WEBVTT - The Jay Weber Podcast #0006 4-24-26 

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<v Speaker 2>Good Day, Come on in, take us dat, Welcome to

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<v Speaker 2>the JA Podcast. We have a lot to talk about today,

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<v Speaker 2>including for the first time in either term, President Trump

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<v Speaker 2>decigning to attend the annual White House Correspondence Dinner this weekend.

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<v Speaker 2>And I can only think of one reason why that

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<v Speaker 2>he'd be at all interested in doing this. Gregory John,

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<v Speaker 2>my producer, is here. Greg Are you thinking this is

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<v Speaker 2>going to be appointment television this weekend? Would you make

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<v Speaker 2>it a point to tune in to watch any fireworks

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<v Speaker 2>that might occur?

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<v Speaker 3>Well, you know, to be honest with you, the Fox

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<v Speaker 3>News is actually going to be doing like an Academy

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<v Speaker 3>Awards kind of introduction to the Correspondence dinner. They're gonna

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<v Speaker 3>have a red carpet and everything, and Jesse Waters is

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<v Speaker 3>going to be the host. So I guess they're going

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<v Speaker 3>to make it a musty TV event for all of us.

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<v Speaker 2>I guess so about everyone's in DC and New York

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<v Speaker 2>are wondering why Donald Trump would even just now choose

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<v Speaker 2>to waste time with this. He is never going to

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<v Speaker 2>get this group of people to like him or treat

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<v Speaker 2>him fairly these correspondences, Why go, Greg, give me a

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<v Speaker 2>prediction on what path Trump will take in his speech.

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<v Speaker 2>Is he going to poke fun at himself and try

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<v Speaker 2>to win the crowd over by being self deprecating or

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<v Speaker 2>do you think is just going to go full blast

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<v Speaker 2>at him and show up just to call them most

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<v Speaker 2>scumbags and liars.

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<v Speaker 1>Now the second one I would love.

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<v Speaker 2>I would love to see that just either way, it

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<v Speaker 2>should be an interesting night and I might tune in

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<v Speaker 2>just to see if that room of so called journalists

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<v Speaker 2>sitting in front of him can manage to act like adults.

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<v Speaker 2>That's in addition to Trump going into the lions Den,

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<v Speaker 2>we'll talk about Sean Duffy doing the work when it

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<v Speaker 2>comes to finally improving an air traffic control system that

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<v Speaker 2>every administration since Reagan promised to fix. Trump and Duffy

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<v Speaker 2>are getting it done. We'll talk about the various ways

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<v Speaker 2>that Virginia's new congressional map is an insult to the

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<v Speaker 2>Republic and how if the Virginia Supreme Court allows this

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<v Speaker 2>to stand, it's going to be remarkable and folks finally

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<v Speaker 2>holding three or four congressmen accountable for their criminal actions.

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<v Speaker 2>It's a positive thing, but it's not what a purge

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<v Speaker 2>of a Congress that's full of rats and grifters. To

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<v Speaker 2>call this a purge is interesting to me. All that

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<v Speaker 2>of the firm. So the White House Correspondents Dinner is

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<v Speaker 2>this weekend and for the first time as President Donald

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<v Speaker 2>Trump is attending. Oh boy, this should be a proper

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<v Speaker 2>shizz show, shouldn't it. For the life of me. I

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<v Speaker 2>don't know why Donald Trump's going. I could take a

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<v Speaker 2>few guesses. One is that even after everything that has

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<v Speaker 2>transpired over the last ten years, Donald Trump the man,

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<v Speaker 2>I think, still wants to be adored and loved by

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<v Speaker 2>these countries, rich and famous, an elite class. He's always

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<v Speaker 2>been one of those people. After all, This is something

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<v Speaker 2>that Donald Trump the man has always been into. Being

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<v Speaker 2>adored in elite circles on both coasts has always been

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<v Speaker 2>something that Donald Trump has craved and something that has

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<v Speaker 2>motivated him. You know, the number of famous people from entertainment,

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<v Speaker 2>from pro sports, etc. Who filed through Trump Tower when

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<v Speaker 2>Donald Trump was simply a billionaire businessman is legendary. Trump

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<v Speaker 2>wanted to meet everyone famous and personally shake their hand

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<v Speaker 2>and sit down and get to know more about them.

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<v Speaker 2>He's inherently a people person. But it's why before he

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<v Speaker 2>was politically controversial, you had everyone from you know, Mike

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<v Speaker 2>Tyson to Jay Z and Beyonce to Magic Johnson to

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<v Speaker 2>Justin bieber All saying, you know, Trump's a friend, Trump's cool.

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<v Speaker 2>So my guess in terms of what motivates Donald Trump

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<v Speaker 2>to even agree to go to this dinner tomorrow is

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<v Speaker 2>that even after everything that's transpired and all the hatred

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<v Speaker 2>that DC in New York and the LA crowds have

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<v Speaker 2>tossed at him, he still wants to be seen as

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<v Speaker 2>cool to them. Trump's still wants to be in that

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<v Speaker 2>in crowd when it comes to US and global elites.

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<v Speaker 2>That's my guess. My guess is he certainly wants to

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<v Speaker 2>rejoin those circles post presidency too, and so that's why

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<v Speaker 2>he's making what's likely a terrible decision to go to

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<v Speaker 2>this nerd prom banquet tomorrow night. The chance that Trump

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<v Speaker 2>is going to be simply savaged and lectured to by

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<v Speaker 2>a bunch of activist America haters who simply pose as

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<v Speaker 2>journalists is a high one, and any chance of Trump

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<v Speaker 2>emerging from this more liked or more likable in this

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<v Speaker 2>crowd is nearly zero. The President should continue to skip

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<v Speaker 2>this and anyone still associated with the White House Press

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<v Speaker 2>Corps should be pushing to end this annual dinner altogether

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<v Speaker 2>because it has always been a biased, ridiculous affair. It

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<v Speaker 2>has always been so called journalists making themselves the story

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<v Speaker 2>and injecting themselves into politics and the current events of

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<v Speaker 2>the day. When they're supposed to be impartial observers. They're

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<v Speaker 2>not supposed to do that. But in this era, this

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<v Speaker 2>dinner's really a joke, and it's simply a night for

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<v Speaker 2>left wing activists to get together and celebrate the power

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<v Speaker 2>that they derive from routinely life to the American people.

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<v Speaker 2>And by the way, the average member of the DC

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<v Speaker 2>or New York media elite really really doesn't like to

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<v Speaker 2>be challenged. This is a group of people that has

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<v Speaker 2>genuinely convinced themselves they are the truth seekers and the

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<v Speaker 2>truth tellers. They are the social conscience of this nation.

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<v Speaker 2>They're the intellectual elite of the nation. And so they

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<v Speaker 2>hate nothing more. I mean, they react very negatively when

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<v Speaker 2>someone challenges them or they're standing And so this crowd

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<v Speaker 2>in particular has a burning hatred for Donald Trump and

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<v Speaker 2>for anyone who would dare to work for him. Just

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<v Speaker 2>consider how many of Trump's appointees and cabinet secretaries are

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<v Speaker 2>under constant fire from the mainstream news media simply because

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<v Speaker 2>they dared to take the job. This is both in

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<v Speaker 2>their personal lives and in their professional lives. Pam Bondi, Cash, Betel,

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<v Speaker 2>Sean Duffy, Janine piro Brett, Kavanaugh, Name a Trump appointee,

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<v Speaker 2>and I'll show you someone who's under relentless assault from

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<v Speaker 2>these so called fair news outlets, whose members are trying

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<v Speaker 2>to destroy both their personal and their professional lives because

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<v Speaker 2>they dared to work for Trump, knowing Trump, working for Trump,

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<v Speaker 2>liking Trump. It's enough to sick these rabid DC in

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<v Speaker 2>New York media dogs on you. And why would Trump

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<v Speaker 2>himself even want to go to attend this dinner or

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<v Speaker 2>in any way legitimize that. Why legitimize anything that these

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<v Speaker 2>jackals do or say. I just don't understand it. Hopefully

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<v Speaker 2>Trump can get off a few good singers and get

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<v Speaker 2>a bunch of press attention on Sunday and Monday of

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<v Speaker 2>the sort that they think is working to trash Trump.

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<v Speaker 2>It's really the sort that backfires on the mainstream media

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<v Speaker 2>and is boosting Trump with the average American. Trump knows

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<v Speaker 2>that the real effect of these waves of negative coverage

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<v Speaker 2>is often a boost to him and his standing amongst

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<v Speaker 2>the average American people and away from the coasts. So

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<v Speaker 2>maybe that's what Trump is angling for here. Also, now

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<v Speaker 2>that he no longer has worries about being reelected, I

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<v Speaker 2>think there's a very good chance that Trump's speech is

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<v Speaker 2>one in which he simply calls them all liars to

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<v Speaker 2>their faces and just levels them. You've got to think

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<v Speaker 2>that he's going to include at least some of that

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<v Speaker 2>in any speech he gives. Then there's this wild card.

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, we aren't sure how the members of the

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<v Speaker 2>White House Press Association are actually going to react to

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<v Speaker 2>this call for them to quote forcefully demonstrate opposition to

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<v Speaker 2>President Trump during this event. This call came from a

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<v Speaker 2>group of journalists. You might have seen this. A group

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<v Speaker 2>of over two hundred and fifty so called journalists put

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<v Speaker 2>out a public letter urging the attendees to trash in

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<v Speaker 2>smear Trump in every way they can put up a

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<v Speaker 2>public stink and a public opposition to Trump accepting the

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<v Speaker 2>inviter or something. Well, first of all, it would really

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<v Speaker 2>reflect poorly on the so called unbiased White House Press

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<v Speaker 2>Association if they invited a guest to their party and

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<v Speaker 2>then just trashed and belittled and embarrassed that person for

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<v Speaker 2>two hours. That's not what the organizers of a reputable

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<v Speaker 2>association would do to their guests, any sort of group

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<v Speaker 2>or association, much less quote professional journalists. This is what

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<v Speaker 2>you really have to consider it this is allegedly a

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<v Speaker 2>news organization. They're allegedly journalists. You can't call yourself a

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<v Speaker 2>journalist and then engage in this sort of angry activism.

