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Speaker 1: the big weekend pot. I hope you have a great
Speaker 1: pod ahead of you. We're in the dog days of August,
Speaker 1: but there's still a lot of news going on and
Speaker 1: I want to bring it all to you today. Most
Speaker 1: of my focus with our guests, and we have a
Speaker 1: lot of great guests, John Ellis, Eli Lake, Charles C. W. Cook,
Speaker 1: Ben Dominich and the United States Senate candidate and Georgia
Speaker 1: Michael Collins. I'm going to spend a lot of time
Speaker 1: with them talking about Abdul Lsayed and Hassan Piker, the
Speaker 1: LSA Ed Piker ticket in Michigan, and that's how I'm
Speaker 1: referring to it. I think Elsa Ed is the most
Speaker 1: radical major party nominee since the Civil War. He's off
Speaker 1: the chart. He's an anti Summit he's pro Islamist. He
Speaker 1: is absolutely unacceptable as an American senator and full of hate.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of tape on him, by the way,
Speaker 1: you may have seen it come out today, went up
Speaker 1: to Macinac Island and said how much he hates Macinae Island.
Speaker 1: Everyone in Michigan loves macana Island, even people from Ohio
Speaker 1: Macanae Island. It won't belong to insults the Lions and
Speaker 1: the Pistons the way this going, and maybe even the Tigers.
Speaker 1: But I want to really stress how far outside of
Speaker 1: the mainstream he is. And Hassan Piker pushed him there.
Speaker 1: He needed a San Piker, He needed that hate filled
Speaker 1: a bigot to be at his side every step of
Speaker 1: the way, and he was. He was there on election night,
Speaker 1: and he's profaning. He's vulgar. It makes it almost impossible play.
Speaker 1: Hassan Pikers a Twitter, a twitch stream guy, and he
Speaker 1: has got no accomplishes to his name. Started at the
Speaker 1: University of Miami, ended up at Rutgers, and then just
Speaker 1: fell in with the Young Turks podcast and then decided
Speaker 1: I'll just start being vile online and I'll draw a
Speaker 1: couple one hundred thousand people by being vile online. That's
Speaker 1: what he is. He's vile. He's just anti Semitic, hates Jews,
Speaker 1: and he hates a lot of other people too. He
Speaker 1: hates whites, Americans, he hates people who make money. He
Speaker 1: hates everybody. And he's captured. El Sayed got l Sayed
Speaker 1: the nomination, so they're running as a ticket. But l
Speaker 1: Sayed is no better roads either. He's the same way.
Speaker 1: You don't merge your persona with a Hassan Piker unless
Speaker 1: you want to go there. And I don't think he's
Speaker 1: gonna be able to fool miss In. He fooled the
Speaker 1: Michigan Democratic electorate. Part of that was a bunch of
Speaker 1: fake poles, and I mean fake fake polls, polls that
Speaker 1: showed him ten fifteen points ahead, and he won by
Speaker 1: fifteen thousand votes out of a million five casts. So
Speaker 1: you figure that out. Haley Stevens is right to be
Speaker 1: angry about that. He's got a couple of endorsements already.
Speaker 1: Pete Boodagic run down to throw his arms around it.
Speaker 1: We've got Kamala Harris, who should know better, but she
Speaker 1: wants to be president again. She knows that she needs
Speaker 1: the whack job portion of the party. Andy Basher, now
Speaker 1: Kentucky governor, is going to Michigan, but he's not going
Speaker 1: to appear with LSA ed. What's Barack Obama gonna do?
Speaker 1: What's Hillary Clinton going to do? I don't know. Gavin
Speaker 1: Newsom is reportedly heading to Michigan this weekend to throw
Speaker 1: his arms around lsayed. I don't think they'll ever get
Speaker 1: the stink off. I really don't. The guy is a hater.
Speaker 1: He's just an absolute hater. And Mike Rogers, Thank goodness,
Speaker 1: the Republicans nominated enormy Mike Rogers, Lieutenant the United States Army,
Speaker 1: Mike Rogers, FBI special Agent. Mike Rodgers seven terned congressman,
Speaker 1: fourteen years in the United States House Representative. He stepped down,
Speaker 1: I think probably to go to the private sector for
Speaker 1: a while and make a little bit of money. But
Speaker 1: he was chairman of the House Intelligence Committee meeting. That's
Speaker 1: a select committee. You don't get on it by you
Speaker 1: end up there because you're very well thought of, your
Speaker 1: very highly esteem. Mike Rodge is a very fine candidate,
Speaker 1: barely lost to Alyssa Slotkin in the twenty twenty four election.
Speaker 1: So he just dusted himself out and said we'll do
Speaker 1: it again, and this time he's drawn the best opponent.
Speaker 1: A radical. Not He's absolutely not. And you look at
Speaker 1: Francesca Hong. I was on with John Roberts on America's
Speaker 1: Newsroom excuse me America Reports on Friday, and they began
Speaker 1: by talking about Hong, and I said, John, Hong's a joke.
Speaker 1: She's not going to win in Wisconsin. She hates Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1: She's cooked up in some academic lab. Just a very
Speaker 1: weird person. I don't know how she got the nomination.
Speaker 1: I guess there are enough weird people in Wiscon. But
Speaker 1: she'll get blown out by Tom Tiffany. And so Democrats
Speaker 1: are in trying to talk about that race instead of
Speaker 1: focusing in on l Sied and how dangerous he is,
Speaker 1: how radical he is. Everybody listening, you ought to head
Speaker 1: over to rod Michigan dot com. Rogers from Michigan dot com,
Speaker 1: give them a campaign contribution. No matter where you are.
Speaker 1: And by the way, you're an American Jew. This guy
Speaker 1: hates you. He hates you. You should contribute to Mike
Speaker 1: Rodgers campaign. We ought not to allow burial anti semis
Speaker 1: in the United States Senate. He can win. I mean
Speaker 1: he got the nomination. Put one over on the people
Speaker 1: in Michigan. Doesn't mean you have to sit there and
Speaker 1: take it. You can fight back. You don't have to
Speaker 1: go along with this crazy lurch left of the Democratic Party,
Speaker 1: the DSA with the incubator for a lot of the
Speaker 1: crazy left wing Democrats out there. Kiros in Denver, Chevellier Valdez,
Speaker 1: Lander in New York, Jmamway in New Jersey, Rob in Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: They're all anti Semitic nuts, but they are deep blue
Speaker 1: congressional districts, and they'll give fitch to Keem Jeffries or
Speaker 1: whoever they make the leader of the Democratic Party. But
Speaker 1: they really don't threaten people. I doubt this guy will
Speaker 1: return a blue slip for a Jew. I think he
Speaker 1: will bring the poison of anti Semitism in the United
Speaker 1: States Senate. So get out your checkbook, go to Rogers
Speaker 1: from Michigan dot com, contribute and volunteer. If you're up
Speaker 1: there listening to me on Detroit or anywhere in Michigan,
Speaker 1: Grand Rapids up in the up, don't lay down for
Speaker 1: this guy. He's bad news. You know it, I know it.
Speaker 1: Mike Rodgers is good news. Get involved, and now enjoy
Speaker 1: the rest of today's big weekend pot morning, glory and
Speaker 1: etan grace. Welcome to your weekend, America. I'm Huge Hewett
Speaker 1: and I begin it as I usually do with John Ellis.
Speaker 1: John is the founder and editor in chief of News Items.
Speaker 1: Each week, John sends me a bunch of stories that
Speaker 1: may not have caught many people's attention but caught his.
Speaker 1: Before I go to them, John, I want to throw
Speaker 1: you a bit of a curveball, just to set the
Speaker 1: stage for my future guests. The Lsaeed Hassan Piker ticket,
Speaker 1: and that's what I'm calling it. I'm calling it the
Speaker 1: most radical major party nomination in America to the Civil War.
Speaker 1: Do you agree with me on that? I'm not sure
Speaker 1: I agree with you on that.
Speaker 2: I think I think it's Uh, it's certainly to the
Speaker 2: left of what Michigan Democrats are used to. I think
Speaker 2: he's a surprisingly strong candidate because he's very very much
Speaker 2: on message. Uh, you know, Medicare for all, keep big
Speaker 2: money out of keep big money out of politics, and
Speaker 2: you know, throw the bums out. He's very effective repeating
Speaker 2: that message over and over again. But I think at
Speaker 2: the end of the day is his real beliefs and
Speaker 2: his friendship with mister Piker in particular will lead to
Speaker 2: his defeat Piker. The Democratic Congressman from New York named
Speaker 2: Richie Torres wrote a letter h a press release about
Speaker 2: the mister Piker, which, if people haven't had a chance
Speaker 2: to read, is a thoroughgoing indictment of mister Piker's beliefs.
