WEBVTT - Trump's Primary Power and Midterm Test 0:00:00.440 --> 0:00:03.360 And we're back with a Sean Hannity Show on Greg 0:00:03.440 --> 0:00:06.560 Jarrett filling in for Sean Hannity. I'm a Fox News 0:00:06.680 --> 0:00:10.600 legal analyst, former trial attorney. Sean's taking a few days off. 0:00:11.400 --> 0:00:13.800 We're going to be taking your phone calls very shortly, 0:00:13.840 --> 0:00:16.040 and we do have some callers here and I'll ask 0:00:16.120 --> 0:00:17.680 them to stand by. 0:00:17.760 --> 0:00:19.880 Thank you for calling. Just hang in there. We'll get 0:00:19.880 --> 0:00:20.840 to you in just a moment. 0:00:20.880 --> 0:00:24.599 For those who would like to post some questions or 0:00:24.640 --> 0:00:27.600 offer comments, please give us a call. The number is 0:00:27.640 --> 0:00:32.360 one eight hundred nine four one seven three two six 0:00:32.520 --> 0:00:37.800 one eight hundred nine four one seven three two six 0:00:39.040 --> 0:00:44.960 All right. On Tuesday, primary elections were held coast to coast, 0:00:45.040 --> 0:00:50.120 and the endorsement power of President Trump was on full display. 0:00:50.479 --> 0:00:55.760 The candidates that he backed went, according to the President, 0:00:55.880 --> 0:00:59.840 thirty seven to zero. In other words, they all won. 0:01:00.920 --> 0:01:05.720 And that was no small accomplishment because you know, several 0:01:05.800 --> 0:01:09.480 of them were high profile ballot box showdowns. For example, 0:01:09.560 --> 0:01:15.000 Trump was determined to get rid of GOP Representative Thomas 0:01:15.040 --> 0:01:20.400 Massey Kentucky's fourth congressional district, who had developed into a 0:01:20.600 --> 0:01:26.440 very outspoken critic of the president. Massey denounced Trump's foreign policy, 0:01:27.080 --> 0:01:31.240 including the Iran conflict, and he also blamed Trump for 0:01:31.360 --> 0:01:36.360 slow walking the release of the Epstein files. Well, guess what. 0:01:36.480 --> 0:01:39.560 It turned out that the voters in Kentucky got fed 0:01:39.640 --> 0:01:44.560 up with Massey and his efforts to undermine the President's agenda. 0:01:44.640 --> 0:01:48.800 The congressman, who had held that seat for fourteen years, 0:01:49.120 --> 0:01:54.240 was soundly defeated by a newcomer for whom Trump had campaigned. 0:01:55.120 --> 0:02:00.000 Massey lost by almost ten points, which is an astonished 0:02:00.680 --> 0:02:05.600 rejection of an incumbent. In the Senate race in Kentucky, 0:02:06.400 --> 0:02:11.880 the Trump back candidate cruised the nomination to succeed retiring 0:02:12.000 --> 0:02:16.000 Senator Mitch McConnell, rejecting McConnell's handpicked candidate. 0:02:16.760 --> 0:02:18.720 Trump's chosen candidate. 0:02:19.120 --> 0:02:24.760 Also move forward in Alabama, in Georgia, in Louisiana. In 0:02:24.840 --> 0:02:28.400 that last state, Louisiana, Trump went out of his way 0:02:29.280 --> 0:02:33.519 to get rid of incumbent Senator Bill Cassidy, who has 0:02:33.720 --> 0:02:37.400 long been a thorn in the President's side. Cassidy got 0:02:37.639 --> 0:02:43.040 absolutely crushed. So what's the message, Well, it seems to 0:02:43.080 --> 0:02:48.560 be this oppose Trump at your own peril, because he 0:02:48.680 --> 0:02:54.080 will flect his political muscles to exert payback on Republicans 0:02:54.080 --> 0:02:58.680 who defy him, and the question now is will any 0:02:58.760 --> 0:03:04.280 of that translate to the general elections in November. Well, 0:03:04.360 --> 0:03:06.320 joining me now to talk about it is my old 0:03:06.320 --> 0:03:08.640 friend Doug Sean, who was a lawyer and a veteran 0:03:08.720 --> 0:03:12.480 political analyst. And I always turned to Doug because he's 0:03:12.480 --> 0:03:15.680 a Democrat whom I