1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:03,760 Speaker 1: Welcome to today's podcast sponsored by Hillsdale College, All Things 2 00:00:03,800 --> 00:00:06,440 Speaker 1: hillsdalet Hillsdale dot ed or. I encourage you to take 3 00:00:06,480 --> 00:00:08,920 Speaker 1: advantage of the many free online courses there, and of 4 00:00:08,920 --> 00:00:11,280 Speaker 1: course I'll listen to the Hillsdale Dialogue all of them 5 00:00:11,280 --> 00:00:14,560 Speaker 1: at hugh for Hillsdale dot com or just Google, Apple 6 00:00:14,920 --> 00:00:19,279 Speaker 1: iTunes and Hillsdale Born in Gloria and Emangrace America. I'm 7 00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:23,000 Speaker 1: to hewittt. Earlier today, the House of Representatives passed the 8 00:00:23,239 --> 00:00:27,480 Speaker 1: Senate approved Mini Buss, five appropriations bills and a two 9 00:00:27,520 --> 00:00:31,120 Speaker 1: week extension of the Department of Homeland Security funding. So 10 00:00:31,160 --> 00:00:33,280 Speaker 1: the government has reopened. I'm going to talk about that 11 00:00:33,560 --> 00:00:36,440 Speaker 1: and a few other things. Was Texas Senator John Cornyan 12 00:00:36,520 --> 00:00:39,080 Speaker 1: to start this hour. Senator, good to see you again, 13 00:00:39,240 --> 00:00:42,159 Speaker 1: and I hope you're not as cold as DC looks. 14 00:00:42,360 --> 00:00:45,400 Speaker 1: I'm glad the government's reopened. Can I begin, though, in 15 00:00:45,440 --> 00:00:48,559 Speaker 1: the lone Star state, sir, with what happened over the 16 00:00:48,560 --> 00:00:52,199 Speaker 1: weekend in the United States Senate district or A district 17 00:00:52,240 --> 00:00:55,680 Speaker 1: that went by seventeen points for Donald Trump got won 18 00:00:55,760 --> 00:00:59,120 Speaker 1: by a Democrat by fourteen points. What's that all about, Senator? 19 00:01:00,760 --> 00:01:03,320 Speaker 2: Well, we're all scratching our heads and trying to learn 20 00:01:03,560 --> 00:01:06,080 Speaker 2: the lessons that the public is trying to teach us. 21 00:01:06,120 --> 00:01:09,560 Speaker 2: But to start with, only about fifteen percent of registered 22 00:01:09,640 --> 00:01:16,120 Speaker 2: voters participated. Special elections are notorious for unpredicted, unpredictable results 23 00:01:16,160 --> 00:01:20,920 Speaker 2: because a small minority of voters have a disproportionate impact. Fortunately, 24 00:01:20,959 --> 00:01:24,360 Speaker 2: we'll have another shot at this in November. But I 25 00:01:24,360 --> 00:01:27,720 Speaker 2: think what it also says is that candidate quality matters, 26 00:01:28,040 --> 00:01:31,039 Speaker 2: and we can't take things for granted, even in deep 27 00:01:31,120 --> 00:01:35,560 Speaker 2: red Texas and so as you know, that's why I'm 28 00:01:35,600 --> 00:01:37,959 Speaker 2: concerned about this coming November. 29 00:01:38,319 --> 00:01:41,800 Speaker 1: Yeah, yesterday on the commentary podcast editor, I'm not a 30 00:01:41,800 --> 00:01:44,600 Speaker 1: member of that, but they were talking about you and 31 00:01:44,680 --> 00:01:49,000 Speaker 1: Attorney General Pakistan and the congressmen. They think it's nuts, 32 00:01:49,040 --> 00:01:51,440 Speaker 1: just like I think it's nuts that you've got a primary, 33 00:01:51,720 --> 00:01:54,040 Speaker 1: because I think you got a layup in November. Now 34 00:01:54,040 --> 00:01:55,800 Speaker 1: you might have to have you might have to use 35 00:01:55,840 --> 00:01:57,440 Speaker 1: your shoulder a little bit on that layup, but you 36 00:01:57,520 --> 00:02:00,120 Speaker 1: still got a lap. And none of us think that 37 00:02:00,200 --> 00:02:03,120 Speaker 1: the Attorney General can win. Is that sort of dawning 38 00:02:03,160 --> 00:02:03,680 Speaker 1: on people? 39 00:02:05,880 --> 00:02:10,480 Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, the most recent polling shows that James Taller Rico, 40 00:02:10,639 --> 00:02:14,440 Speaker 2: who seems to be leading in the Democratic primary, would 41 00:02:14,440 --> 00:02:17,600 Speaker 2: be tied as of today with the Attorney General if 42 00:02:17,639 --> 00:02:22,520 Speaker 2: he were the nominee. Of course, that's before he's carpet 43 00:02:22,560 --> 00:02:25,080 Speaker 2: bombed the Attorney General, if he were the nominee, with 44 00:02:25,120 --> 00:02:28,600 Speaker 2: all the negative baggage that he's been carrying, the scandals 45 00:02:28,600 --> 00:02:31,760 Speaker 2: that he's been at the center of for a long 46 00:02:31,800 --> 00:02:36,000 Speaker 2: time now. So I think two things could happen. One 47 00:02:36,080 --> 00:02:37,639 Speaker 2: is he could lose, and the. 48 00:02:37,639 --> 00:02:39,840 Speaker 3: Second it would be, even if he could win. 49 00:02:40,040 --> 00:02:42,880 Speaker 2: By the skin of his teeth, it would cost hundreds 50 00:02:42,919 --> 00:02:45,560 Speaker 2: of millions of dollars that we could use to spit 51 00:02:45,680 --> 00:02:49,400 Speaker 2: to pick up Senate seats in Georgia, in Michigan, in 52 00:02:49,400 --> 00:02:52,720 Speaker 2: New Hampshire, and save our Senate seat in North Carolina, 53 00:02:52,760 --> 00:02:55,399 Speaker 2: which will be a very expensive seat. So I think 54 00:02:55,480 --> 00:02:59,720 Speaker 2: that's what I would call the business case for my candidacy. 55 00:03:00,400 --> 00:03:01,600 Speaker 3: It's a lot bigger than just me. 56 00:03:01,919 --> 00:03:04,440 Speaker 1: The business case for your dandency is you're one hundred 57 00:03:04,480 --> 00:03:07,200 Speaker 1: percent with President Trump, you're one hundred percent with the Republicans, 58 00:03:07,240 --> 00:03:09,359 Speaker 1: and you've been there a while and you've got seniority. 59 00:03:09,600 --> 00:03:11,880 Speaker 1: The business cases, it makes sense for Texas, and that's 60 00:03:11,880 --> 00:03:14,080 Speaker 1: why I've endorsed you and everybody else with sort of 61 00:03:14,080 --> 00:03:16,760 Speaker 1: common sense, as John Corny should win. But can we 62 00:03:16,880 --> 00:03:20,320 Speaker 1: run through the dates so that this audience at least 63 00:03:20,360 --> 00:03:22,680 Speaker 1: knows to turn out and vote on the right dates. 64 00:03:22,720 --> 00:03:24,280 Speaker 1: There's going to be a primary, then there's going to 65 00:03:24,320 --> 00:03:25,880 Speaker 1: be a runoff. When are both of those? 66 00:03:27,480 --> 00:03:30,720 Speaker 2: I'm glad you asked. So the primary is March the third. 67 00:03:30,800 --> 00:03:34,560 Speaker 2: It's the earliest primary in the country, and it's important. 68 00:03:34,680 --> 00:03:36,760 Speaker 2: Like I said, with a special election, it shows what 69 00:03:36,840 --> 00:03:40,680 Speaker 2: a small turnout can do in terms of unexpected results. 70 00:03:40,960 --> 00:03:41,680 Speaker 3: Early voting. 71 00:03:41,840 --> 00:03:44,480 Speaker 2: We have a very generous early voting period that starts 72 00:03:44,640 --> 00:03:48,480 Speaker 2: February of the seventeenth, so February the seventeenth. 73 00:03:48,160 --> 00:03:49,800 Speaker 3: With the primary on March the third. 74 00:03:50,280 --> 00:03:52,880 Speaker 2: If nobody gets the majority, which is likely to happen 75 00:03:52,960 --> 00:03:56,280 Speaker 2: with three candidates in the race, the runoff is in May, 76 00:03:56,720 --> 00:03:59,760 Speaker 2: ten weeks later, May the twenty sixth, and that's even 77 00:04:00,160 --> 00:04:02,160 Speaker 2: probably with a smaller turnout. 