WEBVTT - SOUNDBYTES - TAKE TWO - MEDIA HITS OF THE WEEK 0:00:00.960 --> 0:00:05.480 Welcome to the Rogue Recap. Hot takes, cold facts, and 0:00:05.600 --> 0:00:10.039 zero respect for the official narrative. Sit back, roll your eyes, 0:00:10.360 --> 0:00:12.719 and let's recap rogue style. 0:00:30.120 --> 0:00:32.479 What's up, everybody, and welcome to the Rogue Recap. I 0:00:32.479 --> 0:00:34.920 am Linda McLaughlin and today I'm not your only host. 0:00:35.000 --> 0:00:38.600 Lucky you, we have Eric Eggers from the Government Accountability Institute. 0:00:38.600 --> 0:00:40.240 We had so much fun last week as our first 0:00:40.280 --> 0:00:44.000 episode of Soundbites. This week is our second episode. So Eric, 0:00:44.040 --> 0:00:46.480 welcome back. You survived the afternoon. 0:00:47.080 --> 0:00:49.880 I survived, and I'm happy to be not the worst 0:00:49.920 --> 0:00:51.919 person on the show named Eric this week. So it's 0:00:51.920 --> 0:00:57.720 a big deal. Thankfully there's a monstrous congressional scandal that 0:00:57.800 --> 0:00:59.920 we can do today because I know, you know, I 0:01:00.120 --> 0:01:02.200 give off some vibes at times, but I'm excited to 0:01:02.200 --> 0:01:04.040 like kind of read direct. No, No, it's this Eric, it's 0:01:04.080 --> 0:01:04.759 the problem, this. 0:01:04.680 --> 0:01:08.360 One, bro. I have to tell you. When the Democrats 0:01:08.360 --> 0:01:11.600 decide to eat their own, they do it so well. 0:01:11.920 --> 0:01:15.680 There is no waiting, no time lost. It's like all 0:01:15.680 --> 0:01:17.880 that shit we had on you, We're putting it out today, 0:01:18.000 --> 0:01:18.520 three o'clock. 0:01:18.560 --> 0:01:21.040 Get ready, and it's so transparent, like you know, then 0:01:21.040 --> 0:01:23.320 they all clearly got the memo. They were all ready 0:01:23.319 --> 0:01:25.920 to go, Like the press conferences were lined up, they 0:01:25.959 --> 0:01:29.320 had the blown up pictures, they had like the talking points. No, 0:01:29.440 --> 0:01:32.039 this was a well choreographed they even had time to 0:01:32.080 --> 0:01:34.600 get props. Linda like, that's how you know this is 0:01:34.600 --> 0:01:37.800 not an organic Hey, no, no, no, they think about this. 0:01:37.959 --> 0:01:42.240 By the way, here's your fat head. Yeah, I'm like, bro, 0:01:42.760 --> 0:01:46.959 what is happening? But actually, like I definitely like was 0:01:47.000 --> 0:01:49.560 at that spot when I first heard about it. And 0:01:49.600 --> 0:01:52.120 you know, we really try. You and I both work 0:01:52.200 --> 0:01:53.960 for a lot of different news outlets. We make a 0:01:53.960 --> 0:01:55.680 lot of commentary a lot of places. You try not 0:01:55.720 --> 0:01:58.600 to talk trash. You really try to have your sources 0:01:58.640 --> 0:02:02.080 and find out. And with the advance and the aggressive 0:02:02.200 --> 0:02:05.120 progression of AI, I'm always like, all right, wait wait, wait, wait, 0:02:05.160 --> 0:02:07.280 wait wait, I need to check this six Ways of Sunday. 0:02:07.880 --> 0:02:10.079 And when I saw this, now I can't stand him. 0:02:10.320 --> 0:02:12.639 I have to tell you. There's that one video where 0:02:12.639 --> 0:02:14.799 he's with the hooker in his house. I can't even 0:02:14.800 --> 0:02:17.799 look at that video, the way that he grabs her 0:02:17.880 --> 0:02:20.960 and mauls her. I'm like, all right, I'm out, Like 0:02:21.040 --> 0:02:24.360 I there are just some things you cannot unsee. That 0:02:24.520 --> 0:02:27.280 is one of them. I'm like, and it's everywhere online. 0:02:27.320 --> 0:02:29.160 And at first I thought that has got to be 0:02:29.280 --> 0:02:33.320 Ai because he's wearing argyle socks with his hooker in 0:02:33.440 --> 0:02:35.200 the bed that he shares with his wife. I'm like, 0:02:35.680 --> 0:02:38.520 what going on there, sir? Like maybe deep city, like 0:02:38.639 --> 0:02:41.280 mommy issues, like way down deep and he's like, let 0:02:41.320 --> 0:02:43.400 it all out. And who's sitting on the bed next toime. 