1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:03,240 Speaker 1: Stay right here for our final news round up and 2 00:00:03,400 --> 00:00:08,000 Speaker 1: information overload. Right News Roundup, Information overload, our gladuate with 3 00:00:08,080 --> 00:00:10,079 Speaker 1: US eight hundred and nine four one Shawn if you 4 00:00:10,160 --> 00:00:13,319 Speaker 1: want to be a part of the program. So since 5 00:00:13,440 --> 00:00:18,320 Speaker 1: nineteen fifty four, there have been five separate occasions where 6 00:00:18,360 --> 00:00:22,880 Speaker 1: the House of Representatives has changed in terms of the 7 00:00:22,920 --> 00:00:27,800 Speaker 1: election and changed power. You will see this in January 8 00:00:27,960 --> 00:00:31,360 Speaker 1: when Nancy Pelosi gives up the gavel and Republicans now 9 00:00:31,480 --> 00:00:34,720 Speaker 1: will be in charge of the House. That's important for 10 00:00:34,760 --> 00:00:37,560 Speaker 1: all the reasons we've discussed, the power of the purse, 11 00:00:38,320 --> 00:00:42,040 Speaker 1: the power to subpoena committee assignments. I mean, it's a 12 00:00:42,080 --> 00:00:45,559 Speaker 1: big win for Republicans, a necessary win, and it's a 13 00:00:45,600 --> 00:00:50,080 Speaker 1: great check and balance on Democrats. Now, in all five 14 00:00:50,120 --> 00:00:53,920 Speaker 1: of these occasions, or leading up to this one in January, 15 00:00:55,040 --> 00:00:59,560 Speaker 1: there's never been a moment where the opposition in the 16 00:00:59,640 --> 00:01:03,880 Speaker 1: Senate would go along with the party in power and 17 00:01:04,080 --> 00:01:07,800 Speaker 1: pass an omnibus spending bill for the entire next year. 18 00:01:08,640 --> 00:01:13,119 Speaker 1: That's never happened before. And right now we have Republicans 19 00:01:13,160 --> 00:01:16,919 Speaker 1: obviously led by Mitch McConnell, but other people like Richard 20 00:01:16,920 --> 00:01:19,240 Speaker 1: Shelby who's retiring at the end of the year, and 21 00:01:19,640 --> 00:01:23,560 Speaker 1: some other people pushing this omnibus spending bill, which is 22 00:01:23,560 --> 00:01:27,680 Speaker 1: the entire year spending bill before the new Republican Congress 23 00:01:28,280 --> 00:01:32,680 Speaker 1: takes power in the House of Representatives in January. And 24 00:01:32,720 --> 00:01:37,160 Speaker 1: it makes no sense at all whatsoever. Historically, what these 25 00:01:37,280 --> 00:01:40,759 Speaker 1: lame duck sessions would do, they would pass a continuing 26 00:01:40,959 --> 00:01:45,160 Speaker 1: resolution to fund the government in the interim and then 27 00:01:45,200 --> 00:01:49,720 Speaker 1: the incoming in this case, incoming a Republican majority would 28 00:01:49,760 --> 00:01:52,760 Speaker 1: then have a say in the budget process for next year. 29 00:01:53,520 --> 00:01:57,480 Speaker 1: And for whatever reason, Republican leadership in the Senate has 30 00:01:57,520 --> 00:02:00,440 Speaker 1: decided that they want to work with Schumer and with 31 00:02:00,600 --> 00:02:05,560 Speaker 1: Biden and go along with a year a year's worth 32 00:02:05,560 --> 00:02:09,440 Speaker 1: of spending, taking away you know what, is really a 33 00:02:09,480 --> 00:02:12,600 Speaker 1: powerful tool for the new Republican majority in the House 34 00:02:13,280 --> 00:02:15,920 Speaker 1: and stop some of the insane spending that we have 35 00:02:16,040 --> 00:02:18,400 Speaker 1: with what a deficit now on a debt of what 36 00:02:18,560 --> 00:02:23,080 Speaker 1: thirty one trillion dollars. It's insane. I cannot get a 37 00:02:23,080 --> 00:02:27,079 Speaker 1: reasonable explanation as to why they're doing it. Many Republicans 38 00:02:27,080 --> 00:02:30,760 Speaker 1: are speaking out against it. Senator Mike Leesman keeping me 39 00:02:30,760 --> 00:02:33,560 Speaker 1: in the loop. He's apoplectic about it, as are many 40 00:02:33,600 --> 00:02:39,359 Speaker 1: other Republican senators. Senator Marsha Blackburn from Tennessee is with 41 00:02:39,480 --> 00:02:42,760 Speaker 1: us to give us her take on all of this. Senator, 42 00:02:42,800 --> 00:02:45,880 Speaker 1: how are you? I am doing well and you're so 43 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:49,720 Speaker 1: correct on this. Sean, we should give the new House 44 00:02:49,800 --> 00:02:54,720 Speaker 1: majority and it will be Speaker Kevin McCarthy gives them 45 00:02:54,720 --> 00:02:58,520 Speaker 1: the ability to come back at some point next spring 46 00:02:59,040 --> 00:03:04,440 Speaker 1: and reef at these spending numbers and began to move 47 00:03:04,760 --> 00:03:08,600 Speaker 1: us to where we can break this lodgem on spending. 48 00:03:08,720 --> 00:03:13,360 Speaker 1: It's so important to note that the Democrats under Joe 49 00:03:13,400 --> 00:03:19,080 Speaker 1: Biden have continued to push the annual spending north of 50 00:03:19,200 --> 00:03:23,680 Speaker 1: six trillion dollars because they have deemed all of this 51 00:03:23,960 --> 00:03:31,440 Speaker 1: extra spending for COVID as mandatory spending. And what we 52 00:03:31,520 --> 00:03:35,360 Speaker 1: need to do is have the ability to just freeze 53 00:03:35,400 --> 00:03:39,600 Speaker 1: this and then begin to work it down so that 54 00:03:39,680 --> 00:03:43,880 Speaker 1: we do not make all of this additional spending part 55 00:03:44,160 --> 00:03:49,880 Speaker 1: of the permanent spending process. And we continue to say, 56 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:55,080 Speaker 1: let's do a cr let's get ourselves out for the year. 57 00:03:55,600 --> 00:04:00,200 Speaker 1: Let's make certain that we come back and we do 58 00:04:00,440 --> 00:04:04,240 Speaker 1: a bill that is going to be more responsible and 59 00:04:04,400 --> 00:04:09,240 Speaker 1: is going to focus on getting our fiscal house in order. 