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Delaney Hall Summer of Love 3.0 Flashpoint · Booker Scott: Truth Be Told

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Speaker 3: But I'm sick and tired of the fact that our
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Speaker 3: president has been targeted over.
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Speaker 2: And over again with rhetoric that clearly calls for the
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Speaker 2: assassination of this man.
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Speaker 1: It's time for Truth Be Told with Booker Scott.
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Speaker 4: Memorial Day brings on summer. And we have flipped the
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Speaker 4: calendar from May to June, so here we are in summer.
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Speaker 4: And usually we have the sounds of summer. Baseball, kids
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Speaker 4: playing at the pool. But all of that has been
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Speaker 4: replaced with something else. That is the sound of Newark,
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Speaker 4: New Jersey. And is this the beginning of the Summer
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Speaker 4: of Love 3.0? I'm Booker, and this is The Truth
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Speaker 4: Be Told. As always on Mondays, we have Mondays with Matt,
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Speaker 4: and that is Matt Palumbo. You can see him on Fox,
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Speaker 4: Fox News, Fox Business, also Newsmax. He's also the author
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Speaker 4: of 11 books. And Matt, welcome back to the program.
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Speaker 4: We're going to start this hour right there in your
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Speaker 4: neck of the woods in New Jersey. How are you doing?
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Speaker 2: I'm good, and yeah, it's about a 20, 25-minute drive
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Speaker 2: from me, all the chaos. I'm not really sure what
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Speaker 2: to make of what side the governor and even the
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Speaker 2: mayor of Newark are on in that. Rhetorically, they're in
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Speaker 2: favor of the protesters. The mayor of Newark, Ross Beccara,
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Speaker 2: I believe his name is, is very vocally anti-ice, but
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Speaker 2: he also did send police to quell some of the
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Speaker 2: protesters as they were escalating into violence. And then our governor,
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Speaker 2: Mikey Sherrill, has been vocally on the side of the
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Speaker 2: protesters as well, And they're all calling her a traitor
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Speaker 2: and not really being an ally to their cause for
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Speaker 2: not doing enough. So, you know, I don't know. Is
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Speaker 2: this a case where rhetorically they're just trying to appease
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Speaker 2: the left while actually doing the right thing for once?
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Speaker 2: Or is it a case of the left devouring their
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Speaker 2: own because you can never really satisfy them? I would
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Speaker 2: say probably leaning more to the latter.
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Speaker 4: Well, I saw the mayor of Newark, he put on
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Speaker 4: a curfew for Sunday night, and I guess that will continue.
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Speaker 4: I agree with you on your governor. She had been
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Speaker 4: really quiet. I remember you and I talking about her
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Speaker 4: before her election last November. You were worried about her,
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Speaker 4: but it's been Spanberger in Virginia that has really showed herself.
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Speaker 4: But I think this is the first time that Mikey
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Speaker 4: Sherrill has started to show herself. What do you think?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, the The trend in the last election
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Speaker 2: cycle was Democrats pretending to be moderate and then governing
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Speaker 2: like Mao Zedong. Muggy Sherrill was kind of bucked that trend,
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Speaker 2: at least at first. For instance, her Republican opponent, Jackson O'Reilly,
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Speaker 2: was campaigning on bringing back nuclear power. And she actually, surprisingly,
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Speaker 2: is doing that in New Jersey because a lot of
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Speaker 2: her platform was on lowering energy costs. And I was surprised,
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Speaker 2: but I welcome it. She's not... as vocally progressive as
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Speaker 2: a lot of other Democrats are. So, you know, I
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Speaker 2: at least prefer that over, you know, uber progressive. But
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Speaker 2: my main issue is immigration. And she is generally pro-illegal immigrant.
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Speaker 2: Illegals are going to continue getting driver's licenses in my state.
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Speaker 2: They're going to continue getting free health care and all that.
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Speaker 2: So on my number one issue, it's the one she's
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Speaker 2: pretty far left on.
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Speaker 4: Well, let's go back to Newark, New Jersey. Let's hear
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Speaker 4: from Steve Harrigan in Fox News. He filed this report
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Speaker 4: over the weekend.
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Speaker 5: The ICE are marching in a circle now, equating ICE
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Speaker 5: with the KKK. These demonstrations have followed pretty much of
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Speaker 5: a pattern during the day. A lot of civilians out
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Speaker 5: protesting peacefully. And as the sun begins to go down,
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Speaker 5: we've had trouble after dark. Most of the real trouble
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Speaker 5: coming about 10 o'clock at night. Violence now several nights
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Speaker 5: in a row, really the worst of it. Last night,
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Speaker 5: the city has struggled to try and find a way
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Speaker 5: to allow protests and try and keep them peaceful. They've
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Speaker 5: initially tried moving out ICE officers, instead replacing them with
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Speaker 5: state police and city police out in front. That didn't
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Speaker 5: make a difference. Now the governor has put in place
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Speaker 5: a safe protest zone. They set up some metal barricades
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Speaker 5: to allow people to protest peacefully. Well, the exact reverse happened.
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Speaker 5: Those protesters used those metal barricades to charge police at
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Speaker 5: around 9.30 p.m.
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Speaker 2: Last night.
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Speaker 5: The result was about two hours of fighting back and forth.
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Speaker 5: The protesters were met with tear gas, pretty much head-on
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Speaker 5: shots from the police. Riot police were called in. They
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Speaker 5: had ballistic shields, helmets, officers on horseback, as well as
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Speaker 5: flashbang grenades. And they really tried to drive those protesters back.
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Speaker 4: Let's talk about Delaney Hall real quick, because that is
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Speaker 4: a facility that was closed, and it was the Trump
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Speaker 4: administration that reopened it, and they started talking about that
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Speaker 4: last January. That is also the place where LaMonica McIver,
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Speaker 4: the congresswoman, assaulted an ICE officer, and now she faces
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Speaker 4: 17 years. So that is Delaney Hall, and that is
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Speaker 4: what's been going on. The interesting part is hardly any
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Speaker 4: of it is organic. These are hired guns that are
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Speaker 4: brought in and paid for and they are causing all
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Speaker 4: the problems. And like you said, the governor is somehow
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Speaker 4: on their side, but yet trying not to be, she's
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Speaker 4: not playing well in the middle. I have a couple
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Speaker 4: of clips from her, but your thoughts there on Delaney
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Speaker 4: hall and, and what's going on there.
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Speaker 2: Um, yeah. And also not only was it, um, Monica, well,
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Speaker 2: love Monica. Yeah. I feel like if your name is
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Speaker 2: love Monica, you just shouldn't be allowed in Congress, but
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Speaker 2: it's a separate issue. Um, the mayor of Newark also
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Speaker 2: got arrested or in that time as well, but was
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Speaker 2: let out. Um, I don't know why this one facility
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Speaker 2: in particular has become the flashpoint. Obviously, there's countless immigration
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Speaker 2: detention facilities across the nation. I guess this is just
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Speaker 2: the one getting attention. So liberals who get meaning in
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Speaker 2: life out of participating in these kind of things feel
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Speaker 2: they need to go there. But a lot of politicians
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Speaker 2: are as well. It's just the latest thing to get
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Speaker 2: media attention because it's in the news.
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Speaker 4: Okay, let's go to Governor Sherrill, and here's what she
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Speaker 4: had to say on Sunday.
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Speaker 6: Let me be clear. ICE engagement creates an incredibly dangerous situation.
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Speaker 6: It makes the situation worse, and I refuse to back
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Speaker 6: down in fighting the Trump administration and the threats they've made.
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Speaker 6: We know that people from outside the state have been
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Speaker 6: interfering in the protests and escalating them. Five of the
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Speaker 6: six people arrested last night by state police were from
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Speaker 6: outside New Jersey. and some national extremist groups have become
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Speaker 6: involved in the process here today. To the people coming
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Speaker 6: from out of state to create chaos and dangerous situations,
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Speaker 6: you should not be here. You are not helping the
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Speaker 6: people detained at Delaney Hall, you're not helping detainee families,
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Speaker 6: and you're certainly not keeping New Jersey safe.
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Speaker 4: Matt, I kind of scratch my head here wondering why
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Speaker 4: she is legitimizing... all of these people from out of
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Speaker 4: state that are bused in and paid to do this.
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Speaker 4: It's not organic. It's not the people of New Jersey
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Speaker 4: that are fighting against ICE and what's going on at
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Speaker 4: Delaney Hall. It is, I think, done on purpose and
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Speaker 4: probably for the midterm election. It's something to energize the base.