0:02:43.480 --> 0:02:45.400 You think a lot of questions about that. 0:02:45.840 --> 0:02:47.680 Well, on the argoth socks. You know, you could take 0:02:47.680 --> 0:02:49.079 the boy out of the theater, but you can't take 0:02:49.080 --> 0:02:52.000 the theater out of the boy. And he clearly, look 0:02:52.000 --> 0:02:54.240 he's a gentleman still, you know, some things still matter. 0:02:54.280 --> 0:02:58.720 It doesn't matter what else is about to occur, you know, cross. 0:02:58.440 --> 0:03:01.760 He's just gross all about it. So we have our 0:03:01.760 --> 0:03:03.639 first clip. This is a very I think this is 0:03:03.680 --> 0:03:07.040 a very sad clip. This victim is talking about how 0:03:07.080 --> 0:03:09.240 it sounds like she was roofed. She talks about how 0:03:09.240 --> 0:03:12.200 her arms and her legs went completely numb and weak 0:03:12.240 --> 0:03:15.119 and all the things. And I will tell you full 0:03:15.160 --> 0:03:17.520 disclosure for the audience. I was roofed in my twenties. 0:03:18.040 --> 0:03:19.760 I had a guy put it in my drink, took 0:03:19.800 --> 0:03:21.600 me back to his house, and if it wasn't for 0:03:21.639 --> 0:03:23.880 his father breaking into his room, I would have been 0:03:23.880 --> 0:03:26.680 his next victim. But he literally drugged me in a 0:03:26.720 --> 0:03:28.880 restaurant we were out with a group of friends, and 0:03:29.280 --> 0:03:32.119 got me in the car and I was completely conscious. 0:03:32.200 --> 0:03:35.080 I could see everything, I could hear everything, but I 0:03:35.120 --> 0:03:38.760 couldn't move my entire body. And obviously this guy had 0:03:38.800 --> 0:03:42.080 a past of doing this. His father saw him come 0:03:42.080 --> 0:03:45.800 in and dragged me through the garage, came upstairs and 0:03:45.880 --> 0:03:47.760 knocked on the door and saved me. I mean, I 0:03:47.880 --> 0:03:50.360 was like down to like my last seconds before something 0:03:50.640 --> 0:03:53.120 horrible would have happened. So when she started talking about 0:03:53.400 --> 0:03:55.839 her arms and her legs, and I was like, that's 0:03:55.840 --> 0:03:57.840 a real thing, man, Like if you've been roofed, I 0:03:57.880 --> 0:04:01.560 know exactly what she was talking about. And now they 0:04:01.640 --> 0:04:05.200 just released today they have the receipt from the hotel. 0:04:05.440 --> 0:04:06.600 That his campaign paid for. 0:04:06.800 --> 0:04:10.800 Yes, I was like, not only do they have you there, 0:04:10.800 --> 0:04:12.280 but you use taxpayer funding. 0:04:12.720 --> 0:04:14.480 So just to be clear, I mean we're talking about 0:04:14.520 --> 0:04:17.520 like the slope of the downfall, you know, is a 0:04:17.560 --> 0:04:20.719 proc is approaching like infinite because the denominators like zero. 0:04:21.160 --> 0:04:23.320 This is the guy who ran for president twenty twenty. 0:04:23.400 --> 0:04:25.920 As you know, and as I discussed with Peter Schwiz 0:04:25.960 --> 0:04:28.280 on O Drill Down episode, you know, the reporters have said, look, 0:04:28.320 --> 0:04:31.080 we've known about this guy since twenty thirteen. It's been 0:04:31.120 --> 0:04:34.160 an open secret. But somehow he ran for president. None 0:04:34.160 --> 0:04:36.760 of this stuff gets elevated. He's the front runner for 0:04:36.839 --> 0:04:40.279 governor a week ago, and now he's potentially I mean, Linda, 0:04:40.320 --> 0:04:42.480 this isn't just stuff that ends political careers. This is 0:04:42.520 --> 0:04:45.120 stuff that brings criminal charges. Yeah, so this is a 0:04:45.120 --> 0:04:46.359 real problem. 