60 00:04:09,960 --> 00:04:13,960 Speaker 1: What is the rationale, the reason, the why, the wherefore 61 00:04:14,680 --> 00:04:18,200 Speaker 1: that Mitch McConnell and other Republicans are pushing this. Why 62 00:04:19,680 --> 00:04:24,200 Speaker 1: there are some Republicans and you mentioned that Senator Shelby 63 00:04:24,279 --> 00:04:28,320 Speaker 1: from Alabama, Senator Leahy who's a Democrat from Vermont. They're 64 00:04:28,360 --> 00:04:32,240 Speaker 1: retiring and they want to do one last on the 65 00:04:32,360 --> 00:04:37,120 Speaker 1: bespending bill. But there between twenty five and forty five 66 00:04:37,400 --> 00:04:43,640 Speaker 1: billion over the president's request. And last night we started 67 00:04:43,680 --> 00:04:47,679 Speaker 1: hearing from Democrats that they had been able to find 68 00:04:47,880 --> 00:04:52,080 Speaker 1: a way forward. But Sean, when you look at spending 69 00:04:52,160 --> 00:04:55,120 Speaker 1: over the last four years, and you looked at in 70 00:04:55,200 --> 00:04:59,479 Speaker 1: twenty nineteen, we were at four point four trillion in spending, 71 00:04:59,560 --> 00:05:03,080 Speaker 1: which is too much for me. But then you look 72 00:05:03,120 --> 00:05:06,080 Speaker 1: at where we are in twenty two, which is six 73 00:05:06,160 --> 00:05:10,320 Speaker 1: point three trillion dollars, and then you're looking north of 74 00:05:10,440 --> 00:05:16,120 Speaker 1: six trillion dollars again for twenty three. That is the 75 00:05:16,279 --> 00:05:20,320 Speaker 1: out of control spending that is taking place. And honestly, 76 00:05:20,440 --> 00:05:23,360 Speaker 1: I think it's immoral to spend this kind of money, 77 00:05:23,480 --> 00:05:26,120 Speaker 1: run up this kind of debt, and then look at 78 00:05:26,160 --> 00:05:29,320 Speaker 1: our children and grandchildren and say, Okay, it's your problem. 79 00:05:29,400 --> 00:05:31,800 Speaker 1: Now you've got to figure out a way to pay 80 00:05:31,839 --> 00:05:35,039 Speaker 1: for this when you start earning a paycheck. You know, 81 00:05:35,080 --> 00:05:38,680 Speaker 1: it's just unbelievable. Unbelievable to me, a senator, I really 82 00:05:38,720 --> 00:05:42,160 Speaker 1: can't believe it, because I know we'd save a lot 83 00:05:42,200 --> 00:05:45,960 Speaker 1: of money if the new Republican Congress had to say 84 00:05:46,720 --> 00:05:49,440 Speaker 1: in what this budget was ultimately ultimately going to turn 85 00:05:49,480 --> 00:05:52,400 Speaker 1: out to be. And sure, you know, we're looking at 86 00:05:52,560 --> 00:05:56,280 Speaker 1: record debt that I don't even see a path in 87 00:05:56,320 --> 00:05:59,400 Speaker 1: the long term we will even be able to pay 88 00:05:59,440 --> 00:06:02,719 Speaker 1: down that debt, especially with interest rates now going up 89 00:06:02,760 --> 00:06:07,719 Speaker 1: at a very fast clip. Well, and as I said earlier, 90 00:06:07,920 --> 00:06:09,760 Speaker 1: there are some things that are going to have to 91 00:06:09,800 --> 00:06:15,000 Speaker 1: be done. Freezing federal spending, federal hiring, federal employee salaries, 92 00:06:15,360 --> 00:06:19,200 Speaker 1: freezing all of that, and then beginning to work that down, 93 00:06:19,880 --> 00:06:25,279 Speaker 1: looking for ways that we can use efficiencies in government 94 00:06:25,360 --> 00:06:29,240 Speaker 1: to deliver salaries, look at some of these components that 95 00:06:29,279 --> 00:06:34,479 Speaker 1: have become mandatory spending through COVID and saying we have 96 00:06:34,640 --> 00:06:37,800 Speaker 1: to think long term about what we're doing. You know, 97 00:06:38,160 --> 00:06:41,680 Speaker 1: it was in twenty ten that you had Admiral Mullen. 98 00:06:42,200 --> 00:06:45,000 Speaker 1: He was asked what kept him up at night, and 99 00:06:45,120 --> 00:06:48,440 Speaker 1: he said, the greatest threat to our nation's security as 100 00:06:48,480 --> 00:06:52,600 Speaker 1: our nation's debt, we need to remember that and we 101 00:06:52,680 --> 00:06:55,760 Speaker 1: need to focus on what we're going to do to 102 00:06:55,800 --> 00:07:00,640 Speaker 1: get this spending under control. These omnibus spending bills have 103 00:07:00,760 --> 00:07:03,520 Speaker 1: got to stop, and we have to find a way 104 00:07:03,560 --> 00:07:06,920 Speaker 1: to reduce what we spend. For years, I had the 105 00:07:07,960 --> 00:07:11,120 Speaker 1: one percent across the board cut amendment, which cut a 106 00:07:11,160 --> 00:07:13,840 Speaker 1: penny out of a dollar, and if you did that 107 00:07:14,360 --> 00:07:17,520 Speaker 1: for every dollar we spent over a period of about 108 00:07:17,560 --> 00:07:21,360 Speaker 1: five years, you would bring that federal budget back in 109 00:07:21,840 --> 00:07:25,280 Speaker 1: to balance. Those are the kind of steps and the 110 00:07:25,320 --> 00:07:27,880 Speaker 1: type ideas we need to bring forward. We need to 111 00:07:27,960 --> 00:07:32,320 Speaker 1: change some budget process and instead of doing baseline budgeting 112 00:07:32,320 --> 00:07:35,360 Speaker 1: where you take last year's budget and add to it 113 00:07:35,400 --> 00:07:38,560 Speaker 1: for this year, we should be doing zero base budgeting, 114 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:42,080 Speaker 1: where you go back to zero and you build out 115 00:07:42,160 --> 00:07:44,680 Speaker 1: what your needs are. You look for ways to save 116 00:07:44,960 --> 00:07:49,880 Speaker 1: money instead of ways to spend the taxpayers money, and 117 00:07:50,280 --> 00:07:54,040 Speaker 1: people are looking for this. Inflation is high, the cost 118 00:07:54,120 --> 00:07:56,840 Speaker 1: of living is high. Price it's the pump and the 119 00:07:56,920 --> 00:08:00,240 Speaker 1: grocery store is high, and people don't want to be 120 00:08:00,320 --> 00:08:05,200 Speaker 1: sending more money to Washington, DC for politicians to waste 121 00:08:05,480 --> 00:08:09,400 Speaker 1: those hard to earn dollars. You know, years ago, Florida 122 00:08:09,440 --> 00:08:13,520 Speaker 1: Congressman Connie Mack proposed what he called the Penny Plan. 123 00:08:13,600 --> 00:08:16,840 Speaker 1: We're probably now up to the Nickel plan. That is 124 00:08:16,880 --> 00:08:19,440 Speaker 1: that if you cut five cents out of every dollar 125 00:08:19,960 --> 00:08:23,360 Speaker 1: government spends, you'd balance the budget in a short period 126 00:08:23,400 --> 00:08:26,000 Speaker 1: of time. At that point it was seven years, you'd 127 00:08:26,040 --> 00:08:30,280 Speaker 1: balance the budget. Nobody had any real interest in any 128 00:08:30,320 --> 00:08:32,520 Speaker 1: of that. Let me ask you this part of this. 129 00:08:33,760 --> 00:08:36,120 Speaker 1: We know that the House is willing to go along 130 00:08:36,120 --> 00:08:41,040 Speaker 1: with the defense appropriations, but they did so by eliminating 131 00:08:41,320 --> 00:08:45,560 Speaker 1: the vaccine mandate as it relates to the military. Is 132 00:08:45,600 --> 00:08:48,760 Speaker 1: that going to hold, especially considering Joe Biden told us 133 00:08:48,800 --> 00:08:52,439 Speaker 1: that the pandemic is over. Oh, it's going to hold. 134 00:08:52,600 --> 00:08:55,880 Speaker 1: This is an amendment that I had offered back during 135 00:08:55,920 --> 00:08:58,680 Speaker 1: the summer when we had sent it Arms Services were 136 00:08:58,720 --> 00:09:02,720 Speaker 1: working on the Defense Authorization Act, and if that point 137 00:09:02,720 --> 00:09:06,600 Speaker 1: sean every Democrat on the committee voted against it. But 138 00:09:06,679 --> 00:09:09,120 Speaker 1: I told them then, I said, I'm going to ask 139 00:09:09,200 --> 00:09:11,760 Speaker 1: for a vote on this amendment when we go to 140 00:09:11,800 --> 00:09:15,320 Speaker 1: the floor. Well, in the meantime, you have seen our 141 00:09:15,480 --> 00:09:20,600 Speaker 1: recruiting numbers and our retention numbers drop. For example, our 142 00:09:20,760 --> 00:09:24,720 Speaker 1: army is fifteen thousand short this way this year, They're 143 00:09:24,760 --> 00:09:28,240 Speaker 1: going to be twenty one thousand short next year. And 144 00:09:28,640 --> 00:09:33,320 Speaker 1: so I was successful in negotiating this amendment into the 145 00:09:33,360 --> 00:09:36,560 Speaker 1: House version. We're going to keep it in the Senate version. 146 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:40,640 Speaker 1: That is step number one in dealing with this, getting 147 00:09:40,679 --> 00:09:44,360 Speaker 1: that mandate rescinded. And I'm so pleased to have been 148 00:09:44,400 --> 00:09:48,720 Speaker 1: able to work with our troops and bring this to 149 00:09:48,880 --> 00:09:53,880 Speaker 1: a successful conclusion for them. Do you believe the number 150 00:09:53,920 --> 00:09:56,240 Speaker 1: of what was it eight hundred and thirty billion or 151 00:09:56,240 --> 00:09:59,640 Speaker 1: eight hundred forty billion for the military, do you believe 152 00:10:00,040 --> 00:10:04,000 Speaker 1: that is sufficient to combat threats from countries that a 153 00:10:04,080 --> 00:10:07,320 Speaker 1: hostile like China. We are going to have to pay 154 00:10:07,400 --> 00:10:11,880 Speaker 1: close attention to our great power competition. We have to 155 00:10:11,920 --> 00:10:15,600 Speaker 1: be focused on what China is doing with their aggressiveness, 156 00:10:15,640 --> 00:10:20,199 Speaker 1: what they're doing to Taiwan, their aggressiveness in the South 157 00:10:20,280 --> 00:10:23,960 Speaker 1: China Sea and with the Pacific Island Nations. I was 158 00:10:24,040 --> 00:10:27,680 Speaker 1: just recently over they are doing some work and in Taiwan, 159 00:10:28,160 --> 00:10:31,040 Speaker 1: and we have to make certain that Taiwan is a 160 00:10:31,120 --> 00:10:35,560 Speaker 1: positioned for an asymmetrical battle posture so that they have 161 00:10:35,679 --> 00:10:39,120 Speaker 1: what they need to defend themselves. And do you really 162 00:10:39,240 --> 00:10:42,920 Speaker 1: believe that if the Communist Chinese, and they have been 163 00:10:42,960 --> 00:10:46,320 Speaker 1: stating it openly that they believe Taiwan is there, as 164 00:10:46,360 --> 00:10:50,360 Speaker 1: they call it reunification. Do you really believe that Joe 165 00:10:50,440 --> 00:10:55,600 Speaker 1: Biden would involve himself in any way militarily to prevent 166 00:10:55,920 --> 00:10:58,320 Speaker 1: that from happening. And do you think that even if 167 00:10:58,360 --> 00:11:02,000 Speaker 1: we supplied them the weaponry to back themselves, that they'd 168 00:11:02,040 --> 00:11:05,200 Speaker 1: have the capacity to go up against this massive military 169 00:11:05,280 --> 00:11:08,120 Speaker 1: build up that has been taken place for decades as 170 00:11:08,160 --> 00:11:13,240 Speaker 1: it relates to China. Yes, and the Taiwanese are very focused. 171 00:11:13,240 --> 00:11:16,920 Speaker 1: They consider themselves to be independent. You know, they have 172 00:11:16,960 --> 00:11:21,040 Speaker 1: a president and a constitution, they have a military, they 173 00:11:21,080 --> 00:11:23,200 Speaker 1: consider it. Do you think they could take on the 174 00:11:23,320 --> 00:11:27,560 Speaker 1: mighty military of China? Might the moneies that have been spent, 175 00:11:27,679 --> 00:11:31,199 Speaker 1: the hundreds of billions of dollars that have been spent, 176 00:11:31,640 --> 00:11:36,320 Speaker 1: their hypersonic missiles, everything in between. And you know what, 177 00:11:36,559 --> 00:11:40,040 Speaker 1: no one thoughts that Ukraine could take on Russia. And 178 00:11:40,360 --> 00:11:44,920 Speaker 1: we know that the Taiwanese are preparing themselves to defend themselves. 179 00:11:45,720 --> 00:11:51,240 Speaker 1: Would you support any American troops in terms of support 180 00:11:51,400 --> 00:11:55,400 Speaker 1: for Taiwan if they're invaded? That is a question that 181 00:11:55,480 --> 00:11:58,640 Speaker 1: Biden has answered repeatedly, and then they've had to walk 182 00:11:58,679 --> 00:12:02,840 Speaker 1: it back repeatedly. And the United States has always said 183 00:12:02,920 --> 00:12:07,680 Speaker 1: that they would be positioned to help defend Taiwan. That 184 00:12:07,920 --> 00:12:12,040 Speaker 1: is why it is so important that we conduct military 185 00:12:12,240 --> 00:12:15,960 Speaker 1: sales to Taiwan right now so that they have what 186 00:12:16,120 --> 00:12:21,199 Speaker 1: they need to defend themselves. And before Putin went into Ukraine, 187 00:12:21,320 --> 00:12:23,520 Speaker 1: I sent a letter over to the White House. Now 188 00:12:23,559 --> 00:12:27,880 Speaker 1: it's the time for sales to Ukraine. Because you could 189 00:12:27,960 --> 00:12:31,959 Speaker 1: see that Putin was amassing troops and equipment on the border. 190 00:12:32,360 --> 00:12:36,920 Speaker 1: It is imperative that our allies know this. There our allies, 191 00:12:37,040 --> 00:12:41,040 Speaker 1: and that our enemies know that they are our enemies. 