1 00:00:10,960 --> 00:00:17,200 Speaker 1: This is a Jesse Kelly show. It is that Jesse 2 00:00:17,480 --> 00:00:26,240 Speaker 1: Kelly Show. Let's have some fun on a Wednesday, Happy 3 00:00:26,520 --> 00:00:30,560 Speaker 1: hook Day. You have finally made it, and we have 4 00:00:30,720 --> 00:00:34,720 Speaker 1: a bunch we have to get to tonight. Yes, they've 5 00:00:34,800 --> 00:00:38,600 Speaker 1: introduced articles of impeachment for Trump. We will discuss that 6 00:00:38,720 --> 00:00:42,960 Speaker 1: at some point in time. Two trillion dollars in corruption, 7 00:00:43,720 --> 00:00:49,240 Speaker 1: not waste corruption, we'll discuss it. Democrats are still being 8 00:00:49,360 --> 00:00:53,640 Speaker 1: pressed about lying about the Biden thing. Not good. Pete 9 00:00:53,640 --> 00:00:57,400 Speaker 1: haik Seth is doing amazing things, cutting generals. You're not 10 00:00:57,440 --> 00:01:01,160 Speaker 1: gonna believe. Who's winning currently the twenty two twenty eight primary. 11 00:01:01,680 --> 00:01:05,840 Speaker 1: Bad news. Germany's building another large army. And I defend 12 00:01:05,920 --> 00:01:11,360 Speaker 1: Democrats for falling asleep in Congress. All that emails and 13 00:01:11,640 --> 00:01:14,080 Speaker 1: so much more coming up on the world famous Jesse 14 00:01:14,160 --> 00:01:19,160 Speaker 1: Kelly Show. And we have Selena Zito, She's gonna give 15 00:01:19,200 --> 00:01:22,080 Speaker 1: us some How are people on the ground feeling so 16 00:01:22,240 --> 00:01:25,200 Speaker 1: far about the Trump presidency the GOP House. We have 17 00:01:25,319 --> 00:01:28,960 Speaker 1: Brandon Wikert because there's all kinds of foreign policy stuff. 18 00:01:28,959 --> 00:01:32,160 Speaker 1: What's Trump doing overseas Saudi Arabia, what's he doing and 19 00:01:32,880 --> 00:01:36,080 Speaker 1: what let's find out? Oh that and more coming up 20 00:01:36,120 --> 00:01:40,280 Speaker 1: tonight on the world famous Jesse Kelly Show. I want 21 00:01:40,280 --> 00:01:43,240 Speaker 1: to start out with something. I'm gonna warn you right 22 00:01:43,280 --> 00:01:47,960 Speaker 1: off the bat. This is really really heavy, but I 23 00:01:48,160 --> 00:01:52,200 Speaker 1: feel obligated as soon as I saw it, I feel 24 00:01:52,240 --> 00:01:57,280 Speaker 1: obligated to talk about it, to bring it up, because 25 00:01:57,880 --> 00:02:00,440 Speaker 1: here's what happens for those of us who are interested 26 00:02:00,520 --> 00:02:04,560 Speaker 1: in politics. Whether you love it, maybe you're love interested, 27 00:02:04,680 --> 00:02:06,920 Speaker 1: or maybe you hate interested, you pay attention to it, 28 00:02:06,960 --> 00:02:10,520 Speaker 1: and I'm glad you do. It's important. I told my 29 00:02:10,560 --> 00:02:13,360 Speaker 1: wife this morning, I kind of hate it. I do. 30 00:02:14,240 --> 00:02:16,640 Speaker 1: It's all so ugly and gross. I kind of hate it, 31 00:02:16,680 --> 00:02:20,640 Speaker 1: but I have to stay interested because my country matters 32 00:02:20,680 --> 00:02:23,680 Speaker 1: to me a lot, so we have I'm glad you're interested. 33 00:02:23,880 --> 00:02:27,000 Speaker 1: But those of us who pay attention every day is 34 00:02:27,040 --> 00:02:31,280 Speaker 1: what It's new headlines, it's new scandals, it's Republicans saying this, 35 00:02:31,400 --> 00:02:36,040 Speaker 1: it's Democrats saying that, And it can almost become if 36 00:02:36,080 --> 00:02:37,960 Speaker 1: you allow it. I know what's happened to me before. 37 00:02:38,440 --> 00:02:41,640 Speaker 1: It can almost become kind of a show you watch. 38 00:02:41,760 --> 00:02:44,640 Speaker 1: Does that make sense? You turn on the television and 39 00:02:44,639 --> 00:02:46,760 Speaker 1: there are the characters. There's the bad guys, and there's 40 00:02:46,800 --> 00:02:48,880 Speaker 1: the good guys, and he's saying this, and he's saying 41 00:02:48,919 --> 00:02:53,320 Speaker 1: that it just becomes a television show. Not necessarily personal, 42 00:02:53,880 --> 00:02:58,760 Speaker 1: not necessarily intimate, but a television show. And so we're 43 00:02:58,800 --> 00:03:04,120 Speaker 1: going to discuss this extremely heavy, heavy brutal story briefly 44 00:03:04,120 --> 00:03:07,520 Speaker 1: and then we're going to move on. But it snapped 45 00:03:07,520 --> 00:03:10,200 Speaker 1: me awake this morning, I'll tell you that much. I 46 00:03:10,280 --> 00:03:14,280 Speaker 1: was actually eating breakfast tacos when I read the story, 47 00:03:14,360 --> 00:03:18,160 Speaker 1: dug into the story more and it really really made 48 00:03:18,200 --> 00:03:21,399 Speaker 1: me sit up in my chair and once again realize 49 00:03:21,560 --> 00:03:25,040 Speaker 1: the stakes of what we argue about and what we're 50 00:03:25,040 --> 00:03:29,760 Speaker 1: fighting for every single day. There was a story. You 51 00:03:29,880 --> 00:03:32,960 Speaker 1: probably forget it, and it's understandable if you forgot it 52 00:03:33,040 --> 00:03:35,960 Speaker 1: because it was a while ago. But there was a 53 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:43,640 Speaker 1: story out of Colorado, Aurora, Colorado, and well, i'll play 54 00:03:43,680 --> 00:03:47,200 Speaker 1: the local news report at least some of it, and 55 00:03:47,240 --> 00:03:51,160 Speaker 1: what happened to this teenage girl last July. 56 00:03:51,280 --> 00:03:54,560 Speaker 2: Here it was Caitlyn Weaver was killed by a jeep 57 00:03:54,720 --> 00:03:58,840 Speaker 2: barreling through a residential neighborhood. This speed limit forty five. 58 00:03:59,240 --> 00:04:03,760 Speaker 2: The driver, investigators say, was doing more than ninety. The suspect, 59 00:04:03,880 --> 00:04:06,960 Speaker 2: who had kids in the car with him, was fifteen. 60 00:04:07,480 --> 00:04:10,560 Speaker 2: He was not only driving illegally, he was in the 61 00:04:10,640 --> 00:04:15,560 Speaker 2: country illegally. Under Daamy Padden, the teen, who faced up 62 00:04:15,600 --> 00:04:19,760 Speaker 2: to two years in youth corrections for vehicular homicide was 63 00:04:19,800 --> 00:04:24,200 Speaker 2: offered two years probation if he pled guilty. No financial 64 00:04:24,279 --> 00:04:28,599 Speaker 2: liability either, despite nearly a million in medical bills. The 65 00:04:28,720 --> 00:04:32,760 Speaker 2: jeep was uninsured, and the juvenile's mom says he took 66 00:04:32,839 --> 00:04:37,880 Speaker 2: it without permission, so she isn't responsible either. An Oregon donor, 67 00:04:38,040 --> 00:04:41,800 Speaker 2: Caitlyn Weaver continues to live on in others while the 68 00:04:41,839 --> 00:04:46,919 Speaker 2: person who killed her lives free. 69 00:04:47,320 --> 00:04:52,320 Speaker 1: Caitlyn Weaver is her name, and I apologize. I don't 70 00:04:52,320 --> 00:04:54,039 Speaker 1: know even