Speaker 1: This is the US Report with James Moroary.
Speaker 2: Good evening and welcome to the program. Tonight. On the
Speaker 2: US Report, the Epstein files claimed their biggest scalp yet,
Speaker 2: and you won't believe who predicted it. Plus voter ID
Speaker 2: laws moved through Congress. But again, he'll never guess who's
Speaker 2: opposing them now and New York City is already running
Speaker 2: out of other people's money. Well, that's socialism for you.
Speaker 2: But first, is it too early to start talking about
Speaker 2: twenty twenty eight? Now? I know what you're gonna say.
Speaker 2: If a week is a long time in politics, then
Speaker 2: two years is an eternity. Yet when you think about it,
Speaker 2: twenty twenty eight is not that far away at all,
Speaker 2: which means we need to start thinking about who Donald
Speaker 2: Trump's successor is going to be. Who will be the
Speaker 2: heir to the Maga throne. It's an important question because
Speaker 2: once we get through the mid terms later this year,
Speaker 2: if the Democrats get Congress back, it is going to
Speaker 2: be two years of shrieking, confected outrage, law fare and
Speaker 2: impeachment trials. And whoever is going to take up the
Speaker 2: Republican mantle is going to need to be a steady
Speaker 2: pair of hands to fight through that chaos and win
Speaker 2: voters over despite all these distractions. Now, until very recently,
Speaker 2: the conventional wisdom the easy money was on JD. Vance,
Speaker 2: the vice president. But now the wind seems to be shifting.
Speaker 2: And if you ask me the front runner, the guy
Speaker 2: most likely to succeed is someone you might not have
Speaker 2: suspected if you asked this question a decade ago.
Speaker 1: I have a policy question for you, sir. Let's see
Speaker 1: the answer is that I will.
Speaker 2: Don't worry about it.
Speaker 1: Mark, I don't worry about it. Don't worry about it.
Speaker 1: Little Marco I will. Well, let's hear a big, big
Speaker 1: don't worry about it. Don't worry about it.
Speaker 2: A little Marco.
Speaker 1: You want to chow up better.
Speaker 2: Than Yes, that's right, Lil Marco, Lil Marco who's now
Speaker 2: taking the world by storm.
Speaker 3: For we in America have no interest in being polite
Speaker 3: and orderly caretakers of the West's managed decline. We do
Speaker 3: not seek to separate, but to revitalize an old friendship
Speaker 3: and renew the greatest civilization in human history.
Speaker 2: And that was a little bit of Rubio at the
Speaker 2: Munich Security Conference last week and where he delivered a
Speaker 2: speech that was so powerful it may finally put an
Speaker 2: end to that city's association with weakness and appeasement and
Speaker 2: the lights going out in Europe and instead mark the
Speaker 2: moment when a continent riven by multiple crises of security
Speaker 2: and the industrialization and mass migration finally starts to reinvigorate
Speaker 2: and reassert itself. But it's not just at Munich because Rubio,
Speaker 2: old little Marco, He's been punching above his weight for
Speaker 2: some time, dealing with crises in the Middle East, in
Speaker 2: Venezuela and delivering another stem winder at Davos, and the
Speaker 2: Boss well, he's noticed all one.
Speaker 4: Hundred votes voting for him, and at first I wasn't
Speaker 4: happy about it.
Speaker 1: I said, I don't like that.
Speaker 4: And now it turns out that the Democrats probably wish
Speaker 4: they didn't do that. And Marco has been fantastic. Marco, standout, please,
Speaker 4: you have done a great job as Secretary of State.
Speaker 4: He's going to go down as the best Secretary of stag.
Speaker 2: And just a few hours ago, Donald Trump had this
Speaker 2: to say about Rubio after the opening of the new
Speaker 2: Gaza Board of Peace.
Speaker 5: Marco does it with the velvet love, but it's a kill. Sure,
Speaker 5: the result is the same thing, it very differently. And Mark,
Speaker 5: you really did yourself proud two days ago in Munich,
Speaker 5: In fact, so proud that I almost terminated his employee
Speaker 5: because they were saying, well, I can't jump to this.
Speaker 5: I do, but I say it differently.
Speaker 2: He certainly does say it differently. Now, obviously it's too
Speaker 2: early for Trump to declare a favorite an anointed follower.
Speaker 2: But as I said, two three years is indeed a
Speaker 2: long time in politics. But let me break through a
Speaker 2: few reasons why I think Vance, for all of his
Speaker 2: great attributes, for his big brain, at all his fantastic speeches,
Speaker 2: may not be the right choice for twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 2: And again, none of this is to slight Vance, his
Speaker 2: achievements or his story. But going into twenty twenty eight, frankly,
Speaker 2: I am not sure that Vance's bad cop persona is
Speaker 2: going to be what is necessary. I mean, he's often
Speaker 2: been the one on to play the heavy, which is
Speaker 2: an important part of the job. But a president has
Speaker 2: to be more than that. That's why presidents have offsiders
Speaker 2: to drop the hammer. You see him doing it there
Speaker 2: with Vladimir Zelinsky in the Oval office, which we saw
Speaker 2: last year, so that the president himself, well, he can
Speaker 2: keep his hands clean. There's also another question too, and frankly,
Speaker 2: it's about style, and that's whether Vance is frankly too
Speaker 2: much of an online funster, leaning in too much to
Speaker 2: the fat guy memes that have become an Internet sensation
Speaker 2: for people who live a very online life, something which,
Speaker 2: by the way, I'm a little guilty of, but which
Speaker 2: maybe with Middle America doesn't connect. And finally, this is
Speaker 2: a tricky one, but he's also still got a problem
Speaker 2: with many women voters, many of whom I've spoken to,
Speaker 2: who might otherwise be inclined to support the Republican but
Speaker 2: are still annoyed about his childless cat lady comments of
Speaker 2: a persona they suggest is more online than world stage now. Rubio,
Speaker 2: on the other hand, he doesn't carry any of that baggage.
Speaker 2: He's both a true believer in not just the MAGA agenda,
Speaker 2: but also a great intellectual warrior, not just for the
Speaker 2: United States. But as I showed you before Western Civilization,
Speaker 2: he comes off as a pro and not a hothead.
Speaker 2: In other words, he's normal, which is exactly what will
Speaker 2: be needed in twenty twenty eight at a time when
Speaker 2: Americans think that the Democrat alternatives are far too left wing.
Speaker 2: So let me make this prediction. The twenty twenty twenty
Speaker 2: eight election will follow Marrow's first rule of politics, which
Speaker 2: is to say that all things being equal, the more
Speaker 2: normal candidate wins. This is why Donald Trump, who for
Speaker 2: all of his crazy persona, is actually a normal person's
Speaker 2: idea of what a rich person is. This is why
Speaker 2: he won against Hillary Clinton in twenty sixteen, someone who
Speaker 2: absolutely was not normal.
