PETE: [LAUGHTER] STEVE: WE’VE HAD GREAT ROCK
MUSIC THIS MORNING "THE ROCK"
AND ROLL HALL OF FAME IS IN
CLEVELAND, OHIO WHICH IS WHERE
GERALDO RIVERA IS OUR FOX NEWS
CORRESPONDENT AT LARGE JOINING
US RIGHT NOW, LIVE NOT TOO FAR
FROM THE HALL OF FAME.
GERALDO GOOD MORNING TO YOU.
GERALDO: GOOD MORNING, STEVE,
GOOD MORNING, YOU AND I SHOULD
BE DANCING, TWO OLD DINOSAURS AT
THE ROCK HALL.
STEVE: THIS MUSIC THESE KIDS ARE
PLAYING THESE DAYS.
GERALDO: [LAUGHTER]
GERALDO: [LAUGHTER] STEVE: HOWEVER, WE’RE NOT AS OLD
AS BERNIE AND BIDEN, WHO THE
PRESIDENT REFERRED TO BOTH
OF THEM LAST NIGHT AT THE TOWN
HALL WHICH WAS IN JOE BIDEN’S
HOMETOWN OF SCRANTON.
LISTEN TO THE PRESIDENT TALKING
ABOUT WHO HE HAD IN HIS SIGHTS
UNTIL TUESDAY HAPPENED.
WATCH.
WATCH. PRESIDENT TRUMP: I WAS ALL SET
FOR BERNIE BECAUSE I THOUGHT IT
WAS GOING TO HAPPEN BUT YOU KNOW
WE GET READY FOR THINGS, RIGHT?
SO MENTALLY I’M ALL SET FOR
BERNIE, COMMUNIST I HAD
EVERYTHING DOWN.
EVERYTHING DOWN. >> [LAUGHTER]
>> [LAUGHTER] PRESIDENT TRUMP: I WAS ALL SET.
>> [APPLAUSE]
>> [APPLAUSE] PRESIDENT TRUMP: AND THEN WE
HAVE THIS CRAZY THING THAT
HAPPENED, RIGHT?
HAPPENED, RIGHT? ON TUESDAY, WHICH HE THOUGHT WAS
THURSDAY.
THURSDAY. >> [LAUGHTER]
>> [LAUGHTER] PRESIDENT TRUMP: BUT HE ALSO
SAID 150 MILLION PEOPLE WERE
KILLED WITH GUNS AND HE WAS
RUNNING FOR THE UNITED STATES
SENATE, SUPPORT ME I’M RUNNING,
THERE’S SOMETHING GOING ON THERE
, BUT I WAS ALL SET.
>> DO YOU THINK BIDEN IS
DAMAGED?
DAMAGED? DO YOU THINK HE’S DAMAGED?
PRESIDENT TRUMP: I THINK THAT
BIDEN HAS BEEN DAMAGED, YEAH.
STEVE: SO WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF
THE PRESIDENT’S ASSESSMENT OF
THE STATE OF THE RACE?
GERALDO: WHEN I THINK HE DID A
GREAT JOB.
GREAT JOB. THE PRESIDENT IS SOMEONE, YOU
KNOW, AS I’VE KNOWN HIM FOR
DECADES HE HAS ALWAYS BEEN A
GREAT COUNTER-PUNCHER.
GREAT COUNTER-PUNCHER. HE SIZES UP HIS OPPONENT WHETHER
IT’S A MINI MIKE OR WHOEVER
HE’S GOT.
HE’S GOT. STEVE: YOU’RE DOING IT.
GERALDO: [LAUGHTER]
GERALDO: [LAUGHTER] BUT THERE’S NO BETTER MORE
CUTTING POLITICIAN.
CUTTING POLITICIAN. HE SEES THE VULNERABILITY JUST
LIKE A COUNTER-PUNCHER.
IF A GUY HAS HIS GUARD UP HE
GETS UNDER THERE GETS HIM IN THE
KIDNEYS OR THE RIBS.
HE’S THAT KIND OF POLITICIAN, IT
WILL BE VICIOUS HE’S LIKE
GODZILLA WHEN HE WALKS OUT ON
STAGE.