Speaker 2: Let's put it on.
Speaker 1: You've been doing this a long time. So if over
Speaker 1: the course of the next week you come up with
Speaker 1: another major party nominee to the left Lsied and his
Speaker 1: sidekick Piker, let me know. Next week, let's go to
Speaker 1: your first story.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean yeah, I mean the big story this
Speaker 2: week was a sort of great leap forward by China
Speaker 2: in the race for AI supremacy, if you will. And
Speaker 2: there's a man named Alan Thompson who is sort of
Speaker 2: the godfather of measuring AI capability. Everybody you know agrees
Speaker 2: that he's the guy. He puts out a monthly memo,
Speaker 2: a monthly newsletter called the Memo, and he measures all
Speaker 2: of the capabilities of the various AI models, well Chinese
Speaker 2: and American. And I had a chance to a podcast
Speaker 2: with him I interviewed him for my podcast and I
Speaker 2: said where are we and he said, China's tied, and
Speaker 2: they might even be a little bit ahead. And so
Speaker 2: I think that is a is an enormous change and
Speaker 2: from where we were a year ago. The big advantage
Speaker 2: China has, aside from, you know, the ability to develop
Speaker 2: the models that they're developing, is that they have this
Speaker 2: huge infrastructure advantage. They have enough power to power all
Speaker 2: these data centers. That's a real problem here in the US,
Speaker 2: and Elon Musk, among others, has said that China will
Speaker 2: win the AI race precisely for that reason that it
Speaker 2: has the jews to power the data centers and that
Speaker 2: our capacity to do that is diminished by you know,
Speaker 2: essentially neglect of our grid over decades.
Speaker 1: So that's a big one. I'm not an expert on this,
Speaker 1: but if you lose for a while, can you we
Speaker 1: gain the lead in AI? Yeah? I mean it.
Speaker 2: I mean I think that the technology is advancing, it's
Speaker 2: compounding in this way, is running so you know, so
Speaker 2: much faster than people realize. There was a famous memo
Speaker 2: that was put out called AI twenty twenty seven and it,
Speaker 2: you know, it described how fast AI was developing, and
Speaker 2: everybody thought, well, that's hysterical, and actually it turns out
Speaker 2: that it's developing faster than even they than they predicted,
Speaker 2: so it you know, it's it. We're going to get
Speaker 2: to a point where I think it doesn't really matter
Speaker 2: if so and so, as you know, if China is
Speaker 2: ahead on this and the US is ahead on that,
Speaker 2: we will have reached what's known as the singularity. Musk
Speaker 2: said earlier this year that we'd already reached the singularity.
Speaker 2: Sam Altman a couple of weeks ago said that we
Speaker 2: were now living in the singularity. And the singularity, for
Speaker 2: those of your listeners who don't know, the depression, essentially
Speaker 2: is that point when artificial intelligence surpasses all of human intelligence.
Speaker 2: So two of the leading figures in artificial intelligence, mister
Speaker 2: Musk and mister Altman, say that we're already there. There are,
Speaker 2: you know, a number of concerns about that. Obviously. The
Speaker 2: three that really stick out for me are one, there's
Speaker 2: an existential risk that the machines will run amock, essentially,
Speaker 2: that they'll go rogue, and we've read a lot of
Speaker 2: stories about that in the last month or so. Second,
Speaker 2: I just had an X ray. I have a pinch
Speaker 2: nerve in my neck and I had an X ray
Speaker 2: and I got the technical report on the X ray.
Speaker 2: I put it into Claude and it came out with
Speaker 2: a perfect description of the results of the X ray.
Speaker 2: That's just one small example of how this technology is
Speaker 2: going to transform work, and it's going to be disruptive,
Speaker 2: getting from the model that we now have to the
Speaker 2: model that we're going to need for life with AI
Speaker 2: in everything.
Speaker 1: So John, this or is it a source of apprehension
Speaker 1: for you?
Speaker 2: It's obviously existential risk is a source of app you know, apprehension.
Speaker 2: I think it's going to be very disruptive in the
Speaker 2: next three four years. I think it will be the
Speaker 2: major issue of the twenty twenty eight presidential campaign. But
Speaker 2: I'm very optimistic that if we get through that disruptive
Speaker 2: period that AI will be just an enormous benefit to
Speaker 2: us all people. I mean, it'll be a game changer
Speaker 2: in human history. So I think, you know, let's just
Speaker 2: get through the transition period. If we do without existential
Speaker 2: risk rearing its only head, and I think we're looking
Speaker 2: at a very bright future.
Speaker 1: Indeed, well, AI help us close the American munitions gap,
Speaker 1: because that was one of the stories you sent me.
Speaker 1: I've read about it. I wasn't sure if I believe
Speaker 1: the leaks. But your Reuters reporting is that the US
Speaker 1: Army has used up most of its stockpile of highly
Speaker 1: accurate long range missiles, the attackers and the Presion precision
Speaker 1: strike missiles, but did not tell me how long it
Speaker 1: takes to replace those.
Speaker 2: It takes a long time. One of the problems with
Speaker 2: our Defense department is that we are we develop perfect weapons, right,
Speaker 2: so there are one hundred percent good and in this case,
Speaker 2: perfect is the enemy of the good.
Speaker 1: We need.
Speaker 2: You know, if we had eighty percent thads, or if
Speaker 2: we had eighty percent patriots, we would have a lot
Speaker 2: more of them and we would be less stressed in
Speaker 2: terms of munitions. There's no question CSIS, which is a
Speaker 2: very well respected think tank in Washington that does a
Speaker 2: lot of military analysis, they put together a comprehensive report
Speaker 2: on the municious munitions shortfall that it's entirely persuasive.
Speaker 1: All right, now, let's turn to the blue wave. I
Speaker 1: do think there's a blue wave in the offing, but
Speaker 1: I also think the nomination of the DSA Congressional candidates,
Speaker 1: particularly LSIED in Michigan, may in fact energize Republicans in
Speaker 1: a way that they ordinarily wouldn't be in a midterm.
Speaker 1: Have you calculated that into your assessment of the blue wave?
Speaker 2: Well, right now, if you believe the data, and I do,
Speaker 2: where Democratic voters are more motivated to vote in this
Speaker 2: midterm election than Republican voters are, and if that sticks,
Speaker 2: then the Democrats will do well. If the Republicans are
Speaker 2: able to make the DSA essentially a major issue, and
Speaker 2: then I think that that can motivate the Republican base,
Speaker 2: particularly the magabase, to get out and vote. And if
Speaker 2: they get out and vote, then the Democratic gains in
Speaker 2: the House are probably enough to get you know, to
Speaker 2: give them recapture control of the House, but not by
Speaker 2: anything like a normal twenty six suite twenty six seat swing,
Speaker 2: and I think it makes it. If the MAGA base votes,
Speaker 2: then I think the Senate will stay in Republican hands
Speaker 2: for sure.
Speaker 1: Now, John ellis for the benefit of audience that may
Speaker 1: be new. We pick up station very month. You've been
Speaker 1: doing political analysis for forty years and you've seen a
Speaker 1: lot of races. Do you think intuitively, Mike Rogers, who's
Speaker 1: eighty center right, normal Republican Army lieutenant, FBI special agent,
Speaker 1: fourteen years in the House, Chair of the Senate of
Speaker 1: the House Intel Committee. Is he going to beat Abdulsi
Speaker 1: ed in Michigan? In your opinion, I would think so.
Speaker 2: I mean, if you think of the rough math of
Speaker 2: this is forty five percent are going to vote blue,
Speaker 2: you know, regardless, forty five percent are going to vote
Speaker 2: red regardless. This is true in Michigan. The ten percent,
Speaker 2: you know, what are they going to do right now?
Speaker 2: They're financially stressed. That's number one. Number two, they think
Speaker 2: the system is corrupt. And number three, they want to
Speaker 2: send a message about how dissatisfied they are with the
Speaker 2: way things are working.
Speaker 3: That is.
Speaker 2: Lsad's message. That's his hope for victory. I'm not sure
Speaker 2: that's that's going to get him across the line. So
Speaker 2: if I were betting in Rogers.