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<v Speaker 2>This letter, in its suggestion, should be absurd to anyone

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<v Speaker 2>who actually considered themselves a journalist. The sad thing is,

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<v Speaker 2>in this era and in this moment, virtually no one

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<v Speaker 2>who shows up to this dinner is going to be

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<v Speaker 2>a genuine journalist. After all. This is the crowd of

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<v Speaker 2>people who, on a daily basis, are refusing, simply refusing

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<v Speaker 2>to report on any news orround any sort of story

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<v Speaker 2>on the very real and consequential wins that Trump and

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<v Speaker 2>his team are racking up for this country. I keep

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<v Speaker 2>giving you new examples of these things because so many

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<v Speaker 2>very positive developments are being ignored by the news media.

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<v Speaker 2>These are all stories that news outlets would have routinely

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<v Speaker 2>covered and reported on in any other era because they

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<v Speaker 2>were simply good news. They were things that would get

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<v Speaker 2>would bring readership, would inform the public, not in this era.

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<v Speaker 2>Just a couple of examples this week, do you know

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<v Speaker 2>that homicides are down seventy five to eighty percent in Washington,

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<v Speaker 2>d C. Since Trump cracked down on crime in that district.

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<v Speaker 2>There are a couple of different measures of this, so

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<v Speaker 2>that's why it's somewhere between seventy five and eighty percent

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<v Speaker 2>if you believe the stats. There have only been twenty

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<v Speaker 2>murders total in Washington, d C. Since the first of

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<v Speaker 2>the year. I'll say that again because some of you

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<v Speaker 2>realize how remarkable this is. There've only been twenty murders

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<v Speaker 2>total in washing Hington, d C. Since the first of

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<v Speaker 2>the year, when that city was a famous killing field

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<v Speaker 2>until Trump took over, Including during the Biden era, Washington

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<v Speaker 2>d C is on pace to have about forty five

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<v Speaker 2>murders this year, and that would be down from two

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<v Speaker 2>hundred and seventy four in twenty twenty four, the final

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<v Speaker 2>year of the Biden era. Carjackings in DC are also

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<v Speaker 2>down by nearly fifty percent, Folks. Historians say this is

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<v Speaker 2>the lowest murder rate in Washington, d C. Since nineteen hundred,

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<v Speaker 2>Since the turn of the last century. That's roughly when

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<v Speaker 2>Jack the Ripper was terrorizing the streets of London and

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<v Speaker 2>street lamps were running on fossil fuels and whale oils.

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<v Speaker 2>I think that might be newsworthy. Is Trump getting any

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<v Speaker 2>credit for it. Now. Did any of you know about

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<v Speaker 2>this until I told you about it?

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<v Speaker 1>No?

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<v Speaker 2>Probably not many. One pundit pointed out on social media

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<v Speaker 2>that the Washington Post, this is the newspaper of record

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<v Speaker 2>in Washington, d C, hasn't written a single story about

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<v Speaker 2>DC's murder rates since February first. The liberal activists at

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<v Speaker 2>the Post didn't want their Washington d C readers to

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<v Speaker 2>know that overall crime murder is down significantly since Trump

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<v Speaker 2>took action. Why. I think you can answer that one

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<v Speaker 2>for yourselves. Here's another great example of some positive changes

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<v Speaker 2>being made by the Trump team that are quite significant

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<v Speaker 2>and yet not being reported on because it might make

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<v Speaker 2>Trump and Republicans look good. Most people don't realize that

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<v Speaker 2>for probably three decades, we've been told by our FAA,

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<v Speaker 2>our pilots, our air traffic controllers, etc. We desperately need

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<v Speaker 2>to upgrade our air traffic control system. It's been at

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<v Speaker 2>least thirty years now that the insiders in Washington, d

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<v Speaker 2>C and the insiders of the Federal Aviation Administration have

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<v Speaker 2>been calling this a dangerous situation. It went from dangerous

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<v Speaker 2>situation in the eighties to crisis now. Something needs to

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<v Speaker 2>be done, and every administration since Reagan has insisted they'll

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<v Speaker 2>do something about it. Oh, yes, very important, will improve

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<v Speaker 2>our ancient and embarrassing air traffic control equipment, et cetera.

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<v Speaker 2>It's got to be done. It's got to be done.

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<v Speaker 2>It's never been done. Why because it would take hard,

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<v Speaker 2>thankless work. That's why it would take a lot of

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<v Speaker 2>taxpayer money and someone who actually do the hard work.

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<v Speaker 2>At the same time, that hard work isn't going to

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<v Speaker 2>bring any particular political glory or attention to the administration

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<v Speaker 2>that does it. Leading today is way too intertwined with

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<v Speaker 2>just political considerations and whether or not you get credit

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<v Speaker 2>for it. And as we've seen over and over and

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<v Speaker 2>over again, if something isn't politically popular or doesn't come

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<v Speaker 2>with some big political payoff at the end these days,

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<v Speaker 2>why do it? No one does it. This is perceived

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<v Speaker 2>as having no upside to your average elected official or politician.

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<v Speaker 2>It's simply true that it has been almost exclusively Republican

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<v Speaker 2>presidents and governors who have done the hard work of

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<v Speaker 2>actually making the tough calls in this country, improving infrastructures,

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<v Speaker 2>tackling difficult tasks, etc. In this modern era, it's simply true,

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<v Speaker 2>that has mostly been to the Republicans to do because

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<v Speaker 2>Democrats aren't serious people and largely want to play games.

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<v Speaker 2>This has simply been the case for at least three

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<v Speaker 2>or four decades.

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<v Speaker 1>It is.

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<v Speaker 2>If it's not cheap and easy with a political payoff,

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<v Speaker 2>the Democrats aren't going to do it. Dealing with that

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<v Speaker 2>toxic train derailment sounded hard and fraught with political risks,

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<v Speaker 2>so you know, Joe Biden and Pete booda judge, simply

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<v Speaker 2>decided they weren't going to do anything. Dealing with the

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<v Speaker 2>Gulf oil spill in the Obama era sounded hard and thankless,

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<v Speaker 2>it was difficult, so Barack Obama and his White House

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<v Speaker 2>simply didn't do anything about it. We'll just leave that

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<v Speaker 2>up to the Republican governors and then take some credit

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<v Speaker 2>after it's done. Today's Democrats simply refuse to do the

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<v Speaker 2>hard work, the actual work of running and maintaining this

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<v Speaker 2>country and its infrastructures. But they'll be sure that if

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<v Speaker 2>Republicans decide to do it, there will be a bike

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<v Speaker 2>lane or expensive public art somewhere in that project. It's

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<v Speaker 2>just pathetic, and there's no better example of this than

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<v Speaker 2>Pete Booha Judge's categorical malfeasans and disinterest in running the

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<v Speaker 2>Transportation Department. You know, this little dip wat is out

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<v Speaker 2>there again making speeches because as Cleary wants to run it.

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<v Speaker 2>In twenty twenty eight, he accepted a cabinet level position

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<v Speaker 2>from Joe Biden in order to drop out of that

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<v Speaker 2>race and clear the way for Byid's domination. And then

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<v Speaker 2>he decided this was just going to be a four

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<v Speaker 2>year vacation, put a Judge plotted in another run for

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<v Speaker 2>president in twenty twenty eight, and didn't do anything between

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<v Speaker 2>twenty twenty and twenty twenty four. This guy was as

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<v Speaker 2>absent as aoc on acid when it came to doing

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<v Speaker 2>anything related to that job. And it's one reason that

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<v Speaker 2>Sean Duffy's tenure as Transportation Secretary has been so impressive,

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<v Speaker 2>but only one reason. It is not inaccurate to say

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<v Speaker 2>that Sean Duffy is better than the last fifteen transportation

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<v Speaker 2>secretaries because he actually took the job to do the job.

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<v Speaker 2>It wasn't just some title handed to him for political patronage.

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<v Speaker 2>But I'm wandering, what's the story that the leftist media

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<v Speaker 2>won't tell you today that less than a year into

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<v Speaker 2>Duffy's overhaul of our air traffic control system, were already

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<v Speaker 2>nearly half done. The way it sounds, and again, you'd

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<v Speaker 2>think this would be newsworthy only the Washington Times, I've

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<v Speaker 2>only seen this in DC's conservative newspaper. I say. Thousands

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<v Speaker 2>of outdated telecommunications equipment like radio and phones are being

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<v Speaker 2>swapped out for brand new models. Hundreds of radars are

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<v Speaker 2>being upgraded. The vapor flight strips that were used by

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<v Speaker 2>air traffic controllers to guide flights are getting ditched for

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<v Speaker 2>new electronic ones, all accessible to on one computer screen now.

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<v Speaker 2>They say, as of this month, nearly fifty percent of

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<v Speaker 2>the old copper wires that powered the communications between air

0:14:13.840 --> 0:14:16.959
<v Speaker 2>traffic controllers and pilots has also been replaced with new

0:14:17.000 --> 0:14:21.200
<v Speaker 2>high speed fiber optic cables. This is great proof that

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<v Speaker 2>all it takes is some actual effort and focus to

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<v Speaker 2>get many of these long standing issues fixed. It takes

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<v Speaker 2>a priority from the important people and those controlling the

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<v Speaker 2>purse strings. Donald Trump is proving that all it takes

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<v Speaker 2>to combat high crime as an honest attempt to stop it.

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<v Speaker 2>Sean Duffy is proving that Pete Booha Judge in the

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<v Speaker 2>last ten transportation secretaries were clowns who just didn't want

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<v Speaker 2>to deal with this air traffic control issue. Duffy might

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<v Speaker 2>have it fixed by Christmas. The way this is going

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<v Speaker 2>I exaggerate, but quote the Transportation Secretary has pledged that

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<v Speaker 2>the changes will be completed by twenty twenty eight, thanks

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<v Speaker 2>to the twelve point five billion dollars approved for the

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<v Speaker 2>modernization in President Trump's One Big, Beautiful Bill. They say

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<v Speaker 2>the system has basically been held together with shoestring and

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<v Speaker 2>duct tape. This is according to Chris Sununu, who is

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<v Speaker 2>now serving as the CEO of the Trade Association for

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<v Speaker 2>Airlines for America. But Sean Duffy says it was the

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<v Speaker 2>DC aircrash that had President Trump saying, look enough of this,

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<v Speaker 2>fixed this problem. And for all the faults you want

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<v Speaker 2>to ascribe to Donald Trump, he is a fixer, he

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<v Speaker 2>is a doer, he is a builder. Duffy says, what

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<v Speaker 2>we realized was that we used an incredibly old, antiquated

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<v Speaker 2>system of technology from the sixties, seventies, eighties, and nineties.

