1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:02,360 Speaker 1: Good morning from South Dakota. Watching The State of the 2 00:00:02,440 --> 00:00:05,480 Speaker 1: Union last night was like watching a really good movie 3 00:00:05,519 --> 00:00:08,000 Speaker 1: in a movie theater. You didn't want to get up 4 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:10,440 Speaker 1: and use the restroom or go get snacks because you 5 00:00:10,480 --> 00:00:13,480 Speaker 1: didn't want to miss a thing. And after two hours 6 00:00:13,800 --> 00:00:17,480 Speaker 1: you thought, what it's over already, that was too good. 7 00:00:18,960 --> 00:00:20,520 Speaker 1: Everyone have a great day. 8 00:00:21,640 --> 00:00:23,360 Speaker 2: Kind of wonder where he had been, hadn't heard from 9 00:00:23,440 --> 00:00:23,960 Speaker 2: him lately? 10 00:00:24,280 --> 00:00:26,920 Speaker 3: He's retired, he's on vacation every day. Well, I hope 11 00:00:26,920 --> 00:00:31,000 Speaker 3: it's That doesn't mean you don't listen to the program. 12 00:00:31,440 --> 00:00:33,280 Speaker 3: It doesn't mean you don't leave a talk back just 13 00:00:33,280 --> 00:00:36,040 Speaker 3: because you're retired on vacation. You live in the Dakota 14 00:00:36,080 --> 00:00:38,320 Speaker 3: somewhere out in the middle of nowhere, you have nothing 15 00:00:38,360 --> 00:00:40,120 Speaker 3: else to do. You get the blow torch, you know, 16 00:00:40,159 --> 00:00:42,160 Speaker 3: you to leave a talk about occation. 17 00:00:42,360 --> 00:00:44,560 Speaker 4: You've already favored in the situation with Michael Brown on 18 00:00:44,600 --> 00:00:46,720 Speaker 4: your iHeart app. So it should you see the podcast 19 00:00:46,920 --> 00:00:48,240 Speaker 4: automatically be downloaded. 20 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:54,440 Speaker 5: Don't mention podcasts and downloads. Okay, let's just don't go there. 21 00:00:54,800 --> 00:00:56,440 Speaker 5: Let's don't go there yet. It should be fine. 22 00:00:56,440 --> 00:01:00,960 Speaker 2: What what well is today the that you Today's the 23 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:01,319 Speaker 2: day you. 24 00:01:01,280 --> 00:01:05,520 Speaker 4: Start with the Yeah, we'll see figures crushed, you know, 25 00:01:05,720 --> 00:01:06,200 Speaker 4: two days. 26 00:01:06,200 --> 00:01:06,800 Speaker 2: Notice, that's all. 27 00:01:06,800 --> 00:01:08,920 Speaker 4: We need to implement a new program around here. 28 00:01:08,920 --> 00:01:11,520 Speaker 2: It's fine. Fun, it's gonna be fun. Fun, don't worry 29 00:01:11,560 --> 00:01:11,920 Speaker 2: about it. 30 00:01:12,360 --> 00:01:17,280 Speaker 5: Just it's it's dragging at iHeartMedia dot com. Send every 31 00:01:17,280 --> 00:01:20,399 Speaker 5: complaint to Dragon at iHeartMedia dot com. So I fled 32 00:01:20,440 --> 00:01:26,240 Speaker 5: that inbox. Fine, we have we have a we have 33 00:01:26,280 --> 00:01:30,880 Speaker 5: a new program that I was told about maybe, god 34 00:01:31,120 --> 00:01:33,280 Speaker 5: it may it may even be a year ago. I 35 00:01:33,319 --> 00:01:35,520 Speaker 5: was told about this from Premiere that does you know, 36 00:01:35,560 --> 00:01:38,720 Speaker 5: the syndicated program, and you know, we're all, oh, they're 37 00:01:38,720 --> 00:01:41,200 Speaker 5: all excited. In fact, the president Premier made this announcement, 38 00:01:41,240 --> 00:01:42,920 Speaker 5: you know, hey we're moving your podcast over there, blah 39 00:01:42,959 --> 00:01:44,960 Speaker 5: blah blah, and then he goes silent and this. So 40 00:01:45,080 --> 00:01:47,760 Speaker 5: I called Los Angeles and say, hey, whatever happened to 41 00:01:47,840 --> 00:01:50,280 Speaker 5: that idea? Oh, we don't really know what's going on. 42 00:01:50,600 --> 00:01:53,320 Speaker 5: And so I okay, So I figured, no, it's uh, 43 00:01:54,880 --> 00:01:57,640 Speaker 5: it's a snaff foo situation. Normal, all you know, left up. 44 00:01:58,000 --> 00:01:59,880 Speaker 5: So I just kind of drop and forget about it. 45 00:02:00,040 --> 00:02:02,640 Speaker 5: And then we go through the snaffhoo of the podcast 46 00:02:02,800 --> 00:02:07,200 Speaker 5: order and then Dragon get some way twice, right twice. 47 00:02:07,280 --> 00:02:08,560 Speaker 2: We go through that twice. 48 00:02:08,760 --> 00:02:12,720 Speaker 5: And then Dragon gets an email yesterday before you Monday, Monday, Yeah, Monday, 49 00:02:12,720 --> 00:02:18,000 Speaker 5: about we're switching over to a new syndicating platform that 50 00:02:18,160 --> 00:02:22,000 Speaker 5: sends out the podcast, which is the one that Premier uses. 51 00:02:22,440 --> 00:02:25,960 Speaker 5: And of course I haven't gotten anything about it. So 52 00:02:26,680 --> 00:02:29,079 Speaker 5: for the guy who actually because I know you don't 53 00:02:29,080 --> 00:02:31,400 Speaker 5: care about the numbers, but I care about the numbers, 54 00:02:31,639 --> 00:02:34,480 Speaker 5: I haven't gotten anything. I haven't got an email, haven't 55 00:02:34,480 --> 00:02:37,080 Speaker 5: gotten a log in, haven't gotten squat about how do 56 00:02:37,160 --> 00:02:40,880 Speaker 5: I check my numbers? You know nothing at all. So uh, 57 00:02:41,360 --> 00:02:43,919 Speaker 5: maybe I'll send you an email along with all the 58 00:02:43,960 --> 00:02:46,320 Speaker 5: others that are going to bitch about. 59 00:02:46,440 --> 00:02:48,760 Speaker 2: You get the podcast or it's in the wrong order, 60 00:02:48,800 --> 00:02:50,600 Speaker 2: it's or whatever, blah blah blah blah blah. 61 00:02:50,600 --> 00:02:52,839 Speaker 4: We'll all find out together about twenty thirty minutes after 62 00:02:52,840 --> 00:02:53,400 Speaker 4: the show's over. 63 00:02:53,480 --> 00:02:56,680 Speaker 5: And you should know. So Michael, my producer out in 64 00:02:56,840 --> 00:03:02,680 Speaker 5: Sherman Oaks, I had a hang on a second, I 65 00:03:02,720 --> 00:03:04,800 Speaker 5: did not. I didn't think this is where we were 66 00:03:04,840 --> 00:03:08,880 Speaker 5: going this morning. Let's see he touched the previous show. 67 00:03:08,880 --> 00:03:10,800 Speaker 4: We were talking about grapes all day, so we can 68 00:03:10,840 --> 00:03:13,040 Speaker 4: talking about grapes. 69 00:03:13,160 --> 00:03:17,959 Speaker 5: Okay, uh, this is see people here in Los Angeles 70 00:03:17,960 --> 00:03:21,720 Speaker 5: complaining about the order of podcast uploads. It's ridiculous with 71 00:03:21,720 --> 00:03:26,080 Speaker 5: a laughing emoji. And this goes to the Tim Conway show. 72 00:03:27,560 --> 00:03:31,360 Speaker 5: I guess KFI or Timmy didn't want me to listen 73 00:03:31,400 --> 00:03:34,320 Speaker 5: to their shows. I discovered that at least Jerry and 74 00:03:34,360 --> 00:03:37,200 Speaker 5: Shannon upload and order, so it might go our one 75 00:03:37,280 --> 00:03:40,080 Speaker 5: two three four or our four three two one, But 76 00:03:40,200 --> 00:03:43,360 Speaker 5: Timmy has been out of actual sequence our three one 77 00:03:43,480 --> 00:03:44,080 Speaker 5: two four. 78 00:03:44,520 --> 00:03:46,000 Speaker 2: I want to do that. 79 00:03:46,160 --> 00:03:49,800 Speaker 5: I'm sorry, but if I can't listen in order from 80 00:03:49,840 --> 00:03:52,520 Speaker 5: start to finish, then I'm not listening. And it's not 81 00:03:52,840 --> 00:03:57,320 Speaker 5: my slash our jobs. Just to suss it out, seriously, 82 00:03:57,560 --> 00:04:01,880 Speaker 5: fix your system, like I've pointed out BEFO for Kobe 83 00:04:01,960 --> 00:04:05,200 Speaker 5: or somebody has it figured out. Other iHeartRadio shows have 84 00:04:05,320 --> 00:04:09,000 Speaker 5: figured it out. He must not listen to the other 85 00:04:09,040 --> 00:04:11,320 Speaker 5: iHeart show. It's good we haven't figured it out either, 86 00:04:11,760 --> 00:04:15,000 Speaker 5: But I do love the idea that he doesn't care this. 87 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:20,119 Speaker 5: This particular listener his name is Jeremy, doesn't care whether 88 00:04:20,160 --> 00:04:23,000 Speaker 5: it's our one two three four or four three two one. 89 00:04:23,279 --> 00:04:25,719 Speaker 2: But I don't want three one two four Come on, 90 00:04:25,800 --> 00:04:28,640 Speaker 2: that'd be so much fun. You not do it or 91 00:04:28,640 --> 00:04:31,240 Speaker 2: not do it? What'd you do last night? 