. That is what this administration is doing. And they're forcing this woman who is there, the interim dictator, to take these decisions and head in the right direction. While it continues to head in the right direction, then it's okay for that interim dictatorship. Dictator, I should say. But the administration is very clear. The end goal is freedom, democracy for the Venezuelan people, and also to make sure that our adversaries do not have a base of operations in our own hemisphere. And you and your colleagues in Congress are also taking action on this front as well, passing a resolution to condemn socialism in all of its forms. 220 House Republicans voting for this measure, eight Democrats voting with those Republicans, only eight. What does that tell you about the rise of socialism? We have a lot of democratic socialist candidates winning elections across the country, not something you would see a decade ago. What does that tell you about the rise of socialism? And what are the dangers there? Some people might be confused what socialism is. It might be a sexy sounding thing. Look, the problem is this, that it has been tried for decade upon decade. It's never worked. All it's brought is misery, poverty, hunger, you know, food lines. Everywhere it's been tried, number one. But then what you hear is, well, but these new socialists in the United States are socialists who are socialists, but they're different. They want something different. They're not the socialists that we've seen every single place where socialism is. Here's a problem. They've put out their agenda. They've put out their platform. It's there in black and white. You can see it on the internet. What is it? To eliminate all borders. It's no border. Anybody can come to the United States from anywhere with no questions asked, number one. Number two is eliminate prisons. You're a murderer. You're a gangster. You're a rapist. It's all right. We're going to leave you in the street so you can continue to do that. And by the way, not only those who are here, but anybody from the rest of the world can come because there are no borders, right? They want to basically change the Supreme Court. They want to eliminate the U.S. Senate. They want to, as they've said it, they want to basically get rid of the U.S. Constitution, which is what guarantees our rights. And then they call themselves different from other socialists. They're actually, if anything, more aggressive than the other socialists. And ultimately, they also talk about, how they call it, is what? Controlling, taking the means of production. This is what they talk about. What does that mean? That means that if you have a small grocery store, pharmacy, car dealership, whatever small business, right? Nail salon, anything that the government needs to take it from the individual, take that private property away, and that the government is going to control the means of production, the entire economy. With all due respect, that's not really socialism. Socialism is the precursor to what it really is. It's communism. And communism is destructive everywhere. Or socialism. It's the same thing. So we talked about Venezuela. When Chavez, by the way, who got elected the first time, he got elected, he actually got elected by the Venezuelan people. And you know what he said? Exactly the same things. And you know what it caused? The richest country in South America became the largest export of people, the largest refugee numbers anywhere in the history of Latin America, came from a wealthy Venezuela, and Venezuela became a poor country because of the same exact rhetoric, the same exact promises of socialism. That's what happened in Venezuela. That's what they're trying to bring to the United States. And unfortunately, the Democratic Party is no longer the Democratic Party that we know. It has become the communist or the socialist party of the United States. And that's actually very dangerous because that is not reforming the United States. That's eliminating the United States as we know it and replacing it with something that has existed in other parts of the world, like Venezuela, like Cuba. The examples are there. And all it does is creates misery, poverty, long lines, and by the way, ultimately, a government takeover of the entire country of all of our lives. That is what they're now proposing. Congressman Diaz-Balart, thanks so much for sharing your insights with us today. Good to see you, sir. Video streaming platform TikTok is refusing to show up to a House Select Committee meeting on China. It claims that it cannot appear due to unrelated child safety litigation. The meeting was set to take place on September 15th. The chairman of the committee, John Molinar, is questioning this excuse. And the meeting's aim was meant to assure the public that TikTok is following a national security law aimed at protecting Americans from foreign adversaries, like the Chinese Communist Party. Speaking at an interview, Molinar says that no part of this roundtable was meant to focus on kids. He said this, quote, he said that this raises serious questions on the algorithm, access to Americans' data, and what kind of influence the Chinese regime continues to have with TikTok. President Trump is also nominating a Vietnamese American to lead the Navy, a former refugee who fled communist Vietnam, Hung Kau, the current acting secretary of the Navy, is a vocal anti-communist as well. Find out more tonight on China In Focus with Tiffany Meyer at 9.30 p.m. Eastern. And coming up, America's manufacturing comeback is getting a new workforce. President Trump today launching a first-of-its-kind foundry school. Our panelists will weigh in on what it means for American jobs and industry. 