78 00:04:02,240 --> 00:04:04,480 Speaker 3: So we're encouraging everybody we. 79 00:04:04,480 --> 00:04:08,880 Speaker 2: Can to vote, and I hope all your listeners will. 80 00:04:08,480 --> 00:04:11,920 Speaker 3: Join us in voting on March third. If not before, well. 81 00:04:11,800 --> 00:04:13,360 Speaker 1: We're all over to Texas and we want to make 82 00:04:13,360 --> 00:04:15,400 Speaker 1: sure they turn out. I also will send you to 83 00:04:16,080 --> 00:04:18,920 Speaker 1: Senator Cornyan's campaign website. I don't think he can say 84 00:04:18,920 --> 00:04:20,800 Speaker 1: it unless he's out of the Senate. But it's John 85 00:04:20,839 --> 00:04:22,800 Speaker 1: Cornyan dot com. I can tell you where it is, 86 00:04:22,920 --> 00:04:26,159 Speaker 1: Johncornan dot com. Now, Senator, tell me a little bit 87 00:04:26,200 --> 00:04:30,640 Speaker 1: about this Safe Act. That's the Safeguard America's Voter Eligibility Act, 88 00:04:31,080 --> 00:04:34,400 Speaker 1: And it became a subject to controversy on the House 89 00:04:34,400 --> 00:04:37,360 Speaker 1: FLOORI today, and I don't know why. Can you explain 90 00:04:37,400 --> 00:04:37,960 Speaker 1: what's going on? 91 00:04:39,680 --> 00:04:39,880 Speaker 3: Well? 92 00:04:39,920 --> 00:04:43,039 Speaker 2: I don't understand why it's controversial either, because for a 93 00:04:43,080 --> 00:04:47,920 Speaker 2: long time there's been a bipartisan consensus that voter ID 94 00:04:49,880 --> 00:04:52,760 Speaker 2: is a legitimate tool to use to protect the integrity 95 00:04:52,760 --> 00:04:55,839 Speaker 2: of the ballot, to make sure that only qualified voters 96 00:04:55,839 --> 00:05:00,320 Speaker 2: can vote. So the SAVE Act is a design to 97 00:05:00,320 --> 00:05:03,760 Speaker 2: basically put that into federal law. Now, there's some folks 98 00:05:04,400 --> 00:05:07,680 Speaker 2: who believe that the federal government doesn't have any roles, 99 00:05:07,680 --> 00:05:11,880 Speaker 2: shouldn't have any role in state run elections. I believe 100 00:05:11,960 --> 00:05:14,120 Speaker 2: the states should run elections, but I think at a 101 00:05:14,240 --> 00:05:17,359 Speaker 2: very basic minimum, it's not too much to ask that 102 00:05:17,440 --> 00:05:21,880 Speaker 2: everybody be an American citizen and have a voter ID. 103 00:05:22,320 --> 00:05:24,840 Speaker 2: But I think the debate in the House was whether 104 00:05:24,880 --> 00:05:29,080 Speaker 2: they ought to attach it to this temporary appropriations package, 105 00:05:29,440 --> 00:05:33,520 Speaker 2: and Senator Thune, at my urging and others, I believe 106 00:05:33,560 --> 00:05:35,520 Speaker 2: we'll put that on the floor here in the. 107 00:05:35,440 --> 00:05:38,120 Speaker 3: Senate soon, and so we'll have a shot at it. 108 00:05:38,160 --> 00:05:40,400 Speaker 1: Then, all right, now I want to switch over to 109 00:05:40,440 --> 00:05:42,760 Speaker 1: the Department of Homeland Security, which is on a two 110 00:05:42,800 --> 00:05:45,200 Speaker 1: week ticker. Then it runs out of money, except it 111 00:05:45,200 --> 00:05:47,760 Speaker 1: doesn't run out of money. Sentator Cotton told us yesterday 112 00:05:48,279 --> 00:05:50,960 Speaker 1: that in the one Big Beautiful Bill last year, you 113 00:05:50,960 --> 00:05:52,920 Speaker 1: gave him a big dollar of money. So ICE is 114 00:05:53,000 --> 00:05:56,000 Speaker 1: not going anywhere. So once again the Democrats have walked 115 00:05:56,040 --> 00:05:59,240 Speaker 1: themselves into a corner. And I'm wondering, is there any 116 00:05:59,320 --> 00:06:03,040 Speaker 1: part of the caucus that wants to use this as 117 00:06:03,040 --> 00:06:07,800 Speaker 1: an occasion for some votes on things like the dreamers. 118 00:06:07,920 --> 00:06:11,080 Speaker 1: Make sure the dreamers get in, but meanwhile keep administrative 119 00:06:11,080 --> 00:06:16,039 Speaker 1: warrants for deportation. What is the conversation around the DHS bill. 120 00:06:16,080 --> 00:06:18,400 Speaker 1: It's the last appropriations bill. Are we going to turn 121 00:06:18,400 --> 00:06:19,839 Speaker 1: it into a circus or are there going to be 122 00:06:20,160 --> 00:06:21,360 Speaker 1: serious legislating here? 123 00:06:23,080 --> 00:06:26,320 Speaker 2: Well? This is really this is more performance are like 124 00:06:26,400 --> 00:06:29,640 Speaker 2: you pointed out in the Working Family Tax Cuts Act, 125 00:06:29,760 --> 00:06:33,919 Speaker 2: Work Big beautiful bill. We funded the Department full Land Security, 126 00:06:33,960 --> 00:06:37,120 Speaker 2: Border Security, the border wall, and so this is not 127 00:06:37,240 --> 00:06:40,880 Speaker 2: about whether ICE is going to be funded. It is 128 00:06:40,960 --> 00:06:44,240 Speaker 2: going to be about whether FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management 129 00:06:44,279 --> 00:06:48,640 Speaker 2: Agency TSA, the Transportation Security Agency, whether they will be 130 00:06:48,720 --> 00:06:51,640 Speaker 2: funded or whether we'll have to go to a continuing 131 00:06:51,720 --> 00:06:55,200 Speaker 2: resolution through the end of the year. We have come 132 00:06:55,240 --> 00:06:59,719 Speaker 2: a long way to actually pass almost all the appropriations 133 00:06:59,720 --> 00:07:02,279 Speaker 2: bill this year with this hiccup. But of course the 134 00:07:02,320 --> 00:07:06,480 Speaker 2: Democrats couldn't refuse to take advantage of any opportunity to 135 00:07:06,560 --> 00:07:10,600 Speaker 2: try to try to put on a show over ICE 136 00:07:10,880 --> 00:07:17,040 Speaker 2: and what's been happening in Minnesota and Minneapolis tragic outcome. 137 00:07:17,120 --> 00:07:20,880 Speaker 2: But there's two lessons to learn. One is sanctuary cities 138 00:07:20,880 --> 00:07:24,440 Speaker 2: are bad. Sanctuary states are bad because this transfer could 139 00:07:24,480 --> 00:07:28,560 Speaker 2: incur out of public view in the county and local jails. 140 00:07:29,040 --> 00:07:32,400 Speaker 2: And secondly that it's a big mistake to interfere with 141 00:07:32,480 --> 00:07:36,040 Speaker 2: the federal law enforcement operation because bad things can happen 142 00:07:36,200 --> 00:07:38,800 Speaker 2: if including by accident CENTA. 143 00:07:39,040 --> 00:07:42,480 Speaker 1: I've written at length today for Fox News that a 144 00:07:42,560 --> 00:07:44,600 Speaker 1: deal o lot to be presented at Democrats in this 145 00:07:44,680 --> 00:07:49,120 Speaker 1: two week window, which is we'll get the Dreamers done well, 146 00:07:49,240 --> 00:07:52,960 Speaker 1: we'll give regularization, not citizenship. They don't ever get the vote, 147 00:07:52,960 --> 00:07:56,000 Speaker 1: but we'll give regularization to the dreamers if you give 148 00:07:56,120 --> 00:07:59,559 Speaker 1: us rules that shut down sanctuary cities and sanctuary states, 149 00:07:59,560 --> 00:08:02,120 Speaker 1: in other words, funding cutoffs. I don't know what the 150 00:08:02,160 --> 00:08:04,400 Speaker 1: Democrats are asking, but I think you guys got to 151 00:08:04,440 --> 00:08:07,280 Speaker 1: really jam them on the fact that they've brought the 152 00:08:07,480 --> 00:08:12,680 Speaker 1: spotlight to bear on sanctuary cities, because that is not 153 00:08:12,960 --> 00:08:15,200 Speaker 1: a winning issue for them. 154 00:08:15,480 --> 00:08:15,680 Speaker 3: No. 155 00:08:16,480 --> 00:08:19,560 Speaker 2: Well, but they seem sort of well, can I say this? 156 00:08:19,720 --> 00:08:23,400 Speaker 2: Can I say they're kind of stuck on stupid. They're 157 00:08:22,680 --> 00:08:26,800 Speaker 2: not really interested in solving a problem, and that's the problem, 158 00:08:26,840 --> 00:08:31,040 Speaker 2: whether it's the enhanced subsidies for the Affordable Care Act. 159 00:08:31,360 --> 00:08:34,359 Speaker 2: I mean, we're happy to work through those issues. Obviously, 160 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:37,960 Speaker 2: President Trump was elected on border security. The border is 161 00:08:38,040 --> 00:08:40,960 Speaker 2: now secure, but we've got to get people who came 162 00:08:40,960 --> 00:08:43,679 Speaker 2: in during the four years of open border policies by 163 00:08:43,679 --> 00:08:46,960 Speaker 2: the Biden administration out of the country, especially the criminals 164 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:52,160 Speaker 2: and people have exhausted their appellate review of their legal 165 00:08:52,200 --> 00:08:55,960 Speaker 2: avenues or relief. But I don't know really whether the 166 00:08:56,040 --> 00:08:58,760 Speaker 2: Democrats actually want to solve that problem, particularly for the 167 00:08:58,840 --> 00:09:02,160 Speaker 2: Dreamers that they talk about out for you know, all 168 00:09:02,200 --> 00:09:05,520 Speaker 2: the time, and then when an opportunity is presented to 169 00:09:05,559 --> 00:09:07,640 Speaker 2: them to do something about it, as it has been, 170 00:09:07,679 --> 00:09:11,160 Speaker 2: including during President Trump's first term, they blow it by 171 00:09:11,320 --> 00:09:14,560 Speaker 2: asking for the sun and the moon and turning down 172 00:09:14,559 --> 00:09:19,120 Speaker 2: a perfectly good negotiated product. So I'm not optimistic, but 173 00:09:19,240 --> 00:09:20,480 Speaker 2: you know, we got to keep trying. 