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Speaker 4: Is this the beginning of the Summer of Love of 3.0
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Speaker 4: as I started this hour? What do you think?
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Speaker 2: I think we're just going to eternally have a Summer
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Speaker 2: of Love every consecutive summer forever with these people. I mean,
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Speaker 2: she wants it both ways. She supports the protesters, but...
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Speaker 2: understands that there's bad optics in supporting them if there's violence,
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Speaker 2: the narrative has to shift to, okay, there's violence, but
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Speaker 2: it's not my people behind it. Which, you know, I
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Speaker 2: can't believe I'm saying this, but I guess good on
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Speaker 2: her for condemning the violence. I mean, the bar is
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Speaker 2: so low that I'm actually surprised she even did that. But,
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Speaker 2: I mean, she probably supports it to some extent, but
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Speaker 2: at least I guess rhetorically with these people.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I guess you have to guess, because I can't
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Speaker 4: understand them, and I know you don't either. Kathy Hochul,
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Speaker 4: the governor of New York, she signed a law over
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Speaker 4: the weekend, and this law is against ICE. The entire
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Speaker 4: state has created a law against ICE, and they say
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Speaker 4: they can't wear masks in the law, and she had
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Speaker 4: a big signing celebration. and ceremony over the weekend. Did
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Speaker 4: you happen to catch that and see that law?
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Speaker 2: Well, no, but I do know that. I think California
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Speaker 2: did this as well. New Jersey has as well. And
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Speaker 2: it's all symbolic. It's just to say, hey, look at us.
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Speaker 2: We're against ICE. But they can't actually enforce it because
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Speaker 2: it's the federal government's jurisdiction. It's interesting how the same
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Speaker 2: people that were masked Nazis five or six years ago
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Speaker 2: are now suddenly anti-mask when it's people who want to
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Speaker 2: protect their identities because protesters want to kill them. And
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Speaker 2: we see that at Delaney Hall, the protesters literally saying,
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Speaker 2: you will hang, we're going to kill you. There was
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Speaker 2: one shot I saw where it was black ICE officers
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Speaker 2: and a bunch of liberals telling them they were going
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Speaker 2: to hang them. And I'm like, all right, so you guys,
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Speaker 2: I guess, are for lynching in this one circumstance. They
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Speaker 2: don't believe their own rhetoric on anything.
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Speaker 1: No.
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Speaker 4: No, they don't. They don't. It's a joke, actually. Let's
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Speaker 4: go to the Trump court cases that happened last week.
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Speaker 4: Did you keep up with any of those? I think
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Speaker 4: Trump was one out of three in these court cases.
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Speaker 4: I kind of agree with one of them, but let's
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Speaker 4: go to this one first. And let's listen from Jonathan Karl,
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Speaker 4: ABC News.
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Speaker 7: The first came from a judge in the Eastern District
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Speaker 7: of Virginia. who ruled that President Trump's $ 1. 8 billion anti-weaponization
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Speaker 7: fund cannot give out a single dollar until further proceedings
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Speaker 7: on whether the fund is legal.
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Speaker 4: Now, this is the $ 1. 8 billion that they are arguing
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Speaker 4: over in Congress right now. This has to do with
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Speaker 4: the last piece of the 2026 fiscal budget, the reason
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Speaker 4: for the 76-day government shutdown over the first part of
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Speaker 4: this year. And they are arguing over this $ 1. 8 billion
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Speaker 4: fund and how it can be spent, as an example,
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Speaker 4: for J6ers. So that's what that's about. So this judge
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Speaker 4: has said, nope, you can't do anything like that with
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Speaker 4: this yet. Let's determine some more things and whether this
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Speaker 4: is even legal. Did you have any thoughts on that one?
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Speaker 2: For the fund in that, obviously, there was a lot
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Speaker 2: of people politically targeted. There was a lot of people
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Speaker 2: who just walked around a building, many of them who
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Speaker 2: were egged on to do so by people we know
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Speaker 2: were federal informants. But even if they weren't, to me,
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Speaker 2: it's just not a big deal at all in light
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Speaker 2: of the fact that it happened against a backdrop where
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Speaker 2: leftist educators were burning down cities not too many months before.
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Speaker 2: No one really seemed to care. DAs in those cities
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Speaker 2: let everyone go. And Listen, we can't be these principled
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Speaker 2: people and say, well, we're going to do the right
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Speaker 2: thing and hold our side accountable when the other side
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Speaker 2: never does. Then you're just at a permanent disadvantage politically.
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Speaker 2: When it comes to how to dish out the money– oh,
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Speaker 2: and I should add, too, I think it also is
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Speaker 2: a deterrent against future prosecution or against persecution, rather. I
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Speaker 2: guess prosecution as well. Whereas if– They are going to
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Speaker 2: go after our people. They know, OK, well, maybe we'll
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Speaker 2: get them a few years in jail, but they're going
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Speaker 2: to get a six or seven figure payout down the road.
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Speaker 2: We really want to pursue this and hope could potentially
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Speaker 2: deter them when it comes to the logistics of how
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Speaker 2: the money is paid out. I do think there should
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Speaker 2: be more thought into that and that. Listen, if you
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Speaker 2: attack the police officer on January 6th, I don't want
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Speaker 2: you getting the money. I would want it for people
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Speaker 2: who were walking around the Capitol or got years in
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Speaker 2: prison for breaking a window or something relatively minor in
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Speaker 2: the grand scheme of things.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I agree. There were a lot of innocent people
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Speaker 4: there on January 6th who just followed the police's directions
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Speaker 4: and said, come on in. There were two different sides
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Speaker 4: of the Capitol. One side of the Capitol was pretty rough.
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Speaker 4: The other side was very orderly, and I saw grannies
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Speaker 4: that walked through there. They had no idea. They had
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Speaker 4: no idea what they were doing, and they got in trouble,
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Speaker 4: got arrested and convicted. Those people I can see getting
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Speaker 4: some money, but the people that did other things that
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Speaker 4: were bad and they should have known better, they probably
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Speaker 4: shouldn't get anything.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's pretty much where I am. Not everyone was innocent.
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Speaker 2: It's just I think the overwhelming majority weren't. The biggest evidence, too,
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Speaker 2: is that after Trump pardoned everyone on January 6th when
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Speaker 2: he took– I think it was on his first day
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Speaker 2: in office in his second term. There were headlines six
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Speaker 2: months down the road where liberals– where someone who was
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Speaker 2: pardoned by Trump would get a DUI or get in
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Speaker 2: trouble with the law. And the angle was supposed to be, oh,
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Speaker 2: look at all these criminals Trump pardoned. But if you
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Speaker 2: actually run the numbers– The recidivism rate among people that
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Speaker 2: Trump pardoned on January 6th is half a percent. The
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Speaker 2: national recidivism rate is between 40 and 50 percent, which
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Speaker 2: is 80 to 100 times higher than the people Trump
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Speaker 2: pardoned on January 6th, which proves, yes, this was really
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Speaker 2: a one-off thing they got arrested for.
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Speaker 4: But the left loves making those memes of those people
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Speaker 4: that have been arrested. I know there was one in
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Speaker 4: Florida that has been arrested for child molestation, and they
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Speaker 4: love making memes of that on social media.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: I think your point's great, though.
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Speaker 2: The difference with our side is we actually want those
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Speaker 2: people fed into a wood chipper. We don't go, all right,
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Speaker 2: you get an infinite second chances like they do. Right.
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Speaker 4: No, I agree with you. Let's go to the second
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Speaker 4: court case. This had to do with the IRS and
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Speaker 4: Trump's suing the IRS.
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Speaker 7: Another federal judge. Kathleen Williams of the Southern District of
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Speaker 7: Florida took a step towards reopening Trump's $ 10 billion lawsuit
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Speaker 7: against the IRS that led to the creation of that fund,
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Speaker 7: saying she wants to investigate grievous allegations brought by 35
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Speaker 7: retired federal judges that the deal to settle that lawsuit was, quote,
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Speaker 7: premised on deception and whether the settlement itself is a
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Speaker 7: fraud on the court. She questioned whether another aspect of
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Speaker 7: the settlement, the one that forbids the federal government for
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Speaker 7: pursuing tax claims or even auditing the president, his family,
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Speaker 7: and his companies, violates Department of Justice policy.