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It's an initiative created by the Trump administration in an effort to bring manufacturing back to the United States. And I think this speaks to that because it also, in addition to being good for our country, is an opportunity to say to students, if you come here and you go to school and you follow this curriculum, you will leave here not just with a paper credential, but with the skills that make you immediately employable in a high-paying job, in a good-paying job with long-term stability. The Foundry School uses a first-of-its-kind advanced manufacturing curriculum developed by Stanford University. Seven other universities are joining the program, and manufacturing founders and CEOs will give lectures. Rubio explains why it's important to bring manufacturing back to the United States. Let me put it to you this way. I think we made a terrible mistake in this country. And that was the idea that the ability to make things no longer mattered. It didn't matter any longer where things were made. They were to be made in the most efficient place at the lowest possible cost. That meant more profits for the company, lower costs for the consumers. And that was the way the world would work. There was this fantasy, really, that the whole world would become a free enterprise, democracies, and that everyone would look like us. Rubio then explains why the loss of U.S. manufacturing capacity is a national security issue. We woke up to the reality just a few years ago that we are suddenly, as a nation, dangerously dependent, dangerously dependent on other nations for all sorts of things that we need, not simply for our economic vibrancy, but in many cases for our national security and our very survival as a prosperous nation-state. President Trump has brought trillions of dollars of industrial investment to American soil, and the Foundry School will focus on turning that investment into jobs. Jason Perry, NTD News. And joining me now to discuss the Foundry School, we have Democratic strategist and former South Carolina City Councilwoman Audity Bussels and GOP strategist and president of Clink Campaigns, Matt Clink. Hey, guys, thanks so much for joining us again tonight. Here's Vice President Vance discussing why this program is so important and why American manufacturing is so critical. Take a look. We have learned over the past five, the past six, frankly, the past 20 or 30 years that if America doesn't have enough self-sufficiency in industry and manufacturing, our enemies are able to exploit it, and it makes our country much weaker. We're going to change that. We're going to reinvest in American workers. We're going to reinvest in American industry. Audity, the Foundry School, here's how it works. It pairs top universities with manufacturing CEOs to train American students for careers in manufacturing. Do you think that this partnership can help lead to a manufacturing boom in the U.S.? Sure, if it's done correctly. Listen, I agree with the sentiment of Vice President Vance and Secretary Rubio that we do need to invest in our workforce and invest in education. But the irony here is that they have stripped a lot of public education. They have made it very difficult for kids to be able to afford school beyond public school and childcare is at an all-time high. And so to do this top-down approach without looking at the holistic education system feels kind of half-hearted and probably makes sense that it's a midterm year and they're trying to pass initiatives that are part of the Trump's agenda. That being said, the program at its core, yes, it can be very effective, but a lot of other pieces have to be in place to ensure that kids even know that this is an option post high school. And I also have to point out the irony that this is the same administration that has been making fun of the quote-unquote liberal elites and the universities that they are partnering with to bring this program to life. And Matt, this comes at a time when we have the DSA, the socialist movements, looking to work on the economic discontent here. How does this initiative help restore faith in the American economy? Well, look, the tragedy here is that this is not a Republican problem. This is not a Democratic problem. This is a problem that has been bedeviling the United States for the last 20 to 25 years. And we've seen the collapse of the manufacturing sector. And not one party is to blame and not one party here is going to have the solution. Look, Secretary Rubio has been very blunt. We outsourced a lot of critical things to other countries. And the thing that exposed that was the supply chain crisis that occurred during the COVID-19 epidemic. And again, multiple parties, Republican and Democrat, multiple Congresses, multiple parties here. What ultimately needs to happen is get the partisanship out of the way and start building things in the United States again. There was such a big push for everything has to be, oh, it's a college preparatory class. And everybody, college is not the solution for everybody. You work in some of these manufacturing facilities, you can make a really good family supporting income. And I think both parties are realizing that they have missed the mark. They're both approaching solutions differently, but at least they're approaching solutions. I want to shift now to our next topic, but it's related. It builds on the topic of education. So the Trump administration just announced a plan to revoke the tax exempt status of universities that give preferential treatment to minority students. Oddity, this proposal aims to prevent racial discrimination at universities. Do you think that this measure will help ensure that people are judged on merit, not race? No, I think that it's just another ploy to race bait and make it very difficult for students that come from diverse backgrounds to be able to attend some of our institutions. I've always felt that diversity is a strength in our country as a first generation immigrant myself. I do think that there's always room for improvement in some of our admissions programs. And those are things that these universities can continue to revisit, but to revoke a tax exempt status because they want to have a diverse student body just feels very backward and consistent with some of the kind of dog whistles that we've seen out of the Trump administration. And Matt, the Civil Rights Act states that no one should face exclusion or discrimination in any program receiving federal assistance. Do you think that DEI programs in general and ethnic scholarships violate that? Look, I'm not a lawyer, but from the political perspective, the Supreme Court made a pretty resounding decision about race-based admissions in colleges. It's clear that a lot of the elite universities have tried to find what they believe are clever and legal loopholes around it. And this is just an attempt to close some of those legal loopholes. So it'll ultimately get argued out and it will be resolved. But no, DEI doesn't benefit