Of Brega. Garcia has landed in the United States to face justice. On May 21st, a grand jury in the Middle District of Tennessee returned a sealed indictment charging Abrego Garcia with alien smuggling and conspiracy to commit alien smuggling [00:00:18] in violation of title eight U.S.C. 1324. We want to thank President Bukele for agreeing to return Abrego Garcia to the United States. Our government presented El Salvador with an arrest warrant, and they agreed [00:00:34] to return him to our country. So over two months ago, the Trump administration admitted that it had mistakenly deported Kilmer Abrego. Garcia. Today, he has returned to the United States. And as you just heard from Attorney General Pam Bondi, [00:00:51] he is now facing charges. So here's Bondi with more on what Garcia has actually been charged with. Upon completion of his sentence, we anticipate he will be returned to his home country of El Salvador. The grand jury found that over the past nine years, Abrego [00:01:09] Garcia has played a significant role in an alien smuggling ring. They found this was his full time job, not a contractor. He was a smuggler of humans and children and women. [00:01:28] He made over 100 trips. The grand jury found smuggling people throughout our country. Ms. 13 members, violent gang terrorist organization members throughout our country. [00:01:47] Thousands of illegal aliens were smuggled. If Abrego Garcia is convicted, both crimes are punishable by up to ten years in prison. Today, ABC news reported that, according to sources familiar with the investigation. [00:02:03] The criminal investigation that led to these new charges began back in April, and it has to do with a traffic stop back in Tennessee in 2022, when Abrego Garcia was pulled over for speeding. He had eight passengers in his car. [00:02:18] So here are those details. Abrego Garcia told police they had been working construction in Missouri. According to body camera footage of the 2022 traffic stop, the Tennessee Troopers. After questioning Abrego, Garcia discussed among themselves [00:02:35] their suspicions that Abrego Garcia might be transporting people for money. Because nine people were traveling without luggage, but Abrego Garcia was not ticketed or charged. Abrego Garcia was let off with a warning. [00:02:51] This year, the Justice Department questioned the man who owned the vehicle that Abrego Garcia was driving during that traffic stop. So after being granted limited immunity, the man allegedly told investigators that he previously operated a taxi service based in Baltimore. [00:03:08] He claimed to have met Abrego Garcia around 2015, and claimed to have hired him on multiple occasions to transport undocumented migrants from Texas to various locations in the United States. When details of the Tennessee traffic stop were first publicized, [00:03:25] Abrego, Garcia's wife, said her husband sometimes transported groups of fellow construction workers between job sites. The indictment alleges that Abrego Garcia picked up the migrants in Houston, Texas, and then transported them deeper into the United States, [00:03:43] so Abrego, Garcia and six Coconspirators also allegedly collected financial payments from migrants for their movements. According to the indictment, that money was then transferred between one another. The Justice Department said, claiming it was an effort to hide their origins. [00:04:01] So even if Abrego Garcia is found to be guilty of something. It still does not justify the actions of our government in the first place, for deporting him prior to any investigation or due process or conviction. Of course, it would help with the optics as far as justifying these deportations [00:04:19] to the people who already support and want to support these deportations, to the point that they are sort of fine with flouting the Constitution and not giving these people due process. So they really want to make an example, it seems, out of Abrego Garcia to legitimize their operations to their base. But this also might feel a little bit like an intimidation tactic, as in, they [00:04:39] want Abrego Garcia to regret even coming back to this country, even while he was wrongfully deported in the first place. What do you think? Yeah, I think there's two important points here. One is why are they doing this, which is not being talked about in the press? Let me tell you why. [00:04:55] So there's some lawsuits, about this that they want to avoid, but that's relatively minor. So the big thing is the Supreme Court told them to return Abrego Garcia then, but it was not the final decision. They brought it back to the lower courts and it was working its way back up. [00:05:13] The lower courts and the lower courts were all confirming. Bring him back, bring him back. What they didn't want is for it to get back to the Supreme Court and for the Supreme Court to say no, what you're doing is obviously unconstitutional, and you must bring him back. They wanted to avoid that embarrassment and that loggerheads that would have [00:05:32] put them in with the Supreme Court, which, by the way, I'm glad they avoided that, because then that's a constitutional crisis. If they don't listen to a final Supreme Court decision. So that's what they were trying to avoid here. But what they don't want is, oh, we just bring him back because the [00:05:48] courts ordered us to, because Trump's ego is way too large for that, and his skin is way too thin for that. So he's like, he needs a face saving gesture. So. Oh, yes, we're bringing him back to trial for criminal charges. Now, one of our members, Nomadic Bloom, said something that I agree with. [00:06:07] They said I need to see proof. But if he did the crime, he should serve the time. And then in brackets in the United States. That's right. If you do a crime in the US, you should serve time. Here. You should be brought to justice. So if it was true, I would say okay. I mean, that's fair. [00:06:23] But now some caveats to that that are