Speaker 1: Hi, I'm Molly John Fast and this is Fast Politics,
Speaker 1: where we discussed the top political headlines with some of
Speaker 1: today's best minds, and Democrats hold a ten point advantage
Speaker 1: on the generic ballot. According to Emerson, we have such
Speaker 1: a great show for you today. MS. Now step Rule
Speaker 1: talks about our record low consumer confidence and what it's
Speaker 1: going to do to Donald Trump's economy. Then we'll talk
Speaker 1: to Bail Dalton about his run against Congressman Cory Mills.
Speaker 1: But first the news.
Speaker 2: You know, Molly, as you know, I really hate these
Speaker 2: predictive betting markets. But you want to know the safest
Speaker 2: bet that you could have made that the Supreme Court
Speaker 2: would overturn voting rights.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so this is the Supreme Court's voting rights law.
Speaker 1: This is sort of the death now of the voting
Speaker 1: rights law the Conservatives. It was a six to three decision,
Speaker 1: and what it means is that there are an additional
Speaker 1: nineteen House seats that were created as a minority majority
Speaker 1: seat to make it so the people of color would
Speaker 1: have safe seats in Congress. Now, what happens, well, what
Speaker 1: happens now is that these Republican governors in the South
Speaker 1: get together and start taking those seats away. We already
Speaker 1: have seen the Tate Reeves, the governor of Mississippi, who
Speaker 1: you may remember from doing all sorts of really really
Speaker 1: sketchy stuff with the sports center right building the sports center.
Speaker 1: That guy is already called a special session to try
Speaker 1: and take away any of the majority minority seats. This
Speaker 1: is going to be more redistricting wars. Now, Republicans are
Speaker 1: happy because they think they'll pick up a lot of seats,
Speaker 1: because it says that they could pick up as many
Speaker 1: as nineteen additional seats. Here's the thing, and I think
Speaker 1: that this is a problem that Republicans have with the
Speaker 1: jerry mandering, is that when you do this, when you
Speaker 1: jerrymander like this, when you cut up the districts like this,
Speaker 1: what happens is that if Donald Trump performs at the
Speaker 1: same ratios he performed in twenty twenty four, then maybe
Speaker 1: you keep a seat, right like he made huge inroads
Speaker 1: with Latino voters, et cetera, et cetera. But here's what
Speaker 1: could happen. We're seeing a generic with a D plus
Speaker 1: ten on the generics. So it could mean that all
Speaker 1: of these seats that are now you know that went
Speaker 1: from Republican plus twenty to Republican plus eight.
Speaker 3: If it's a.
Speaker 1: Generic ten, then Democrats pick up some of those seats.
Speaker 1: And that's what's called the dummy mander, is where you
Speaker 1: jerrymander yourself so much that you ultimately you flip those
Speaker 1: seats to Dems. Again, remember it still votes that determine this, right,
Speaker 1: There's going to be a lot of movement behind the
Speaker 1: scenes now, a lot of state House movement, a lot
Speaker 1: of fights, a lot of people losing seats. You know,
Speaker 1: a lot of these seats can't be changed before the election,
Speaker 1: but some will be. And again, this is a Supreme
Speaker 1: Court getting involved in our elections.
Speaker 2: Yep. You know those judicial activists we always heard about
Speaker 2: through the Bush and Obama years really really are showing
Speaker 2: their heads these days. But so Pete Haiksith is in
Speaker 2: Congress set of hearing today and one of the things
Speaker 2: we've learned is how much this Iranian war has cost
Speaker 2: us so far, which is twenty five billion dollars. I
Speaker 2: have a really amazing statistic from front of the show,
Speaker 2: Spencer Ackerman here, Malli, that's how much the surge cost, right.
Speaker 1: Well, and we knew this was true because we had
Speaker 1: been seeing that they were using these very expensive munitions
Speaker 1: as opposed to the cheaper munitions. And by the way,
Speaker 1: they could have learned a lot of stuff from the Ukrainians,
Speaker 1: and the Ukrainians offered to show us how to do
Speaker 1: this cheaper drone warfare, and they didn't want to, which
Speaker 1: I think is really important to point out, which is
Speaker 1: that like, there were many ways in which Republicans who
Speaker 1: pretended to care about the budget could have made this
Speaker 1: all cheaper, but they really didn't. They chose not to
Speaker 1: do that. They've just spent so much money and they
Speaker 1: want more money. And these are your tax dollars which
Speaker 1: could go, which could have gone to like expanding Medicaid
Speaker 1: or working on the Obamacare subsidies so that people didn't
Speaker 1: lose their healthcare so that healthcare didn't get more expensive.
Speaker 1: But instead it's going to just more money for the Pentagon.
Speaker 1: And I want to read this statistic. Trump chose to
Speaker 1: spend it on weapons, all while telling Americans there wasn
Speaker 1: enough money for childcare, Medicare, or Medicaid. But the amount
Speaker 1: of money the Pentagon has spent on this war, the
Speaker 1: government could have provided one point seven million children with
Speaker 1: free childcare for a year.
Speaker 2: It's so stupid. Yeah, And the thing that really does
Speaker 2: put the icing on the cake is like they ran
Speaker 2: on knowing that no one wanted this, and it's just
Speaker 2: as we spell this out more and more, it's so damning,
Speaker 2: and we keep seeing that the Republicans just keep on
Speaker 2: supporting it. Yep, speaking of the Senate, Republicans have blocked
Speaker 2: the measure to stop Trump from attacking Cuba, since we
Speaker 2: don't need to spend money doing that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's also this is a pretty interesting
Speaker 1: resolution because we have Ruben who is was an infantry man,
Speaker 1: Ruben Diego, Tim Kay, and Adam Schiff. And you know,
Speaker 1: I think it's good to see Adam Schiff out there
Speaker 1: like doing this kind of thing because he just won
Speaker 1: his Senate seed. And that's what we want to see,
Speaker 1: is we want to see democratic senators really pushing hard
Speaker 1: on stuff like this. And so this would block Trump
Speaker 1: from using military force to topple Cuba's regime. There's a
Speaker 1: number of reasons why you want this, Because Donald Trump
Speaker 1: is a person who will do whatever you let him do,
Speaker 1: So the only way to get any kind of checks
Speaker 1: on him is to push hard and be aggressive. So
Speaker 1: Susan Collins, who typically votes to give Congress more authority.
Speaker 1: She and Ran Paul voted for the Democratic War Powers Act,
Speaker 1: and John Fetterman, who is basically a blank canvas, voted
Speaker 1: against it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so federal Appeals Court won't rehear Trump's appeal of
Speaker 2: Eugene Carroll's eighty three million dollar jury award.