Speaker 1: It was something that you always carry with you hot sauce. Really, yeah, yeah, really,
Speaker 1: are you getting information right now?
Speaker 2: And it's why he won again in twenty twenty four,
Speaker 2: running first against Joe Biden, who could barely string a
Speaker 2: sentence together, let alone make it up a flight of steps,
Speaker 2: and then against Kamala Harris, who, well, I have a
Speaker 2: feeling we'll be talking a lot more about her soon,
Speaker 2: so I'll just keep my powder dry there. And I
Speaker 2: know you're saying, what about twenty twenty, Well, maybe my
Speaker 2: room was broken, Maybe it wasn't. There may be more
Speaker 2: on that front coming two if anything comes from a
Speaker 2: recent FBI raid on Fulton County, Georgia election offices, But
Speaker 2: put that aside. For the moment. All of this puts
Speaker 2: Mark a room in the front running for the nominee.
Speaker 2: Smart normal lord knows he's a hard worker and he
Speaker 2: can appeal to the center, to normal middle Americans without
Speaker 2: betraying MAGA conservative principles. To put it another way, Lil
Speaker 2: Marco is all grown up. Well, let's get straight into
Speaker 2: it now. Joined me now is our favorite US regular
Speaker 2: former White House Chief of Staff and senior advisor of
Speaker 2: Bondai Partners, Mick mulvaney. Mick, A lot of big news
Speaker 2: going on, and I want to start off with the
Speaker 2: story everyone is talking about Prince Andrew and his arrest,
Speaker 2: which would not have taken place, I don't think without
Speaker 2: the release of those Epstein files. But have a look
Speaker 2: at this from twenty fifteen. Even back then, Donald Trump
Speaker 2: seemed to think there was a problem here.
Speaker 6: You raised the question of Jeffrey Epstein in your remarks.
Speaker 1: Event I think he's got a problem.
Speaker 5: You think the problem will be I don't know, but
Speaker 5: that island was really assesspool.
Speaker 1: There's no question about it. Just ask Prince Andrew.
Speaker 4: He'll tell you about it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well didn't he just call it? But I'll tell
Speaker 2: you what though Nick as a great lover of the
Speaker 2: royal family that Trump is. What do you think Donald
Speaker 2: Trump is making of all of this now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, James, I think he wants to get away from
Speaker 1: this as quickly as he possibly can. There's no good
Speaker 1: that's going to come from Donald Trump from these Epstein
Speaker 1: files or from the continuous drip drip drip of the
Speaker 1: Epstein files. Like make thing a couple things perfectly clear,
Speaker 1: under no circumstances, there's anything in the Epstein file is
Speaker 1: going to shorten his term in office, and nothing in
Speaker 1: the Epstein files would ever be criminal, I don't think
Speaker 1: as pertaining to Donald Trump. If it was, the Democrats
Speaker 1: would have put out a long time ago. Keep in
Speaker 1: mind that Biden Department of Justice had these files for
Speaker 1: four years and they hated Donald Trump more than anybody
Speaker 1: in the whole world. So this is not about Donald
Speaker 1: Trump's time in office. I think it's about embarrassment to friends.
Speaker 1: That it may be that Prince Andrew, who had friends
Speaker 1: on both sides the isle in this country, was one
Speaker 1: of the people that both parties had been protecting for
Speaker 1: a very very long time, and just then it became
Speaker 1: politically impossible to do it. But look, Donald Trump wants
Speaker 1: the Epstein thing to go away. There's a lot of
Speaker 1: folks who want to go away for a variety of reasons.
Speaker 1: As I mentioned to you, I'm in the files, believe
Speaker 1: it or not. I got it there. He asked me
Speaker 1: about someone asked about my name. It popped up on
Speaker 1: a search. So there's people.
Speaker 2: This is.
Speaker 1: The longer this drags out, the more people are going
Speaker 1: to get involved, There's no question.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And gosh knows where all of the threads that
Speaker 2: start getting pulled wind up going with that. So I
Speaker 2: suspect that's a lot of Trump's reticence on that. You're right.
Speaker 2: But moving on though, I want to know what we
Speaker 2: talked a bit about last week here, and this is
Speaker 2: this ongoing push for voter integrity and the Republicans pushing
Speaker 2: this Save Act, which, as we've spoken about before, is
Speaker 2: designed to ensure that only US citizens with proper iety
Speaker 2: vote in federal elections. Now, this seems like a no brainer.
Speaker 2: It's past the House and gone to the Senate. But
Speaker 2: there's a surprising obstacle right now when Republican Mitch McConnell
Speaker 2: you see here on your screen, making Joe Biden look
Speaker 2: like John Wayne and who is now joining Democrats to
Speaker 2: stand in the way of the act, which is odd
Speaker 2: to be given that McConnell has in the past been
Speaker 2: a key spokesman for voting integrity, like all the way
Speaker 2: back in nineteen eighty seven.
Speaker 6: A lot of the election fraud that occurs in my
Speaker 6: state and I suspect in many others involves the use
Speaker 6: of absentee ballots.
Speaker 2: Mick, what has made Mitch McConnell change his tune on
Speaker 2: voter integrity?
Speaker 1: Donald Trump? His Trump Arrangement syndrome now is real, Chris,
Speaker 1: Mitch McConnell is not running free election. I'm not sure
Speaker 1: the health. You showed the video there, that's not the
Speaker 1: only video you can find of Mitch McConnell clearly limited
Speaker 1: in his abilities and so forth. But he hates Trump.
Speaker 1: He just does, and he doesn't want to give him
Speaker 1: a win. That's the only explanation I can come up with, because,
Speaker 1: as you point out, not only has he supported it
Speaker 1: in the past and for a long time, there's actually
Speaker 1: at least one Democrat, John Fetterman from Pennsylvania, who is
Speaker 1: supporting this bill. This is an eighty five or ninety
Speaker 1: percent issue with the American public, and that includes Democrats.
Speaker 1: Should you have to show an ID to vote? That's
Speaker 1: really what this act is about as base. So why
Speaker 1: Mitch McConnell is doing if this is his parting shot
Speaker 1: to Donald Trump on the way out the door of
Speaker 1: refusing to give him a victory, I don't understand it.
Speaker 1: The bill is not going to pass mostly because of
Speaker 1: Democrat obstruction. Keep in mind, even if McConnell supports it,
Speaker 1: they're still short and need Democrat votes. They're not going
Speaker 1: to get it. So you can have a longer discussion
Speaker 1: another day about why the Democrats opposed it, But why
Speaker 1: Mitch McConnell opposes it. The only reason I come back
Speaker 1: to is that he just he can't stand Donald Trump.
