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Vince Ignites Trump-Thune Clash | Episode 338 · V

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  Speaker 1: Hey everybody, welcome to Vince on a Friday. It is
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  Speaker 1: so good to have you with us as always. We
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  Speaker 1: have a big show ahead. Have we instigated a new
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  Speaker 1: level of conflict between the leader of the country and
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  Speaker 1: the leader of the Republicans in the Senate?
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  Speaker 2: Maybe.
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  Speaker 1: We'll talk about that in just a moment and the
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  Speaker 1: edition of Vince. And is the Save America Act in
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  Speaker 1: it's wild. Did I do that? Is that what happened?
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  Speaker 1: To start with a little Steve Urkel for you this morning.
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  Speaker 1: Did I do that? What just happened? You know, the
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  Speaker 1: president of the United States went to Georgia two nights ago.
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  Speaker 1: The Donnie went down to Georgia. And when he got
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  Speaker 1: there on that rally stage, you and I began to
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  Speaker 1: perceive that something was changing about his relationship with John Foon,
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  Speaker 1: the leader of the Republicans in the Senate. Because the
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  Speaker 1: president was pretty explicitly calling him out by name and
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  Speaker 1: declaring that the real impediment to election integrity in the
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  Speaker 1: United States right now is Republicans in the Senate, quite unfortunately.
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  Speaker 1: This is the president of the United States. Now, he's
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  Speaker 1: stating something you and I have known for a year now,
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  Speaker 1: at least. And he but the fact that he's stating
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  Speaker 1: it so publicly is a sign that we're reaching a
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  Speaker 1: new level in this battle. Reminder, here's what the president
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  Speaker 1: said two nights ago in Georgia about the Save America Act.
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  Speaker 1: And of course, as we start, I want to make
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  Speaker 1: sure to gavel in, as always, got to do that.
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  Speaker 1: The Save America Act. Here's the president.
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  Speaker 3: Finally, we have to pass the Save America Act to
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  Speaker 3: defend American elections. And I have to say, Mike Johnson
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  Speaker 3: and Congress have done a great job, but we're.
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  Speaker 4: Having a hard time in the Senate. The Senate, what
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  Speaker 4: they're doing is just— it's just not right. Congress is
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  Speaker 4: going to pass it again. They passed it three times.
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  Speaker 4: They're going to pass it again. It's like the Senate
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  Speaker 4: is a place that you send things when you want
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  Speaker 4: them to die. We can't do this then. We're not
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  Speaker 4: going to take this any longer. We're not going to
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  Speaker 4: take it. You know, I'm trying to be nice. Trying
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  Speaker 4: to be really nice. You saw we had a big
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  Speaker 4: victory last night in Arizona.
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  Speaker 2: I've had victories everywhere.
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  Speaker 4: But we're not going to be able to take it
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  Speaker 4: much longer. When they can't get past voter ID, proof
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  Speaker 4: of citizenship, no mail-in ballots because they're crooked as hell.
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  Speaker 1: We're not going to be able to take it much longer.
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  Speaker 1: So who should we call, Mr. President? How do we
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  Speaker 1: resolve this? Well, he had advice on that, too. Here's
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  Speaker 1: the president now, again, two nights ago, telling everyone they
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  Speaker 1: need to call John Thune. Take a listen to the
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  Speaker 1: president talking about this.
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  Speaker 4: Everybody call John Thune at the Senate. He's the leader
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  Speaker 4: of the Republican Party, and tell him to get this
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  Speaker 4: stuff approved.
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  Speaker 1: Call John Thune. That's who you got to call. You
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  Speaker 1: got to call John Thune. Now, you probably are wondering
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  Speaker 1: to yourself, Vince, how do I call John Thune?
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  Speaker 2: You ready?
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  Speaker 1: You have a piece of paper? I'm going to write
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  Speaker 1: this down. I'm going to give you the number here.
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  Speaker 1: And as I give you the number, of course, when
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  Speaker 1: you make this phone call, be polite, be sincere, and
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  Speaker 1: be insistent that we get the Save America Act passed,
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  Speaker 1: not merely that you want it passed, but that you
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  Speaker 1: want him to employ the means to actually pass it.
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  Speaker 1: Here's the number for all patriotic Americans who'd like to
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  Speaker 1: make the call today. It's 202-224-2321. And if we can
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  Speaker 1: put that in chat, maybe we can pin that today.
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  Speaker 1: on the chat if one of the mods could do
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  Speaker 1: that for us on the live show. That is 202-224-2321
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  Speaker 1: is how you reach out to John Thune, the President
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  Speaker 1: of the United States, asking for that homework to get
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  Speaker 1: that done. So there's the president. He's being a little
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  Speaker 1: more explicit about this subject now. So one would conclude,
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  Speaker 1: as I did yesterday with you, that Donald Trump's patience
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  Speaker 1: is running out with John Thune. So yesterday at the
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  Speaker 1: conclusion of our program, you're probably wondering, well, Vince, what
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  Speaker 1: do you have to do with all this other than
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  Speaker 1: the fact that we cover this so routinely? Great question.
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  Speaker 1: I'm glad you asked. Yesterday morning, right as we concluded
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  Speaker 1: our podcast, it is, let's see, nine o'clock Eastern time.
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  Speaker 1: Right as the podcast is over, I get a call
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  Speaker 1: from my White House correspondent, Reagan Reese. And Reagan, as
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  Speaker 1: she does with some frequency, will call me and we'll
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  Speaker 1: talk about the day's events and what questions she might
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  Speaker 1: ask at the White House. And one of the questions
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  Speaker 1: I put forward to her yesterday was, well, why don't
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  Speaker 1: you ask him straight up? Ask Caroline Leavitt when you're
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  Speaker 1: in the press conference. Has the president's patience run out?
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  Speaker 1: Is it running out with John Thune? Well, Caroline Leavitt
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  Speaker 1: then answered our question, the question that this audience has.
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  Speaker 1: Is that actually happening? Here's that moment yesterday in the
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  Speaker 1: White House press briefing, and this blew up Washington. Watch this.
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  Speaker 5: One question for you on Thune and then one.
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  Speaker 6: On Darlene Graham. The president seemed yesterday frustrated with Leader
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  Speaker 6: Thune when he was speaking in Georgia.
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  Speaker 7: Is his patience running out with Leader Thune?
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  Speaker 8: And then the president recently endorsed Darlene Graham right after her.
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  Speaker 1: Appointment to Senate.
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  Speaker 6: What caused him to endorse her so quickly?
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  Speaker 8: The president met with Darlene and thought she will be
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  Speaker 8: a great representative for the great people of South Carolina
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  Speaker 8: and will carry on her brother's legacy of public service
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  Speaker 8: in that beautiful state. So the president is fully supportive
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  Speaker 8: of Darlene and her honorable decision to run and, again,
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  Speaker 8: to continue her brother's legacy. With respect to your first
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  Speaker 8: question on— remind me.
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  Speaker 5: Hi.
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  Speaker 1: Soon if his patience is running out?
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  Speaker 8: Look, the president spoke about this directly yesterday. His patience
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  Speaker 8: is running out. He wants to see as much of
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  Speaker 8: the Save America passed as possible by the August recess.
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  Speaker 8: He knows that's what the American people want to see passed.
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  Speaker 8: He was just traveling on the road yesterday, spoke about this,
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  Speaker 8: and there was a Very loud applause from the people
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  Speaker 8: in the audience, the everyday Americans, because voter ID is
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  Speaker 8: common sense. They want proof of citizenship in our elections.
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  Speaker 8: And the president feels very strongly about that. And I
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  Speaker 8: would just add, you know, the American people elected overwhelmingly
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  Speaker 8: Republicans to lead not just this White House, but also
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  Speaker 8: the House and the Senate.
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  Speaker 1: The House did its job.
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  Speaker 8: The Senate needs to do its job, too. I know
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  Speaker 8: it's a brief briefing today, but you're going to hear
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  Speaker 8: from the president directly twice today at 230.
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  Speaker 1: And also the final question, the final answer at the
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  Speaker 1: White House press briefing yesterday. Isn't it nice to have
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  Speaker 1: a real White House correspondent inside of that room? Isn't
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  Speaker 1: it nice to have somebody asking questions sincerely for the
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  Speaker 1: American people? Isn't it nice that we have a White
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  Speaker 1: House that will actually answer them? Isn't it just also nice?
