1 00:00:03,960 --> 00:00:11,200 Speaker 1: It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. So 2 00:00:11,400 --> 00:00:13,760 Speaker 1: Michael Verie Show is on the air. 3 00:00:41,080 --> 00:00:45,240 Speaker 2: So after our morning show finished today at eleven o'clock, 4 00:00:46,720 --> 00:00:51,400 Speaker 2: our routine is then we cut production for our stations 5 00:00:51,400 --> 00:00:54,520 Speaker 2: around the country. And that's where we say, you know, 6 00:00:54,560 --> 00:00:58,080 Speaker 2: if you listen to the station you're listening to during 7 00:00:58,120 --> 00:01:03,480 Speaker 2: the afternoon before our show, you'll hear me say, Jasmine 8 00:01:03,600 --> 00:01:08,280 Speaker 2: Crockett is a campaign launch? Is a product launch not 9 00:01:08,360 --> 00:01:12,480 Speaker 2: a campaign kickoff? Coming up next on My Michael Berry Show. Well, 10 00:01:12,520 --> 00:01:17,040 Speaker 2: we do those sorts of things for you know, we 11 00:01:17,080 --> 00:01:18,959 Speaker 2: do one that goes out to all the stations because 12 00:01:18,959 --> 00:01:21,920 Speaker 2: we're doing the same show that's going out to everybody. 13 00:01:22,240 --> 00:01:26,039 Speaker 2: But we do custom spots. So if we do a 14 00:01:26,040 --> 00:01:29,000 Speaker 2: custom spot for Lovebook, and we do a custom spot 15 00:01:29,800 --> 00:01:32,560 Speaker 2: for Nashville that says, you know, this is the times 16 00:01:32,600 --> 00:01:35,720 Speaker 2: we're on the air and listen to the show, and 17 00:01:35,760 --> 00:01:38,520 Speaker 2: these sorts of things, and we cut all sorts of 18 00:01:38,560 --> 00:01:42,600 Speaker 2: things that make bonus podcasts, weekend podcasts. We do a 19 00:01:42,640 --> 00:01:46,720 Speaker 2: lot of things outside the radio show. I record video 20 00:01:46,800 --> 00:01:49,120 Speaker 2: podcast now, just little clips of me talking about this 21 00:01:49,240 --> 00:01:52,720 Speaker 2: or that, and we started posting those to YouTube, and 22 00:01:53,480 --> 00:01:56,720 Speaker 2: I post them to Facebook, and to Twitter and to Instagram, 23 00:01:57,120 --> 00:01:59,760 Speaker 2: and what it really is is just an opportunity to Look. 24 00:01:59,760 --> 00:02:02,240 Speaker 2: What I do is share my thoughts. Whether people like 25 00:02:02,320 --> 00:02:05,520 Speaker 2: it or not, I share my thoughts and that starts 26 00:02:05,560 --> 00:02:08,680 Speaker 2: conversations between other people and sometimes in. 27 00:02:08,600 --> 00:02:11,000 Speaker 1: Reaction to me. And that's what I get to do 28 00:02:11,080 --> 00:02:11,600 Speaker 1: for a living. 29 00:02:11,720 --> 00:02:14,359 Speaker 2: I don't ever lose track of the fact that that's 30 00:02:14,400 --> 00:02:16,359 Speaker 2: a really cool way to get to do, to get 31 00:02:16,400 --> 00:02:18,359 Speaker 2: a really cool thing to get to do for a living, 32 00:02:19,160 --> 00:02:20,359 Speaker 2: because most people do. 33 00:02:20,400 --> 00:02:22,239 Speaker 1: It without getting paid. 34 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:27,720 Speaker 2: Most talk radio listeners do what I do just to 35 00:02:27,760 --> 00:02:32,160 Speaker 2: a smaller audience at a cocktail party, at dinner. In 36 00:02:32,240 --> 00:02:35,080 Speaker 2: the workplace, you share your opinions and engage with people. 37 00:02:35,080 --> 00:02:39,200 Speaker 2: It's fun to do so during that time, I have 38 00:02:39,200 --> 00:02:41,640 Speaker 2: a personal assistant. She's also the personal assistant for our 39 00:02:41,800 --> 00:02:45,200 Speaker 2: entire office, and she will come in and she will 40 00:02:45,200 --> 00:02:48,680 Speaker 2: bring the mail and we will go over outstanding items 41 00:02:48,680 --> 00:02:51,120 Speaker 2: that need to be taken care of. And we were 42 00:02:51,120 --> 00:02:54,400 Speaker 2: talking today. I keep TV stations on in the background 43 00:02:54,440 --> 00:02:56,600 Speaker 2: that I'll glance up at what headlines are there to 44 00:02:56,639 --> 00:02:58,480 Speaker 2: see if there's anything that I need to be paid 45 00:02:58,480 --> 00:03:02,320 Speaker 2: attention to. And there was somebody on TV and I said, 46 00:03:02,440 --> 00:03:05,600 Speaker 2: my goodness. She it wasn't on Fox. It was on 47 00:03:05,919 --> 00:03:08,560 Speaker 2: Uh must have been seeing it and I don't remember. 48 00:03:08,560 --> 00:03:10,920 Speaker 2: It doesn't matter. And I said, my goodness, she looks 49 00:03:10,919 --> 00:03:14,280 Speaker 2: like Tammy fay Baker. And do you know what Emily said? 50 00:03:14,760 --> 00:03:17,280 Speaker 2: Our resistant Are you ready for this? 51 00:03:17,320 --> 00:03:17,639 Speaker 1: She said? 52 00:03:17,680 --> 00:03:22,160 Speaker 2: The most painful thing you could say, she said, who 53 00:03:22,240 --> 00:03:30,080 Speaker 2: is that? I felt so old at that moment. Everybody, 54 00:03:30,120 --> 00:03:34,400 Speaker 2: every parent, when your child gets to be a teenager, 55 00:03:34,960 --> 00:03:39,600 Speaker 2: will have a moment where you will mention something and 56 00:03:39,640 --> 00:03:43,160 Speaker 2: not even think twice about it. You will mention something 57 00:03:43,400 --> 00:03:45,680 Speaker 2: and your child will say who is that? And you 58 00:03:45,760 --> 00:03:50,400 Speaker 2: will realize that was a massive news story and this 59 00:03:50,480 --> 00:03:54,880 Speaker 2: person's life, in this person's life, there is zero awareness 60 00:03:54,960 --> 00:04:02,960 Speaker 2: of it. You know, when Brendan Sullivan represented Oliver North 61 00:04:03,920 --> 00:04:06,800 Speaker 2: is being berated by the senators and he says, I 62 00:04:06,840 --> 00:04:08,800 Speaker 2: am not and they keep telling him he can't answer 63 00:04:08,840 --> 00:04:11,920 Speaker 2: that that Oliver North needs to answer during Iran Contra 64 00:04:12,680 --> 00:04:15,640 Speaker 2: and he says, I am not a potted plant. It's 65 00:04:15,680 --> 00:04:17,960 Speaker 2: a great line. Maybe I kind of geeked out on that, 66 00:04:18,040 --> 00:04:19,480 Speaker 2: and that might not have been in the zeit. Guy's 67 00:04:19,560 --> 00:04:23,000 Speaker 2: quite quite like the others. The fall of the Berlin Wall. 68 00:04:23,200 --> 00:04:27,000 Speaker 2: You know, remembering where it was, the moments that were there. 