174 00:09:20,679 --> 00:09:22,520 Speaker 1: Now. I want to I hope you guys do offer 175 00:09:22,559 --> 00:09:26,640 Speaker 1: them the Dreamers in exchange for some crackdown on sanctuary cities. 176 00:09:26,679 --> 00:09:28,400 Speaker 1: I want to close by asking you about the one 177 00:09:28,440 --> 00:09:31,040 Speaker 1: thing I don't think you can give. They want to 178 00:09:31,040 --> 00:09:36,440 Speaker 1: get rid of administrative warrants issued for deportation, which has 179 00:09:36,480 --> 00:09:38,680 Speaker 1: been in the law of the land forever you were 180 00:09:38,720 --> 00:09:41,719 Speaker 1: a judge, you were a justice. You know that they're 181 00:09:41,760 --> 00:09:45,320 Speaker 1: only seven hundred District court judges will never deport even 182 00:09:45,679 --> 00:09:48,079 Speaker 1: one hundred thousand people. If we've got to get district 183 00:09:48,080 --> 00:09:50,960 Speaker 1: court judges to sign these warrants. Is that? Is that 184 00:09:51,040 --> 00:09:54,559 Speaker 1: an insane ask on They can't be serious, are they? 185 00:09:55,400 --> 00:09:55,600 Speaker 3: Well? 186 00:09:55,640 --> 00:09:57,640 Speaker 2: I think again, they're trying to put on a show 187 00:09:57,679 --> 00:10:00,520 Speaker 2: for their base, which basically is the same people who 188 00:10:01,120 --> 00:10:04,960 Speaker 2: brought you defund the police and abolish ice, and they 189 00:10:04,960 --> 00:10:08,559 Speaker 2: want to put any obstacle in the path of legitimate 190 00:10:08,640 --> 00:10:12,480 Speaker 2: law enforcement of our immigration laws that they can, including 191 00:10:12,520 --> 00:10:15,240 Speaker 2: making them, you know, take them up their masks so 192 00:10:15,280 --> 00:10:18,520 Speaker 2: they can be docksed and harassed by these people that 193 00:10:18,559 --> 00:10:20,760 Speaker 2: we've seen on the news. 194 00:10:21,280 --> 00:10:24,680 Speaker 3: And this is an unnecessary step. 195 00:10:24,720 --> 00:10:29,079 Speaker 2: As you knows as a lawyer, these are administrative proceedings 196 00:10:29,120 --> 00:10:32,160 Speaker 2: to actually get an arrest warrant. It's not a criminal 197 00:10:32,200 --> 00:10:35,760 Speaker 2: proceeding per se. It's people who've exhausted all of their 198 00:10:35,960 --> 00:10:38,679 Speaker 2: legal remedies and simply refused to leave the country. 199 00:10:38,679 --> 00:10:42,120 Speaker 1: By Mark sand firm on that, and thank you, Senator Cornyan. 200 00:10:42,200 --> 00:10:45,680 Speaker 1: Johncornyn dot com remember those days. March third and in 201 00:10:45,800 --> 00:10:49,199 Speaker 1: May tenth, Johncornyn dot com, I'll be right back in America. 202 00:10:49,280 --> 00:10:56,680 Speaker 1: Stay two. Welcome back to America. I'm Hugh Hewett. I'm 203 00:10:56,679 --> 00:11:00,120 Speaker 1: happy to welcome John Ashbrook, one of the fellas of 204 00:11:00,160 --> 00:11:02,960 Speaker 1: the Ruthless podcast. They've been on the road. They were 205 00:11:02,960 --> 00:11:05,440 Speaker 1: in Philadelphia last week. I want to thank John for 206 00:11:05,480 --> 00:11:08,040 Speaker 1: being kind to one of my friends, Jim, who I 207 00:11:08,080 --> 00:11:10,520 Speaker 1: hope got to attend the event. And then I listened 208 00:11:10,600 --> 00:11:13,559 Speaker 1: this morning to them talking about the theater kids and 209 00:11:13,640 --> 00:11:18,040 Speaker 1: the Democrats. But John Ashbrook First of all, it's going 210 00:11:18,120 --> 00:11:20,440 Speaker 1: to be ninety degrees in California tomorrow. Are you sure 211 00:11:20,480 --> 00:11:22,600 Speaker 1: you don't want to bring the Ruthless Podcast out west 212 00:11:22,600 --> 00:11:23,040 Speaker 1: for a while. 213 00:11:24,400 --> 00:11:26,640 Speaker 4: I'm on my way there as soon as we get 214 00:11:26,679 --> 00:11:29,640 Speaker 4: off the air right now, Hugh, I've had it with 215 00:11:29,720 --> 00:11:31,679 Speaker 4: the cold. You know, I grew up in the cold 216 00:11:31,880 --> 00:11:35,480 Speaker 4: in your home state of Ohio, and I just need warmth. 217 00:11:35,600 --> 00:11:37,000 Speaker 5: I need to go to Florida. I need to go 218 00:11:37,080 --> 00:11:37,680 Speaker 5: to California. 219 00:11:37,679 --> 00:11:40,160 Speaker 4: I got to go somewhere that is not going to 220 00:11:40,160 --> 00:11:42,960 Speaker 4: be what it is right here in Washington. 221 00:11:42,480 --> 00:11:45,920 Speaker 1: A few weeks every winter out of DC. Is what 222 00:11:46,080 --> 00:11:50,040 Speaker 1: does the body and mind of a journalist? Good John, 223 00:11:50,080 --> 00:11:52,959 Speaker 1: I want to ask you. I just had Senator Corner on, 224 00:11:53,120 --> 00:11:57,319 Speaker 1: great guy, and I asked him about the ninth Senatorial 225 00:11:57,440 --> 00:12:01,240 Speaker 1: district in Texas, which went from being a Trump plus 226 00:12:01,320 --> 00:12:06,240 Speaker 1: fourteen district in November of twenty twenty four to a 227 00:12:06,400 --> 00:12:10,480 Speaker 1: Democrat winning it by seventeen over the weekend. Now, it 228 00:12:10,559 --> 00:12:13,199 Speaker 1: was a special election, but it's the state senate district. 229 00:12:13,240 --> 00:12:16,320 Speaker 1: It's a bigger than the congressional seat. What do you 230 00:12:16,360 --> 00:12:18,560 Speaker 1: think that message is being sent? 231 00:12:20,200 --> 00:12:23,480 Speaker 4: Well, obviously he knows the state of Texas. Much much 232 00:12:23,679 --> 00:12:27,520 Speaker 4: better than I do. But I'll tell you, Hugh, every 233 00:12:27,640 --> 00:12:31,800 Speaker 4: single one of these special elections and the governor's elections 234 00:12:32,480 --> 00:12:36,640 Speaker 4: in New Jersey in Virginia in twenty twenty five should 235 00:12:36,679 --> 00:12:39,440 Speaker 4: serve as a wake up call to Republicans that these 236 00:12:39,520 --> 00:12:43,640 Speaker 4: midterms are for real, that every candidate has to run 237 00:12:43,840 --> 00:12:45,960 Speaker 4: their ass off if they want to be able to 238 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:48,520 Speaker 4: get across the finish line next November, and if they 239 00:12:48,520 --> 00:12:51,839 Speaker 4: don't have a good campaign. It's based on the fundamentals 240 00:12:51,920 --> 00:12:54,280 Speaker 4: that it takes to win. It's not like who can 241 00:12:54,320 --> 00:12:57,079 Speaker 4: tweet the best, although that's part of it. It's not 242 00:12:57,640 --> 00:13:01,439 Speaker 4: who raises the most money, although that's part of it. 243 00:13:01,440 --> 00:13:04,120 Speaker 4: It's who has an organization that is built to win 244 00:13:04,200 --> 00:13:05,600 Speaker 4: in a difficult environment. 245 00:13:05,960 --> 00:13:08,040 Speaker 5: And there is no way around the. 246 00:13:08,040 --> 00:13:11,320 Speaker 4: Fact that Republicans are in a difficult environment this fall. 247 00:13:11,440 --> 00:13:15,960 Speaker 4: I mean, it's historically difficult for any party in power, 248 00:13:16,320 --> 00:13:19,800 Speaker 4: and Republicans do not have Trump on the ballot in 249 00:13:19,880 --> 00:13:23,319 Speaker 4: twenty twenty six. Now the President is working over time 250 00:13:23,720 --> 00:13:27,080 Speaker 4: to make sure that he is helping these candidates. You know, 251 00:13:27,200 --> 00:13:30,440 Speaker 4: Maga Inc. His principal outside pack, I think raised three 252 00:13:30,520 --> 00:13:33,880 Speaker 4: hundred million dollars or something like that. I may be 253 00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:37,600 Speaker 4: even like short changing that number, and he is going 254 00:13:37,679 --> 00:13:41,200 Speaker 4: to take this primary or I'm sorry, this midterm election 255 00:13:41,559 --> 00:13:42,559 Speaker 4: very seriously. 