anybody. It didn't benefit the kids that allegedly got into school and everybody viewed them as DEI admits. And it didn't benefit schools because in many cases, a lot of these kids weren't even capable of doing the work. My alma mater, University of California at Berkeley, case in point, they have to give remedial math classes because the people coming from public schools are getting in and they can't even do college level math, much less high school level math. So again, it doesn't help. Public education is broken badly and it's not a money problem. So yeah, they need to get back to the core of educating students about the core things and stop worrying about little side things that may make the Democratic Party feel well, but don't make America more competitive. I want to switch gears now here a bit. And it's on Senator Eric Schmidt, Republican, released an op-ed criticizing Democrats' efforts to extend the temporary protected status for Haitian migrants. Here's the Senator on why he's extending TPS. There is nothing compassionate about flooding the housing market and putting young families behind the eight ball. There is nothing compassionate about diluting American citizenship. America is a nation, not a global waiting room, not a refugee camp. Oddity, affordability is a major concern already for Americans. And we're in the middle of a housing crisis. Could bringing in more people risk making those problems worse? I think that it's putting two arguments together. And I've seen this pretty consistently with the Trump administration, that affordability and illegal immigration are somehow correlated. Sure, you can extrapolate that there may be some very distinct, very, very small relationship. But the reality is there's many other things that we could be addressing to directly affect affordability for everyday Americans, as opposed to this very niche issue. If I recall correctly, the Supreme Court decided that basically this temporary protective status can be revoked without any checks and balances by the administration. To me, that is a bigger issue than doing this blanket kind of ban or blanket allow of them to stay in the country. If we want to talk about affordability, it means looking at ways in which we can have durable, quality housing for everyone, lowering the cost of childcare, lowering the cost of groceries. And none of that is happening right now. So what are you seeing? You're seeing these fringe issues in a midterm year come up so that people can kind of get their base riled up and make sure that they stay in power. And Matt, temporary protected status has temporary in it if the program is meant to be. So what's the argument for the permanent settlement? Well, I think that's the ultimate word here is that for a Democrat, you declare an emergency, you import hundreds of thousands of people from another country who say they're here temporarily, and the temporary is in air quotes. Then you extend the program over and over and over again. And then you unleash your activists to say that they should be made permanent citizens and grant them amnesty. And what the Supreme Court said is temporary means temporary. And the administration can enforce that. And it's not a little trivial issue. It's not like 15 people here, 20 people there. It's hundreds of thousands of people flooding into communities, Haitians, Somalis, people from Central America that have completely taken over communities, overwhelmed citizens or services that should go to the American people. And again, on a program that they are gaming that the Democrats want because these temporary people they hope will ultimately become permanent. So it's a scam. And the Supreme Court finally said enough, send these people back where they came. Temporary means temporary. All right, Matt Klink, Oddity Bustles, thank you guys so much for sharing your insights with us today. We always appreciate it. And coming up, ICE is continuing to break records in apprehending illegal immigrants. Why states are now facing consequences if they don't help. When we come back. There's cultures that have been lost. But this culture hasn't been. The artist is showing us our sense of who we are, where we came from. You look at his hat. His hat is knitted, probably by a man because a man traditionally knitted the hats. That hat tells you the story of who this person is, what his place in the culture is, the animals around him. Everything's all contained in the messages in the hat. And the tool that he's carrying over his shoulder. This is a centuries old tool that has been able to rework the mountains. Those traditions are invaluable. And if we don't honor those traditions, then we lose. The artist is showing us the value of maintaining our culture and respecting our culture. Our back and forth. Victory. Fumble. It always came back. You probably don't remember what you told me. Welcome back. I'm Jack Bradley. A new record has been set for illegal immigrant arrests in a month for ICE. August saw just under 51,000, beating the previous record set in July by about 700. NTD correspondent Jason Blair reports. ICE announces 50,925 arrests for the month of August, setting a new all-time record. ICE has been setting a new record for three months in a row. June saw 43,900 arrests, and July 50,208 arrests nationwide. A brand new historic number of number of aliens ICE is arresting. They're breaking records every month. New York Governor Kathy Hochul recently pushed back, doubting that the Trump administration is going after the worst of the worst illegal immigrants. It seems like in the last year and a half, you would have already removed the worst of the worst and the baddest of the bad. And now to make your quotas, you're going after innocent people. People are not committing crimes. DHS Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen says some arrestees are targeted because they've committed crimes in other countries. We have a 38-year-old citizen from India who has a criminal history that includes conviction of rape in Germany. Mullen also says regardless, anyone who crossed the border illegally has committed a crime. When you choose to take the shortcut, you have made a decision, a conscious decision, to enter this country illegally and break our laws. And the Justice Department announces that any state that takes part in the temporary assistance for needy families or supplemental security income programs must report known illegal immigrants to the DHS. This applies to all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The move reverses a 1998 interpretation of a welfare reform law passed by Congress in 1996. The old interpretation said that only a state's welfare offices had to report. They now say it applies to every state agency. Deputy Assistant Attorney General Joshua Gradyk of the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel says our clarification does not impose new obligations on states. It simply restores the original meaning of the statute Congress enacted and ensures that DHS receives the information it is legally entitled to. The DOJ says the move will be applied from now on and states won't be penalized for relying on past interpretation. Reporting in Washington, D.C., Jason Blair, NTD News. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is now being called to testify before Congress over the handling of more than $1 billion in federal homelessness funding. A House Oversight Subcommittee is investigating allegations of waste, fraud, and abuse involving the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority. NTD's Christina Corona has the details. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is being called to testify before Congress over the handling of more than $1 billion in federal homelessness funding. The House Oversight Subcommittee is investigating allegations of waste, fraud, and abuse involving money that went through the Los Angeles Homelessness Services Authority, or LAHSA. Since 2021, LAHSA has received more than $1 billion in federal funding, including $220 million in 2024 alone. Now, federal officials have raised concerns about how that money was handled. A Department of Housing and Urban Development Inspector General Investigation cited alleged repeated false statements along with problems with financial management, internal controls, and safeguards against conflicts of interest. In June, the Department of Housing and Urban Development suspended additional federal funding to LAHSA. Congress is now asking Mayor Bass to explain what the city knew and what oversight was in place. The committee is also demanding records from Bass's office dating back to January 2020. Those documents are due September 14th, just one day before Bass is scheduled to testify. This comes as Los Angeles continues to struggle with a massive homelessness crisis, with more than 45,000 people experiencing homelessness in the city. Bass is expected to appear before Congress September 15th. Christina Corona, NTD News. And we have the latest updates on the Lindsay Clancy murder trial. The jury remains deadlocked after six days of deliberations. It appears that one juror is holding out. NTD's Arlene Richards has the details on today's courtroom fireworks. On Thursday, in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial, jurors sent another note to Judge William Sullivan, asking him to reread the instructions for the law on reasonable doubt. Apparently, one juror may not have been following the law, and it was preventing the other 11 from coming to a unanimous decision. The request caused defense attorney Kevin Reddington to strongly object during a sidebar conversation with the judge. At one point, Reddington slammed his hand on top of the papers on the judge's bench and raised his voice, the judge also raising his voice. Sullivan later called the jury back into the courtroom and reread his reasonable doubt instruction over Reddington's objection. He said, in part, proof beyond a reasonable doubt does not mean proof beyond all possible doubt, for everything in the lives of human beings is open to some possible or imaginary doubt. Sullivan then ordered the jury to continue deliberating. If jurors cannot unanimously agree, the judge may eventually choose to declare a mistrial, ending the trial without a clear resolution. That means the prosecution could decide to try the case again. Clancy's attorney told the press Thursday morning he's ready to try the case again. After the note incident, he publicly objected, arguing that one juror is refusing to follow the law and should have been removed. But Judge Sullivan shot back, saying he wasn't taking sides. The jury resumed deliberations for 30 more minutes before being excused until Friday, when they will again receive instructions at 9 a.m. We don't know how the jurors are divided on the verdict. By the way, the defense reacted they may be leaning toward dismissing the charges against Clancy. Arlene Richards, NTV News. A new face is appearing on an American dollar. It's President Donald Trump. The U.S. Mint is selling commemorative one-dollar coins featuring Trump's portrait. It's for America's 250th anniversary, and the gold-colored coins aren't actually made of gold, and they're not meant for everyday circulation. But here's the unusual part. Federal law generally bans living presidents from appearing on U.S. currency, but there's an exception for anniversaries. The Mint priced a roll of these 25 coins at $61 and sold out online within hours. And after two days of competition, the preliminary rounds of NTD's 8th International Piano Competition concludes, and the semifinals are announced. NTD's Niku Bani has the story. Ten countries, 20 pianists, and plenty of keys at stake. NTD's 8th International Piano Competition enters its second and final day of preliminaries, where the last contestants hope to play their way into the semifinals. But once the lights come on and it's time to perform, the contest may not be with the judges. Despite the competition and the pressure that comes with it, for some, the experience entails more. At the heart of NTD's International Piano Competition is a mission to preserve and promote classical music. Now we see this on stage where a new generation of musicians are taking these centuries-old pieces and bringing them back to life. After two days of performances, 12 pianists are moving on to the semifinals this Friday, with a special chance to play the competition's special commissioned piece. Niku Bani, NTD News, New York. That's all we have for you tonight on Capitol Report. Stay connected to the stories that matter. Visit us at ntd.com slash live or download our NTD app. From the nation's capital, I'm Jack Bradley. 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