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And 0:01:02.640 --> 0:01:03.960 if you follow me on X and you would have 0:01:03.960 --> 0:01:06.080 seen what's coming on the show tonight. And we've got 0:01:06.120 --> 0:01:11.200 a big, one big show. We've got Michael Walley. I 0:01:11.200 --> 0:01:13.840 did an interview with Michael Wattley last week Friday at 0:01:13.880 --> 0:01:16.319 his political event, so we're gonna be airing that tonight. 0:01:16.440 --> 0:01:18.320 Has not yet been aired. It was a private one 0:01:18.360 --> 0:01:21.720 on one interview. Congressman Tim Moore will be joining us 0:01:21.800 --> 0:01:24.280 later on tonight as well to talk about all the 0:01:24.280 --> 0:01:26.560 big things that they voted on up in Washington. D 0:01:26.720 --> 0:01:30.720 c voter I d not allowing congress people or sending 0:01:30.720 --> 0:01:33.560 people for inside or trading. And then we're gonna have 0:01:33.640 --> 0:01:36.120 ap Dylan of the North State Journal join us to 0:01:36.280 --> 0:01:38.800 give us some more insight on what happened yesterday when 0:01:38.800 --> 0:01:40.800 a reporter got kicked out or a couple of reporters 0:01:40.840 --> 0:01:44.920 got kicked out of a Roy Cooper gathering. But we're 0:01:44.920 --> 0:01:47.800 gonna start off tonight with Michael Wattley. And again this 0:01:47.960 --> 0:01:50.760 interview is from last week Friday when he held an 0:01:50.800 --> 0:01:54.080 event up in Harrisburg, and after he's finished with all 0:01:54.080 --> 0:01:56.440 the media, I was able to grab him one on one. 0:01:56.480 --> 0:01:58.320 So here's my interview with Michael Wattley. 0:01:58.560 --> 0:02:01.280 Big press conference, about one hundred and ten people or 0:02:01.320 --> 0:02:02.040 so showed up. 0:02:02.240 --> 0:02:05.120 So what did you do? You feel like you got 0:02:05.160 --> 0:02:05.920 your point across? 0:02:05.960 --> 0:02:08.519 Well, we need to keeping our kids in our community 0:02:08.560 --> 0:02:11.560 safe is the number one priority for any government. I mean, 0:02:11.560 --> 0:02:13.160 if you think about it, what is the highest priority 0:02:13.160 --> 0:02:16.200 of a government keeping its citizen safe? And Roy Cooper 0:02:16.320 --> 0:02:18.679 absolutely failed on that point, and we need to talk 0:02:18.680 --> 0:02:21.000 about his failures. We need to talk about his record. 0:02:21.120 --> 0:02:23.000 We need to talk about the fact that he set 0:02:23.080 --> 0:02:25.040 up a revolving door that put criminals back on the 0:02:25.040 --> 0:02:26.720 streets again and again and again. 0:02:26.919 --> 0:02:27.720 We need to talk. 0:02:27.520 --> 0:02:30.960 About the fact that he vetoed legislation to tell sheriffs 0:02:31.000 --> 0:02:34.040 they need to honorize detainers and get criminal, illegal aliens 0:02:34.040 --> 0:02:36.079 out of our state. And of course that he released 0:02:36.120 --> 0:02:40.720 forty two hundred prisoners, pedophiles, rapists, murderers, the worst of 0:02:40.760 --> 0:02:42.959 the worst, that he took out of our prisons in 0:02:43.000 --> 0:02:45.360 North Carolina and put them right back on the street 0:02:45.560 --> 0:02:48.080 and caused a crime wave across this state. 0:02:49.200 --> 0:02:52.560 A new pole just came out and it's also put 0:02:52.600 --> 0:02:53.239 forth by it. 0:02:53.639 --> 0:02:54.680 They make no bones about it. 0:02:54.720 --> 0:02:58.040 They're a Democrat poll and they had you down four points, 0:02:58.040 --> 0:02:59.760 as opposed to all the other poles that had you 0:02:59.800 --> 0:03:02.400 down anywhere from eight to twelve. So the fact that 0:03:02.440 --> 0:03:05.840 a Democrat poll had you down four points and you 0:03:05.960 --> 0:03:08.560 just started your advertising campaign, what does that say to you? 0:03:08.639 --> 0:03:10.520 Well, I