0:04:46.040 --> 0:04:48.240 That to me is the highlight reel. Right, this guy 0:04:48.279 --> 0:04:49.680 who comes out and we're going to play some of 0:04:49.720 --> 0:04:52.200 it today where he's on like the pious podium, you know, 0:04:52.279 --> 0:04:55.440 he's preaching, and then we find out, Oh, you're like, 0:04:55.680 --> 0:04:58.920 you're like the worst time. You're literally you're the guy 0:04:59.200 --> 0:05:01.200 who is just project all the things he's doing. But 0:05:01.279 --> 0:05:03.560 let's play this clip just if you're watching and or 0:05:03.600 --> 0:05:06.560 listening you got kids around. Just full disclaimer, it's very graphics, 0:05:06.600 --> 0:05:07.680 so just heads up. 0:05:10.360 --> 0:05:14.920 When I arrived at his hotel room, I was already 0:05:15.000 --> 0:05:21.400 incapacitated and I couldn't move my arm certain mate body. 0:05:23.760 --> 0:05:29.159 He raped me and he choked me. 0:05:30.920 --> 0:05:35.520 I mean, think about what is it about this guy 0:05:35.560 --> 0:05:37.719 that this is something he wants to do to people, 0:05:38.680 --> 0:05:39.520 not one woman. 0:05:39.360 --> 0:05:42.160 Minute well, and it sounds like this is you know, 0:05:42.880 --> 0:05:46.520 we don't exist to explore like the psychology of sexual deviance. 0:05:46.520 --> 0:05:48.919 And I only use the phrase sexual defence because this 0:05:49.000 --> 0:05:51.039 is not just someone who's unfaithful. There's plenty of people 0:05:51.080 --> 0:05:54.000 in Congress that do that, but this is something that's 0:05:54.000 --> 0:05:58.279 beyond like consensual acts of you know, adults. This is 0:05:58.320 --> 0:06:01.200 something that is happening against will people forget the power 0:06:01.279 --> 0:06:03.520 dynamics of him and other interns, and there's other people 0:06:03.560 --> 0:06:07.000 that have said those things. I mean, this is illegal 0:06:07.400 --> 0:06:09.840 and wrong and the worst kind of an abusive power. 0:06:09.880 --> 0:06:13.200 And it's insane that he got away with it, not 0:06:13.400 --> 0:06:16.560 just within his own social circle, but within the larger 0:06:16.640 --> 0:06:19.719 circle of the media and Washington Sea who clearly knew 0:06:19.800 --> 0:06:21.920 this man had a reputation. And to your point about 0:06:21.920 --> 0:06:25.520 the Democrats eating their own, this is a well time thing. 0:06:25.640 --> 0:06:28.600 Not because they've decided they're intolerant of Eric Swall's behavior. 0:06:28.839 --> 0:06:31.479 It's because they're intolerant of the fact that his political 0:06:31.480 --> 0:06:34.760 position meant two Republicans were in charge of the primary 0:06:34.839 --> 0:06:38.120 for governor in California. That's his actual sin that he's 0:06:38.160 --> 0:06:41.839 being punished for, not the roofing of this young woman set. 0:06:42.200 --> 0:06:44.160 And that's the other thing too, right, you see him 0:06:44.160 --> 0:06:46.960 in all these pictures because now I didn't even get 0:06:46.960 --> 0:06:49.520 it all for today, there's actually too much. There's him 0:06:49.560 --> 0:06:53.159 on these yachts with all of these women dancing around, 0:06:53.240 --> 0:06:56.520 and he's always with other men, and it's just very 0:06:57.320 --> 0:06:59.680 I guess if the women are there and they're consenting, 0:06:59.800 --> 0:07:03.240 and everybody is there and they're all in for the 0:07:03.240 --> 0:07:06.840 same thing, fine, But when you're married and you are 0:07:06.960 --> 0:07:11.560 representing people in a congressional capacity and saying that you're 0:07:11.840 --> 0:07:14.920 and accusing others of the very things you're doing, I 0:07:15.040 --> 0:07:17.840 really I don't know. I guess there's just a part 0:07:17.840 --> 0:07:19.680 of me that still has faith in humanity. And then 0:07:19.720 --> 0:07:21.760 somebody like him comes along, I'm like, God, no, no, 0:07:21.840 --> 0:07:22.480 you're a piece of shit. 0:07:23.040 --> 0:07:24.600 You should give it a week, Linda, because you'll that 0:07:24.640 --> 