WEBVTT - Stephanie Ruhle & Bale Dalton 0:00:00.640 --> 0:00:04.160 Hi, I'm Molly John Fast and this is Fast Politics, 0:00:04.360 --> 0:00:07.120 where we discussed the top political headlines with some of 0:00:07.160 --> 0:00:12.080 today's best minds, and Democrats hold a ten point advantage 0:00:12.240 --> 0:00:17.400 on the generic ballot. According to Emerson, we have such 0:00:17.440 --> 0:00:20.840 a great show for you today. MS. Now step Rule 0:00:21.360 --> 0:00:25.600 talks about our record low consumer confidence and what it's 0:00:25.640 --> 0:00:28.760 going to do to Donald Trump's economy. Then we'll talk 0:00:28.840 --> 0:00:33.400 to Bail Dalton about his run against Congressman Cory Mills. 0:00:33.479 --> 0:00:34.360 But first the news. 0:00:34.520 --> 0:00:37.080 You know, Molly, as you know, I really hate these 0:00:37.120 --> 0:00:39.280 predictive betting markets. But you want to know the safest 0:00:39.280 --> 0:00:42.160 bet that you could have made that the Supreme Court 0:00:42.200 --> 0:00:43.800 would overturn voting rights. 0:00:44.400 --> 0:00:49.520 Yeah, so this is the Supreme Court's voting rights law. 0:00:49.720 --> 0:00:52.520 This is sort of the death now of the voting 0:00:52.800 --> 0:00:55.720 rights law the Conservatives. It was a six to three decision, 0:00:56.200 --> 0:00:58.960 and what it means is that there are an additional 0:00:59.080 --> 0:01:04.120 nineteen House seats that were created as a minority majority 0:01:04.440 --> 0:01:07.520 seat to make it so the people of color would 0:01:07.520 --> 0:01:11.600 have safe seats in Congress. Now, what happens, well, what 0:01:11.680 --> 0:01:15.160 happens now is that these Republican governors in the South 0:01:15.319 --> 0:01:18.840 get together and start taking those seats away. We already 0:01:18.840 --> 0:01:22.160 have seen the Tate Reeves, the governor of Mississippi, who 0:01:22.200 --> 0:01:26.240 you may remember from doing all sorts of really really 0:01:26.280 --> 0:01:31.360 sketchy stuff with the sports center right building the sports center. 0:01:31.520 --> 0:01:35.199 That guy is already called a special session to try 0:01:35.480 --> 0:01:39.800 and take away any of the majority minority seats. This 0:01:40.000 --> 0:01:44.840 is going to be more redistricting wars. Now, Republicans are 0:01:44.920 --> 0:01:47.760 happy because they think they'll pick up a lot of seats, 0:01:47.800 --> 0:01:49.760 because it says that they could pick up as many 0:01:49.760 --> 0:01:53.560 as nineteen additional seats. Here's the thing, and I think 0:01:53.680 --> 0:01:56.760 that this is a problem that Republicans have with the 0:01:56.880 --> 0:02:00.960 jerry mandering, is that when you do this, when you 0:02:01.080 --> 0:02:04.840 jerrymander like this, when you cut up the districts like this, 0:02:05.280 --> 0:02:08.800 what happens is that if Donald Trump performs at the 0:02:08.880 --> 0:02:13.480 same ratios he performed in twenty twenty four, then maybe 0:02:13.520 --> 0:02:16.200 you keep a seat, right like he made huge inroads 0:02:16.240 --> 0:02:19.920 with Latino voters, et cetera, et cetera. But here's what 0:02:20.280 --> 0:02:23.280 could happen. We're seeing a generic with a D plus 0:02:23.360 --> 0:02:26.919 ten on the generics. So it could mean that all 0:02:27.000 --> 0:02:29.679 of these seats that are now you know that went 0:02:29.720 --> 0:02:33.400 from Republican plus twenty to Republican plus eight. 0:02:33.840 --> 0:02:34.359 If it's a. 0:02:34.320 --> 0:02:37.880 Generic ten, then Democrats pick up some of those seats. 0:02:38.080 --> 0:02:40.680 And that's what's called the dummy mander, is where you 0:02:40.760 --> 0:02:44.720 jerrymander yourself so much that you ultimately you flip those 0:02:44.720 --> 0:02:50.560 seats to Dems. Again, remember it still votes that determine this, right, 0:02:51.080 --> 0:02:54.400 There's going to be a lot of movement behind the 0:02:54.440 --> 0:02:56.839 scenes now, a lot of state House movement, a lot 0:02:56.880 --> 0:02:59.680 of fights, a lot of people losing seats. You know, 0:02:59.760 --> 0:03:02.799 a lot of these seats can't be changed before the election, 0:03:02.960 --> 0:03:05.639 but some will be. And again, this is a Supreme 0:03:05.680 --> 0:03:07.800 Court getting involved in our elections. 0:03:07.960 --> 0:03:11.720 Yep. You know those judicial activists we always heard about 0:03:11.720 --> 0:03:15.000 through the Bush and Obama years really really are showing 0:03:15.000 --> 0:03:18.640 their heads these days. But so Pete Haiksith is in 0:03:18.760 --> 0:03:21.799 Congress set of hearing today and one of the things 0:03:21.800 --> 0:03:25.040 we've learned is how much this Iranian war has cost 0:03:25.120 --> 0:03:27.440 us so far, which is twenty five billion dollars. I 0:03:27.480 --> 0:03:29.880 have a really amazing statistic from front of the show, 0:03:30.000 --> 0:03:34.920 Spencer Ackerman here, Malli, that's how much the surge cost, right. 0:03:35.160 --> 0:03:39.200 Well, and we knew this was true because we had 0:03:39.240 --> 0:03:44.760 been seeing that they were using these very expensive munitions 0:03:45.160 --> 0:03:47.520 as opposed to the cheaper munitions. And by the way, 0:03:47.560 --> 0:03:50.400 they could have learned a lot of stuff from the Ukrainians, 0:03:50.440 --> 0:03:53.040 and the Ukrainians offered to show us how to do 0:03:53.480 --> 0:03:58.040 this cheaper drone warfare, and they didn't want to, which 0:03:58.080 --> 0:04:02.320 I think is really important to point out, which is 0:04:02.360 --> 0:04:07.080 that like, there were many ways in which Republicans who 0:04:07.200 --> 0:04:09.400 pretended to care about the budget could have made this 0:04:09.440 --> 0:04:12.600 all cheaper, but they really didn't. They chose not to 0:04:12.640 --> 0:04:15.320 do that. They've just spent so much money and they 0:04:15.360 --> 0:04:17.880 want more money. And these are your tax dollars which 0:04:17.920 --> 0:04:21.400 could go, which could have gone to like expanding Medicaid 0:04:21.680 --> 0:04:26.040 or working on the Obamacare subsidies so that people didn't 0:04:26.120 --> 0:04:29.799 lose their healthcare so that healthcare didn't get more expensive. 0:04:29.839 --> 0:04:33.359 But instead it's going to just more money for the Pentagon. 0:04:33.960 --> 0:04:38.200 And I want to read this statistic. Trump chose to 0:04:38.240 --> 0:04:40.880 spend it on weapons, all while telling Americans there wasn 0:04:41.000 --> 0:04:43.920 enough money for childcare, Medicare, or Medicaid. But the amount 0:04:44.000 --> 0:04:46.600 of money the Pentagon has spent on this war, the 0:04:46.640 --> 0:04:51.920 government could have provided one point seven million children with 0:04:52.000 --> 0:04:53.479 free childcare for a year. 0:04:55.520 --> 0:05:01.880 It's so stupid. Yeah, And the thing that really does 0:05:01.960 --> 0:05:04.520 put the icing on the cake is like they ran 0:05:04.600 --> 0:05:07.640 on knowing that no one wanted this, and it's just 0:05:07.960 --> 0:05:10.679 as we spell this out more and more, it's so damning, 0:05:10.880 --> 0:05:14.080 and we keep seeing that the Republicans just keep on 0:05:14.120 --> 0:05:17.960 supporting it. Yep, speaking of the Senate, Republicans have blocked 0:05:17.960 --> 0:05:20.480 the measure to stop Trump from attacking Cuba, since we 0:05:20.600 --> 0:05:21.960 don't need to spend money doing that. 0:05:22.360 --> 0:05:25.200 Yeah, I think it's also this is a pretty interesting 0:05:25.240 --> 0:05:29.480 resolution because we have Ruben who is was an infantry man, 0:05:29.600 --> 0:05:32.960 Ruben Diego, Tim Kay, and Adam Schiff. And you know, 0:05:33.120 --> 0:05:35.680 I think it's good to see Adam Schiff out there 0:05:35.720 --> 0:05:38.600 like doing this kind of thing because he just won 0:05:38.720 --> 0:05:40.840 his Senate seed. And that's what we want to see, 0:05:40.920 --> 0:05:44.719 is we want to see democratic senators really pushing hard 0:05:44.880 --> 0:05:47.479 on stuff like this. And so this would block Trump 0:05:47.480 --> 0:05:51.279 from using military force to topple Cuba's regime. There's a 0:05:51.360 --> 0:05:55.520 number of reasons why you want this, Because Donald Trump 0:05:55.800 --> 0:05:58.960 is a person who will do whatever you let him do, 0:05:59.520 --> 0:06:06.760 So the only way to get any kind of checks 0:06:06.839 --> 0:06:10.560 on him is to push hard and be aggressive. So 0:06:11.160 --> 0:06:14.880 Susan Collins, who typically votes to give Congress more authority. 0:06:15.520 --> 0:06:21.560 She and Ran Paul voted for the Democratic War Powers Act, 0:06:22.000 --> 0:06:28.000 and John Fetterman, who is basically a blank canvas, voted 0:06:28.120 --> 0:06:28.720 against it. 0:06:29.120 --> 0:06:33.960 Yeah, so federal Appeals Court won't rehear Trump's appeal of 0:06:34.040 --> 0:06:36.800 Eugene Carroll's eighty three million dollar jury award. 