Speaker 1: Yeah, another win for Robbie Kaplan Yeah right, I mean,
Speaker 1: luckily Trump has kleptoed so much money that he can
Speaker 1: just pay for it with some of his klepto ballroom
Speaker 1: money or something. But the majority of judges of the
Speaker 1: US Court of Appeals for the Second District denied Trump's
Speaker 1: motion to have his appeal hurt en blanc by a
Speaker 1: full bench of judges. This decision is the eight is
Speaker 1: turned in a six year battle between Carol and Trump
Speaker 1: that has resulted in two Sybil trials, one where Trump
Speaker 1: briefly took the witness stand. Look, man, I think Trump will,
Speaker 1: they'll take this up to the Supreme Court. But I
Speaker 1: love to see Robbie kapwan when that is really a delight. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I believe very soon we will have another case.
Speaker 2: She took on on this podcast that is a very
Speaker 2: interesting one.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Steph Rule is the host of the Eleventh Hour
Speaker 1: with Stephanie Rule, airing weeknights at eleven pm EST on
Speaker 1: ms now. She is also the co host of the
Speaker 1: ms now YouTube series It's Happening with Belshian Rule. Welcome, Welcome,
Speaker 1: Stephanie Rale.
Speaker 3: Thank you. I dressed up for you.
Speaker 1: As long as it's fleece, that's all that matten.
Speaker 4: It's fleece, slide, I tell you for this sweatsuit was
Speaker 4: in a Salvation army bag that my daughter left outside
Speaker 4: her room and it turned out to fit me.
Speaker 1: So yes, whoever thought they.
Speaker 3: Were getting it, they're not.
Speaker 4: I'm wearing a seventh grade girls two small sweatsuit today.
Speaker 3: I'm wearing it every day for a week. Right, it is.
Speaker 4: And you know, spring is the worst season because it's
Speaker 4: just it's it's like the guy that like never actually
Speaker 4: follows through and proposes to you. It's like warm and
Speaker 4: cold and warm and cold, like, just just call me
Speaker 4: when the summer starts. I can't take it.
Speaker 3: I'm colder in the spring than I am in the winter.
Speaker 1: I too, am freezing. So let's talk about the American
Speaker 1: people though, who are any which way unhappy. There's this
Speaker 1: Gallop survey that you had wanted to talk about. I
Speaker 1: want to talk about that, but then I want to
Speaker 1: pull out and talk about all of the surveys on
Speaker 1: the economy that we see that all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: for the first time in a very long time, Democrats
Speaker 1: have the edge on the economy.
Speaker 4: Democrats of the edge because Republicans are failing at it.
Speaker 4: And the thing that's extraordinary about this Gallop pole is
Speaker 4: people feel worse about the economy today than they did
Speaker 4: during COVID than they did during the Great Recession. And
Speaker 4: so we have to pull apart why that is because usually,
Speaker 4: like a president gets blamed for the economy that he's
Speaker 4: presiding over, but it's usually not the president's fault. In
Speaker 4: this case, almost all of the negative things happening to
Speaker 4: us from an economic perspective are direct policy decisions made
Speaker 4: by Donald Trump.
Speaker 3: So you can say to me, seventy, why are people
Speaker 3: feeling worse than they were during.
Speaker 4: The recession when we saw scores of people lose their homes.
Speaker 3: When we saw people lose their jobs.
Speaker 4: Obviously during COVID, America was home massive layoffs, massive unemployment,
Speaker 4: But why do people feel so bad. Now, well, look
Speaker 4: what the president has done right. The trade war made
Speaker 4: people lose job, It hurt manufacturing, It hurts small businesses,
Speaker 4: it hurt big businesses, it hurt farming. Now we find
Speaker 4: ourselves with a president who is going to focus on
Speaker 4: the cost of living. He has launched a war that
Speaker 4: as of today we've learned has already cost thirty billion dollars. Okay,
Speaker 4: Pete Agseth is asking for one point five trillion dollars
Speaker 4: for a war that they have not sold to the
Speaker 4: American people.
Speaker 3: Is a good idea.
Speaker 4: And now our gas is four dollars and eighteen cents
Speaker 4: a gallon. And remember, people were really unhappy with the
Speaker 4: Biden administration for what they felt like Biden administration was
Speaker 4: insensitive about economic realities for the American people and saying
Speaker 4: that it was short lived.
Speaker 3: Trump is that times ten.
Speaker 4: When you bring up affordability, he says, is an old
Speaker 4: fashioned term and not even real.
Speaker 3: Affordability is a real issue for the American people.
Speaker 4: Not to mention the quiet storm, which is on one level,
Speaker 4: corporate earnings are very strong and companies are very excited
Speaker 4: about AI because it's going to optimize their businesses and
Speaker 4: improve productivity, but it's going to be devastating for the workforce.
Speaker 4: So when you talk about the gallup pole, the gallup
Speaker 4: pole is measuring how people feel, and people have genuine
Speaker 4: fear and anxiety over what the future holds for their
Speaker 4: jobs because AI is.
Speaker 3: Unknown and it is coming for a lot of jobs.
Speaker 1: I don't know that there's a historical president for a
Speaker 1: president who has actually caused gas prices to go up,
Speaker 1: like they're up a dollar in the last month.
Speaker 3: Who've caused gas prices to go up. And here's the thing.
Speaker 4: So, like I cover investors and even some investors, you know,
Speaker 4: some investors in the way beginning of the war were like, great,
Speaker 4: he got Venezuela. Iran's a horrible actor, which they are,
Speaker 4: let's do this. But every big investor I spoke to,
Speaker 4: some who used to be closely tied to the president,
Speaker 4: said we're going to be done with this thing in
Speaker 4: five days. It's now week nine. Even if the war
Speaker 4: ended tomorrow, which it's not going to. We're in an
Speaker 4: energy crisis and we're not even feeling the impact like
Speaker 4: countries are around the world. We're just coming off our
Speaker 4: government bailing out Spirit Airlines, which was already an airlines
Speaker 4: heading to bankruptcy right and now here we are bailing
Speaker 4: them out, and there could be more airlines knocking on
Speaker 4: the door next.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I definitely think there will be. I want
Speaker 1: you to talk more about the investors, because you and
Speaker 1: I both know we spent a lot of time, like
Speaker 1: about two years ago with you hearing from everybody in
Speaker 1: the world who was an investor or CEO except trap
Speaker 1: being like, you know, we don't love Trump, but this
Speaker 1: is going to be good for us, right, or some
Speaker 1: of them.
