WEBVTT - The Big Weekend Pod 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:03.720 Welcome to today's podcast sponsored by Hillsdale College, All Things 0:00:03.800 --> 0:00:06.880 Hilldale Hillsdale dot edu. I encourage you to take advantage 0:00:06.880 --> 0:00:09.119 of the many free online courses there, and of course 0:00:09.160 --> 0:00:11.399 I'll listen to the Hilldale dialogues, all of them at 0:00:11.480 --> 0:00:15.520 q for Hillsdale dot com or just Google, Apple iTunes 0:00:15.720 --> 0:00:19.119 and Hilldale marnon Glory and Eating Grace America. Welcome to 0:00:19.160 --> 0:00:20.960 the big weekend pot. I hope you have a great 0:00:21.000 --> 0:00:23.600 pod ahead of you. We're in the dog days of August, 0:00:23.640 --> 0:00:25.520 but there's still a lot of news going on and 0:00:25.560 --> 0:00:27.800 I want to bring it all to you today. Most 0:00:27.840 --> 0:00:30.159 of my focus with our guests, and we have a 0:00:30.200 --> 0:00:34.560 lot of great guests, John Ellis, Eli Lake, Charles C. W. Cook, 0:00:34.640 --> 0:00:38.080 Ben Dominich and the United States Senate candidate and Georgia 0:00:38.159 --> 0:00:40.680 Michael Collins. I'm going to spend a lot of time 0:00:40.720 --> 0:00:45.159 with them talking about Abdul Lsayed and Hassan Piker, the 0:00:45.360 --> 0:00:48.400 LSA Ed Piker ticket in Michigan, and that's how I'm 0:00:48.400 --> 0:00:51.720 referring to it. I think Elsa Ed is the most 0:00:51.800 --> 0:00:56.000 radical major party nominee since the Civil War. He's off 0:00:56.000 --> 0:00:59.720 the chart. He's an anti Summit he's pro Islamist. He 0:00:59.840 --> 0:01:05.840 is absolutely unacceptable as an American senator and full of hate. 0:01:07.120 --> 0:01:08.800 There's a lot of tape on him, by the way, 0:01:09.080 --> 0:01:10.679 you may have seen it come out today, went up 0:01:10.720 --> 0:01:14.280 to Macinac Island and said how much he hates Macinae Island. 0:01:14.319 --> 0:01:17.640 Everyone in Michigan loves macana Island, even people from Ohio 0:01:17.920 --> 0:01:21.440 Macanae Island. It won't belong to insults the Lions and 0:01:21.440 --> 0:01:24.119 the Pistons the way this going, and maybe even the Tigers. 0:01:24.600 --> 0:01:28.400 But I want to really stress how far outside of 0:01:28.440 --> 0:01:31.720 the mainstream he is. And Hassan Piker pushed him there. 0:01:32.280 --> 0:01:35.840 He needed a San Piker, He needed that hate filled 0:01:36.520 --> 0:01:38.960 a bigot to be at his side every step of 0:01:39.000 --> 0:01:41.039 the way, and he was. He was there on election night, 0:01:41.440 --> 0:01:44.319 and he's profaning. He's vulgar. It makes it almost impossible play. 0:01:44.400 --> 0:01:49.680 Hassan Pikers a Twitter, a twitch stream guy, and he 0:01:49.720 --> 0:01:52.840 has got no accomplishes to his name. Started at the 0:01:52.920 --> 0:01:56.080 University of Miami, ended up at Rutgers, and then just 0:01:56.160 --> 0:01:59.920 fell in with the Young Turks podcast and then decided 0:02:00.360 --> 0:02:03.400 I'll just start being vile online and I'll draw a 0:02:03.480 --> 0:02:07.640 couple one hundred thousand people by being vile online. That's 0:02:07.680 --> 0:02:11.359 what he is. He's vile. He's just anti Semitic, hates Jews, 0:02:11.760 --> 0:02:13.280 and he hates a lot of other people too. He 0:02:13.320 --> 0:02:15.760 hates whites, Americans, he hates people who make money. He 0:02:15.800 --> 0:02:20.440 hates everybody. And he's captured. El Sayed got l Sayed 0:02:20.800 --> 0:02:23.600 the nomination, so they're running as a ticket. But l 0:02:23.639 --> 0:02:26.000 Sayed is no better roads either. He's the same way. 0:02:26.080 --> 0:02:29.520 You don't merge your persona with a Hassan Piker unless 0:02:29.560 --> 0:02:32.160 you want to go there. And I don't think he's 0:02:32.160 --> 0:02:34.840 gonna be able to fool miss In. He fooled the 0:02:34.840 --> 0:02:38.960 Michigan Democratic electorate. Part of that was a bunch of 0:02:38.960 --> 0:02:42.880 fake poles, and I mean fake fake polls, polls that 0:02:42.919 --> 0:02:45.240 showed him ten fifteen points ahead, and he won by 0:02:45.280 --> 0:02:49.679 fifteen thousand votes out of a million five casts. So 0:02:50.040 --> 0:02:53.000 you figure that out. Haley Stevens is right to be 0:02:53.080 --> 0:02:56.959 angry about that. He's got a couple of endorsements already. 