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  Speaker 1: It's wonderful. It's wonderful. Now, that nice moment caused a
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  Speaker 1: lot of chaos in Washington, D.C. yesterday. Things apparently reached
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  Speaker 1: a new level immediately just by Caroline Leavitt stating the obvious,
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  Speaker 1: that the president of the United States is running out
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  Speaker 1: of patience with John Thune. Well, John Thune then instantly
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  Speaker 1: lashed back at Caroline Leavitt. Now, I'll note he lashes
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  Speaker 1: back specifically at her. Of course, Whatever ire he has
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  Speaker 1: on this subject should be directed at the impediments to
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  Speaker 1: passing the Save America Act that exists within the Republican
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  Speaker 1: Party in the Senate. And also, he doesn't have the
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  Speaker 1: courage to go after President Trump directly. So he goes
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  Speaker 1: after Caroline Leavitt. And here's what he said yesterday, right after.
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  Speaker 2: All of this.
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  Speaker 1: And just to give you a sense of how big
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  Speaker 1: this was in D.C., the White House account, the White
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  Speaker 1: House account immediately shared the clip of This is the
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  Speaker 1: rapid response account at the White House. They shared this. Additionally,
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  Speaker 1: Elon Musk's America PAC also posted this clip online immediately yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: that the president's patience is running out. So that's great
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  Speaker 1: on all counts because it means that the pressure is on,
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  Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen. And here's what John Thune told Punchbowl yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: the Capitol Hill news outlet. They wrote this. Thune fires back, saying,
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  Speaker 1: She or somebody else ought to get on the phone
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  Speaker 1: and get the votes, right? So instead of pointing the
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  Speaker 1: finger at Republicans, they might think about going after the
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  Speaker 1: people who are stopping it on the floor, which is
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  Speaker 1: the Democrats. And if there are Republicans that they think
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  Speaker 1: are gettable, get on the phone. Let's get them to yes. Now, Chad,
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  Speaker 1: whose job is it to get the votes? Is it
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  Speaker 1: Caroline Leavitt's? or is it John Thunes? You know the
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  Speaker 1: answer to that. In fact, it's not just John Thunes,
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  Speaker 1: it's all of Republican leadership in the United States Senate,
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  Speaker 1: and that includes the majority whip, John Barrasso, who should
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  Speaker 1: be whipping these votes, who should be whipping the effort
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  Speaker 1: to get the Save America Act passed. So Thune, once again,
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  Speaker 1: is pretending like it's everybody else's responsibility. Caroline Leavitt, that
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  Speaker 1: is her responsibility? What are you going to ask random
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  Speaker 1: dog catchers to do your job too? This has nothing
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  Speaker 1: to do with her job. Her job is to be
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  Speaker 1: the spokeswoman for the president of the United States. And
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  Speaker 1: she's not conveying her own opinion on this subject. No
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  Speaker 1: doubt she agrees with the president. I'm sure of that.
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  Speaker 1: But she's telling you the president's opinion. She said his
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  Speaker 1: patience is running out. So why are you attacking her?
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  Speaker 1: Why are you suggesting that she needs to get on
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  Speaker 1: the phone and work for these votes? Why don't you
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  Speaker 1: go after the president if that's what you want to do?
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  Speaker 1: It is so, I mean, it's so snake-like, actually, the
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  Speaker 1: way John Thune is reacting to this. But Thune clearly
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  Speaker 1: bothered by the fact that the White House just said
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  Speaker 1: something that was true. So there we go. That's the
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  Speaker 1: sequence of events. And then what happened yesterday among the
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  Speaker 1: rest of the Senate? Well, Republican senators, establishment ones, began
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  Speaker 1: closing ranks immediately around John Thune yesterday to protect him
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  Speaker 1: from the White House. We have to protect him. And,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and among them, of course, is Thumbelina. Thumbelina
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  Speaker 1: immediately reacting to this. The Washington Examiner had an excellent
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  Speaker 1: piece on the subject. The examiner piece was GOP rallies
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  Speaker 1: around Thune after White House says Trump's patience is running out.
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  Speaker 1: Tom Tillis, who is retiring at the end of his
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  Speaker 1: term in early January and is among a quartet of
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  Speaker 1: Senate Republicans who oppose the Save America Act, said that, quote,
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  Speaker 1: anybody in the White House who thinks he's not a
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  Speaker 1: good leader isn't qualified for their job. What? Anybody in
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  Speaker 1: the White House who thinks he's not a good leader?
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  Speaker 1: Who just said that John Thune needs to be a leader?
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  Speaker 1: I believe that was the president of the United States.
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  Speaker 1: So Tham's position is that President Trump's not qualified to
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  Speaker 1: be president? Okay, you're not qualified to be a senator.
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  Speaker 1: You need to go, and thank God you're retiring. Tham
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  Speaker 1: Tillis saw the writing on the wall, he's getting out.
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  Speaker 1: Mike Rounds of South Dakota said, sometimes the messenger isn't popular,
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  Speaker 1: meaning John Thune. He's like, oh, well, people are just
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  Speaker 1: being mean to him. But the bottom line is we
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  Speaker 1: just don't have the votes. said Thune's homestay colleague. It's
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  Speaker 1: a good bill. We don't have the votes. Take 60 votes.
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  Speaker 1: He lies. It doesn't take 60 votes. It takes 51
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  Speaker 1: if you have the courage to actually pass it. That's
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  Speaker 1: just true. So once again, the lies, isn't it amazing?
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  Speaker 1: And I know this is disheartening. It really is annoying
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  Speaker 1: to have Republicans lie so easily, so casually. Take 60 votes. Sorry,
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  Speaker 1: we can't do it. No, it doesn't. 60 votes is
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  Speaker 1: what it takes to end debate early. How many times
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  Speaker 1: have we had this conversation? Have the debate, then pass
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  Speaker 1: it with 51. Or convince people to join you and
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  Speaker 1: then end the debate with the 60 vote cloture. You
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  Speaker 1: can do that. The Civil Rights Act was passed that way.
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  Speaker 1: Susan Collins, a centrist up for reelection, says the examiner
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  Speaker 1: in a battleground race who was also against the proposal, added, quote,
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  Speaker 1: I think Thune enjoys well-deserved support from the Congress. Who
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  Speaker 1: puts members of Congress in office? Who does that? Who's
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  Speaker 1: in charge of that question? It should be the American people, actually.
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  Speaker 1: The American people are not happy. This is why they
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  Speaker 1: keep calling the phone number. This is why we have
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  Speaker 1: to keep calling. What's the number again? 202-224-2321 and leaving
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  Speaker 1: polite but sincere messages for John Thune about how we
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  Speaker 1: want to save America actually passed. Do the job. You're
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  Speaker 1: the leader. Be a leader. Collins says, I think Congress
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  Speaker 1: is very happy with Johnson. Well, yeah, I got bad
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  Speaker 1: news for Congress. The rest of us aren't. And then
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  Speaker 1: there was this punch ball again, that Capitol Hill news outlet.
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  Speaker 1: They had another quote here. This comes to us from
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  Speaker 1: some random longtime Republican operative who was too scared to
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  Speaker 1: put his name on the record. but told this guy,
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  Speaker 1: Andrew Desiderio, what he actually thought about all this. He says,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Trump knows full well that he can't flip
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  Speaker 1: these votes. Hell, he personally came to the Capitol to
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  Speaker 1: berate Senate Republicans into voting for save, and he left empty-handed.
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  Speaker 1: Look at who we're talking about. Murkowski, McConnell, Tillis, Collins,
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  Speaker 1: all members who he has savaged at one point or another,
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  Speaker 1: and now he needs their help. All of this comes
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  Speaker 1: back to one thing. What happens when Trump can't do
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  Speaker 1: something himself? He blames someone else. John Thune is Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Someone else. Oh, so, okay. So you see, establishment Republicans
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  Speaker 1: and cowardly Republican operatives who refuse to put their name
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  Speaker 1: on the record on this subject are claiming that President
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  Speaker 1: Trump is just looking for some sort of patsy, some
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  Speaker 1: sort of fall guy, somebody who can just stand in
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  Speaker 1: for him because he couldn't get the Save America Act
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  Speaker 1: passed because it was a personal failure for President Trump.
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  Speaker 1: That's what this guy wants you to believe. Won't put
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  Speaker 1: his name on the record. Also stating that Murkowski, McConnell, Tillis,
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  Speaker 1: and Collins... They all have such personal loathing for President
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  Speaker 1: Trump that they won't do the right thing for the
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  Speaker 1: country because their animus is guiding their decision-making. You see this?