0:06:37.360 --> 0:06:41.600 Yeah, another win for Robbie Kaplan Yeah right, I mean, 0:06:41.800 --> 0:06:45.240 luckily Trump has kleptoed so much money that he can 0:06:45.400 --> 0:06:48.240 just pay for it with some of his klepto ballroom 0:06:48.279 --> 0:06:50.680 money or something. But the majority of judges of the 0:06:50.760 --> 0:06:53.760 US Court of Appeals for the Second District denied Trump's 0:06:53.800 --> 0:06:56.800 motion to have his appeal hurt en blanc by a 0:06:56.839 --> 0:07:00.280 full bench of judges. This decision is the eight is 0:07:00.360 --> 0:07:03.279 turned in a six year battle between Carol and Trump 0:07:03.320 --> 0:07:06.440 that has resulted in two Sybil trials, one where Trump 0:07:06.480 --> 0:07:09.960 briefly took the witness stand. Look, man, I think Trump will, 0:07:10.000 --> 0:07:12.200 they'll take this up to the Supreme Court. But I 0:07:12.360 --> 0:07:16.640 love to see Robbie kapwan when that is really a delight. Yeah, 0:07:16.680 --> 0:07:19.320 and I believe very soon we will have another case. 0:07:19.400 --> 0:07:22.080 She took on on this podcast that is a very 0:07:22.120 --> 0:07:22.880 interesting one. 0:07:23.040 --> 0:07:30.440 Yeah. Steph Rule is the host of the Eleventh Hour 0:07:30.560 --> 0:07:34.600 with Stephanie Rule, airing weeknights at eleven pm EST on 0:07:35.000 --> 0:07:37.920 ms now. She is also the co host of the 0:07:38.080 --> 0:07:43.200 ms now YouTube series It's Happening with Belshian Rule. Welcome, Welcome, 0:07:43.240 --> 0:07:44.119 Stephanie Rale. 0:07:44.840 --> 0:07:46.040 Thank you. I dressed up for you. 0:07:47.280 --> 0:07:49.600 As long as it's fleece, that's all that matten. 0:07:49.640 --> 0:07:52.560 It's fleece, slide, I tell you for this sweatsuit was 0:07:52.560 --> 0:07:55.239 in a Salvation army bag that my daughter left outside 0:07:55.240 --> 0:07:58.040 her room and it turned out to fit me. 0:07:58.160 --> 0:07:59.560 So yes, whoever thought they. 0:07:59.480 --> 0:08:00.400 Were getting it, they're not. 0:08:01.320 --> 0:08:04.760 I'm wearing a seventh grade girls two small sweatsuit today. 0:08:04.840 --> 0:08:07.720 I'm wearing it every day for a week. Right, it is. 0:08:07.960 --> 0:08:10.960 And you know, spring is the worst season because it's 0:08:11.000 --> 0:08:14.200 just it's it's like the guy that like never actually 0:08:14.240 --> 0:08:17.040 follows through and proposes to you. It's like warm and 0:08:17.040 --> 0:08:19.160 cold and warm and cold, like, just just call me 0:08:19.200 --> 0:08:20.680 when the summer starts. I can't take it. 0:08:21.240 --> 0:08:23.239 I'm colder in the spring than I am in the winter. 0:08:23.920 --> 0:08:27.080 I too, am freezing. So let's talk about the American 0:08:27.120 --> 0:08:31.920 people though, who are any which way unhappy. There's this 0:08:32.000 --> 0:08:35.000 Gallop survey that you had wanted to talk about. I 0:08:35.040 --> 0:08:37.480 want to talk about that, but then I want to 0:08:37.640 --> 0:08:41.640 pull out and talk about all of the surveys on 0:08:41.679 --> 0:08:44.720 the economy that we see that all of a sudden, 0:08:44.760 --> 0:08:47.400 for the first time in a very long time, Democrats 0:08:47.400 --> 0:08:48.719 have the edge on the economy. 0:08:51.160 --> 0:08:55.080 Democrats of the edge because Republicans are failing at it. 0:08:55.320 --> 0:08:58.680 And the thing that's extraordinary about this Gallop pole is 0:08:59.559 --> 0:09:03.360 people feel worse about the economy today than they did 0:09:03.480 --> 0:09:06.240 during COVID than they did during the Great Recession. And 0:09:06.280 --> 0:09:10.240 so we have to pull apart why that is because usually, 0:09:10.520 --> 0:09:14.080 like a president gets blamed for the economy that he's 0:09:14.120 --> 0:09:16.760 presiding over, but it's usually not the president's fault. In 0:09:16.840 --> 0:09:21.720 this case, almost all of the negative things happening to 0:09:21.800 --> 0:09:26.280 us from an economic perspective are direct policy decisions made 0:09:26.320 --> 0:09:27.120 by Donald Trump. 0:09:27.360 --> 0:09:29.760 So you can say to me, seventy, why are people 0:09:29.760 --> 0:09:31.560 feeling worse than they were during. 0:09:31.360 --> 0:09:35.599 The recession when we saw scores of people lose their homes. 0:09:35.360 --> 0:09:36.600 When we saw people lose their jobs. 0:09:36.679 --> 0:09:41.400 Obviously during COVID, America was home massive layoffs, massive unemployment, 0:09:41.480 --> 0:09:45.240 But why do people feel so bad. Now, well, look 0:09:45.240 --> 0:09:48.240 what the president has done right. The trade war made 0:09:48.240 --> 0:09:51.720 people lose job, It hurt manufacturing, It hurts small businesses, 0:09:51.760 --> 0:09:54.959 it hurt big businesses, it hurt farming. Now we find 0:09:55.040 --> 0:09:57.280 ourselves with a president who is going to focus on 0:09:57.320 --> 0:10:00.360 the cost of living. He has launched a war that 0:10:00.480 --> 0:10:06.360 as of today we've learned has already cost thirty billion dollars. Okay, 0:10:06.600 --> 0:10:11.360 Pete Agseth is asking for one point five trillion dollars 0:10:11.679 --> 0:10:13.880 for a war that they have not sold to the 0:10:14.240 --> 0:10:15.160 American people. 0:10:15.679 --> 0:10:16.720 Is a good idea. 0:10:16.800 --> 0:10:19.920 And now our gas is four dollars and eighteen cents 0:10:19.960 --> 0:10:23.120 a gallon. And remember, people were really unhappy with the 0:10:23.120 --> 0:10:26.800 Biden administration for what they felt like Biden administration was 0:10:26.840 --> 0:10:30.560 insensitive about economic realities for the American people and saying 0:10:30.600 --> 0:10:31.480 that it was short lived. 0:10:32.080 --> 0:10:33.360 Trump is that times ten. 0:10:33.800 --> 0:10:36.200 When you bring up affordability, he says, is an old 0:10:36.240 --> 0:10:38.200 fashioned term and not even real. 0:10:38.480 --> 0:10:41.240 Affordability is a real issue for the American people. 0:10:41.520 --> 0:10:45.760 Not to mention the quiet storm, which is on one level, 0:10:46.600 --> 0:10:49.440 corporate earnings are very strong and companies are very excited 0:10:49.640 --> 0:10:52.760 about AI because it's going to optimize their businesses and 0:10:52.840 --> 0:10:56.920 improve productivity, but it's going to be devastating for the workforce. 0:10:57.320 --> 0:10:59.440 So when you talk about the gallup pole, the gallup 0:10:59.440 --> 0:11:04.319 pole is measuring how people feel, and people have genuine 0:11:04.400 --> 0:11:07.320 fear and anxiety over what the future holds for their 0:11:07.440 --> 0:11:09.559 jobs because AI is. 0:11:09.640 --> 0:11:12.079 Unknown and it is coming for a lot of jobs. 0:11:12.360 --> 0:11:14.840 I don't know that there's a historical president for a 0:11:15.000 --> 0:11:18.880 president who has actually caused gas prices to go up, 0:11:19.120 --> 0:11:21.960 like they're up a dollar in the last month. 0:11:22.480 --> 0:11:25.120 Who've caused gas prices to go up. And here's the thing. 0:11:25.679 --> 0:11:28.840 So, like I cover investors and even some investors, you know, 0:11:28.880 --> 0:11:31.199 some investors in the way beginning of the war were like, great, 0:11:31.360 --> 0:11:34.240 he got Venezuela. Iran's a horrible actor, which they are, 0:11:34.400 --> 0:11:37.400 let's do this. But every big investor I spoke to, 0:11:37.760 --> 0:11:40.200 some who used to be closely tied to the president, 0:11:40.600 --> 0:11:42.200 said we're going to be done with this thing in 0:11:42.240 --> 0:11:47.240 five days. It's now week nine. Even if the war 0:11:47.520 --> 0:11:52.000 ended tomorrow, which it's not going to. We're in an 0:11:52.120 --> 0:11:55.880 energy crisis and we're not even feeling the impact like 0:11:56.120 --> 0:11:58.760 countries are around the world. We're just coming off our 0:11:58.840 --> 0:12:06.119 government bailing out Spirit Airlines, which was already an airlines 0:12:06.160 --> 0:12:09.960 heading to bankruptcy right and now here we are bailing 0:12:09.960 --> 0:12:12.320 them out, and there could be more airlines knocking on 0:12:12.360 --> 0:12:13.280 the door next. 0:12:13.679 --> 0:12:16.320 Yeah, no, I definitely think there will be. I want 0:12:16.360 --> 0:12:18.880 you to talk more about the investors, because you and 0:12:18.920 --> 0:12:21.520 I both know we spent a lot of time, like 0:12:21.600 --> 0:12:25.240 about two years ago with you hearing from everybody in 0:12:25.280 --> 0:12:29.760 the world who was an investor or CEO except trap 0:12:30.160 --> 0:12:33.040 being like, you know, we don't love Trump, but this 0:12:33.200 --> 0:12:36.000 is going to be good for us, right, or some 0:12:36.040 --> 0:12:36.280 of them. 0:12:36.760 --> 0:12:38.839 But the truth is a lot of them still feel 0:12:38.840 --> 0:12:40.719 that way. Okay, you and I just came from the 0:12:40.720 --> 0:12:43.719 White House Correspondence weekend, and let's be clear, if you're 0:12:43.760 --> 0:12:46.680 a CEO going to the White House Correspondence weekend, you're 0:12:46.720 --> 0:12:50.160 down with this president. But I'll tell you business people 0:12:50.200 --> 0:12:54.680 I speak to are still like it's working for me. 0:12:54.840 --> 0:12:58.160 They don't like him, they don't like lots and lots 0:12:58.200 --> 0:13:01.360 of policies, they see all the risks involved, but they 0:13:01.440 --> 0:13:04.920 cantort themselves into pretzels to make excuses. 