1 00:00:03,840 --> 00:00:09,799 Speaker 1: It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. 2 00:00:11,200 --> 00:00:12,800 Speaker 2: So Michael Very Show. 3 00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:13,840 Speaker 1: Is on the air. 4 00:00:20,239 --> 00:00:25,040 Speaker 3: Good morning, Michael, Good mornings are Good morning, Michael Zay Sailing. 5 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:29,120 Speaker 2: Good morning, El Casina. Good morning, Michael, Hello, Hello, are 6 00:00:29,160 --> 00:00:32,519 Speaker 2: you there? Good money, Michael Bear, How you learned? 7 00:00:32,840 --> 00:00:33,680 Speaker 4: Did I read it? 8 00:00:33,720 --> 00:00:41,800 Speaker 2: Tomorrow Money? Good morning Texas. Listen to Good Morning Texas. 9 00:00:42,600 --> 00:00:49,360 Speaker 5: Morning, your car, Good morning Texas. Honesty and we're happy 10 00:00:50,280 --> 00:00:52,480 Speaker 5: here to talk about everything. 11 00:00:54,240 --> 00:00:54,920 Speaker 6: Good morning. 12 00:00:55,560 --> 00:01:16,480 Speaker 5: We're not wearing pants. Good morning, Texauri. 13 00:01:22,400 --> 00:01:23,040 Speaker 2: Good morning. 14 00:01:23,319 --> 00:01:26,920 Speaker 1: The kids from Richmond Lamar Little League have punched their 15 00:01:26,959 --> 00:01:29,119 Speaker 1: ticket to the Little League World Series with a five 16 00:01:29,160 --> 00:01:33,160 Speaker 1: to two victory over East Bank of Louisiana, a team 17 00:01:33,240 --> 00:01:37,760 Speaker 1: that had beaten them over the weekend. Lamar's third baseman 18 00:01:37,920 --> 00:01:43,360 Speaker 1: Lucas Sontag with an incredible, incredible web Jim in the 19 00:01:43,480 --> 00:01:48,600 Speaker 1: sixth inning, diving to his left and throwing from his 20 00:01:48,720 --> 00:01:51,640 Speaker 1: knees to get the lead runner out at second, a 21 00:01:51,760 --> 00:01:56,880 Speaker 1: play the ESPN announcers declared as the best defensive play 22 00:01:57,080 --> 00:02:00,720 Speaker 1: of the tournament, and he makes it to save and 23 00:02:00,880 --> 00:02:05,280 Speaker 1: win the game. They will open play in Williamsport a 24 00:02:05,360 --> 00:02:08,360 Speaker 1: week from today. Here was the final out of the 25 00:02:08,360 --> 00:02:10,079 Speaker 1: game to send the Boys to Williamsport. 26 00:02:11,080 --> 00:02:13,800 Speaker 2: Here's Christiano window. 27 00:02:16,400 --> 00:02:17,160 Speaker 7: Six to two. 28 00:02:19,680 --> 00:02:20,239 Speaker 1: To left. 29 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:25,959 Speaker 2: Trendy Cole has to play and so you have to wait. 30 00:02:28,240 --> 00:02:31,880 Speaker 2: I ain't going back to school yet. Party time from 31 00:02:31,880 --> 00:02:32,799 Speaker 2: the more little. 32 00:02:32,600 --> 00:03:00,679 Speaker 7: League on to Williams two. Good Lamar little going to 33 00:03:00,760 --> 00:03:05,079 Speaker 7: Williamsport for the first time since All three and All 34 00:03:05,120 --> 00:03:10,919 Speaker 7: four when Randall Critchet put the way look as Sontag, 35 00:03:11,440 --> 00:03:13,840 Speaker 7: we may be talking about him the same way as we. 36 00:03:13,800 --> 00:03:16,400 Speaker 2: Do Randall in the big leagues one. Just an outstanding 37 00:03:16,440 --> 00:03:18,000 Speaker 2: player on a ball. Invite at him. 38 00:03:18,360 --> 00:03:21,080 Speaker 3: Congratulations to Lucy had a back up. 39 00:03:21,120 --> 00:03:22,800 Speaker 2: They played very well as well. 40 00:03:24,240 --> 00:03:29,040 Speaker 1: Gritchick playing for the Royals now, I'm told, and into 41 00:03:29,120 --> 00:03:33,000 Speaker 1: a twelve year career in the pros. Here was Lamar 42 00:03:33,120 --> 00:03:37,160 Speaker 1: third baseman, Lucas Sontag with the best defensive play of 43 00:03:37,200 --> 00:03:39,560 Speaker 1: the tournament, eleven. 44 00:03:39,160 --> 00:03:42,120 Speaker 7: Years old, one of four eleven year olds on this 45 00:03:42,320 --> 00:03:43,200 Speaker 7: East paink team. 46 00:03:47,120 --> 00:03:57,400 Speaker 2: Tag kids. That's the best defensive player of the tournament. 47 00:03:58,040 --> 00:04:01,320 Speaker 2: What's the best player in the tournament? Diving to his. 48 00:04:01,920 --> 00:04:05,160 Speaker 3: Thomas Knees got an accurate throw to get it out. 49 00:04:05,640 --> 00:04:10,040 Speaker 3: This is not good, this is outstanding. Brooks Robinson's time 50 00:04:10,920 --> 00:04:12,120 Speaker 3: lun the lid of the play. 51 00:04:12,960 --> 00:04:16,480 Speaker 1: Well, we have high drama as democrats have fled the state. 52 00:04:16,600 --> 00:04:20,039 Speaker 1: We'll talk about that in the next segment. A peeping tom, 53 00:04:20,279 --> 00:04:23,800 Speaker 1: armed with a hammer and a butcher knife enough to 54 00:04:23,880 --> 00:04:28,960 Speaker 1: kill you and clearly evincing the intention to do so, 55 00:04:30,279 --> 00:04:34,880 Speaker 1: broke windows at a Southwest Houston apartment complex around five 56 00:04:35,120 --> 00:04:35,560 Speaker 1: a m. 57 00:04:36,640 --> 00:04:37,360 Speaker 2: Friday morning. 58 00:04:38,560 --> 00:04:41,280 Speaker 1: The peeping tom was shot by a man defending his 59 00:04:41,320 --> 00:04:43,520 Speaker 1: family in what appears to be a rather clear cut 60 00:04:43,560 --> 00:04:46,200 Speaker 1: case of self defense. However, the man who shot the 61 00:04:46,240 --> 00:04:51,240 Speaker 1: peeping tom was arrested and charged with aggravated assault. 62 00:04:51,640 --> 00:04:53,840 Speaker 2: ABC thirteen with the story. 63 00:04:54,040 --> 00:04:57,120 Speaker 4: We told a man's in trouble for shooting the accused peeper, 64 00:04:57,520 --> 00:05:00,440 Speaker 4: who we're told was armed with a butcher knife at a hammer. Now, 65 00:05:00,520 --> 00:05:02,840 Speaker 4: police aren't confirming that at the moment, only telling us 66 00:05:02,880 --> 00:05:06,679 Speaker 4: there's one person potentially facing charges to that man's relatives, 67 00:05:06,720 --> 00:05:09,520 Speaker 4: though they say he shouldn't be. It's a clearcut case 68 00:05:09,800 --> 00:05:15,680 Speaker 4: of self defense. Handcuffed and limping, the man, Keonte Davis 69 00:05:15,680 --> 00:05:18,599 Speaker 4: says she saw peering through her bathroom window this morning 70 00:05:18,760 --> 00:05:21,800 Speaker 4: and the life of Jackson Square apartments. We're not showing 71 00:05:21,839 --> 00:05:24,320 Speaker 4: his face since he hasn't yet been charged. 