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  Speaker 1: All members who Trump has savaged at one point or another,
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  Speaker 1: and now he needs their help, but they won't give
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  Speaker 1: it to him because he savaged them. And these pathetic
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  Speaker 1: little snowflakes can't handle the fact that the president got
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  Speaker 1: aggressive with them in public because he wanted some priority,
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  Speaker 1: perhaps the Save America Act, to be passed on behalf
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  Speaker 1: of the American people? Why does President Trump savage anyone?
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  Speaker 1: Why does President Trump get aggressive with anyone? The answer
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  Speaker 1: is always because it serves the fundamental purpose of pursuing
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  Speaker 1: the best outcome for the American people. That's why he
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  Speaker 1: engages in all of these fights. He doesn't need any
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  Speaker 1: of this. The guy was worth billions of dollars. He
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  Speaker 1: didn't need to become the president of the United States.
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  Speaker 1: And every time a Murkowski, a McConnell, a Tillis, a Collins,
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  Speaker 1: a Cassidy, a Cornyn, every time one of these guys
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  Speaker 1: comes out and says, I'm not doing it because I
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  Speaker 1: don't like how Trump treated me. All you're doing is
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  Speaker 1: ratifying our judgment to throw you out in the first place.
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  Speaker 1: That's it. Every time Cornyn whines about President Trump now.
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  Speaker 1: It confirms that Texas voters made the right decision. Every
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  Speaker 1: time Bill Cassidy whines about some Trump priority, it confirms
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  Speaker 1: that Louisiana voters made the right decision. Is this frustrating?
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  Speaker 1: No doubt. But if there are signs of encouragement in
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  Speaker 1: the midst of all of this is that the president
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  Speaker 1: is done with these games. His patience is running out.
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  Speaker 1: And the White House said it yesterday after we asked
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  Speaker 1: this question. And boy, it kickstarted a big storm inside
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  Speaker 1: of Washington, D.C. And I love it.
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  Speaker 2: I love it.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's totally appropriate that this storm is underway.
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  Speaker 1: Because in the midst of it, everyone's being exposed for
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  Speaker 1: who they truly are. Now, Mike Lee, who is, again,
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  Speaker 1: a champion here on Save America Act, he responded this
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  Speaker 1: way to all of it yesterday. He said, it's hard
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: to accept that any senator... Democrat or Republican would not
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: want the Save America Act to pass. It's even harder
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: to understand why some who should be the most supportive
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: of the bill seem oddly content with letting it fail
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: or even eager to hasten its demise. It makes no sense.
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: Once again, Mike Lee is being nice. Sometimes we say
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: too nice to the people who are working against us here.
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: The reality is Democrats want voter fraud. And Republicans, some
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: of them hate Trump, so they refuse to do the
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: right thing. Others are too lazy to do their jobs.
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: And everyone who's standing in our way right now needs
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: to be voted out so we can get real election integrity.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: It's just true. Mike Lee stays in the fight, but
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: that's the situation we're in right now. All right, more
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: in just a moment. In fact, we had a great
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: moment yesterday when a Republican senator was confronted on national
• 19:40
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• 19:45
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• 19:51
  Speaker 1: An amazing clip. I'll have that in just a moment
• 19:53
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• 19:55
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• 19:59
  Speaker 1: coming up. You got to hear from Harmeet. We've got
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: her on the show today because Harmeet Dhillon has information
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: to share with us on all of the election integrity
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: problems going on in states across the country. Don't miss this.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
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  Speaker 1: So what about these Republican senators? All right, let me
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  Speaker 1: take things in order here, because I want to stay
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: on the Save America Act for a moment. Then we'll
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: get to a Republican senator being confronted on national television,
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: I promise. But on the Save America Act, you know,
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: Democrats are worried that if this passes, not just if
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: it passes, just as long as this debate stays alive,
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: that it's a huge electoral victory for Republicans. You realize
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: how absurd it is that Democrats... refuse to support a
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: piece of legislation that 90% of the country supports. Voter ID?
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: Only American citizens vote? Get the non-citizens off the voting rolls?
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: Everybody supports this stuff. So as long as the debate
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: is happening very publicly around this subject, Republicans derive a
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: benefit from being on the right side of this insofar
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: as we have a party that is. Meanwhile, Democrats have
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: no good arguments against it. It is a political stinker
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: for them. It stinks so badly that the raging Cajun,
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: James Carville, even lying in bed in an interview, what
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: is he doing lying in bed in an interview, can
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: admit that the Save America Act is a massive winner
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: for Republicans, and he wants to get past it as
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: quickly as possible. Here he is.
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: Carville, watch.
• 22:52
  Speaker 5: I don't know if we're not better off saying, okay,
• 22:56
  Speaker 5: we'll take that alternative idea, bring your gas bill or
• 22:59
  Speaker 5: your light bill or something. Because for whatever reason, this
• 23:03
  Speaker 5: shit polls at 75%. I don't think people are aware
• 23:09
  Speaker 5: of it. I think people assume that voter fraud happens. Again,
• 23:13
  Speaker 5: I don't even want to say it. If you want
• 23:16
  Speaker 5: to say infinitesimal, I don't know if I could think
• 23:18
  Speaker 5: of a word that would be even narrower than that.
• 23:21
  Speaker 5: I would say that. And I don't like when we say, well, look,
• 23:26
  Speaker 5: it's a very minor problem, but you've got to admit it.
• 23:29
  Speaker 5: It barely exists. And it doesn't make any sense. Having
• 23:34
  Speaker 5: said that, we are not going to win the war
• 23:38
  Speaker 5: against some kind of ID. It doesn't make any sense.
• 23:43
  Speaker 5: It doesn't fix anything. But maybe you just go along
• 23:46
  Speaker 5: with it and move.
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: To the next stage.
• 23:48
  Speaker 9: Well, James, let me disagree. We have voter ID in
• 23:51
  Speaker 9: most states. Most states have voter ID. What they're trying
• 23:56
  Speaker 9: to do with this so-called SAVE Act is to start
• 23:59
  Speaker 9: what they say is proof of citizenship. which is either
• 24:02
  Speaker 9: a birth certificate, which I don't know, 25, you know,
• 24:05
  Speaker 9: people have a hard, I went a couple of years ago,
• 24:07
  Speaker 9: I was going to take a trip overseas and about
• 24:09
  Speaker 9: 10 days ahead of time, I couldn't find, I spent
• 24:12
  Speaker 9: 10 days trying to get my birth certificate or secondly,
• 24:17
  Speaker 9: a passport, which most people don't have. And thirdly, you know,
• 24:20
  Speaker 9: if you talk about your birth certificate and, you know,
• 24:23
  Speaker 9: you didn't get to keep your maiden name, my wife
• 24:25
  Speaker 9: let me keep mine.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: If you didn't get to keep your.
• 24:28
  Speaker 9: Maiden name, you know, you're in trouble. So I think
• 24:30
  Speaker 9: you're absolutely right on voter ID, but we basically have it.
• 24:34
  Speaker 5: Again, if we have it, just say, okay, pass the law.
• 24:40
  Speaker 5: I mean, look, I don't want to pass that. I
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: never had a problem with it. I'm just saying of
• 24:45
  Speaker 5: all the things, people... Every poll shows 75 or better
• 24:51
  Speaker 5: say we should have some kind of an ID to vote.
• 24:55
  Speaker 5: Some say, I don't know what it is, but shit,
• 24:57
  Speaker 5: just quit fighting and go along with it.
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: All right, good, that's enough.
• 25:00
  Speaker 9: Wait a minute, let me ask you, what are you
• 25:02
  Speaker 9: going along with?
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: That's great, enough, get rid of these guys. So James
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: Carville is just saying, will you just pass it, please?
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: This is so stupid. We're destroying ourselves as a party. Now, Carville,
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: perhaps nobody's read him in on this particular subject. But
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: his party is deriving power from fraud. This is the
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: reason they don't support it. They don't want to check ID.
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: They're perfectly content with non-citizens interfering in our elections. They're
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: perfectly content with people interfering in elections who shouldn't be there.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: In fact, they're trying to protect that scheme, which is
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: why they don't want an election integrity bill to actually pass.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: Carville's not read in on that subject right now, so
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: he's thinking, he's like, what is this? This is crazy.
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: Why are we fighting back against this? This is only
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: hurting us politically.
• 25:47
  Speaker 6: Hilarious.
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: By the way, I know it's like so weird. And
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: for those of you not watching the podcast right now,
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: if you're just listening, you should know that James Carville
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: was doing that podcast interview lying in bed. I swear
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: to you. I think he put the laptop on his belly.