think we have momentum in this race because 0:03:10.560 --> 0:03:14.120 we're talking about the issues the voters care about. The 0:03:14.200 --> 0:03:16.919 voters in North Carolina are going to choose the issues 0:03:16.960 --> 0:03:19.320 they're going to vote on. It's not up to politicians 0:03:19.320 --> 0:03:21.320 and tell them what they think is important. You need 0:03:21.360 --> 0:03:24.040 to listen to the voters understand their issues and put 0:03:24.040 --> 0:03:26.480 solutions on the table. Right now, we are the only 0:03:26.520 --> 0:03:29.840 campaign that is talking about allowing people to make more 0:03:29.880 --> 0:03:33.160 money and keep more money. That we're going to lower inflation, 0:03:33.240 --> 0:03:35.680 we're going to lower interest rates and the cost of 0:03:35.760 --> 0:03:38.920 groceries and gasoline prices and housing prices. That we're going 0:03:38.960 --> 0:03:41.720 to lower taxes. Roy Cooper wants all of those to 0:03:41.760 --> 0:03:44.520 go through the roof. Right we're talking about keeping our 0:03:44.600 --> 0:03:47.880 kids in our community safe, making sure criminals are behind bars, 0:03:48.120 --> 0:03:51.480 making sure that we support our law enforcement community. Roy 0:03:51.520 --> 0:03:54.240 Cooper has put these criminals back on the street. Roy 0:03:54.280 --> 0:03:58.160 Cooper has allowed that revolving door and put our communities 0:03:58.280 --> 0:04:02.680 and our kids at risk. So when we see the 0:04:02.760 --> 0:04:06.360 voters engaging and paying attention to these issues, we feel 0:04:06.440 --> 0:04:08.240 very good about where this election is going to go 0:04:08.280 --> 0:04:09.720 because at the end of the day, the people of 0:04:09.720 --> 0:04:12.839 North Carolina are simply not going to vote for the 0:04:12.880 --> 0:04:15.200 worst governor in the history of North Carolina. 0:04:15.520 --> 0:04:16.839 And I know I'm getting ready to throw you a 0:04:16.880 --> 0:04:20.520 softball here, but the other day I was watching during golf, 0:04:20.560 --> 0:04:23.920 a Roy Cooper commercial popped up and he said, I 0:04:24.040 --> 0:04:27.400 like keeping criminals or I keep criminals in jails behind bars. 0:04:27.400 --> 0:04:30.200 I'm tough on crime and I believe criminals should stay 0:04:30.200 --> 0:04:32.599 behind bars. And the first thought that went through my 0:04:32.640 --> 0:04:34.400 head was, well, Michael Waltley's going to have a field 0:04:34.440 --> 0:04:35.159 day with this one. 0:04:35.200 --> 0:04:39.640 He is absolutely and look that Roy Cooper is trying 0:04:39.640 --> 0:04:43.080 to claim that he is tough on crime is absolutely laughable. 0:04:43.279 --> 0:04:46.800 His decision to let forty two hundred criminals harden criminals 0:04:46.839 --> 0:04:49.600 out of North Carolina prisons was simply put the worst 0:04:49.680 --> 0:04:52.960 decision by any governor in the history of North Carolina. 0:04:53.120 --> 0:04:55.560 He placed our kids at risk, our communities at risk, 0:04:55.680 --> 0:04:58.400 our law enforcement officers at risk. There is a reason 0:04:58.880 --> 0:05:02.560 that the Police Benevolent a Association, the Troopers Association, and 0:05:02.640 --> 0:05:05.520 sheriffs all across this state have endorsed me in this 0:05:05.640 --> 0:05:07.960 race because I am going to back the Blue and 0:05:08.040 --> 0:05:09.920 I'm going to do everything I can to make sure 0:05:09.920 --> 0:05:13.599 that criminals belong behind bars, criminals are behind bars, and 0:05:13.680 --> 0:05:15.159 that we have safe kids in streets. 