Speaker 4: But the truth is a lot of them still feel
Speaker 4: that way. Okay, you and I just came from the
Speaker 4: White House Correspondence weekend, and let's be clear, if you're
Speaker 4: a CEO going to the White House Correspondence weekend, you're
Speaker 4: down with this president. But I'll tell you business people
Speaker 4: I speak to are still like it's working for me.
Speaker 4: They don't like him, they don't like lots and lots
Speaker 4: of policies, they see all the risks involved, but they
Speaker 4: cantort themselves into pretzels to make excuses.
Speaker 3: For him because they love the access they have.
Speaker 4: Again, pick your CEO can pick up the phone and
Speaker 4: can either call the President, can call Scott Bessen can
Speaker 4: call Howard Lutnik.
Speaker 3: And I'm not saying that.
Speaker 4: It's just they can manipulate this White House to get
Speaker 4: people they want, to get policies they want, and it's
Speaker 4: totally short termism.
Speaker 3: Right, this is what happened in Russia.
Speaker 4: Look what happened to all the oligarchs, Right, They chummed
Speaker 4: up to Putin, They made lots of money, and then
Speaker 4: he turned around and stabbed them in the back.
Speaker 1: Right, actually literally stabbed them.
Speaker 3: They literally stab them. You know.
Speaker 4: The one CEO that even sticks out in my mind
Speaker 4: as it relates to the ballroom. It was weeks ago,
Speaker 4: months ago now that Jamie Diamond said, we are not
Speaker 4: japing Morgan is not writing a check for this ballroom
Speaker 4: because next administration or when and if Democrats gain power,
Speaker 4: they're going to come after all of us for corruption.
Speaker 4: Now here are all of these companies and big downers
Speaker 4: wrote giant checks for the ballroom that was supposed that
Speaker 4: Trump had told us over and over and the administration
Speaker 4: said some complaining about the ballroom. Yeah, this is not
Speaker 4: coming from taxpayer dollars. Now, all these companies wrote big checks,
Speaker 4: and now Lindsey Graham's proposing a bill that says, yes,
Speaker 4: now Congress is going to appropriate four hundred million dollars.
Speaker 3: For this thing.
Speaker 4: And the reason I bring it up is for two reasons.
Speaker 4: When Jamie Diamond came out and said, no, we're not
Speaker 4: writing a check, what did he get sued by the administration?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 4: And so businesses are trying to figure out how to
Speaker 4: navigate Trump in that way. And then as it really
Speaker 4: the ballroom number takes you right back to sentiment and
Speaker 4: people feeling bad about the economy. People cannot afford the
Speaker 4: gas they're putting in their tank, They are not getting
Speaker 4: raises at work. Many many companies are in this frozen
Speaker 4: mode where they don't know what they're going to do next,
Speaker 4: and they can't afford their healthcare.
Speaker 3: And now they're saying, why in God's name are you
Speaker 3: now asking for four hundred million dollars of taxpayer dollars
Speaker 3: for a ballroom for what parties? The voters I'm talking about,
Speaker 3: they're not getting letted to any parties in that ballroom.
Speaker 3: And many of those voters are directly Donald Trump's original base,
Speaker 3: that same base that listened to no new wars in America. First,
Speaker 3: I eat America alone, which is not where we are.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, if you wanted a losing midterm message,
Speaker 1: it might be four dollars gas and we need this
Speaker 1: four hundred million dollar ballroom paid for by tax bill.
Speaker 1: But that was Lindsey Graham. I mean, that was just
Speaker 1: an incredible I want to talk about that moment because
Speaker 1: there was a moment where Donald Trump had a lot
Speaker 1: of political capital yet again, right, he had just had
Speaker 1: another attempt on him. You know, it was like a
Speaker 1: moment where he could have really gotten a bump from that.
Speaker 1: Ay you mean Saturday night, Yeah, Saturday night. And he
Speaker 1: even like his rhetoric around it was pretty sane, you know,
Speaker 1: like it wasn't like the last time. It was sort
Speaker 1: of more no more bipartisan, and he could have asked
Speaker 1: for something else that might have been I.
Speaker 3: Don't know that he could have asked for something else.
Speaker 4: However, there are these moments, right the country is desperate
Speaker 4: for humanity, We're desperate for messages of decency, and the
Speaker 4: incident on Saturday did give the president, right, it gives
Speaker 4: one a president. I don't want to say wipe the
Speaker 4: slate clean, but it actually gives you a moment to
Speaker 4: reset to say, I know, terrible things have been said
Speaker 4: and done, blah blah blah. Yeah, let's let's let this
Speaker 4: horrible moment force us to take a breath, come together
Speaker 4: and and and care about one another. And he had
Speaker 4: that opportunity where I think many many people's hearts and
Speaker 4: minds to an extent would have been open, and he
Speaker 4: immediately politicized it into give me the money for a ballroom.
Speaker 4: We need a ballroom. And by the morning the entire
Speaker 4: MAGA influencer industrial complex had their messaging out there saying
Speaker 4: we must have a ballroom, we must have a ballroom.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree. I also wonder if yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: I definitely think that we wanted presidential you know, like
Speaker 1: that sort of moment where a president says we're all together.
Speaker 1: We don't he never really does that.
Speaker 3: I may or may not have told you this story.
Speaker 4: Right after the president won, I called someone very very
Speaker 4: very close to him and I said, look, America just
Speaker 4: showed us the pendulum has swung to an extent. You
Speaker 4: know that this is an opportunity for the president to say,
Speaker 4: let's come together, right like the current president painted Kamala
Speaker 4: Harris or painted Democrats in such a super woke way.
Speaker 4: And that helped them in the election. So I saved
Speaker 4: this person very close to the president. This is Trump's
Speaker 4: opportunities in his early days, in his inauguration speech really
Speaker 4: to say let's come together. And when I tell you,
Speaker 4: this person screamed, yelled, and cackled at me like come together,
Speaker 4: come to the middle. I mean, this person spiked a
Speaker 4: ball in my face, you know, punched me in the teeth,
Speaker 4: lapped their head off, and basically said absolutely not. Every
Speaker 4: single naysayer out there should get on their knees and
Speaker 4: beg him for mercy and forgiveness.
Speaker 3: And I was like, oh my goodness, I'm so sorry.
Speaker 4: I had a rational thought for you for a second,
Speaker 4: and then I realized, like the president is grievance and
Speaker 4: spiite have driven him into power, and everyone who thinks
Speaker 4: he's going to pivot is fooling themselves.