192 00:12:41,800 --> 00:12:45,520 Speaker 1: All right, Senator Barsha Blackburne the Great State of Tennessee. Senator, 193 00:12:45,559 --> 00:12:48,439 Speaker 1: great to have you as always married Christmas and look 194 00:12:48,480 --> 00:12:52,240 Speaker 1: forward to next year. Absolutely married Christmas to you. Thanks 195 00:12:52,240 --> 00:12:57,440 Speaker 1: Seansy Bones. Let's say hi to Jason. He is in 196 00:12:57,480 --> 00:13:00,400 Speaker 1: the Great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Jason High, Hey, how are 197 00:13:00,440 --> 00:13:03,640 Speaker 1: you glad you called? Hey? Sean, Hey, thanks for having 198 00:13:03,640 --> 00:13:06,200 Speaker 1: me on. It's a real thank you to be able 199 00:13:06,240 --> 00:13:07,920 Speaker 1: to the privilege to be able to talk to you. 200 00:13:07,960 --> 00:13:11,319 Speaker 1: I wanted to talk about everything happening with Sam Bankman, 201 00:13:11,400 --> 00:13:15,880 Speaker 1: Freed and FTX because you know, this is really just, 202 00:13:16,240 --> 00:13:18,920 Speaker 1: in my opinion, it's the tip of the iceberg. I'm 203 00:13:18,960 --> 00:13:21,760 Speaker 1: dealing with some things from another company that has run 204 00:13:22,200 --> 00:13:26,560 Speaker 1: the exact same scam, dealing money from investors, funneling them 205 00:13:26,640 --> 00:13:31,440 Speaker 1: to their other businesses, promising everything with cryptocurrency is secured, 206 00:13:31,800 --> 00:13:34,000 Speaker 1: and then you find out that none of it is 207 00:13:34,040 --> 00:13:40,400 Speaker 1: even happening. Look, when we've discussed crypto, I've explained that 208 00:13:40,840 --> 00:13:43,240 Speaker 1: I have friends that are really deep into it, and 209 00:13:43,920 --> 00:13:48,200 Speaker 1: right now, anybody that purchased anything crypto is underwater. At 210 00:13:48,280 --> 00:13:52,200 Speaker 1: least everybody that I know is underwater. And I always 211 00:13:52,280 --> 00:13:55,480 Speaker 1: knew it was going to be a big risk. They 212 00:13:55,559 --> 00:14:00,000 Speaker 1: had these incredible highs, you know, these really low lows 213 00:14:00,880 --> 00:14:05,040 Speaker 1: they talk about when it when the algorithm hits the 214 00:14:05,160 --> 00:14:08,120 Speaker 1: having point, that's when the money, you know, that's when 215 00:14:08,360 --> 00:14:12,160 Speaker 1: the value goes up the most. I've never understood it. 216 00:14:12,400 --> 00:14:14,959 Speaker 1: All I've been told is it's a math problem. It's 217 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:19,480 Speaker 1: an algorithm that continues in perpetuity without a final answer. 218 00:14:19,520 --> 00:14:22,720 Speaker 1: And I never fully grasped it. You know, I dabbled 219 00:14:22,720 --> 00:14:25,000 Speaker 1: in it, but I always said that, you know, you 220 00:14:25,160 --> 00:14:28,160 Speaker 1: my audience, that unless it's money you're willing to lose, 221 00:14:28,200 --> 00:14:32,400 Speaker 1: don't invest in cryptom. I think there are far safer investments. 222 00:14:32,640 --> 00:14:34,280 Speaker 1: You know. While I do have a little bit in it, 223 00:14:34,320 --> 00:14:36,920 Speaker 1: I don't have a lot in it, and I didn't 224 00:14:36,960 --> 00:14:40,400 Speaker 1: bet the milk money on it, so it doesn't really 225 00:14:40,440 --> 00:14:44,200 Speaker 1: surprise me. The thing that is interesting in this case 226 00:14:44,560 --> 00:14:46,000 Speaker 1: is I want to see if this guy that they 227 00:14:46,080 --> 00:14:48,920 Speaker 1: arrested in the Bahamas, I want to see, you know, 228 00:14:49,000 --> 00:14:51,200 Speaker 1: gave all those money to the Democrats. So I want 229 00:14:51,200 --> 00:14:54,760 Speaker 1: to see Democrats give that money back, so the people 230 00:14:54,760 --> 00:14:58,560 Speaker 1: that lost, you know, all that money can get at 231 00:14:58,600 --> 00:15:01,760 Speaker 1: least some of it back. 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Listen, I've registered as 262 00:16:51,360 --> 00:16:54,320 Speaker 1: an Arizona Independent. I know some people might be a 263 00:16:54,360 --> 00:16:57,320 Speaker 1: little bit surprised by this, but actually I think it 264 00:16:57,320 --> 00:16:59,360 Speaker 1: makes a lot of sense. You know, a growing number 265 00:16:59,400 --> 00:17:03,960 Speaker 1: of Arizonans and people like me just don't feel like 266 00:17:04,040 --> 00:17:07,760 Speaker 1: we fit neatly into one party's box or the other, 267 00:17:08,280 --> 00:17:11,560 Speaker 1: and so, like many across the state in the nation, 268 00:17:12,240 --> 00:17:16,199 Speaker 1: I've decided to leave that partisan process and really just 269 00:17:16,240 --> 00:17:18,560 Speaker 1: focus on the work that I think matters to Arizona 270 00:17:18,600 --> 00:17:21,560 Speaker 1: into our country, which is solving problems and getting things done. 271 00:17:22,040 --> 00:17:25,879 Speaker 1: So Ever, since Raphael Warnock Center to Warnock was reelected 272 00:17:25,880 --> 00:17:28,760 Speaker 1: earlier this week, the balance of power right now is 273 00:17:28,800 --> 00:17:33,080 Speaker 1: fifty one Democrats or fifty one votes for the Democratic Party. 274 00:17:33,080 --> 00:17:35,520 Speaker 1: That includes two independents, Angus King of Maine and Bernie 275 00:17:35,560 --> 00:17:39,040 Speaker 1: Sanders of Vermont. But that's fifty one forty nine. What 276 00:17:39,080 --> 00:17:41,560 Speaker 1: you're doing today doesn't change that. It's still basically going 277 00:17:41,600 --> 00:17:43,800 Speaker 1: to be fifty one forty nine. Well, I know you 278 00:17:43,840 --> 00:17:46,840 Speaker 1: have to ask that question, Jake, but that's kind of 279 00:17:46,840 --> 00:17:50,360 Speaker 1: a DC thing to worry about. What I'm really focused 280 00:17:50,359 --> 00:17:53,080 Speaker 1: on is just making sure that I'm doing what I 281 00:17:53,080 --> 00:17:55,840 Speaker 1: think comports with my values and the values of Arizonans. 282 00:17:56,520 --> 00:17:59,320 Speaker 1: So when I come to work each day, it'll be 283 00:17:59,400 --> 00:18:02,360 Speaker 1: the same. I'm gonna still come to work and hopefully 284 00:18:02,480 --> 00:18:05,280 Speaker 1: serve on the same committees I've been serving on and 285 00:18:05,680 --> 00:18:09,280 Speaker 1: continue to work well with my colleagues at both political parties. 286 00:18:09,800 --> 00:18:12,359 Speaker 1: I'm not really spending much time worrying about what the 287 00:18:12,400 --> 00:18:15,920 Speaker 1: mechanics look like for Washington, d C. And to be honest, Jake, 288 00:18:16,200 --> 00:18:18,880 Speaker 1: I don't think anyone in Arizona is caring about that either. 