0:07:27.280 will you will disabuse you that very quickly. No, I promise, 0:07:27.320 --> 0:07:31.240 we're all broken, desperate, evil people, and we just have 0:07:31.360 --> 0:07:33.000 yet to have our moment in the sun. And the 0:07:33.080 --> 0:07:36.160 problem is Eric Swalwell has chosen not to kind of 0:07:36.360 --> 0:07:40.080 embrace other people's errors with humility. Right the Donald Trump 0:07:40.120 --> 0:07:42.480 stuff comes out, He's not like, hey, you know, been there, 0:07:42.480 --> 0:07:45.680 I'm going to reserve judgment. He's leading the parade to 0:07:45.800 --> 0:07:48.680 cast the gate uh and humiliate and. 0:07:48.680 --> 0:07:51.760 So that party, oh absolutely about it. 0:07:51.800 --> 0:07:53.920 So no one has any sympathy for Eric Swalwell. 0:07:54.080 --> 0:07:57.679 Now his face alone is irritating. All right, So here 0:07:57.880 --> 0:08:01.640 is Swallwell. This is him talking about how we have 0:08:01.760 --> 0:08:04.239 to protect the victims. The clip is a little bit long, 0:08:04.840 --> 0:08:08.320 but it's worthy of your ears just for a moment. 0:08:08.560 --> 0:08:12.240 And then we'll go to Gago, who is also in office, 0:08:12.280 --> 0:08:15.400 but was his campaign I guess he was his chief 0:08:15.400 --> 0:08:17.920 of staff, campaign director whatever. 0:08:17.920 --> 0:08:20.480 And try looking for is bestie bestie? 0:08:20.600 --> 0:08:24.080 Yes, brose for show bros before hose is probably their mantra. 0:08:24.240 --> 0:08:26.280 Well maybe bros with hose, As it turns out, we'll 0:08:26.280 --> 0:08:26.640 get to that. 0:08:28.080 --> 0:08:29.360 Okay, here'll well. 0:08:31.240 --> 0:08:35.160 Everyone wants to see the Epstein files, Nicole Democrats want 0:08:35.200 --> 0:08:37.640 to see it because the reason we've always wanted to 0:08:37.640 --> 0:08:41.000 see the files it's about the truth. It's not about politics, 0:08:41.160 --> 0:08:45.040 It's about victims and the truth. Is many of these 0:08:45.080 --> 0:08:49.560 victims were teenage girls who had real wrongs done to them, 0:08:49.640 --> 0:08:53.600 and our job is to protect the most vulnerable. And actually, 0:08:53.640 --> 0:08:57.199 consistently over a decade, there's one group who has always 0:08:57.280 --> 0:09:00.959 known the danger of Donald Trump, and that's women. When 0:09:01.000 --> 0:09:03.679 it comes to women and Donald Trump, no one has 0:09:03.720 --> 0:09:06.679 been worse for them. That's why I believe he's in 0:09:06.720 --> 0:09:08.840 this free fall in the polls right now. This is 0:09:08.880 --> 0:09:12.319 about victims and protecting the most vulnerable in our community 0:09:12.559 --> 0:09:15.760 and knowing the names, not of the victims, but knowing 0:09:15.760 --> 0:09:18.080 the names of those who exploited them. 0:09:18.559 --> 0:09:22.720 I wonder what, as Democrats, you think the opportunity is 0:09:23.120 --> 0:09:28.280 to maybe re engage some voters on issues of credibility 0:09:28.320 --> 0:09:29.319 and truth telling. 0:09:29.840 --> 0:09:33.319 Yeah, and accountability and showing that at the end of 0:09:33.360 --> 0:09:37.000 the day, we want the facts and we want accountability. 0:09:37.120 --> 0:09:41.120 And frankly, people just don't trust government. They don't like 0:09:41.160 --> 0:09:44.160 how much money is involved. They don't like the dirty 0:09:44.200 --> 0:09:48.160 maps that are drawn as congressional lines and local lines 0:09:48.520 --> 0:09:51.080 are put together. They don't like that members of Congress 0:09:51.080 --> 0:09:53.400 are allowed to trade stocks. And so we have a 0:09:53.400 --> 0:09:57.040 real opportunity, you know, to have a clean up government 0:09:57.600 --> 0:09:59.440 agenda as we go into the midterms, and what we 0:09:59.440 --> 0:10:01.720 can do in a show shadow way right now, over 0:10:01.760 --> 0:10:05.440 the next sixteen months, because we are not helpless, as 0:10:05.440 --> 0:10:08.480 I said, is to receive information, to force votes, you know, 0:10:08.600 --> 0:10:12.760 to bring forward and animate you know, the stories of individuals, 0:10:12.840 --> 0:10:15.480 you know who have been affected by the corrupt culture 0:10:15.480 --> 0:10:16.720 that Republicans are enabling. 