Michael Flynn’s Miami Press Briefing: Elections, Border Policy & Local Action | Part 1

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0:00 you know we talk about you guys a lot and you're like this you know you're one of the solutions right you're one of the solutions and as long as you how much you understand what we're up against okay severe severe just close the door too hot in here huh yeah up against severe uh threats I guess can you guys all hear do I need to stand I'm not like standing behind things like that I just um yeah that's where all the bikes are Teresa from you from YouTube please open the door "[Music]" okay so I'm gonna count to ten keep one two three four five six seven eight nine ten and you guys are whoever's got these

1:10 things up here we're good to go sir okay all right what was that probably not against them so who wants to ask the first question that was not life huh yeah this is Kim yeater from the take your power back show in Salem Radio I get to spend some time with you with Clay Clark at the Thrive time he had a small group of people you were concerned you stood there and you said you lead forward and you said Now's the Time you stand up but you take care of your families yeah you were so concerned yeah what do we need to be concerned about right now what action steps do we the

2:01 people need to take to take our power back yeah I mean you know I I if you don't follow me on on social media or my website or whatever and my website's General flynn.com the last article that I wrote is the and I'm gonna I'm gonna craft a little bit more of the how sort of in the second component of it here you know whenever I get a few minutes sound and think but you know I said in that article that we can't win 2024 so anybody that you know cares about the country going forward as an experiment in democracy or or as a

2:41 constitutional republic we can't win in 2024 unless the governors of this country Step Up um because we the people can do whatever we want to do you know we can talk a lot and we can get in there and mix it up but if the outcome of 2024 is the same as it was for 2020 and 2022 um you know I can say that I don't think that 2020 my opinion is I don't think 2020 was a fair election I don't I think that there were major parts of 2022 that were unfair as well that's my opinion I have the you know I was just over there with the young gentleman Dexter reading them the First Amendment so it's my opinion

3:22 you know and that that I believe that we don't have a fair election system so elections are not Federal responsibilities elections are State responsibilities so Governors we don't have a governor yet not that I'm aware of unless you guys I mean otherwise I have not heard one Governor yet say that 2020 was even remotely fraudulent right not one not one um you know Kerry Lake who ran for Arizona it's still still in in court so we'll see what what the outcome is but it's you know it's it's like touch and go the reason why they went after Kerry lake so much was because she would have been she put on her platform that she

4:05 was going to go after you know election fraud in her state right which she can any Governor can do that you know and she got she got beaten you know by by the next day right so they you know the results were she was beat and of course you can't say anything about it we can't talk about it you can't you know immediately just calls you all sorts of names but not one Governor called her up to say you know what Carrie I'm really sorry that it just it doesn't it looks like that Maricopa County you know

4:31 County you got out there is just really man they're broken they're they're they're they're they're they're filled with all kinds of fraud not one Governor Caldwell not one Republican governor I know that so that that tells me about a weakness in the governors that we have in our country the city Governors that we have in our country and you kind of look at the look you know on the laundry list of Governors who want to want to be president right there's laundry there's gonna be you know some of them have already announced others will announce and so Governors are the ones that they're like

5:03 they're they have executive power executive Authority per not only the United States Constitution but the constitution of their state and they have responsibilities like borders right right they have responsibilities for borders so you know if you haven't read that article take a read through that article article Because unless we have Governors who step up and take responsibility for their elections and their states not secretaries of State you know counties can do certain things people in counties County Commissioners County election Commissioners right we elect these people they can do certain things and counties there's some counties in the country that are taking responsibility and doing some different things and changing it up I I we're not

5:43 going to change uh mail-in ballots we're not going to change ballot harvesting we're not going to change election months or you know election we're going to have election day we have like an election month now the State of the State of Virginia there's a there's a primary going on where it's like 45 days to uh to vote for the the state elections right so we're not going to change any of that between now and 2024. now if you get in if we if we're able to overcome what it is that we're facing then maybe we have a chance to start to start Whittle that down a little bit and and get after these problems that we

6:22 have and go back to a uh a voting system that is constitutional you know from the standpoint of who actually is the authority of it because we actually are the authority of it and I talked I addressed the 10th Amendment address the 10th Amendment in that article and uh so I just I really want Governors I mean I want Governors who who don't think about their own damn egos and allow their egos to get in the way I wanted to start thinking about this country because if we don't have a a like a Donald Trump type person or him

7:01 in the White House in 2024 we may be done I mean it's a scary thing you know I mean we go from Hope to fear right because that's sort of you know remember remember Barack Obama coming in at the beginning of his first term you know what do you talk about well hope and change right that's how they start start with hope right hope that's how they start okay if you read the if you read anything about the rise of Communism in the last in the turn of the last century we start with hope you know

7:34 because all these other people over here they're bad and then all of a sudden what kicks in what kicked in in 2020 and it was it was under Trump but it wasn't something that he created you know it wasn't really an act of God either and fear Okay so so now we're in a state of you know we're in a state where we're fiercing may not you know I talk to people all the time but where there's like a sense of fear instead of a sense of hope right and I want and I want people to have a more a sense of hope about what it is that that but see the Hope only comes when you know you can feel good about