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Speaker 4: So what this one means, Matt, is that Donald Trump
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Speaker 4: could potentially pursue his $ 10 billion lawsuit against the IRS.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it'll be— I mean, it's kind of an infinite money
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Speaker 2: glitch when you're the president and you're suing a government
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Speaker 2: agency that you control. I— Interesting. It'll be interesting to
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Speaker 2: see what the precedent that sets is. I don't have
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Speaker 2: that many thoughts beyond that. It'll be interesting to see.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, no, we'll just watch it and see what happens,
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Speaker 4: whether he continues or whether he actually can continue. That's
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Speaker 4: the word.
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Speaker 8: Right.
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Speaker 4: There is potential for him to do that. They're not
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Speaker 4: saying that he can't.
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Speaker 2: There is quite an obvious public interest here that I
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Speaker 2: don't think needs to be explained.
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Speaker 4: No, let's go to the third one. Here's the third one.
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Speaker 4: This is the one that I think I'm absolutely okay with,
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Speaker 4: but you and I will discuss it after we listen
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Speaker 4: to it.
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Speaker 7: Judge Christopher Cooper of the U.S. District Court for the
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Speaker 7: District of Columbia ordered the removal of President Trump's name
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Speaker 7: from the Kennedy Center. In a bluntly worded opinion, Judge
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Speaker 7: Cooper wrote that neither Trump nor his hand-picked board has
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Speaker 7: a right to add his name to the Kennedy Center,
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Speaker 7: and he gave the administration 14 days to take Trump's
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Speaker 7: name down from the front of the building... and to
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Speaker 7: remove any reference to a Trump Kennedy Center on the
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Speaker 7: organization's website or in any of its promotional materials. Congress
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Speaker 7: gave the Kennedy Center its name, the judge wrote, and
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Speaker 7: only Congress can change it.
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Speaker 4: See, I have no problem with this one, Matt. I
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Speaker 4: always have a tendency to flip things around. And let's
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Speaker 4: say that Joe Biden had done the same thing and
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Speaker 4: changed the Lincoln Memorial to the Biden Memorial. And he
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Speaker 4: did it with an executive order, and he put a
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Speaker 4: new statue in there of Joe Biden I wouldn't like that.
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Speaker 4: So that's the way I think of things. I think
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Speaker 4: you think a little bit different than I do. I
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Speaker 4: think you would love to see Trump's name everywhere.
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Speaker 2: Well, Trump putting his name on things is like an
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Speaker 2: Italian liking pasta. It's in his blood. It's something we've
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Speaker 2: known about this guy for the past 40 or so years.
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Speaker 2: So I don't know. I mean... This is not like
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Speaker 2: a serious political issue to me. And the thing is, yes,
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Speaker 2: it was something as serious as a statue. I would
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Speaker 2: totally agree. And yes, I mean, I'm slightly a hypocrite
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Speaker 2: in that I do judge my own side differently than
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Speaker 2: I judge the others. But I think everyone kind of
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Speaker 2: does that in politics to some extent.
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Speaker 4: So, yeah, I'm glad that one went through. I want
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Speaker 4: the Kennedy Center to be the Kennedy Center. And the
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Speaker 4: judge went on to say, you can't use your board
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Speaker 4: that you put in there. to make these decisions, that
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Speaker 4: it has to come from Congress. I agree with that.
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Speaker 2: Although I will say, we were talking about this before
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Speaker 2: the show, it would be an interesting test to see
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Speaker 2: what happens if they just ignore the court. Because whenever
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Speaker 2: the courts rule against Trump, especially the lower courts that
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Speaker 2: are all composed by liberals who then get overturned by
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Speaker 2: the SCOTUS like 90% of the time, what is the
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Speaker 2: consequence if you just ignore them? Because... Are they going
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Speaker 2: to send the National Guard to take it down, which
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Speaker 2: Trump controls? What exactly would happen? Do they actually have
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Speaker 2: an enforcement mechanism? No. I'm just kind of curious.
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Speaker 4: I don't think so. Maybe somebody that's listening knows, but
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Speaker 4: when you and I were talking on the phone before
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Speaker 4: we started the broadcast, I don't think either one of
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Speaker 4: us really had a clue. The judge has no money,
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Speaker 4: so he can't call in the National Guard. And Congress
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Speaker 4: doesn't have that authority. So who who does what about
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Speaker 4: something like that?
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Speaker 1: I don't know.
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Speaker 4: We saw that some with Joe Biden when he, you know,
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Speaker 4: tried to pay off a student loan debt, even though
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Speaker 4: the courts had said he couldn't. So I don't know.
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Speaker 4: I think you just have to, you know. Use common sense.
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Speaker 4: You have to follow the law, and you have to,
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Speaker 4: I guess, I don't know. If anybody knows, please, you
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Speaker 9: Pray for rain and thank him when it's falling, cause
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Speaker 9: it brings a grain and a.
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Speaker 4: Little bit of money.
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20:06
Speaker 2: Entire agenda just, you know, no courts. That's pretty much it.
20:10
Speaker 4: Oh, you would use executive orders to do everything Trump did.
20:12
Speaker 2: For everything. And if a judge says no, I'd go, no,
20:14
Speaker 2: you're not a judge anymore. I would fire 90% of
20:18
Speaker 2: judges in this country. That's actually part of what El
20:21
Speaker 2: Salvador did in reducing their crime rate that isn't really
20:24
Speaker 2: talked about as much. He got rid of an enormous
20:26
Speaker 2: amount of judges that were kind of the equivalent to
20:29
Speaker 2: the left-wing judges in our country that uphold every horrible
20:31
Speaker 2: policy and strike down anything that is a semblance of goodness. So, yeah,
20:35
Speaker 2: clean up the judges. I'd probably fire most teachers. A
20:38
Speaker 2: lot of it would just be a great realignment within government,
20:40
Speaker 2: just firing a lot of people who have allegiance to
20:43
Speaker 2: the left and replacing them with right-wing people so that
20:46
Speaker 2: going forward the country could have more right-minded people in
20:49
Speaker 2: charge of everything.
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Speaker 4: I think I would start with Congress, I believe, and
20:53
Speaker 4: election reform. I think I would take all the money
20:56
Speaker 4: out of elections, and I would give candidates the same
20:59
Speaker 4: amount of money. They wouldn't have to raise money, no donations,
21:03
Speaker 4: no PAC money, no dark money, and it would create
21:06
Speaker 4: a level playing field, create term limits within that, and
21:10
Speaker 4: I think I would get rid of all 535 of
21:12
Speaker 4: them in Congress, create an election day where it's done
21:15
Speaker 4: that way, and let's get the best people in America
21:18
Speaker 4: in the Congress and see what we can do with
21:20
Speaker 4: this place. I don't know. Would you vote for me?
21:23
Speaker 2: I would expand the House too because if you go
21:25
Speaker 2: back to the– I think it was one rep for
21:27
Speaker 2: every 33,000 people when our country was founded, which is
21:31
Speaker 2: like 11,000 representatives we have at this point, which obviously
21:34
Speaker 2: is too many. But I feel like 1,000 or 2,000
21:36
Speaker 2: would probably be fine. The thing is representatives– can you
21:42
Speaker 2: really represent 800,000 people or whatever it is? Is that
21:48
Speaker 2: even feasible? I don't actually think it is.
21:50
Speaker 4: No, I think it just adds to the divide in
21:53
Speaker 4: the country because when you go in and you're no
21:56
Speaker 4: longer representing those 800,000 people, you're representing the 400,000 Republicans
22:01
Speaker 4: or the 400,000 Democrats. Let's talk about elections. We're talking
22:04
Speaker 4: about reform on elections. Let's Get into what happened last week.
22:08
Speaker 4: We had Texas on Tuesday where you had Ken Paxton
22:11
Speaker 4: beat Cornyn. Both of us predicted that that would happen,
22:15
Speaker 4: and it wasn't even close. It was a blowout.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not– are you aware of any Senate primaries
22:21
Speaker 2: where the margin of victory was greater than that? I
22:23
Speaker 2: was looking, and I didn't see any that were obvious.
22:26
Speaker 2: So I think it was historic by that amount, and
22:29
Speaker 2: it was two Senate races– I think it was the
22:31
Speaker 2: first time, too, there's been two senators primaried in one
22:34
Speaker 2: election cycle and lost. So, yeah, historic for Trump's influence
22:38
Speaker 2: within the party. Cornyn, I mean, the week leading up
22:42
Speaker 2: to the election was basically campaigning on de facto amnesty.
22:45
Speaker 2: So I'm glad he's gone.
22:46
Speaker 4: Yeah, me too. He needed to be gone. And he
22:49
Speaker 4: was there, what, 24 years? Is that right? 18 or 24?