69 00:04:27,040 --> 00:04:30,400 Speaker 2: Like my mother would tell me she was in a 70 00:04:30,440 --> 00:04:35,680 Speaker 2: senior in high school when John F. Kennedy passed and 71 00:04:35,760 --> 00:04:40,200 Speaker 2: she remembered the teacher coming in and saying that and 72 00:04:40,240 --> 00:04:44,000 Speaker 2: telling that, and it was coach Ronnie Anderson and he 73 00:04:44,040 --> 00:04:46,560 Speaker 2: was her I think history or English teacher, and she 74 00:04:46,680 --> 00:04:50,520 Speaker 2: remembered that moment. Well, imagine if if she said, you know, 75 00:04:51,279 --> 00:04:53,480 Speaker 2: that's like when John F. Kennedy passed and I said 76 00:04:53,640 --> 00:04:56,719 Speaker 2: who is that? Of course I didn't because I knew 77 00:04:56,880 --> 00:04:59,880 Speaker 2: even though it happened before me. And it's just always 78 00:05:00,160 --> 00:05:04,120 Speaker 2: kind of a humbling moment when a young person. Now 79 00:05:04,120 --> 00:05:08,920 Speaker 2: Emily is probably thirty. People don't believe that because she 80 00:05:09,480 --> 00:05:14,960 Speaker 2: weighs about eighty pounds and she looks about twenty. My 81 00:05:15,040 --> 00:05:16,600 Speaker 2: wife laughs because says, I don't want to be out 82 00:05:16,640 --> 00:05:18,760 Speaker 2: in public with her because she'll look like our kid. 83 00:05:19,120 --> 00:05:22,080 Speaker 2: Well we're old enough that she could be our kid, 84 00:05:22,080 --> 00:05:25,240 Speaker 2: but she's our assistant. In any case. It kind of 85 00:05:25,279 --> 00:05:30,200 Speaker 2: bothered me that she didn't know who who Tammy fay 86 00:05:30,240 --> 00:05:33,400 Speaker 2: Baker was. And if you want to email me with 87 00:05:33,520 --> 00:05:37,600 Speaker 2: the story with your kids of something you referenced and 88 00:05:37,640 --> 00:05:41,440 Speaker 2: your kids said who is that? And you felt extremely 89 00:05:41,560 --> 00:05:44,840 Speaker 2: old from the experience, I'm open to reading all of those. 90 00:05:44,880 --> 00:05:47,360 Speaker 2: You can do that through our website at Michael Berryshow 91 00:05:47,440 --> 00:05:50,360 Speaker 2: dot com Michael Berryshow dot com. While you're there, sign 92 00:05:50,440 --> 00:05:54,119 Speaker 2: up for our daily blast. You can buy our merch 93 00:05:54,560 --> 00:05:58,440 Speaker 2: And I'm very active on Facebook. I'm somewhat less active 94 00:05:58,520 --> 00:06:01,760 Speaker 2: on Twitter, but I'm on there, and then I've started 95 00:06:01,800 --> 00:06:05,120 Speaker 2: posting more on Instagram, And if I'm being completely honest, 96 00:06:05,200 --> 00:06:08,520 Speaker 2: full disclosure, it is because I found that some of 97 00:06:08,560 --> 00:06:14,360 Speaker 2: the younger listeners, especially younger women listeners, are on Instagram, 98 00:06:14,800 --> 00:06:17,120 Speaker 2: and I started posting more on Twitter because I found 99 00:06:17,160 --> 00:06:20,080 Speaker 2: that some of the younger listeners, especially younger men, are 100 00:06:20,120 --> 00:06:24,799 Speaker 2: on Twitter. So I have found that posting my material 101 00:06:25,040 --> 00:06:29,920 Speaker 2: on there connects with a different audience on a different level, 102 00:06:30,200 --> 00:06:34,719 Speaker 2: in different ways, with different experiences and perspectives, which will 103 00:06:34,760 --> 00:06:39,120 Speaker 2: bring us to the discussion at hand, and that is 104 00:06:39,160 --> 00:06:45,320 Speaker 2: the midterm elections. They're eleven months away. However, there are 105 00:06:45,440 --> 00:06:50,960 Speaker 2: certain troubling There is a certain tempest in the sea 106 00:06:51,080 --> 00:06:54,960 Speaker 2: that I am witnessing beginning to whip up, and it 107 00:06:55,080 --> 00:06:59,440 Speaker 2: concerns me terribly. To start with, we don't have anything 108 00:06:59,440 --> 00:07:04,000 Speaker 2: to show for an entire year of having the House majority, 109 00:07:04,400 --> 00:07:09,279 Speaker 2: which means we get the speaker, committee chairmanships, the Senate majority, 110 00:07:10,200 --> 00:07:12,880 Speaker 2: and the White House. We don't have anything to show 111 00:07:12,920 --> 00:07:15,680 Speaker 2: for it. The only thing we have to show for 112 00:07:15,720 --> 00:07:21,960 Speaker 2: the last year is what President Trump did by executive order. Now, 113 00:07:22,080 --> 00:07:26,600 Speaker 2: it helps that the House can't hold investigative hearings all 114 00:07:26,680 --> 00:07:30,200 Speaker 2: day every day because Nancy Pelosi are now Hakeem Jeffries 115 00:07:30,240 --> 00:07:34,920 Speaker 2: is a speaker. But what happens in the last two 116 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:39,680 Speaker 2: years of the Trump administration if the Democrats get control 117 00:07:39,680 --> 00:07:42,280 Speaker 2: of the House and or the Senate. If they get 118 00:07:42,280 --> 00:07:43,960 Speaker 2: control of the Senate, we can't put anybody on the 119 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:46,880 Speaker 2: Supreme Court. If they get control of the House, they 120 00:07:46,920 --> 00:07:50,480 Speaker 2: can hold investigative hearings all day every day, they can 121 00:07:50,520 --> 00:07:53,680 Speaker 2: hold up the budget, they can do nine kinds of hell, 122 00:07:53,800 --> 00:07:58,000 Speaker 2: and believe me they will. They will absolutely torment him 123 00:07:58,040 --> 00:07:59,960 Speaker 2: and torpedo his agenda. 124 00:08:00,040 --> 00:08:01,920 Speaker 1: Yuh hell, We've got the majority. 125 00:08:02,280 --> 00:08:05,119 Speaker 2: And the President was caught on open mic, not caught, 126 00:08:05,200 --> 00:08:08,480 Speaker 2: but heard on open mic yesterday saying he can't get 127 00:08:08,520 --> 00:08:13,440 Speaker 2: any of his judicial nominees approved because the Republicans are 128 00:08:13,440 --> 00:08:16,400 Speaker 2: allowing the Democrats to blue slip it it's a backdoor deal. 129 00:08:16,640 --> 00:08:19,400 Speaker 2: The Republicans are in on the sabotage of our party 130 00:08:19,440 --> 00:08:20,040 Speaker 2: and our mission. 