1 00:00:00,720 --> 00:00:02,920 Speaker 1: To night, Michael Brown joins me here the former FEMA 2 00:00:02,960 --> 00:00:06,160 Speaker 1: director talk show host Michael Brown. Brownie, No, Brownie, You're 3 00:00:06,160 --> 00:00:07,040 Speaker 1: doing a heck of a job. 4 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:11,400 Speaker 2: The Weekend with Michael Brown broadcasting life from Denver, Colorado. 5 00:00:11,400 --> 00:00:13,040 Speaker 2: It's the Weekend with Michael Brown. Glad to have you 6 00:00:13,080 --> 00:00:15,480 Speaker 2: joining the program today. If you want to send me 7 00:00:15,520 --> 00:00:18,599 Speaker 2: a message, text message the message on your message app, 8 00:00:18,600 --> 00:00:21,280 Speaker 2: the number is three three one zero three three three 9 00:00:21,360 --> 00:00:23,880 Speaker 2: one zero three. Just use the keyword Mike or Michael. 10 00:00:24,120 --> 00:00:26,840 Speaker 2: Go follow me on x at Michael Brown USA. So 11 00:00:26,880 --> 00:00:30,479 Speaker 2: I'm just I was scrolling through the text messages. We 12 00:00:30,600 --> 00:00:33,960 Speaker 2: just finished talking about the NBA, and I didn't you know, 13 00:00:34,280 --> 00:00:35,760 Speaker 2: I don't want to spend any more time on it. 14 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:37,560 Speaker 2: If you want to hear what I think about the 15 00:00:37,600 --> 00:00:42,520 Speaker 2: mob and the mafia involvement, then go listen to yesterday's 16 00:00:42,560 --> 00:00:46,520 Speaker 2: podcast from the local program speaking to which you should 17 00:00:46,560 --> 00:00:50,040 Speaker 2: be subscribing to the podcast anyway. So on your podcast app, 18 00:00:50,040 --> 00:00:53,519 Speaker 2: search for the Situation with Michael Brown, The Situation with 19 00:00:53,560 --> 00:00:56,440 Speaker 2: Michael Brown, hit that subscribe button, leave a five star 20 00:00:56,520 --> 00:00:59,320 Speaker 2: review which helps us in the rankings, and then you 21 00:00:59,320 --> 00:01:01,360 Speaker 2: can listen to what I had to say yesterday about 22 00:01:01,360 --> 00:01:04,479 Speaker 2: the MOB. So I'm pretty much done with the NBA. 23 00:01:04,560 --> 00:01:09,280 Speaker 2: In fact, I'm already sick of it. But Goober number 24 00:01:09,319 --> 00:01:11,880 Speaker 2: seventy one oh five sent me a text message that says, Michael, 25 00:01:12,640 --> 00:01:15,800 Speaker 2: you gamble every time you turn on your microphone. I 26 00:01:15,840 --> 00:01:18,800 Speaker 2: thought that was pretty damn good. You're exactly right. I 27 00:01:18,800 --> 00:01:21,360 Speaker 2: do take a gamble every time I turn on this microphone. 28 00:01:21,800 --> 00:01:25,520 Speaker 2: But I do so because you never know when we're 29 00:01:25,560 --> 00:01:35,279 Speaker 2: going to suddenly disappear. There's a mysterious interstellar object thirty 30 00:01:35,319 --> 00:01:39,759 Speaker 2: one slash Atlas, is expected to reach the nearest point 31 00:01:39,800 --> 00:01:43,479 Speaker 2: to the Sun somewhere this coming week, on or around 32 00:01:43,560 --> 00:01:49,000 Speaker 2: October twenty nine, if it follows its unusual trajectory through 33 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:53,000 Speaker 2: the Solar System. Right now, now, right now, the object 34 00:01:53,120 --> 00:01:56,680 Speaker 2: is opposite the Earth on the other side of the Sun. Now, 35 00:01:56,800 --> 00:02:00,000 Speaker 2: I most scientists, I can't well, I didn't find a scientist. 36 00:02:00,200 --> 00:02:05,840 Speaker 2: But most scientists have concluded that thirty one, or actually 37 00:02:05,840 --> 00:02:08,560 Speaker 2: it's not technically thirty one, it's three I three I 38 00:02:08,880 --> 00:02:14,399 Speaker 2: slash atlas. They've concluded that this is a common that's 39 00:02:14,520 --> 00:02:23,200 Speaker 2: comprised of carbon dioxide ice. However, an astronomer from Harvard 40 00:02:23,800 --> 00:02:28,880 Speaker 2: continues to suggest that this object is more likely than 41 00:02:28,960 --> 00:02:38,400 Speaker 2: not an extraterrestrial mothership sent by an intelligent civilization. Hmm, 42 00:02:38,760 --> 00:02:43,160 Speaker 2: sweet Meteor of Death twenty twenty five. We may we 43 00:02:43,240 --> 00:02:46,720 Speaker 2: may finally be eliminated, and we may finally be put 44 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:51,840 Speaker 2: out of our misery. Now evidence as evidence of his claim, 45 00:02:52,639 --> 00:02:55,200 Speaker 2: which i'd come on some critics suggests, is more of 46 00:02:55,200 --> 00:02:58,280 Speaker 2: a publicity stunt than a serious proposal. Gee whiz you 47 00:02:58,280 --> 00:03:04,920 Speaker 2: think so? This astronomer All the Lobe notes that the 48 00:03:04,960 --> 00:03:09,960 Speaker 2: interstellar object's unusual trajectory given its size, and claims that 49 00:03:10,040 --> 00:03:13,040 Speaker 2: the object's path taking it close to Mars, Venus and 50 00:03:13,120 --> 00:03:21,200 Speaker 2: Jupiter may be more than extremely rare coincidences. So last 51 00:03:21,200 --> 00:03:25,200 Speaker 2: week he wrote in a post on medium quote, if 52 00:03:25,200 --> 00:03:29,520 Speaker 2: you want to take a vacation, I'm just look. I 53 00:03:29,600 --> 00:03:32,040 Speaker 2: try to be helpful here, try to provide you guys, 54 00:03:32,120 --> 00:03:35,520 Speaker 2: things to think about, things to do. He wrote a 55 00:03:35,600 --> 00:03:38,240 Speaker 2: medium that if you want to take a vacation, take 56 00:03:38,280 --> 00:03:44,040 Speaker 2: it before October twenty nine, because who knows what will happen. Okay, 57 00:03:45,200 --> 00:03:48,200 Speaker 2: maybe I should just quit now. He elaborated on the 58 00:03:48,240 --> 00:03:50,440 Speaker 2: potential for the object to be you know, it might 59 00:03:50,520 --> 00:03:54,480 Speaker 2: use the Sun to gravitational pull to either accelerate itself 60 00:03:54,600 --> 00:03:58,440 Speaker 2: or to slow it down, referencing what's called the obirth effect. 61 00:03:58,840 --> 00:04:01,880 Speaker 2: That's a principle in physics. Don't trust me. I looked 62 00:04:01,880 --> 00:04:04,080 Speaker 2: this one up. I didn't know this one. It's a 63 00:04:04,120 --> 00:04:09,240 Speaker 2: principle in physics that allows a spacecraft to generate more 64 00:04:09,440 --> 00:04:13,400 Speaker 2: energy when its engine is fired at higher speeds. So 65 00:04:13,560 --> 00:04:17,880 Speaker 2: he writes, if three I Atlas is a massive mothership, 66 00:04:18,360 --> 00:04:21,960 Speaker 2: it will likely continue along its original gravitational path and 67 00:04:22,080 --> 00:04:27,279 Speaker 2: ultimately edgit the Solar System. But he speculates in that case, 68 00:04:27,839 --> 00:04:31,039 Speaker 2: the overth maneuver might apply to the many probes it 69 00:04:31,120 --> 00:04:39,039 Speaker 2: releases at Perihelium towards Solar System planets. Now NASA's leads 70 00:04:39,080 --> 00:04:44,400 Speaker 2: scientists are they getting paid? Is NASA? I don't know, 71 00:04:44,440 --> 00:04:46,560 Speaker 2: because I don't whether I can trust what the NASA 72 00:04:46,880 --> 00:04:51,120 Speaker 2: leads scientist says. Here, he says that for Solar System 73 00:04:51,200 --> 00:04:55,760 Speaker 2: small bodies, the guy's name is Tom Statler. He dismisses 74 00:04:56,520 --> 00:05:00,880 Speaker 2: this professor's this astronomer's theory, says that quote, it looks 75 00:05:00,920 --> 00:05:04,560 Speaker 2: like a comet. It does comment things. It very very 76 00:05:04,560 --> 00:05:08,000 Speaker 2: strongly resembles in just about every way the comments that 77 00:05:08,040 --> 00:05:11,000 Speaker 2: we know. You know, if it looks like a duck, 78 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:12,720 Speaker 2: acts like a duck, quacks like a duck. What must 79 00:05:12,760 --> 00:05:15,240 Speaker 2: be a duck? Did you ever stop to think that 80 00:05:15,360 --> 00:05:19,680 Speaker 2: perhaps that if it's from a super intelligent you know, 81 00:05:19,800 --> 00:05:23,520 Speaker 2: galaxy somewhere far far away, that they might know, Hey, 82 00:05:23,560 --> 00:05:25,760 Speaker 2: we need to look like a comment, act like a comet, 83 00:05:25,839 --> 00:05:28,080 Speaker 2: quack like a comment, so if people on the Earth 84 00:05:28,120 --> 00:05:30,440 Speaker 2: will think we're a comment, so that when we finally, 85 00:05:30,480 --> 00:05:33,640 Speaker 2: you know, get past the Sun, we can head straight 86 00:05:33,680 --> 00:05:37,039 Speaker 2: to Earth and we can overtake it. I'm just I'm 87 00:05:37,040 --> 00:05:40,039 Speaker 2: not making this crap up. This is in the news. 88 00:05:40,040 --> 00:05:43,880 Speaker 2: You can go google it yourself now. The lead scientist 89 00:05:43,960 --> 00:05:50,720 Speaker 2: that Statler says that the object has quote some interesting properties. 90 00:05:50,760 --> 00:05:54,919 Speaker 2: They're a little bit different from our solar system comments. 91 00:05:54,960 --> 00:05:57,840 Speaker 1: See see now. 92 00:05:57,640 --> 00:05:59,720 Speaker 2: They're all starting to like, oh, let's waiver just a 93 00:05:59,760 --> 00:06:04,560 Speaker 2: little little bit now. The Harvard astronomer, I mean it's Harvard. 94 00:06:05,279 --> 00:06:07,920 Speaker 2: He's admitted that the likelihood of three IE atlass being 95 00:06:07,960 --> 00:06:12,160 Speaker 2: technological in origin is slim, but he emphasizes the importance 96 00:06:12,200 --> 00:06:18,200 Speaker 2: of evidence based science. Okay, well, you're the astronomer, not me. 97 00:06:19,760 --> 00:06:22,240 Speaker 2: He wrote in a blog post that as of now, 98 00:06:22,360 --> 00:06:26,279 Speaker 2: three E Atlas appears most likely to be a natural comment, 99 00:06:26,920 --> 00:06:29,880 Speaker 2: but the remote possibility of an overeth maneuver must be 100 00:06:29,920 --> 00:06:34,679 Speaker 2: considered seriously as a black Swan event with a small 101 00:06:34,760 --> 00:06:43,840 Speaker 2: probability because of its huge implications for humanity. I never 102 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:47,800 Speaker 2: ever thought, in almost twenty years of radio that it 103 00:06:47,800 --> 00:06:50,000 Speaker 2: would be giving you. I know I've kind of joked 104 00:06:50,040 --> 00:06:53,400 Speaker 2: about this, but this is a real serious news story. 105 00:06:53,560 --> 00:06:58,200 Speaker 2: This Harvard astronomer, writing on Medium believes that this AI 106 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:02,720 Speaker 2: Atlas comment or whatever it is, this on the other 107 00:07:02,760 --> 00:07:06,680 Speaker 2: side of the Sun, but coming toward us, and once 108 00:07:06,760 --> 00:07:09,360 Speaker 2: it hits the Sun, the overth effect might speed it 109 00:07:09,440 --> 00:07:13,160 Speaker 2: up or slow it down, change its trajectory. And NASA 110 00:07:13,240 --> 00:07:15,840 Speaker 2: is over here saying that, oh, come on, this looks 111 00:07:15,880 --> 00:07:18,200 Speaker 2: like a comment, acts like aunt comment, and clacks like 112 00:07:18,240 --> 00:07:21,040 Speaker 2: a comment, so it must be a comment. But oh, 113 00:07:21,160 --> 00:07:27,720 Speaker 2: but I must note it's got some anomalies that are 114 00:07:27,800 --> 00:07:31,080 Speaker 2: different from any other comment that NASA has observed in 115 00:07:31,320 --> 00:07:35,840 Speaker 2: our solar system. It's on a trajectory to hit us, 116 00:07:37,080 --> 00:07:40,560 Speaker 2: and he's telling us that it's a remote possibility that 117 00:07:40,680 --> 00:07:43,560 Speaker 2: we have to consider it seriously as a black Swan 118 00:07:43,680 --> 00:07:48,400 Speaker 2: event with a small probability because of the huge implications 119 00:07:48,400 --> 00:07:51,800 Speaker 2: for humanity. So what do you think the implications for 120 00:07:51,880 --> 00:07:55,680 Speaker 2: humanity are? If we have a spaceship, you know, a 121 00:07:55,720 --> 00:07:58,400 Speaker 2: mothership as he calls it. If we have a mothership 122 00:07:58,480 --> 00:08:04,080 Speaker 2: from a higher intelligence solar system making its way toward 123 00:08:04,160 --> 00:08:06,320 Speaker 2: the Earth. Are you ready? 124 00:08:07,120 --> 00:08:09,160 Speaker 1: What will we do? Well? 125 00:08:09,280 --> 00:08:11,840 Speaker 2: Will Trump greet it? I mean, Trump's gonna want all 126 00:08:11,880 --> 00:08:14,360 Speaker 2: the credit for it, right, Trump's gonna want credit for it. 127 00:08:14,440 --> 00:08:18,000 Speaker 2: G King Bean's gonna want credit for meeting them, Vadimir 128 00:08:18,040 --> 00:08:20,480 Speaker 2: Putin will want credit for it. Everybody on the Plan's 129 00:08:20,480 --> 00:08:22,520 Speaker 2: gonna want credit. Oh you know, I want to be 130 00:08:22,560 --> 00:08:24,600 Speaker 2: the one to shake hands with the little you know 131 00:08:24,720 --> 00:08:26,880 Speaker 2: creatures that they come down the ladder of the mother 132 00:08:26,960 --> 00:08:30,560 Speaker 2: ship once it hovers over. Are you ready for it? 133 00:08:31,720 --> 00:08:38,320 Speaker 2: The second part is I don't at all say it's 134 00:08:38,400 --> 00:08:43,280 Speaker 2: outside the realm of possibility. Yes, just call me Art Bell. 135 00:08:43,679 --> 00:08:46,080 Speaker 2: This is the Art Bell segment of the Weekend with 136 00:08:46,120 --> 00:08:54,280 Speaker 2: Michael Brown. Hang tight, I'll be right back. Am I 137 00:08:54,320 --> 00:08:57,160 Speaker 2: really here have I been as a black Swan event 138 00:08:57,240 --> 00:08:59,880 Speaker 2: taking place? And I've really been, you know, taking off 139 00:09:00,120 --> 00:09:03,679 Speaker 2: the mother ship? Who knows? 140 00:09:05,240 --> 00:09:05,440 Speaker 1: Yes? 141 00:09:05,440 --> 00:09:10,360 Speaker 2: Since the Art Bell program. Now, let's talk about some 142 00:09:10,440 --> 00:09:17,080 Speaker 2: about congressional redistricting. Plans, because interestingly, Democrat Democrats in Virginia 143 00:09:17,120 --> 00:09:21,880 Speaker 2: and Colorado are now looking at at least weighing congressional 144 00:09:21,960 --> 00:09:26,040 Speaker 2: redistricting plans ahead of the twenty twenty six midterm elections. 145 00:09:26,679 --> 00:09:29,960 Speaker 2: What they're doing is they're trying to mirror recent moves 146 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:34,840 Speaker 2: by Republicans is states like Texas, North Carolina, Missouri, and Indiana. 