289 00:18:19,880 --> 00:18:21,439 Speaker 1: So I don't think things will change much for me, 290 00:18:21,920 --> 00:18:23,960 Speaker 1: and I don't think things will change much for Arizona's 291 00:18:24,200 --> 00:18:27,120 Speaker 1: all right? Joining us is Friday with our News Roundup 292 00:18:27,720 --> 00:18:31,280 Speaker 1: hour and in News and review Joe Concha, of course 293 00:18:31,320 --> 00:18:35,760 Speaker 1: Fox News chief media analyst and the author of Come 294 00:18:35,800 --> 00:18:38,560 Speaker 1: On Man. And Mark Simone, host of the top morning 295 00:18:38,560 --> 00:18:43,240 Speaker 1: show on w o R in New York. Well, Mark, 296 00:18:43,320 --> 00:18:45,719 Speaker 1: we are surprised by the decision, and more importantly, how 297 00:18:45,760 --> 00:18:49,280 Speaker 1: did you like the answer that Cinema gave to Jake Tapper. 298 00:18:50,040 --> 00:18:51,879 Speaker 1: I know you have to ask the question, Jake, but 299 00:18:52,000 --> 00:18:54,080 Speaker 1: that's a DC thing. I'm not going to answer it. 300 00:18:54,160 --> 00:18:57,359 Speaker 1: I love that answer. Yeah, Well, she was talking about 301 00:18:57,359 --> 00:18:59,200 Speaker 1: our values. So if you're worried about your values, you 302 00:18:59,320 --> 00:19:01,439 Speaker 1: kind of have to leave the Democratic Party. It's not 303 00:19:01,520 --> 00:19:04,680 Speaker 1: a place for values. And hopefully the Democratic Party is 304 00:19:04,680 --> 00:19:07,200 Speaker 1: getting just a stigma attached to it. If people think 305 00:19:07,200 --> 00:19:10,720 Speaker 1: of high climb, high taxes, high inflation, all they think Democrat. 306 00:19:11,119 --> 00:19:14,560 Speaker 1: It's better to be independent. And she said she won't 307 00:19:14,680 --> 00:19:18,480 Speaker 1: caucus with Republicans, you know, caucus caucus meusing in the 308 00:19:18,480 --> 00:19:20,840 Speaker 1: back room, doing all that wheeling and doing to make 309 00:19:20,880 --> 00:19:23,480 Speaker 1: it sound better to call it caucusing, but it's still 310 00:19:23,480 --> 00:19:26,119 Speaker 1: bad stuff. So what do you think happens Joe Conscha? 311 00:19:26,280 --> 00:19:28,639 Speaker 1: Is she gon? Is she gotta vote for Chuck Schumer 312 00:19:28,680 --> 00:19:31,000 Speaker 1: to be the leader in the Senate? Is she gonna 313 00:19:31,040 --> 00:19:34,119 Speaker 1: caucus with the Democrats in that way? Or maybe really 314 00:19:34,160 --> 00:19:37,159 Speaker 1: truly be independent and say nope, I'm not going to 315 00:19:37,200 --> 00:19:40,119 Speaker 1: be a part of any of this. Thinks d there Sean. 316 00:19:40,400 --> 00:19:43,080 Speaker 1: I think that we saw it with Kirsten Cinema with 317 00:19:43,760 --> 00:19:48,040 Speaker 1: Better Remember that was the five trillion dollar bill that 318 00:19:48,520 --> 00:19:51,880 Speaker 1: was ultimately rejected by the Senate because of Cinema and Mansion. 319 00:19:52,160 --> 00:19:55,200 Speaker 1: And then she also rejected the federalization of voting rights. 320 00:19:55,200 --> 00:19:56,760 Speaker 1: Where you take it away from the state, and you 321 00:19:56,840 --> 00:20:00,040 Speaker 1: played by the Democratic roles in every state. So the 322 00:20:00,240 --> 00:20:03,720 Speaker 1: big issues she has gone against her own party. I 323 00:20:03,840 --> 00:20:07,400 Speaker 1: just find the media coverage hilarry because when John McCain 324 00:20:07,800 --> 00:20:11,040 Speaker 1: would buck his own party and vote against say, for instance, 325 00:20:11,160 --> 00:20:14,520 Speaker 1: Oh they loved it, yeah, Albamacare. Yeah, that's a true 326 00:20:14,640 --> 00:20:18,560 Speaker 1: maverick putting country over party. Then Cinema doesn't. If Trader, 327 00:20:18,800 --> 00:20:23,119 Speaker 1: how dare you? Oh, it's only going to get worse. 328 00:20:24,200 --> 00:20:27,480 Speaker 1: It's definitely only going to get worse. Now, the question 329 00:20:27,560 --> 00:20:30,560 Speaker 1: not I have I've been watching Joe Mansion when Joe 330 00:20:30,600 --> 00:20:35,000 Speaker 1: Mansion was standing up to Schumer and Biden and against 331 00:20:35,160 --> 00:20:38,679 Speaker 1: build back broke, and and then he finally gave in 332 00:20:38,880 --> 00:20:41,320 Speaker 1: on the Inflation Reduction Act or what I call the 333 00:20:41,480 --> 00:20:44,399 Speaker 1: tax the poor, the middle class and people on fixed 334 00:20:44,440 --> 00:20:47,280 Speaker 1: income Act. When he when he gave into that, his 335 00:20:47,440 --> 00:20:50,560 Speaker 1: approval ratings prior to that, we're in the seventies, the 336 00:20:50,640 --> 00:20:53,359 Speaker 1: highest they'd ever been in West Virginia. And then he 337 00:20:53,400 --> 00:20:56,680 Speaker 1: gets in the Inflation Reduction Act and it goes down 338 00:20:56,680 --> 00:20:59,560 Speaker 1: to the high thirties. I think he's had thirty eight percent. 339 00:20:59,600 --> 00:21:02,760 Speaker 1: I saw one pole a part of that deal. He 340 00:21:02,880 --> 00:21:05,720 Speaker 1: was supposed to get a pipeline from West Virginia. I 341 00:21:05,760 --> 00:21:07,800 Speaker 1: believe it was to the state of Virginia. I forget 342 00:21:07,800 --> 00:21:12,760 Speaker 1: where that pipeline is not forthcoming. They have completely renegged 343 00:21:12,800 --> 00:21:16,160 Speaker 1: on that promise. And then just before the November eighth election, 344 00:21:16,240 --> 00:21:20,120 Speaker 1: Mark Simone, you remember the comments about Cole that Joe 345 00:21:20,160 --> 00:21:22,320 Speaker 1: Biden made that he was going to eliminate it and 346 00:21:22,359 --> 00:21:25,919 Speaker 1: that he was going to eliminate all drilling offshore and 347 00:21:26,080 --> 00:21:30,480 Speaker 1: onshore in America, and Joe Mansion hit the roof. Now 348 00:21:30,520 --> 00:21:33,080 Speaker 1: he's up for re election in twenty twenty four. I'm 349 00:21:33,080 --> 00:21:35,800 Speaker 1: not sure he can win running as a Democrat, and 350 00:21:36,000 --> 00:21:38,880 Speaker 1: running as a Democrat that has been aligned with Schumer 351 00:21:38,960 --> 00:21:42,920 Speaker 1: and with Biden. Yeah. Yeah, I want to like Joe Mansion. 