0:05:15.400 --> 0:05:18.599 Two part question, I'll let you get out on this Iran. 0:05:19.200 --> 0:05:20.560 You know, a part of being a senator is you 0:05:20.600 --> 0:05:22.600 have to deal with foreign stuff as well, and so 0:05:23.240 --> 0:05:25.880 your quick thoughts on what's going on in Iran and also, 0:05:26.120 --> 0:05:30.120 just recently, about half of the Democrats in DC voted 0:05:30.160 --> 0:05:30.880 to stop. 0:05:30.640 --> 0:05:33.360 Giving aid to Israel. So what are your thoughts about 0:05:33.360 --> 0:05:33.919 both of those. 0:05:34.279 --> 0:05:37.599 Look, we cannot allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon, 0:05:37.760 --> 0:05:41.640 full stop. And anybody who is going to criticize our 0:05:41.680 --> 0:05:45.640 military intervention over there does not understand that fundamental truth. 0:05:45.720 --> 0:05:48.280 Roy Cooper saying that our troops being engaged in the 0:05:48.279 --> 0:05:50.919 Middle East is absurd shows you that he's not a 0:05:50.960 --> 0:05:54.719 serious candidate. The fact is that if Iran gets nuclear weapons, 0:05:54.800 --> 0:05:57.119 we know that they will use them. We cannot allow 0:05:57.160 --> 0:06:00.400 them to have missile capacity to deliver payloads in Europe 0:06:00.480 --> 0:06:03.359 or the United States. And they need to stop exporting 0:06:03.440 --> 0:06:06.279 terrorism around the Middle East and around the world. That's 0:06:06.320 --> 0:06:09.040 what President Trump has gone into Iran to be able 0:06:09.400 --> 0:06:12.000 to stop right. And the fact is he has offered 0:06:12.040 --> 0:06:15.760 Iran an olive branch multiple times. He has tried to 0:06:15.839 --> 0:06:18.479 get them to come to the table rationally and be 0:06:18.520 --> 0:06:21.559 able to negotiate a long term piece that will allow 0:06:21.600 --> 0:06:24.760 Iran to enter back into the Community of Nations. They 0:06:24.800 --> 0:06:27.800 so far have steadfastly refused that. I hope that they 0:06:27.839 --> 0:06:29.840 see the light. I hope that they will accept the 0:06:29.880 --> 0:06:32.840 olive branch. But if not, the President is going to 0:06:32.839 --> 0:06:36.320 act decisively to make sure that Iran cannot have that 0:06:36.400 --> 0:06:37.040 nuclear weapon. 0:06:37.200 --> 0:06:38.640 And the Israel situation, you. 0:06:38.560 --> 0:06:41.920 Know, look, I think that Israel as a ally of 0:06:41.960 --> 0:06:45.800 the United States fundamentally important. Obviously, we want to make 0:06:45.839 --> 0:06:48.320 sure that we have the Abraham Courts are going to 0:06:48.320 --> 0:06:51.560 be strong over there, that we get nations put together 0:06:51.640 --> 0:06:54.320 with Israel as well as each other. The fact is 0:06:54.400 --> 0:06:58.479 that we need to build a fence around Iran the 0:06:58.560 --> 0:07:00.440 same way that we have the NATO fence that was 0:07:00.440 --> 0:07:01.400 built around Russia. 0:07:02.000 --> 0:07:03.880 And I always do this with you. Is there anything 0:07:03.880 --> 0:07:04.960 you want to say to the listeners. 0:07:05.080 --> 0:07:07.920 Well, look, I'm very excited. We finished our hundred county tour. 0:07:08.400 --> 0:07:09.960 We have been to every single one of our one 0:07:10.000 --> 0:07:14.160 hundred counties all across North Carolina. And the overwhelming view 0:07:14.400 --> 0:07:16.520 that I got when I talk to people across the 0:07:16.600 --> 0:07:19.480 state is they want a fighter. They want somebody who's 0:07:19.480 --> 0:07:21.160 going to fight for North Carolina, who's going to fight 0:07:21.160 --> 0:07:23.440 for their communities, who's going to fight for their families. 0:07:23.600 --> 0:07:28.120 And they very appreciative of my position where I'm going 0:07:28.160 --> 0:07:30.240 to fight economically for them to make more and keep 0:07:30.240 --> 0:07:32.520 more that we're going to keep our kids in communities 0:07:32.560 --> 0:07:34.800 that are safe. And I'm also going to fight every 0:07:34.840 --> 0:07:36.840 day to make sure that our men and women in uniform. 