147 00:09:36,080 --> 00:09:41,199 Speaker 2: So in Virginia, Democrat lawmakers are reportedly looking at ways 148 00:09:41,240 --> 00:09:44,880 Speaker 2: to create two or three additional districts they would be 149 00:09:44,920 --> 00:09:48,680 Speaker 2: favorable to the Democrats. In Colorado. Right here, I said, 150 00:09:49,160 --> 00:09:55,199 Speaker 2: Democrats are considering a constitutional amendment to allow mid decade redistricting. 151 00:09:55,800 --> 00:09:58,880 Speaker 2: Now that's interesting because that move would require approval from 152 00:09:59,240 --> 00:10:01,760 Speaker 2: fifty five percent of voters. I don't think they can 153 00:10:01,800 --> 00:10:06,760 Speaker 2: get that. The Governor of Virginia, Glenn Youngkin, a Republican, obviously, 154 00:10:07,360 --> 00:10:10,480 Speaker 2: is criticizing the proposals, saying that quote, this is a shameless, 155 00:10:10,559 --> 00:10:16,360 Speaker 2: reprehensible political power grabbed by Democrat lawmakers desperate for anything 156 00:10:16,440 --> 00:10:20,520 Speaker 2: to distract from the disastrous Democrat shut down. And of 157 00:10:20,520 --> 00:10:23,840 Speaker 2: course Jay jonesas he's the guy running for attorney general 158 00:10:23,880 --> 00:10:28,160 Speaker 2: in Virginia, his domentic comments and criminal investigation, his dominic 159 00:10:28,200 --> 00:10:30,480 Speaker 2: comments where he's the guy that made the comment about 160 00:10:30,760 --> 00:10:34,080 Speaker 2: he'd like to kill the former Speaker of the Virginia Assembly, 161 00:10:34,679 --> 00:10:37,480 Speaker 2: and he needs to go further than that. He needs 162 00:10:37,520 --> 00:10:40,160 Speaker 2: to kill the two children. Two bullets to kill the 163 00:10:40,160 --> 00:10:43,800 Speaker 2: two kids, because the mother and the father will never 164 00:10:43,920 --> 00:10:47,360 Speaker 2: understand the need to make changes in their way of 165 00:10:47,400 --> 00:10:48,800 Speaker 2: thinking until their kids are killed. 166 00:10:50,200 --> 00:10:50,319 Speaker 1: You know. 167 00:10:50,400 --> 00:10:54,000 Speaker 2: He's also apparently in trouble because now there's an investigation 168 00:10:54,120 --> 00:10:57,040 Speaker 2: into a either reckless I think both a reckless driving 169 00:10:57,080 --> 00:10:59,880 Speaker 2: and a speeding charge. I'm not sure, but one or both, 170 00:11:00,720 --> 00:11:04,480 Speaker 2: in which other defendants that appeared on the same day 171 00:11:04,559 --> 00:11:09,200 Speaker 2: he did got either some jail time and hefty fines. 172 00:11:09,600 --> 00:11:12,959 Speaker 2: And what did he get? Community service? And his community 173 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:17,760 Speaker 2: service he did work for his own political action committee. 174 00:11:17,880 --> 00:11:20,719 Speaker 2: This guy wants to be the attorney general in Virginia. No, 175 00:11:21,559 --> 00:11:24,480 Speaker 2: he couldn't even pass a background check with that kind 176 00:11:24,520 --> 00:11:27,120 Speaker 2: of record, and he wants to be the chief law 177 00:11:27,200 --> 00:11:31,520 Speaker 2: enforcement of Virginia. No, but I digress. Here in Colorado 178 00:11:31,600 --> 00:11:35,520 Speaker 2: our attorney general who's a real idiot, Phil Wiser, he's 179 00:11:35,559 --> 00:11:38,400 Speaker 2: defending the idea of changing the law. He's trying to 180 00:11:38,440 --> 00:11:41,520 Speaker 2: match actions in Republican led states and he says that 181 00:11:41,559 --> 00:11:46,000 Speaker 2: if he sees states breaking the norm doing mid decade 182 00:11:46,080 --> 00:11:49,800 Speaker 2: redistrict king give a mechanism so that we can match that. 183 00:11:51,080 --> 00:11:51,280 Speaker 1: Now. 184 00:11:51,360 --> 00:11:56,760 Speaker 2: Currently Democrats hold five of Virginia's eleven congressional seats, and 185 00:11:56,800 --> 00:12:01,360 Speaker 2: they hold four of Colorado's eight. In both states, Colorado 186 00:12:01,360 --> 00:12:04,880 Speaker 2: and Virginia have several competitive districts that could shift under 187 00:12:04,880 --> 00:12:09,840 Speaker 2: these new maps. This push in Virginia and Colorado that's 188 00:12:09,880 --> 00:12:13,080 Speaker 2: because of a nationwide redistricting battle going on that we 189 00:12:13,120 --> 00:12:17,560 Speaker 2: really haven't talked that much about. In Texas, Governor Greg 190 00:12:17,640 --> 00:12:21,960 Speaker 2: Abbott has signed a redistricting bill signed it back in August. 191 00:12:22,640 --> 00:12:27,319 Speaker 2: That bill could eliminate five Democrat leaning seats and would 192 00:12:27,320 --> 00:12:30,720 Speaker 2: strengthen the Republicans hold on the state's delegation, at least 193 00:12:30,720 --> 00:12:35,800 Speaker 2: in Texas. That plan was outright endorsed by President Trump, 194 00:12:36,280 --> 00:12:41,280 Speaker 2: quickly approved by the Republican controlled legislature. Democrats in California 195 00:12:41,880 --> 00:12:45,600 Speaker 2: they want to redraw their state's congressional boundaries through a 196 00:12:45,640 --> 00:12:50,400 Speaker 2: proposed ballot measure back by Governor Newsom. That plan could 197 00:12:50,440 --> 00:12:54,560 Speaker 2: potentially yield up to five new Democrat seats because that 198 00:12:54,600 --> 00:12:57,960 Speaker 2: would allow the legislature to take temporary control of the 199 00:12:58,040 --> 00:13:03,640 Speaker 2: redistricting process from the state's independent commission. That's important to 200 00:13:03,640 --> 00:13:07,959 Speaker 2: note because California has done something that it still doesn't 201 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:10,360 Speaker 2: work out perfectly, but at least they had tried. You know, 202 00:13:10,640 --> 00:13:13,960 Speaker 2: it's the one time I'll give California, and I'll give 203 00:13:14,000 --> 00:13:19,199 Speaker 2: them a B minus for effort. They took redistricting out 204 00:13:19,240 --> 00:13:22,280 Speaker 2: of the hands of the California Legislature, of the California 205 00:13:22,320 --> 00:13:25,679 Speaker 2: General Assembly and instead gave it to a commission, and 206 00:13:25,840 --> 00:13:30,400 Speaker 2: independent commission is said, you go draw the districts. Here's 207 00:13:30,400 --> 00:13:35,360 Speaker 2: what's really going on with all of these stories. We 208 00:13:35,600 --> 00:13:40,160 Speaker 2: have for decades, decades allowed people to come into this 209 00:13:40,280 --> 00:13:45,640 Speaker 2: country illegally. Now I'm not talking about illegal aliens voting. 