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g hypothesis. So we should all just assume it's true. Just assume it's true. And if he wants to prove it isn't, I'm open to that. All right. One of my favorite things to watch on the internet is, you know, you're all watching the Crowder, the Crowder versus the Daily Wire. You know where Daily Wire offered him a deal but in it was some clauses to say if he got canceled on social media that they w…
← Previous segment →money? But it wasn't about the money but your agent countered and asked for more money. And Crowder I think he acknowledged that his agent might have but he didn't. But he didn't. So what do you think Mike Cernovich said about that? That Crowder didn't make an offer but his agent did. It's exactly what you think. Exactly what you think.
All right. So let's talk about that border crossing. I saw an Adam Shaw tweet. He's a Fox News journalist, reporter, I'm not sure what they're called these days, correspondent maybe. And he says the border numbers for December are out. This is for one month. The number of border crossings, 251,000 encounters. That's how many encounters. We don't know how many crossings didn't get counted. That was just the number of encounters. How many do we stop? One in four? Does anybody know how many we stop? Only one in three? One in ten? I have no idea. My guess would be one in four, like with no background information to back that up.
All right. Well so that's a pretty high run rate. But again let me remind you how Trump can win both Republicans and Democrats on border issue. High ground maneuver. You say this, it's not about stopping people coming in. It's about having a system where we can let the good ones in and stop the criminals. For example. So what we need is some independent group of economists to tell us what's the right number and mix of people to let in. And let that all be public. Should be a bipartisan group. You know maybe one more Republican just because if Republicans put it together everybody gets to have one more person if they're in charge. And then make it all public like the OMB.
You know one of the most surprising things to me is that the Office of Management and Budget is actually deemed somewhat credible by both sides. Am I wrong about that? Give me a fact check on that. Is it a fact that the OMB that always scores the federal budgets, aren't they considered credible? I mean maybe not but I always thought they were because they work for both administrations. And I don't think that the people, the staffers, I don't think they're necessarily appointed, are they? Maybe just the head. The CBO or the CBO. All right whatever it is.
So do you think that there could be a credible permanent organization, and maybe it's something that's already in the government, that would tell us what is the number of immigrants and what types and from where to come in? Because I don't think the president should make that decisio
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n. Do you? Any president. I don't think the president should decide on the mix. That's way outside their strike zone. I think economists and business people should decide on the mix. You know with input from business. How many employees do you need that you can't get? And then also there should be advocates for Americans, right? So if you've got some kind of a group doing that calculation you nee…
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