important. Look, in terms of the actual substance of what he did in transporting them, I don't know. And I can't make that judgment call based on what evidence we have here. I'm not saying that he's definitely innocent on that, and I'm certainly not [00:06:39] saying he's guilty on that, I don't know. So why don't we know, number one, that person that they made the deal with that said, oh yeah, he was running a taxi service inside the country for undocumented immigrants. He got offered immunity for that testimony. [00:06:54] So if you go inside a jail and you waiver on immunity for Donald Trump's purposes, somebody's going to tell you Aubrey Garcia did something wrong. So. But it could be true. Well, that's what we have court system for. So I'm curious how this trial is going to go, but I found a second piece of evidence [00:07:12] to be very compelling, guys. ABC news reporting, and I'll quote them here. The decision to pursue the indictment against Abrego Garcia led to the abrupt departure of Ben Schrader, a high ranking federal prosecutor in Tennessee. Schrader's resignation was prompted by concerns that the case was being pursued [00:07:32] for political reasons, the sources said. And Schrader's 15 years serving there and as head of the criminal division, if the head of the criminal division resigns in protests because he thinks you're doing a political prosecution of someone, that's a pretty big sign [00:07:49] that you're doing a political prosecution. Bret, what do you think? It's definitely like they're pretending they did nothing wrong. Did you listen to Pam Bondi? She told you the guy's been convicted by a grand jury? That's not what grand juries do. Grand juries don't say they found this person guilty of this. [00:08:05] Grand juries listened to the evidence and say whether we should get an indictment going. Is there enough evidence for us to proceed with the process? She just told you that a grand jury does what a grand jury does not do, and she does that because it's a. [00:08:20] And now she's pretending that everything was above board. And now we've really got the guy. No, they messed up. I. The trap here is to talk about whether Garcia did any of this. That's a trap because I don't care. That's that's the stuff that we're supposed to let [00:08:37] the the justice system do correctly. The crooks here are the Trump administration. The crooks here are the Trump administration. That just was like, oh, let's just throw people out of the country, regardless of whether we're giving them due process, something that is guaranteed [00:08:52] in the Constitution of the United States. They skipped that part. They got caught for skipping that part. Every court along the way said, you skipped that part. We caught you. And there's Pam Bondi being like, this is you guys are all making a mistake. [00:09:08] We're doing everything right, and this guy's going to jail. He's been convicted already. If I said something like this on that show, they would rightly sue me for it because he hasn't been convicted of jack squat yet. I can't say that unless we got a confession or a conviction. She just did that because she's Pam Bondi and I know they posture like that in the [00:09:26] court of law, but this is all textbook. And the last thing I'll say is reminder Pam Bondi is a crooked person. Pam Bondi was investigating the Donald Trump Organization until they gave her $25,000. The whole story itself is comically ridiculous, but the long story short is [00:09:45] after that money went into her pocket, she stopped investigating the guy and gave a litany of what would then be proven to be false statements. At worst and at best, like misstatements about actually what went down. But really, it just turned out to be a bribe. [00:10:01] So I'm going to quote Velvet Goldmine, who's a member on Twitch. If this isn't manufactured, then why didn't they say anything about these charges when they were trying to justify his deportation in the first place? So that's a good question, they claim. [00:10:16] Oh, well, we looked into him and golly gee, this crime popped up out of nowhere. And then we had to go find an informant who we were going to give immunity to and let him out of jail at some point. Right. And then so now, we're now deeply concerned about this new crime [00:10:33] we happen to coincidentally find to cover our tracks, but we're super concerned about it. Well, maybe, but I doubt it. So, look, I'm not saying again that I know how the court's going to rule [00:10:49] on the the actual case here, but the most important point is the one Brett's making, which is, this isn't about one particular person, whether they did or did not do a crime. And again, let me clarify one other thing about the crime. They're making it sound like he smuggled in these poor people into the country. [00:11:07] It was Is driving. The allegations are driving people to work. They happen to be undocumented. And so that's apparently what's like the most dangerous, horrible crime in the world. So we'll let the courts adjudicate that. And that's the point. [00:11:24] That's our constitutional republic, where courts decide that and not these bozos who are running roughshod over the Constitution and saying, who cares about due process? Let's lock up random people. Yeah, I just I hate the optics of it, and I know that their base is going to say, look, see, he was a criminal all along and there in their minds is going [00:11:43] to justify everything that happened, but it simply will not, because we know that this never should have happened in the first place. And no matter what they find in this investigation, whatever they end up finding, it's never going to make what they did in the first place. Okay. And I feel like that point needs to just be emphasized until we can't [00:12:00] say it anymore because it's there. We know how it's going to play out. Every time you ring the bell below, an angel gets its wings. Totally not true, but it does keep you updated on our live shows.