1 00:00:00,440 --> 00:00:05,280 Speaker 1: I might. I think, considering how well Trump is doing 2 00:00:05,320 --> 00:00:12,720 Speaker 1: in Dowls, that he should try to get Canada to 3 00:00:12,760 --> 00:00:17,360 Speaker 1: trade Alberta for Minnesota. I think that would be a 4 00:00:17,400 --> 00:00:21,160 Speaker 1: real good move for the country. 5 00:00:22,120 --> 00:00:27,400 Speaker 2: More hysteria. It just more hysteria. Although it might be 6 00:00:27,440 --> 00:00:35,760 Speaker 2: a way to get not to take your comment too seriously, 7 00:00:37,720 --> 00:00:43,159 Speaker 2: but that would require a lot of congressional authorization. But 8 00:00:43,200 --> 00:00:45,519 Speaker 2: it would be nice to have Alberta, with all their 9 00:00:45,640 --> 00:00:49,559 Speaker 2: natural resources and you know, wheat fields and everything, to 10 00:00:49,600 --> 00:00:51,520 Speaker 2: be a part of the United States. That would be nice. 11 00:00:51,960 --> 00:00:54,160 Speaker 2: And as you know, as climate change gets worse and 12 00:00:54,280 --> 00:00:56,680 Speaker 2: the you know, the temperature keeps getting warmer and warmer, 13 00:00:56,760 --> 00:00:59,840 Speaker 2: that's that's more that makes us even a larger bread 14 00:01:00,040 --> 00:01:05,520 Speaker 2: ask it so grow more wheat and canola grows more canola. 15 00:01:05,560 --> 00:01:08,000 Speaker 2: Of course, Bobby Kennedy won't like that, so you gotta 16 00:01:08,040 --> 00:01:11,920 Speaker 2: be careful about that. I'm going through these ten questions, 17 00:01:12,160 --> 00:01:18,679 Speaker 2: ten things that I would ask Jack Smith, and it's 18 00:01:18,840 --> 00:01:25,280 Speaker 2: not a futile exercise. It's really to give you the 19 00:01:25,400 --> 00:01:28,760 Speaker 2: things that you ought to listen for, because I know 20 00:01:28,920 --> 00:01:31,759 Speaker 2: that throughout the day you'll hear from other talk show hosts. 21 00:01:31,920 --> 00:01:34,720 Speaker 2: You'll see the cabal you'll see the cable channels. You 22 00:01:34,760 --> 00:01:37,000 Speaker 2: may even be watching, you know, Fox News, you may 23 00:01:37,040 --> 00:01:39,600 Speaker 2: be a Fox News addict or whatever, and you're watching 24 00:01:39,680 --> 00:01:43,440 Speaker 2: all of that, and they're going to completely miss these things. Now, 25 00:01:43,440 --> 00:01:46,319 Speaker 2: I hope to be proved wrong in one way, and 26 00:01:46,360 --> 00:01:49,000 Speaker 2: the one way I hope to be proved wrong is 27 00:01:49,080 --> 00:01:55,600 Speaker 2: that some members of our coalition on the hill, we'll 28 00:01:55,640 --> 00:01:59,560 Speaker 2: actually ask these questions and we'll be able to see 29 00:01:59,560 --> 00:02:03,480 Speaker 2: how Jack Smith squirms and either out and out perjures 30 00:02:03,560 --> 00:02:06,920 Speaker 2: himself or dances on the head of a pen to 31 00:02:06,960 --> 00:02:10,120 Speaker 2: try to answer the question, and it at least opens 32 00:02:10,200 --> 00:02:14,200 Speaker 2: up the idea that perhaps maybe somebody should file a 33 00:02:14,240 --> 00:02:22,120 Speaker 2: bar complaint, gives a license, revote, hold somebody accountable. This 34 00:02:22,400 --> 00:02:26,639 Speaker 2: is really the bottom line for me, if if we're 35 00:02:26,680 --> 00:02:30,280 Speaker 2: going to continue to exist as a nation of laws. 36 00:02:32,600 --> 00:02:35,520 Speaker 2: We have too many laws and the problem is people 37 00:02:35,560 --> 00:02:39,440 Speaker 2: selectively choosing which ones they want to enforce and not enforce. 38 00:02:39,800 --> 00:02:46,119 Speaker 2: It's driving me crazy. And I don't want to see 39 00:02:46,200 --> 00:02:49,919 Speaker 2: purp walks for the sake of a purplok. I want 40 00:02:49,919 --> 00:02:52,880 Speaker 2: to see actual justice. I want to see I want 41 00:02:52,919 --> 00:02:56,840 Speaker 2: to see our side of this political divide that the 42 00:02:56,880 --> 00:03:02,960 Speaker 2: country is in to actually start doing something. And I'm 43 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:07,880 Speaker 2: really talking about Congress. I don't mind the president. He 44 00:03:08,200 --> 00:03:13,640 Speaker 2: has a unitarian, a unitary view of the presidency, which 45 00:03:13,800 --> 00:03:15,720 Speaker 2: I think there is some basis for it. I think 46 00:03:15,800 --> 00:03:19,040 Speaker 2: you can make a strong argument based upon the federalist 47 00:03:19,080 --> 00:03:22,640 Speaker 2: papers and the founding documents of this country that you know, 48 00:03:22,840 --> 00:03:26,720 Speaker 2: Article one is is where we make the laws. But 49 00:03:26,960 --> 00:03:35,240 Speaker 2: the execution, the administration of the federal government lands squarely 50 00:03:35,280 --> 00:03:39,480 Speaker 2: in Article two. And so that's where you know, when 51 00:03:39,600 --> 00:03:50,080 Speaker 2: Congress debates tax rules, tax legislation, you would never question. 52 00:03:50,680 --> 00:03:54,040 Speaker 2: But that's what the president is then supposed to go administer, 53 00:03:54,640 --> 00:03:56,960 Speaker 2: and he should be able to do whatever he needs 54 00:03:57,000 --> 00:04:00,920 Speaker 2: to do to administer to the administer those tax laws 55 00:04:01,360 --> 00:04:04,320 Speaker 2: within the confines of the four corners of the Constitution, 56 00:04:04,840 --> 00:04:08,680 Speaker 2: which includes all the you know, appropriate legal decisions that 57 00:04:08,800 --> 00:04:12,000 Speaker 2: the Supreme Court has interpreted the Constitution. Well, if that's 58 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:14,000 Speaker 2: true with tax law, why is it not true with 59 00:04:14,400 --> 00:04:20,719 Speaker 2: virtually everything else? Immigration? Why is it not true with cybersecurity, 60 00:04:21,360 --> 00:04:27,520 Speaker 2: the border, the armed forces? We don't do it. We 61 00:04:27,680 --> 00:04:34,039 Speaker 2: we we don't have Congress. If you don't like what 62 00:04:34,120 --> 00:04:36,280 Speaker 2: the president's doing, then why don't you go do something 63 00:04:36,320 --> 00:04:40,560 Speaker 2: about it? Now? This morning. As