1 00:00:05,559 --> 00:00:07,680 Speaker 1: I'm Josh Hammer and this is the Josh Hammer Show. 2 00:00:08,240 --> 00:00:10,840 Speaker 1: Hope everyone had a great weekend. It was certainly a 3 00:00:10,880 --> 00:00:13,400 Speaker 1: fun weekend if you, like me, are a big college 4 00:00:13,400 --> 00:00:16,560 Speaker 1: messal fan. No shortage of entertaining matchups over the weekend. 5 00:00:16,640 --> 00:00:20,400 Speaker 1: Big congratulations to Texas Longhorns fans, the only double digit 6 00:00:20,440 --> 00:00:23,320 Speaker 1: seed to make it to the second weekend of this 7 00:00:23,440 --> 00:00:27,480 Speaker 1: most magical of sporting events, March Madness aka the NAA Tournament. 8 00:00:27,520 --> 00:00:30,160 Speaker 1: The Iowa Hawkeyes those of you watching the show from 9 00:00:30,200 --> 00:00:33,680 Speaker 1: the Hawkeye SEC, congratulations as well. Both Iowa and Iowa 10 00:00:33,760 --> 00:00:36,160 Speaker 1: State making it to the sweet sixteen. So two from Michigan. 11 00:00:36,200 --> 00:00:38,720 Speaker 1: Michigan State up. Yeah, that's a little less surprising. Lots 12 00:00:38,760 --> 00:00:40,879 Speaker 1: of great stories, of course. On a personal note, my 13 00:00:40,960 --> 00:00:43,800 Speaker 1: beloved Duke Blue Devils have survived to the second weekend 14 00:00:43,840 --> 00:00:47,199 Speaker 1: after an inauspicious start against sixteen seeds Sienna. We will 15 00:00:47,200 --> 00:00:49,440 Speaker 1: see what happens this Friday when they play Saint John's, 16 00:00:49,440 --> 00:00:51,839 Speaker 1: But for now, there is so much more going on 17 00:00:51,960 --> 00:00:54,080 Speaker 1: than news, and I hope that those of you who 18 00:00:54,080 --> 00:00:56,840 Speaker 1: are enjoying the basketball games you weren't actually delayed at 19 00:00:56,840 --> 00:00:59,280 Speaker 1: the airport's traveling twenty of these games, there because America's 20 00:00:59,280 --> 00:01:01,920 Speaker 1: airports continued to just be an utter disaster thanks to 21 00:01:02,040 --> 00:01:07,119 Speaker 1: Chuck Schumer and the opposite obstructionist Schumer, Jeffrey's Democrats. 22 00:01:07,160 --> 00:01:08,760 Speaker 2: Scenes just continuing. 23 00:01:08,319 --> 00:01:11,120 Speaker 1: To emerge and come to the forefront of our media 24 00:01:11,160 --> 00:01:14,479 Speaker 1: cycle all across the country of just catastrophic way times 25 00:01:14,560 --> 00:01:17,560 Speaker 1: at so many of the nation's airports. Anecdotally, I am 26 00:01:17,600 --> 00:01:20,640 Speaker 1: hearing stories people showing up three four hours early for 27 00:01:20,720 --> 00:01:22,920 Speaker 1: their flights. Personally, I'm actually supposed to hop on a 28 00:01:22,959 --> 00:01:26,679 Speaker 1: plane in two days this Wednesday to fly over to 29 00:01:26,920 --> 00:01:29,920 Speaker 1: Dallas for worth. I will be speaking at SEAPAK at 30 00:01:29,920 --> 00:01:32,160 Speaker 1: the Big Conservative Conference, and it is held this year 31 00:01:32,200 --> 00:01:35,320 Speaker 1: at the Gaylor text Im speaking this Thursday, late afternoon. 32 00:01:35,400 --> 00:01:37,880 Speaker 1: So if you're going to attend this conference at the 33 00:01:37,880 --> 00:01:40,920 Speaker 1: Gaylor Textan in grape Vine, Texas, right near the DFW Airport, 34 00:01:40,959 --> 00:01:43,040 Speaker 1: make sure to come find me and police say hello, 35 00:01:43,520 --> 00:01:45,920 Speaker 1: and be on the lookout for my speech. It's going 36 00:01:45,959 --> 00:01:47,840 Speaker 1: to be a spicy one. I had a feeling it 37 00:01:47,880 --> 00:01:50,600 Speaker 1: actually might be making some headlines come Friday morning. We 38 00:01:50,640 --> 00:01:53,560 Speaker 1: will certainly address it at the time here on the 39 00:01:53,640 --> 00:01:56,560 Speaker 1: Josh Hammer Show. But America's airports continue to be a 40 00:01:56,560 --> 00:01:59,000 Speaker 1: master in at least four hundred TSA employees who have 41 00:01:59,040 --> 00:02:03,120 Speaker 1: actually called the quits since the shutdown began, which is 42 00:02:03,320 --> 00:02:06,600 Speaker 1: no small amount. It has been a national call out 43 00:02:06,720 --> 00:02:09,840 Speaker 1: rate of ten percent at TSA on more than half 44 00:02:09,840 --> 00:02:12,360 Speaker 1: the days of the week, says Lauren Biss, was the 45 00:02:12,880 --> 00:02:17,800 Speaker 1: acting Assistant Secretary of Public Affairs at DHS. Now, TSA 46 00:02:17,960 --> 00:02:20,360 Speaker 1: has run sixty five thousand employees, So in the grands 47 00:02:20,360 --> 00:02:22,960 Speaker 1: giving things, four hundred eployees call in the quits is 48 00:02:23,120 --> 00:02:26,080 Speaker 1: not necessarily a huge deal, but considered, this is an 49 00:02:26,080 --> 00:02:28,200 Speaker 1: agency that has really stretched thin as today is talking 50 00:02:28,240 --> 00:02:32,480 Speaker 1: about people that have missed paychecks there, and your mileage 51 00:02:32,520 --> 00:02:34,680 Speaker 1: may vary as to what exactly you make of this 52 00:02:35,080 --> 00:02:37,560 Speaker 1: of people quitting while they are missing paychecks. If you 53 00:02:37,600 --> 00:02:40,359 Speaker 1: already federal government employee and you're missing paychecks due twig 54 00:02:40,440 --> 00:02:43,600 Speaker 1: government shutdown, you're going to get that money back after 55 00:02:43,639 --> 00:02:46,880 Speaker 1: the government is funded, So you might think of this 56 00:02:47,160 --> 00:02:51,840 Speaker 1: as something of a short sighted, myopic maneuver. Now, having 57 00:02:51,840 --> 00:02:53,760 Speaker 1: said that, if you're planning on quitting anyway, made it 58 00:02:53,840 --> 00:02:56,560 Speaker 1: is just the convenient excuse and the fig leaf that 59 00:02:57,240 --> 00:03:00,000 Speaker 1: you needed there. In theory, there's something to be said 60 00:03:00,200 --> 00:03:03,760 Speaker 1: that if you are serving the public, which, again theory 61 00:03:04,040 --> 00:03:05,639 Speaker 1: is what the government is supposed to do, right, The 62 00:03:05,680 --> 00:03:07,840 Speaker 1: government is supposed to be of buying for the people. 63 00:03:08,040 --> 00:03:11,640 Speaker 1: Famously put it at Gettysburg from Maingham Lincoln in eighteen 64 00:03:11,720 --> 00:03:14,359 Speaker 1: sixty three. And I'm not saying that every TSA employee 65 00:03:14,400 --> 00:03:17,480 Speaker 1: has this grand philosophical conception of his or her job, 66 00:03:17,520 --> 00:03:19,799 Speaker 1: but theory, you probably should be serving the public there. 67 00:03:19,840 --> 00:03:21,200 Speaker 1: So I'm not sure that this is the time, with 68 00:03:21,280 --> 00:03:23,360 Speaker 1: all these catastrophic way times of the airports, I'm not 69 00:03:23,360 --> 00:03:25,239 Speaker 1: sure this is really the time to try to pull 70 00:03:25,320 --> 00:03:29,040 Speaker 1: some sort of myopic, short sighted stunts. Interestingly, here on Monday, 71 00:03:29,160 --> 00:03:30,839 Speaker 1: March twenty third, this is the first day that Donald 72 00:03:30,840 --> 00:03:33,640 Speaker 1: Trump has announced that ICE ICE agents are heading to 73 00:03:33,800 --> 00:03:38,320 Speaker 1: thirteen airports now all across the country, and Democrats are 74 00:03:38,360 --> 00:03:42,480 Speaker 1: now causing some new nonsensical ruckus over this. How dare 75 00:03:42,520 --> 00:03:44,640 Speaker 1: of the ICE agents go to help you while we 76 00:03:44,640 --> 00:03:47,760 Speaker 1: refuse to fund TSA? How dare dal trump scent is 77 00:03:48,120 --> 00:03:50,720 Speaker 1: jack boot thugs there to the airports to try to 78 00:03:50,720 --> 00:03:52,680 Speaker 1: make sure that you get through the security line while 79 00:03:52,760 --> 00:03:55,600 Speaker 1: we the congressman centaters can get our private security and 80 00:03:55,680 --> 00:03:58,280 Speaker 1: just hop on a plane there. Oh yeah, there's no hypocrisy. 81 00:03:58,360 --> 00:03:58,800 Speaker 2: There is. 82 00:03:58,840 --> 00:04:01,800 Speaker 1: It's again Democrats, Chris Murphy a kinetic if people like 83 00:04:01,840 --> 00:04:05,320 Speaker 1: that making a big stink of the fact that ICE 84 00:04:05,600 --> 00:04:07,960 Speaker 1: is now doing some of the job that TSA. But 85 00:04:08,040 --> 00:04:10,960 Speaker 1: we do, guys, if you don't want ICE to serve 86 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:16,919 Speaker 1: the airports, maybe maybe just fund the TSA. There are 87 00:04:16,960 --> 00:04:20,200 Speaker 1: all these amendments that there was essentially this voter rama 88 00:04:20,400 --> 00:04:22,120 Speaker 1: in the US Senate over the weekend, part of the 89 00:04:22,160 --> 00:04:26,440 Speaker 1: ongoing extensive debates over the Save America Act, this Indispensable 90 00:04:26,480 --> 00:04:31,599 Speaker 1: Voter ID proof of citizenship, voter integrity legislation, and as 91 00:04:31,680 --> 00:04:35,160 Speaker 1: part of the amendments that came up, there was a 92 00:04:35,640 --> 00:04:38,880 Speaker 1: bill that to fully fund ICE, the TSA, and other 93 00:04:39,240 --> 00:04:40,440 Speaker 1: DHS agencies. 94 00:04:40,640 --> 00:04:42,000 Speaker 2: This came up for the fifth time. 95 00:04:42,160 --> 00:04:45,720 Speaker 1: John Fetterman was the only Democrat in the United States 96 00:04:45,760 --> 00:04:49,120 Speaker 1: Senate to vote ts to fully fund TSTSA and DHS. 97 00:04:49,320 --> 00:04:53,640 Speaker 1: So if you are out there and potentially like me 98 00:04:53,680 --> 00:04:55,760 Speaker 1: on Wednesday, we will say, if you are stuck at 99 00:04:55,760 --> 00:04:58,360 Speaker 1: these horrific lines of the airports there, you're talking multi 100 00:04:58,400 --> 00:05:02,320 Speaker 1: hour wait times for this security. Again TSA, they've been 101 00:05:02,320 --> 00:05:05,320 Speaker 1: talking about the possibility to shutting down shutting down airports 102 00:05:05,360 --> 00:05:08,080 Speaker 1: if they get that severely understaff, speaking of the role 103 00:05:08,120 --> 00:05:11,480 Speaker 1: of public service employees to really kind of step up there. 