92 00:04:33,640 --> 00:04:33,800 Speaker 6: Oh? 93 00:04:33,880 --> 00:04:37,880 Speaker 4: Yeah, there was a TV program that you know, cut 94 00:04:37,920 --> 00:04:39,920 Speaker 4: about a half hour of and I all right, I'm 95 00:04:39,920 --> 00:04:40,360 Speaker 4: done with this. 96 00:04:40,960 --> 00:04:43,320 Speaker 5: Why didn't realize Tamory had made arrangements for it for 97 00:04:43,400 --> 00:04:46,800 Speaker 5: us to have to like like drive halfway across Colorado 98 00:04:46,920 --> 00:04:49,479 Speaker 5: to meet someone that we hadn't seen in like I 99 00:04:49,480 --> 00:04:51,080 Speaker 5: don't know, seven or eight years. 100 00:04:51,560 --> 00:04:52,640 Speaker 2: So we did that. 101 00:04:52,720 --> 00:04:55,520 Speaker 5: But of course it was early, and you know, he 102 00:04:55,600 --> 00:04:57,960 Speaker 5: was all concerned about you probably need to get home 103 00:04:57,960 --> 00:04:59,680 Speaker 5: in time to listen to the State of the Union. 104 00:04:59,680 --> 00:05:01,760 Speaker 2: I'm like, you know, I really don't. Doesn't make any difference. 105 00:05:01,920 --> 00:05:04,880 Speaker 5: But terms that I did, I got there. We actually 106 00:05:04,920 --> 00:05:07,239 Speaker 5: listened to, you know, because by the time the Sergeant 107 00:05:07,240 --> 00:05:11,360 Speaker 5: of Arms announces that, you know, mister speaker, I prisident 108 00:05:11,360 --> 00:05:12,560 Speaker 5: don't o the United States. 109 00:05:13,640 --> 00:05:14,400 Speaker 2: From that point on. 110 00:05:14,320 --> 00:05:16,440 Speaker 5: It takes about thirty minutes for him to finally get down, 111 00:05:16,760 --> 00:05:19,120 Speaker 5: you know, to the well and to hand the speech, 112 00:05:19,200 --> 00:05:22,480 Speaker 5: you know, and they now put it in plexiglass. Did 113 00:05:22,520 --> 00:05:25,599 Speaker 5: you know that you may I've noticed it was like, 114 00:05:26,600 --> 00:05:28,320 Speaker 5: well for his speech, it was like, you know, six 115 00:05:28,360 --> 00:05:32,200 Speaker 5: feet tall, but it's lined in plexiglass so that you 116 00:05:32,279 --> 00:05:34,440 Speaker 5: can't tear it up, so that nobody can tear it apart. 117 00:05:34,640 --> 00:05:37,800 Speaker 5: Uh yeah, really cool, Pretty cool, But let's I think 118 00:05:37,839 --> 00:05:39,080 Speaker 5: we should be honest with each other. 119 00:05:40,360 --> 00:05:41,599 Speaker 2: The State of the Union. 120 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:46,839 Speaker 5: Stopped being a constitutional formality the day that somebody decided 121 00:05:46,880 --> 00:05:49,479 Speaker 5: it was perfectly accept glbals show up on the floor 122 00:05:49,520 --> 00:05:53,240 Speaker 5: of the United States House of Representatives wearing a I 123 00:05:53,320 --> 00:05:56,960 Speaker 5: gotta be very careful today because these people. 124 00:05:56,680 --> 00:05:59,159 Speaker 2: Are just they're they're nuts. 125 00:06:00,040 --> 00:06:01,599 Speaker 5: When you show up on the floor of the House 126 00:06:02,320 --> 00:06:05,800 Speaker 5: wearing a pin that says if ice really? 127 00:06:07,360 --> 00:06:09,960 Speaker 4: Now, that's some Was it actually spelled out or was it. 128 00:06:09,920 --> 00:06:12,239 Speaker 2: Just the word I saw? I saw one that actually 129 00:06:12,240 --> 00:06:14,480 Speaker 2: spelled out. Made it on the TV? Oh yeah, I 130 00:06:14,520 --> 00:06:15,240 Speaker 2: made it on the TV. 131 00:06:15,839 --> 00:06:18,040 Speaker 5: Now. I think some of the others were blanked out, 132 00:06:18,120 --> 00:06:20,520 Speaker 5: Like there was also one which they were trying to 133 00:06:20,520 --> 00:06:23,840 Speaker 5: be too cute by half. This said release the and 134 00:06:23,880 --> 00:06:26,080 Speaker 5: then it was redacted files. 135 00:06:26,560 --> 00:06:28,000 Speaker 2: You know? Is that that's kind of funny? 136 00:06:28,080 --> 00:06:28,240 Speaker 5: Yeah? 137 00:06:28,240 --> 00:06:30,960 Speaker 2: I thought, well, they used a. 138 00:06:30,960 --> 00:06:33,440 Speaker 5: Little bit of brain power on that one. If ice 139 00:06:33,480 --> 00:06:37,560 Speaker 5: doesn't take any brain power whatsoever. Of course, that was Rashid. 140 00:06:37,600 --> 00:06:41,720 Speaker 5: The main one was Rashida's lead and and last night 141 00:06:41,800 --> 00:06:44,760 Speaker 5: she wore exactly that to a nationally televised presidential address 142 00:06:44,800 --> 00:06:47,200 Speaker 5: to a joint session of Congress on her lapel in 143 00:06:47,279 --> 00:06:50,719 Speaker 5: prime time. But here's what most other I think commentators 144 00:06:50,800 --> 00:06:55,039 Speaker 5: may be missing. She also had on some ear rings. 145 00:06:56,440 --> 00:07:01,559 Speaker 5: Nobody was paying attention to the ear rings there watermelons, 146 00:07:01,600 --> 00:07:03,200 Speaker 5: like sliced watermelons. 147 00:07:04,160 --> 00:07:08,160 Speaker 2: You know what that's the symbol of, do you know? No, 148 00:07:08,240 --> 00:07:10,320 Speaker 2: but I don't want a moss. 149 00:07:10,680 --> 00:07:15,760 Speaker 5: No, it wasn't no a moss. So you have a 150 00:07:15,760 --> 00:07:21,720 Speaker 5: member of the United States Congress wearing ear rings that 151 00:07:21,840 --> 00:07:25,520 Speaker 5: purport to represent a known terrorist organization. 152 00:07:25,720 --> 00:07:26,760 Speaker 2: Are we doing the same. 153 00:07:26,600 --> 00:07:29,880 Speaker 4: Thing with the okay symbol saying that that's racist as well? 154 00:07:29,960 --> 00:07:33,320 Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know, I don't know. 155 00:07:33,560 --> 00:07:35,520 Speaker 5: Please, but just let us sink in for a moment. 156 00:07:35,600 --> 00:07:39,360 Speaker 5: That's how she came. And she also had a cafea on. Yeah, 157 00:07:39,400 --> 00:07:41,400 Speaker 5: she didn't have it wrapped around you know, her head 158 00:07:41,480 --> 00:07:44,200 Speaker 5: or anything and covering everything except her eyes. But she 159 00:07:44,400 --> 00:07:46,960 Speaker 5: had she had the black and white you know that 160 00:07:47,120 --> 00:07:48,880 Speaker 5: for women. She didn't have the red and white. She 161 00:07:48,920 --> 00:07:51,040 Speaker 5: had the black and white cafea wrapped wrapped around her 162 00:07:51,400 --> 00:07:52,000 Speaker 5: around her neck. 163 00:07:52,080 --> 00:07:52,720 Speaker 2: And then I. 164 00:07:52,760 --> 00:07:55,120 Speaker 5: Noticed too, because I know that these are the kind 165 00:07:55,120 --> 00:07:57,320 Speaker 5: of details that make my life miserable. 166 00:07:58,400 --> 00:07:59,920 Speaker 2: Her glasses. 