I'm listening to Jamie 64 00:04:40,640 --> 00:04:50,440 Speaker 2: Raskin a kaight whole giving his uh opening remarks, I'm 65 00:04:50,480 --> 00:04:54,960 Speaker 2: thinking he and Jim Jordan are not even on the 66 00:04:54,960 --> 00:05:00,880 Speaker 2: same planet. It's it's like there are two separate universes, 67 00:05:01,440 --> 00:05:07,200 Speaker 2: separate galaxies, separate realities. Now, I know that in both 68 00:05:07,279 --> 00:05:13,880 Speaker 2: cases they're simply taking their point of view, their perspective, 69 00:05:14,200 --> 00:05:17,159 Speaker 2: and they're putting that into their open remarks, but there 70 00:05:17,240 --> 00:05:21,520 Speaker 2: is there is no zero commonality. It's almost as if 71 00:05:21,640 --> 00:05:26,839 Speaker 2: and I know that I agreed I agreed with predominantly almost, 72 00:05:27,160 --> 00:05:29,920 Speaker 2: I can't say everything that I agreed with almost everything 73 00:05:29,960 --> 00:05:35,679 Speaker 2: Jim Jordan said, and I disagreed with everything that Jamie 74 00:05:35,760 --> 00:05:40,320 Speaker 2: Raskin said. Now, how can that be? Well, there's two things. 75 00:05:40,720 --> 00:05:45,480 Speaker 2: Jim Jordan ninety percent of the time was focusing on 76 00:05:45,920 --> 00:05:54,640 Speaker 2: the facts related to Jack Smith's performance, duties and obligations 77 00:05:55,279 --> 00:05:59,560 Speaker 2: as a member of the Department of Justice that you know, 78 00:06:00,120 --> 00:06:03,279 Speaker 2: as a prosecutor seeking justice. And he violated all sorts 79 00:06:03,320 --> 00:06:07,279 Speaker 2: of rules, regulations, procedures, criminal rules, or criminal procedure everything. 80 00:06:07,279 --> 00:06:10,599 Speaker 2: He violated a lot of stuff. Jamie Raskin, on the 81 00:06:10,600 --> 00:06:13,800 Speaker 2: other hand, may have presented facts, but they were facts 82 00:06:13,839 --> 00:06:18,839 Speaker 2: about Jack Smith's personality. Oh, he's a triathlete, he runs, 83 00:06:19,040 --> 00:06:24,719 Speaker 2: he runs marathons. Okay, that's all factually true, completely irrelevant 84 00:06:25,640 --> 00:06:31,080 Speaker 2: to his job as a prosecutor. I I, for example, 85 00:06:31,600 --> 00:06:34,160 Speaker 2: I'm obviously not a triathlete. I try to stand. I 86 00:06:34,200 --> 00:06:39,880 Speaker 2: am in great physical condition. But I collect antique maps. 87 00:06:40,680 --> 00:06:43,120 Speaker 2: Has absolutely zeroal to do with what I'm doing today, 88 00:06:43,520 --> 00:06:47,000 Speaker 2: nothing whatsoever. So if you give an open statement in 89 00:06:47,040 --> 00:06:50,600 Speaker 2: which you talk about how I do this program, then 90 00:06:50,640 --> 00:06:53,800 Speaker 2: you're dealing with the issue at hand. If, however, you 91 00:06:53,920 --> 00:06:56,400 Speaker 2: talk about, well, he's you know, he really doesn't do 92 00:06:56,480 --> 00:06:58,919 Speaker 2: a very good job on radio because he's too busy 93 00:06:58,920 --> 00:07:02,080 Speaker 2: over here looking at auctions for antique maps and you know, 94 00:07:02,200 --> 00:07:04,719 Speaker 2: historical maps and blah blah blah. And you know he's 95 00:07:04,720 --> 00:07:07,240 Speaker 2: really good at that, and uh, you know, so hot, 96 00:07:07,440 --> 00:07:09,640 Speaker 2: and yet you can't even buy a damn map for 97 00:07:09,720 --> 00:07:15,280 Speaker 2: this show. You know, there's no thing for a producer. 98 00:07:15,320 --> 00:07:19,480 Speaker 2: By the way, pay pays, well, well, it pays based 99 00:07:19,480 --> 00:07:21,960 Speaker 2: on your ability, which is why he gets paid so little. 100 00:07:25,800 --> 00:07:35,600 Speaker 2: You know that what you're doing right, meaning well, I've 101 00:07:35,640 --> 00:07:38,960 Speaker 2: got the catalog right there on my desk at home, 102 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:42,440 Speaker 2: and I see it every single day, and every single 103 00:07:42,520 --> 00:07:44,840 Speaker 2: day I think, Nah, I'm just gonna see what he does. 104 00:07:44,880 --> 00:07:50,080 Speaker 2: I'm just gonna just seriously, yes, you're just now figuring 105 00:07:50,120 --> 00:07:56,640 Speaker 2: that out. Once we once were an idiot. No, once 106 00:07:56,680 --> 00:07:59,520 Speaker 2: it arrived and then we realized it was entirely wrong 107 00:07:59,560 --> 00:08:01,520 Speaker 2: because it was a world map, not a US map. 108 00:08:01,600 --> 00:08:05,400 Speaker 2: So we sent it back and then Tam was like, 109 00:08:05,440 --> 00:08:07,480 Speaker 2: are you gonna reorder one? I said no, not yet, 110 00:08:07,640 --> 00:08:10,559 Speaker 2: not just quite yet. So I told the story about, 111 00:08:10,560 --> 00:08:13,720 Speaker 2: you know, the mistake on the map, and then you 112 00:08:14,240 --> 00:08:18,600 Speaker 2: instantly start ragging on me about ordering another one. I 113 00:08:18,680 --> 00:08:23,840 Speaker 2: just find it hilarious. You are in Ale and you're 114 00:08:24,040 --> 00:08:33,760 Speaker 2: just now figuring that out. Oh. Back back to Jack Smith, 115 00:08:33,840 --> 00:08:42,040 Speaker 2: because he also is one. Let's get to back to 116 00:08:42,120 --> 00:08:47,120 Speaker 2: my list. Number six. Is this The Attorney General at 117 00:08:47,160 --> 00:08:53,959 Speaker 2: the time, Merrick Garland appointed Jack Smith as a sign 118 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:56,960 Speaker 2: of independence from the Biden Department of Justice. That was 119 00:08:57,000 --> 00:09:01,560 Speaker 2: pretty debase. You know. Merrick Garland did not, I sincerely 120 00:09:01,559 --> 00:09:03,920 Speaker 2: believe this. Merrick Garland did not want to be the 121 00:09:03,960 --> 00:09:08,120 Speaker 2: attorney general that went after a former president of the 122 00:09:08,240 --> 00:09:11,559 Speaker 2: United States for something as stupid as as January sixth 123 00:09:11,720 --> 00:09:16,320 Speaker 2: and these documents. So he appointed Jack Smith I believe 124 00:09:16,360 --> 00:09:20,480 Speaker 2: as a sign of independence from the Biden Department of Justice, 125 00:09:21,720 --> 00:09:25,160 Speaker 2: and then I would ask