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<v Speaker 2>This is a huge task now because it's been ignored

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<v Speaker 2>for thirty years. The scale of the work that's facing

0:15:35.720 --> 0:15:38.280
<v Speaker 2>Duffy and his people. The scale of the work that

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<v Speaker 2>needs to be done just to switch out equipment and

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<v Speaker 2>make the modern day upgrades is massive, and it's largely

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<v Speaker 2>thankless work. Of course, this is going to be a

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<v Speaker 2>wonderful gift that has been given to the American people

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<v Speaker 2>finally after twenty five or thirty years of delays. But

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<v Speaker 2>the twenty twenty eight Republican nominee isn't going to get

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<v Speaker 2>national credit for finally making the system safe after three decades.

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<v Speaker 2>And I mean not even if it's Jdvans or Marco

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<v Speaker 2>Rubio that's on the ticket. They'll lay claim to it

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<v Speaker 2>as a victory, but voters will largely shrug their shoulders.

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<v Speaker 2>Ey eh, we expect, say air travel. We didn't see

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<v Speaker 2>any of the hard work being done, so it's not

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<v Speaker 2>going to move voters. We should be heaping special praise

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<v Speaker 2>onto people, departments, presidents, lawmakers who are going out of

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<v Speaker 2>their way to actually do something, do the work fix

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<v Speaker 2>our problems instead of just bloviating about them. But first,

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<v Speaker 2>the average voter in the American people need to know

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<v Speaker 2>about those fixes, know who is working hard and doing

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<v Speaker 2>the work. The American people need to hear about the

0:16:35.840 --> 0:16:38.160
<v Speaker 2>hard work that's being done and the genuine win that

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<v Speaker 2>results from it. And there's no blasted way that today's

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<v Speaker 2>leftist news media is going to tell the American people

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<v Speaker 2>about any of Trump team's wins, right, not if they

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<v Speaker 2>can help it. That's the sort of so called fair

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<v Speaker 2>and balanced news media that we're dealing with today, my friends.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm not convinced that this big redistricting cheat by the

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<v Speaker 2>Democrats in Virgini is a done deal. A lower court

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<v Speaker 2>already halted it temporarily, of course, and the state Supreme

0:17:05.240 --> 0:17:07.960
<v Speaker 2>Court in Virginia is going to have to ultimately determine

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<v Speaker 2>if this very unfair and extremely gerrymannered map ever gets

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<v Speaker 2>put into play. We'll get into the unique setup of

0:17:14.880 --> 0:17:17.639
<v Speaker 2>Virginia Supreme Court and why it's hard to predict how

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<v Speaker 2>it's going to rule on this. But even realizing that

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<v Speaker 2>in this era, even court politics is a rumble, my

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<v Speaker 2>take is if the Virginia Supreme Court doesn't reject this map,

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<v Speaker 2>it's going to be a major embarrassment for the justices

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<v Speaker 2>on that court and a blatant a front to the

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<v Speaker 2>republic and any sort of rule of order when it

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<v Speaker 2>comes to parliamentary procedures. And I know everything is hardball

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<v Speaker 2>politics right now, and nowhere have the leftists been playing

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<v Speaker 2>harder ball than in states like Virginia. I get it.

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<v Speaker 2>But if most of the justices on the Virginia Supreme

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<v Speaker 2>Court have even a modicum of dignity or integrity, if

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<v Speaker 2>they even have a sense of fairness and justice, well

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<v Speaker 2>they can't approve this map. Everyone in the country, and

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<v Speaker 2>on both sides the Isle knows that this is a

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<v Speaker 2>blatant attempt to and no liberals listening. No, this is

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<v Speaker 2>not like what was going on in Texas or Florida.

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<v Speaker 2>Those adjustments to the political maps in those states that

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<v Speaker 2>were pushed by Republicans still left congressional representation that was

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<v Speaker 2>largely proportional for that state. The Democrat voters in Texas

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<v Speaker 2>and Florida are still represented in Congress in some way.

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<v Speaker 2>This map in Virginia wipes out virtually all voter representation

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<v Speaker 2>for anyone who didn't vote Democrat in that state. Now,

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<v Speaker 2>this is the situation, by the way, when it comes

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<v Speaker 2>to all of the New England states, those all seem

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<v Speaker 2>to have no Republican representation at all, even though those

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<v Speaker 2>New England states vote about forty percent Republican. This map

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<v Speaker 2>in Virginia that wipes out virtually all voter representation for

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<v Speaker 2>anyone who didn't vote Democrat in that state. And it's crazy.

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<v Speaker 2>This change takes a district map that had six Democrat

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<v Speaker 2>districts and five Republican districts and pretty accurately represented the

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<v Speaker 2>voting percentages in the state of Virginia and turns it

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<v Speaker 2>into a map in which there will be nine districts

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<v Speaker 2>controlled by Democrats and only one by Republicans. And I

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<v Speaker 2>don't care which side of the al you're on or

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<v Speaker 2>which parties kool aid you're drinking, no one can claim

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<v Speaker 2>this is a map that is anything close to fair

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<v Speaker 2>or representational. That's one reason that I believe the majority

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<v Speaker 2>of Virginia's Supreme Court justices might reject it, because if

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<v Speaker 2>they don't, they just look like scumbags and idiots. It's

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<v Speaker 2>a pretty good incentive for the average judge to do

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<v Speaker 2>the right thing and reject the extremes. Moreover, how can

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<v Speaker 2>the left wing lawyers who are trying to defend this

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<v Speaker 2>possibly argue this is fair or constitutional? And when I

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<v Speaker 2>say constitutional, I mean representative of the voters of Virginia.

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<v Speaker 2>I know the next step is the state Supreme Court

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<v Speaker 2>there in Virginia, but I'd also be surprised if conservative

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<v Speaker 2>and good government groups don't find arguments to challenge this

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<v Speaker 2>map in federal court and put it on the fast

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<v Speaker 2>track to the US Supreme Court. Some showdown over this

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<v Speaker 2>as long overdue. We have states like Oregon that have

0:19:50.200 --> 0:19:53.480
<v Speaker 2>conservatives in their states so frustrated they want to break

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<v Speaker 2>away and secede and join Utah. I think every effort

0:19:56.400 --> 0:19:59.040
<v Speaker 2>should be made by conservative activist groups to get some

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<v Speaker 2>sort of challenge based on this Virginia map to the

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<v Speaker 2>Supreme Court. In the federal court system, I know the U. S.

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<v Speaker 2>Supreme Court has been very, very reluctant to get involved

0:20:08.680 --> 0:20:11.119
<v Speaker 2>in these state maps, but we now have something like

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<v Speaker 2>seven to nine states that are Democrat controlled. They'd either

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<v Speaker 2>have zero Republican congressmen or only one being sent to Washington,

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<v Speaker 2>despite the fact that the voting patterns of their states

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<v Speaker 2>are far far more balanced, such as Massachusetts. Massachusetts votes

0:20:25.800 --> 0:20:29.280
<v Speaker 2>about forty percent Republican, they don't have one Republican representative

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<v Speaker 2>in Congress. The Federal Supreme Court has already heard at

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<v Speaker 2>least one argument related to fair maps recently, and we're

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<v Speaker 2>awaiting that decision. That case in front of them would

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<v Speaker 2>weaken some of the rigged rules in the so called

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<v Speaker 2>Voting Rights Act if they rule as expected, and it

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<v Speaker 2>could lead to another round of national redistricting. So we

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<v Speaker 2>certainly haven't seen the final round of this fight over

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<v Speaker 2>maps in the states and nationally. But I say, bring

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<v Speaker 2>on more litigation and get it in front of this

0:20:53.280 --> 0:20:57.040
<v Speaker 2>conservative US Supreme Court. I think conservative legal activists should

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<v Speaker 2>use this Virginia outrage as a springboard to challenge the

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<v Speaker 2>very notion that one party, either party, can just freeze

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<v Speaker 2>out the other one and pretend their state is sending

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<v Speaker 2>a quote representative government to Washington, d C. From that state.

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, the Democrats in Virginia went into this knowing

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<v Speaker 2>how much they're cheating and how blatant it looks. We

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<v Speaker 2>know this because as part of the language that they

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<v Speaker 2>used in the legislation and on the referendum, they added

0:21:21.960 --> 0:21:24.159
<v Speaker 2>a clause that says this map would only be in

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<v Speaker 2>effect until the next census, which is in twenty thirty. Well,

0:21:27.880 --> 0:21:29.840
<v Speaker 2>of course that would be the case. That's when every

0:21:29.880 --> 0:21:33.320
<v Speaker 2>state needs to redo and rejigger their federal congressional maps.

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<v Speaker 2>It's by law, but the Democrats in Virginia couldn't have

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<v Speaker 2>made it more clear. We're cheating now, but we'll turn

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<v Speaker 2>this process back over to our quote nonpartisan maps commission

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<v Speaker 2>in twenty thirty. YEP, Virginia's estate in which the Democrats

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<v Speaker 2>have convinced their voters to agree to a sham of

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<v Speaker 2>a maps commission, only to then violate and ignore that

0:21:53.080 --> 0:21:55.960
<v Speaker 2>system when it doesn't suit them. We're seeing Democrats do

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<v Speaker 2>this all over the country in various blue states, including

0:21:58.880 --> 0:22:02.040
<v Speaker 2>New York and California. And there's one reason why anyone

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<v Speaker 2>in Wisconsin is stupid if they support Governor Evers's push

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<v Speaker 2>for quote fair maps and a maps commission. Evers and

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<v Speaker 2>Wisconsin Democrats have already ignored a different version of a

0:22:11.080 --> 0:22:14.200
<v Speaker 2>nonpartisan map committee, and they cheated to redraw their own

0:22:14.240 --> 0:22:16.960
<v Speaker 2>maps when they felt they could. They exposed again what

0:22:17.040 --> 0:22:20.040
<v Speaker 2>a sham these maps commissions are. First of all, they

0:22:20.040 --> 0:22:23.080
<v Speaker 2>aren't really nonpartisan. But second, if the Democrats are just

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<v Speaker 2>going to ignore them anytime they see an opening to cheat,

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<v Speaker 2>why have them why pretend? Seriously, why do New York, California,

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<v Speaker 2>or Virginia even have quote nonpartisan maps commissions? If the

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<v Speaker 2>Democrats are just going to ignore them and cheat every

0:22:37.119 --> 0:22:40.800
<v Speaker 2>time they feel the need or see an opening. This