104 00:05:12,040 --> 00:05:15,839 Speaker 1: Think about this. John Fetterman is the only Senator to 105 00:05:16,120 --> 00:05:19,719 Speaker 1: try to avoid this outcome, the only one, the only 106 00:05:19,760 --> 00:05:23,200 Speaker 1: one in this election year with some vulnerable Democrats on 107 00:05:23,360 --> 00:05:26,599 Speaker 1: the ballot of this November John Osoff of Georgia comes 108 00:05:26,640 --> 00:05:29,800 Speaker 1: to mind. Hartsfield Jackson Airport in Atlanta is a notorious, 109 00:05:29,839 --> 00:05:32,920 Speaker 1: a notorious nightmare when it comes to pedestrian traffic, when 110 00:05:32,920 --> 00:05:35,320 Speaker 1: it comes to air traffic, there's an extraordinarily busy airport. 111 00:05:35,920 --> 00:05:40,560 Speaker 1: There should be billboard signs from the NRC from conservative 112 00:05:40,640 --> 00:05:45,640 Speaker 1: super packs all that you should be blasting, blasting the 113 00:05:45,720 --> 00:05:49,279 Speaker 1: highway corridor they are getting to Hartsfield Jackson International Airport 114 00:05:49,360 --> 00:05:54,080 Speaker 1: in Atlanta, Georgia, that I eighty five corridor, just blasting 115 00:05:54,160 --> 00:05:58,080 Speaker 1: that with John Asoff refuses to fund TSA. Frankly, if 116 00:05:58,080 --> 00:06:00,279 Speaker 1: the NRC is not paying attention to that, there, they're 117 00:06:00,320 --> 00:06:02,880 Speaker 1: not saying that John Assoff and by extension, every Democrat 118 00:06:02,960 --> 00:06:07,480 Speaker 1: than John Freman is voting to prioritize illegal aliens over 119 00:06:07,720 --> 00:06:12,640 Speaker 1: your convenience, indeed over your safety at America's airports. Then 120 00:06:12,680 --> 00:06:15,240 Speaker 1: the NRC and others are frankly just not doing their 121 00:06:15,320 --> 00:06:18,240 Speaker 1: job whatever it's worth. Despite all the noise from Chris 122 00:06:18,360 --> 00:06:22,760 Speaker 1: Murphy and others, the deput administrator of the TSA, Adam Stall, 123 00:06:23,600 --> 00:06:25,560 Speaker 1: went on the air of the weekend to say that 124 00:06:25,600 --> 00:06:28,320 Speaker 1: he is very grateful that ICE is now assisting in 125 00:06:28,320 --> 00:06:29,440 Speaker 1: the TSA at the airports. 126 00:06:29,440 --> 00:06:31,280 Speaker 2: Here is Adam Stall, the TSA. 127 00:06:31,360 --> 00:06:33,120 Speaker 3: As the days continue, this is going to continue to 128 00:06:33,120 --> 00:06:36,080 Speaker 3: get worse. We are certainly grateful, of course for President Trump, 129 00:06:36,200 --> 00:06:38,960 Speaker 3: Director Lions and where is our home and for the 130 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:42,279 Speaker 3: ICE support and they're going to be conducting non specialized 131 00:06:42,279 --> 00:06:46,000 Speaker 3: security support, you know, manning the exit lanes, crowd management, 132 00:06:46,040 --> 00:06:49,839 Speaker 3: line control. So we're incredibly grateful again for their support 133 00:06:49,880 --> 00:06:52,599 Speaker 3: to help believiate the challenges that our officers are facing, 134 00:06:52,680 --> 00:06:54,920 Speaker 3: that the traveling population is facing. 135 00:06:54,960 --> 00:06:56,640 Speaker 2: But we're hopeful. 136 00:06:56,640 --> 00:06:58,480 Speaker 3: But we're going to continue to focus on the mission 137 00:06:58,960 --> 00:07:00,840 Speaker 3: and if this drags on, it's going to continue to 138 00:07:00,839 --> 00:07:01,240 Speaker 3: get worse. 139 00:07:01,560 --> 00:07:02,680 Speaker 2: But we are certainly hopeful. 140 00:07:03,080 --> 00:07:06,760 Speaker 1: And in my dragon at this point, what is the 141 00:07:06,760 --> 00:07:09,720 Speaker 1: incentive of Democrats to end this that they haven't already felt? 142 00:07:09,720 --> 00:07:12,880 Speaker 1: Impardons is the media bias. The media refuses to place 143 00:07:12,920 --> 00:07:15,120 Speaker 1: the blame for this squarely at the feet of Democrats. 144 00:07:15,160 --> 00:07:18,920 Speaker 1: They're trying to ludicrously suggest that this is the Donald Trump, 145 00:07:19,360 --> 00:07:22,880 Speaker 1: John thun Mike Johnson shutdown. In what world does that 146 00:07:22,920 --> 00:07:23,400 Speaker 1: make sense? 147 00:07:23,600 --> 00:07:23,840 Speaker 4: Again? 148 00:07:23,960 --> 00:07:27,640 Speaker 1: Fetterman literally the only Democrat to vote to fun TSA 149 00:07:27,800 --> 00:07:31,120 Speaker 1: and other parts of DHS. It's totally nonsensical and hopefully 150 00:07:31,200 --> 00:07:33,160 Speaker 1: they do not get away with that, i'lbit they unfortunately 151 00:07:33,240 --> 00:07:34,920 Speaker 1: have done so so far, but in the meantime they're 152 00:07:34,960 --> 00:07:38,800 Speaker 1: causing a veriable mess for American travelers of all stripes. 153 00:07:38,800 --> 00:07:41,520 Speaker 1: Was actually just a horrible tragedy actually at the Guardy 154 00:07:41,560 --> 00:07:43,760 Speaker 1: Airport in New York City, just on Sunday evening, a 155 00:07:43,840 --> 00:07:47,040 Speaker 1: Regional Air Canada jets colliding with a fire truck. Both 156 00:07:47,040 --> 00:07:50,040 Speaker 1: pilots were killed, the air traffic control employee taking blame 157 00:07:50,040 --> 00:07:52,560 Speaker 1: for that. I'm not necessarily saying that that has to 158 00:07:52,600 --> 00:07:55,360 Speaker 1: do with the DHS shutdown. 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So 184 00:09:07,360 --> 00:09:10,120 Speaker 1: the airports here on the home front are avaiable mess 185 00:09:10,160 --> 00:09:13,239 Speaker 1: and as we just discussed, it is Democrats that bear. 186 00:09:13,400 --> 00:09:14,560 Speaker 2: Essentially the exclusive blame. 187 00:09:14,800 --> 00:09:18,679 Speaker 1: Really, I don't actually understand the arguments that Republicans bear 188 00:09:18,760 --> 00:09:21,120 Speaker 1: any of the blame for this. You have to recall 189 00:09:21,320 --> 00:09:25,880 Speaker 1: that these immigration agencies that Democrats are trying to defund, 190 00:09:26,559 --> 00:09:29,600 Speaker 1: this is the dirty little accounting secret here, they're actually 191 00:09:29,679 --> 00:09:32,960 Speaker 1: already funded for the remainder of this fiscal year. On 192 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:36,600 Speaker 1: government's fiscal year begins and ends around the time of 193 00:09:36,679 --> 00:09:37,760 Speaker 1: late September Setember thirty. 194 00:09:37,800 --> 00:09:38,360 Speaker 2: That O'stober first. 195 00:09:38,360 --> 00:09:40,400 Speaker 1: That's why there's a big annual funding crisis that that 196 00:09:40,480 --> 00:09:42,360 Speaker 1: time of the year every year. Because Congress can't do 197 00:09:42,400 --> 00:09:45,560 Speaker 1: its job and can't pass like an actual normal appropriations budget. 198 00:09:46,440 --> 00:09:49,640 Speaker 1: It's essentially funded until then, or at least until very 199 00:09:49,640 --> 00:09:53,679 Speaker 1: close to them. So what exactly are they trying to accomplish, Well, 200 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:56,120 Speaker 1: they're trying to just force concessions. They're trying to force 201 00:09:56,160 --> 00:10:01,480 Speaker 1: concessions here to make more painful cuts. But again it's 202 00:10:01,520 --> 00:10:06,000 Speaker 1: not a blank slate. Typically when you're negotiating and something 203 00:10:06,080 --> 00:10:09,560 Speaker 1: is already locked in, that is a much weaker negotiating musician. 204 00:10:09,559 --> 00:10:11,959 Speaker 1: If you're trying to force concessions. Then if it's an 205 00:10:11,960 --> 00:10:14,720 Speaker 1: open question and you're just seeking to become the first 206 00:10:14,720 --> 00:10:16,680 Speaker 1: to define it, become the first to kind of define 207 00:10:16,960 --> 00:10:19,440 Speaker 1: whether there should be conditions or strings attached to funding 208 00:10:19,520 --> 00:10:23,360 Speaker 1: or this there, that's not the Democrats position, that's really not. 209 00:10:23,559 --> 00:10:29,000 Speaker 1: Immigration is currently funded now. Mark Waynemullan also appears set 210 00:10:29,040 --> 00:10:31,800 Speaker 1: to be confirmed as soon as today actually to be 211 00:10:31,880 --> 00:10:35,160 Speaker 1: the next Secretary of Homeland Security. If not, say it 212 00:10:35,160 --> 00:10:38,720 Speaker 1: will happen imminently that because again John Fetterman, there's that 213 00:10:38,800 --> 00:10:42,160 Speaker 1: name again, John fred became the only Democrat actually to 214 00:10:42,360 --> 00:10:45,760 Speaker 1: vote to fund in its entirety the Department, the Department 215 00:10:45,880 --> 00:10:49,200 Speaker 1: of Homeland Security. There So this is looking like an 216 00:10:49,240 --> 00:10:53,960 Speaker 1: increasingly good political issue for Republicans come this November. Think 217 00:10:54,040 --> 00:10:56,640 Speaker 1: back to the State of the Union address that happened 218 00:10:56,800 --> 00:10:58,800 Speaker 1: just about a month ago or so. At the stand 219 00:10:58,800 --> 00:11:01,960 Speaker 1: of the Union desk, Donald Trump had this remarkable, this 220 00:11:02,120 --> 00:11:05,720 Speaker 1: remarkable line where it was just baiting Democrats and the fools, 221 00:11:05,760 --> 00:11:08,400 Speaker 1: the blithering fools that they are. They just took the 222 00:11:08,760 --> 00:11:12,439 Speaker 1: Baits hook Line and Sinker, and he says, stand up 223 00:11:12,679 --> 00:11:15,920 Speaker 1: if you think that America and that we as represent 224 00:11:16,080 --> 00:11:19,040 Speaker 1: is that we are here to support you, the citizen, 225 00:11:19,160 --> 00:11:21,400 Speaker 1: and not the legal aliens. All the Republicans get up 226 00:11:21,400 --> 00:11:24,600 Speaker 1: and they're standing there. In the Democrats, no one maybe 227 00:11:24,600 --> 00:11:26,959 Speaker 1: Fetter Man I don't even remember, but virtually no one. 228 00:11:27,640 --> 00:11:30,520 Speaker 1: So you take that, you take this, and that I suggested, 229 00:11:30,720 --> 00:11:34,520 Speaker 1: especially in Atlanta, Georgia outside the airport blasting John assof there, guys, 230 00:11:34,760 --> 00:11:36,959 Speaker 1: there is your midterm election. Now there's a lot of 231 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:38,720 Speaker 1: chatter about the war and rama gets in just a 232 00:11:38,720 --> 00:11:40,920 Speaker 1: second there. How is that going to affect the midterm elections? 