256 00:13:43,200 --> 00:13:44,600 Speaker 5: But that's not enough. 257 00:13:44,720 --> 00:13:47,640 Speaker 4: You know, every single one of these candidates needs to 258 00:13:47,720 --> 00:13:51,000 Speaker 4: find it within themselves to take what the president is 259 00:13:51,120 --> 00:13:56,120 Speaker 4: offering and complement that in a way that only they 260 00:13:56,160 --> 00:13:58,719 Speaker 4: can on a local level. If they don't do it, 261 00:13:59,160 --> 00:14:02,560 Speaker 4: if they're not run hard, that's a recipe for disaster. 262 00:14:03,120 --> 00:14:06,120 Speaker 1: So one of two things is true. Either everything depends 263 00:14:06,200 --> 00:14:09,319 Speaker 1: upon the economy or it doesn't. And if everything depends 264 00:14:09,360 --> 00:14:11,600 Speaker 1: upon the economy, were in good shape because four and 265 00:14:11,600 --> 00:14:13,880 Speaker 1: a half percent and then almost five percent growth, and 266 00:14:13,920 --> 00:14:16,880 Speaker 1: I think we have another great quarter. It's not the economy. 267 00:14:16,920 --> 00:14:20,200 Speaker 1: It's almost caught up with Biden inflation. But if that's 268 00:14:20,240 --> 00:14:24,680 Speaker 1: not true, then immigration enforcement is driving that result. Do 269 00:14:24,720 --> 00:14:28,840 Speaker 1: you think voters are turned off by immigration enforcement. 270 00:14:30,160 --> 00:14:32,800 Speaker 4: I think there's some of that in suburban parts of 271 00:14:32,840 --> 00:14:36,200 Speaker 4: the country. But you have to remember the mandate that 272 00:14:36,320 --> 00:14:39,280 Speaker 4: President Trump was given. It's seventy seven million votes in 273 00:14:39,320 --> 00:14:42,040 Speaker 4: twenty twenty four. People want safety, They wanted our borders 274 00:14:42,080 --> 00:14:45,360 Speaker 4: to be closed, and they want the criminals to be 275 00:14:45,520 --> 00:14:49,200 Speaker 4: deported from this country. I interviewed Tom Homan. I know 276 00:14:49,240 --> 00:14:52,240 Speaker 4: you've talked to him before, to Hugh, and I asked 277 00:14:52,280 --> 00:14:56,520 Speaker 4: him a very specific question about sanctuary cities because it's 278 00:14:56,520 --> 00:14:59,280 Speaker 4: on my mind as a guy who lived through nine 279 00:14:59,320 --> 00:15:04,360 Speaker 4: to eleven. Are these sanctuary cities becoming rendezvous points for 280 00:15:04,560 --> 00:15:09,080 Speaker 4: terrorists who found their way from the other hemisphere across 281 00:15:09,120 --> 00:15:12,720 Speaker 4: the Mexican border and into our country during the Biden years? 282 00:15:13,320 --> 00:15:16,720 Speaker 4: Are these sanctuary cities turning into rendezvous points for people 283 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:19,400 Speaker 4: who are fighting age men who really want to do 284 00:15:19,520 --> 00:15:22,080 Speaker 4: damage to our country? And he said the answer to 285 00:15:22,120 --> 00:15:27,040 Speaker 4: that was yes, And it's a terrifying thought, and it's 286 00:15:27,080 --> 00:15:30,240 Speaker 4: something that has to be solved. It's not a particularly 287 00:15:30,520 --> 00:15:33,480 Speaker 4: part is an issue. I mean, it's seventy thirty, eighty twenty. 288 00:15:33,880 --> 00:15:36,480 Speaker 4: You have so many people in this country who want 289 00:15:36,720 --> 00:15:39,320 Speaker 4: to get the border under control. President Trump did that. 290 00:15:39,880 --> 00:15:43,800 Speaker 4: They want to get the terrorists, the murderers, people who 291 00:15:43,880 --> 00:15:47,280 Speaker 4: are here to do wrong. They want them out. And 292 00:15:47,320 --> 00:15:49,640 Speaker 4: that's what I think Tom Homan is trying to do. 293 00:15:49,760 --> 00:15:52,640 Speaker 4: That's what our president is trying to do. And so 294 00:15:52,840 --> 00:15:57,160 Speaker 4: I don't think that's a particularly I think that's a 295 00:15:57,160 --> 00:16:00,760 Speaker 4: good issue for Republicans heading into the midterm. The economy. 296 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:04,840 Speaker 4: You know, if you listen to Scott bessont, very smart guy, 297 00:16:05,160 --> 00:16:07,960 Speaker 4: well respected in DC, well respected in New York, from 298 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:11,520 Speaker 4: people of all political stripes. Scott Besson is very bullish 299 00:16:11,520 --> 00:16:14,400 Speaker 4: on the economy in twenty twenty six because this is 300 00:16:14,440 --> 00:16:16,960 Speaker 4: the year that some of those tax cuts and things 301 00:16:16,960 --> 00:16:20,480 Speaker 4: that were in the Big Beautiful Bill come into play. 302 00:16:21,240 --> 00:16:24,120 Speaker 4: And so, I mean, he knows more about the economy 303 00:16:24,120 --> 00:16:27,120 Speaker 4: than I do. I'm going to rely on his judgment, 304 00:16:27,560 --> 00:16:30,840 Speaker 4: but I do think that those two issues, economy and 305 00:16:30,960 --> 00:16:35,960 Speaker 4: safety are going to be the highly determinative of this midterm. 306 00:16:36,320 --> 00:16:40,480 Speaker 1: Now, John, I think the softest part of President Trump's 307 00:16:40,520 --> 00:16:46,040 Speaker 1: coalition suburban women who have incomes they don't want to lose. 308 00:16:46,400 --> 00:16:49,400 Speaker 1: They don't like grandma's being deported. They don't like children 309 00:16:49,520 --> 00:16:52,560 Speaker 1: being deported. They don't like mothers being deported, dropping off kids. 310 00:16:52,600 --> 00:16:55,240 Speaker 1: They don't like it. They react viscerally against it because 311 00:16:55,280 --> 00:16:55,640 Speaker 1: they're mom. 312 00:16:55,760 --> 00:16:55,920 Speaker 4: Right. 313 00:16:56,440 --> 00:16:59,760 Speaker 1: So my question is, is there an opportunities Democrats have 314 00:16:59,800 --> 00:17:03,160 Speaker 1: put themselves in the corner. They've held up funding for DHS. 315 00:17:03,680 --> 00:17:06,040 Speaker 1: Can we give them the Dreamers Act in exchange for 316 00:17:06,440 --> 00:17:09,640 Speaker 1: cracking down on sanctuary cities, cutting off funding for any 317 00:17:09,640 --> 00:17:12,160 Speaker 1: sanctuary city or state. Do you think we can make 318 00:17:12,200 --> 00:17:14,720 Speaker 1: them an offer they can't refuse and at the same 319 00:17:14,760 --> 00:17:20,240 Speaker 1: time somehow mollify that very uneasy part of the Trump coalition. 320 00:17:21,400 --> 00:17:24,320 Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm skeptical Hugh, that Democrats are in a deal 321 00:17:24,359 --> 00:17:27,439 Speaker 4: making mood on the subject of immigration. You know, they 322 00:17:28,200 --> 00:17:31,040 Speaker 4: have shifted so far in their party from where they 323 00:17:31,080 --> 00:17:33,240 Speaker 4: were twenty years ago when they were saying that they 324 00:17:33,280 --> 00:17:36,639 Speaker 4: wanted our borders to be controlled, that they wanted criminal 325 00:17:36,960 --> 00:17:40,760 Speaker 4: illegal aliens to be deported. You remember that Obama himself 326 00:17:40,800 --> 00:17:44,520 Speaker 4: deported three million people during his time in office. But 327 00:17:44,680 --> 00:17:48,440 Speaker 4: Democrats have completely shifted on this issue, and there are 328 00:17:48,520 --> 00:17:53,680 Speaker 4: so many reasons why. I'm not sure, given their sources 329 00:17:53,720 --> 00:17:57,080 Speaker 4: of funding, given how tight they are with the hard left, 330 00:17:57,119 --> 00:17:59,920 Speaker 4: and their own civil war going on within their own part, 331 00:18:00,640 --> 00:18:02,760 Speaker 4: I'm not sure they're in a deal making kind of mood. 332 00:18:02,960 --> 00:18:05,920 Speaker 1: What should we make I turned down the dreamers, John, 333 00:18:06,119 --> 00:18:08,439 Speaker 1: everybody talks about the dreamers. I've been here literally on 