352 00:21:42,960 --> 00:21:46,320 Speaker 1: But you want a good infrastructure project, build a backbone 353 00:21:46,320 --> 00:21:49,600 Speaker 1: for Joe Mansion so he sticks to it. That's a 354 00:21:49,640 --> 00:21:52,520 Speaker 1: good idea. Yeah, I mean, he's got the consistency of 355 00:21:52,600 --> 00:21:55,640 Speaker 1: John Kerry. I just uh, you never, he's whatever way 356 00:21:55,640 --> 00:21:58,120 Speaker 1: the wind blows. Mean, he's all for this unless there's 357 00:21:58,160 --> 00:22:00,200 Speaker 1: a bridge involved, And maybe he could switch over to this. 358 00:22:00,960 --> 00:22:03,879 Speaker 1: I don't know if Democrats could trust him, a Republicans 359 00:22:03,880 --> 00:22:06,080 Speaker 1: can trust him. Now what do you think Joe Concha 360 00:22:06,240 --> 00:22:09,119 Speaker 1: Joe Manton has been We've talked to some people who 361 00:22:09,160 --> 00:22:12,520 Speaker 1: would like to see him run as an independent for president, 362 00:22:12,840 --> 00:22:14,719 Speaker 1: but I think he's a man without a party, right. 363 00:22:14,760 --> 00:22:17,840 Speaker 1: I mean, Democrats don't trust him, and to Mark's point, 364 00:22:17,840 --> 00:22:20,920 Speaker 1: but Republicans when push comes to show, don't trust him. 365 00:22:21,640 --> 00:22:24,439 Speaker 1: But can I see him becoming an independent? Absolutely? I 366 00:22:24,480 --> 00:22:27,200 Speaker 1: mean Cinema now has made this a lot easier for him. 367 00:22:27,400 --> 00:22:29,840 Speaker 1: And again to your point, when you drop something like 368 00:22:29,920 --> 00:22:33,560 Speaker 1: thirty five points in approval, sew, you gotta do something 369 00:22:33,600 --> 00:22:35,679 Speaker 1: different if you want to get reelected, and I think 370 00:22:35,720 --> 00:22:38,320 Speaker 1: that would be either become an independent or outright just 371 00:22:38,400 --> 00:22:40,840 Speaker 1: become a Republican. And then if you want to see 372 00:22:40,960 --> 00:22:45,119 Speaker 1: unhinged heads exploding n him were to do that, that 373 00:22:45,440 --> 00:22:48,280 Speaker 1: that would be some great popcorn theater, no question. Let 374 00:22:48,280 --> 00:22:51,360 Speaker 1: me ask you both about this news of this prisoner 375 00:22:51,440 --> 00:22:55,639 Speaker 1: swap Britney Griner for this merchant of death arms dealer 376 00:22:55,720 --> 00:22:59,440 Speaker 1: Victor Boot one thing that really caught my attention and 377 00:22:59,680 --> 00:23:03,520 Speaker 1: as raised my suspicion Mark Simone as NBC yesterday put 378 00:23:03,520 --> 00:23:07,520 Speaker 1: out a report quoting a US official telling NBC News 379 00:23:07,560 --> 00:23:12,000 Speaker 1: that the US government had sought both Grinder and Paul Whalen, 380 00:23:12,040 --> 00:23:15,040 Speaker 1: who's been in jail in Russia for four years without 381 00:23:15,119 --> 00:23:19,520 Speaker 1: any evidence of being a spy, but putting that aside anyway, 382 00:23:19,560 --> 00:23:23,320 Speaker 1: Griner was released, but they report that the officials said 383 00:23:23,359 --> 00:23:27,400 Speaker 1: that Russia had treated Whalen differently, and that the Kremlin 384 00:23:27,480 --> 00:23:30,840 Speaker 1: gave the White House the choice of either Griner or Whalen. 385 00:23:31,440 --> 00:23:35,400 Speaker 1: Now later in the day they revised that story, taking 386 00:23:35,440 --> 00:23:37,800 Speaker 1: that part of the story out, saying they got it 387 00:23:37,840 --> 00:23:41,640 Speaker 1: wrong after everything that we learned from the Twitter files, 388 00:23:42,119 --> 00:23:45,080 Speaker 1: as it relates to the influence of the Democratic Party 389 00:23:45,119 --> 00:23:49,000 Speaker 1: with media. In the case of Twitter, you big tech media, 390 00:23:49,240 --> 00:23:52,639 Speaker 1: in the case of NBC, traditional media. Why am I 391 00:23:52,720 --> 00:23:55,560 Speaker 1: suspicious that it was taken out because they didn't like 392 00:23:55,680 --> 00:23:59,639 Speaker 1: the story? Oh? And I agree. I truly had a choice. 393 00:24:00,160 --> 00:24:03,639 Speaker 1: If you leave the choice up to woke Democrats between 394 00:24:03,680 --> 00:24:07,200 Speaker 1: a Marine war hero and a w NBA player, They're 395 00:24:07,200 --> 00:24:09,119 Speaker 1: gonna go with the player. This has got to be 396 00:24:09,160 --> 00:24:11,399 Speaker 1: the first time in history anybody's paid any attention to 397 00:24:11,440 --> 00:24:15,280 Speaker 1: a w NBA trade. It's the worst basketball I've ever seen. 398 00:24:15,359 --> 00:24:20,159 Speaker 1: But I'm sure they had that choice. And if you know, 399 00:24:20,280 --> 00:24:22,200 Speaker 1: and I know we all know, for were Donald Trump, 400 00:24:22,280 --> 00:24:23,720 Speaker 1: He would have figured out a way to get both 401 00:24:23,760 --> 00:24:25,840 Speaker 1: of them back. You're talking about the merchant of death. 402 00:24:25,920 --> 00:24:29,840 Speaker 1: You could definitely get two people for that guy. I mean, 403 00:24:29,920 --> 00:24:32,520 Speaker 1: it was such an awful deal. And reports are out 404 00:24:32,520 --> 00:24:36,040 Speaker 1: there that Vladimir Putin himself, you know, he's out there 405 00:24:36,280 --> 00:24:40,640 Speaker 1: bragging about this, you know, saying he rolled Joe Biden, 406 00:24:40,800 --> 00:24:43,359 Speaker 1: And in many ways he did roll Joe Biden. Former 407 00:24:43,440 --> 00:24:46,080 Speaker 1: Kremlin aide says, yeah, Pootin now played Biden on this 408 00:24:46,160 --> 00:24:49,920 Speaker 1: prisoner swap, completely and totally. Biden, remember, as a candidate, 409 00:24:49,920 --> 00:24:51,320 Speaker 1: said that he was the one who's going to stand 410 00:24:51,359 --> 00:24:54,240 Speaker 1: up the Vladimir Putin. Oh. Look, going back to the 411 00:24:54,359 --> 00:24:56,560 Speaker 1: NBC report for a moment, sewn. We saw this movie 412 00:24:56,600 --> 00:25:00,359 Speaker 1: just recently, right Paul Pelosi and that report that happened 413 00:25:00,600 --> 00:25:04,359 Speaker 1: where an NBC reporter actually was asking good questions, Hey, 414 00:25:04,400 --> 00:25:07,400 Speaker 1: why what happened during those thirty minutes when Paul Pelosi 415 00:25:07,480 --> 00:25:10,240 Speaker 1: was alone with the person that broke into their home? Hey, 416 00:25:10,240 --> 00:25:13,640 Speaker 1: why did Paul Pelosi walk back towards his eventual attacker 417 00:25:13,800 --> 00:25:16,320 Speaker 1: after police king why didn't he leave the house? And 418 00:25:16,760 --> 00:25:18,960 Speaker 1: that guy has not been that reporter has not been 419 00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:22,080 Speaker 1: on the air since they pulled that report three weeks ago, 420 00:25:22,160 --> 00:25:24,679 Speaker 1: and we don't know why he was suspended, why he 421 00:25:24,760 --> 00:25:27,800 Speaker 1: has been taken off the air and Paul Pelosi. Basically, 422 00:25:27,840 --> 00:25:30,240 Speaker 1: it seems some