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: He's lying in bed. You can see the headboard behind him.
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: He's got a pillow behind his head. He's wearing his
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: USMC hat as he often wears. He did serve a
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: couple of years in the Marine Corps. Thank him for
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: his service. He's a psychopath, but thank him for his service.
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: So I don't know. I'm going to be honest with
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: you right now about this interview. I am really looking
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: forward to getting to the age where I don't give
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: a shit about anything to the point that I can
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: lie in bed like James Carville and do a Zoom
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: call or an interview and be.
• 26:34
  Speaker 7: Like, whatever.
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: There's something. There's something kind of awesome about that. I
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: don't know. He's such a psycho, but there's something kind
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: of crazy and wonderful about it. Just lying in bed.
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: Just being like, another thing. Oh, it's so funny. It's
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: so funny. Anyway, yeah, so he's freaking out about it
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: because this is a huge electoral stinker for us. Why
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: are we getting cut? Look at the guy.
• 27:02
  Speaker 6: He's just lying in bed.
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: Oh, what a whack job.
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: You know, Yep.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: Anyway, so he's annoyed by it. Now, having said that,
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: that's obviously a reason that Republicans, one more reason that
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: Republicans should be fighting to pass the freaking thing. James
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: Carville recognizes if voters have a legitimate say in our
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: electoral process, they're going to look at the Save America
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: Act's passage and go, holy crap, what a great thing
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: Republicans just did. Well, then just do it, you morons.
• 27:34
  Speaker 6: Do it.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: Now, speaking of Republican senators, another one of them stopped
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: by the, I think this was on Fox Business yesterday,
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: Larry Kudlow. I like Larry Kudlow a lot. Larry Kudlow
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: is really talented. Larry Kudlow did something that I think
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: a lot of television hosts should be doing, which is
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: demanding answers from Republican senators and saying, hey, what have
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: you done for us lately? What have you done for
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: us lately? Watch some of this exchange. Larry Kudlow and
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: Senator James Lankford, and Lankford doesn't, I don't think he
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: was ready for this at all. Watch this.
• 28:11
  Speaker 10: Right now, you, the leadership in both houses are bungling everything, sir.
• 28:17
  Speaker 10: I say that with all due respect. And we are
• 28:20
  Speaker 10: personal friends. But you're bungling everything. Nothing is getting done.
• 28:25
  Speaker 10: Your messaging is non-existent. You've lost your swag, your swagger,
• 28:30
  Speaker 10: your riz, or whatever the young people say. No one
• 28:32
  Speaker 10: knows what the heck you're doing, sir.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: They have no idea.
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you're welcome.
• 28:37
  Speaker 11: And this is part of the challenge we've got with
• 28:39
  Speaker 11: all of our media friends out there that continue to
• 28:41
  Speaker 11: be able to beat up on Republicans and say Republicans
• 28:43
  Speaker 11: are all the problem. But apparently the socialist Democrats in
• 28:46
  Speaker 11: New York City, they seem to be perfect because most
• 28:49
  Speaker 11: conservative media right now is beating up on Republicans and
• 28:52
  Speaker 11: just ignoring the socialists.
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: Who are running rampant.
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: All over the country. So I look back on.
• 28:56
  Speaker 11: What happened with the one big beautiful bill, look at
• 28:59
  Speaker 11: the housing bill we just passed. There's a lot of
• 29:01
  Speaker 11: things that are going on that are good, and I
• 29:03
  Speaker 11: understand every day.
• 29:04
  Speaker 10: Nobody has attacked Mondami more than I have, for heaven's sake.
• 29:07
  Speaker 10: That isn't the point.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: I wasn't saying that just about you. That isn't the point.
• 29:11
  Speaker 11: This is the challenge that we're up against right now.
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: What is it that your policy is? Senator Lankford.
• 29:16
  Speaker 10: My friend, what is your policy? Where are the tax cuts?
• 29:20
  Speaker 10: Where are the spending cuts? Where's the waste, fraud, and
• 29:23
  Speaker 10: corruption reduction? Where is all of that? Where is the
• 29:27
  Speaker 10: reconciliation bill? Where's the straight talk and messaging for the midterms?
• 29:32
  Speaker 10: Where's the growth messaging? Where's the we're going to make
• 29:35
  Speaker 10: it better for taxpayers and working folks messaging?
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: Come on, Senator.
• 29:40
  Speaker 11: Glad to be able to take it on, Larry. Again,
• 29:43
  Speaker 11: you and I are friends. We've talked through all this
• 29:44
  Speaker 11: stuff before. So let's just start with last year and
• 29:47
  Speaker 11: what's coming out right now on all the tax policy. Obviously,
• 29:50
  Speaker 11: tax rates didn't go up. We dealt with permanent expensing
• 29:53
  Speaker 11: for all of our businesses in trying to be able
• 29:55
  Speaker 11: to make sure they're growing.
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: They're growing.
• 29:57
  Speaker 11: The reason we're actually dealing with growth right now You
• 30:00
  Speaker 11: are an expert on this, you know it full well,
• 30:02
  Speaker 11: is because the changes we made in last year's tax bill.
• 30:04
  Speaker 11: We'd love to do a lot more on that and
• 30:07
  Speaker 11: we will be able to do a lot more on that,
• 30:09
  Speaker 11: but we're still getting all of those things implemented right now.
• 30:12
  Speaker 11: The housing bill that we just passed starts a whole
• 30:14
  Speaker 11: different process of taking the federal regulations, trying to make
• 30:17
  Speaker 11: housing cheaper for everybody. Right now, all the different pieces
• 30:21
  Speaker 11: on fraud are being implemented on SNAP, on the food
• 30:23
  Speaker 11: stamp fraud that's been happening around the country.
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: That's being implemented right now.
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: That is billions of dollars in savings.
• 30:30
  Speaker 11: It's also putting work requirements on individuals and taking away
• 30:33
  Speaker 11: the rights of people that are illegally present in the
• 30:37
  Speaker 11: United States.
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: To be able to get these extra benefits.
• 30:39
  Speaker 11: All those are things that are happening right now because
• 30:42
  Speaker 11: Republicans actually put those in place.
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: And then Kudlow goes on to be like, wait a second,
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: you just said two different bills. one of them had value,
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: but that was last year. He said, Kudlow goes on,
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: he's like, hey, the one being beautiful bill, you can't
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: ride that forever. I mean, obviously people should reflect that
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: on that in the midterms, but that was last year.
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: What have you done for me lately? And he goes
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: in the housing bill, Kudlow points out, that was like
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: an Elizabeth Warren special. That really was not fundamentally the
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: kind of bill that's gonna lead to long-term prosperity in
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: the United States. What are you talking about? And then
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: getting control of fraud, Notice the little kind of the
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: game that Lankford is playing here, getting control of fraud,
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: going after the fraudsters, all that stuff. Which branch of
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: government is doing that? It's not the Senate. It's not
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: the legislative branch. It's the executive branch. That's J.D. Vance's
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: squad that's going after all these animals who've been stealing
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: from the American taxpayers. So as Lankford is pawing around
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: for an excuse for the behavior of Senate Republicans, he
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: starts taking credit for things that J.D. Vance has been running.
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: What? Okay.
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: I want to go back towards the beginning of the clip, though, too.
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: He goes, yeah, well, the reason people don't think we're
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: doing very much is we're getting constantly attacked by all
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: these conservative commentators when they should be setting their sights
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: on the left. What are you talking about? Those of
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: us who are in the conservative commentating space spend a
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: ton of time talking about the evils of the left.
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: In fact, it's the basis by which we have been
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: supporting the Trump agenda, which is to say we've got
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: to stop these animals, these people from destroying our country.
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: We have to stop it, which is why we keep
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: voting for Trump, keep pushing the Trump agenda, making it
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: too big to rig. And now that you are in charge,
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: Republicans are. Democrats are not in charge. They're not. Republicans
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: lead the White House, the Senate, and the House right
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: now by the grace of the Trump voter. In light
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: of that, you have the power to actually make things
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: better and stop the left right now. So to whom
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: should we turn when we want power to actually be
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: used to our benefit? The answer is you. You're a
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: Republican senator. This is why we keep saying we got
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: to get the Save America Act passed. I'm not going
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: to turn to the Democrats to get it done because
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: they refuse to get it done. And they're not in
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: charge of the agenda of the United States Senate. You are.
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: Why don't you focus on the party that's out of power? What?