Speaker 1: And that does make sense when you look at the
Speaker 1: war for a minute, like his complete what people are
Speaker 1: always like, why doesn't he try to sell the war?
Speaker 1: Why doesn't he try to you know, he why isn't
Speaker 1: he ever sort of trying to sell stuff? But it
Speaker 1: makes sense if he's just so angry and just like this,
Speaker 1: you know, the sort of imperial president say, but.
Speaker 4: Babe, here's why they can't sell the war because it's
Speaker 4: unsellable because the argument that they make isn't true. I
Speaker 4: don't know how many weeks ago, it was probably five
Speaker 4: weeks ago now. I had a conversation with the President
Speaker 4: and the message he aggressively wanted to get out to
Speaker 4: me was they were two weeks away from building a
Speaker 4: nuclear weapon and when it was complete, they were going
Speaker 4: to they.
Speaker 3: Were going to use it. That's just not true, right,
Speaker 3: It's simply not true.
Speaker 4: And the arguments he wants to make about NATO and
Speaker 4: not being supportive, he had support when he would argue
Speaker 4: about our NATO ally is not paying enough. There was
Speaker 4: a lot of people out there who felt like, I'm
Speaker 4: tired of the US being a lender of last resort.
Speaker 4: I'm tired of everybody just assuming that we're going to
Speaker 4: be the cleanup batter and fix things.
Speaker 3: And there was a big appetite and there were people
Speaker 3: who supported that. He sort of.
Speaker 4: Shook the cage and said pay up, guys. But then
Speaker 4: to take it to this level where he's constantly attacking Europe,
Speaker 4: right where he's constantly calling him paper Tiger when the
Speaker 4: president defied intelligence and did not speak to any of
Speaker 4: those other countries before he decided to strike it on.
Speaker 4: So it makes sense that all those other countries are
Speaker 4: going to say no, no, no, no, no, yeah you
Speaker 4: and Israel decided you want to do this, so you
Speaker 4: do you.
Speaker 1: Right, And we saw the Italian defense minister was stuck
Speaker 1: in Dubai. They were literally no, there were no heads
Speaker 1: off to anyone, correct, and even European allies that he's
Speaker 1: historically liked. The other thing, though, I do think that
Speaker 1: the europe situation really started with his foreign Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean that those guys were so I mean that was
Speaker 1: the moment Anne Applebaum said they were just that was
Speaker 1: sort of the official beginning of the end of his war,
Speaker 1: you know, or the end of NATO in a way, or.
Speaker 3: None of these.
Speaker 4: Countries want to go at it alone. Right, Like everyone
Speaker 4: has a relatively fragile economy, right, our economy is doing well,
Speaker 4: Like it's hard because there are many positives, like corporate
Speaker 4: earnings are very strong. It's not like there's other parts.
Speaker 4: It's not like our European allies are kicking it.
Speaker 3: They're not.
Speaker 4: And so the fact that like we are now seeing China,
Speaker 4: we're closely aligned with Russia. Russia now applauding Iran while
Speaker 4: we are not working with our allies. We've all got
Speaker 4: somewhat fragile economies. This is no bueno. And like, remember
Speaker 4: the highlight for us and the people I cover is like, well,
Speaker 4: the market, the market, the market is so strong and
Speaker 4: the market is so strong, Well, what happens if somebody bursts.
Speaker 3: That balloon and the market falls out of bed? Then
Speaker 3: what are we standing on?
Speaker 1: And I think that seems like certainly a possibility. The Straits.
Speaker 1: It does not feel like Trump is going to get
Speaker 1: those traits open. And you see him sort of mack
Speaker 1: on it. You know, we don't even get anything through
Speaker 1: the streets, but quite a lot of oil and gas
Speaker 1: twenty five percent, you know, a third of whatever or a fourth,
Speaker 1: and then the fertilizer. So what do you think happens?
Speaker 1: What's the economic every day? It's closed as problematic. So
Speaker 1: let's be clear.
Speaker 4: We are not as energy dependent on the Middle East
Speaker 4: as we were in the seventies and eighties.
Speaker 3: That's true.
Speaker 4: But but Iran now having complete control of the Strait,
Speaker 4: now charging massive tolls, this is a giant win for them.
Speaker 3: Like, as we look at.
Speaker 4: This war, as long as Iran still is kicking in
Speaker 4: any way, as long as they can still have you know,
Speaker 4: as long as they're still in the ring, even if
Speaker 4: they're almost knocked out, that's a win for them. Remember
Speaker 4: what Trump was immediately demanding, right, no nuclear capabilities, You're
Speaker 4: gonna hand off all of your uranium. We want a
Speaker 4: regime change.
Speaker 3: What are we going to get, like at this point,
Speaker 3: what are our ultimate goals?
Speaker 4: Because while yes, this has been devastating for Iran, remember
Speaker 4: the Irian regime doesn't mind if they're devastated, right, they
Speaker 4: don't mind if their people are suffering. They've made their
Speaker 4: own people suffer. And remember it was two plus weeks
Speaker 4: ago Trump said, oh, we're talking about you know, maybe
Speaker 4: we're gonna co control the street. We're gonna co get this.
Speaker 4: You know, we'll both be getting this toll. It's simply
Speaker 4: not true. And listen, think about the reporting that's been
Speaker 4: coming out this week that JD. Vance is basically saying
Speaker 4: he doesn't believe how what the Pentagon is saying when
Speaker 4: it comes to how they're presenting this war.
Speaker 1: Right, it seems like a lot of people are trying
Speaker 1: to not get blamed for a thing that's going great.
Speaker 4: Correct, And I will say like just like a shout
Speaker 4: out in terms of incredible journalism and the First Amendment.
Speaker 4: It wasn't that long ago that Pete Haig Seth kicked
Speaker 4: the entire Pentagon press corps out. He wanted them all
Speaker 4: to sign a document that basically said, the only thing
Speaker 4: we are going to report are press releases that the
Speaker 4: Pentagon hands us every day, and they're going to walk
Speaker 4: to our cameras and read them to the American people.
Speaker 3: That's state run media.
Speaker 4: And not only did basically the entire press corps tell
Speaker 4: him to go fish. The reporting that is coming out
Speaker 4: of the Pentagon is amazing. And remember those people who
Speaker 4: are leaking, aren't some there's different kind of leaks. When
Speaker 4: you and I covered Trump in the first administration, that
Speaker 4: White House was filled with senior advisors and administration officials
Speaker 4: who couldn't wait to have some crazy meeting with the president.
