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Speaker 1: with Ted Cruz. There is so much to get to,
Speaker 1: Senator that I need your thoughts on. But before I
Speaker 1: get to any of that, did I see you on
Speaker 1: TV playing poker with some of the best poker players
Speaker 1: in the world. EU did, and it was one of
Speaker 1: the coolest things ever. I played in Poker after Dark,
Speaker 1: so I will say I was like Doyle and Phil
Speaker 1: I was giddy about. I was like, this was a
Speaker 1: bucket list thing. I told my daughters we were fourteen
Speaker 1: and eleven, and they're like, yeah, yeah, whatever, okay, some
Speaker 1: poker players, What's what's the big deal? I told them
Speaker 1: mister Beast is going to be there, and my girls
Speaker 1: lost their minds, like mister be Like, so both girls
Speaker 1: flew to Vegas to meet mister Beast. I mean, I mean,
Speaker 1: it was. Look being in the Senate, it's hard to
Speaker 1: do anything that seems remotely cool to a fourteen year
Speaker 1: old or an eleven year old, especially a fourteen year old,
Speaker 1: but for them to meet mister Beast, they thought it
Speaker 1: was the coolest thing ever. And so I played poker.
Speaker 1: They put out the first episode, so the game we
Speaker 1: played for a couple hours. They chopped it into three episodes,
Speaker 1: so part one has come out already, but there'll be
Speaker 1: two more parts. And it was it was pretty awesome. Well,
Speaker 1: I am glad that you could be a cool guy
Speaker 1: now for your daughters. That's always it's always something you
Speaker 1: strive for as a parent. You want to seem like
Speaker 1: a cool guy. I do have this question on poker, though,
Speaker 1: which is I know you love poker. There have been
Speaker 1: another a number of other politicians and statesmen who have
Speaker 1: famously loved poker. Is there something is there something about
Speaker 1: poker that just speaks to a political kind of spirit?
Speaker 1: What is it about poker that draws you to it?
Speaker 1: Because you're not You're not the first guy I've I've
Speaker 1: known who who is so into it. So poker is
Speaker 1: people um, and it's it's it's interesting you know you
Speaker 1: look at so you play poker, Poker is math. It's
Speaker 1: knowing what the odds are. It's knowing what cards you
Speaker 1: have and what are the odds and how many outs
Speaker 1: you have, And the math is important. But what I
Speaker 1: like about poker is it's reading people and it's trying
Speaker 1: to understand the person sitting across the table from you.
Speaker 1: What do they have? Are they telling you the truth
Speaker 1: or lying? Are they bluffing? Um? And it's so I've
Speaker 1: got a number of really close friends who enjoy playing poker,
Speaker 1: and we played poker for years, and and one of
Speaker 1: my closest friends, the guy who was a grown him
Speaker 1: my wedding, is a semi professional poker player and he's
Speaker 1: played multiple times in the World Series. He's actually made
Speaker 1: a final table at the World Series, not in the
Speaker 1: main event, but I think the two thousand Texas hold
Speaker 1: him event. And he and I have played a gazillion times,
Speaker 1: and we both He's beaten me a bunch of times,
Speaker 1: I've beaten him a bunch of times. We've spent a
Speaker 1: lot of hours around the poker table. What's interesting is
Speaker 1: that he is, in terms of the math, clearly a
Speaker 1: better poker player. Than I am. I can do the math,
Speaker 1: but I don't study it to the level of know
Speaker 1: it to the precision that he does. I spend much
Speaker 1: more time reading the players, and so we'll have hands
Speaker 1: where I'll beat him and it'll be like, what the
Speaker 1: hell were you doing? That made no sense? Why would
Speaker 1: you call me there? And I answer it because you
Speaker 1: didn't want me to. It may not have it may
Speaker 1: not have made sense. If you'd had the cards, it
Speaker 1: would have been a terrible call. But I knew you
Speaker 1: didn't want me to. You wanted me to lay down
Speaker 1: my cards, which is why I called you, which is
Speaker 1: why I took your damn money. So hand me your
Speaker 1: chips and look. Sometimes you get the read wrong, sometimes
Speaker 1: you don't. You know, you think you know what's and
Speaker 1: obviously that's part of what makes poker fun, is projecting weakness,
Speaker 1: projecting you know you're trying to fool the other players.