0:13:04.400 --> 0:13:07.640 For him because they love the access they have. 0:13:07.880 --> 0:13:11.720 Again, pick your CEO can pick up the phone and 0:13:11.760 --> 0:13:14.160 can either call the President, can call Scott Bessen can 0:13:14.200 --> 0:13:15.120 call Howard Lutnik. 0:13:15.400 --> 0:13:16.840 And I'm not saying that. 0:13:16.920 --> 0:13:21.040 It's just they can manipulate this White House to get 0:13:21.080 --> 0:13:24.360 people they want, to get policies they want, and it's 0:13:24.440 --> 0:13:25.800 totally short termism. 0:13:26.040 --> 0:13:27.760 Right, this is what happened in Russia. 0:13:27.800 --> 0:13:30.280 Look what happened to all the oligarchs, Right, They chummed 0:13:30.320 --> 0:13:32.360 up to Putin, They made lots of money, and then 0:13:32.400 --> 0:13:34.360 he turned around and stabbed them in the back. 0:13:34.400 --> 0:13:37.400 Right, actually literally stabbed them. 0:13:37.400 --> 0:13:39.640 They literally stab them. You know. 0:13:39.720 --> 0:13:42.040 The one CEO that even sticks out in my mind 0:13:42.200 --> 0:13:45.120 as it relates to the ballroom. It was weeks ago, 0:13:45.360 --> 0:13:48.240 months ago now that Jamie Diamond said, we are not 0:13:48.480 --> 0:13:51.920 japing Morgan is not writing a check for this ballroom 0:13:52.360 --> 0:13:56.280 because next administration or when and if Democrats gain power, 0:13:56.559 --> 0:13:58.640 they're going to come after all of us for corruption. 0:13:59.320 --> 0:14:03.000 Now here are all of these companies and big downers 0:14:03.040 --> 0:14:06.560 wrote giant checks for the ballroom that was supposed that 0:14:06.720 --> 0:14:09.040 Trump had told us over and over and the administration 0:14:09.120 --> 0:14:13.200 said some complaining about the ballroom. Yeah, this is not 0:14:13.240 --> 0:14:18.360 coming from taxpayer dollars. Now, all these companies wrote big checks, 0:14:18.720 --> 0:14:21.800 and now Lindsey Graham's proposing a bill that says, yes, 0:14:21.920 --> 0:14:25.400 now Congress is going to appropriate four hundred million dollars. 0:14:25.040 --> 0:14:25.520 For this thing. 0:14:25.560 --> 0:14:27.920 And the reason I bring it up is for two reasons. 0:14:28.720 --> 0:14:30.960 When Jamie Diamond came out and said, no, we're not 0:14:31.000 --> 0:14:34.239 writing a check, what did he get sued by the administration? 0:14:34.680 --> 0:14:35.080 Right? 0:14:35.160 --> 0:14:37.640 And so businesses are trying to figure out how to 0:14:37.720 --> 0:14:40.920 navigate Trump in that way. And then as it really 0:14:41.160 --> 0:14:44.560 the ballroom number takes you right back to sentiment and 0:14:44.600 --> 0:14:49.240 people feeling bad about the economy. People cannot afford the 0:14:49.240 --> 0:14:52.000 gas they're putting in their tank, They are not getting 0:14:52.080 --> 0:14:55.880 raises at work. Many many companies are in this frozen 0:14:55.960 --> 0:14:58.240 mode where they don't know what they're going to do next, 0:14:58.600 --> 0:14:59.960 and they can't afford their healthcare. 0:15:00.320 --> 0:15:04.520 And now they're saying, why in God's name are you 0:15:04.560 --> 0:15:08.600 now asking for four hundred million dollars of taxpayer dollars 0:15:09.080 --> 0:15:14.600 for a ballroom for what parties? The voters I'm talking about, 0:15:14.880 --> 0:15:17.240 they're not getting letted to any parties in that ballroom. 0:15:17.400 --> 0:15:21.160 And many of those voters are directly Donald Trump's original base, 0:15:21.440 --> 0:15:25.560 that same base that listened to no new wars in America. First, 0:15:25.840 --> 0:15:28.160 I eat America alone, which is not where we are. 0:15:29.040 --> 0:15:33.200 Yeah, I mean, if you wanted a losing midterm message, 0:15:33.280 --> 0:15:37.000 it might be four dollars gas and we need this 0:15:37.280 --> 0:15:42.200 four hundred million dollar ballroom paid for by tax bill. 0:15:42.520 --> 0:15:45.240 But that was Lindsey Graham. I mean, that was just 0:15:45.280 --> 0:15:47.960 an incredible I want to talk about that moment because 0:15:48.240 --> 0:15:50.320 there was a moment where Donald Trump had a lot 0:15:50.360 --> 0:15:54.440 of political capital yet again, right, he had just had 0:15:54.480 --> 0:15:57.920 another attempt on him. You know, it was like a 0:15:57.960 --> 0:16:00.280 moment where he could have really gotten a bump from that. 0:16:00.360 --> 0:16:03.080 Ay you mean Saturday night, Yeah, Saturday night. And he 0:16:03.240 --> 0:16:08.160 even like his rhetoric around it was pretty sane, you know, 0:16:08.440 --> 0:16:11.000 like it wasn't like the last time. It was sort 0:16:11.040 --> 0:16:15.400 of more no more bipartisan, and he could have asked 0:16:15.480 --> 0:16:18.480 for something else that might have been I. 0:16:18.400 --> 0:16:20.120 Don't know that he could have asked for something else. 0:16:20.200 --> 0:16:25.359 However, there are these moments, right the country is desperate 0:16:25.960 --> 0:16:32.200 for humanity, We're desperate for messages of decency, and the 0:16:32.240 --> 0:16:36.640 incident on Saturday did give the president, right, it gives 0:16:36.680 --> 0:16:39.240 one a president. I don't want to say wipe the 0:16:39.360 --> 0:16:42.800 slate clean, but it actually gives you a moment to 0:16:42.920 --> 0:16:46.480 reset to say, I know, terrible things have been said 0:16:46.520 --> 0:16:49.280 and done, blah blah blah. Yeah, let's let's let this 0:16:49.400 --> 0:16:53.440 horrible moment force us to take a breath, come together 0:16:53.960 --> 0:16:57.240 and and and care about one another. And he had 0:16:57.280 --> 0:17:01.760 that opportunity where I think many many people's hearts and 0:17:01.840 --> 0:17:06.439 minds to an extent would have been open, and he 0:17:06.520 --> 0:17:11.080 immediately politicized it into give me the money for a ballroom. 0:17:11.119 --> 0:17:13.879 We need a ballroom. And by the morning the entire 0:17:15.080 --> 0:17:20.919 MAGA influencer industrial complex had their messaging out there saying 0:17:21.480 --> 0:17:23.280 we must have a ballroom, we must have a ballroom. 0:17:23.640 --> 0:17:28.960 Yeah, I agree. I also wonder if yeah, I mean, 0:17:29.000 --> 0:17:33.000 I definitely think that we wanted presidential you know, like 0:17:33.160 --> 0:17:36.440 that sort of moment where a president says we're all together. 0:17:37.160 --> 0:17:39.000 We don't he never really does that. 0:17:39.320 --> 0:17:41.000 I may or may not have told you this story. 0:17:41.440 --> 0:17:45.360 Right after the president won, I called someone very very 0:17:45.480 --> 0:17:51.080 very close to him and I said, look, America just 0:17:51.119 --> 0:17:54.199 showed us the pendulum has swung to an extent. You 0:17:54.240 --> 0:17:58.119 know that this is an opportunity for the president to say, 0:17:58.400 --> 0:18:01.800 let's come together, right like the current president painted Kamala 0:18:01.800 --> 0:18:05.600 Harris or painted Democrats in such a super woke way. 0:18:06.280 --> 0:18:08.960 And that helped them in the election. So I saved 0:18:08.960 --> 0:18:11.760 this person very close to the president. This is Trump's 0:18:11.760 --> 0:18:16.159 opportunities in his early days, in his inauguration speech really 0:18:16.440 --> 0:18:19.639 to say let's come together. And when I tell you, 0:18:19.720 --> 0:18:25.800 this person screamed, yelled, and cackled at me like come together, 0:18:26.640 --> 0:18:30.040 come to the middle. I mean, this person spiked a 0:18:30.040 --> 0:18:32.840 ball in my face, you know, punched me in the teeth, 0:18:33.040 --> 0:18:36.879 lapped their head off, and basically said absolutely not. Every 0:18:36.920 --> 0:18:40.119 single naysayer out there should get on their knees and 0:18:40.200 --> 0:18:42.160 beg him for mercy and forgiveness. 0:18:42.600 --> 0:18:44.840 And I was like, oh my goodness, I'm so sorry. 0:18:45.119 --> 0:18:47.320 I had a rational thought for you for a second, 0:18:47.680 --> 0:18:51.960 and then I realized, like the president is grievance and 0:18:52.080 --> 0:18:55.400 spiite have driven him into power, and everyone who thinks 0:18:55.400 --> 0:18:57.280 he's going to pivot is fooling themselves. 