Speaker 1: I am betting Rogers as well. John ellis always a
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Speaker 1: Thank you, John. Welcome back, America. I'm Hugh Hewitt with
Speaker 1: Eli Lake. He's with the Free Press. He's the host
Speaker 1: of the Breaking History podcast. He was on the commentary
Speaker 1: podcast today, Eli, I just got done talking about what
Speaker 1: I think now is the most important race in the
Speaker 1: United States political cycle this fall, which is Mike Rogers,
Speaker 1: Republican FBI agent, lieutenant and the Army chairman of the
Speaker 1: House Intel Committee, against Abduhman al Sayed and his running
Speaker 1: mate Hassan Piker. And I'm very serious about that. I
Speaker 1: think they're stapled together. I think they are a dangerous pairing.
Speaker 1: I think it injects deep hatred of Israel and Jews
Speaker 1: into our American political stream. And I think everyone who
Speaker 1: cares about the country should contribute to Mike Rogers. What
Speaker 1: say you?
Speaker 4: I generally agree, But I also think we've crossed a
Speaker 4: rubicon already because Sayid won a squeaker, and not only
Speaker 4: did the leadership of the Democratic Party and pretty much
Speaker 4: everywhere with acception of this very brave Republican Democratic congresswoman
Speaker 4: from Michigan say they are going to endorse him, but
Speaker 4: they didn't extract anything out of said for the endorsement.
Speaker 3: They didn't get.
Speaker 4: He has not given that speech that Obama had to
Speaker 4: give about Reverend Jeremiah Wright, who I would say that
Speaker 4: that Sayid and right are part of a tradition of
Speaker 4: the anti American left. And so if Sayid wants to
Speaker 4: pivot to the middle and maybe reintroduce himself to the
Speaker 4: voters of Michigan, they're not asking him to distance or
Speaker 4: renounce himself from Piker. And that, to me, it's a
Speaker 4: very ominous sign that one of the two major American
Speaker 4: parties is kind of now at the most charitable thing
Speaker 4: you can say is that part of their coalition is
Speaker 4: the anti American left, and that's very bad.
Speaker 1: Well, let's talk about Piker for a second. L Sayid
Speaker 1: put him on like a body suit, like a Spider
Speaker 1: Man suit on Peter Parker. I don't think he can
Speaker 1: take him off. And in fact, I've been seeing on
Speaker 1: my online today a dozen different Piker clips where he
Speaker 1: just is vulgar, obscene, anti Semitic, anti black. Now I'm
Speaker 1: beginning to see l si ed clips where he does
Speaker 1: things like denounce Mackina Island, which is like in ohioan
Speaker 1: denouncing the horseshoe in Columbus. Obviously, there's a lot to
Speaker 1: dig up here that Hailey Stevens didn't.
Speaker 4: Well did Hailey Stevens got all this money from people
Speaker 4: who didn't want, say to win the nomination, but she.
Speaker 3: Didn't really go hard after him.
Speaker 4: I mean, I think only to the very end the
Speaker 4: last days that she mentioned Piker as a problem and
Speaker 4: saying that Duwes were uncomfortable. We have Dana Nessel as
Speaker 4: the attorney general for the state of Michigan. She won't
Speaker 4: go to the party's convention this year because she doesn't
Speaker 4: she doesn't feel safe. I mean, listen, that's terrible. And
Speaker 4: it's because, I mean, it's not like this is Dana Nessel,
Speaker 4: by the way, is not you know, a center right
Speaker 4: Democrat or somebody she is on board. She herself is
Speaker 4: a lesbian. She ended up dropping the charges against the
Speaker 4: University of Michigan people that were then charged by the
Speaker 4: Justice Department. But it's you know, there is something going
Speaker 4: on there, and this is a very ominous sign in
Speaker 4: that respect.
Speaker 3: So the idea that.
Speaker 4: You're going to see everybody, I mean, we talked about
Speaker 4: it in a commentary, But I don't understand what does
Speaker 4: Chuck Schumer have to lose. I don't think he's gonna
Speaker 4: win majority leader if or minority leader. You know, after this,
Speaker 4: after the midterms, why why not go out and say
Speaker 4: you know, I've believed in you know, the US's ra
Speaker 4: relationship for my entire political career, and I can I
Speaker 4: get behind the guy, and you know, I hear my
Speaker 4: problems with him. I think that would have been a
Speaker 4: better move.
Speaker 1: That's a sad ending to a long and colorful career
Speaker 1: for Chuck Schumer. Dissiccated supporter of Israel. He won't be
Speaker 1: welcome in the Jewish State by many people, if any.
Speaker 1: But I was interested in your conversation with John. I
Speaker 1: take your side on this, and i'd tell John if
Speaker 1: he was here, if you're going to attack, and I'm
Speaker 1: going to attack. L sayed for saying hurt people, hurt people.
Speaker 1: I am going to preface it by saying he condemned
Speaker 1: the attack by an Islamist on a Jewish synagogue and school,
Speaker 1: and al said condemned the attack, but he said hurt people,
Speaker 1: hurt people. In other words, he attempted to deflect from
Speaker 1: the attack. But I think it's important to put the
Speaker 1: first part in or you'll open yourself up to being
Speaker 1: discredited on the second part. So I took your position
Speaker 1: on that. But if I were Apak, I would get
Speaker 1: a lot harsher right away. The guy is an anti
Speaker 1: semi Islamist adjacent nut and I do not believe we
Speaker 1: should let Hassan Piker leave stage left now I think
Speaker 1: I keep him on the stage.
Speaker 4: What do you think, Well, first of all, do we
Speaker 4: even know that Hassan Piker? I mean his job is
Speaker 4: to be shocking? Is he is the modern twenty first
Speaker 4: century equivalent of a shock jock like a Howard Stern. Correct,
Speaker 4: that's what his job is. So his job is to
Speaker 4: get attention. So he's not gonna stop talking and being controversial.
Speaker 4: And unless Sayid says something makes a kind of Reverend
Speaker 4: Jremiah Right speech that Obama had to do in two
Speaker 4: thousand and eight, he's gonna be wrapped around his neck
Speaker 4: either way. So Sayid is either gonna have to I mean,
Speaker 4: he can keep saying what he's saying, which is Pikers
Speaker 4: an influencer. I'm out trying to earn votes. Maybe that'll work.
Speaker 4: I don't but I don't think it does it get
Speaker 4: gets us anywhere. You know, do you believe, as Hassan
Speaker 4: Piker has said that Malse is one of the great
Speaker 4: leaders of the twentieth century. That's a terrible thing to say.
Speaker 4: If you know anything about history, you know what anything
Speaker 4: that tongue is.
Speaker 1: What one senator can do in the United States Senate,
Speaker 1: to wreck it, to put holds on nominations, to be
Speaker 1: on hearing. They can't really contain l Sie if he
Speaker 1: gets into the Senate. I think Michiganers, I was just
Speaker 1: in Michigan, is in Detroit this weekend. I make fun
Speaker 1: of him during Ohio State Michigan week But their normies,
Speaker 1: they're not really right. It's not New York City, it's
Speaker 1: not California.
Speaker 4: Well, yes, except here's what I worry about. And I
Speaker 4: trust John Ellis. I was watching the end of that
Speaker 4: and he thinks that that that Rogers is gonna win.
Speaker 4: It'll be close. Here's what I worry about. Trump's approval
Speaker 4: ratings are not in a good place right now, and
Speaker 4: if they keep sinking and the price of gasoline keeps
Speaker 4: going up, I think it's going to be very difficult
Speaker 4: because I think that that Sayid will run and saying hey,
Speaker 4: you know, Mike Rogers is Trump's guy, and if Trump
Speaker 4: is not popular in Michigan, and that's going to be
Speaker 4: a tough sell, especially since one of the things that
Speaker 4: he's doing off the bat right now, Hugh Is he's
Speaker 4: making a plea to Democrats in his state, saying, come
Speaker 4: with me if Sayed does not represent your values. So
Speaker 4: I just think it's going to be hard, and I
Speaker 4: worry about it. I'm not making predictions, but I'm just
Speaker 4: thinking it's going to be a very very close race.
Speaker 4: It shouldn't be, but it is.
Speaker 1: And the last question that Trump has got two years left.
Speaker 1: This is a six year senency. I think that's a
Speaker 1: very compelling argument to people. You might hate Trump, you
Speaker 1: might be mad about the Iran war, although he could
Speaker 1: turn that around, but it is a six year sentence.
Speaker 1: He's there for a long time. If you elect this radical,
Speaker 1: what do you think? Yeah?
