WEBVTT - The Midterm Map Takes Shape 0:00:00.000 --> 0:00:02.560 All right, news round up and information overload. Our Our 0:00:02.600 --> 0:00:05.400 toll free telephone number this Friday is eight hundred and 0:00:05.440 --> 0:00:06.960 nine foot one Sean if you want to be a 0:00:06.960 --> 0:00:09.600 part of the program. We had a good discussion with 0:00:09.880 --> 0:00:15.200 Mark Penn about this radicalization of the Democratic Party and 0:00:15.680 --> 0:00:18.200 about the pending upcoming election. I mean, I thought it 0:00:18.239 --> 0:00:21.919 was interesting. Bruce Blakeman Sianna Pole comes out today. He's 0:00:21.960 --> 0:00:25.480 only down by three, Kathy Hochel. When you factor in 0:00:25.560 --> 0:00:28.280 all the mass migration out of New York, it's it's 0:00:28.360 --> 0:00:30.680 kind of a spectacular number. And it really gives me 0:00:30.760 --> 0:00:32.880 hope for my friends that I left behind years ago 0:00:33.720 --> 0:00:36.519 that maybe he I think Bruce Blakeman's your last shot 0:00:36.800 --> 0:00:40.000 to fix New York. Same with Steve Hilton out in California. 0:00:41.159 --> 0:00:43.519 And but you know what impact. We do have one 0:00:43.560 --> 0:00:47.920 poll out today, it's way too early, and it has 0:00:48.040 --> 0:00:51.519 Mike Rodgers up by four in Michigan against Abdullah say Ed, 0:00:51.600 --> 0:00:55.160 and of course he has this sick friendship with Hassan Piker. 0:00:56.080 --> 0:00:59.920 I am. I am contending that at this point, you know, 0:01:00.240 --> 0:01:03.360 eighty what do we eighty one days away till election day? 0:01:03.960 --> 0:01:07.040 I cannot tell you which way this election is going 0:01:07.120 --> 0:01:10.680 to go. However, I am wanting conservatives, I am wanting 0:01:10.680 --> 0:01:15.480 Trump supporters. I am warning Republicans you better take all 0:01:15.480 --> 0:01:18.400 of this seriously because these people, while they may be 0:01:18.520 --> 0:01:21.679 trying to you know, laugh off, Oh that was woke 0:01:21.760 --> 0:01:25.479 one crazy, they believe all this stuff. They stated all 0:01:25.480 --> 0:01:27.880 of it. Their internal polling tells them to shut up 0:01:27.880 --> 0:01:32.280 and stop saying it. So there's a reason they're they're pivoting. Remember, 0:01:32.319 --> 0:01:35.759 almost everything a politician does and says is often poles driven. 0:01:36.040 --> 0:01:39.440 So it's just too early for me. I see warning signs, 0:01:39.560 --> 0:01:43.039 and I see hopeful signs, and but I again, I 0:01:43.080 --> 0:01:44.920 think it's too early. What happens with the ran, what 0:01:44.920 --> 0:01:47.039 happens with the price of oil? Where's the economy? 0:01:47.080 --> 0:01:47.400 Headed? 0:01:47.640 --> 0:01:50.840 Had a long conversation with Scott Bessen. He gave me 0:01:50.920 --> 0:01:53.840 a lot of hope on the economy, But time will tell. 0:01:53.920 --> 0:01:55.720 I don't know the answer. I don't have a crystal ball. 0:01:56.680 --> 0:01:59.960 But you know what impact you know the fact that 0:02:00.280 --> 0:02:04.320 so many people will not like elsaiaed and Michigan will 0:02:04.320 --> 0:02:08.400 not condemn Hassam Piker. Here's you know, let's go through 0:02:08.440 --> 0:02:11.320 some of Hassam Piker and why would any Democrat, you know, 0:02:11.360 --> 0:02:13.520 and there are many of them that have sought his 0:02:13.680 --> 0:02:16.800 support that he has been out campaigning for. Listen, we 0:02:16.840 --> 0:02:20.440 are in the heart of the imperial for this is 0:02:20.480 --> 0:02:24.920 a country that defeated the USSR, unfortunately, and the. 0:02:24.840 --> 0:02:27.920 Reality of the matter is there's a lot of antagonists 0:02:27.919 --> 0:02:28.440 and there's. 0:02:28.200 --> 0:02:30.720 No class consciousness in the United States of Americas. 