0:18:57.640 --> 0:18:59.800 And that does make sense when you look at the 0:18:59.800 --> 0:19:03.159 war for a minute, like his complete what people are 0:19:03.160 --> 0:19:05.160 always like, why doesn't he try to sell the war? 0:19:05.240 --> 0:19:07.440 Why doesn't he try to you know, he why isn't 0:19:07.440 --> 0:19:09.159 he ever sort of trying to sell stuff? But it 0:19:09.200 --> 0:19:12.920 makes sense if he's just so angry and just like this, 0:19:13.119 --> 0:19:16.120 you know, the sort of imperial president say, but. 0:19:16.160 --> 0:19:18.800 Babe, here's why they can't sell the war because it's 0:19:18.920 --> 0:19:23.080 unsellable because the argument that they make isn't true. I 0:19:23.080 --> 0:19:24.920 don't know how many weeks ago, it was probably five 0:19:24.960 --> 0:19:27.200 weeks ago now. I had a conversation with the President 0:19:27.480 --> 0:19:30.199 and the message he aggressively wanted to get out to 0:19:30.240 --> 0:19:32.879 me was they were two weeks away from building a 0:19:32.960 --> 0:19:35.360 nuclear weapon and when it was complete, they were going 0:19:35.400 --> 0:19:36.080 to they. 0:19:35.960 --> 0:19:38.760 Were going to use it. That's just not true, right, 0:19:39.000 --> 0:19:41.000 It's simply not true. 0:19:41.600 --> 0:19:44.359 And the arguments he wants to make about NATO and 0:19:44.400 --> 0:19:48.919 not being supportive, he had support when he would argue 0:19:49.320 --> 0:19:52.320 about our NATO ally is not paying enough. There was 0:19:52.359 --> 0:19:55.320 a lot of people out there who felt like, I'm 0:19:55.359 --> 0:19:57.639 tired of the US being a lender of last resort. 0:19:57.920 --> 0:20:00.280 I'm tired of everybody just assuming that we're going to 0:20:00.320 --> 0:20:02.400 be the cleanup batter and fix things. 0:20:02.480 --> 0:20:05.000 And there was a big appetite and there were people 0:20:05.040 --> 0:20:06.800 who supported that. He sort of. 0:20:06.960 --> 0:20:09.640 Shook the cage and said pay up, guys. But then 0:20:09.720 --> 0:20:13.320 to take it to this level where he's constantly attacking Europe, 0:20:13.600 --> 0:20:16.480 right where he's constantly calling him paper Tiger when the 0:20:16.520 --> 0:20:20.320 president defied intelligence and did not speak to any of 0:20:20.359 --> 0:20:22.960 those other countries before he decided to strike it on. 0:20:23.400 --> 0:20:25.400 So it makes sense that all those other countries are 0:20:25.400 --> 0:20:27.520 going to say no, no, no, no, no, yeah you 0:20:27.600 --> 0:20:30.199 and Israel decided you want to do this, so you 0:20:30.320 --> 0:20:30.680 do you. 0:20:31.280 --> 0:20:34.359 Right, And we saw the Italian defense minister was stuck 0:20:34.440 --> 0:20:37.960 in Dubai. They were literally no, there were no heads 0:20:38.000 --> 0:20:41.640 off to anyone, correct, and even European allies that he's 0:20:41.760 --> 0:20:45.600 historically liked. The other thing, though, I do think that 0:20:45.680 --> 0:20:51.760 the europe situation really started with his foreign Yeah, I 0:20:51.800 --> 0:20:54.399 mean that those guys were so I mean that was 0:20:54.440 --> 0:20:58.439 the moment Anne Applebaum said they were just that was 0:20:58.480 --> 0:21:02.040 sort of the official beginning of the end of his war, 0:21:02.160 --> 0:21:05.720 you know, or the end of NATO in a way, or. 0:21:08.600 --> 0:21:09.360 None of these. 0:21:09.200 --> 0:21:13.720 Countries want to go at it alone. Right, Like everyone 0:21:13.960 --> 0:21:18.720 has a relatively fragile economy, right, our economy is doing well, 0:21:18.920 --> 0:21:23.840 Like it's hard because there are many positives, like corporate 0:21:23.880 --> 0:21:27.000 earnings are very strong. It's not like there's other parts. 0:21:27.280 --> 0:21:29.760 It's not like our European allies are kicking it. 0:21:29.880 --> 0:21:30.199 They're not. 0:21:30.960 --> 0:21:35.159 And so the fact that like we are now seeing China, 0:21:35.240 --> 0:21:39.520 we're closely aligned with Russia. Russia now applauding Iran while 0:21:39.840 --> 0:21:42.760 we are not working with our allies. We've all got 0:21:42.840 --> 0:21:47.520 somewhat fragile economies. This is no bueno. And like, remember 0:21:48.240 --> 0:21:51.239 the highlight for us and the people I cover is like, well, 0:21:51.280 --> 0:21:53.040 the market, the market, the market is so strong and 0:21:53.080 --> 0:21:57.480 the market is so strong, Well, what happens if somebody bursts. 0:21:57.119 --> 0:21:59.920 That balloon and the market falls out of bed? Then 0:22:00.080 --> 0:22:00.840 what are we standing on? 0:22:01.200 --> 0:22:05.080 And I think that seems like certainly a possibility. The Straits. 0:22:05.200 --> 0:22:06.880 It does not feel like Trump is going to get 0:22:06.880 --> 0:22:10.320 those traits open. And you see him sort of mack 0:22:10.480 --> 0:22:12.600 on it. You know, we don't even get anything through 0:22:12.640 --> 0:22:15.399 the streets, but quite a lot of oil and gas 0:22:15.560 --> 0:22:19.199 twenty five percent, you know, a third of whatever or a fourth, 0:22:19.280 --> 0:22:23.120 and then the fertilizer. So what do you think happens? 0:22:23.160 --> 0:22:26.600 What's the economic every day? It's closed as problematic. So 0:22:26.680 --> 0:22:27.359 let's be clear. 0:22:27.920 --> 0:22:30.560 We are not as energy dependent on the Middle East 0:22:30.640 --> 0:22:32.240 as we were in the seventies and eighties. 0:22:32.280 --> 0:22:33.120 That's true. 0:22:33.280 --> 0:22:36.480 But but Iran now having complete control of the Strait, 0:22:36.880 --> 0:22:41.359 now charging massive tolls, this is a giant win for them. 0:22:41.760 --> 0:22:42.960 Like, as we look at. 0:22:42.800 --> 0:22:47.879 This war, as long as Iran still is kicking in 0:22:47.960 --> 0:22:51.199 any way, as long as they can still have you know, 0:22:51.359 --> 0:22:53.959 as long as they're still in the ring, even if 0:22:54.000 --> 0:22:57.720 they're almost knocked out, that's a win for them. Remember 0:22:57.760 --> 0:23:03.840 what Trump was immediately demanding, right, no nuclear capabilities, You're 0:23:03.840 --> 0:23:06.560 gonna hand off all of your uranium. We want a 0:23:06.600 --> 0:23:07.399 regime change. 0:23:07.520 --> 0:23:09.760 What are we going to get, like at this point, 0:23:09.840 --> 0:23:11.600 what are our ultimate goals? 0:23:11.720 --> 0:23:16.120 Because while yes, this has been devastating for Iran, remember 0:23:16.440 --> 0:23:20.560 the Irian regime doesn't mind if they're devastated, right, they 0:23:20.600 --> 0:23:23.360 don't mind if their people are suffering. They've made their 0:23:23.359 --> 0:23:26.720 own people suffer. And remember it was two plus weeks 0:23:26.760 --> 0:23:29.720 ago Trump said, oh, we're talking about you know, maybe 0:23:29.720 --> 0:23:33.160 we're gonna co control the street. We're gonna co get this. 0:23:33.480 --> 0:23:36.680 You know, we'll both be getting this toll. It's simply 0:23:36.720 --> 0:23:40.200 not true. And listen, think about the reporting that's been 0:23:40.200 --> 0:23:43.639 coming out this week that JD. Vance is basically saying 0:23:43.680 --> 0:23:47.320 he doesn't believe how what the Pentagon is saying when 0:23:47.359 --> 0:23:49.440 it comes to how they're presenting this war. 0:23:49.840 --> 0:23:52.000 Right, it seems like a lot of people are trying 0:23:52.040 --> 0:23:54.600 to not get blamed for a thing that's going great. 0:23:55.280 --> 0:23:58.560 Correct, And I will say like just like a shout 0:23:58.600 --> 0:24:03.520 out in terms of incredible journalism and the First Amendment. 0:24:04.320 --> 0:24:07.600 It wasn't that long ago that Pete Haig Seth kicked 0:24:07.600 --> 0:24:12.119 the entire Pentagon press corps out. He wanted them all 0:24:12.200 --> 0:24:15.040 to sign a document that basically said, the only thing 0:24:15.040 --> 0:24:18.720 we are going to report are press releases that the 0:24:18.800 --> 0:24:21.160 Pentagon hands us every day, and they're going to walk 0:24:21.200 --> 0:24:23.280 to our cameras and read them to the American people. 0:24:23.680 --> 0:24:25.480 That's state run media. 0:24:25.560 --> 0:24:29.240 And not only did basically the entire press corps tell 0:24:29.320 --> 0:24:32.960 him to go fish. The reporting that is coming out 0:24:33.119 --> 0:24:36.800 of the Pentagon is amazing. And remember those people who 0:24:36.840 --> 0:24:41.240 are leaking, aren't some there's different kind of leaks. When 0:24:41.240 --> 0:24:44.640 you and I covered Trump in the first administration, that 0:24:44.720 --> 0:24:49.359 White House was filled with senior advisors and administration officials 0:24:49.400 --> 0:24:52.400 who couldn't wait to have some crazy meeting with the president. 