22:53
Speaker 4: I'm not sure. It was a long time. He made
22:56
Speaker 4: history in losing. And like I said, it wasn't even close.
22:59
Speaker 4: Now we look to the general election in Tallarico there.
23:02
Speaker 4: It looks like they're doing a lot to expose who
23:05
Speaker 4: he really is in Texas. I think that race is
23:07
Speaker 4: going to get really down and dirty and ugly. Paxton
23:11
Speaker 4: has a history. He was impeached by the Republicans in
23:14
Speaker 4: the House and in the state legislature. And he was
23:18
Speaker 4: one vote away from being removed. So he has a
23:21
Speaker 4: lot of history, a lot of baggage there, but so
23:23
Speaker 4: does Tallarico. And I think there's going to be some
23:26
Speaker 4: big mudslinging going on in Texas.
23:28
Speaker 2: He– Telerico was, like, fully in bed with the woke craziness,
23:34
Speaker 2: the whole, like, the Black Lives Matter, moral panic, the
23:36
Speaker 2: transgender stuff. And that stuff does not play well in Texas. And,
23:41
Speaker 2: you know, even though most Hispanics are being Democrat, those–
23:44
Speaker 2: Those two issues in particular are not very popular with
23:47
Speaker 2: them in Texas, the Texas Hispanics. So it's not good
23:50
Speaker 2: for Del Rico. And he's just a creepy guy. I'm
23:53
Speaker 2: sure you saw the clip where he's asked, you know,
23:55
Speaker 2: what is it that inspires you? He goes, transgender children.
23:59
Speaker 2: Like that was just on his mind. Weird dude.
24:01
Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely weird. Wasn't he a preacher or something in
24:05
Speaker 4: Presbyterian denomination?
24:06
Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's the version of Christianity where the Bible
24:09
Speaker 2: just conveniently backs up whatever the liberal politics of last
24:13
Speaker 2: Wednesday are. Yeah.
24:16
Speaker 4: Yeah, he has some strange thoughts on there. You know,
24:19
Speaker 4: he said in an interview that God was binary. He
24:22
Speaker 4: is not a male, he is not a female.
24:24
Speaker 1: However....
24:27
Speaker 4: I happen to be a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ. Jesus,
24:31
Speaker 4: when asked, how do you pray? He says, our Father
24:34
Speaker 4: who art in heaven. I don't know what Bible this
24:37
Speaker 4: guy's reading, but he's way out there. And I think
24:40
Speaker 4: that's going to be an interesting race. Also in Texas
24:42
Speaker 4: last week. Thank goodness Al Green is finally gone. He
24:46
Speaker 4: is the gentleman with the cane that always disrupts the
24:49
Speaker 4: State of the Union address when Donald Trump is there.
24:52
Speaker 4: He has impeached Donald Trump. I think a record time.
24:55
Speaker 4: I don't know of anybody else that has ever brought
24:57
Speaker 4: articles of impeachment like Al Green has. Say goodbye to him.
25:01
Speaker 4: Thanks to Texas's gerrymandering. He is gone. And this young
25:05
Speaker 4: man named Menifee, who was just serving his first term
25:08
Speaker 4: in Congress, Now, on Tuesday, we have the big election
25:11
Speaker 4: coming up in California. We have the governor race. What
25:15
Speaker 4: do you think about that?
25:17
Speaker 2: Well, it's unfortunate in that when we were talking about
25:20
Speaker 2: it a month or so ago, it was two Republicans
25:23
Speaker 2: leading the race. Just to jog anyone's memory, California has
25:26
Speaker 2: a jungle primary, which means... There's no Republican primary. There's
25:29
Speaker 2: no Democratic primary. There's just one big primary. And the
25:33
Speaker 2: top two winners go to a runoff. Now, when California
25:36
Speaker 2: Democrats passed this and created this, they just assumed that
25:40
Speaker 2: it would always be two Democrats that placed first and second.
25:43
Speaker 2: And therefore, you're guaranteed it to be Democrat versus Democrat,
25:48
Speaker 2: but there's no real opposition. Well, Steve Hilton and the
25:52
Speaker 2: sheriff Bianco. Bianco, yes. We're number one and two in
25:56
Speaker 2: the polls for a while, meaning even if they only
25:59
Speaker 2: got 15 percent of the vote each, as long as
26:02
Speaker 2: everyone else got less, it would be Republican versus Republican.
26:06
Speaker 2: And I don't I believe the way it's structured. I
26:08
Speaker 2: don't think you can have a third party then join
26:11
Speaker 2: in later the only way. someone could compete is to
26:13
Speaker 2: try to do it as a writing candidate, which is
26:16
Speaker 2: basically impossible. So it was looking for a little while
26:20
Speaker 2: that it was going to be a Republican versus Republican,
26:22
Speaker 2: which would have been a hilarious result. But Xavier Beccara
26:26
Speaker 2: is surging now. Tom Steyer has surged quite a bit.
26:30
Speaker 2: So I think it might be Hilton versus Beccara at
26:32
Speaker 2: this point. Yeah.
26:34
Speaker 4: And don't forget Swalwell. He was the leader of the
26:37
Speaker 4: Democrats until he got kicked out. And when he left
26:41
Speaker 4: that race, that changed the complexion of it entirely because
26:45
Speaker 4: Bianco dropped down to fifth or sixth, and he has
26:48
Speaker 4: no shot now. It's going to be Steve Hilton if
26:51
Speaker 4: he gets by, and I think he will. Last time
26:54
Speaker 4: in 24, Steve Garvey was the Republican nominee in the
26:58
Speaker 4: same way in a jungle primary, and he got the
27:01
Speaker 4: most votes. Adam Schiff got the second most. and Adam
27:04
Speaker 4: Schiff end up being the senator there from California. I
27:07
Speaker 4: want to go to Graham Platner, too, before we get
27:11
Speaker 4: off this race. This is coming up in Maine. He
27:13
Speaker 4: is running against Susan Collins, and I guess he did
27:17
Speaker 4: some sexting with some women on a dating app. His
27:19
Speaker 4: wife came out and has done a video. I think
27:23
Speaker 4: he's going to have problems. Susan Collins is always trailing
27:26
Speaker 4: in the polls, but Susan Collins always wins, and I
27:29
Speaker 4: think she will again. Their primary is coming up in
27:32
Speaker 4: a couple of weeks. In fact... There is a busy
27:34
Speaker 4: map of primaries. We mentioned California. That is Tuesday. Iowa
27:39
Speaker 4: is Tuesday. Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, South Dakota. Then
27:44
Speaker 4: June 9th, you have the main race that we were
27:46
Speaker 4: just talking about with Susan Collins. North Dakota, Nevada, South Carolina,
27:51
Speaker 4: which is going to be interesting with Nancy Mace. I
27:53
Speaker 4: think Nancy Mace loses there.
27:55
Speaker 2: I think she'll lose big.
27:57
Speaker 4: Trump endorsed Yvette, and she appears to be desperate, she
28:01
Speaker 4: meaning Nancy Mace, on social media.
28:03
Speaker 2: She's floating.
28:05
Speaker 4: It's bad.
28:06
Speaker 2: Did you see she tweeted in all caps, like, Trump
28:08
Speaker 2: has not endorsed Yvette. It was like three or four
28:11
Speaker 2: hours later, Trump endorsed her. It's amazing timing. But yeah,
28:15
Speaker 2: she's down to like 4% or 5% on Polymarket in
28:18
Speaker 2: the odds. I think she peaked around like 45% or
28:21
Speaker 2: 50% in the odds. So she was never even really
28:23
Speaker 2: a clear favorite.
28:24
Speaker 4: Do you recall that she impeached Trump? She voted to
28:27
Speaker 4: impeach Donald Trump.
28:29
Speaker 2: I'm actually going to be talking about this in another
28:31
Speaker 2: show later about this race specifically. And I never realized
28:37
Speaker 2: that when she first took office on January 14th, she
28:42
Speaker 2: was talking about January 6th and said, I think it
28:45
Speaker 2: was on Fox News, Trump does not have a future
28:48
Speaker 2: in the Republican Party and fully jumped on the anti-Trump bandwagon.
28:52
Speaker 2: And she's just an opportunist.
28:53
Speaker 8: I mean, she is.
28:55
Speaker 2: tried to position herself as the, I'm the LGBT friendly Republican.