0:02:56.960 --> 0:02:59.919 Pete Boodagic run down to throw his arms around it. 0:03:01.560 --> 0:03:05.400 We've got Kamala Harris, who should know better, but she 0:03:05.440 --> 0:03:07.600 wants to be president again. She knows that she needs 0:03:07.639 --> 0:03:11.880 the whack job portion of the party. Andy Basher, now 0:03:12.520 --> 0:03:16.000 Kentucky governor, is going to Michigan, but he's not going 0:03:16.080 --> 0:03:19.400 to appear with LSA ed. What's Barack Obama gonna do? 0:03:19.480 --> 0:03:22.120 What's Hillary Clinton going to do? I don't know. Gavin 0:03:22.200 --> 0:03:25.440 Newsom is reportedly heading to Michigan this weekend to throw 0:03:25.480 --> 0:03:27.520 his arms around lsayed. I don't think they'll ever get 0:03:27.520 --> 0:03:30.240 the stink off. I really don't. The guy is a hater. 0:03:30.720 --> 0:03:34.560 He's just an absolute hater. And Mike Rogers, Thank goodness, 0:03:34.639 --> 0:03:39.560 the Republicans nominated enormy Mike Rogers, Lieutenant the United States Army, 0:03:39.600 --> 0:03:43.840 Mike Rogers, FBI special Agent. Mike Rodgers seven terned congressman, 0:03:43.920 --> 0:03:46.800 fourteen years in the United States House Representative. He stepped down, 0:03:47.720 --> 0:03:50.240 I think probably to go to the private sector for 0:03:50.280 --> 0:03:51.880 a while and make a little bit of money. But 0:03:51.920 --> 0:03:55.040 he was chairman of the House Intelligence Committee meeting. That's 0:03:55.040 --> 0:04:00.440 a select committee. You don't get on it by you 0:04:00.520 --> 0:04:02.680 end up there because you're very well thought of, your 0:04:02.760 --> 0:04:05.880 very highly esteem. Mike Rodge is a very fine candidate, 0:04:05.960 --> 0:04:10.440 barely lost to Alyssa Slotkin in the twenty twenty four election. 0:04:10.920 --> 0:04:12.960 So he just dusted himself out and said we'll do 0:04:13.000 --> 0:04:15.560 it again, and this time he's drawn the best opponent. 0:04:15.760 --> 0:04:19.680 A radical. Not He's absolutely not. And you look at 0:04:19.720 --> 0:04:24.039 Francesca Hong. I was on with John Roberts on America's 0:04:24.240 --> 0:04:30.080 Newsroom excuse me America Reports on Friday, and they began 0:04:30.120 --> 0:04:32.840 by talking about Hong, and I said, John, Hong's a joke. 0:04:33.320 --> 0:04:35.920 She's not going to win in Wisconsin. She hates Thanksgiving. 0:04:36.040 --> 0:04:40.080 She's cooked up in some academic lab. Just a very 0:04:40.080 --> 0:04:42.760 weird person. I don't know how she got the nomination. 0:04:42.880 --> 0:04:45.080 I guess there are enough weird people in Wiscon. But 0:04:45.120 --> 0:04:49.320 she'll get blown out by Tom Tiffany. And so Democrats 0:04:49.360 --> 0:04:51.159 are in trying to talk about that race instead of 0:04:51.160 --> 0:04:55.039 focusing in on l Sied and how dangerous he is, 0:04:55.080 --> 0:04:58.719 how radical he is. Everybody listening, you ought to head 0:04:58.720 --> 0:05:03.679 over to rod Michigan dot com. Rogers from Michigan dot com, 0:05:04.080 --> 0:05:06.640 give them a campaign contribution. No matter where you are. 0:05:06.640 --> 0:05:08.960 And by the way, you're an American Jew. This guy 0:05:09.040 --> 0:05:12.680 hates you. He hates you. You should contribute to Mike 0:05:12.760 --> 0:05:17.640 Rodgers campaign. We ought not to allow burial anti semis 0:05:17.680 --> 0:05:20.680 in the United States Senate. He can win. I mean 0:05:20.839 --> 0:05:23.559 he got the nomination. Put one over on the people 0:05:23.560 --> 0:05:26.880 in Michigan. Doesn't mean you have to sit there and 0:05:26.920 --> 0:05:29.839 take it. You can fight back. You don't have to 0:05:29.880 --> 0:05:34.480 go along with this crazy lurch left of the Democratic Party, 0:05:34.839 --> 0:05:37.520 the DSA with the incubator for a lot of the 0:05:38.040 --> 0:05:43.880 crazy left wing Democrats out there. Kiros in Denver, Chevellier Valdez, 0:05:44.000 --> 0:05:50.640 Lander in New York, Jmamway in New Jersey, Rob in Philadelphia. 