0:24:52.760 --> 0:24:55.479 Call us on their way out, treat us for lunch somewhere, 0:24:55.800 --> 0:24:58.880 stab each other in the back, like I mean, next 0:24:58.920 --> 0:25:02.280 level that are coming out of the Pentagon. These are 0:25:02.320 --> 0:25:06.040 career department officials. Yes, okay, these are people from the military, 0:25:06.280 --> 0:25:09.080 and the reason they're blowing a whistle is because they're 0:25:09.119 --> 0:25:13.399 panicked about our national security. That's a different kind of leaking, 0:25:13.680 --> 0:25:16.880 and the reporting that we're getting is extraordinary. When those 0:25:16.960 --> 0:25:20.840 people are sounding the alarm, that's a lot more than 0:25:21.240 --> 0:25:25.760 Jared versus Bannon, versus Minuchin versus John Kelly. That's a 0:25:25.840 --> 0:25:26.960 totally different game. 0:25:27.320 --> 0:25:27.879 Yeah. 0:25:27.960 --> 0:25:29.679 I think that's a really good point. And that's what 0:25:29.720 --> 0:25:33.040 we're seeing it from government at large too, is people 0:25:33.119 --> 0:25:37.640 who are worried about you know, hsas or I mean 0:25:38.560 --> 0:25:39.879 it is so I have a lot. 0:25:39.800 --> 0:25:44.080 Less reporting this time because those career civil servants who 0:25:44.160 --> 0:25:46.640 work in the government who are saying this is a crisis, 0:25:46.720 --> 0:25:49.560 are different from people in the last administration, Like I 0:25:49.640 --> 0:25:50.760 can't stand him. 0:25:51.000 --> 0:25:52.560 Let me tell you what he said today. 0:25:53.240 --> 0:25:55.119 Well, and I think and I think we see that 0:25:55.240 --> 0:25:58.119 in the reporting right that there's is least but I 0:25:58.200 --> 0:26:01.200 do think that you know, we saw Hegseth today today 0:26:01.280 --> 0:26:05.920 hess on the hell trying to explain what's going on 0:26:06.160 --> 0:26:08.680 with the war, and the clips are are pretty amazing, 0:26:08.720 --> 0:26:09.760 and he does seem. 0:26:10.640 --> 0:26:13.840 You what if you were a military parent, Okay, so 0:26:13.840 --> 0:26:17.040 what has Pete Hegseth done this week, made some videos, 0:26:17.040 --> 0:26:19.160 spent some time with Kid Rock. 0:26:19.520 --> 0:26:22.280 With Kid Rock what is he doing today? 0:26:22.560 --> 0:26:26.760 Sending out a funny a cartoon of him as Franklin, 0:26:26.840 --> 0:26:29.080 you know, with Franklin the Turtle before he goes into 0:26:29.119 --> 0:26:34.200 this hearing we've got men and women serving our country. 0:26:34.280 --> 0:26:36.560 How would you feel if you were a military parent 0:26:36.640 --> 0:26:37.240 watching this. 0:26:37.680 --> 0:26:41.240 I have a kid who is ro OTC or about 0:26:41.280 --> 0:26:44.040 to be ROTC. I do not like it. I mean, 0:26:44.160 --> 0:26:46.600 it's just it's very isn't that super sad? 0:26:46.880 --> 0:26:49.080 Like you, I just want to take a moment to 0:26:49.200 --> 0:26:53.760 have a child who wants to pursue ro OTC should 0:26:53.800 --> 0:26:59.320 be such an incredible point of pride, pride as a patriot, pride. 0:26:59.840 --> 0:27:02.040 And now you're sitting here going I don't feel good 0:27:02.040 --> 0:27:02.520 about this. 0:27:02.720 --> 0:27:06.560 That's terrible. It's really scary. I mean, and I think 0:27:06.600 --> 0:27:09.000 what we've seen from this war is there a military 0:27:09.200 --> 0:27:15.480 is incredible. Our politicians are deeply flawed at best. Yes, yes, 0:27:16.440 --> 0:27:19.760 you know, Steph Rule, Thank you, thank you, thank you, 0:27:20.040 --> 0:27:20.560 thank you. 0:27:20.520 --> 0:27:21.680 For having mere. 0:27:23.280 --> 0:27:28.439 That's great. Bail Dalton is a candidate for Congress in 0:27:28.480 --> 0:27:33.960 Florida's seventh district. Welcome, Welcome to Fast Politics. Bail Molly. 0:27:34.160 --> 0:27:37.080 Great to be here. I'm a long time listener, so 0:27:37.160 --> 0:27:38.879 it's awesome to be on the podcast. 0:27:39.080 --> 0:27:41.959 Well, it's exciting might be the wrong word, but it's cool. 0:27:42.400 --> 0:27:46.000 But we get to interview members. I feel like I'm 0:27:46.160 --> 0:27:48.439 one of the few places where I can interview members 0:27:48.440 --> 0:27:51.000 of Congress who are running for seeds and really get 0:27:51.000 --> 0:27:52.720 to know them, which is really cool. 0:27:53.080 --> 0:27:56.280 Well, hopefully I'll do my part to make it exciting and. 0:27:56.280 --> 0:28:00.120 Cool because we know them to talk about it exciting. 0:28:00.160 --> 0:28:03.119 And there was a year when we interviewed all the 0:28:03.280 --> 0:28:05.960 members of the House of Delegates in Virginia and boy, 0:28:06.080 --> 0:28:08.480 let me tell you so, but you are running in 0:28:08.520 --> 0:28:12.320 the great state of Florida, which is wild. You're running 0:28:12.359 --> 0:28:16.160 against someone who I have long had very very mixed 0:28:16.160 --> 0:28:20.040 feelings about. So talk us through what the story is here? 0:28:20.560 --> 0:28:23.359 Well, sure thing, and I would ask, where are your 0:28:23.359 --> 0:28:27.120 feelings mixed or are you pretty sold on the fact that. 0:28:27.400 --> 0:28:29.639 Aim that he needs to be out of office? So 0:28:29.680 --> 0:28:32.040 tell us who you're running against and what the story is. 0:28:32.280 --> 0:28:35.679 My name's Baal Dalton. I'm a longtime Navy veteran twenty 0:28:35.680 --> 0:28:37.800 three years in the Navy and Navy Reserve as a 0:28:37.840 --> 0:28:42.880 helicopter pilot, supporting special operations in Iraq, Afghanistan, the Horn 0:28:42.920 --> 0:28:46.160 of Africa, and throughout the Pacific. I worked for Florida's farmer, 0:28:46.280 --> 0:28:50.160 Senator Bill Nelson on his DC staff, doing national defense, 0:28:50.320 --> 0:28:53.160 foreign policy, and of course veteran services near and dear 0:28:53.240 --> 0:28:55.040 to my heart. And then I also got the chance 0:28:55.080 --> 0:28:57.680 to help lead NASA as the deputy chief of Staff 0:28:57.720 --> 0:29:04.200 and chief of staff. There over ten thousand researchers, scientists, engineers, astronauts, 0:29:04.240 --> 0:29:07.040 you know, showing the world what America can accomplish every 0:29:07.120 --> 0:29:08.520 day when we actually work together. 0:29:08.800 --> 0:29:11.080 All of this is to say that you're way too 0:29:11.200 --> 0:29:14.680 qualified observing Congress, Yes. 0:29:14.640 --> 0:29:16.560 You know, I think we can. You know, I think 0:29:16.600 --> 0:29:18.480 that's part of what we need to be looking at 0:29:18.560 --> 0:29:22.560 long term here is that our politics have gotten into 0:29:22.640 --> 0:29:27.240 this performative dance of you know, who can stay close 0:29:27.280 --> 0:29:30.880 to power, who's got the information, you know, who's more 0:29:30.920 --> 0:29:35.280 willing to tell stories, you know, inventive stories to divide 0:29:35.360 --> 0:29:39.760 us in order to serve this addiction to power or 0:29:39.840 --> 0:29:43.400 addiction to the limelight that that folks seem to have. 0:29:43.480 --> 0:29:46.520 And it's incredibly disappointing. And that's one of the reasons 0:29:46.560 --> 0:29:49.760 why I'm in the race. Like, look, Florida seven. Here 0:29:49.800 --> 0:29:53.320 in central Florida, it's just north and east of Orlando 0:29:53.520 --> 0:29:57.760 out to Port Orange versus just south of Daytona Beach 0:29:57.880 --> 0:30:00.160 down to New Smyrna Beach on the East coast, and 0:30:00.200 --> 0:30:03.400 then basically take that line over to I four, where 0:30:03.400 --> 0:30:07.720 we've got Maitland, Altamont, Sanford, DeBerry and others. I don't 0:30:07.720 --> 0:30:09.440 want to leave anybody out, but that's sort of the 0:30:09.480 --> 0:30:12.880 rectangle there. And you know, for the last two terms 0:30:12.960 --> 0:30:17.120 we've had Congressman Corey Mills be air representative. I mean, 0:30:17.160 --> 0:30:19.480 first of all, this is a guy, guy who's barely 0:30:19.920 --> 0:30:23.560 a Floridian, lives in Washington, d C. In a twenty 0:30:24.000 --> 0:30:26.760 five hundred dollars a month penthouse apartment that he also 0:30:26.960 --> 0:30:29.480 doesn't pay rent on in some cases, which was in 0:30:29.520 --> 0:30:31.880 the news there for a while. But you know, as 0:30:31.920 --> 0:30:33.600 we talked about at the top of the show, Molly, 0:30:33.760 --> 0:30:36.800 you know, this guy with a long history of corruption 0:30:37.120 --> 0:30:40.800 and fraud and just an inability to tell the truth 0:30:40.840 --> 0:30:44.040 about a lot of things, just and very interesting relationship 0:30:44.040 --> 0:30:47.520 he has with facts. The show's not long enough to 0:30:47.560 --> 0:30:49.160 do the whole thing, but you know, he's got a 0:30:49.160 --> 0:30:52.200 problem with his treatment of women and domestic violence allegation. 0:30:52.920 --> 0:30:55.800 That's the thing that I am not a fan of. 0:30:56.200 --> 0:30:59.960 Yeah, and we've seen more reporting on that particular incidenty 0:31:00.200 --> 0:31:03.200 in Washington, d C. Where you know, one woman who's 0:31:03.240 --> 0:31:06.160 not his wife that was apparently living with him in 0:31:06.280 --> 0:31:10.520 his penthouse in DC called the police and made domestic 0:31:10.560 --> 0:31:13.360 violence allegations. And we've seen reporting just last week that 0:31:13.480 --> 0:31:15.120 you know, there's a lot more to that. You know, 0:31:15.160 --> 0:31:18.200 Apparently Congressman Mills, you know, told her that she should 0:31:18.280 --> 0:31:22.560 change her her story. Apparently, you know, some favors might 0:31:22.600 --> 0:31:25.560 have been full pulled in the AUSA office to prevent 0:31:26.080 --> 0:31:29.800 an arrest warrant being issued against Congressman Mills. So you know, 0:31:29.880 --> 0:31:32.200 that just got you know, we're twofold here, right, we 0:31:32.320 --> 0:31:35.360 got a problem with the treatment of a fellow human being, 0:31:36.200 --> 0:31:39.800 and also just such an addiction to keep you know, 0:31:39.960 --> 0:31:43.600 away from any kind of allegations that they're willing to, 0:31:43.680 --> 0:31:47.560 you know, use these corrupt means to stay out of trouble. Right. 