trust to be candid and accurate 0:03:15.880 --> 0:03:20.399 in his assessments. He's not afraid to criticize his own 0:03:20.440 --> 0:03:24.400 party when warranted. So Doug, thanks for taking the time 0:03:24.639 --> 0:03:27.480 to be here. I appreciate it, and I always learn 0:03:27.560 --> 0:03:30.079 a lot from you. And before we get to states 0:03:30.160 --> 0:03:34.079 like Georgia and Texas, which are important and it could 0:03:34.160 --> 0:03:38.120 spell trouble for Republicans in November, what's your reaction to 0:03:38.720 --> 0:03:44.000 the powerful influence that Trump had this week in various primaries. 0:03:44.600 --> 0:03:48.920 You know, Greg, the conventional wisdom now is that the 0:03:48.960 --> 0:03:52.920 Republicans are going to get badly beaten in the midterms, 0:03:52.920 --> 0:03:56.720 and that could well certainly happened. But my message and 0:03:56.800 --> 0:04:01.280 my takeaway, Greg, and thank you for a very kind introduction, 0:04:02.080 --> 0:04:06.520 is that the power of Trump to mobilize voters is 0:04:07.040 --> 0:04:10.040 frankly as great as you state it to be. And 0:04:10.480 --> 0:04:13.840 the president represents it to be. And in a midterm 0:04:13.880 --> 0:04:17.480 election where the issue is turnout, who's going to vote, 0:04:18.080 --> 0:04:21.120 it would seem to me that the greatest asset that 0:04:21.200 --> 0:04:26.600 the GOP has and GOP candidates have is one Donald J. Trump, 0:04:26.640 --> 0:04:29.960 the President of the United States, in mobilizing voters who 0:04:30.040 --> 0:04:34.680 might otherwise not be so inclined to vote when prices 0:04:34.720 --> 0:04:38.000 are high. Were currently in a war that we'd all 0:04:38.120 --> 0:04:41.599 like to successfully get out of, and midterms, as you 0:04:41.720 --> 0:04:45.760 know and we have discussed previously, tend to break against 0:04:45.839 --> 0:04:49.600 the incumbent party. So I think the takeaway is much 0:04:49.640 --> 0:04:53.320 more good news for the Republicans than we might have 0:04:54.120 --> 0:04:56.360 anticipated a week or two ago. 0:04:56.600 --> 0:04:58.200 Yeah, I think you're right. In fact, I talked to 0:04:58.240 --> 0:05:01.600 Trump about it. He's well aware of the risks involved 0:05:01.640 --> 0:05:05.560 in a midterm elections for the sitting president, you know, 0:05:05.880 --> 0:05:09.400 it always goes against him historically, and he said, look, 0:05:09.440 --> 0:05:11.039 I'm going to go out and I'm going to campaign 0:05:11.120 --> 0:05:13.760 as if it's a general election for president, and I'm 0:05:13.760 --> 0:05:16.320 on the ballot on the midterm. So we'll wait and 0:05:16.320 --> 0:05:17.920 see if that works. But I want to talk to 0:05:17.960 --> 0:05:21.920 you about Texas because Trump waited until the last minute 0:05:22.320 --> 0:05:25.839 to endorse the state attorney General Ken Paxton, or the 0:05:25.880 --> 0:05:31.520 President describes as a true MAGA warrior. You know, there's 0:05:31.560 --> 0:05:34.080 one week to go into the runoff election against the 0:05:34.120 --> 0:05:38.200 incumbent Senator John Cornyn, and some political pros thing Paxton 0:05:39.400 --> 0:05:43.000 is a gift to Democrats, making it easier for them 0:05:43.080 --> 0:05:48.800 to flip the Texas seat with their chosen candidate, James Talerico, 0:05:49.760 --> 0:05:55.400 who's built quite a war chest. It's felt that Cornyn 0:05:55.560 --> 0:06:00.000 was better equipped to successfully defend the seat in Texas. 