Speaker 1: But it's I grew up, Actually I learned to play
Speaker 1: poker's a little kid. My grandmother, my mother's mother, Irish
Speaker 1: Italian grandmother, great card player. She played bridge every week
Speaker 1: for probably seventy years. But she would would baby sit
Speaker 1: me when I was a little kid. When I was
Speaker 1: eight ten years old, my parents would drop me off
Speaker 1: at my grandparents for them to babysit me. And my
Speaker 1: grandmother would sit down and taught me to play poker.
Speaker 1: And she had a medal ten of buttons, and we
Speaker 1: would play with buttons as chips, and some of the
Speaker 1: buttons were costume jewelry and it was like fake diamonds.
Speaker 1: So I'd like take the fake diamond and say one
Speaker 1: million dollars, and I just you know, make up whatever
Speaker 1: it was, you know, if they looked fancy and we're glittery,
Speaker 1: and I always would win. As a little kid, I
Speaker 1: would win and I would win and I would win,
Speaker 1: and I felt pretty good about myself. And when I
Speaker 1: was I don't know, about ten years old, I came
Speaker 1: and said, hey, granny, let's play for real money. And
Speaker 1: she said, okay, sure, And I had five dollars, which
Speaker 1: five dollars at the time, my allowance was fifty cents
Speaker 1: a week, so that was ten weeks allowance that I had.
Speaker 1: And I sat down and played with her, and she
Speaker 1: took every penny from me. She wiped me out. My
Speaker 1: mom came to pick me up, and I was crying.
Speaker 1: As a ten year old. I was in tears, and
Speaker 1: my grandmother's just cracking up laughing. You know what Irish
Speaker 1: Italian grandmother said, gone home, Sonny, Well, welcome to the
Speaker 1: big leagues. Two and a half months pay that that's
Speaker 1: pretty tought. It got your attention that well, Okay, that
Speaker 1: actually makes sense to me because I have heard people
Speaker 1: describe this to me that poker it's not really about
Speaker 1: the cards. It's not really as you say, about the numbers.
Speaker 1: It's it can be about money, can be about how
Speaker 1: people relate to money and risk and threat, and it's
Speaker 1: really it's really about people. It's about people reading other people.
Speaker 1: So this actually leads us perfectly into what I really
Speaker 1: want to talk about today, which is the Democrats who
Speaker 1: are in power seem to be completely misreading the situation.
Speaker 1: You've got three huge they've You've got a lot of blunders,
Speaker 1: but as I can see it, three really really big,
Speaker 1: prominent blunders they're making right now on the economic front.
Speaker 1: Not only have they made a lot of poor economic
Speaker 1: decisions that have hurt the country and certainly their political position,
Speaker 1: but they're not backing away from them. They're they're doubling down.
Speaker 1: When it comes to energy, they're doubling down when it
Speaker 1: comes to so many aspects of the economy. On the
Speaker 1: cultural social issues, they're defending drag queens, jiggling for kids,
Speaker 1: actual little tiny children in bars twenty one plus bars
Speaker 1: in Texas of all places, they're defending it. And then
Speaker 1: they're they're coming on crime. They're they're still so weak
Speaker 1: on crime. The das the mayors that you're seeing real
Speaker 1: significant challenges from the right in San Francisco. You've got
Speaker 1: a recall of the district attorney. In Los Angeles, now
Speaker 1: you've got a big fight for the mayor and a
Speaker 1: sort of kind of Republican is posing a big challenge.
Speaker 1: What the hell are the Democrats thinking? You know, Michael,
Speaker 1: it reminds me of do you remember those videos that
Speaker 1: would come out every Spring break, Girls Gone Wild, and
Speaker 1: it would have lots of college women in bikinis or
Speaker 1: not bikinis. It reminds me of much the same thing.