334 00:18:08,440 --> 00:18:11,240 Speaker 1: the road about it for twenty years. Can we not 335 00:18:11,440 --> 00:18:13,879 Speaker 1: offer that to them with something stabled to it and 336 00:18:13,920 --> 00:18:16,960 Speaker 1: make them turn it down or accept that plus dreamers 337 00:18:16,960 --> 00:18:18,520 Speaker 1: plus X and we get the name X. 338 00:18:19,840 --> 00:18:22,480 Speaker 4: I mean, here's the thing. I think that even if 339 00:18:22,480 --> 00:18:26,520 Speaker 4: Trump were to offer something like that today, I think 340 00:18:26,600 --> 00:18:29,159 Speaker 4: Democrats would say, yeah, thank you, that's not going to 341 00:18:29,240 --> 00:18:32,440 Speaker 4: get the votes. Here's I want more, and here's my more. 342 00:18:32,640 --> 00:18:35,639 Speaker 4: You know, I want the names and addresses of every 343 00:18:35,760 --> 00:18:38,480 Speaker 4: ICE agent written on their chest so that we can 344 00:18:38,560 --> 00:18:41,639 Speaker 4: dox them and find them and intimidate them out of 345 00:18:41,680 --> 00:18:42,600 Speaker 4: doing their jobs. 346 00:18:42,840 --> 00:18:45,040 Speaker 5: I just don't think that we're. 347 00:18:44,880 --> 00:18:50,280 Speaker 4: Capable Republicans being we capable of satisfying the left on 348 00:18:50,320 --> 00:18:50,920 Speaker 4: this subject. 349 00:18:50,960 --> 00:18:52,159 Speaker 5: I think they're in transigent. 350 00:18:52,320 --> 00:18:52,520 Speaker 2: You know. 351 00:18:52,600 --> 00:18:55,919 Speaker 4: You look at how they're operating in some of these cities. 352 00:18:55,920 --> 00:19:00,240 Speaker 4: Minneapolis is probably the most noteworthy example where they're dding 353 00:19:00,320 --> 00:19:01,240 Speaker 4: up these checkpoints. 354 00:19:01,280 --> 00:19:05,560 Speaker 1: I heard about that today, unbelievable checkpoints in Minia. I'll 355 00:19:05,560 --> 00:19:09,359 Speaker 1: talk to Lilacs about that later today. John Ashbrook, get back, 356 00:19:09,920 --> 00:19:11,800 Speaker 1: got a cam check on the heating. Make sure the 357 00:19:11,800 --> 00:19:15,560 Speaker 1: homefront is warm. I appreciate both the Philadelphia Show and 358 00:19:15,600 --> 00:19:19,760 Speaker 1: today's program, the Ruthless Variety program. You should like and 359 00:19:19,840 --> 00:19:23,520 Speaker 1: subscribe over at YouTube. Many visuals today, so if you're 360 00:19:23,560 --> 00:19:27,360 Speaker 1: not watching it, you're missing it. At Ruthless John Ashbrook, 361 00:19:27,440 --> 00:19:30,480 Speaker 1: thank you. Follow John at John Ashbrook on x as well. 362 00:19:30,520 --> 00:19:32,600 Speaker 1: Stay tuned. I'll be right back on the Hewit Show. 363 00:19:33,480 --> 00:19:35,600 Speaker 1: Welcome back, and I'm Joe Hewett. I want to talk 364 00:19:35,600 --> 00:19:38,680 Speaker 1: to politics with David Drucker, but first get a pulse 365 00:19:38,800 --> 00:19:41,440 Speaker 1: on from the Beltway on what you think is happening 366 00:19:41,440 --> 00:19:45,399 Speaker 1: in Iran today. Already a shaw He drone was shot 367 00:19:45,440 --> 00:19:47,600 Speaker 1: down by an F thirty five flying from the Lincoln. 368 00:19:47,680 --> 00:19:50,719 Speaker 1: A second drone has been dispatched by Iran towards the Lincoln. 369 00:19:50,760 --> 00:19:53,480 Speaker 1: No word yet on what happened there. And six Arenian 370 00:19:53,520 --> 00:19:56,679 Speaker 1: gunboats attempted to seize a US flagged oil tanker that 371 00:19:56,800 --> 00:19:59,879 Speaker 1: managed to get under speed and under the protection of 372 00:20:00,040 --> 00:20:04,760 Speaker 1: the US Navy ship before boarding. That's not That's not 373 00:20:04,840 --> 00:20:08,679 Speaker 1: the activity, David, of a country that wants to deal seriously. 374 00:20:10,160 --> 00:20:12,120 Speaker 6: You know, one if they ever wanted to deal seriously. 375 00:20:12,200 --> 00:20:15,720 Speaker 6: I mean, it's the Irian regime. And every president, one 376 00:20:15,720 --> 00:20:18,080 Speaker 6: way or the other has found out that the that 377 00:20:18,080 --> 00:20:21,960 Speaker 6: they negotiated bad faith and they're malevolent, and that's the 378 00:20:21,960 --> 00:20:23,760 Speaker 6: way they want to be. Like I think, I think 379 00:20:23,800 --> 00:20:28,560 Speaker 6: everybody in Washington generally is consumed by domestic drama. You know, 380 00:20:28,600 --> 00:20:31,159 Speaker 6: whether or not the House and Senate we're going to 381 00:20:31,200 --> 00:20:33,919 Speaker 6: get the US get the government out of a shutdown 382 00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:37,040 Speaker 6: with a deal that the President brokeer with Minority Leader 383 00:20:37,080 --> 00:20:39,480 Speaker 6: Chuck Schumer in the Senate. Looks like we're headed in 384 00:20:39,480 --> 00:20:43,000 Speaker 6: that direction, but I think there's gonna be a lot 385 00:20:43,040 --> 00:20:44,159 Speaker 6: more discussion about this. 386 00:20:44,280 --> 00:20:46,960 Speaker 5: I was talking to somebody who. 387 00:20:46,880 --> 00:20:48,760 Speaker 6: Spent a lot of time a lot of his career 388 00:20:48,760 --> 00:20:51,280 Speaker 6: in the intelligence community earlier this morning. It's something that 389 00:20:51,320 --> 00:20:59,560 Speaker 6: came up in conversation. Usually Trump is very concerned about 390 00:20:59,600 --> 00:21:03,000 Speaker 6: the credit ability of the military threats that he makes. 391 00:21:04,280 --> 00:21:07,719 Speaker 6: A lot of his negotiating in other ways can be 392 00:21:07,880 --> 00:21:13,120 Speaker 6: blustering for effect, but he's usually been careful about when 393 00:21:13,160 --> 00:21:15,120 Speaker 6: he threatens military action. And so I think a lot 394 00:21:15,200 --> 00:21:19,800 Speaker 6: of people are waiting to see, with the hardware that 395 00:21:19,840 --> 00:21:23,160 Speaker 6: we sent to the region whether or not anything is forthcoming. 396 00:21:23,920 --> 00:21:27,240 Speaker 1: David, what is the expectation of the people that you've 397 00:21:27,280 --> 00:21:30,959 Speaker 1: talked to. I believe he's going to rock their world. 398 00:21:31,240 --> 00:21:33,600 Speaker 1: I don't have a timetable, but because of what you 399 00:21:33,640 --> 00:21:36,760 Speaker 1: just said, he does follow through. I do believe he 400 00:21:36,800 --> 00:21:40,679 Speaker 1: also like to have a legitimate diplomatic option on the table, 401 00:21:40,720 --> 00:21:43,440 Speaker 1: but they're walking away from it. Even before Jared Kushner 402 00:21:43,480 --> 00:21:46,239 Speaker 1: and Steve Whitcock, get the Turkey. This is not the 403 00:21:46,280 --> 00:21:49,040 Speaker 1: action of anybody of a regime that wants to deal. 404 00:21:50,520 --> 00:21:52,040 Speaker 5: Yeah, we should, I mean, I realize we have to 405 00:21:52,080 --> 00:21:53,320 Speaker 5: do this. So it looks like we tried. 406 00:21:53,359 --> 00:21:55,679 Speaker 6: But we shouldn't even waste our time. Not with the Iranians, 407 00:21:55,720 --> 00:21:57,800 Speaker 6: but lots of people. It's worth wasting your time because 408 00:21:57,800 --> 00:22:00,760 Speaker 6: you never know with them. It's I mean, it's so predictable. 409 00:22:00,800 --> 00:22:02,400 Speaker 6: It can make me look like a genius, and I'm 410 00:22:02,440 --> 00:22:06,760 Speaker 6: no genius. Look, Hugh, I think the confusing part is 411 00:22:06,760 --> 00:22:10,360 Speaker 6: the president president threatened severe military action if they killed 412 00:22:10,359 --> 00:22:13,200 Speaker 6: their own people. He then said, well, I have assurances 413 00:22:13,200 --> 00:22:15,440 Speaker 6: nobody's getting killed. We then found out people were getting 414 00:22:15,520 --> 00:22:18,840 Speaker 6: killed and in massive numbers, and then nothing appeared to 415 00:22:18,840 --> 00:22:22,359 Speaker 6: be happening. Then we send people to the region, we 416 00:22:22,440 --> 00:22:24,960 Speaker 6: sent hardware and you know, military assets to the region, 417 00:22:25,680 --> 00:22:28,080 Speaker 6: and now we're in a in a holding pattern. And 418 00:22:28,200 --> 00:22:32,520 Speaker 6: usually when the president does something big, it doesn't really 419 00:22:32,560 --> 00:22:34,920 Speaker 6: stretch it out this way, or he doesn't foreshadow and 420 00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:38,640 Speaker 6: it's just you think he does. In retrospect, it looks 421 00:22:38,640 --> 00:22:41,240 Speaker 6: like he was foreshadowing it, but it's more like, oh, 422 00:22:41,320 --> 00:22:45,199 Speaker 6: he took out Sulimani. Oh, he snatched Maduro, So this 423 00:22:45,320 --> 00:22:48,040 Speaker 6: is just different than the way he usually handles things. 