this question. However, your December 126 00:09:25,200 --> 00:09:28,640 Speaker 2: testimony revealed that you actively sought a position at the 127 00:09:28,679 --> 00:09:31,720 Speaker 2: Department of Justice beginning in the summer of twenty twenty 128 00:09:31,720 --> 00:09:36,480 Speaker 2: two months before you were appointed. This effort consisted of 129 00:09:36,920 --> 00:09:41,480 Speaker 2: you had conversations with Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monico remember her, 130 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:44,800 Speaker 2: her deputy, her chief deputy, and others. And then you 131 00:09:44,880 --> 00:09:48,559 Speaker 2: further stated that you wanted to work in the Department 132 00:09:48,600 --> 00:09:52,760 Speaker 2: of Justices new Domestic Terror Unit, which had recently been 133 00:09:52,800 --> 00:09:57,400 Speaker 2: created by your former Obama Department of Justice colleague Matthew Olsen, 134 00:09:57,679 --> 00:10:00,120 Speaker 2: who is the head of the National Security Division. At 135 00:10:00,120 --> 00:10:05,840 Speaker 2: the time, that new unit and Matthew Olsen were actively 136 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:10,440 Speaker 2: involved in the criminal investigation into the president and his 137 00:10:10,559 --> 00:10:16,040 Speaker 2: supporters as part of the overall January sixth investigation. Are 138 00:10:16,080 --> 00:10:19,800 Speaker 2: you really telling us this committee that are you saying 139 00:10:19,840 --> 00:10:24,160 Speaker 2: that you did not actively seek a DOJ position so 140 00:10:24,200 --> 00:10:27,520 Speaker 2: that you could help investigate and eventually prosecute the president. 141 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:31,000 Speaker 2: Wasn't that your intention all along? In other words, you 142 00:10:31,120 --> 00:10:35,000 Speaker 2: wanted this job because you were specifically wanting to go 143 00:10:36,240 --> 00:10:42,560 Speaker 2: metaphorically kill Donald Trump. He was your prey and you 144 00:10:42,640 --> 00:10:47,360 Speaker 2: were going after it. Now, why is that important? Saw? 145 00:10:47,360 --> 00:10:53,319 Speaker 2: What prosecutors do. Prosecutors wait for investigations, and then prosecutors 146 00:10:53,640 --> 00:10:57,520 Speaker 2: pursue based on the investigation. They pursue the leads. They 147 00:10:57,559 --> 00:11:01,040 Speaker 2: do their investigation too, and then they find someone who 148 00:11:01,160 --> 00:11:03,360 Speaker 2: may or may not have committed to crime. And if 149 00:11:03,400 --> 00:11:07,400 Speaker 2: they believe they have, you know, enough evidence to prove 150 00:11:07,440 --> 00:11:10,600 Speaker 2: beyond a reasonable doubt that someone committed a crime, and 151 00:11:10,640 --> 00:11:13,560 Speaker 2: then you charge that person and you pursue the criminal charges. 152 00:11:13,960 --> 00:11:18,000 Speaker 2: You don't decide that I hate Dragon Redbeard, and so 153 00:11:18,160 --> 00:11:21,240 Speaker 2: I want to become a prosecutor in a group that 154 00:11:21,440 --> 00:11:25,360 Speaker 2: is investigating let's say, radio producers. So I want to 155 00:11:25,400 --> 00:11:27,000 Speaker 2: go there because that gives me the chance to go 156 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:32,000 Speaker 2: after Dragon. That's exactly what Jack Smith did. That's not 157 00:11:32,400 --> 00:11:36,199 Speaker 2: the role of a prosecutor. The seventh point that I 158 00:11:36,240 --> 00:11:39,880 Speaker 2: would make is this, I'll just put this as a question. 159 00:11:40,960 --> 00:11:43,880 Speaker 2: In your opening statement to the committee last month, mister Smith, 160 00:11:44,160 --> 00:11:47,960 Speaker 2: you claim to have proof that the president retained highly 161 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:52,839 Speaker 2: classified documents in a quote ballroom and a bathroom at 162 00:11:52,880 --> 00:11:55,880 Speaker 2: Mar A Lago, but you had no way of knowing 163 00:11:55,920 --> 00:11:59,640 Speaker 2: whether any of the documents your office eventually obtained had 164 00:11:59,679 --> 00:12:04,120 Speaker 2: been stored in boxes in either location. Correct. In other words, 165 00:12:04,800 --> 00:12:09,400 Speaker 2: he he he made statements about how I know there 166 00:12:09,400 --> 00:12:12,400 Speaker 2: are highly classified documents that he is not is not 167 00:12:12,640 --> 00:12:16,040 Speaker 2: entitled to, and they're in a ballroom or a bathroom. 168 00:12:16,240 --> 00:12:18,400 Speaker 2: And then they go get all these documents. How the 169 00:12:18,520 --> 00:12:22,160 Speaker 2: FBI laid out the photos. But Jack Smith had no 170 00:12:22,320 --> 00:12:25,280 Speaker 2: way of knowing whether any of those documents that they 171 00:12:25,320 --> 00:12:28,440 Speaker 2: eventually got had been stored in boxes in either of 172 00:12:28,440 --> 00:12:30,960 Speaker 2: those locations. So were you lie in then? Are you 173 00:12:31,040 --> 00:12:35,360 Speaker 2: lie in? Now? Put him? Put him, Put him on 174 00:12:35,400 --> 00:12:40,199 Speaker 2: the spot about specific procedures and statements that he took 175 00:12:40,559 --> 00:12:43,680 Speaker 2: in line with those procedures. And you'll soon find that 176 00:12:43,720 --> 00:12:46,400 Speaker 2: here was a guy who was just held then on. 177 00:12:46,559 --> 00:12:49,400 Speaker 2: He didn't care if he had to create evidence. He's 178 00:12:49,440 --> 00:12:52,640 Speaker 2: going to create evidence if he had to say things 179 00:12:52,760 --> 00:12:55,880 Speaker 2: to get search warrants that eventually weren't true. He was 180 00:12:55,880 --> 00:12:58,640 Speaker 2: going to say things to get the search warrs. And 181 00:12:58,679 --> 00:13:03,360 Speaker 2: that's the question that I would have asked eight. You know, 182 00:13:03,800 --> 00:13:07,040 Speaker 2: Jack Smith, I'm sorry I said, you know. Jack Smith 183 00:13:07,040 --> 00:13:10,920 Speaker 2: has said in public that his indictment of the president 184 00:13:13,320 --> 00:13:18,800 Speaker 2: was done because Trump repeatedly tried to obstruct