Speaker 1: This is liberals gone wild, This is the craze left
Speaker 1: that this is AOC and Elizabeth Warren, thank god, not
Speaker 1: in bikinis, but embracing their socialist nuttiness. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: literally like someone sat down at a bar and said,
Speaker 1: how much crazy crap can we do? Like, how far
Speaker 1: can we go to drive away not just the conservatives
Speaker 1: that's a given, not even just the moderate, it's not
Speaker 1: even just the independence, but what can we do to
Speaker 1: drive away good old fashioned liberals who are not nuts?
Speaker 1: I do want to clarify Senator just on the girls
Speaker 1: going wild point, I only ever watched that for the articles.
Speaker 1: You know, I was just stalling, obviously, but I totally see.
Speaker 1: I think the analogy is very good that they've gone
Speaker 1: to extremes and followed their own wildest impulses. So what
Speaker 1: what is going to happen to them in these these
Speaker 1: elections that are really coming up right before us? Now
Speaker 1: you're looking Los Angeles, you're looking at the recall in
Speaker 1: San Francisco. It's not Republicans recalling these guys. It's not
Speaker 1: Republicans who are who are going to be voting primarily
Speaker 1: in the LA elections. So what are the elected Democrats
Speaker 1: gonna do? Are they gonna moderate or they're gonna get
Speaker 1: wiped out? So I don't know what they're gonna do
Speaker 1: this week, but I know what they're going to do
Speaker 1: in November. They're gonna get obliterated. November. It is going
Speaker 1: to be an historic election. It's every issue is so extreme. Look,
Speaker 1: there are people Bill Maher. Bill Maher is an old
Speaker 1: school liberal who they are driving away Elon Musk. Elon
Speaker 1: Musk has been a Democrat his whole life. They are
Speaker 1: driving him away where he said, Okay, I'm voting Republican now.
Speaker 1: Because these guys are nuts, and you think about it,
Speaker 1: all right, let's take the drag queen thing. Like, listen,
Speaker 1: this is not about homosexuality. It's not even about transgenderism.
Speaker 1: If you want to if consenting a doll want to
Speaker 1: do it, consenting adults want to do fine, knock yourself out,
Speaker 1: but leave the kids alone. I mean, this is not
Speaker 1: rocket science. Listen. If if you had straight women who
Speaker 1: were strippers and you had five year olds tucking dollars
Speaker 1: in their g strings, you and I would be appalled
Speaker 1: because kids have no business being sexualized. And it's where Look,
Speaker 1: this is the radical extreme left that they want to
Speaker 1: sexualize little kids. So they're in this gay bar. They've
Speaker 1: got transgender drag queens where they're tucking dollars in their
Speaker 1: g strings and these are little kids, like what it's
Speaker 1: it's the whole you know the misname don't say gay
Speaker 1: law in Florida? What is it with the radical left
Speaker 1: wanting to teach kindergarteners about sex? Gay sex, straight sex?
Speaker 1: How about just no se x for five year olds?