STAGE. HE KNOWS THE WEAKNESS AND FINDS
IT, HE EXPLOITS IT.
THE TARGET OF HIS WRATH
ULTIMATELY TRIES TO
RESPOND THE WAY MARCO RUBIO DID
ABOUT THE HANDS, WELL YOU KNOW
WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT SMALL HANDS
SO FORTH, PEOPLE TRY BUT THEY
FALL FLAT WHEN OTHERS DO IT AND
HE’S BEEN A CONSTANT MASTER OF
THE INSULT, AND I THINK THAT
HE’S A VICIOUS CAMPAIGNER AND
THIS WILL BE EFFECTIVE AS WELL.
PETE: GERALDO SO PLAY IT FORWARD
FOR ME A LITTLE BIT.
LET’S SAY IT IS JOE BIDEN AND IN
THESE DEBATES WHAT DOES IT LOOK
LIKE?
LIKE? YOU SEE HOW JOE BIDEN RESPONDS
TO REPORTERS AND OTHERS IN THE
WAY HE STUMBLES THROUGH
THINGS, HOW DOES THAT PLAY OUT
WHEN IT’S ONE ON ONE?
GERALDO: LET ME JUST SAY I PUT
JOEY JACKSON --
PETE: JOEY JOHNSON.
GERALDO: WAS SPOT ON WHEN HE
SAID THAT IT’S PROBABLY UNFAIR
TO CRITICIZE JOE BIDEN’S BEING
IN FAVOR OF THE WAR IN 2003.
I KNOW THAT I WAS.
I FELL DOWN THAT SAME HOLE, AS
EVERYBODY ELSE.
EVERYBODY ELSE. I FILLED THE EVIDENCE AS
PRESENTED BY THE GEORGE W.
BUSH ADMINISTRATION.
BUSH ADMINISTRATION. I THOUGHT SADDAM HUSSEIN HAD
WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION.
I WANTED TO INVADE JUST LIKE
HILLARY CLINTON, JUST LIKE ALL
THE DEMOCRATS DID.
STEVE: EVERYBODY DID.
GERALDO: I’M NOT SO SURE,
EVERYBODY DID AT THE TIME BUT
NOW WE LOOK AT IT 19 YEARS LATER
OR 17 YEARS LATER IN THE CASE
OF IRAQ AND WE’RE HORRIFIED BY
OUR DECISIONS BACK THEN, BUT
THAT SETS THE WAY.
PETE: TO YOUR POINT, GERALDO HIS
RESPONSE WAS TO SAY WELL MY SON
DIED, AND HE DIDN’T DIE IN IRAQ.
EASILY COULD HAVE SAID I RESPECT
YOUR SERVICE MY SON SERVED THERE
AS WELL.
AS WELL. THERE’S AN EASY WAY SMART WAY
POLITICALLY TO HANDLE IT BUT IT
DOESN’T SEEM JOE BIDEN HAS THAT
SPEED.
SPEED. GERALDO: I’M NOT WILLING TO
CRITICIZE HIM FOR THAT.
I THINK HE SUFFERED ENOUGH AND
ONE OF THE MOST APPEALING
ASPECTS OF JOE BIDEN IS THE FACT
THAT HIS FAMILY HAS ENDURED SO
MUCH AND HE HAS WEATHERED THE
STORM AND HE’S EMERGED WITH
HIS DIGNITY IN FACT, AND YOU
KNOW I’M WILLING TO FIGHT HIM
THE OTHER STUFF, YOU KNOW, SUPER
THURSDAY, OR I’M RUNNING FOR
THE SENATE OR THOSE KINDS
OF IF THOSE KINDS OF THINGS
INDICATE A DEEPER, YOU KNOW,
INTELLECTUAL OR EMOTIONAL THING
GOING ON THEN THAT’S FAIR GAME
BUT LET’S LEAVE THE FAMILY OUT
OF IT.
OF IT. HIS FAMILY HAS SUFFERED ENOUGH.
JEDEDIAH: GERALDO LET’S TALK
ABOUT SENATOR SCHUMER.
LET’S TAKE A LISTEN.