though if I should read it, because I 71 00:04:54,040 --> 00:04:57,000 Speaker 1: don't want to abuse her name. You know that's not 72 00:04:57,040 --> 00:05:00,320 Speaker 1: what I'm trying to do. But she was t twenty 73 00:05:00,320 --> 00:05:06,240 Speaker 1: four years old. Twenty four years old, and I wouldn't 74 00:05:06,279 --> 00:05:08,400 Speaker 1: recommend you go look it up, but you're welcome to 75 00:05:08,560 --> 00:05:14,760 Speaker 1: if you want. There's video of her getting absolutely blasted 76 00:05:14,880 --> 00:05:20,400 Speaker 1: t bone by this illegal driving ninety and a forty 77 00:05:20,440 --> 00:05:27,960 Speaker 1: five just destroyed her right And I'm going to play 78 00:05:27,960 --> 00:05:31,719 Speaker 1: something else for you, And this something else I'm playing 79 00:05:31,800 --> 00:05:35,200 Speaker 1: right now is Rear Admiral Pete Botaj Edge. He's going 80 00:05:35,279 --> 00:05:37,000 Speaker 1: to run for president, and I don't know whether or 81 00:05:37,040 --> 00:05:39,560 Speaker 1: not he'll be the nominee. Who knows, but he's definitely 82 00:05:39,600 --> 00:05:44,719 Speaker 1: going to run. But this is Pete Boudhajedge defending the 83 00:05:45,920 --> 00:05:49,200 Speaker 1: gang member Trump deported to El Salvador. Here's what he said. 84 00:05:49,279 --> 00:05:51,600 Speaker 3: They're saying like, oh, well, this guy, you know, he's 85 00:05:51,600 --> 00:05:56,240 Speaker 3: a criminal. The whole point is that no one person, 86 00:05:56,520 --> 00:06:01,080 Speaker 3: least of all, no one politician, gets to decide that 87 00:06:01,120 --> 00:06:01,799 Speaker 3: you're a criminal. 88 00:06:03,200 --> 00:06:08,440 Speaker 1: Who decides yeah, but playing more games, a bunch of 89 00:06:08,440 --> 00:06:12,920 Speaker 1: people have already decided he's a criminal. But Amy Padden 90 00:06:14,240 --> 00:06:19,039 Speaker 1: was elected. She was elected as the new DA in 91 00:06:19,120 --> 00:06:27,600 Speaker 1: this area in Colorado, a Rapahoe County. She was elected comfortably. 92 00:06:29,320 --> 00:06:33,400 Speaker 1: The voters went out to the polls and they said, well, 93 00:06:33,440 --> 00:06:35,840 Speaker 1: the people who cared enough to participate in the election, 94 00:06:36,680 --> 00:06:39,960 Speaker 1: they went out to the polls and they found the 95 00:06:40,600 --> 00:06:47,320 Speaker 1: crazy communist Democrat and they elected her. She was elected 96 00:06:47,360 --> 00:06:52,080 Speaker 1: by fifteen percentage points. Fifteen percentage points, so don't think 97 00:06:52,120 --> 00:06:55,839 Speaker 1: that it was a near run thing. The people in 98 00:06:55,920 --> 00:07:01,960 Speaker 1: this area overwhelmingly went to the poll and picked the 99 00:07:02,120 --> 00:07:08,840 Speaker 1: open borders, open jail democrat and now an illegal who 100 00:07:09,160 --> 00:07:14,360 Speaker 1: ended a life destroyed others. He will be home playing 101 00:07:14,560 --> 00:07:18,520 Speaker 1: Xbox a couple years on probation, and we'll go on 102 00:07:18,760 --> 00:07:22,800 Speaker 1: to live for god knows how long, totally free, while 103 00:07:22,840 --> 00:07:27,200 Speaker 1: a family is decimated beyond belief. The reason I bring 104 00:07:27,280 --> 00:07:29,800 Speaker 1: up this story to open up the show tonight is 105 00:07:29,960 --> 00:07:33,000 Speaker 1: not to bring you down. It's really genuinely not what 106 00:07:33,040 --> 00:07:34,840 Speaker 1: I want to do right now, and I swear on 107 00:07:34,920 --> 00:07:37,480 Speaker 1: my life I'm not carrying it into two segments. We 108 00:07:37,520 --> 00:07:41,400 Speaker 1: are going to move on. I bring up this story 109 00:07:41,440 --> 00:07:45,280 Speaker 1: because it jarred me awake this morning that we are 110 00:07:45,320 --> 00:07:50,920 Speaker 1: not watching a show, We're not playing a game. The 111 00:07:51,040 --> 00:07:55,640 Speaker 1: consequences of voting Democrat in the year twenty twenty five 112 00:07:56,280 --> 00:08:05,760 Speaker 1: is people die, Families are destroyed. Democrats kill people. Voting 113 00:08:05,840 --> 00:08:13,560 Speaker 1: for Democrats kills people. There are consequences for our actions, 114 00:08:13,560 --> 00:08:17,200 Speaker 1: all of us. We will all face consequences and have 115 00:08:17,320 --> 00:08:23,320 Speaker 1: faced consequences for our actions. The consequences of voting Democrat 116 00:08:23,600 --> 00:08:28,600 Speaker 1: is things will be destroyed and burned down around you. 117 00:08:28,840 --> 00:08:35,280 Speaker 1: People will die, twenty four year old girls will be massacred, raped, murdered. 118 00:08:35,880 --> 00:08:40,840 Speaker 1: That is the consequence of voting Democrat. And that is 119 00:08:40,880 --> 00:08:44,199 Speaker 1: what we're up against because there are places in this 120 00:08:44,320 --> 00:08:50,640 Speaker 1: country that overwhelmingly want that and will continue to do 121 00:08:51,120 --> 00:08:56,160 Speaker 1: that over and over and over again. And they're not sorry. 122 00:08:56,480 --> 00:08:58,760 Speaker 1: They're not going to back off. They're not going to 123 00:08:58,880 --> 00:09:01,640 Speaker 1: stop the peace. People who went out and voted for 124 00:09:01,720 --> 00:09:05,800 Speaker 1: that filthy communist to let this guy out Scott free, 125 00:09:05,880 --> 00:09:08,000 Speaker 1: they will go out and vote for the next communist, 126 00:09:08,080 --> 00:09:10,400 Speaker 1: and then the next Communist, and then the next communist 127 00:09:10,440 --> 00:09:13,520 Speaker 1: after that. And this is what we are up against. 128 00:09:13,960 --> 00:09:20,000 Speaker 1: We are in a power war that will determine lives, 129 00:09:20,240 --> 00:09:24,240 Speaker 1: whether people will live, or whether people will die. It's 130 00:09:24,280 --> 00:09:28,320 Speaker 1: not idiot Republicans in Congress or idiot Democrats in Congress. 