28:59
Speaker 2: And then once you realize the anti-trans issue was picking
29:03
Speaker 2: up steam on the right, then jumped into, okay, well
29:06
Speaker 2: actually now I'm against women going into men going into
29:09
Speaker 2: women's spaces, even though she was the first woman to
29:12
Speaker 2: graduate from an all men's military college. And she's the
29:15
Speaker 2: one who forced that policy change. And I don't, I just,
29:18
Speaker 2: I don't really think she believes everything. In fact, in
29:21
Speaker 2: From the end of 2023 to early 2024, her staff
29:24
Speaker 2: turnover rate was 100 percent. Her former chief of staff
29:28
Speaker 2: was among the people who left, and then he tried
29:31
Speaker 2: to primary her. I guess it's revenge, but that failed.
29:33
Speaker 2: But very unpopular. Her staffers say that she would set
29:37
Speaker 2: quotas for them for how many TV shows she needed
29:40
Speaker 2: to get on per day and just stuff like that,
29:42
Speaker 2: where it's clearly just an opportunity for her to try
29:45
Speaker 2: to get famous. And I don't think it's working.
29:46
Speaker 4: Well, let's put her together with some more opportunists and
29:49
Speaker 4: call them the Island of MAGA Misfits. And that would
29:53
Speaker 4: be Thomas Massey, MTG, and now Nancy Mace. It looks
29:58
Speaker 4: to me that Thomas Massey, being in Costa Rica right
30:00
Speaker 4: now with Marjorie Taylor Greene after his loss last week,
30:04
Speaker 4: that he is positioning himself as an anti-Trump guy for
30:09
Speaker 4: the next six months. And he's not alone. You have
30:13
Speaker 4: Bill Cassidy, the senator that lost in Louisiana. We talked
30:15
Speaker 4: about Cornyn earlier. Then you have Tom Tillis, who is
30:18
Speaker 4: retiring in North Carolina. You have a large coalition of
30:22
Speaker 4: senators in the U.S. Senate. that are not going to
30:25
Speaker 4: pass anything for Donald Trump. That makes me worried about reconciliation,
30:29
Speaker 4: the budget prior to September 30th coming up this year,
30:33
Speaker 4: which if the Republicans don't do that for the 2027 budget,
30:37
Speaker 4: that means the government is going to be shut down
30:39
Speaker 4: in the November election. That's what's going to happen because
30:42
Speaker 4: You have these five or six Republican senators now that
30:46
Speaker 4: are not going to do a thing to help Donald
30:48
Speaker 4: Trump or the Republican Party at this point.
30:51
Speaker 2: No, and Massey has exposed himself as something of a
30:53
Speaker 2: fraud on the whole Epstein issue, which he was kind
30:56
Speaker 2: of the number one champion. And I will fully give
30:59
Speaker 2: him credit for basically forcing the vote on that and
31:01
Speaker 2: getting the files released, which obviously I think everyone listening
31:04
Speaker 2: to this should have done a long time ago. Should
31:07
Speaker 2: have been done a long time ago. But he has
31:09
Speaker 2: also claimed to know the names of people implicated in
31:12
Speaker 2: the files. And, I mean, Tom, you can release them
31:16
Speaker 2: at any time. We're all waiting. But you're on vacation
31:18
Speaker 2: right now. The only names he's released were there was
31:21
Speaker 2: four people he named on the House floor. And it
31:24
Speaker 2: turned out the people he named were completely innocent. And
31:26
Speaker 2: he never apologized for it. I think Ro Khanna also
31:29
Speaker 2: named them. So, I don't know. I'm just kind of,
31:31
Speaker 2: was this just one big riff the whole time? What's
31:34
Speaker 2: the deal with that?
31:35
Speaker 4: I think it was one big grift. And we are
31:38
Speaker 4: seeing that they are starting this America First coalition in
31:43
Speaker 4: some ways, and probably Nancy Mace, who would fit right
31:46
Speaker 4: in with them. Because I see Thomas Massey, MTG, and
31:49
Speaker 4: Nancy Mace as all opportunists. That's all they are. And
31:53
Speaker 4: they'll fit together perfectly. I think they're shallow. And I
31:56
Speaker 4: think in time, they're going to disappear. I don't think
32:00
Speaker 4: people will give them a time of day. Let's go
32:02
Speaker 4: to ABC News. Jonathan Karl here about the cleanup in Washington, D.C.
32:06
Speaker 7: President Trump has been on a mission to remake Washington.
32:10
Speaker 2: Washington, D.C.
32:11
Speaker 1: Is now a safe and beautiful place, and it's only
32:13
Speaker 1: going to get more beautiful.
32:14
Speaker 7: He tore down the East Wing to make room for
32:16
Speaker 7: his ballroom. He wants a massive 250-foot arch outside of
32:21
Speaker 7: Arlington National Cemetery. He's painting the reflecting pool blue.
32:25
Speaker 4: Some of his projects have worked.
32:27
Speaker 7: Outside Union Station, he turned a graffiti-scarred eyesore into a
32:31
Speaker 7: real showpiece, a working fountain and all. And as he's
32:35
Speaker 7: done for decades, Trump is putting his name and his
32:38
Speaker 7: face on all of it. This week we learned he
32:41
Speaker 7: wants his face somewhere no living American has landed in
32:45
Speaker 7: over a century.
32:47
Speaker 1: U.S.
32:47
Speaker 2: Currency. I don't think that there's anything untoward about having
32:52
Speaker 2: the president of the United States, that the person who
32:54
Speaker 2: was president of the United States on the 250th anniversary fell.
32:58
Speaker 4: Donald Trump is the greatest troll. in the history of trolls.
33:03
Speaker 4: There's no doubt about it. The bill has gotten the
33:06
Speaker 4: left going crazy, but let's go back to what he
33:08
Speaker 4: has done in Washington, D.C., whether he puts his name
33:11
Speaker 4: on things or not. It shouldn't really matter because the
33:14
Speaker 4: people in Washington, D.C. are safer. You can go there.
33:17
Speaker 4: It is cleaned up. It is pretty. It is beautiful,
33:19
Speaker 4: and it's safe more than anything. Crime rate is down
33:23
Speaker 4: in Washington, D.C. He said he was going to do it,
33:26
Speaker 4: and he did it, and that's what Donald Trump does.
33:28
Speaker 2: Yeah.
33:29
Speaker 4: Promises made, promises kept.
33:30
Speaker 2: He's really talented with this kind of stuff. I think
33:35
Speaker 2: one of the things that helped Trump make his name
33:37
Speaker 2: was with the Woolman Rink in New York City, where
33:40
Speaker 2: New York spent many years and many, many millions of
33:42
Speaker 2: dollars trying to put together an ice skating rink. Apparently
33:46
Speaker 2: that's impossible for a city. His government can't really do
33:48
Speaker 2: anything correctly. And he did it on time and under budget.
33:52
Speaker 2: He's a construction guy, so He's just very good with
33:55
Speaker 2: these projects. And it is undeniably better. The fountain was
33:59
Speaker 2: not working only a few months ago. There was homeless
34:02
Speaker 2: tents everywhere. And living like that is a choice. The
34:04
Speaker 2: reason the left is mad about these kind of things
34:07
Speaker 2: is because they always use this order for a larger goal.
34:11
Speaker 2: So it's, OK, there's homeless people. Well, that's why we
34:14
Speaker 2: need to spend money on all these kooky social programs
34:16
Speaker 2: we want. That's how we're going to help them. And
34:18
Speaker 2: this just proves, like, no, you can just remove the
34:20
Speaker 2: homeless people. And they're not going to be causing a
34:22
Speaker 2: problem there. El Salvador is the same story.
34:24
Speaker 4: I'm going to get to America 250 and what is
34:27
Speaker 4: happening with that. It would appear that it's imploding and
34:31
Speaker 4: the left is going nuts over the UFC fight that
34:34
Speaker 4: is happening June 14th at the White House as that
34:37
Speaker 4: thing is going up. Have you seen that on the
34:40
Speaker 4: White House grounds? The huge stage and that is happening
34:44
Speaker 4: June 14th. The left is losing their mind there. And
34:47
Speaker 4: I see a lot of comments on social media. Well,
34:49
Speaker 4: look at this. This is what we have come to.
34:52
Speaker 4: And my mind goes back to when there was a
34:54
Speaker 4: transvestite at the White House party on the lawn wearing
34:59
Speaker 4: no top, and her breasts were exposed next to a
35:02
Speaker 4: female that had been a female, and her breasts were
35:05
Speaker 4: cut off. So I don't know what's worse for me.