justice in 185 00:13:18,880 --> 00:13:21,640 Speaker 2: the document's investigation. Now, before I tell you the rest 186 00:13:21,720 --> 00:13:26,200 Speaker 2: of my point here, he didn't. And the reason I 187 00:13:26,320 --> 00:13:29,360 Speaker 2: know he didn't without knowing all the facts is because 188 00:13:29,360 --> 00:13:34,480 Speaker 2: I know two very important facts. The National Archives and 189 00:13:34,559 --> 00:13:41,400 Speaker 2: Records Administration that's in charge of presidential records, Trump's personal attorney, 190 00:13:41,559 --> 00:13:45,520 Speaker 2: and the Department of Justice. We're all negotiating about what 191 00:13:45,600 --> 00:13:49,000 Speaker 2: documents he could keep and not keep. They were having 192 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:53,840 Speaker 2: a discussion about that. You can't have negotiations where a 193 00:13:53,920 --> 00:13:57,599 Speaker 2: president has a right to retain certain documents, has the 194 00:13:57,720 --> 00:14:02,200 Speaker 2: right to declassify certain documents, and you're having discussions about 195 00:14:02,240 --> 00:14:04,080 Speaker 2: whether he did or did not and which ones and 196 00:14:04,120 --> 00:14:06,360 Speaker 2: which one's going to keep and not keep. So how 197 00:14:06,400 --> 00:14:08,560 Speaker 2: can you make a statement that he was trying to 198 00:14:08,600 --> 00:14:12,360 Speaker 2: obstruct justice when they were actually having conversations about what 199 00:14:12,360 --> 00:14:16,760 Speaker 2: we're going to turn over and not turnover. So I would, 200 00:14:17,040 --> 00:14:20,440 Speaker 2: I would. I would put it this way. You've stated 201 00:14:20,480 --> 00:14:23,040 Speaker 2: publicly and in the indictment that the president was trying 202 00:14:23,080 --> 00:14:27,160 Speaker 2: to obstruct justice, But that allegation not only contradicts the fact, 203 00:14:27,520 --> 00:14:30,160 Speaker 2: because the president and his team had been fully cooperating 204 00:14:30,200 --> 00:14:34,680 Speaker 2: with the government, even allowing a top prosecutor and three 205 00:14:34,840 --> 00:14:39,440 Speaker 2: FBI agents to voluntarily search mar Alago in June twenty 206 00:14:39,480 --> 00:14:42,840 Speaker 2: twenty two, telling the group he would help with whatever 207 00:14:42,880 --> 00:14:46,840 Speaker 2: they need, but also internal struggles with the Department of 208 00:14:47,000 --> 00:14:50,280 Speaker 2: Justice as to the need for a raid. Isn't it 209 00:14:50,400 --> 00:14:54,240 Speaker 2: true that President was not obstructing the inquiry and instead 210 00:14:54,360 --> 00:14:59,960 Speaker 2: was in fact cooperating with every single request. Now, granted, 211 00:15:00,320 --> 00:15:04,600 Speaker 2: defense lawyers will drag their feet. Defense lawyers will push 212 00:15:04,640 --> 00:15:07,080 Speaker 2: and pull, push and pull, just as the prosecutors will. 213 00:15:07,280 --> 00:15:10,400 Speaker 2: That's the very way negotiations occur in these cases. And 214 00:15:10,440 --> 00:15:12,600 Speaker 2: that's what Trump and this team were doing, and that's 215 00:15:12,640 --> 00:15:15,240 Speaker 2: what the Department of Justice was doing. And in fact, 216 00:15:15,520 --> 00:15:17,600 Speaker 2: most people, in fact, I would guess many people in 217 00:15:17,600 --> 00:15:22,960 Speaker 2: this audience don't realize that three FBI agents voluntarily searched 218 00:15:23,000 --> 00:15:25,920 Speaker 2: mar algo back in June of twenty twenty two. And 219 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:28,800 Speaker 2: yet what you still had to have a you know, 220 00:15:28,920 --> 00:15:31,520 Speaker 2: an early morning raid in which you went through you know, 221 00:15:31,640 --> 00:15:38,080 Speaker 2: Millennia's drawers, you dug through Baron's bedroom. Good grief, this 222 00:15:38,200 --> 00:15:43,360 Speaker 2: is out of control. Number nine. Did you have any concerns, 223 00:15:43,360 --> 00:15:46,000 Speaker 2: mister Smith, during the course of your investigation that the 224 00:15:46,120 --> 00:15:51,320 Speaker 2: FBI agents brought colored classified cover sheets to the raid 225 00:15:51,960 --> 00:15:55,280 Speaker 2: that they attached those cover sheets to files seized during 226 00:15:55,280 --> 00:15:58,320 Speaker 2: the raid, and they took a photo as a publicity 227 00:15:58,360 --> 00:16:01,360 Speaker 2: stunt to make it look like the files had been 228 00:16:01,480 --> 00:16:03,920 Speaker 2: found in that condition, when in fact, they were not 229 00:16:04,080 --> 00:16:07,120 Speaker 2: found in that condition and the files were actually laid 230 00:16:07,200 --> 00:16:12,560 Speaker 2: out to take the photo. What are you gonna do 231 00:16:12,640 --> 00:16:17,960 Speaker 2: with that one? I don't recall, or well, I wasn't there, 232 00:16:17,960 --> 00:16:20,840 Speaker 2: so I'm not sure. I didn't take the photos, so 233 00:16:20,840 --> 00:16:22,800 Speaker 2: I don't. I had to ask the person to pick 234 00:16:22,840 --> 00:16:25,760 Speaker 2: the photos. Oh, he'll damn surround it. But at least 235 00:16:25,760 --> 00:16:29,240 Speaker 2: get on the record, make make the mass answer that question, 236 00:16:31,480 --> 00:16:36,120 Speaker 2: and then I would do. This is number ten. Let 237 00:16:36,200 --> 00:16:38,480 Speaker 2: me just ask you before I tell you, do you 238 00:16:38,520 --> 00:16:41,200 Speaker 2: know how much money that office spent in your tax 239 00:16:41,280 --> 00:16:45,480 Speaker 2: dollars on those investigations the January sixth Now, I'm not 240 00:16:45,480 --> 00:16:49,240 Speaker 2: talking about the January sixth investigation. I'm talking specifically about 241 00:16:49,280 --> 00:16:53,080 Speaker 2: the investigation of Donald Trump about January sixth and the 242 00:16:53,120 --> 00:16:57,760 Speaker 2: Document's case. How much money do you think federal bureaucrats 243 00:16:57,800 --> 00:17:01,120 Speaker 2: spent of your hard earned tax dollar looking into those 244 00:17:01,120 --> 00:17:06,080 Speaker 2: two cases that were dismissed? So I would ask question 245 00:17:06,160 --> 00:17:11,800 