131 00:09:28,480 --> 00:09:31,520 Speaker 1: It's not just a TV show. It's not making fun 132 00:09:31,559 --> 00:09:35,360 Speaker 1: of Chuck Schumer her screaming about the low TGP. It's 133 00:09:35,400 --> 00:09:41,400 Speaker 1: not just that people die and families are destroyed when 134 00:09:41,440 --> 00:09:47,680 Speaker 1: you vote Democrat, because Democrats bring death. Democrats today are evil, 135 00:09:47,760 --> 00:09:52,360 Speaker 1: demonic communists, and death will follow them wherever they go. 136 00:09:52,880 --> 00:09:57,640 Speaker 1: And we can never stop. We are not playing a game. 137 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:06,040 Speaker 1: Twenty four year old girl. Imagine standing at the funeral 138 00:10:06,960 --> 00:10:10,600 Speaker 1: as your twenty four year old girl in a casket 139 00:10:11,040 --> 00:10:15,400 Speaker 1: is lowered into the ground because Democrats savages led an 140 00:10:15,400 --> 00:10:20,199 Speaker 1: illegal in the country, and knowing those same Democrat savages 141 00:10:20,240 --> 00:10:25,080 Speaker 1: made sure he wasn't punished for it. That is what 142 00:10:25,120 --> 00:10:28,920 Speaker 1: we're up against. Maybe you're tired and burn out. I 143 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:31,800 Speaker 1: get it, Take a day off and get back in 144 00:10:31,840 --> 00:10:35,200 Speaker 1: the fight. This kind of thing wakes me up. We're 145 00:10:35,200 --> 00:10:40,280 Speaker 1: not playing a game. It's deadly serious, all right. Sorry 146 00:10:40,320 --> 00:10:42,440 Speaker 1: to make it heavy. We're moving off of it to 147 00:10:42,480 --> 00:10:45,280 Speaker 1: do other things, shall we. In fact, let's talk about 148 00:10:45,280 --> 00:10:49,480 Speaker 1: something wonderful, something happening in the military. Before we do that, though, 149 00:10:51,280 --> 00:10:55,119 Speaker 1: let's do something else for our children, something else wonderful. 150 00:10:56,280 --> 00:11:01,080 Speaker 1: What's better than a free education? I mean, don't we 151 00:11:01,160 --> 00:11:03,840 Speaker 1: all hold hopes and dreams. That doesn't every parent, I 152 00:11:03,840 --> 00:11:06,760 Speaker 1: should say, hold dreams of their kid, what getting a 153 00:11:06,760 --> 00:11:09,800 Speaker 1: scholarship one day? I'd love if I could get my 154 00:11:09,920 --> 00:11:13,719 Speaker 1: kid a free education. Well, I can't get your kid 155 00:11:13,720 --> 00:11:17,280 Speaker 1: a scholarship. I can't get mine one either, But I 156 00:11:17,320 --> 00:11:21,240 Speaker 1: can get you some free education from Hillsdale College, because 157 00:11:21,320 --> 00:11:24,520 Speaker 1: Hillsdale is offering more than forty free online courses for 158 00:11:24,559 --> 00:11:28,280 Speaker 1: people who listen to my show. Maybe your interest is 159 00:11:28,360 --> 00:11:33,440 Speaker 1: biblical Book of Genesis stuff like that. Maybe it's constitutional. 160 00:11:33,480 --> 00:11:36,440 Speaker 1: You want to learn about the Constitution. Maybe it's more 161 00:11:36,440 --> 00:11:41,640 Speaker 1: ancient Rome things like that. Hillsdale will teach you for 162 00:11:41,760 --> 00:11:46,040 Speaker 1: free about that. For free, there's not a cost. Hillsdale 163 00:11:46,240 --> 00:11:50,199 Speaker 1: dot edu slash Jesse is where you go to enroll 164 00:11:50,800 --> 00:11:56,160 Speaker 1: Hillsdale dot edu slash Jesse. We'll be back. He doesn't 165 00:11:56,200 --> 00:12:03,640 Speaker 1: care if you believe him, but he's right. It is 166 00:12:03,679 --> 00:12:07,839 Speaker 1: the Jesse Kelly Show on a wonderful, wonderful Wednesday. We're 167 00:12:07,880 --> 00:12:10,520 Speaker 1: done with all the ugliness. Actually, I mean we're not 168 00:12:10,600 --> 00:12:13,400 Speaker 1: done with all the ugliness because Chris is still here, 169 00:12:13,440 --> 00:12:15,200 Speaker 1: but you understand what I mean. We're done with that 170 00:12:15,280 --> 00:12:18,880 Speaker 1: heavy story. To open the show, Let's talk about something wonderful. 171 00:12:19,160 --> 00:12:21,400 Speaker 1: Selena Zito is going to join us about ten minutes, 172 00:12:21,400 --> 00:12:23,880 Speaker 1: and now we'll find out what's the country think, what 173 00:12:23,960 --> 00:12:29,600 Speaker 1: is Middle America, I should say, think about Trump, Congress, Democrats, 174 00:12:29,679 --> 00:12:32,160 Speaker 1: so many other things. It's gonna be a huge show 175 00:12:32,240 --> 00:12:37,600 Speaker 1: for you tonight. Now let's discuss something absolutely wonderful, wonderful, 176 00:12:38,600 --> 00:12:42,600 Speaker 1: and it's something that should make you stand up in cheer. First, 177 00:12:43,520 --> 00:12:45,640 Speaker 1: before we get to what Pete Hegseth is doing with 178 00:12:45,720 --> 00:12:49,400 Speaker 1: the military, let me explain why I'm so passionate about that. 179 00:12:49,440 --> 00:12:53,199 Speaker 1: People think I'm passionate about what's happening in our military, 180 00:12:53,280 --> 00:12:57,560 Speaker 1: about the communist rot inside of our military. They think 181 00:12:57,600 --> 00:13:01,640 Speaker 1: I'm passionate about it because I serve four years in 182 00:13:01,679 --> 00:13:04,559 Speaker 1: the Marine Corps. I'm a marine. That is not why 183 00:13:05,440 --> 00:13:08,400 Speaker 1: it is actually not why. I guess that probably contributes 184 00:13:08,440 --> 00:13:11,679 Speaker 1: to it, but it is not why I am passionate 185 00:13:11,960 --> 00:13:16,160 Speaker 1: about our military. It's not even my patriotism. If I'm 186 00:13:16,160 --> 00:13:21,520 Speaker 1: being honest, it's because I love history, and I'm a 187 00:13:21,600 --> 00:13:24,280 Speaker 1: dude when I study history, when I read about it, 188 00:13:24,400 --> 00:13:28,280 Speaker 1: watch things about it, talk about it with you. Oftentimes 189 00:13:28,320 --> 00:13:31,959 Speaker 1: it falls to war and destruction and invasion and things 190 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:36,640 Speaker 1: like that, and they are they're the worst stories you'll 191 00:13:36,679 --> 00:13:42,400 Speaker 1: ever read in your life. When your country loses a 192 00:13:42,480 --> 00:13:52,560 Speaker 1: major war. The things normal people go through are un imaginable, unimaginable. 193 00:13:52,679 --> 00:14:01,920 Speaker 1: Just imagine your entire town gone, rubble, your family gone, 194 00:14:02,800 --> 00:14:07,600 Speaker 1: they were under a bomb, burned, this horrible stuff. You 195 00:14:07,679 --> 00:14:12,160 Speaker 1: live out your days with wheelbarrows full of bricks that 196 00:14:12,360 --> 00:14:14,920 Speaker 1: used to be your house, Like, this is what it's 197 00:14:15,080 --> 00:14:21,400 Speaker 1: like when you're military cannot stop people from coming to 198 00:14:21,480 --> 00:14:24,960 Speaker 1: kill you. That's what happens. And so what's happened in 199 00:14:24,960 --> 00:14:27,640 Speaker 1: the United States Military, as we've talked about many times, 200 00:14:27,720 --> 00:14:32,560 Speaker 1: is well. Communists believe in control, and they believe in 201 00:14:32,840 --> 00:14:36,920 Speaker 1: using all the power they have at their disposal for 202 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:40,080 Speaker 1: political reasons. For their own power. They don't ever, because 203 00:14:40,120 --> 00:14:43,640 Speaker 1: nothing is viewed through the lens of patriotism, and they 204 00:14:43,760 --> 00:14:48,400 Speaker 1: look at the United States Military as Hey, there's three 205 00:14:48,480 --> 00:14:52,200 Speaker 1: million people, and I can make them do whatever I want. 206 00:14:52,280 --> 00:14:56,440 Speaker 1: In fact, I can do whatever I want with it. 