0:31:47.600 --> 0:31:50.240 They don't play by the same rules that that we're 0:31:50.320 --> 0:31:54.840 expected to play as average you know, everyday citizens. And 0:31:55.200 --> 0:31:57.040 you know that's only one of the things that's been 0:31:57.080 --> 0:31:59.720 in the news. Of course. Aflorida judge issued a restraining 0:31:59.800 --> 0:32:02.840 order on behalf of a Florida woman, another woman not 0:32:03.000 --> 0:32:06.440 also not his wife, because Corey Mills was deemed to 0:32:06.480 --> 0:32:11.040 be a danger to her and had blackmailed her with 0:32:11.200 --> 0:32:14.640 revenge porn, basically trying to share you know, pictures and 0:32:14.760 --> 0:32:17.800 videos of intimate moments that they had had with people 0:32:17.840 --> 0:32:20.440 that she wanted to go on and date. And she 0:32:20.600 --> 0:32:24.200 had to ask Congressman Mills eleven different times to stop 0:32:24.320 --> 0:32:27.400 contacting her, and he refused to listen, and that's what 0:32:27.560 --> 0:32:31.160 landed him in court and got the got the restraining 0:32:31.240 --> 0:32:34.000 order against them. So, you know, I can't imagine. I 0:32:34.040 --> 0:32:37.920 can't imagine what she must have felt like with that 0:32:38.040 --> 0:32:41.320 kind of intrusion into her personal life and her trying to, 0:32:41.640 --> 0:32:43.920 you know, carry on with what she's trying to do, 0:32:44.560 --> 0:32:46.440 you know, with this person who thinks the rules don't 0:32:46.440 --> 0:32:49.720 apply to him, and Corey Mills just just bashing her 0:32:50.800 --> 0:32:52.960 via text all the time. So you know, we got 0:32:52.960 --> 0:32:56.240 a problem with treatment and women like we again, Molly, 0:32:56.320 --> 0:32:59.040 we don't have enough time because you know, he's also 0:32:59.080 --> 0:33:01.720 got a problem with his company. He's a foreign arms dealer. 0:33:02.160 --> 0:33:05.160 That refuses to disclose which countries he sold weapons to. 0:33:05.560 --> 0:33:08.280 He's got a factory where he's furloughed his workers right 0:33:08.320 --> 0:33:11.440 before Thanksgiving of last year. He's got a business that's 0:33:11.480 --> 0:33:14.200 in debt to a foreign firm, while he sits on 0:33:14.240 --> 0:33:17.520 the Foreign Affairs Committee and the House Armed Services Committee. 0:33:17.600 --> 0:33:20.240 So we got a lot of problems with conflict adventures there. 0:33:20.600 --> 0:33:23.040 And you know, last but not least, since this is 0:33:23.080 --> 0:33:25.640 near and dear to my heart as a veteran, you know, 0:33:26.320 --> 0:33:29.000 there's a lot of questions about the stories that he 0:33:29.120 --> 0:33:32.200 tells about his own personal service in the Army. And 0:33:32.240 --> 0:33:33.880 then right after the Army, when he tried to be 0:33:33.960 --> 0:33:36.000 employed by Diyne Corp. He told them that he had 0:33:36.000 --> 0:33:39.760 all these different qualifications which were not true, and when 0:33:39.760 --> 0:33:42.800 they called him out on it, he walked off the job. So, anyway, 0:33:43.080 --> 0:33:45.840 long story long on Corey Mills. This is a guy 0:33:45.920 --> 0:33:48.840 that you don't want anywhere near your family. You don't 0:33:48.840 --> 0:33:52.240 want anywhere near making decisions for you or representing you 0:33:52.360 --> 0:33:56.120 in any capacity, much less being in Congress. And so 0:33:56.160 --> 0:33:58.480 we're going to give the folks of Central Florida, you 0:33:58.520 --> 0:34:01.240 know where I grew up, my friend's family neighbors a 0:34:01.240 --> 0:34:02.400 better choice than November. 0:34:02.760 --> 0:34:05.760 Yeah, the Corey mil stuff is really scary. You know, 0:34:06.120 --> 0:34:10.680 he's in ethics investigation. We've seen him in and out core. 0:34:11.280 --> 0:34:15.680 Like the structural problems of Corey Mils come from a 0:34:15.880 --> 0:34:19.719 Congress it does not have the kind of ethics committee 0:34:19.960 --> 0:34:22.279 that it should, that does not have the teeth that 0:34:22.400 --> 0:34:27.400 it needs. I wonder if you would commit to trying. 0:34:27.600 --> 0:34:31.759 Nobody likes to police itself, but don't you think that 0:34:31.840 --> 0:34:34.560 when you get to Congress, if you get to Congress, 0:34:34.600 --> 0:34:37.680 that that should be something that you're focused on. 0:34:38.080 --> 0:34:40.680 Yeah. Absolutely, I would say that one of the big 0:34:40.719 --> 0:34:44.759 reasons why you know, I decided to run for Congress 0:34:44.840 --> 0:34:48.359 is because of this you know, blatant corruption that we've seen, 0:34:48.920 --> 0:34:51.759 in fact, just more and more of the body, right. 0:34:51.920 --> 0:34:53.920 We could certainly, we certainly know that there are some 0:34:53.960 --> 0:34:56.080 good people there that are trying their best to do 0:34:56.560 --> 0:34:59.360 whatever they can for their constituents. But the percentage of 0:34:59.360 --> 0:35:02.160 people who just doesn't, that's not anywhere close to their 0:35:02.200 --> 0:35:06.600 mind has grown and grown in my lifetime. And so yes, absolutely, 0:35:06.680 --> 0:35:09.759 you know, committed to trying to solve some of these 0:35:09.800 --> 0:35:12.919 problems which either can lead good people astray or let 0:35:12.960 --> 0:35:16.280 bad people just play by a different set of rules 0:35:16.320 --> 0:35:20.000 than we do. I mean this trading on insider information 0:35:20.120 --> 0:35:23.960 to enrich yourself, trading on insider information to make yourself 0:35:24.000 --> 0:35:26.799 more important than you may be, which is, you know, 0:35:27.040 --> 0:35:31.200 possibly you know, against operational security and putting troops and 0:35:31.239 --> 0:35:34.640 operations in danger just to show people how important you 0:35:34.760 --> 0:35:38.359 are and brag. It's such a shameful indication of what 0:35:39.080 --> 0:35:42.480 drives people there in DC, you know. And I mean 0:35:42.560 --> 0:35:45.479 you asked you specifically about the Ethics Committee. I mean again, 0:35:45.600 --> 0:35:50.040 everybody should have some ability to police itself. I mean 0:35:50.040 --> 0:35:53.879 Congressman Mills, though he's been under investigation since twenty twenty four. 0:35:54.120 --> 0:35:56.600 You know, he likes to talk about referring himself to 0:35:56.680 --> 0:35:59.399 the committee in November of last year. Well we all 0:35:59.440 --> 0:36:01.640 know that that was a body taken by the you know, 0:36:01.680 --> 0:36:04.000 a vote taken by the entire body of the House. 0:36:04.040 --> 0:36:06.520 You don't refer yourself, and that was just for the 0:36:06.560 --> 0:36:11.720 domestic violence allegations. He's been under investigation for these ethics problems, 0:36:11.719 --> 0:36:15.040 these fraud and corruption, you know, since twenty twenty four. 0:36:15.160 --> 0:36:18.640 So it's obviously not working and the way that folks 0:36:18.680 --> 0:36:22.080 would would intend it to because it's not working fast enough. 0:36:22.160 --> 0:36:25.279 Now we could we could say maybe the committee just 0:36:25.360 --> 0:36:28.360 hasn't had enough time because of Corey's body of work. 0:36:28.400 --> 0:36:32.839 He's got an amazing drunch of problems that probably takes 0:36:32.840 --> 0:36:35.160 a long time to investigate. But you know, when you 0:36:35.200 --> 0:36:37.920 see these the other three members who have taken it 0:36:38.000 --> 0:36:41.439 upon themselves the resign when some allegations came to light, 0:36:41.680 --> 0:36:45.439 you know, none of those problems happened anywhere as far 0:36:45.520 --> 0:36:47.920 back as Corey's had, So I don't know why he's 0:36:47.960 --> 0:36:50.000 still there. But you know, again, I think there's a 0:36:50.040 --> 0:36:52.319 lot of people in central Florida who will like to 0:36:52.400 --> 0:36:55.680 send the message to Congressman Mills themselves with their vote 0:36:55.680 --> 0:36:58.000 in November, saying we're not going to have it anymore. 