0:05:50.680 --> 0:05:53.920 They're all anti Semitic nuts, but they are deep blue 0:05:53.960 --> 0:05:57.680 congressional districts, and they'll give fitch to Keem Jeffries or 0:05:57.720 --> 0:06:00.400 whoever they make the leader of the Democratic Party. But 0:06:00.440 --> 0:06:04.480 they really don't threaten people. I doubt this guy will 0:06:04.480 --> 0:06:06.840 return a blue slip for a Jew. I think he 0:06:06.920 --> 0:06:09.360 will bring the poison of anti Semitism in the United 0:06:09.400 --> 0:06:14.560 States Senate. So get out your checkbook, go to Rogers 0:06:14.560 --> 0:06:18.040 from Michigan dot com, contribute and volunteer. If you're up 0:06:18.040 --> 0:06:20.600 there listening to me on Detroit or anywhere in Michigan, 0:06:20.640 --> 0:06:23.880 Grand Rapids up in the up, don't lay down for 0:06:23.960 --> 0:06:26.920 this guy. He's bad news. You know it, I know it. 0:06:26.960 --> 0:06:30.400 Mike Rodgers is good news. Get involved, and now enjoy 0:06:30.839 --> 0:06:35.120 the rest of today's big weekend pot morning, glory and 0:06:35.160 --> 0:06:38.560 etan grace. Welcome to your weekend, America. I'm Huge Hewett 0:06:38.560 --> 0:06:41.200 and I begin it as I usually do with John Ellis. 0:06:41.440 --> 0:06:44.560 John is the founder and editor in chief of News Items. 0:06:44.920 --> 0:06:47.800 Each week, John sends me a bunch of stories that 0:06:48.320 --> 0:06:50.760 may not have caught many people's attention but caught his. 0:06:51.279 --> 0:06:53.039 Before I go to them, John, I want to throw 0:06:53.040 --> 0:06:55.359 you a bit of a curveball, just to set the 0:06:55.400 --> 0:06:59.760 stage for my future guests. The Lsaeed Hassan Piker ticket, 0:06:59.800 --> 0:07:02.360 and that's what I'm calling it. I'm calling it the 0:07:02.360 --> 0:07:07.480 most radical major party nomination in America to the Civil War. 0:07:08.000 --> 0:07:11.600 Do you agree with me on that? I'm not sure 0:07:11.640 --> 0:07:12.720 I agree with you on that. 0:07:12.840 --> 0:07:15.400 I think I think it's Uh, it's certainly to the 0:07:15.560 --> 0:07:21.040 left of what Michigan Democrats are used to. I think 0:07:21.080 --> 0:07:26.640 he's a surprisingly strong candidate because he's very very much 0:07:26.680 --> 0:07:30.720 on message. Uh, you know, Medicare for all, keep big 0:07:30.800 --> 0:07:35.160 money out of keep big money out of politics, and 0:07:35.960 --> 0:07:39.560 you know, throw the bums out. He's very effective repeating 0:07:39.600 --> 0:07:43.160 that message over and over again. But I think at 0:07:43.200 --> 0:07:47.400 the end of the day is his real beliefs and 0:07:47.440 --> 0:07:52.240 his friendship with mister Piker in particular will lead to 0:07:52.280 --> 0:07:56.680 his defeat Piker. The Democratic Congressman from New York named 0:07:56.800 --> 0:08:02.040 Richie Torres wrote a letter h a press release about 0:08:02.120 --> 0:08:04.880 the mister Piker, which, if people haven't had a chance 0:08:04.960 --> 0:08:10.560 to read, is a thoroughgoing indictment of mister Piker's beliefs. 0:08:10.640 --> 0:08:11.120 Let's put it on. 0:08:11.240 --> 0:08:13.160 You've been doing this a long time. So if over 0:08:13.160 --> 0:08:14.760 the course of the next week you come up with 0:08:14.840 --> 0:08:19.920 another major party nominee to the left Lsied and his 0:08:20.000 --> 0:08:22.880 sidekick Piker, let me know. Next week, let's go to 0:08:22.920 --> 0:08:23.600 your first story. 