0:02:30.960 --> 0:02:35.079 Empires never die quietly, and we must end the American 0:02:35.120 --> 0:02:39.840 empire regardless. No more to trump Ism, but no more 0:02:40.000 --> 0:02:44.679 to the Democrats who compromise, who conciliate, and who betray us. 0:02:44.720 --> 0:02:47.919 No more to the Democrats who will collaborate and cooperate 0:02:48.000 --> 0:02:50.640 with the fascists, who will fund Dice, who will fund 0:02:50.720 --> 0:02:53.000 Israel being like Abdullah's a ton. 0:02:52.840 --> 0:02:56.280 Of work to do, mending bridges. Here's the take nuke 0:02:56.360 --> 0:02:56.560 for you. 0:02:56.720 --> 0:03:01.880 Okay, you are all unbelievably Islama for all pieces. Okay, 0:03:02.200 --> 0:03:06.760 they'll say, oh, dsay, your candidate was Oh Francesca Hong 0:03:06.919 --> 0:03:07.280 was bad. 0:03:07.360 --> 0:03:09.959 She was a bad candidate. Oh she didn't like Thanksgiving 0:03:11.200 --> 0:03:15.360 and Thanksgiving too. And you know, maybe my favorite is, 0:03:15.440 --> 0:03:19.640 oh the streets will run red with the blood of 0:03:20.160 --> 0:03:25.880 capitalists and landlords. Pretty sick stuff. But he says all 0:03:25.919 --> 0:03:29.600 of it, proudly displays newspaper showing the Twin Towers burning 0:03:29.600 --> 0:03:33.960 on nine to eleven. America deserved nine to eleven. I 0:03:33.960 --> 0:03:36.600 don't know. I can't stand people like him. I can't 0:03:36.600 --> 0:03:41.200 stand white nationalist extremists. I can't stand anti Semitic people 0:03:41.240 --> 0:03:43.360 and both parties. I don't like any of them, and 0:03:43.440 --> 0:03:45.720 I want nothing to do with any of them. It's 0:03:45.760 --> 0:03:48.320 not who I am. I have a heart, a soul, 0:03:48.440 --> 0:03:52.560 a conscience, and I'm sorry this is crazy. You know, 0:03:52.800 --> 0:03:56.160 all the years I've known Mark Alpert, I don't know 0:03:56.200 --> 0:04:01.160 where he stands politically. I know that he he analyzes 0:04:01.280 --> 0:04:05.720 information in a very smart, effective way. We communicated a 0:04:05.840 --> 0:04:10.160 lot before the twenty twenty four presidential election. He was 0:04:10.280 --> 0:04:13.640 one of the very few people that had the information 0:04:13.720 --> 0:04:16.680 that I had about early voting and a bunch of 0:04:16.720 --> 0:04:20.560 things nobody was factoring in. On election night, everyone's looking 0:04:20.560 --> 0:04:22.760 at the New York Times needle. I'm like, you're wasting 0:04:22.760 --> 0:04:27.320 your time. You know. For Kamala Harris two have won 0:04:27.920 --> 0:04:31.000 in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, she would have had to have 0:04:31.560 --> 0:04:34.880 a day of voting that never existed before. And I 0:04:34.920 --> 0:04:37.320 was checking in all day in every liberal area in 0:04:37.400 --> 0:04:39.600 all three states, and they were not getting the kind 0:04:39.640 --> 0:04:42.280 of turnout that she would have needed. And Mark was 0:04:42.360 --> 0:04:45.000 right the whole time too. Mark, welcome back. He's the 0:04:45.080 --> 0:04:47.760 editor in chief of Two Way. How are you, sir? 0:04:48.040 --> 0:04:49.720 Very good, Sean, thanks for having me back. 0:04:49.880 --> 0:04:51.760 You want to tell me if you're a Republican or 0:04:51.760 --> 0:04:53.200 a Democrat. You're not going to tell me, are you. 0:04:53.880 --> 0:04:55.800 I'm neither. I'm for the American people. I'm an old 0:04:55.839 --> 0:04:58.920 fashioned reporter just for trying to understand the country through 0:04:58.920 --> 0:05:01.599 the prism of our policy. So, you know, I like 0:05:01.640 --> 0:05:05.520 everybody like you. I don't like the mean spirited people. 0:05:05.520 --> 0:05:07.560 I don't like the races, so I don't like the extremists, 0:05:07.600 --> 0:05:10.720 but I like everybody else. And I'm just here to 0:05:10.760 --> 0:05:12.440 try to inform everybody. 0:05:12.560 --> 0:05:15.120 You know, Hassan Piko, you know when my friend Lindsey 0:05:15.120 --> 0:05:19.600 Graham passed away, actually said he was a demonic entity, 0:05:20.440 --> 0:05:23.120 which was, you know, just typical of this guy. What 0:05:23.240 --> 0:05:28.920 impact do you believe this radicalism, this DSA, these stated 0:05:29.000 --> 0:05:33.160 positions are going to have on this pending midterm. 