233 00:11:41,280 --> 00:11:43,760 Speaker 1: How is this? How is energy? How is prices? Inflation? 234 00:11:43,840 --> 00:11:45,200 Speaker 1: Costs to wilving, affordability? 235 00:11:45,240 --> 00:11:45,560 Speaker 2: Healthcare? 236 00:11:45,559 --> 00:11:47,800 Speaker 1: Blah blah blah blah blah blah. There's no shortage of 237 00:11:47,840 --> 00:11:50,040 Speaker 1: stuff happening. It's politics. Welcome to that. Okay, it's the 238 00:11:50,040 --> 00:11:53,199 Speaker 1: era of Trump. Things are doubly triply chaotic, but sticks 239 00:11:53,240 --> 00:11:56,000 Speaker 1: to Brendan Butter, Republicans, there a lot of these issues 240 00:11:56,080 --> 00:11:58,720 Speaker 1: ultimately were down to your benefits. The only question, frankly, 241 00:11:58,920 --> 00:12:03,080 Speaker 1: is whether Republicans are capable of messaging effectively on it. That, 242 00:12:03,160 --> 00:12:06,520 Speaker 1: unfortunately is a question that's proven elusive Republicans for too 243 00:12:06,520 --> 00:12:08,760 Speaker 1: many times in the past. The time for a quick 244 00:12:08,760 --> 00:12:10,240 Speaker 1: mercer breaks there, this will be right back on the 245 00:12:10,280 --> 00:12:18,439 Speaker 1: other time. Welcome back. So while Democrats continue to shut 246 00:12:18,520 --> 00:12:22,400 Speaker 1: down TSA and by extension, shut down at least your 247 00:12:22,480 --> 00:12:26,480 Speaker 1: convenience at America's major airports, things continue to happen overseas. 248 00:12:26,880 --> 00:12:30,320 Speaker 1: The war in Iram continues. We are now weeks into 249 00:12:30,440 --> 00:12:33,439 Speaker 1: this war. We will be approaching the one month anniversary 250 00:12:33,440 --> 00:12:36,400 Speaker 1: that will be happening later this week this Saturday, will 251 00:12:36,400 --> 00:12:40,080 Speaker 1: be one month to the day since the initial fatal 252 00:12:40,120 --> 00:12:43,160 Speaker 1: strike of Ali Khameni, the thirty seven year old reigning 253 00:12:43,480 --> 00:12:47,880 Speaker 1: Tyrant Tyr, into Alvizon Republic of Aram. And it's been 254 00:12:47,920 --> 00:12:50,280 Speaker 1: something of an up and down affair for the past 255 00:12:50,320 --> 00:12:52,560 Speaker 1: week or so. I'm not speaking actually, just about the 256 00:12:52,640 --> 00:12:56,520 Speaker 1: actual on the ground military tactics and the operations, which 257 00:12:56,520 --> 00:12:59,520 Speaker 1: continue to go very well for the United States and 258 00:12:59,800 --> 00:13:01,960 Speaker 1: is our ally, who has joined us in this fight 259 00:13:02,040 --> 00:13:05,080 Speaker 1: since day one. Albeit, things did get dicey on the 260 00:13:05,120 --> 00:13:07,600 Speaker 1: Israeli home front over the weekend, dice than they had 261 00:13:07,600 --> 00:13:10,080 Speaker 1: probably been actually since the very early days of the war. 262 00:13:10,520 --> 00:13:13,720 Speaker 1: There was a terrible, terrible missile blast in a couple 263 00:13:13,760 --> 00:13:16,240 Speaker 1: of southern Israeli cities. Actually one that was in Demona, 264 00:13:16,320 --> 00:13:19,480 Speaker 1: which is where the long rumored albeit not fully verified, 265 00:13:19,480 --> 00:13:22,000 Speaker 1: but long rumored Israeli a nuclear program was actually in 266 00:13:22,080 --> 00:13:25,080 Speaker 1: the town of Demona. It seems like Iron was potentially 267 00:13:25,080 --> 00:13:28,160 Speaker 1: trying to hit Demonas, maybe trying to make a nuclear 268 00:13:28,200 --> 00:13:31,840 Speaker 1: reactor go boom. That obviously didn't happen. Unfortunately. There were 269 00:13:31,840 --> 00:13:34,440 Speaker 1: one hundreds injured at least more or two fatalities in 270 00:13:34,480 --> 00:13:38,120 Speaker 1: another southern town called a Rod. Various other Arab countries 271 00:13:38,160 --> 00:13:42,079 Speaker 1: continued to be hit as well. Saudi Arabia, Various other 272 00:13:42,200 --> 00:13:44,920 Speaker 1: Gulf states continued to take incoming fire, albeit none of 273 00:13:44,920 --> 00:13:47,080 Speaker 1: them thus far have actually stepped up to join the fight. 274 00:13:47,480 --> 00:13:50,080 Speaker 1: These Arab countries, I have to say, guys, a lot 275 00:13:50,080 --> 00:13:52,400 Speaker 1: of these Arab countries that America considers to be ally 276 00:13:52,520 --> 00:13:55,280 Speaker 1: Saudi Arabia, the Yui. I'm not saying that they're not allies, 277 00:13:55,720 --> 00:13:58,160 Speaker 1: but man, are they a bunch of cowards when it 278 00:13:58,200 --> 00:13:59,960 Speaker 1: comes to actually fighting wars. 279 00:14:00,520 --> 00:14:02,040 Speaker 2: They talk a big talk. 280 00:14:03,080 --> 00:14:05,240 Speaker 1: A lot of them talk behind the scenes to Donald 281 00:14:05,240 --> 00:14:09,240 Speaker 1: Trum apparently Mohammed bin Salman the Crown Prince in Riyad 282 00:14:10,080 --> 00:14:12,880 Speaker 1: was privately encouraging Donald Trump before the war started to 283 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:16,880 Speaker 1: actually take offensive military action against Iran and to bomb 284 00:14:16,920 --> 00:14:19,400 Speaker 1: them back to the Middle Ages. He didn't say ay 285 00:14:19,480 --> 00:14:23,360 Speaker 1: that publicly. On the contrary, publicly, he actually was doing 286 00:14:23,440 --> 00:14:25,200 Speaker 1: something of the opposite. If you go back on our 287 00:14:25,240 --> 00:14:27,400 Speaker 1: show at the time, just part of the war, we 288 00:14:27,400 --> 00:14:30,320 Speaker 1: were covering how Saudi Arabia at the time appeared like 289 00:14:30,320 --> 00:14:31,480 Speaker 1: he was heading in the wrong direction. 290 00:14:31,960 --> 00:14:32,240 Speaker 4: They had. 291 00:14:32,240 --> 00:14:34,680 Speaker 1: They had a month long campaign that seemed like it 292 00:14:34,720 --> 00:14:37,760 Speaker 1: was floirting with the Muslim Brotherhood, which was actually label 293 00:14:37,760 --> 00:14:40,320 Speaker 1: as a terrorist organization in the King of Saudi Arabia. 294 00:14:40,520 --> 00:14:45,440 Speaker 1: The state spinds or Saudi TV channels were actually sounding deeply, 295 00:14:45,520 --> 00:14:48,000 Speaker 1: deeply hostile to Israel at a time where the Crown 296 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:50,480 Speaker 1: Prince was apparently behind the scenes saying a lot of 297 00:14:50,480 --> 00:14:52,960 Speaker 1: pleasant stuff and kind of talking up Trump. I mean 298 00:14:54,120 --> 00:14:56,200 Speaker 1: square this circle for me. So these guys continued, frankly 299 00:14:56,240 --> 00:14:58,720 Speaker 1: to be a bunch of cowards. So for now, essentially 300 00:14:58,760 --> 00:15:03,480 Speaker 1: a month into the war, is just a US Israeli operation. Again, 301 00:15:03,680 --> 00:15:07,040 Speaker 1: there is a verbal commitment from some of these NATO countries, 302 00:15:07,080 --> 00:15:11,320 Speaker 1: the US, UK, France, Italy, Germany, allegedly Japan and possiblyve 303 00:15:11,320 --> 00:15:14,160 Speaker 1: in South Korea to help the United States and Israel 304 00:15:14,160 --> 00:15:16,400 Speaker 1: when it comes to was becoming the battle for the 305 00:15:16,440 --> 00:15:19,080 Speaker 1: Straits of for Mouse, I have not seen a whole 306 00:15:19,080 --> 00:15:22,440 Speaker 1: lot of concrete confirmation in terms of that, in terms 307 00:15:22,440 --> 00:15:26,120 Speaker 1: of actual assets being deployed to the region. Certainly, we 308 00:15:26,240 --> 00:15:29,120 Speaker 1: will update you when we have more information on that. 309 00:15:29,200 --> 00:15:32,560 Speaker 1: Now over the weekend, Don Trump giving your on a 310 00:15:32,680 --> 00:15:37,200 Speaker 1: forty eight hour pretty harsh and straightforward ultimatum and San 311 00:15:37,360 --> 00:15:40,000 Speaker 1: you guys have forty eight hours to fully open the 312 00:15:40,040 --> 00:15:42,720 Speaker 1: Straight of hor Moose, this crucial twenty one mile wide chook, 313 00:15:42,720 --> 00:15:44,840 Speaker 1: one through which one fifth of the world's oil flows, 314 00:15:45,320 --> 00:15:48,800 Speaker 1: Trump saying, in very clear language, you have forty eight 315 00:15:48,880 --> 00:15:51,880 Speaker 1: hours to open this strait or else we are going 316 00:15:51,920 --> 00:15:53,280 Speaker 1: to strike your power plants. 317 00:15:53,320 --> 00:15:53,480 Speaker 2: Now. 318 00:15:53,480 --> 00:15:56,280 Speaker 1: That forty eight hour deadline, as of this morning Monday morning, 319 00:15:57,080 --> 00:16:00,520 Speaker 1: was set to expire at some point today. However, very 320 00:16:00,560 --> 00:16:02,920 Speaker 1: early this morning, before the new cycle really started, Donald 321 00:16:02,960 --> 00:16:05,840 Speaker 1: Trump took to to do social media, to do true 322 00:16:05,880 --> 00:16:08,160 Speaker 1: social and said that he's calling off that he is 323 00:16:08,320 --> 00:16:12,080 Speaker 1: calling off these strikes for now on Iran's power network, 324 00:16:12,400 --> 00:16:16,200 Speaker 1: irrespective regardless of what happens when it comes to Iran 325 00:16:16,280 --> 00:16:19,280 Speaker 1: and the street or for moves, because negotiations are currently 326 00:16:19,320 --> 00:16:22,200 Speaker 1: happening behind the scenes. When it comes to the US 327 00:16:22,200 --> 00:16:25,480 Speaker 1: and Iram, these negotiations are potentially going very well and maybe, 328 00:16:25,560 --> 00:16:28,120 Speaker 1: just maybe there actually will be a total end tier 329 00:16:28,240 --> 00:16:31,160 Speaker 1: to the conflict, potentially in fall. So, for instance, Donald 330 00:16:31,160 --> 00:16:33,280 Speaker 1: Trump flew to Memphis, Tennessee today for an event that 331 00:16:33,320 --> 00:16:36,720 Speaker 1: he is doing with Pete Hegseth. Here was troum before 332 00:16:36,800 --> 00:16:39,760 Speaker 1: taking off from Dover Airbase to go down to Memphis. 