167 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:05,400 Speaker 5: Had the same kind of black and white pattern, or 168 00:08:05,400 --> 00:08:07,720 Speaker 5: at least appeared to have the same black and white pattern. 169 00:08:07,760 --> 00:08:10,600 Speaker 5: Has her CAFEA did let all that sink in? 170 00:08:11,440 --> 00:08:11,640 Speaker 2: Now? 171 00:08:12,600 --> 00:08:17,960 Speaker 5: Again, perspective is important. This institution, the United States Congress, 172 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:21,440 Speaker 5: the House, and the Senate, is the same place where well, 173 00:08:21,560 --> 00:08:23,800 Speaker 5: they used to cane each other on the Senate floor. 174 00:08:24,720 --> 00:08:29,040 Speaker 5: So maybe we've always been a little dramatic, but there's 175 00:08:29,040 --> 00:08:35,160 Speaker 5: something uniquely now present about a sitting congresswoman strutting into 176 00:08:35,160 --> 00:08:38,120 Speaker 5: the Capitol with profanity pen to her chest and thinking, yes, 177 00:08:38,600 --> 00:08:41,560 Speaker 5: this is my statement. This is how I moved the needle. 178 00:08:42,280 --> 00:08:46,599 Speaker 5: It thinks she moved the needle, maybe the sudden crackhead. 179 00:08:46,720 --> 00:08:48,600 Speaker 2: She moved the needle, but not to anybody else. 180 00:08:48,920 --> 00:08:51,600 Speaker 5: And the sad part is she was not alone in 181 00:08:51,640 --> 00:08:52,880 Speaker 5: the accessory department. 182 00:08:53,280 --> 00:08:53,960 Speaker 2: This was more. 183 00:08:54,200 --> 00:08:56,400 Speaker 5: I guess we'll get to the showmanship in a minute. 184 00:08:57,120 --> 00:09:03,920 Speaker 5: The showmanship was frankly interesting, at the same time amazing 185 00:09:04,320 --> 00:09:06,880 Speaker 5: and at the same time probably a little over the top, 186 00:09:07,240 --> 00:09:15,120 Speaker 5: but nonetheless it was very well choreographed showmanship. Wow, let's 187 00:09:15,120 --> 00:09:19,120 Speaker 5: go back to the accessories. So, as I was telling Dragon, 188 00:09:19,160 --> 00:09:21,520 Speaker 5: a significant chunk of the Democrats who actually bothered to 189 00:09:21,520 --> 00:09:23,920 Speaker 5: show up. More on that in just a minute. We're 190 00:09:23,960 --> 00:09:27,719 Speaker 5: wearing release the Epstein files, except you didn't see the 191 00:09:27,720 --> 00:09:31,640 Speaker 5: word Epstein. Nancy Prosy had one, Jamie Raskin had one. 192 00:09:32,080 --> 00:09:35,439 Speaker 5: Rashida to Leave had one too, Which raises the interesting 193 00:09:35,520 --> 00:09:38,160 Speaker 5: question when you think about everything that Rashida was wearing, 194 00:09:40,400 --> 00:09:47,079 Speaker 5: how many protest pens or ideology labels or lapel things 195 00:09:47,120 --> 00:09:51,240 Speaker 5: can you physically put on before you have structural failure 196 00:09:51,760 --> 00:09:52,800 Speaker 5: of whatever you're wearing. 197 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:54,640 Speaker 2: She had a lot. 198 00:09:55,160 --> 00:09:57,920 Speaker 5: We'll probably find out next year, so hang on, that's 199 00:09:57,920 --> 00:10:00,440 Speaker 5: something you look forward to next year. Now let's get 200 00:10:00,480 --> 00:10:04,560 Speaker 5: to the Democrats who did not show up. Dozens of 201 00:10:04,600 --> 00:10:09,800 Speaker 5: House Democrats boycotted the speech. Reports suggest something north of 202 00:10:09,880 --> 00:10:18,160 Speaker 5: seventy five absences. Chose instead, ostensibly underlying highlight italicized the word, 203 00:10:18,200 --> 00:10:22,319 Speaker 5: ostensibly to attend a counter rally out on the National 204 00:10:22,360 --> 00:10:27,559 Speaker 5: Mall organized by move on dot org. So the Marxists 205 00:10:27,559 --> 00:10:30,600 Speaker 5: are out organizing their own little rally out on the mall. Well, 206 00:10:30,600 --> 00:10:32,120 Speaker 5: that's right, they've got a right to do it. 207 00:10:32,200 --> 00:10:33,559 Speaker 2: Have haut it. It's great, but. 208 00:10:33,559 --> 00:10:38,680 Speaker 5: Here's where I think it gifts absolutely beautiful. One reporter 209 00:10:38,760 --> 00:10:43,000 Speaker 5: on the scene of the alternate state of the Union, 210 00:10:43,040 --> 00:10:45,720 Speaker 5: or the rally, if you will, noted that of the 211 00:10:45,760 --> 00:10:50,880 Speaker 5: approximately seventy five people in attendance at that grand act 212 00:10:50,920 --> 00:10:55,000 Speaker 5: of political resistance, about thirty five of the seventy five 213 00:10:55,000 --> 00:10:58,480 Speaker 5: were members of the press. So the boycott was roughly 214 00:10:58,920 --> 00:11:03,360 Speaker 5: half journalists covering the boycott. Now, that's performance art of 215 00:11:03,360 --> 00:11:06,320 Speaker 5: a very high or maybe a very low order, depending 216 00:11:06,360 --> 00:11:11,080 Speaker 5: on your perspective. But if just if I haven't seen 217 00:11:11,120 --> 00:11:14,920 Speaker 5: a I haven't seen a verifiable number yet. But let's 218 00:11:14,960 --> 00:11:18,200 Speaker 5: say that it was seventy five or more that did 219 00:11:18,200 --> 00:11:21,280 Speaker 5: not attend, and they all said they were going to 220 00:11:21,320 --> 00:11:24,920 Speaker 5: go out and have their own middle rally, but only 221 00:11:24,960 --> 00:11:28,720 Speaker 5: thirty five. Where were the other thirty five or forty? 222 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:32,600 Speaker 5: Where were they? Were they out at the bar? Did 223 00:11:32,880 --> 00:11:34,720 Speaker 5: they stay at home? Were they in their pjs? Where 224 00:11:34,760 --> 00:11:36,559 Speaker 5: were they? There was one guy I forget who his 225 00:11:36,679 --> 00:11:41,760 Speaker 5: name was that and I have to give credit to 226 00:11:42,240 --> 00:11:47,640 Speaker 5: the pool cameramen because they found one Democrat congressman that 227 00:11:47,960 --> 00:11:55,040 Speaker 5: was literally asleep, just asleep, And I thought the congressman 228 00:11:55,160 --> 00:11:58,760 Speaker 5: behind him was you know, they can see you know 229 00:11:58,760 --> 00:12:01,160 Speaker 5: that they're closer get team, so they can kind of 230 00:12:01,200 --> 00:12:03,760 Speaker 5: see where the cameras are so that you know, you're 231 00:12:03,800 --> 00:12:06,440 Speaker 5: not picking your nose when the camera's on you. But 232 00:12:06,480 --> 00:12:10,600 Speaker 5: that happened several times last night. So here's this guy. 233 00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:13,440 Speaker 5: He got his he's kind of like you know, almost 234 00:12:13,559 --> 00:12:15,040 Speaker 5: you have when you're listening to me. He just kind 235 00:12:15,040 --> 00:12:17,040 Speaker 5: of got your head in your hand and just going, oh, 236 00:12:17,120 --> 00:12:20,400 Speaker 5: here's going there. So he's sitting there, his eyes are closed, 237 00:12:21,200 --> 00:12:24,559 Speaker 5: his chins down on his chest, and then the congressman 238 00:12:24,559 --> 00:12:27,120 Speaker 5: behind him kind of starts to like reach out, and 239 00:12:27,480 --> 00:12:29,600 Speaker 5: I think he's just about rage, just kind of tapping 240 00:12:29,640 --> 00:12:31,840 Speaker 5: him like wake up, wake up, you're on TV. But 241 00:12:31,920 --> 00:12:33,679 Speaker 5: he decides not to do it because it's going to 242 00:12:33,720 --> 00:12:36,600 Speaker 5: be way too obvious. But so maybe there's maybe they 243 00:12:36,679 --> 00:12:39,040 Speaker 5: whisper something because I can't see the mouth of the 244 00:12:39,040 --> 00:12:40,240 Speaker 5: congressman behind him. 245 00:12:40,559 --> 