0:10:17.920 --> 0:10:19.840 Lynd I got to tell you, the only thing faker 0:10:19.920 --> 0:10:23.080 in that video than his alleged concern for women is 0:10:23.120 --> 0:10:27.480 the glasses. It's like the classes. You clearly don't need them. 0:10:27.679 --> 0:10:29.559 And it's like, do you think you're like Clark Kent, 0:10:29.800 --> 0:10:32.520 like with the glasses on, I'm a reputable member of Congress. 0:10:32.520 --> 0:10:34.640 Without them, I'm a rapist. But hey, look at me, 0:10:35.080 --> 0:10:38.640 I have the glasses back on. Is that is that 0:10:38.679 --> 0:10:39.160 a rapist? 0:10:39.200 --> 0:10:39.320 No? 0:10:39.320 --> 0:10:41.520 No, that's the swallowed right now. 0:10:41.520 --> 0:10:43.240 He's fine. Yeah, you go walk past him. He's not 0:10:43.280 --> 0:10:46.000 going to grab you. It's truly yeah. Wait wait glass off, no, no, 0:10:46.040 --> 0:10:53.600 God behind, it's so bad because it is. We could 0:10:53.600 --> 0:10:57.040 literally just play that clip and he's done. We don't 0:10:57.080 --> 0:11:00.240 need to hire anyone to prosecute him. Eric, we'd like 0:11:00.280 --> 0:11:03.800 you defend yourself against Eric number one. So Eric number 0:11:03.840 --> 0:11:05.640 one says you're a douche. What do you think? Do 0:11:05.679 --> 0:11:07.680 you think he's right? He sounded very convincing. 0:11:07.920 --> 0:11:09.960 And here's the thing is, we all know people who 0:11:10.000 --> 0:11:13.280 wear glasses pretentiously and like not for any actual function, 0:11:13.840 --> 0:11:15.760 and that's all you need to know about those people. 0:11:15.800 --> 0:11:18.200 So right there that that should have been enough. And 0:11:18.320 --> 0:11:21.960 what does it say about Democrats in California that despite 0:11:22.120 --> 0:11:26.240 all the broken and just incredibly corrupt aspects of his 0:11:26.360 --> 0:11:28.959 character and career, this is the guy that was the 0:11:29.000 --> 0:11:32.280 front runner for that party's nominee for governor. I mean, 0:11:32.320 --> 0:11:33.040 that's insane. 0:11:33.200 --> 0:11:35.720 But again, I take all of those polls with a 0:11:35.720 --> 0:11:38.240 pound assault even though Steve Hilton is leading right now, 0:11:38.280 --> 0:11:40.240 and I'm very happy. I'll tell you what. I've never 0:11:40.240 --> 0:11:42.720 been happier about a jungle primary. And I kind of 0:11:42.800 --> 0:11:45.600 like the idea of a jungle primary because you know, 0:11:45.640 --> 0:11:47.720 for those of you are not familiar, it basically means 0:11:47.760 --> 0:11:49.800 whoever has the most votes is in the top two. 0:11:50.120 --> 0:11:51.839 Doesn't need to be one from one party and one 0:11:51.840 --> 0:11:54.199 from another. Like sorry, Like if you only have three 0:11:54.240 --> 0:11:56.200 percent in your shitty party, doesn't mean that you get 0:11:56.240 --> 0:11:57.600 to be the highest because the other ones had two 0:11:57.600 --> 0:11:58.360 and one like. 0:11:58.320 --> 0:11:59.959 Oh do you like it? We got to be very 0:12:00.160 --> 0:12:02.640 you're talking about the democratic process. When you say jungle primary, 0:12:02.760 --> 0:12:05.280 Eric Soolo call his jungle primary his Saturday night. So 0:12:05.360 --> 0:12:07.160 that's how we differentiates. 