Speaker 2: number ten. Over the course of one year and two months, 246 00:17:12,560 --> 00:17:17,720 Speaker 2: your office spent at a minimum fifty million dollars on 247 00:17:17,760 --> 00:17:23,359 Speaker 2: your investigations. Tell us break it down first in broad 248 00:17:23,440 --> 00:17:28,400 Speaker 2: categories what that money went to, and then give us. 249 00:17:29,480 --> 00:17:32,240 Speaker 2: You don't have to do it today, but provide us 250 00:17:32,520 --> 00:17:38,040 Speaker 2: a line item budget, a line item of expenditures that 251 00:17:38,160 --> 00:17:41,479 Speaker 2: you submitted to the Department of Justice for that fifty 252 00:17:41,560 --> 00:17:45,639 Speaker 2: million plus dollars that you spent. Would you like to 253 00:17:45,640 --> 00:17:52,760 Speaker 2: know what to spend on dinners, private jets? Who knows what? 254 00:17:54,760 --> 00:17:57,080 Speaker 2: There are a lot of things for them to pursue. 255 00:17:57,600 --> 00:18:00,600 Speaker 2: I don't have a lot of I mean, I'm you know, 256 00:18:01,080 --> 00:18:03,240 Speaker 2: I'll go home after this program and I'll check to 257 00:18:03,240 --> 00:18:05,720 Speaker 2: see how the hearing's going. I don't have a lot of, 258 00:18:05,960 --> 00:18:12,040 Speaker 2: you know, confidence, even in Jim Jordan. Actually, I actually admire. 259 00:18:12,480 --> 00:18:14,760 Speaker 2: The problem I have with Jim Jordan is he talks 260 00:18:14,800 --> 00:18:17,800 Speaker 2: a good game but doesn't actually do a lot. But 261 00:18:17,880 --> 00:18:22,400 Speaker 2: that's pretty much all five hundred and thirty five members 262 00:18:22,440 --> 00:18:25,479 Speaker 2: of the House and Senate. This is a chance to 263 00:18:25,520 --> 00:18:30,040 Speaker 2: ask some really hard questions. This is a chance for 264 00:18:30,160 --> 00:18:34,160 Speaker 2: Republicans to push back on what will be Jack Smith's 265 00:18:34,320 --> 00:18:38,000 Speaker 2: closing argument that he never got to give in a courtroom. 266 00:18:38,160 --> 00:18:42,000 Speaker 3: Michael, there is one more question I'd love to ask 267 00:18:42,080 --> 00:18:45,359 Speaker 3: Jack Smith. Did your mama drop you on your head 268 00:18:45,359 --> 00:18:46,520 Speaker 3: when you were a small child. 269 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:50,240 Speaker 1: Yeah. 270 00:18:50,320 --> 00:18:55,159 Speaker 2: The problem with that is people will probably like to 271 00:18:55,200 --> 00:18:58,600 Speaker 2: ask me that question too, And I know with Dragon 272 00:18:58,920 --> 00:19:04,440 Speaker 2: it's already true. So there's that. Let's go to the 273 00:19:04,440 --> 00:19:14,320 Speaker 2: Commonwealth of Virginia, Old Dominion. It's a great example and 274 00:19:14,359 --> 00:19:18,600 Speaker 2: it's parallel to Colorado. Virginia is just now catching up 275 00:19:18,640 --> 00:19:22,399 Speaker 2: to where Colorado was maybe twenty years ago, give or 276 00:19:22,440 --> 00:19:26,360 Speaker 2: take a few years. And it's an example of how 277 00:19:26,400 --> 00:19:29,800 Speaker 2: we're doomed in this country. From the very moment that 278 00:19:29,880 --> 00:19:35,239 Speaker 2: they certified the twenty twenty four election in Virginia, you know, 279 00:19:35,760 --> 00:19:40,040 Speaker 2: they remember Whinson Sears, who was the lieutenant governor, got 280 00:19:40,080 --> 00:19:44,399 Speaker 2: the nomination to become governor, and then immediately, you know, 281 00:19:44,520 --> 00:19:49,159 Speaker 2: Republicans start whining about her, or if the Republicans have 282 00:19:49,240 --> 00:19:52,720 Speaker 2: invested more money in Virginia, or you know, the government 283 00:19:52,800 --> 00:19:56,720 Speaker 2: shut down was the problem, and all of those tropes 284 00:19:57,160 --> 00:20:01,080 Speaker 2: usually end in some sort of conclusion. Publicans should have 285 00:20:01,160 --> 00:20:05,160 Speaker 2: won every office in a state that has been marching 286 00:20:05,480 --> 00:20:09,879 Speaker 2: deadly blue for twenty years now. If you want to 287 00:20:09,920 --> 00:20:12,200 Speaker 2: get into the ins and outs of the Virginia races 288 00:20:12,240 --> 00:20:16,840 Speaker 2: in twenty twenty five, including the fact that twelve of 289 00:20:17,080 --> 00:20:21,840 Speaker 2: thirteen gubernatory elections since nineteen seventy seven have been won 290 00:20:21,880 --> 00:20:26,720 Speaker 2: by the party not in the White House, then you 291 00:20:26,760 --> 00:20:32,120 Speaker 2: ought to pay attention because it's a lesson for us 292 00:20:32,160 --> 00:20:36,520 Speaker 2: to learn about how progressivism works. It's also a lesson 293 00:20:36,600 --> 00:20:39,720 Speaker 2: to learn in something that's a little esoteric, but I 294 00:20:39,760 --> 00:20:44,080 Speaker 2: still want to try to explain it this way. We 295 00:20:44,280 --> 00:20:48,960 Speaker 2: get led by, well, I'm gonna pick on Fox News, 296 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:51,200 Speaker 2: but it might as well be an or Newsmax or 297 00:20:51,240 --> 00:20:55,000 Speaker 2: any of the other conservative news outlets that Virginia's winnable. 298 00:20:55,000 --> 00:20:57,639 Speaker 2: It's winnable, it's winnable. Oh my gosh, we're gonna win 299 00:20:57,680 --> 00:21:03,960 Speaker 2: in Virginia. Really, because if you look at the facts 300 00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:08,680 Speaker 2: since nineteen seventy seven, which is quite a well ago, 301 00:21:10,320 --> 00:21:13,320 Speaker 2: twelve or thirteen guberlatory elections were won by the party 302 00:21:13,440 --> 00:21:16,240 Speaker 2: not in the White House. Who's in the White House. 303 00:21:16,359 --> 00:21:18,600 Speaker 2: Who was in the White House in twenty twenty five, Well, yeah, 304 00:21:18,600 --> 00:21:23,440 Speaker 2: Donald Trump, Republicans and a Democrat won in Virginia. Yet 305 00:21:23,480 --> 00:21:28,360 Speaker 2: we were led to believe it's almost as if we 306 00:21:28,359 --> 00:21:31,760 Speaker 2: were some sort of spurned lover that they just keep 307 00:21:32,400 --> 00:21:35,080 Speaker 2: leading us by the nose. Oh you know, look, look, look, look, 308 00:21:35,240 --> 00:21:37,000 Speaker 2: well you know, and I know that a lot of 309 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:42,520 Speaker 2: the talking heads on television just repeat Republican talking points 310 00:21:42,560 --> 00:21:45,760 Speaker 2: and it drives me crazy. That's why I try to 311 00:21:45,760 --> 00:21:47,720 Speaker 2: emphasize I just tried to deal in the real world. 