333 00:16:39,800 --> 00:16:41,920 Speaker 1: Here here was from speaking on the Iran issue, or in. 334 00:16:41,960 --> 00:16:43,880 Speaker 3: Ministry says you're not telling the truth. 335 00:16:43,920 --> 00:16:45,800 Speaker 2: When it comes to productive. 336 00:16:45,280 --> 00:16:47,080 Speaker 4: Conversations stand the world, They're going to have to get 337 00:16:47,120 --> 00:16:52,120 Speaker 4: themselves better public relations. Faateful. We have that very very 338 00:16:52,160 --> 00:16:56,640 Speaker 4: strong talks. We'll see where they lead. We have points 339 00:16:56,680 --> 00:16:59,320 Speaker 4: of major points of agreement. I would say almost all 340 00:16:59,320 --> 00:17:03,880 Speaker 4: points of agree Perhaps that hasn't been conveyed. The communication, 341 00:17:04,040 --> 00:17:06,399 Speaker 4: as you know, has been blown to pieces. They were 342 00:17:06,440 --> 00:17:09,200 Speaker 4: unable to talk to each other. So we've had very 343 00:17:09,240 --> 00:17:13,240 Speaker 4: strong talks. Mister witch Goff and mister Kushner had them. 344 00:17:13,320 --> 00:17:17,800 Speaker 1: Okay, So the purpose of talks is to get you 345 00:17:17,880 --> 00:17:20,720 Speaker 1: closer to a goal. This is one of our big 346 00:17:20,760 --> 00:17:22,440 Speaker 1: themes here when we talk about FIGN policy here on 347 00:17:22,560 --> 00:17:25,480 Speaker 1: Josh hammershow is there is a crucial distinction between means 348 00:17:25,480 --> 00:17:29,560 Speaker 1: and ends. There is a distinction between tactics and endgame. 349 00:17:30,119 --> 00:17:33,840 Speaker 1: This is one of the greatest criticisms of Barack Obama's 350 00:17:33,840 --> 00:17:34,880 Speaker 1: Iran foreign policy. 351 00:17:34,960 --> 00:17:37,680 Speaker 2: I'm not comparing Trump to Obama and Iran. They are 352 00:17:37,960 --> 00:17:38,840 Speaker 2: very very different. 353 00:17:38,960 --> 00:17:42,120 Speaker 1: But in general, Barack Obama and Joe Biden's FORIGN policy 354 00:17:42,560 --> 00:17:46,520 Speaker 1: was predicated upon diplomacy with Iran for the sake of diplomacy. 355 00:17:46,520 --> 00:17:49,639 Speaker 1: In other words, diplomacy was the end goal. The goal 356 00:17:49,920 --> 00:17:52,600 Speaker 1: was a deal, any deal essentially, no matter what the cause. 357 00:17:53,480 --> 00:17:56,280 Speaker 1: That is a problem. In general, that is a problem 358 00:17:56,359 --> 00:17:59,360 Speaker 1: unless you are just negotiating from an extraordinarily we position 359 00:17:59,640 --> 00:18:02,119 Speaker 1: and you don't really just don't care about what's in 360 00:18:02,119 --> 00:18:03,960 Speaker 1: the deal. You just want to get this off your plate, 361 00:18:04,000 --> 00:18:06,440 Speaker 1: no matter what period, full stop, end of story. Because 362 00:18:06,440 --> 00:18:09,760 Speaker 1: the costs of reaching no deal whatsoever are higher than 363 00:18:09,920 --> 00:18:11,840 Speaker 1: the cost of reaching a deal, even if it is 364 00:18:11,960 --> 00:18:14,399 Speaker 1: just a total stink bomb and a total crappy turred 365 00:18:14,400 --> 00:18:18,160 Speaker 1: sandwich of a deal. Here, Donald Trump is not doing 366 00:18:18,160 --> 00:18:21,439 Speaker 1: that he took aggressive assertive action, has tapped it up 367 00:18:21,480 --> 00:18:24,680 Speaker 1: now for close to a month. And that does raise 368 00:18:24,680 --> 00:18:27,080 Speaker 1: the question here you're talking here about Kushner, Wick Cough 369 00:18:27,840 --> 00:18:31,640 Speaker 1: are diplomats overseas. What is the goal? What is the 370 00:18:31,680 --> 00:18:35,119 Speaker 1: actual goal of these talks? And the goal, as we 371 00:18:35,200 --> 00:18:37,760 Speaker 1: have said since day one, this conflict with our first 372 00:18:37,800 --> 00:18:41,160 Speaker 1: chowfall on the assassination of the Iola commente, the goal 373 00:18:41,200 --> 00:18:43,680 Speaker 1: for the United States is the neutralization of the islam 374 00:18:43,720 --> 00:18:46,400 Speaker 1: Republic of Iran as a threat to the United States 375 00:18:46,520 --> 00:18:50,359 Speaker 1: and to American interest. Here is the problem. The problem 376 00:18:50,480 --> 00:18:53,080 Speaker 1: is that that goal on its own terms has actually 377 00:18:53,240 --> 00:18:54,640 Speaker 1: not been met yet. 378 00:18:55,000 --> 00:18:55,520 Speaker 2: It hasn't. 379 00:18:55,800 --> 00:18:57,920 Speaker 1: How I know that, Well, there's a lot of waste 380 00:18:57,920 --> 00:19:00,159 Speaker 1: to know that. But among the ways know that is 381 00:19:00,200 --> 00:19:03,560 Speaker 1: that just over the weekend, Ron did something that a 382 00:19:03,600 --> 00:19:06,119 Speaker 1: lot of these so called experts swore they couldn't do. 383 00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:11,679 Speaker 1: They actually flew missiles at locations over two thousand miles 384 00:19:11,680 --> 00:19:15,240 Speaker 1: away from Tehran. I'm talking here about Diego Garcia, which 385 00:19:15,320 --> 00:19:18,280 Speaker 1: is this military base that historically in the post World 386 00:19:18,320 --> 00:19:20,639 Speaker 1: War two, Cold War and beyond era has been a 387 00:19:20,760 --> 00:19:24,840 Speaker 1: joint American British military base in the middle of the 388 00:19:24,840 --> 00:19:28,080 Speaker 1: Indian ocean. Frankly, it looks beautiful. The water just looks 389 00:19:28,119 --> 00:19:30,000 Speaker 1: absolutely delicious. I'm not sure how much time they really 390 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:31,600 Speaker 1: have to go swimming and enjoy it there, but it's 391 00:19:31,680 --> 00:19:33,760 Speaker 1: essentially in the middle of the ocean there. And there's 392 00:19:33,760 --> 00:19:36,840 Speaker 1: been a recent controversy because cure Starmer the total addle 393 00:19:36,880 --> 00:19:39,320 Speaker 1: brains left. This Prime Minister at ten Downing Street over 394 00:19:39,359 --> 00:19:42,520 Speaker 1: in the UK is essentially talking about trying to tell 395 00:19:42,560 --> 00:19:45,119 Speaker 1: the United States and the US Armed Forces to get lost. 396 00:19:45,119 --> 00:19:47,360 Speaker 1: They can't use Deava Garcia. It's been this whole standoff 397 00:19:47,359 --> 00:19:49,120 Speaker 1: when the many reason why Don Trum has been talking 398 00:19:49,119 --> 00:19:51,240 Speaker 1: a tougher game when it comes to the UK. 399 00:19:51,400 --> 00:19:53,160 Speaker 2: The UK, for what it's worth, has. 400 00:19:53,280 --> 00:19:55,359 Speaker 1: Many, many, many more issues on the home front of 401 00:19:55,600 --> 00:19:58,000 Speaker 1: just they really really really ought to focus on. For instance, 402 00:19:58,840 --> 00:20:01,000 Speaker 1: just this morning or maybe with the overnight hours on 403 00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:06,960 Speaker 1: Sunday night to Monday, there were four volunteer Jewish ambulances, 404 00:20:07,080 --> 00:20:10,800 Speaker 1: so the Jewish community worldwide, mostly in Israel, in the US, 405 00:20:10,840 --> 00:20:12,120 Speaker 1: I guess they have it in the UK and other 406 00:20:12,119 --> 00:20:16,280 Speaker 1: places too have had this volunteer ambulance services called tatsala 407 00:20:16,640 --> 00:20:19,080 Speaker 1: is the Hebrew word for it, to a very well 408 00:20:19,119 --> 00:20:22,960 Speaker 1: known organization these these blue and yellow ambulances, and in 409 00:20:22,960 --> 00:20:25,040 Speaker 1: a Jewish community in London's on the evening, four of 410 00:20:25,080 --> 00:20:28,600 Speaker 1: these ambulances were bombed and was obviously an anti Semitic acts. 411 00:20:28,680 --> 00:20:30,920 Speaker 1: The good news is that they've already raised a half 412 00:20:30,960 --> 00:20:34,320 Speaker 1: million to a million pounds British pounds to replace them. 413 00:20:34,560 --> 00:20:39,200 Speaker 1: The bad news is that my source, my best source 414 00:20:39,240 --> 00:20:42,880 Speaker 1: there over in London tells me that the popular thought 415 00:20:43,000 --> 00:20:46,000 Speaker 1: right now that this was activated by Iranian sleeper cells. 416 00:20:46,240 --> 00:20:48,920 Speaker 1: So Keirstarmer the UK, you guys have a lots of 417 00:20:48,920 --> 00:20:51,840 Speaker 1: folks on home, maybe just leave Diego Garcia. Let us 418 00:20:52,040 --> 00:20:54,159 Speaker 1: here in the United States really kind of do what 419 00:20:54,200 --> 00:20:57,320 Speaker 1: we want with that particular strategic military base. But taking 420 00:20:57,359 --> 00:20:59,160 Speaker 1: us back to Iran, the issue is that Iron tried 421 00:20:59,160 --> 00:21:02,280 Speaker 1: to fire missiles actually add Diego Garcia over the weekend. 422 00:21:02,640 --> 00:21:06,080 Speaker 1: This is twenty four hundred miles ish all the way 423 00:21:06,240 --> 00:21:10,440 Speaker 1: from Tehran. That is well beyond the limit that most 424 00:21:10,480 --> 00:21:12,680 Speaker 1: of the quote unquote experts thought that Iron careach was 425 00:21:12,680 --> 00:21:15,200 Speaker 1: they asked made to be around twelve hundred and fifty miles. 426 00:21:15,359 --> 00:21:19,520 Speaker 1: That would put most of Europe in play, including Wak 427 00:21:19,600 --> 00:21:22,600 Speaker 1: Nudge Nudge, most of if not at least a good 428 00:21:22,720 --> 00:21:27,040 Speaker 1: chunk of the United Kingdom itself. So all that has 429 00:21:27,040 --> 00:21:29,320 Speaker 1: to say that Iran still has his capability. They're still 430 00:21:29,400 --> 00:21:32,840 Speaker 1: launching missiles, apparently trying to launch missiles two thousand plus 431 00:21:32,880 --> 00:21:33,640 Speaker 1: miles away there. 