Josh Holmes

DHS is negative.

As I said at the top, Kate, this has been an absolute political disaster for the president of the United States.

It's not much of a surprise to me if he wants to push Noem to the side.

i mean this is what we talked about right i mean the easiest thing you can do as a president united states is nothing absolutely nothing if you feel like there is a necessity for profound change don't do it at all because the uncomfortability caucus doesn't appreciate that but it turns out when you want to deport 15 million people who got here illegally under joe biden it's tough

It's difficult, and the left puts up a resistance that makes things incredibly uncomfortable, and you just need to be prepared for it.

I don't give a shit what the cabinet secretary's approval rating is.

That is what it is.

It does have downstream effects on Republican candidates, undoubtedly, and you'll see some of that play out with people asking questions and wanting some oversight and all of that being said.

But the Republican Party needs to just wrap its mind around if you say you're going to do something,

It's not going to be easy.

And on the back end of it, everybody's not going to be like, oh, congratulations, you did it.

There's a cottage industry that is entirely built foreign funding, everything else to try to destroy any progress that you make.

that's just what you know when you get into politics like that is just the reality because dealt with because you know for those moderate or independent voters in the mushy middle of our electorate they're generally conservative but they're specifically liberal and what i mean by that is like they all agree with donald trump's policy and that and they voted for him in 2024 that we need a secure border reading to

uh to poor criminal illegal aliens but specifically liberal is like oh well i saw this poor this picture on instagram of this girl by this car and ice um you know store stole her away to a concentration camp i read that and that's the only thing i know about ice yeah right like that's the issue and we're always going to have that issue but to holmes's point like you can't give up you got to push through that and do your best i mean like here here's a good uh uh hypothetical

You know, what's the name of this illegal immigrant that they were trying to arrest that this guy came in with the gun and started assaulting?

Do we know?

Because that's where I would start if I was the Trump administration.

I'd be like, all right, well, let's reframe this narrative instead of, you know, discussing this video of this guy who had the gun and the gun goes off and the guy tragically loses his life.

What was he stopping?

What were they doing?