0:08:23.600 --> 0:08:26.360 Well, I mean yeah, I mean the big story this 0:08:26.440 --> 0:08:31.440 week was a sort of great leap forward by China 0:08:32.280 --> 0:08:36.920 in the race for AI supremacy, if you will. And 0:08:37.679 --> 0:08:40.439 there's a man named Alan Thompson who is sort of 0:08:40.520 --> 0:08:45.480 the godfather of measuring AI capability. Everybody you know agrees 0:08:45.559 --> 0:08:48.280 that he's the guy. He puts out a monthly memo, 0:08:48.679 --> 0:08:53.000 a monthly newsletter called the Memo, and he measures all 0:08:53.040 --> 0:08:57.320 of the capabilities of the various AI models, well Chinese 0:08:57.400 --> 0:09:02.160 and American. And I had a chance to a podcast 0:09:02.280 --> 0:09:04.640 with him I interviewed him for my podcast and I 0:09:04.720 --> 0:09:07.640 said where are we and he said, China's tied, and 0:09:07.679 --> 0:09:11.240 they might even be a little bit ahead. And so 0:09:11.360 --> 0:09:15.280 I think that is a is an enormous change and 0:09:15.320 --> 0:09:18.240 from where we were a year ago. The big advantage 0:09:18.320 --> 0:09:23.160 China has, aside from, you know, the ability to develop 0:09:23.200 --> 0:09:25.440 the models that they're developing, is that they have this 0:09:25.640 --> 0:09:29.760 huge infrastructure advantage. They have enough power to power all 0:09:29.800 --> 0:09:32.720 these data centers. That's a real problem here in the US, 0:09:33.400 --> 0:09:36.200 and Elon Musk, among others, has said that China will 0:09:36.240 --> 0:09:40.079 win the AI race precisely for that reason that it 0:09:40.640 --> 0:09:43.320 has the jews to power the data centers and that 0:09:43.920 --> 0:09:48.000 our capacity to do that is diminished by you know, 0:09:48.160 --> 0:09:52.679 essentially neglect of our grid over decades. 0:09:53.400 --> 0:09:56.760 So that's a big one. I'm not an expert on this, 0:09:56.960 --> 0:10:00.040 but if you lose for a while, can you we 0:10:00.240 --> 0:10:05.520 gain the lead in AI? Yeah? I mean it. 0:10:06.200 --> 0:10:09.440 I mean I think that the technology is advancing, it's 0:10:09.520 --> 0:10:13.360 compounding in this way, is running so you know, so 0:10:13.480 --> 0:10:17.240 much faster than people realize. There was a famous memo 0:10:17.320 --> 0:10:21.240 that was put out called AI twenty twenty seven and it, 0:10:21.600 --> 0:10:25.040 you know, it described how fast AI was developing, and 0:10:25.080 --> 0:10:28.480 everybody thought, well, that's hysterical, and actually it turns out 0:10:28.520 --> 0:10:33.000 that it's developing faster than even they than they predicted, 0:10:33.960 --> 0:10:36.040 so it you know, it's it. We're going to get 0:10:36.040 --> 0:10:38.880 to a point where I think it doesn't really matter 0:10:38.960 --> 0:10:40.719 if so and so, as you know, if China is 0:10:40.720 --> 0:10:42.640 ahead on this and the US is ahead on that, 0:10:43.320 --> 0:10:47.720 we will have reached what's known as the singularity. Musk 0:10:47.840 --> 0:10:51.160 said earlier this year that we'd already reached the singularity. 0:10:51.520 --> 0:10:54.240 Sam Altman a couple of weeks ago said that we 0:10:54.240 --> 0:10:57.720 were now living in the singularity. And the singularity, for 0:10:57.800 --> 0:11:01.800 those of your listeners who don't know, the depression, essentially 0:11:02.080 --> 0:11:07.640 is that point when artificial intelligence surpasses all of human intelligence. 0:11:08.200 --> 0:11:12.360 So two of the leading figures in artificial intelligence, mister 0:11:12.440 --> 0:11:17.240 Musk and mister Altman, say that we're already there. There are, 0:11:17.559 --> 0:11:21.200 you know, a number of concerns about that. Obviously. The 0:11:21.240 --> 0:11:24.360 three that really stick out for me are one, there's 0:11:24.400 --> 0:11:29.000 an existential risk that the machines will run amock, essentially, 0:11:29.040 --> 0:11:31.040 that they'll go rogue, and we've read a lot of 0:11:31.080 --> 0:11:34.800 stories about that in the last month or so. Second, 0:11:35.840 --> 0:11:38.800 I just had an X ray. I have a pinch 0:11:38.920 --> 