210 00:13:46,160 --> 00:13:51,600 Speaker 2: That's obviously against the law, particularly in federal elections. Now, 211 00:13:51,720 --> 00:13:54,960 Speaker 2: if a municipality, let's just say, you know, a little 212 00:13:55,160 --> 00:13:59,760 Speaker 2: podunk town, USA, decides that they want illegal aliens to 213 00:13:59,800 --> 00:14:03,000 Speaker 2: be to vote in a municipal in a municipal election 214 00:14:03,280 --> 00:14:06,320 Speaker 2: to elect the city councilmen or a mayor, there is 215 00:14:06,559 --> 00:14:08,679 Speaker 2: some legal authority that would allow them to do that. 216 00:14:09,400 --> 00:14:12,160 Speaker 2: I happen to disagree with that legal authority, but they 217 00:14:12,200 --> 00:14:18,640 Speaker 2: could do it. I'm talking about congressional seats because we 218 00:14:18,720 --> 00:14:23,120 Speaker 2: have allowed for years illegal aliens to move into this 219 00:14:23,440 --> 00:14:25,800 Speaker 2: to come into this country. Started to say move into 220 00:14:25,840 --> 00:14:30,640 Speaker 2: the country. That was stupid to allow illegal aliens. In fact, 221 00:14:30,680 --> 00:14:35,080 Speaker 2: to encourage illegal aliens to come in. Where did most 222 00:14:35,120 --> 00:14:39,720 Speaker 2: of the illegal aliens go? Have you thought about that? Now? 223 00:14:39,760 --> 00:14:41,280 Speaker 2: Of course a lot of them decided to stay in 224 00:14:41,320 --> 00:14:46,160 Speaker 2: Texas because they were it was just convenient. They went 225 00:14:46,200 --> 00:14:50,920 Speaker 2: to They went to Colorado, they went to Illinois, they 226 00:14:50,960 --> 00:14:55,440 Speaker 2: went to Massachusetts, they went to California. Now why would 227 00:14:55,440 --> 00:15:01,200 Speaker 2: they do that? Oh, because what we forget is the 228 00:15:01,320 --> 00:15:07,280 Speaker 2: number of congressional seats is determined by the census, and 229 00:15:07,360 --> 00:15:12,800 Speaker 2: the census currently counts bodies. They don't care whether you're 230 00:15:12,800 --> 00:15:16,800 Speaker 2: a citizen or not. They just count bodies. How many 231 00:15:16,840 --> 00:15:21,720 Speaker 2: people are in the state of Colorado. I am opposed 232 00:15:21,800 --> 00:15:24,760 Speaker 2: to that. I think we should have a separate question 233 00:15:24,880 --> 00:15:28,160 Speaker 2: on the census that says, Okay, we're going to count everybody, 234 00:15:29,160 --> 00:15:31,520 Speaker 2: and then we're going to divide you up into citizens 235 00:15:31,520 --> 00:15:38,400 Speaker 2: and non citizens. Because citizens that cannot vote, citizens who 236 00:15:38,440 --> 00:15:42,600 Speaker 2: are here in violation of the law should not be 237 00:15:42,800 --> 00:15:47,640 Speaker 2: counted by the census for purposes of determining a state's population, 238 00:15:48,320 --> 00:15:52,480 Speaker 2: thereby determining how many congressional seats they get. And that's 239 00:15:52,520 --> 00:15:55,440 Speaker 2: why this battle is so important, and that's why what's 240 00:15:55,480 --> 00:15:59,720 Speaker 2: happened in Texas is so important. And that's why any 241 00:15:59,760 --> 00:16:04,280 Speaker 2: mood by the President to get the Department of Commerce, 242 00:16:05,160 --> 00:16:10,160 Speaker 2: which the Census Bureau is under, to do two counts 243 00:16:10,360 --> 00:16:13,520 Speaker 2: or to at least add a question to the current census. 244 00:16:14,040 --> 00:16:16,800 Speaker 2: You can do the two counts either way, but I 245 00:16:16,920 --> 00:16:22,240 Speaker 2: want citizens and citizens only to be counted toward the 246 00:16:22,360 --> 00:16:25,400 Speaker 2: number of people in a state to determine how many 247 00:16:25,440 --> 00:16:29,400 Speaker 2: congressional seats that particular state gets. Now, if you want 248 00:16:29,400 --> 00:16:31,520 Speaker 2: to know just how many people are living in the 249 00:16:31,520 --> 00:16:34,720 Speaker 2: state of Colorado, that's fine. You can count that number, 250 00:16:35,480 --> 00:16:38,120 Speaker 2: but don't use that number to tell me how many 251 00:16:38,120 --> 00:16:43,360 Speaker 2: congressional seats I get. That's why Democrats suddenly are in 252 00:16:43,400 --> 00:16:47,280 Speaker 2: a thither trying to figure out some way to take 253 00:16:47,440 --> 00:16:51,320 Speaker 2: back control of redistricting and do it prior to the midterms. 254 00:16:55,760 --> 00:16:56,440 Speaker 1: I'm not gonna talk. 255 00:16:56,320 --> 00:17:00,960 Speaker 2: About the NBA again, but another exist ample of how 256 00:17:01,280 --> 00:17:06,719 Speaker 2: because in my opinion, this is cheating, absolute cheating. I 257 00:17:06,800 --> 00:17:10,080 Speaker 2: understand that the Constitution requires that we do every ten years, 258 00:17:10,119 --> 00:17:12,680 Speaker 2: every decade that we do a census how many people 259 00:17:12,720 --> 00:17:16,880 Speaker 2: are in the country. But the Constitution is not specific 260 00:17:17,240 --> 00:17:21,639 Speaker 2: about whether or not those particular people whether we should 261 00:17:21,680 --> 00:17:27,199 Speaker 2: count everybody in terms of apportionment for congressional seats. So 262 00:17:27,280 --> 00:17:30,119 Speaker 2: I think it's well within the authority of the President 263 00:17:30,440 --> 00:17:33,560 Speaker 2: to tell the Census Bureau that when you do the 264 00:17:33,600 --> 00:17:38,880 Speaker 2: census count ask an additional question, are you a citizen 265 00:17:39,000 --> 00:17:42,879 Speaker 2: or not a citizen? It's not racist. Ask the question. 266 00:17:44,320 --> 00:17:47,600 Speaker 2: If it scares people to not ask, to not answer 267 00:17:47,640 --> 00:17:51,520 Speaker 2: the question, then you don't get counted. And I wouldn't 268 00:17:51,560 --> 00:17:55,879 Speaker 2: count you anyway in terms of apportionment. So be aware 269 00:17:55,880 --> 00:17:58,080 Speaker 2: of what Democrats are trying to do in California and 270 00:17:58,119 --> 00:18:01,760 Speaker 2: other places, because once again they're trying to cheat. I'll 271 00:18:01,760 --> 00:18:09,639 Speaker 2: be right back tonight. 272 00:18:09,640 --> 00:18:11,919 Speaker 1: Michael Brown joins me here, the former FEMA director of 273 00:18:11,920 --> 00:18:14,840 Speaker 1: talk show host Michael Brown. Brownie, No, Brownie, You're doing 274 00:18:14,880 --> 00:18:18,480 Speaker 1: a heck of a job. The Weekend with Michael Brown. 275 00:18:18,280 --> 00:18:20,480 Speaker 2: G had you joining The Weekend with Michael Brown. Thanks 276 00:18:20,480 --> 00:18:22,640 Speaker 2: for coming back to the program even after talking about 277 00:18:22,640 --> 00:18:26,800 Speaker 2: the Mothership. So when I walked into the studio this morning, 278 00:18:27,320 --> 00:18:30,800 Speaker 2: I had the TV on. I just don't tell the 279 00:18:30,800 --> 00:18:32,639 Speaker 2: Greeny whenies, but I leave the TV on in the 280 00:18:32,680 --> 00:18:36,439 Speaker 2: studio all the time. When I walked in, obviously some 281 00:18:36,520 --> 00:18:40,800 Speaker 2: Fox News, but here as opposed to my morning studio, 282 00:18:41,480 --> 00:18:43,439 Speaker 2: I have the volume up so I can hear it. 283 00:18:43,520 --> 00:18:45,920 Speaker 2: I walked in and I don't know whose show it is, 284 00:18:46,480 --> 00:18:50,800 Speaker 2: but they were interviewing John Fetterman, the Senator from Pennsylvania, 285 00:18:51,880 --> 00:18:55,080 Speaker 2: and I was mesmerized by the conversation, and I've got 286 00:18:55,240 --> 00:18:57,640 Speaker 2: a few soundbites from it that I want you to hear. 287 00:18:58,119 --> 00:19:00,439 Speaker 2: But I mentioned that because I had intention in this 288 00:19:00,520 --> 00:19:03,960 Speaker 2: segment to talk about Bill Maher, which I will talk 289 00:19:04,000 --> 00:19:06,840 Speaker 2: about Bill Maher and then we'll swing back in the Fetterman. 