Speaker 1: That ought to be a really simple rule that only
Speaker 1: the crazy left doesn't get. Well. You make a really
Speaker 1: interesting point here too on strip clubs. If if instead
Speaker 1: of the gay bar with the drag queens wearing skimpy
Speaker 1: clothing and have kids putting dollars in their various uh,
Speaker 1: scantily attire, you know, scanty attire, if instead of that
Speaker 1: you had kids walking into a plain, old, regular strip
Speaker 1: club with real women there jiggling around, you would have
Speaker 1: people calling child protective services in the blink of an
Speaker 1: eye as well they should, so, I guess in a
Speaker 1: in a certain way, it does have a tie in
Speaker 1: with the LGBT movement inasmuch as there's a complete double
Speaker 1: standard here, and when it's drag queens doing it, it's
Speaker 1: celebrated in the parents are taking the kids themselves. I
Speaker 1: think how crazy this is that this is parents taking
Speaker 1: their kids to this look like look, we've discussed how
Speaker 1: our culture has just become twisted like protecting the innocence
Speaker 1: of kids ought to be something everyone can agree with,
Speaker 1: and it's it's where you're saying, or you know, I mean,
Speaker 1: let's look at the fact that the DA in San
Speaker 1: Francisco is facing a recall chessa bodine or chisard. I'm
Speaker 1: not sure how you pronounce it, never know how to
Speaker 1: pronounce it. Yeah, but he's the son of two radical
Speaker 1: weather underground terrorists who were convicted of terrorist bombing, like
Speaker 1: like literally the DA was raised by convicted terrorists, and
Speaker 1: he's one of the many George Soros das that got
Speaker 1: elected and decided I've got a great idea, let's not
Speaker 1: prosecute criminals. Let's let violent criminals go. Isn't this a
Speaker 1: wonderful idea? If we let violent criminals go, will be
Speaker 1: so enlightened. And even the people of San Francisco are saying,
Speaker 1: what the hell are you doing? Like we're liberals, we're
Speaker 1: all four ninety percent tax rates or whatever it is
Speaker 1: that they're for, but could you not let murderers like
Speaker 1: wander the streets? Well, Democrats see that there's that issue, right,
Speaker 1: So it's not you know, it's not just the Republicans.
Speaker 1: It's not just the moderates Democrats are waking up to this.
Speaker 1: But I do wonder if it's if it's not just
Speaker 1: that the liberals have gone totally crazy. I mean, maybe
Speaker 1: they already work crazy. But you saw many decades ago
Speaker 1: you would see liberal leftist radical theorists writing about all
Speaker 1: these things, how in order to have true revolutionary change
Speaker 1: in America, we need to abolish the police, we need
Speaker 1: to radically redesign the prison systems. They would talk about
Speaker 1: how we need to sexualize children in order to get
Speaker 1: rid of all of their old, stodgy traditional prejudices about sex.
Speaker 1: For goodness sakes, Bernie Sanders wrote essays about this in
Speaker 1: the nineteen sixties. Even on the economy, you've had not
Speaker 1: just the radical theory, but Barack Obama, even members of
Speaker 1: the Obama administration saying, we need to increase prices for
Speaker 1: fossil fuels. We need to create actually some economic hardship,
Speaker 1: because that's the only thing that's going to motivate people
Speaker 1: to go in and finally revolutionize the economy. You've seen
Speaker 1: them talking about this stuff in a way that shows
Speaker 1: their long term political goals, which is, to quote Barack
Speaker 1: Obama to fundamentally transform America. And I guess I wonder
Speaker 1: if what you're seeing right now is that those long
Speaker 1: term goals are just Democrats getting out a little ahead
Speaker 1: of their skis here, and there's so much short term
Speaker 1: pain and confusion that maybe that their own constituents are
Speaker 1: going to say no. So, Michael, I'm sorry. I'm still
Speaker 1: traumatized because about halfway through what you said there, you
Speaker 1: invoked Bernie Sanders and sex. And that's just an image
Speaker 1: I don't need to see. I've got to walk off
Speaker 1: the Senate floor and see him with his white hair
Speaker 1: sticking straight up in the air, and I just don't
Speaker 1: need to That's an image I could have avoid. Look,
Speaker 1: it is all right, let's take gas prices. It is
Speaker 1: truly amazing watching the corporate press try to bend over
Speaker 1: backwards to say, none of this is Biden's fault, It's
Speaker 1: Putin's fault, it's global markets. Is this it is that?
Speaker 1: It's the other Biden literally campaign saying I'm going to
Speaker 1: shut down oil and gas drilling in the United States.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna shut it down on federal lands, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: shut it down, I'm shore the Green New Deal, I'm
Speaker 1: going to embrace. Biden has implemented literally dozens of policies
Speaker 1: designed to attack, to hurt, to shut down domestic energy
Speaker 1: production in the United States. He's done it over and
Speaker 1: over and over and over again. So he promised he
Speaker 1: would do it. He's followed through on that promise, and
Speaker 1: the predicted effect of that is prices have doubled. And
Speaker 1: by the way, the socialists want prices to double, because
Speaker 1: what they're saying is, you, Joe sixpack, make the decision.