0:11:40.960 nerve in my neck and I had an X ray 0:11:41.559 --> 0:11:44.680 and I got the technical report on the X ray. 0:11:44.800 --> 0:11:50.120 I put it into Claude and it came out with 0:11:50.440 --> 0:11:54.800 a perfect description of the results of the X ray. 0:11:55.920 --> 0:11:59.720 That's just one small example of how this technology is 0:11:59.760 --> 0:12:04.520 going to transform work, and it's going to be disruptive, 0:12:04.600 --> 0:12:08.120 getting from the model that we now have to the 0:12:08.160 --> 0:12:12.160 model that we're going to need for life with AI 0:12:12.440 --> 0:12:13.239 in everything. 0:12:14.080 --> 0:12:18.280 So John, this or is it a source of apprehension 0:12:18.400 --> 0:12:18.640 for you? 0:12:20.360 --> 0:12:26.920 It's obviously existential risk is a source of app you know, apprehension. 0:12:27.880 --> 0:12:30.120 I think it's going to be very disruptive in the 0:12:30.160 --> 0:12:32.280 next three four years. I think it will be the 0:12:32.440 --> 0:12:36.680 major issue of the twenty twenty eight presidential campaign. But 0:12:36.800 --> 0:12:39.880 I'm very optimistic that if we get through that disruptive 0:12:39.920 --> 0:12:45.560 period that AI will be just an enormous benefit to 0:12:46.200 --> 0:12:51.520 us all people. I mean, it'll be a game changer 0:12:51.559 --> 0:12:54.640 in human history. So I think, you know, let's just 0:12:54.720 --> 0:12:58.720 get through the transition period. If we do without existential 0:12:58.840 --> 0:13:03.839 risk rearing its only head, and I think we're looking 0:13:03.880 --> 0:13:05.800 at a very bright future. 0:13:05.840 --> 0:13:09.920 Indeed, well, AI help us close the American munitions gap, 0:13:09.960 --> 0:13:12.080 because that was one of the stories you sent me. 0:13:12.800 --> 0:13:15.160 I've read about it. I wasn't sure if I believe 0:13:15.240 --> 0:13:18.679 the leaks. But your Reuters reporting is that the US 0:13:18.800 --> 0:13:22.120 Army has used up most of its stockpile of highly 0:13:22.160 --> 0:13:26.000 accurate long range missiles, the attackers and the Presion precision 0:13:26.080 --> 0:13:28.600 strike missiles, but did not tell me how long it 0:13:28.640 --> 0:13:29.720 takes to replace those. 0:13:31.200 --> 0:13:34.360 It takes a long time. One of the problems with 0:13:34.480 --> 0:13:40.640 our Defense department is that we are we develop perfect weapons, right, 0:13:40.760 --> 0:13:45.319 so there are one hundred percent good and in this case, 0:13:45.679 --> 0:13:47.320 perfect is the enemy of the good. 0:13:48.160 --> 0:13:48.680 We need. 0:13:49.080 --> 0:13:52.160 You know, if we had eighty percent thads, or if 0:13:52.200 --> 0:13:55.640 we had eighty percent patriots, we would have a lot 0:13:55.720 --> 0:13:59.640 more of them and we would be less stressed in 0:13:59.720 --> 0:14:05.559 terms of munitions. There's no question CSIS, which is a 0:14:06.559 --> 0:14:09.840 very well respected think tank in Washington that does a 0:14:09.840 --> 0:14:14.960 lot of military analysis, they put together a comprehensive report 0:14:15.520 --> 0:14:21.240 on the municious munitions shortfall that it's entirely persuasive. 0:14:22.240 --> 0:14:25.040 All right, now, let's turn to the blue wave. I 0:14:25.080 --> 0:14:27.040 do think there's a blue wave in the offing, but 0:14:27.120 --> 0:14:30.720 I also think the nomination of the DSA Congressional candidates, 0:14:31.240 --> 0:14:37.040 particularly LSIED in Michigan, may in fact energize Republicans in 0:14:37.080 --> 0:14:40.240 a way that they ordinarily wouldn't be in a midterm. 