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<v Speaker 2>has been the case now in both California and Virginia

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<v Speaker 2>just over the last few months. Virginia is a split

0:22:45.840 --> 0:22:49.160
<v Speaker 2>state that leans blue. It has been for quite some time,

0:22:49.520 --> 0:22:53.880
<v Speaker 2>so the current map shows split representation in Congress. Quite fair. Actually,

0:22:54.520 --> 0:22:57.000
<v Speaker 2>six Democrats and five Republicans are sent to the House

0:22:57.000 --> 0:23:01.600
<v Speaker 2>of Representatives from that state currently, but through force Virginia

0:23:01.680 --> 0:23:04.040
<v Speaker 2>Democrats get to rig this falls elections to give them

0:23:04.080 --> 0:23:07.800
<v Speaker 2>a nine to one congressional delegation. Come on, there's in

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<v Speaker 2>a single Supreme court in the country that if they

0:23:10.640 --> 0:23:13.720
<v Speaker 2>had honest justices sitting on it, would find that fair, reasonable,

0:23:13.800 --> 0:23:17.520
<v Speaker 2>or representative. In fact, John Fund at the National Review

0:23:17.600 --> 0:23:20.359
<v Speaker 2>has at least four legitimate legal avenues on which Republicans

0:23:20.359 --> 0:23:23.359
<v Speaker 2>can challenge this move in Virginia. The first is he

0:23:23.359 --> 0:23:26.280
<v Speaker 2>says the legislature violated the state's constitution by keeping a

0:23:26.320 --> 0:23:29.439
<v Speaker 2>special session open for nearly two years, and that's a

0:23:29.480 --> 0:23:32.040
<v Speaker 2>move that a local judge who heard the case already

0:23:32.040 --> 0:23:35.560
<v Speaker 2>has labeled a blatant abuse of power. Second avenue of

0:23:35.640 --> 0:23:39.199
<v Speaker 2>challenge Virginia law requires that constitutional amendments be passed at

0:23:39.320 --> 0:23:41.879
<v Speaker 2>least ninety days before any election in which the people

0:23:41.960 --> 0:23:45.840
<v Speaker 2>ratify it. Lower courts had initially blocked this redistricting process

0:23:45.880 --> 0:23:49.879
<v Speaker 2>on those grounds, so that's a procedural argument. The third

0:23:50.000 --> 0:23:52.760
<v Speaker 2>argument would be the jerrymander improperly tossed out the work

0:23:52.800 --> 0:23:57.080
<v Speaker 2>of the twenty twenty voter approved Bipartisan Redistricting Commission. They

0:23:57.119 --> 0:23:58.760
<v Speaker 2>tossed it out right in the middle of the decade

0:23:59.359 --> 0:24:02.440
<v Speaker 2>song based on that, and then the fourth potential challenge,

0:24:02.520 --> 0:24:05.480
<v Speaker 2>the language on the ballot was blatantly biased in claiming

0:24:05.560 --> 0:24:08.560
<v Speaker 2>that the referendum's goal was to quote restore fairness in

0:24:08.680 --> 0:24:13.560
<v Speaker 2>upcoming elections that presupposed that the bipartisan commission map was unfair.

0:24:14.280 --> 0:24:16.879
<v Speaker 2>All of those are legitimate avenues of challenge, and I

0:24:16.920 --> 0:24:19.239
<v Speaker 2>think you notice that they don't really have anything to

0:24:19.320 --> 0:24:23.440
<v Speaker 2>do with gerrymandering or challenging what a jery mander is, etc.

0:24:24.119 --> 0:24:26.440
<v Speaker 2>There are ways to stop this without getting into big

0:24:26.520 --> 0:24:30.359
<v Speaker 2>constitutional arguments, but I think a path that challenges this

0:24:30.480 --> 0:24:33.680
<v Speaker 2>on federal and state constitutional grounds based on the definition

0:24:33.720 --> 0:24:37.440
<v Speaker 2>of a representative government is also a pretty interesting way

0:24:37.440 --> 0:24:40.320
<v Speaker 2>to approach this. And I'm not a legal mind, but

0:24:40.359 --> 0:24:42.239
<v Speaker 2>we have great legal minds that might be able to

0:24:42.720 --> 0:24:45.960
<v Speaker 2>find some way to argue this larger question. And in

0:24:46.000 --> 0:24:49.000
<v Speaker 2>a federal court, I think any federal lawsuit like that

0:24:49.359 --> 0:24:51.560
<v Speaker 2>could be a game changer. Given that we finally have

0:24:51.600 --> 0:24:54.520
<v Speaker 2>a conservative leaning Supreme Court with justices on it. This

0:24:54.640 --> 0:24:58.040
<v Speaker 2>seemed determined to correct the terrible constitutional drift that this

0:24:58.160 --> 0:25:01.040
<v Speaker 2>country has been on for decades. I think a court

0:25:01.040 --> 0:25:03.040
<v Speaker 2>that has shot down Roe v. Wade and killed off

0:25:03.080 --> 0:25:05.800
<v Speaker 2>the Chevron doctrine is a court that might just step

0:25:05.840 --> 0:25:08.040
<v Speaker 2>in and say, look, a state map has to at

0:25:08.119 --> 0:25:10.600
<v Speaker 2>least be somewhat fair when it comes to representing the

0:25:10.680 --> 0:25:14.080
<v Speaker 2>voting patterns of that state. If we on the right

0:25:14.200 --> 0:25:17.359
<v Speaker 2>got a ruling like that, nationally, Democrats might lose two

0:25:17.480 --> 0:25:19.879
<v Speaker 2>or three dozen House seats in the more honest redo

0:25:19.880 --> 0:25:22.879
<v Speaker 2>of these maps. So how does this play out at

0:25:22.960 --> 0:25:26.520
<v Speaker 2>Virginia's Supreme Court? Well, experts in DC and Virginia seem

0:25:26.560 --> 0:25:29.359
<v Speaker 2>to agree it's hard to predict. And it is because

0:25:29.440 --> 0:25:32.359
<v Speaker 2>Virginia's a state in which the legislature actually appoints the

0:25:32.400 --> 0:25:36.600
<v Speaker 2>Supreme Court justices, not the voters. And currently this Virginia

0:25:36.680 --> 0:25:39.960
<v Speaker 2>Supreme Court is said to be small sea conservative as

0:25:40.000 --> 0:25:42.760
<v Speaker 2>in the judicial Conservatives might have a slight advantage on

0:25:42.800 --> 0:25:45.320
<v Speaker 2>this court quote. Virginia is one of only two states

0:25:45.320 --> 0:25:48.280
<v Speaker 2>where the legislature elects the Supreme Court justices. Because the

0:25:48.280 --> 0:25:50.879
<v Speaker 2>state has had divided control from much of the past

0:25:50.920 --> 0:25:54.240
<v Speaker 2>quarter century, the balance of the Court's justices were appointed

0:25:54.359 --> 0:25:58.280
<v Speaker 2>by bipartisan compromise. The court's current seven members include one

0:25:58.440 --> 0:26:01.359
<v Speaker 2>justice who was elected when Democrats had sole control of

0:26:01.400 --> 0:26:05.199
<v Speaker 2>the General Assembly, three when Republicans controlled both chambers, and

0:26:05.240 --> 0:26:07.919
<v Speaker 2>three when control of the legislature was split. And so

0:26:07.960 --> 0:26:10.280
<v Speaker 2>if that's the case, this isn't a court full of

0:26:10.320 --> 0:26:12.200
<v Speaker 2>members who are going to want to rush to get

0:26:12.200 --> 0:26:15.040
<v Speaker 2>this new map into effect before the fall election, which

0:26:15.080 --> 0:26:18.200
<v Speaker 2>is what Democrats wanted to do. It also doesn't sound

0:26:18.240 --> 0:26:20.040
<v Speaker 2>like a court full of justices who are just going

0:26:20.080 --> 0:26:23.320
<v Speaker 2>to ignore the fact that Virginia's legislature and governor broke

0:26:23.359 --> 0:26:25.800
<v Speaker 2>all sorts of procedural rules in order to ram this

0:26:25.880 --> 0:26:29.800
<v Speaker 2>map into place. I don't see how any split court

0:26:29.880 --> 0:26:32.359
<v Speaker 2>or any group of justices that's even trying to be

0:26:32.400 --> 0:26:35.000
<v Speaker 2>fair or trying to get a ruling right agrees to

0:26:35.080 --> 0:26:38.359
<v Speaker 2>let this map be put into play. And despite the

0:26:38.400 --> 0:26:40.439
<v Speaker 2>result of the referendum, this week. There's no way to

0:26:40.560 --> 0:26:43.360
<v Speaker 2>honestly say that this is what the people of Virginia

0:26:43.400 --> 0:26:47.760
<v Speaker 2>want either. The National Democrats and activists spent a massive

0:26:47.800 --> 0:26:51.120
<v Speaker 2>amount of money tricking the voters of Virginia. They spent

0:26:51.200 --> 0:26:53.920
<v Speaker 2>eighty one million dollars in one amounted to a sprint

0:26:54.280 --> 0:26:56.760
<v Speaker 2>to trick Virginia's voters into thinking that this was about

0:26:56.800 --> 0:27:00.840
<v Speaker 2>fair maps those on the ground in Virginia. The misinformation

0:27:00.920 --> 0:27:04.520
<v Speaker 2>campaign that the leftist pulled off here was shameful, impressive,

0:27:04.720 --> 0:27:09.520
<v Speaker 2>but shameful. This was a very slanted, shameless, ugly affair.

0:27:09.680 --> 0:27:12.879
<v Speaker 2>And still the left only managed to win this referendum

0:27:12.960 --> 0:27:15.720
<v Speaker 2>question by three points. They spent two years trying to

0:27:15.760 --> 0:27:19.240
<v Speaker 2>trick and steamroll Virginia voters and they still only narrowly

0:27:19.280 --> 0:27:21.879
<v Speaker 2>pulled it off with a sprint of eighty one million

0:27:21.920 --> 0:27:25.280
<v Speaker 2>dollars worth of spending. And yeah, I understand that this

0:27:25.359 --> 0:27:27.879
<v Speaker 2>is a constitutional amendment that the voters of Virginia have

0:27:27.960 --> 0:27:31.200
<v Speaker 2>now passed and only the win matters, and the Supreme

0:27:31.240 --> 0:27:33.200
<v Speaker 2>Court can't and won't overturn the will of the people,

0:27:33.240 --> 0:27:37.359
<v Speaker 2>et cetera. But this process and the Left's dishonesty and

0:27:37.440 --> 0:27:41.200
<v Speaker 2>duplicity and engineering this result can be challenged in court

0:27:41.320 --> 0:27:44.600
<v Speaker 2>and will be. It's the reason to believe that whatever happens,

0:27:44.640 --> 0:27:47.600
<v Speaker 2>this outrageous map of the Virginia voters just approved will

0:27:47.600 --> 0:27:49.640
<v Speaker 2>not be in play this fall and may not ever

0:27:49.680 --> 0:27:53.240
<v Speaker 2>come into play. It's something I would caution listeners about

0:27:53.720 --> 0:27:55.800
<v Speaker 2>that most of the media outlets aren't going to tell you.

