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DOJ Finds Race Discrimination in Admissions, Trump Meets Xi for Summit · The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated

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  Speaker 2: Welcome to the Hugh Hewitt Show.
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  Speaker 3: I'm guest host Kurt Schlichter, retired United States Army infantry colonel,
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  Speaker 3: senior columnist over at townhall.com. And I was a 30-year
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  Speaker 3: trial lawyer in California, which is where I got to
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  Speaker 3: meet our.
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  Speaker 2: Second guest, our first guest today. What am I saying?
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  Speaker 3: She is the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights and
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  Speaker 3: a fantastic trial lawyer herself, a great American, Harmeet Dhillon. Harmeet,
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  Speaker 3: welcome to The Hugh Hewitt Show.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks for having me back.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's always good to have you.
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  Speaker 3: Can you give give the folks an update on how
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  Speaker 3: things are going at the Civil Rights Division? You had
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  Speaker 3: one heck of a job coming in and it's been
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  Speaker 3: one heck of a challenge.
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  Speaker 5: Well, absolutely.
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  Speaker 4: So Civil Rights Division is one of the largest divisions
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  Speaker 4: here at Maine Justice here in D.C., When I started,
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  Speaker 4: it had about 400.
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  Speaker 6: Attorneys in it.
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  Speaker 4: And when we came in and told the lawyers here
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  Speaker 4: that we were going to be implementing the president's executive
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  Speaker 4: orders and prioritizing getting rid of DEI and cleaning up
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  Speaker 4: voter rolls and doing some of these important things that
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  Speaker 4: the American people voted for, eventually about 300 of those
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  Speaker 4: attorneys quit. And so they self-deported and we then I
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  Speaker 4: had the task of, while we had doge restrictions and
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  Speaker 4: budgetary constraints, building back the Civil Rights Division. And I'm
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  Speaker 4: really happy to say that I recruited over 100 great
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  Speaker 4: legal professionals here to the DOJ. We have revitalized our efforts.
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  Speaker 4: We have worked as a single unit with great zeal
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  Speaker 4: and dedication to do exactly what I promised in my
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  Speaker 4: first week on the job, which is implement those executive
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  Speaker 4: orders within the statutory framework of all of our great
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  Speaker 4: civil rights laws, which I love and respect. And so
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  Speaker 4: from making sure that American citizens are not discriminated against
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  Speaker 4: in hiring, from helping our states to stop illegal voting,
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  Speaker 4: cleaning up the voter rolls, going after American universities that
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  Speaker 4: take our federal funding and discriminate against people on the
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  Speaker 4: basis of race and other categories, going after anti-Semitism, church politics,
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  Speaker 4: blockades like what happened in Minnesota with the so-called protesters
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  Speaker 4: who obstructed churchgoers and other priorities like that. We're just
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  Speaker 4: really proud of the work that we've done here in
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  Speaker 4: the Civil Rights Division.
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  Speaker 2: And every day.
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  Speaker 4: We're in the headlines from making findings, letters against universities
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  Speaker 4: for their shocking findings. ongoing discrimination and a violation of
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  Speaker 4: students with fair admissions and other cases like that to
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  Speaker 4: opening up, you know, all new kinds of cases.
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  Speaker 6: So it's just been great.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you just dropped a case on the University of California,
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  Speaker 3: San Francisco Medical School, where they were discriminating what used
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  Speaker 3: to be called reverse discrimination, but it's really just discrimination.
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  Speaker 2: What's going on there?
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  Speaker 4: Well, UCSF, like some of our nation's most elite other
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  Speaker 4: medical institutions, has defied students of fair admissions by continuing
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  Speaker 4: to put its finger on the scale to get the
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  Speaker 4: types of makeup in their class that they view to
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  Speaker 4: be desirable. So-called underrepresented minorities, Black and Hispanic, are several
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  Speaker 4: times more likely to be admitted with the same credentials
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  Speaker 4: than white and Asian applicants. So, for example, a black
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  Speaker 4: applicant to UCSF with the same type of credentials as
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  Speaker 4: a white applicant is 12 times more likely to get it.
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  Speaker 4: Those are pretty shocking disparities and they're illegal. And so
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  Speaker 4: we sent our findings to UCSF. We've given, we're giving
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  Speaker 4: them an opportunity to come to the table and reach
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  Speaker 4: a resolution with us.
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  Speaker 2: Um, I don't think they.
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  Speaker 5: Will, but you know, if they do, that'll be great.
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  Speaker 4: And if they don't, we'll sue them. So we are very,
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  Speaker 4: very focused on making sure that, uh, First of all,
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  Speaker 4: we cannot fool around with the quality of medical education
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  Speaker 4: in our country. It actually matters much more so than
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  Speaker 4: perhaps some other.
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  Speaker 6: Disciplines. And we intend.
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  Speaker 4: To make sure that our federal dollars are going towards
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  Speaker 4: ensuring the finest applicants are getting the education here in
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  Speaker 4: the United States.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you know, you and I are both trial lawyers.
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  Speaker 3: You and I both actually... had to bring lawsuits. And
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  Speaker 3: I'm just kind of wondering, what would the argument on
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  Speaker 3: behalf of this kind of manifest bias be? Or are
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  Speaker 3: they just hoping that they can get themselves a Obama
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  Speaker 3: or Biden appointee judge in the Northern District of California
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  Speaker 3: and bide their time until maybe there's a new president
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  Speaker 3: in two years?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, so we saw an example of that
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  Speaker 4: in real life, I think, last week when we made
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  Speaker 4: similar findings against UC Berkeley's law school. And the dean
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  Speaker 4: who was caught red-handed, as is quoted in our complaint,
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  Speaker 4: our findings, saying that he was going to get around
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  Speaker 4: students for fair admissions by using sneaky criteria and tactics
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  Speaker 4: like essays and things like that. That's their argument is, oh, well,
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  Speaker 4: these numbers only tell part of the story. We're absolutely
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  Speaker 4: looking at a holistic picture of each candidate separately. But
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  Speaker 4: that's why we have these statisticians and people here on
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  Speaker 4: our staff who are not lawyers, the statisticians who actually
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  Speaker 4: do a very thorough job of crunching this data. The
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  Speaker 4: numbers don't lie. And you might see a variance of
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  Speaker 4: one time or two times as likely to get in.