0:07:36.880 --> 0:07:39.880 We have ten percent of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, 0:07:39.880 --> 0:07:43.240 and Coast Guard under our flag are based here in 0:07:43.240 --> 0:07:45.440 North Carolina. We've got to make sure that they have 0:07:45.520 --> 0:07:47.960 what they need to carry out their mission around the world. 0:07:48.080 --> 0:07:49.720 Mirk Walling, thanks for you talking today. It's good to 0:07:49.720 --> 0:07:50.200 see us, sir. 0:08:00.160 --> 0:08:03.800 Welcome back to Breaking with Brett Jensen about six eighteen, 0:08:03.920 --> 0:08:08.000 six nineteen here on this Friday night, coming to you 0:08:08.080 --> 0:08:10.800 live and in living color. All Right, So last night 0:08:10.840 --> 0:08:14.600 I talked a lot about the situation where a reporter 0:08:14.760 --> 0:08:18.680 from the Blue Rich Times and a photographer from the 0:08:18.720 --> 0:08:22.560 North State Journal they went to a Roy Cooper political 0:08:22.600 --> 0:08:27.520 event in Gaston County and they were in there and 0:08:27.560 --> 0:08:30.880 then they got booted. And I talked about how that 0:08:31.040 --> 0:08:33.679 is on brand for Roy Cooper because he did the 0:08:33.720 --> 0:08:37.720 same thing to WBT and me for the fourteen months 0:08:38.120 --> 0:08:42.160 during COVID where I tried to ask questions and basically 0:08:42.240 --> 0:08:44.160 the question that I was always going to ask is. 0:08:44.800 --> 0:08:46.920 Or was I should say, is. 0:08:48.760 --> 0:08:51.480 How do you always say we have to follow the 0:08:51.520 --> 0:08:54.240 science and data, science, science, science, science, science. 0:08:54.640 --> 0:08:56.520 Can you tell me what science there. 0:08:56.440 --> 0:09:01.160 Says that says that breweries are okay to be open 0:09:01.640 --> 0:09:04.240 as long as they have a food truck within basically 0:09:04.240 --> 0:09:08.680 one hundred feet, but bars that serve food regularly cannot 0:09:08.679 --> 0:09:12.120 be opened, and that's more dangerous than a brewery. 0:09:12.160 --> 0:09:13.040 Can you give me. 0:09:13.080 --> 0:09:17.080 The science and data behind that logic? That was always 0:09:17.080 --> 0:09:20.160 going to be my question. And they never called on me, 0:09:20.600 --> 0:09:23.520 not once, and that, you know, and the Shot Observer 0:09:23.679 --> 0:09:26.560 and the Raleigh News and Observer each did something about 0:09:26.559 --> 0:09:28.760 it and wrote a little something about or actually wrote 0:09:28.800 --> 0:09:32.679 some you know, something significant about it because it was unbelievable. 0:09:33.280 --> 0:09:39.760 It's unbelievable. So anyways, but you know, the. 0:09:39.520 --> 0:09:43.000 News and Observer, Shot Observer, they're never gonna get kicked 0:09:43.040 --> 0:09:46.680 out of a press conference because especially Roy Cooper press covers. 0:09:46.760 --> 0:09:49.680 Let's be honest. Let's be honest, that would never happen. 0:09:50.040 --> 0:09:54.800 But other media outlets, us others, we're not even asked 0:09:54.840 --> 0:09:58.680 to be attending. And we're the largest uh news talk 0:09:58.760 --> 0:10:02.439 radio station between Atlanta and Washington, d C. 0:10:03.480 --> 0:10:05.840 Biggest in the Carolina's, second biggest in the South. 0:10:06.200 --> 0:10:09.679 But yet, oh don't don't bring in WBT into all this, 0:10:10.280 --> 0:10:12.280 so I thought, you know what, now would be a 0:10:12.280 --> 0:10:16.439 good time to actually get a perspective of someone inside 0:10:16.440 --> 0:10:19.800 that particular bubble that transpired yesterday. And so I thought, 0:10:19.840 --> 0:10:21.960 you know what, now would be a great time to 0:10:22.000 --> 0:10:24.240 talk to Ap Dollan of the North State Journal. Ap 0:10:24.400 --> 0:10:26.600 Donan of the North State Journal joins us, and I 0:10:26.600 --> 0:10:29.640 talked about this situation yesterday, But Ap, can you give 0:10:29.720 --> 0:10:32.000 us a little bit more in depth detail of what 0:10:32.120 --> 0:10:36.240 actually transpired yesterday when someone from your paper, your media outlet, 0:10:36.320 --> 0:10:39.160 was kicked out of a Roy Cooper political event? 