432 00:21:33,920 --> 00:21:35,440 Speaker 2: So the job is not done. 433 00:21:35,840 --> 00:21:39,439 Speaker 1: It's just not And I understand that people are starting 434 00:21:40,080 --> 00:21:43,520 Speaker 1: to get a little ants there, but we're kicking butt. 435 00:21:44,200 --> 00:21:47,680 Speaker 1: The United States is fundamentally kicking butt in in this conflict. 436 00:21:48,320 --> 00:21:52,760 Speaker 1: Trump is defanging a fanged mammoth, an animal that has 437 00:21:52,760 --> 00:21:55,600 Speaker 1: been trying to hunt us down for forty seven years. 438 00:21:56,160 --> 00:21:58,240 Speaker 1: No one said this would be easy. It's not going 439 00:21:58,320 --> 00:22:01,840 Speaker 1: to be a multi year moraallistic forever war. Trump is 440 00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:05,560 Speaker 1: endingly forever war. And in the interim, the interim, it's 441 00:22:05,560 --> 00:22:09,320 Speaker 1: crucial as always that this mission be seen through. Folks 442 00:22:09,320 --> 00:22:10,879 Speaker 1: say it's through a quicker rush. Break will be right 443 00:22:10,920 --> 00:22:20,040 Speaker 1: back on the other side, welcome back. So Iran already is. 444 00:22:20,080 --> 00:22:22,000 Speaker 1: It is going to be an issue in the midterms 445 00:22:22,119 --> 00:22:25,160 Speaker 1: this fall. At this point, it is imperative that Donald 446 00:22:25,160 --> 00:22:27,480 Speaker 1: Trump Republicans simply just own that. I see I see 447 00:22:27,480 --> 00:22:29,480 Speaker 1: a lot of folks saying that this is a bad 448 00:22:29,560 --> 00:22:32,000 Speaker 1: hell that Republicans are going to get crushed on this issue. 449 00:22:32,240 --> 00:22:33,880 Speaker 2: Well, with all the respects. 450 00:22:33,480 --> 00:22:35,720 Speaker 1: That should have been taken into consideration prior to the 451 00:22:35,760 --> 00:22:37,879 Speaker 1: commencements of the operation. These are the things that you 452 00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:42,960 Speaker 1: think through prior to commencing a gargantuan, massive, massive bombing 453 00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:47,399 Speaker 1: campaign of a deeply hostile, islmis regime. So too when 454 00:22:47,440 --> 00:22:49,480 Speaker 1: it comes to energy, when it comes to oil, a 455 00:22:49,520 --> 00:22:52,560 Speaker 1: lot of folks saying that that the United States stalind Trump, Oh, 456 00:22:52,600 --> 00:22:54,640 Speaker 1: he didn't think through the Iranians. We're going to shut 457 00:22:54,640 --> 00:22:58,280 Speaker 1: down the street and form moves. Really literally, every single 458 00:22:58,359 --> 00:23:02,920 Speaker 1: war game, every single war game involving the Pentagon and 459 00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:08,200 Speaker 1: various other military planners involving Iran, every war game involving 460 00:23:08,240 --> 00:23:11,320 Speaker 1: a simulated stand off between the United States and Iran, 461 00:23:11,600 --> 00:23:14,000 Speaker 1: the Iranians first move is to cut off the Strait 462 00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:17,800 Speaker 1: of Hormuse. So I'm not buying this garbage that Donald 463 00:23:17,840 --> 00:23:21,120 Speaker 1: Trump's administration did not think this through. Of course, they 464 00:23:21,160 --> 00:23:23,919 Speaker 1: thought this through. They thought through all of it there. Now, 465 00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:25,960 Speaker 1: as far as what it means specifically when it comes 466 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:31,080 Speaker 1: to carg Island, when it comes to various other natural 467 00:23:31,080 --> 00:23:33,720 Speaker 1: gas oil facilities, there a lot of this is kinetic. 468 00:23:33,720 --> 00:23:36,160 Speaker 1: It is a very fluid situation, it's war, for God's sake. 469 00:23:36,200 --> 00:23:39,320 Speaker 1: It is very case by case, day by day, frankly 470 00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:42,040 Speaker 1: minuy by minute or second by second there. But the 471 00:23:42,040 --> 00:23:45,080 Speaker 1: commander in chief fundamentally knows what he is doing because 472 00:23:45,359 --> 00:23:47,720 Speaker 1: unlike Barack Obama and Joe Biden, as we were saying 473 00:23:47,720 --> 00:23:50,800 Speaker 1: a few minutes ago, he fundamentally understands that there is 474 00:23:50,840 --> 00:23:54,000 Speaker 1: a crucial distinction here between means and ends, between enunciate 475 00:23:54,160 --> 00:23:57,879 Speaker 1: end goals and tactics. And as long as he remains focus, 476 00:23:57,920 --> 00:24:00,600 Speaker 1: as long as he remains focused on the end goal, 477 00:24:00,960 --> 00:24:03,080 Speaker 1: on the actual end goal here and non the tactics, 478 00:24:03,320 --> 00:24:05,119 Speaker 1: that I think all is going to be okay. The 479 00:24:05,200 --> 00:24:07,240 Speaker 1: rumor for now, for what it's worth, the rumor for 480 00:24:07,320 --> 00:24:09,400 Speaker 1: now is that the US and RAN might actually sit 481 00:24:09,440 --> 00:24:11,879 Speaker 1: down at a table, might sit down at a table 482 00:24:11,960 --> 00:24:15,000 Speaker 1: as soon as potentially later this week. Again, these are 483 00:24:15,040 --> 00:24:18,119 Speaker 1: all rumors that are happening right now. They're saying the 484 00:24:18,119 --> 00:24:22,000 Speaker 1: summit could be in Pakistan, which is an interesting place 485 00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:24,000 Speaker 1: I guess for lack of a better word for hosting 486 00:24:24,040 --> 00:24:26,920 Speaker 1: this possible summit. The rumor that I saw is that 487 00:24:27,280 --> 00:24:31,560 Speaker 1: jd Vance could potentially be the US representative at this summit, 488 00:24:31,800 --> 00:24:34,040 Speaker 1: which is somewhat of a more defensive posture for the 489 00:24:34,119 --> 00:24:37,440 Speaker 1: United States, if so, given the fact that Politico had 490 00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:41,240 Speaker 1: this leaked story that he was the most skeptical voice 491 00:24:41,280 --> 00:24:43,600 Speaker 1: in the room, perhaps unsurprisingly when it came to the 492 00:24:43,600 --> 00:24:44,400 Speaker 1: Iran operation. 493 00:24:44,520 --> 00:24:44,720 Speaker 2: There. 494 00:24:44,920 --> 00:24:49,439 Speaker 1: So there are some potentially potentially less than aggressive signs, 495 00:24:49,480 --> 00:24:52,480 Speaker 1: you might say, from the administration there, But fundamentally, the commander 496 00:24:52,480 --> 00:24:55,680 Speaker 1: in chief here, I continue to think really really does 497 00:24:55,880 --> 00:24:59,679 Speaker 1: know what he is doing. Earlier today, at that same 498 00:25:00,359 --> 00:25:02,800 Speaker 1: press gaggle, when Trump was at Dover Air Brace rate 499 00:25:02,840 --> 00:25:06,920 Speaker 1: aboard the plane Memphis, Tennessee, at some point a reporter 500 00:25:07,080 --> 00:25:10,320 Speaker 1: asked him about the possibility of a deal with Aram, 501 00:25:10,840 --> 00:25:13,200 Speaker 1: and Trump basically said that they're going to agree because 502 00:25:13,280 --> 00:25:16,440 Speaker 1: quote otherwise, we'll just keep bombing our little hearts out. 503 00:25:17,600 --> 00:25:21,480 Speaker 1: You know, maybe that's playing a little too cute by 504 00:25:21,560 --> 00:25:24,800 Speaker 1: half when it comes to dropping bombs in military after all, 505 00:25:24,840 --> 00:25:26,680 Speaker 1: these these are life and death matters there. 506 00:25:26,680 --> 00:25:29,400 Speaker 2: But as long as that sentiment. 507 00:25:29,119 --> 00:25:31,920 Speaker 1: Remains, what is a guide in the operation right now, 508 00:25:32,640 --> 00:25:34,040 Speaker 1: I think that all is going to be okay here 509 00:25:34,080 --> 00:25:37,040 Speaker 1: when it comes to the Iran theater. Now, bringing it 510 00:25:37,040 --> 00:25:40,000 Speaker 1: closes to the home, the other geopolitical issue, that we're 511 00:25:40,040 --> 00:25:42,479 Speaker 1: really starting to follow here on the show is the 512 00:25:42,520 --> 00:25:47,600 Speaker 1: issue of Cuba. Cuba had essentially a nationwide blackout about 513 00:25:47,640 --> 00:25:50,560 Speaker 1: a week ago last Sunday, so two stays ago into 514 00:25:50,800 --> 00:25:54,120 Speaker 1: last Monday, one week of the entire nation was facing 515 00:25:54,200 --> 00:25:57,840 Speaker 1: a large scale blackout. All ten million to eleven million 516 00:25:57,880 --> 00:26:01,920 Speaker 1: Cubans had some degree a blackout there. This has to 517 00:26:01,960 --> 00:26:03,720 Speaker 1: do with the fact that the United States is essentially 518 00:26:03,760 --> 00:26:07,840 Speaker 1: blocking the Cuban regime the failed communist detaiirship from taking 519 00:26:07,840 --> 00:26:10,800 Speaker 1: in Venezuela and oil and various other forms of oil 520 00:26:10,880 --> 00:26:13,600 Speaker 1: as well. The US has has been trying to obstruct 521 00:26:13,920 --> 00:26:16,800 Speaker 1: Russian oil gains to Cuba and various other things as 522 00:26:16,840 --> 00:26:20,280 Speaker 1: well there. So all of this has led to the 523 00:26:20,400 --> 00:26:25,640 Speaker 1: latest Greta Thumberg stunt. And it's actually not just Greta Thumberg. 524 00:26:25,720 --> 00:26:30,160 Speaker 1: So a bunch of just utterly asinine leftists and yes 525 00:26:30,200 --> 00:26:32,359 Speaker 1: they're actually are a bunch of them, are on this 526 00:26:33,480 --> 00:26:38,760 Speaker 1: new convoy. They're calling it the Nuastra America Convoy. I 527 00:26:38,840 --> 00:26:42,760 Speaker 1: mean these are limousine liberal Champagne socialists, use your analogy 528 00:26:42,760 --> 00:26:46,280 Speaker 1: of choice if there ever were one. So it's Greta Thumberg. 