72 00:05:24,040 --> 00:05:24,680 Speaker 2: With a crime. 73 00:05:24,880 --> 00:05:26,880 Speaker 8: He's asking me do I have a cigarette? 74 00:05:27,080 --> 00:05:28,719 Speaker 4: Her brother in law scares him off. 75 00:05:28,760 --> 00:05:31,200 Speaker 8: She says, you can't stare through people's windows. 76 00:05:31,200 --> 00:05:31,760 Speaker 2: That's weird. 77 00:05:31,839 --> 00:05:34,960 Speaker 4: But hours later, when Davis is already at work, a 78 00:05:35,080 --> 00:05:39,279 Speaker 4: relative say, the man reappeared smashing the window with a hammer. 79 00:05:39,400 --> 00:05:42,000 Speaker 8: My mom was in the bathroom ass he bustled. 80 00:05:42,120 --> 00:05:44,640 Speaker 2: She thought somebody was shooting. That's how bad. 81 00:05:44,480 --> 00:05:47,120 Speaker 8: Like she said, she just dropped to the ground. 82 00:05:47,080 --> 00:05:48,000 Speaker 2: And started crawling. 83 00:05:48,160 --> 00:05:50,600 Speaker 4: This time, she says, her brother in law runs outside 84 00:05:50,640 --> 00:05:53,719 Speaker 4: to confront the man, who family members say was also 85 00:05:53,880 --> 00:05:55,080 Speaker 4: armed with a butcher. 86 00:05:54,880 --> 00:05:56,760 Speaker 2: Knife and shot just went off. 87 00:05:56,880 --> 00:05:59,719 Speaker 4: Derrian Davis says her husband shot the vandal in the 88 00:05:59,800 --> 00:06:04,560 Speaker 4: legs that they called police. They weren't expecting what happened next. 89 00:06:04,880 --> 00:06:08,440 Speaker 4: Her husband arrested, She claims, told he'll be charged with 90 00:06:08,560 --> 00:06:09,640 Speaker 4: aggravated assault. 91 00:06:09,760 --> 00:06:11,720 Speaker 2: I definitely think that he deserved that. 92 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:15,200 Speaker 8: I think he deserves self defense because that's what that was. 93 00:06:15,320 --> 00:06:17,200 Speaker 2: He accused. Peeper went to the hospital. 94 00:06:17,440 --> 00:06:20,839 Speaker 4: Police haven't said if he'll face charges blood like here. 95 00:06:21,040 --> 00:06:22,239 Speaker 2: Davis hopes he does. 96 00:06:23,200 --> 00:06:26,000 Speaker 4: She says he's been squatting in this vacant apartment and 97 00:06:26,080 --> 00:06:29,280 Speaker 4: others tell us They've caught it peering in their windows too. 98 00:06:29,520 --> 00:06:33,080 Speaker 8: I'm literally I'm scared to actually be in these apartments 99 00:06:33,160 --> 00:06:37,080 Speaker 8: or in this area anymore because HBD doesn't take anything serious, 100 00:06:37,279 --> 00:06:39,480 Speaker 8: like they just let everything. 101 00:06:39,120 --> 00:06:39,920 Speaker 2: Go around here. 102 00:06:42,400 --> 00:06:47,120 Speaker 1: You know, when you see you do a police ride along, 103 00:06:48,080 --> 00:06:52,400 Speaker 1: it's amazing what clusters of crime these apartment complexes like 104 00:06:52,440 --> 00:06:57,560 Speaker 1: this are. And you do a daytime ride along, and 105 00:06:57,600 --> 00:06:59,839 Speaker 1: you think to yourself, Man, I'm glad I'm with the cops. 106 00:07:00,480 --> 00:07:02,360 Speaker 1: I wouldn't I want to I wouldn't want to get 107 00:07:02,360 --> 00:07:06,679 Speaker 1: out at this place. I wouldn't feel comfortable walking through 108 00:07:07,040 --> 00:07:08,760 Speaker 1: the court. And the way a lot of these were 109 00:07:08,800 --> 00:07:13,240 Speaker 1: built is the parking is on the perimeter and then 110 00:07:13,640 --> 00:07:14,360 Speaker 1: looks like like. 111 00:07:14,360 --> 00:07:15,440 Speaker 2: The old colleges. 112 00:07:16,040 --> 00:07:20,440 Speaker 1: You have, you know, the buildings around the perimeter, and 113 00:07:20,440 --> 00:07:23,880 Speaker 1: then you have the internal courtyard. And when they were built, 114 00:07:24,440 --> 00:07:27,480 Speaker 1: it wasn't the intention that it would shield the criminals 115 00:07:28,200 --> 00:07:30,880 Speaker 1: in the inside of it as the cops drive by, 116 00:07:30,920 --> 00:07:33,200 Speaker 1: But that's what it has the effect of doing. You 117 00:07:33,320 --> 00:07:36,120 Speaker 1: think to yourself, you got to pity the people who 118 00:07:36,160 --> 00:07:39,080 Speaker 1: can't afford to get out of that. You know, the 119 00:07:39,160 --> 00:07:42,680 Speaker 1: single mom, she's a nurse's aide or a teacher's aid 120 00:07:42,880 --> 00:07:46,680 Speaker 1: or whatever else, and she's stuck living in this squalor, 121 00:07:46,840 --> 00:07:50,920 Speaker 1: and she's she's stuck having to walk past this every 122 00:07:51,440 --> 00:07:55,760 Speaker 1: single day. You can blame the cops, but they don't 123 00:07:55,800 --> 00:07:59,640 Speaker 1: exactly have an easy job, and nobody ever compliments them 124 00:07:59,680 --> 00:08:02,360 Speaker 1: on the job they do. If they had pulled the 125 00:08:02,400 --> 00:08:04,520 Speaker 1: peeping tom out of their half, the people that live 126 00:08:04,560 --> 00:08:07,160 Speaker 1: there would have said that they were racists, because we 127 00:08:07,240 --> 00:08:08,280 Speaker 1: happen to now know what. 128 00:08:08,320 --> 00:08:09,040 Speaker 2: His race is. 129 00:08:09,760 --> 00:08:14,760 Speaker 1: It's it's an unfortunate situations. It's a life and a 130 00:08:14,800 --> 00:08:17,200 Speaker 1: subculture that you wouldn't want to have to live. 131 00:08:17,280 --> 00:08:24,040 Speaker 2: That's for sure. You come and join us. It'll be 132 00:08:24,120 --> 00:08:36,640 Speaker 2: like old times. 