290 00:19:07,400 --> 00:19:11,960 Speaker 2: But you combine the two of them, and you have 291 00:19:12,040 --> 00:19:16,919 Speaker 2: to wonder, are they Republicans in the making. No, I 292 00:19:16,920 --> 00:19:19,840 Speaker 2: don't think so at all. But I think what they 293 00:19:19,880 --> 00:19:23,280 Speaker 2: are doing, I think both of these guys are doing it. 294 00:19:23,320 --> 00:19:29,399 Speaker 2: Now before you you know, have a conneption. I know 295 00:19:29,520 --> 00:19:35,359 Speaker 2: they are both solid Democrats and they are solid Liberals. 296 00:19:36,520 --> 00:19:41,320 Speaker 2: But they're solid liberals in the tradition of the liberals 297 00:19:41,400 --> 00:19:45,160 Speaker 2: that say, I grew up with the liberals of say, 298 00:19:45,240 --> 00:19:48,439 Speaker 2: even twenty or twenty five years ago. They are not 299 00:19:48,600 --> 00:19:53,520 Speaker 2: the Marxist, communist socialists of today. But listening to them, 300 00:19:53,960 --> 00:19:56,360 Speaker 2: you would really think that they're going to switch political 301 00:19:56,400 --> 00:19:59,880 Speaker 2: parties anytime soon. But I don't think they are at all. 302 00:20:01,200 --> 00:20:03,679 Speaker 2: Neither one of these guys are on the path on 303 00:20:03,840 --> 00:20:08,720 Speaker 2: which I think that they've been. They've been on this 304 00:20:08,800 --> 00:20:13,440 Speaker 2: path for some time now, and it's interesting. I would 305 00:20:13,480 --> 00:20:16,720 Speaker 2: ask you this question. Do you think that Bill Maher 306 00:20:17,119 --> 00:20:22,880 Speaker 2: and John Fetterman are standing still? They're in the same spot, 307 00:20:23,640 --> 00:20:27,040 Speaker 2: and the Democrat Party is moving moving? Are they the 308 00:20:27,080 --> 00:20:34,400 Speaker 2: ones walking away? Or is the Democrat Party here Marxist, communist, socialist, 309 00:20:34,520 --> 00:20:38,680 Speaker 2: whatever you want to, progressive, however you want to, and 310 00:20:39,760 --> 00:20:45,640 Speaker 2: are Federman and Bill Maher walking away? Who's moving? Are 311 00:20:45,640 --> 00:20:48,840 Speaker 2: they both moving? I mean, are both Feederman and Marr 312 00:20:49,200 --> 00:20:53,120 Speaker 2: and the Democrat Party moving? Because I find these two 313 00:20:53,160 --> 00:20:57,760 Speaker 2: individuals because one is become one is a cultural icon. 314 00:20:59,040 --> 00:21:02,200 Speaker 2: You may despite Bill Maher, but he is a cultural icon. 315 00:21:03,359 --> 00:21:09,000 Speaker 2: John Fetterman is becoming a political icon, if not already. 316 00:21:09,720 --> 00:21:13,560 Speaker 2: I mean, he breaks all the norms. I think I've 317 00:21:13,560 --> 00:21:16,920 Speaker 2: seen him in a suit one time. He's a member 318 00:21:16,440 --> 00:21:19,879 Speaker 2: of the second most exclusive club in the world, the 319 00:21:19,920 --> 00:21:22,960 Speaker 2: most exclusive club in the world, are obviously presidents and 320 00:21:22,960 --> 00:21:25,600 Speaker 2: next presidents of the United States of America, and the 321 00:21:25,640 --> 00:21:28,199 Speaker 2: second most exclusive club in the world are members of 322 00:21:28,200 --> 00:21:31,679 Speaker 2: the United States Senate, never more than one hundred members. 323 00:21:31,840 --> 00:21:32,240 Speaker 1: That's it. 324 00:21:35,560 --> 00:21:37,439 Speaker 2: I don't think he needs either one of them at 325 00:21:37,440 --> 00:21:41,760 Speaker 2: any time going to join the MAGA movement. But Fetterman 326 00:21:41,880 --> 00:21:46,439 Speaker 2: is a guy who is having a political awakening. He 327 00:21:46,520 --> 00:21:50,399 Speaker 2: is gradually figuring out that, unlike his malleable colleagues in 328 00:21:50,440 --> 00:21:55,840 Speaker 2: the Senate, he cannot will not sacrifice his personal beliefs 329 00:21:55,840 --> 00:22:00,359 Speaker 2: and principles to mold himself around the anti American culture 330 00:22:00,800 --> 00:22:04,920 Speaker 2: that now controls the Democrat Party. He's a lifelong Democrat, 331 00:22:05,640 --> 00:22:09,240 Speaker 2: and he's remaining resistant to making the obvious switch to 332 00:22:09,280 --> 00:22:13,600 Speaker 2: the Republicans, with whose policy he now appears. I'm just 333 00:22:13,720 --> 00:22:18,000 Speaker 2: guessing maybe eighty percent on board with Republican policies a 334 00:22:18,080 --> 00:22:21,240 Speaker 2: year ago. I think that percentage would have been maybe 335 00:22:21,359 --> 00:22:24,720 Speaker 2: twenty percent, which is why I asked the question who's 336 00:22:24,800 --> 00:22:28,360 Speaker 2: moving here? Are Democrats becoming worse or is the Federman 337 00:22:28,400 --> 00:22:34,920 Speaker 2: becoming better? I would guess. I would speculate the Federiman 338 00:22:34,960 --> 00:22:38,360 Speaker 2: is maybe another year away from announcing that he might 339 00:22:38,480 --> 00:22:44,040 Speaker 2: run through re election in twenty twenty eight as a Republican. Now, 340 00:22:44,080 --> 00:22:47,080 Speaker 2: that depends all hell of a lot on what happens 341 00:22:47,280 --> 00:22:51,040 Speaker 2: in the state of Pennsylvania. What happens with Governor Shapiro, 342 00:22:51,440 --> 00:22:54,840 Speaker 2: what happens with the energy sector in Pennsylvania, what happens 343 00:22:54,880 --> 00:22:58,280 Speaker 2: with the AI data centers in Pennsylvania, What happens to 344 00:22:58,320 --> 00:23:01,080 Speaker 2: the coal industry in Pennsylvania, what happens in the natural 345 00:23:01,119 --> 00:23:04,360 Speaker 2: gas industry in Pennsylvania. A lot is going to determine 346 00:23:04,520 --> 00:23:07,399 Speaker 2: what Fetterman does. But I think it's at least worth 347 00:23:07,480 --> 00:23:11,800 Speaker 2: asking the question. Bill Maher, now he's a different case. 348 00:23:13,040 --> 00:23:16,000 Speaker 2: He's drugged out and movesd out half the time, at 349 00:23:16,040 --> 00:23:18,320 Speaker 2: least plays awake. I don't know what he's doing, play's asleep. 350 00:23:19,359 --> 00:23:27,600 Speaker 2: And I have a personal not affinity, but I accept 351 00:23:27,640 --> 00:23:31,080 Speaker 2: Bill Maher as someone who I probably disagree with ninety 352 00:23:31,160 --> 00:23:35,439 Speaker 2: nine point percent of the time. But I have to 353 00:23:35,480 --> 00:23:40,600 Speaker 2: admit that when when Bill Maher some twenty years ago, 354 00:23:41,600 --> 00:23:46,000 Speaker 2: when Bill Maher ripped me apart as being an absolute 355 00:23:46,240 --> 00:23:50,480 Speaker 2: idiotic buffoon, which is my wife says to what to change, 356 00:23:51,560 --> 00:23:55,480 Speaker 2: When Bill Maher ripped me as an absolutely incompetent idiotic buffoon? 357 00:23:56,400 --> 00:24:00,320 Speaker 2: And then when he heard my congressional testimony. When he 358 00:24:00,359 --> 00:24:03,439 Speaker 2: began to hear my side of the story about what 359 00:24:03,560 --> 00:24:08,160 Speaker 2: took place during Hurricane Katrina, Bill Maher's producer reached out 360 00:24:08,160 --> 00:24:09,920 Speaker 2: to me and want to meet. He go on a 361 00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:14,800 Speaker 2: show much like Keith Oberman did, and my gut instinct 362 00:24:14,880 --> 00:24:17,639 Speaker 2: was Nope, not going to do that. But my lawyer 363 00:24:17,680 --> 00:24:19,800 Speaker 2: steps in. I asked my lawyer. I said, you know, don't, 364 00:24:19,840 --> 00:24:22,280 Speaker 2: don't talk to me, talk to my lawyer. So Bill 365 00:24:22,320 --> 00:24:25,439 Speaker 2: Maher's producer talked to my lawyer. Long story short, we 366 00:24:25,560 --> 00:24:28,240 Speaker 2: end up agreeing that I will go on his program. 