0:05:33.320 --> 0:05:35.320 Well, I think they'll have an effect in the Michigan 0:05:35.400 --> 0:05:37.080 Senate race. I think they'll have an effect on the 0:05:37.200 --> 0:05:42.560 Minnesota Senate race. Otherwise, I think it will be up 0:05:42.600 --> 0:05:46.680 to the ad makers and message meisters of James Blair 0:05:46.680 --> 0:05:49.880 and the other political lieutenants of the President to spend 0:05:49.880 --> 0:05:52.599 what I believe will be potentially at least an unprecedented 0:05:52.640 --> 0:05:56.440 financial edge to try to convince voters that this is 0:05:56.520 --> 0:05:59.520 the Democratic Party. It's not just a few isolated candidates. 0:06:00.120 --> 0:06:03.520 So potentially I think it could be i'd say dispositive 0:06:03.720 --> 0:06:06.080 in terms of make or break the majorities, make or 0:06:06.080 --> 0:06:09.120 break whether Republicans have a good night or not in 0:06:09.160 --> 0:06:12.920 the midterms. And like I said, in those individual races, 0:06:12.920 --> 0:06:16.320 I think it's quite important we see the data from 0:06:16.360 --> 0:06:18.320 that Fox poll, and again that Box poll is not 0:06:18.360 --> 0:06:20.680 an outlier based on what I know about private polling. 0:06:20.680 --> 0:06:23.640 In the race, It's not just the association with Piker. 0:06:23.640 --> 0:06:25.520 It's some of the issue positions that the candidate in 0:06:25.640 --> 0:06:29.240 self doctor, the candidate's South doctor outside has, that Saya 0:06:29.240 --> 0:06:31.160 it has that are that are going to be make 0:06:31.200 --> 0:06:33.960 it difficult from to assemble a winning coalition against Mike Rodgers. 0:06:34.120 --> 0:06:36.000 You know, I know there were polls that showed that 0:06:36.279 --> 0:06:40.200 sixth gender uh tell a Rico god is non binary. 0:06:40.400 --> 0:06:44.960 Championing the rights of women to play in men's sports, 0:06:45.040 --> 0:06:49.360 and you know, even you know, saying that that transgender people, 0:06:49.440 --> 0:06:53.039 even biological men, should have access to abortion. I might 0:06:53.120 --> 0:06:55.000 have to I might have to go back to school 0:06:55.040 --> 0:06:57.600 mark because I don't know what the other four genders are. 0:06:57.640 --> 0:07:00.359 And I have no earthly idea, had no earthly idea 0:07:00.360 --> 0:07:04.360 that any biological man wouldever need access to an abortion clinic. 0:07:04.720 --> 0:07:08.839 Never mind the vegan campaign, you know, in a cattle state, 0:07:08.880 --> 0:07:12.680 and his opposition to oil and gas in an oil state. 0:07:13.360 --> 0:07:15.160 I think what all is said and done, and you're 0:07:15.240 --> 0:07:19.560 right about the money, it's about eight hundred million. Republicans 0:07:19.720 --> 0:07:22.920 never had that kind of money going into a midterm 0:07:23.160 --> 0:07:25.120 I think, yeah, I think the kind of ads that 0:07:25.200 --> 0:07:26.680 are done are going to have an impact. 0:07:27.160 --> 0:07:30.560 Well, Texas is a special problem because you can't say 0:07:30.600 --> 0:07:34.160 you're going to help Paxton win by putting in five million. 0:07:34.520 --> 0:07:36.200 If you want to help him win, you're going to 0:07:36.240 --> 0:07:39.360 have to put in at least ten times that. And 0:07:39.400 --> 0:07:41.200 it's a little bit of a game of chicken because 0:07:41.240 --> 0:07:43.360 until the candidate proves to folks that he's going to 0:07:43.600 --> 0:07:47.720 do his part to win this, it's going to be 0:07:47.720 --> 0:07:49.680 a challenge for him to get folks to pony up. 0:07:50.000 --> 0:07:53.680 I have been as staunch a skeptic of a Democrat 0:07:53.760 --> 0:07:56.800 winning statewide in Texas for the last three decades as 0:07:56.880 --> 0:07:59.800 anybody I know, truly, I've just laughed at it. It's 0:07:59.840 --> 0:08:00.920 just math, isn't. 0:08:00.680 --> 0:08:05.120 There Even the first Beto Bozo run against Ted Cruz, 0:08:05.160 --> 0:08:07.920 because nobody knew how crazy he was during that race. 0:08:09.000 --> 0:08:11.360 It's just a math does not work for a Democrat 0:08:11.400 --> 0:08:13.920 to win stay wide in Texas. It just doesn't. And 0:08:14.280 --> 0:08:16.320 the notion that the first Democrat to win stay wide 0:08:16.320 --> 0:08:20.320 in Texas would be this guy with seventeen positions we 0:08:20.360 --> 0:08:24.040 currently know about and past statements that would be disqualifying. 