133 00:08:25,320 --> 00:08:35,960 Speaker 1: With Texas could single handedly be the reason Republicans hold 134 00:08:36,200 --> 00:08:40,240 Speaker 1: the House of Representatives in the mid terms next November. 135 00:08:42,520 --> 00:08:47,360 Speaker 1: That's a big thing to say, and it's true. It's 136 00:08:47,360 --> 00:08:49,680 Speaker 1: not a foregone conclusion. And if we get our five 137 00:08:49,720 --> 00:08:54,040 Speaker 1: congressional seats, that we win them because people still have 138 00:08:54,080 --> 00:08:58,120 Speaker 1: to show up vote Demmocrats are still going to contest them, 139 00:08:58,640 --> 00:08:59,560 Speaker 1: no doubt about that. 140 00:09:00,880 --> 00:09:02,000 Speaker 2: But just as. 141 00:09:04,320 --> 00:09:08,200 Speaker 1: We have seen, when a district is drawn for a purpose, 142 00:09:08,240 --> 00:09:12,719 Speaker 1: it tends to end up in that way. I remember 143 00:09:13,760 --> 00:09:16,560 Speaker 1: I was in college, and I was watching these races 144 00:09:16,640 --> 00:09:20,199 Speaker 1: pretty closely back then, and there was a seat drawn 145 00:09:20,240 --> 00:09:23,280 Speaker 1: on the east side of Houston for a Hispanic congressman, 146 00:09:25,080 --> 00:09:29,400 Speaker 1: and it was expected that it would be Ben Reyes, 147 00:09:30,400 --> 00:09:33,040 Speaker 1: and then Ben Reyes had a lot of legal problems, 148 00:09:33,840 --> 00:09:40,520 Speaker 1: and so then Raman Martinez was running and probably would 149 00:09:40,520 --> 00:09:44,240 Speaker 1: have made a pretty good state senator. Raman Martinez was running, 150 00:09:44,440 --> 00:09:51,560 Speaker 1: and yet Jean Green ended up winning the seat, and 151 00:09:51,679 --> 00:09:57,280 Speaker 1: the seat which he held was working class Hispanic and working 152 00:09:57,320 --> 00:10:02,960 Speaker 1: class white Democrat folks that would later vote Trump in 153 00:10:03,080 --> 00:10:07,120 Speaker 1: twenty sixteen, and in bigger numbers for Trump in twenty 154 00:10:07,200 --> 00:10:09,839 Speaker 1: twenty four and probably Trump in twenty twenty for that matter. 155 00:10:11,880 --> 00:10:16,360 Speaker 1: But what we have now is the national Democrats putting 156 00:10:16,400 --> 00:10:22,880 Speaker 1: the local Democrats through this performative process of pretending to 157 00:10:22,920 --> 00:10:29,200 Speaker 1: fight redistricting. They know they can't win. They're aware, they 158 00:10:29,240 --> 00:10:31,920 Speaker 1: don't intend to win. It's not a fight they intend 159 00:10:31,920 --> 00:10:35,480 Speaker 1: to win at all. They think they'll get some concessions 160 00:10:35,520 --> 00:10:38,640 Speaker 1: out of this, they'll get Republicans, Hey, come on, come 161 00:10:38,679 --> 00:10:41,240 Speaker 1: on back, don't make us fight this thing out, and 162 00:10:41,280 --> 00:10:46,560 Speaker 1: we'll give you these things over here. That's where we 163 00:10:46,600 --> 00:10:51,480 Speaker 1: are right now. But it's also the case that Democrats 164 00:10:51,480 --> 00:10:55,240 Speaker 1: strategists know that they have to show their voters that 165 00:10:55,280 --> 00:10:58,640 Speaker 1: they're fighting the Republicans or else their Republican their voters 166 00:10:58,679 --> 00:11:00,840 Speaker 1: will do what many Republicans have done over the years, 167 00:11:01,040 --> 00:11:04,400 Speaker 1: especially after the Bush McCain years, and say, what if 168 00:11:04,400 --> 00:11:06,840 Speaker 1: you're not if you're not going to disagree with the 169 00:11:06,880 --> 00:11:09,680 Speaker 1: Democrats in this case, if you're not going to disagree 170 00:11:09,679 --> 00:11:11,679 Speaker 1: with the Republicans, if you're not going to try to 171 00:11:11,679 --> 00:11:14,160 Speaker 1: stop them from what they're doing, then want to should 172 00:11:14,160 --> 00:11:14,640 Speaker 1: I support you? 173 00:11:14,679 --> 00:11:14,839 Speaker 6: All? 174 00:11:14,880 --> 00:11:17,200 Speaker 2: Just stay home? So they have to put on this show. 175 00:11:18,679 --> 00:11:23,560 Speaker 1: So on August fifth, yesterday, actually yes it was yesterday. 176 00:11:23,640 --> 00:11:24,800 Speaker 2: I just feel like I was on riding now. 177 00:11:25,440 --> 00:11:28,680 Speaker 1: At one o'clock, the Speaker, Dustin Burroughs, called the Texas 178 00:11:28,679 --> 00:11:29,320 Speaker 1: House to order. 179 00:11:30,280 --> 00:11:31,800 Speaker 2: But you got to have two thirds of the House. 180 00:11:32,160 --> 00:11:35,040 Speaker 1: Mean, you've got to have one hundred members, well out 181 00:11:35,040 --> 00:11:39,199 Speaker 1: of one hundred and fifty members, sixty some odd or Democrats, 182 00:11:39,800 --> 00:11:43,080 Speaker 1: so they can break a quorum by simply on Moss 183 00:11:43,200 --> 00:11:47,439 Speaker 1: not showing up, and they didn't. So the speaker announced 184 00:11:47,440 --> 00:11:49,600 Speaker 1: that he has met with the leadership of the Texas 185 00:11:49,600 --> 00:11:53,960 Speaker 1: Department of Public Safety on the arrest warrants issued on Monday, 186 00:11:55,040 --> 00:11:57,320 Speaker 1: so arrest warrants were issued to bring them in. That 187 00:11:57,440 --> 00:12:04,080 Speaker 1: is a power the government has, and the Democrats are saying, okay, 188 00:12:04,200 --> 00:12:04,840 Speaker 1: arrest us. 189 00:12:04,960 --> 00:12:07,920 Speaker 2: Here. We are where we knew where they were for 190 00:12:08,000 --> 00:12:09,000 Speaker 2: the last two nights. 191 00:12:09,600 --> 00:12:16,680 Speaker 1: They're doing national TV interviews, they're able to be reached. Then, 192 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:20,360 Speaker 1: the Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued a public statement 193 00:12:20,440 --> 00:12:23,760 Speaker 1: with the support of the Speaker of the House Ken Burroughs, 194 00:12:24,320 --> 00:12:26,880 Speaker 1: that he would take legal action if the Democrats failed 195 00:12:26,920 --> 00:12:31,440 Speaker 1: to appear in the Texas House on Friday. So we've 196 00:12:31,440 --> 00:12:37,559 Speaker 1: had arrest warrants issued on Monday. They don't show up Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. 