529 00:26:46,720 --> 00:26:52,879 Speaker 1: It's Hassan Piker, the absolutely disgusting loathsome left wing streamer podcasters, 530 00:26:53,640 --> 00:26:55,199 Speaker 1: a man who would have fit in quite well with 531 00:26:55,240 --> 00:26:57,760 Speaker 1: the Hitler youth back in nineteen thirties due to his 532 00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:01,800 Speaker 1: just over the top, unapologetic hatred, among other just exceedingly 533 00:27:01,840 --> 00:27:04,159 Speaker 1: awful things that he says and does. The daughter of 534 00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:07,600 Speaker 1: ilhan Omar is actually on this trip. Members of Code Pink, 535 00:27:07,640 --> 00:27:11,640 Speaker 1: which United States Intelligence has ascertained at various times, is 536 00:27:11,680 --> 00:27:16,160 Speaker 1: a at least a Chinese Communist Party sympathetic organization there. 537 00:27:16,480 --> 00:27:18,080 Speaker 1: A lot of folks say that there are closer than 538 00:27:18,160 --> 00:27:20,520 Speaker 1: just a sympathies, that there actually are some coordinating messaging 539 00:27:20,560 --> 00:27:23,840 Speaker 1: tactics things that happening between Code Pink as well. So 540 00:27:23,960 --> 00:27:27,280 Speaker 1: they all basically are on this convoy and they're staying 541 00:27:27,320 --> 00:27:32,040 Speaker 1: actually at these five star, lavish hotels in Havana, and 542 00:27:32,600 --> 00:27:36,720 Speaker 1: it's all just a big PR stunt either there in Cuba, 543 00:27:36,760 --> 00:27:40,040 Speaker 1: in Communist Cuba, a place that I've seen in with 544 00:27:40,040 --> 00:27:40,679 Speaker 1: my own eyes. 545 00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:44,680 Speaker 2: It stinks. Cuba stinks. 546 00:27:45,320 --> 00:27:45,520 Speaker 4: Now. 547 00:27:45,720 --> 00:27:49,679 Speaker 1: The nature's gorgeous, the hills, the rivers, the ocean, and 548 00:27:49,840 --> 00:27:53,119 Speaker 1: it's earnest hemingway. Only in the sea, it's beautiful I 549 00:27:53,160 --> 00:27:55,959 Speaker 1: remember when I was walking around Havana, Cuba, when I 550 00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:57,920 Speaker 1: was there seven years ago. Now just for four or 551 00:27:57,920 --> 00:28:00,000 Speaker 1: five days or so, you see this and you think, oh, 552 00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:03,320 Speaker 1: oh my god, this is gorgeous. In theory, there should 553 00:28:03,359 --> 00:28:06,520 Speaker 1: be hotels, and there should be this and that, and 554 00:28:06,600 --> 00:28:10,440 Speaker 1: restaurants and beach and luxury condos casinos, if you're into 555 00:28:10,480 --> 00:28:11,600 Speaker 1: that kind of thing. We're not really ind to that 556 00:28:11,600 --> 00:28:13,119 Speaker 1: you're on the show, but like that kind of stuff 557 00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:16,560 Speaker 1: that should be there. And sure, what does Havana actually 558 00:28:16,560 --> 00:28:19,560 Speaker 1: look like. It looks like a bomb went off. It 559 00:28:19,600 --> 00:28:22,160 Speaker 1: looks like all on bar profits of Rock Circle two 560 00:28:22,160 --> 00:28:24,360 Speaker 1: thousand and six, at the height of the Petraeus Counter Insurgercy, 561 00:28:24,359 --> 00:28:26,240 Speaker 1: it looks like a bomb went off in middle in 562 00:28:26,240 --> 00:28:28,639 Speaker 1: the middle of the city, there's stray dogs or skelt 563 00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:29,919 Speaker 1: to look in, people who look like they haven't had 564 00:28:29,960 --> 00:28:32,520 Speaker 1: a proper meal in weeks or months. So now you 565 00:28:32,560 --> 00:28:36,080 Speaker 1: know how these these posh left wing quote unquot influencers 566 00:28:36,119 --> 00:28:39,160 Speaker 1: there while the regime is on the brink of destruction, 567 00:28:39,240 --> 00:28:42,800 Speaker 1: they are begging Rouel Castro, the ninety four year old 568 00:28:42,840 --> 00:28:48,360 Speaker 1: revolutionary Fidel Castro's brother who is the titular symbolic head 569 00:28:48,520 --> 00:28:51,000 Speaker 1: is an acting day to day quot Unbo president as 570 00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:53,440 Speaker 1: well as something of a Potempkin president and name only. 571 00:28:53,680 --> 00:28:55,720 Speaker 1: They have both confirmed that they were actually talking with 572 00:28:55,800 --> 00:28:58,080 Speaker 1: Marco Rubio and the Department of State when it comes 573 00:28:58,120 --> 00:29:00,120 Speaker 1: to trying to get some sort of off ramp to 574 00:29:00,160 --> 00:29:02,920 Speaker 1: the United States. Is economic embargo on Cuba that we've 575 00:29:02,920 --> 00:29:06,200 Speaker 1: had in place now for literally almost seventy years. The 576 00:29:06,400 --> 00:29:10,480 Speaker 1: regime in Cuba is on its freaking knees. This is 577 00:29:10,520 --> 00:29:14,280 Speaker 1: potentially it's last breasts, it's last hours. And these idiots, 578 00:29:14,760 --> 00:29:21,480 Speaker 1: these absolute idiots, these moral putrid ah little piece of garbage, 579 00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:26,360 Speaker 1: Hassan Piker, Greta Thunberg, Illanomar's daughter, Code Pink, they're there 580 00:29:26,760 --> 00:29:30,040 Speaker 1: trying to symbolically or potentially even literally bail them out. 581 00:29:30,040 --> 00:29:32,280 Speaker 1: So they're staying in all these five star hotels. This 582 00:29:32,480 --> 00:29:36,200 Speaker 1: stupid Irish band Kneecap actually played a concert. 583 00:29:36,760 --> 00:29:38,280 Speaker 2: There's all these images. 584 00:29:37,920 --> 00:29:40,120 Speaker 1: Coming out and then traveling in these in these in 585 00:29:40,160 --> 00:29:44,600 Speaker 1: these air conditioned buses, all while the country is just 586 00:29:45,080 --> 00:29:47,080 Speaker 1: has no a see the country's blackout, there's no powers, 587 00:29:47,360 --> 00:29:52,240 Speaker 1: there's barely any electricity whatsoever. So the hypocrisy is just 588 00:29:52,360 --> 00:29:54,400 Speaker 1: utterly through the roof and there, and they're saying free 589 00:29:54,440 --> 00:29:57,960 Speaker 1: Cuba F Trump F And that's nawho had I mean, 590 00:29:58,000 --> 00:29:59,920 Speaker 1: as if the Middle East has anything to do with 591 00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:01,680 Speaker 1: you're pricking the guys. I mean, you guys will flee. 592 00:30:01,680 --> 00:30:04,000 Speaker 1: And Poe was communism oorself. So don't blame the Middle East, 593 00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:09,719 Speaker 1: frankly for your problems at home. And again these images 594 00:30:09,720 --> 00:30:13,120 Speaker 1: are just nuts. There's the whole city is totally blackdown Havana, 595 00:30:13,120 --> 00:30:15,200 Speaker 1: and these guys are just in these air conditioned buses, 596 00:30:15,240 --> 00:30:18,760 Speaker 1: five star hotel. Hassan Piker again the scum that he 597 00:30:18,880 --> 00:30:23,720 Speaker 1: is actually actually affirming. Yet he actually admitted that he's 598 00:30:23,760 --> 00:30:25,920 Speaker 1: breaking the law. This is kind of another funny twist 599 00:30:25,960 --> 00:30:29,480 Speaker 1: to this whole story. So Hassan Piker went on a stream. 600 00:30:29,560 --> 00:30:33,479 Speaker 1: Much of the stream is from Cuba or elsewhere. I'd 601 00:30:33,520 --> 00:30:36,120 Speaker 1: been to Cuba. Trust me, the internet is really, really, 602 00:30:36,160 --> 00:30:38,040 Speaker 1: really terrible. It's on the probably could stream my show 603 00:30:38,040 --> 00:30:39,719 Speaker 1: from there. Maybe he's got some fancy internet at these 604 00:30:39,720 --> 00:30:43,440 Speaker 1: five star hotels. Because Hassan Piker actually saying in one 605 00:30:43,480 --> 00:30:46,960 Speaker 1: of these live streams, there's this hamas loving socialist income 606 00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:49,719 Speaker 1: poop says quote the government makes it illegal for us 607 00:30:49,720 --> 00:30:51,880 Speaker 1: to stay where we want in Cuba, we have to 608 00:30:51,920 --> 00:30:56,360 Speaker 1: stay in five star hotels. So, as a guy by 609 00:30:56,360 --> 00:30:58,880 Speaker 1: the name of Gabe Hoffman, who's a finance guy working 610 00:30:58,880 --> 00:31:03,400 Speaker 1: in pombs here directly points out Soundpiker is literally admitting 611 00:31:03,440 --> 00:31:06,280 Speaker 1: that he is breaking American law. So there's a thing 612 00:31:06,480 --> 00:31:11,360 Speaker 1: called the United States State Departments Cuba Prohibited Accommodations List. 613 00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:13,480 Speaker 1: You can literally look it up for yourself at State 614 00:31:13,640 --> 00:31:17,080 Speaker 1: dot gov slash Cuba dash sanctions. And then it's the 615 00:31:17,160 --> 00:31:20,400 Speaker 1: Cuba Prohibited Accommodations List. There's a whole link. There's a 616 00:31:20,400 --> 00:31:22,840 Speaker 1: whole page for this there and I'm just going to 617 00:31:22,880 --> 00:31:25,040 Speaker 1: read I stipped of it. Below is the US Tarta 618 00:31:25,080 --> 00:31:28,520 Speaker 1: States Cuba Prohibited Accommodations List, a list of properties in 619 00:31:28,560 --> 00:31:32,920 Speaker 1: Cuba at which the Cuban Assets Control regulations generally prohibit 620 00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:37,280 Speaker 1: persons subject to US jurisdiction from lodging, paying for launching, 621 00:31:37,440 --> 00:31:40,080 Speaker 1: or making any rate reservation work. So you can't stay there. 622 00:31:40,360 --> 00:31:43,320 Speaker 1: You can't stay at these hotels. And there's a whole list, 623 00:31:43,440 --> 00:31:46,880 Speaker 1: a long long list. It's a very very long list, actually, 624 00:31:47,360 --> 00:31:51,400 Speaker 1: So these fives are hotels are are there? I mean, 625 00:31:51,480 --> 00:31:54,680 Speaker 1: dude is literally emitting they's breaking the law. So, holding 626 00:31:54,720 --> 00:31:58,800 Speaker 1: aside the fifth column subversion, when these guys return to 627 00:31:58,800 --> 00:32:02,360 Speaker 1: the United States, how about we have US Coast Guard 628 00:32:02,400 --> 00:32:05,360 Speaker 1: interdite them before they actually arrive at a dock or 629 00:32:05,440 --> 00:32:09,080 Speaker 1: a port because they violated the law, or at least 630 00:32:09,440 --> 00:32:13,840 Speaker 1: have the FBI arrest them for possible charges recmon charges 631 00:32:13,880 --> 00:32:16,760 Speaker 1: to US attorney. These guys are literally breaking laws. That's 632 00:32:16,800 --> 00:32:19,840 Speaker 1: another quite humorous twist to this story. And from every 633 00:32:19,840 --> 00:32:22,360 Speaker 1: one that I hope some of these attorneys take up 634 00:32:22,600 --> 00:32:24,640 Speaker 1: take us up on sooner, rat them later, because it 635 00:32:24,640 --> 00:32:27,320 Speaker 1: would be a really really fun and indeed a noble 636 00:32:27,360 --> 00:32:29,479 Speaker 1: thing to do as well, folks. One final corcer breakday. 