Speaker 2: Okay, but Mick, walk me through this with the Democrat
Speaker 2: logic here, there are some states that require ID, some
Speaker 2: states that don't. Now, for the last decade we have
Speaker 2: heard the Democrats going on about election integrity. It seems
Speaker 2: to me that by not supporting this bill, they are
Speaker 2: giving Trump and Republicans anybody who's a little bit suspicious
Speaker 2: a great avenue to question the integrity of future American elections.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but they sort of want that don't they. I
Speaker 1: mean that they're prodding Trump. They tried to make Trump
Speaker 1: out to be this fascist dictator, and they sort of
Speaker 1: want him in some ways to try to federalize elections
Speaker 1: and so forth, to send out the National Guard and say, oh, look, see,
Speaker 1: we were right about him the whole time. It's really
Speaker 1: one of those circumstances of putting your own political interests
Speaker 1: and just being right ahead of what's right for the country. Look,
Speaker 1: some of them will make arguments about how their elections
Speaker 1: are to be run by the states and not by
Speaker 1: the federal government, and I get that. I'm sympathetic to
Speaker 1: that argument. That doesn't mean there can't be some basic standards,
Speaker 1: including showing an ID. If you deep dig down deep
Speaker 1: into the Democraft Party, though, you'll find the wing of
Speaker 1: the party that wants to make sure that people who
Speaker 1: shouldn't be here still get to vote. They think that
Speaker 1: voting is a universal sort of right. It's not just
Speaker 1: for citizens, it's for anybody who's here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think that's where we start to get
Speaker 2: down to the real nub of the matter. Let's move
Speaker 2: over to the Iran question though right now, because this
Speaker 2: we keep getting action threatened here and now Donald Trump
Speaker 2: has indicated that he will make a decision on whether
Speaker 2: to attack Iran in the next ten days while these
Speaker 2: talks are underway to reach a deal on Iran's nuclear capabilities. Meanwhile,
Speaker 2: it has just broken that Keir Starmer's Belaguered Labor government
Speaker 2: is going to block the US from using bases out
Speaker 2: of the UK in any strike on Iran, saying they
Speaker 2: think it would violate international law. This has been a shade,
Speaker 2: so I think when France tried to ban Ronald Reagan
Speaker 2: from flying over France to strike Libya back in the
Speaker 2: nineteen eighties. But Nick, what are you hearing about this
Speaker 2: particularly around maybe that it's actually things like whether in
Speaker 2: the time of year and rough seas in that area,
Speaker 2: that's actually what's still laying some sort of strike.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and keep in mind France did do that to
Speaker 1: the United States Toronto Reagan in the nineteen eighties, and
Speaker 1: we were still able to bomb Tripoli despite that. And
Speaker 1: we're going to figure out if we decide we're going
Speaker 1: to do this in Iran, either the UK can go
Speaker 1: long or that they or they don't. They're not going to,
Speaker 1: but we'll still we're not counting on the UK. We're
Speaker 1: not reliant on the UK for that. It's disappointed to
Speaker 1: hear an ally does want to help us if we
Speaker 1: decide to do that. But that's that's another story. Look,
Speaker 1: I had to laugh when you put up the headline
Speaker 1: about Trump suggests that he may have an answer in
Speaker 1: ten days. In Trump world, that's not an answer. That's
Speaker 1: maybe I will maybe I won't give you a little
Speaker 1: bit of a nugget that I know makes a headline.
Speaker 1: But that doesn't mean it's tomorrow, and it doesn't mean
Speaker 1: it's six months from now. So I think they're still
Speaker 1: waiting on a couple of things. To your question about logistics,
Speaker 1: excellent question. The dark of night, the phases of the
Speaker 1: moon make a difference when you want to do these
Speaker 1: military types of operations that I understand. I think if
Speaker 1: I've got this right, the new moon was last night,
Speaker 1: so for the next fifteen days it will be getting
Speaker 1: lighter and lighter, which sort of maybe puts you in
Speaker 1: a timeline of when something might be going on. They
Speaker 1: have had the opportunity, the American military now has had
Speaker 1: the opportunity to move more assets into the Gulf that
Speaker 1: comparing it to the build up they did before a
Speaker 1: desert storm back in nineteen ninety one. So there's a
Speaker 1: significant American military presence in the area. Again, another reason
Speaker 1: we're not heavily reliant on the UK. My guess is
Speaker 1: it's an educated guest. There will be something. James eventually,
Speaker 1: as Lindsay Graham, and I don't agree with him very often.
Speaker 1: He said over the weekend, you don't move an aircraft
Speaker 1: carrier into the Mediterranean so the soldiers can get the
Speaker 1: seamen can get some sunshine. They're there to work and
Speaker 1: they're going to use this military asset at some point.
Speaker 1: But I wouldn't read too much into the maybe I
Speaker 1: give you, maybe I give you a decision in ten days.
Speaker 1: That's not a hard and fast deadline by any stretch
Speaker 1: of the imagination.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I mean just on the domestic side of that.
Speaker 2: I mean putting Lindsey Graham aside for a moment. You know,
Speaker 2: there is that sort of line that goes around Trump
Speaker 2: always chickens out. Trump has made commitments that, you know,
Speaker 2: if the Iranians keep doing what they're doing, help is
Speaker 2: on the way. He said that help is on the
Speaker 2: way for the Iranian people. Is there a risk to
Speaker 2: his credibility. If he doesn't do that, does that play
Speaker 2: into his calculus at all? You know them, man, what
Speaker 2: do you think?
Speaker 1: I think the calculus is this. They're trying to figure
Speaker 1: out if a decapitation, removing the senior leadership of the government,
Speaker 1: does that make things better or worse when it comes
Speaker 1: to American interests. In Venezuela, they were able to convince
Speaker 1: themselves and I think rightly so, that taking Maduro out
Speaker 1: of the equation would help because there was a government
Speaker 1: there to stand up once he was removed. Trast that
Speaker 1: to what you and I know happened in Iraq with
Speaker 1: Saddam Hussein and what they call the debathification of Iraq
Speaker 1: when they took out the entire governing wing of the
Speaker 1: population and there was no government left run the country afterwards.
Speaker 1: So I think they're trying to figure out is Iran
Speaker 1: more like Iraq or that more like Venezuela, and what
Speaker 1: really happens on the day after we take out the
Speaker 1: Eya toll. I think that's what's really the issue right now,
Speaker 1: is they're trying to figure out what comes next as
Speaker 1: they move down the chessboard.
Speaker 2: Yeah, look, I think that's always the thing that we
Speaker 2: like to hear that they're thinking about because so often
Speaker 2: it seems like our politicians and leaders don't think about
Speaker 2: what comes next. Mick Welvany, thank you so much for
Speaker 2: your time as always. Now, hey, let's move on to Washington,
Speaker 2: d C. Where the phrase drain the swamp has taken
Speaker 2: on a whole new meaning after a sewer pipe owned
Speaker 2: by d C Water collapsed and sent get this, a
Speaker 2: quarter billion gallons of raw sewage. That's a lot into
Speaker 2: the Potomac River. I can almost smell it from here.