0:08:24.480 --> 0:08:26.480 The notion that he'd be the first one I would 0:08:26.520 --> 0:08:29.480 have thought until recently is far fetched. But Paxson is 0:08:29.520 --> 0:08:32.160 doing a horrible job. He's not raising the money, and 0:08:32.200 --> 0:08:34.839 he's not giving anybody a reason to say, yeah, here's 0:08:34.840 --> 0:08:38.600 fifty million of our nine hundred million for just to 0:08:38.640 --> 0:08:43.160 begin twenty media markets super expensive. In the end, history 0:08:43.200 --> 0:08:45.440 and logic suggests that Paxson will win, but I will 0:08:45.440 --> 0:08:48.160 tell you things will have to change dramatically or he 0:08:48.200 --> 0:08:49.360 will lose to Tall Rico. 0:08:49.600 --> 0:08:53.120 I don't disagree. I think up to now they have 0:08:53.280 --> 0:08:56.600 not taken this seriously. I would, but I do know 0:08:57.120 --> 0:08:59.920 I have a little internal knowledge that of fortune is 0:09:00.080 --> 0:09:02.680 going to be spent and things are going to change. 0:09:03.040 --> 0:09:07.000 So I'm pretty confident in saying that to you. You know, 0:09:07.280 --> 0:09:11.000 you and I have an honest relationship. So now, if 0:09:11.000 --> 0:09:15.120 I would to say what states Republicans, maybe I don't know. 0:09:15.240 --> 0:09:18.520 Georgia ain't looking good, North Carolina ain't looking good. I'm 0:09:18.559 --> 0:09:21.120 not sure what to think about New Hampshire. And if 0:09:21.160 --> 0:09:26.360 you underestimate Susan Collins run again against the platnir wannabe 0:09:26.559 --> 0:09:29.760 in Maine, I think you are foolish to ever underestimate 0:09:29.800 --> 0:09:31.600 Susan Collins. Yeah. 0:09:31.640 --> 0:09:34.040 Look, if you believe the Fox poll from last night, 0:09:34.080 --> 0:09:37.520 and there's reason to believe it's accurate, Democrats will be 0:09:37.559 --> 0:09:41.559 plus two with Ohio and in North Carolina. Although again 0:09:41.800 --> 0:09:43.520 I don't think you can say Ohio is over because 0:09:43.520 --> 0:09:46.240 it's a red state. So let's say Democrats go plus 0:09:46.280 --> 0:09:49.160 two there, they need to net two more and if 0:09:49.160 --> 0:09:51.320 they don't win Maine, and I don't believe they will 0:09:51.320 --> 0:09:55.079 win Maine as of now, where can they net to more? Well, 0:09:55.080 --> 0:09:56.920 First of all, they got to win Michigan, and I 0:09:56.920 --> 0:09:59.360 don't believe today they will win Michigan. Then they wouldn't 0:09:59.320 --> 0:10:01.520 have to net three. So if it goes like that, 0:10:01.600 --> 0:10:03.880 they take North Carolina, they take Ohio, but they don't 0:10:03.920 --> 0:10:08.520 take they don't take Maine, and they lose Michigan, then 0:10:08.520 --> 0:10:12.040 they have to win all of Texas, Iowa, and Alaska. 0:10:12.160 --> 0:10:15.199 Could happen, but it's unlikely. So I think people are 0:10:15.240 --> 0:10:18.800 currently currently based on the office of the major nine races, 0:10:19.320 --> 0:10:21.160 and I think New Hampshire, I think Samina has got 0:10:21.160 --> 0:10:22.760 a chance, and that would obviously make it even harder 0:10:22.760 --> 0:10:25.839 for Democrats. Currently, I think people are way over at 0:10:25.880 --> 0:10:28.240 stating Democrats' chances of taking the Senate. 