197 00:12:38,360 --> 00:12:40,480 Speaker 2: That's where we are today. 198 00:12:40,360 --> 00:12:43,400 Speaker 1: It is today Wednesday, removed. Yeah, and we're going to 199 00:12:43,400 --> 00:12:46,120 Speaker 1: give them till Friday. We don't have them on Friday, 200 00:12:46,120 --> 00:12:47,680 Speaker 1: We're going to arrest them. 201 00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:49,920 Speaker 2: Right then. 202 00:12:49,960 --> 00:12:53,360 Speaker 1: At four forty yesterday, President Trump was asked about the 203 00:12:53,440 --> 00:12:56,040 Speaker 1: quorum break, what's going on down there in Texas. He 204 00:12:56,080 --> 00:12:59,000 Speaker 1: cares deeply about this because this affects the House, and 205 00:12:59,040 --> 00:13:02,319 Speaker 1: he said it almost looks like they've abandoned the state. 206 00:13:03,040 --> 00:13:05,760 Speaker 2: It looks very bad, all right. 207 00:13:07,080 --> 00:13:12,520 Speaker 1: Then he's asked if the FBI should get involved because 208 00:13:13,280 --> 00:13:18,079 Speaker 1: here's the performative art all around. John Cornyan has become involved. 209 00:13:18,280 --> 00:13:22,720 Speaker 1: Oh yes, John Cornyn has stepped up and said, we 210 00:13:22,880 --> 00:13:27,160 Speaker 1: need to get the FBI involved here, to get them involved. Okay, 211 00:13:27,200 --> 00:13:30,160 Speaker 1: John Wayne mccorny, we're real glad you've jumped up and 212 00:13:30,440 --> 00:13:31,320 Speaker 1: want to play tough. 213 00:13:31,440 --> 00:13:31,680 Speaker 6: Now. 214 00:13:32,040 --> 00:13:35,800 Speaker 1: We haven't seen you for years. So John Wayne mccornyn 215 00:13:35,880 --> 00:13:41,600 Speaker 1: is trying to insinuate himself into the issue. See if 216 00:13:41,600 --> 00:13:44,439 Speaker 1: he can't because see Ken Paxton's getting all the pub 217 00:13:45,360 --> 00:13:49,559 Speaker 1: because Paxton is taking on the role of I'll go 218 00:13:49,559 --> 00:13:52,160 Speaker 1: get him and bring them back. And Corny's over here 219 00:13:52,160 --> 00:13:57,880 Speaker 1: going well, well, well, well they're not good Paopa. And 220 00:13:58,000 --> 00:14:01,480 Speaker 1: also I I work cowboy hat in my ads. 221 00:14:01,480 --> 00:14:02,559 Speaker 2: You probably saying, I'm. 222 00:14:04,559 --> 00:14:09,200 Speaker 1: So President Trump says on if the FBI should go 223 00:14:09,280 --> 00:14:10,160 Speaker 1: should get involved. 224 00:14:10,480 --> 00:14:11,360 Speaker 2: They may have to. 225 00:14:11,880 --> 00:14:14,680 Speaker 1: I know they want them back, not only the attorney general, 226 00:14:14,960 --> 00:14:16,520 Speaker 1: the governor wants them back. 227 00:14:19,640 --> 00:14:21,040 Speaker 2: I don't want to go too far on this. 228 00:14:21,880 --> 00:14:25,640 Speaker 1: I'm going to flag it for you to review, but 229 00:14:25,760 --> 00:14:31,760 Speaker 1: there's something going on here with President Trump not being 230 00:14:31,880 --> 00:14:37,600 Speaker 1: as pro Ken Paxton perhaps as he has been in 231 00:14:37,680 --> 00:14:43,360 Speaker 1: the past. And I hear a lot of things and 232 00:14:43,440 --> 00:14:47,440 Speaker 1: I don't know The thing I hear that has the 233 00:14:47,520 --> 00:14:52,560 Speaker 1: most credibility is that they're pushing Corning to get out 234 00:14:52,640 --> 00:14:58,240 Speaker 1: of the race. The big money boys in DC are 235 00:14:58,280 --> 00:15:01,760 Speaker 1: pushing Corning to get out of the race because Cornyn 236 00:15:01,800 --> 00:15:07,400 Speaker 1: cannot win the primary everybody knows it but him, and 237 00:15:07,520 --> 00:15:11,080 Speaker 1: that they would bring in a candidate to replace Cornyan 238 00:15:11,720 --> 00:15:15,640 Speaker 1: against Paxton. The President seems to be pulling back on 239 00:15:15,800 --> 00:15:19,440 Speaker 1: his pro paston positioning. I don't want to read too 240 00:15:19,480 --> 00:15:22,120 Speaker 1: much on that, but just watch as this development I 241 00:15:22,160 --> 00:15:27,280 Speaker 1: found wives. 242 00:15:27,640 --> 00:15:29,520 Speaker 2: So here is President Trump. 243 00:15:32,280 --> 00:15:35,560 Speaker 1: When asked, do you want the federal government to get 244 00:15:35,640 --> 00:15:43,440 Speaker 1: involved with bringing back the Texas legislators? Would you like 245 00:15:43,520 --> 00:15:48,080 Speaker 1: the FBI to help locate and arrest these Texas Democrats? 246 00:15:48,200 --> 00:15:50,600 Speaker 9: And this is what he said, Texas Senator John Cornyn 247 00:15:50,640 --> 00:15:53,040 Speaker 9: is asking for your help to force Democrats back to 248 00:15:53,040 --> 00:15:55,280 Speaker 9: the state and hold them accountable. Do you want the 249 00:15:55,280 --> 00:15:58,520 Speaker 9: federal government and the FBI to help locate and arrest 250 00:15:58,640 --> 00:16:00,520 Speaker 9: these Texas Democrats who've the state? 251 00:16:00,960 --> 00:16:03,680 Speaker 10: Well, I think they've abandoned the state. Nobody's seen anything 252 00:16:03,720 --> 00:16:07,240 Speaker 10: like it, even though they've done it twice before, and 253 00:16:07,280 --> 00:16:09,560 Speaker 10: in a certain way, it almost looks like they've abandoned 254 00:16:09,560 --> 00:16:10,480 Speaker 10: the state looks very bad. 255 00:16:10,560 --> 00:16:13,480 Speaker 9: Yeah, go ahead, PLEASEI get involved. Should the FBI get involved, Well, 256 00:16:13,520 --> 00:16:14,080 Speaker 9: they may have to. 257 00:16:14,400 --> 00:16:15,040 Speaker 2: They may have to. 258 00:16:15,120 --> 00:16:17,560 Speaker 10: No, I know they want them back, not only the 259 00:16:17,640 --> 00:16:20,600 Speaker 10: attorney general, the governor wants them back. If you look, 260 00:16:20,680 --> 00:16:24,360 Speaker 10: I mean the governor of Texas is demanding they come back. 261 00:16:24,440 --> 00:16:26,480 Speaker 10: So a lot of people are demanding they come back. 262 00:16:27,320 --> 00:16:28,360 Speaker 10: You can't just sit it out. 263 00:16:28,480 --> 00:16:29,960 Speaker 2: You have to go back. You have to fight it out. 264 00:16:30,000 --> 00:16:31,840 Speaker 10: That's what elections are all about. 