131 00:08:20,080 --> 00:08:24,520 Speaker 1: You understand that, right I had the time Mastive Dogs 132 00:08:24,760 --> 00:08:34,720 Speaker 1: name Michael Berry right there. That is. 133 00:08:36,480 --> 00:08:46,199 Speaker 2: As Americana as any song that Irving Berlin wrote. That 134 00:08:46,400 --> 00:08:52,720 Speaker 2: is as Americana as Forever in Blue Jeans, Babe, John Cougar, Mellencamp, 135 00:08:53,320 --> 00:09:01,319 Speaker 2: small Town. That song right there. First of all, you 136 00:09:01,400 --> 00:09:05,200 Speaker 2: got the beautiful vocals of Ronnie Mills out. You got 137 00:09:05,240 --> 00:09:07,760 Speaker 2: the reference to a Dove commercial in the middle of 138 00:09:07,840 --> 00:09:12,120 Speaker 2: a song ninety ninety four one hundreds percent pure love. 139 00:09:12,280 --> 00:09:15,800 Speaker 2: How clever is that? I know you knew that already. 140 00:09:15,800 --> 00:09:19,360 Speaker 2: I'm just reminding you that's where it comes from. Milk 141 00:09:19,440 --> 00:09:23,040 Speaker 2: and Honey and Captain Crunch and you in the morning. 142 00:09:24,960 --> 00:09:25,160 Speaker 1: Man. 143 00:09:25,240 --> 00:09:27,600 Speaker 2: Let me tell you something. That song came out in 144 00:09:27,679 --> 00:09:32,160 Speaker 2: nineteen seventy four, but it was still being played on 145 00:09:32,200 --> 00:09:34,440 Speaker 2: the radio in Little Orange, Texas, where I lived for 146 00:09:34,600 --> 00:09:39,960 Speaker 2: years when I was six or seven years old. I 147 00:09:40,000 --> 00:09:43,439 Speaker 2: can remember the menfolk would be off at work during 148 00:09:43,440 --> 00:09:46,360 Speaker 2: the day during the summer that song would come on. 149 00:09:46,480 --> 00:09:48,720 Speaker 2: You'd be with staying at your grandmother's house or one 150 00:09:48,760 --> 00:09:53,199 Speaker 2: of your aunt's house, that song would come on, and 151 00:09:53,240 --> 00:09:55,840 Speaker 2: you felt as much a part of America as any 152 00:09:55,920 --> 00:10:00,720 Speaker 2: rich New Yorker, any rich Dallas banker, because the stuff 153 00:10:00,760 --> 00:10:04,719 Speaker 2: on the radio spoke to you. Milk and honey and 154 00:10:04,840 --> 00:10:08,520 Speaker 2: Captain Crunch and you in the morning. Now, that's a 155 00:10:08,559 --> 00:10:15,920 Speaker 2: love song. That's a working class love song. That is 156 00:10:17,520 --> 00:10:24,480 Speaker 2: a connection to Americans, that is celebrating the simple joys 157 00:10:24,520 --> 00:10:29,679 Speaker 2: in life, your soap, your cereal. Sure they're mass produced 158 00:10:30,800 --> 00:10:34,240 Speaker 2: national conglomerates, but let's leave that aside for a moment. 159 00:10:35,120 --> 00:10:36,000 Speaker 1: You were part of it. 160 00:10:36,040 --> 00:10:38,880 Speaker 2: You were living as much America as anything else. And 161 00:10:38,920 --> 00:10:40,840 Speaker 2: that's what Urban Cowboy would end up doing. 162 00:10:41,800 --> 00:10:42,400 Speaker 1: The guy who. 163 00:10:42,360 --> 00:10:45,800 Speaker 2: Worked at the plant and then at night he went 164 00:10:46,160 --> 00:10:49,760 Speaker 2: to Urban Cowboy and rode the bull. They're making movies 165 00:10:49,840 --> 00:10:55,040 Speaker 2: about you. That's what the Trucker movies did. They democratized 166 00:10:55,360 --> 00:11:00,160 Speaker 2: pop culture. One of the great travesties of our day 167 00:11:01,040 --> 00:11:06,839 Speaker 2: is it rap music celebrates having a bunch of money. 168 00:11:06,840 --> 00:11:09,719 Speaker 2: Nobody knows how you have it talking about how much 169 00:11:09,760 --> 00:11:13,400 Speaker 2: money you had. We got Lamborghinis, we got Ferrari's, we 170 00:11:13,559 --> 00:11:17,000 Speaker 2: stay in here, we wearing this, were doing this, and 171 00:11:17,040 --> 00:11:20,760 Speaker 2: it's basically just some dude that looks like Biggie and 172 00:11:20,800 --> 00:11:24,520 Speaker 2: a bunch of hoochies all over him, and he's got 173 00:11:24,520 --> 00:11:26,520 Speaker 2: so much money. That is just they're just making it 174 00:11:26,600 --> 00:11:31,320 Speaker 2: rain everywhere, and it's just fancy brands and expensive stuff. 175 00:11:31,360 --> 00:11:33,880 Speaker 2: And I really don't know what you take away from 176 00:11:33,920 --> 00:11:38,320 Speaker 2: that as you listen to that on your way to 177 00:11:38,400 --> 00:11:42,040 Speaker 2: Burger King to work behind the cash register. I don't 178 00:11:42,120 --> 00:11:45,640 Speaker 2: know how you react to that sort of thing if 179 00:11:45,679 --> 00:11:49,960 Speaker 2: you're a young black man out of work and you're 180 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:54,360 Speaker 2: looking for role models and a cultural beacon, and what 181 00:11:54,559 --> 00:11:58,840 Speaker 2: you see is dudes with machine guns, sunglasses, ice on 182 00:11:58,880 --> 00:12:04,360 Speaker 2: their teeth, in mansions, and you don't really can't really 183 00:12:04,360 --> 00:12:06,920 Speaker 2: tell how anybody's making money, but you want you some 184 00:12:07,040 --> 00:12:13,440 Speaker 2: of that. It makes me wonder, I mean, but not 185 00:12:13,559 --> 00:12:17,600 Speaker 2: Ronnie millsap By goodness, he could see that. 186 00:12:17,600 --> 00:12:21,520 Speaker 1: That wasn't a good idea for you, Ramon, he could 187 00:12:21,520 --> 00:12:21,840 Speaker 1: see it. 188 00:12:23,120 --> 00:12:26,080 Speaker 2: Jasmine Crockett was our news story of the day yesterday, 189 00:12:26,080 --> 00:12:28,800 Speaker 2: and we will get back to her. But there's something 190 00:12:30,240 --> 00:12:33,040 Speaker 2: that I'm noticing that is brewing, and that is a 191 00:12:33,160 --> 00:12:40,840 Speaker 2: discussion about Republicans losing the midterms. Republic the party in 192 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:46,960 Speaker 2: power usually loses about would use round numbers two dozen 193 00:12:48,400 --> 00:12:52,120 Speaker 2: members of Congress. Of the four hundred and thirty five 194 00:12:52,240 --> 00:12:54,600 Speaker 2: members of the lower House of Congress, which we refer 195 00:12:54,679 --> 00:12:59,080 Speaker 2: to as the House or Congress. Generally, they usually lose 196 00:12:59,120 --> 00:13:02,040 Speaker 2: a couple of Senators well as well. Typically you have 197 00:13:02,160 --> 00:13:04,880 Speaker 2: about a third of the Senate that's up for reelection 198 00:13:05,840 --> 00:13:09,640 Speaker 2: every two years, because as you know, senators served six 199 00:13:09,720 --> 00:13:13,320 Speaker 2: year terms on staggered