0:10:28.400 --> 0:10:30.679 How do you feel about the House? One thing that 0:10:30.720 --> 0:10:34.360 gives me a little hope. I mean, it's so razor 0:10:34.440 --> 0:10:37.600 thin the margin, but again, the money advantage is something 0:10:37.640 --> 0:10:41.480 new to Republicans. The one thing that gives me a 0:10:41.480 --> 0:10:44.360 little bit of hope is, you know, Republicans finally have 0:10:44.440 --> 0:10:49.240 caught up to decades of Democratic jerry mandering, and they 0:10:49.240 --> 0:10:52.960 got plus twelve by my math in terms of you know, 0:10:53.320 --> 0:10:56.080 solidly read seats that they would have otherwise, you know, 0:10:56.320 --> 0:10:57.920 been underwater On. 0:10:58.160 --> 0:11:00.920 I think there's there's two variables that if they go 0:11:01.000 --> 0:11:03.600 to the President's away, make it still possible to take 0:11:03.640 --> 0:11:07.719 the House. The baseline variable, which you said, barring a 0:11:07.960 --> 0:11:10.360 huge blue wave, there just aren't that many seats in play, 0:11:10.720 --> 0:11:13.640 So Republicans can take their financial advantage, apply it to 0:11:14.040 --> 0:11:17.719 twenty five districts and try to save enough of them 0:11:17.760 --> 0:11:21.040 to win them to keep the majority. One variable is 0:11:21.360 --> 0:11:23.440 how do people feel about the two parties, not just 0:11:23.520 --> 0:11:27.240 the President's party. Come you know, the post Labor Day period. 0:11:27.600 --> 0:11:29.800 I don't think the Iran conflict is going to end, 0:11:30.080 --> 0:11:32.280 but it could be in a more manageable position. So 0:11:32.320 --> 0:11:34.120 how do people feel about the economy, how to feel 0:11:34.280 --> 0:11:36.880 about the performance of the two parties? And then second 0:11:37.320 --> 0:11:40.720 said before we've never seen this spend. I think the 0:11:40.760 --> 0:11:43.080 AI folks and the other tech folks are going to 0:11:43.120 --> 0:11:45.040 kick in a lot. Elon's going to kick in a 0:11:45.080 --> 0:11:47.880 lot here at the end, because it's going to be 0:11:48.280 --> 0:11:50.360 it's going to be a clear thing. You pay enough, 0:11:50.840 --> 0:11:53.720 you may see Republicans keep the majority. So the financial 0:11:53.760 --> 0:11:56.560 advantage could be a billion and a half spread over 0:11:56.679 --> 0:11:59.560 nine Senate races in twenty five House districts. And then 0:11:59.600 --> 0:12:01.880 the question Ms Ken James Blair and the consultantc he 0:12:01.920 --> 0:12:05.480 works with make ads not just for TV, but TV 0:12:05.559 --> 0:12:08.400 is still important, make ads for radio, make ads for 0:12:08.440 --> 0:12:11.480 the Internet, make ads for social media, pay per organ 0:12:12.400 --> 0:12:17.440 content on social media that drives the message of competent 0:12:17.559 --> 0:12:21.160 and common sense versus crazy and communist. If they do 0:12:21.280 --> 0:12:23.839 that effectively, I still think they can keep the house. 0:12:24.240 --> 0:12:26.480 But they're gonna have to execute on that, and they're 0:12:26.480 --> 0:12:28.920 gonna have to hope for at least some improvement in 0:12:28.920 --> 0:12:30.160 the president's approval ratings. 0:12:30.160 --> 0:12:32.600 All right, quick break, right back more with Mark Halpern 0:12:32.679 --> 0:12:34.719 on the other side. Eight hundred and nine four one 0:12:34.800 --> 0:12:36.719 Sean this Friday our number if you want to be 0:12:36.760 --> 0:12:43.760 a part of the program as we continue. 0:12:44.480 --> 0:12:47.080 Are you sick of fake news? 0:12:47.080 --> 0:12:48.880 Well we've got you covered. 0:12:49.320 --> 0:12:54.520 Kennedy watches here and has the news you need. 0:12:56.040 --> 0:13:18.840 Sean Hennedy. 