Speaker 1: We don't like you drive a pickup truck. Mom. Maybe
Speaker 1: you drive a suburban, maybe you drive a minivan. And
Speaker 1: here's what we're gonna do. We're gonna make your life
Speaker 1: so miserable that you have to spend one hundred bucks
Speaker 1: or one hundred and fifty bucks to fill up your
Speaker 1: car a truck that you're going to get rid of
Speaker 1: it and buy a Prius, which is what we want
Speaker 1: you to do. And so we're going to keep hurting
Speaker 1: you until you make the enlightened decision that we your
Speaker 1: betters do. By the way, this past week, I don't
Speaker 1: know if you saw, the EU is putting taxes on fuel,
Speaker 1: on jet fuel, but they exempted private jets because of
Speaker 1: course they did. This is called the John Kerry exception.
Speaker 1: These guys are mister Burns. They are wealthy, out of touch,
Speaker 1: living in opulent riches. But then when they do what
Speaker 1: they promised they would do, implement policies to hurt domestic
Speaker 1: energy production, to drive gas prices up, suddenly they discover
Speaker 1: weight people don't like spending one hundred and fifty bucks
Speaker 1: to fill up their truck, right, And then they just
Speaker 1: try to blatant lead light to you. I'm really hoping
Speaker 1: that you know now the people are kind of people
Speaker 1: of all parties actually are pulling the radicals back from
Speaker 1: the brink. But I wonder if the radicals and the
Speaker 1: people who have been in charge have secured those kind
Speaker 1: of longer term victories. I look this past week at
Speaker 1: Joe Biden invoking the Defense Production Act because there is
Speaker 1: this energy crisis. Energy costs have gone through the roof.
Speaker 1: Gas has doubled since the man's been president. And so
Speaker 1: what does he do. Does he invoke that provision of
Speaker 1: the law or some other provision to open up oil drilling, No,
Speaker 1: to I don't know, create a new nuclear powers. No,
Speaker 1: what is he doing? It's it's to produce solar panels.
Speaker 1: It's to give the left what they've wanted for a
Speaker 1: long time that I don't see any way will actually
Speaker 1: bring down an energy costs, certainly not anytime soon. One,
Speaker 1: how does he do that? The White House hasn't explained
Speaker 1: what emergency he's responding to that requires solar panels. But two,
Speaker 1: are they getting what they want? Are they? Are they
Speaker 1: as we've heard from from which I forget the name
Speaker 1: of the Emmanuel brother there's Ari, and there's Zeke, and
Speaker 1: there's the one that I'm talking about. Gosh, I can't
Speaker 1: believe his name escapes me. But you know, one of
Speaker 1: the one of the worst Democrats you know in modern politics.
Speaker 1: You know, never to let a crisis go to a
Speaker 1: rom There we go. I can't believe I forgot the
Speaker 1: most famous of the Emmanuel brothers names. I remember the
Speaker 1: Hollywood one and the doctor one, but not rom saying
Speaker 1: never let a crisis go to waste? Are they even
Speaker 1: as they're losing support even among their own guys right now?
Speaker 1: Are they? Are they scoring those long term political wins?
Speaker 1: So I actually think there are some voices among Democrats,
Speaker 1: and it wouldn't surprise me if Emmanuel is one of
Speaker 1: them that is wondering, what in the hell are you
Speaker 1: people doing? They're people like James Carville, who listen. James
Speaker 1: Carville is smart as all get out. He's one of
Speaker 1: the most effective Democrats. You know Mary Madelin, his wife,
Speaker 1: Mary as a friend. She's been a supporter of mine.
Speaker 1: So I've been to Mary and James's home, and he's
Speaker 1: he is an effective adversary. He's a Democrat, but he
Speaker 1: actually gets he's not nuts, and he's looking at his
Speaker 1: own party and it's like, Okay, you people are are
Speaker 1: you trying to lose every congressional race in America? I mean,
Speaker 1: that's not a quote, but but there are definitely Listen.