terms, so the entirety of the 200 00:13:13,360 --> 00:13:16,760 Speaker 2: Senate is not up at any given time. So that's 201 00:13:16,800 --> 00:13:21,520 Speaker 2: meant to create a degree of stability. So you don't 202 00:13:21,520 --> 00:13:25,160 Speaker 2: have the entire Senate wiped out in one election, but 203 00:13:25,280 --> 00:13:28,760 Speaker 2: you could conceivably have the entire House wiped out. Hasn't 204 00:13:28,800 --> 00:13:32,040 Speaker 2: happened or anything close to it. In fact, the biggest 205 00:13:32,080 --> 00:13:35,920 Speaker 2: blood bath in the modern era was in twenty ten 206 00:13:37,040 --> 00:13:41,960 Speaker 2: as a reaction to Barack Obama. In fact, in twenty ten, 207 00:13:42,800 --> 00:13:45,120 Speaker 2: that was the biggest Republican gain. 208 00:13:45,440 --> 00:13:46,920 Speaker 1: I believe I should have checked this. 209 00:13:47,559 --> 00:13:50,280 Speaker 2: I believe since nineteen ninety four when you had the 210 00:13:50,280 --> 00:13:54,200 Speaker 2: Republican the Contract with America, and nineteen ninety four was 211 00:13:54,200 --> 00:13:58,040 Speaker 2: the first time in I believe forty years that the 212 00:13:58,040 --> 00:14:00,840 Speaker 2: Republicans had taken control of the House, which was a 213 00:14:00,840 --> 00:14:02,679 Speaker 2: big thing today. 214 00:14:03,160 --> 00:14:03,880 Speaker 1: That has changed. 215 00:14:03,960 --> 00:14:06,400 Speaker 2: In fact, with Republicans taking control of the House in 216 00:14:06,480 --> 00:14:09,440 Speaker 2: ninety four and again in twenty ten, there has been 217 00:14:10,200 --> 00:14:15,080 Speaker 2: a move by the Democrats. They realized they were losing 218 00:14:15,400 --> 00:14:19,000 Speaker 2: working class voters, so they had to replace those working 219 00:14:19,040 --> 00:14:26,480 Speaker 2: class voters, and so they went hard for the American left, students, blacks, gays, 220 00:14:27,160 --> 00:14:31,040 Speaker 2: and they went hard at illegal aliens. And you can 221 00:14:31,080 --> 00:14:33,760 Speaker 2: see how the numbers changed, and in fact, including in 222 00:14:34,440 --> 00:14:40,280 Speaker 2: twenty one when you had the census, actually it's twenty twenty, 223 00:14:40,640 --> 00:14:43,120 Speaker 2: when you had the census, make the decision that illegal 224 00:14:43,160 --> 00:14:48,040 Speaker 2: aliens would be counted in the census. When you're only 225 00:14:48,080 --> 00:14:52,680 Speaker 2: supposed to count citizens for representation, illegal aliens don't get 226 00:14:52,840 --> 00:14:56,600 Speaker 2: to count in the number for representation because they don't 227 00:14:56,600 --> 00:15:01,240 Speaker 2: get representation because they're not citizens. And everyone knows this, 228 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:04,000 Speaker 2: but they did it and they got away with it, 229 00:15:04,480 --> 00:15:07,920 Speaker 2: and it affected the number of congressmen. You've got redistricting 230 00:15:07,960 --> 00:15:11,240 Speaker 2: in Texas, which should pick up five Republican seats, a 231 00:15:11,280 --> 00:15:15,120 Speaker 2: five seat swing. You've got California trying to thwart that. 232 00:15:15,400 --> 00:15:17,720 Speaker 2: That's all right, we're still treading water. I'll take that. 233 00:15:18,160 --> 00:15:21,960 Speaker 2: You've got Indiana that has enacted the redistricting. That's a 234 00:15:22,000 --> 00:15:24,800 Speaker 2: good thing. You've got states that said they would and 235 00:15:24,920 --> 00:15:31,120 Speaker 2: didn't because Republicans never have the killer instinct that Democrats do. 236 00:15:32,200 --> 00:15:34,040 Speaker 1: But when we talk about why. 237 00:15:33,960 --> 00:15:37,320 Speaker 2: Republicans are going to lose seats in the midterms, whether 238 00:15:37,360 --> 00:15:42,120 Speaker 2: it's going to happen, and why, it's important not to 239 00:15:42,240 --> 00:15:45,480 Speaker 2: do what the media is doing and assume that that 240 00:15:45,600 --> 00:15:46,840 Speaker 2: is a referendum on Trump. 241 00:15:47,680 --> 00:15:50,960 Speaker 1: It is not. And I'm gonna explain to you why. 242 00:15:51,360 --> 00:15:54,400 Speaker 2: Because Trump is still more popular than the rest of 243 00:15:54,440 --> 00:15:55,360 Speaker 2: the Republican Party. 244 00:15:56,360 --> 00:15:56,840 Speaker 1: That is what. 245 00:15:57,400 --> 00:16:01,840 Speaker 2: And in fact, Trump is very popular personally. But Trump 246 00:16:01,960 --> 00:16:05,400 Speaker 2: has not had coattails until now, and we will see 247 00:16:05,440 --> 00:16:07,960 Speaker 2: if he has. Trump has not been able to push 248 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:10,800 Speaker 2: people over the line who were not already able to 249 00:16:10,840 --> 00:16:13,760 Speaker 2: win on their own. You could look at doctor Oz 250 00:16:14,040 --> 00:16:17,240 Speaker 2: for instance, you could look at herschel Walker for instance. 251 00:16:17,840 --> 00:16:20,440 Speaker 2: But that doesn't mean Trump and his agenda are any 252 00:16:20,520 --> 00:16:23,160 Speaker 2: less popular. It means the rest of the Republican Party 253 00:16:23,160 --> 00:16:24,280 Speaker 2: doesn't have the chops to win. 254 00:16:24,320 --> 00:16:29,040 Speaker 1: And that's what we're going talking about conte acquisitions after acquisitions. 255 00:16:31,760 --> 00:16:34,520 Speaker 2: So when we consider whether Republicans are going to hold 256 00:16:34,520 --> 00:16:40,160 Speaker 2: the House and send it or not, the people anchoring. 257 00:16:41,880 --> 00:16:42,920 Speaker 1: News stations. 258 00:16:43,480 --> 00:16:50,040 Speaker 2: National news stations are not experts in understanding political trends. 