Speaker 4: Call us on their way out, treat us for lunch somewhere,
Speaker 4: stab each other in the back, like I mean, next
Speaker 4: level that are coming out of the Pentagon. These are
Speaker 4: career department officials. Yes, okay, these are people from the military,
Speaker 4: and the reason they're blowing a whistle is because they're
Speaker 4: panicked about our national security. That's a different kind of leaking,
Speaker 4: and the reporting that we're getting is extraordinary. When those
Speaker 4: people are sounding the alarm, that's a lot more than
Speaker 4: Jared versus Bannon, versus Minuchin versus John Kelly. That's a
Speaker 4: totally different game.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think that's a really good point. And that's what
Speaker 1: we're seeing it from government at large too, is people
Speaker 1: who are worried about you know, hsas or I mean
Speaker 1: it is so I have a lot.
Speaker 4: Less reporting this time because those career civil servants who
Speaker 4: work in the government who are saying this is a crisis,
Speaker 4: are different from people in the last administration, Like I
Speaker 4: can't stand him.
Speaker 3: Let me tell you what he said today.
Speaker 1: Well, and I think and I think we see that
Speaker 1: in the reporting right that there's is least but I
Speaker 1: do think that you know, we saw Hegseth today today
Speaker 1: hess on the hell trying to explain what's going on
Speaker 1: with the war, and the clips are are pretty amazing,
Speaker 1: and he does seem.
Speaker 4: You what if you were a military parent, Okay, so
Speaker 4: what has Pete Hegseth done this week, made some videos,
Speaker 4: spent some time with Kid Rock.
Speaker 3: With Kid Rock what is he doing today?
Speaker 4: Sending out a funny a cartoon of him as Franklin,
Speaker 4: you know, with Franklin the Turtle before he goes into
Speaker 4: this hearing we've got men and women serving our country.
Speaker 4: How would you feel if you were a military parent
Speaker 4: watching this.
Speaker 1: I have a kid who is ro OTC or about
Speaker 1: to be ROTC. I do not like it. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's just it's very isn't that super sad?
Speaker 4: Like you, I just want to take a moment to
Speaker 4: have a child who wants to pursue ro OTC should
Speaker 4: be such an incredible point of pride, pride as a patriot, pride.
Speaker 4: And now you're sitting here going I don't feel good
Speaker 4: about this.
Speaker 1: That's terrible. It's really scary. I mean, and I think
Speaker 1: what we've seen from this war is there a military
Speaker 1: is incredible. Our politicians are deeply flawed at best. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: you know, Steph Rule, Thank you, thank you, thank you,
Speaker 1: thank you.
Speaker 3: For having mere.
Speaker 1: That's great. Bail Dalton is a candidate for Congress in
Speaker 1: Florida's seventh district. Welcome, Welcome to Fast Politics. Bail Molly.
Speaker 5: Great to be here. I'm a long time listener, so
Speaker 5: it's awesome to be on the podcast.
Speaker 1: Well, it's exciting might be the wrong word, but it's cool.
Speaker 1: But we get to interview members. I feel like I'm
Speaker 1: one of the few places where I can interview members
Speaker 1: of Congress who are running for seeds and really get
Speaker 1: to know them, which is really cool.
Speaker 5: Well, hopefully I'll do my part to make it exciting and.
Speaker 1: Cool because we know them to talk about it exciting.
Speaker 1: And there was a year when we interviewed all the
Speaker 1: members of the House of Delegates in Virginia and boy,
Speaker 1: let me tell you so, but you are running in
Speaker 1: the great state of Florida, which is wild. You're running
Speaker 1: against someone who I have long had very very mixed
Speaker 1: feelings about. So talk us through what the story is here?
Speaker 5: Well, sure thing, and I would ask, where are your
Speaker 5: feelings mixed or are you pretty sold on the fact that.
Speaker 1: Aim that he needs to be out of office? So
Speaker 1: tell us who you're running against and what the story is.
Speaker 5: My name's Baal Dalton. I'm a longtime Navy veteran twenty
Speaker 5: three years in the Navy and Navy Reserve as a
Speaker 5: helicopter pilot, supporting special operations in Iraq, Afghanistan, the Horn
Speaker 5: of Africa, and throughout the Pacific. I worked for Florida's farmer,
Speaker 5: Senator Bill Nelson on his DC staff, doing national defense,
Speaker 5: foreign policy, and of course veteran services near and dear
Speaker 5: to my heart. And then I also got the chance
Speaker 5: to help lead NASA as the deputy chief of Staff
Speaker 5: and chief of staff. There over ten thousand researchers, scientists, engineers, astronauts,
Speaker 5: you know, showing the world what America can accomplish every
Speaker 5: day when we actually work together.
Speaker 1: All of this is to say that you're way too
Speaker 1: qualified observing Congress, Yes.
Speaker 5: You know, I think we can. You know, I think
Speaker 5: that's part of what we need to be looking at
Speaker 5: long term here is that our politics have gotten into
Speaker 5: this performative dance of you know, who can stay close
Speaker 5: to power, who's got the information, you know, who's more
Speaker 5: willing to tell stories, you know, inventive stories to divide
Speaker 5: us in order to serve this addiction to power or
Speaker 5: addiction to the limelight that that folks seem to have.
Speaker 5: And it's incredibly disappointing. And that's one of the reasons
Speaker 5: why I'm in the race. Like, look, Florida seven. Here
Speaker 5: in central Florida, it's just north and east of Orlando
Speaker 5: out to Port Orange versus just south of Daytona Beach
Speaker 5: down to New Smyrna Beach on the East coast, and
Speaker 5: then basically take that line over to I four, where
Speaker 5: we've got Maitland, Altamont, Sanford, DeBerry and others. I don't
Speaker 5: want to leave anybody out, but that's sort of the
Speaker 5: rectangle there. And you know, for the last two terms
Speaker 5: we've had Congressman Corey Mills be air representative. I mean,
Speaker 5: first of all, this is a guy, guy who's barely
Speaker 5: a Floridian, lives in Washington, d C. In a twenty
Speaker 5: five hundred dollars a month penthouse apartment that he also
Speaker 5: doesn't pay rent on in some cases, which was in
Speaker 5: the news there for a while. But you know, as
Speaker 5: we talked about at the top of the show, Molly,
Speaker 5: you know, this guy with a long history of corruption
Speaker 5: and fraud and just an inability to tell the truth
Speaker 5: about a lot of things, just and very interesting relationship
Speaker 5: he has with facts. The show's not long enough to
Speaker 5: do the whole thing, but you know, he's got a
Speaker 5: problem with his treatment of women and domestic violence allegation.