0:06:00.200 --> 0:06:01.679 What do you think, god. 0:06:02.160 --> 0:06:06.440 Well, I guess the conventional political wisdom would be exactly 0:06:06.520 --> 0:06:12.000 that Greg, that a more quote moderate mainstream Republican like 0:06:12.080 --> 0:06:15.880 Cornyan would do better than a more activist attorney general 0:06:16.480 --> 0:06:20.200 such as Ken Paxton. I think the problem is, first, 0:06:20.240 --> 0:06:24.760 the polling today shows that the margin between Paxton and 0:06:24.880 --> 0:06:28.520 Cornyan in the primaries very close, and there wasn't a 0:06:28.600 --> 0:06:32.560 clear advantage for Cornyan in the general election. Maybe a 0:06:32.600 --> 0:06:35.719 point or two maybe, but I don't see it. But 0:06:35.839 --> 0:06:40.159 to me, the key variable is Trump, and I believe 0:06:40.240 --> 0:06:43.279 that the Trump endorsement Greg will as it did in 0:06:43.520 --> 0:06:46.960 Louisiana and as it did in Georgia and Alabama, as 0:06:47.000 --> 0:06:50.280 you suggested, I think it'll probably be enough to pull 0:06:50.320 --> 0:06:53.880 Packson over the finish line and everything I've seen of Texas, 0:06:54.320 --> 0:06:57.440 and you know, you're right. I'm a veteran, but going 0:06:57.520 --> 0:07:02.440 back many many years, Texas is a reliably red state 0:07:02.560 --> 0:07:05.120 that my party always believes it's going to win and 0:07:05.640 --> 0:07:09.800 somehow never manages to do so, at least in recent memory. 0:07:10.160 --> 0:07:14.480 So I'd make Paxt a narrow favorite, assuming he is 0:07:14.560 --> 0:07:17.240 the nominee, and that's a big assumption, goes. We haven't 0:07:17.280 --> 0:07:19.600 had the run up, but I don't think he's going 0:07:19.680 --> 0:07:23.400 to be appreciably weaker because the Republican brand and the 0:07:23.480 --> 0:07:26.840 Trump brand, I think are going to be what impels 0:07:26.880 --> 0:07:31.560 people to vote less than perhaps some of the issues 0:07:31.600 --> 0:07:33.720 that Paxton has faced in the past. 0:07:33.840 --> 0:07:36.040 Yeah, I think you're right about that, Doug. 0:07:36.600 --> 0:07:40.960 You know, primaries are one thing, general elections or another, Especially, 0:07:41.200 --> 0:07:43.679 as I said before, when the party in power faces 0:07:43.760 --> 0:07:49.320 traditional headwins, it's always a challenging political climate. Historically, the 0:07:49.360 --> 0:07:51.960 party that controls the White House tends to lose seats 0:07:52.000 --> 0:07:55.880 in Congress during the subsequent mid terms. It happened to 0:07:55.920 --> 0:08:00.000 Trump in twenty eighteen, certainly happened to most Democrats presidents 0:08:00.120 --> 0:08:05.760 as well. And look, Trump is getting battered in the polls. 0:08:06.560 --> 0:08:10.160 I saw the it came out yesterday, the Fox News polls. 0:08:11.560 --> 0:08:16.280 Opposition to the Iran conflict grows despite the belief that 0:08:16.360 --> 0:08:21.600 the US is winning, and economic anxiety seems to be 0:08:21.720 --> 0:08:28.160 deepening among Americans. That could be troubling for people who 0:08:28.400 --> 0:08:31.640 vote their wallets and they invariably do they step into 0:08:31.680 --> 0:08:34.240 the voting booth and say what affects me the most, well, 0:08:34.559 --> 0:08:41.000 my empty wallet. And so Democrats are making affordability the 0:08:41.160 --> 0:08:42.760 issue that they're going to run on. 0:08:44.000 --> 0:08:50.199 So smart move, I think it is. Greg My party's 0:08:50.320 --> 0:08:54.800 basic strategy is we don't have a message. We don't 0:08:54.880 --> 0:08:59.080 have a messenger, and we have the polarization and division 0:08:59.520 --> 0:09:02.920 between the far left in the more moderate wing of 0:09:02.960 --> 0:09:06.040 the party, which the progressive seemed to be winning, if 0:09:06.080 --> 0:09:09.680 I am any judge of it. So basically, my party 0:09:09.960 --> 0:09:12.560 sort of says, we don't have anything to run on ourselves, 0:09:13.000 --> 0:09:15.880 so we got to run against Trump. And the one 0:09:15.960 --> 