0:12:09.160 --> 0:12:12.679 Well, we have Ruben Diego up next. Now, Ruben Diego, 0:12:12.880 --> 0:12:15.520 as we were just saying, is his bros with hose 0:12:15.880 --> 0:12:20.280 buddy and this if you're listening, you can't see the 0:12:20.360 --> 0:12:23.240 sweat coming across his. 0:12:23.280 --> 0:12:25.559 Bread, but you can hear it in his voice. No, 0:12:25.640 --> 0:12:27.440 this is a man. This is this is a man 0:12:27.480 --> 0:12:29.360 who knows things are about to take a very real turn. 0:12:29.400 --> 0:12:30.880 And by the way, Land, I think it's worth pointing 0:12:30.880 --> 0:12:33.199 out the best thing about this whole Eric Swaball thing. 0:12:33.600 --> 0:12:36.560 You know, Representative Anna Pauline Luna has had a bill 0:12:36.640 --> 0:12:39.880 to expel I think four members of Congress and two 0:12:39.920 --> 0:12:41.679 of them have already resigned. So that's how you know 0:12:41.760 --> 0:12:44.800 this is a real thing. It was Swallwell and Tony Gonzalez, 0:12:44.880 --> 0:12:48.080 plus two members from my home state of Florida, Corey 0:12:48.160 --> 0:12:52.520 Mills and Representative Chuff Lewis Johnson believe and so but 0:12:52.600 --> 0:12:55.560 there's more coming and TMZ's opening up an office in Washington, 0:12:55.640 --> 0:12:57.760 d C. And saying they're going to pay one hundred 0:12:57.840 --> 0:13:01.439 thousand dollars per story of devians. 0:13:00.960 --> 0:13:02.400 And oh, you're going to get some stories. 0:13:02.720 --> 0:13:04.680 Oh, and the money's about to flow. And so what 0:13:04.679 --> 0:13:08.120 I'm saying is this could be the most effective reform 0:13:08.160 --> 0:13:12.480 effort in Congress and it will involve zero pieces of legislation. 0:13:12.559 --> 0:13:15.600 I can't wait. But this guy Diegos certainly appears to 0:13:15.640 --> 0:13:18.280 be aware that his time made come to an end. 0:13:18.360 --> 0:13:19.959 Yeah, but I'm going to say one more thing before 0:13:19.960 --> 0:13:22.720 we go to Diego to your point, TMZ is like 0:13:22.760 --> 0:13:24.880 a daylate and a dollar short on this because if 0:13:24.880 --> 0:13:28.120 you remember, it was a few years ago. But Jackie Spier, 0:13:28.160 --> 0:13:30.600 who used to be she was actually from California and 0:13:30.640 --> 0:13:33.200 she was a Democrat, and she decided to do a 0:13:33.200 --> 0:13:36.160 deep dive into the slush fund. And I started looking 0:13:36.160 --> 0:13:38.360 into this last night because I covered it on air, 0:13:38.720 --> 0:13:40.880 We reported on it, we tried to get the word out, 0:13:41.400 --> 0:13:43.800 and we literally got shut down at every turn. So 0:13:43.840 --> 0:13:47.200 I was looking it up last night and this These 0:13:47.240 --> 0:13:49.959 are these are the numbers from what Jackie was trying 0:13:50.000 --> 0:13:55.199 to expose. Congress paid seventeen million dollars in sexual misconduct 0:13:55.320 --> 0:13:59.240 and discrimination settlements over the last twenty years to cover 0:13:59.360 --> 0:14:03.360 two hundred undred and sixty eight settlements on Capitol Hill. 0:14:03.559 --> 0:14:06.240 This is according to the Office of Compliance Now that 0:14:06.320 --> 0:14:09.600 was set up in nineteen ninety five Clinton under the 0:14:09.640 --> 0:14:12.800 Congressional Accountability Act. In two thousand and two to two 0:14:12.840 --> 0:14:15.560 thousand and seven, those talies started to get over several 0:14:15.640 --> 0:14:18.400 million dollars. So my point in saying all of this 0:14:18.559 --> 0:14:21.600 is this is a long standing issue, the idea that 0:14:21.720 --> 0:14:26.480 taxpayer dollars are being used to keep people quiet. It's 0:14:26.520 --> 0:14:29.560 no wonder why people that get raped by representatives since 0:14:29.600 --> 0:14:30.400 they can't speak out. 0:14:30.680 --> 0:14:32.360 We'll just think about the numbers you just said, two 0:14:32.400 --> 0:14:34.920 hundred and sixty eight over twenty years. That's more than 0:14:35.000 --> 0:14:38.160 that's double digits a year on average. So, I mean, 0:14:38.160 --> 0:14:42.000 that's exactly the kind of behavior that's become acceptable in Washington, 0:14:42.040 --> 0:14:43.920 c and in the halls of Congress people that were 0:14:43.960 --> 0:14:46.720 sent there, that we pay with our own tax dollars. Yes, Luckily, 0:14:46.760 --> 0:14:48.760 as we talked about with Peter this week on the 0:14:48.840 --> 0:14:51.360 drill down, they have made some adjustments and so now 0:14:51.480 --> 0:14:54.040 members of Congress are actually supposed to reimburse that fund 0:14:54.320 --> 0:14:55.360 with their own money. 