>> I WANT TO TELL YOU, GORSUCH,
I WANT TO TELL YOU KAVANAUGH,
YOU HAVE RELEASED THE WHIRLWIND
AND YOU WILL PAY
THE PRICE.
THE PRICE. >> [APPLAUSE]
>> [APPLAUSE] JEDEDIAH: NOW, GERALDO HE’S COME
OUT AND DEFENDED THESE COMMENTS
AND ONE OF THE THINGS HE’S
SAYING IS OH, I’M FROM BROOKLYN.
GUESS WHAT I’M FROM BROOKLYN AND
I DON’T CONDONE THAT LANGUAGE.
THAT WAS AN OUT RIGHT THREAT WAS
IT NOT?
IT NOT? GERALDO: I’M A BROOKLYN LAW
SCHOOL GRADUATE, AND WHAT
SCHUMER DID THERE, SENATOR
SCHUMER DID THERE WAS THUGGISH
BEHAVIOR.
BEHAVIOR. I AM APPALLED BY HIS BOLD-FACE
ATTACK ON SPECIFIC SUPREME COURT
JUSTICES.
JUSTICES. ABORTION RIGHTS IS AN EMOTIONAL
TOPIC.
TOPIC. IT IS ONE OF THOSE THINGS, YOU
KNOW, EVEN MORE EMOTIONAL THAN
WAR AND PEACE, THERE’S NOTHING
MORE PERSONAL THAN HOW YOU FEEL
ABOUT CHOICE VERSUS THE UNBORN,
THE RIGHTS OF THE UNBORN AND SO
FORTH BUT TO MAKE THAT KIND OF,
THAT THREAT, THAT OBVIOUS
BLATANT ATTACK ON SPECIFIC
SUPREME COURT JUDGES, COME ON
WHERE DO YOU STOP?
YOU’RE GOING TO GIVE OUT THEIR
ADDRESSES NEXT?
ADDRESSES NEXT? YOU GOING TO ATTACK THEIR FAMILY
AND BECOME ANTIFA, SENATOR
SCHUMER?
SCHUMER? THIS IS APPALLING AND IT’S
ALMOST LIKE I THINK I’VE KNOWN
HIM FOR A LONG TIME AS WELL.
IT’S ALMOST LIKE HE’S JEALOUS
THAT NANCY PELOSI GOT ALL THE
PUBLICITY DURING IMPEACHMENT
AND THE SENATE AND HIS MINORITY
STATUS WAS LEFT OUT AND HE
PLAYED SECOND BANANA AND NOW
HE’S TRYING TO CATCH UP.
I’M GOING TO BE TOUGHER THAN
PELOSI.
PELOSI. IT’S JUST REALLY DISTASTEFUL,
YOU KNOW, TO DO IT ON THE STEPS
OF THE SUPREME COURT IS AN
ATTACK ON THE SEPARATION OF
POWERS THAT ARE SANCTIONED AND
THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED
STATES AND SHAME ON CHUCK
SCHUMER FOR THAT APPALLING LACK
OF GOOD MANNER.
STEVE: WELL YOU KNOW, HE SAID
YESTERDAY, HE MISSPOKE, BUT HE
DID NOT APOLOGIZE AND THIS , IN
THE WAKE OF HIS SPOKESPERSON,
SAYING OH, YOU KNOW, THE RIGHT
WING IS TAKING THIS THE WRONG
WAY.
WAY. THEY ARE READING WHAT THEY WANT
TO INTO IT.
HE WAS CLEARLY TALKING ABOUT
REPUBLICAN SENATORS.
REPUBLICAN SENATORS. THAT’S A LOAD OF YOU KNOW WHAT.
I MEAN HE WAS NOT TALKING ABOUT
U.S. SENATORS
U.S. SENATORS HE WAS POINTING TO THE SUPREME
COURT AND HE NAMED THEM.
GERALDO: HIS WORDS DON’T LIE,
STEVE.
STEVE. YOU HEARD WHAT HE SAID.