35:08
Speaker 4: All of that is a lot worse than having a
35:10
Speaker 4: UFC fight where millions and millions of Americans love UFC.
35:16
Speaker 4: So I don't have a problem with that, but the
35:18
Speaker 4: left does.
35:19
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm looking forward to it. The one thing I'm
35:21
Speaker 2: seeing from the left, and I guess this just proves
35:23
Speaker 2: they're incapable of seeing into the future, is complaining about
35:26
Speaker 2: the aesthetic of what construction looks like. As if it's
35:30
Speaker 2: going to look like that forever and not like there's
35:33
Speaker 2: some final product in the works. But no, I'm all
35:37
Speaker 2: in favor of it. I like UFC. I think it's
35:39
Speaker 2: kind of cool overall.
35:41
Speaker 4: We're going to take a break here. We're coming back
35:43
Speaker 4: with more of the conversation. We're going to get into
35:46
Speaker 4: America 250. We're coming up on 250 years of this
35:50
Speaker 4: great nation. And some people in this nation, especially entertainers
35:54
Speaker 4: and sports figures, they can't celebrate 250 because of Donald Trump.
35:59
Speaker 4: Donald Trump is going to be gone in a couple
36:01
Speaker 4: of years. This nation has hundreds and hundreds of years
36:04
Speaker 4: to go, but they are so eat up with Orange
36:07
Speaker 4: Man bad, they can't celebrate something as great as the
36:11
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37:29
Speaker 4: America 250 is here, and I don't know if people's
37:31
Speaker 4: memory isn't great or they just don't know history, but
37:35
Speaker 4: things were really bad in this country back in the
37:38
Speaker 4: 1960s into the early 70s. And, you know, we had
37:41
Speaker 4: four students killed at Kent State by police. The National
37:45
Speaker 4: Guard was there. We had Vietnam going on. It was bad,
37:48
Speaker 4: much worse than it is today. And yet we still
37:51
Speaker 4: came together in 1976 in a summer that I'll never forget. Really,
37:57
Speaker 4: it was a fantastic summer. You had the Summer of
37:59
Speaker 4: Olympics in 76, and then you had the Bicentennial, July 4th, 1976.
38:05
Speaker 4: And we all, all celebrated it, regardless of what we
38:09
Speaker 4: had been through with the civil rights and with the
38:12
Speaker 4: Vietnam War. We all came together to celebrate because we
38:16
Speaker 4: celebrated this great nation. And for some reason, Matt... People
38:19
Speaker 4: can't do that anymore because of Donald Trump. It's very
38:22
Speaker 4: nearsighted to me, and it's stupid. I'll just say I
38:26
Speaker 4: think it's stupid.
38:27
Speaker 2: Yeah, one thing that's interesting, and there's actually quite a
38:29
Speaker 2: bit of polling done on this by Pew and Gallup,
38:31
Speaker 2: is that patriotism to the right and left... Um, for
38:35
Speaker 2: the right, it is pretty much a constant, um, for,
38:38
Speaker 2: you know, if you go back to when they're pulling begins,
38:41
Speaker 2: if seven years, so years ago, maybe a little longer,
38:43
Speaker 2: basically 90% of Republicans, 80 to 90% are always proud
38:48
Speaker 2: to be an American, no matter what's going on in
38:50
Speaker 2: the world. If you plot the chart out for liberals,
38:53
Speaker 2: it's entirely dependent on who's in the White House and
38:57
Speaker 2: that when a Republican is in office, it falls off
38:59
Speaker 2: like a rock immediately. When a Democrat's in office, it surges.
39:03
Speaker 2: So it's entirely conditioned on that. There's also the fact that, listen,
39:07
Speaker 2: we've imported a lot of people into this country that
39:10
Speaker 2: view the country as an economic zone and don't even
39:13
Speaker 2: understand the founding ideology of our country. Or if they
39:16
Speaker 2: think they do, it's the left version of it that
39:19
Speaker 2: they created in the lab 50 years ago. So it's
39:21
Speaker 2: not that surprising to me.
39:22
Speaker 4: It's not surprising to me, but it's disappointing that you
39:25
Speaker 4: have someone like Martina McBride, a country singer who hasn't
39:29
Speaker 4: had a hit in 30 years. years. So who cares
39:32
Speaker 4: if she leaves? But it's sad that she thinks that
39:35
Speaker 4: she should. Where does that pressure come from? Bret Michaels
39:39
Speaker 4: is another one that hasn't had a hit since 80s
39:42
Speaker 4: hair metal. It's been a long time.
39:44
Speaker 2: I saw it live a few years ago.
39:46
Speaker 4: Yeah, you did? I would not know.
39:48
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was like I guess this is a sign
39:51
Speaker 2: of a decline, but it was like $ 30 for Motley Crue, Poison,
39:54
Speaker 2: and Def Leppard. So I seized that opportunity.
39:57
Speaker 4: $ 30 for all three of them?
40:00
Speaker 2: It was like $ 40, but it was surprisingly cheap for
40:03
Speaker 2: that lineup.
40:03
Speaker 4: Well, I can imagine. The guys are getting old. I
40:06
Speaker 4: actually saw Motley Crue in 1983 before Ozzy. Before Ozzy Osbourne.
40:12
Speaker 4: Great show.
40:12
Speaker 2: I was not yet born.
40:14
Speaker 4: No, I know you weren't. You weren't even a twinkle
40:16
Speaker 4: in your parents' eye.
40:18
Speaker 2: Yeah.
40:18
Speaker 4: They weren't married yet, were they?
40:20
Speaker 2: They were not.
40:21
Speaker 4: Oh, wow. Maybe they were at that show. I should
40:23
Speaker 4: find out. Are they fans of either?
40:26
Speaker 2: I don't really know.
40:29
Speaker 4: Congressman Tim Burchett of Tennessee, he is jumping in. He's
40:33
Speaker 4: making a suggestion for what to do to save the
40:35
Speaker 4: celebration of America 250 in D.C.
40:38
Speaker 10: Hey, everybody.
40:40
Speaker 4: Hey, Mr.
40:41
Speaker 2: President.
40:41
Speaker 10: Tim Burchett. I, like you, am a little ticked off
40:46
Speaker 10: and disappointed that some of these I guess so-called musicians
40:50
Speaker 10: have decided that they have some problem with celebrating our
40:54
Speaker 10: 250th anniversary of the founding of this great country. They
40:57
Speaker 10: think that patriotism is going to offend somebody. We all
41:02
Speaker 10: know that these New York or Los Angeles or Hollywood
41:05
Speaker 10: PR firms wrote these statements.
41:09
Speaker 2: It's pathetic.
41:10
Speaker 10: Anyway, what we ought to do is, my suggestion would be,
41:15
Speaker 10: get your friend and my friend John Rich... great musician,
41:19
Speaker 10: to lead it off. He's got some great patriotic tunes
41:22
Speaker 10: he's written, and he sings, and, I mean, it's just awesome.
41:26
Speaker 10: And let him emcee the dadgum thing and have all
41:29
Speaker 10: these folks come in. There's plenty of acts in Nashville,
41:32
Speaker 10: people that are trying to get on, you know, get
41:34
Speaker 10: on a big stage like this. This is the world stage,
41:36
Speaker 10: be the largest stage in the world. Everybody in the
41:39
Speaker 10: country will be watching this dadgum thing. And let some
41:42
Speaker 10: of those musicians get out and sing a few songs.
41:45
Speaker 10: All we'd have to do is pay for their dadgum, um,
41:48
Speaker 10: airfare most of them just to get them up there
41:50
Speaker 10: and they'd love it and then of course have Kid
41:54
Speaker 10: Rock nobody's more patriotic in the rock and roll world
41:57
Speaker 10: than he is and he's awesome and then I know
42:01
Speaker 10: you got his number heck I've been with him when
42:04
Speaker 10: he's college youth And then the finale would be cool
42:08
Speaker 10: to have Lee Greenwood come out and sing. He's got
42:10
Speaker 10: a bunch of great songs. But, of course, the ending
42:13
Speaker 10: would be God Bless the USA. And have all the
42:16
Speaker 10: other acts come out and sing along with him. And
42:19
Speaker 10: maybe they could do a single verse. Kid Rock or
42:22
Speaker 10: John Rich or something could do one of the verses.
42:24
Speaker 10: And I think that would be awesome.
42:26
Speaker 4: What do you think, Matt? Do you think that's awesome
42:29
Speaker 4: as well, like Tim Burton?