0:27:56.160 --> 0:27:58.880
<v Speaker 2>The chances of this map approved this week actually being

0:27:58.920 --> 0:28:01.040
<v Speaker 2>put into place for fall or even in twenty twenty

0:28:01.080 --> 0:28:03.919
<v Speaker 2>eight seems slim to me, So don't lose too much

0:28:03.960 --> 0:28:06.119
<v Speaker 2>sleep over it yet. And hey, you know, there's going

0:28:06.200 --> 0:28:08.320
<v Speaker 2>to be all sorts of court related drama over the

0:28:08.400 --> 0:28:10.560
<v Speaker 2>next few years that's going to be fun to watch,

0:28:11.000 --> 0:28:13.960
<v Speaker 2>and this is just one of them. Florida is going

0:28:14.000 --> 0:28:16.960
<v Speaker 2>to try to redo its maps apparently, and there too.

0:28:17.320 --> 0:28:18.920
<v Speaker 2>I don't think they even have the time. I don't

0:28:18.920 --> 0:28:21.399
<v Speaker 2>think Ron de Santis in Republicans in Florida even have

0:28:21.480 --> 0:28:25.080
<v Speaker 2>the time to redraw a map, get it approved, get

0:28:25.080 --> 0:28:28.440
<v Speaker 2>it through a court process. I don't know that late

0:28:28.680 --> 0:28:31.400
<v Speaker 2>entry maps like this one in Virginia or one that's

0:28:31.400 --> 0:28:33.800
<v Speaker 2>still coming in Florida are even going to be coming

0:28:33.800 --> 0:28:36.800
<v Speaker 2>into play and fall, just to the legal challenges, But

0:28:36.880 --> 0:28:38.760
<v Speaker 2>we do have all sorts of matters related to the

0:28:38.760 --> 0:28:41.080
<v Speaker 2>federal courts that are popping up that are pretty interesting.

0:28:41.840 --> 0:28:44.760
<v Speaker 2>You've probably seen that the insider jockeying is now underway

0:28:44.800 --> 0:28:47.240
<v Speaker 2>to get at least one of these two older Supreme

0:28:47.280 --> 0:28:50.479
<v Speaker 2>Court justices to retire and before January, so that the

0:28:50.480 --> 0:28:53.320
<v Speaker 2>President can replace them with someone younger and help cement

0:28:53.360 --> 0:28:56.480
<v Speaker 2>this conservative majority for a decade or two. Right now

0:28:56.520 --> 0:28:59.480
<v Speaker 2>we have a six to three conservative advantage. But Clarence Thomas,

0:28:59.480 --> 0:29:03.560
<v Speaker 2>Semilie and John Roberts are all in their seventies. Clarence

0:29:03.600 --> 0:29:06.400
<v Speaker 2>Thomas has been on the Court the longest, thirty four years. Now.

0:29:07.000 --> 0:29:09.000
<v Speaker 2>My god, a lot of us in this audience can

0:29:09.040 --> 0:29:13.080
<v Speaker 2>remember Clarence Thomas's Senate confirmation hearings in which Joe Biden

0:29:13.120 --> 0:29:16.600
<v Speaker 2>and Teddy Kennedy and that era's Democrats showed a blatant

0:29:16.680 --> 0:29:20.400
<v Speaker 2>racism and just a venom toward Clarence Thomas because he

0:29:20.560 --> 0:29:23.880
<v Speaker 2>dared to be a black Conservative. Doesn't seem like that

0:29:23.920 --> 0:29:26.600
<v Speaker 2>was almost thirty five years ago, but it was so.

0:29:26.760 --> 0:29:29.120
<v Speaker 2>Clarence Thomas is seventy seven, He's been on the court

0:29:29.160 --> 0:29:32.520
<v Speaker 2>thirty four years, and he has apparently told friends off

0:29:32.520 --> 0:29:34.240
<v Speaker 2>and on for a few years that you know, maybe

0:29:34.280 --> 0:29:36.720
<v Speaker 2>he should retire and travel the country in his RV.

0:29:37.400 --> 0:29:39.800
<v Speaker 2>And all that has added up to rumors and attempts

0:29:39.800 --> 0:29:42.640
<v Speaker 2>in Washington, d C. To push Clarence Thomas out while

0:29:42.640 --> 0:29:45.640
<v Speaker 2>a Republican president is in control, and while the Republicans

0:29:45.680 --> 0:29:49.840
<v Speaker 2>control the confirmation process in the Senate, too. Political strategist

0:29:49.840 --> 0:29:52.040
<v Speaker 2>would love to see Thomas agree to retire now to

0:29:52.160 --> 0:29:54.640
<v Speaker 2>ensure that that seat remains in conservative hands for another

0:29:54.640 --> 0:29:57.640
<v Speaker 2>two or three decades. But as of last year, Clarence

0:29:57.680 --> 0:29:59.640
<v Speaker 2>Thomas was talking as if he wants to remain in

0:29:59.640 --> 0:30:03.280
<v Speaker 2>the court. That has the same strategist pivoting over to

0:30:03.320 --> 0:30:06.360
<v Speaker 2>sam Alito. Over the last several months, you've probably seen

0:30:06.400 --> 0:30:09.400
<v Speaker 2>some of this. Will sam Alito retire, he's seventy six,

0:30:09.560 --> 0:30:12.440
<v Speaker 2>maybe we can push him out. Well, Alito just sent

0:30:12.520 --> 0:30:15.000
<v Speaker 2>clear signals that he intends to stick around. He's hired

0:30:15.040 --> 0:30:17.880
<v Speaker 2>new staffers for the next term, et cetera. And so

0:30:17.960 --> 0:30:20.320
<v Speaker 2>conservative legal groups are wondering if they should start a

0:30:20.320 --> 0:30:24.120
<v Speaker 2>public pressure campaign against Aledo to try to shove him out.

0:30:24.520 --> 0:30:26.920
<v Speaker 2>That seems unlikely to me. I just don't think sam

0:30:27.000 --> 0:30:30.080
<v Speaker 2>Alito would respond well to some attempt to shove him out.

0:30:31.520 --> 0:30:33.320
<v Speaker 2>And I hope you see the urgency here from the

0:30:33.320 --> 0:30:36.480
<v Speaker 2>insider's perspective, maybe I should have started with that. Most

0:30:36.480 --> 0:30:39.600
<v Speaker 2>of you get it. The Senate confirms a presidential nominee

0:30:39.600 --> 0:30:42.320
<v Speaker 2>to the Supreme Court, and so you want your party

0:30:42.360 --> 0:30:44.440
<v Speaker 2>in control of the White House when a Supreme Court

0:30:44.560 --> 0:30:47.560
<v Speaker 2>vacancy opens up, because then your president's going to pick

0:30:47.560 --> 0:30:50.200
<v Speaker 2>the successor. But then you also want your party to

0:30:50.240 --> 0:30:53.120
<v Speaker 2>control the Senate so they can control the nomination process

0:30:53.440 --> 0:30:57.040
<v Speaker 2>and shuttle the presidential pick through and so that they

0:30:57.320 --> 0:30:59.480
<v Speaker 2>and the president can put the most conservator or most

0:30:59.560 --> 0:31:02.680
<v Speaker 2>liberal non in place. Correct. If the Senate is in

0:31:02.720 --> 0:31:05.840
<v Speaker 2>the other party's control, well, then any president needs to

0:31:05.840 --> 0:31:09.240
<v Speaker 2>nominate a more moderate judge because they need someone who

0:31:09.320 --> 0:31:11.920
<v Speaker 2>was going to survive the confirmation process when the members

0:31:11.960 --> 0:31:15.120
<v Speaker 2>of the other party control the Senate need to approve

0:31:15.120 --> 0:31:18.120
<v Speaker 2>of the person. Most of you get this. But with

0:31:18.160 --> 0:31:20.520
<v Speaker 2>the potential for the Democrats to retake control of the

0:31:20.520 --> 0:31:23.400
<v Speaker 2>Senate this fall, you see that the window on a

0:31:23.520 --> 0:31:27.040
<v Speaker 2>super Supreme Court pick from Trump could be closing. This

0:31:27.160 --> 0:31:29.440
<v Speaker 2>is what the activists are worried about. He still has

0:31:29.440 --> 0:31:32.560
<v Speaker 2>three more years of his presidency. Sure, and Sam Alido

0:31:32.640 --> 0:31:35.240
<v Speaker 2>and Clarence Thomas still have a three year window in

0:31:35.240 --> 0:31:37.800
<v Speaker 2>which a Republican president would appoint their successor if they

0:31:37.800 --> 0:31:41.680
<v Speaker 2>do want to retire soon. But the Senate that needs

0:31:41.680 --> 0:31:44.520
<v Speaker 2>to approve the Trump pick might only be under Republican

0:31:44.560 --> 0:31:47.800
<v Speaker 2>control for another nine months. Hence this flory of attention

0:31:47.880 --> 0:31:50.840
<v Speaker 2>to sam Alito. Now you might have also seen that

0:31:50.880 --> 0:31:53.320
<v Speaker 2>Molly Hemingway of The Federalist told Megan Kelly this week

0:31:53.360 --> 0:31:56.520
<v Speaker 2>she's hearing rumors John Roberts might retire. He might be

0:31:56.760 --> 0:31:59.920
<v Speaker 2>the unexpected wild card here. She's saying. Roberts was a

0:32:00.040 --> 0:32:02.320
<v Speaker 2>pointed by George Bush. He's had a good long run

0:32:02.320 --> 0:32:05.000
<v Speaker 2>as Chief Justice, but he's only seventy one, and as

0:32:05.040 --> 0:32:07.600
<v Speaker 2>of last year, John Roberts was claiming he was never