Speaker 4: And also well yes, and also you're teaching the radicals
Speaker 4: inside the party that are trying to take it over
Speaker 4: from the Democratic Socialists of America that this kind of politics,
Speaker 4: which I think nearly half of the Democrats in this
Speaker 4: you know, voted against in the primary, is you can
Speaker 4: win with in Michigan. That itself is a really bad thing.
Speaker 4: Is that we have to teach the party a lesson
Speaker 4: that this is too far. But I think you're right.
Speaker 4: The six years is another very good argument there.
Speaker 1: I'll be talking with Charles C. Cook about Buckley driving
Speaker 1: out the Kooks in the fifties. I think Democrats, although
Speaker 1: Kamala Arison, endorse them today. I'm waiting to see what
Speaker 1: Ram Emmanuel shows about Elsa. We got twenty seconds. Do
Speaker 1: you think he'll endorse them, Eli, I hope not.
Speaker 4: I was shocked to see how many Democrats just lined
Speaker 4: up this week after he wins a very narrow election.
Speaker 4: You know, I think that that was a huge error
Speaker 4: on their part, because you know, it's like you feed
Speaker 4: the crocodile in the hopes of that he will eat
Speaker 4: you last.
Speaker 3: Well, you're on the Congress.
Speaker 1: He's very hungry. Euila, thank you. Follow him on exit, Euila.
Speaker 1: Read him at the Free Press. She's a joke and
Speaker 1: she's a diversion. Hong is going to lose. She's gonna
Speaker 1: win the nomination. She's going to lose badly in November
Speaker 1: to Congressman Tiffany. And I think most Democrats realize that.
Speaker 1: So she's the expendable extra on the Star Trek episode
Speaker 1: who never makes it back to the chef. She's out.
Speaker 1: They're focusing on l Sae and I think this is
Speaker 1: really far more important than Hong the l Saeed rate.
Speaker 1: He's running basically on a ticket with us Han Piker.
Speaker 1: El said is the most radical major Party nominee for
Speaker 1: the United States Senate since the Civil War. He is
Speaker 1: so out there, anti Semitic, anti black, anti free enterprise,
Speaker 1: anti everything. He has been incubated by us On Piker.
Speaker 1: He's actually the child candidate us on Biker and what
Speaker 1: Democrats are doing. I'm surprised Kamala Harris endorsed him because
Speaker 1: if you watch all day long on the posts on X,
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, the floodgates are open on L
Speaker 1: Sied Welcome back America. I'm Hugh you at Charles C. W.
Speaker 1: Cook is the senior writer at National Review. Charles that
Speaker 1: was me earlier today. I'm with John Roberts dismissing Hang
Speaker 1: as a joke and lasering in on L Sieed. Who's
Speaker 1: anything but a joke? To me? A your assessment of
Speaker 1: my assessment and be your assessment of L. Seed.
Speaker 5: Well, I hope you're right about Hang. I have a
Speaker 5: bunch of friends in Wisconsin. In fact, Wisconsin is and
Speaker 5: always has been quite overrepresented relative to its size at
Speaker 5: National Review. So I've for a long time had first
Speaker 5: from Wisconsin, who share your view that she will lose.
Speaker 3: I hope that's the case.
Speaker 5: He I worry more about purely because of the national environment.
Speaker 5: I think he's running against a difficult candidate to run
Speaker 5: against in this circumstance, Mike Rogers, who is a generic
Speaker 5: Republican in many ways, who came very close to winning
Speaker 5: in twenty twenty four, as incidentally, did is it John
Speaker 5: James in twenty twenty So Michigan has been close recently.
Speaker 5: But if the national environment is bad and Republican enthusiasm
Speaker 5: is down, then who knows.
Speaker 1: Your friend and mine? Matt Contnerty wrote a piece for
Speaker 1: National Review in January twenty twenty five honoring the late
Speaker 1: William F. Buckley, who, when asked upon his retirement in
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety by The Washington Post what his greatest accomplishment was,
Speaker 1: it was, he said, quote the absolute exclusion of anything
Speaker 1: anisimitic or cookie from the conservative movement. I see the
Speaker 1: Democrats now facing the same challenge. Well, anyone rise to
Speaker 1: mean it the way Buckley did on the.
Speaker 3: Right, Well, we're not seeing them do it.
Speaker 1: Ah.
Speaker 5: We I don't want to be facetious or partisan, and
Speaker 5: I hope that the answer is yes, But I don't
Speaker 5: see any tendency in that direction. And I think, especially
Speaker 5: at the moment, they're so angry with Trump and with
Speaker 5: their loss in twenty twenty four, and they're aware those
Speaker 5: who might be inclined to do something about it that
Speaker 5: if they make a move, they will be removed from
Speaker 5: the party. That's another reason, Hugh, why I think.
Speaker 3: Eli Lake said this earlier.
Speaker 5: Why it's so important that el say it loses, Because
Speaker 5: although I would like to see Republicans do well, if Republicans,
Speaker 5: for example, lost Senate seats in North Carolina and Alaska,
Speaker 5: the takeaway would be that moderate candidates do better and
Speaker 5: that DSA types and anti semites ought to be shown.
Speaker 5: But if Elsi had wins, and if, goodness me, if
Speaker 5: Francesco Hong wins as well, then I think you're going
Speaker 5: to see a terrible combination of energy that is built
Speaker 5: up in the party in opposition to Trump and the
Speaker 5: conviction that the way that you win, even in a
Speaker 5: more moderate Swingish state such as Michigan, is to nominate
Speaker 5: these people, and then the likelihood of there being an
Speaker 5: attempt to stage a party Wide's sister Soldier moment is
Speaker 5: going to be even more remote.
Speaker 1: Okay, so when we come back from break, I'm going
Speaker 1: to talk to you about the Iran impact on this election.
Speaker 1: But running up to that, do you think that perhaps
Speaker 1: the red way that didn't materialize in twenty twenty two
Speaker 1: is the same sort of non event that will occur
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty six. In other words, all politics is
Speaker 1: national and the tribes are set, not a lot of
Speaker 1: people migrating between tribes.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I mean, the one thing about twenty twenty two that
Speaker 5: I found the most interesting and the most frustrating was
Speaker 5: that if you looked at the polling, in almost all
Speaker 5: of the states in which there was a competitive Senate race,
Speaker 5: voters said that they wanted a Republican senator. They just
Speaker 5: didn't want the one that Republicans offered them. And sometimes
Speaker 5: the gap was five or six points. You had fifty five,
Speaker 5: you know, percent or so saying yeah, I wanted to
Speaker 5: vote for a Republican, but then the election turned out
Speaker 5: fifty one to forty nine. That was because Republicans chose
Speaker 5: bad candidates. So the Democrats might shoot themselves in the
Speaker 5: foot this time. But yeah, it could.
Speaker 1: Be, it could be. I'll be right back with Charles
Speaker 1: shew Cook to talk about Iran after the break. Don't
Speaker 1: go anywhere America, because I don't know what's going on there,
Speaker 1: and I hope Charles does stay two. Welcome back America.
Speaker 1: I'm Hugh Heure was senior writer of National View. Charles
Speaker 1: shew a Cook. Charles. I was during the break going
Speaker 1: over to the Wall Street Journal and I scrolled down
Speaker 1: from top to bottom on their landing page. There are
Speaker 1: twenty two headlines of stories or editorials. Not one has
Speaker 1: the word Iran in it to What do you attribute
Speaker 1: that or what conclusion do you draw from that? Well?
Speaker 3: I draw a couple.
Speaker 5: The first one is that no one and I would
Speaker 5: include the President in this, seems to know what's going on.
Speaker 5: It's not as if every day the president or the
Speaker 5: Defense Secretary or the Secretary of State comes out to
Speaker 5: the podium and delivers a master class that keeps us
Speaker 5: all apprized of the situation. That's in keeping with the
Speaker 5: opacity of this from the start. The second thing is
Speaker 5: that although there have been consequences of this war, it's
Speaker 5: not something that outside of gas prices and maybe at
Speaker 5: the margins a little more inflation, most people are feeling
Speaker 5: every day. This is in no way to underplay the
Speaker 5: deaths those servicemen who have given their lives in the conflict.