367 00:24:28,920 --> 00:24:31,159 Speaker 2: So I didn't travel to LA but I went on 368 00:24:31,280 --> 00:24:34,960 Speaker 2: remotely and I appeared, and Bill Maher apologized to me. 369 00:24:36,200 --> 00:24:37,719 Speaker 2: You can read about it. You can go back and 370 00:24:37,760 --> 00:24:39,679 Speaker 2: google it and find it in the New York Times. 371 00:24:41,280 --> 00:24:44,200 Speaker 2: So I have this, for lack of a better word, 372 00:24:44,280 --> 00:24:48,960 Speaker 2: affinity for Bill Maher simply because oh, he recognized he 373 00:24:49,160 --> 00:24:53,320 Speaker 2: was wrong, and he came on and apologized and acknowledged 374 00:24:53,359 --> 00:24:56,439 Speaker 2: to his entire audience that he was wrong. I have 375 00:24:56,480 --> 00:24:59,720 Speaker 2: an affinity for anybody who makes a mistake and then says, 376 00:24:59,760 --> 00:25:02,640 Speaker 2: you know, I was wrong about that. But he's still 377 00:25:02,680 --> 00:25:07,560 Speaker 2: a different case. Compared to Fetterman, because mar really is 378 00:25:07,680 --> 00:25:10,159 Speaker 2: drugged out boost out during half of his waking hours, 379 00:25:10,680 --> 00:25:13,840 Speaker 2: and a lot of times he doesn't really make any 380 00:25:13,880 --> 00:25:16,760 Speaker 2: sense at all, but he is this. He is a 381 00:25:16,880 --> 00:25:20,840 Speaker 2: classic nineteen eighties nineteen seventy style liberal in that he 382 00:25:20,880 --> 00:25:24,240 Speaker 2: still has a very modest sense of self awareness, and 383 00:25:23,760 --> 00:25:28,240 Speaker 2: he is at least capable of engaging in introspective thought, 384 00:25:29,359 --> 00:25:32,320 Speaker 2: but he fights against doing that with all of his might, 385 00:25:32,720 --> 00:25:36,240 Speaker 2: because those are the times when he briefly realizes that 386 00:25:36,440 --> 00:25:39,760 Speaker 2: everything he has believed during his entire adult life is 387 00:25:39,880 --> 00:25:44,680 Speaker 2: probably wrong and frankly stupid. So it's a lot easier 388 00:25:44,680 --> 00:25:50,000 Speaker 2: to avoid those moments of introspection when you're a drunker stone, 389 00:25:50,119 --> 00:25:53,360 Speaker 2: which may help explain why Bill Maher spends so much 390 00:25:53,440 --> 00:25:55,520 Speaker 2: of his life in one of both of those states. 391 00:25:56,440 --> 00:25:59,200 Speaker 2: Every time that I find or use the sound bite 392 00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:03,760 Speaker 2: of Bill mom it's usually when he's interviewing somebody else's podcast. 393 00:26:04,119 --> 00:26:06,400 Speaker 2: They got two chairs, they got a table between them, 394 00:26:06,800 --> 00:26:10,080 Speaker 2: and Bill Maher is always either has been smoking dope 395 00:26:10,640 --> 00:26:15,000 Speaker 2: or and then drinking drinking bourbon, whiskey, tequila, whatever it 396 00:26:15,080 --> 00:26:19,639 Speaker 2: is that he drinks. Here's Bill Maher recently in an 397 00:26:19,680 --> 00:26:25,719 Speaker 2: interview on his podcast, it's they're talking about Mandanmi. 398 00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:29,399 Speaker 3: And I think that if Mandani wins on it with 399 00:26:29,480 --> 00:26:33,520 Speaker 3: a coalition of voters who have been not all that 400 00:26:33,680 --> 00:26:36,720 Speaker 3: excited about the Democratic Party over the last few years, 401 00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:38,520 Speaker 3: I think that's a good thing for the Democrats. 402 00:26:38,520 --> 00:26:39,240 Speaker 1: And I think if you're in. 403 00:26:39,200 --> 00:26:41,720 Speaker 3: A purple district, say you disagree with some of the 404 00:26:41,720 --> 00:26:45,040 Speaker 3: things that he does and use that to establish your 405 00:26:45,080 --> 00:26:46,720 Speaker 3: independent cred well, you make. 406 00:26:46,600 --> 00:26:49,480 Speaker 4: It sound like he's a little more mainstream than he 407 00:26:49,600 --> 00:26:51,840 Speaker 4: I think he is. I mean, the issue now that 408 00:26:51,880 --> 00:26:53,840 Speaker 4: Andrew Cuomo is bringing up in New York is that 409 00:26:53,880 --> 00:26:57,280 Speaker 4: he is a Ugandan citizen. U Ganda is a country 410 00:26:57,480 --> 00:26:59,320 Speaker 4: where they kill homosexuals. 411 00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:03,760 Speaker 3: So somebody who is a dual citizen can't be Mayor 412 00:27:03,800 --> 00:27:05,000 Speaker 3: of New York Or I. 413 00:27:04,960 --> 00:27:07,600 Speaker 4: Would renounce if I was the dual citizen with a 414 00:27:07,680 --> 00:27:12,280 Speaker 4: country whose policy, the government policy, was we kill homosexuals. 415 00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:14,480 Speaker 1: Yeah, I would renounce that citizenship. 416 00:27:15,359 --> 00:27:19,240 Speaker 4: I don't and and as. 417 00:27:20,359 --> 00:27:22,560 Speaker 3: Buying into a fear I think that is buying into 418 00:27:22,600 --> 00:27:25,760 Speaker 3: a fear framework that is almost good. 419 00:27:26,119 --> 00:27:27,119 Speaker 1: It's good for the country. 420 00:27:27,160 --> 00:27:28,119 Speaker 3: It's not good for the country. 421 00:27:28,359 --> 00:27:29,240 Speaker 1: You shouldn't be afraid. 422 00:27:29,320 --> 00:27:30,840 Speaker 3: I think the way that Coloma, I think the way 423 00:27:30,880 --> 00:27:34,880 Speaker 3: that Clomo is closing out this race and really and really. 424 00:27:34,680 --> 00:27:36,840 Speaker 1: Race baiting and really leaning in on. 425 00:27:39,560 --> 00:27:42,639 Speaker 4: You know what, just because for the country, I understand, 426 00:27:42,720 --> 00:27:45,240 Speaker 4: but just because something is done by people in Africa 427 00:27:45,440 --> 00:27:46,840 Speaker 4: doesn't mean it's always okay. 428 00:27:47,440 --> 00:27:49,240 Speaker 1: Well, but you said race, Badi, it has nothing to 429 00:27:49,280 --> 00:27:50,440 Speaker 1: do with race. Oh I'm talking. 430 00:27:50,440 --> 00:27:53,439 Speaker 3: I'm talking about what Clomo's doing, suggesting that Mombani couldn't 431 00:27:53,480 --> 00:27:56,200 Speaker 3: be a leader in a terror situation if he were 432 00:27:56,320 --> 00:27:58,840 Speaker 3: mayor of New York and god forbid something else like. 433 00:27:58,800 --> 00:28:00,800 Speaker 1: Me, we did campaign with a terrorist. 434 00:28:00,880 --> 00:28:03,000 Speaker 3: He did say it well, but Cuomo was pretty clear 435 00:28:03,200 --> 00:28:05,119 Speaker 3: I thought in the way he talked about that in 436 00:28:05,119 --> 00:28:06,560 Speaker 3: a way that I thought was ugly. 437 00:28:06,640 --> 00:28:08,639 Speaker 4: Well, the campaign this week with a guy who was 438 00:28:08,680 --> 00:28:12,159 Speaker 4: an unindicted co conspirator in the nineteen ninety three World 439 00:28:12,200 --> 00:28:15,879 Speaker 4: Trade Center bombing and served as a character witness for 440 00:28:16,560 --> 00:28:20,240 Speaker 4: Omar abdel Rahman, the terrorist to organize it. So Sarah 441 00:28:20,280 --> 00:28:24,879 Speaker 4: Palin used to say Obama powed around the terrorists, which but. 442 00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:29,920 Speaker 1: I just don't know if this is a great look 443 00:28:29,960 --> 00:28:30,879 Speaker 1: for party. 