0:13:23.040 --> 0:13:25.839 Final one once with Mark Halprin, who is with us, 0:13:25.840 --> 0:13:29.440 by the way, editor in chief of two Way, talking 0:13:29.440 --> 0:13:32.480 about what's going on. And I'm telling you this so 0:13:32.559 --> 0:13:35.880 much happening. Why is it that very few people like 0:13:36.000 --> 0:13:39.680 I know based on the things you say, who you're 0:13:39.720 --> 0:13:42.679 talking to I know, based on the things you say 0:13:42.720 --> 0:13:44.679 that you look at the same things I look at. 0:13:46.840 --> 0:13:49.520 Why don't more people that are in our business do this? 0:13:50.120 --> 0:13:52.480 I mean, I know I'm a loser. You know. All 0:13:52.520 --> 0:13:55.360 I do is three hours of radio, hour TV, two 0:13:55.440 --> 0:13:58.480 podcasts a week. I'm a loser, I admit it, you know. 0:13:58.600 --> 0:14:00.480 But why don't other people work a little bit? 0:14:01.160 --> 0:14:03.160 The great question? I think a lot of particularly the 0:14:03.240 --> 0:14:06.080 younger reporters, are just not trained to actually do reporting. 0:14:06.120 --> 0:14:10.800 They're trained to aggregate on social media and and of course, 0:14:10.840 --> 0:14:12.319 as you know, a lot of people only talk to 0:14:12.360 --> 0:14:14.679 people in one party, which is never going to give 0:14:14.720 --> 0:14:16.640 you a three hundred and sixty degree view of what's 0:14:16.679 --> 0:14:22.440 going on. And it's you know, again, I have such 0:14:22.440 --> 0:14:24.800 an admiration for you, because it's easy. If you have 0:14:24.880 --> 0:14:26.520 to do as much content as you do in your 0:14:26.560 --> 0:14:28.640 tethered to microphone and camera, as much as you are, 0:14:28.840 --> 0:14:30.800 it's easy to just sort of read the wires and 0:14:30.840 --> 0:14:34.200 make it up and repeat other people's stuff. But you 0:14:34.240 --> 0:14:36.640 and I have the same attitude, which is there's stuff 0:14:36.680 --> 0:14:39.760 to know, and you can't do your on camera work, 0:14:39.760 --> 0:14:40.200 and you're on. 0:14:40.160 --> 0:14:42.360 Michael, But you're not as big a loser as I am. 0:14:42.440 --> 0:14:43.560 I'm a total loser. 0:14:44.440 --> 0:14:48.280 Well, I'm currently doing twelve hours a week that I hope. 0:14:49.320 --> 0:14:50.720 I know you are. I know you're doing a lot 0:14:50.760 --> 0:14:52.360 and you do a lot of those shows too, but 0:14:52.960 --> 0:14:55.040 I don't know. You know what it is. I think 0:14:55.040 --> 0:14:58.960 we both love it. It's a passion. We feel blessed 0:14:58.960 --> 0:14:59.680 to do what we do. 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:02.560 Yeah, we get paid to do something we do for free. 0:15:02.760 --> 0:15:06.160 You know, I've had the I don't never say that 0:15:06.680 --> 0:15:09.080 trump one said that to my bosses. I'm like, will 0:15:09.080 --> 0:15:10.520 you shush up? 0:15:10.880 --> 0:15:12.520 We wouldn't do it for free. You need a lot 0:15:12.600 --> 0:15:15.400 more money. I've traveled. People have paid me to travel 0:15:15.440 --> 0:15:17.760 to forty nine of the fifty states to cover America. 0:15:18.360 --> 0:15:23.000 That's as incredible blessing and honor and privilege and you know, 0:15:23.560 --> 0:15:25.120 and I just I wish I could do more of it. 0:15:25.120 --> 0:15:26.360 I've got a nine year old now, so I don't 0:15:26.400 --> 0:15:28.400 travel quite as much as I used to. But I'm 0:15:28.440 --> 0:15:30.640 first you'd understand the country, and the only way to 0:15:30.640 --> 0:15:32.520 do that is to talk to people. Part of why 0:15:32.640 --> 0:15:35.000 my job's good now is on two way with people 0:15:35.040 --> 0:15:37.080 from all over the country on every every morning and 0:15:37.080 --> 0:15:39.560 every night telling us what they think, so I can 0:15:39.600 --> 0:15:43.520 short circuit the time spent at LaGuardia. 0:15:44.120 --> 0:15:46.000 I love that too. You can find out anything. 0:15:46.760 --> 0:15:46.960 Mark. 0:15:47.000 --> 0:15:49.400 Appreciate you man. We'll check in with you all throughout 0:15:49.480 --> 0:15:54.520 this election season. We really appreciate your time and you're insight. 