0:32:07.680 --> 0:32:12.640
<v Speaker 2>retiring from the court. Just about ten months ago, John

0:32:12.720 --> 0:32:15.320
<v Speaker 2>Roberts joked that they'd have to carry him out feet first,

0:32:15.560 --> 0:32:18.560
<v Speaker 2>as in, they'll carry my corpse out of here. So

0:32:18.640 --> 0:32:22.040
<v Speaker 2>I doubt that John Roberts retires. There's always a chance

0:32:22.080 --> 0:32:25.040
<v Speaker 2>that some secret illness or changes in their personal lives

0:32:25.240 --> 0:32:27.719
<v Speaker 2>might have a federal judge with a lifetime appointment deciding

0:32:27.760 --> 0:32:30.520
<v Speaker 2>to retire early. But short of something like that I'd

0:32:30.560 --> 0:32:34.040
<v Speaker 2>be shocked if John Roberts retires. That's said, it'd be

0:32:34.040 --> 0:32:36.720
<v Speaker 2>great if he did. Listeners to my longtime radio show

0:32:36.960 --> 0:32:39.040
<v Speaker 2>know that I never liked Roberts or his approach to

0:32:39.080 --> 0:32:42.480
<v Speaker 2>his job as Chief Justice. Roberts has spent two decades

0:32:42.480 --> 0:32:46.160
<v Speaker 2>trying not to have this court decide the biggest constitutional

0:32:46.240 --> 0:32:49.240
<v Speaker 2>issues of our day and not make precedent setting rulings

0:32:49.240 --> 0:32:51.720
<v Speaker 2>that would actually clear up the question in front of them.

0:32:51.840 --> 0:32:56.320
<v Speaker 2>Drives me crazy. I found that irksome beyond belief. Roberts

0:32:56.360 --> 0:32:58.360
<v Speaker 2>is a judicial dud, and if Trump had a chance

0:32:58.400 --> 0:33:02.920
<v Speaker 2>to replace him, that'd be huge. That would be huge. Now,

0:33:02.960 --> 0:33:05.600
<v Speaker 2>the caveat over all of this is that the Republicans

0:33:05.760 --> 0:33:10.000
<v Speaker 2>should should keep control of the Senate after this fall elections.

0:33:10.040 --> 0:33:12.840
<v Speaker 2>They should. They have a fifty three seat majority, and

0:33:12.880 --> 0:33:14.680
<v Speaker 2>the Democrats would have to win at least a few

0:33:14.680 --> 0:33:17.520
<v Speaker 2>Senate races that they aren't expected to win in order

0:33:17.560 --> 0:33:20.160
<v Speaker 2>to see control of the Senate flip. But you never

0:33:20.200 --> 0:33:23.080
<v Speaker 2>know if it's a Democrat wave election because Trump started

0:33:23.120 --> 0:33:25.560
<v Speaker 2>a war in Iran and it as Americans upset that

0:33:25.640 --> 0:33:28.760
<v Speaker 2>gas and grocery prices are higher again, etc. Well, there's

0:33:28.760 --> 0:33:31.080
<v Speaker 2>at least a chance Republicans could lose control of this

0:33:31.200 --> 0:33:35.600
<v Speaker 2>nomination process. That's where this nervousness over any Supreme Court

0:33:35.680 --> 0:33:38.520
<v Speaker 2>opening comes in. I hope you understand it more fully now.

0:33:39.280 --> 0:33:42.160
<v Speaker 2>My prediction would be Thomas, Alito and Roberts all stick

0:33:42.200 --> 0:33:45.400
<v Speaker 2>with it for now, but either Thomas Alito or both

0:33:45.600 --> 0:33:48.880
<v Speaker 2>bail before Trump leaves office. There will be heavy outside

0:33:48.920 --> 0:33:51.440
<v Speaker 2>pressure from right wing political forces for them to do so.

0:33:51.560 --> 0:33:55.120
<v Speaker 2>Whether that moves them, we'll see. I'm certain that both

0:33:55.200 --> 0:33:57.600
<v Speaker 2>men want to see their legacy in their seat on

0:33:57.640 --> 0:34:00.480
<v Speaker 2>the Court continue to be in conservative hands, though, and

0:34:00.520 --> 0:34:03.320
<v Speaker 2>so I think one, maybe even both will leave before

0:34:03.360 --> 0:34:08.880
<v Speaker 2>Trump leaves office. So when President Trump and Pete Hegsith

0:34:08.920 --> 0:34:11.040
<v Speaker 2>were droning all of those drug boats off of the

0:34:11.080 --> 0:34:13.759
<v Speaker 2>South American coast, some of you were worried about all

0:34:13.800 --> 0:34:15.719
<v Speaker 2>the fish and marine life that was going to be

0:34:15.760 --> 0:34:18.160
<v Speaker 2>coming into contact with all that cocaine that our drone

0:34:18.200 --> 0:34:20.480
<v Speaker 2>strikes were dumping into the ocean. Oh, but what's going

0:34:20.520 --> 0:34:23.120
<v Speaker 2>to happen to the fishes? People were asking, Well, we

0:34:23.160 --> 0:34:25.320
<v Speaker 2>have our answer, Well, we at least have an answer.

0:34:25.840 --> 0:34:29.240
<v Speaker 2>Research conducted by two universities in some joint venture found

0:34:29.239 --> 0:34:33.840
<v Speaker 2>that salmon on cocaine swim twice as far as normal salmon.

0:34:35.000 --> 0:34:36.560
<v Speaker 2>I'm not sure how they got these fish to do

0:34:36.600 --> 0:34:39.040
<v Speaker 2>a line of blow, but we have our answer. The

0:34:39.080 --> 0:34:41.840
<v Speaker 2>story says, salmon exposed to cocaine in the water swim

0:34:41.920 --> 0:34:44.440
<v Speaker 2>longer distances than those that go without. According to a

0:34:44.440 --> 0:34:48.160
<v Speaker 2>study release this week, joint research by Australia's Griffith University

0:34:48.200 --> 0:34:51.000
<v Speaker 2>and the Swedish University of Egg Sciences studied how the

0:34:51.080 --> 0:34:54.000
<v Speaker 2>drug affected the movements of wild fish in their natural habitat.

0:34:54.320 --> 0:34:56.960
<v Speaker 2>Researchers took one hundred and five wild Atlantic salmon and

0:34:57.000 --> 0:34:59.640
<v Speaker 2>exposed them to coke and then track their movements. They

0:34:59.640 --> 0:35:02.200
<v Speaker 2>found the salmon exposed to the drugs traveled one point

0:35:02.360 --> 0:35:06.160
<v Speaker 2>nine times further per week than their clean living cousins.

0:35:06.160 --> 0:35:08.800
<v Speaker 2>As they put it, the researchers said, we're finding higher

0:35:08.800 --> 0:35:11.400
<v Speaker 2>and higher concentrations of not just illicit drugs, but all

0:35:11.440 --> 0:35:14.440
<v Speaker 2>types of pharmaceuticals in our waterways, and they've worn the

0:35:14.440 --> 0:35:16.840
<v Speaker 2>pollution of waters by common drugs is now posing a

0:35:16.880 --> 0:35:19.360
<v Speaker 2>major and escalating risk to our biodiversity.

0:35:19.840 --> 0:35:20.160
<v Speaker 1>Quote.

0:35:20.200 --> 0:35:22.520
<v Speaker 2>Our study shows that drugs are not only a societal

0:35:22.520 --> 0:35:26.399
<v Speaker 2>issue but also a concrete environmental challenge. So there you go.

0:35:26.640 --> 0:35:29.120
<v Speaker 2>This comes after a study on sharks in the Bahamas

0:35:29.160 --> 0:35:31.719
<v Speaker 2>that found that they're being exposed to everything from cocaine,

0:35:31.800 --> 0:35:35.160
<v Speaker 2>to caffeine to painkillers. It opens up a whole new

0:35:35.200 --> 0:35:37.759
<v Speaker 2>avenue of research. I think, are we seeing more shark

0:35:37.760 --> 0:35:41.720
<v Speaker 2>attacks because that we've created cocaine sharks. I'm kidding, of course,

0:35:41.760 --> 0:35:43.799
<v Speaker 2>but I'm guessing we're just about a year or two

0:35:43.840 --> 0:35:46.720
<v Speaker 2>away from some ecozlic group insisting that that's what's happening.

0:35:47.640 --> 0:35:49.960
<v Speaker 2>And as long as we're talking about cocaine, let's talk

0:35:49.960 --> 0:35:53.600
<v Speaker 2>about Congress. That's a great transition. I'm getting a kick

0:35:53.600 --> 0:35:55.560
<v Speaker 2>out of the cleanup that we are told is going

0:35:55.600 --> 0:35:58.160
<v Speaker 2>on in Congress because three scummy House members have been

0:35:58.160 --> 0:36:00.400
<v Speaker 2>forced to quit over the last three weeks or so.

0:36:00.440 --> 0:36:02.680
<v Speaker 2>This of course, started with the Democrats engaging in a

0:36:02.719 --> 0:36:06.239
<v Speaker 2>campaign to explode Eric Swalwell's run for California governor, and

0:36:06.320 --> 0:36:08.160
<v Speaker 2>unfortunately for them, it meant that he had to be

0:36:08.160 --> 0:36:10.160
<v Speaker 2>shoved out of Congress too. They would have liked to

0:36:10.160 --> 0:36:12.719
<v Speaker 2>have kept his vote, but they really couldn't. He had

0:36:12.760 --> 0:36:14.400
<v Speaker 2>to go if they were going to pretend to be

0:36:14.480 --> 0:36:16.920
<v Speaker 2>upset about the decades long womanizing that he was famous

0:36:16.920 --> 0:36:19.399
<v Speaker 2>for in DC. He had to resign from Congress too,

0:36:19.440 --> 0:36:22.840
<v Speaker 2>so he resigned. Then it was a Republican, Tony Gonzalez

0:36:22.880 --> 0:36:25.759
<v Speaker 2>of Texas, who had his own sexual misconduct scandal going on.