207 00:14:56,920 --> 00:14:59,680 Speaker 1: If I want to make them get solar powered tanks, 208 00:14:59,680 --> 00:15:03,240 Speaker 1: I could. If I can make him gay the whole 209 00:15:03,240 --> 00:15:05,480 Speaker 1: thing up, I can do it. If I can put 210 00:15:05,520 --> 00:15:09,040 Speaker 1: in firm white people suck policies, I'll do that too. 211 00:15:09,080 --> 00:15:12,600 Speaker 1: I'll do whatever I want. And look, it's been happening 212 00:15:12,600 --> 00:15:14,960 Speaker 1: for a while. Clinton started it and stuff like that. 213 00:15:15,000 --> 00:15:18,720 Speaker 1: But Barack Obama, because he was just better sharper, he 214 00:15:18,840 --> 00:15:22,080 Speaker 1: was a more worthy enemy than all the others, he 215 00:15:22,120 --> 00:15:25,200 Speaker 1: took that and he ramped it up into overdrive. And 216 00:15:25,240 --> 00:15:28,760 Speaker 1: what Barack Obama did was he took the leadership and 217 00:15:28,800 --> 00:15:33,080 Speaker 1: he cleaned him out. If he even sniffed conservatism on 218 00:15:33,160 --> 00:15:38,040 Speaker 1: you, you were retired and gone. He just replaced north of 219 00:15:38,120 --> 00:15:42,160 Speaker 1: one hundred flag officers. And since that time. Remember he 220 00:15:42,240 --> 00:15:46,200 Speaker 1: had eight years and then Trump didn't dump them, and 221 00:15:46,240 --> 00:15:48,520 Speaker 1: what didn't dump even close to all of them, and 222 00:15:48,560 --> 00:15:50,680 Speaker 1: they'be have four years of Biden. So what is that? 223 00:15:50,800 --> 00:15:54,520 Speaker 1: Do the math? That's sixteen years of all those dirty 224 00:15:54,560 --> 00:15:59,800 Speaker 1: communists spreading their communism down. It's that poison's gone down, 225 00:16:00,000 --> 00:16:02,720 Speaker 1: and it's now a matter of policy in places like 226 00:16:02,760 --> 00:16:07,840 Speaker 1: our military academies and otherwise. It's been devastating, devastating. And 227 00:16:07,920 --> 00:16:12,480 Speaker 1: I said before, before Trump even was sworn in, I 228 00:16:12,640 --> 00:16:17,080 Speaker 1: screamed that the cuts must be deep, deep in the military. 229 00:16:17,240 --> 00:16:19,440 Speaker 1: I told you when it came to the academies, I'd 230 00:16:19,440 --> 00:16:22,640 Speaker 1: fire everyone. I'd fire the parking lot attendant. It has 231 00:16:22,680 --> 00:16:26,320 Speaker 1: to be that deep. Now I'm not naive. I know 232 00:16:26,360 --> 00:16:28,240 Speaker 1: they're not going to fire the parking lot attendant. And 233 00:16:28,240 --> 00:16:30,120 Speaker 1: I know they're not going to fire everyone, nor are 234 00:16:30,160 --> 00:16:34,000 Speaker 1: they really able to do so. But this came out today, 235 00:16:35,400 --> 00:16:40,440 Speaker 1: Pete Hegg said has a new policy less generals and 236 00:16:40,640 --> 00:16:46,520 Speaker 1: more gis, and they are planning to cut more more 237 00:16:47,280 --> 00:16:52,640 Speaker 1: than one hundred and twenty high ranking military officer positions 238 00:16:53,000 --> 00:16:58,280 Speaker 1: across active duty and National guard forces. Maybe on its surface, 239 00:16:58,320 --> 00:17:01,000 Speaker 1: that doesn't mean anything to you gonna fire, a bunch 240 00:17:01,080 --> 00:17:06,919 Speaker 1: of generals and abirls. It's everything, not only for the 241 00:17:06,960 --> 00:17:10,240 Speaker 1: dirty commis who are about to be removed, but it 242 00:17:10,400 --> 00:17:14,520 Speaker 1: sends a message to everyone else in the military, both 243 00:17:14,600 --> 00:17:18,240 Speaker 1: the guys on the ground and the officer corps, that 244 00:17:18,280 --> 00:17:21,399 Speaker 1: there's no more comy gook, no more nothing. We are 245 00:17:21,480 --> 00:17:25,040 Speaker 1: here to kill people and blow things up and anything 246 00:17:25,080 --> 00:17:29,119 Speaker 1: else will not be tolerated. You will be gone. Is 247 00:17:29,160 --> 00:17:32,080 Speaker 1: this all we need? Of course not. But this is 248 00:17:32,119 --> 00:17:36,560 Speaker 1: a big, bold, drastic step because they know what's coming 249 00:17:36,600 --> 00:17:38,760 Speaker 1: after this. Chris, you go ahead and write this one down, 250 00:17:38,800 --> 00:17:41,200 Speaker 1: even though it's the most easily predictable thing in the world. 251 00:17:41,520 --> 00:17:44,399 Speaker 1: Every one of these dork generals and abirls, they're all 252 00:17:44,440 --> 00:17:48,080 Speaker 1: gonna run to CNN and they're gonna drap drape themselves 253 00:17:48,119 --> 00:17:51,040 Speaker 1: in the flag and try to appeal to your patriotism 254 00:17:51,320 --> 00:17:54,040 Speaker 1: and try to tell you how devastating it is that 255 00:17:54,440 --> 00:17:56,879 Speaker 1: I'm a general. I'm fun in Iraq, even though I 256 00:17:56,920 --> 00:17:59,600 Speaker 1: never left the air conditioning. I thought that they're gonna 257 00:17:59,600 --> 00:18:04,720 Speaker 1: try They're going to run a propaganda campaign. But this 258 00:18:04,840 --> 00:18:07,280 Speaker 1: is a good thing and it's something you should celebrate, 259 00:18:07,320 --> 00:18:11,280 Speaker 1: all right. You should also celebrate that Selena Zito is 260 00:18:11,280 --> 00:18:13,520 Speaker 1: going to come on in about ten minutes, tell us 261 00:18:13,520 --> 00:18:15,639 Speaker 1: about what's going on on the rost belt. And you 262 00:18:15,680 --> 00:18:21,480 Speaker 1: should celebrate protecting your retirement. If you've already called gold Co, 263 00:18:22,160 --> 00:18:25,920 Speaker 1: that's a reason to celebrate. I rest easier at night 264 00:18:26,040 --> 00:18:31,200 Speaker 1: knowing that I have fortified my retirement with things that last. 265 00:18:31,720 --> 00:18:35,080 Speaker 1: They last through tariffs, they last through recessions, they last 266 00:18:35,119 --> 00:18:40,600 Speaker 1: through nations. Precious medals will outlive you, me countries forever. 267 00:18:41,320 --> 00:18:44,720 Speaker 1: That's how long it lasts. Gold Co is the one 268 00:18:44,800 --> 00:18:47,639 Speaker 1: people trust the most because they've been doing this for 269 00:18:47,680 --> 00:18:52,640 Speaker 1: a long time, numerous awards won People trust them. They 270 00:18:52,680 --> 00:18:56,439 Speaker 1: will get gold or silver as part of your retirement, 271 00:18:56,720 --> 00:18:59,520 Speaker 1: so no matter what happens with the market, you don't 272 00:18:59,560 --> 00:19:02,159 Speaker 1: lose every You've busted your butt for your whole life. 273 00:19:03,240 --> 00:19:06,240 Speaker 1: They'll give you a free copy of their twenty twenty 274 00:19:06,240 --> 00:19:10,000 Speaker 1: five Golden Silver Kid if you want call them eight 275 00:19:10,119 --> 00:19:14,679 Speaker 1: five five eight one seven Gold or you can go 276 00:19:14,760 --> 00:19:18,440 Speaker 1: to Jesse likes gold dot com, which I find hilarious 277 00:19:18,440 --> 00:19:21,520 Speaker 1: because I actually do really like gold, but Jesse likes 278 00:19:21,720 --> 00:19:24,239 Speaker 1: Gold dot com. I probably don't like it as much 279 00:19:24,280 --> 00:19:27,040 Speaker 1: as Chris, but you understand what I mean. Jesse likes 280 00:19:27,200 --> 00:19:31,480 Speaker 1: gold dot com. Selena Zito joins us. Next, he doesn't 281 00:19:31,520 --> 00:19:36,000 Speaker 1: care if you believe him, but he's right, Jesse Kelly. 