0:14:40.600 --> 0:14:43.480 Have you calculated that into your assessment of the blue wave? 0:14:45.600 --> 0:14:50.680 Well, right now, if you believe the data, and I do, 0:14:52.040 --> 0:14:56.160 where Democratic voters are more motivated to vote in this 0:14:56.320 --> 0:15:01.040 midterm election than Republican voters are, and if that sticks, 0:15:01.040 --> 0:15:04.920 then the Democrats will do well. If the Republicans are 0:15:05.000 --> 0:15:11.480 able to make the DSA essentially a major issue, and 0:15:11.520 --> 0:15:15.560 then I think that that can motivate the Republican base, 0:15:15.640 --> 0:15:19.480 particularly the magabase, to get out and vote. And if 0:15:19.520 --> 0:15:23.000 they get out and vote, then the Democratic gains in 0:15:23.080 --> 0:15:26.240 the House are probably enough to get you know, to 0:15:26.360 --> 0:15:30.480 give them recapture control of the House, but not by 0:15:30.560 --> 0:15:36.000 anything like a normal twenty six suite twenty six seat swing, 0:15:37.240 --> 0:15:40.920 and I think it makes it. If the MAGA base votes, 0:15:41.000 --> 0:15:44.520 then I think the Senate will stay in Republican hands 0:15:44.560 --> 0:15:45.000 for sure. 0:15:45.760 --> 0:15:48.360 Now, John ellis for the benefit of audience that may 0:15:48.400 --> 0:15:50.760 be new. We pick up station very month. You've been 0:15:50.800 --> 0:15:54.920 doing political analysis for forty years and you've seen a 0:15:54.920 --> 0:15:59.280 lot of races. Do you think intuitively, Mike Rogers, who's 0:15:59.280 --> 0:16:05.440 eighty center right, normal Republican Army lieutenant, FBI special agent, 0:16:05.560 --> 0:16:07.920 fourteen years in the House, Chair of the Senate of 0:16:08.520 --> 0:16:12.960 the House Intel Committee. Is he going to beat Abdulsi 0:16:13.200 --> 0:16:17.880 ed in Michigan? In your opinion, I would think so. 0:16:18.080 --> 0:16:21.760 I mean, if you think of the rough math of 0:16:21.840 --> 0:16:24.400 this is forty five percent are going to vote blue, 0:16:25.040 --> 0:16:28.360 you know, regardless, forty five percent are going to vote 0:16:28.440 --> 0:16:32.440 red regardless. This is true in Michigan. The ten percent, 0:16:32.680 --> 0:16:34.360 you know, what are they going to do right now? 0:16:34.400 --> 0:16:38.160 They're financially stressed. That's number one. Number two, they think 0:16:38.200 --> 0:16:40.880 the system is corrupt. And number three, they want to 0:16:40.880 --> 0:16:43.720 send a message about how dissatisfied they are with the 0:16:43.720 --> 0:16:44.720 way things are working. 0:16:45.320 --> 0:16:46.000 That is. 0:16:47.840 --> 0:16:53.920 Lsad's message. That's his hope for victory. I'm not sure 0:16:54.000 --> 0:16:56.080 that's that's going to get him across the line. So 0:16:56.200 --> 0:16:59.560 if I were betting in Rogers. 0:16:58.960 --> 0:17:01.960 I am betting Rogers as well. John ellis always a 0:17:01.960 --> 0:17:05.360 pleasure subscribe to news items. Be Smart. Thank you, America, 0:17:05.440 --> 0:17:16.639 Thank you, John. Welcome back, America. I'm Hugh Hewitt with 0:17:16.680 --> 0:17:19.960 Eli Lake. He's with the Free Press. He's the host 0:17:19.960 --> 0:17:22.760 of the Breaking History podcast. He was on the commentary 0:17:22.840 --> 0:17:26.439 podcast today, Eli, I just got done talking about what 0:17:26.520 --> 0:17:29.280 I think now is the most important race in the 0:17:29.400 --> 0:17:34.360 United States political cycle this fall, which is Mike Rogers, 0:17:34.480 --> 0:17:37.919 Republican FBI agent, lieutenant and the Army chairman of the 0:17:37.920 --> 0:17:43.600 House Intel Committee, against Abduhman al Sayed and his running 0:17:43.640 --> 0:17:46.879 mate Hassan Piker. And I'm very serious about that. I 0:17:46.920 --> 0:17:51.160 think they're stapled together. I think they are a dangerous pairing. 0:17:51.680 --> 0:17:55.480 I think it injects deep hatred of Israel and Jews 0:17:55.560 --> 0:17:59.600 into our American political stream. And I think everyone who 0:17:59.600 --> 0:18:02.199 cares about the country should contribute to Mike Rogers. What 0:18:02.320 --> 0:18:02.720 say you? 0:18:04.960 --> 0:18:07.960 I generally agree, But I also think we've crossed a 0:18:08.000 --> 0:18:14.159 rubicon already because Sayid won a squeaker, and not only 0:18:14.359 --> 0:18:17.600 did the leadership of the Democratic Party and pretty much 0:18:17.600 --> 0:18:21.840 everywhere with acception of this very brave Republican Democratic congresswoman 0:18:21.840 --> 0:18:25.600 from Michigan say they are going to endorse him, but 0:18:25.640 --> 0:18:29.560 they didn't extract anything out of said for the endorsement. 