42:30
Speaker 2: Well, it's. Anyone is going to be an improvement? I
42:35
Speaker 2: think we're down to like, what, Milli Vanilli at this point?
42:40
Speaker 2: Is it Milli Vanilli that's left?
42:42
Speaker 4: One of them died years ago. I don't know if
42:45
Speaker 4: it was Milli or Vanilli. I'm not sure which one.
42:48
Speaker 2: Yeah. So, I mean, listen, it's unfortunate that the lineup
42:50
Speaker 2: wasn't even that great to begin with. And now they're
42:52
Speaker 2: all out. So it's unfortunate. I mean, listen, the reality
42:56
Speaker 2: is and I hate to say it, but we don't
42:58
Speaker 2: have that many talented musicians that are mainstream. I mean,
43:01
Speaker 2: I'm sure they're out there, but they're not that well known. So, yeah,
43:06
Speaker 2: it is unfortunate. I don't mean they'll have to structure
43:09
Speaker 2: the celebration differently or something like that.
43:11
Speaker 4: Why not just have the military bands and their choruses?
43:15
Speaker 4: They do that a lot on the 4th of July.
43:17
Speaker 4: I think that would be fine as well. And that
43:20
Speaker 4: is not political. However, Donald Trump can command them to
43:24
Speaker 4: do it, and they can't say no. So that may
43:26
Speaker 4: be a way to go. Maybe John Rich would be okay.
43:28
Speaker 4: Kid Rock. Kid Rock was actually in Tampa over the weekend.
43:31
Speaker 4: I saw a friend of mine that is very close
43:33
Speaker 4: friends with Kid Rock, was there with him backstage on
43:36
Speaker 4: his Facebook. It happened Saturday night. I want to go
43:39
Speaker 4: to Florida. We're in Florida. I'm in Florida. I'm going
43:42
Speaker 4: to stay here in Florida with Governor Ron DeSantis. Have
43:44
Speaker 4: you been keeping up with what is going on with
43:46
Speaker 4: the potential for getting rid of property tax in the
43:49
Speaker 4: state of Florida?
43:50
Speaker 2: Yes. I pay property taxes as such. I'm heavily radicalized
43:57
Speaker 2: against them, as I think everyone else is. It's a terrible, well,
44:01
Speaker 2: it's a good tax with the government because it's countercyclical,
44:04
Speaker 2: and that they get paid that no matter what. And
44:06
Speaker 2: that if I lose my job, the government, I still
44:09
Speaker 2: owe the government money. So it's great from their perspective.
44:12
Speaker 2: But for the exact opposite reason, it's horrible if you're
44:15
Speaker 2: the payer and that if there's some catastrophe, you're still
44:18
Speaker 2: on the hook. And if you can't pay it, they
44:20
Speaker 2: can seize your house, depending on how big the balance gets.
44:23
Speaker 2: Although I've seen some crazy cases where people owe a
44:26
Speaker 2: couple hundred bucks and have their homes taken. So I'm
44:28
Speaker 2: obviously not a very big fan of them. The only
44:31
Speaker 2: question I have is, are they cutting spending so that
44:35
Speaker 2: it's neutral on the budget? Because if the answer is no,
44:39
Speaker 2: then the question becomes, well, are they raising taxes elsewhere?
44:43
Speaker 2: And who's going to be paying those taxes? Because The
44:47
Speaker 2: property taxes are obviously generally paid for or are exclusively
44:52
Speaker 2: paid for by people who own property, who on average
44:54
Speaker 2: tend to be wealthier than the average person. So are
44:57
Speaker 2: they going to have to hike other taxes that fall
44:59
Speaker 2: on people who make less income? I don't know the
45:02
Speaker 2: answer to that. But I'm hoping there's at least spending
45:04
Speaker 2: cuts as well. The thing about Florida is they are very,
45:06
Speaker 2: very effective in how they do spend money. I think
45:09
Speaker 2: their entire state budget is less than New York City's.
45:12
Speaker 2: And they have far more people living there than New
45:14
Speaker 2: York City.
45:15
Speaker 4: Yeah, Florida has 23 million residents. Budget is 117 million.
45:20
Speaker 4: Do you know the state of New York's population? It
45:23
Speaker 4: is a little bit more than Florida.
45:24
Speaker 2: New York City is what, 8 million?
45:25
Speaker 4: New York City is 8 million.
45:27
Speaker 2: Yeah.
45:27
Speaker 4: So New York and Florida are similar. The New York
45:30
Speaker 4: budget is about $ 270 billion dollars. And as you mentioned,
45:35
Speaker 4: New York City is higher than Florida, and Florida has
45:38
Speaker 4: three times the people that New York City has. So
45:41
Speaker 4: Florida is pretty good with it. I, as a resident
45:43
Speaker 4: of Florida, I'm a little concerned about it. But as
45:46
Speaker 4: I listened to Governor Ron DeSantis explain it, that it
45:49
Speaker 4: is phased in over a period of time to make
45:52
Speaker 4: sure that municipalities and governments that depend on it, they
45:56
Speaker 4: can make the adjustment because his objective is to get
46:00
Speaker 4: them to cut spending and not continue to spend because
46:03
Speaker 4: if they continue to spend the way property is going
46:06
Speaker 4: up here, they're going to have a whole lot more
46:08
Speaker 4: money than they ever need to pay for the things
46:10
Speaker 4: that they're paying for now, and they're just going to
46:12
Speaker 4: waste it. The other part of that is that the
46:16
Speaker 4: people that save money on property tax are going to
46:18
Speaker 4: have more money to go buy things, which actually creates
46:22
Speaker 4: more sales tax for the municipalities and the cities. So
46:26
Speaker 4: that's the thought process. I have a clip here with
46:28
Speaker 4: Governor Ron DeSantis. He was on with Maria Bartiromo over
46:31
Speaker 4: the weekend.
46:32
Speaker 2: Homeowners need relief.
46:34
Speaker 3: And so it's my view that if you are a
46:37
Speaker 3: Florida resident and you have a homestead, we want that
46:41
Speaker 3: to be tax free.
46:42
Speaker 2: And so that's our vision.
46:44
Speaker 3: That represents about 30 percent of the overall property tax
46:47
Speaker 3: revenue because they still tax investment property, commercial property. And
46:51
Speaker 3: so this ballot measure will do an opening salvo of
46:54
Speaker 3: raising it. The exemption to 250 adjusted for inflation so
46:58
Speaker 3: they can't play games. That will be 60% of Florida
47:01
Speaker 3: homesteaders tax-free. Then as they raise it, the legislature will
47:05
Speaker 3: be able to raise that and have a process to
47:07
Speaker 3: do that. Once you get to 500,000 limit, that's 92%
47:11
Speaker 3: of homeowners. And then on and on it goes from there.
47:15
Speaker 3: But if we don't give homeowners relief, Maria, by 2032,
47:18
Speaker 3: they're going to be taking in $ 83 billion. So that
47:20
Speaker 3: would mean $ 32 billion in 2019... 13 years later, it
47:27
Speaker 3: goes to $ 83 billion. That is not sustainable. And so
47:32
Speaker 3: this is really a historic opportunity to have more money
47:35
Speaker 3: in people's pockets and to actually have their home be
47:38
Speaker 3: their private property that the government just can't use as
47:41
Speaker 3: a piggy bank.
47:42
Speaker 4: Does that make sense to you, what he's saying there?
47:44
Speaker 4: He's saying that over time, it's going to go down
47:47
Speaker 4: to zero. But if we didn't do this, then it's
47:51
Speaker 4: going from, what did he say, in 2019, $ 30 billion
47:52
Speaker 4: up to $ 83 billion.
47:55
Speaker 2: Because everyone's moving there so the home prices are going
48:00
Speaker 2: up and you know the thing about you know your
48:02
Speaker 2: net worth increasing from owning a home is you know
48:05
Speaker 2: if you bought over 100 grand and now it's worth
48:07
Speaker 2: let's just say for this example a million dollars yes
48:10
Speaker 2: on paper you're worth a million but in terms of
48:13
Speaker 2: like money in the bank you have exactly what you
48:15
Speaker 2: had to When you bought it for $ 100K. So you're
48:19
Speaker 2: getting taxed on the appreciation of an asset that you
48:22
Speaker 2: yourself don't actually have extra money in your pocket as
48:25
Speaker 2: a result of. And the thing about government, and you
48:28
Speaker 2: were hinting at this earlier, is when you give them
48:31
Speaker 2: money and they have nothing to do with it, they
48:33
Speaker 2: will find something to do with it. And it's actually
48:35
Speaker 2: kind of true of any bureaucracy. You see this with
48:38
Speaker 2: colleges where they basically, that's why they're building rock climbing
48:42
Speaker 2: walls and Olympic swimming pools. When they have the money,
48:45
Speaker 2: they feel like they have to justify it.