0:09:18.840 issue that we run on is the one, frankly that 0:09:18.880 --> 0:09:23.400 Trump ran on himself, which is it's too darn difficult 0:09:24.200 --> 0:09:26.920 to make it in America. Prices are too darn high 0:09:27.000 --> 0:09:30.160 and Flacusnes is too high, and so vote against the 0:09:30.240 --> 0:09:34.199 incumbent because you have to hold somebody accountable. That's my 0:09:34.320 --> 0:09:37.480 party's best argument. They really don't have much else going 0:09:37.559 --> 0:09:39.760 for them other than that. 0:09:40.040 --> 0:09:43.080 Well, you say they don't have a messenger Kamala, Come on, man, 0:09:43.320 --> 0:09:44.280 Kamala is out there. 0:09:44.600 --> 0:09:46.800 You know, she's got all kinds of ideas. 0:09:46.440 --> 0:09:51.840 Well, Greg, I mean, I think the chance that he 0:09:52.000 --> 0:09:56.040 see has to be the nominee is about zero. Even 0:09:56.080 --> 0:09:59.280 though she's got more name recognition, she doesn't have appreciably 0:09:59.440 --> 0:10:03.320 more votes. And my experience with her, both in the 0:10:03.360 --> 0:10:07.000 presidential general election in twenty twenty four and when she 0:10:07.120 --> 0:10:10.880 was a primary candidate in twenty twenty is that the 0:10:10.960 --> 0:10:12.920 more people see her, the less they like her. 0:10:13.200 --> 0:10:13.400 Yeah. 0:10:13.880 --> 0:10:20.439 Yeah, you know, Republicans should advocate the Kammaly get out 0:10:20.440 --> 0:10:23.840 there more in talk because when she talks, it's an 0:10:23.960 --> 0:10:25.200 auto turn off. 0:10:26.679 --> 0:10:30.160 You know, Republicans seem to be winning the war. 0:10:29.960 --> 0:10:33.880 On redistricting lately. The Spreme Court finally put a halt 0:10:33.920 --> 0:10:39.720 to Democrats racial jerry mandarin in the Louisiana decision, so 0:10:39.760 --> 0:10:41.720 they could lose a number of seats in the South 0:10:41.720 --> 0:10:46.240 and Midwest. As maps are being withdrawn as a consequence 0:10:46.280 --> 0:10:54.720 of that ruling, and political jerry mandarine backfired spectacularly in Virginia, 0:10:55.160 --> 0:11:01.200 whereas Republicans have actually successfully redrawn maps in their favor elsewhere. 0:11:02.080 --> 0:11:06.959 But you know, changing the maps may not be good enough, right, 0:11:07.080 --> 0:11:08.600 I mean, how do you handicap that? 0:11:09.400 --> 0:11:13.120 Well, it really is a question of how much the 0:11:13.280 --> 0:11:19.360 anti incumbent sentiment, the anti Republican sentiment, how strong that 0:11:19.559 --> 0:11:22.160 is because we're going to have a lot of, as 0:11:22.200 --> 0:11:26.319 you suggest, correctly, new districts, a lot of new candidates, 0:11:26.800 --> 0:11:31.560 and invariably these house races greg have become more a 0:11:31.600 --> 0:11:37.480 test of incumbent versus out party than it is candidate 0:11:37.520 --> 0:11:41.800 A versus candidate B. I would say at this point, 0:11:41.920 --> 0:11:46.560 you're right on both your assertions. You're right to say 0:11:46.800 --> 0:11:50.760 that the Republicans have clearly benefited from the redistricting wars 0:11:51.200 --> 0:11:53.960 so far in the court decisions. But it's also the 0:11:54.040 --> 0:11:57.120 case that we really don't have a sense as to 0:11:57.200 --> 0:12:01.080 where the generic vote laws. I've seen everything from dead 0:12:01.120 --> 0:12:04.640 even to plus in the most extreme left wing pole 0:12:04.760 --> 0:12:08.760 New York Times poll plus eleven Democrats. I assume the 0:12:08.840 --> 0:12:12.880 Democrats are narrowly ahead, But if they're narrowly head three, 0:12:13.040 --> 0:12:16.080 four or five points in the generic vote. That means 0:12:16.160 --> 0:12:18.280 that a lot of these races are going to be 0:12:18.400 --> 0:12:21.800 very very close, and no trend is at this point discernible. 