259 00:16:51,280 --> 00:16:55,920 Speaker 2: They're mostly just reading a teleprompter and doing that for 260 00:16:56,000 --> 00:16:59,160 Speaker 2: year after year after year does not make you an 261 00:16:59,240 --> 00:17:05,359 Speaker 2: expert on You are around knowledge, you are introducing people 262 00:17:05,400 --> 00:17:08,560 Speaker 2: who are laying down knowledge, but it doesn't give you 263 00:17:08,600 --> 00:17:12,720 Speaker 2: a good gut for what's going on. Reminds me of 264 00:17:12,760 --> 00:17:16,280 Speaker 2: the story of Lyndon Johnson. When he was president. He 265 00:17:16,320 --> 00:17:19,000 Speaker 2: had a guy who had worked for him for two decades, 266 00:17:20,119 --> 00:17:21,480 Speaker 2: and that guy thought he was going to get the 267 00:17:21,520 --> 00:17:25,760 Speaker 2: promotion to the next big job, and in fact LBJ 268 00:17:25,920 --> 00:17:28,919 Speaker 2: gave the job to his underling, who'd only worked there 269 00:17:28,960 --> 00:17:33,600 Speaker 2: a couple of years. And the seasoned veteran came in, 270 00:17:34,560 --> 00:17:38,080 Speaker 2: grizzled as he was, and said to the president, mister President, 271 00:17:39,240 --> 00:17:42,720 Speaker 2: how come you gave him this job. He's only got 272 00:17:42,760 --> 00:17:46,320 Speaker 2: two years experience and I've got twenty years experience. And 273 00:17:46,400 --> 00:17:50,080 Speaker 2: he said, no, you got one year's experience twenty times. 274 00:17:51,400 --> 00:17:54,880 Speaker 2: When you see a Jake Tapper, or for that matter, 275 00:17:54,920 --> 00:18:00,000 Speaker 2: of some folks on Fox doing it, who these pieces 276 00:18:00,119 --> 00:18:03,760 Speaker 2: is These questions that they're asking their guests are written 277 00:18:03,800 --> 00:18:09,119 Speaker 2: by some producer that doesn't understand anything about politics, much 278 00:18:09,240 --> 00:18:13,879 Speaker 2: less the regional Paccadillo's look, a Republican in Texas is 279 00:18:14,080 --> 00:18:19,000 Speaker 2: very different than a Republican in Massachusetts. When you look 280 00:18:19,000 --> 00:18:23,080 Speaker 2: at the red and blue states of how the parties break, 281 00:18:23,280 --> 00:18:27,040 Speaker 2: how the states break during the electoral college, almost every 282 00:18:27,040 --> 00:18:30,760 Speaker 2: state is winner take all. But when you look at 283 00:18:30,800 --> 00:18:33,199 Speaker 2: those states and you see those that go blue, if 284 00:18:33,240 --> 00:18:37,399 Speaker 2: you look up at the Northeast, it doesn't look very big. 285 00:18:37,960 --> 00:18:42,639 Speaker 2: In fact, the size map of America if you measure 286 00:18:42,640 --> 00:18:45,719 Speaker 2: by land mass, I don't know. I'd have to look 287 00:18:45,760 --> 00:18:47,600 Speaker 2: at the map again, but I'll bet you Trump won 288 00:18:48,600 --> 00:18:52,359 Speaker 2: seventy percent of the land mass. So if you consider 289 00:18:52,440 --> 00:18:55,520 Speaker 2: state of Texas as land mass, and he won all 290 00:18:55,520 --> 00:19:00,359 Speaker 2: the electoral votes as opposed to much smaller states that 291 00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:03,760 Speaker 2: don't have much land mass but do have high density. 292 00:19:04,040 --> 00:19:08,479 Speaker 2: And that's what those Northeast states represent. But those voters 293 00:19:08,480 --> 00:19:12,320 Speaker 2: are very different than a Texas Republican. A California Republican 294 00:19:12,680 --> 00:19:17,080 Speaker 2: is very different than a Florida Republican. So what they're 295 00:19:17,119 --> 00:19:22,600 Speaker 2: saying now is that Trump is not popular because in 296 00:19:22,640 --> 00:19:28,960 Speaker 2: the polls of party preference, people are reducing them number 297 00:19:29,040 --> 00:19:32,000 Speaker 2: of times they say Republican and increase in the number 298 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:36,760 Speaker 2: of times they say Democrat, but that's not necessarily a 299 00:19:36,800 --> 00:19:43,200 Speaker 2: referendum on Trump. A lot of people, particularly the more 300 00:19:44,560 --> 00:19:50,000 Speaker 2: maga end of the spectrum, think Trump's doing just fine, 301 00:19:50,520 --> 00:19:54,679 Speaker 2: but we're very disappointed in the Republicans. So when you 302 00:19:54,760 --> 00:19:59,440 Speaker 2: see a leak yesterday where the President is frustrated and says, 303 00:19:59,520 --> 00:20:01,880 Speaker 2: I can't get anybody, I can't get my people past 304 00:20:01,920 --> 00:20:05,840 Speaker 2: they're expiring because Grassley won't let him out because he's 305 00:20:05,840 --> 00:20:08,760 Speaker 2: given into the Democrats and their Blue Slip, appropriately named. 306 00:20:11,240 --> 00:20:17,080 Speaker 2: That makes people who support the president angry at Republicans, 307 00:20:18,400 --> 00:20:26,280 Speaker 2: so they're mad at the Republican brand. Trump's great superpower 308 00:20:27,040 --> 00:20:29,200 Speaker 2: is his ability to get people who do not call 309 00:20:29,240 --> 00:20:30,880 Speaker 2: themselves Republicans to. 310 00:20:30,880 --> 00:20:32,399 Speaker 1: Vote for him. 311 00:20:33,119 --> 00:20:37,200 Speaker 2: But most Republicans don't have that superpower. They can only 312 00:20:37,240 --> 00:20:41,920 Speaker 2: get the party loyalist to vote for them, and that's 313 00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:45,560 Speaker 2: been the problem for years. That was the problem with Romney, 314 00:20:45,800 --> 00:20:48,560 Speaker 2: that was the problem with McCain, that was the problem 315 00:20:48,560 --> 00:20:52,359 Speaker 2: with Bob Dolan ninety six, that was the problem with 316 00:20:52,480 --> 00:20:55,920 Speaker 2: George H. W. Bush in ninety two, and in fact, 317 00:20:55,920 --> 00:20:58,280 Speaker 2: in ninety two you had the unique phenomenon of h 318 00:20:58,400 --> 00:21:02,359 Speaker 2: Ross Pero running so Pero managed to siphon off people 319 00:21:02,640 --> 00:21:07,879 Speaker 2: who were independent that would have gone Republican. That Clinton 320 00:21:07,920 --> 00:21:12,320 Speaker 2: didn't win. If memory serves, Clinton only won forty three 321 00:21:12,320 --> 00:21:16,320 Speaker 2: percent of the vote popular vote, and I think a 322 00:21:16,400 --> 00:21:19,840 Speaker 2: Truss Perreau had close to twenty percent, which leaves about 323 00:21:19,840 --> 00:21:21,399 Speaker 2: thirty seven percent for George H. W. 324 00:21:21,440 --> 00:21:21,680 Speaker 1: Bush. 325 00:21:21,680 --> 00:21:23,000 Speaker 2: I hadn't looked at that numbered a long time, but 326 00:21:23,040 --> 00:21:24,720 Speaker 2: if memory serves, that's. 327 00:21:24,560 --> 00:21:28,760 Speaker 1: About what happened. Well, that's because George HW. 328 00:21:28,840 --> 00:21:33,840 Speaker 2: Bush did not appeal to anything other than establishment Republicans, 329 00:21:34,240 --> 00:21:36,200 Speaker 2: and that's what he was. He'd been the CIA director, 330 00:21:36,240 --> 00:21:38,960 Speaker 2: he'd been the Ambassador to China, He'd hung around the process. 