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: We're focused on the party that's in power. And you're
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: disappointing us. And Larry Kudlow was right to call you
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: out about this yesterday. And he just kept doing it,
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: by the way. That clip just keeps going, where he's like,
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: I'm not satisfied. That's not convincing enough. Good for Larry Kudlow.
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: Stay on these guys. All right, more ahead on the program.
• 33:36
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• 33:39
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• 33:47
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  Speaker 6: Okay.
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: Yesterday, I had the privilege, as I get every so often,
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: to speak to the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights,
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: Harmeet Dhillon. Harmeet joined me on the radio program. And
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: We talked about all of these revelations out of the
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: Garden State, the state of New Jersey, where we have
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: thousands upon thousands of non-citizens who were registering to vote
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: and at least hundreds of them who've been casting ballots. Now,
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: we've talked about all the contours of what we've learned
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: from New Jersey and the implications for the rest of
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: the country. Now, how about some consequences? What's the Justice
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: Department up to right now? Well, Harmey Dillon says you
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: can infer a lot from what she's doing Listen to this.
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: is the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights. They handle
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: election law. Harmey Dillon is on the phone. Great to
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: have you back, Harmey.
• 37:22
  Speaker 6: Thanks for having me, Vince.
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: What are we to make of this? New Jersey now
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: admitting 6,600 non-citizens on the voting rolls, and I just
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: heard from DHS they believe it's upwards of 35,000. What
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: do you know about this?
• 37:35
  Speaker 6: Well, that's right. DHS has been systematically, for the states
• 37:39
  Speaker 6: that have fought us in court and refusing to give
• 37:42
  Speaker 6: us the voter rolls to help us avoid exactly this
• 37:45
  Speaker 6: type of illegal behavior. You know, they're using some publicly
• 37:50
  Speaker 6: available data to send lists of potential noncitizens to states,
• 37:54
  Speaker 6: and that list is 35,000 plus for the state of
• 37:58
  Speaker 6: New Jersey. And so what I think is very interesting here,
• 38:00
  Speaker 6: and you listen to the words being used both by
• 38:03
  Speaker 6: the governor and the media, is the dishonesty. So you hear... error,
• 38:09
  Speaker 6: you hear glitch, you hear mistake, you hear the software
• 38:15
  Speaker 6: vendor did it, you hear the software registered the voters.
• 38:18
  Speaker 6: We don't register voters. These are all obfuscation and doublespeak
• 38:23
  Speaker 6: designed to conceal the fact that for decades, states have
• 38:27
  Speaker 6: refused to do their job under federal law to clean
• 38:29
  Speaker 6: up their voter rolls. And when you combine that with
• 38:32
  Speaker 6: loose vote-by-mail procedures that came into vogue during COVID, you
• 38:36
  Speaker 6: have this perfect storm of illegality. And so this is
• 38:41
  Speaker 6: just the people who raised their hand and said, I'm
• 38:43
  Speaker 6: not a citizen. There are plenty of others who register
• 38:45
  Speaker 6: to vote either mistakenly or deliberately thinking that they're allowed
• 38:49
  Speaker 6: to vote when they do not have legal status in
• 38:52
  Speaker 6: this country as citizens. And so I think it's a
• 38:56
  Speaker 6: very widespread problem. I can tell you we're taking it
• 38:59
  Speaker 6: very seriously. It is a crime for election officials. to
• 39:03
  Speaker 6: allow people to be on the voter rolls knowing that
• 39:05
  Speaker 6: they're non-citizens. And to the extent that New Jersey election
• 39:09
  Speaker 6: officials had any knowledge of this and allowed people to
• 39:12
  Speaker 6: vote when they were not properly entitled to do so,
• 39:15
  Speaker 6: they are at legal risk themselves. And there are hundreds
• 39:19
  Speaker 6: of thousands of non-citizens on the voter rolls, according to
• 39:22
  Speaker 6: our most recent count, which is not comprehensive in the
• 39:26
  Speaker 6: United States. And you know, some of these people are voting.
• 39:29
  Speaker 6: It happens in every election cycle where we prosecuted some
• 39:32
  Speaker 6: of them. And so, you know, we're ramping this up
• 39:35
  Speaker 6: and we are absolutely going to get to the bottom
• 39:38
  Speaker 6: of what happened here.
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: How is it that the claim seems to be that
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: 400 non-citizens cast ballots in New Jersey on according to
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: the governor, and that they may not have known that
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: they weren't allowed to vote? I don't even understand that.
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: How is that even possible? If you're a non-citizen and
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: you cast a ballot in an election, shouldn't a punishment
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: be imposed upon you, like you should be deported for
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: having violated our nation's laws?
• 40:03
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I think the only gray area here is for
• 40:06
  Speaker 6: the 6,600... A subset, the vast majority of them, according
• 40:11
  Speaker 6: to the story being told by the governor, didn't vote. OK,
• 40:14
  Speaker 6: so if the state registered them to vote after they
• 40:18
  Speaker 6: said I'm not eligible, that's not on them. That's on
• 40:21
  Speaker 6: the state.
• 40:22
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 40:22
  Speaker 6: But then there are the subset of them who said
• 40:25
  Speaker 6: I'm not eligible. And then they went ahead and voted.
• 40:27
  Speaker 6: They got a ballot in the mail. And I was
• 40:29
  Speaker 6: just reading a story of a, you know, retiree who got. $ 20, 000
• 40:34
  Speaker 6: of Social Security benefits, and he immediately started the process
• 40:36
  Speaker 6: of trying to return them because they weren't his. That's
• 40:39
  Speaker 6: what an honest person does. And if you get a
• 40:40
  Speaker 6: ballot in the mail and you know you're not supposed
• 40:42
  Speaker 6: to vote it, you already said that, you tear it up.
• 40:44
  Speaker 6: You throw it away. You ask the state to fix
• 40:46
  Speaker 6: this error and get off the voter rolls. If you
• 40:49
  Speaker 6: instead decided to vote it or worse, Maybe your defense
• 40:53
  Speaker 6: is somebody came and stole it or ballot harvested it
• 40:55
  Speaker 6: from you or something. I don't know what happened. We're
• 40:57
  Speaker 6: going to get to the bottom of it. But, you know, yes,
• 41:00
  Speaker 6: if you deliberately voted a ballot knowing that you're not
• 41:02
  Speaker 6: a citizen of the United States, that's crime.
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: So I think it's safe to say, based on what
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: you just said, you have a criminal investigation underway into
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: this subject right now.
• 41:12
  Speaker 6: I can't confirm or deny the existence of a criminal investigation.
• 41:15
  Speaker 6: I have publicly stated that election officials who knowingly allow
• 41:19
  Speaker 6: this are in breach of criminal law. And we have
• 41:24
  Speaker 6: criminally prosecuted people who have done exactly this. So I
• 41:26
  Speaker 6: think you can infer from that.
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: Okay. So have you by any chance talked to the
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: software company? And this may fall into the same answer
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: you just gave me, but the software company released a
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: statement yesterday. Their name was Idemia. And they said, we
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: didn't do anything wrong here at all. The data was
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: handled by these state government officials and and they're the
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: ones who failed to prevent non-citizens from appearing on the
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: voting rolls. Has the software company reached out to you
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: and the Justice Department?
• 41:53
  Speaker 6: Look, I mean, I'm not going to get into the
• 41:54
  Speaker 6: details of any investigation that we're doing, but I think
• 41:56
  Speaker 6: it's safe to say that the software company's role in
• 41:59
  Speaker 6: this is something that is certainly relevant. And I will
• 42:02
  Speaker 6: add that the same software company, I think it's got
• 42:04
  Speaker 6: a French parent company, handles the voter rolls for some
• 42:08
  Speaker 6: other states too. So we will definitely be finding out
• 42:12
  Speaker 6: The point at which data is handed off to the
• 42:16
  Speaker 6: state and it's the state's responsibility, it is the state's responsibility.
• 42:19
  Speaker 6: In New Jersey, the lieutenant governor fills the role of
• 42:23
  Speaker 6: effectively the secretary of state. Now, what the governor said
• 42:27
  Speaker 6: a couple of days ago is that all of this
• 42:30
  Speaker 6: happened under Phil Murphy's watch. There is a point in
• 42:35
  Speaker 6: time at which all of these folks who are talking
• 42:38
  Speaker 6: now knew about this. this governor came out and criticized
• 42:43
  Speaker 6: President Trump last Thursday after his speech, where he revealed
• 42:47
  Speaker 6: the existence of several streams of interference with our elections
• 42:51
  Speaker 6: from different foreign countries. And, you know, she condemned him.