0:12:22.160 --> 0:12:26.640 You know, I tend to ignore the generic ballot because 0:12:26.840 --> 0:12:30.840 you know, you're really in the house talking about district races, 0:12:30.880 --> 0:12:34.840 and it really comes down to whether voters like that 0:12:34.920 --> 0:12:39.640 particular representative. So isn't the generic ballot sort of misleading? 0:12:41.559 --> 0:12:44.960 It is when it's very close, because it doesn't provide 0:12:45.000 --> 0:12:48.160 a clear tip off. But if it's you know, in 0:12:48.200 --> 0:12:51.760 twenty eighteen, it was eight to ten points for the Democrats, 0:12:52.040 --> 0:12:54.760 and when it gets that high, you have what you'd 0:12:54.800 --> 0:12:59.520 call in that instance, a blue wave. In twenty twenty four, 0:12:59.600 --> 0:13:02.960 we had something of a red wave. Certainly twenty ten, 0:13:03.080 --> 0:13:07.280 which we both remember when Obama said we got pasted, 0:13:07.800 --> 0:13:12.960 there was a red wave against Obamacare. So I think, again, 0:13:13.040 --> 0:13:16.199 it's still too early to say, but if the generic 0:13:16.280 --> 0:13:20.480 vote is relatively close, I think you're almost certainly correct 0:13:20.679 --> 0:13:24.160 that it'll come down to a candidate to candidate, district 0:13:24.160 --> 0:13:26.960 to district fight. And it's not lost on me that 0:13:27.000 --> 0:13:31.120 Trump of the Republicans will bring you bringing over three 0:13:31.240 --> 0:13:35.520 hundred and fifty million dollars to bear out from outside 0:13:35.559 --> 0:13:39.920 the system, plus whatever the candidates themselves and the party's race. 0:13:40.480 --> 0:13:43.319 Let me ask you one final question in thrown to 0:13:43.360 --> 0:13:46.480 the mixed fraud scandals. You know, these multi billion dollar 0:13:46.800 --> 0:13:51.080 fraud scandals, they happen in blue cities and states. They 0:13:51.080 --> 0:13:54.719 have created constant headlines. There's another one today in Minnesota, 0:13:54.920 --> 0:14:01.560 ninety billion in fraud. And it damage is Democrats who 0:14:01.600 --> 0:14:05.960 are in charge as either enabling the fraudsters or turning 0:14:06.000 --> 0:14:08.240 a blind eye to it, as Tim Waltz has done 0:14:08.280 --> 0:14:12.920 in Minnesota. And of course voting taxpayers don't like it 0:14:13.160 --> 0:14:16.960 one bit when they're ripped off of their hard earned dollars. 0:14:18.080 --> 0:14:21.160 A factor in the socialist mayors in places like New 0:14:21.240 --> 0:14:24.760 York City and Seattle have managed to drive away businesses 0:14:24.800 --> 0:14:29.160 and sap budget revenues as a consequence, and that hurts 0:14:29.240 --> 0:14:33.160 Democrats as well. Doesn't that impact the midterms? 0:14:33.880 --> 0:14:38.600 You know you are raising greg an issue that is 0:14:38.680 --> 0:14:44.120 I think emerging in people's consciousness because it is just 0:14:44.200 --> 0:14:49.120 a fact that democratic blue cities, particularly those with far 0:14:49.200 --> 0:14:54.560 left mayors, are badly administered. But badly administered is very 0:14:54.560 --> 0:14:58.080 different than ninety billion dollars in fraud, and if the 0:14:58.120 --> 0:15:02.520 Republicans run against fraud and corruption, I think they have 0:15:02.560 --> 0:15:08.720 a chance to neutralize an issue that arguably would be 0:15:09.040 --> 0:15:12.000 one that the Democrats would prefer to deploy against them. 0:15:12.280 --> 0:15:15.040 Yeah, Doug Seawan, you're great. Thank you so much for 0:15:15.080 --> 0:15:19.400 taking the time. We appreciate it. Will be right back 0:15:19.480 --> 0:15:23.119 more of the Sean Hannity Show. 