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  Speaker 4: But when somebody is 12 times more likely to get
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  Speaker 4: in if their race is one race as opposed to another,
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  Speaker 4: that's really quite difficult.
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  Speaker 6: To explain other than.
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  Speaker 4: By resort to intentional discrimination. So that's the argument we're
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  Speaker 4: going to be making in court if we have to
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  Speaker 4: go there.
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  Speaker 3: One of the most interesting things about your tenure is
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  Speaker 3: that you've actually defended the civil rights of a long
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  Speaker 3: oppressed group of Americans. Gun owners, you've actually treated the
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  Speaker 3: Second Amendment like it's actually in the Constitution, something judges,
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  Speaker 3: including especially in the Ninth Circuit, don't seem to believe
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  Speaker 3: is a thing at all. You recently went after San Jose.
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  Speaker 3: I guess it's a Bay Area. I guess you're focusing
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  Speaker 3: on the Bay Area, which both of us came from,
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  Speaker 3: by the way. What's going on in San Jose and
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  Speaker 3: how are you going to make sure that Americans can
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  Speaker 3: exercise their right to keep and bear arms?
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  Speaker 4: Well, San Jose, I think we've held over a dozen
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  Speaker 4: lawsuits now around the country against different targets. And San
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  Speaker 4: Jose is charging $ 1, 600 for a concealed carry weapons permit
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  Speaker 4: application and requiring a psychiatric screening for enjoying a constitutionally
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  Speaker 4: protected right. And so some level of.
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  Speaker 6: You know, moderate fee.
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  Speaker 4: Like I had to pay, I think something under a
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  Speaker 4: hundred dollars here in DC to get my CCW permits. That's,
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  Speaker 4: you know, a processing fee is not presumptively unreasonable, but
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  Speaker 4: $ 1, 600 is real money. It's more than some people's rent.
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  Speaker 6: It's, you know, two car payments for people.
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  Speaker 2: It's a lot of money.
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  Speaker 4: And that is a material barrier to enjoying that constitutional right. And,
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  Speaker 4: you know, why should you have to prove that you're
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  Speaker 4: not crazy? Also, you know, I think the presumption should
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  Speaker 4: be on the government to prove that. So I, for
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  Speaker 4: these reasons, we've sued San Jose. San Jose has previously
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  Speaker 4: been sued by me in private practice. They had some
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  Speaker 4: other unconstitutional scheme that we challenged. And so, um, these
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  Speaker 4: jurisdictions are getting away with it because there aren't enough
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  Speaker 4: gun groups out there to challenge them. And, you know,
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  Speaker 4: they never expected the federal government to come in, but
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  Speaker 4: I'm really confident of eventually prevailing on these cases.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you know, I, I, a California resident, I've got, uh,
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  Speaker 3: I've got a gun permit elsewhere. I was literally a
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  Speaker 3: colonel who's been in two combat zones and who commanded
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  Speaker 3: thousands of guys with automatic weapons on the streets of California.
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  Speaker 3: And I have to ask the permission of some clerk
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  Speaker 3: who hadn't even been born yet when I was first time.
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  Speaker 3: First time I was a platoon leader, whether I can
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  Speaker 3: exercise my Second Amendment right. Hey, if you need a
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  Speaker 3: test plaintiff, you know how to spell my name. Harmeet Dhillon,
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  Speaker 3: assistant attorney general attorney.
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  Speaker 2: For civil rights.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you for being here on the Hugh Hewitt Show.
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  Speaker 3: And thank you and your folks for all your great work.
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  Speaker 3: If you know a young lawyer, have him get in
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  Speaker 3: touch with the DOJ. It's a great way to start
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  Speaker 3: your legal career. You'll be in the trenches from day one.
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  Speaker 3: I'm Kurt Schlichter. We'll be right back. Welcome back to
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  Speaker 3: the Hugh Hewitt Show. I'm guest host Kurt Schlichter. Getting
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  Speaker 3: a little 80s power pop in there with Kim Wilde.
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  Speaker 2: Kids in America. Because I'm old and I was around
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  Speaker 2: when it first came out. Wow.
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  Speaker 3: But we got a young whippersnapper with us now, Noah Rothman.
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  Speaker 3: He's a National Review's senior political writer.
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  Speaker 2: And he's the author of Blood and Progress. You can
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  Speaker 2: follow him at Noah C.
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  Speaker 6: Rothman.
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  Speaker 2: Noah, tell us a little about Blood and Progress. I'm
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  Speaker 2: all in favor of one of those.
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  Speaker 7: Unfortunately, a lot of people are, which is part of
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  Speaker 7: the problem. That is the story of, an at the
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  Speaker 7: turn of the last century to now, whenever you hear,
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  Speaker 7: whenever there's an act of political violence, whether it's on
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  Speaker 7: the left or the right, you instantly hear the reaction
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  Speaker 7: from the mainstream press and observers in that orbit who say, well,
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  Speaker 7: you know, the right, the American right is uniquely violent.
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  Speaker 8: This is an outlier episode.
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  Speaker 7: And it happens consistently to the point where it's become
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  Speaker 7: a mantra. We hear about it after an assassination attempt
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  Speaker 7: or a successful assassination.
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  Speaker 8: Of a right-wing figure.
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  Speaker 7: When the mobs descend on American cities almost nightly, this
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  Speaker 7: act of vandalism.
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  Speaker 8: Or the other.
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  Speaker 7: And it got to the point where you have to
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  Speaker 7: question the evidence of your own eyes, which I did.