424 00:22:48,359 --> 00:22:50,480 Speaker 1: I do think we're going to look back. I'm giving 425 00:22:50,560 --> 00:22:52,760 Speaker 1: him till the middle of March because it does take 426 00:22:52,800 --> 00:22:55,880 Speaker 1: a while to set up the bad system in Saudi Arabia. 427 00:22:55,920 --> 00:22:58,399 Speaker 1: I think Israel's well defended, but Saudi Arabia is not. 428 00:22:58,960 --> 00:23:02,520 Speaker 1: I understand the Iranian short term missile numbers. That's a 429 00:23:02,560 --> 00:23:04,800 Speaker 1: real threat that they need air defense for. So I 430 00:23:04,840 --> 00:23:08,760 Speaker 1: understand that, But I was just wondering, is the general 431 00:23:08,800 --> 00:23:12,199 Speaker 1: expectation among the people you talk to that we have 432 00:23:12,560 --> 00:23:14,000 Speaker 1: a battle coming with Iran? 433 00:23:15,560 --> 00:23:16,399 Speaker 5: I'd say it's mixed. 434 00:23:16,440 --> 00:23:18,720 Speaker 6: Look, I talk to some people who think Trump blinked, 435 00:23:19,800 --> 00:23:22,879 Speaker 6: and you know, particularly when he talks about trying to 436 00:23:22,880 --> 00:23:26,200 Speaker 6: cut a deal for a nuclear program that was supposedly obliterated, 437 00:23:26,560 --> 00:23:28,080 Speaker 6: And then you talk to other people who are like, no, 438 00:23:28,359 --> 00:23:31,040 Speaker 6: the guy always follows through when he makes threats like these, 439 00:23:31,359 --> 00:23:34,880 Speaker 6: right when he delivers the red line threat. In fact, 440 00:23:34,960 --> 00:23:36,800 Speaker 6: usually he doesn't really deliver the red line threat. 441 00:23:36,840 --> 00:23:37,479 Speaker 5: He just acts. 442 00:23:37,680 --> 00:23:41,080 Speaker 6: So what I'm hearing are mixed perceptions about what the 443 00:23:41,119 --> 00:23:42,600 Speaker 6: president is doing and will do. 444 00:23:42,840 --> 00:23:45,639 Speaker 1: I think he will end up hurt politically and the 445 00:23:45,680 --> 00:23:47,880 Speaker 1: world will be much worse off if he doesn't act. 446 00:23:47,920 --> 00:23:51,880 Speaker 1: But we will see. Now, the state Senate district number 447 00:23:51,960 --> 00:23:57,080 Speaker 1: nine in Texas went for Donald Trump by seventeen points. 448 00:23:57,640 --> 00:24:00,520 Speaker 1: It went for the Democrat on Saturday by fourteen team point, 449 00:24:00,640 --> 00:24:03,680 Speaker 1: same district a year and a half apart. 450 00:24:03,880 --> 00:24:08,680 Speaker 6: Let's it tell yet, well, it tells me that Republicans 451 00:24:09,119 --> 00:24:11,199 Speaker 6: have a real rough midterm election on their hands, at 452 00:24:11,240 --> 00:24:13,640 Speaker 6: least as it stands now these You know, what I've 453 00:24:13,680 --> 00:24:16,320 Speaker 6: learned about special elections over twenty plus years of covering 454 00:24:16,400 --> 00:24:18,560 Speaker 6: them is it's not the outcome that matters, it's the trend. 455 00:24:19,080 --> 00:24:21,560 Speaker 6: And this isn't an outlier in terms of all of 456 00:24:21,600 --> 00:24:24,720 Speaker 6: the special elections we have had since Trump's second inaugural. 457 00:24:25,280 --> 00:24:29,479 Speaker 6: This fits with a pattern of heavy Democratic overperformance. This 458 00:24:29,600 --> 00:24:33,560 Speaker 6: also happens to be a suburban district. And by the way, 459 00:24:34,240 --> 00:24:36,560 Speaker 6: you know, I know Terren County and Fort Worth a 460 00:24:36,600 --> 00:24:41,240 Speaker 6: little bit. I have family there. It was a surprise, 461 00:24:41,320 --> 00:24:43,280 Speaker 6: But I think you know two things to read from it. 462 00:24:43,359 --> 00:24:46,440 Speaker 6: I think that it shows you that people can get 463 00:24:46,560 --> 00:24:52,520 Speaker 6: quite uncomfortable with this president when the provocative rhetoric and 464 00:24:52,560 --> 00:24:56,280 Speaker 6: the zillion things that he gets focused on overshadow the 465 00:24:56,320 --> 00:24:59,080 Speaker 6: things that they want him to focus on. That maybe 466 00:24:59,119 --> 00:25:01,280 Speaker 6: he is, but it's a possible to see because of 467 00:25:01,440 --> 00:25:04,560 Speaker 6: the way he functions. Number Two, the Democrats nominated somebody 468 00:25:04,560 --> 00:25:09,399 Speaker 6: who was like a viable, normal Texas politician. Right, he's 469 00:25:09,440 --> 00:25:12,200 Speaker 6: a union guy, he's an Air Force vet. He talked 470 00:25:12,200 --> 00:25:15,840 Speaker 6: about the issues they care about. He didn't talk about 471 00:25:16,119 --> 00:25:19,119 Speaker 6: social issues and definitely not in a way that's going 472 00:25:19,160 --> 00:25:22,600 Speaker 6: to turn off suburban conservatives. And so it shows you, 473 00:25:22,600 --> 00:25:26,680 Speaker 6: you know, as Democrats, when you nominate somebody who voters 474 00:25:26,800 --> 00:25:30,400 Speaker 6: are going to like, you can do better. And you know, Republicans, 475 00:25:30,400 --> 00:25:33,480 Speaker 6: it shows you that partisan partisan drawing seats and the 476 00:25:33,480 --> 00:25:36,720 Speaker 6: way people always vote, it's never good enough in a 477 00:25:36,800 --> 00:25:40,760 Speaker 6: midterm elections, particularly when you control the House, the Senate, 478 00:25:40,800 --> 00:25:41,520 Speaker 6: and the White House. 479 00:25:41,680 --> 00:25:45,800 Speaker 1: So tell me then, what Abigail Spanberger is doing, because 480 00:25:45,800 --> 00:25:48,080 Speaker 1: it seemed to me she ran as one of those 481 00:25:48,160 --> 00:25:51,560 Speaker 1: moderate Democrats that are left. But everything I've seen, I'm 482 00:25:51,680 --> 00:25:53,160 Speaker 1: been on the West Coast for a few weeks. I'll 483 00:25:53,160 --> 00:25:56,600 Speaker 1: be back next week. She's lurched way to the left, 484 00:25:56,640 --> 00:25:59,280 Speaker 1: and everything that Breeze moves or walks is going to 485 00:25:59,280 --> 00:26:00,440 Speaker 1: be tacked and Virginia. 486 00:26:02,200 --> 00:26:04,040 Speaker 6: Well, first, you know a lot of a lot of 487 00:26:04,040 --> 00:26:06,280 Speaker 6: these proposals are coming out of the Democrats and the 488 00:26:06,760 --> 00:26:07,880 Speaker 6: Virginia Legislature. 489 00:26:07,960 --> 00:26:10,280 Speaker 5: Who you know, go figure, you know, you win a. 490 00:26:10,280 --> 00:26:13,919 Speaker 6: Big election and people think that they voted for everything 491 00:26:13,960 --> 00:26:14,879 Speaker 6: you ever talked about. 492 00:26:15,320 --> 00:26:17,640 Speaker 5: So let's see what she accepts and what she rejects. 493 00:26:17,720 --> 00:26:20,479 Speaker 6: Number two, she's not on the ballot, right, And how 494 00:26:20,560 --> 00:26:22,480 Speaker 6: many times have we seen this? You run one way 495 00:26:22,600 --> 00:26:24,320 Speaker 6: and then you say, you know, then you say to 496 00:26:24,359 --> 00:26:26,879 Speaker 6: yourself and I give all the politicians been over the doubt. 497 00:26:27,640 --> 00:26:30,440 Speaker 6: I want what's best for people. This will be best 498 00:26:30,440 --> 00:26:31,960 Speaker 6: for people. This is what I'm gonna do. But what 499 00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:34,200 Speaker 6: I would say is, as a regard to Spanburger, let's 500 00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:36,919 Speaker 6: see what she accepts and see what she rejects. But 501 00:26:37,119 --> 00:26:41,760 Speaker 6: Virginia Democrats in the legislature are making the mistake of 502 00:26:41,880 --> 00:26:44,200 Speaker 6: veering away from what won them that election. 