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Buffalo, New York. 0:17:28.240 --> 0:17:31.680 Tom is standing by with a question or comment. Hey Tom, 0:17:31.720 --> 0:17:33.960 how are you good? 0:17:34.080 --> 0:17:37.520 It's not going to be on your show. My comment is, 0:17:37.680 --> 0:17:43.640 I'm wondering if President Trump would consider bombing Iran basically 0:17:43.800 --> 0:17:47.800 every interval six hours, twelve hours, twenty four hours, one 0:17:47.880 --> 0:17:51.520 item minute time, whether it be a power plant, a bridge, 0:17:51.600 --> 0:17:54.639 or whatever, one item minute time on an interval of 0:17:54.760 --> 0:17:58.560 whatever he sets and say keep doing that until they cry. 0:17:58.440 --> 0:18:04.080 Uncle, well a bad idea, presuming we have the armaments 0:18:04.160 --> 0:18:09.480 to do it, and you know I think we do. 0:18:11.119 --> 0:18:15.480 And you know I find it so amazing, if not amusing, 0:18:16.600 --> 0:18:21.960 that when several weeks ago Trump threatened to bomb carg 0:18:22.040 --> 0:18:25.560 Island and the oil depots and the pumping stations and 0:18:25.600 --> 0:18:26.200 so forth. 0:18:26.840 --> 0:18:30.760 You know, Democrats, how that's a war crime. You can't 0:18:30.880 --> 0:18:32.960 you can't bomb their infrastructure. 0:18:33.840 --> 0:18:36.480 Sure you can't. And it's not a war crime. That's 0:18:36.480 --> 0:18:40.399 a silly argument. During World War Two, the Allies bombed 0:18:40.880 --> 0:18:50.160 all kinds of infrastructure, power plants, railroads, you know, depots, 0:18:50.240 --> 0:18:55.760 fuel stations and so forth. And it was incredibly successful. 0:18:56.119 --> 0:19:00.959 And you know, the Nazi planes style flying because they 0:19:00.960 --> 0:19:05.040 didn't have any more fuel, the tanks stop running and 0:19:05.119 --> 0:19:06.200 moving and say it. 0:19:06.119 --> 0:19:07.240 Was very effective. 0:19:07.680 --> 0:19:10.800 It was not a war crime then, and it's not 0:19:11.119 --> 0:19:15.919 a war crime now. It is a ludicrous argument for 0:19:16.280 --> 0:19:19.399 Democrats or anybody to make, Oh gee, it's a war crime. 0:19:19.440 --> 0:19:21.719 You can't do that utter nonsense. 0:19:23.240 --> 0:19:27.240 And doing an interval or intermittently gives them a chance 0:19:27.280 --> 0:19:31.560 to cry uncle. And it's done slowly, monotonously and hit 0:19:31.640 --> 0:19:33.560 them hard on one item at a time or two, 0:19:34.040 --> 0:19:35.760 and just do it on an interval and say as 0:19:35.760 --> 0:19:38.040 soon as you cry uncle, will stop and you sign 0:19:38.080 --> 0:19:38.560 the agreement. 0:19:38.680 --> 0:19:40.399 Yeah, it seems like it's the only thing that's going 0:19:40.440 --> 0:19:42.920 to get the Iranians attention, you know, but they're following 0:19:43.000 --> 0:19:46.840 their traditional playbook, you know, this sort of cat and 0:19:46.880 --> 0:19:50.320 mouse game, delay, delay, delay, make promises. 0:19:50.359 --> 0:19:52.280 That will maybe do we'll sit. 0:19:52.160 --> 0:19:56.199 Down and time stop, you know, firing bombs now, and 0:19:56.240 --> 0:19:57.960 we should have a c spe and then we'll talk 0:19:58.000 --> 0:20:02.359 about it. Oh, yes, we'll stop enriching uranium. And then, 0:20:02.400 --> 0:20:05.040 of course they lie and cheat, and they do it secretly, 0:20:05.119 --> 0:20:09.280 and you know, they they take American presidents for suckers 0:20:09.480 --> 0:20:13.480 until Donald Trump comes along and he actually does something 0:20:13.520 --> 0:20:14.560 about it, right. 