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  Speaker 7: And the book chronicles three major waves of left-wing political
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  Speaker 7: violence in the United States in the 1910s, 1920s, 1970s, 1980s.
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  Speaker 7: And today, if you look at the periods that were
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  Speaker 7: riven by political strife and particularly by left-wing political violence,
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  Speaker 7: our era mirrors those of the past in some pretty
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  Speaker 7: conspicuous ways. And you don't know, most people don't know
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  Speaker 7: about them, And if you don't know about them, you
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  Speaker 7: don't know what the signs look like. You certainly don't
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  Speaker 7: know what the contours of the crisis is, and you
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  Speaker 7: can't get your hands around it.
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  Speaker 8: That's what we've been doing.
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  Speaker 7: We've been saying this country has a political violence problem. Well,
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  Speaker 7: everybody in the mainstream focuses on one side of that equation,
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  Speaker 7: ignoring the degree to which politically those who are inclined
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  Speaker 7: towards political violence take inspiration from both their side and
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  Speaker 7: the other side, which they resolve to meet out acts
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  Speaker 7: of violence against. And they always see the state as
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  Speaker 7: on the other side. It doesn't matter what side of
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  Speaker 7: the political equation you are. So It's a subject that's
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  Speaker 7: rife for study, and it's very understudied to a conspicuous degree.
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  Speaker 7: You have to wonder if those who are avoiding the
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  Speaker 7: confrontation of America's history with violence on the left just
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  Speaker 7: don't want you to know about it and therefore reach
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  Speaker 7: the conclusions that you would need to reach in order
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  Speaker 7: to stop it from continuing.
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  Speaker 3: Well, Noah Rothman, of course, 50 years ago, the early 70s,
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  Speaker 3: late 60s, the United States was undergoing a very low-grade
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  Speaker 3: leftist insurgency with thousands of bombings, hundreds of murders, and
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  Speaker 3: you really don't hear about that. It was treated like
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  Speaker 3: a criminal justice problem. You know, I've written fiction about
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  Speaker 3: America descending into violence because I served in Kosovo in
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  Speaker 3: the ruins of a civil war. My family's town was
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  Speaker 3: burned down, Chambersburg, several times by Confederates in the Civil War.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm very sensitive to this issue. Tell me if
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  Speaker 3: you think I'm wrong. Leftists have small spasms of violence,
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  Speaker 3: but if the right was actually violent in that sense,
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  Speaker 3: if it decided it would adopt that norm, it's got
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  Speaker 3: the weapons, it's got the training, and frankly, it's got
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  Speaker 3: the numbers. I think it would be a different quality
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  Speaker 3: and quantity of violence, and I'm not sure the left
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  Speaker 3: would be in a very good position to deal with it.
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  Speaker 7: Well, you're talking about mass organized violence, which is not
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  Speaker 7: what political violence in this country looks like in the absence.
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  Speaker 2: Of real insurrectionary periods.
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  Speaker 8: Well, not in 150 years. Yeah, not in real insurrectionary periods.
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  Speaker 7: I mean the people who are attracted to political violence
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  Speaker 7: are delusional in a clinical sense. They allied a sequence
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  Speaker 7: of events that gets them from A, active political bloodshed,
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  Speaker 7: to B, situation is better for me and everybody in
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  Speaker 7: my orbit. And that's just– that's delusional. But there is
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  Speaker 7: always an audience for violence, particularly– it's not even particularly
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  Speaker 7: on the left and the right. The right has their
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  Speaker 7: own unique pathologies and dangerous elements among them. But we've
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  Speaker 7: been seeing plenty of mainstream left-wing political actors endorse acts
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  Speaker 7: of violence and adopt the kind of deluded thinking that
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  Speaker 7: you would assume would be exclusive to those who are
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  Speaker 7: disordered and delusioned. Take the killing of Brian Thompson, UnitedHealthcare CEO,
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  Speaker 7: by Luigi Mangione, allegedly. Mangione's killing was instantly, within hours,
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  Speaker 7: celebrated organically at the grassroots level and excused by Democratic
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  Speaker 7: politicians like Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Elizabeth Warren, Chris Murphy,
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  Speaker 7: who all condemned the killing and yet appended a very
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  Speaker 7: pregnant butt onto that condemnation. But you have to understand,
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  Speaker 7: everybody's so angry, but you have to understand the healthcare
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  Speaker 7: system is broken.
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  Speaker 8: In Bernie Sanders' case, but everything's broken.
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  Speaker 7: The healthcare system, the education system, Finance system, election system, banking.
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  Speaker 8: System, it's all broken. What do we need?
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  Speaker 7: Revolutionary upheaval, revolutionary change to address everything and anything all
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  Speaker 7: at once in order to address the conditions that this
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  Speaker 7: one schizophrenic lost his mind over. And you see that
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  Speaker 7: time and time again with acts of violence that are
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  Speaker 7: perpetrated by people who are kind of delusional and then
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  Speaker 7: sometimes not delusional. Do you remember the third assassination attempt
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  Speaker 7: on Donald Trump, the guy who did it? So what
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  Speaker 7: happened after that, right? Donald Trump sits down with Kelly O'Donnell,
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  Speaker 7: I believe. If not, I think it was Kelly O'Donnell,
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  Speaker 7: maybe Nora O'Donnell.
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  Speaker 8: CBS News.
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  Speaker 7: And he was pressed to explain why his killer, his
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  Speaker 7: would-be killer, whose delusional thinking was written down in advance,
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  Speaker 7: why he's wrong. Why aren't you a rapist and a
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  Speaker 7: murderer and a traitor to this country? That's the sort
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  Speaker 7: of discourse that is just currency on places like Blue
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  Speaker 7: Sky that I guarantee you a lot of the mainstream
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  Speaker 7: political reporters who would ask that kind of a question
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  Speaker 7: frequent pretty regularly. So they don't think it's all that
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  Speaker 7: unusual that this guy was beholden to those pathologies and
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  Speaker 7: just acted out on them. That was the weird part.