0:15:54.640 --> 0:15:57.120 Thank you. Take care eight hundred and nine four one 0:15:57.160 --> 0:15:58.440 shot or number you want to be a part of 0:15:58.440 --> 0:16:01.640 the program. I know headlines change, and you know people's 0:16:01.680 --> 0:16:04.680 attention spans. You know, the news cycles at the speed 0:16:04.720 --> 0:16:08.400 of light. But you know the world, you know of 0:16:08.720 --> 0:16:12.640 Israel still remains under threat. There are people that want 0:16:12.680 --> 0:16:15.560 to destroy the state of Israel and they have worked 0:16:15.560 --> 0:16:19.040 hard to do so. You know, all those densely populated 0:16:19.080 --> 0:16:22.160 areas targeted by Iran and their proxies. You know, you 0:16:22.200 --> 0:16:25.960 have thousands of people that are without homes, in need 0:16:26.040 --> 0:16:31.280 of basic bear humanitarian assistance, you know, the bare necessities. 0:16:32.240 --> 0:16:37.680 We're talking about life saving aid, food, water, shelter, clothing, 0:16:38.000 --> 0:16:41.920 medications for the elderly that can't get out. You know, 0:16:42.000 --> 0:16:45.000 our friends at the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, 0:16:45.040 --> 0:16:47.760 they're providing all the humanitarian assistance and for the elderly, 0:16:48.120 --> 0:16:51.640 they're providing you know, these mobile medical clinics so that 0:16:51.680 --> 0:16:54.240 they can be taken care of. But they can't do 0:16:54.320 --> 0:16:58.240 this great work without our help. They are in desperate need. 0:16:58.320 --> 0:17:00.640 There are so many people. I know the head move on, 0:17:00.880 --> 0:17:04.040 but the real need does not. Anyway, please go to 0:17:04.080 --> 0:17:06.280 their website if you can donate generously, if you can 0:17:06.359 --> 0:17:09.240 just pray for them. They're asking for prayers too. It's 0:17:09.320 --> 0:17:29.080 PREYIFCJ dot org. That's PREYIFCJ dot org. Today there's just 0:17:29.160 --> 0:17:32.120 a bill o'reiley brought this up earlier in the week 0:17:32.160 --> 0:17:36.200 and we discussed it with him during the show and Massachusetts. 0:17:36.359 --> 0:17:38.920 Now correct me, Linda if I'm wrong. They're allowing abortion 0:17:39.840 --> 0:17:43.480 up to the minute of birth. Now, at that point, 0:17:43.520 --> 0:17:47.119 when you get to month seven, eight and nine, we know, 0:17:47.480 --> 0:17:52.480 with modern technology and modern science that that baby can 0:17:52.520 --> 0:17:55.960 live outside of a mother's womb. This is not an 0:17:55.960 --> 0:18:00.760 issue of you know, somebody saying nope, sorry, you know, 0:18:00.920 --> 0:18:03.960 life begins a conception. That's not what this is saying, 0:18:04.359 --> 0:18:08.320 because at that point the embryo later becoming a fetus 0:18:08.800 --> 0:18:13.600 is not viable on its own. I personally wish people 0:18:13.600 --> 0:18:17.239 would just take individual responsibility and I don't care what 0:18:17.280 --> 0:18:18.919 you do in your private life, that's going to be 0:18:18.960 --> 0:18:21.480 up to you, not up to me, and I wish 0:18:21.520 --> 0:18:24.480 people if you're going to engage in behavior that can 0:18:24.720 --> 0:18:28.840 have consequences like a pregnancy, you know there are precautions 0:18:28.880 --> 0:18:30.760 out there if you want it. Now people might be 0:18:30.840 --> 0:18:33.720 mad that I say that, Well, I'd rather that than 0:18:33.760 --> 0:18:36.720 the choice of an abortion. Now when you get to 0:18:36.800 --> 0:18:39.840 month seven, eight nine, and this was the whole debate 0:18:39.880 --> 0:18:43.040 we used to have, you know, about partial birth abortion, 0:18:43.440 --> 0:18:46.239 because now we're talking about late term abortion and in 0:18:46.280 --> 0:18:51.200 many cases viability is real. In other words, you take 0:18:51.280 --> 0:18:55.960 that baby bo you know, at that stage of what 0:18:56.000 --> 0:18:59.800 it called gestation, and you take that baby and you 0:19:00.040 --> 0:19:01.840 take it to another part of the hospital. They will 0:19:01.840 --> 0:19:04.360 save that baby's life. That baby will grow up, put 0:19:04.400 --> 0:19:06.879 it in what do they call those things, an incubator. 