0:20:15.440 --> 0:20:19.080 Exactly exactly. And I think if they I think that 0:20:19.160 --> 0:20:21.360 would wake them up, and sooner or later, I don't 0:20:21.359 --> 0:20:24.240 think it would take long. I think they'd say we'll sign. 0:20:24.560 --> 0:20:24.800 Yeah. 0:20:24.840 --> 0:20:26.720 You know the problem with the Mullas, who were in 0:20:26.840 --> 0:20:29.679 charge in Iran is is that, you know, you can't 0:20:29.960 --> 0:20:37.600 reason with unreasonable people. These people are maniacal. They are 0:20:37.800 --> 0:20:44.080 pathologically you know, liars, and they're destined to cheat, and 0:20:44.320 --> 0:20:48.119 so you can't trust them. So that you know, trust 0:20:48.240 --> 0:20:52.280 but verify, of course, was the famous uh Reagan slogan. 0:20:52.440 --> 0:20:58.040 But unless there is a reliable ability to verify, and 0:20:58.320 --> 0:21:03.120 I don't trust the IA to be a reliable partner 0:21:03.160 --> 0:21:08.399 in that, you know, continued military strikes may be the 0:21:08.440 --> 0:21:11.199 only option. Tom, Thank you so much for calling us 0:21:11.280 --> 0:21:15.120 from Buffalo, New York. Let's go to Tennessee, where Dan 0:21:15.240 --> 0:21:18.400 has been patiently standing by. Hi Dan, how are you. 0:21:19.800 --> 0:21:23.360 Fine? Greg, I'll make this real quick, Greg. I'm not 0:21:23.400 --> 0:21:26.040 sure if you're familiar with what they call the Presidential 0:21:26.280 --> 0:21:31.760 National Security Emergency Declaration. It stems from a nineteen eighty 0:21:31.840 --> 0:21:36.440 three case before the Supreme Court. The significance of it 0:21:36.560 --> 0:21:42.160 is this, as under that particular declaration, the President can 0:21:42.840 --> 0:21:47.440 set forth a judicial order mandating everything that is now 0:21:47.560 --> 0:21:50.359 in the Save America Act, which is not going to pass, 0:21:51.080 --> 0:21:54.600 and that will mean, in effect, when the mid turns come, 0:21:54.800 --> 0:21:57.320 that the Save America Act and the provisions in it, 0:21:57.359 --> 0:22:00.600 even though the Act has not been passed, will be 0:22:00.680 --> 0:22:04.720 effective in the election. And I don't want to comment 0:22:04.840 --> 0:22:07.359 any more on that. I don't know if it's with it, 0:22:07.640 --> 0:22:09.160 I am not qualified. 0:22:09.400 --> 0:22:10.359 Oh you are, okay? 0:22:10.440 --> 0:22:10.920 Oh sure. 0:22:11.000 --> 0:22:12.680 It's fifty USC. 0:22:12.760 --> 0:22:16.840 Sixteen oh one, the National Emergency Act, and it essentially 0:22:16.920 --> 0:22:23.439 grants the president access to, you know, over one hundred 0:22:23.480 --> 0:22:30.119 distinct statutory powers. Once he formally proclaims the emergency, there 0:22:30.160 --> 0:22:34.320 are limits to it. He has to you know, declare 0:22:34.359 --> 0:22:39.840 the emergency in writing, specify you know which law he's activating, 0:22:40.000 --> 0:22:47.280 transmitted to Congress. But you know, it's generally done. If 0:22:47.320 --> 0:22:49.879 there is a as the title of it says, a 0:22:50.000 --> 0:22:55.840 national security threat, that's either foreign or domestic. You know, 0:22:55.960 --> 0:22:58.320 he can do all kinds of things under it again, 0:22:58.400 --> 0:23:03.800 block transactions, regulate trade, freeze assets. It's never been used 0:23:03.800 --> 0:23:09.119 that I'm aware of in an election, But you know, 0:23:09.160 --> 0:23:11.879 I think, Dan, it's an interesting idea and it's you know, 0:23:12.080 --> 0:23:16.200 something that I might consider looking into as a possibility, 0:23:16.640 --> 0:23:17.959 you know, creative idea. 0:23:18.119 --> 0:23:18.840 Dan. Thanks. 0:23:19.000 --> 0:23:22.919 I mean, look, Thune is the villain in all of this, 0:23:23.560 --> 0:23:26.440 you know, right, he's the Senate Majority leader, John Tune. 0:23:27.359 --> 0:23:29.560 And you know he didn't want to. 0:23:29.600 --> 0:23:34.360 Kill the fillibuster to do it, even though he's naive 0:23:34.400 --> 0:23:37.080 if he doesn't think that's the first thing that Democrats 0:23:37.080 --> 0:23:37.480 are going to. 0:23:37.520 --> 0:23:40.040 Do when if, and when they regain. 