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  Speaker 7: Not everything he believed. So there isn't a symmetry on
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  Speaker 7: the right when it comes to that sort of thing.
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  Speaker 7: The people who are deluded and inclined towards violence on
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  Speaker 7: the American right, their thinking is not celebrated.
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  Speaker 8: by.
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  Speaker 7: Mainstream political figures within the Republican Party or the conservative movement.
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  Speaker 8: You can't say the same on the progressive left.
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  Speaker 3: Well, we're talking to Noah C. Rothman of National Review,
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  Speaker 3: author of Blood and Progress, a chronicle of leftist violence
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  Speaker 3: throughout American history. Noah, I'm very concerned. I'm always very
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  Speaker 3: concerned about what the norms are. Uh, and, uh, You know,
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  Speaker 3: I'm also someone who says, well, if everyone's not abiding
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  Speaker 3: by the norms, they're not really norms, are they? And
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  Speaker 3: I find that terrifying when it comes to violence.
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  Speaker 2: Like I said, I served in Kosovo.
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  Speaker 3: There would be a village here that had been there
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  Speaker 3: for a thousand years, and a village there had been
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  Speaker 3: a thousand years, and they'd lived in peace. And then
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  Speaker 3: Yugoslavia falls apart, and one of them butchers the other
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  Speaker 3: because one's a different ethnicity.
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  Speaker 2: It's... It's a road to madness. And I look at
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  Speaker 2: these polls.
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  Speaker 3: A poll just came out that 20 what, 29 percent
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  Speaker 3: of American Democrats would support the assassination of Trump. Forty
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  Speaker 3: two percent would support a coup d'etat. Boy, if you
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  Speaker 3: want violence, throw down a coup d'etat. Is there any
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  Speaker 3: way out of this?
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  Speaker 7: Well, you're actually being charitable. I think that poll, it
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  Speaker 7: was 32 percent in that poll who supported an assassination attempt.
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  Speaker 7: And all of those outcomes in that poll, which might
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  Speaker 7: be sensationalized, who knows?
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  Speaker 8: But there's I mean, I've done the work. There's plenty
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  Speaker 8: of data.
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  Speaker 7: And I have about 80 pages of notes in this book.
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  Speaker 7: So I'd love for somebody to come fact check me.
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  Speaker 7: But the data suggests that Democrats rank and file are
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  Speaker 7: becoming more comfortable with political violence. But there's no outcome
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  Speaker 7: there that's good for them.
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  Speaker 9: No.
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  Speaker 7: So the options were impeached and convicted. Twenty fifth Amendment passed.
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  Speaker 7: Coup died overnight or assassinated. All of those would be
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  Speaker 7: get bad conditions for the Democratic Party in one way
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  Speaker 7: or another.
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  Speaker 8: They just aren't confronting them.
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  Speaker 7: They're just thinking two seconds ahead, instant gratification.
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  Speaker 2: Well, thank you, Noah C.
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  Speaker 4: Rothman.
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  Speaker 3: We've got to go. He's the author of Blood and Progress.
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  Speaker 3: You should check it out. A lot of food for
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  Speaker 3: thought there. I'm Kurt Schlichter. We'll be back with more
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  Speaker 3: Hugh Hewitt Show. Welcome back to the Hugh Hewitt Show
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  Speaker 3: with me, guest host Kurt Schlichter, senior columnist at townhall.com,
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  Speaker 3: retired United States Army infantry colonel. It is my pleasure
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  Speaker 3: to welcome to the Hugh Hewitt Show a veteran of
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  Speaker 3: the United States Navy, an important supporting branch of the
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: military for the decisive force in the United States military,
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  Speaker 3: that is the U.S.
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  Speaker 10: Army.
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  Speaker 3: And he's also incidentally a senator from the state of Montana.
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  Speaker 2: It's Tim Sheehy. Welcome to the show, Senator.
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  Speaker 11: Thanks, Kirk.
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  Speaker 12: But, you know, the Navy actually is enshrined in the Constitution.
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  Speaker 9: The Army is just a militia.
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  Speaker 12: So I'm not sure how you feel about that.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I feel like I'm back at a Schlichter
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  Speaker 3: family reunion. I'm the only one who wasn't in the Navy.
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  Speaker 2: Good.
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  Speaker 12: Obviously, you're at the bottom of the totem pole.
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  Speaker 9: Sorry to hear that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I am kind of the outlier. But, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: You know, one thing about the United States Navy, it fights.
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  Speaker 3: And I have not seen, I've seen a lot of
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  Speaker 3: the Republicans who don't seem to want to fight, Senator Sheehy.
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  Speaker 3: I've seen a lot of Republicans who are blackmailing, who
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  Speaker 3: are dooming, who are allowing their morale to hit rock bottom.
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  Speaker 2: What's going on with these people?
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  Speaker 13: Well, you know, we have a very contested information sphere
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  Speaker 13: these days, as you know, Kurt, and you know, I
• 19:47
  Speaker 13: gave a speech the other day at the RJC and
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  Speaker 13: talked about how, you know, our enemies still very much
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  Speaker 13: exist around the world. They are combining, they're coordinating, but
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  Speaker 13: their weapons have changed. You know, instead of flying airplanes
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  Speaker 13: into buildings, they're buying podcasters. You know, instead of suicide vests,
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  Speaker 13: they're buying our colleges and our education. They're literally brainwashing
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  Speaker 13: the next generation of Americans. And we have to fight
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  Speaker 13: the fight where it is, which you made the point
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  Speaker 13: very eloquently there that we have a lot of people.
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  Speaker 12: Who are simply giving up on some of these fronts.
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  Speaker 13: Instead of fighting information, bad information with truth, they're simply
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  Speaker 13: believing it and co-opting a podcast sphere that seems to
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  Speaker 13: want to destroy America, seems to accept our decline and
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  Speaker 13: accept that our enemies are ascended and always will be.