331 00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:42,720 Speaker 2: He'd been vice president under Reagan. But remember he'd called 332 00:21:42,720 --> 00:21:46,600 Speaker 2: Reagan economics voodoo economics. He was not part of the 333 00:21:46,600 --> 00:21:51,119 Speaker 2: Reagan Revolution. The Reagan Revolution is a precursor to the 334 00:21:51,160 --> 00:21:55,119 Speaker 2: Trump Revolution. Those voters remain the same. Some of the 335 00:21:55,440 --> 00:21:59,639 Speaker 2: Trump voters are the children of the Reagan voters. But 336 00:22:00,400 --> 00:22:04,000 Speaker 2: whereas Trump can still hold on to most of the 337 00:22:04,040 --> 00:22:08,879 Speaker 2: party loyalists, he brings in a whole new demographic to 338 00:22:08,960 --> 00:22:15,879 Speaker 2: the party that partisans can't bring in. And that is 339 00:22:16,200 --> 00:22:20,480 Speaker 2: a degree of populism, that is a degree of patriotism 340 00:22:21,359 --> 00:22:24,679 Speaker 2: that the party doesn't manage to and the party is 341 00:22:24,760 --> 00:22:28,920 Speaker 2: seen as a do nothing party. People know that Republicans 342 00:22:28,920 --> 00:22:32,480 Speaker 2: had the opportunity to seal the border going back to 343 00:22:32,560 --> 00:22:36,080 Speaker 2: Reagan and chose not to do it. People know that 344 00:22:37,320 --> 00:22:41,080 Speaker 2: whereas Trump proved you could do it. People know that 345 00:22:41,280 --> 00:22:44,439 Speaker 2: Republicans could have stopped the Narco terrorists and chose not to. 346 00:22:44,960 --> 00:22:48,439 Speaker 2: They see Trump doing it. People understand that what he 347 00:22:48,520 --> 00:22:53,160 Speaker 2: has done with the executive orders Republicans could have done 348 00:22:53,400 --> 00:22:59,280 Speaker 2: before Republicans dragged us into Afghanistan and wouldn't get us 349 00:22:59,280 --> 00:23:01,000 Speaker 2: out he did. 350 00:23:02,160 --> 00:23:03,720 Speaker 1: People are tired of the forever Wars. 351 00:23:04,560 --> 00:23:06,719 Speaker 2: So you have a lot of people who will identify 352 00:23:07,040 --> 00:23:11,160 Speaker 2: when they're called at home as a Republican. But when 353 00:23:11,200 --> 00:23:13,639 Speaker 2: you look at what the Republican Party is doing and 354 00:23:13,720 --> 00:23:16,159 Speaker 2: not doing, which is a big part because it's a 355 00:23:16,240 --> 00:23:19,800 Speaker 2: do nothing party to most people, then you see people 356 00:23:19,840 --> 00:23:24,800 Speaker 2: who identify as Republican and identify as Trump voters, but 357 00:23:24,880 --> 00:23:27,919 Speaker 2: don't show up and vote for their local congressman or senator. 358 00:23:29,240 --> 00:23:31,760 Speaker 2: Let's take the state of Texas for instance. You had 359 00:23:31,800 --> 00:23:37,359 Speaker 2: a guy like John Cornyn was his four terms and 360 00:23:37,440 --> 00:23:41,440 Speaker 2: this guy's despised, well, he finally has a real challenge 361 00:23:41,440 --> 00:23:45,840 Speaker 2: in the primary. Two of them Ken Paxton, who's leading 362 00:23:45,880 --> 00:23:50,440 Speaker 2: the race the attorney general, and Wesley Hunt, a congressman 363 00:23:50,480 --> 00:23:54,560 Speaker 2: who hasn't served that long but is running in second. 364 00:23:55,200 --> 00:24:00,560 Speaker 2: And you got Corning in third place. National Republican Senate 365 00:24:00,640 --> 00:24:04,240 Speaker 2: Committee has already spent the rumor is forty million dollars 366 00:24:04,280 --> 00:24:08,199 Speaker 2: and they're committed to spend one hundred and so a 367 00:24:08,240 --> 00:24:10,720 Speaker 2: lot of people are looking at this and going, why 368 00:24:10,800 --> 00:24:15,040 Speaker 2: is John Cornyan so important? And by the way, why 369 00:24:15,080 --> 00:24:20,359 Speaker 2: don't you ask yourselves if John Cornyn requires one hundred 370 00:24:20,440 --> 00:24:26,640 Speaker 2: million dollars in his own primary, isn't that a problem? 371 00:24:26,760 --> 00:24:28,880 Speaker 1: Aren't you just a little bit worried. 372 00:24:30,359 --> 00:24:32,520 Speaker 2: That the people of Texas don't want the guy that 373 00:24:32,600 --> 00:24:36,080 Speaker 2: you want so badly? Do you think there's some asset 374 00:24:36,160 --> 00:24:39,840 Speaker 2: he has some great knowledge he brings to the Senate. 375 00:24:40,640 --> 00:24:41,800 Speaker 1: The people of Texas don't know. 376 00:24:41,960 --> 00:24:44,160 Speaker 2: Why are you insisting on putting someone in the Senate 377 00:24:44,200 --> 00:24:45,480 Speaker 2: from that state that the people. 378 00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:47,120 Speaker 1: Here don't want. We're gonna take you, and that's why 379 00:24:47,119 --> 00:24:48,280 Speaker 1: people are pissed at the party. 380 00:24:48,359 --> 00:24:53,760 Speaker 2: Oh bab oh, yes, yes, yes, yes, so just so 381 00:24:53,840 --> 00:24:55,760 Speaker 2: I wrap all this up, my wife says, I'm an 382 00:24:55,760 --> 00:24:59,160 Speaker 2: over communicator, by which she means that I am repeating 383 00:24:59,200 --> 00:25:06,080 Speaker 2: myself too many times with my sons now eighteen and nineteen, 384 00:25:06,920 --> 00:25:10,159 Speaker 2: soon to be nineteen and twenty. When I make a 385 00:25:10,200 --> 00:25:12,040 Speaker 2: point as to why they can't go to that party, 386 00:25:12,119 --> 00:25:14,000 Speaker 2: or why they can't do this or that, or why 387 00:25:14,080 --> 00:25:17,840 Speaker 2: I don't want them to make this decision, I will 388 00:25:17,880 --> 00:25:23,000 Speaker 2: always explain the reason. I never say because I said so, 389 00:25:23,880 --> 00:25:26,760 Speaker 2: I have no problem if you do that. I think 390 00:25:26,760 --> 00:25:29,120 Speaker 2: a parent has that authority and it is to be respected. 391 00:25:30,400 --> 00:25:33,440 Speaker 2: But part of my role as a parent, I believe 392 00:25:34,760 --> 00:25:39,479 Speaker 2: is teaching and explaining things, is teaching them how I 393 00:25:39,560 --> 00:25:43,120 Speaker 2: make decisions in hopes that they will learn to internalize 394 00:25:43,160 --> 00:25:45,440 Speaker 2: that decision making process and it will become their own. 395 00:25:46,760 --> 00:25:49,640 Speaker 2: It should be the case that as your children grow 396 00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:52,720 Speaker 2: and develop, they don't need to ask. 397 00:25:52,560 --> 00:25:53,960 Speaker 1: You if they can do something stupid. 