265 00:16:34,120 --> 00:16:36,360 Speaker 2: So that happens. 266 00:16:36,360 --> 00:16:40,600 Speaker 1: At four forty Central at five h six pm, Governor 267 00:16:40,600 --> 00:16:45,280 Speaker 1: Greg Abbott announced that he had filed a lawsuit in 268 00:16:45,360 --> 00:16:49,840 Speaker 1: the Texas Supreme Court to take emergency action to begin 269 00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:54,120 Speaker 1: the removal from office of Texas House Representative Jeen Wu. 270 00:16:56,080 --> 00:16:59,360 Speaker 1: The lawsuit is called an emergency petition for writ of 271 00:16:59,480 --> 00:17:04,119 Speaker 1: quo quileronto wileronto. Let me stop for a second and 272 00:17:04,160 --> 00:17:11,200 Speaker 1: say what you're seeing right now. Remember, there's polling being 273 00:17:11,280 --> 00:17:14,919 Speaker 1: done every day. It's a very expensive process and it 274 00:17:15,000 --> 00:17:18,919 Speaker 1: is not shared with the public, but it is shared 275 00:17:18,960 --> 00:17:23,840 Speaker 1: with public officials who pay for it or who are 276 00:17:24,800 --> 00:17:29,640 Speaker 1: the golden ones to help inform their decisions. And they're 277 00:17:29,640 --> 00:17:34,600 Speaker 1: polling everything that that person could be taking action on 278 00:17:35,920 --> 00:17:40,160 Speaker 1: and the polls are showing that the Democrats look very 279 00:17:40,200 --> 00:17:43,440 Speaker 1: bad out of this, and that the person who looks 280 00:17:43,480 --> 00:17:48,160 Speaker 1: like Youford tea pusser that walks tall into Illinois grabs 281 00:17:48,160 --> 00:17:50,120 Speaker 1: them by the hair of their neck and pulls them 282 00:17:50,119 --> 00:17:52,400 Speaker 1: back to Texas as sit down for. 283 00:17:52,320 --> 00:17:54,760 Speaker 2: Two minutes while we gabble in. 284 00:17:56,200 --> 00:17:58,840 Speaker 1: Take our action, and then you run off to Illinois 285 00:17:58,840 --> 00:18:01,280 Speaker 1: and get mugged if you want. But you're gonna sit 286 00:18:01,280 --> 00:18:02,879 Speaker 1: here and do your job like you're supposed to do. 287 00:18:03,119 --> 00:18:06,720 Speaker 1: Stop the nonsense. You're acting like a child. Everybody wants 288 00:18:06,720 --> 00:18:10,840 Speaker 1: to be seen in that capacity Ken Paxton does. 289 00:18:10,840 --> 00:18:11,640 Speaker 2: He's the attorney general. 290 00:18:11,640 --> 00:18:13,879 Speaker 1: He's running for the US and this looks great, and 291 00:18:13,920 --> 00:18:17,360 Speaker 1: it's kind of naturally his job. Historically it's been the 292 00:18:18,119 --> 00:18:21,360 Speaker 1: Attorney General who would sink their teeth into this thing 293 00:18:21,400 --> 00:18:22,239 Speaker 1: and go after it. 294 00:18:22,560 --> 00:18:27,040 Speaker 2: Right then he got dustin Boroughs. He's in an. 295 00:18:26,960 --> 00:18:30,320 Speaker 1: Odd position because these are all the people who put 296 00:18:30,359 --> 00:18:34,000 Speaker 1: him in the speaker seat. See all these Democrats and 297 00:18:34,119 --> 00:18:37,679 Speaker 1: him and drunk Dad. They sit over here in the 298 00:18:37,720 --> 00:18:41,720 Speaker 1: corner and scheme before the session begins, and they start. 299 00:18:41,720 --> 00:18:43,960 Speaker 1: There are just a few votes shy of a majority, 300 00:18:44,400 --> 00:18:47,199 Speaker 1: with just the Democrats. They know they can't put a 301 00:18:47,240 --> 00:18:50,560 Speaker 1: Democrat up as their leader because then the Republicans wouldn't 302 00:18:50,560 --> 00:18:51,679 Speaker 1: be able to vote for it her, they'd all be 303 00:18:51,760 --> 00:18:55,600 Speaker 1: voted out. So they cut a deal with a Republican. 304 00:18:55,680 --> 00:18:58,000 Speaker 1: That's Dustin Borroughs. It was drunk day before that. It's 305 00:18:58,119 --> 00:19:00,200 Speaker 1: it's been Joe Strauss before that. This has been going 306 00:19:00,240 --> 00:19:02,840 Speaker 1: on for a long time. These Democrats that are on 307 00:19:02,880 --> 00:19:06,080 Speaker 1: the run now they're the ones that chose a speaker, 308 00:19:06,480 --> 00:19:09,399 Speaker 1: not the rest of the House. So they get close 309 00:19:09,520 --> 00:19:11,399 Speaker 1: enough to get in seventy six out of one hundred 310 00:19:11,400 --> 00:19:13,320 Speaker 1: and fifty that all they have to do is go, hey, Bob, 311 00:19:13,840 --> 00:19:17,320 Speaker 1: come here, if you'll go with us, we'll put you 312 00:19:17,359 --> 00:19:20,000 Speaker 1: in charge of this committee. Hey, Sam, come over here. 313 00:19:20,480 --> 00:19:22,600 Speaker 1: You'll go with us, We'll put you in charge of 314 00:19:22,640 --> 00:19:25,520 Speaker 1: this committee. Oh well, I wasn't going to get a 315 00:19:25,520 --> 00:19:27,760 Speaker 1: committee chairmanship. I was just going to be one out 316 00:19:27,760 --> 00:19:29,399 Speaker 1: of one hundred. Yeah, I'll do that'd be good for 317 00:19:29,440 --> 00:19:32,520 Speaker 1: my district. So you get enough to get to seventy six. 318 00:19:32,840 --> 00:19:36,240 Speaker 1: Once you got seventy six commitments, then you've got seventy 319 00:19:36,240 --> 00:19:39,720 Speaker 1: four guys over there, and you go, hey, you can 320 00:19:39,720 --> 00:19:41,359 Speaker 1: come along with us and make it look like we 321 00:19:41,440 --> 00:19:45,720 Speaker 1: have a bigger majority, or we can punish you because 322 00:19:45,720 --> 00:19:47,800 Speaker 1: we've got our seventy six here's our names. 