0:14:56.040 --> 0:14:57.760 Now, what a unique idea, What. 0:14:57.760 --> 0:14:59.840 A unique idea, But we still don't have the level 0:14:59.880 --> 0:15:03.200 of transparency and accountability that we should have, meaning people 0:15:03.280 --> 0:15:05.560 like representative gayegos can still kind of get away with 0:15:05.600 --> 0:15:06.360 it for the time being. 0:15:06.560 --> 0:15:08.880 Well, remember when they gave out those Epstein files. What 0:15:08.920 --> 0:15:11.480 was the first thing all those representatives did when they 0:15:11.520 --> 0:15:14.240 looked at the search patterns? Do you remember what it was? 0:15:15.240 --> 0:15:16.040 Look for their name? 0:15:16.320 --> 0:15:22.040 Look for their name? So creepy, What is wrong with you? 0:15:22.600 --> 0:15:24.840 Why do you think you're in the Epstein files? What 0:15:24.960 --> 0:15:28.000 is like? You need a hobby, bro? What's going on 0:15:28.040 --> 0:15:28.680 in your free time? 0:15:28.920 --> 0:15:31.440 Yabba hobby? I think problems that could have been solved 0:15:31.480 --> 0:15:33.440 with a fifteen dollars month Netflix account for a. 0:15:33.440 --> 0:15:37.200 Thousand You know, thank you, take a shower. Okay, let's 0:15:37.240 --> 0:15:38.760 play Gego. I apologize. 0:15:40.440 --> 0:15:40.600 You know. 0:15:42.960 --> 0:15:44.240 I don't know what's going on with this family, but 0:15:44.520 --> 0:15:46.640 it's definitely a horrible situation for family. They're using that 0:15:46.680 --> 0:15:48.640 as a cover to attack me right now because they 0:15:48.680 --> 0:15:51.160 can't do it. They couldn't take back twenty twenty four 0:15:51.320 --> 0:15:53.480 because they ran a horrible race. But now this is 0:15:53.480 --> 0:15:54.920 what they want to do. They just want to hurt 0:15:54.920 --> 0:15:56.880 me as much as hen presidents or anything else. 0:15:56.920 --> 0:15:57.120 Say that. 0:15:57.200 --> 0:15:57.640 I don't care. 0:15:57.720 --> 0:16:00.160 We're gonna wait, that's not even a thing right now. 0:16:00.200 --> 0:16:02.080 The most important thing is I want to protect my family. 0:16:02.160 --> 0:16:05.240 I want to protect my family's reputation. And this is 0:16:05.240 --> 0:16:06.320 why we're talking about right now. 0:16:06.360 --> 0:16:06.520 Center. 0:16:06.560 --> 0:16:10.240 You've got on trips, on vacations, officially, unofficially, you've gone out, 0:16:10.280 --> 0:16:14.440 presumably with the congressman. You've never even witnessed him. I 0:16:14.440 --> 0:16:16.040 don't know, engaging in an affair. 0:16:16.920 --> 0:16:21.160 No, no, I will displaying some of the photos that online. 0:16:21.200 --> 0:16:23.120 I know you addressed one, but there is another one 0:16:23.160 --> 0:16:25.360 that should both of you about me. How do you 0:16:25.360 --> 0:16:27.280 address some of those compromising photos. 0:16:28.000 --> 0:16:28.880 We were on a beach. 0:16:29.760 --> 0:16:33.000 I think you're on the desert and on some camels. 0:16:33.400 --> 0:16:35.800 It was a beach and a camel, but it's a beach. 0:16:35.840 --> 0:16:38.160 Yeah, it was flirty. 0:16:38.320 --> 0:16:40.320 That was flirty, and that was when about what year was? 0:16:40.520 --> 0:16:41.840 I mean that was We've heard that. 0:16:41.880 --> 0:16:42.680 We've heard that throughout. 