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  Speaker 13: And as soon as you let people convince themselves of
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  Speaker 13: these false truths, then, of course, they end up believing it,
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  Speaker 13: and they perpetuate it. And we can't simply perpetuate the
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  Speaker 13: decline of our country because not only is it not true,
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  Speaker 13: but it's a complete betrayal.
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  Speaker 12: Of our children and the next generation.
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  Speaker 13: We've got to fight for the greatest country ever. We've
• 20:46
  Speaker 13: got to continue to support this empire of freedom and
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  Speaker 13: innovation that this country has been the tentpole of for
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  Speaker 13: hundreds of years.
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  Speaker 12: And we have to say very clearly that we're.
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  Speaker 13: Going to defend this civilization and our right to exist.
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  Speaker 13: And unfortunately, many of our countrymen seem to have given
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  Speaker 13: up already.
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  Speaker 3: Well, look, you're showing the kind of fighting spirit I
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: love to see, the fighting spirit that my troops showed,
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  Speaker 3: the fighting spirit that.
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  Speaker 2: Your troops showed. And I just see so many in the.
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  Speaker 3: Republican Party, especially over this midterm election, who are completely blackmailing.
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  Speaker 2: We've not only lost the House, we're going to lose
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  Speaker 2: the Senate. Everything's going to hell. Run around with your
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  Speaker 2: hair on fire. Everybody panic. Do you think we're going
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  Speaker 2: to lose the Senate in this midterm? Senator Sheehy?
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  Speaker 13: When you look at the polls of what we're seeing,
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  Speaker 13: first of all, as you know, Kurt, traditionally the political
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  Speaker 13: pendulum swings against the party in power, especially that final
• 21:44
  Speaker 13: midterm of a two-term president, almost historically unbroken, sustains major
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  Speaker 13: losses in congressional elections. That's just a historical fact. I'm
• 21:53
  Speaker 13: not taking anyone's side. That's just the reality. However, if
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  Speaker 13: we were going to have a blue tidal wave, like
• 21:58
  Speaker 13: as you said, everyone's blackpilling about We would see numbers
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  Speaker 13: far beyond what we're seeing. We would not see tied
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  Speaker 13: polls in Minnesota. We would not see striking distance polls
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  Speaker 13: in Michigan and New Hampshire, where potentially we're going to
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  Speaker 13: have three flips in the Senate, New Hampshire, Minnesota, and Michigan.
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  Speaker 13: We wouldn't see the Democrats spending tens of millions of
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  Speaker 13: dollars to defend those seats if it was already a
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  Speaker 13: fait accompli. Now, there's no question, again, we have headwinds
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  Speaker 13: just because of the nature of the political momentum. But
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  Speaker 13: the truth is, as much as they want to tell
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  Speaker 13: everybody that the president is unpopular and the Republicans are unpopular,
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  Speaker 13: you know who's even more unpopular? The guy on the
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  Speaker 13: screen right now, Chuck Schumer. And congressional Democrats have like
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  Speaker 13: a 7% approval rating.
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  Speaker 2: And why?
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  Speaker 13: Because all they've done is obstruct. They view their entire
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  Speaker 13: charter is to resist, resist, resist.
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  Speaker 12: And that's what they've been doing for the last year
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  Speaker 12: and a half.
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  Speaker 13: We could have gotten good bipartisan things done that are
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  Speaker 13: good for the American people. Instead, they have shut the
• 22:55
  Speaker 13: government down three times, longest shutdown in American history. They've
• 22:59
  Speaker 13: obstructed every single nominee.
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  Speaker 12: They turned the U.S. Senate into a house.
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  Speaker 13: Of obstruction for the sole purpose of depriving the American
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  Speaker 13: people of a functioning government.
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  Speaker 12: They failed.
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  Speaker 13: We've pushed through time and again. We've passed generationally impactful legislation.
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  Speaker 13: And of course, most importantly, we've done things like seal
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  Speaker 13: the border, seal it, not slow down the flow of illegals,
• 23:20
  Speaker 13: not meter them.
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  Speaker 12: We have sealed the border.
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  Speaker 13: And that has massive impacts on crime, on cost of living,
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  Speaker 13: on safety in our streets. And I think we certainly
• 23:30
  Speaker 13: are seeing headwinds. People are frustrated as they always are
• 23:33
  Speaker 13: with the economy. Everyone always wants to make more money
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  Speaker 13: and pay less for groceries, of course. But at the
• 23:38
  Speaker 13: end of the day, I think people are going to
• 23:39
  Speaker 13: walk into the polls in November and they're going to say,
• 23:40
  Speaker 13: you know what? My streets are safer. The border is secure.
• 23:45
  Speaker 12: My life is cheaper. Inflation is still there. But guess what?
• 23:48
  Speaker 13: 3% inflation is way better than 12% inflation that we
• 23:51
  Speaker 13: had under Joe Biden. So I think we're going to
• 23:53
  Speaker 13: win this thing. It's going to be tough, no question.
• 23:56
  Speaker 13: Every election is tough, but we're going to earn it,
• 23:57
  Speaker 13: and we're going to hold the Senate.
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  Speaker 3: What happens if we lose the Senate? Sketch out that
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: scenario for us.
• 24:06
  Speaker 13: Impeachment, investigations, constant circus, kangaroo courts. If we lose the
• 24:11
  Speaker 13: House and the Senate, if we lose both houses, unfortunately,
• 24:14
  Speaker 13: the last two years of the presidency will be a joke.
• 24:18
  Speaker 13: It'll be embarrassing for us on the world stage because
• 24:21
  Speaker 13: we're going to have communist jihadists in office who are
• 24:23
  Speaker 13: going to use their elected position not to benefit their constituents,
• 24:28
  Speaker 13: not to fight for their district or to improve America's
• 24:30
  Speaker 13: standing in the world. They're going to use it as
• 24:32
  Speaker 13: a pathetic circus show to try to destroy this president,
• 24:36
  Speaker 13: his cabinet, and anybody affiliated with them. And that's the alternative.