• 42:56
  Speaker 6: She said he was lying and making things up and gaslighting. And,
• 42:59
  Speaker 6: you know, it was like demagoguery. And then just a
• 43:02
  Speaker 6: few days later, she comes out with a statement. So
• 43:04
  Speaker 6: I think the timing of what the governor and her
• 43:07
  Speaker 6: predecessor knew and when they knew it is going to
• 43:10
  Speaker 6: be extremely important to us.
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: It seems important because my impression of her statement was
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: that something, that this news was going to break one
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: way or the other, and she's trying to frame our
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: understanding of the story. What do you make of the timing?
• 43:25
  Speaker 12: I do.
• 43:25
  Speaker 6: I mean, look, I don't think it's a coincidence that
• 43:27
  Speaker 6: less than two weeks ago, I sent letters to all
• 43:30
  Speaker 6: 50 states and the District of Columbia saying, hey, if
• 43:34
  Speaker 6: you knowingly allow, knowingly is a critical word in criminal law,
• 43:38
  Speaker 6: if you knowingly allow non-citizens to be on your voter
• 43:41
  Speaker 6: rolls and at risk of voting, that's a crime and
• 43:45
  Speaker 6: we'll prosecute it. And, you know, I'm glad people are
• 43:49
  Speaker 6: maybe taking it seriously, but I think we've had a
• 43:54
  Speaker 6: long spell of time in our country where people have
• 43:55
  Speaker 6: become very cynical because we've seen, we've seen it happen
• 44:01
  Speaker 6: and no one seems to be getting punished for it.
• 44:03
  Speaker 6: Now I want to be very fair and clear that,
• 44:06
  Speaker 6: When we build a criminal case, we don't do it
• 44:08
  Speaker 6: off of news reports. People are yelling at me on
• 44:10
  Speaker 6: social media, where are the arrests? I don't know the
• 44:13
  Speaker 6: names of these 400 people. We're going to go in
• 44:15
  Speaker 6: all due diligence and go find them and then confirm
• 44:17
  Speaker 6: that they're not citizens. I don't trust anything the state
• 44:19
  Speaker 6: of New Jersey is saying. But once we get to
• 44:21
  Speaker 6: the bottom of all of that, did they vote? Are
• 44:23
  Speaker 6: they a citizen? Those are the two critical questions for
• 44:26
  Speaker 6: that side of the analysis. We'll find out what happened.
• 44:30
  Speaker 6: We'll find out how big this problem is. We'll find
• 44:32
  Speaker 6: out how many states this problem is. And I will
• 44:36
  Speaker 6: say the 17 states, almost all Republican states, maybe all,
• 44:41
  Speaker 6: cooperated with us. We asked them for the voter rolls.
• 44:44
  Speaker 6: They gave us the voter rolls. We shared data with them.
• 44:46
  Speaker 6: We told them, hey, these are some things you should fix.
• 44:49
  Speaker 6: They're fixing them. Like, what's so hard about that? Like,
• 44:52
  Speaker 6: that's government working together to get things done for the
• 44:54
  Speaker 6: American people. That's how it should be.
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: Yes, indeed. So I want to ask you more about
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: that effort in a moment, but just on New Jersey,
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: Governor Sherrill releases this statement. I saw you put out
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: a letter to her asking for all of this information.
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: Tell us who you're talking about. Who are these 400
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: people who voted? Has the state of New Jersey responded
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: in any way? Have they signaled that they will be
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: getting you that data?
• 45:16
  Speaker 6: No, to date. But I'm not the only person here
• 45:19
  Speaker 6: in the building, so it's quite possible someone else on
• 45:21
  Speaker 6: my team may have been in contact with them.
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: But, you know, it's I feel like it would be
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: a priority to tell you that they got a response, probably.
• 45:29
  Speaker 10: We have an.
• 45:29
  Speaker 6: Election coming up, and let me just tell you another
• 45:31
  Speaker 6: deadline here, which is typically voter rolls. It seems like
• 45:38
  Speaker 6: it's the middle of the summer, but we're getting to
• 45:40
  Speaker 6: the point where people are starting to print ballots, and
• 45:42
  Speaker 6: then we have military voters who have to get ballots
• 45:45
  Speaker 6: even further ahead of time, and so there's a lead
• 45:47
  Speaker 6: time for elections. So it is imperative that New Jersey
• 45:50
  Speaker 6: get all of these people off the voter rolls pronto.
• 45:53
  Speaker 6: before they start printing and mailing out ballots. So that
• 45:55
  Speaker 6: better happen.
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: So you've been seeking this voter roll information from the states.
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: You started by requesting it voluntarily. You said 17 states
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: have been working with you, but many states have refused,
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: and now you're battling them out in court, including the
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: state of New Jersey.
• 46:08
  Speaker 6: Including New Jersey. And we did file with the court
• 46:10
  Speaker 6: in New Jersey that's presiding over this case, an updated
• 46:15
  Speaker 6: filing after the governor's statement saying, hey, this is Exhibit
• 46:18
  Speaker 6: A here, why we need this.
• 46:21
  Speaker 7: Yes.
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: So the 17 states, let's just start with them, the
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: ones that worked with you. You said you believe they're
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: almost all, if not all, Republican states. What did you
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: locate in their voter rolls? Did you ever find noncitizens
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: or dead people? Did you find that they weren't as
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: clean as they needed to be?
• 46:39
  Speaker 6: Yeah, we did. I mean, I'm not going to point
• 46:41
  Speaker 6: fingers at any particular state, but we found upwards of 200,000
• 46:46
  Speaker 6: dead people on these voter rolls. We found– I think
• 46:51
  Speaker 6: approximately close to 30,000 suspect non-citizens. And we don't just
• 46:58
  Speaker 6: like start taking people off the voter rolls. We then
• 47:00
  Speaker 6: go investigate each one. We go check, did they become
• 47:03
  Speaker 6: a citizen between the last time that we have a
• 47:04
  Speaker 6: record for them and today? That could happen. And we
• 47:07
  Speaker 6: make sure that they're not citizens and then we get
• 47:09
  Speaker 6: them off the voter rolls. It's both a crime to
• 47:12
  Speaker 6: deliberately register to vote or misrepresent yourself as a citizen
• 47:17
  Speaker 6: if you're not a citizen. And of course, also to
• 47:19
  Speaker 6: actually vote if you're not a citizen.
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: And then what about these states that you're fighting in court?
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: I mean, what are the chances that you can have
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: victory here? The media keeps crowing that judges are stopping
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: you from getting this data.
• 47:30
  Speaker 6: Well, judges are. They're correct. Judges are not– I will
• 47:36
  Speaker 6: say it's a little strange. There's a half a dozen
• 47:38
  Speaker 6: different theories that different states have prevailed on in court.
• 47:41
  Speaker 6: One of the vogue theories is that the voter rolls
• 47:44
  Speaker 6: are not a record within the meaning of the Civil
• 47:47
  Speaker 6: Rights Act. Other judges have said– there's no proper purpose
• 47:52
  Speaker 6: articulated where the statute we're going on the 1960 civil
• 47:55
  Speaker 6: rights act doesn't require a proper purpose. It requires the
• 47:57
  Speaker 6: attorney general has a right to this data. And obviously
• 48:01
  Speaker 6: cleaning up the voter rolls is a proper purpose, which
• 48:04
  Speaker 6: we've articulated. And some, some states have even admitted in
• 48:08
  Speaker 6: court that if we like their purpose, like if this
• 48:10
  Speaker 6: was under olden times, then the argument being made by
• 48:13
  Speaker 6: the department of justice was that black people are being
• 48:15
  Speaker 6: prevented from voting. We'd happily hand over the voter rolls,
• 48:18
  Speaker 6: but it's not really up to them. I mean, it's,
• 48:21
  Speaker 6: The statute doesn't limit our ability that way. So ultimately,
• 48:25
  Speaker 6: if we make our way up to the Supreme Court
• 48:28
  Speaker 6: and that court doesn't agree, then Congress will need to
• 48:32
  Speaker 6: fix this problem. But it is our view that we're
• 48:34
  Speaker 6: entitled to this material, and many states immediately agreed with
• 48:38
  Speaker 6: us and cooperated with us. And that's the right thing
• 48:41
  Speaker 6: to do for the voters in that state because every
• 48:43
  Speaker 6: single vote that was cast that Mikey Sherrill blows off
• 48:49
  Speaker 6: as a glitch– an error, is the cancellation of another
• 48:54
  Speaker 6: New Jersey citizens vote.