0:36:58.160 --> 0:37:02.319 Yeah, for sure. For sure Florida, there's like a redistricting 0:37:02.400 --> 0:37:06.160 battle that DeSantis has gotten involved in. He would like 0:37:06.200 --> 0:37:09.440 to draw with less seats for Democrats. It seems as 0:37:09.480 --> 0:37:13.440 if that goes against the Florida Constitution. What you're sent to. 0:37:13.400 --> 0:37:18.400 That, absolutely it goes against the Florida Constitution. You know, 0:37:18.480 --> 0:37:21.919 we do have a part of our constitution from back 0:37:21.960 --> 0:37:24.799 in twenty ten where you know, the people spoke to 0:37:24.880 --> 0:37:28.440 add this to our Constitution and the fair Fair Districts 0:37:28.440 --> 0:37:31.680 are Fair re Districting Act. And you know, unfortunately, I 0:37:31.760 --> 0:37:35.120 think what we've seen in Tallahassee has been a microcosm 0:37:35.160 --> 0:37:37.879 of what's going on in Washington, d d C. Where 0:37:37.920 --> 0:37:41.880 you've got politicians who are uninterested in actually listening to 0:37:42.080 --> 0:37:45.399 their constituents. I mean, this is a perfect case of 0:37:46.239 --> 0:37:49.160 you know, Republicans have been in power in Florida for 0:37:49.160 --> 0:37:52.480 for almost twenty years. There's a supermajority in the House 0:37:52.520 --> 0:37:55.239 and in the Senate, and obviously the governor's mansion has 0:37:55.280 --> 0:37:58.720 been you know, Republican for now going on sixteen years. 0:37:58.920 --> 0:38:03.440 These problems that people are facing incredible cost of living emergency, 0:38:03.480 --> 0:38:06.600 whether we're talking about groceries and cost of goods or 0:38:06.640 --> 0:38:09.120 we're talking about housing. I mean, even if you can 0:38:09.160 --> 0:38:11.120 get to the point where you can afford a mortgage 0:38:11.160 --> 0:38:15.560 here in Florida, you've got exponentially rising utility costs, home 0:38:15.600 --> 0:38:19.200 insurance costs with very little coverage, and property tech. So 0:38:19.520 --> 0:38:25.440 the Republicans here in Tallahassee are truly breaking our constitutional 0:38:26.160 --> 0:38:31.720 requirement to not jerymander districts because they're unable to create 0:38:31.760 --> 0:38:34.359 the policies to keep in office, so they have to 0:38:34.719 --> 0:38:38.720 pick their districts in a way that the voters get disenfranchise. 0:38:39.000 --> 0:38:41.879 You are like the expert of your district because you're 0:38:41.920 --> 0:38:44.960 around leading constituents. What are they saying? 0:38:45.480 --> 0:38:48.359 Yeah, I mean the folks of Central Florida are mad 0:38:48.400 --> 0:38:50.400 as hell. So a lot of what I've said, and 0:38:50.920 --> 0:38:53.920 the tenor of which i've said it here to you, Molly, 0:38:54.120 --> 0:38:57.080 is what I'm hearing in the district as well. You know, 0:38:57.360 --> 0:39:00.839 we were promised a government that would be working more efficiently. 0:39:01.239 --> 0:39:04.040 That's not happening. We were promised an economy that would 0:39:04.040 --> 0:39:07.200 be headed in the right direction. That's not happening. We 0:39:07.320 --> 0:39:11.040 were promised, you know, a focus on what's going on 0:39:11.200 --> 0:39:14.759 here in America, you know, the safety of our neighborhoods 0:39:14.760 --> 0:39:18.919 and communities, reinvesting in our businesses and industries, and we're 0:39:18.960 --> 0:39:21.480 not seeing that happen either, with you know, a billion 0:39:21.560 --> 0:39:24.400 dollars a day being spent in our latest that you 0:39:24.440 --> 0:39:27.839 know overseas adventure that's got no long term goal, that's 0:39:27.880 --> 0:39:33.160 been espoused by you know, this administration. You know those things, 0:39:33.480 --> 0:39:36.640 you know, whether Republican, Democrat, Independent, those are what people 0:39:36.760 --> 0:39:40.520 voted for and expected they're getting zero returned on that 0:39:40.680 --> 0:39:43.080 right now. And so I say that is the leading 0:39:43.160 --> 0:39:47.040 cause of frustration there. And the second is what we've 0:39:47.080 --> 0:39:50.400 been talking about for the most part of this conversation, 0:39:50.480 --> 0:39:54.719 which is just completely fed up with the corruption and 0:39:54.960 --> 0:39:59.160 grift that they see, especially in our district with Congressman Mills, 0:39:59.440 --> 0:40:01.560 and they just they're just not going to have it anymore. 0:40:01.640 --> 0:40:03.759 And the good news is is they don't have to 0:40:03.800 --> 0:40:06.239 take it anymore. You know, it's like the you know 0:40:06.320 --> 0:40:08.200 the old movie, right, We're mad as hell, we're not 0:40:08.239 --> 0:40:10.040 going to take it anymore. Well, a lot of people 0:40:10.040 --> 0:40:12.000 are out shouting out their windows right now. 0:40:12.239 --> 0:40:14.960 Yeah, and the things that they're the most worried about 0:40:15.239 --> 0:40:19.279 are inflation. Will you talk to us about the insurance 0:40:19.360 --> 0:40:20.960 problem in Florida? 0:40:21.080 --> 0:40:24.760 Yeah, So, you know, I think people are scared. People 0:40:24.840 --> 0:40:28.319 are worried to the point of fear and angst that 0:40:28.600 --> 0:40:31.840 something's going to happen in their life. Right They're one 0:40:32.600 --> 0:40:37.399 thing away, one sickness away, one injury away, one health 0:40:37.440 --> 0:40:42.280 emergency away from a catastrophic result to themselves of their family. 0:40:42.600 --> 0:40:45.399 You know, people are with the health insurance. I mean, 0:40:45.440 --> 0:40:49.840 look like the ACA subsidies expiring that is a crisis 0:40:49.880 --> 0:40:53.520 of Congress's own making that could be fixed tomorrow if 0:40:53.600 --> 0:40:57.080 enough people could get the backbone to say, okay, fine, 0:40:57.520 --> 0:41:01.120 we can have a conversation what a different long term 0:41:01.320 --> 0:41:04.480 solution may be, but we can't leave people suffering in 0:41:04.520 --> 0:41:07.840 the interim. I mean, in District seven, forty five thousand 0:41:07.840 --> 0:41:11.279 people are now without health insurance period because of the 0:41:11.320 --> 0:41:15.000 ACA subsidies expiring, and over one hundred and fifty thousand 0:41:15.000 --> 0:41:18.719 people just in this district, we'll see their premiums go 0:41:18.880 --> 0:41:21.759 two times, three times, or even four times. So a 0:41:21.800 --> 0:41:23.759 family of four that was paying you know, twenty five 0:41:23.840 --> 0:41:26.279 hundred dollars a month is now paying upwards of you know, 0:41:26.560 --> 0:41:29.120 fifty five hundred and six thousand dollars a month. That's 0:41:29.200 --> 0:41:32.359 not sustainable. And as I kind of talked about before, right, 0:41:32.480 --> 0:41:35.080 you've got all these buckets at the end of the month, right, 0:41:35.120 --> 0:41:37.719 all these checks you've got to write out, whether it's 0:41:37.800 --> 0:41:42.399 you know, your utility bill, you know, the groceries, your insurance, 0:41:42.520 --> 0:41:45.359 whether it's you know, property insurance or health insurance, and 0:41:45.400 --> 0:41:49.600 your mortgage. All of those buckets here in Florida are overflowing. 0:41:49.719 --> 0:41:53.160 And that's for everybody that's not a political comment. That is, 0:41:53.280 --> 0:41:56.520 people forced to make decisions with their money at the 0:41:56.600 --> 0:41:58.960 end of the day which they ought not have to 0:41:59.000 --> 0:42:01.160 be made if they are, you know, playing by the 0:42:01.239 --> 0:42:03.480 rules and working hard and trying to do better for 0:42:03.520 --> 0:42:07.280 their families. There's no hope right now of that having 0:42:07.560 --> 0:42:10.400 a long term effect to make the future better. And 0:42:10.440 --> 0:42:12.960 so people aren't even able to have the moment in 0:42:13.040 --> 0:42:16.600 time to think aspirationally because we've got policies in our 0:42:16.640 --> 0:42:20.279 economy right now which are driving the cost of everything up, 0:42:20.560 --> 0:42:23.600 whether it's you know, like I said already gas or groceries. 0:42:23.800 --> 0:42:25.520 And sorry to be on a rant here, but it 0:42:25.600 --> 0:42:28.960 makes me mad because you know, these small businesses, they're 0:42:29.000 --> 0:42:32.360 getting squeezed from both ends, right They've got raw goods 0:42:32.360 --> 0:42:35.319 that are more expensive because of this chaotic you know, 0:42:35.520 --> 0:42:38.640 tariff program, and so now they've got to you know, 0:42:38.800 --> 0:42:41.640 raised menu prices or raise you know, the prices of 0:42:41.680 --> 0:42:45.080 their items. So they're losing customers. When they lose customers, 0:42:45.080 --> 0:42:47.799 they can't keep employees on. Employees if they don't have 0:42:47.880 --> 0:42:50.919 a job, are unable to get health insurance. I mean, 0:42:50.960 --> 0:42:54.640 it's just a spiral of a cost of living emergency 0:42:54.719 --> 0:42:57.600 here that it's been you know, created by the chaos 0:42:57.640 --> 0:42:59.200 that we see coming out of Washington. 