00:12:42,079 Speaker 2: But suddenly he kind of wakes up. 246 00:12:42,640 --> 00:12:46,000 Speaker 5: But instead of just putting your head straight up, he 247 00:12:46,080 --> 00:12:49,240 Speaker 5: then takes his finger, and you know. 248 00:12:49,320 --> 00:12:51,840 Speaker 2: You've done this, You know you've done it. 249 00:12:52,840 --> 00:12:55,520 Speaker 5: You take your finger because you got something in between 250 00:12:55,520 --> 00:12:57,760 Speaker 5: a tooth, you know, and you kind of dig in 251 00:12:58,440 --> 00:13:06,120 Speaker 5: and it's kind of dug through the National TV. This 252 00:13:06,160 --> 00:13:09,960 Speaker 5: is the United States Congress. These are people. This proves 253 00:13:10,000 --> 00:13:15,760 Speaker 5: to me that if if you have a child and 254 00:13:16,200 --> 00:13:18,240 Speaker 5: you want that child to you know, you want to 255 00:13:18,280 --> 00:13:20,000 Speaker 5: tell that child you can grow up to be anything 256 00:13:20,120 --> 00:13:21,960 Speaker 5: that you want to be. You can tell them you 257 00:13:21,960 --> 00:13:24,120 Speaker 5: can grow to be anything you want to be. And 258 00:13:24,480 --> 00:13:27,360 Speaker 5: if you have low expectations for your children, you could 259 00:13:27,360 --> 00:13:28,720 Speaker 5: tell them you can. You can grow up to be 260 00:13:28,760 --> 00:13:31,560 Speaker 5: a US congressman. You could be a congressman, you could 261 00:13:31,559 --> 00:13:33,559 Speaker 5: be a senator. Hell's malls, you could grow to be 262 00:13:33,679 --> 00:13:36,640 Speaker 5: the President of the United States of America. So let's 263 00:13:36,640 --> 00:13:40,000 Speaker 5: get back to the ones that stayed outside. They apparently 264 00:13:40,120 --> 00:13:44,880 Speaker 5: comforted themselves with chance of abolish ice. So here we 265 00:13:44,920 --> 00:13:47,520 Speaker 5: have the Democrats, you know who a few years ago, 266 00:13:47,720 --> 00:13:50,959 Speaker 5: back in twenty twenty, during the mostly peaceful riots, wanted 267 00:13:51,040 --> 00:13:54,800 Speaker 5: to defund the police. Now they went to abolish ice, 268 00:13:55,920 --> 00:13:58,640 Speaker 5: and of course they held up signs saying no money 269 00:13:58,679 --> 00:14:01,720 Speaker 5: for ice. And then I never quite got this one. 270 00:14:02,120 --> 00:14:09,800 Speaker 5: Healthcare not warfare. Okay, we can't do both, or I've 271 00:14:09,800 --> 00:14:12,720 Speaker 5: got an even better idea. I'll go for that health 272 00:14:12,760 --> 00:14:16,480 Speaker 5: care not warfare. Let's just get the government completely out 273 00:14:16,480 --> 00:14:20,000 Speaker 5: of healthcare. Leave that to the private sector, yeah, where 274 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:23,360 Speaker 5: we'll all get it much cheaper because it'll be actual competition. 275 00:14:23,920 --> 00:14:27,040 Speaker 5: And we'll leave the warfare to the one place in 276 00:14:27,040 --> 00:14:29,040 Speaker 5: the constitution that gives that, and it would be to 277 00:14:29,080 --> 00:14:32,880 Speaker 5: the US government. And then one congresswoman out on the 278 00:14:33,080 --> 00:14:35,880 Speaker 5: National Mall announced that she was going to file articles 279 00:14:35,880 --> 00:14:41,520 Speaker 5: of impeachment against No against the attorney general. Yes, not 280 00:14:41,600 --> 00:14:44,680 Speaker 5: against the president, against the attorney general. And so there 281 00:14:44,760 --> 00:14:48,960 Speaker 5: was a some patriot in the crowd reportedly crashed Senator 282 00:14:49,040 --> 00:14:53,480 Speaker 5: Chris Murphy's outdoor protest event, pointed at him and yelled, 283 00:14:53,640 --> 00:14:58,400 Speaker 5: you're a scumbag. Yeah, I'm thinking that guy should have 284 00:14:58,400 --> 00:15:01,320 Speaker 5: been brought in as one of the heroes. Give it 285 00:15:01,360 --> 00:15:04,040 Speaker 5: a medal, get get Well, you know, get Ragie Cage 286 00:15:04,040 --> 00:15:06,160 Speaker 5: and Dan Kine, you know, the chairman of the Joint 287 00:15:06,200 --> 00:15:08,280 Speaker 5: Chiefs to stand up and walk back up to the 288 00:15:08,560 --> 00:15:10,640 Speaker 5: to the doorway into the house and give him a 289 00:15:10,680 --> 00:15:14,400 Speaker 5: medal for something. I mean, you know, pointing to a congressman, 290 00:15:14,440 --> 00:15:17,760 Speaker 5: tell him her scumbag that. Well, maybe that doesn't take guts, 291 00:15:18,320 --> 00:15:21,200 Speaker 5: but he is an American hero. He should be invited 292 00:15:21,240 --> 00:15:24,720 Speaker 5: onto this show immediately. In an al green No not 293 00:15:24,800 --> 00:15:27,640 Speaker 5: the singer of this algreen from Texas. He's seventy eight 294 00:15:27,720 --> 00:15:31,160 Speaker 5: years old. He showed up again with a sign. Now, 295 00:15:31,200 --> 00:15:34,440 Speaker 5: I thought that King Jeffries told us that everything was 296 00:15:34,440 --> 00:15:37,000 Speaker 5: going to be We were going to be there, but 297 00:15:37,200 --> 00:15:39,680 Speaker 5: we were going to protest in sight. It was going 298 00:15:39,720 --> 00:15:45,960 Speaker 5: to be silent defiance by silence. But instead the seventy 299 00:15:46,200 --> 00:15:49,920 Speaker 5: ye old old fart from Texas has once again been 300 00:15:50,000 --> 00:15:53,680 Speaker 5: physically removed from the chamber during a Trump speech. 301 00:15:54,480 --> 00:15:56,600 Speaker 2: Now at this point, he's not protesting. 302 00:15:56,880 --> 00:15:59,640 Speaker 5: I think he's auditioning for a recurring role in this 303 00:16:00,040 --> 00:16:03,240 Speaker 5: in this drama that we see every year, black people 304 00:16:03,240 --> 00:16:07,800 Speaker 5: aren't apes. As the President was literally walking down the aisle. 305 00:16:08,160 --> 00:16:11,640 Speaker 5: Now that's a reference to an AI video, which a 306 00:16:11,760 --> 00:16:15,040 Speaker 5: part of which because it wasn't just the Obamas that 307 00:16:15,040 --> 00:16:18,640 Speaker 5: were depicted as apes. There was like everybody you could 308 00:16:18,680 --> 00:16:22,120 Speaker 5: possibly imagine were depicted as some kind of animal. Now, 309 00:16:22,160 --> 00:16:25,119 Speaker 5: do I think depicting Obamas as apes is appropriate? 310 00:16:25,240 --> 00:16:25,280 Speaker 7: No? 311 00:16:25,440 --> 00:16:27,800 Speaker 5: I think that's over the top, and you probably could 312 00:16:27,880 --> 00:16:30,760 Speaker 5: read something racist into that. But somebody went to Trump 313 00:16:30,840 --> 00:16:35,160 Speaker 5: and said, hey, listen, don't take that down. Now Trump 314 00:16:35,200 --> 00:16:38,200 Speaker 5: did take it down. It's not a great look for anybody, 315 00:16:38,280 --> 00:16:42,680 Speaker 5: but it did get taken down. Now, Majority Leader Steve Scalise, 316 00:16:43,040 --> 00:16:46,240 Speaker 5: the guy that got shot at the baseball game, tried 317 00:16:46,240 --> 00:16:50,280 Speaker 5: to rip al Green signed down fellow Texan congress with 318 00:16:50,400 --> 00:16:52,800 Speaker 5: Troy Nell's looked like he was about three seconds from 319 00:16:52,800 --> 00:16:56,320 Speaker 5: a WWE moment before somebody pulled him back and in 320 00:16:56,440 --> 00:17:01,920 Speaker 5: security eventually escorted Green out while Republicans were chanting USA, Usa, Usa, 321 00:17:02,360 --> 00:17:04,600 Speaker 5: which of course is his own form of commentary on 322 00:17:04,640 --> 00:17:08,520 Speaker 5: the situation. But Green, defined as everyone is way out 323 00:17:08,560 --> 00:17:12,119 