282 00:19:38,600 --> 00:19:44,760 Speaker 1: It is the Jesse Kelly Show on a wonderful, wonderful Wednesday. 283 00:19:44,840 --> 00:19:48,440 Speaker 1: And of course a Wednesday made all that more wonderful 284 00:19:48,760 --> 00:19:51,960 Speaker 1: because my friend, one of the great writers in America, 285 00:19:52,480 --> 00:19:56,120 Speaker 1: Selena Zito, joins me. Now you know Selena Zito. She's 286 00:19:56,160 --> 00:19:58,440 Speaker 1: the one who spends her time in the rust belt 287 00:19:58,680 --> 00:20:03,480 Speaker 1: talking to normal people. In fact, she has a book out. Hey, Selena, 288 00:20:03,480 --> 00:20:04,520 Speaker 1: what's this book called. 289 00:20:05,600 --> 00:20:09,480 Speaker 4: It's called Butler, The Untold Story of the near assassination 290 00:20:09,880 --> 00:20:15,719 Speaker 4: of Donald Trump and winning the America's heartland and how 291 00:20:15,800 --> 00:20:17,000 Speaker 4: he was America's heartland. 292 00:20:18,080 --> 00:20:21,960 Speaker 1: Now, where were you on that fateful day? Because that's 293 00:20:21,960 --> 00:20:23,800 Speaker 1: part of the reason I wanted you to come on, Selena, 294 00:20:23,840 --> 00:20:25,840 Speaker 1: because I actually thought about that. I was thinking about 295 00:20:25,880 --> 00:20:28,960 Speaker 1: Butler again today and how much we don't know, and 296 00:20:29,040 --> 00:20:32,560 Speaker 1: just how incredible that moment was, that we were inches 297 00:20:32,600 --> 00:20:35,320 Speaker 1: away from losing the president, and out of respect, we 298 00:20:35,359 --> 00:20:38,320 Speaker 1: did lose someone else got shot in the head. Where 299 00:20:38,320 --> 00:20:38,720 Speaker 1: were you? 300 00:20:39,920 --> 00:20:40,000 Speaker 2: So? 301 00:20:40,320 --> 00:20:43,720 Speaker 4: I was in an area by the stage. It's called 302 00:20:43,760 --> 00:20:47,439 Speaker 4: the buffer. The buffer is basically the place where usually 303 00:20:47,520 --> 00:20:54,960 Speaker 4: photojournalists are in security. So Sebha Terravis I just had. 304 00:20:55,080 --> 00:20:58,080 Speaker 4: They just happened to put me in there along with 305 00:20:58,119 --> 00:21:01,119 Speaker 4: my daughter because I was the post to fly with 306 00:21:01,240 --> 00:21:07,440 Speaker 4: President Trump right after the right after the rally and 307 00:21:08,920 --> 00:21:15,160 Speaker 4: interview him on our way to Bedminster. And I happened 308 00:21:15,200 --> 00:21:18,320 Speaker 4: to see him just minutes before he went out on 309 00:21:18,359 --> 00:21:22,200 Speaker 4: the stage that day because he just wanted to say 310 00:21:22,440 --> 00:21:27,560 Speaker 4: hi and see how I was doing and tell me 311 00:21:27,640 --> 00:21:32,640 Speaker 4: he was looking forward to our interview. He also commented 312 00:21:32,720 --> 00:21:35,359 Speaker 4: on my hair. He always tells me I have the 313 00:21:35,400 --> 00:21:41,600 Speaker 4: best hair in America, and asked about my grandchildren, gave 314 00:21:41,640 --> 00:21:43,880 Speaker 4: me a little hug and said, okay, I'll see out. 315 00:21:43,920 --> 00:21:48,520 Speaker 4: There's zdo. And I've interviewed if people have heard me 316 00:21:48,600 --> 00:21:51,840 Speaker 4: on your show before, I've interviewed President Trump almost two 317 00:21:51,920 --> 00:21:55,120 Speaker 4: dozen times. And there's a running joke between the two 318 00:21:55,160 --> 00:21:58,600 Speaker 4: of us since the first time I interviewed him, and 319 00:21:58,640 --> 00:22:00,439 Speaker 4: he always says, Hey, you want to go out with me, 320 00:22:00,520 --> 00:22:05,600 Speaker 4: and I'm like, no, I don't. So he said it 321 00:22:05,640 --> 00:22:08,560 Speaker 4: that day as well. Uh, And so that's how I 322 00:22:08,680 --> 00:22:11,000 Speaker 4: ended up being just four feet away from him. 323 00:22:11,720 --> 00:22:11,840 Speaker 1: Uh. 324 00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:14,200 Speaker 4: When he wouldn't when the shots went off. They went 325 00:22:14,320 --> 00:22:15,160 Speaker 4: right over my head. 326 00:22:16,040 --> 00:22:19,639 Speaker 1: Selena. Obviously I don't have to ask you to do 327 00:22:19,680 --> 00:22:22,720 Speaker 1: this well, because you do do it well. But can 328 00:22:22,760 --> 00:22:26,280 Speaker 1: you describe what that moment was like? Was it was 329 00:22:26,280 --> 00:22:29,119 Speaker 1: it instantly that you knew what was happening? Was it 330 00:22:29,320 --> 00:22:33,240 Speaker 1: that were you totally shocked? Where was it? 331 00:22:33,240 --> 00:22:35,840 Speaker 4: It's you never know how you're going to react in 332 00:22:36,400 --> 00:22:41,800 Speaker 4: situations like that. What can be situations of terror and panic? 333 00:22:42,320 --> 00:22:44,480 Speaker 4: You I always wonder, am I gonna be am? I 334 00:22:44,520 --> 00:22:47,440 Speaker 4: gonna freak out? Am I gonna be calm? I was 335 00:22:47,560 --> 00:22:52,119 Speaker 4: remarkably calm, so much so that I still haven't really 336 00:22:52,200 --> 00:22:55,040 Speaker 4: reacted to what happened yet, even in the process of 337 00:22:55,040 --> 00:22:59,199 Speaker 4: writing the book. But in that moment, I'm a goner 338 00:22:59,320 --> 00:23:02,320 Speaker 4: come from a g owning family. I knew exactly what 339 00:23:02,400 --> 00:23:05,640 Speaker 4: those four shots were. And I don't know if it's 340 00:23:05,680 --> 00:23:09,800 Speaker 4: because I'm a reporter or not, but I didn't immediately 341 00:23:09,880 --> 00:23:13,360 Speaker 4: duck down. I was looking around to see what was happening, 342 00:23:13,400 --> 00:23:16,640 Speaker 4: and how do I cover this. I'm understanding that this 343 00:23:17,080 --> 00:23:21,639 Speaker 4: is history and is my job to record it, you know, 344 00:23:21,760 --> 00:23:25,359 Speaker 4: and report it accurately. I saw on the president the 345 00:23:25,400 --> 00:23:29,359 Speaker 4: blood streak a constant face immediately. But I also saw 346 00:23:29,480 --> 00:23:33,240 Speaker 4: him kneel down, so I knew he didn't fall down. 347 00:23:33,560 --> 00:23:37,480 Speaker 4: I knew he wasn't taken down. And when the next 348 00:23:37,520 --> 00:23:41,639 Speaker 4: four shots went off, he was already surrounded by a 349 00:23:41,680 --> 00:23:46,840 Speaker 4: sea of navy blue, right the Secret Service and so 350 00:23:47,680 --> 00:23:52,600 Speaker 4: and that's when the campaign advanced. Guy's name was Michelle Picard. 