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[00:00:00] Republicans doing a terrible job [00:00:01] typically leads to Democrats stepping [00:00:04] too far. And that is what is happening [00:00:05] right now. Two days after federal agents [00:00:07] shot and killed Alex Petty, Noom's top [00:00:09] adviser, and alleged lover Cory [00:00:12] Luwendowski. And that is important [00:00:14] because that has been widely alleged. [00:00:16] Apparently, it's not even being very [00:00:18] well hidden. Luwendowski, both of them [00:00:20] are married, by the way. Cory [00:00:21] Luwendowski is married. Christine Nome [00:00:22] is married. It has long been rumored in [00:00:25] South Dakota politics. It's been long [00:00:26] rumored since she became DHS secretary [00:00:29] that that they live together [00:00:31] essentially. Cory Lindowski is not just [00:00:33] her top adviser. He [00:00:36] may be her paramore and I say may very [00:00:38] advisedly there. Apparently Luwendowski [00:00:41] messaged Tony Fabriio which is one of [00:00:43] Trump's pollsters with a request to cut [00:00:45] an ad to help Christine Gnome. Fabriio [00:00:48] ignored the intreatry. According to the [00:00:50] Wall Street Journal, throughout her [00:00:52] tenure as Secretary of Homeland [00:00:53] Security, a sprawling agency charged [00:00:55] with carrying out Trump's central [00:00:56] campaign promise of a mass deportation, [00:00:58] Gnome has attempted to burnish her [00:01:00] personal stardom at every turn. With [00:01:01] Luwendowski, Trump's former campaign [00:01:03] manager at her side, she has staged a [00:01:05] headline grabbing immigration crackdown [00:01:07] while sidelining rivals and dissenters. [00:01:09] She's carried out confrontational [00:01:10] operations over the objections of [00:01:12] longtime immigration officials who [00:01:14] warned that such flashy displays would [00:01:16] discredit the department's ultimate [00:01:17] mission. [00:01:18] She's been in constant fights with Tom [00:01:20] H. Homeman, again, the adult in the [00:01:22] room. Apparently, within DHS, Gnome and [00:01:24] Luwendowski frequently berate senior [00:01:26] level staff, give polygraph tests to [00:01:28] employees they don't trust, and have [00:01:29] fired employees. In one incident, [00:01:31] Luwendowski fired a US Coast Guard pilot [00:01:33] after Gnome's blanket was left behind on [00:01:35] a plane, according to people familiar [00:01:37] with the incident. This would not [00:01:38] surprise anybody who's familiar with the [00:01:39] work of Cory Luwendowski historically. [00:01:41] By the way, I'm not even sure why [00:01:42] Luwendowski has the power to fire people [00:01:44] working with Christine Gnome. He has [00:01:47] sort of a temp position. [00:01:50] When you read down in the article, what [00:01:53] you find is that days after PR's [00:01:56] shooting, Luwendowski and Gnome were [00:01:59] spotted sitting together at the Mara [00:02:00] Lago wedding of Dan Scavenino. A DHS [00:02:03] spokeswoman said Gnome serves at the [00:02:04] pleasure of the president and has [00:02:05] successfully clamped down on [00:02:06] inefficiencies to save billions of [00:02:08] dollars. She said that all the officials [00:02:10] are on the same at page, but apparently [00:02:12] Nome and Luwendowski's close [00:02:14] relationship had already made Trump and [00:02:15] his top advisers uncomfortable. [00:02:17] Luwendowski had initially wanted to [00:02:18] formally serve as Gnome's chief of [00:02:20] staff. Trump rejected the idea due to [00:02:22] reports of a romantic relationship [00:02:23] between the two. After tabloid photos of [00:02:27] Luwendowski showed him going back and [00:02:28] forth between his apartment and gnomes [00:02:30] across the street last year, the [00:02:31] secretary moved into a government-owned [00:02:33] waterfront house on a military base in [00:02:35] Washington that is provided to the [00:02:36] leader of the US Coast Guard. The Coast [00:02:38] Guard falls under Gnome's purview at DHS [00:02:40] during peace time. Apparently, the DHS [00:02:44] spokeswoman said Gnome moves to the [00:02:45] house for increased security and pays [00:02:46] rent as well. And Luwendowski spends [00:02:48] time at the house. [00:02:52] Luwendowski and Gnome, who are both [00:02:53] married, have publicly denied reports [00:02:54] that they are sleeping together. But [00:02:57] again, let's just say the rumors are [00:02:59] extremely strong. [00:03:02] The pair have been using a luxury 737 [00:03:04] Max jet with a private cabin in back for [00:03:05] their travel around the country. DHS is [00:03:08] currently leasing the plane. They want [00:03:11] to buy the plane, but the purchase would [00:03:13] be double the cost of each of seven [00:03:14] other commercial planes the department [00:03:15] is also buying at the Paris discretion [00:03:17] to carry out deportations. [00:03:22] Apparently, behind the scenes, Noman [00:03:25] Luwendowski have been attempting to box [00:03:26] out Tom Hman, who again is the [00:03:28] responsible person. I'll say it. You [00:03:29] need responsible people in the room [00:03:31] working for the president of the United [00:03:33] States. That's how success is achieved. [00:03:36] More than a week after Patty's shooting, [00:03:38] apparently Noman Luwendowski bered