Speaker 1: That's the thing that I am not a fan of.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and we've seen more reporting on that particular incidenty
Speaker 5: in Washington, d C. Where you know, one woman who's
Speaker 5: not his wife that was apparently living with him in
Speaker 5: his penthouse in DC called the police and made domestic
Speaker 5: violence allegations. And we've seen reporting just last week that
Speaker 5: you know, there's a lot more to that. You know,
Speaker 5: Apparently Congressman Mills, you know, told her that she should
Speaker 5: change her her story. Apparently, you know, some favors might
Speaker 5: have been full pulled in the AUSA office to prevent
Speaker 5: an arrest warrant being issued against Congressman Mills. So you know,
Speaker 5: that just got you know, we're twofold here, right, we
Speaker 5: got a problem with the treatment of a fellow human being,
Speaker 5: and also just such an addiction to keep you know,
Speaker 5: away from any kind of allegations that they're willing to,
Speaker 5: you know, use these corrupt means to stay out of trouble. Right.
Speaker 5: They don't play by the same rules that that we're
Speaker 5: expected to play as average you know, everyday citizens. And
Speaker 5: you know that's only one of the things that's been
Speaker 5: in the news. Of course. Aflorida judge issued a restraining
Speaker 5: order on behalf of a Florida woman, another woman not
Speaker 5: also not his wife, because Corey Mills was deemed to
Speaker 5: be a danger to her and had blackmailed her with
Speaker 5: revenge porn, basically trying to share you know, pictures and
Speaker 5: videos of intimate moments that they had had with people
Speaker 5: that she wanted to go on and date. And she
Speaker 5: had to ask Congressman Mills eleven different times to stop
Speaker 5: contacting her, and he refused to listen, and that's what
Speaker 5: landed him in court and got the got the restraining
Speaker 5: order against them. So, you know, I can't imagine. I
Speaker 5: can't imagine what she must have felt like with that
Speaker 5: kind of intrusion into her personal life and her trying to,
Speaker 5: you know, carry on with what she's trying to do,
Speaker 5: you know, with this person who thinks the rules don't
Speaker 5: apply to him, and Corey Mills just just bashing her
Speaker 5: via text all the time. So you know, we got
Speaker 5: a problem with treatment and women like we again, Molly,
Speaker 5: we don't have enough time because you know, he's also
Speaker 5: got a problem with his company. He's a foreign arms dealer.
Speaker 5: That refuses to disclose which countries he sold weapons to.
Speaker 5: He's got a factory where he's furloughed his workers right
Speaker 5: before Thanksgiving of last year. He's got a business that's
Speaker 5: in debt to a foreign firm, while he sits on
Speaker 5: the Foreign Affairs Committee and the House Armed Services Committee.
Speaker 5: So we got a lot of problems with conflict adventures there.
Speaker 5: And you know, last but not least, since this is
Speaker 5: near and dear to my heart as a veteran, you know,
Speaker 5: there's a lot of questions about the stories that he
Speaker 5: tells about his own personal service in the Army. And
Speaker 5: then right after the Army, when he tried to be
Speaker 5: employed by Diyne Corp. He told them that he had
Speaker 5: all these different qualifications which were not true, and when
Speaker 5: they called him out on it, he walked off the job. So, anyway,
Speaker 5: long story long on Corey Mills. This is a guy
Speaker 5: that you don't want anywhere near your family. You don't
Speaker 5: want anywhere near making decisions for you or representing you
Speaker 5: in any capacity, much less being in Congress. And so
Speaker 5: we're going to give the folks of Central Florida, you
Speaker 5: know where I grew up, my friend's family neighbors a
Speaker 5: better choice than November.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the Corey mil stuff is really scary. You know,
Speaker 1: he's in ethics investigation. We've seen him in and out core.
Speaker 1: Like the structural problems of Corey Mils come from a
Speaker 1: Congress it does not have the kind of ethics committee
Speaker 1: that it should, that does not have the teeth that
Speaker 1: it needs. I wonder if you would commit to trying.
Speaker 1: Nobody likes to police itself, but don't you think that
Speaker 1: when you get to Congress, if you get to Congress,
Speaker 1: that that should be something that you're focused on.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Absolutely, I would say that one of the big
Speaker 5: reasons why you know, I decided to run for Congress
Speaker 5: is because of this you know, blatant corruption that we've seen,
Speaker 5: in fact, just more and more of the body, right.
Speaker 5: We could certainly, we certainly know that there are some
Speaker 5: good people there that are trying their best to do
Speaker 5: whatever they can for their constituents. But the percentage of
Speaker 5: people who just doesn't, that's not anywhere close to their
Speaker 5: mind has grown and grown in my lifetime. And so yes, absolutely,
Speaker 5: you know, committed to trying to solve some of these
Speaker 5: problems which either can lead good people astray or let
Speaker 5: bad people just play by a different set of rules
Speaker 5: than we do. I mean this trading on insider information
Speaker 5: to enrich yourself, trading on insider information to make yourself
Speaker 5: more important than you may be, which is, you know,
Speaker 5: possibly you know, against operational security and putting troops and
Speaker 5: operations in danger just to show people how important you
Speaker 5: are and brag. It's such a shameful indication of what
Speaker 5: drives people there in DC, you know. And I mean
Speaker 5: you asked you specifically about the Ethics Committee. I mean again,
Speaker 5: everybody should have some ability to police itself. I mean
Speaker 5: Congressman Mills, though he's been under investigation since twenty twenty four.
Speaker 5: You know, he likes to talk about referring himself to
Speaker 5: the committee in November of last year. Well we all
Speaker 5: know that that was a body taken by the you know,
Speaker 5: a vote taken by the entire body of the House.
Speaker 5: You don't refer yourself, and that was just for the
Speaker 5: domestic violence allegations. He's been under investigation for these ethics problems,
Speaker 5: these fraud and corruption, you know, since twenty twenty four.
Speaker 5: So it's obviously not working and the way that folks
Speaker 5: would would intend it to because it's not working fast enough.
Speaker 5: Now we could we could say maybe the committee just
Speaker 5: hasn't had enough time because of Corey's body of work.
Speaker 5: He's got an amazing drunch of problems that probably takes
Speaker 5: a long time to investigate. But you know, when you
Speaker 5: see these the other three members who have taken it
Speaker 5: upon themselves the resign when some allegations came to light,
Speaker 5: you know, none of those problems happened anywhere as far
Speaker 5: back as Corey's had, So I don't know why he's
Speaker 5: still there. But you know, again, I think there's a
Speaker 5: lot of people in central Florida who will like to
Speaker 5: send the message to Congressman Mills themselves with their vote
Speaker 5: in November, saying we're not going to have it anymore.
Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure. For sure Florida, there's like a redistricting
Speaker 1: battle that DeSantis has gotten involved in. He would like
Speaker 1: to draw with less seats for Democrats. It seems as
Speaker 1: if that goes against the Florida Constitution. What you're sent to.
Speaker 5: That, absolutely it goes against the Florida Constitution. You know,
Speaker 5: we do have a part of our constitution from back
Speaker 5: in twenty ten where you know, the people spoke to
Speaker 5: add this to our Constitution and the fair Fair Districts
Speaker 5: are Fair re Districting Act. And you know, unfortunately, I
Speaker 5: think what we've seen in Tallahassee has been a microcosm
Speaker 5: of what's going on in Washington, d d C. Where
Speaker 5: you've got politicians who are uninterested in actually listening to
Speaker 5: their constituents. I mean, this is a perfect case of
Speaker 5: you know, Republicans have been in power in Florida for
Speaker 5: for almost twenty years. There's a supermajority in the House
Speaker 5: and in the Senate, and obviously the governor's mansion has
Speaker 5: been you know, Republican for now going on sixteen years.
Speaker 5: These problems that people are facing incredible cost of living emergency,
Speaker 5: whether we're talking about groceries and cost of goods or
Speaker 5: we're talking about housing. I mean, even if you can
Speaker 5: get to the point where you can afford a mortgage
Speaker 5: here in Florida, you've got exponentially rising utility costs, home
Speaker 5: insurance costs with very little coverage, and property tech. So
Speaker 5: the Republicans here in Tallahassee are truly breaking our constitutional
Speaker 5: requirement to not jerymander districts because they're unable to create
Speaker 5: the policies to keep in office, so they have to
Speaker 5: pick their districts in a way that the voters get disenfranchise.
Speaker 1: You are like the expert of your district because you're
Speaker 1: around leading constituents. What are they saying?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean the folks of Central Florida are mad
Speaker 5: as hell. So a lot of what I've said, and
Speaker 5: the tenor of which i've said it here to you, Molly,
Speaker 5: is what I'm hearing in the district as well. You know,
Speaker 5: we were promised a government that would be working more efficiently.
Speaker 5: That's not happening. We were promised an economy that would
Speaker 5: be headed in the right direction. That's not happening. We
Speaker 5: were promised, you know, a focus on what's going on
Speaker 5: here in America, you know, the safety of our neighborhoods
Speaker 5: and communities, reinvesting in our businesses and industries, and we're
Speaker 5: not seeing that happen either, with you know, a billion
Speaker 5: dollars a day being spent in our latest that you
Speaker 5: know overseas adventure that's got no long term goal, that's
Speaker 5: been espoused by you know, this administration. You know those things,
Speaker 5: you know, whether Republican, Democrat, Independent, those are what people
Speaker 5: voted for and expected they're getting zero returned on that
Speaker 5: right now. And so I say that is the leading
Speaker 5: cause of frustration there. And the second is what we've
Speaker 5: been talking about for the most part of this conversation,
Speaker 5: which is just completely fed up with the corruption and
Speaker 5: grift that they see, especially in our district with Congressman Mills,
Speaker 5: and they just they're just not going to have it anymore.
Speaker 5: And the good news is is they don't have to
Speaker 5: take it anymore. You know, it's like the you know
Speaker 5: the old movie, right, We're mad as hell, we're not
Speaker 5: going to take it anymore. Well, a lot of people
Speaker 5: are out shouting out their windows right now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and the things that they're the most worried about
Speaker 1: are inflation. Will you talk to us about the insurance
Speaker 1: problem in Florida?
Speaker 5: Yeah, So, you know, I think people are scared. People
Speaker 5: are worried to the point of fear and angst that
Speaker 5: something's going to happen in their life. Right They're one
Speaker 5: thing away, one sickness away, one injury away, one health
Speaker 5: emergency away from a catastrophic result to themselves of their family.
Speaker 5: You know, people are with the health insurance. I mean,
Speaker 5: look like the ACA subsidies expiring that is a crisis
Speaker 5: of Congress's own making that could be fixed tomorrow if
Speaker 5: enough people could get the backbone to say, okay, fine,
Speaker 5: we can have a conversation what a different long term
Speaker 5: solution may be, but we can't leave people suffering in
Speaker 5: the interim. I mean, in District seven, forty five thousand
Speaker 5: people are now without health insurance period because of the
Speaker 5: ACA subsidies expiring, and over one hundred and fifty thousand
Speaker 5: people just in this district, we'll see their premiums go
Speaker 5: two times, three times, or even four times. So a
Speaker 5: family of four that was paying you know, twenty five
Speaker 5: hundred dollars a month is now paying upwards of you know,
Speaker 5: fifty five hundred and six thousand dollars a month. That's
Speaker 5: not sustainable. And as I kind of talked about before, right,
Speaker 5: you've got all these buckets at the end of the month, right,
Speaker 5: all these checks you've got to write out, whether it's
Speaker 5: you know, your utility bill, you know, the groceries, your insurance,
Speaker 5: whether it's you know, property insurance or health insurance, and
Speaker 5: your mortgage. All of those buckets here in Florida are overflowing.
Speaker 5: And that's for everybody that's not a political comment. That is,
Speaker 5: people forced to make decisions with their money at the
Speaker 5: end of the day which they ought not have to
Speaker 5: be made if they are, you know, playing by the
Speaker 5: rules and working hard and trying to do better for
Speaker 5: their families. There's no hope right now of that having
Speaker 5: a long term effect to make the future better. And
Speaker 5: so people aren't even able to have the moment in
Speaker 5: time to think aspirationally because we've got policies in our
Speaker 5: economy right now which are driving the cost of everything up,
Speaker 5: whether it's you know, like I said already gas or groceries.
Speaker 5: And sorry to be on a rant here, but it
Speaker 5: makes me mad because you know, these small businesses, they're
Speaker 5: getting squeezed from both ends, right They've got raw goods
Speaker 5: that are more expensive because of this chaotic you know,
Speaker 5: tariff program, and so now they've got to you know,
Speaker 5: raised menu prices or raise you know, the prices of
Speaker 5: their items. So they're losing customers. When they lose customers,
Speaker 5: they can't keep employees on. Employees if they don't have
Speaker 5: a job, are unable to get health insurance. I mean,
Speaker 5: it's just a spiral of a cost of living emergency
Speaker 5: here that it's been you know, created by the chaos
Speaker 5: that we see coming out of Washington.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, it's absolutely so shocking. So tell us
Speaker 1: what your primary is and what you need and what
Speaker 1: it looks like.