Speaker 5: the door, told reporters that quote, judging from the expression 324 00:17:12,200 --> 00:17:17,560 Speaker 5: on his face, meaning Trump, he got the message, Sir congressman, 325 00:17:18,240 --> 00:17:21,680 Speaker 5: you were removed by security for the second consecutive year. 326 00:17:22,359 --> 00:17:25,280 Speaker 5: You have been censured by the House of Representatives. So 327 00:17:25,359 --> 00:17:28,600 Speaker 5: whatever message you intended, the medium that. 328 00:17:28,560 --> 00:17:31,920 Speaker 2: You're using is probably not working. Yeah. Yeah. 329 00:17:32,160 --> 00:17:34,520 Speaker 5: And then once inside and with Green kind of out 330 00:17:34,520 --> 00:17:37,919 Speaker 5: of the way, Elon Omar and Mashida Talib they received 331 00:17:38,040 --> 00:17:40,800 Speaker 5: next to each other, which in retrospect, should it require 332 00:17:40,880 --> 00:17:43,840 Speaker 5: some sort of risk assessment? I think because those two together, 333 00:17:43,880 --> 00:17:46,280 Speaker 5: well that's kind of like, hmm, is it a bomb? 334 00:17:46,400 --> 00:17:47,919 Speaker 2: Is it fake? Is it real? Is it about to 335 00:17:47,960 --> 00:17:48,400 Speaker 2: go off? 336 00:17:48,840 --> 00:17:51,120 Speaker 5: Is it poisonous Ooh, can you get a disease if 337 00:17:51,119 --> 00:17:54,520 Speaker 5: you touch it? Or stay away from that? They spent 338 00:17:54,600 --> 00:18:01,520 Speaker 5: the better of two hours as a two female heckling machine. 339 00:18:01,880 --> 00:18:04,320 Speaker 5: I assume the identifies females, but I'm not really sure, 340 00:18:04,880 --> 00:18:08,040 Speaker 5: screaming you killed Americans, You killed Americans, of course, in 341 00:18:08,119 --> 00:18:11,200 Speaker 5: reference to the I shootings in Omar's Minnesota district, where 342 00:18:11,200 --> 00:18:13,560 Speaker 5: all the floud's going on, by the way, and then 343 00:18:13,800 --> 00:18:16,440 Speaker 5: to Lead yelled at one point, how are those Epstein files? 344 00:18:17,240 --> 00:18:22,480 Speaker 5: A sentence that would have been incomprehensible in any previous 345 00:18:22,560 --> 00:18:26,720 Speaker 5: era of American history, even though those so called Epstein 346 00:18:26,840 --> 00:18:35,800 Speaker 5: files have existed four decades, And then Omar yelled this, Hey, 347 00:18:36,000 --> 00:18:38,120 Speaker 5: let's go talk to Josh and the retirement planning Center 348 00:18:38,160 --> 00:18:41,160 Speaker 5: the Rockies. Josh had a simple question, and that is, 349 00:18:41,280 --> 00:18:45,159 Speaker 5: what impact can taxes have on retirement that people are 350 00:18:45,200 --> 00:18:47,080 Speaker 5: to consider with their retirement plan. 351 00:18:48,840 --> 00:18:51,119 Speaker 8: You know, Michael, that's a phenomenal question, and I'm glad 352 00:18:51,119 --> 00:18:54,040 Speaker 8: you asked it, because when people think about retirement, they 353 00:18:54,080 --> 00:18:58,560 Speaker 8: typically think investments the end maybe income obviously, but the 354 00:18:58,560 --> 00:19:02,359 Speaker 8: more you've accumulated, the more complex the tax picture becomes. 355 00:19:02,760 --> 00:19:05,320 Speaker 8: And we're not just talking about income taxes. We're also 356 00:19:05,440 --> 00:19:11,600 Speaker 8: considering things like capital gains, required minimum distributions, Medicare premium surcharges, 357 00:19:12,320 --> 00:19:15,120 Speaker 8: I mean, heck, potential estate taxes, and how all this 358 00:19:15,400 --> 00:19:20,119 Speaker 8: fits together. Without true coordination of these things, taxes really 359 00:19:20,160 --> 00:19:24,720 Speaker 8: can erode a significant portion of retirement income. And the 360 00:19:24,840 --> 00:19:27,520 Speaker 8: question then becomes, Michael, where do we see these costly 361 00:19:27,560 --> 00:19:32,239 Speaker 8: mistakes happening? Often it's when folks are making withdrawals. How 362 00:19:32,280 --> 00:19:35,800 Speaker 8: they're doing that. A lot of affluent retirees have assets 363 00:19:35,840 --> 00:19:40,800 Speaker 8: across many different brokerage accounts or iras, maybe roth accounts, 364 00:19:41,640 --> 00:19:44,919 Speaker 8: and maybe even business or real estate income. And if 365 00:19:44,960 --> 00:19:49,200 Speaker 8: those accounts aren't strategically coordinated, you can unintentionally spike those 366 00:19:49,240 --> 00:19:52,919 Speaker 8: tax brackets, increase your taxes on Social Security, or trigger 367 00:19:53,480 --> 00:19:57,399 Speaker 8: higher Medicare premiums, which is never fun. And over the 368 00:19:57,440 --> 00:19:59,479 Speaker 8: course of a twenty or thirty year retirement, that can 369 00:19:59,560 --> 00:20:04,200 Speaker 8: mean undreds of thousands of dollars of unnecessary taxes being paid. 370 00:20:04,480 --> 00:20:06,680 Speaker 5: And that's exactly what you guys can plan for when 371 00:20:06,720 --> 00:20:09,000 Speaker 5: you when you when someone comes in and says, hey, 372 00:20:09,240 --> 00:20:11,440 Speaker 5: take a look at my plan and review it. Give 373 00:20:11,480 --> 00:20:13,400 Speaker 5: me a either draft the plan, form me or give 374 00:20:13,440 --> 00:20:15,280 Speaker 5: me a second opinion on an existing plan. 375 00:20:16,640 --> 00:20:19,640 Speaker 8: Absolutely, and that's you just hit the nail on the head. 376 00:20:19,640 --> 00:20:22,080 Speaker 8: Folks with these higher networks really should be thinking about 377 00:20:22,080 --> 00:20:25,480 Speaker 8: that proactive planning. And this is not just what do 378 00:20:25,560 --> 00:20:27,800 Speaker 8: my taxes look like this year. This is multi year 379 00:20:27,840 --> 00:20:32,800 Speaker 8: tax projections, other strategies like charitable giving, donor advice funds, 380 00:20:33,119 --> 00:20:37,040 Speaker 8: charitable distributions, I mean all kinds of things, coordinating everything. 381 00:20:37,600 --> 00:20:41,119 Speaker 8: The key is not just preparing taxes year to year. 382 00:20:41,200 --> 00:20:43,040 Speaker 8: It's designing a long term strategy. 383 00:20:43,359 --> 00:20:46,400 Speaker 5: And defining and getting that long term strategy is key 384 00:20:46,440 --> 00:20:49,199 Speaker 5: by going to retirement planning some of the Rockies. As 385 00:20:49,240 --> 00:20:50,960 Speaker 5: I tell you, whether you have a plan or you 386 00:20:50,960 --> 00:20:52,960 Speaker 5: don't have a plan, I want you to call these 387 00:20:53,000 --> 00:20:55,720 Speaker 5: guys at the retirement planning some of the Rockies nine 388 00:20:55,800 --> 00:20:58,960 Speaker 5: seven zero six sixty three thirty two eleven nine seven 389 00:20:59,080 --> 00:21:02,159 Speaker 5: zero six six thirty two eleven, or go check out 390 00:21:02,240 --> 00:21:06,320 Speaker 5: Josh and everybody on the website at rpcenter dot com. 391 00:21:06,680 --> 00:21:08,520 Speaker 2: So back, so back to the state of the Union. 