323 00:19:47,840 --> 00:19:50,240 Speaker 2: We've counted the votes. You go count them. 324 00:19:50,480 --> 00:19:53,520 Speaker 1: So now you're in the minority as the majority party, 325 00:19:54,400 --> 00:19:56,679 Speaker 1: and you start cutting deals. A lot of them do, 326 00:19:57,640 --> 00:19:59,840 Speaker 1: and they go, all right, if you'll let me chair this, 327 00:20:00,119 --> 00:20:01,320 Speaker 1: let me do this, if you let me do this. 328 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:03,679 Speaker 1: So before you know it, you end up with one 329 00:20:03,720 --> 00:20:06,760 Speaker 1: hundred or more votes for the speaker, and the folks 330 00:20:06,840 --> 00:20:08,840 Speaker 1: back home they don't know any better. And then you 331 00:20:08,920 --> 00:20:12,960 Speaker 1: got the Karl Rove consultants and they write the letters 332 00:20:13,000 --> 00:20:15,200 Speaker 1: and say, don't let it be said that these aren't 333 00:20:15,280 --> 00:20:16,359 Speaker 1: good conservatives. 334 00:20:16,359 --> 00:20:19,880 Speaker 2: They are. We got over one hundred votes for this candidate. 335 00:20:20,040 --> 00:20:20,360 Speaker 6: You did. 336 00:20:20,359 --> 00:20:24,160 Speaker 1: Where'd you get those votes? Who cast those votes? How 337 00:20:24,160 --> 00:20:27,240 Speaker 1: come you put the Democrats as vice chairman of all 338 00:20:27,240 --> 00:20:30,400 Speaker 1: the committees? How come the chairman of the committees don't 339 00:20:30,400 --> 00:20:32,760 Speaker 1: show up at the committees, so the vice chairman, the 340 00:20:32,800 --> 00:20:35,680 Speaker 1: Democrats like Anne Johnson, can run the committees. 341 00:20:36,840 --> 00:20:38,679 Speaker 2: Problem is, if. 342 00:20:38,520 --> 00:20:41,800 Speaker 1: You're actually watching what's going on, it'll make you crazy 343 00:20:41,960 --> 00:20:45,280 Speaker 1: because back home you got people who go, you say, hey, 344 00:20:45,280 --> 00:20:47,120 Speaker 1: Mono Diallas selling us down the river. 345 00:20:47,440 --> 00:20:49,320 Speaker 2: Mono Kiki's brother. 346 00:20:49,720 --> 00:20:54,120 Speaker 1: That's a good dude, right there, he's good. He's Hispanic Republican. 347 00:20:54,560 --> 00:20:57,000 Speaker 1: On July fourth, he sends out a nice note every year. 348 00:20:57,240 --> 00:21:00,359 Speaker 2: He not he no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. 349 00:20:59,920 --> 00:21:00,040 Speaker 5: No no. 350 00:21:00,320 --> 00:21:02,960 Speaker 1: He's a good dude. Here's what he's doing here, here's 351 00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:07,000 Speaker 1: exactly what he's doing. Well about old cecil Cecil's a 352 00:21:07,040 --> 00:21:09,639 Speaker 1: good fellow, is it? Cecil Bell say it's a good dude. 353 00:21:10,400 --> 00:21:11,320 Speaker 1: What about Sam Harris? 354 00:21:11,400 --> 00:21:11,520 Speaker 10: Oh? 355 00:21:11,560 --> 00:21:14,440 Speaker 2: Sam, Sam, good, solid, solid guy. Go to church for me. Yeah, 356 00:21:14,800 --> 00:21:15,360 Speaker 2: wife's there. 357 00:21:15,440 --> 00:21:15,640 Speaker 6: Yeah. 358 00:21:15,760 --> 00:21:16,240 Speaker 2: Good people. 359 00:21:17,080 --> 00:21:20,360 Speaker 1: But they're selling you down the river. They don't announce 360 00:21:20,400 --> 00:21:23,520 Speaker 1: that they're doing it, to do it very very cleverly. 361 00:21:25,160 --> 00:21:28,480 Speaker 1: So the governor now has taken action and he goes 362 00:21:28,560 --> 00:21:31,600 Speaker 1: straight to the Supreme Court. It's a very rare thing. 363 00:21:31,920 --> 00:21:36,560 Speaker 1: By the way, well, warnto is a Latin term meaning 364 00:21:37,119 --> 00:21:43,360 Speaker 1: by what authority, by what warrant, And it's essentially it's 365 00:21:43,400 --> 00:21:48,800 Speaker 1: a legal action that challenges a person's right to hold 366 00:21:48,920 --> 00:21:50,080 Speaker 1: a public office. 367 00:21:50,440 --> 00:21:53,240 Speaker 2: So it's a pretty powerful move. 368 00:21:55,400 --> 00:21:59,119 Speaker 1: Apparently, from what I'm hearing, Abbott did not consult with 369 00:21:59,200 --> 00:22:02,520 Speaker 1: the Attorney General or the Speaker of the House. He 370 00:22:02,560 --> 00:22:07,359 Speaker 1: doesn't get along with Dustin Burroughs. Typically, and I don't 371 00:22:07,359 --> 00:22:11,080 Speaker 1: know who's driving this action, because this might look like 372 00:22:11,440 --> 00:22:15,200 Speaker 1: he's doing an end around on Ken Paxton. And remember 373 00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:18,600 Speaker 1: we've got a US Senate seat in the offering in 374 00:22:18,640 --> 00:22:21,000 Speaker 1: the spring, so everybody's trying. 375 00:22:20,720 --> 00:22:22,680 Speaker 2: To look like they're in charge here. 376 00:22:24,480 --> 00:22:28,800 Speaker 1: The lawsuit that Abbot filed is filed by Abbot and 377 00:22:28,920 --> 00:22:33,960 Speaker 1: his legal team, Trevor Ezel, his general counsel, Joseph Bink, 378 00:22:34,320 --> 00:22:39,200 Speaker 1: his deputy general counsel, Jason Bramow, his associate general counsel, 379 00:22:39,640 --> 00:22:43,439 Speaker 1: and Caleb Gunnelds, whose assistant general counsel. 380 00:22:43,720 --> 00:22:44,480 Speaker 2: And I am. 381 00:22:44,320 --> 00:22:50,080 Speaker 1: Told these are a very very smart, capable crew of lawyers. 382 00:22:50,400 --> 00:22:55,399 Speaker 2: Ezel's a former clerk for a Supreme Court justice Neil Gorsis. 383 00:22:55,400 --> 00:22:56,320 Speaker 2: All right, we'll talk more about this. 384 00:22:56,359 --> 00:23:14,600 Speaker 6: Connery lifeless isis take a dost. 385 00:23:07,880 --> 00:23:09,320 Speaker 2: Just go a little deeper into the weeds. 386 00:23:09,480 --> 00:23:09,840 Speaker 5: Normal. 387 00:23:11,200 --> 00:23:15,639 Speaker 1: How can the governor remove a state representative from his 388 00:23:15,920 --> 00:23:20,680 Speaker 1: duly elected position. It's kind of a nuclear option. Why 389 00:23:20,680 --> 00:23:25,840 Speaker 1: it doesn't happen very often? The Texas Constitution, the Governing 390 00:23:25,880 --> 00:23:30,760 Speaker 1: Document Article five, section three, and Texas Government Code twenty 391 00:23:30,800 --> 00:23:38,159 Speaker 1: two point two sub a says the justices thereof. 