Speaker 2: But it has emerged also that the chief of DC
Speaker 2: Water not only oversaw five hundred million dollars in DEI contracts,
Speaker 2: but also complained when he took his job that there
Speaker 2: were too many white men running the joint.
Speaker 7: When I arrived at DC Water, this was an organization
Speaker 7: that looked very similar to our tour our industry.
Speaker 1: It was predominantly you know, white male at the top.
Speaker 6: But this is a utility that's you know, more than
Speaker 6: seventy percent people of color work at this utility.
Speaker 2: Well, joining me now to discuss this and a lot more.
Speaker 2: As White House reporter at the Washington Examiner, Naomi Live. Naomi,
Speaker 2: this story. Part of the pund really stinks what's going
Speaker 2: on there in DC? And did the DC Water Authority
Speaker 2: spend more time doing social justice than they did maintaining
Speaker 2: the pipes.
Speaker 8: Well, if you didn't think d C was toxic before,
Speaker 8: you probably do now. So then your audience understands sort
Speaker 8: of the magnitude of this spill.
Speaker 1: I think it comes up to like three hundred.
Speaker 8: And sixty Olympic size Simming pool's worth of sewage has
Speaker 8: gone into the local river around the DC area, which
Speaker 8: you know is not a lovely prospect. And even the
Speaker 8: presidents that have weighed in on all the White House
Speaker 8: preseecretary this week sort of way, and how Trump is
Speaker 8: actually kind of nervous that we'll have to be dealing
Speaker 8: with when he wants to celebrate the big two hundred
Speaker 8: and fiftieth birthday of the country this summer or in
Speaker 8: July our time. But you know what is happening now
Speaker 8: is that there's a lot of finger pointing because obviously
Speaker 8: d C has a democratic run mayor as well as
Speaker 8: a council, and then obviously the Maryland governor wears More,
Speaker 8: who is thought of as a presidential candidate in twenty
Speaker 8: twenty eight. He's a Democrat, and so there's a lot
Speaker 8: of fingerpointing about who to blame and who is supposed
Speaker 8: to be taking responsibility of that, because you know, there's
Speaker 8: like record levels of E. Coli in the water supply
Speaker 8: here now, and you know, you probably don't want to
Speaker 8: swim in the Potomac River before him, but now you
Speaker 8: definitely don't. Trump this week sort of said that he
Speaker 8: might step in and help with the Environmental Protection Agency
Speaker 8: if the governors asked nicely. So hopefully where's more does
Speaker 8: that soon?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Wow, it's a it's a sticky situation, that's for sure. Hey, Neyilby,
Speaker 2: I want to move on to more serious metters. Although
Speaker 2: that is pretty serious matter right there, partiularly the grinding
Speaker 2: lawfare that has been waged against the Trump administration for
Speaker 2: years now, where lower courts try and block everything the
Speaker 2: administration tries to do before they eventually get their way
Speaker 2: higher up the line. And there was a fascinating admission
Speaker 2: by CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Tube in The New York
Speaker 2: Times whose Times who said those Biden judges and others
Speaker 2: appointed by democratic presidents have proved that the most effective
Speaker 2: resistance to mister Trump has come not from democratic politicians,
Speaker 2: but rather from federal judges. This really proves a point
Speaker 2: that the left is now actively trying to use a
Speaker 2: branch of government that should be independent from politics for
Speaker 2: very political means. I think this makes them look very petty.
Speaker 8: Well, whenever Jeffrey Truban is in the news, I always
Speaker 8: raise my eyebrows. But this, this is an interesting example
Speaker 8: because obviously the Federalist Society has become really influential and
Speaker 8: conservat of circles because of this way that they have
Speaker 8: really elevated judges that sort of believe in you know,
Speaker 8: originalism and textualism and really interpreting the documents that the
Speaker 8: founding fathers left us. Now, when it comes to what
Speaker 8: Tuben is saying is that you know when they are
Speaker 8: choosing judges, because Biden did has you know, passed more
Speaker 8: or appointed more judges in his term than Trump's did
Speaker 8: in his first term. And so he was sort of saying,
Speaker 8: you know, what is the secret ingredient here and the
Speaker 8: idea of you know, these voters, these judges sorry, maybe
Speaker 8: not being sort of you know, standing for something as
Speaker 8: opposed to just being against Trump. Now, the issue with
Speaker 8: that is that the opposite of originalism is sort of
Speaker 8: a living constitution and a document that you can interpret,
Speaker 8: you know, put your sort of activism into, which is
Speaker 8: something that is not very popular in some circles, but
Speaker 8: something that maybe Democrats might lean on more heavily if
Speaker 8: someone like Tuben gets his way with this sort of
Speaker 8: idea that he wants to.
Speaker 2: Amph Indeed, and you're right about Jeffrey Tuba there there's
Speaker 2: a man who certainly has lived up to his name
Speaker 2: in the past. But I want to talk also just
Speaker 2: to go back to the Dei question, which I started
Speaker 2: here before. You have written a fascinating piece in your
Speaker 2: pay for the Washington Examiner this week about Trump's second
Speaker 2: term in this anti Dei age and your research showing
Speaker 2: his approach being different this time around. When it comes
Speaker 2: to policies for black Americans. Tell us what you found.
Speaker 2: I thought this was really interesting.
Speaker 1: Well, thank you for reading. That's really nice of you.
Speaker 8: What I thought was really interesting is that so the
Speaker 8: black vote became more important for Donald Trump in this
Speaker 8: most recent election. You know, he might not have won
Speaker 8: the whole demographic, but you want enough to keep sort
Speaker 8: of Kamala Harris from becoming President, and I thought it
Speaker 8: was interesting that despite that, we haven't seen sort of
Speaker 8: this outreach or this continued outreach to Black America. What
Speaker 8: we've seen instead is this idea that Trump's policies helped
Speaker 8: all of Americans, you know, for example, his tax cuts,
Speaker 8: for example, you know, work that he's done with veterans.
Speaker 1: But it's really.
Speaker 8: Different from term one, where you know, we had Yay
Speaker 8: or you know, formerly known as Kanye West in the
Speaker 8: White House Oval Office sort of talking to Trump about
Speaker 8: criminal justice reform. I think you had Kim Kardashian really
Speaker 8: pushing for these release of sort of making you know,
Speaker 8: drug defenders that weren't violent having advocating for their release.
Speaker 8: So there was a real sort of spotlight put underneath
Speaker 8: this very sort of identity politics. But again, in this
Speaker 8: era of being anti de I, we seen the opposite.
Speaker 8: And so I'm really curious to see how that plays out,
Speaker 8: you know, before we go into the midterms, and then
Speaker 8: potentially whether this coalition that Trump is built sticks with
Speaker 8: the Republican Party going forward.
Speaker 2: Fascinating stuff. Dale William, thank you so much for joining
Speaker 2: me and everybody out there. Read her stuff at the
Speaker 2: Washington Examiner. But don't go anywhere, because after the break,
Speaker 2: I'm going to be joined by the fabulous Gerard Baker.