0:19:06.960 --> 0:19:09.280 I don't know what they call them, but they have 0:19:09.400 --> 0:19:12.600 the means of, you know, having premies and saving them 0:19:12.880 --> 0:19:17.640 when they're very, very tiny. It's incredible technology. The idea 0:19:17.680 --> 0:19:19.840 that you're going to allow an abortion up to the 0:19:19.880 --> 0:19:24.399 moment of birth is nothing but infanticide. There's no other 0:19:24.600 --> 0:19:27.960 way to put it. Remember you had that discussion. Who 0:19:28.000 --> 0:19:30.600 was it that said Linda, Well, first the baby will 0:19:30.640 --> 0:19:34.919 be born, and then the mother will have a discussion 0:19:35.160 --> 0:19:38.560 with the doctors and then they'll decide it with somebody 0:19:38.560 --> 0:19:40.919 in Virginia. I forget where it was. It was the 0:19:40.920 --> 0:19:44.159 former governor of Virginia. Yeah, maybe we can pull that 0:19:44.200 --> 0:19:48.800 caught up too, But this is the governor of Massachusetts, 0:19:49.400 --> 0:19:52.200 you know, defending this in this moment. 0:19:52.320 --> 0:19:55.040 It is up to the states to lead, and as governor, 0:19:55.119 --> 0:19:58.280 I promise that no matter what Donald Trump or Republicans 0:19:58.280 --> 0:20:01.720 in Congress or the Secre Court does, We're going to 0:20:01.760 --> 0:20:05.680 continue to make sure that women and families have access 0:20:06.080 --> 0:20:07.760 to the healthcare that they need. 0:20:08.160 --> 0:20:11.160 Right here in Massachusetts. We're going to make. 0:20:11.080 --> 0:20:13.880 Sure that women in particular, are able to make their 0:20:13.880 --> 0:20:19.119 own health care decisions, not the government. It's why I 0:20:19.160 --> 0:20:22.600 took steps to stockpile for PRISTO three years ago when 0:20:22.600 --> 0:20:25.320 it first came under attack. It's why I signed the 0:20:25.359 --> 0:20:28.600 strongest shield blaw in the country to protect patients and 0:20:28.680 --> 0:20:31.119 doctors and nurses who provide that care. 0:20:31.920 --> 0:20:33.639 And it's why I'm signing this bill today. 0:20:34.640 --> 0:20:38.520 We believe that healthcare decisions should be made between women 0:20:38.560 --> 0:20:44.560 and families and their doctors, not politicians. Abortion will remain safe, 0:20:44.800 --> 0:20:48.000 it will remain legal, and it will remain accessible. 0:20:48.200 --> 0:20:51.240 Here in Massachusetts. That's my commitment to you. 0:20:52.240 --> 0:20:55.439 I don't know. I mean, this is where they just 0:20:55.520 --> 0:20:58.240 lose me left, right and sideways. Democrats, they just do 0:21:00.480 --> 0:21:04.040 you know, remember who was it? It was Ralph? Was 0:21:04.080 --> 0:21:07.359 it Ralph Norman? I'm trying to remember then, Virginia, No 0:21:07.359 --> 0:21:13.160 Nor I'm sorry, Ralph Northam. Let's play this cut. First, 0:21:13.240 --> 0:21:15.840 we'll make the baby comfortable. Then the mother will speak 0:21:15.880 --> 0:21:18.320 to the doctor. Remember that this became a huge story. 0:21:18.520 --> 0:21:23.320 Third trimester abortions. These are done with the consent of 0:21:23.440 --> 0:21:27.440 obviously the mother, with the consent of the physicians, more 0:21:27.480 --> 0:21:30.560 than one physician, by the way, and it's done in 0:21:30.600 --> 0:21:33.800 cases where there may be severe deformities, there may be 0:21:34.320 --> 0:21:38.080 a fetus that's non viable. So in this particular example, 0:21:38.560 --> 0:21:40.439 if a mother is in labor, I can tell you 0:21:40.520 --> 0:21:45.080 exactly what would happen. The infant would be delivered, the 0:21:45.119 --> 0:21:49.119 infant would be kept comfortable, the infant would be resuscitated 0:21:49.119 --> 0:21:52.560 if that's what the mother and the family desired, and 0:21:52.600 --> 0:21:56.280 then a discussion would ensue between the physicians. 0:21:55.680 --> 0:21:57.760 And the mother. I don't know, I mean, at what 0:21:57.880 --> 0:22:02.600