392 00:23:38,480 --> 00:23:39,200 Speaker 2: That's of the state. 393 00:23:39,240 --> 00:23:45,880 Speaker 1: Supreme Court may issue the writs of mandamus, procedendo cerciori, 394 00:23:46,520 --> 00:23:51,360 Speaker 1: and such other writs as may be necessary to enforce 395 00:23:51,440 --> 00:23:57,080 Speaker 1: its jurisdiction. The legislature may confer original jurisdiction on the 396 00:23:57,119 --> 00:24:01,000 Speaker 1: Supreme Court to issue writs of quot war unti, and 397 00:24:01,080 --> 00:24:07,560 Speaker 1: mandamus in such cases as may be specified, except as 398 00:24:07,600 --> 00:24:12,760 Speaker 1: against the governor of the state. No, No, that's not 399 00:24:12,800 --> 00:24:15,200 Speaker 1: where you sleep with the wayfady minute. That's a different deal. 400 00:24:16,080 --> 00:24:19,680 Speaker 1: That's what piss wayam Wallace off. Texas Government Code Section 401 00:24:19,720 --> 00:24:22,679 Speaker 1: twenty two point zero two sub a. The Supreme Court 402 00:24:22,800 --> 00:24:27,400 Speaker 1: or a justice of the Supreme Court may issue wits 403 00:24:27,640 --> 00:24:32,480 Speaker 1: writs of procedendo and cirtuary, and all writs of quohornto 404 00:24:33,280 --> 00:24:38,000 Speaker 1: and mandamus agreeable to the principles of law regulating those 405 00:24:38,040 --> 00:24:44,040 Speaker 1: writs against any officer of state government, except the governor, 406 00:24:44,560 --> 00:24:48,080 Speaker 1: the Court of Criminal Appeals, or a judge of the 407 00:24:48,119 --> 00:24:53,520 Speaker 1: Court of Criminal Appeals. So the lawsuit the governor has 408 00:24:53,880 --> 00:25:00,639 Speaker 1: filed posits that Jane Wu and I'll read just directly 409 00:25:00,760 --> 00:25:07,560 Speaker 1: quote deliberately fled the state to abandon his official duties indefinitely. 410 00:25:08,560 --> 00:25:11,199 Speaker 1: The problem for the Democrats is they can't wake up 411 00:25:11,200 --> 00:25:14,840 Speaker 1: and go, my goodness, we've got tomselitis and you're gonna 412 00:25:14,840 --> 00:25:15,520 Speaker 1: steal our seat. 413 00:25:16,520 --> 00:25:17,200 Speaker 2: This isn't right. 414 00:25:17,240 --> 00:25:20,560 Speaker 1: This could happen to anybody. They're out there doing interviews saying, yeah, 415 00:25:20,560 --> 00:25:23,600 Speaker 1: we've fled the state. Look at us, send us money, 416 00:25:24,160 --> 00:25:26,680 Speaker 1: Send us money, we fled the state. Well, now that 417 00:25:26,720 --> 00:25:31,280 Speaker 1: puts you at risk that when you say we can 418 00:25:31,320 --> 00:25:36,280 Speaker 1: stay away longer if you'll send us money, is being 419 00:25:36,440 --> 00:25:40,840 Speaker 1: equated to selling your vote. Hey, don't want us to 420 00:25:40,920 --> 00:25:45,520 Speaker 1: vote for redistricting. Don't want us to vote in a 421 00:25:45,560 --> 00:25:49,040 Speaker 1: way that would help the Republicans. We don't have enough 422 00:25:49,119 --> 00:25:52,199 Speaker 1: votes to kill the action the redistricting that came out 423 00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:54,320 Speaker 1: of committee already, by the way the committe approved it. 424 00:25:54,560 --> 00:25:55,399 Speaker 2: We don't have enough. 425 00:25:55,240 --> 00:25:57,959 Speaker 1: Folks to do that, But we do have enough votes 426 00:25:58,600 --> 00:26:01,480 Speaker 1: to keep a quorum minimum number of people in order 427 00:26:01,480 --> 00:26:06,400 Speaker 1: to conduct official business from occurring if we all stay together. 428 00:26:07,680 --> 00:26:10,440 Speaker 2: Abbott's case quote seeks. 429 00:26:10,119 --> 00:26:14,240 Speaker 1: To address ongoing abuses of public office by ousting the 430 00:26:14,320 --> 00:26:18,159 Speaker 1: non user, and that's gene Wu, who has abdicated his 431 00:26:18,280 --> 00:26:26,480 Speaker 1: official responsibilities by avowedly repudiating them. So in legal terms, 432 00:26:26,480 --> 00:26:30,080 Speaker 1: you would say time is of the essence. Time is 433 00:26:30,119 --> 00:26:32,399 Speaker 1: of the essence is a legal term, not just a 434 00:26:32,520 --> 00:26:34,240 Speaker 1: term you might have said when you're trying to get 435 00:26:34,280 --> 00:26:39,080 Speaker 1: your kids to hurry up. Because in this case, the 436 00:26:39,200 --> 00:26:49,040 Speaker 1: delay increases the injury. Because the special session ends August twentieth. 437 00:26:49,080 --> 00:26:52,560 Speaker 1: I heard Dan Patrick say August nineteenth when he was 438 00:26:52,560 --> 00:26:53,560 Speaker 1: talking to Jimmy Barrett. 439 00:26:54,280 --> 00:26:55,560 Speaker 2: He's dealing with this all day every day. 440 00:26:55,560 --> 00:26:59,800 Speaker 1: I'm not so either way, time is over the essence 441 00:26:59,800 --> 00:27:03,040 Speaker 1: of this special session ends by operation of law on 442 00:27:03,119 --> 00:27:04,640 Speaker 1: August twenty and twenty twenty five. 443 00:27:05,320 --> 00:27:06,919 Speaker 2: In any case, you've got two weeks. 444 00:27:07,800 --> 00:27:12,680 Speaker 1: So the point of the emergency action is we need 445 00:27:12,720 --> 00:27:16,800 Speaker 1: you to take action to reduce the injury because time 446 00:27:17,359 --> 00:27:21,560 Speaker 1: is against us. After the lawsuit was filed by the 447 00:27:21,600 --> 00:27:23,879 Speaker 1: governor directly to the Supreme Court, you don't have to 448 00:27:23,880 --> 00:27:26,400 Speaker 1: go to the lower courts because there is an urgency. 