351 00:23:53,520 --> 00:23:56,919 Speaker 4: He's like, get down, and he tackled me into the 352 00:23:56,960 --> 00:24:02,199 Speaker 4: ground because I still didn't get it. But you know, 353 00:24:03,160 --> 00:24:08,440 Speaker 4: because I was recording the rally, I have the entire thing, 354 00:24:08,480 --> 00:24:11,000 Speaker 4: and because I was so close, I got most of 355 00:24:11,040 --> 00:24:14,480 Speaker 4: the conversation between him and his Secret Service. It's all 356 00:24:14,520 --> 00:24:19,119 Speaker 4: in the book, and I will tell you this part 357 00:24:19,560 --> 00:24:24,159 Speaker 4: what was really. You know, sometimes things end up being funny, 358 00:24:24,200 --> 00:24:28,000 Speaker 4: not because you're it's funny, but because it's like absurd. 359 00:24:29,960 --> 00:24:35,120 Speaker 4: President's Trump's insistence that he gets his shoes on. And 360 00:24:35,160 --> 00:24:38,959 Speaker 4: that's because they got gotten knocked off when they surrounded him, 361 00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:41,720 Speaker 4: when they put the protective stamps around him. But he 362 00:24:41,840 --> 00:24:44,520 Speaker 4: kept insisting they wanted to go, and he kept insisting, 363 00:24:44,560 --> 00:24:46,520 Speaker 4: I need to put my shoes on. And he could 364 00:24:46,600 --> 00:24:49,679 Speaker 4: hear this one Secret Service agent, I believe it was 365 00:24:49,720 --> 00:24:54,720 Speaker 4: a female, say fine, like she was like so exasperated 366 00:24:55,160 --> 00:24:57,080 Speaker 4: with him when because he wanted. 367 00:24:56,840 --> 00:25:00,719 Speaker 1: To put his shoes on she is Selena Zito. If 368 00:25:00,800 --> 00:25:03,800 Speaker 1: you want to hear the rest of that conversation, I 369 00:25:03,840 --> 00:25:06,000 Speaker 1: would highly recommend you go by the book. The book 370 00:25:06,080 --> 00:25:11,280 Speaker 1: is called Butler Selina. I think about that day and 371 00:25:11,320 --> 00:25:14,840 Speaker 1: I think about what we don't know still not from 372 00:25:14,920 --> 00:25:18,600 Speaker 1: your angle, obviously, but I have a lot of questions still, 373 00:25:18,720 --> 00:25:21,000 Speaker 1: and I'm sorry when I look at the things that 374 00:25:21,320 --> 00:25:26,000 Speaker 1: happened in the wake of all that, my questions. Well, 375 00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:27,879 Speaker 1: I'll just put it to you this way. I'm suspicious 376 00:25:27,880 --> 00:25:30,399 Speaker 1: and I believe people in the government were involved. I 377 00:25:30,400 --> 00:25:32,440 Speaker 1: don't know how you spray off that roof. I don't 378 00:25:32,440 --> 00:25:34,600 Speaker 1: know how you cremate the body right away. These things 379 00:25:34,600 --> 00:25:36,760 Speaker 1: are not done at any crime scene, let alone the 380 00:25:36,800 --> 00:25:41,600 Speaker 1: attempted assassination of the Republican nominee for president. I'm very suspicious, 381 00:25:41,640 --> 00:25:44,600 Speaker 1: and you know I'm not the conspiracy theory wing nut type. 382 00:25:44,920 --> 00:25:48,280 Speaker 1: I look at the things around that day and I 383 00:25:48,320 --> 00:25:50,760 Speaker 1: think there are ugly elements at work here in this country. 384 00:25:51,600 --> 00:25:54,800 Speaker 4: I think there's a lot we don't know, and I 385 00:25:54,840 --> 00:25:57,840 Speaker 4: think there's a lot we will end up knowing. But 386 00:25:59,320 --> 00:26:04,159 Speaker 4: as as the current administration peels back the layers of 387 00:26:04,160 --> 00:26:08,399 Speaker 4: what happened, because I don't think everything can be hidden. 388 00:26:08,880 --> 00:26:12,080 Speaker 4: And I will tell you this, having worked and talked 389 00:26:12,119 --> 00:26:15,480 Speaker 4: with local law enforcement that were there that day, I 390 00:26:15,520 --> 00:26:20,400 Speaker 4: am pretty certain they're talking right now and and and 391 00:26:20,400 --> 00:26:25,360 Speaker 4: and outlying what went wrong and everything that that that 392 00:26:25,560 --> 00:26:30,280 Speaker 4: was that was treated wrong and and I think we 393 00:26:30,359 --> 00:26:34,399 Speaker 4: will find out more and I would say in the 394 00:26:34,440 --> 00:26:39,040 Speaker 4: next several months. But you know, this was this was 395 00:26:39,080 --> 00:26:42,960 Speaker 4: a striking moment in American history, and it's all the 396 00:26:43,119 --> 00:26:49,200 Speaker 4: more striking by the amount of of of things that happened. 397 00:26:49,200 --> 00:26:53,679 Speaker 4: To your point that we're not done towards during protocol 398 00:26:53,920 --> 00:26:57,840 Speaker 4: that were not done in in the after effects, and 399 00:26:57,880 --> 00:27:01,640 Speaker 4: there's too much hidden for it not to be pull 400 00:27:01,760 --> 00:27:04,040 Speaker 4: peeled back and the full story being told. 401 00:27:04,480 --> 00:27:07,720 Speaker 1: Good. I look forward to that full story being told. 402 00:27:08,040 --> 00:27:09,879 Speaker 1: Let me ask you before I actually I want to 403 00:27:09,880 --> 00:27:12,960 Speaker 1: get to the electorate and what they're thinking about everything. Sorry, 404 00:27:12,960 --> 00:27:14,480 Speaker 1: I guess I went on too long with this, but 405 00:27:14,520 --> 00:27:17,760 Speaker 1: I just find the subject so fascinating. A man did 406 00:27:17,800 --> 00:27:22,080 Speaker 1: lose his life that day. Yeah, and obviously we've seen 407 00:27:22,080 --> 00:27:26,240 Speaker 1: his family and we know that they've gone through hell. 408 00:27:26,440 --> 00:27:28,919 Speaker 1: Have you spoken with them, were they. 409 00:27:28,920 --> 00:27:33,920 Speaker 4: Yes, Yes, I just saw his wife, Helen Competore, and 410 00:27:33,960 --> 00:27:41,919 Speaker 4: his daughter in Butler and and I they're they're okay. 411 00:27:42,840 --> 00:27:46,320 Speaker 4: But but you have to understand. I mean, I could 412 00:27:46,359 --> 00:27:49,960 Speaker 4: see from the angle how bad he was shot. It 413 00:27:50,040 --> 00:27:53,720 Speaker 4: was clear that he was not going to survive, and 414 00:27:54,359 --> 00:27:57,680 Speaker 4: this family saw it right in front of themselves. Most 415 00:27:57,720 --> 00:28:02,720 Speaker 4: people didn't. Someone immediately put a towel over his head. 416 00:28:03,480 --> 00:28:08,000 Speaker 4: But it was a gruesome death, and this family will 417 00:28:08,280 --> 00:28:11,280 Speaker 4: never be able to wipe those images from their face. 418 00:28:12,480 --> 00:28:16,080 Speaker 4: The way the community has come around to them, you'll 419 00:28:16,119 --> 00:28:19,000 Speaker 4: find out in the book what President Trump has done 420 00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:25,880 Speaker 4: for them has really been remarkable, and this family has 421 00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:30,080 Speaker 4: really been embraced by the community of Butler, but also 422 00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:35,440 Speaker 4: western Pennsylvania and the entire country. Helen is doing okay 423 00:28:36,760 --> 00:28:40,160 Speaker 4: about as much as you can expect. You add what 424 00:28:40,360 --> 00:28:43,760 Speaker 4: happened to her in the public, plus all the attention 425 00:28:43,880 --> 00:28:47,200 Speaker 4: that really hasn't gone away, that's a lot to ask 426 00:28:47,680 --> 00:28:49,680 Speaker 4: for a regular person. 