0:23:39.640 --> 0:23:43.439 Control, they'll kill a filibuster and you know, try to 0:23:43.440 --> 0:23:47.040 do all kinds of things, including packing the Supreme Court 0:23:47.119 --> 0:23:52.040 with additional you know, Katanji Brown Jackson's you know, make 0:23:52.359 --> 0:23:58.359 Puerto Rico and DC states. Yeah, I mean they're gonna, 0:23:58.440 --> 0:23:59.760 you know, with Kamal. 0:23:59.480 --> 0:24:02.280 Harris it out recently. 0:24:02.440 --> 0:24:04.600 Here are the things we need to do, I mean, 0:24:04.680 --> 0:24:09.879 crazy stuff, but that's where Democrats are. But you know, 0:24:10.000 --> 0:24:12.480 Save of America Act should have been passed a long 0:24:12.520 --> 0:24:15.520 time ago. It's a no brainer. Of course you should 0:24:15.600 --> 0:24:19.520 have an ID to make sure when you vote you 0:24:19.600 --> 0:24:23.320 are who you say you are. I was just reading 0:24:23.359 --> 0:24:26.600 the other day, it was yesterday actually about you know 0:24:26.600 --> 0:24:30.000 all the people are who at their homes are receiving 0:24:31.480 --> 0:24:34.960 multiple mail in ballots for people who don't live there. 0:24:35.680 --> 0:24:39.000 And you know, Gavin Newsom has issued in order that 0:24:39.160 --> 0:24:41.000 you know, you don't need to show ID, you don't 0:24:41.000 --> 0:24:43.119 have verify who you are. Fill out the malee in 0:24:43.119 --> 0:24:47.560 ballot as many time as you want, and center it 0:24:47.640 --> 0:24:50.880 on in and make sure that you market for Democrats. 0:24:51.000 --> 0:24:54.200 And you know it's rigged out in California. I hate 0:24:54.200 --> 0:24:54.680 to say that. 0:24:54.760 --> 0:24:58.080 I spent thirty years in California, born and raised there. 0:24:58.119 --> 0:25:04.120 I loved California until it went. You know, nuts, Dan, 0:25:04.200 --> 0:25:08.440 thanks very much, appreciate a good idea. Let's go to Utah. 0:25:08.560 --> 0:25:11.560 Sherry is standing by, Hi, Sherry, what's up? 0:25:12.920 --> 0:25:13.280 Hello? 0:25:13.920 --> 0:25:16.200 Well, I had a question. It was a while ago 0:25:16.280 --> 0:25:18.399 and I forgot the guy's name that was talking about 0:25:18.800 --> 0:25:25.160 all these people that are this should be punished, they 0:25:25.280 --> 0:25:26.600 should be in trouble. 0:25:26.720 --> 0:25:27.240 They should. 0:25:27.600 --> 0:25:30.399 Yeah, it was Mike Davis. 0:25:30.440 --> 0:25:35.000 Mike, Yeah, but how are we going to make it happen? 0:25:35.680 --> 0:25:38.639 I hear it all the time. I mean for years 0:25:38.680 --> 0:25:42.520 and years. Hillary Clinton can destroy her computers and oh yeah, 0:25:42.640 --> 0:25:46.639 I guess she probably wasn't guilty. You know, Hunter Biden, 0:25:46.760 --> 0:25:52.040 all those Gavin Newsommers is so awful, but they nobody 0:25:52.080 --> 0:25:53.080 ever gets in trouble. 0:25:53.400 --> 0:25:54.640 Yeah, no one. 0:25:55.040 --> 0:25:57.119 I mean we hear their name all the time, going, oh, 0:25:57.280 --> 0:26:01.800 those awful people. But that's not a punishment of any 0:26:01.880 --> 0:26:05.399 sort to make other people do the same things. I 0:26:05.440 --> 0:26:07.560 was just wondering, what can we do? 0:26:07.840 --> 0:26:11.360 Yeah, you know, the most frequent question I get almost 0:26:11.440 --> 0:26:14.200 on a daily basis for ten years, are. 0:26:14.080 --> 0:26:16.639 These people who waged. 0:26:17.000 --> 0:26:22.600 This lawless, lawfair campaign against Donald Trump and others? Are 0:26:22.600 --> 0:26:28.200 they ever going to be punished? And you know, I 0:26:28.240 --> 0:26:30.600 don't have a crystal ball. You know, I gave up 0:26:30.800 --> 0:26:34.080