Speaker 5: But we're not as we were in Iraq, or on
Speaker 5: a much greater scale with Vietnam or the Second World
Speaker 5: or waking up every day to newspaper reports of tens
Speaker 5: or hundreds of people being killed and the stock market
Speaker 5: is up suns out, and I think the combination of
Speaker 5: a lack of communication from the White House and a
Speaker 5: confusionist to what's going on, and a general feeling that
Speaker 5: things are normal is probably kept off the newspapers.
Speaker 1: Do you think it is a false seduction to the
Speaker 1: White House and the President to believe that no news
Speaker 1: is good news, because I think if they want to
Speaker 1: rally the country to their standard in November, they have
Speaker 1: to win this in a way that makes not necessarily
Speaker 1: capitulation but as obvious to us that we've won. Well.
Speaker 5: I agree with that, but as you know, I think
Speaker 5: that we're in a stalemate. And I think that the
Speaker 5: stalemate is the product of America having overwhelming strength but
Speaker 5: being unwilling.
Speaker 3: To use it because of the costs that.
Speaker 5: That would involve, and the President being torn on what
Speaker 5: to do. He can't get out, he can't just leave
Speaker 5: with his tail between his legs. But equally, a push,
Speaker 5: which we could do we have the strength and the talent,
Speaker 5: is going to be politically unpopular. And I'm alarmed by
Speaker 5: this because I think we've stuck right in the middle.
Speaker 1: Well, if he were to announce there are three ways
Speaker 1: to go, major combat operations withdrawal, and then we have
Speaker 1: a blockade and we are not going to lift it
Speaker 1: until an inspections regime is allowed into wherever they had
Speaker 1: nukes and a pickaxe mountain, and that blockade will kill
Speaker 1: you dead over three months, and you're not going to
Speaker 1: shoot anyone. We're going to hammer you. That would be
Speaker 1: an articulation of a position that I think could garner
Speaker 1: significance of. But there's been no articulation of any position, Charles.
Speaker 3: No, and this has been my critique from the start.
Speaker 5: I'm not, on paper opposed to our doing something about Iran.
Speaker 5: There's been a thorn on our side for years and
Speaker 5: it's putting it mildly. But it's been a strange moment, Hugh,
Speaker 5: because at one level they started off saying everything you know,
Speaker 5: there there were five reasons we were going in, and
Speaker 5: now they don't seem to have articulated a rationale for
Speaker 5: our being there at all, and if newspaper reports it
Speaker 5: to be believed, which then not always that the President
Speaker 5: has started asking people if they have any ideas, which
Speaker 5: isn't a problem in general. If you know what your
Speaker 5: strategy is, if you understand what you're trying to achieve,
Speaker 5: there's nothing wrong with asking people how best to achieve it.
Speaker 5: But I think Trump seems to be asking what to do,
Speaker 5: so if he can't work that out, he's certainly not
Speaker 5: going to try and win over the public.
Speaker 1: What I think you want to do is to make
Speaker 1: sure that they can never have a nuclear weapon, and
Speaker 1: that entails I think he's done ninety percent of that,
Speaker 1: and he might be right about Pickaxe Mountain. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I just read what the Foundation for the Defense of
Speaker 1: Democracy says, and they're worried about it. But I do
Speaker 1: think it would be useful to come up to the
Speaker 1: edge again and say, either you let us inspect or
Speaker 1: we pound the IRGC facilities. We don't want to hurt
Speaker 1: civilians to the extent possible, and we keep that blockade.
Speaker 1: People forget the blockade the blockade is going to kill him, Charles,
Speaker 1: Do you believe that the way I believe that they
Speaker 1: need money.
Speaker 5: Yeah, although there's an irony here, isn't that in that
Speaker 5: one of the biggest obstacles that President Trump faces, And
Speaker 5: this is incidentally why it's so silly to describe him
Speaker 5: as a dictator as some on the left, is that
Speaker 5: public opinion is not sold on this war and is
Speaker 5: angry with its consequence.
Speaker 3: As Trump knows.
Speaker 5: That, and that's one of the reasons that I think
Speaker 5: he's been a little bit reluctant to go all the way.
Speaker 3: The Iranians don't have that problem.
Speaker 6: Now.
Speaker 5: You can't push a people indefinitely or they will eventually
Speaker 5: stage a revolution and it will eventually work. But the
Speaker 5: Iranians are not under the same pressure as President Trump
Speaker 5: is because they don't live in a democracy, in a republic.
Speaker 5: So yeah, but I think that the time scales here
Speaker 5: probably aren't in the President's favor. I do think the
Speaker 5: Iranians could hold out for quite a while, even if
Speaker 5: things became dire internally as a result of a blockade.
Speaker 1: If he hammers them, and I mean the BG fifty twos,
Speaker 1: the B twos, the B ones. Whatever attack comes, we
Speaker 1: have left and we allow our allies to absorb the damage.
Speaker 1: Do you think public opinion rallies to him if he
Speaker 1: hammers them because the one thing Americans take it's stale me.
Speaker 5: I actually don't. I'm not saying he shouldn't do it,
Speaker 5: but I don't. I think that the way public opinion
Speaker 5: turns around on this is that there is some sort
Speaker 5: of victory that doesn't look like withdrawal, that then allows
Speaker 5: gas prices to go down, and a plausible case that
Speaker 5: the action was worth it, combined with an improvement in
Speaker 5: the economy. I think if you can get all of
Speaker 5: those things, then it looks like a success. I'm not
Speaker 5: sure people would respond purely to another salvo on the
Speaker 5: grounds that it was the success.
Speaker 3: Now, Charles W.
Speaker 1: Cook always good to check in with you. Listen to
Speaker 1: him on the Editors the podcast from National View. Read
Speaker 1: his work in National Review. Come right back to the
Speaker 1: u Urope show. I don't think there is Stuart. This
Speaker 1: is the key. Ron Johnson is correct to be alarmed
Speaker 1: at the fire alarm fire, But I think most people
Speaker 1: go through the summer, they don't pay attention to deep
Speaker 1: blue congressional districts that you know what, are crazy and
Speaker 1: here and there aoc not very smart, sort of ignorant
Speaker 1: on major issues. She showed that when she went to
Speaker 1: the munich conference. But now they've went a half dozen
Speaker 1: in at once, and it's really Michigan that is the
Speaker 1: flare in the sky. Else I eat is a radical.
Speaker 1: I can't emphasize this enough. I think there are Democrats
Speaker 1: going to Rogers from Michigan, to his website and donating
Speaker 1: because they realize their party cannot be held captive to
Speaker 1: Sayid and Piker. So that's the real five alarm. Socialism
Speaker 1: will not work. Americans are free market people. We want
Speaker 1: to start businesses, we want to succeed. Ron Johnson's a
Speaker 1: very successful businessman. People watching your show believe in free
Speaker 1: markets and in entrepreneurship and capitalism. But the Democrats have
Speaker 1: the problem. They've got the malignancy. They've got to cut
Speaker 1: it out. So Ron john is actually worried about what
Speaker 1: I'm worried about. We need a functioning democratic party. We've
Speaker 1: got to have two major parties that are center left
Speaker 1: for the Democrats, center right for the Republican and let
Speaker 1: them argue about marginal tax rates. But not about the
Speaker 1: fundamental values of America in the West. That shouldn't be
Speaker 1: up for grabs, but it is in Michigan. Welcome back
Speaker 1: American Morning, Glory and Evening great Now with Lee. You
Speaker 1: with Duke Barney this morning. The day before Ben dominates
Speaker 1: with them was Varney. I think Stull likes to get
Speaker 1: a little politics mixed in with the markets. Ben Dominich
Speaker 1: joins me now opinion editor for The Daily Wirefox News
Speaker 1: contributor host of The Big Ben podcast. Ben, How important
Speaker 1: is the Michigan Senate race where abdu al al Sayid
Speaker 1: is running with his ticket marrit A Hassan Piker, Whether
Speaker 1: it's official or.
Speaker 6: Not, I think it's enormously important. You and I think
Speaker 6: that I have turned your hit, but you rocked at that.
Speaker 6: So I apologize if you hear a little bit of
Speaker 6: the servants in the background, because we're headed to vacation
Speaker 6: and that means that my six month old is waking up.
Speaker 6: The situation that I see in Michigan is one that
Speaker 6: really is a test for the Democratic Party. Are they
Speaker 6: going to accept this? Is this going to be the
Speaker 6: kind of thing that they just sort of say, we're
Speaker 6: going to listen to the youngs, despite all the different
Speaker 6: things that they are saying that are at odds with
Speaker 6: not to you know, the historic American experience, but frankly
Speaker 6: the historic democratic experience. I mean, you know, within our
Speaker 6: lifetimes we have had Democrats who were profound defenders of
Speaker 6: free markets and free trade and of you know, an
Speaker 6: anti communist approach to the world. Is that just all
Speaker 6: gone now? Is that just something that we're going to forget,
Speaker 6: because it sure seems I wonder if like six of
Speaker 6: this is something that's in the past.