427 00:28:50,120 --> 00:28:54,200 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, sure is Selena, do you think you can 428 00:28:54,240 --> 00:28:56,000 Speaker 1: stay on for one more so we can actually talk 429 00:28:56,040 --> 00:28:58,360 Speaker 1: about how people are feeling about things. We will be 430 00:28:58,480 --> 00:29:01,840 Speaker 1: right back with Selena Zita, author of the book Butler 431 00:29:01,960 --> 00:29:07,520 Speaker 1: highly recommend you go pick it up. Hang on, Jesse Keilly. 432 00:29:09,240 --> 00:29:14,840 Speaker 1: It is the Jesse Kelly Show on a wonderful, wonderful Wednesday. Remember, 433 00:29:14,880 --> 00:29:17,640 Speaker 1: if you would like to email your love, hate, death threats, 434 00:29:17,720 --> 00:29:21,040 Speaker 1: or anything else, you can email those into Jesse at 435 00:29:21,160 --> 00:29:23,720 Speaker 1: Jesse kellyshow dot com. And we are back with my 436 00:29:23,840 --> 00:29:27,120 Speaker 1: friend Selena Zito. You already know where you listen to 437 00:29:27,160 --> 00:29:30,680 Speaker 1: this show, author of the book Butler. Okay, Selena, let's 438 00:29:30,680 --> 00:29:34,160 Speaker 1: move off of that ugly topic and let's talk about 439 00:29:35,120 --> 00:29:37,480 Speaker 1: how the public is feeling. Now. I know how my 440 00:29:37,560 --> 00:29:41,440 Speaker 1: Republican friends are feeling. You travel the Ross Belt, you 441 00:29:41,560 --> 00:29:45,120 Speaker 1: talk to normal people. I know there's been stock market up, 442 00:29:45,160 --> 00:29:49,160 Speaker 1: stock market down, tear eff in, tariff out, deportations. What 443 00:29:49,280 --> 00:29:53,680 Speaker 1: are people feeling one hundred days plus in about Trump? 444 00:29:54,960 --> 00:29:57,760 Speaker 4: They feel very good. I mean, I will you know, 445 00:29:57,880 --> 00:30:00,720 Speaker 4: I'm not trying to make a Polly on a statement. 446 00:30:01,680 --> 00:30:04,440 Speaker 4: People had a level of expectation of. 447 00:30:06,040 --> 00:30:06,840 Speaker 1: A lot of. 448 00:30:07,440 --> 00:30:10,520 Speaker 4: Chaos, and not the way you think of this in 449 00:30:10,560 --> 00:30:14,040 Speaker 4: the negative way, but in a way of reshuffling the 450 00:30:14,080 --> 00:30:17,680 Speaker 4: way things have been prosecuted for the past four years. 451 00:30:18,080 --> 00:30:19,000 Speaker 3: Right, So that is. 452 00:30:18,960 --> 00:30:24,320 Speaker 4: Going to cause uncertainty, But They have this belief that 453 00:30:24,360 --> 00:30:26,960 Speaker 4: once the desk was settled, there might be a little pain, 454 00:30:27,400 --> 00:30:31,239 Speaker 4: there might little hurt, that things would go would go 455 00:30:31,320 --> 00:30:35,240 Speaker 4: in the direction of what they voted for, which has 456 00:30:35,280 --> 00:30:38,440 Speaker 4: a lot to do in first and foremost, it had 457 00:30:38,480 --> 00:30:41,360 Speaker 4: to do with securing the border. It was very, very 458 00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:45,000 Speaker 4: important to voters, and that's something that President Trump can 459 00:30:45,320 --> 00:30:49,840 Speaker 4: can crow about because he has done it. In terms 460 00:30:49,880 --> 00:30:53,840 Speaker 4: of the tariffs, people also had a genuine understanding that 461 00:30:53,920 --> 00:31:00,360 Speaker 4: this was going to be an open air negotiations and 462 00:31:00,640 --> 00:31:02,800 Speaker 4: it wasn't going to look pretty at times. It was 463 00:31:02,920 --> 00:31:06,240 Speaker 4: going to look great at times. But they believe at 464 00:31:06,240 --> 00:31:09,000 Speaker 4: the end of the day, it is better for the 465 00:31:09,120 --> 00:31:13,240 Speaker 4: country to have a level playing field as opposed to 466 00:31:13,280 --> 00:31:16,720 Speaker 4: how lopsided it has been for almost forty years. 467 00:31:17,520 --> 00:31:20,120 Speaker 1: Well, these are the people who who've watched the rust 468 00:31:20,160 --> 00:31:22,160 Speaker 1: Belt become the rustbelt. It was used to be the 469 00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:24,200 Speaker 1: manufacturing belt in it ain't anymore. 470 00:31:24,760 --> 00:31:29,640 Speaker 4: That's exactly right, you know, And it's interesting because you know, 471 00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:33,800 Speaker 4: this is the next generation. However, that legacy and culture 472 00:31:33,920 --> 00:31:37,959 Speaker 4: and sense of place is still very very rooted with 473 00:31:38,160 --> 00:31:41,720 Speaker 4: young people from the Rust Belt. They know that their 474 00:31:41,800 --> 00:31:45,040 Speaker 4: parents and their grandparents were done wrong They know their 475 00:31:45,080 --> 00:31:48,280 Speaker 4: towns and cities look the way that they do because 476 00:31:48,320 --> 00:31:51,280 Speaker 4: they were done wrong and they are because they are 477 00:31:51,320 --> 00:31:55,600 Speaker 4: so rooted to place. They are willing to wait it 478 00:31:55,720 --> 00:32:00,320 Speaker 4: out because they believe that, you know, and they believe 479 00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:02,280 Speaker 4: at the end of the day, it'll be better for 480 00:32:02,360 --> 00:32:05,520 Speaker 4: the country. And what is really interesting to so many 481 00:32:05,560 --> 00:32:09,840 Speaker 4: people is when they watch people whine and complain about 482 00:32:09,920 --> 00:32:12,560 Speaker 4: some of the pinching and the hurting from the elites 483 00:32:13,120 --> 00:32:18,640 Speaker 4: about the tariffs, they often say to me, to a person, well, 484 00:32:18,680 --> 00:32:22,080 Speaker 4: where were they when our cities were crumbling? They didn't 485 00:32:22,120 --> 00:32:25,400 Speaker 4: show up with cameras and ask us how our pain was, 486 00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:31,200 Speaker 4: you know, And we're here and we're willing to wait 487 00:32:31,640 --> 00:32:34,680 Speaker 4: because it's better for our country. It's better that we 488 00:32:34,800 --> 00:32:39,480 Speaker 4: make our own things. It's better that we reshure manufacturing. 