0:42:59.480 --> 0:43:05.080 Yeah, I mean, it's absolutely so shocking. So tell us 0:43:05.160 --> 0:43:07.520 what your primary is and what you need and what 0:43:07.680 --> 0:43:08.239 it looks like. 0:43:08.680 --> 0:43:11.319 Yeah, sure they I mean, it's Florida. So with the 0:43:11.360 --> 0:43:15.960 redistricting ballot qualification, usually what happened in April, it doesn't 0:43:16.280 --> 0:43:20.720 happen now until June. And you know, the redistricting effort 0:43:20.760 --> 0:43:23.120 has not yet been voted on in Tallahassee, though we 0:43:23.160 --> 0:43:25.440 expect that this week, and we expect there to be 0:43:25.560 --> 0:43:28.960 a judicial challenge if the districts will go through, for 0:43:29.040 --> 0:43:32.479 the reasons that we spoke about before on the unconstitutionality 0:43:32.520 --> 0:43:34.359 of it. So we've got, you know, a few more 0:43:34.440 --> 0:43:37.600 things here. But look, we're running strong, and we're running 0:43:37.640 --> 0:43:41.200 hard for November, and you know, against Corey Mills or 0:43:41.440 --> 0:43:44.600 whomever else might come out of the woodwork, because right now, 0:43:44.920 --> 0:43:47.960 you know, again and people are fed up with the 0:43:48.000 --> 0:43:51.360 status quo, which they see, as you know, addicted to 0:43:51.480 --> 0:43:54.440 power and addicted to this corruption and grift. And I 0:43:54.480 --> 0:43:57.400 can't argue with them. I agree, I'm in the same boat. 0:43:57.520 --> 0:44:00.480 So you know, primaries and in Florida are late, they're 0:44:00.480 --> 0:44:04.239 in August, but we were We're blessed to have an 0:44:04.239 --> 0:44:08.239 incredible amount of support here. Vote Vets has endorsed, New 0:44:08.320 --> 0:44:11.759 Politics has endorsed. We have the endorsements of probably ten 0:44:11.840 --> 0:44:14.960 or twelve sitting members of Congress now, and I think 0:44:15.120 --> 0:44:18.200 more specifically, you know here in Florida, you know my 0:44:18.280 --> 0:44:21.560 old boss, Senator Nelson has endorsed the race. And then 0:44:21.680 --> 0:44:26.279 former Congresswoman Stephanie Murphy, who represented much of this district previously, 0:44:26.520 --> 0:44:30.480 remember her, Yeah, yeah, so she she has endorsed the 0:44:30.520 --> 0:44:31.080 race as well. 0:44:31.360 --> 0:44:33.880 What a fuck up? I mean, this really was a 0:44:34.000 --> 0:44:34.520 d seed. 0:44:35.000 --> 0:44:37.080 Yeah, it was very it was neutral. It was really 0:44:37.080 --> 0:44:40.480 more neutral before the twenty twenty census. And by the way, 0:44:40.520 --> 0:44:43.560 you're gonna hear some ridiculous comments out of you know, 0:44:43.600 --> 0:44:46.279 some of the Republicans in Tallahatsee about this census. I 0:44:46.280 --> 0:44:48.560 mean they're calling it the Biden census. 0:44:49.080 --> 0:44:50.680 Which Biden was president. 0:44:50.920 --> 0:44:53.680 Biden wasn't president. I mean, I actually, my let me 0:44:53.760 --> 0:44:55.920 just hammer on this point for a second, because it's 0:44:55.960 --> 0:44:58.319 one of the things that infuriates me. Right, we're in 0:44:58.320 --> 0:45:01.560 in the arena now, we're in area of our country's 0:45:01.600 --> 0:45:06.560 history where apparently our elected officials have such disdain for 0:45:06.719 --> 0:45:09.359 the people that they're supposed to represent that they just 0:45:09.560 --> 0:45:15.040 blatantly lie and blatantly, you know, talk about things that 0:45:15.080 --> 0:45:19.239 they think enough time has passed that we would forget that, right, 0:45:19.320 --> 0:45:22.560 Like twenty twenty is a date, like the census was 0:45:22.680 --> 0:45:25.840 in twenty twenty. And the other thing that's interesting about that, 0:45:25.960 --> 0:45:27.759 right is that you know Florida, you know a lot 0:45:27.760 --> 0:45:31.040 of Florida politicians no matter what party, talk about, Hey, 0:45:31.080 --> 0:45:33.960 there may have been an undercount in Florida. All right, yeah, 0:45:34.040 --> 0:45:36.839 got it. Maybe there was an undercount in Florida. Well 0:45:36.840 --> 0:45:38.560 you need to go back in time and figure out 0:45:38.600 --> 0:45:40.879 why that might have happened, because there might have been 0:45:40.920 --> 0:45:43.440 some people who were not interested in answering the census 0:45:43.480 --> 0:45:46.560 because there were restrictions on it, or you know, things 0:45:46.560 --> 0:45:49.000 that were coming out of the administration that might cause 0:45:49.000 --> 0:45:50.919 people to not want to fill out a census. That's 0:45:50.920 --> 0:45:54.520 why you're going to get an undercount. And second, undercounting 0:45:54.600 --> 0:45:57.480 the people and our districts has nothing to do with 0:45:58.160 --> 0:46:01.000 why you should redistrict now. But again, we're just getting 0:46:01.000 --> 0:46:03.960 fed this poor shit, and you know, I think people 0:46:04.000 --> 0:46:08.520 are tired of eating it. It is infuriating that we're continued, 0:46:08.600 --> 0:46:10.480 you know, to be you know, like we used to 0:46:10.480 --> 0:46:12.799 say as junior officers in the navy, right, you know, 0:46:12.920 --> 0:46:15.479 kept in the dark and fed shit like voters aren't 0:46:15.480 --> 0:46:16.560 going to take that anymore. 0:46:16.640 --> 0:46:19.120 Bail, thank you, thank you, thank you for joining me. 0:46:19.719 --> 0:46:21.440 Well, thank you so much for having me. Like I 0:46:21.480 --> 0:46:25.719 said a long time listener, so this is especially exciting 0:46:25.760 --> 0:46:28.360 for me, but also thanks for giving us the opportunity 0:46:28.400 --> 0:46:31.440 to talk about, you know, this race, and it's important 0:46:31.920 --> 0:46:35.799 regardless of redistorting. Right, this Florida seven doesn't look like 0:46:35.840 --> 0:46:38.200 it's going to change, whether the maps are upheld or 0:46:38.280 --> 0:46:40.920 new maps come. So we know what's in front of us. 0:46:41.120 --> 0:46:44.200 By the numbers, this is the most flippable seed in Florida. 0:46:44.320 --> 0:46:46.759 So you know, check us out at Bail Dalton dot 0:46:46.800 --> 0:46:49.799 com and give us some support if you got it. Yeah, 0:46:49.840 --> 0:46:53.480 pay attention because we are on track to get one 0:46:53.480 --> 0:46:55.480 of the most corrupt members of Congress out of there. 0:46:55.600 --> 0:46:58.320 Thank you, thank you, thank you, Bail, thank. 0:46:58.160 --> 0:47:01.759 You, Molly. You have a great rest of your day. 0:47:02.000 --> 0:47:06.920 No moment secret. Jesse Kadden Smillie. 0:47:07.160 --> 0:47:11.480 We saw a very predictive Supreme Court decision on voting 0:47:11.520 --> 0:47:13.239 rights today, but there is another one that you could 0:47:13.280 --> 0:47:17.240 always predict, which is them siding with crisis pregnancy centers. 0:47:17.760 --> 0:47:22.719 Yes, so faith based pregnancy center. Why do you need 0:47:22.840 --> 0:47:25.120 church in your uterism? Well, you know it's always so. 0:47:25.360 --> 0:47:27.400 Where they say faith based, the faith you're putting in 0:47:27.440 --> 0:47:29.560 it is when they lie to you to your face, 0:47:29.600 --> 0:47:31.600 They trick you into going these things, they tell you 0:47:31.640 --> 0:47:33.200 all these laws, but faith. 0:47:33.280 --> 0:47:37.080 Yes, yes, what is a faith based pregnancy center? It's 0:47:37.800 --> 0:47:42.040 First Amendment concerned about our investigation whether it must lide 0:47:42.080 --> 0:47:45.120 people to discourage abortions. If you are a faith based 0:47:45.160 --> 0:47:49.439 pregnancy center, you're misleading people into discouraging abortions. That's why 0:47:49.480 --> 0:47:53.840 they exist. So the High Court's unanimous ruling is a 0:47:53.880 --> 0:47:58.239 procedural victory for First Choice women's resource Centers, which is 0:47:58.400 --> 0:48:02.560 challenging a New Jersey investigation into his practices. The conservative 0:48:02.600 --> 0:48:06.880 majority court has given abortion opponents high profile wins in 0:48:06.960 --> 0:48:11.920 recent years, including overturning Rugby Wade. Because these guys are 0:48:12.120 --> 0:48:16.600 very religious. The Supreme Court's decision let's First Choice sue 0:48:16.640 --> 0:48:20.440 over a state issued subpoena in federal court, though the 0:48:20.560 --> 0:48:24.560 ruling does not resolve the underlying case. So again, you 0:48:24.600 --> 0:48:27.960 know this is just this Supreme Court, which like this administration, 0:48:28.080 --> 0:48:33.040 is filled with partisan acs, is quite anti choice and 0:48:33.680 --> 0:48:37.680 gives lots of wins to the anti choice world. So 0:48:38.080 --> 0:48:43.759 as much as this is extremely annoying and disconcerting and 0:48:43.920 --> 0:48:47.880 problematic in every which way, it should not be surprising. 0:48:48.160 --> 0:48:51.680 And here we are. That's it for this episode of 0:48:51.760 --> 0:48:58.520 Fast Politics. Tune in every Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday 0:48:58.719 --> 0:49:02.040 to hear the best minds and politics makes sense of 0:49:02.360 --> 0:49:06.560 all this chaos. If you enjoy this podcast, please send 0:49:06.600 --> 0:49:10.280 it to a friend and keep the conversation going. Thanks 0:49:10.320 --> 0:49:11.000 for listening.