Speaker 5: Yeah, sure they I mean, it's Florida. So with the
Speaker 5: redistricting ballot qualification, usually what happened in April, it doesn't
Speaker 5: happen now until June. And you know, the redistricting effort
Speaker 5: has not yet been voted on in Tallahassee, though we
Speaker 5: expect that this week, and we expect there to be
Speaker 5: a judicial challenge if the districts will go through, for
Speaker 5: the reasons that we spoke about before on the unconstitutionality
Speaker 5: of it. So we've got, you know, a few more
Speaker 5: things here. But look, we're running strong, and we're running
Speaker 5: hard for November, and you know, against Corey Mills or
Speaker 5: whomever else might come out of the woodwork, because right now,
Speaker 5: you know, again and people are fed up with the
Speaker 5: status quo, which they see, as you know, addicted to
Speaker 5: power and addicted to this corruption and grift. And I
Speaker 5: can't argue with them. I agree, I'm in the same boat.
Speaker 5: So you know, primaries and in Florida are late, they're
Speaker 5: in August, but we were We're blessed to have an
Speaker 5: incredible amount of support here. Vote Vets has endorsed, New
Speaker 5: Politics has endorsed. We have the endorsements of probably ten
Speaker 5: or twelve sitting members of Congress now, and I think
Speaker 5: more specifically, you know here in Florida, you know my
Speaker 5: old boss, Senator Nelson has endorsed the race. And then
Speaker 5: former Congresswoman Stephanie Murphy, who represented much of this district previously,
Speaker 5: remember her, Yeah, yeah, so she she has endorsed the
Speaker 5: race as well.
Speaker 1: What a fuck up? I mean, this really was a
Speaker 1: d seed.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it was very it was neutral. It was really
Speaker 5: more neutral before the twenty twenty census. And by the way,
Speaker 5: you're gonna hear some ridiculous comments out of you know,
Speaker 5: some of the Republicans in Tallahatsee about this census. I
Speaker 5: mean they're calling it the Biden census.
Speaker 1: Which Biden was president.
Speaker 5: Biden wasn't president. I mean, I actually, my let me
Speaker 5: just hammer on this point for a second, because it's
Speaker 5: one of the things that infuriates me. Right, we're in
Speaker 5: in the arena now, we're in area of our country's
Speaker 5: history where apparently our elected officials have such disdain for
Speaker 5: the people that they're supposed to represent that they just
Speaker 5: blatantly lie and blatantly, you know, talk about things that
Speaker 5: they think enough time has passed that we would forget that, right,
Speaker 5: Like twenty twenty is a date, like the census was
Speaker 5: in twenty twenty. And the other thing that's interesting about that,
Speaker 5: right is that you know Florida, you know a lot
Speaker 5: of Florida politicians no matter what party, talk about, Hey,
Speaker 5: there may have been an undercount in Florida. All right, yeah,
Speaker 5: got it. Maybe there was an undercount in Florida. Well
Speaker 5: you need to go back in time and figure out
Speaker 5: why that might have happened, because there might have been
Speaker 5: some people who were not interested in answering the census
Speaker 5: because there were restrictions on it, or you know, things
Speaker 5: that were coming out of the administration that might cause
Speaker 5: people to not want to fill out a census. That's
Speaker 5: why you're going to get an undercount. And second, undercounting
Speaker 5: the people and our districts has nothing to do with
Speaker 5: why you should redistrict now. But again, we're just getting
Speaker 5: fed this poor shit, and you know, I think people
Speaker 5: are tired of eating it. It is infuriating that we're continued,
Speaker 5: you know, to be you know, like we used to
Speaker 5: say as junior officers in the navy, right, you know,
Speaker 5: kept in the dark and fed shit like voters aren't
Speaker 5: going to take that anymore.
Speaker 1: Bail, thank you, thank you, thank you for joining me.
Speaker 5: Well, thank you so much for having me. Like I
Speaker 5: said a long time listener, so this is especially exciting
Speaker 5: for me, but also thanks for giving us the opportunity
Speaker 5: to talk about, you know, this race, and it's important
Speaker 5: regardless of redistorting. Right, this Florida seven doesn't look like
Speaker 5: it's going to change, whether the maps are upheld or
Speaker 5: new maps come. So we know what's in front of us.
Speaker 5: By the numbers, this is the most flippable seed in Florida.
Speaker 5: So you know, check us out at Bail Dalton dot
Speaker 5: com and give us some support if you got it. Yeah,
Speaker 5: pay attention because we are on track to get one
Speaker 5: of the most corrupt members of Congress out of there.
Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you, thank you, Bail, thank.
Speaker 5: You, Molly. You have a great rest of your day.
Speaker 1: No moment secret. Jesse Kadden Smillie.
Speaker 2: We saw a very predictive Supreme Court decision on voting
Speaker 2: rights today, but there is another one that you could
Speaker 2: always predict, which is them siding with crisis pregnancy centers.
Speaker 1: Yes, so faith based pregnancy center. Why do you need
Speaker 1: church in your uterism? Well, you know it's always so.
Speaker 2: Where they say faith based, the faith you're putting in
Speaker 2: it is when they lie to you to your face,
Speaker 2: They trick you into going these things, they tell you
Speaker 2: all these laws, but faith.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, what is a faith based pregnancy center? It's
Speaker 1: First Amendment concerned about our investigation whether it must lide
Speaker 1: people to discourage abortions. If you are a faith based
Speaker 1: pregnancy center, you're misleading people into discouraging abortions. That's why
Speaker 1: they exist. So the High Court's unanimous ruling is a
Speaker 1: procedural victory for First Choice women's resource Centers, which is
Speaker 1: challenging a New Jersey investigation into his practices. The conservative
Speaker 1: majority court has given abortion opponents high profile wins in
Speaker 1: recent years, including overturning Rugby Wade. Because these guys are
Speaker 1: very religious. The Supreme Court's decision let's First Choice sue
Speaker 1: over a state issued subpoena in federal court, though the
Speaker 1: ruling does not resolve the underlying case. So again, you
Speaker 1: know this is just this Supreme Court, which like this administration,
Speaker 1: is filled with partisan acs, is quite anti choice and
Speaker 1: gives lots of wins to the anti choice world. So
Speaker 1: as much as this is extremely annoying and disconcerting and
Speaker 1: problematic in every which way, it should not be surprising.
Speaker 1: And here we are. That's it for this episode of
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