0:10:40.840 --> 0:10:43.200 Okay, well, yeah, we did. We sent her photographer down 0:10:43.240 --> 0:10:46.840 to cover the Wattley and the Cooper events. We realized 0:10:46.880 --> 0:10:48.400 that Cooper was going to be in the same town 0:10:48.400 --> 0:10:50.920 within a few hours of Watley's event, so we felt 0:10:50.960 --> 0:10:52.719 like it was a good opportunity for us to send 0:10:52.760 --> 0:10:57.360 them over and we did, and he was allowed into 0:10:57.400 --> 0:10:59.760 the menu. And then about five or six minutes after 0:10:59.760 --> 0:11:02.760 being in the venue, who was approached by campaign staffer 0:11:02.880 --> 0:11:05.440 and was told that he had to leave and that 0:11:05.559 --> 0:11:10.560 he wasn't a credentialed reporter for that event. And our 0:11:10.600 --> 0:11:17.720 photographer he said okay, fine, and he recorded the interaction 0:11:17.840 --> 0:11:20.559 on video, which we have playing in the article on 0:11:20.600 --> 0:11:25.240 our website. But he left, He's got that sucked. Part 0:11:25.240 --> 0:11:29.480 of the problem there, though, was apparently these invitations have 0:11:29.559 --> 0:11:32.720 gone out to media. Ou it's for these events that 0:11:32.800 --> 0:11:35.440 Cooper's been holding, and North State Journal has been trying 0:11:35.480 --> 0:11:37.320 to get on that media list since the beginning of 0:11:37.320 --> 0:11:39.600 the campaign and has not done so. So we took 0:11:39.640 --> 0:11:42.240 a chance that we were going to be allowed, you know, 0:11:42.440 --> 0:11:46.880 free press access to a vital campaign event. And it 0:11:46.960 --> 0:11:49.559 was happening right at the same time as Wattley's was 0:11:49.600 --> 0:11:51.920 within an hour or so of each other. I don't 0:11:51.960 --> 0:11:54.959 think that was an unreasonable item. So that's what happened. 0:11:55.400 --> 0:11:57.559 Speak with the ap dian of the North State Journals. 0:11:57.559 --> 0:11:59.480 So ap had just occurred to me, and I just 0:11:59.520 --> 0:12:04.400 remembered that while he was actually governor, they took WBT 0:12:04.440 --> 0:12:07.920 off their media email list at least three different times 0:12:07.960 --> 0:12:10.679 and maybe four different times, and I finally made a 0:12:10.880 --> 0:12:15.079 very very big stink about it, and they finally decided 0:12:15.640 --> 0:12:17.400 that they would keep us on the email list. They 0:12:17.400 --> 0:12:19.760 had always blamed us as being our fault, but were 0:12:19.760 --> 0:12:22.040 weren't the ones that control of the email list, so 0:12:22.080 --> 0:12:24.559 not wanting to talk to media. That's Roy Cooper one 0:12:24.559 --> 0:12:25.440 on one right there. 0:12:25.720 --> 0:12:27.960 Well, yeah, I mean all eight years that he was 0:12:27.960 --> 0:12:30.880 in office, we would barely get anything from his office 0:12:30.920 --> 0:12:33.760 other than the daily schedules that he would put out, 0:12:33.760 --> 0:12:36.120 which was quite frankly a joke. All it would say 0:12:36.280 --> 0:12:39.640 was like a one liner that says conducting meetings in 0:12:39.679 --> 0:12:43.240 business like that was it. There no details, there's nothing, 0:12:43.559 --> 0:12:47.640 So getting those was pretty much useless. Other than that, 0:12:48.120 --> 0:12:50.280 sometimes we would get the press releases that went out 0:12:50.320 --> 0:12:53.040 on the website, but you know that was even spotty. 