people got to MNBC saying you can't 423 00:25:30,280 --> 00:25:31,880 Speaker 1: run this, and they pulled the report off the air. 424 00:25:32,080 --> 00:25:34,919 Speaker 1: Now we're seeing it again. We see reporting that it 425 00:25:34,960 --> 00:25:37,520 Speaker 1: could have been grinder, or it could have been an 426 00:25:37,640 --> 00:25:41,320 Speaker 1: x US marine coming home. And we chose the celebrity 427 00:25:41,520 --> 00:25:43,840 Speaker 1: so to speak, over the person who has been there 428 00:25:43,880 --> 00:25:47,040 Speaker 1: for three years longer and served this country and would 429 00:25:47,040 --> 00:25:49,199 Speaker 1: have fought and died for this country. So when they 430 00:25:49,200 --> 00:25:52,080 Speaker 1: pulled reports like this, it seems like they're the ones 431 00:25:52,160 --> 00:25:54,280 Speaker 1: getting worked over the same way Joe Biden was worked 432 00:25:54,320 --> 00:25:58,280 Speaker 1: over by Vladimir Putin and NBC not a surprise serving 433 00:25:58,359 --> 00:26:02,119 Speaker 1: at the pleasure of the Democratic Party notion shot. All right, 434 00:26:02,160 --> 00:26:04,480 Speaker 1: quick break, more with Joe Concha, more with Mark Simone 435 00:26:04,520 --> 00:26:06,320 Speaker 1: on the other side than your calls eight hundred and 436 00:26:06,400 --> 00:26:08,000 Speaker 1: ninety four one Sean, if you want to be a 437 00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:10,479 Speaker 1: part of the program. All right, we continue our Friday 438 00:26:10,480 --> 00:26:13,680 Speaker 1: News round up with Joe Concha and Mark Simone. Let 439 00:26:13,680 --> 00:26:16,600 Speaker 1: me go to the issue of the Twitter files. We 440 00:26:16,680 --> 00:26:20,480 Speaker 1: had the second release last night by journalists Barry Weis, 441 00:26:20,600 --> 00:26:24,720 Speaker 1: formerly of the New York Times. But it shows that 442 00:26:24,920 --> 00:26:29,040 Speaker 1: there were blacklists of accounts that they didn't like, and 443 00:26:29,080 --> 00:26:34,840 Speaker 1: they prevented disfavored tweets from trending, actively limited the visibility 444 00:26:34,840 --> 00:26:38,040 Speaker 1: of entire accounts. Then we find out that in fact, 445 00:26:38,040 --> 00:26:40,960 Speaker 1: the FBI is up to its eyeballs in all of this. 446 00:26:41,400 --> 00:26:43,480 Speaker 1: They were in the weeks leading up to the twenty 447 00:26:43,520 --> 00:26:45,920 Speaker 1: twenty election, they were meeting weekly with all of these 448 00:26:45,920 --> 00:26:48,720 Speaker 1: big tech companies and they were warning them all about 449 00:26:48,720 --> 00:26:52,200 Speaker 1: a hack and league operation. The only problem with this 450 00:26:52,640 --> 00:26:55,560 Speaker 1: is the FBI agent that organized these weekly meetings, it 451 00:26:55,560 --> 00:26:59,440 Speaker 1: turns out, was a big anti Trumper. His post graduate 452 00:26:59,480 --> 00:27:02,280 Speaker 1: thesis alaim that Russia interfered in the twenty sixteen election 453 00:27:02,600 --> 00:27:06,440 Speaker 1: to help Donald Trump. But then we find out that 454 00:27:06,560 --> 00:27:09,280 Speaker 1: not only from Twitter's former head of site integrity, a 455 00:27:09,280 --> 00:27:12,120 Speaker 1: guy by the name of y Old Roth, that in fact, 456 00:27:12,320 --> 00:27:15,600 Speaker 1: not only were they talking about hack and leak information 457 00:27:15,960 --> 00:27:21,160 Speaker 1: being disseminated, they said it might even directly be related 458 00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:24,879 Speaker 1: to Hunter Biden. So before the Hunter Biden's story ever broke, 459 00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:28,560 Speaker 1: all of these big tech companies were warned specifically, hey, 460 00:27:28,600 --> 00:27:31,239 Speaker 1: there might be there might be information that comes your 461 00:27:31,240 --> 00:27:34,240 Speaker 1: way about Hunter Biden, you better be very very careful 462 00:27:34,280 --> 00:27:37,640 Speaker 1: of it because it's likely not true, or it's hacked materials, 463 00:27:37,920 --> 00:27:42,480 Speaker 1: which probably explains their reluctance and resistance to even allow 464 00:27:42,520 --> 00:27:45,720 Speaker 1: anyone to post The New York Post story. Mark Well, 465 00:27:45,760 --> 00:27:49,560 Speaker 1: it's the worst collusion, censorship, awful stuff. A few years 466 00:27:49,600 --> 00:27:51,359 Speaker 1: ago it all started happening to me, and I started 467 00:27:51,400 --> 00:27:54,439 Speaker 1: talking to other people. It was happening to anybody supporting Trump, 468 00:27:54,720 --> 00:27:58,040 Speaker 1: anybody wanted post any bad about Democrats. They started shadow 469 00:27:58,080 --> 00:28:00,280 Speaker 1: banning us. Then they spread it to other If you 470 00:28:00,320 --> 00:28:02,680 Speaker 1: wanted to disagree with the vaccine, you could would get 471 00:28:02,680 --> 00:28:05,840 Speaker 1: shadow band. It was just you could argue it to 472 00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:09,640 Speaker 1: private company. But so was the telephone Alexander Graham Bell 473 00:28:09,680 --> 00:28:12,520 Speaker 1: Originally Tomatinab said, if I don't like what you're saying, 474 00:28:12,560 --> 00:28:14,639 Speaker 1: you can't talk on my phone. You can't have that. 475 00:28:14,760 --> 00:28:16,920 Speaker 1: Something's got to be done about it. Thank god Musk 476 00:28:17,080 --> 00:28:20,160 Speaker 1: is exposing this. But now Twitter is getting shadow band. 477 00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:21,720 Speaker 1: You don't see any coverage of all this in the 478 00:28:21,720 --> 00:28:24,560 Speaker 1: New York Times or on the nightly news and the networks. 