Speaker 1: Well, the the Hassan Piker angle interests me. Ben he
Speaker 1: put him on like a spidy suit for the primary,
Speaker 1: I'll say it did. Can he take him off now?
Speaker 1: And do enough Americans know.
Speaker 7: Who he is?
Speaker 1: Because for whatever it is, twitch does not really cross
Speaker 1: the radar of people who are over forty. Does it
Speaker 1: matter that a San Piker is a bigot, a racist
Speaker 1: and anti semi and a radical.
Speaker 6: I'm not sure that it does. Cunately, I think that
Speaker 6: we're going to have to deal with the situation where
Speaker 6: you know, they the vast majority of Americans do not
Speaker 6: know who this person is or why they should be
Speaker 6: opposed to what he believes and Unfortunately, that means that
Speaker 6: you're you know, you're talking, you're explaining, and you're educating,
Speaker 6: and that means that you're losing. From my perspective, the
Speaker 6: problem that the Republicans face right now is that they
Speaker 6: do not understand how extreme these people truly are. They
Speaker 6: have you know, used all of these different radical elective
Speaker 6: candidates as you know, a joke, as something that's you know,
Speaker 6: sort of a side a sideline, something that we can
Speaker 6: you know, talk about as being you know, a court
Speaker 6: gesture or something like that, as opposed to what they
Speaker 6: really are, which is a threat to our existence and
Speaker 6: our way of life. And that's something that I think
Speaker 6: is unfortunately going to be something that Republican candidates across
Speaker 6: the country are going to have to find a way
Speaker 6: to deal with. And I don't know that they have
Speaker 6: the language for it, you I really don't. I think
Speaker 6: that they have unfortunately, uh missed, they have undervalued the
Speaker 6: degree to which the left has has completely absorbed and
Speaker 6: uh and accepted these arguments from the young people in
Speaker 6: America in a way that that is perverting them toward
Speaker 6: an anti capitalist, anti American perspective. And I don't think
Speaker 6: that we have necessarily the vocabulary to battle it.
Speaker 1: Now, Ben, you've picked up the utility of interviewing people
Speaker 1: at length. Do you think hasan Piker could survive an interview?
Speaker 1: I mean a serious interview?
Speaker 6: Have you Have you asked him to come on your show?
Speaker 1: No, I've got to worry about I mean, really well,
Speaker 1: I can't.
Speaker 6: But no, no, of course I don't. I mean I
Speaker 6: think that it's very clear that he wouldn't. And I
Speaker 6: think that, you know, whenever he goes on these rants
Speaker 6: that he does, you know, on twitch streams and like,
Speaker 6: it shows that he has just not prepared for that
Speaker 6: kind of conversation. But at the same time, you know,
Speaker 6: what can you do. He can spout all these different
Speaker 6: bullet points that speak to the priorities of young Americans
Speaker 6: in ways that, you know, make it seem like he
Speaker 6: is offering them an answer. That answer is not real,
Speaker 6: it's a lie. It's you know, divorced from the actual
Speaker 6: way that American politics and that markets work. But he
Speaker 6: is able to sell it to them, and he's going
Speaker 6: to continue to sell it to them until we have
Speaker 6: someone who is willing to stand up and actually take
Speaker 6: him on at his face. And you know, I don't
Speaker 6: know that that's the kind of thing that's going to happen.
Speaker 6: I think that what we're going to live with here
Speaker 6: for the next couple of months going into this midterm election,
Speaker 6: is a bunch of people who have lied to these
Speaker 6: youngsters about this is why the economy is not working
Speaker 6: for you. This is why you know, you can blame
Speaker 6: the capitalists, the billionaires, the Jews, you know, have your picks.
Speaker 6: That's the thing that I think they're going to continue
Speaker 6: to do.
Speaker 1: Okay, you got ten minutes to advise Mike Rogers on
Speaker 1: how to run his campaign. What's your advice.
Speaker 6: Look, I think that he can absolutely win this race,
Speaker 6: but I don't think that it's actually as close as
Speaker 6: people seem to think. I think that he needs to
Speaker 6: make the case to all of these people, and I've
Speaker 6: heard him make the case on housing, for instance. I
Speaker 6: asked him about this on Fox when I had the
Speaker 6: opportunity to interview him. He needs to make the case
Speaker 6: that he is going to be a better representative for
Speaker 6: people who actually have, you know, serious concerns about affordability
Speaker 6: and the like, and he needs to do it right away.
Speaker 6: This cannot be an election that's about foreign policy. That's
Speaker 6: the an election that's about affordability, about inflation, and about
Speaker 6: the case table issues that matter the most to the
Speaker 6: people in Michigan.
Speaker 1: Does he talk about what else I represents in terms
Speaker 1: of Israel, in terms of rejecting the Jewish Americans who
Speaker 1: actually made up a large part of the Michigan Electric
Speaker 1: for a long time, so have Arab Americans. But I
Speaker 1: don't think Arab Americans want to be painted as radical either, No, don't.
Speaker 6: I don't think they do. And I think that, you know,
Speaker 6: he does need to talk about that, But I just
Speaker 6: think that the priority for him has to be rebutting
Speaker 6: El Sad on the basic things that he's bringing in
Speaker 6: front of people, which is to say, this is a
Speaker 6: radical who's trying to sell you on a bill of goods,
Speaker 6: and the way to battle against him is to be
Speaker 6: is to rebut him on the points that he's trying
Speaker 6: to sell to the American middle class. That's going to
Speaker 6: be I think the real test going forward for a
Speaker 6: lot of these different DSA candidates across the country.
Speaker 1: So Mike Rogers obviously had an OPO firm that was
Speaker 1: better than Haley Stevens because they adopted a little bit
Speaker 1: of tape today on l SI Eed arriving at Mackinac
Speaker 1: Island for their annual Summer Policy fast cut number nine.
Speaker 1: Please watch it up. You know, I go so much.
Speaker 1: It's funny because like, if we win, this is going
Speaker 1: to be the like summer home, I'm just gonna be
Speaker 1: like every time I've ever come here, I've hated it.
Speaker 1: Why am I here? I hate this so much. I
Speaker 1: feel like if I have to come here every summer,
Speaker 1: I'll hate it.
Speaker 6: What do you think, Ben, Well, I've been there and
Speaker 6: I think it's wonderful. Yeah, I don't know what he's
Speaker 6: talking about. I mean, it's just it's such a random
Speaker 6: thing to hate, but it is I think accustoment to
Speaker 6: how much he is at odds with the experience of,
Speaker 6: you know, a traditional voter within a miskin, and that's
Speaker 6: something that I think needs to be played up. Look,
Speaker 6: you know how dangerous it is if you have an
Speaker 6: actual senator who is able to have the access that
Speaker 6: the senator has to do the things the senator can do,
Speaker 6: who has the kind of warped anti American beliefs that
Speaker 6: El Sayed represents, It's going to be a problem.
Speaker 1: In fact, during the breakoum. We talked with Ben about
Speaker 1: what one senator can do, because one senator can come
Speaker 1: up the Senate badly, and so don't go anywhere. When
Speaker 1: he comes back. Ben's weekly music test is also in
Speaker 1: front of him, and I know he's in fear of
Speaker 1: it because last week he swung in miss he did
Speaker 1: the old oh, I know that, I know that, I
Speaker 1: know that, and he shuffled that he wasn't right. But
Speaker 1: we'll try when we come back to see if Ben
Speaker 1: can get one for two going into week three, don't
Speaker 1: go anywhere, America. I'm Hugh hewittt It's the U Hewitt Show,
Speaker 1: Stay two, So I'm back with Ben Dovid. It's Ben.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about what one senator can do. They can
Speaker 1: put a hold on every nominee. I doubt you would
Speaker 1: put a hold on every jew Is nominated for something,
Speaker 1: but I wouldn't be surprised if he put a hold
Speaker 1: on a lot of them.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think, I mean, that's that's obviously the kind
Speaker 6: of thing that you could do. But I also think that,
Speaker 6: you know, one of the things that we have to
Speaker 6: understand about this is he is in a position right
Speaker 6: now that is a real test case for the future
Speaker 6: of the Democratic Party. If they want to have a
Speaker 6: party that is going to be you know, completely beholden
Speaker 6: to these young socialist anti Israel figures, then they will
Speaker 6: accept it. And here's the thing, you I think it's
Speaker 6: very sad, but the truth is that they are going
Speaker 6: to accept it. You know, you already see the endorsements
Speaker 6: rolling in, not just from Haley Stevens, of course, but
Speaker 6: from Mark Kelly from you know, I think you're going
Speaker 6: to see the kind of so called moderates within the
Speaker 6: Democratic Party completely you know, come up without any kind
Speaker 6: of of courage when it comes to his participation in
Speaker 6: their coalition, and they're going to completely accept it as
Speaker 6: being something that is just this is the future. We
Speaker 6: have to go along with it. Unfortunately. You know, that's
Speaker 6: something that I think is an admission on the part
Speaker 6: of Democrats of their unwillingness to battle against any of
Speaker 6: this kind of anti Semitism within their coalition. But it's
Speaker 6: also an admission that this really is something that is
Speaker 6: truly representative of their young people.