8:09 yourself but you know it's like it's like working hard right if you build something with your own hands you like cherish it for the rest of your life right I got I got stuff that I built in like you know in Woodshop when I was in the seventh grade I still have because it's like a little thing a little box right they kept it I keep little things in it right built it in the subject I built it right and I think that that's what people have to understand is that we built this country so you know you can't just sit back and kind of feel good about it you got to go work on it people

8:44 have to go work on it you know these these damn in the governors I'll stick stick to the governors because Washington DC is so broken the governors still have a chance we still have a chance with these Governors if they do the right thing okay states rights are really super important I mean go back to the The Federalist Papers so you know you know written in the prior to the to the Constitution you read just just some of this fabulous papers where they were talking and arguing about states rights because they want to give up they we had already gotten away from

9:14 one thing right we had to go to war over it and now they were like worried about well you know we're going to have another king right we're gonna have King George right King George Washington but you know so what they do is they really argued a lot about the about the um about the state's rights what the state's rights needed to be you know and it's a big deal it's a big deal it's in our Constitution and we've sort of gotten so far away from it so anyway how do we get the government that's a masters yes ma'am okay hi General thank you for all that you do we are just days away from title 42 too

9:48 yeah actually I think I've seen uh yeah wow well you know I tell you what I am so upset with Governor Abbott yeah I mean you know I don't know how many of you from Texas that young man I talked to over there he's from Texas a little kid you know 11 year old kid you know Dexter and uh you know parts of our country are just broken they're broken the institutions that we have are broken that they they can be fixed right and it's going to take see what we're going to need is we're going to need leaders rising up out of this country again because the political class that

10:36 we have that we've put in right for the most part I mean you know you can say it's selected versus elected and all that you know and you know we can go down that road if you want but we're too late actually to be even going down that road so I've said that Governor Abbott he can shut the border down in a day he can shut he can mobilize oh he doesn't need a dime doesn't he needs nothing from the federal government doesn't need a National Guard he's got a National Guard he's got he's got people he's got so anyway so you know a governor can do a

11:08 lot okay a governor can do a lot but it's not just the border of Texas and Mexico every state you know and I it's another thing that I that I uh dug into a year ago talked about a a compact right State compact with each other right and you remember when the when the uh Abbott and uh and then uh DeSantis kind of follows it they flew him up to like Martha's Vineyard and they flew him into Washington DC you know and I sat there and I and I thought I watched it and I said this is a joke

11:40 yeah you know it's this is not this is a publicity stunt frankly to further to me it it further hurt our country because where are those people at yeah yeah so did they take them out of Martha's Vineyard and out of DC or wherever they and those are the two sort of jokes that they were playing on the Democrats I guess on the administration where do they go busloads plane loads where'd they go they're somewhere maybe hanging around in Boston or maybe hanging around in uh you know whoever you know God knows where so it was a joke they should have sent them back across the board and I used those two states because one is a is continuous to the Mexican border

12:21 the other is Florida where we stand right and so every state has the responsibility and every Governor has the authority to be able to protect their borders so if I'm in Nebraska and I'm the governor of Nebraska I can shut my borders down from people coming in from Kansas Texas Iowa you know all the different states I can shut it down and they and when they pass through I can go well what business do you have in Nebraska I don't have any business I'm just passing through to go to Ohio I'm on a trip to Ohio okay and we Mark your vehicle I mean a governor can do that

12:59 if they wanted to do that oh now but the federal government step in they probably would the federal government probably step in and go hey you can't do this and then it would be a court battle and the governor would argue with the Supreme Court I'd love to see that argument because it's in our constitution can we do that in the meantime our own a county could do that if you had a really strong Sheriff a county could do that um I mean you know if you didn't uh you know because I don't know if you're listening to Devin Nunez talk yesterday you know he's from up in California maybe we were

13:34 talking about this last night but he's from a a town that has about 65 000 people and years you know only a couple years ago they didn't have any like there was no homeless there was no illegals that were in that if they because they're way up you know in the in the kind of the wine country area I guess I forget which county he said but he said now it's like they have hundreds hundreds of homeless just parked all over the their town you know and it's like that's California but it's that's actually not just California it's all over the country so it's not just what's happening at the

14:08 border it's happened in every single place and you know it's not it's none of this none of this uh you know it's I mean we haven't talked about the drugs right but to me it's like what do we do about it and then how do we do it okay because I could sit up here and spend the next six hours telling you about the problems that we've got but we have a constitution and we have to let the Constitution guide us and people need to say to think to their Republic or their their elected officials right whoever they are

14:41 state level county level well what's in and so you should know the answer to the question you know if when you ask somebody what's you know why don't you follow the Constitution so go read it you know make sure you go read it it takes you about an hour to read a damn Constitution but read it and also and also understand your your your State's Constitution okay because each state has its own Constitution as well and even even Counties have you know municipalities have have rules that are tied to that people don't understand any of that we just elect people because