0:18:29.680 --> 0:18:30.359 They didn't get. 0:18:31.320 --> 0:18:35.639 He has not given that speech that Obama had to 0:18:35.640 --> 0:18:39.920 give about Reverend Jeremiah Wright, who I would say that 0:18:40.240 --> 0:18:43.520 that Sayid and right are part of a tradition of 0:18:43.520 --> 0:18:46.959 the anti American left. And so if Sayid wants to 0:18:47.000 --> 0:18:50.600 pivot to the middle and maybe reintroduce himself to the 0:18:50.680 --> 0:18:55.119 voters of Michigan, they're not asking him to distance or 0:18:55.359 --> 0:19:01.000 renounce himself from Piker. And that, to me, it's a 0:19:01.080 --> 0:19:03.240 very ominous sign that one of the two major American 0:19:03.240 --> 0:19:06.760 parties is kind of now at the most charitable thing 0:19:06.800 --> 0:19:08.600 you can say is that part of their coalition is 0:19:08.600 --> 0:19:10.400 the anti American left, and that's very bad. 0:19:11.080 --> 0:19:14.720 Well, let's talk about Piker for a second. L Sayid 0:19:14.720 --> 0:19:17.320 put him on like a body suit, like a Spider 0:19:17.400 --> 0:19:20.200 Man suit on Peter Parker. I don't think he can 0:19:20.240 --> 0:19:22.280 take him off. And in fact, I've been seeing on 0:19:22.320 --> 0:19:27.200 my online today a dozen different Piker clips where he 0:19:27.320 --> 0:19:31.400 just is vulgar, obscene, anti Semitic, anti black. Now I'm 0:19:31.440 --> 0:19:33.640 beginning to see l si ed clips where he does 0:19:33.720 --> 0:19:37.320 things like denounce Mackina Island, which is like in ohioan 0:19:37.400 --> 0:19:43.080 denouncing the horseshoe in Columbus. Obviously, there's a lot to 0:19:43.320 --> 0:19:45.520 dig up here that Hailey Stevens didn't. 0:19:47.600 --> 0:19:51.160 Well did Hailey Stevens got all this money from people 0:19:51.160 --> 0:19:55.760 who didn't want, say to win the nomination, but she. 0:19:55.800 --> 0:19:57.440 Didn't really go hard after him. 0:19:57.480 --> 0:19:59.639 I mean, I think only to the very end the 0:19:59.680 --> 0:20:02.720 last days that she mentioned Piker as a problem and 0:20:02.760 --> 0:20:05.040 saying that Duwes were uncomfortable. We have Dana Nessel as 0:20:05.040 --> 0:20:07.320 the attorney general for the state of Michigan. She won't 0:20:07.320 --> 0:20:11.520 go to the party's convention this year because she doesn't 0:20:11.720 --> 0:20:15.200 she doesn't feel safe. I mean, listen, that's terrible. And 0:20:15.280 --> 0:20:17.800 it's because, I mean, it's not like this is Dana Nessel, 0:20:17.880 --> 0:20:21.600 by the way, is not you know, a center right 0:20:21.760 --> 0:20:25.560 Democrat or somebody she is on board. She herself is 0:20:25.600 --> 0:20:28.119 a lesbian. She ended up dropping the charges against the 0:20:28.160 --> 0:20:30.720 University of Michigan people that were then charged by the 0:20:30.800 --> 0:20:34.640 Justice Department. But it's you know, there is something going 0:20:34.680 --> 0:20:37.159 on there, and this is a very ominous sign in 0:20:37.200 --> 0:20:37.720 that respect. 0:20:37.800 --> 0:20:39.640 So the idea that. 0:20:39.600 --> 0:20:42.600 You're going to see everybody, I mean, we talked about 0:20:42.600 --> 0:20:44.239 it in a commentary, But I don't understand what does 0:20:44.320 --> 0:20:46.120 Chuck Schumer have to lose. I don't think he's gonna 0:20:46.160 --> 0:20:50.479 win majority leader if or minority leader. You know, after this, 0:20:50.640 --> 0:20:53.240 after the midterms, why why not go out and say 0:20:54.040 --> 0:20:57.119 you know, I've believed in you know, the US's ra 0:20:57.240 --> 0:21:00.159 relationship for my entire political career, and I can I 0:21:00.200 --> 0:21:02.560 get behind the guy, and you know, I