398 00:25:54,680 --> 00:25:58,840 Speaker 2: They will first think to themselves, that's a stupid thing 399 00:25:59,520 --> 00:26:02,880 Speaker 2: that I should do, So I'm not gonna do it. 400 00:26:03,320 --> 00:26:05,320 Speaker 2: So I don't need to ask for a permission to 401 00:26:05,359 --> 00:26:08,640 Speaker 2: do it. Because I'm not gonna do it. That means 402 00:26:08,680 --> 00:26:12,720 Speaker 2: you've done your job as a parent. Sometimes I over communicate, 403 00:26:12,720 --> 00:26:15,679 Speaker 2: and I understand that but the reason for that is 404 00:26:15,680 --> 00:26:18,640 Speaker 2: you're busy, you're driving, you're distracted, somebody cut in front 405 00:26:18,680 --> 00:26:20,040 Speaker 2: of you. You came in the middle of a segment. 406 00:26:20,560 --> 00:26:21,960 Speaker 2: So let me wrap this up and put a bow 407 00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:24,120 Speaker 2: on it so that my point has made it absolutely clear. 408 00:26:25,720 --> 00:26:31,480 Speaker 2: The Republican Party brand. 409 00:26:28,520 --> 00:26:32,359 Speaker 1: Is in a crisis right now. 410 00:26:33,720 --> 00:26:36,159 Speaker 2: Not to say that this ship can't be saved, but 411 00:26:36,200 --> 00:26:39,760 Speaker 2: it's in a crisis right now. But the reason it's 412 00:26:39,760 --> 00:26:42,520 Speaker 2: in a crisis is not because of the rise of 413 00:26:42,920 --> 00:26:45,520 Speaker 2: the Democrat Party. It's not because the Democrat Party is 414 00:26:45,520 --> 00:26:50,439 Speaker 2: doing a great thing. It's because part of the Republican 415 00:26:50,480 --> 00:26:55,480 Speaker 2: Party does not want to vote for establishment Republicans because 416 00:26:55,480 --> 00:26:59,720 Speaker 2: they're sabotaging Trump, because they feel that Trump's agenda is 417 00:26:59,720 --> 00:27:03,840 Speaker 2: America's agenda and their agenda, and they don't want I 418 00:27:03,840 --> 00:27:06,680 Speaker 2: should say we, because I'm part of that. We don't 419 00:27:06,720 --> 00:27:10,440 Speaker 2: want the Republican Party sabotaging what we want to get done, 420 00:27:11,040 --> 00:27:12,880 Speaker 2: and we don't want them continuing to sit on their 421 00:27:12,880 --> 00:27:17,200 Speaker 2: hands and do nothing and then campaign on what they're 422 00:27:17,240 --> 00:27:18,280 Speaker 2: going to do if we can get. 423 00:27:18,119 --> 00:27:20,320 Speaker 1: Back in power. We're in power now. 424 00:27:22,080 --> 00:27:25,760 Speaker 2: We should not need to have Congressmen and senators campaigning 425 00:27:26,119 --> 00:27:28,600 Speaker 2: on what they're going to do if they're re elected. 426 00:27:29,280 --> 00:27:35,520 Speaker 2: Just do it now. You're in power right now. Just 427 00:27:35,920 --> 00:27:40,520 Speaker 2: do what you claim you'll do if you're re elected now. 428 00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:45,600 Speaker 2: But of course you know that they don't intend to 429 00:27:45,640 --> 00:27:48,720 Speaker 2: do it, because they did they do it now, But 430 00:27:48,760 --> 00:27:51,240 Speaker 2: they don't do it now, do they? 431 00:27:51,400 --> 00:27:52,320 Speaker 1: So what does that tell you? 432 00:27:53,320 --> 00:27:56,880 Speaker 2: It tells you that they promise to do things that 433 00:27:56,920 --> 00:28:00,680 Speaker 2: they have no intention of ever doing. It'd be one 434 00:28:00,720 --> 00:28:03,679 Speaker 2: thing if they promised to do things that the Democrats 435 00:28:03,680 --> 00:28:09,080 Speaker 2: were thwarting them from doing. But they're not. They could 436 00:28:09,119 --> 00:28:14,200 Speaker 2: do it now. However, they have to keep going back 437 00:28:14,240 --> 00:28:17,159 Speaker 2: to these voters. And for most of these Republicans, not all, 438 00:28:17,160 --> 00:28:19,320 Speaker 2: there are some districts that are not big Trump districts, 439 00:28:19,720 --> 00:28:24,320 Speaker 2: but for most of these voters, for most of these politicians, 440 00:28:25,240 --> 00:28:29,320 Speaker 2: they're going back to an electorate now. It's the primary 441 00:28:29,359 --> 00:28:33,640 Speaker 2: base right now, and definitely in the primaries, they're going 442 00:28:33,680 --> 00:28:37,160 Speaker 2: back to a primary base, and they're having to promise 443 00:28:37,760 --> 00:28:41,120 Speaker 2: that they love Trump and everything Trump stands for, knowing 444 00:28:41,200 --> 00:28:43,720 Speaker 2: good and well, that they will fly back to DC 445 00:28:43,880 --> 00:28:46,840 Speaker 2: tomorrow and work to undercut everything he does. 446 00:28:47,840 --> 00:28:49,200 Speaker 1: In fact, they. 447 00:28:49,040 --> 00:28:52,360 Speaker 2: Are asking for an opportunity to go back to the 448 00:28:52,400 --> 00:28:56,600 Speaker 2: House and Senate and sabotage him and backstab him for 449 00:28:56,680 --> 00:28:57,479 Speaker 2: two more years. 450 00:28:58,480 --> 00:29:02,320 Speaker 1: But they don't run on that base. They run on 451 00:29:02,360 --> 00:29:04,080 Speaker 1: the basis that. 452 00:29:04,040 --> 00:29:05,920 Speaker 2: They're going to go back up there and work hand 453 00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:07,600 Speaker 2: in hand with Trump, and we're going to fight them. 454 00:29:07,640 --> 00:29:10,680 Speaker 1: Damn Democrats. It's not the Democrats that are our problem 455 00:29:10,760 --> 00:29:11,160 Speaker 1: right now. 456 00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:16,840 Speaker 2: To quote Dennis Green, Denny Green, the Democrats are who 457 00:29:16,840 --> 00:29:21,680 Speaker 2: we thought they were, who it knew they were. We're 458 00:29:21,720 --> 00:29:25,080 Speaker 2: the ones bungling this, We're the ones that had to 459 00:29:25,080 --> 00:29:28,360 Speaker 2: fix this. We got the same problem in the state 460 00:29:28,400 --> 00:29:32,400 Speaker 2: of Texas. We've got the governor, we've got the lieutenant governor, 461 00:29:32,760 --> 00:29:35,200 Speaker 2: we've got the state Senate, we got the State House, 462 00:29:36,720 --> 00:29:41,600 Speaker 2: and yet we get nothing done, nothing of note. And 463 00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:45,480 Speaker 2: so now we've got our lieutenant governor, our governor out campaigning. 