EVERYBODY HEARD WHAT HE SAID AND
WHEN THESE POLITICIANS USE THESE
LAME EX CLAUSES TO RETROACTIVELY
REPAIR SOMETHING THEY KNOW
RATHER THAN STRAIGHT OUT
APOLOGIZE, RATHER THAN SAYING
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, THIS IS AN
EMOTIONAL ISSUE I AM VERY
VERY SORRY I DID WHAT I DID
I APOLOGIZE TO JUSTICE GORSUCH,
I APOLOGIZE TO JUSTICE KAVANAUGH
, IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN
AGAIN, I UNDERSTAND THE SUPREME
COURT IS OFF LIMITS.
THERE’S A LEGISLATIVE BRANCH AND
EXECUTIVE AND JUDICIAL BRANCH
AND THE CONSTITUTION MADE THEM
INDEPENDENT.
INDEPENDENT. THEY HAVE AND JUSTICE ROBERTS
WAS ABSOLUTELY RIGHT THE CHIEF
JUDGE TO CRITICIZE HIM AND SAY
HEY LISTEN.
HEY LISTEN. YOU COME THIS WAY, WE’RE GOING
TO BURN YOU AND WE’RE GOING TO
HAVE A LOT OF FRIENDS WHEN WE DO
IT.
IT. PETE: GERALDO WE’LL SWITCH GEARS
A LITTLE BIT TO IMMIGRATION.
GERALDO: OH, OUR FAVORITE TOPIC,
PETE.
PETE. PETE: EVEN THOUGH WE DON’T AGREE
BUT WE WANT YOUR TAKE ON A
RECENT DEVELOPMENT A RULING BY
THE SECOND CIRCUIT REGARDING
SANCTUARY CITIES.
SANCTUARY CITIES. THE PRESIDENT TWEETED AS PER
RECENT FEDERAL COURT RULING THE
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT WILL BE
WITHHOLDING FUNDS FROM
SANCTUARY CITIES.
SANCTUARY CITIES. THEY SHOULD CHANGE THEIR STATUS
AND GO NON-ACTUARY.
DO NOT PROTECT CRIMINALS.
GERALDO MAYBE WE CAN AGREE.
FEDERAL DOLLARS SHOULDN’T GO TO
CITIES THAT WON’T COOPERATE WITH
FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT TO
ENFORCE ILLEGAL.
ENFORCE ILLEGAL. CAN WE NOT AGREE ON THAT?
GERALDO: WE DISAGREE IN THE SAME
WAY THAT THE VARIOUS CIRCUITS,
THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS
DISAGREE.
DISAGREE. THE SECOND CIRCUIT WHICH IS THE
CIRCUIT IN WHICH I WAS
ADMITTED TO THE FEDERAL BAR, THE
SECOND CIRCUIT BASED IN
MANHATTAN, SURPRISINGLY, HAS
SIDED WITH THE TRUMP
ADMINITRATION AND SAID THE
SECOND CIRCUIT HAS NO POWER
TO STOP THE ADMINISTRATION FROM
WITHHOLDING THE FUNDS YOU
DESCRIBED, MAJOR, FORMATION
ENFORCEMENT OR FOR LAW
ENFORCEMENT UNDER THE EDWARD
BURN PROGRAM THAT’S THE PROGRAM
WITH WHICH THE FEDERAL
GOVERNMENT AWARDS STATE AND
LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT SOME
FEDERAL DOLLARS TO DO THEIR JOB.
STEVE: AT THEIR DISCRETION.
GERALDO: AT THEIR DISCRETION.
THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT NOW HAS
THE ABSOLUTE POWER TO GIVE OR
NOT GIVE AND IF THE PRESIDENT
WANTS TO NOT GIVE TO SANCTUARY
CITIES, THE SECOND CIRCUIT HAS
NOW SAID HE’S JUSTIFIED IN DOING
THAT; HOWEVER, THERE ARE
CONTRARY RULINGS IN OTHER
CIRCUITS SO THERE’S NO DOUBT,
PETE, BUT THAT THE CIRCUITS WILL
HAVE TO BRING THIS CASE, THIS
CASE WILL HAVE TO BE ARGUED
BEFORE THE UNITED STATES.