503 00:26:44,720 --> 00:26:47,520 Speaker 1: No doubt, I agree with you, and I think they're 504 00:26:47,520 --> 00:26:49,760 Speaker 1: also going to drive people like me to find another 505 00:26:49,800 --> 00:26:52,600 Speaker 1: place to live. I left California because of taxes like 506 00:26:52,640 --> 00:26:55,080 Speaker 1: they're proposing. I'll do it again. The good thing about 507 00:26:55,119 --> 00:26:58,480 Speaker 1: broadcasts you can broadcast from anywhere. David Drucker David M. 508 00:26:58,520 --> 00:27:01,679 Speaker 1: Drukker on X. Thank you, my friend. I'll be right back, America, 509 00:27:01,720 --> 00:27:04,000 Speaker 1: stay tuned to the HWIT Show. 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I'm here, Hewett, joined by James Lylyx, 536 00:28:26,680 --> 00:28:30,800 Speaker 1: our resident correspondent in the Twin Cities, James Lilyx dot 537 00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:34,760 Speaker 1: substack dot com humorist extraordinaire James. I was thinking of 538 00:28:34,760 --> 00:28:37,720 Speaker 1: you this morning listening to the Ruthless podcast as they 539 00:28:37,800 --> 00:28:41,479 Speaker 1: replayed the audio and video of a checkpoint that has 540 00:28:41,520 --> 00:28:45,480 Speaker 1: been set up in the Twin Cities by anti Ice protesters. 541 00:28:45,880 --> 00:28:50,680 Speaker 1: They're using palettes, shipping pallets to block traffic to check 542 00:28:50,760 --> 00:28:54,320 Speaker 1: people's IDs to see if they're not Ice agent. Has 543 00:28:54,360 --> 00:28:55,520 Speaker 1: that happened to you yet? 544 00:28:57,360 --> 00:28:58,720 Speaker 5: That hasn't happened to be yet? 545 00:28:58,840 --> 00:28:59,000 Speaker 3: No. 546 00:28:59,480 --> 00:29:02,280 Speaker 7: I was considering the other day putting on some big 547 00:29:02,600 --> 00:29:07,720 Speaker 7: Blaze or Oakley sunglasses of the type that are apparently favored 548 00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:09,800 Speaker 7: by ICE agents and just sort of trying to drive 549 00:29:09,840 --> 00:29:12,080 Speaker 7: by one of those checkpoints and see if they stopped me, 550 00:29:13,160 --> 00:29:16,880 Speaker 7: And then you know, I have you know, no great 551 00:29:16,960 --> 00:29:20,760 Speaker 7: fear of a single whistle, but the idea surrounding my car, 552 00:29:21,120 --> 00:29:25,080 Speaker 7: these people blowing on their whistles like like holler monkeys 553 00:29:25,080 --> 00:29:28,440 Speaker 7: that had aspirated a bag full of birthday party favors. 554 00:29:29,200 --> 00:29:31,560 Speaker 7: It doesn't appeal to be so I haven't done that yet. 555 00:29:31,680 --> 00:29:33,800 Speaker 7: What I love about it, though, is the idea of 556 00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:38,719 Speaker 7: building a border, interrogating people who have crossed that border, 557 00:29:39,760 --> 00:29:42,320 Speaker 7: and then asking them for their papers and to prove 558 00:29:42,360 --> 00:29:47,360 Speaker 7: their legitimacy, and having been at that spot. The irony 559 00:29:47,440 --> 00:29:50,240 Speaker 7: of this flies so far over the heads of these 560 00:29:50,280 --> 00:29:54,720 Speaker 7: people that I am surprised it doesn't require FAA approval. 561 00:29:56,120 --> 00:29:59,560 Speaker 7: They're in actually an area where the airport is, and 562 00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:01,880 Speaker 7: I can just see a pilot's sighting as he's making 563 00:30:01,920 --> 00:30:04,000 Speaker 7: a landing that we have the irony that's flying over 564 00:30:04,040 --> 00:30:06,200 Speaker 7: the heads of these protesters right outside our window. 565 00:30:06,200 --> 00:30:11,040 Speaker 1: Here change these people? Who are these people? Are they 566 00:30:11,080 --> 00:30:12,280 Speaker 1: from the Twin Cities? 567 00:30:13,600 --> 00:30:13,920 Speaker 3: Yes? 568 00:30:14,200 --> 00:30:16,400 Speaker 7: Yes, I mean yet are there are there tourists of 569 00:30:16,560 --> 00:30:17,320 Speaker 7: absolutely so? 570 00:30:17,480 --> 00:30:18,480 Speaker 5: Are those people who. 571 00:30:18,320 --> 00:30:21,280 Speaker 7: Say, hey, babe, it's going down in Minneapolis. 572 00:30:21,320 --> 00:30:22,920 Speaker 5: It's time for the revolution, let's go. 573 00:30:23,040 --> 00:30:25,560 Speaker 7: Yes, But for the most part, no, they are well 574 00:30:25,640 --> 00:30:30,240 Speaker 7: meaning Minnesotans who have for whatever reason, ideological pre election 575 00:30:30,840 --> 00:30:33,640 Speaker 7: because they've been on Facebook and soaking up the rage 576 00:30:33,640 --> 00:30:35,080 Speaker 7: and the rest of it and they want to be 577 00:30:35,160 --> 00:30:38,080 Speaker 7: part of it, or they just have an overwhelming desire 578 00:30:38,200 --> 00:30:40,760 Speaker 7: to shout the F word as many times as possible. 579 00:30:41,120 --> 00:30:43,280 Speaker 7: I have done so, and do so for genuine reasons. 580 00:30:43,320 --> 00:30:45,880 Speaker 7: I mean, they're not out there. Not everybody out there 581 00:30:45,920 --> 00:30:48,960 Speaker 7: is saying I'm opposed to ice. Oh, and I also 582 00:30:49,040 --> 00:30:51,720 Speaker 7: want the establishment of the dictatorship of the proletariat. 583 00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:52,640 Speaker 5: That's not true. 584 00:30:52,760 --> 00:30:54,640 Speaker 7: You've just got an awful lot of Minnesotans of a 585 00:30:54,680 --> 00:30:57,520 Speaker 7: liberal stripe, progressive stripe, and that's got a lot more 586 00:30:57,560 --> 00:30:59,400 Speaker 7: left in the last few years as I've been here. 587 00:30:59,640 --> 00:31:01,480 Speaker 5: Who are They're doing it because they believe in. 588 00:31:01,440 --> 00:31:05,280 Speaker 1: It now, James, the question is, though you say irony 589 00:31:05,320 --> 00:31:10,800 Speaker 1: flies above their head, Nevertheless, they are antifa, anti fascist. 590 00:31:11,280 --> 00:31:17,160 Speaker 1: They're erecting borders and checkpoints. It's the thing that Stasse 591 00:31:17,440 --> 00:31:20,840 Speaker 1: used to do to stop people from leaving East Berlin 592 00:31:20,920 --> 00:31:23,600 Speaker 1: to go to West Berlin. Do they not get that 593 00:31:23,760 --> 00:31:26,640 Speaker 1: irony or do they not remember West Berlin. 594 00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:30,320 Speaker 7: No, absolutely not no. And of course we all know 595 00:31:30,320 --> 00:31:31,760 Speaker 7: the fall of the wall was in a sense of 596 00:31:31,800 --> 00:31:34,520 Speaker 7: tragedy because East Germany was so very good on women's 597 00:31:34,560 --> 00:31:36,120 Speaker 7: rights and employment and the rest of it. So it's 598 00:31:36,160 --> 00:31:39,520 Speaker 7: kind of a mixbake there you No, not at all. No, 599 00:31:40,160 --> 00:31:42,880 Speaker 7: the irony of it, It doesn't they're not all Antifa. 600 00:31:42,960 --> 00:31:45,120 Speaker 7: Some of them are Antifa adjacent, or there people who 601 00:31:45,120 --> 00:31:46,440 Speaker 7: are down for the cause or whatever. 602 00:31:46,760 --> 00:31:49,400 Speaker 3: But the idea that the city should allow there. 603 00:31:49,280 --> 00:31:52,160 Speaker 7: To be a parallel government and police force that's moving 604 00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:55,720 Speaker 7: around and determining who shall and shall not pass is 605 00:31:55,760 --> 00:31:58,240 Speaker 7: one of those things that has to be extirpated immediately. 606 00:31:58,560 --> 00:32:04,080 Speaker 7: Otherwise you get parallel police in parallel law enforcement in 607 00:32:04,600 --> 00:32:06,880 Speaker 7: your very city, and that that can't stand. 608 00:32:07,600 --> 00:32:09,240 Speaker 5: So one of these was dissembled. 