Speaker 2: And you know who else is fabulous? This ice office
Speaker 2: who turned the tables on a Karen who was trying
Speaker 2: to shave him for doing his job. And what is
Speaker 2: the word the kid use? He clapped back at her spectacularly.
Speaker 6: This isn't a good look for you.
Speaker 9: You think I care about my look?
Speaker 6: Oh no, no, trust me. When you guys are, he's evident
Speaker 6: by how you wick you don't care.
Speaker 2: We get that. Trust me.
Speaker 6: No, that's all I'm saying. I'm saying this trying to
Speaker 6: be a social warrior. If you actually cared, you probably
Speaker 6: would care about the child who got raped and also
Speaker 6: the person got murdered by the person that we were
Speaker 6: looking for.
Speaker 2: But see, you don't care. No, I don't care, because
Speaker 2: you guys try.
Speaker 6: You just try to detain.
Speaker 2: Who you tell her Gerard Baker and Marker Rubio's wounded
Speaker 2: moment after the break, Welcome back to the program. Well
Speaker 2: joining me now is Editor at Large at the Wall
Speaker 2: Street Journal, Gerard Baker. Gerard, thank you so much for
Speaker 2: coming on. Always thrilled to have you on, but particularly
Speaker 2: this week because at the top of the show I
Speaker 2: made a case that Marco Rubio, not jd Vance, is
Speaker 2: probably the best shot the Republicans have in twenty twenty
Speaker 2: eight to maintain both Trump's legacy while also driving forward
Speaker 2: an articulate conservative worldview that Middle America will appreciate. And
Speaker 2: I note you've also taken up a similar theme in
Speaker 2: your latest Wall Street Journal column about whether Mark Rubio
Speaker 2: can deliver what you call the substance without the spectacle.
Speaker 2: Can you explain this choice here that the Republican Party has.
Speaker 10: Well, Thanks James, thanks for having me in, Thanks very much,
Speaker 10: and if for mentioning the columny, I do agree with you. Look, look, look,
Speaker 10: this is the as I said in the column, this
Speaker 10: in some ways is the kind of the essence of
Speaker 10: the conundrum of Donald Trump, right kind of. I think
Speaker 10: it probably was necessary given where America was given, frankly,
Speaker 10: where the West was ten years ago, it was necessary
Speaker 10: to have a really disruptive figure the sort of traditional
Speaker 10: Republican Party leaders. You know, though they were good people
Speaker 10: in many ways, is they really weren't They really weren't
Speaker 10: in touch with people's views on immigration, on globalization, on trade,
Speaker 10: even on the woke stuff. I mean, many of them
Speaker 10: were just too sort of tolerant of the woke stuff.
Speaker 10: So you really didn't need to have this dramatic, disruptive
Speaker 10: outsider come in. The question is did you need with that?
Speaker 1: Did you need to have.
Speaker 10: All the other stuff that comes with Trump? And by
Speaker 10: that I mean, you know, some of the kind of
Speaker 10: slightly crazy tweets or truth socials or whatever, but also
Speaker 10: frankly some of the questionable character stuff. I mean, you
Speaker 10: know there are you know, there's a pretty there's a
Speaker 10: long list of there's a long line of a long
Speaker 10: list of examples of grift going on right now from
Speaker 10: this administration. And so I think the challenge has always
Speaker 10: been can you find someone who does what Trump does,
Speaker 10: makes the kind of impact that Trump has overturned so
Speaker 10: many of these things that have gone wrong in this
Speaker 10: country over the last twenty thirty years without bringing in
Speaker 10: some of that kind of baggage that people don't I
Speaker 10: don't I think to some extent that's an open question.
Speaker 10: Maybe you did need somebody. I give the example James
Speaker 10: of Europe. You know Trump, and that was where obviously
Speaker 10: where Rubio was. Would the Europeans really have done more
Speaker 10: in their own defense and committed to more defense spending
Speaker 10: and all of that. If Trump hadn't behaved in the
Speaker 10: way that he did, would they really have done that
Speaker 10: if they've been asked politely and nicely in the way
Speaker 10: that say Marco Rubier would do.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 10: I don't think so. So you do need an element
Speaker 10: of both. I just think right now that Rubio and
Speaker 10: the speech that he laid out in Munich and the
Speaker 10: way he kind of approaches things generally, I think he
Speaker 10: does give you that, you know, the promise of change.
Speaker 10: He you know, now he's changed himself. He didn't used
Speaker 10: to be in favor of a lot of these populous things,
Speaker 10: but I think he does. I think he gets it,
Speaker 10: and I think he promises that, but without some of
Speaker 10: the other stuff. And I think he is a more
Speaker 10: appealing candidate to your point, I think he is a
Speaker 10: more appealing candidate Jade Evance who, frankly, while he's loved
Speaker 10: by the Magabas and he says all the right things
Speaker 10: to the magabase, I'm not sure that he has the
Speaker 10: ability to reach out beyond the magabase in the way
Speaker 10: that Donald Trump or I would argue Marco Rubio can.
Speaker 2: And you know, I really think it's interesting though that
Speaker 2: this speech has made such an impact that five or
Speaker 2: six days after he gave it, we're still talking about it.
Speaker 2: People are still talking about it. And my mail is
Speaker 2: that he got well, he got this big standing ovation.
Speaker 2: And my male from Europe is that a lot of people,
Speaker 2: even though they won't say it on camera, that they
Speaker 2: agreed with what he said and some of the tough
Speaker 2: love messages that he delivered, they agree with him and
Speaker 2: say that he was right about an awful lot of
Speaker 2: these things, and actually that they get what he is
Speaker 2: trying to say about this link between the western great powers,
Speaker 2: Western Europe, the United States, Australia too for that matter.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and again I think that's that's right.
Speaker 10: And again that you know, as I said in my column,
Speaker 10: by twenty fifteen, when Trump came along, came onto the
Speaker 10: political scene, there was widespread, widespread dissatisfaction with the world,
Speaker 10: but particularly the market, you know, and it had been
Speaker 10: you know, Republican administrations after all, brought us the disaster
Speaker 10: of the Iraq War and the sort of developing disaster
Speaker 10: of Afghanistan. And really they also or to some extent,
Speaker 10: the global financial crisis, All of those things happened on
Speaker 10: Republicans watches.
Speaker 1: And on top of all of.
Speaker 10: That, as I say, the Republican Party represented this kind
Speaker 10: of slightly weird hybrid between late twentieth century neoliberal kind
Speaker 10: of absolutely straight down the line the wrong of Reagan
Speaker 10: economics and twenty first century sort of woke progressive embrace
Speaker 10: of globalism. And that was really a bad place for
Speaker 10: the Republican Party to be. Nobody back then in twenty fifteen,
Speaker 10: whether it was you know, the leaders in Congress of
Speaker 10: the Publican Party, candidates were president like Jeb Bush, frankly,
Speaker 10: candidates and president like Marco Rubia were offering the change
Speaker 10: that people wanted. Trump came along and brought that change.