PETE: BUT THE IDEA THAT WHY
CAN’T THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
WITHHOLD MONEY FROM PLACES THAT
ARE PUTTING FEDERAL AGENTS AT
RISK, WHEN YOU DON’T HONOR AN
I.C.E. DETAINER SOMEONE HAS
TO TRACK SOMEBODY DOWN OFTEN A
CRIMINAL.
CRIMINAL. THAT PUTS FEDERAL AGENTS AT RISK
, WHY NOT WITHHOLD THAT
MONEY?
MONEY? GERALDO: WELL, YOU KNOW, THAT’S
A POLITICAL DECISION THAT I
HAPPEN TO OPPOSE.
YOU ARE IN FAVOR OF IT.
THE SUPREME COURT HAS TO RULE ON
THE LEGALITY OF IT ULTIMATELY
BUT ON THE ISSUE ITSELF, I KNOW
BECAUSE I KNOW I.C.E. AGENTS AND
I KNOW PEOPLE IN BORDER PATROL
AND PEOPLE IN HOMELAND SECURITY
AND HOMELAND SECURITY
INVESTIGATIONS THE ELITE
INVESTIGATORS WHO DO LIKE THE
CARTEL INVESTIGATIONS TAKE
DOWN THE BIG GUYS, THEY NOW HAVE
BEEN DRAFTED INTO THIS EFFORT TO
FLOOD THE SANCTUARY CITIES AND
ARREST AS MANY UNDOCUMENTED
IMMIGRANTS AS THEY POSSIBLY CAN.
I OPPOSE THAT.
PETE: BECAUSE THEY WON’T
COOPERATE.
COOPERATE. JEDEDIAH: WHAT OPTION DO THEY
HAVE?
HAVE? STEVE: THEY ARE CRIMINALS,
GERALDO.
GERALDO. GERALDO: I GET IT.
I GET IT.
I GET IT. STEVE LOOK AT THIS CASE.
I’M AN IMMIGRANT WOMAN AND MY
IMMIGRANT HUSBAND BEATS THE HELL
OUT OF ME.
I’M NEAR DEATH.
SHOULD I CALL THE COPS?
NO I CAN’T CALL THE COPS BECAUSE
I CALL THE COPS AND THE
IMMIGRATION AUTHORITIES WILL
DEPORT ME.
DEPORT ME. THAT’S WHY MAYORS SAY THAT WE
WON’T COOPERATE WITH IMMIGRATION
, BECAUSE WE WANT LAW
ENFORCEMENT, WE WANT THOSE
VICTIMS TO BE ABLE TO GO
TO LELAND VITTERT, THERE’S
1 MILLION UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANT
S WITHIN 50 MILES OF
WHERE YOU GUYS ARE SITTING RIGHT
NOW, 1 MILLION OF THEM.
THEY HAVE LINES AND BUSINESSES.
PETE: WE’RE NOT GOING TO AGREE.
STEVE: ULTIMATELY IT IS THE
CRIMINAL ALIENS THAT THE
I.C.E. AGENTS.
I.C.E. AGENTS. PETE: AND YOU KNOW THAT.
BUT THAT’S NOT WHAT WE’RE
TALKING ABOUT HERE.
GERALDO: WELL LET’S AGREE ON
THAT.
THAT. WE WANT THE BAD ACTORS WE WANT
THE CARTEL PEOPLE, WE WANT THE
GANGSTERS AND THE BUMS WE
WANT TO GET THEM OUT.
YOU HAVE JOE AND JOSE AND MARIA,
I MEAN, SOME PEOPLE DO.
PETE: ILLEGAL IS ILLEGAL.
GERALDO: I KNOW THAT I’M A
MINORITY OF THE PEOPLE WATCHING
ME, RIGHT NOW, AND I BLESS YOU
FOR BEING TOLERANT OF MY DIVERG
ING VIEW BECAUSE I HAVE
BEEN UNSWERVING IN THIS VIEW
SINCE I BECAME A FOX NEWS
CORRESPONDENT 20 YEARS AGO WHEN
YOU GUYS WERE LIKE 16.
STEVE: BUT WE STILL HAVE YOU ON
BECAUSE WE LOVE TO GET GERALDO.