Todd [00:03:40] Lions, the acting ICE director, for [00:03:42] videos that emerged in Minnesota, [00:03:43] showing federal officers continuing to [00:03:45] tangle with protesters. [00:03:48] They said the president hated the [00:03:49] continued stream of videos. And they [00:03:50] pinned the blame on Lions. [00:03:53] And then they demanded that Lions drop a [00:03:55] new plan for ICE to carry out targeted [00:03:57] enforcement, which is the approach Lions [00:03:59] wanted, but apparently Noom had [00:04:00] rejected. [00:04:03] Luwendowski took Noom to functions with [00:04:05] Republican kingmakers [00:04:08] starting in 2019, introducing her as a [00:04:10] rising star in the party. He suggested [00:04:12] her as a possible VP candidate in 2024, [00:04:14] and then he pushed her for DHS. [00:04:20] Again, the the spending inside the [00:04:21] department [00:04:24] is um is fascinating. Luwendowski for [00:04:28] one who is working under a sort of again [00:04:30] temp contract because he has taken a [00:04:33] position that allows him to maintain pay [00:04:34] in the private sector. He has urged [00:04:37] officials to move away from continuing [00:04:39] long-term contracts with companies [00:04:40] toward new ones. Some say allies of [00:04:42] Noman Luwendowski instructed high level [00:04:44] staff to meet with particular companies [00:04:45] for services that other contractors have [00:04:47] previously carried out. [00:04:50] DHS says that Luwendowski is in full [00:04:52] compliance with the Office of Government [00:04:53] Ethics forms. [00:04:56] We will have to find out because again, [00:04:58] all of this is suspicious to say the [00:04:59] least. And the bottom line is, does it [00:05:01] help Trump? Does it help the [00:05:02] administration? 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So it is in fact the right [00:06:15] political move whether whether it is in [00:06:18] fact the the right policy move. It is [00:06:20] the right political move for the [00:06:21] administration to go back to status quo [00:06:23] anti Minnesota because it takes the bat [00:06:25] out of the hands of Democrats. But [00:06:26] Democrats apparently are not letting the [00:06:29] pedal off the metal even though they [00:06:31] already seem to have achieved what they [00:06:32] wanted to achieve which is ICE no longer [00:06:34] doing massive raid operations in [00:06:36] Minnesota. And now predictably they are [00:06:38] moving too far in the opposite [00:06:40] direction. Chuck Schumer, the Senate [00:06:41] Minority Leader, he says that they will [00:06:44] cut funding to ICE. [00:06:46] >> The Republican bill on the floor allows [00:06:49] ICE to smash indoors without warrants, [00:06:52] to wear masks and not be identified, to [00:06:55] use children as bait for their parents, [00:06:58] no oversight. We are keeping our word. [00:07:01] No funding for ICE until it is rained [00:07:03] in. Until the violence ends. [00:07:08] >> Okay. Well, here is the thing again. [00:07:09] Trump by putting a professional in [00:07:11] charge is already on the path toward a [00:07:14] more professional implementation of [00:07:15] policy and now I think Americans are [00:07:17] going to turn and say okay well why [00:07:18] don't you just work with the responsible [00:07:20] agents to go after criminal illegal [00:07:21] immigrants that is the policy everyone [00:07:23] wants to see implemented you can talk [00:07:26] about all that that's not what Keith [00:07:27] Ellison is doing he is setting up a [00:07:28] roadblock to actual implementation of [00:07:30] law this is a point that Senator Ron [00:07:32] Johnson made to the Minnesota AG says [00:07:35] that you and people in the Democratic [00:07:36] party facilitated tragedy in Minnesota [00:07:39] This is true. And again, a more [00:07:41] competent DHS secretary would have been [00:07:42] able to highlight this with more [00:07:44] elacrity. [00:07:45] >> Government official would have said, [00:07:47] "Back off. [00:07:49] Let us work with ICE. Let's cooperate [00:07:50] with him. Let's let's see if we can't [00:07:52] deescalate this." But attorney general, [00:07:55] you did the exact opposite. And two [00:07:58] people are dead [00:08:01] because you encouraged them to put [00:08:02] themselves into harm's way. [00:08:05] And now you're exploiting those two [00:08:07] martyrs. That was a tragedy. [00:08:10] It never should have happened. [00:08:13] Now, we can investigate, [00:08:16] but I can't imagine being a law [00:08:19] enforcement official [00:08:22] where I know my colleagues have been [00:08:24] shot at, their vehicles rammed, that [00:08:26] there are trained activists deployed. [00:08:30] And by the way, we know at least one of [00:08:32] those activists had a semi-automatic [00:08:34] pistol with extra clips. So now you're [00:08:38] an ICE officer. You're doing enforcement [00:08:41] action. You've got a team behind you [00:08:42] trying to protect you. You've got all [00:08:45] these trained activists behind you. Is [00:08:48] it any wonder they're at hair trigger [00:08:50] alert? A tragedy was going to happen and [00:08:54] you encouraged it and you ought to feel [00:08:57] damn guilty about it. Thank you, Mr. [00:08:59] Chairman. Obviously [00:09:01] again when it comes to these hearings it [00:09:03] is it is televised moments.