Speaker 10: And you know, I think that ten years later, the
Speaker 10: Republican Party leadership now basically gets it. They don't like
Speaker 10: a lot of what Donald Trump does, and frankly, nor
Speaker 10: do I, but they get that his message was absolutely necessary,
Speaker 10: that he was the one to deliver the change that
Speaker 10: people really wanted to do. Now, it's probably in two
Speaker 10: years time, as the next election looms, it will be
Speaker 10: time to move on. And then the question is who's
Speaker 10: best place to carry that torch forward.
Speaker 2: And you know, just on that torch question too. Though,
Speaker 2: one of the things that I thought fascinating I said
Speaker 2: this before about this speech was his real, big love
Speaker 2: of Western civilization and those links. And the fascinating thing
Speaker 2: is watching how the left is reacting to this, because,
Speaker 2: as you know, the left has tried to run down
Speaker 2: this idea that there's something special about Western civilization basically
Speaker 2: as long as I've been alive. And you know, the
Speaker 2: latest cope on this, though, is this piece by Jamel
Speaker 2: Buie in the New York Times saying that the civilizational
Speaker 2: link I love this between Europe and America is fake
Speaker 2: because well, the founders of the US made an explicit
Speaker 2: break with England. But come on, Gerard, all of those
Speaker 2: guys they studied ancient Greek and Latin, and I mean
Speaker 2: they modeled the Senate on ancient Rome. Anybody who drives
Speaker 2: around Washington, DC knows how linked Washington is to this
Speaker 2: thread of Western history. This whole Western civilization idea that
Speaker 2: Ruby is pushing strikes me as very threatening to the left.
Speaker 10: One percent, James, and of course that I agree with
Speaker 10: you completely. That argument is wrong. Look, there's a strong
Speaker 10: argument that's made and it's made by serious historians that
Speaker 10: what was kind of defining and unique about the American
Speaker 10: Revolution two hundred and fifty years ago was that it
Speaker 10: was fundamentally a conservative revolution. What they were revolting against
Speaker 10: was not, of course, it was monarchical power and the
Speaker 10: excesses monarcal power. But if you go back and read
Speaker 10: all those documents, you read the federalist papers, you read
Speaker 10: all of the stuff that was written at the time,
Speaker 10: you read Tompain, they were calling for the rights that
Speaker 10: the English had had for centuries.
Speaker 1: Back to Magna Carta.
Speaker 10: They were calling for They were that their beef with
Speaker 10: the king was that the king was actually not treating
Speaker 10: them in the way that English subjects did English. The
Speaker 10: English had had had the English rights that have been achieved,
Speaker 10: and the way the English wanted to demand it to
Speaker 10: be treated from Magna Carta, through the Civil War, through
Speaker 10: the Glorious Revolution.
Speaker 2: And everything else.
Speaker 10: That's what was very much in the mind of the
Speaker 10: revolutionary They wanted to They wanted to re establish those rights. Now,
Speaker 10: of course, they wanted to do it in the context
Speaker 10: of a republic. And you're absolutely right. They drew heavily
Speaker 10: on ancient Rome and to some extent Greece. But that's
Speaker 10: those values that they were defending in the in the
Speaker 10: in the Revolutionary War, and defending in the Declaration of
Speaker 10: Independence were absolutely rooted in those traditional Western values to
Speaker 10: say English, you know, English common law, English democracy, you know,
Speaker 10: you know, Roman republicanism, Athenian democracy. Those absolutely were the
Speaker 10: animating ideals that you know, they didn't come over, they
Speaker 10: didn't they didn't have a revolution in seventeen seventy six
Speaker 10: because they wanted they wanted to change, you know, they
Speaker 10: wanted to impose some sort of revolutionary new system. They
Speaker 10: want to actually assert the rights and values that's what
Speaker 10: you know, the Preamble to the Constitution, that's what it
Speaker 10: ought that everything all those documents talk about are those
Speaker 10: inalienable rights, and those are classic Western These are Western
Speaker 10: ideas through John Locke and David Hughes and so many
Speaker 10: of the you know, the great Western philosophers that of
Speaker 10: course America was. Of course, those are the common roots
Speaker 10: between the United States and America. And I would say,
Speaker 10: obviously a country like Australia and other and other countries
Speaker 10: which have you know, have also gone their own separate way,
Speaker 10: but still cling to the values that the West actually first, really, Adambray.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, and that is why the American Revolution was a success,
Speaker 2: of the French Revolution was a disaster. But maybe that's
Speaker 2: another conversation there. Before I lecteredly go though, I did
Speaker 2: want to talk about Also, we've just had this opening
Speaker 2: meeting of the Board of Peace to rebuild Gaza. Now
Speaker 2: there's billions of dollars pledge, but apparently there's still some
Speaker 2: ramp area of Gaza that's under Hamas control. Just tell
Speaker 2: us quickly, how serious is this plan and what do
Speaker 2: you reckon can this work?
Speaker 10: Look clearly it's it's a it's a novel approach to this. Right,
Speaker 10: So we've had the war. Israel has done a very
Speaker 10: effective job of damaging, causing significant set back, decimating really
Speaker 10: Hamas's military power. You know that the standard way forward
Speaker 10: that American presidents have always sought at this point would
Speaker 10: be to say, we've got to get buy in from
Speaker 10: Arab countries. In order to get buy in from Arab countries,
Speaker 10: maybe the normalized relations with Israel, we've got to you know,
Speaker 10: we've got to go for a two state solution, so,
Speaker 10: you know, because the Arab countries will insist on a.
Speaker 1: Two state solution.
Speaker 10: I think Trump has kind of bypassed that this idea
Speaker 10: of the border pieces to say, no, we're not there's
Speaker 10: not gonna be a two state solution. What we're going
Speaker 10: to do is wan to focus on actually what's needed
Speaker 10: in Gaza and not you know, we're not going to
Speaker 10: hand over Gaza to a political authority that's then going
Speaker 10: to you know, once again trying to clear war on Israel.
Speaker 10: What we need is what what's needed there is economic
Speaker 10: is it is investment. We really need to bring that,
Speaker 10: you know, to to restore the Gaza strip and the
Speaker 10: you know, the damage that has obviously been done by
Speaker 10: the war, but also to build, you know, to create
Speaker 10: the foundations of a functioning economy. And he's managed to
Speaker 10: get buy in for that. I mean, we'll see, you know,
Speaker 10: we'll see whether these numbers actually materialize.
Speaker 1: You know, he's the US is committed to ten billion
Speaker 1: dollar itself does that.
Speaker 10: But as you saw today, there are a lot of
Speaker 10: countries there who pledged their commitment to help this process along.
Speaker 1: So I think it's been you know, it's look.