0:16:42.800 --> 0:16:44.760 Senator you just said you just thank you so much. 0:16:44.800 --> 0:16:46.360 I want to clarify it because in the beginning, I 0:16:46.400 --> 0:16:47.600 know we'll go back there. At the beginning, you said 0:16:47.600 --> 0:16:49.240 when you first heard these rumors a few weeks ago, 0:16:49.320 --> 0:16:50.800 that's when you call them then you said, you've heard 0:16:50.800 --> 0:16:53.200 these rumors for years, so which one is it? Senator? 0:16:53.520 --> 0:16:55.800 So I heard rumors of him being flirty, and. 0:16:55.720 --> 0:16:57.600 That wasn't an issue enough for you to not trust 0:16:57.640 --> 0:16:58.680 him to watch your kids or be. 0:16:58.640 --> 0:17:01.520 Close with him, because you know, you hear this, and 0:17:01.560 --> 0:17:03.440 then when you're close to somebody and you you know, 0:17:03.520 --> 0:17:06.840 you know his wife, you see this, you see that relationship, 0:17:07.119 --> 0:17:11.840 you know that like it maybe just isn't true. I 0:17:11.880 --> 0:17:14.199 asked him about it a few weeks ago when it 0:17:14.280 --> 0:17:15.880 when it started coming up online. 0:17:18.359 --> 0:17:28.359 You're running his campaign about just a bit awkward. 0:17:28.800 --> 0:17:30.920 Just He's like, he didn't want to say the hard, 0:17:30.960 --> 0:17:34.640 uncomfortable truth was like, look look at me, look at him. 0:17:35.000 --> 0:17:36.840 Which one of us do you think needs the other 0:17:37.000 --> 0:17:40.920 to score? Okay? Of course I was happy to be 0:17:41.160 --> 0:17:43.840 in the orbit and bask in the warmth of a 0:17:43.960 --> 0:17:47.760 sun reflected from another galaxy. Eric was my guy. I 0:17:47.880 --> 0:17:49.920 was happy to just kind of hang out and see 0:17:49.960 --> 0:17:52.199 what was left over the other night. And that was 0:17:52.240 --> 0:17:55.720 our relationship. He was flirty, and you know, I just 0:17:55.840 --> 0:17:56.720 was the beneficiary. 0:17:57.000 --> 0:17:59.760 I love that they ask, first of all, what is 0:18:00.000 --> 0:18:03.080 wrong with these people? They're on vacation so much. I 0:18:03.080 --> 0:18:04.760 mean you and I have talked about this so many times. 0:18:04.760 --> 0:18:06.560 But they work like one hundred and thirty days out 0:18:06.600 --> 0:18:08.240 of the year. The rest of us are working a 0:18:08.320 --> 0:18:11.320 gajillion hours a day, three hundred and sixty five days 0:18:11.320 --> 0:18:14.240 a year, and they have the time to be together 0:18:14.640 --> 0:18:18.280 in the desert on a camel. What is going on? 0:18:18.720 --> 0:18:22.000 I'm pretty sure California needs some help. I'm pretty sure 0:18:22.040 --> 0:18:24.680 that things are in dire streets. Why is Swallowah hanging 0:18:24.680 --> 0:18:26.160 out with Gayago on camels? 0:18:26.400 --> 0:18:29.159 Well, to your point, these are the problems that arise, 0:18:29.200 --> 0:18:30.960 and you have too much free time and lots of 0:18:30.960 --> 0:18:33.400 money and like that's I mean, like that, let's explain 0:18:33.480 --> 0:18:36.439 the Washington, DC culture in a couple of key phrases. 0:18:36.520 --> 0:18:40.080 And have the money though, Yeah, they're using they're using 0:18:40.200 --> 0:18:42.720 campaign funds, their taxpayer dollars they. 0:18:42.600 --> 0:18:44.520 Have, they have access to money, absolutely, and I would 0:18:44.520 --> 0:18:46.359 say that, you know, this is what's wrong, And honestly 0:18:46.359 --> 0:18:48.480 it's funny. You know, he represents California, and you and 0:18:48.560 --> 0:18:51.440 I have spoken about California. Fraud is obviously a huge 0:18:51.520 --> 0:18:54.440 issue right now, as it should be, and we could 0:18:54.440 --> 0:18:56.520 talk more about that. But I think the reality is 0:18:56.520 --> 0:18:59.520 is that just like this culture of fraud that's been 0:18:59.560 --> 0:19:02.639 allowed to exist in California, and everyone just kind of 0:19:02.640 --> 0:19:05.439 looks the other way because they're so anesthetized to it, 0:19:05.480 --> 0:19:07.720