392 00:21:09,080 --> 00:21:12,080 Speaker 5: So, as I said, Majority Leader Steve Scales was trying 393 00:21:12,080 --> 00:21:15,399 Speaker 5: to pull down the sign about uh from Al Green 394 00:21:15,560 --> 00:21:18,679 Speaker 5: about you know, uh people aren't apes. Okay, well we 395 00:21:18,800 --> 00:21:24,520 Speaker 5: get that. But once inside and Green got dispatched and 396 00:21:24,720 --> 00:21:29,440 Speaker 5: kind of let out once again, Omar starts yelling at 397 00:21:29,520 --> 00:21:33,560 Speaker 5: Trump that he was a liar and a sick f 398 00:21:34,680 --> 00:21:37,720 Speaker 5: And then when they kept doing that, well, the Republicans 399 00:21:37,760 --> 00:21:41,959 Speaker 5: then broke out, you know, chanting, USA, USA, chanting. All 400 00:21:42,080 --> 00:21:44,639 Speaker 5: that is you know, Green was being removed, but to 401 00:21:44,800 --> 00:21:49,280 Speaker 5: leave those two y'all who's sitting together, were observed by 402 00:21:49,400 --> 00:21:54,120 Speaker 5: multiple multiple reporters in the gallery appearing to counter chant 403 00:21:54,200 --> 00:21:58,720 Speaker 5: and looked like it to me too. KKK. Now, if accurate, 404 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:03,240 Speaker 5: they genuinely don't know where to begin. So let's just 405 00:22:03,320 --> 00:22:06,320 Speaker 5: let that one stand on its own. Two members of 406 00:22:06,320 --> 00:22:09,920 Speaker 5: the squad, two Marxist members of the United States Color. 407 00:22:10,359 --> 00:22:13,360 Speaker 5: Let's not just sit there for a while shouting at 408 00:22:13,400 --> 00:22:15,440 Speaker 5: a sitting duly elected president. 409 00:22:15,800 --> 00:22:16,359 Speaker 2: KKK. 410 00:22:18,680 --> 00:22:23,920 Speaker 5: What they're the ones they're always screaming about racism. Meanwhile, 411 00:22:23,960 --> 00:22:28,280 Speaker 5: the Democrats brought Epstein survivors as guests, more than a 412 00:22:28,359 --> 00:22:31,000 Speaker 5: dozen of them sitting in the gallery staring down at 413 00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:34,600 Speaker 5: Trump as he was speaking. It was a genuinely interesting 414 00:22:34,760 --> 00:22:38,560 Speaker 5: piece of political theater, not entirely without merit as a 415 00:22:38,600 --> 00:22:43,159 Speaker 5: statement given obviously that the Epstein file controversy has bipartisan legs, 416 00:22:43,400 --> 00:22:46,199 Speaker 5: but also I would think a little awkward given that 417 00:22:46,280 --> 00:22:52,720 Speaker 5: the survivor's presence was simultaneously meant to chain Trump at 418 00:22:52,720 --> 00:22:55,480 Speaker 5: the same time that Tlee was screaming about the very 419 00:22:55,560 --> 00:22:59,560 Speaker 5: same files from the floor of the House. And then 420 00:22:59,640 --> 00:23:03,360 Speaker 5: to them a women's caucus. You know, they always get 421 00:23:03,400 --> 00:23:07,760 Speaker 5: their color schemes together. They wore white again, a suffragette 422 00:23:07,800 --> 00:23:12,480 Speaker 5: tribute that has been standardized now as State of the 423 00:23:12,560 --> 00:23:13,800 Speaker 5: Union attire for them. 424 00:23:14,240 --> 00:23:15,560 Speaker 2: Others wore blue and. 425 00:23:15,520 --> 00:23:18,800 Speaker 5: Yellow and solidarity with Ukraine, which was I guess a 426 00:23:18,800 --> 00:23:21,479 Speaker 5: dignified gesture. I don't know, though the effect was somewhat 427 00:23:21,480 --> 00:23:24,720 Speaker 5: deluded by you know, sitting next to someone in a 428 00:23:25,040 --> 00:23:29,200 Speaker 5: f ice pin other spotted you know, musk steel stickers. 429 00:23:29,720 --> 00:23:33,760 Speaker 5: It was it wasn't really a legislative body. It was 430 00:23:33,840 --> 00:23:37,720 Speaker 5: like a craft fair. It was like going to you know, 431 00:23:38,080 --> 00:23:40,520 Speaker 5: you go to these craft fairs and you got all 432 00:23:40,600 --> 00:23:43,960 Speaker 5: these you know, women out there they you know, or 433 00:23:44,040 --> 00:23:45,600 Speaker 5: men too, and they've got all these little things that 434 00:23:45,640 --> 00:23:48,080 Speaker 5: they've made, and so you get to buy all of 435 00:23:48,119 --> 00:23:50,480 Speaker 5: the stuff, and so you now have more stuff at 436 00:23:50,560 --> 00:23:56,000 Speaker 5: your home. They came with stuff, just stuff now in fairness, 437 00:23:56,040 --> 00:23:59,399 Speaker 5: because I'm always fair, right. Trump and the Republicans were 438 00:23:59,400 --> 00:24:03,280 Speaker 5: not exactly subdued in their own performance. The President, who 439 00:24:03,280 --> 00:24:07,600 Speaker 5: apparently had a lot to say, delivered the speech that 440 00:24:07,640 --> 00:24:09,520 Speaker 5: we clocked in at what an hour and forty seven 441 00:24:09,560 --> 00:24:11,959 Speaker 5: minutes or so break. He broke his own record from 442 00:24:12,040 --> 00:24:14,399 Speaker 5: last year. The man broke his own record for the 443 00:24:14,400 --> 00:24:17,359 Speaker 5: longest State of the Union speech in American history. 444 00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:20,120 Speaker 2: Bill Clinton, who indeed could. 445 00:24:19,960 --> 00:24:23,600 Speaker 5: Talk, is somewhere or was somewhere kind of watching all 446 00:24:23,640 --> 00:24:23,840 Speaker 5: of that. 447 00:24:24,400 --> 00:24:27,800 Speaker 2: Just imagine that he's probably pretty pretty furious. 448 00:24:28,240 --> 00:24:30,760 Speaker 5: Republicans would jump to their feet approximately I don't know, 449 00:24:30,840 --> 00:24:34,360 Speaker 5: nine hundred times, maybe a thousand times, cheering everything from 450 00:24:34,440 --> 00:24:37,520 Speaker 5: tax policy to the gold medal US men's hockey team, 451 00:24:37,880 --> 00:24:40,520 Speaker 5: which was genuinely one of the better State of the 452 00:24:40,600 --> 00:24:44,800 Speaker 5: Union moments in recent memory, the players walking in right 453 00:24:44,960 --> 00:24:49,520 Speaker 5: as Trump called them out. But that's not what I 454 00:24:49,560 --> 00:24:55,800 Speaker 5: think I mean by one of the more genuinely better performances, 455 00:24:56,200 --> 00:25:00,200 Speaker 5: because those guys they came in, they knew exactly where 456 00:25:00,280 --> 00:25:02,359 Speaker 5: to stop. They have been, you know, they were told 457 00:25:02,359 --> 00:25:04,680 Speaker 5: it what step to stop on, so that they were 458 00:25:04,720 --> 00:25:09,440 Speaker 5: all visible in the House chamber. They proudly waived their medals. 459 00:25:10,080 --> 00:25:12,440 Speaker 5: They put their hands on their heart as to acknowledge 460 00:25:12,480 --> 00:25:15,399 Speaker 5: the applause from everybody, well except a lot of Democrats, 461 00:25:16,440 --> 00:25:20,960 Speaker 5: and they appeared to be sober. They think about this, 462 00:25:21,200 --> 00:25:23,959 Speaker 5: They've want they they have. They beat the Canucks, they 463 00:25:23,960 --> 00:25:27,960 Speaker 5: beat the Canadians, they won the gold medal. So this 464 00:25:28,080 --> 00:25:30,760 Speaker 5: kind of goes back to, you know, the miracle of 465 00:25:31,119 --> 00:25:34,200 Speaker 5: on Ice of you know, nineteen eighty, so forty six 466 00:25:34,240 --> 00:25:37,800 Speaker 5: years years later, they are they they've been partying all 467 00:25:37,840 --> 00:25:41,560 Speaker 5: the way back from Milana wherever they departed from, and 468 00:25:41,600 --> 00:25:43,679 Speaker 5: they come back they I think they were in Florida. 