637 00:32:29,520 --> 00:32:31,320 Speaker 1: This will be right back some final thoughts on the 638 00:32:31,360 --> 00:32:39,040 Speaker 1: other side. Welcome back. So it was actually or argument 639 00:32:39,120 --> 00:32:41,200 Speaker 1: day at the US Supreme Court earlier today. The case 640 00:32:41,240 --> 00:32:43,200 Speaker 1: being argued earlier today is a case out of the 641 00:32:43,280 --> 00:32:47,440 Speaker 1: state of Mississippi called Watson versus r n C Republican 642 00:32:47,640 --> 00:32:52,080 Speaker 1: National Committee. Now, if you follow case style guides closely, 643 00:32:52,320 --> 00:32:54,720 Speaker 1: you might be a little confused here. Why is there 644 00:32:54,840 --> 00:32:57,640 Speaker 1: a versus rn C out of a very very red 645 00:32:57,720 --> 00:33:01,080 Speaker 1: state like Mississippi. Well, but actually have here is that 646 00:33:01,120 --> 00:33:03,760 Speaker 1: there is a state law. There is a state law 647 00:33:03,920 --> 00:33:08,440 Speaker 1: in Mississippi, in the Magnolia State that essentially says that 648 00:33:08,640 --> 00:33:12,200 Speaker 1: a ballot, so a mail in ballot that is postmarked, 649 00:33:12,720 --> 00:33:15,840 Speaker 1: that has the correct postmark honor before election day, but 650 00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:20,040 Speaker 1: is actually received so received by the local election office 651 00:33:20,080 --> 00:33:23,360 Speaker 1: or whoever is tabulating and counting ballots, is received after 652 00:33:23,400 --> 00:33:27,320 Speaker 1: the election day. Is that okay? Is that permissible? Or 653 00:33:27,480 --> 00:33:31,720 Speaker 1: does that violate one of numerous federal laws. So the 654 00:33:31,840 --> 00:33:34,880 Speaker 1: rn C, again, it's very interesting because it's actually republican state, 655 00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:37,560 Speaker 1: the Republican governor, they are all Republicans in Misissippi. There 656 00:33:37,560 --> 00:33:40,200 Speaker 1: they are actually now in litigation with the RNC because 657 00:33:40,240 --> 00:33:43,400 Speaker 1: the RNC is now defending these federal statutes saying that 658 00:33:43,440 --> 00:33:47,320 Speaker 1: these federal statutes preempt which means that the regulations and 659 00:33:47,360 --> 00:33:50,320 Speaker 1: the way that that to US Code Section seven, to 660 00:33:50,960 --> 00:33:53,080 Speaker 1: US Code Section one and three, US Code Section one, 661 00:33:53,120 --> 00:33:56,240 Speaker 1: all all of these federal statutes essentially preempt and prevent 662 00:33:56,280 --> 00:33:58,640 Speaker 1: the states from legislating in this exact arena. 663 00:33:59,200 --> 00:34:01,120 Speaker 2: For it's worth the US government. 664 00:34:01,880 --> 00:34:04,960 Speaker 1: So John Sower, who is our exceptional Solicener General, he 665 00:34:05,120 --> 00:34:08,000 Speaker 1: is actually intervening on behalf of the RNC. So basically 666 00:34:08,040 --> 00:34:10,960 Speaker 1: have the RNC for what's the excellent lawyer. Paul Clement 667 00:34:11,120 --> 00:34:13,640 Speaker 1: argued earlier to say, Paul Clement for the rn C 668 00:34:13,800 --> 00:34:16,080 Speaker 1: and then John Sower for the US government essentially against 669 00:34:16,120 --> 00:34:19,319 Speaker 1: Scott Stewart, these Solicter General Mississippi. So it's basically it's 670 00:34:19,400 --> 00:34:23,800 Speaker 1: very interesting conservative versus conservative type of litigation. Scott Stewart, 671 00:34:23,960 --> 00:34:27,239 Speaker 1: the social genter Mississippi, had a miraculous victory four terms 672 00:34:27,280 --> 00:34:29,800 Speaker 1: ago in the Dobbs case. He actually was the winning 673 00:34:29,880 --> 00:34:33,920 Speaker 1: lawyer to overturn Roe versuades. Do not discount Scott Stewart 674 00:34:34,239 --> 00:34:36,960 Speaker 1: if you are counting your legal ages at home. As 675 00:34:36,960 --> 00:34:39,319 Speaker 1: far as the actual issue is concerned here, it's someone 676 00:34:39,360 --> 00:34:42,200 Speaker 1: of a technical preemption analysis there. There's all sorts of 677 00:34:42,920 --> 00:34:46,239 Speaker 1: methods that lawyers have devised for whether to determine whether 678 00:34:46,320 --> 00:34:48,400 Speaker 1: or not Congress has clearly spoken in the manner so 679 00:34:48,440 --> 00:34:50,880 Speaker 1: as to preclude the states from doing so. It's somewhat 680 00:34:50,880 --> 00:34:53,439 Speaker 1: of a strong argument from the RNC, to be honest 681 00:34:53,440 --> 00:34:55,480 Speaker 1: with you, and by strong, U don't necessarily means strong 682 00:34:55,480 --> 00:34:57,560 Speaker 1: on the merits. It definitely has some merit for sure, 683 00:34:57,800 --> 00:35:02,040 Speaker 1: but it's an aggressive armament because the the overarching constitutional 684 00:35:02,520 --> 00:35:07,560 Speaker 1: assumption is that the way of choosing the regulations, manners 685 00:35:07,600 --> 00:35:10,800 Speaker 1: and times, and procedures for elections, as Artic one Constitution 686 00:35:10,880 --> 00:35:12,800 Speaker 1: very clearly says, are determined. 687 00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:13,040 Speaker 2: By the states. 688 00:35:13,320 --> 00:35:16,359 Speaker 1: So this lawsuit with the RNC leading, is actually very 689 00:35:16,360 --> 00:35:19,640 Speaker 1: similar to the Save America Act insofar as Republicans and 690 00:35:19,640 --> 00:35:23,200 Speaker 1: the trumpmestration and their allies at the RNC are now 691 00:35:23,239 --> 00:35:27,160 Speaker 1: trying to assume a greater role, a greater role for 692 00:35:27,239 --> 00:35:30,440 Speaker 1: elections or mileage. May vary as to whether or not 693 00:35:30,880 --> 00:35:32,960 Speaker 1: that is a good thing. Surely there is only so 694 00:35:33,120 --> 00:35:36,560 Speaker 1: far that that states can go. We absolutely need some 695 00:35:36,560 --> 00:35:39,560 Speaker 1: some uniformity. Here my own personal two cents on this, 696 00:35:39,680 --> 00:35:42,759 Speaker 1: especially dealing with the whole mail in ballot voter i 697 00:35:42,880 --> 00:35:46,360 Speaker 1: D debate and the whole election day versus election month debates. 698 00:35:46,880 --> 00:35:47,120 Speaker 2: Thing. 699 00:35:47,640 --> 00:35:50,360 Speaker 1: I happen to think that early voting is absolutely terrible. 700 00:35:51,080 --> 00:35:56,680 Speaker 1: Early voting is garbage. Why because it literally defeats the 701 00:35:56,719 --> 00:36:00,440 Speaker 1: purpose of holding a national election day. Election day is 702 00:36:00,560 --> 00:36:03,080 Speaker 1: election day and not election week or election month, because 703 00:36:03,120 --> 00:36:06,120 Speaker 1: it is a snapshot in time. Think about the twenty 704 00:36:06,200 --> 00:36:09,960 Speaker 1: sixteen election. You could have cast your ballots a month 705 00:36:09,960 --> 00:36:11,960 Speaker 1: and a half in advance, and you wouldn't have known 706 00:36:12,040 --> 00:36:15,680 Speaker 1: about that stupid Billy Bush NBC video Donald Trump Graham 707 00:36:15,680 --> 00:36:18,480 Speaker 1: by the what or for a more pro Trump counter 708 00:36:18,600 --> 00:36:21,479 Speaker 1: to that, think about the twenty twenty election. How about 709 00:36:21,480 --> 00:36:24,400 Speaker 1: if you had cast a month for Joe Biden and Kamall. 710 00:36:24,400 --> 00:36:25,719 Speaker 1: If you had cast a ballot a month before the 711 00:36:25,760 --> 00:36:29,960 Speaker 1: election for Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and then await, then await. 712 00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:34,280 Speaker 1: The Hunter Biden laptop comes about there. In fact, MRC, 713 00:36:34,600 --> 00:36:37,520 Speaker 1: the Media Research Center did a poll the time and 714 00:36:37,640 --> 00:36:40,120 Speaker 1: showed I forgot the exact number, but it was something 715 00:36:40,160 --> 00:36:43,760 Speaker 1: like fifteen to eighteen percent give or take of Biden 716 00:36:43,800 --> 00:36:48,080 Speaker 1: Hanris voters said, and they the saml size was Biden 717 00:36:48,080 --> 00:36:50,960 Speaker 1: Harris voters who did not know about the Hunter Biden 718 00:36:51,080 --> 00:36:54,279 Speaker 1: laptop scandal. They said that if they had known about it, 719 00:36:54,719 --> 00:36:58,560 Speaker 1: they would have voted for Trump. So early voting defeats 720 00:36:58,600 --> 00:37:02,640 Speaker 1: the purpose of voting. Voting is a snapshot in time. 721 00:37:02,760 --> 00:37:06,040 Speaker 1: It is a straight up thumbs up, thumbs down referendum 722 00:37:06,040 --> 00:37:08,440 Speaker 1: when there is an incumbent running, when it's an open slate, 723 00:37:08,960 --> 00:37:11,799 Speaker 1: there's a two way thumbs up thumbs down. And now 724 00:37:11,800 --> 00:37:14,200 Speaker 1: it's going on there. But it's not supposed to be 725 00:37:14,280 --> 00:37:17,080 Speaker 1: a moving target. It is literally snapshot. It is not 726 00:37:17,120 --> 00:37:18,640 Speaker 1: the kind of thing that you have months and months 727 00:37:18,680 --> 00:37:21,640 Speaker 1: and months to make up your minds. You have a 728 00:37:21,680 --> 00:37:23,440 Speaker 1: whole season to take in information to make it make 729 00:37:23,480 --> 00:37:25,840 Speaker 1: up your mind there, and then you cast your freaking 730 00:37:25,920 --> 00:37:28,440 Speaker 1: ballot on election day. So my proposed solution to this, 731 00:37:28,600 --> 00:37:31,839 Speaker 1: which I've been saying for years now, is very straightforward. 