449 00:27:26,480 --> 00:27:27,480 Speaker 2: Time is of the essence here. 450 00:27:28,760 --> 00:27:31,639 Speaker 1: The Attorney General separately filed a letter in the Texas 451 00:27:31,680 --> 00:27:36,520 Speaker 1: Supreme Court explaining that authority found in Chapter sixty six 452 00:27:36,600 --> 00:27:38,960 Speaker 1: of the Civil Practice and Remedies Code to bring a 453 00:27:39,080 --> 00:27:44,520 Speaker 1: quoo ronto proceeding rests in the Attorney General or a 454 00:27:44,600 --> 00:27:48,560 Speaker 1: district or county attorney. The Court should not dismiss the 455 00:27:48,600 --> 00:27:53,320 Speaker 1: Governor's petition until the Speaker's Friday deadline passes and the 456 00:27:53,359 --> 00:27:56,440 Speaker 1: Attorney General can be heard on these weighty issues. 457 00:27:57,600 --> 00:28:01,000 Speaker 2: So now you have a very subtle power play. 458 00:28:02,080 --> 00:28:05,719 Speaker 1: The Governor goes directly to the Supreme Court without consulting 459 00:28:05,760 --> 00:28:14,560 Speaker 1: the Speaker or the Attorney General. The Attorney General says, wait, Court, 460 00:28:14,400 --> 00:28:20,760 Speaker 1: let me y'all hold on. Don't rule just yet until Friday, 461 00:28:22,080 --> 00:28:24,480 Speaker 1: when the action that I and the Speaker of the 462 00:28:24,520 --> 00:28:29,880 Speaker 1: House have taken can run its course. This is more 463 00:28:29,920 --> 00:28:34,119 Speaker 1: than just procedural. But what's doubly interesting about this is 464 00:28:34,200 --> 00:28:38,600 Speaker 1: Burrows is in a very odd position. Burrows and Leech 465 00:28:39,280 --> 00:28:43,560 Speaker 1: were right there with drunk Dad drinking the kool aid 466 00:28:44,520 --> 00:28:50,760 Speaker 1: while he was impeaching Ken Paxton. That impeachment of Paxton 467 00:28:50,920 --> 00:28:53,760 Speaker 1: is what caused Drunk cost Drunk Day the gavel. 468 00:28:54,400 --> 00:28:57,720 Speaker 2: So drunk Dad is now just a regular little state Rep. 469 00:28:57,800 --> 00:29:01,360 Speaker 1: Trying to pass laws to make it criminal for us 470 00:29:01,360 --> 00:29:04,080 Speaker 1: to make memes and make fun of him. The worst 471 00:29:04,080 --> 00:29:06,360 Speaker 1: thing about being picked on is when you draw attention 472 00:29:06,520 --> 00:29:10,200 Speaker 1: to being picked on. So drunk Dad is left as 473 00:29:10,200 --> 00:29:15,239 Speaker 1: a nobody state Rep. And now there are accusations that 474 00:29:15,320 --> 00:29:18,680 Speaker 1: in Jasper, one of his family properties is being funded 475 00:29:18,720 --> 00:29:20,160 Speaker 1: by the local. 476 00:29:21,720 --> 00:29:24,160 Speaker 2: Government. Is some sort of quid pro quote. We don't know. 477 00:29:24,200 --> 00:29:29,600 Speaker 1: That's why he stays in government, presumably so drunk Daid's aid. 478 00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:36,160 Speaker 1: His right hand man, Dustin Burrows, becomes Speaker of the House. Well, 479 00:29:36,240 --> 00:29:40,960 Speaker 1: that is a very very tense relationship between Burroughs and Paxton. 480 00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:45,760 Speaker 1: And now Burrows is scared to death because he's lost 481 00:29:45,760 --> 00:29:50,480 Speaker 1: control of the house. But he's This level of palace 482 00:29:50,600 --> 00:29:54,400 Speaker 1: intrigue would make for a good TV movie because you 483 00:29:54,600 --> 00:29:58,520 Speaker 1: always put your protagonist in a situation where he's got 484 00:29:58,600 --> 00:30:02,520 Speaker 1: to do something dramatic because the stakes are so high 485 00:30:02,560 --> 00:30:06,760 Speaker 1: and everything is closing in. This is Michael Corleone having 486 00:30:06,760 --> 00:30:12,400 Speaker 1: to go off his opponent for revenge at the Italian 487 00:30:12,440 --> 00:30:17,080 Speaker 1: restaurant and they plant the gun in the toilet and 488 00:30:17,120 --> 00:30:19,400 Speaker 1: you're thinking, no, no, no, you have a chance to 489 00:30:19,440 --> 00:30:22,320 Speaker 1: go straight. But no, he's got to do this, and 490 00:30:22,360 --> 00:30:24,560 Speaker 1: now they keep sucking him back in. 491 00:30:25,440 --> 00:30:26,560 Speaker 2: Well, here we are. 492 00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:31,560 Speaker 1: Dustin Burrows has got a real problem because he deals 493 00:30:31,560 --> 00:30:36,280 Speaker 1: with those Democrats in order to be speaker, and now 494 00:30:36,280 --> 00:30:40,040 Speaker 1: those Democrats are making him look like a fool and 495 00:30:42,120 --> 00:30:45,400 Speaker 1: his leadership of the House is in jeopardy. And if 496 00:30:45,440 --> 00:30:45,960 Speaker 1: he's not the. 497 00:30:45,880 --> 00:30:47,080 Speaker 2: Speaker, he's not anything. 498 00:30:47,160 --> 00:30:50,240 Speaker 1: If you ain't first your last Ricky Bobby was right 499 00:30:50,280 --> 00:30:53,840 Speaker 1: when it comes to state reps. And so Dustin Burrows 500 00:30:54,120 --> 00:30:56,120 Speaker 1: is now trying to jump up and do something. And 501 00:30:56,120 --> 00:30:58,960 Speaker 1: I'll guarantee you when he's not making these tough statements 502 00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:01,040 Speaker 1: in public, he's going behind. 503 00:31:01,320 --> 00:31:04,200 Speaker 2: Guys, Guys, you've got to come back. You don't understand 504 00:31:04,240 --> 00:31:06,120 Speaker 2: this looks bad. Y'all want me to be a speaker 505 00:31:06,160 --> 00:31:09,040 Speaker 2: or you want a real Republican. You got to get back. 506 00:31:09,080 --> 00:31:09,360 Speaker 6: Guys. 507 00:31:09,440 --> 00:31:11,520 Speaker 1: Y'all are gonna end up costing me in the speakership 508 00:31:12,040 --> 00:31:14,280 Speaker 1: and all you gots me, Jeff Lees and drunk Dad, 509 00:31:14,720 --> 00:31:16,560 Speaker 1: you about run out of people. You're gonna end up 510 00:31:16,560 --> 00:31:18,479 Speaker 1: with a real Republican over there, and then what are 511 00:31:18,520 --> 00:31:21,280 Speaker 1: you gonna do. Y'all made your point, Now come on back, 512 00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:23,760 Speaker 1: make me look good. We'll hold hands and it'll be good. 513 00:31:23,800 --> 00:31:25,720 Speaker 2: And that's where we are.