0:12:54.280 --> 0:12:56.959 There were multiple times where we put in records requests and. 0:12:56.880 --> 0:12:59.400 We wouldn't hear back. We wouldn't hear back, so we'd 0:13:00.240 --> 0:13:02.000 post them and say, hey, you know, we sent this 0:13:02.040 --> 0:13:05.960 records request. Did even call nothing zero, not a sip. 0:13:06.120 --> 0:13:10.680 We got no responses. To his credit, Governor Stein's office 0:13:10.679 --> 0:13:12.640 has been much more responsive to us, and they's kept 0:13:12.720 --> 0:13:15.280 us on their press list through our editor So that 0:13:16.040 --> 0:13:17.880 that's saying something so ap. 0:13:18.040 --> 0:13:21.400 There's at least one media outlet, specifically the Assembly, that 0:13:21.520 --> 0:13:24.120 is saying that they were not allowed to attend a 0:13:24.200 --> 0:13:28.400 Michael Wantley press conference, but there's actually way way more 0:13:28.480 --> 0:13:32.080 behind that. Than basically what happened with Roy Cooper. You 0:13:32.160 --> 0:13:34.640 were witnessed to it, So can you tell our listeners 0:13:35.040 --> 0:13:39.760 exactly what happened with this wally not allowing a reporter 0:13:39.800 --> 0:13:42.080 from the Assembly to attend one of his events. 0:13:42.480 --> 0:13:46.880 Okay, yeah, this was a week ago. I believe Michael 0:13:46.880 --> 0:13:51.800 Wattley received the endorsement from the Police Benevolent Association in Raleigh. 0:13:51.920 --> 0:13:55.480 It was a small, very small press release group. It 0:13:55.520 --> 0:13:56.760 was just a press conference. 0:13:56.760 --> 0:13:57.320 It was small. 0:13:57.760 --> 0:13:59.720 It was in a building that was downtown, a secured 0:13:59.760 --> 0:14:02.559 building I believe Tom Tillis's officer, and that's in building. 0:14:02.880 --> 0:14:04.640 You have to have access to get up the elevator 0:14:04.720 --> 0:14:07.440 that whole nine yards. So we get there, we had 0:14:07.559 --> 0:14:11.640 RSVP'd to the event. We get there and we're told 0:14:11.640 --> 0:14:14.600 that yeah, it's okay to go up, and we're escorted upstairs. 0:14:14.960 --> 0:14:18.000 But down in the lobby, the Assembly reporter was told 0:14:18.000 --> 0:14:21.120 that he was not granted access to it, and he 0:14:21.160 --> 0:14:24.240 stayed down in the lobby. Now I didn't see exactly 0:14:24.240 --> 0:14:26.360 what went on down there. I do know that the 0:14:26.400 --> 0:14:29.440 police were called at one point and the security desk 0:14:29.600 --> 0:14:32.960 person had indicated that he had been refusing to leave 0:14:33.000 --> 0:14:35.360 and kind of stayed this a little bit of a scene. 0:14:36.320 --> 0:14:38.680 Campaign staffers didn't really talk to me about that, but 0:14:39.440 --> 0:14:42.960 I got the feeling based on some of the conversations 0:14:42.960 --> 0:14:44.920 that I had that it had to do with that 0:14:45.120 --> 0:14:49.600 reporter's conduct. During another event two or three weeks ago 0:14:49.680 --> 0:14:54.560 in Debulan that dealt with no tax on tips, he 0:14:54.640 --> 0:14:57.680 jumped ahead of other reporters and asked a gotcha question 0:14:58.000 --> 0:15:01.360 about hockey instead of was the topic of the note 0:15:01.400 --> 0:15:04.760 tax on tips, which wasn't something that Wattley was. 0:15:04.720 --> 0:15:06.760 Expecting to be asked about. 0:15:06.800 --> 0:15:10.960 A guess, and he refused to let it go. After 0:15:11.000 --> 0:15:13.080 Watley tried to get around him and go to other 0:15:13.120 --> 0:15:14.440 reporter questions. 0:15:15.160 --> 0:15:16.120 I happened to notice. 