609 00:32:09,280 --> 00:32:12,440 Speaker 7: I saw and read it that there was somebody approvingly 610 00:32:12,520 --> 00:32:15,040 Speaker 7: saying that the police seemed to be sympathetic to the 611 00:32:15,080 --> 00:32:18,000 Speaker 7: cause man, because they were apologetic and they were really 612 00:32:18,080 --> 00:32:20,760 Speaker 7: nice about it, and they took everything down to the 613 00:32:20,800 --> 00:32:23,320 Speaker 7: other but they didn't arrest anybody. So it's like they 614 00:32:23,360 --> 00:32:25,200 Speaker 7: felt bad about what they had to do. No, I 615 00:32:25,200 --> 00:32:27,200 Speaker 7: don't think they felt bad about what they had to do. 616 00:32:27,280 --> 00:32:29,040 Speaker 7: I think they were rolling their eyes of the fact 617 00:32:29,080 --> 00:32:30,680 Speaker 7: that they had to go and drag some out. 618 00:32:30,960 --> 00:32:32,280 Speaker 5: This is the middle of the street. 619 00:32:32,400 --> 00:32:35,880 Speaker 1: This is news to me. So escape from Minneapolis as possible. 620 00:32:36,040 --> 00:32:40,120 Speaker 1: Now the police have come and taken the pseudo checkpoints down. 621 00:32:41,560 --> 00:32:44,400 Speaker 7: One of them that I saw, the one that's on Senar. 622 00:32:44,480 --> 00:32:46,400 Speaker 5: I'm not so sure about there. 623 00:32:46,520 --> 00:32:48,400 Speaker 7: I mean, it's not as if every single act but 624 00:32:48,600 --> 00:32:50,680 Speaker 7: a point of egress in the city has been choked 625 00:32:50,720 --> 00:32:52,640 Speaker 7: off by chanting mobs. That's not the case. 626 00:32:53,160 --> 00:32:54,880 Speaker 5: I think it's I think it's about two or three. 627 00:32:55,040 --> 00:32:57,280 Speaker 7: It's irritating to the people who have to slow down 628 00:32:57,320 --> 00:32:59,480 Speaker 7: and present in the own show that they're not the 629 00:32:59,520 --> 00:33:00,600 Speaker 7: bad guy. What time? 630 00:33:00,800 --> 00:33:04,800 Speaker 1: Yes, you do people really slow down and show ID 631 00:33:05,520 --> 00:33:06,240 Speaker 1: to non. 632 00:33:06,120 --> 00:33:11,120 Speaker 7: Uniform No not everybody, No, not everybody. They will wave 633 00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:13,320 Speaker 7: you through you look jet oh look at you. You're 634 00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:15,800 Speaker 7: driving a Volvough You've got to co exist. Come bumper 635 00:33:15,840 --> 00:33:18,240 Speaker 7: stick from the back. You have a nope, you know 636 00:33:18,280 --> 00:33:20,520 Speaker 7: you're you're probably one of us. You got gray hair, 637 00:33:20,680 --> 00:33:22,520 Speaker 7: or you got purple hair, or you know, you got 638 00:33:22,520 --> 00:33:24,280 Speaker 7: a little kid and the well wait a minute, they 639 00:33:24,320 --> 00:33:25,760 Speaker 7: got a little kid. Where do they get that little kid. 640 00:33:25,800 --> 00:33:27,440 Speaker 7: They could have snatched them out of school like the 641 00:33:27,480 --> 00:33:29,800 Speaker 7: rest of the fifteen thousand and five year olds that 642 00:33:29,840 --> 00:33:32,080 Speaker 7: are apparently throng and Bishop Whipple Center. 643 00:33:32,960 --> 00:33:35,040 Speaker 5: No, they waved them through. 644 00:33:35,120 --> 00:33:37,840 Speaker 7: It's the big trucks, the big trucks that apparently are 645 00:33:37,880 --> 00:33:41,200 Speaker 7: occupied by burley men who maybe just I don't know, 646 00:33:41,760 --> 00:33:45,640 Speaker 7: go to work because they're burly guys who hammer nails 647 00:33:45,960 --> 00:33:47,240 Speaker 7: and fixed plumbing for a living. 648 00:33:47,280 --> 00:33:49,560 Speaker 1: And are the people that learned the other trucks at 649 00:33:49,560 --> 00:33:51,959 Speaker 1: home depot with the drywall. 650 00:33:54,400 --> 00:33:55,760 Speaker 5: Which I was at home. 651 00:33:56,160 --> 00:33:58,040 Speaker 1: You are, yes, so you were at home depot or 652 00:33:58,080 --> 00:33:59,360 Speaker 1: you stopped on your way there. 653 00:34:00,720 --> 00:34:01,360 Speaker 5: The last night. 654 00:34:01,400 --> 00:34:03,080 Speaker 7: And the funny thing about it is is that I'm 655 00:34:03,080 --> 00:34:05,120 Speaker 7: living my life in such a normal fashion that I'm 656 00:34:05,120 --> 00:34:07,600 Speaker 7: not in a defensive crouch for fascism to come and 657 00:34:07,640 --> 00:34:09,400 Speaker 7: swoop down and carry me off in every second. And 658 00:34:09,440 --> 00:34:12,799 Speaker 7: I suppose that's privilege. But there was no tension, there 659 00:34:12,880 --> 00:34:15,520 Speaker 7: was no worry at home Depot. It's just home depot 660 00:34:15,560 --> 00:34:16,239 Speaker 7: in the suburbs. 661 00:34:16,600 --> 00:34:19,279 Speaker 1: Well, that's what That's why you are invaluable to the 662 00:34:19,280 --> 00:34:21,759 Speaker 1: rest of the country. The rest of the country thinks 663 00:34:21,800 --> 00:34:26,640 Speaker 1: the Twin Cities crazy. We believe that Timry and the 664 00:34:26,680 --> 00:34:30,880 Speaker 1: demonstrators are all nuts and that you are surrounded by nuts. 665 00:34:30,880 --> 00:34:31,319 Speaker 1: But you're not. 666 00:34:33,239 --> 00:34:34,719 Speaker 5: No, I'm not, absolutely not. 667 00:34:34,840 --> 00:34:37,360 Speaker 7: Now I know for certain that if I walked up 668 00:34:37,400 --> 00:34:39,360 Speaker 7: the street, there's a house that's got all of the 669 00:34:39,400 --> 00:34:41,560 Speaker 7: signs that are in favor of all of the current things. 670 00:34:41,800 --> 00:34:43,920 Speaker 7: What do we do today, Let's swap out the Ukraine 671 00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:47,080 Speaker 7: sign put in the gaza side. It's got in this house. 672 00:34:47,160 --> 00:34:51,120 Speaker 7: We believe in a variety of unsubstantiated desertions. It's got 673 00:34:51,120 --> 00:34:53,440 Speaker 7: to support the public workers, support the federal workers. Its 674 00:34:53,480 --> 00:34:57,520 Speaker 7: festooned with every single protestation that you can possibly imagine. 675 00:34:57,560 --> 00:34:59,240 Speaker 7: And I know that if I walk by that house 676 00:34:59,400 --> 00:35:02,239 Speaker 7: and tip my to the person who came outside, that 677 00:35:02,280 --> 00:35:04,680 Speaker 7: it would be friendly. Because the assumption is if you 678 00:35:04,760 --> 00:35:06,920 Speaker 7: live in this town, you think the right things, you're 679 00:35:06,920 --> 00:35:07,800 Speaker 7: one of the good people. 680 00:35:07,880 --> 00:35:10,239 Speaker 1: Yes, do they have? 681 00:35:10,560 --> 00:35:12,759 Speaker 7: Just a second time in two weeks, twenty five years, 682 00:35:12,760 --> 00:35:13,760 Speaker 7: it's been are. 683 00:35:13,920 --> 00:35:14,600 Speaker 5: Are you losing it? 684 00:35:14,800 --> 00:35:15,279 Speaker 3: I am loving? 685 00:35:15,719 --> 00:35:18,200 Speaker 1: I moving beging to be wrong? Does the sign? Does 686 00:35:18,200 --> 00:35:20,760 Speaker 1: the house with the sign have anything on it about 687 00:35:20,760 --> 00:35:23,840 Speaker 1: the thirty thousand Iranians that a remode down by the regime. 688 00:35:25,520 --> 00:35:29,319 Speaker 7: No, absolutely not. That would be unfortunate. That may be unfortunate, 689 00:35:29,360 --> 00:35:32,200 Speaker 7: but unfortunately, as a lot of these things, it would 690 00:35:32,239 --> 00:35:35,080 Speaker 7: embolden the wrong people to say so, it would embolden 691 00:35:35,160 --> 00:35:39,520 Speaker 7: Donald Trump, it would embolden the Islamophobes, it would embolden etcetera, etcetera. 692 00:35:39,640 --> 00:35:45,280 Speaker 1: So you know, you know, thirty thousand people were murdered 693 00:35:45,280 --> 00:35:47,720 Speaker 1: two weeks ago and the house with the sign doesn't 694 00:35:47,760 --> 00:35:51,840 Speaker 1: note it. I'm amazed by that. The ironies in Minneapolis 695 00:35:51,840 --> 00:35:54,920 Speaker 1: never failed to make James lyas can be read at 696 00:35:55,000 --> 00:35:59,840 Speaker 1: James Lyc dot substack dot com James lyct substack dot com. 697 00:36:00,080 --> 00:36:02,719 Speaker 1: Next week, we hope he's still free. That's we check 698 00:36:02,760 --> 00:36:05,040 Speaker 1: in weekly the Chambe and make sure he's still living 699 00:36:05,040 --> 00:36:07,480 Speaker 1: in the free city of the Twin Cities. Stay to 700 00:36:07,600 --> 00:36:07,960 Speaker 1: in America.