hear my 0:21:02.560 --> 0:21:05.439 problems with him. I think that would have been a 0:21:05.440 --> 0:21:06.000 better move. 0:21:06.600 --> 0:21:09.679 That's a sad ending to a long and colorful career 0:21:09.720 --> 0:21:14.520 for Chuck Schumer. Dissiccated supporter of Israel. He won't be 0:21:14.560 --> 0:21:16.840 welcome in the Jewish State by many people, if any. 0:21:17.280 --> 0:21:19.720 But I was interested in your conversation with John. I 0:21:19.800 --> 0:21:21.800 take your side on this, and i'd tell John if 0:21:21.800 --> 0:21:25.040 he was here, if you're going to attack, and I'm 0:21:25.080 --> 0:21:28.639 going to attack. L sayed for saying hurt people, hurt people. 0:21:29.240 --> 0:21:32.440 I am going to preface it by saying he condemned 0:21:32.480 --> 0:21:38.360 the attack by an Islamist on a Jewish synagogue and school, 0:21:39.560 --> 0:21:43.159 and al said condemned the attack, but he said hurt people, 0:21:43.480 --> 0:21:47.120 hurt people. In other words, he attempted to deflect from 0:21:47.119 --> 0:21:48.919 the attack. But I think it's important to put the 0:21:48.960 --> 0:21:52.120 first part in or you'll open yourself up to being 0:21:52.200 --> 0:21:55.440 discredited on the second part. So I took your position 0:21:55.520 --> 0:21:58.480 on that. But if I were Apak, I would get 0:21:58.600 --> 0:22:01.960 a lot harsher right away. The guy is an anti 0:22:02.040 --> 0:22:07.560 semi Islamist adjacent nut and I do not believe we 0:22:07.600 --> 0:22:10.680 should let Hassan Piker leave stage left now I think 0:22:10.720 --> 0:22:11.919 I keep him on the stage. 0:22:11.920 --> 0:22:16.600 What do you think, Well, first of all, do we 0:22:16.640 --> 0:22:19.760 even know that Hassan Piker? I mean his job is 0:22:19.960 --> 0:22:22.640 to be shocking? Is he is the modern twenty first 0:22:22.640 --> 0:22:25.960 century equivalent of a shock jock like a Howard Stern. Correct, 0:22:26.000 --> 0:22:28.359 that's what his job is. So his job is to 0:22:28.400 --> 0:22:32.440 get attention. So he's not gonna stop talking and being controversial. 0:22:32.760 --> 0:22:36.520 And unless Sayid says something makes a kind of Reverend 0:22:36.560 --> 0:22:38.719 Jremiah Right speech that Obama had to do in two 0:22:38.760 --> 0:22:42.040 thousand and eight, he's gonna be wrapped around his neck 0:22:42.280 --> 0:22:45.400 either way. So Sayid is either gonna have to I mean, 0:22:45.440 --> 0:22:48.360 he can keep saying what he's saying, which is Pikers 0:22:48.400 --> 0:22:52.680 an influencer. I'm out trying to earn votes. Maybe that'll work. 0:22:52.720 --> 0:22:54.679 I don't but I don't think it does it get 0:22:54.920 --> 0:22:57.879 gets us anywhere. You know, do you believe, as Hassan 0:22:57.920 --> 0:23:00.960 Piker has said that Malse is one of the great 0:23:01.040 --> 0:23:04.360 leaders of the twentieth century. That's a terrible thing to say. 0:23:04.560 --> 0:23:06.880 If you know anything about history, you know what anything 0:23:07.480 --> 0:23:08.200 that tongue is. 0:23:10.320 --> 0:23:13.200 What one senator can do in the United States Senate, 0:23:13.320 --> 0:23:17.199 to wreck it, to put holds on nominations, to be 0:23:17.320 --> 0:23:21.240 on hearing. They can't really contain l Sie if he 0:23:21.320 --> 0:23:25.000 gets into the Senate. I think Michiganers, I was just 0:23:25.040 --> 0:23:28.200 in Michigan, is in Detroit this weekend. I make fun 0:23:28.240 --> 0:23:30.840 of him during Ohio State Michigan week But their normies, 0:23:31.160 --> 0:23:34.000 they're not really right. It's not New York City, it's 0:23:34.040 --> 0:23:35.800 not California. 0:23:37.000 --> 0:23:40.000 Well, yes, except here's what I worry about. And I 0:23:40.040 --> 0:23:41.800 trust John Ellis. I was watching the end of that 0:23:41.920 --> 0:23:44.080 and he thinks that that that Rogers is gonna win. 0:23:44.240 --> 0:23:49.400 It'll be close. Here's what I worry about. Trump's approval 0:23:49.480 --> 0:23:51.679