0:15:15.960 --> 0:15:19.800 Because I was standing right there. And then finally he 0:15:19.840 --> 0:15:22.880 did get to other reporters, and their questions were all 0:15:22.920 --> 0:15:25.600 about tax on tips. It was all about the people 0:15:25.640 --> 0:15:28.280 that it came to speak, you know, economics, that kind 0:15:28.320 --> 0:15:32.720 of thing. Following the press gaggle, Watley needed to leave 0:15:32.720 --> 0:15:35.400 and go somewhere else, so he talked too quickly to 0:15:35.560 --> 0:15:37.480 some campaign staffers. I could see it out of the 0:15:37.480 --> 0:15:40.720 corner of my eye across the room, and that reporter 0:15:40.760 --> 0:15:43.400 followed him over there and tried to engage him again, 0:15:44.040 --> 0:15:49.680 a staffer intervened, excuse me, staffer intervened. And then as 0:15:50.200 --> 0:15:52.960 I was leaving the venue talking to a couple folks, 0:15:53.680 --> 0:15:57.160 Whatley went past me into the main dining area off 0:15:57.200 --> 0:15:59.960 of where the private event room was and was headed 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:02.840 out the door, and the Assembly reporter was still following 0:16:02.880 --> 0:16:08.760 him through the dining hall asking questions. It was aggressive, 0:16:09.240 --> 0:16:12.400 is what I would probably label it up either way. 0:16:12.480 --> 0:16:14.760 AP This is a trend we're starting to see in 0:16:14.840 --> 0:16:16.800 a lot of different places, and this has been going 0:16:16.800 --> 0:16:18.640 on with Cooper even when he was governor. 0:16:19.080 --> 0:16:21.840 And like I said yesterday on x, if. 0:16:21.680 --> 0:16:24.120 It could happen to one media outlet, it can happen 0:16:24.160 --> 0:16:26.120 to all media outlets, no matter who you. 0:16:26.080 --> 0:16:29.280 Are, well, yes it can and it has. 0:16:29.640 --> 0:16:35.240 And it's these these campaigns are keeping their events closed 0:16:35.680 --> 0:16:39.640 to those that they think will provide them good coverage 0:16:39.920 --> 0:16:42.720 or or you know, up until now, a lot we 0:16:42.760 --> 0:16:46.920 had pretty much invited anyone into his media events, left 0:16:46.960 --> 0:16:49.200 right center, whatever you want to however you want to 0:16:49.200 --> 0:16:53.200 divvy up these different groups. And I thought that that 0:16:53.400 --> 0:16:56.360 was a good thing, even though they were small press events. 0:16:56.400 --> 0:16:58.840 You know, it was you know that maybe a dozen 0:16:58.920 --> 0:17:01.600 reporters each time in the room kind of thing. He's 0:17:01.720 --> 0:17:04.400 since held bigger events with supporters in the room, which 0:17:04.440 --> 0:17:07.680 I think is good. Cooper's been doing the same thing, 0:17:07.880 --> 0:17:11.760 but his events have all been closed or very strict 0:17:11.960 --> 0:17:16.200 access to them or restricted access, I should say, since 0:17:16.600 --> 0:17:19.200 North State Journal has not received any of the invites, 0:17:19.359 --> 0:17:21.760 We've been kept off the media list despite our asking 0:17:21.840 --> 0:17:27.360 multiple times. And it's it's not doing the public any 0:17:27.400 --> 0:17:31.280 good to have, you know, one sided stories or one 0:17:31.280 --> 0:17:34.080 side of coverage coming out of these things on either. 0:17:33.880 --> 0:17:34.480 Side of the aisle. 0:17:34.560 --> 0:17:39.840 So I think the both campaigns should probably you know, 0:17:40.119 --> 0:17:42.200 make the decision that these should be open to the 0:17:42.240 --> 0:17:45.440 public and people can show up. And that's not something 0:17:45.440 --> 0:17:46.719 that either one of them is going to do at 0:17:46.720 --> 0:17:47.119 this point. 