312 00:21:48,760 --> 00:21:51,720 Speaker 2: The Republican talking points are usually a lot of bull crap, 313 00:21:52,320 --> 00:21:55,239 Speaker 2: and they certainly were with Virginia. And then when we 314 00:21:55,280 --> 00:21:58,400 Speaker 2: didn't win Virginia, everybody was like, oh my god, well, 315 00:21:58,440 --> 00:22:04,480 Speaker 2: you know, we're doomed. Virginia let's see, the birthplace of 316 00:22:04,520 --> 00:22:08,680 Speaker 2: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Patrick, Henry Stonewall Jackson, and Robert E. 317 00:22:08,800 --> 00:22:11,560 Speaker 2: Lee is now governed by a dufust by the name 318 00:22:11,600 --> 00:22:17,119 Speaker 2: of Abigail Spamburger. And what is she? Abigail's Spanburger is 319 00:22:18,680 --> 00:22:22,920 Speaker 2: today's equivalent of Hillary Clinton when she was well, go 320 00:22:23,720 --> 00:22:27,119 Speaker 2: back to the first Lady and then as a Secretary 321 00:22:27,160 --> 00:22:34,440 Speaker 2: of State, US senator and all of that. She's cringey, 322 00:22:34,840 --> 00:22:38,640 Speaker 2: Abigail spa Well, so is Hillary Clinton. I always loved 323 00:22:38,680 --> 00:22:42,240 Speaker 2: telling stories about my time with Hillary Clinton, and it 324 00:22:42,400 --> 00:22:46,200 Speaker 2: popped up you know how Facebook does those? Michael, these 325 00:22:46,200 --> 00:22:48,600 Speaker 2: are your memories from hineteen years ago? Do you ever 326 00:22:48,640 --> 00:22:52,119 Speaker 2: see those? Dragon? Oh my god, So one popped up 327 00:22:52,200 --> 00:22:55,080 Speaker 2: either yesterday or day before and it was me at 328 00:22:55,119 --> 00:22:59,080 Speaker 2: ground zero with Governor Pataki and Hillary Clinton in a 329 00:22:59,680 --> 00:23:03,720 Speaker 2: bright orange blue or yellow green jumps into some sort 330 00:23:04,440 --> 00:23:09,080 Speaker 2: lovingly looking up at me at Facebook. Want to know 331 00:23:09,080 --> 00:23:12,320 Speaker 2: if I wanted to repost that? Why not? Well I 332 00:23:12,440 --> 00:23:15,120 Speaker 2: decided not to. It was kind of like I've been there, 333 00:23:15,200 --> 00:23:21,840 Speaker 2: done that. Abigail Spanberger, much like Hillary Clinton, is cringey. 334 00:23:22,160 --> 00:23:26,280 Speaker 2: She's a grifting politician. And I'll tell you what's going 335 00:23:26,280 --> 00:23:29,200 Speaker 2: on with her. She's being groomed for the next wave 336 00:23:29,240 --> 00:23:33,280 Speaker 2: of Democrat leadership. Maybe, you know, maybe she'll be run 337 00:23:33,359 --> 00:23:39,960 Speaker 2: as a you know, as the next female. How will 338 00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:43,240 Speaker 2: we know if she's a woman in it? Anyway, she 339 00:23:43,320 --> 00:23:48,400 Speaker 2: might be the next female to run for president. Well, boy, 340 00:23:48,480 --> 00:23:52,919 Speaker 2: does you not waste any time getting to work advancing 341 00:23:52,960 --> 00:23:57,760 Speaker 2: the only agenda that matters to Democrats hold on to power. 342 00:24:00,160 --> 00:24:06,080 Speaker 2: Virginia is still ideologically moderate, but exkews to the big 343 00:24:06,119 --> 00:24:11,399 Speaker 2: government left. Now that's primarily because of its geography. No, 344 00:24:11,680 --> 00:24:14,440 Speaker 2: not because of the rolling hills or you know, the 345 00:24:14,480 --> 00:24:18,040 Speaker 2: seaboard or anything. It's because of the federal workforce. Because 346 00:24:18,040 --> 00:24:26,200 Speaker 2: of its location just outside the Beltway, demographics in northern 347 00:24:26,280 --> 00:24:31,800 Speaker 2: Virginia have changed substantially, making it almost impossible to shoehorn 348 00:24:31,880 --> 00:24:36,200 Speaker 2: any Republican the state wide leadership. Glenn Youngkin the outgoing 349 00:24:37,119 --> 00:24:41,920 Speaker 2: governor now ex governor. He barely won the governorship just 350 00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:46,040 Speaker 2: three months after Biden's disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan. And I 351 00:24:46,040 --> 00:24:49,880 Speaker 2: think he only did so because the Democrat turnout at 352 00:24:49,920 --> 00:24:53,760 Speaker 2: the time of that election was in the toilet. But 353 00:24:53,920 --> 00:24:56,720 Speaker 2: here is just a sampling of what Virginia Democrats have 354 00:24:56,880 --> 00:25:01,000 Speaker 2: done with their massive legislative majority in control of all 355 00:25:01,080 --> 00:25:08,120 Speaker 2: state wide offices. See if this doesn't sound like Washington, Oregon, 356 00:25:08,640 --> 00:25:14,400 Speaker 2: New York, Colorado, Illinois, Taxachusetts, Maine, any of these other 357 00:25:14,680 --> 00:25:19,280 Speaker 2: blue states, just listen. They've advanced a ten to one 358 00:25:19,400 --> 00:25:23,959 Speaker 2: Democrat congressional district map. Now it's going to require election 359 00:25:24,040 --> 00:25:27,399 Speaker 2: in like some states, but that would shift a net 360 00:25:28,160 --> 00:25:31,840 Speaker 2: eight seats in the US House. It would essentially turn 361 00:25:31,880 --> 00:25:37,399 Speaker 2: the House Democrat. They've this is mind boggling to me. 362 00:25:37,840 --> 00:25:42,960 Speaker 2: I actually printed out a story to say this is 363 00:25:43,040 --> 00:25:45,960 Speaker 2: from this is the second point I want to make. 364 00:25:46,880 --> 00:25:52,560 Speaker 2: But here's the headline from Fox Business. After Samali fraud scandal, 365 00:25:53,119 --> 00:26:00,960 Speaker 2: Virginia Democrat pushes bill killing oversight for nonprofits. Democrat Virginia 366 00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:05,680 Speaker 2: lawmakers backing a bill that would prohibit the state from 367 00:26:05,880 --> 00:26:12,080 Speaker 2: verifying a nonprofits eligibility to provide and receive federal tax benefits, 368 00:26:12,600 --> 00:26:15,280 Speaker 2: a move that comes as scrutiny over the misuse of 369 00:26:15,359 --> 00:26:20,080 Speaker 2: taxpayer funds continues to intensify. The introduction of House Bills 370 00:26:20,119 --> 00:26:24,880 Speaker 2: thirteen sixty nine by Virginia Democrat Delegate Jessica Anderson came 371 00:26:24,960 --> 00:26:27,600 Speaker 2: in the wake of massive fraud scandal involving nonprofits in 372 00:26:27,640 --> 00:26:31,200 Speaker 2: Minnesota and amid pressure by the Trump administration for states 373 00:26:31,200 --> 00:26:34,560 Speaker 2: to enact better oversight of how taxpayer money is spent. 