Speaker 1: Bill Maher is an interesting example, and we've talked about
Speaker 1: at some point. I hope we have Bill on this show.
Speaker 1: I've never met Bill Maher, but more and more I'm
Speaker 1: watching his diatribes and I'm retweeting them. Not because he
Speaker 1: and I agree. He is an old school liberal, but
Speaker 1: he does believe in free speech, which the left is abandoned.
Speaker 1: You know, he recently had a monologue where he was
Speaker 1: talking about like sexuality and the explosion of people that
Speaker 1: are identifying as other genders, and identifying as gay. And
Speaker 1: he went, you know, through like like in history, this
Speaker 1: was not the case, and we've suddenly had this dramatic
Speaker 1: shift which we're not even supposed to talk about it.
Speaker 1: He raised an interesting point. He said, well, they're big
Speaker 1: regional differences in say, California, the number of people who
Speaker 1: identify as forty seven genders versus in Youngstown, Ohio. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and he said, either there's a lot of peer pressure
Speaker 1: and social pressure in California or there's a lot of
Speaker 1: suppression in Ohio. But we had to talk about that.
Speaker 1: There's apparently a fundamental transformational shift of humanity that we're
Speaker 1: not talking about. And I got to say that, frankly,
Speaker 1: sounded like something Michael Knowles would say. Yeah, you gotta
Speaker 1: wonder is there anyone left in the Democratic Party who
Speaker 1: can actually talk to a steel worker. Yeah. Look like
Speaker 1: they have become this angry fringe, wealthy urban radical elite
Speaker 1: that is appealing to a smaller and smaller It's like
Speaker 1: the Yale faculty, Yeah, is their constituency. And I gotta say, thankfully,
Speaker 1: the country is not the Yale faculty. And it seems
Speaker 1: that today's Democrats don't get that, you know, This is
Speaker 1: actually making me feel a bit better, because we tend
Speaker 1: to spend a lot of time online. And it is
Speaker 1: true that the boundaries of what is acceptable in society
Speaker 1: have been basically blown to smithereens. I mean, even five
Speaker 1: years ago, the thought of a little kid going into
Speaker 1: a drag bar and putting a dollar, I mean that
Speaker 1: that would be unthinkable. So because we've seen the limits
Speaker 1: get blown to smith reens, it's very easy to fall
Speaker 1: down this pit of despair and say, oh gosh, the
Speaker 1: country is gone. We might as well give up the fight.
Speaker 1: But to your point, Senator, they may not be doing
Speaker 1: this kind of stuff out of confidence, out of the
Speaker 1: feeling that they've got the wind at their sales. Actually,
Speaker 1: you might be seeing the kind of defiance you're getting
Speaker 1: from the administration on the economy, the radicalism on sex
Speaker 1: and the drag shows, even the defiance on crime and
Speaker 1: criminal justice. You might be seeing that more out of
Speaker 1: desperation from Democrats now who know that perhaps their time
Speaker 1: in office is going to be dwindling, because there's a
Speaker 1: very large movement not just of Republicans but of moderates
Speaker 1: and some Democrats too, who are ready to throw them
Speaker 1: out and ready to shift that pendulum back. But I
Speaker 1: guess we won't. There's a little optimism to leave on.