444 00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:34,000 Speaker 2: I really tell him, I just don't think this is 445 00:28:34,040 --> 00:28:39,120 Speaker 2: a great look for the party. So there he is 446 00:28:40,320 --> 00:28:43,800 Speaker 2: during which that discussion, during which he tries and fails 447 00:28:43,800 --> 00:28:47,760 Speaker 2: to get one of the people he's interviewing, betting Field 448 00:28:48,240 --> 00:28:50,600 Speaker 2: to admit that Mandani is going to be a disaster 449 00:28:50,680 --> 00:28:54,640 Speaker 2: for the Democrat Party. The topic was the New York 450 00:28:54,680 --> 00:28:56,240 Speaker 2: City mayor a race and the likely you have a 451 00:28:56,320 --> 00:29:04,080 Speaker 2: radical Islamic commy named Zorah Mandani winning that. But during 452 00:29:04,080 --> 00:29:09,160 Speaker 2: that discussion, it's amazing to me that he of course 453 00:29:09,240 --> 00:29:12,240 Speaker 2: he uses the word BS, which I leaked out, but 454 00:29:12,600 --> 00:29:15,160 Speaker 2: brings up, you know, Sarah Pala Palin and you know, 455 00:29:15,200 --> 00:29:18,320 Speaker 2: polling around with, you know, accusing Obama polling around with terras, 456 00:29:18,360 --> 00:29:21,960 Speaker 2: which he says was BS. But he admits that this 457 00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:24,920 Speaker 2: guy did paler around with one of the unindicted co 458 00:29:24,920 --> 00:29:28,400 Speaker 2: conspirators of the nineteen ninety three World Trade Center bombing. 459 00:29:31,040 --> 00:29:36,280 Speaker 2: That goes against everything that his party believes in. Even 460 00:29:36,320 --> 00:29:40,959 Speaker 2: in that exchange, in which mar generally makes sense, you 461 00:29:41,040 --> 00:29:45,360 Speaker 2: see him clinging desperately to his soothing myth about Obama 462 00:29:45,960 --> 00:29:49,920 Speaker 2: his own self. There's no question Obama did power around 463 00:29:49,920 --> 00:29:52,680 Speaker 2: with the Terras. As Sarah Palin plane. It is a 464 00:29:52,720 --> 00:29:56,600 Speaker 2: simple fact of history that Obama's political mentors were domestic 465 00:29:56,640 --> 00:29:59,240 Speaker 2: terrorists from the seventies, and that Obama did everything he 466 00:29:59,240 --> 00:30:02,640 Speaker 2: could to pop up the was in the in Iran, 467 00:30:03,160 --> 00:30:05,760 Speaker 2: and he wanted to foam in a pro radical Islamic 468 00:30:05,800 --> 00:30:08,800 Speaker 2: color revolution across North Africa the Middle East during his 469 00:30:08,880 --> 00:30:14,440 Speaker 2: disastrous residency. Yet Maher still knee jerks to soothing himself 470 00:30:14,480 --> 00:30:18,800 Speaker 2: by parenting that long disproved talking point about Sarah Palin. 471 00:30:20,040 --> 00:30:22,880 Speaker 2: The point is it's fun when he has these semi 472 00:30:22,920 --> 00:30:27,040 Speaker 2: coherent moments like that one was for the most part. 473 00:30:28,160 --> 00:30:31,520 Speaker 2: And then you got John Fetterman over there, who's actually 474 00:30:31,560 --> 00:30:37,320 Speaker 2: making more sense than some Republicans. Hang tight, I'll be 475 00:30:37,440 --> 00:30:45,240 Speaker 2: right back. Welcome back to the Weekend. 476 00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:45,680 Speaker 1: With Michael Brown. 477 00:30:46,600 --> 00:30:49,520 Speaker 2: So as an example of what I mean about, you 478 00:30:49,520 --> 00:30:53,360 Speaker 2: heard Bill Maher who actually made some rational sense in 479 00:30:53,400 --> 00:30:59,280 Speaker 2: that SoundBite doing that interview with Kate Edding Beddington. Now 480 00:30:59,320 --> 00:31:04,280 Speaker 2: Here he is, he's outside the US capital. He's confronted 481 00:31:04,320 --> 00:31:10,560 Speaker 2: by some reporters and ask about the government shutdown. Do 482 00:31:10,680 --> 00:31:14,080 Speaker 2: you know that he's one of We need five Democrats 483 00:31:14,880 --> 00:31:18,440 Speaker 2: or a couple of Democrats and an independent to join 484 00:31:18,480 --> 00:31:21,400 Speaker 2: the Republicans to reopen the government. And they would not 485 00:31:21,480 --> 00:31:25,360 Speaker 2: even do that to even pay the military. Trump's now 486 00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:27,920 Speaker 2: talking about taking some of the money from the tariffs 487 00:31:28,080 --> 00:31:32,200 Speaker 2: and using that to fund the SNAP program or the 488 00:31:32,240 --> 00:31:36,120 Speaker 2: women and Children's program at a minimum. So Republicans are 489 00:31:36,120 --> 00:31:39,560 Speaker 2: doing everything they can to soften the blow to people 490 00:31:39,560 --> 00:31:42,440 Speaker 2: who actually get some benefits. And of course we should 491 00:31:42,440 --> 00:31:44,000 Speaker 2: be paying the military, and I think we should be 492 00:31:44,040 --> 00:31:50,840 Speaker 2: paying the air Tropic controllers, but Democrats won't budge it. 493 00:31:50,920 --> 00:31:52,400 Speaker 2: Pisces off fetterment. 494 00:31:52,360 --> 00:31:54,240 Speaker 5: During the government shutdown. Do you think there should be 495 00:31:54,640 --> 00:31:56,400 Speaker 5: a bill that prevents that from happening. 496 00:31:56,840 --> 00:32:03,200 Speaker 6: Well, I mean, I'm not merely concerned about two million 497 00:32:03,240 --> 00:32:07,640 Speaker 6: Pennsylvanians rely on SNAP to feed themselves in their families 498 00:32:07,840 --> 00:32:11,560 Speaker 6: and that's going that's gonna stop. And I'm also concerned 499 00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:15,920 Speaker 6: about our military not paid and we're all protected by 500 00:32:15,960 --> 00:32:18,720 Speaker 6: members of the Capitol Police and they're not getting paid. 501 00:32:18,840 --> 00:32:22,120 Speaker 6: I'm always going to vote to support those things. I'm 502 00:32:22,120 --> 00:32:26,000 Speaker 6: a guy that's a country over party, So that's those 503 00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:29,000 Speaker 6: are my concern Now, you know, two things must be 504 00:32:29,080 --> 00:32:32,800 Speaker 6: true that, you know, keep our government open and make 505 00:32:32,840 --> 00:32:38,440 Speaker 6: sure people can count on SNAP and people they are paid, 506 00:32:38,640 --> 00:32:42,560 Speaker 6: and then we can have the conversations about extending extending 507 00:32:42,600 --> 00:32:45,040 Speaker 6: those tax credits, and then I do believe, you know, 508 00:32:47,360 --> 00:32:50,440 Speaker 6: Leader Thune is an honorable guy, and I do believe. 509 00:32:50,120 --> 00:32:53,520 Speaker 2: We could have a. 510 00:32:52,400 --> 00:32:57,040 Speaker 6: Meaningful sincere conversation and negotiate these things. Let's open up 511 00:32:57,320 --> 00:33:00,280 Speaker 6: the government and let's figure out a way forward. Because 512 00:33:00,520 --> 00:33:04,360 Speaker 6: when you shoot, when you shot down our government, America loses. 