• 24:40
  Speaker 12: And I think that's when we see.
• 24:42
  Speaker 13: Republicans who are saying, hey, I'm going to vote for
• 24:44
  Speaker 13: Democrats now because I can't stand Trump so much. Hey,
• 24:46
  Speaker 13: I'm going to vote for the third party candidate to
• 24:49
  Speaker 13: send a message to Republicans that they haven't gotten enough done.
• 24:52
  Speaker 13: I think we need to remember that we do live
• 24:54
  Speaker 13: in a Republic and our framers very wisely built our
• 24:57
  Speaker 13: Republic in a way that it actually is hard to
• 24:59
  Speaker 13: get things done.
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  Speaker 12: And as much as Americans love.
• 25:01
  Speaker 13: To be individual, get her, get her done mentality. The
• 25:05
  Speaker 13: truth is our Republic was built to make it hard
• 25:08
  Speaker 13: to get things done because our framers believe that a
• 25:12
  Speaker 13: good policy and a good decision will endure the emotions
• 25:14
  Speaker 13: of the moment. So make it go through a tough
• 25:17
  Speaker 13: process in order to be passed. And I think when
• 25:18
  Speaker 13: they look at what we've actually done and delivered and
• 25:20
  Speaker 13: remember that, they're going to support. But it's very easy
• 25:23
  Speaker 13: to caught up in the negativity moment and decide they're
• 25:25
  Speaker 13: going to turn on the cause that has delivered a
• 25:27
  Speaker 13: lot for them.
• 25:28
  Speaker 12: And I hope that they don't.
• 25:29
  Speaker 13: And I don't think that they will, because the numbers
• 25:31
  Speaker 13: don't show that there's going to be a big defeat.
• 25:34
  Speaker 12: This fall for us.
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  Speaker 2: Well, look, it is. I got to tell you, it is.
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: It's like a tonic to hear you talk. But, you know, a.
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: Combat leader with a combat leader's attitude. Senator Tim Sheeny
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: from the great state of Montana. Take it to the
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: enemy and put them down. My name's Kurt Schlichter. I'm
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: guest hosting for Hugh Hewitt. We got a lot more
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: to come. Stick around.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome back to the Hugh Hewitt Show.
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: I'm guest host Kurt Schlichter. And, of course, one of
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: my favorite guests when I guest host here. is Mary
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: Catherine Hamm. She does everything. She is everywhere. And boy,
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: you are all over X today. I've been reading it,
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: and I just told myself when I have her on,
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: I'm just going to say three words, Nicole Hannah-Jones, go.
• 26:27
  Speaker 14: Yeah, I got a lot of thoughts about Nicole Hannah-Jones,
• 26:30
  Speaker 14: the New York Times writer and education alleged expert. who
• 26:34
  Speaker 14: sent her child to a predominantly black and admittedly not
• 26:40
  Speaker 14: succeeding school on purpose as a part of a social
• 26:44
  Speaker 14: experiment and political experiment to see if the mere presence
• 26:47
  Speaker 14: of Nicole Hannah-Jones could elevate this school to work properly
• 26:51
  Speaker 14: for her child. Nicole Hannah-Jones is also the creator of
• 26:56
  Speaker 14: the 1619 Project, rife with all of its inaccuracies and
• 27:01
  Speaker 14: historical biases and all the things that has been disseminated
• 27:04
  Speaker 14: into public schools across this country, making people not as
• 27:08
  Speaker 14: smart as a result. She asks herself, in fighting for
• 27:11
  Speaker 14: every black child, did I betray my own? Because her
• 27:14
  Speaker 14: child at around 14 realizes, hey, mom, Did you know
• 27:18
  Speaker 14: that my school was bad when you put me in it?
• 27:21
  Speaker 5: And she has to answer, yes, I did.
• 27:25
  Speaker 14: And that wasn't the first red flag. In fourth grade,
• 27:28
  Speaker 14: she had gotten word from the teachers that her child
• 27:31
  Speaker 14: was slipping and that her reading wasn't up to snuff,
• 27:34
  Speaker 14: nor was her writing. So she starts asking for information
• 27:37
  Speaker 14: and she finally gets it. It's like pulling teeth from
• 27:40
  Speaker 14: the administrators who won't help her out. And she sees
• 27:42
  Speaker 14: that none of this work has been graded and that
• 27:44
  Speaker 14: she's not being corrected on her math. And in fact,
• 27:46
  Speaker 14: she doesn't know how to do a lot of the
• 27:48
  Speaker 14: things that the school has been telling her that she
• 27:51
  Speaker 14: knows how to do. And I just, I went to
• 27:56
  Speaker 14: predominantly black schools, like 90% black schools. My parents sent
• 28:00
  Speaker 14: me there because there was no other choice. We couldn't
• 28:02
  Speaker 14: afford private school.
• 28:04
  Speaker 5: It was where I lived.
• 28:05
  Speaker 14: And in doing so, they understood, as Nicole Hannah-Jones definitely
• 28:09
  Speaker 14: should have, that they were going to have to supplement.
• 28:13
  Speaker 5: And they did.
• 28:14
  Speaker 14: And they paid aggressive attention to what I was doing
• 28:16
  Speaker 14: and what I was getting out of it. Nicole Hannah-Jones
• 28:20
  Speaker 14: didn't do that. She failed her child on several levels
• 28:23
  Speaker 14: because she did have the resources to send herself somewhere else.
• 28:26
  Speaker 14: And even within public schools in New York City, she
• 28:29
  Speaker 14: could have gone to a more selective school, which is
• 28:30
  Speaker 14: where she is now. And this is how it ends
• 28:33
  Speaker 14: because Nicole Hannah-Jones, in the greatest act of hypocrisy, her
• 28:38
  Speaker 14: entire career has been devoted to destroying the type of
• 28:41
  Speaker 14: schools that her child is now attending to get the
• 28:45
  Speaker 14: things she needs, and the whole thing is, like, tailor-made
• 28:49
  Speaker 14: to make my brain explode.