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: Yes, disenfranchising New Jersey voters of every color. And the
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: courts should acknowledge that, that we need to protect these votes, obviously.
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: Harmeet Dhillon, I talk about you all the time because
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: I keep saying she's one of the good guys in
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: this fight. And I mean it. And I'm so grateful
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: for you to join us and give us this information today.
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much.
• 49:15
  Speaker 6: You're welcome. Take care.
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: Great, Harmeet Dhillon. It was really nice. to chat with her.
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: Thank you to Harmeet for being in this fight and
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: making all the difference in the world and just absolutely
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: taking it to these states. And you heard her in
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: the interview. Look, she's a Justice Department official. They're not
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: allowed to say, yes, we've got a criminal investigation underway
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: into this subject right now. But she did use the phrase,
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: you can infer what you'd like. Well, I'm inferring that
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: they have a very active criminal investigation into all of
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: this underway. Godspeed, Harmeet. Crush these people. Crush them. Do
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: it for us. thank you to Harm Me Dylan again.
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: We'll have her back again soon. Now, I want to
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: share something. One more thing with you before we go today.
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: Did you guys see Elon Musk sit down with The
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: Economist this week? Did you see this at all, Chad?
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: It was great.
• 50:09
  Speaker 2: It was great. It was great.
• 50:11
  Speaker 3: Love it.
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: Elon Musk sat down. I love when Elon Musk sits
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: down with crazy left-wing white women. I don't know. There's
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: something sort of wonderful about it. I'm not sure exactly
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: why the chemistry works so well. but he destroys them.
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: And so this was one of those moments. And he
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: sits down with this lady and she hates him. She
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: like clearly does not like him or thought this is
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: my big career opportunity. If I can square away Elon Musk,
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: it's not going to work at all. In fact, let
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: me take you through some of the highlights here. We've
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: got Elon Musk. Oh, so she asked him, How many
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: people have died because of Doge cuts? You know, you
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: were a part of Doge. You were cutting all these
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: federal government expenditures, including USAID spending. How many people have died?
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: And Elon Musk says the answer is 0.0%. 0.0 people
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: have died. Cut four. Watch this.
• 51:10
  Speaker 12: You don't buy the idea that anybody, to put it
• 51:13
  Speaker 12: really crudely and simply, any kid in Africa died because
• 51:16
  Speaker 12: of the suddenness with which... I just don't think that's right.
• 51:19
  Speaker 12: I just don't think... I mean, I've had people reporting
• 51:22
  Speaker 12: in Africa who.
• 51:23
  Speaker 13: How many NGOs are there that could step in? Because
• 51:27
  Speaker 13: bear in mind, it happened quickly, and there are literally
• 51:32
  Speaker 13: tens of thousands of NGOs.
• 51:35
  Speaker 12: Not everyone functions as fast as you do. If funding
• 51:38
  Speaker 12: is cut off for antiretrovirals overnight and it just stops,
• 51:42
  Speaker 12: then people will die when they don't have access to them.
• 51:45
  Speaker 13: No, only if they cannot get funding for that. But
• 51:48
  Speaker 13: the Gates Foundation has $ 50 billion. What about them? What
• 51:53
  Speaker 13: about any one of a number of organizations? What about the....
• 51:58
  Speaker 12: Well, in lots of these countries, USAID.
• 52:00
  Speaker 13: McKenzie, whatever her last name is, used to be Bezos,
• 52:03
  Speaker 13: gave $ 50 billion.
• 52:04
  Speaker 2: What about that?
• 52:05
  Speaker 12: But, you know, let's be practical. In many of these countries,
• 52:08
  Speaker 12: USAID was the biggest funder. But I don't want to
• 52:10
  Speaker 12: have an argument.
• 52:11
  Speaker 2: USAID was a political organization.
• 52:13
  Speaker 12: It may also have been that, but it was the
• 52:14
  Speaker 12: biggest funder of health care systems. So I am... I'm
• 52:18
  Speaker 12: very sure.
• 52:19
  Speaker 2: Biggest funder of regime change.
• 52:21
  Speaker 12: And there may well be benefits from having changed the system.
• 52:25
  Speaker 2: Also, USID funding was not stopped. It was moved to
• 52:27
  Speaker 2: the State Department. It was stopped.
• 52:29
  Speaker 12: There were huge numbers of things shut down in Africa
• 52:30
  Speaker 12: that were health-related.
• 52:32
  Speaker 2: No, there were claims of this. These claims are false.
• 52:36
  Speaker 2: They're nonsense. Absolute nonsense. But when funding is.
• 52:40
  Speaker 13: Stopped for fraudulent organizations or for something, do you think
• 52:45
  Speaker 13: they're going to say, do you think they're going to say, well.
• 52:48
  Speaker 2: Please keep funding the fraud?
• 52:50
  Speaker 13: Or do you think they're going to come up with
• 52:52
  Speaker 13: a sad story that sounds sympathetic in order to get
• 52:55
  Speaker 13: the funding restored? Obviously, it will be the latter. And
• 52:58
  Speaker 13: that's exactly what they did.
• 53:00
  Speaker 2: But zero died because of Doge. Zero point zero.
• 53:07
  Speaker 12: I actually have a lot of sympathy for the change
• 53:10
  Speaker 12: of the aid regime that the U.S. under the Trump
• 53:12
  Speaker 12: administration has precipitated. However, I think the pace and the
• 53:17
  Speaker 12: suddenness with which it happened will almost certainly have caused
• 53:21
  Speaker 12: unnecessary suffering and deaths. And I think both of those
• 53:23
  Speaker 12: can be true.
• 53:24
  Speaker 2: No, I think that's totally false.
• 53:26
  Speaker 6: Okay.
• 53:27
  Speaker 2: And obviously false because.
• 53:28
  Speaker 13: The amount of funding we're talking about is far less
• 53:33
  Speaker 13: than what can be supported via private foundations like the
• 53:40
  Speaker 13: Gates Foundation or Mackenzie Bezos' foundation. She's given away tens
• 53:45
  Speaker 13: of billions of dollars. The Gates Foundation has tens of
• 53:49
  Speaker 13: billions of dollars. They are capable of acting very quickly.
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: All right, perfect. So this is, you know what I
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: love about this? I just love everything about this because
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: she's advancing a conspiracy theory. You're killing people. You're an
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: awful person. You've been killing people. Okay, what's the evidence
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: for that? She has no evidence. It's just a matter of,
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: she's just taking it on faith. It's just a kind
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: of a religious adherence to a talking point. But he,
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: doesn't care about her religious adherence to a talking point.
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: He just says instantly, you're lying. It's not true. There's
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: no evidence for it whatsoever. It's nonsense. 0.0 people have
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: died as a result of doge cuts. In fact, doge
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: cuts have been a benefit to the American people because
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: we're not spending money on insanity anymore. Not at the
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: level we were previously, at least. And he was rightly
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: calling out, too, USAID was a regime change operation. It
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: was like a CIA front. It was meddlesome. It was disastrous.
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: It was a left-wing slush fund that was funding all
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: sorts of nonsense that had nothing to do with benefiting
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: the American people. You want to see nonsense that the
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: USAID was funding? You see the Associated Press story this week?
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: We were funding transgender Nepalese sex workers.
• 55:05
  Speaker 2: What?
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: We were paying welfare to random people in Nepal? Transgender?
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: What are we doing? This is American money. So my
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: grandchildren are going to be able to not afford to
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: live because we have to dump money into transgender Nepalese
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: sex workers?
• 55:23
  Speaker 2: Are you serious?
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: Cut eight. Watch this.
• 55:28
  Speaker 14: These transgender sex workers operate in the shadows alongside a
• 55:31
  Speaker 14: busy highway in central Nepal, risking their lives for a
• 55:34
  Speaker 14: few dollars. Until recently, many of them worked not as
• 55:37
  Speaker 14: sex workers, but as aid workers, including Ruby Lama, who
• 55:40
  Speaker 14: dedicated years of her life to helping prevent the spread
• 55:42
  Speaker 14: of HIV in Nepal's marginalized communities.
• 55:44
  Speaker 12: But after the U.S.
• 55:45
  Speaker 14: Cut its foreign aid funding, Ruby and around 300,000 other
• 55:48
  Speaker 14: aid workers worldwide.
• 55:49
  Speaker 7: Lost their jobs.