513 00:33:04,840 --> 00:33:08,080 Speaker 5: The longer this goes on, though, do you think lawmakers 514 00:33:08,080 --> 00:33:11,959 Speaker 5: should be accepting paychecks pay while this is going on. 515 00:33:12,680 --> 00:33:16,960 Speaker 6: That's a personal that's a personal choice. But as this 516 00:33:17,080 --> 00:33:21,480 Speaker 6: continues to as it continues that you have folks like 517 00:33:21,920 --> 00:33:24,240 Speaker 6: Capitol police and the military and other people aren't going 518 00:33:24,280 --> 00:33:27,240 Speaker 6: to get paid. And now there's there's mortgages. You know, 519 00:33:27,280 --> 00:33:29,960 Speaker 6: they have to put food on their table. Also, I mean, 520 00:33:29,960 --> 00:33:32,200 Speaker 6: like this is crazy, it's this. We have to stop this. 521 00:33:32,720 --> 00:33:35,880 Speaker 6: I mean, you know, we need to put country first 522 00:33:36,320 --> 00:33:39,560 Speaker 6: and this is our core responsibility. It's it's very dismaying 523 00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:42,640 Speaker 6: and just I think it's a thirteenth or fourteenth time. 524 00:33:42,680 --> 00:33:45,640 Speaker 6: I just voted to vote to open our government up, 525 00:33:45,680 --> 00:33:48,240 Speaker 6: and I was the I think I was one of 526 00:33:48,280 --> 00:33:49,920 Speaker 6: only two Democrats. 527 00:33:51,320 --> 00:33:54,360 Speaker 2: Much more Democrats. So where are the other Democrats doing it? 528 00:33:56,360 --> 00:33:57,960 Speaker 2: He also said on Fox News. 529 00:33:57,720 --> 00:34:00,280 Speaker 7: This Morning, Senator Fetterman. You know, I I want to 530 00:34:00,280 --> 00:34:02,760 Speaker 7: talk to about the ideological way forward for the Democratic 531 00:34:02,800 --> 00:34:06,920 Speaker 7: Party because we've seen this rise of democratic socialism and progressivism, 532 00:34:07,520 --> 00:34:09,920 Speaker 7: and you know, I'm wondering, what do you think the 533 00:34:09,960 --> 00:34:12,240 Speaker 7: ideological path is for your party? 534 00:34:14,400 --> 00:34:17,919 Speaker 6: Well, really, the party's going to go its own way. 535 00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:21,279 Speaker 6: But I've been going my way. I'm going to fight 536 00:34:21,360 --> 00:34:24,960 Speaker 6: for wins in Pennsylvania. And there's issues that I will 537 00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:29,440 Speaker 6: agree in align with on the Republican side, specifically like Israel, 538 00:34:29,560 --> 00:34:34,360 Speaker 6: and I celebrated those great peace steel and I also 539 00:34:34,520 --> 00:34:37,240 Speaker 6: really very strong that we have to secure our border. 540 00:34:37,280 --> 00:34:40,200 Speaker 6: And I was the co sponsor of the Lake and 541 00:34:40,280 --> 00:34:44,880 Speaker 6: Bill as well. And right now I'm in a minority 542 00:34:44,920 --> 00:34:46,960 Speaker 6: that I think it's wrong to shut our government down 543 00:34:46,960 --> 00:34:49,759 Speaker 6: in this situation right now and now so for me, 544 00:34:49,880 --> 00:34:52,279 Speaker 6: and there's things that I strongly believe in too on 545 00:34:52,320 --> 00:34:55,759 Speaker 6: the Democratic side. But I'm just gonna I'm always going 546 00:34:55,840 --> 00:34:58,600 Speaker 6: to vote country over party. I'm always going to vote 547 00:34:58,640 --> 00:35:01,879 Speaker 6: for paying for the military over my party and those 548 00:35:01,920 --> 00:35:04,560 Speaker 6: things because I think that's what's appropriate right now. The 549 00:35:04,640 --> 00:35:07,520 Speaker 6: direction where my party's going, I mean, we won't see, 550 00:35:07,640 --> 00:35:10,600 Speaker 6: but I can can control my vote and my voice 551 00:35:10,719 --> 00:35:13,200 Speaker 6: and that's exactly where I am, and I'm going to 552 00:35:13,239 --> 00:35:17,000 Speaker 6: call balls and strikes. And it's an easy, easy choice 553 00:35:17,040 --> 00:35:20,480 Speaker 6: to pick my country over the party, Especially in circumstances 554 00:35:20,520 --> 00:35:20,759 Speaker 6: like this. 555 00:35:21,800 --> 00:35:25,880 Speaker 2: It's easy for us to hear someone like him and 556 00:35:25,960 --> 00:35:28,680 Speaker 2: to glom onto that and say, wow, that's really good. 557 00:35:29,520 --> 00:35:32,880 Speaker 2: How quickly would we turn on him? Because he says 558 00:35:33,360 --> 00:35:35,680 Speaker 2: there are some things where I align with my party. 559 00:35:36,760 --> 00:35:38,719 Speaker 2: I don't know what those are, but maybe the things 560 00:35:38,719 --> 00:35:42,520 Speaker 2: that I absolutely I find abhorrent, and I would I 561 00:35:42,520 --> 00:35:45,880 Speaker 2: would vociferously disagree with him on some issues that he 562 00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:50,480 Speaker 2: might align with his party on. So the point is 563 00:35:51,280 --> 00:35:54,680 Speaker 2: he's probably right when he says, I'm going to do 564 00:35:54,719 --> 00:35:57,600 Speaker 2: what I think is right. I'm gonna put country above party, 565 00:35:58,080 --> 00:36:00,440 Speaker 2: and I'm going to vote well. And I happened to 566 00:36:00,480 --> 00:36:02,360 Speaker 2: be in this position, right. I think we ought to 567 00:36:02,400 --> 00:36:05,200 Speaker 2: be paying you know, ice, we all to be paying 568 00:36:05,239 --> 00:36:08,000 Speaker 2: the US Capitol Police, we will to be paying the military, 569 00:36:08,160 --> 00:36:10,600 Speaker 2: we all to be paying air traffic control. And then 570 00:36:10,840 --> 00:36:13,600 Speaker 2: if he were to do something that would be opposite 571 00:36:13,600 --> 00:36:16,720 Speaker 2: of what we believe, then will you jump all over him? 572 00:36:17,520 --> 00:36:20,960 Speaker 2: And I understand that, but at least give him credit 573 00:36:21,600 --> 00:36:24,800 Speaker 2: for saying what he believes and sticking to it regardless 574 00:36:24,840 --> 00:36:25,720 Speaker 2: of what his party says. 575 00:36:26,160 --> 00:36:29,360 Speaker 5: Are you surprised that vote after those it's just in 576 00:36:29,560 --> 00:36:32,840 Speaker 5: three Democrats timing again who was voted for this college? 577 00:36:32,880 --> 00:36:36,520 Speaker 1: Does that surprise you? Yeah? It's Groundhog Days, you know. 578 00:36:36,680 --> 00:36:39,040 Speaker 1: And I'm just saying, and it's not entertaining. That's a 579 00:36:39,080 --> 00:36:40,120 Speaker 1: great movie. But this is. 580 00:36:41,920 --> 00:36:45,080 Speaker 7: Senator Fetterman joins me. Now, Senator, an honor to have you. 581 00:36:45,600 --> 00:36:47,760 Speaker 7: That clip was from Tuesday, and you said you weren't 582 00:36:47,760 --> 00:36:50,359 Speaker 7: surprised by the continual votes by your party to not 583 00:36:50,400 --> 00:36:53,439 Speaker 7: reopen the government. But were you surprised when the vote 584 00:36:53,480 --> 00:36:55,800 Speaker 7: came on Thursday to pay military to pay for a 585 00:36:55,880 --> 00:36:58,239 Speaker 7: load workers and you were just one of three Democrats 586 00:36:58,239 --> 00:36:59,960 Speaker 7: saying let's pay these essential workers. 587 00:37:02,719 --> 00:37:05,000 Speaker 6: I mean, I'm not I'm not surprised when. 588 00:37:05,280 --> 00:37:08,759 Speaker 1: I'm not surprised. Wow, that says a lot. I'll be 589 00:37:08,840 --> 00:37:09,319 Speaker 1: right back