469 00:25:44,040 --> 00:25:47,480 Speaker 5: They get on Air Force two, which probably had again 470 00:25:47,880 --> 00:25:50,119 Speaker 5: all the drinks they needed, and then they go to 471 00:25:50,119 --> 00:25:53,359 Speaker 5: the Oval office, which you know, probably a little tipsy 472 00:25:53,359 --> 00:25:57,000 Speaker 5: at that point, but by the time, because remember this 473 00:25:57,040 --> 00:26:00,919 Speaker 5: speech was at nine Eastern time, so they probably went 474 00:26:00,960 --> 00:26:03,040 Speaker 5: out to a really nice dinner somewhere. They probably had 475 00:26:03,080 --> 00:26:06,080 Speaker 5: a lot of booze. Maybe Cash Bettel was drinking with them, 476 00:26:06,119 --> 00:26:09,199 Speaker 5: who knows. But they came out and they stood on 477 00:26:09,280 --> 00:26:14,760 Speaker 5: the steps and they looked like gentlemen, and that impressed 478 00:26:14,760 --> 00:26:20,080 Speaker 5: me more than anything else. The timing was impeccable because well, 479 00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:23,359 Speaker 5: Trump knows television, whatever else, whatever else you want to 480 00:26:23,359 --> 00:26:26,359 Speaker 5: say about Trump, I don't care. He knows about television 481 00:26:26,560 --> 00:26:30,159 Speaker 5: and he is a showman. He also asked, and this 482 00:26:30,359 --> 00:26:34,919 Speaker 5: is probably the defining moment for the entire chamber to 483 00:26:34,960 --> 00:26:37,240 Speaker 5: stand if they believe that the first duty of the 484 00:26:37,280 --> 00:26:41,600 Speaker 5: American government is to protect American citizens, not illegal aliens. 485 00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:44,560 Speaker 5: Now you know, you know what I thought when I 486 00:26:44,600 --> 00:26:47,520 Speaker 5: heard that. I thought, no, that is not the first 487 00:26:47,560 --> 00:26:49,800 Speaker 5: duty of the American government. But I'm not going to 488 00:26:49,880 --> 00:26:51,400 Speaker 5: argue with the President of the State. 489 00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:51,760 Speaker 2: Of the Union. 490 00:26:52,200 --> 00:26:53,959 Speaker 5: I'm going to stand up for that one, even though 491 00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:56,840 Speaker 5: I disagree with it. I think that the first duty 492 00:26:56,880 --> 00:26:59,840 Speaker 5: of the American government is what come on, We've had 493 00:26:59,840 --> 00:27:03,320 Speaker 5: this Civics lessons before. The first duty the American government 494 00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:08,480 Speaker 5: is to protect our rights. That's what they are supposed 495 00:27:08,480 --> 00:27:13,080 Speaker 5: to be doing. But despite my little quibble about that, 496 00:27:13,800 --> 00:27:17,679 Speaker 5: if the choice, if I'm given a binary choice of 497 00:27:17,760 --> 00:27:20,680 Speaker 5: the first duty the American government is to protect American citizens, 498 00:27:20,680 --> 00:27:23,679 Speaker 5: not illegal aliens, and stand if you agree with that, 499 00:27:23,880 --> 00:27:26,800 Speaker 5: then I'm going to stand. And every Republican stood, and 500 00:27:26,880 --> 00:27:32,959 Speaker 5: they cheered. Almost every Democrat stayed seated, arms folded, staring ahead. 501 00:27:33,800 --> 00:27:37,960 Speaker 5: Trump looked at them and said you should be ashamed 502 00:27:37,960 --> 00:27:45,360 Speaker 5: of yourselves. And then there was the dramatic pause and 503 00:27:45,400 --> 00:27:48,200 Speaker 5: then he kind of looked out at him again and said, 504 00:27:49,200 --> 00:27:57,440 Speaker 5: they're crazy. These people are crazy. Here's the honest political reality. 505 00:27:58,720 --> 00:28:03,360 Speaker 5: Whatever you think of the deliver that moment sitting President 506 00:28:04,040 --> 00:28:08,200 Speaker 5: cameras rolling asking elected representatives if they think the government 507 00:28:08,240 --> 00:28:12,720 Speaker 5: should prioritize American citizens and roughly half the chamber refused 508 00:28:12,720 --> 00:28:16,960 Speaker 5: to stand is not a moment that helps the Democrat 509 00:28:17,040 --> 00:28:22,040 Speaker 5: Party in a midterm election year. So last night we 510 00:28:22,119 --> 00:28:29,320 Speaker 5: had an ejected Congressman a f ice Pin in prime 511 00:28:29,359 --> 00:28:34,720 Speaker 5: time release the Epstein files, jewelry, two congresswomen screaming from 512 00:28:34,720 --> 00:28:38,600 Speaker 5: the floor like a bunch of nutjobs, a counter rally 513 00:28:38,600 --> 00:28:43,600 Speaker 5: that was mostly journalists Epstein survivors in the gallery, and 514 00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:45,560 Speaker 5: a speech that broke the record for the longest in 515 00:28:45,600 --> 00:28:49,520 Speaker 5: American history, the State of the Union. Right there, ladies 516 00:28:49,560 --> 00:28:52,840 Speaker 5: and gentlemen, the State of the Union. God blessed this 517 00:28:53,080 --> 00:28:56,080 Speaker 5: magnificent and maddening country. 518 00:28:57,080 --> 00:28:58,280 Speaker 2: Morning, fair face morning. 519 00:28:58,360 --> 00:29:02,960 Speaker 7: Being done that last night, I was happy that they 520 00:29:03,040 --> 00:29:05,640 Speaker 7: removed the guy Coke cave Man, but I'm just wondering 521 00:29:05,640 --> 00:29:07,960 Speaker 7: why they didn't remove the swift or sweeper when she 522 00:29:08,080 --> 00:29:08,880 Speaker 7: got disrupted. 523 00:29:10,840 --> 00:29:12,920 Speaker 2: It made for a good show. But I don't know. 524 00:29:13,360 --> 00:29:18,520 Speaker 7: And God bless the two new Medal of Honor recipients. 525 00:29:19,120 --> 00:29:20,360 Speaker 2: You guys are true heroes. 526 00:29:23,320 --> 00:29:27,200 Speaker 5: Those were really moving moments in my opinion, those old 527 00:29:27,240 --> 00:29:33,920 Speaker 5: farts and not the two metal recipients. One was no fart, 528 00:29:33,920 --> 00:29:38,120 Speaker 5: one wasn't. But those old guys, the Korean guy and 529 00:29:38,160 --> 00:29:41,760 Speaker 5: the other guy. Wow, that's just simply amazing, simply amazing. 530 00:29:42,640 --> 00:29:45,360 Speaker 5: So Hakeem Jeffries, they're all making the rounds this morning, 531 00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:51,360 Speaker 5: and the House Minority Leader Hakim Jeffries said this the. 532 00:29:51,480 --> 00:29:55,200 Speaker 9: Leadership of the Congress, jumping up to applause that. 533 00:29:55,280 --> 00:29:57,160 Speaker 6: How do you explain it as someone who sees it 534 00:29:57,240 --> 00:29:57,640 Speaker 6: up close? 535 00:29:59,440 --> 00:30:00,320 Speaker 2: Yeah, a call like. 536 00:30:00,280 --> 00:30:02,960 Speaker 6: Behavior of my colleagues on the other side of the 537 00:30:03,040 --> 00:30:07,320 Speaker 6: isle is a complete and total abdication of their responsibility 538 00:30:07,640 --> 00:30:11,120 Speaker 6: to conduct themselves like a separate and coequal branch of government, 539 00:30:12,240 --> 00:30:13,040 Speaker 6: a leadership. 540 00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:17,240 Speaker 4: Yes, you can say that, I'm not gonna but I'm 541 00:30:17,240 --> 00:30:18,520 Speaker 4: just gonna say, pot meat kettle. 542 00:30:18,760 --> 00:30:21,680 Speaker 2: Yes, I find it fascinating that. 543 00:30:22,520 --> 00:30:28,480 Speaker 5: Seriously, Congressman, the Republicans standing up and a plotting for 544 00:30:28,520 --> 00:30:31,800 Speaker 5: Trump's speech was cult like behavior. 545 00:30:32,600 --> 00:30:33,280 Speaker 2: What do you call it? 546 00:30:33,280 --> 00:30:36,680 Speaker 5: When the Democrats jump up and screen and Hollern who 547 00:30:36,880 --> 00:30:41,440 Speaker 5: alarn stand up for Biden's points or Obama's points through 548 00:30:41,440 --> 00:30:42,280 Speaker 5: any Democrat? 549 00:30:42,680 --> 00:30:45,600 Speaker 2: This is how truly absurd. 550 00:30:45,120 --> 00:30:50,720 Speaker 5: And surreal our politics has become cult like behavior. Give 551 00:30:50,760 --> 00:30:54,680 Speaker 5: me a freaking break. You're out of your ever loving mind. 552 00:30:55,440 --> 00:30:58,600 Speaker 5: But that's not only craziness. Well, I shouldn't say craziness, 553 00:30:58,880 --> 00:31:03,360 Speaker 5: because there was some sanity. We still have this this morning. 