0:36:26.200 --> 0:36:29.080
<v Speaker 2>He resigned. And then this week it was another Democrat,

0:36:29.280 --> 0:36:32.920
<v Speaker 2>a black woman from Florida named Sheila McCormick. And I

0:36:32.960 --> 0:36:35.839
<v Speaker 2>admit she's hyphenated, but I stumble over her maiden name,

0:36:36.480 --> 0:36:41.200
<v Speaker 2>sher phyllis surefulless, we'll just call her Bocephus. So then

0:36:41.239 --> 0:36:44.840
<v Speaker 2>there's the third resignation, Sheila Bosephus McCormick. So in a

0:36:44.920 --> 0:36:47.040
<v Speaker 2>chamber of four hundred and thirty five members, three people

0:36:47.080 --> 0:36:50.080
<v Speaker 2>actually are being called out for their scumbaggery. And apparently

0:36:50.080 --> 0:36:53.160
<v Speaker 2>this is a house cleaning. It only is to longtime

0:36:53.200 --> 0:36:55.560
<v Speaker 2>elitists who have set up a system over two hundred

0:36:55.600 --> 0:36:58.279
<v Speaker 2>and fifty years that ensures that they will never really

0:36:58.360 --> 0:37:00.880
<v Speaker 2>be held accountable for their own actions, of your own criminality.

0:37:01.760 --> 0:37:03.960
<v Speaker 2>Only by that measure. Is this any sort of ethical

0:37:03.960 --> 0:37:08.480
<v Speaker 2>house cleaning going on in Congress? Good grief, But bosiphas

0:37:08.520 --> 0:37:11.440
<v Speaker 2>here didn't resign due to a sex scandal. Hers was

0:37:11.480 --> 0:37:14.719
<v Speaker 2>a good old fashioned theft and ethical misconduct scandal. She

0:37:14.800 --> 0:37:17.560
<v Speaker 2>was charged with stealing nearly five million dollars in FEMA

0:37:17.680 --> 0:37:21.080
<v Speaker 2>funds and pled not guilty to that in criminal court.

0:37:21.160 --> 0:37:22.840
<v Speaker 2>But she was going to be expelled from the House

0:37:22.920 --> 0:37:26.120
<v Speaker 2>if she hadn't resigned first. McCormick said in a statement,

0:37:26.360 --> 0:37:29.200
<v Speaker 2>rather than play these political games, I choose to step

0:37:29.200 --> 0:37:31.080
<v Speaker 2>away so that I can devote my time to fighting

0:37:31.080 --> 0:37:34.000
<v Speaker 2>for my neighbors in Florida's twentieth District. I hereby resign

0:37:34.080 --> 0:37:37.400
<v Speaker 2>from the one hundred and nineteenth Congress, effective immediately. By

0:37:37.440 --> 0:37:41.120
<v Speaker 2>the way, Love, the resignation statement makes no sense whatsoever,

0:37:41.239 --> 0:37:44.080
<v Speaker 2>proves she's a moron. Sheila said she's going to resign

0:37:44.120 --> 0:37:46.759
<v Speaker 2>from Congress so that she can focus on better representing

0:37:46.760 --> 0:37:50.440
<v Speaker 2>her constituents in Congress. What it's like saying you're going

0:37:50.440 --> 0:37:52.360
<v Speaker 2>to go on an all cake diet in order to

0:37:52.400 --> 0:37:56.080
<v Speaker 2>lose weight. But McCormick resigned literally minutes before the head

0:37:56.080 --> 0:37:58.040
<v Speaker 2>of the Ethics Committee convened to hearing in order to

0:37:58.080 --> 0:38:01.280
<v Speaker 2>release the final results of their investigation into her activity,

0:38:01.680 --> 0:38:05.080
<v Speaker 2>and that investigation found McCormick was in fact guilty of

0:38:05.120 --> 0:38:08.200
<v Speaker 2>at least twenty five different ethical and criminal counts against

0:38:08.239 --> 0:38:12.239
<v Speaker 2>her quote. Investigators found substantial evidence of conduct consistent with

0:38:12.280 --> 0:38:16.399
<v Speaker 2>the allegations and the indictment, as well as more extensive misconduct. Yeah,

0:38:16.400 --> 0:38:19.880
<v Speaker 2>Sheila McCormick is a real peach. She's only been in

0:38:19.880 --> 0:38:22.799
<v Speaker 2>Congress for about three years, but the rap sheet of

0:38:22.800 --> 0:38:25.600
<v Speaker 2>offenses and crimes that she racked up here is incredible.

0:38:26.360 --> 0:38:29.000
<v Speaker 2>She's actually been criminally charged for dozens of real crimes

0:38:29.040 --> 0:38:31.720
<v Speaker 2>in addition to the House Ethical investigation and the findings

0:38:31.719 --> 0:38:34.000
<v Speaker 2>that pushed her out of Congress. This woman's going to

0:38:34.040 --> 0:38:38.600
<v Speaker 2>prison regardless of what Congress has done. She stole from FEMA,

0:38:38.840 --> 0:38:41.480
<v Speaker 2>She clearly stole from her own campaign and filed false

0:38:41.520 --> 0:38:44.560
<v Speaker 2>and inaccurate campaign statements. That's a crime, and this is

0:38:44.600 --> 0:38:48.319
<v Speaker 2>across numerous election cycles. The investigators say she's charged with

0:38:48.360 --> 0:38:53.440
<v Speaker 2>falsifying paperwork on loans, accepting bribes, lying about her campaign finances,

0:38:53.640 --> 0:38:56.760
<v Speaker 2>spending all sorts of tax payer money on quote luxury

0:38:56.800 --> 0:39:00.920
<v Speaker 2>goods like jewelry and designer clothing. HeLa McCormick is the

0:39:00.960 --> 0:39:03.480
<v Speaker 2>sort of person who never intended to do this job

0:39:03.560 --> 0:39:06.720
<v Speaker 2>honestly or properly. You have to put yourself in her

0:39:07.120 --> 0:39:10.480
<v Speaker 2>mindset when she ran for Congress. In one when you

0:39:10.520 --> 0:39:12.880
<v Speaker 2>look at the timeline and the charges against her. McCormick

0:39:12.920 --> 0:39:15.080
<v Speaker 2>was a slippery grifter right from the start, from the

0:39:15.120 --> 0:39:17.759
<v Speaker 2>moment she ran from Congress, and in the three short

0:39:17.840 --> 0:39:21.000
<v Speaker 2>years she's been in Congress, she's pulled off every dishonest

0:39:21.040 --> 0:39:24.160
<v Speaker 2>and illegal stunt she could think up. Apparently during that time.

0:39:25.440 --> 0:39:28.160
<v Speaker 2>Here's a fun twist. Sheila McCormick one office in a

0:39:28.200 --> 0:39:32.440
<v Speaker 2>special election in Florida to replace longtime scumbag Elsie Hastings.

0:39:32.880 --> 0:39:35.960
<v Speaker 2>Hastings was a decades long congressman from Florida who was

0:39:36.000 --> 0:39:39.440
<v Speaker 2>also among the most famous sexual predators in scumbags in Washington,

0:39:39.520 --> 0:39:43.600
<v Speaker 2>d C. Hastings was Eric Swallall before Swalwell was ever born.

0:39:44.719 --> 0:39:47.239
<v Speaker 2>So the people in that district in Florida traded one

0:39:47.239 --> 0:39:50.400
<v Speaker 2>scumbag criminal for another when they went from Hastings to McCormick.

0:39:51.360 --> 0:39:54.000
<v Speaker 2>I'll say one other thing about Sheila McCormick resigning, and

0:39:54.040 --> 0:39:56.480
<v Speaker 2>it comes from her criminal lawyer. I do think he's right.

0:39:56.719 --> 0:39:59.279
<v Speaker 2>I'm not cutting Sheila any slack here because she did

0:39:59.280 --> 0:40:02.120
<v Speaker 2>the crimes and you put herself in this situation. But

0:40:02.160 --> 0:40:05.879
<v Speaker 2>I acknowledge the correctness of her lawyer's statement. McCormick's criminal

0:40:05.960 --> 0:40:08.799
<v Speaker 2>lawyer says she had to resign from Congress because there

0:40:08.840 --> 0:40:10.279
<v Speaker 2>was no way she was going to get a fair

0:40:10.360 --> 0:40:14.960
<v Speaker 2>criminal trial after the United States House of Representatives officially

0:40:14.960 --> 0:40:17.880
<v Speaker 2>declared her a criminal scumbag. He said, how can she

0:40:17.920 --> 0:40:19.880
<v Speaker 2>possibly go into court and have a fair trial if

0:40:19.920 --> 0:40:22.200
<v Speaker 2>her jurors have already heard that she was found guilty

0:40:22.200 --> 0:40:25.319
<v Speaker 2>by the House of Representatives. It's an impossibility. So she

0:40:25.440 --> 0:40:28.400
<v Speaker 2>was left with no choice but to resign. That's true,

0:40:28.960 --> 0:40:31.080
<v Speaker 2>but it only means that she made a spark decision

0:40:31.080 --> 0:40:33.919
<v Speaker 2>to resign because when she ran for Congress, she had

0:40:33.960 --> 0:40:35.840
<v Speaker 2>to know that she would be living as a public

0:40:35.880 --> 0:40:38.560
<v Speaker 2>figure and beholden to her constituents and held to an

0:40:38.560 --> 0:40:41.680
<v Speaker 2>ethical standard. I mean, she had to know on day one.

0:40:42.200 --> 0:40:44.120
<v Speaker 2>There are actually little seminars that they go through with

0:40:44.200 --> 0:40:46.239
<v Speaker 2>new House members. So she had to know on day

0:40:46.239 --> 0:40:49.200
<v Speaker 2>one the House had a process for investigating ethical and

0:40:49.239 --> 0:40:53.520
<v Speaker 2>criminal violations. And so it isn't some great constitutional question

0:40:53.560 --> 0:40:55.919
<v Speaker 2>as to whether her rights are going to be violated here.

0:40:56.320 --> 0:40:58.960
<v Speaker 2>She set herself up for any such consequences when she

0:40:59.040 --> 0:41:01.760
<v Speaker 2>ran for office in one one. I don't feel sorry

0:41:01.760 --> 0:41:04.520
<v Speaker 2>for her in any way, but if you still do,

0:41:04.680 --> 0:41:09.000
<v Speaker 2>here's the Kapper. Please understand that Sheila Bosephus McCormick doesn't

0:41:09.000 --> 0:41:11.880
<v Speaker 2>appear to be a decent person in any way. She

0:41:11.960 --> 0:41:14.840
<v Speaker 2>committed all of these crimes and all this misconduct, and

0:41:14.920 --> 0:41:17.640
<v Speaker 2>she shows no remorse and only wants to portray herself

0:41:17.640 --> 0:41:20.520
<v Speaker 2>as some sort of victim. And at that point, once

0:41:20.560 --> 0:41:23.080
<v Speaker 2>you realize that, I think any normal person is going

0:41:23.160 --> 0:41:26.760
<v Speaker 2>to say, well f her. Then meanwhile, this little flurry

0:41:26.800 --> 0:41:30.680
<v Speaker 2>of scandals and resignations has Speaker Mike Johnson vowing to finally,

0:41:30.920 --> 0:41:34.760
<v Speaker 2>finally adds some tougher rules of conduct on US House members.