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I kind of expected a meltdown, and, well, you
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: delivered like Chernobyl.
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: It was amazing.
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: Mary Catherine Hamm, I, you know, at some point I
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: want to shout, stop.
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: Stop.
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: To liberal women everywhere until we find out what the
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: hell is going on. We've got Hannah Nicole Jones or
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: Nicole Hannah Jones essentially sacrificing her daughter on the altar
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: of wokeness. We have women explaining that not only is
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: Lindsay Clancy to be pitied, but how dare her husband
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: divorce her after she murdered their three kids. And, of course,
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: we have the Munchausen mommies who want to carve up
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: their kids to cater to their gender delusions. i don't
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: see this with conservative women i mean you know i
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: i'm married to one uh she's also cuban so she's
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: got a little extra latin uh common sense going but
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: where did they get the how did they become so
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: morally inverted.
• 29:56
  Speaker 14: I mean, honestly, I think you see some of this
• 29:58
  Speaker 14: in the polling about people's relative happiness, that religious conservative
• 30:03
  Speaker 14: married women who have children end up being among the
• 30:07
  Speaker 14: most contented in their lives. And I think a lot
• 30:10
  Speaker 14: of this is a reaction to feeling discontented and finding
• 30:13
  Speaker 14: new ways to replace religion, to replace the other things
• 30:16
  Speaker 14: that you haven't put into your life that would be
• 30:19
  Speaker 14: healthier ways to live.
• 30:21
  Speaker 5: Your life out. But like the, like, I think the
• 30:23
  Speaker 5: view is actually very symbolic of this.
• 30:24
  Speaker 14: Cause this week we've seen, uh, not only, uh, one
• 30:28
  Speaker 14: host say, you know, why would Patrick Clancy divorce this woman? When,
• 30:31
  Speaker 14: by the way, she would sit next to a celebrity
• 30:34
  Speaker 14: who said, well, I left my husband because he chewed
• 30:36
  Speaker 14: too loud.
• 30:36
  Speaker 5: And she'd be like, girl, you got to grow. I understand.
• 30:39
  Speaker 14: Right. But in this case, she's going to make excuses.
• 30:42
  Speaker 14: Then Sonny Hostin is on the same show, or at
• 30:44
  Speaker 14: least the same week saying, uh, that she was the
• 30:47
  Speaker 14: holdout juror for a cannibalistic murderer, uh, In a New
• 30:51
  Speaker 14: York City case where they let the guy off on
• 30:54
  Speaker 14: an insanity plea.
• 30:56
  Speaker 5: And I'm just like, this is.
• 30:58
  Speaker 14: Like daytime women's talk TV. This is a bad symbol.
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: It's bizarre.
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: And, you know, here's the thing about Nicole Hannah-Jones, right?
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: She's carrying the ball down the field. You think she's
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: going to get in the end zone, right? She has
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: seen the error of her ways. And, you know, with
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: 10 yards to go, she just kind of stops and
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: doesn't make that last leap between the Democrat Union woke
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: alliance of failure in the inner city schools.
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: She just can't do it.
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: So she'll she'll take her kid out and leave millions
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: of other kids.
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: To their fate.
• 31:39
  Speaker 14: Well. With apologies to the Wolfpack, it's worse than that
• 31:42
  Speaker 14: because it was like the quarterback of that NC State
• 31:44
  Speaker 14: game where he was in the end zone and should
• 31:45
  Speaker 14: have won if he had just taken a knee. Like
• 31:47
  Speaker 14: she's losing here. And the reason she's losing is because
• 31:50
  Speaker 14: she can't confront that those are the culprits. It's like
• 31:54
  Speaker 14: she was mugged by reality, but she still can't ID
• 31:57
  Speaker 14: the dude who did it. And it's like, because the
• 31:59
  Speaker 14: person who did it is the teachers unions, her own
• 32:02
  Speaker 14: ideology to some extent. The very ideas that she has
• 32:06
  Speaker 14: pushed for systematically and been very good at pushing have
• 32:11
  Speaker 14: made the systems worse because in fact there is a
• 32:14
  Speaker 14: model there's a principle in this story that she confronts
• 32:17
  Speaker 14: who's a well-meaning person who says basically there's there's no
• 32:20
  Speaker 14: way to do this there's no model for it with
• 32:23
  Speaker 14: minority children and that's first of all seems sort of
• 32:26
  Speaker 14: uh like bigotry second of all there's a model in
• 32:30
  Speaker 14: mississippi yes there's Schools that have a concentration of minority
• 32:38
  Speaker 14: students that are far higher sometimes than the ones in
• 32:40
  Speaker 14: New York City and pay 10,000 to 14,000 per year
• 32:44
  Speaker 14: per student instead of 53K are able to allow students
• 32:49
  Speaker 14: to progress.
• 32:50
  Speaker 5: And that is a beautiful thing.
• 32:52
  Speaker 14: And Blue America needs to get attuned to it and
• 32:54
  Speaker 14: stop listening to Nicole Hannah-Jones, who doesn't have the expertise
• 32:58
  Speaker 14: for this.
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: But see, as with so much in Blue America, it
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: isn't so much The results of the policy that matter,
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: but the power and prestige that come from being in
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: control that matters. They don't care about the little black kids. Look,
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: I live in the South Bay of Los Angeles. I
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: live by the beach and my high school and my
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: junior high schools. You know, the Chardonnay wine women with
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: the Aidens and the Cadens are not going to allow
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: the schools to fail.
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: They are they terrorize.
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: The principal and all the kids end up going to
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: really nice colleges.
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: You go five miles to the east.
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: You cross that overpass under the 405 and you are
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: in L.A.
