The number of illegal border crossings were already low in the 1,200 to 1,400 range per day in former President Biden's final week in office. Now the figures are even lower. Multiple sources tell our Bill Malujan Border Patrol recorded only 582 illegal crossings at the southern border on Sunday, with not a single one of the nine sectors breaking 200. And tomorrow, the president is expected to sign the first bill of his administration, the Lake and Riley bill, which aims to crack down on illegal immigration.

Freaking awesome, man. Lake and Riley bill has been passed and it's on the president's desk. And not soon enough, right? Like, can't happen soon enough. Get a load of this, ladies and gentlemen, Mexican cartels fired on U.S. Border Patrol agents in major escalation of the war on the southern border. They're now trying to kill us. They have already killed us. Several Border Patrol agents conducting surveillance and enforcement activities in Texas came under fire from suspected Mexican drug cartel operatives on Monday afternoon. This is going to get worse. Count on this getting worse. Okay. Rio Grande Valley sector Border Patrol agents exchanged gunfire with cartel members who sought to cover as reinforcements were summoned. The agents did not sustain injuries during the initial exchange of gunfire. However, the incident is still unfolding very, very deadly right now on the border. We need the military right now. You can see the footage right here from a drone of these cartels. These cartels are paramilitary forces. They are here to kill us. And well, we can't wait to talk to Senator Lee about Letters of Mark. Because again, it is the efferoundest of times and the find-outing of times, ladies and gentlemen. So it's going to be a wild and dynamic shifting landscape, all for the better. And there's one final update that I have to get to about President Trump's commentary night. Again, another thing I want to talk to the great Senator Mike Lee about. Donald Trump saying, we're going to get rid of the income tax. Is this possible? Can it happen? It must happen. Again, I am willing to take a chisel. I'm willing to take a chisel, it in my mouth, climb with my own hands, on my hands and knees to the top of Mount Rushmore, and I will carve myself, President Trump's face, into the mountainside. If Donald Trump gets rid of the IRS, gets rid of federal income tax, do you understand you're looking at levels of being back, levels of popularity unseen by mankind? Thank God Elon Musk is building a moon base because you will need to go that high for President Trump's approval rating. Here we go. Donald Trump last night saying, no, maybe it's time to just get rid of the income tax altogether. America

is going to be very rich again, and it's going to happen very quickly. It's time for the United States to return to the system that made us richer and more powerful than ever before. Do you know the United States in 1870 to 1913, all tariffs, and that was the richest period in the history of the United States, relatively speaking, in other words, relatively. And they set up the Great Tariff Commission of 1887. And this commission had one function, what to do with all the money that we took in. It was so enormous that they had no idea. It was a blue-ribbon committee. It was set up 1887. And what to do with all of the money that we had. And again, Teddy Roosevelt was a beneficiary because when McKinley was killed, he took over this vast sum of money, and he did all of those national parks and all of the other things. And I'm not knocking him, but he was given a vast amount of money. And that was all made through tariffs. We had no income tax. The income tax came in in 1913. As I said in my speech last week, instead of taxing our citizens to enrich foreign nations, we should be tariffing and taxing foreign nations to enrich our

citizens. Does that make sense? Could you imagine not supporting Trump right now? I mean, I get it, like in 2016, right? 2015, like whatever, you got psyoped by the corporate press, but could you imagine not supporting this right now? My team has also created quickly an image of me climbing Mount Rushmore in order to carve Donald Trump's face. You can even see his hair right there. You can actually see it. I'm looking at that rock right there. Okay. This is a photo of me climbing Mount Rushmore personally to carve Donald Trump's face in the mountain. You can even see it. Ladies and gentlemen, a senator who does a great Donald Trump impression. Did you know that? The great senator from the state of Utah, Mike Lee, joins the program live right now. Senator, welcome to the program. And my producer is in my ear saying, you've got to ask him to do the Trump impression. And so something I've never asked you before. Here we go. One

of the best sculptors in the entire world, Benny Johnson. Folks don't know it, but he's going to carve me into Mount Rushmore. That's the best I could do. I love the graphic, by the way. I showed you larger than life and it fed into something. When you said, I will climb up there myself and carve myself, it sounded to me like you were going to be carving Benny Johnson into Mount Rushmore, which I would also support. As long as you're doing one sculpture, Benny, you ought to do two. You deserve it.

We're a humble servant of the republic. And I'm just saying that I will happily lend my artistic services and the me and our meme services to all of this. I mean, you can put, you put a Trump in there, you can put a Pepe on the other side and we'll be set, right? And maybe it's Benny Johnson in the middle of somewhere. It may be a small one, a small, we are just thinking about it. We are humble servants of the Republic. Okay, Senator, we already went through your tweet thread about orders of Mark. We, I have to get there because I know there's so much to talk about. You're on the Judiciary Committee and you're going to be here in the Kash Patel hearings. I want to get to all of that, but I must start with this. President Trump's talking about exile, exiling our criminals. He's talking about letters of Mark. Here's the thread right here.

Talk us through it, Senator. The table is yours. Article 1, Section 8, Clause 10 gives Congress the power to issue letters of mark and reprisal. Letters of mark and reprisal are basically a hall pass issued by Congress in the name at the United States that entitles privateers, private actors, pirates, if you will, who engage in acts of piracy with impunity. from the United States, with the understanding that any loot that they bring back, the spoils, the equipment, ships, cash, gold, whatever it is that they can bring back to the United States will be distributed among the privateers and shared with the government at the end of it. This used to be a fairly common technique used by sovereign nations. We haven't used it in a long time, as far as I can tell, not since the 1800s. But it's something that, as I explained on my at-base Mike Lee account on X yesterday, it's something that we ought to consider and that we could and maybe should consider in connection with Mexican drug cartels. These are entities that have reaped a windfall of tens of billions of dollars in the last four years alone, as Joe Biden has facilitated their human and drug trafficking operation by leaving our border wide open. So they've become even richer, even more powerful, even more well entrenched within Mexico. And letters of mark might be a means by which we could bring them under control, all without the risk and the expense and the uncertainty and the cumbersomeness that goes with U.S. boots on the ground. This is something we ought to consider as we're looking at the threat posed to American national security by these Mexican drug cartels. So

in theory, somebody like Eric Prince, who has worked with the American government in very dangerous areas all around the globe, would be able to bring a team of a real slaughterhouse team there into Mexico without the ties of the diplomatic corps and the horrors of all the legal paperwork of a military operation. You'd just be able to, as the American, via the Constitution, the American Congress would be able to say, these bad guys, go get them. Yes,

yes, essentially. But understanding that Eric Prince or anybody else who decides to undertake this effort and has granted a letter of market reprisal to do it, they're not acting in the name of the United States on behalf of the United States. It's not U.S. action. They're acting with the understanding that if they can take things, like I say, gold, cash, equipment, other valuable tools that can legitimately be sold and monetized when they get back, would be entitled to share in the profits, share in the windfall that comes from that. They would be awarded half of it, and the government would keep the other half. And I suspect many of them would take us up on it. Now, I'll let Eric speak for himself, but I know that there are a number of people out there.

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