0:41:34.880 --> 0:41:38.239
<v Speaker 2>And it's long overdue, folks, This is two hundred and

0:41:38.280 --> 0:41:41.640
<v Speaker 2>fifty years overdue, because as great as this country is,

0:41:42.080 --> 0:41:44.759
<v Speaker 2>the people who both formed this Republic and those who

0:41:44.800 --> 0:41:46.800
<v Speaker 2>have come to DC in the two hundred and fifty

0:41:46.840 --> 0:41:50.279
<v Speaker 2>years since to represent Americans in Congress have spent all

0:41:50.400 --> 0:41:54.000
<v Speaker 2>of this time protecting themselves from consequences and exempting themselves

0:41:54.040 --> 0:41:57.600
<v Speaker 2>from accountability. The idea that we've had an ethical House

0:41:57.640 --> 0:42:00.320
<v Speaker 2>and Senate policing themselves over the last two hundred fifty

0:42:00.360 --> 0:42:03.400
<v Speaker 2>years is ridiculous. Heck, the idea that we've had an

0:42:03.400 --> 0:42:06.040
<v Speaker 2>ethical House and Senate policing themselves over the last two

0:42:06.080 --> 0:42:10.400
<v Speaker 2>decades is ridiculous. There is clearly so much corruption and

0:42:10.480 --> 0:42:14.239
<v Speaker 2>grifting and scumbaggery and skullduggery going on in Washington, DC

0:42:14.920 --> 0:42:17.839
<v Speaker 2>that you cannot possibly pretend our leaders in DC really

0:42:17.840 --> 0:42:21.160
<v Speaker 2>care about it or want to stop it. There's a

0:42:21.200 --> 0:42:24.359
<v Speaker 2>reason it's called the swamp. Consider that around this time

0:42:24.440 --> 0:42:27.640
<v Speaker 2>last year, DOGE was uncovering decades long schemes in which

0:42:27.680 --> 0:42:30.879
<v Speaker 2>lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, but mostly the Democrats,

0:42:31.160 --> 0:42:33.920
<v Speaker 2>were kicking taxpayer money to all sorts of ridiculous and

0:42:34.000 --> 0:42:37.839
<v Speaker 2>even fake outside groups and mngos just so they could

0:42:37.840 --> 0:42:40.880
<v Speaker 2>set up their friends and relatives with dishonest, cushy incomes

0:42:41.160 --> 0:42:43.600
<v Speaker 2>and funnel a bunch of that money back into their

0:42:43.640 --> 0:42:46.920
<v Speaker 2>own campaigns. It's gone on for decades. These are the

0:42:46.960 --> 0:42:49.440
<v Speaker 2>people who are supposed to view as honest or ethical.

0:42:49.800 --> 0:42:53.719
<v Speaker 2>Come on, and whether it's sex scandals or taking bribes

0:42:53.800 --> 0:42:56.440
<v Speaker 2>or whatever, it's clear that Washington, d C. Really is

0:42:56.440 --> 0:42:59.160
<v Speaker 2>the swamp. It is clear that over two hundred and

0:42:59.200 --> 0:43:01.680
<v Speaker 2>fifty years now, the people whom we as Americans have

0:43:01.760 --> 0:43:04.360
<v Speaker 2>sent to Congress to represent us and rule us govern

0:43:04.480 --> 0:43:07.719
<v Speaker 2>us mostly abandon their ethics and sense of integrity once

0:43:07.760 --> 0:43:10.240
<v Speaker 2>they get there. And not all of them, not everyone,

0:43:10.880 --> 0:43:14.120
<v Speaker 2>but way way too many of our longtime DC dwelling

0:43:14.200 --> 0:43:18.160
<v Speaker 2>lawmakers have more interest in being exempted from the social mores,

0:43:18.280 --> 0:43:22.160
<v Speaker 2>the ethics, the laws of our society than they have

0:43:22.480 --> 0:43:25.080
<v Speaker 2>any interest in following them and are holding the members

0:43:25.120 --> 0:43:28.439
<v Speaker 2>of their own chamber accountable. And it's why I'm getting

0:43:28.480 --> 0:43:30.719
<v Speaker 2>such a kick out of this, this fake purge that's

0:43:30.760 --> 0:43:33.560
<v Speaker 2>going on. This is being called a purge three congressmen

0:43:33.600 --> 0:43:38.399
<v Speaker 2>who are obviously guilty of ethical and criminal violations. And yeah,

0:43:38.440 --> 0:43:40.799
<v Speaker 2>it really is on both sides. I've seen a lot

0:43:40.840 --> 0:43:43.719
<v Speaker 2>of claims on social media lately, as Eric Swollwell got

0:43:43.760 --> 0:43:47.520
<v Speaker 2>shoved out, what Republicans never punish their predators and pedophiles?

0:43:48.360 --> 0:43:50.799
<v Speaker 2>You know? Right now it's vogue on both sides of

0:43:50.800 --> 0:43:54.480
<v Speaker 2>the aisle, but really on the left to smear everyone

0:43:54.520 --> 0:43:57.280
<v Speaker 2>as a pedophile. This seems to be the twenty twenty

0:43:57.280 --> 0:43:59.719
<v Speaker 2>sixth smear. Yeah, well, why aren't you pollutioning your own

0:43:59.719 --> 0:44:04.239
<v Speaker 2>pedal files? That's what passes for a snappy retort. But

0:44:04.840 --> 0:44:06.920
<v Speaker 2>the truth is neither side has been good at policing

0:44:06.920 --> 0:44:09.120
<v Speaker 2>their own because if you think about it, if you

0:44:09.200 --> 0:44:12.040
<v Speaker 2>hold members of your own party accountable, You're losing their

0:44:12.080 --> 0:44:15.640
<v Speaker 2>vote in the Chamber. Right. The truth is neither side

0:44:15.680 --> 0:44:17.680
<v Speaker 2>is very good or interested in really holding their own

0:44:17.680 --> 0:44:21.520
<v Speaker 2>members accountable, and this list that Congress released earlier this

0:44:21.560 --> 0:44:24.040
<v Speaker 2>week proves it. They released a list of House members

0:44:24.040 --> 0:44:27.520
<v Speaker 2>investigated for sexual harassment over the last forty years, and

0:44:27.560 --> 0:44:30.280
<v Speaker 2>they claim it was twenty eight people. Twenty eight members,

0:44:30.440 --> 0:44:34.319
<v Speaker 2>fourteen Democrats and twelve Republicans. First of all, that number

0:44:34.320 --> 0:44:37.240
<v Speaker 2>seems low, but you can see that being a sexually

0:44:37.239 --> 0:44:39.960
<v Speaker 2>harassing creep is not exclusive to either party, and that

0:44:40.040 --> 0:44:43.120
<v Speaker 2>both sides have had their scandals in general. Though from

0:44:43.160 --> 0:44:44.840
<v Speaker 2>what I've seen in the forty years that I've been

0:44:44.920 --> 0:44:48.120
<v Speaker 2>watching this, in general, Republicans have been significantly better at

0:44:48.160 --> 0:44:51.600
<v Speaker 2>acknowledging the scumbags within their midst and actually doing something

0:44:51.640 --> 0:44:55.600
<v Speaker 2>to punish them or push them out. Republicans did shove

0:44:55.640 --> 0:44:58.120
<v Speaker 2>out George Santos and Matt Getz on their watch, by

0:44:58.120 --> 0:45:01.600
<v Speaker 2>the way, those are just recent examples. Meanwhile, Nancy Pelosi

0:45:01.600 --> 0:45:05.799
<v Speaker 2>and the Democrats protected Eric Swolwell and Elsie Hastings for decades.

0:45:06.160 --> 0:45:10.000
<v Speaker 2>They ignored Barney Frank scandal altogether, etc. The truth is

0:45:10.040 --> 0:45:12.560
<v Speaker 2>that sexual harassment claims on Capitol Hill are being filed

0:45:12.600 --> 0:45:15.840
<v Speaker 2>quite routinely and by the dozens, and the American people

0:45:15.880 --> 0:45:17.839
<v Speaker 2>never hear about them. We don't hear about the vast

0:45:17.840 --> 0:45:20.640
<v Speaker 2>majority of them. And by the way, the same goes

0:45:20.680 --> 0:45:23.839
<v Speaker 2>for scandals related to bribes and campaign finance abuse, etc.

0:45:25.480 --> 0:45:27.719
<v Speaker 2>The vast majority of Congressmen who are called out for

0:45:27.800 --> 0:45:31.200
<v Speaker 2>unethical behavior suffer no consequences, and the average voter never

0:45:31.239 --> 0:45:35.360
<v Speaker 2>hears about it. So color me skeptical as House Speaker

0:45:35.400 --> 0:45:38.760
<v Speaker 2>Mike Johnson now promises to tighten the sexual misconduct rules

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<v Speaker 2>in that lower chamber. And you know, if I trust

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<v Speaker 2>anyone on this, it would be Mike Johnson. Not only

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<v Speaker 2>is he a religious man and committed to clean government,

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<v Speaker 2>but he has two young daughters who are working as

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<v Speaker 2>staffers on Capitol Hill. So I don't doubt that Mike

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<v Speaker 2>Johnson will be serious about finally maybe making some decent changes. However,

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<v Speaker 2>I highly doubt that the majority of the over four

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<v Speaker 2>hundred members in his chamber are really going to vote

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<v Speaker 2>in favor of placing tougher sexual harassment rules onto themselves

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<v Speaker 2>and onto future congresses. These are bodies the House and

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<v Speaker 2>Senate that have protected their own members vigorously over the

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<v Speaker 2>last two hundred and fifty years. Mike Johnson said this

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<v Speaker 2>week that he's taking suggestions from other lawmakers and ways

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<v Speaker 2>to tighten these rules. Quote, I will lead that myself,

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<v Speaker 2>he said. All Right, we'll see where it goes, but

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<v Speaker 2>I won't be holding my breath.

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