48:48
Speaker 4: Every amount of debt that Florida has since 1840 has
48:52
Speaker 4: been cut in half by Ron DeSantis since he has
48:56
Speaker 4: been in office. He's done a great job. I was
48:59
Speaker 4: on him a little bit tough on a couple of things,
49:01
Speaker 4: but overall, Governor Ron DeSantis is He really has been
49:04
Speaker 4: a great governor for the state of Florida. I can
49:07
Speaker 4: say that and say it with confidence. And who knows
49:10
Speaker 4: where he may end up. I have heard possibly the
49:12
Speaker 4: Supreme Court is a destination he may like. I don't know.
49:16
Speaker 4: Maybe the White House. I wouldn't rule that out yet either.
49:18
Speaker 2: It's interesting, though. too, that he barely won when he
49:23
Speaker 2: first took office. I think it was less than a
49:26
Speaker 2: margin of one point against Andrew Gillum. And he cleaned
49:30
Speaker 2: up the voter rolls. I think he took 800,000 people
49:33
Speaker 2: off the voter rolls. And then in the next election,
49:35
Speaker 2: he won by, I think, 16 points. So, you know, obviously,
49:39
Speaker 2: he's a very popular governor. But it is interesting to
49:41
Speaker 2: note that, you know, how much his margin of victory
49:45
Speaker 2: exploded just by cleaning up the voter rolls as well.
49:47
Speaker 2: It tells you, you know, who is doing some potential
49:49
Speaker 2: cheating or other malfeasance.
49:51
Speaker 4: Well, Matt, we've done pretty well. We've almost made it
49:54
Speaker 4: through the hour without discussing Iran. But I did want
49:58
Speaker 4: to talk about it. I just didn't want to spend
49:59
Speaker 4: a whole lot of time on it. And we're coming
50:01
Speaker 4: to the end of this hour. So let's pick it up.
50:03
Speaker 4: We are here at a point where I don't really
50:06
Speaker 4: think Donald Trump thought he would be. This deal, this
50:10
Speaker 4: memorandum of understanding to me is a crap deal. And
50:14
Speaker 4: I think that Donald Trump realizes that now. They had
50:17
Speaker 4: a meeting on Friday for a couple of hours in
50:18
Speaker 4: the Situation Room. It was pretty quiet over the weekend.
50:22
Speaker 4: And then on Sunday, you had Donald Trump is going
50:24
Speaker 4: to come back with something. There is nothing to come
50:27
Speaker 4: back with. You know, the memorandum of understanding, the only
50:31
Speaker 4: person or entity that wins in that is Iran because
50:35
Speaker 4: they open up the Strait of Hormuz and then we're
50:38
Speaker 4: talking for another 60 days about the nuclear thing. Well,
50:41
Speaker 4: we've been talking to Iran now for years. Donald Trump
50:44
Speaker 4: has been talking to them for a year and a half.
50:46
Speaker 4: And this is where we are. We're to the point
50:49
Speaker 4: of if they do this deal the way that it
50:52
Speaker 4: was put out there, we don't know really. how it
50:55
Speaker 4: was worded, but the way it was put out there
50:58
Speaker 4: is the Strait of Hormuz is open. Okay, that was
51:01
Speaker 4: the case before Epic Fury. Okay, then we're going to
51:04
Speaker 4: talk about nuclear weapons and enrichment over the next 60 days.
51:10
Speaker 4: That also was the case before Epic Fury, and that
51:13
Speaker 4: is also the case before Midnight Hammer in June of 2025.
51:17
Speaker 4: So in all of this, America has accomplished absolutely nothing
51:22
Speaker 4: but spent a lot of money, if you look at
51:24
Speaker 4: it that way. I think, personally, I think it's time
51:26
Speaker 4: for Donald Trump to end it, either end Iran economically.
51:31
Speaker 4: The inflation is incredibly high there, over 100%, up to
51:35
Speaker 4: 200% in some places. Two to four million Iranians have
51:38
Speaker 4: lost their jobs since the beginning of Epic Fury. I
51:42
Speaker 4: think if he just gets back to it or just
51:45
Speaker 4: leaves things as they are, the status quo, that this
51:48
Speaker 4: thing can be over pretty soon. I don't know. I
51:50
Speaker 4: just don't see making a deal with them. I have
51:53
Speaker 4: been consistent on this. I think you have too. I
51:56
Speaker 4: don't see making a deal doing anything.
51:58
Speaker 2: Well, you know, I don't know if I've been consistent
52:00
Speaker 2: in that. I think I was wrong initially that it
52:02
Speaker 2: would be like a one-off thing, like when we attacked
52:05
Speaker 2: him a year prior or when we got Maduro. And
52:08
Speaker 2: there was just all these, you know, there's been a
52:10
Speaker 2: number of times where Trump has done things strategically where
52:13
Speaker 2: everyone was saying, oh, my God, this is going to
52:16
Speaker 2: be a World War III. And then two days later,
52:18
Speaker 2: everyone's forgotten about it. So I don't know. Trump's a
52:21
Speaker 2: guy who just defies the odds every single time. And
52:24
Speaker 2: You know, the initial timeline, I think it was 68
52:27
Speaker 2: weeks on this. We've obviously far eclipsed that. So, you know,
52:31
Speaker 2: I just not sure there's any tangible benefit in keeping
52:33
Speaker 2: it going at this point. Unfortunately, you know, the success
52:37
Speaker 2: was in the leadership decapitation. But besides that, I think
52:41
Speaker 2: Trump was expecting the public to rise up in response
52:44
Speaker 2: to that, which they did not.
52:45
Speaker 4: They have not yet. And if things get bad enough,
52:48
Speaker 4: they will. And that's my point. If you keep the
52:51
Speaker 4: pressure on on them. economically, then maybe, maybe things will
52:56
Speaker 4: change for that. But they have to have guns. They
52:58
Speaker 4: can't throw rocks at the IRGC, can they?
53:01
Speaker 2: Right. Well, we do have a lot of those, fortunately.
53:03
Speaker 2: But arming the moderate rebels is unfortunately not going to
53:06
Speaker 2: do well in the past.
53:07
Speaker 4: And I have seen some concerns about weaponry in America.
53:11
Speaker 4: And if we're having a problem after six weeks of
53:13
Speaker 4: bombing Iran and giving weapons to Ukraine over a few years,
53:18
Speaker 4: what would happen if we were in a war with China?
53:21
Speaker 4: Shouldn't we be asking those questions out of that if
53:24
Speaker 4: we are really hurting for weapons right now or there
53:27
Speaker 4: is concern about if we have enough? So that's something
53:30
Speaker 4: to consider, too, going forward. What should we look for
53:33
Speaker 4: this week? Is anything on your radar?
53:37
Speaker 2: Second is the L.A. election, I believe.
53:39
Speaker 4: Yes, correct.
53:40
Speaker 2: So, yes, that's what's always going to be on that.
53:42
Speaker 2: And it's going to be a multi-round election, I believe,
53:45
Speaker 2: because there's three main candidates. I mean, there's actually more
53:48
Speaker 2: than three, but there's three main candidates. So far, the
53:52
Speaker 2: prediction markets are basically pricing in that it's going to
53:54
Speaker 2: be Karen Das and Spencer Pratt moving on to a
53:57
Speaker 2: second round. So that's, I guess, my prediction as well
54:00
Speaker 2: for it.
54:01
Speaker 4: Yeah, and you have already gone out on a limb
54:03
Speaker 4: and said that Spencer Pratt was going to win.
54:05
Speaker 2: I mean, I have a vested financial interest in winning,
54:07
Speaker 2: so that's why I'm saying that.
54:10
Speaker 4: Full disclosure.
54:10
Speaker 2: I actually have no idea.
54:13
Speaker 4: Well, Matt, thank you for joining us every Monday night
54:15
Speaker 4: for Mondays with Matt. I appreciate it. Have yourself a
54:18
Speaker 4: great week.
54:18
Speaker 2: You as well.
54:19
Speaker 4: And don't forget, you were told 2,000 years ago that
54:21
Speaker 4: you are the salt of the earth. And salt without flavor,
54:24
Speaker 4: it has no value. So whatever you do, keep being salty.
54:29
Speaker 4: Have a great night.
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