374 00:26:36,200 --> 00:26:41,000 Speaker 2: So we're losing billions of dollars in Minnesota from hard 375 00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:45,880 Speaker 2: working Americans living paychecks to paycheck in many cases. And here, 376 00:26:46,800 --> 00:26:51,040 Speaker 2: in light of what we know about Minnesota, which I 377 00:26:51,040 --> 00:26:54,239 Speaker 2: think is just the tip of the iceberg, and on 378 00:26:54,280 --> 00:26:57,400 Speaker 2: the on top of the commander in chief, the President 379 00:26:57,800 --> 00:27:02,680 Speaker 2: basically saying we got to up this crap, Virginia has 380 00:27:02,760 --> 00:27:07,520 Speaker 2: green lighted with this bill grants for daycares without any 381 00:27:07,520 --> 00:27:11,640 Speaker 2: oversight without any eligibility requirements. Oh, just open a daycare. 382 00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:14,239 Speaker 2: In fact, if Dragon I were smart, we'd turn out 383 00:27:14,280 --> 00:27:17,600 Speaker 2: our resignations today. We'd moved to Virginia. We'd filed you know, 384 00:27:17,680 --> 00:27:20,679 Speaker 2: some sort of you know papers for LLC or something. 385 00:27:20,760 --> 00:27:24,000 Speaker 2: We'd call it, you know, Mikey and Dragon's Daycare Center, 386 00:27:24,240 --> 00:27:26,680 Speaker 2: and we'd apply for a grant for ten million dollars 387 00:27:26,680 --> 00:27:28,880 Speaker 2: and you know, get the grant and then just move 388 00:27:28,960 --> 00:27:31,800 Speaker 2: back to Colorad and retire. You ready, you're ready to go? 389 00:27:32,160 --> 00:27:32,400 Speaker 3: Sure? 390 00:27:32,560 --> 00:27:34,600 Speaker 2: Why not? Well, well, because I think they're going to 391 00:27:34,640 --> 00:27:38,640 Speaker 2: come through with the rays for us to do that. 392 00:27:38,680 --> 00:27:45,000 Speaker 2: He's you're funny, man. Oh oh okay, So guess what 393 00:27:45,920 --> 00:27:49,040 Speaker 2: this is? This hour's chance to win one thousand dollars 394 00:27:49,040 --> 00:27:51,719 Speaker 2: coming up in the next five minutes thanks to Mercedes 395 00:27:51,760 --> 00:27:54,960 Speaker 2: Benz of Littlesome Mercedes of littleton dot com. 396 00:27:55,040 --> 00:27:59,840 Speaker 3: Michael, when is doj Congress somebody kind of girl pair 397 00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:03,320 Speaker 3: and prosecute these guys that just keep raping and pillaging 398 00:28:03,359 --> 00:28:06,960 Speaker 3: tax dollars. I mean Jack Smith got away with lowing 399 00:28:07,560 --> 00:28:11,720 Speaker 3: you know, fifty plus million dollars for nothing. I mean, 400 00:28:11,920 --> 00:28:14,239 Speaker 3: we've got to hold these guys accountable for this I mean, 401 00:28:14,280 --> 00:28:15,080 Speaker 3: they'll just do it again. 402 00:28:17,920 --> 00:28:20,240 Speaker 2: I wish I could give you a succinct, simple answer 403 00:28:20,320 --> 00:28:24,800 Speaker 2: to that, but I don't know. What I do know 404 00:28:25,080 --> 00:28:32,600 Speaker 2: is that in any culture, any society, there has to 405 00:28:32,640 --> 00:28:36,520 Speaker 2: be that there doesn't have to be. But oftentimes it 406 00:28:36,560 --> 00:28:41,440 Speaker 2: takes some sort of cataclysmic event. And I don't mean 407 00:28:41,480 --> 00:28:44,360 Speaker 2: like a natural disaster. It could be a man made disaster. 408 00:28:44,440 --> 00:28:47,040 Speaker 2: It could be an economic disaster, it could be a 409 00:28:47,080 --> 00:28:50,280 Speaker 2: social cultural disaster of some sort. But there is a 410 00:28:50,360 --> 00:28:53,520 Speaker 2: tipping point where people are just you know, you get 411 00:28:53,520 --> 00:28:57,680 Speaker 2: out the torches and the pitchforks, and you say no more. 412 00:28:58,200 --> 00:29:01,719 Speaker 2: I'm matters hell, I'm not gonna take it any more. Well, 413 00:29:01,760 --> 00:29:03,960 Speaker 2: I think we were at that stage where we're mad 414 00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:05,600 Speaker 2: as hell and we're not going to tell you anymore. 415 00:29:05,800 --> 00:29:09,800 Speaker 2: We don't know what that first step is to take. Now. 416 00:29:09,920 --> 00:29:13,120 Speaker 2: I have alluded to it and actually described it in 417 00:29:13,160 --> 00:29:20,480 Speaker 2: particular many times, Like in Colorado. I won't say who 418 00:29:20,520 --> 00:29:25,360 Speaker 2: it was, but I was at dinner with a friend, well, 419 00:29:25,520 --> 00:29:28,040 Speaker 2: Tam and I both got dinner with some friends, maybe 420 00:29:28,040 --> 00:29:30,440 Speaker 2: a week or so ago, and in the course of that, 421 00:29:31,200 --> 00:29:36,760 Speaker 2: a candidate for a high office in Colorado the name 422 00:29:36,840 --> 00:29:40,959 Speaker 2: came up and I kind of jerked my head up 423 00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:45,320 Speaker 2: and looked at the husband sitting directly across from me instead, 424 00:29:45,360 --> 00:29:52,120 Speaker 2: Are you kidding me? Have you really looked into what 425 00:29:52,200 --> 00:29:55,240 Speaker 2: he stands for the background you might listen to some 426 00:29:55,400 --> 00:29:59,680 Speaker 2: interviews that ostensibly they were called interviews, he never really 427 00:29:59,680 --> 00:30:03,280 Speaker 2: answered any questions. Did you really