Speaker 1: Will rama Manuel endorse him.
Speaker 6: Probably, I mean, isn't that kind of the I mean,
Speaker 6: you know, I assume you've seen the footage from that
Speaker 6: Twitch influencer fool party that he had right before the
Speaker 6: end of his campaign, where he was just talking about
Speaker 6: the fact that like he's the future and that you know,
Speaker 6: James Carville and other people like that just go ahead
Speaker 6: and leave, you know. And I think that's true. I
Speaker 6: think this Democratic Party is not willing to deal with
Speaker 6: the actual animosity and evil within their midst and that
Speaker 6: includes by the way they ask a Rod you know,
Speaker 6: someone who you know I have in the past. You know,
Speaker 6: I've gone, I've been part of his Chicago you know,
Speaker 6: experience everything like that.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 6: I can't believe that this is something that he wants
Speaker 6: within his party, but apparently he does. And it takes
Speaker 6: people like Van Jones to call him out, you know,
Speaker 6: in a way that I think is confrontational but needs
Speaker 6: to be done, to say no, we are not going
Speaker 6: to allow this kind of evil.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine making Hassan Piker a king maker in
Speaker 1: your party?
Speaker 6: That's insane, you I mean, it's it's absolutely insane. It's
Speaker 6: it's utter. I mean, the absolute horrible nature of it
Speaker 6: is something that I think people don't fully understand because
Speaker 6: they maybe haven't paid attention to him as much as
Speaker 6: you and I have because we're a little too online.
Speaker 6: But the truth is that he is. He's absolutely abhorrent
Speaker 6: and the idea that you would allow someone like that
Speaker 6: to have any kind of dictate over the direction of
Speaker 6: your party is absolutely evil, and he will have it.
Speaker 1: We're coming right back with Ben's music test. Don't go
Speaker 1: anywhere America.
Speaker 4: They haven't.
Speaker 1: No long be welcome back, Ben. Do you know this
Speaker 1: is Ben Domina?
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Speaker 1: Something.
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Speaker 1: Tedsky you want one? And I told I told Dwayne
Speaker 1: it wasn't fair because it was one of dwayne fetish bands,
Speaker 1: and I don't think it's really legit in mainstream. He
Speaker 1: went to Red Rock to hear them, but he and
Speaker 1: he compared him to the immortal Bonnie Race.
Speaker 6: Oh, this is this is completely unfair.
Speaker 1: That's yeah fair, So I'm sorry. Next week we'll give
Speaker 1: you the Beatles or something. All right, Two more.
Speaker 6: Subjects, No No, I just want to say I am
Speaker 6: incredibly jealous of Dwayne. He he had a phenomenal experience
Speaker 6: and uh uh you know and and by the way,
Speaker 6: you know I anyway, Red Rocks is a is a
Speaker 6: destination for me. I've never been there. I would love
Speaker 6: to go there. And uh and kudos to him for.
Speaker 1: He'd been bragging about it all week. Now have you
Speaker 1: been following burrito gate?
Speaker 6: Not only have I been following it, I have published
Speaker 6: an article by chef Andrew Rule at the at the
Speaker 6: Daily Wire about why you should make your burritos at home.
Speaker 6: I am I'm totally engaged with it. In fact, I
Speaker 6: even I don't normally order burrito's, but I ordered a
Speaker 6: burrito this week from one of my favorite restaurants. It
Speaker 6: was sixteen dollars.
Speaker 1: By the way, I bring it up because yesterday I
Speaker 1: had the vice president on and at the end I
Speaker 1: pointed out, he's now the number one I liked that
Speaker 1: Catholic in America, and I thought he hit below the
Speaker 1: burrito belt with Mark Tison, what'd you think?
Speaker 6: I was on with Mark that evening on Larry Tudlow,
Speaker 6: and I said that I thought it was very restrained
Speaker 6: from him. To not make a burrito reference that I
Speaker 6: think that was below the belt. But I also think
Speaker 6: that's an indictment of the vice president. I think the
Speaker 6: vice president needs to be less online than he is,
Speaker 6: and that is something that I think has been a
Speaker 6: repeated problem for him in this vice presidency. As much
Speaker 6: as I respect the fact that he's an extremely intelligent
Speaker 6: and accomplished individual, like why are you doing something like that,
Speaker 6: it like try to win over the people who disagree
Speaker 6: with you, don't just like say, oh, you're fat.
Speaker 1: Well his response was that Mark had been harsh on him,
Speaker 1: and I thought, well, ss Ben Domine says, a bunch
Speaker 1: of people have been harsh on you. I'm trying to
Speaker 1: protect him from the Tucker Carlson smear that he's Tucker
Speaker 1: Carlson because he had a couple of drinks with him once.
Speaker 1: But it's a I just wish he was online. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: you are.
Speaker 6: You bring up a very valid point, which is to say,
Speaker 6: are you going to be one of these podcast pros
Speaker 6: or are you going to be, you know, the next
Speaker 6: potential president of the United States. These are the two
Speaker 6: paths for you, dude, And I think that that's something
Speaker 6: that is significant, and you know, I hope he listens
Speaker 6: to you.
Speaker 1: All right, now, I want to finish with Iran. I
Speaker 1: just went over the Wall Street Journal landing page twenty
Speaker 1: two stories that are either news stories or essay headlines.
Speaker 1: Not once does the word Iran appear. I find that troubling.
Speaker 1: In fact, I find it amazing. How do you react
Speaker 1: to that?
Speaker 6: I think that's a real problem. I mean, I think
Speaker 6: that we need to be talking about this more directly
Speaker 6: because I actually think it's the most important and significant
Speaker 6: political story of this cycle, of course talked about before.
Speaker 6: You know, this is the test by which Republicans will
Speaker 6: be judged in November. And I think that it's you know,
Speaker 6: heinous that we have had a conversation that has shifted, unfortunately,
Speaker 6: away from determining what we ought to be doing there.
Speaker 6: You know, Look, whatever you think about the situation, whatever
Speaker 6: you think about the decision the President made, there needs
Speaker 6: to be a resolution here and that resolution needs to
Speaker 6: be victory.
Speaker 1: So I think there are three cut paths. One, hit
Speaker 1: them hard and ongoing until they capitulate. Two, make a
Speaker 1: public announcement that we're not going to bomb, but we
Speaker 1: are going to blockade until they capitulate, or three declare
Speaker 1: victory and go home. Which do you think he should do?
Speaker 1: Which do you think he will do? We're not doing
Speaker 1: any of them right now.
Speaker 6: I think that one should be what he ought to do.
Speaker 6: I think two is going to likely be what he
Speaker 6: does do. I don't think that he's got to do free.
Speaker 6: That would be just so uncharacteristic. But it's possible. I mean,
Speaker 6: there are people who are lobbying for that within his coalition,
Speaker 6: within the White House, I think, and that's a real problem.
Speaker 6: And look, you know, the the truth is, once you
Speaker 6: go in for something like this, you have to meet
Speaker 6: the determination that you know the outcome and and what
Speaker 6: you understand is being the goal needs to be reached
Speaker 6: no matter what, like if you if you don't reach
Speaker 6: that goal, then you have failed. And that's something that
Speaker 6: I think the President unfortunately, you know, maybe he was
Speaker 6: given bad advice. Maybe there were people around him who
Speaker 6: said it would be easier. You know, we can, you know,
Speaker 6: do the diagnosis on that, you know, potentially after all
Speaker 6: of this, but it is not a situation that I
Speaker 6: think he anticipated. I thought that he I think that
Speaker 6: he thought it would be easier than it has turned
Speaker 6: out to be.