Speaker 1: There's a little hope to leave on. But I suppose
Speaker 1: we won't know until those elections take place. By the
Speaker 1: time this pod comes out, the world will know whether
Speaker 1: Chessabudin's been recalled or not. I don't know whether it
Speaker 1: will be or not. It's it's but in some ways,
Speaker 1: whether he is or not, the point is the same,
Speaker 1: because the fact that it is real and close and
Speaker 1: significant is powerful, even if he ekes out surviving or
Speaker 1: I hope is recalled. You know, Los Angeles there's a
Speaker 1: vigorous primary for mayor. A few months ago it was
Speaker 1: assumed that Karen Bass, the extremely liberal Democrat congresswoman, was
Speaker 1: a shoe in. And you know now there is at
Speaker 1: least a vigorously contested primary with a billionaire developer who
Speaker 1: has been a Republican much of his life. He's running
Speaker 1: in a Democrat primary. Just to tip the hat to it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I gotta say, if you're in LA, look you
Speaker 1: fled LA. I mean the crime issue. I remember a
Speaker 1: couple of years ago, I was visiting with a cop
Speaker 1: in California. Used to be an LA cop, and he
Speaker 1: showed me on his own a picture of a tree
Speaker 1: in downtown LA that was just covered with hypodermic needles,
Speaker 1: thousands of needles, where the junkies just threw the needles
Speaker 1: in the trees. And at some point people say, wait,
Speaker 1: this is nuts. You look at the beaches where you've
Speaker 1: got homeless people just allowed to take them over engage
Speaker 1: in violence. Listen, you you fled La, So yeah, why
Speaker 1: did you? Why am I telling you about the place
Speaker 1: you fled? Why did you flee? Well, for all of
Speaker 1: those reasons, obviously, Plus there were the economic reasons, you know,
Speaker 1: the owner's regulation, all of the constant you know, tax hikes,
Speaker 1: and I think the California Franchise Tax Board is basically
Speaker 1: worse than the mafia at this point. But then there
Speaker 1: is this basic safety issue. And I will tell you
Speaker 1: friends of mine who have fled lay. Not all of
Speaker 1: my friends in LA were conservative. I mean, if if
Speaker 1: that were the case, I'd have very few friends in
Speaker 1: LA because there just aren't that many conservatives. And there
Speaker 1: were a lot of liberal friends who were making the
Speaker 1: same comments about crime, and so people really are getting
Speaker 1: sick of that stuff. You can see blue places turn
Speaker 1: on these kinds of issues. You saw it happen in
Speaker 1: New York and the nineties, you might be seeing that
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles right now. The very fact that these
Speaker 1: keep cropping up, these hotly contested elections with lots of
Speaker 1: momentum behind the center or center right candidate, that shows
Speaker 1: you that something is in the air right now. And
Speaker 1: so I'm not surprised that the Democrats are throwing everything
Speaker 1: they've got. They're throwing the kitchen sink right now. And
Speaker 1: I know one way they're trying to distract is they're
Speaker 1: trying to distract with the January sixth Partisan Committee in
Speaker 1: the House. And I also know that our friend Liz
Speaker 1: Wheeler will be discussing this with you, and specifically the
Speaker 1: arrest of former Trump aid Peter Navarro on the cloak room.
Speaker 1: Isn't that right, Liz, Hi Michael Eyes Hunter. First of all,
Speaker 1: before we even get into that topic, I want to
Speaker 1: thank you both for that disturbing image of Bernie Sanders
Speaker 1: has now burned into my mind for all eternity. I
Speaker 1: listen to this, I'd lose to this whole episode sit
Speaker 1: to write with you, and this is what I get
Speaker 1: in return is this image of Bernie Sanders. Just for
Speaker 1: the record, Liz, that was Michael. That was not me.
Speaker 1: I was a victim in that imagery as well. You're welcome,
Speaker 1: all right. So we are going to talk about Peter
Speaker 1: Navarro on Cloakroom. This is a very interesting conversation because
Speaker 1: it's not just about the January sixth Committee. That's obviously partisan.
Speaker 1: It's obviously a showboat trial if you will. I mean
Speaker 1: they hired an ABC News executive to produce it, to
Speaker 1: make it a primetime a primetime event here. But the
Speaker 1: arrest of Peter Navarro itself is a constitutional question because
Speaker 1: what he claimed was executive privilege that he couldn't testify
Speaker 1: because this was not his information to give that. It
Speaker 1: was actually President Trump's information to either divulge or claim
Speaker 1: executive privilege. And there's a very interesting constitutional question about
Speaker 1: whether it's even legal for Congress to have indicted him
Speaker 1: without the court intervening. And we are going to dive
Speaker 1: into the details of that today. You can join us.
Speaker 1: Of course, we invite you too. We hope you will
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