554 00:31:03,480 --> 00:31:07,120 Speaker 5: We still have h Chucky Schumer out making the rails. 555 00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:08,240 Speaker 2: I want to ask about. 556 00:31:08,280 --> 00:31:10,800 Speaker 10: He talked a lot about the Save America Act, which 557 00:31:10,840 --> 00:31:14,920 Speaker 10: I do understand is different than just voter ID. 558 00:31:15,240 --> 00:31:17,080 Speaker 2: What's being put before the Senate is. 559 00:31:17,040 --> 00:31:19,520 Speaker 10: Asking for people, is asking for people to have real 560 00:31:19,560 --> 00:31:22,200 Speaker 10: idea or a passport or a versus victory register. When 561 00:31:22,240 --> 00:31:24,480 Speaker 10: people are generally asked about voter ID, they're being asked 562 00:31:24,480 --> 00:31:26,240 Speaker 10: to show an ID when they show up to vote. 563 00:31:26,240 --> 00:31:28,240 Speaker 10: But what I'm asking you, Senator, because I know you're 564 00:31:28,280 --> 00:31:29,840 Speaker 10: against the Save America Act. 565 00:31:30,280 --> 00:31:33,800 Speaker 4: What kind of voter ID could you support? 566 00:31:34,120 --> 00:31:36,240 Speaker 2: Is there a middle ground? Look? 567 00:31:36,080 --> 00:31:39,080 Speaker 9: Look, look, Democrats support voter ID in many states do, 568 00:31:39,240 --> 00:31:41,000 Speaker 9: but that's not what the Save Act does. 569 00:31:41,640 --> 00:31:44,560 Speaker 5: That wasn't the question. The question was, so what kind 570 00:31:44,560 --> 00:31:47,360 Speaker 5: of to register to vote? Which is what the Save 571 00:31:47,440 --> 00:31:50,320 Speaker 5: Act does. It does require, yes, to have an ID 572 00:31:50,440 --> 00:31:53,720 Speaker 5: when you vote, because we're gonna get rid of mailien voting. 573 00:31:54,240 --> 00:31:57,240 Speaker 5: But to have an ID to vote is one thing. 574 00:31:57,760 --> 00:32:01,080 Speaker 5: But to register to vote, yes, you need to show 575 00:32:01,080 --> 00:32:02,240 Speaker 5: that you are a US citizen. 576 00:32:02,320 --> 00:32:03,080 Speaker 2: Show up birth. 577 00:32:02,920 --> 00:32:06,719 Speaker 5: Certificate, show up passport, show something that shows that you 578 00:32:06,760 --> 00:32:07,960 Speaker 5: are a US citizen. 579 00:32:08,840 --> 00:32:10,120 Speaker 2: How hard is that? 580 00:32:10,880 --> 00:32:13,160 Speaker 5: Oh, I'm sorry, it's really hard because we've heard a 581 00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:16,000 Speaker 5: lot of congressmen say and some governors say that they 582 00:32:16,040 --> 00:32:18,320 Speaker 5: don't know whether they don't. I don't where my birth 583 00:32:18,360 --> 00:32:21,080 Speaker 5: certificate is. I don't know how to get one to vote. 584 00:32:21,120 --> 00:32:23,120 Speaker 10: But what I'm asking your center, because I know you're 585 00:32:23,120 --> 00:32:26,400 Speaker 10: against the Save America Act, what kind of voter ID 586 00:32:27,160 --> 00:32:28,680 Speaker 10: could you support? 587 00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:30,560 Speaker 2: Is there a middle ground? Look? 588 00:32:30,960 --> 00:32:33,960 Speaker 9: Look, look, Democrats support voter ID in many states do. 589 00:32:34,080 --> 00:32:36,719 Speaker 9: But that's not what the Save Act does. It will 590 00:32:36,800 --> 00:32:41,200 Speaker 9: purge tens of millions Americans from the voting lists. 591 00:32:41,400 --> 00:32:43,880 Speaker 5: And that happens, and that should happen every year anyway. 592 00:32:44,560 --> 00:32:46,680 Speaker 5: If you don't vote for a certain number of elections, 593 00:32:46,720 --> 00:32:48,800 Speaker 5: you should be purged from the rolls and you should 594 00:32:48,840 --> 00:32:53,400 Speaker 5: then be required to go get another registration done. Why 595 00:32:53,680 --> 00:32:56,280 Speaker 5: because we don't know are you dead? Did you move? 596 00:32:57,080 --> 00:32:59,920 Speaker 5: So we need to clean up the rolls. It's say 597 00:33:00,160 --> 00:33:04,040 Speaker 5: taxpayers money by purging the rolls. Something wrong with that? 598 00:33:04,640 --> 00:33:07,320 Speaker 5: In fact, you're required to do it now. It's just 599 00:33:07,360 --> 00:33:09,480 Speaker 5: that a lot of states don't do it and. 600 00:33:09,440 --> 00:33:12,160 Speaker 9: They won't even know they're purged till they show up 601 00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:14,960 Speaker 9: at the polling place and they say, you're pergs. And 602 00:33:15,360 --> 00:33:17,600 Speaker 9: how is what is the mechanism for purging them? 603 00:33:17,880 --> 00:33:20,320 Speaker 2: Doge? What Elon must put is. 604 00:33:20,320 --> 00:33:24,960 Speaker 5: Oh, wait a minute, Elon Musk sitting down shooting off 605 00:33:25,040 --> 00:33:28,440 Speaker 5: rockets in Texas is somehow responsible for this. 606 00:33:28,800 --> 00:33:30,360 Speaker 2: Wow, that's a stretch. 607 00:33:30,080 --> 00:33:33,360 Speaker 9: In terms of the policies of what to do. Do 608 00:33:33,480 --> 00:33:36,120 Speaker 9: people want ICE to determine who should vote and who 609 00:33:36,160 --> 00:33:37,640 Speaker 9: should not vote? 610 00:33:38,240 --> 00:33:39,400 Speaker 2: Loo'd that come from? 611 00:33:39,800 --> 00:33:43,800 Speaker 5: We're gonna have ICE at voting at polling locations. 612 00:33:44,560 --> 00:33:45,880 Speaker 2: Show us your papers please. 613 00:33:46,320 --> 00:33:49,280 Speaker 9: That is so un American. So so the Save Act 614 00:33:49,960 --> 00:33:53,120 Speaker 9: goes way way beyond his mere voter ID when you 615 00:33:53,160 --> 00:33:55,680 Speaker 9: show up at the election place. It goes to purging 616 00:33:55,760 --> 00:33:59,800 Speaker 9: tens of it's estimated twenty thirty forty million Americans would 617 00:33:59,840 --> 00:34:02,120 Speaker 9: not be allowed to vote if this act took effect. 618 00:34:02,840 --> 00:34:06,800 Speaker 5: So if you haven't been voting and you should be 619 00:34:06,880 --> 00:34:10,279 Speaker 5: purged or you never registered, you know you've you did 620 00:34:10,280 --> 00:34:14,359 Speaker 5: a motor voter registration. You registered when you got your 621 00:34:14,440 --> 00:34:17,720 Speaker 5: driver's license. Well wait a minute, you're giving out driver's 622 00:34:17,719 --> 00:34:21,560 Speaker 5: license to illegal aliens now, including commercial driver's licenses. 623 00:34:21,960 --> 00:34:22,839 Speaker 2: So I'm all for this. 624 00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:25,719 Speaker 9: It is outrageous and as I have shared, it is 625 00:34:25,800 --> 00:34:27,600 Speaker 9: Jim Crow point two point zero. 626 00:34:27,800 --> 00:34:29,680 Speaker 2: It's so forget. But is there? 627 00:34:29,960 --> 00:34:30,200 Speaker 8: Is there? 628 00:34:30,440 --> 00:34:33,440 Speaker 2: Done? Is not the same America Actor save back? 629 00:34:33,520 --> 00:34:35,319 Speaker 10: But is there some kind of voter idea you could 630 00:34:35,360 --> 00:34:35,680 Speaker 10: vote for? 631 00:34:36,800 --> 00:34:37,560 Speaker 2: Yes? There is. 632 00:34:37,640 --> 00:34:40,320 Speaker 9: Democrats support have voted for voter idea at the polling 633 00:34:40,360 --> 00:34:41,680 Speaker 9: places over and over again. 634 00:34:42,160 --> 00:34:45,720 Speaker 2: And that's not the issue with the save AC Where 635 00:34:46,320 --> 00:34:48,480 Speaker 2: where have you voted for that over and over and 636 00:34:48,520 --> 00:34:49,120 Speaker 2: over again