732 00:37:32,120 --> 00:37:34,520 Speaker 1: Democrats for as long as I've been alive, want to 733 00:37:34,520 --> 00:37:38,480 Speaker 1: make election day a national holiday. Republicans want to minimize 734 00:37:38,480 --> 00:37:40,760 Speaker 1: early voting, mail and voting and all. 735 00:37:40,680 --> 00:37:41,320 Speaker 2: Of the above. 736 00:37:41,680 --> 00:37:47,239 Speaker 1: My very easy solution, proposed solution here, and it's a 737 00:37:47,320 --> 00:37:51,160 Speaker 1: very straightforward one, is to do both. Let's we on 738 00:37:51,200 --> 00:37:55,399 Speaker 1: the right. Conservatives concede to Liberals, concede to Democrats. Let's 739 00:37:55,440 --> 00:38:00,560 Speaker 1: make election Day federal holiday. It's fine, it's ideal, probably not. 740 00:38:00,640 --> 00:38:02,560 Speaker 1: I mean, it's America free enterprise. We want business and 741 00:38:02,560 --> 00:38:04,840 Speaker 1: be running stock market belcah blah blah blah. Okay, fine, 742 00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:08,320 Speaker 1: let's give them that. And in exchange for that, Democrats 743 00:38:08,360 --> 00:38:10,759 Speaker 1: are going to have to concede that there will be 744 00:38:11,160 --> 00:38:14,759 Speaker 1: no early voting or mail in voting. Except for X, 745 00:38:14,880 --> 00:38:17,360 Speaker 1: Y Z exceptions. There always will be dispensations. Exceptions to 746 00:38:17,400 --> 00:38:21,600 Speaker 1: a rule active service active duty military obviously overseas, if 747 00:38:21,640 --> 00:38:24,319 Speaker 1: you are physically better ratted in the hospital, there there 748 00:38:24,320 --> 00:38:27,920 Speaker 1: will always be some specified dispensations, and a lot of 749 00:38:27,960 --> 00:38:30,400 Speaker 1: the congressional debate will get hashed out there when it 750 00:38:30,440 --> 00:38:33,560 Speaker 1: comes to the exact nature of what those dispensations will be. 751 00:38:33,800 --> 00:38:38,000 Speaker 1: But that's the basic overview of the proposed compromise. It's 752 00:38:38,080 --> 00:38:41,319 Speaker 1: very much a quid pro quote. Give Democrats what they 753 00:38:41,320 --> 00:38:44,600 Speaker 1: want when it comes to making election day a national holiday, 754 00:38:44,760 --> 00:38:48,080 Speaker 1: then give Republicans when they want in turn about minimizing, 755 00:38:48,400 --> 00:38:51,759 Speaker 1: severely minimizing mail in voting and early voting. Frankly, I 756 00:38:51,800 --> 00:38:54,280 Speaker 1: think that would go a very very long way towards 757 00:38:54,320 --> 00:38:55,560 Speaker 1: solving our electioning problems. 758 00:38:55,560 --> 00:38:56,120 Speaker 2: In the meantime. 759 00:38:56,760 --> 00:38:59,239 Speaker 1: Fascinating argument, Well, let's say, at the Uspreme Courts in 760 00:38:59,280 --> 00:39:04,120 Speaker 1: this Watson versus RNC case, this very much conservative intramural 761 00:39:04,160 --> 00:39:08,359 Speaker 1: skirmish between Paul Clement and John Sower on the one 762 00:39:08,400 --> 00:39:10,799 Speaker 1: hand and Scott Stewart a the other hand. There and 763 00:39:10,840 --> 00:39:12,880 Speaker 1: we will see ultimately who gets the better of the argument. 764 00:39:13,280 --> 00:39:16,360 Speaker 1: I think, I think I like the fellow government's odds, 765 00:39:16,360 --> 00:39:19,279 Speaker 1: but frankly, it's a somewhat technical case there, and we'll 766 00:39:19,280 --> 00:39:22,920 Speaker 1: see which way it blows now. In other news to 767 00:39:23,280 --> 00:39:26,160 Speaker 1: round out today's show, I was somewhat struck by a 768 00:39:26,200 --> 00:39:29,960 Speaker 1: clip that I saw on the show of our Salem colleague, 769 00:39:29,960 --> 00:39:32,440 Speaker 1: Aaron Milan, who was wonderful. I love Erin and Erin 770 00:39:32,520 --> 00:39:33,880 Speaker 1: Lashley believe it will be a guest here on the 771 00:39:33,920 --> 00:39:36,560 Speaker 1: Josh Shammer Show very soon as well. So this clip 772 00:39:36,600 --> 00:39:39,000 Speaker 1: that I saw on Aaron's show, which I was pretty 773 00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:43,120 Speaker 1: struck by, was my friend Rabbi Paysack Willlicky, who was 774 00:39:43,239 --> 00:39:43,560 Speaker 1: also a. 775 00:39:43,520 --> 00:39:44,919 Speaker 2: Recent guest here on Josh Hammer Show. 776 00:39:44,960 --> 00:39:49,320 Speaker 1: Actually, Rabbi Willicky lives over in Israel and Rabbi Wilicky 777 00:39:49,320 --> 00:39:52,160 Speaker 1: and I have multiple things in common, but among the 778 00:39:52,200 --> 00:39:53,640 Speaker 1: things that we have in commons that we were both 779 00:39:53,680 --> 00:39:57,680 Speaker 1: in this somewhat infamous WhatsApp chat that Charlie Kirk had 780 00:39:57,719 --> 00:40:00,800 Speaker 1: started for purposes of trying to secure Jewish Christian relations 781 00:40:00,920 --> 00:40:04,280 Speaker 1: US Israel relations amidst all this rising nonsense and rising 782 00:40:04,360 --> 00:40:07,400 Speaker 1: jew hatred. And this was a chat that was infamously leaked, 783 00:40:07,440 --> 00:40:11,600 Speaker 1: infamously leaked to Candice Owans and Rabbi Wlicky saying to 784 00:40:11,680 --> 00:40:14,400 Speaker 1: er Milan that we can now verify that it was 785 00:40:14,480 --> 00:40:16,279 Speaker 1: Joe Kent to did this leak in so it was 786 00:40:16,360 --> 00:40:19,600 Speaker 1: Andrew Colvett, who was Charlie's longtime right hand guy. Now 787 00:40:19,600 --> 00:40:22,480 Speaker 1: Andrew's won the hosts of The Charlie Kirk Show. Andrew 788 00:40:22,560 --> 00:40:25,839 Speaker 1: has actually publicly admitted that these screenshots came from him. 789 00:40:26,120 --> 00:40:29,120 Speaker 1: And what Andrew told us, including me, was that he 790 00:40:29,160 --> 00:40:32,040 Speaker 1: did so before they actually apprehended Toy Robinson because he 791 00:40:32,080 --> 00:40:35,400 Speaker 1: wanted no stone unturned. He gave them to what he 792 00:40:35,400 --> 00:40:38,200 Speaker 1: said was some some senior high ranking intelligence or counter 793 00:40:38,320 --> 00:40:38,960 Speaker 1: terrorism officials. 794 00:40:39,000 --> 00:40:39,960 Speaker 2: I forgot the exact language. 795 00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:42,440 Speaker 1: This is our phone call from now months ago at 796 00:40:42,440 --> 00:40:46,040 Speaker 1: this point, and we can now confirm, and they want 797 00:40:46,040 --> 00:40:47,560 Speaker 1: to love our details, but it is now beyond a 798 00:40:47,600 --> 00:40:50,400 Speaker 1: shadow of doubt the person that Andrew sent those texts 799 00:40:50,400 --> 00:40:53,439 Speaker 1: to was Joe Kent, which means that Joe Kent sent 800 00:40:53,520 --> 00:40:58,200 Speaker 1: those messages he leaked to Candice Owans disgusting, disgusting stuff. 801 00:40:58,719 --> 00:41:00,520 Speaker 1: Donald Trumps asked about Jo Kent, I would say and 802 00:41:00,560 --> 00:41:02,160 Speaker 1: did not have kind things to say. 803 00:41:02,200 --> 00:41:03,160 Speaker 2: Here was President Trump. 804 00:41:03,320 --> 00:41:05,319 Speaker 4: Look, I'm not a fan of the guy. If you 805 00:41:05,360 --> 00:41:07,759 Speaker 4: look at and you never cover this, if you look 806 00:41:07,800 --> 00:41:09,879 Speaker 4: at his truth or whatever he went on, if it's 807 00:41:09,960 --> 00:41:13,279 Speaker 4: ex or truth. If you look at his truth or 808 00:41:13,320 --> 00:41:16,840 Speaker 4: his stapments, he was all for everything, all of a sudden, 809 00:41:17,080 --> 00:41:23,040 Speaker 4: he wasn't. He was a man that I met at Dover. 810 00:41:23,520 --> 00:41:25,120 Speaker 4: He came and his wife was skilled. 811 00:41:25,600 --> 00:41:28,040 Speaker 2: He remarried fairly quickly. 812 00:41:28,840 --> 00:41:31,800 Speaker 4: His wife was killed, and I felt badly for him. 813 00:41:32,160 --> 00:41:35,760 Speaker 4: He ran for Congress, he lost, He ran for Congress 814 00:41:35,760 --> 00:41:36,600 Speaker 4: again and he lost. 815 00:41:36,680 --> 00:41:39,240 Speaker 2: I said, you know, he's a guy. 816 00:41:39,160 --> 00:41:42,000 Speaker 4: Nice guy, seemed like a very nice guy. I met him. 817 00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:47,400 Speaker 4: He was pretty heartbroken, pretty but I said, you know, 818 00:41:47,480 --> 00:41:50,960 Speaker 4: it's a shame he ran for Congress twice. Call him up, 819 00:41:51,080 --> 00:41:54,200 Speaker 4: give him a job in the White House. Smart. They 820 00:41:54,200 --> 00:41:55,600 Speaker 4: gave him a job in the White House. 821 00:41:55,680 --> 00:41:58,319 Speaker 2: And this is what he does to me, you know, 822 00:41:59,080 --> 00:42:00,479 Speaker 2: and this way he does to all all of us. 823 00:42:00,960 --> 00:42:03,480 Speaker 1: He put us in danger by leaking that chat to 824 00:42:03,520 --> 00:42:06,560 Speaker 1: a durrained psychopath by Candice Owens. I know because I've 825 00:42:06,560 --> 00:42:10,080 Speaker 1: been facing death threats from it. Joe Kent personally putting 826 00:42:10,080 --> 00:42:11,799 Speaker 1: me and my family in danger and all of us 827 00:42:11,800 --> 00:42:14,080 Speaker 1: in that group chat for that, I hope that he pays. 828 00:42:14,600 --> 00:42:18,319 Speaker 1: And frankly, moreover, if he was actually doing what it 829 00:42:18,400 --> 00:42:21,719 Speaker 1: really seemed like he was and leaking sensitive information to 830 00:42:21,800 --> 00:42:25,440 Speaker 1: ask Ye people in a natural security context. He frankly 831 00:42:25,520 --> 00:42:27,960 Speaker 1: should be prosecuted. Folks have a great reser Eve named 832 00:42:28,000 --> 00:42:30,279 Speaker 1: Josh ammersonof for Now will be right back tomorrow. 833 00:42:34,280 --> 00:42:37,560 Speaker 2: The Josh Amber Show is a member of the Trust Project.