Speaker 1: But what Admiral Montgomery has told me is whatever is
Speaker 1: our deficiency and defensive munitions, we got more than enough
Speaker 1: jay dams, and we can The best defense is a
Speaker 1: good offense. We can be flying five hundred missions a
Speaker 1: night with the Israelis and our golf allies, hitting everything
Speaker 1: that moves with a jay damn precision munition and make them.
Speaker 1: I really believe we can do that if we're willing
Speaker 1: to do it. Do you.
Speaker 6: I think so. But I think that willingness is really
Speaker 6: the question here. You know, there has been so much
Speaker 6: uncertainty about the way that this administration has approached this
Speaker 6: whole process. I'm really concerned going forward about what it's
Speaker 6: going to lead to in terms of the next couple
Speaker 6: of years of this administration. I mean, this has been
Speaker 6: a phenomenal administration when it comes to foreign policy from
Speaker 6: my perspective, But you know, is this going to be
Speaker 6: something that makes him temper things off? Maybe not? You know,
Speaker 6: have the kind to give a foreign policy going forward
Speaker 6: that we would like to see in terms of you know,
Speaker 6: not just uh, you know, the Middle East, but of
Speaker 6: course you know, our own home and the Western hemisphere.
Speaker 1: Ben Dominich is always good to talk to you. Follow
Speaker 1: my exit Big Dominance, listen to Big Ben Pod, read
Speaker 1: the Daily Wire, and have a great vacation Ben, especially
Speaker 1: since you got a baby. That sometimes is not really possible,
Speaker 1: but do your best.
Speaker 6: Thank you, Ben, Thank you, Thank you.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to America, as promised the first appearance of
Speaker 1: Georgia Congressman Mike Collins, who will be the next Senator
Speaker 1: from the state of Georgia. Congressman, welcome, We've got six minutes.
Speaker 1: I want to jam a lot of information to this.
Speaker 1: You got a big uphill race against John as Off,
Speaker 1: A lefty's lefty. What's your website? Where can people go
Speaker 1: or listening in Atlanta or making to help you out?
Speaker 9: No, and I appreciate it because I'm going to tell
Speaker 9: you something.
Speaker 7: This thing is turning into be such a much bigger
Speaker 7: and important race the minute and minute this thing goes on.
Speaker 9: But you can find us at Mike COLLINSGA dot com.
Speaker 7: Please go there, help us out, make sure that we
Speaker 7: get rid of this DSA guy that we've got in
Speaker 7: the US Senate.
Speaker 1: Right now, Mike COLLINSGA dot com. Now, Congressman, tell people
Speaker 1: a little bit about yourself, your businessman. I think you've
Speaker 1: started and sold three businesses. You've been in Congress for
Speaker 1: a long time, your mainstream you're the perfect guy to
Speaker 1: take on the radical John Ossife. How's it going.
Speaker 7: Yeah, you know, as a matter of fact, I've only
Speaker 7: been in Congress for one full term, So this is
Speaker 7: my second term that I will complete in the House
Speaker 7: before moving over in the Senate. Y'all, I've been in
Speaker 7: the trucking business all my life, thirty plus years. My
Speaker 7: wife and I started with one truck and built it up,
Speaker 7: and now the next generation is running that thing. And honestly,
Speaker 7: it's that just being in that tough business environment that's
Speaker 7: allowed me to be so successful in just the short
Speaker 7: time I've been in Congress. But having said that, this
Speaker 7: race right here, number one race in the country to
Speaker 7: flip osof is beatable. We have been right on his
Speaker 7: heels in the polling since we've been.
Speaker 2: In this thing.
Speaker 7: But I tell you, as of Tuesday night, when he
Speaker 7: got behind that l sied the DSA candidate out of
Speaker 7: Michigan that won the Democrat primary up there, I think
Speaker 7: that tells all of America exactly where John Ossof stands.
Speaker 7: Not only as they been saying they're grooming him to
Speaker 7: be the next president. To run for president, John Ossof
Speaker 7: is the same guy, y'all that voted ninety two percent
Speaker 7: of the time with Bernie Sanders. He is the poster
Speaker 7: child for this Democrat socialist of America movement, and you
Speaker 7: don't have to take my word for it. All you
Speaker 7: got to do is go and look at his voting record,
Speaker 7: and in this race you will, Sir.
Speaker 1: I just am amazed he endures Hassan Piker's look alike
Speaker 1: l Siad. Those two guys are the most radical guy.
Speaker 1: I thought Ozaf might want to give him a little
Speaker 1: bit of distance, but he put his arm around them
Speaker 1: because that really is the American political chart.
Speaker 9: Well it is.
Speaker 7: And you think Hassan Piker is friends with John Aysoft,
Speaker 7: John ASoft wouldn't have gotten, wouldn't have pulled his support
Speaker 7: for Platiner if Plattner up.
Speaker 9: There in Maine wasn't losing, him was going to lose,
Speaker 9: and he saw that.
Speaker 7: So John Asof has been right there in the thick
Speaker 7: of this the whole time. The thing is, he's like
Speaker 7: a trojan horse. He has gone around Georgia talking about
Speaker 7: how moderate he is, but nobody's put a glove on him.
Speaker 7: Nobody has said, hey, don't just take his word for
Speaker 7: who he is, and don't take my word for who
Speaker 7: he is. Go look at his voting record. His voting
Speaker 7: record should speak volumes as to how this guy does
Speaker 7: not represent Georgia, does not represent the people or our values.
Speaker 7: Anybody in this state will tell you they don't want
Speaker 7: men in girls' sports. John Asof not only voted once
Speaker 7: for it, he voted three times for it. And that's
Speaker 7: just one out of a multitude of different votes this
Speaker 7: guy has taken because he is so far over there
Speaker 7: on that left wing.
Speaker 9: And one of the main reasons is that's who's funding
Speaker 9: his race.
Speaker 7: I mean, when you're talking about johnas Off, who only
Speaker 7: gets eighteen percent of his money from the state of
Speaker 7: Georgia and from people in this state. The rest of
Speaker 7: us coming from all these other states like California and
Speaker 7: New York.
Speaker 1: So they mccollins, he is a invisible senator until now.
Speaker 1: He's the accidental senator because of the circumstances of six
Speaker 1: years ago. He's an invisible senator since then. He's a leftist.
Speaker 1: Your mainstream, is your money coming in to take him? Mind?
Speaker 1: Because he is going to raise a bundle.
Speaker 7: And that is a great question, Yes, sir, our money
Speaker 7: is coming in. We're seeing good fundraising dollars had a
Speaker 7: great fundraising event just a week ago to day.
Speaker 9: As a matter of fact, here in Atlanta, National money
Speaker 9: is coming in. It is already here.
Speaker 7: We're also got a sixty million dollars to be coming
Speaker 7: in in September to support this campaign and to continue
Speaker 7: need to make sure that we get that message out.
Speaker 7: We've still got to raise hard dollars though. I mean,
Speaker 7: that's just as important as anything, and so it's important
Speaker 7: people people go look at our website, check me out
Speaker 7: at Mike COLLINSGA dot com.
Speaker 1: You'll you can learn exactly who I am.
Speaker 9: You can look at my voting record.
Speaker 7: You can see that I have pushed just good, solid legislation,
Speaker 7: two pieces of legislation being signed into law in just
Speaker 7: two years by two different presidents. And you know, oh
Speaker 7: by the way, Hewett, they they they were bipartisan pieces
Speaker 7: of legislation. So again it's got twenty thousand illegal criminals
Speaker 7: off our streets in just one year.
Speaker 1: So to be low, it's a great campaign. Uh, get
Speaker 1: yourself a cot prepared to move in here. We'll get
Speaker 1: you on once a week between now and November. Mike
Speaker 1: Collins Georgia, Mike COLLINSGA dot com, Mike COLLINSGA dot com.
Speaker 1: Get involved. It's a winnable race. We can toss us
Speaker 1: off out he put his arms around LSA eight. That
Speaker 1: tells you all you need to know. He Andssan Piker
Speaker 1: and John ass Off all birds of a feather, and boy,
Speaker 1: they need to leave those feathers out of the Senate. Mike,
Speaker 1: good to meet John Lone. I'll fack you soon, Mike
Speaker 1: Collins g A dot com. Stay tuned American