15:14 they you know they look good or we like them or they say the right things and they just go into office and they sit there and they twiddle their thumbs or they rip us off right you know and that's not that's not Universal so I don't want to make it sound like it's Universal but it's really close general fund I'd like to ask you uh your reaction to what happened with Tucker Carlson recently and more specifically if you've uh seen the two videos that he put out on Twitter yeah I think that um number one Tucker Carlson is really smart and and uh and I think that is I think

15:49 Tucker you know people don't like that's right people don't like to um hear the truth okay and you saw you know you've seen Fox News kind of Shifting shifting shifting over a long period of time here you know and they're they're they're off the you know they're sort of moved off the edge here so and they've always kind of been there if you pay any attention you know the only the only show was really was Tucker that you know I mean all these others the late night shows at Hannity and uh and Laura you know I mean gut felt can be

16:24 funny at times but uh but Tucker was was really going on so he was hitting on some targets that they don't like and the corporate world of media is so own that's why you know even with some of you guys that are they're in different places you know in the in the you know in some of the world that you're in because there is some corporate uh you know corporateness to you some you've got to maintain your Fierce Independence that's right you have to maintain your Fierce Independence if you don't then you're just one of them yeah instead and and people will people will

17:00 run to you because they're looking for honesty they're looking for people they're looking for voices who are authentic they're looking for leadership you provide you know you actually provide leadership because you're leading your audience to believe something and that's to me is that's a that's a function of who you are so yes ma'am I want to thank you for for hosting the conference and connecting a lot of great people together so um I'm from Miami on the bay you're always telling me that Miami is a mess each time I meet with you and um they

17:31 are running beautiful yeah it is yes and you're exactly right it is a mess we have some of the same leaders Gathering Together our County mayor our city mayor and many of our commissioners the county and City commissioners on both sides do violate Sunshine laws and at the same time they're also going to places like Qatar together we are also home of Bitcoin and FTX scandals so can you speak to the my Miami audience and tell them what you think we should do you encouraged me to run for City commission so I want you to encourage people in

18:04 Miami to do whatever you know it's it's Miami so it's there's indicators and warnings that I would say for every major city in this country and Miami is a reflection of a lot of the things that are happening to some of some of the large cities around our our country um they're they're not controlled by frankly the people that are actually living in those cities any longer and I I think what's what sort of made me sad was that you know what what the amount of resources and this media resources and there was some pastors for America or something have some billboard out

18:45 here somewhere you know and I picture on it it's like you know like wasn't a bad picture what's what they were trying to what they were trying to say you know the the what people want and this is be easy for a mayor this would be easy for a city council this would be easy for a a school board be very very easy to just kind of use common sense but they don't use common sense right and you and there's these arguments going on in these in the cities around the country not just Miami because it's more than it's more than just Miami I mean Miami's

19:20 the interesting thing about Miami and I and I you know the the uh the Cuban population I've been to Cuba and I have fought communism and I have studied communism and I have met many many great uh we have a bunch of of uh first generation Cubans out here and I know that the Cuban Community is uh is much greater than just Miami but in Miami you know it has a lot large uh group but I what I fear and I use that word specifically what I fear is that the younger generation of Cubans don't understand what their their moms or dads who may be first generation Americans you know because of the time

20:00 frame that we're in now or certainly their grandparents who were definitely not you know they're they're they're fir they are clearly they immigrated here right on whatever you know to to to leave this this communist threat that they were under this yoke of tyranny right so what I what I am afraid of is that there's a young population of Cubans in in this area that are not understanding what their grandparents principally their grandparents or maybe their parents went through and why they left a country to come to another country and that's a big decision yes big big decision and they left because it was a dictatorship it was Communist

20:41 dictatorship and it still is it's horrible I mean Cuba could be such a beautiful beautiful place you know with with all kinds of abilities and capable and it's and it's not it's sad it's very sad and there's great great people in uh in Cuba and that those that community that came to this country came here because of the opportunities and I think that the opportunities are fleeting for the Next Generation the generation of children that are here in uh in this particular Community because they'll lose it it'll it's so easy to go back you know we talked about Venezuela

21:14 yesterday we talked about inflation yesterday yes right I mean Venezuela was a top tier country when I was a young man entering the military so that's only that's 40 years ago so it's not that long ago so and now it's like you know their inflation's like two thousand percent or something I mean it's a they can't you you can't buy a a roll of toilet paper I mean it's that bad it's that bad in Venezuela it's run by a bunch of crooks what do you say to the Cuban the young Cuban Americans that are taking things such as turkey from our

21:46 politicians or chickens basically they keep them in poverty they keep them speaking Spanish and they're going out and giving them things and basically making these politicians Idols in their communities don't don't don't take you know don't take a gift that you didn't earn amen right here General Flynn