• 55:50
  Speaker 14: With no other employment available, she is surviving now by
• 55:53
  Speaker 14: working the streets, alongside the very people she once fought
• 55:55
  Speaker 14: so hard to help.
• 55:57
  Speaker 7: On the first night, I was a little nervous because
• 56:00
  Speaker 7: I was afraid of dealing with people. I was a
• 56:02
  Speaker 7: little nervous about what to say and how to say.
• 56:04
  Speaker 7: The funding we had in the US was for condoms.
• 56:16
  Speaker 7: I'm sorry. For those of you listening to the audio podcast,
• 56:29
  Speaker 7: you don't get the benefit of the language unless you
• 56:32
  Speaker 7: understand that.
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: But they're talking about all the free condoms and free
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: lubricant and all the garbage that we were paying for.
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: And they're like, what the hell's going on? By the way,
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: if you are receiving a check from U.S. taxpayers and
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: then the check disappears and, like, they're saying that, oh,
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: they lost their jobs. You didn't have a job. You
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: had a welfare check from the American people. We've got
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: veterans living homeless on the streets of the United States
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: of America, and we're sending money to Nepal to pay
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: for sex workers?
• 57:05
  Speaker 10: Hello.
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: This is so crazy. Thank God Elon Musk went in there.
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: Thank God President Trump keeps getting elected. Thank God they're
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: cutting off this nonsense. That's what that lady was defending.
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: We got to keep sending all this money to transgender
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: Nepalese prostitutes. How about no? How about no? We don't
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: send our money to them. That's crazy.
• 57:28
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: Our tax dollars no longer funding employment for transgender Nepalese
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: sex workers. Thank you for reminding us why defunding USAID
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: was long overdue. That was Brandon Gill, the great Brandon Gill,
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: responding to this Associated Press nonsense.
• 57:44
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: Thank you. Thank you. Another reason I voted for Donald Trump,
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: to get rid of that garbage. This conversation continued with
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: Elon Musk and the annoying lady. She was going after
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: him for a bunch of random things. She said— they started
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: talking about— what actually leads to the death of people.
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: This is Elon Musk saying, you want to talk about
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: people dying? Forget random foreigners that you're just inventing are dying.
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: How about American citizens who are dying because of George
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: Soros-funded DAs in the United States of America? Cut five.
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: Watch Elon Musk square her away on that subject.
• 58:27
  Speaker 13: Where there is danger in this country is because we
• 58:31
  Speaker 13: failed to incarcerate repeat violent offenders. And that's, you know,
• 58:38
  Speaker 13: the classic sort of Soros DA or judges that fail
• 58:42
  Speaker 13: to incarcerate repeat violent offenders. And if somebody gets arrested
• 58:46
  Speaker 13: 50 times, literally, for violent crimes, and eventually they're going
• 58:54
  Speaker 13: to kill somebody. So you either incarcerate them or people
• 58:59
  Speaker 13: will die.
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: That's true. That's true. You know, it really is only
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: a small subset of people who commit most of the crimes.
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: And that's true across societies. definitely true in the United
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: States of America. And it just so happens that in
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: these highly concentrated sections of the country, you have these
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: Soros-funded DAs who keep letting the violent criminals back out
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: to commit more violence. In fact, you know how concentrated
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: it is? Let me show you something here. A friend
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: of mine, John Lott, great researcher, wrote a piece on
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: this published this year in July. Look at this. Murders
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: in the United States remain very concentrated. That was back
• 59:36
  Speaker 1: in 2024. This is the data that he's drawing from.
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: With the murders in the worst 2% of counties remaining
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: at their 2020 peaks. Look at the numbers here. The
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: worst 1% of counties have 20% of the population and
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: 41% of the murders. The worst 2% of counties in
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: the United States of America, just 63 counties, they contain
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: 30% of our country's population, but 54% of all murders.
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: 2% of our counties are responsible for 54% of homicides
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: in the United States of America. Now, those counties are
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: the kinds of counties that have Soros-funded prosecutors hovering over them.
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: Meaning that the law is not being enforced, that violent
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: criminals keep being released. In fact, in a city like
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: New York, New York City, you might remember this. This
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: is last year, September of last year. You get all
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: these terror attacks taking place, violent crime going on. And
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: they say a cluster of 63 career criminals has been
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: wreaking havoc on the subway. More than 5,000 arrests between them. 5,000
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: arrests for 63 people. Oh, Elon Musk is totally right
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: about this. It's the same violent people over and over
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 1: and over again. And if you just have real law
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: enforcement and real prosecutors, you solve this problem. You establish peace.
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: That's why the Trump administration has had so much success
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: dropping the homicide rates, all these murders, because they've actually
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: been enforcing the law, including when people break relatively small
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: federal laws. The broken windows theory. Our friend Dan Bongino
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: talked about it with a lot of frequency. Just go
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 1: after these violent criminals before they can commit murder. You
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: catch them, you drop the homicide rate. The proof is
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 1: in the pudding. We're seeing it already happen. So Elon's
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 1: right about that too.
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 12: Hmm.
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: What else is he right about? Well, she was also annoyed,
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 1: this interviewer from The Economist, was also annoyed that Elon
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: Musk supports what she refers to as far-right people. Now,
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 1: Elon Musk supports... movements of normal people who'd like to,
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 1: you know, be able to conduct their way of life
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: and have civil liberties and, you know, all across the country,
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: who don't want their borders destroyed, who don't want rapists
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 1: pouring in. Elon Musk supports the causes of normal people.
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: It's true. And so he makes his case as she goes, oh,
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: you support far right people.
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 2: He goes, far right?
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 1: What are you talking about? I support normal people. Cut six.
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 1: Watch this.
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 12: You support Not just the populist right, but the far right.
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 12: In fact, very fringe parties in some countries.
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 2: No, I support the normal people.
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 6: Okay.
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 2: What you call the far right, falsely.
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 12: You think is the normal person.
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 6: Okay.
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 13: Literally, you could go back 10 or 15 years, and
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 13: these policies were completely normal. One thing that's quite funny
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 13: is to, like, take a speech from Obama and Hillary,
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 13: and then go to someone and say, who's sort of,
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 13: you know, on the sort of, what I call the
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 13: lunatic left, and say, what do you think of the
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 13: speech by Trump? I'm like, oh wow, he's the worst
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 13: person ever. Actually, that was a speech by Obama. Or actually,
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 13: that was a speech by Hillary.
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 2: Literally.
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 12: No, I agree that the center of gravity in this
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 12: country has shifted, certainly in the Democratic Party, shifted to
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 12: the left, but that's not what I'm talking about. I'm
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 12: talking about people like Rupert Lowe, I'm talking.
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 13: About people on- It's actually just normal people.
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 1: Just normal people. I'm talking about people like Rupert Lowe, Rupert, look,
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 1: the guy who doesn't want Islamic rape gangs running all
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: over the UK, the guy who's concerned about the well-being
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 1: of Britons, I'm sorry, what's fringe about that opinion? Isn't
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 1: that a normal opinion? We don't think that the girls
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 1: should be raped. We don't think our borders should be
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 1: wide open. We shouldn't have Islamic rape gangs pouring into
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 1: the country. Isn't that a normal opinion? Normal people have
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 1: that opinion, don't they? They should. Oh, it's very fringe.
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 1: I support normal people. Good for him. One more from
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: Elon while we're on the subject. I just can't get
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 1: enough of this because he was running circles around this chick.
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 1: She said, people don't like you. Not just that they
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: don't like you. They loathe you. You are loathed, Elon Musk.
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 2: And he goes, really?
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: I'm loathed? Let's look at the data for a second.
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 1: Watch this.
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 12: Why people loathe you. I mean, some people do loathe you.
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 2: Yes, some people do.
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 12: But do you understand why? Do you think what you're
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 12: doing is helpful for Western democracy?
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 2: Maybe some people do loathe me. And that's probably true.
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 2: I don't care.
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 13: But the fact that, as you pointed out, a quarter
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 13: billion people follow me is that I think a lot
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 13: more people actually like me than don't. And I think
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 13: a lot more people hate you and the media more
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 13: than you realize.
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 2: I know.
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 1: Isn't that great? That's true. That's true against all these
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 1: legacy media outlets. They're like, people don't like Trump. They're like,
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 1: you think people don't like Trump? Have you seen what
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 1: they think of you? They're not honest about that subject.
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 1: They're not honest about a lot. We try to be
• 1:05:01
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• 1:05:04
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• 1:05:06
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