look into things? Because 428 00:30:04,040 --> 00:30:06,960 Speaker 2: this is this is all not quite as bad as 429 00:30:07,040 --> 00:30:09,520 Speaker 2: Dan Mays for those of you who don't remember that, 430 00:30:09,720 --> 00:30:12,680 Speaker 2: go look it up. Almost as bad as Dan Mays. 431 00:30:13,200 --> 00:30:16,240 Speaker 2: But that's kind of what we're headed toward again. And 432 00:30:16,280 --> 00:30:25,680 Speaker 2: it's because party apparatus in this state is dysfunctional, completely dysfunctional, 433 00:30:27,160 --> 00:30:38,040 Speaker 2: and they completely, holy woefully don't understand electoral politics that 434 00:30:39,240 --> 00:30:45,280 Speaker 2: you could take someone as radically conservative libertarian as I am, 435 00:30:46,360 --> 00:30:51,040 Speaker 2: package them correctly so that you can bring you can 436 00:30:51,080 --> 00:30:56,760 Speaker 2: communicate and persuade people, maybe not to you know, one 437 00:30:56,840 --> 00:31:00,800 Speaker 2: hundred percent of your agenda, but to enough of your agenda, 438 00:31:01,440 --> 00:31:07,560 Speaker 2: and unfortunate but true, do enough negative attacks on your 439 00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:11,280 Speaker 2: opponent to draw a distinction between the two of you 440 00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:15,040 Speaker 2: so that people have a reason to vote against your 441 00:31:15,080 --> 00:31:20,360 Speaker 2: opponent and for you and attract you know, part of 442 00:31:20,400 --> 00:31:24,240 Speaker 2: that Democrat coalition, but mostly attract some of those unaffiliated 443 00:31:24,280 --> 00:31:27,880 Speaker 2: voters in Colorado and you could actually win, and then 444 00:31:27,880 --> 00:31:32,160 Speaker 2: you could at least start governing maybe a little to 445 00:31:32,240 --> 00:31:34,320 Speaker 2: the right, and then keep moving a little further and 446 00:31:34,360 --> 00:31:36,600 Speaker 2: further to the right, and you can start turning this 447 00:31:36,680 --> 00:31:39,560 Speaker 2: place around. But I don't see anybody putting in place 448 00:31:39,600 --> 00:31:45,760 Speaker 2: and apparatus to do that, save four one exception, the 449 00:31:45,840 --> 00:31:50,840 Speaker 2: Independence Institute Eye to I DOT or Caldera's group, because 450 00:31:50,840 --> 00:31:54,560 Speaker 2: they take the long view. They don't take the short, 451 00:31:54,640 --> 00:31:57,320 Speaker 2: oh my gosh, this next election view. They take what 452 00:31:57,480 --> 00:32:02,280 Speaker 2: can we change that will have long term effects so 453 00:32:02,320 --> 00:32:05,320 Speaker 2: that we can't start turning the state around. Because Caldera 454 00:32:05,360 --> 00:32:07,760 Speaker 2: and his team recognize that you're not gonna turn this 455 00:32:07,840 --> 00:32:10,560 Speaker 2: state around in a die. It's gonna take time, just 456 00:32:10,600 --> 00:32:14,160 Speaker 2: as it took the blueprint time to get implemented to 457 00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:17,560 Speaker 2: turn the state blue. I wish I could tell you, Oh, 458 00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:20,040 Speaker 2: there's a magic genie somewhere that we can go rub 459 00:32:20,080 --> 00:32:22,240 Speaker 2: their belly and they'll come out and grant our wish, 460 00:32:22,720 --> 00:32:25,320 Speaker 2: and you know, we'll we'll take over either the House 461 00:32:25,440 --> 00:32:27,400 Speaker 2: or the Senator of the boat down the Poloit Bureau, 462 00:32:27,680 --> 00:32:30,800 Speaker 2: and we'll elect a couple of Republican senators and we'll 463 00:32:30,840 --> 00:32:37,480 Speaker 2: we elected a Republican governor. Ain't gonna happen. One of 464 00:32:37,520 --> 00:32:40,239 Speaker 2: the things they do, it takes the long view, is 465 00:32:40,280 --> 00:32:43,800 Speaker 2: they build a farm team. And they build a farm 466 00:32:43,880 --> 00:32:47,240 Speaker 2: team by getting people involved at the you know, the 467 00:32:47,280 --> 00:32:51,880 Speaker 2: special district level, the hell's bells, the library board or 468 00:32:51,920 --> 00:32:56,440 Speaker 2: a planning commission, or you run for city council, particularly 469 00:32:56,440 --> 00:32:58,240 Speaker 2: where you don't have to run on a partisan basis. 470 00:32:58,280 --> 00:33:00,360 Speaker 2: You just run because you know you have in that 471 00:33:00,400 --> 00:33:03,239 Speaker 2: council district and you and you win, but you're you know, 472 00:33:03,320 --> 00:33:08,080 Speaker 2: you're not job like me. And quite frankly, city councils 473 00:33:08,120 --> 00:33:11,000 Speaker 2: have lots of impact on people's daily lives. And you 474 00:33:11,080 --> 00:33:12,840 Speaker 2: do really good there, then you can become a state 475 00:33:12,880 --> 00:33:15,960 Speaker 2: reper state senator. Do that long enough, you could become 476 00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:18,960 Speaker 2: a governor. Do that long enough, you could become a senator. 477 00:33:20,720 --> 00:33:26,720 Speaker 2: Look at chicken lover. That's just the really hard part 478 00:33:27,480 --> 00:33:32,200 Speaker 2: about electropolitans. But don't get me off. Don't let me 479 00:33:32,280 --> 00:33:37,160 Speaker 2: get off Virginia because Junia, Virginia is an example I 480 00:33:37,560 --> 00:33:42,400 Speaker 2: told you about that they're doing redistricting. They've actually greenlighted 481 00:33:42,440 --> 00:33:46,440 Speaker 2: this daycare crap, which is amazing to me. There they're 482 00:33:46,480 --> 00:33:51,040 Speaker 2: decreasing punishments for serious criminal offenses. They have actually banned 483 00:33:51,960 --> 00:33:58,160 Speaker 2: hand counting of ballots. And then of course this new 484 00:33:58,200 --> 00:34:04,160 Speaker 2: governor has Indi colop with ice. Way to go, Virginia, 485 00:34:04,920 --> 00:34:07,400 Speaker 2: you've gone off the deep end. Now what it means 486 00:34:07,400 --> 00:34:11,560 Speaker 2: for Virginia, Arizona and the rest of the country, Well, 487 00:34:11,640 --> 00:34:13,960 Speaker 2: I'll tell you that next