464 00:29:46,480 --> 00:29:53,040 Speaker 2: They're each offering competing campaigns that they're going to cut 465 00:29:53,040 --> 00:29:55,480 Speaker 2: property taxes. We have a big property tax. We don't 466 00:29:55,480 --> 00:29:57,560 Speaker 2: have an income tax. We have a massive property tax, 467 00:29:57,680 --> 00:30:00,520 Speaker 2: and people are mad about it. And so we're paying 468 00:30:00,520 --> 00:30:02,760 Speaker 2: more in property taxes. And they're watching their schools build 469 00:30:02,800 --> 00:30:05,440 Speaker 2: these big stadiums and these big buildings and keep taking 470 00:30:05,680 --> 00:30:08,600 Speaker 2: taking on these bonds and they're seeing teachers getting pay raises. 471 00:30:08,600 --> 00:30:09,800 Speaker 1: Oh, we have to pay the teachers more. 472 00:30:09,840 --> 00:30:13,000 Speaker 2: And school we're built, building new schools and having more 473 00:30:13,040 --> 00:30:15,120 Speaker 2: programs and doing all these things in the cost of 474 00:30:15,200 --> 00:30:18,480 Speaker 2: education is increasing, but the quality isn't. And the people 475 00:30:18,480 --> 00:30:21,760 Speaker 2: of Texas are angry. And the Lieutenant governor and the 476 00:30:21,760 --> 00:30:24,480 Speaker 2: governor have been there for a while and the problems 477 00:30:24,480 --> 00:30:27,360 Speaker 2: gotten worse on their schedule, on their on their watch, 478 00:30:28,080 --> 00:30:31,360 Speaker 2: and so they're now rolling out. They're they're testing out 479 00:30:31,360 --> 00:30:35,200 Speaker 2: their themes. We're gonna cut property taxes. And all I 480 00:30:35,280 --> 00:30:40,680 Speaker 2: hear people say is, but why didn't you cut Why 481 00:30:40,720 --> 00:30:45,720 Speaker 2: didn't you do that already? You were already you already 482 00:30:45,760 --> 00:30:48,440 Speaker 2: could have done that. Well, why do you need to 483 00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:51,240 Speaker 2: be re elected to do that? And you've got state 484 00:30:51,280 --> 00:30:53,440 Speaker 2: reps and state centers. We're gonna go out there and 485 00:30:53,480 --> 00:30:56,520 Speaker 2: we're gonna do what we about to tell you we're 486 00:30:56,520 --> 00:30:56,840 Speaker 2: gonna do. 487 00:30:56,880 --> 00:31:04,640 Speaker 1: But what didn't do it before? When your teenage kid says, hey, 488 00:31:05,760 --> 00:31:07,200 Speaker 1: can I have a car? Can I have an iPhone? 489 00:31:07,240 --> 00:31:08,680 Speaker 1: Can i'm an iPad and I have a computer? Can 490 00:31:08,720 --> 00:31:09,320 Speaker 1: I go on this trip? 491 00:31:09,360 --> 00:31:11,120 Speaker 2: Can I go this w If I can do that, 492 00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:14,520 Speaker 2: then I'll keep my room clean, But why didn't you 493 00:31:14,600 --> 00:31:15,560 Speaker 2: keep your room clean before. 494 00:31:17,120 --> 00:31:19,960 Speaker 1: I'll do the laundry, I'll watch the cars, I'll mow 495 00:31:20,040 --> 00:31:23,600 Speaker 1: the grass. But why did you do it before? Why 496 00:31:23,600 --> 00:31:24,680 Speaker 1: do you do it when I asked you to? 497 00:31:26,040 --> 00:31:28,920 Speaker 2: Then you'd have some capital built up, some political capital, 498 00:31:29,440 --> 00:31:35,200 Speaker 2: some parental capital. So it's not the case that, well, 499 00:31:35,240 --> 00:31:37,719 Speaker 2: we don't got a sandbag this deal. We don't want 500 00:31:37,720 --> 00:31:39,400 Speaker 2: to get everything done this term, then we won't have 501 00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:44,360 Speaker 2: the reason to elect us. Voters would reward you for accomplishment, 502 00:31:44,840 --> 00:31:50,040 Speaker 2: but you don't have accomplishment. Where are the accomplishments? You 503 00:31:50,120 --> 00:31:52,000 Speaker 2: keep telling us the Democrats are so evil and we 504 00:31:52,040 --> 00:31:54,880 Speaker 2: have to send you back to office to accomplish things. 505 00:31:56,040 --> 00:31:58,640 Speaker 2: And we did again and again and again and again, 506 00:32:00,280 --> 00:32:03,560 Speaker 2: and at some point Charlie Brown doesn't kick that damn 507 00:32:03,560 --> 00:32:11,320 Speaker 2: football because he knows Lucy's lyon. Our biggest problem and 508 00:32:11,360 --> 00:32:13,520 Speaker 2: why we're at the greatest risk of losing the House 509 00:32:13,960 --> 00:32:20,680 Speaker 2: and the Senate come November is because Trump voters don't 510 00:32:20,720 --> 00:32:25,720 Speaker 2: believe the rest of the Republicans are committed to doing anything, 511 00:32:27,120 --> 00:32:30,040 Speaker 2: so they don't see a reason to go out and 512 00:32:30,040 --> 00:32:33,800 Speaker 2: work hard and get them elected. Say what you will 513 00:32:33,840 --> 00:32:37,440 Speaker 2: about Trump if you're not his biggest fan. He did 514 00:32:37,440 --> 00:32:40,640 Speaker 2: more on the first day of his second administration with 515 00:32:40,760 --> 00:32:45,239 Speaker 2: the executive orders than Bush did the entirety of his 516 00:32:45,360 --> 00:32:49,680 Speaker 2: last term. And he managed at the end of his 517 00:32:49,720 --> 00:32:52,520 Speaker 2: first term to get us out of the Afghan War, 518 00:32:54,840 --> 00:32:59,280 Speaker 2: which Bush dragged us into and we should not have 519 00:32:59,400 --> 00:33:02,200 Speaker 2: been in after all those years. So I want to 520 00:33:02,200 --> 00:33:05,600 Speaker 2: be clear, it's not that Trump has a problem. The 521 00:33:05,640 --> 00:33:11,560 Speaker 2: failure of the Republicans is not a reflection of unpopularity 522 00:33:11,560 --> 00:33:15,040 Speaker 2: of Donald Trump. It's a reflection of the fact that 523 00:33:15,080 --> 00:33:18,760 Speaker 2: the Republican Party is not enacting his agenda, which is 524 00:33:18,800 --> 00:33:22,600 Speaker 2: a popular agenda that the American people want. That's not 525 00:33:22,760 --> 00:33:26,240 Speaker 2: kissing Donald Trump's ass. That's calling balls and strikes. 526 00:33:26,320 --> 00:33:36,760 Speaker 1: That's how they are