489 00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:46,000 Speaker 1: About that, do they really curious? Does Congress, whether it 490 00:32:46,040 --> 00:32:48,800 Speaker 1: be Republicans or Democrats at House Senate? I don't care. 491 00:32:49,480 --> 00:32:53,120 Speaker 1: Does it ever cross their lips or cross their minds? 492 00:32:53,200 --> 00:32:57,240 Speaker 1: And if it does, are their praises are their criticisms? 493 00:32:57,320 --> 00:32:59,280 Speaker 1: You know, because there's obviously a lot more than Donald 494 00:32:59,280 --> 00:32:59,880 Speaker 1: Trump running the. 495 00:33:01,880 --> 00:33:06,040 Speaker 4: Well. I think members of Congress their biggest challenge in 496 00:33:06,120 --> 00:33:09,600 Speaker 4: both parties is have a better understanding of the people 497 00:33:09,600 --> 00:33:14,000 Speaker 4: that they represent. There is this misnomer that happens among 498 00:33:14,040 --> 00:33:16,440 Speaker 4: elected officials and Jesse, you and I have talked about 499 00:33:16,440 --> 00:33:20,120 Speaker 4: this numerous times, that they go to Washington and they 500 00:33:20,160 --> 00:33:22,960 Speaker 4: always say it'll never happen to them, and it happens 501 00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:27,960 Speaker 4: to them where they believe that they are representing their 502 00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:31,480 Speaker 4: party and all the interests that support their party, which 503 00:33:31,560 --> 00:33:34,840 Speaker 4: often aren't the interest or in conflict with the interests 504 00:33:34,840 --> 00:33:38,680 Speaker 4: of the people they represent. And I think there I 505 00:33:38,720 --> 00:33:45,440 Speaker 4: am finding among Republicans, there is an especially newly elected Republicans, 506 00:33:45,880 --> 00:33:51,080 Speaker 4: there is an awakening of understanding that that's not what 507 00:33:51,280 --> 00:33:55,280 Speaker 4: people aren't going to tolerate that any longer. They've seen 508 00:33:55,320 --> 00:33:58,640 Speaker 4: how it could be, even small glimpses, and they don't 509 00:33:58,640 --> 00:34:01,600 Speaker 4: want any part of of what has been the status 510 00:34:01,720 --> 00:34:03,600 Speaker 4: quo Selina. 511 00:34:03,680 --> 00:34:05,880 Speaker 1: What do they think? Just real quick final question here, 512 00:34:05,920 --> 00:34:08,480 Speaker 1: what do they think of Democrats that the party as 513 00:34:08,520 --> 00:34:10,719 Speaker 1: a whole? Obviously it's not what I think. Everyone knows 514 00:34:10,760 --> 00:34:13,399 Speaker 1: what I think. I'm pretty honest about that. But are 515 00:34:13,480 --> 00:34:17,439 Speaker 1: they are they forgotten? Are they hated? Where are they now? 516 00:34:18,280 --> 00:34:21,799 Speaker 4: Well? You know, I went to out to Bucks County, Pennsylvania. 517 00:34:21,800 --> 00:34:24,799 Speaker 4: It's on the other side of the state. You are 518 00:34:24,920 --> 00:34:30,280 Speaker 4: pretty reliable Democrat county when it came to presidential elections, 519 00:34:30,320 --> 00:34:34,279 Speaker 4: a mixed bag when it was local elections. Ruben Gayezid 520 00:34:34,360 --> 00:34:37,239 Speaker 4: went out there, the Arizona Senator, and I interviewed him, 521 00:34:37,840 --> 00:34:41,759 Speaker 4: and I will tell you Democratic voters who went to 522 00:34:41,840 --> 00:34:47,279 Speaker 4: listen still struggle with their party and the party's message. 523 00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:51,520 Speaker 4: And while you turn on the cable news and you 524 00:34:51,760 --> 00:34:55,919 Speaker 4: think that they want the party's message to be what's 525 00:34:55,960 --> 00:34:59,680 Speaker 4: the Technas Texas congresswoman's name, I can't think. 526 00:34:59,560 --> 00:35:00,960 Speaker 1: Of it, Jasmine Crawking. 527 00:35:01,440 --> 00:35:06,239 Speaker 4: Yes, so cable news thinks that's what Democratic voters want. 528 00:35:07,440 --> 00:35:08,319 Speaker 3: Trust me, it's not. 529 00:35:09,440 --> 00:35:13,719 Speaker 4: It's not even close. They want they want more bipartisanship, 530 00:35:14,040 --> 00:35:16,319 Speaker 4: They want their party to move to the middle, and 531 00:35:16,360 --> 00:35:19,839 Speaker 4: they want their party to have a crisp message. There 532 00:35:19,880 --> 00:35:23,560 Speaker 4: was an ap Report poll that just came out five 533 00:35:23,600 --> 00:35:27,759 Speaker 4: minutes before I came on the show today, and it 534 00:35:27,840 --> 00:35:33,360 Speaker 4: is devastating from Democrats in terms of polling of Democrats 535 00:35:33,480 --> 00:35:36,640 Speaker 4: in the middle of the country who are very unhappy 536 00:35:36,680 --> 00:35:39,600 Speaker 4: with whatever they've been putting. The show they've been putting 537 00:35:39,640 --> 00:35:41,040 Speaker 4: on since January. 538 00:35:41,680 --> 00:35:45,840 Speaker 1: MM Mmm, well, I guess that's the way the kookie crumbles. 539 00:35:45,880 --> 00:35:50,120 Speaker 1: Selena Zito, she wrote that new book, Butler. Go pick 540 00:35:50,200 --> 00:35:52,440 Speaker 1: up Butler up, Selena, I'm sure they can get it wherever. 541 00:35:52,480 --> 00:35:53,800 Speaker 1: What do you want people to buy this book? 542 00:35:53,960 --> 00:35:54,360 Speaker 4: Oh? 543 00:35:54,960 --> 00:35:55,319 Speaker 3: Right now. 544 00:35:55,320 --> 00:35:58,520 Speaker 4: It's on sale and on Amazon. And I will tell 545 00:35:58,560 --> 00:36:01,360 Speaker 4: you when you are off. That is not from DC 546 00:36:01,800 --> 00:36:05,440 Speaker 4: and New York and writing about things we already figured 547 00:36:05,480 --> 00:36:10,240 Speaker 4: out it is. It is very difficult to get booksellers 548 00:36:10,280 --> 00:36:14,320 Speaker 4: to stalk your book unless you have a good pre sale. 549 00:36:14,440 --> 00:36:16,480 Speaker 4: So I encourage people to get it now. And I 550 00:36:16,760 --> 00:36:20,000 Speaker 4: trust me, this is an extraordinary book. I don't usually 551 00:36:20,040 --> 00:36:23,360 Speaker 4: brag about my stuff, but this is an extraordinary book 552 00:36:23,360 --> 00:36:27,960 Speaker 4: that captures a moment in history but also captures the 553 00:36:28,080 --> 00:36:31,120 Speaker 4: campaign in a way that nobody was reporting on. 554 00:36:32,320 --> 00:36:34,400 Speaker 1: See that's the difference between you and I, Selena. I 555 00:36:34,440 --> 00:36:37,040 Speaker 1: love to brag about all my stuff. Selena Zito. The 556 00:36:37,080 --> 00:36:40,520 Speaker 1: book is Butler. It's on sale, Go pre order it Amazon. 557 00:36:40,600 --> 00:36:44,239 Speaker 1: I appreciate you very much. All Right, we have our 558 00:36:44,320 --> 00:36:49,000 Speaker 1: two coming. Let's talk about corruption, shall we next?