479 00:28:25,080 --> 00:28:27,960 Speaker 1: Sunday shows. This is getting shadow banned by the rest 480 00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:30,640 Speaker 1: of the media. What's your reaction all this, Joe, I mean, 481 00:28:30,680 --> 00:28:33,480 Speaker 1: this is your area and vexpertise. Well, you look at 482 00:28:33,480 --> 00:28:37,440 Speaker 1: ABCNBCCBS their morning and evening newscast, and before you say, 483 00:28:37,440 --> 00:28:39,840 Speaker 1: no one watches the evening news anymore, believe it or not, 484 00:28:39,840 --> 00:28:42,000 Speaker 1: the numbers are still fairly strong when you can bind 485 00:28:42,040 --> 00:28:45,360 Speaker 1: their audiences in the evening news section. For example, more 486 00:28:45,360 --> 00:28:48,960 Speaker 1: than twenty million people watch per night combined. And they 487 00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:51,760 Speaker 1: have not covered any of these document dumps given to 488 00:28:51,800 --> 00:28:55,640 Speaker 1: Matt Taibi, an actual real independent journalist, and Barry Weiss, 489 00:28:55,720 --> 00:28:58,120 Speaker 1: an actual, real independent journalist. As you said fully New 490 00:28:58,160 --> 00:29:01,000 Speaker 1: York Times, She's not getting invited to seapacket soon. And 491 00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:04,120 Speaker 1: they're ignoring this completely. So that's called the bias of omission, 492 00:29:04,120 --> 00:29:06,720 Speaker 1: which is the most insidious kind of biased, because that 493 00:29:06,880 --> 00:29:10,240 Speaker 1: is withholding information that the public should know, and they're 494 00:29:10,280 --> 00:29:13,440 Speaker 1: doing it knowingly obviously, because let's say we just changed 495 00:29:13,440 --> 00:29:15,840 Speaker 1: two names out here for a second, Sehn Mark, Let's 496 00:29:15,840 --> 00:29:18,480 Speaker 1: say we took out Hunter biden laptop and we made 497 00:29:18,480 --> 00:29:21,120 Speaker 1: it Eric Trump's laptop. What do you think that coverage 498 00:29:21,120 --> 00:29:23,480 Speaker 1: would look like. They'd be starting impeachment hearings for Donald 499 00:29:23,480 --> 00:29:25,840 Speaker 1: Trump even though he's twenty three months out of office, 500 00:29:26,040 --> 00:29:28,840 Speaker 1: if that were the case. But as usual, it's silence 501 00:29:28,840 --> 00:29:30,960 Speaker 1: of the lands from the folks that serve at the 502 00:29:30,960 --> 00:29:33,440 Speaker 1: pleasure of the Democratic Party. Well, what does this mean 503 00:29:33,520 --> 00:29:37,680 Speaker 1: for big tech going forward? Mark? And should all the 504 00:29:37,720 --> 00:29:41,360 Speaker 1: other big tech companies now be required to release their 505 00:29:41,480 --> 00:29:45,120 Speaker 1: policies and systems and what they're doing behind the scenes. 506 00:29:45,440 --> 00:29:48,280 Speaker 1: Remember they have Section two thirty protections in terms of 507 00:29:48,360 --> 00:29:52,640 Speaker 1: liability protection that is not that probably shouldn't be afforded 508 00:29:52,680 --> 00:29:55,560 Speaker 1: to a lot of these companies. Yeah, and essentially if 509 00:29:55,880 --> 00:29:58,040 Speaker 1: the publisher, it's like I said with the phone and 510 00:29:58,120 --> 00:29:59,960 Speaker 1: Alexander Gribilla, it comes to the point where you got 511 00:29:59,960 --> 00:30:02,880 Speaker 1: to declare it a utility and you can't get involved 512 00:30:02,920 --> 00:30:04,960 Speaker 1: this kind of censorship. I see the same shadow banning 513 00:30:05,040 --> 00:30:08,680 Speaker 1: still going on on Facebook, and I'm sure everybody else's 514 00:30:08,680 --> 00:30:11,640 Speaker 1: guilty of it. It's got to stop, and I don't 515 00:30:11,640 --> 00:30:13,680 Speaker 1: know who's going to crack down. I mean certainly not 516 00:30:13,760 --> 00:30:16,920 Speaker 1: the Democrats, not disadministration. And if they were smart, these 517 00:30:18,720 --> 00:30:21,320 Speaker 1: sites like Facebook would try to get away from the news, 518 00:30:21,360 --> 00:30:24,120 Speaker 1: get out of politics, and stay away from them. Yeah, Joe, 519 00:30:25,320 --> 00:30:28,200 Speaker 1: since we have a Republican Congress, coming in on January third, 520 00:30:28,480 --> 00:30:31,040 Speaker 1: people talk about how, you know, the mid terms were horrible, 521 00:30:31,080 --> 00:30:33,920 Speaker 1: the midterms, you know, Okay, I get that Republicans should 522 00:30:33,920 --> 00:30:36,240 Speaker 1: have won buy three touchdowns in the House and taken 523 00:30:36,280 --> 00:30:38,560 Speaker 1: the Senate. They lost one seat in the Senate, but 524 00:30:38,600 --> 00:30:40,800 Speaker 1: they still took the House. And that's important because now 525 00:30:40,840 --> 00:30:43,880 Speaker 1: you could have investigations around this. You can get the 526 00:30:43,880 --> 00:30:47,440 Speaker 1: heads of Google and Facebook and all the other big 527 00:30:47,440 --> 00:30:50,040 Speaker 1: tech companies up on Capitol Hill and finally get some 528 00:30:50,120 --> 00:30:53,040 Speaker 1: answers around this and really do something about the aforementioned 529 00:30:53,160 --> 00:30:56,440 Speaker 1: section to thirty which provides them liability protection. That you 530 00:30:56,520 --> 00:30:59,600 Speaker 1: take that away, then suddenly these companies will struggle mightily. 531 00:30:59,640 --> 00:31:02,680 Speaker 1: But either Elon Muck probably should have got Person of 532 00:31:02,680 --> 00:31:05,080 Speaker 1: the Year because he really wanted last year as well. 533 00:31:05,240 --> 00:31:08,680 Speaker 1: He has really unveiled what we already knew. Now we 534 00:31:08,760 --> 00:31:11,120 Speaker 1: have the receipt and that's very important. Sean. You know what, 535 00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:14,280 Speaker 1: I just find Elon a fascinating figure. I think he's 536 00:31:14,320 --> 00:31:17,640 Speaker 1: a modern day pioneer. You know, he's one of these 537 00:31:17,680 --> 00:31:20,480 Speaker 1: people that is transforming media by doing this. I think 538 00:31:20,480 --> 00:31:25,000 Speaker 1: it's taken great courage and what are the thanks that 539 00:31:25,040 --> 00:31:28,040 Speaker 1: he gets an investigation into the fact that one of 540 00:31:28,080 --> 00:31:31,840 Speaker 1: his office buildings in San Francisco has a bedroom in 541 00:31:31,880 --> 00:31:34,640 Speaker 1: it in case one of his employees is working overtime 542 00:31:34,640 --> 00:31:36,840 Speaker 1: it gets tired and wants to take an hour's nap, 543 00:31:37,560 --> 00:31:41,280 Speaker 1: as if they don't have enough problems in San Francisco anyway. 544 00:31:41,320 --> 00:31:44,520 Speaker 1: Appreciate it. Mark Simone, thank you, Joe Consca, thank you. 545 00:31:44,640 --> 00:31:46,640 Speaker 1: Eight hundred and ninety four one. Sean, if you want 546 00:31:46,640 --> 00:31:47,840 Speaker 1: to be a part of the program, we'll hit the 547 00:31:47,840 --> 00:31:51,640 Speaker 1: phones when we get back. This is the best of 548 00:31:51,720 --> 00:31:54,120 Speaker 1: the best. This is the Sean Hannity Show.