Speaker 10: It's got a long way to go. We'll see how
Speaker 10: it unfolds. But this approach of saying no, no, no,
Speaker 10: we're not that. The way forward is not some you know,
Speaker 10: elusive political solution of a two state approach. What's needed
Speaker 10: is hard cash, and we are to put some up.
Speaker 10: These other countries are prepared to put them up. That's
Speaker 10: the way forward, and that will mean a more stable Gaza,
Speaker 10: a more stable Palestine ultimately living, we hope, ultimately side
Speaker 10: by side with Israel in peace.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, the previous approach hadn't worked so well, So
Speaker 2: here we go. Drive Baker, thank you so much for
Speaker 2: your time. I was always love the chat. Now don't
Speaker 2: go away because the great Kelly Jay and Torrence joins
Speaker 2: me in above it. And guess what, speaking of money,
Speaker 2: New York City, they're already out of it. But first
Speaker 2: over at the Board of Peace meeting or speaking about
Speaker 2: a moment ago, Vice President J. D. Vett through some
Speaker 2: epic shade at Alexandria Acazio Cortes referencing her stunned Mullock
Speaker 2: performance at Munich last week. Have a look.
Speaker 7: I knew exactly what I wanted to say, but then
Speaker 7: after the President said that I was so smart and
Speaker 7: that I didn't want to repeat our congresswoman who froze
Speaker 7: for twenty seconds over in Munich. Now, I'm tempted, sir,
Speaker 7: just to freeze for twenty seconds and just stare at
Speaker 7: the cameras and maybe they'll say nice things about me,
Speaker 7: like they do about Congresswoman Cortez.
Speaker 2: Bullseye. Stick around, because the big Apple is broke and
Speaker 2: we're gonna find out all about it after the break.
Speaker 2: Welcome back to the program. Let's head over to New
Speaker 2: York City now, where I am joined by Editor at
Speaker 2: Large the New York Post, Kelly Jane Torrens. Well, Kelly,
Speaker 2: I'm glad you're still in New York, but I don't
Speaker 2: know how things are going over there, because it doesn't
Speaker 2: like things are going too well with Zoron Mom Donnie,
Speaker 2: who has started to crash out in ways so quickly.
Speaker 2: I hadn't even thought this was possible. Now he is
Speaker 2: proposing raising property taxes, raiding pension funds, all because already
Speaker 2: six weeks in they're out of money.
Speaker 11: How a look at this to balance the budget is
Speaker 11: required by law. Our preliminary budget takes the only path
Speaker 11: within our control, the second path. The options of the
Speaker 11: second path are the options of last resort in order
Speaker 11: to get to this point of closing the gap on
Speaker 11: both this fiscal year and the next fiscal year, we
Speaker 11: are forced to raid the Rainy Day Fund, the Retiree
Speaker 11: Health Benefits Trust Reserve, and to increase property taxes across
Speaker 11: these other years.
Speaker 2: So what's going on here? It sounds like he is
Speaker 2: holding a gun to the governor's head and saying, if
Speaker 2: you do not give me my millionaire's tax, I'm just
Speaker 2: gonna blow up the entire budget.
Speaker 9: That's pretty much how you can describe it, James. And
Speaker 9: it's really quite amazing to see.
Speaker 1: You're right.
Speaker 9: I mean, he's only been in office since January first,
Speaker 9: and he's already saying and he's admitted that raising property
Speaker 9: taxes will be raising taxes on lower and middle income
Speaker 9: New Yorkers because are the way our crazy property tax
Speaker 9: system works. Now, let's face it, he knew that there
Speaker 9: was a budget shortfall going in. He knew this long
Speaker 9: before he became mayor, and he knew this during the race.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 9: And his solution was, I need I need a millionaire's tax,
Speaker 9: and Governor Hulkell endorsed him.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 9: You know, I wonder if she's regretting that decision now,
Speaker 9: But she endorsed him, but she told him at the time,
Speaker 9: I'm not raising taxes. It's not going to happen. So
Speaker 9: instead of you know, pulling back on some of his
Speaker 9: huge and ridiculous promises, free buses for all, freeze the rents,
Speaker 9: free grocery stores, free you know, anti Jewish propaganda, he
Speaker 9: instead just keep going with it, and even though he
Speaker 9: can't afford it. It's incredible.
Speaker 2: Well, it's just unbelievable too though, because I mean I
Speaker 2: have watched over my lifetime the middle class get nuked
Speaker 2: out of New York City by economy, and now it
Speaker 2: seems like this whole thing about the millionaires is complete nonsense.
Speaker 2: All of this stuff is all going to wind up
Speaker 2: hitting you know, immigrant property owners, hard working class people.
Speaker 2: They're the ones who are going to suffer. It's going
Speaker 2: to be just like the nineteen seventies when the city
Speaker 2: went broke and all of the services that people you know,
Speaker 2: at that end of the spectrum relied on they all
Speaker 2: lost out.
Speaker 9: You're right, James, I mean again, our property tech system
Speaker 9: is very odd. You know, you know, a very nice,
Speaker 9: huge place in Park Slope that you know, owned by
Speaker 9: some upper class elite is taxed at a rate less
Speaker 9: than you know, a small property, saying Staten Island, where
Speaker 9: a lot of working class people are. It's insane and
Speaker 9: it's insane that he thinks he can, you know, taxi
Speaker 9: somehow taxes way out of this mess. I mean, as
Speaker 9: you noted, people have been fleeing New York, especially job creators,
Speaker 9: and it's scary for all of us. You know, the
Speaker 9: top you know, one percent of New Yorkers, they really spend,
Speaker 9: they really are deal with most.
Speaker 1: Of the taxes.
Speaker 9: Yeah, and so's propping everything up. And what's going to
Speaker 9: happen when you know, more of them leave and the
Speaker 9: rest of us are left, you know, shouldering even more
Speaker 9: of the burden.
Speaker 1: He really is just running around.
Speaker 9: Like a chicken with his head cut off. And it's
Speaker 9: it's embarrassing to see. It's it's humiliating to see. This
Speaker 9: is the supposed to be the greatest city in America
Speaker 9: and you've got a mayor who can't do basic math.
Speaker 2: Well, it's just terrifying to me too, because who would
Speaker 2: have thought that, you know, a filmmaker Nepo Baby was
Speaker 2: going to be bad at maths? Who saw that one coming.
Speaker 2: But it's also you know, this housing market. He's going
Speaker 2: to blow this up too, because he's got this new
Speaker 2: rent control board to try to, you know, make up
Speaker 2: his promise of freezing the rent. But as your newspaper reports,
Speaker 2: it's all full of hard left socialist, activist anti Israel nutters.
Speaker 2: This does not sound like a recipe for getting roofs
Speaker 2: over the heads of people who need it. Am I wrong? Here?