0:17:47.520 --> 0:17:50.600 These are certainly different times between politics and media. Ap 0:17:50.760 --> 0:17:52.800 Dillan of the North State Journal, I really do appreciate 0:17:52.800 --> 0:17:55.480 you joining us tonight. Thanks once again, thanks to Ap 0:17:55.600 --> 0:17:58.200 Diana of the North State Journal. When we returned Congressman 0:17:58.280 --> 0:18:00.960 Tim Moore, they had a lot big votes up there 0:18:01.000 --> 0:18:02.840 in Washington this week and he's going to join us 0:18:02.840 --> 0:18:05.640 to talk about them. Welcome back to Breaking with Brett 0:18:05.680 --> 0:18:08.720 Jensen here on this Friday night, little dreary Friday night 0:18:08.720 --> 0:18:11.280 as we go up until seven o'clock. All right, So 0:18:11.320 --> 0:18:13.720 we had Michael Walley join us earlier and ap dealing 0:18:13.760 --> 0:18:16.199 at the North State Journal and now joining us as 0:18:16.280 --> 0:18:19.320 Congressman Tim Moore and he had a very very busy 0:18:19.400 --> 0:18:21.480 week up in Washington as they voted on a lot 0:18:21.520 --> 0:18:24.880 of things, including voter ID and not allowing for insider 0:18:24.960 --> 0:18:27.840 trading anymore. Nancy Pelosi's not going to like that, so 0:18:28.119 --> 0:18:30.920 joining us now is, said Congressman Tim Moore. So again, 0:18:30.960 --> 0:18:33.800 thank you, sir for joining us tonight. And second of all, 0:18:34.000 --> 0:18:37.000 passing an insider trading bill has been something that's been 0:18:37.040 --> 0:18:40.280 talked about for a very very long time, and it 0:18:40.359 --> 0:18:41.840 finally happened Wednesday night. 0:18:41.920 --> 0:18:43.040 This is kind of a big deal. 0:18:43.680 --> 0:18:45.439 Yeah, we did. I was proud to vote for it. 0:18:45.480 --> 0:18:46.440 And I'll tell you something. 0:18:46.480 --> 0:18:48.520 I mean, I was I've traded the. 0:18:48.520 --> 0:18:52.600 Stocks for over thirty years and I pretty well pretty. 0:18:52.440 --> 0:18:57.160 Much quit now just you know, just the optics of it. 0:18:57.320 --> 0:19:00.360 So but what I've seeing though, is that there were 0:19:00.400 --> 0:19:03.240 some members in the past, you mentioned Nancy Pelosi, others 0:19:03.240 --> 0:19:07.560 who had just had ridiculous returns like fifteen hundred percent 0:19:07.640 --> 0:19:12.400 profits just crazy things, and I'm scratching my head. 0:19:12.200 --> 0:19:13.479 Going what in the world. 0:19:14.000 --> 0:19:16.280 And so I think when you have that, it raises 0:19:16.320 --> 0:19:19.000 a question whether they actually by the way, insider trading 0:19:19.080 --> 0:19:22.639 is actually already illegal, but you know, if folks, so, 0:19:22.640 --> 0:19:24.480 if folks are inside or trading, they need to be 0:19:24.520 --> 0:19:27.400 prosecuted to that. But I think at this point it's 0:19:27.400 --> 0:19:30.560 a matter the appearance just isn't good of some of 0:19:30.600 --> 0:19:34.200 these folks who've made some of these just ridiculous profits 0:19:34.200 --> 0:19:37.000 and trades, and and you know, so we had to 0:19:37.040 --> 0:19:39.119 pass it, and I proudly voted for it. 0:19:39.320 --> 0:19:40.760 We also passed the. 0:19:40.840 --> 0:19:42.639 And by the way, I think it should apply it 0:19:42.680 --> 0:19:45.439 to the executive branch and the judicial branch. You know, 0:19:45.480 --> 0:19:47.560 I think it aught to apply to everybody the same way, 0:19:48.560 --> 0:19:51.080 wether in the House with the Insenate, whether you're the president, 0:19:51.119 --> 0:19:54.199 whether you're in the cabinet, whether you're in the Supreme 0:19:54.200 --> 0:19:56.800 Court or a federal judge at auto. Just apply to everybody. 0:19:56.880 --> 0:19:58.040 Just get rid of it as an issue. 0:19:58.080 --> 0:20:00.159 In that way, you don't have to worry about. 0:20:00.720 --> 0:20:02.800 And so Congressman, I just want to make sure I 0:20:02.840 --> 0:20:05.440 am fully understanding of this and our listeners are fully 0:20:05.520 --> 0:20:09.280 understanding this, this new no insider Trading bill that basically 0:20:09.320 --> 0:20:12.840 means elected officials and their immediate family like spouses, can 0:20:12.960 --> 0:20:15.359 no longer make trades. And I just want to make 0:20:15.359 --> 0:20:17.240 sure am I correct on that? 0:20:17.240 --> 0:20:17.560