Speaker 9: You are not James as usual? And you know it's
Speaker 9: funny because when Mayor Mumdannie was talking about the need
Speaker 9: to freeze the rents and announcing these crazy new names
Speaker 9: to the rent guidelines Board, he even said, I'm sure
Speaker 9: that they will look at all factors tenants are facing
Speaker 9: when they decide whether rent should should be frozen or not. Well, okay,
Speaker 9: he's looking at all the things tenants are facing, and sure,
Speaker 9: I'm facing cost of living issues since he became mayor.
Speaker 9: But what about the issues that you know owners are
Speaker 9: facing again? You know some owners, there's some big landlords,
Speaker 9: huge landlords in the city s, but there's also an
Speaker 9: awful lot of small ones, you know, who just own
Speaker 9: one building. They've built their way up, and this is
Speaker 9: going to crush them if they are forced to freeze
Speaker 9: rents when every other costs that they have to pay,
Speaker 9: you know, supplies energy, everything is going up. You know,
Speaker 9: it's crazy, it's just unbelievable. But he's made it clear,
Speaker 9: you know what he's going to do. And again, as
Speaker 9: you mentioned, some of these people he's put on the
Speaker 9: board don't even have any experience dealing.
Speaker 2: With numbers alone.
Speaker 9: You know, the difficulty in figuring out you know, the
Speaker 9: costs and benefits and weighing you know, the tenants issues
Speaker 9: versus the landlord's issues and all of the things that
Speaker 9: go in to the economy that helps decide how rent
Speaker 9: should should be dealt with. And that's you know, one
Speaker 9: million rent stabilized units for New York City.
Speaker 2: And you know what's fascinating to me because this just
Speaker 2: shows how out of touch the Left is with the
Speaker 2: people that they supposedly represent. Here, let's go over to
Speaker 2: Los Angeles where late night host Jimmy Kimble is headlining
Speaker 2: a pricey fundraiser for the Democrat Congressional Campaign Committee where
Speaker 2: guests have to pay twenty five thousand US that's like
Speaker 2: forty forty five thousand Australia just to get a seat
Speaker 2: at the table. This just shows how all of these Democrats,
Speaker 2: socialist lefties, they are not for the little guy, are they?
Speaker 9: No, they're not. And it is really quite funny. You know,
Speaker 9: you have to pay twenty five k just to get
Speaker 9: in the door. And you know, California is facing you know,
Speaker 9: is where Jimmy Kimmel lives, of course, is facing a
Speaker 9: lot of economic issues, just like we are here in
Speaker 9: New York City. And it's incredible that that they're they're
Speaker 9: they're thinking about this. But and again, you know, Jimmy Kimmel,
Speaker 9: I mean, the guy's kind of washed up. His ratings
Speaker 9: have been going down. I mean, who even wants to
Speaker 9: pay twenty five thousand just to you know, be in
Speaker 9: his presence. It's it's incredible, But you know, they're they're
Speaker 9: more interested in money and trying to figure out how
Speaker 9: they can get their people in then actually listening to
Speaker 9: voters and real people and finding out what their concerns are,
Speaker 9: because I can tell you are not the concerns of
Speaker 9: the Jimmy Kimmel and the other Democratic elites.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know what, I'd probably pay twenty five grand
Speaker 2: to stay away from Jimmy Kimmel, but very quickly, very quickly,
Speaker 2: before I let you go. The other day, Barack Obama
Speaker 2: dropped in an interview that seemed to confirm that aliens,
Speaker 2: the space kind, not the border kind, are real. Now.
Speaker 2: Donald Trump was just asked about this a little while
Speaker 2: ago on Air Force One. Here's what he had to say.
Speaker 2: I think they got a lot of attention this week.
Speaker 12: Barack Obama said that aliens are real.
Speaker 1: Have you seen any evidence of non human visitors to work? Well,
Speaker 1: he gave class of right information.
Speaker 6: He's not supposed to be doing that.
Speaker 1: Aliens are real. Well, I don't know if they're real
Speaker 1: or not. I can tell you he gave class of
Speaker 1: fight information. He's not supposed to.
Speaker 4: Be doing that.
Speaker 2: I don't know. It's not quite a yes, not quite.
Speaker 2: I know, is the truth out there? What do you reckon?
Speaker 2: Real quick?
Speaker 9: That's quite you know. The statement for Trump to be saying,
Speaker 9: Donald Trump to be saying he shouldn't be giving out
Speaker 9: classified information. Everyone is always attacking.
Speaker 1: Him for that.
Speaker 9: So you know it's serious when Donald Trump is worried
Speaker 9: about classified information getting out there. So well, yep, fort
Speaker 9: you decide kind.
Speaker 2: Of thing fascinating, Kelly J. Georgane, thanks so much. I
Speaker 2: think we may have to get you a gig down
Speaker 2: here at the Daily Telegraph, to get you out of
Speaker 2: New York City. Thanks so much for your time. Now
Speaker 2: you know what's coming next, A very special Only in America
Speaker 2: where we look at just how horribly racist those voter
Speaker 2: ID laws really are. But before we hit the brake,
Speaker 2: have you ever wondered if you're the crazy one? Does
Speaker 2: this ever happen to you? Well, here's Alexandria Ocasio Cortes
Speaker 2: to sort it out.
Speaker 13: You must remember, in a time such as this, we
Speaker 13: are not the crazy ones New York City. We are
Speaker 13: not the outlandish ones New York City. They want us
Speaker 13: to think we are crazy.
Speaker 2: We are saying, well, you know the old saying, you
Speaker 2: don't have to be crazy to vote Democrat, but it
Speaker 2: sure does help Only in America. After the break, all right,
Speaker 2: welcome back to the program. And now it's time for
Speaker 2: your favorite segment, Only in America. Well, you know we've
Speaker 2: talked a lot about voter ID on this program and
Speaker 2: how the left thinks the whole idea is racist because
Speaker 2: those source of rules might be hard on minorities. So
Speaker 2: to test this theory, our pals at the Babylon b
Speaker 2: hit the streets.
Speaker 12: We're here on the seat where African Americans are being
Speaker 12: oppressed by horrific new voter laws forcing them to acquire
Speaker 12: a legal ID to vote. Excuse me, sir, you're unable
Speaker 12: to acquire an ID, are you not?
Speaker 2: Actually I just renewed my ID.
Speaker 8: It's pretty easy.
Speaker 1: Actually, there you have it.
Speaker 12: This poor black man has been disenfranchised by racist voter
Speaker 12: ID laws because he's too ignorant. I'm sorry, ignorant means stupid,
Speaker 12: too ignorant.
Speaker 1: To acquire a voter ID.
Speaker 12: Absolutely tragic.
Speaker 2: Well done. I think they just showed up what George
Speaker 2: Bush called the soft bigotry of low expectations, which, sorry,
Speaker 2: that means not having a lot of hope. Anyway, that's
Speaker 2: all the time we've got for this week. I'll see
Speaker 2: you next time and bright and early Sunday morning at
Speaker 2: nine am for outsiders. Bye bye
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