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: U.S.D. territory. And it is all failure.
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: And these Democrats who care so much are condemning a
• 33:50
  Speaker 3: generation of young black and Latino kids to failure.
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: And it is appalling. And they will lecture us about morality.
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  Speaker 14: No, it's like She doesn't mention teachers unions. She also
• 34:04
  Speaker 14: doesn't mention COVID policies. The teachers unions, together with these
• 34:09
  Speaker 14: school boards in these liberal areas, did one of the
• 34:11
  Speaker 14: greatest disservices to children and the greatest disservice to public
• 34:16
  Speaker 14: schools and trust in them in my entire life's living.
• 34:21
  Speaker 5: Memory, frankly.
• 34:22
  Speaker 14: And she says nothing about that because, again, those people
• 34:26
  Speaker 14: are allied with her.
• 34:28
  Speaker 5: And so, yes, what she wanted.
• 34:30
  Speaker 14: To sort of do was import some of the wine
• 34:33
  Speaker 14: mom terrorizing of the school board into these other schools.
• 34:38
  Speaker 14: And it didn't work because I think she thought just
• 34:41
  Speaker 14: like her magical appearance.
• 34:43
  Speaker 5: Was going to do it. And that didn't do it.
• 34:44
  Speaker 14: And I think the fact that these schools were resistant
• 34:48
  Speaker 14: to any influence from her, despite the fact that she
• 34:51
  Speaker 14: was a New York Times reporter, is evidence of how
• 34:53
  Speaker 14: insulated they are, thanks to their ideology and thanks to
• 34:57
  Speaker 14: the teachers unions themselves.
• 34:58
  Speaker 5: For any accountability for any of this.
• 35:00
  Speaker 14: They're not flinching because they know Nicole Hannah-Jones in the
• 35:03
  Speaker 14: New York Times is going to let them off the hook,
• 35:05
  Speaker 14: and she mostly did.
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: Well, I'm sure somehow it's conservative Republican white supremacists from
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: flyover states that are at fault for the total failure.
• 35:18
  Speaker 5: Oh, that's basically the conclusion, yeah.
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah, the total failure of her ideology and her parenting.
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: Mary Catherine Hand, Host of Getting Hammered podcast, which I
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: listen to every week. Thanks for joining us on The
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: Hugh Hewitt Show. I'm guest host Kurt Schlichter. We'll be
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: right back with Jim Tallent. Welcome back to The Hugh
• 35:39
  Speaker 3: Hewitt Show. I'm guest host Kurt Schlichter. And, of course,
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: that social distortion with Adam Baum. I couldn't think of
• 35:45
  Speaker 3: a better song to welcome our next guest, Senator Jim Tallent.
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: who is a perpetual guest here at the Hugh Hewitt Show.
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: Senator Talent, welcome. It's great to see you.
• 35:58
  Speaker 9: Well, thank you.
• 35:59
  Speaker 15: And I'm glad to be introduced with what is obviously
• 36:02
  Speaker 15: one of your favorite songs.
• 36:03
  Speaker 9: So I'll take that as a great compliment.
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: Orange County's loud, fast heroes.
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: Social D.
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: Anyway, thank Well, first of all, Senator Tal, let's talk
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: about what Pete Hegseth did yesterday. You and I had
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: a chance to just kick it around offline a little bit.
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: But what Secretary of War Hegseth did was impose a
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: new requirement for those wanting to become flag officers, that
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: is generals or admirals, which is a test, essentially, a
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: series of challenges to see if they can actually.
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: Lead troops in battle.
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: The multi-domain battle space that war is today. It's not
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: just the ground and you fight over it. I mean,
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: you've got cyber, you've got Internet, you've got space, you've
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: got air, you've got sea. It's really incredible, and it
• 36:58
  Speaker 3: will take a special kind of leader. What do you
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: think of Secretary Warheg's initiative?
• 37:06
  Speaker 15: Well, I not only support everything he's been doing on
• 37:08
  Speaker 15: the personnel front, I think it may be the most
• 37:11
  Speaker 15: essential thing that he is doing. And he's lifting standards
• 37:15
  Speaker 15: across all ranks, as you know, Kurt, and emphasizing warfighting ability,
• 37:21
  Speaker 15: which is obviously extremely important for everybody. It's one area
• 37:24
  Speaker 15: where we have a huge lead on the Chinese. I
• 37:27
  Speaker 15: don't want to necessarily go down that rabbit hole, but
• 37:29
  Speaker 15: they know it, Kurt. They know that they are very
• 37:32
  Speaker 15: concerned about the ability of the PLA to operate in
• 37:35
  Speaker 15: a joint fight, operate jointly in a fight against the Americans.
• 37:39
  Speaker 15: So we've got to lead, we need to continue it.
• 37:43
  Speaker 9: And that's important.
• 37:44
  Speaker 15: I listened to the interview you did with Matt, I
• 37:46
  Speaker 15: think it was Matt Continenti, but it was very good.
• 37:49
  Speaker 9: I think it's important not only for.
• 37:54
  Speaker 15: The officers in the COCOMs, you know, who are actually
• 37:56
  Speaker 15: in the chain of command there, but also for the
• 38:00
  Speaker 15: uniforms that are doing acquisition. Because if you can't think
• 38:03
  Speaker 15: like a warfighter, If you can't keep those concept of
• 38:08
  Speaker 15: operations and war plans in mind, you don't know what
• 38:11
  Speaker 15: capabilities you need on the platforms that you're acquiring. And so, yeah,
• 38:17
  Speaker 15: I think it's long overdue and well needed, as are
• 38:22
  Speaker 15: all the personnel reforms that he's engineering.
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: Well, look, I have been saying for a long time,
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: and I worked for the Pentagon for a short time
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: studying the war colleges, seeing how we could improve them.
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: The Secretary of War may or may not take our
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: recommendations and release them publicly.
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: I won't talk about them before then.
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: But I have always been of the opinion that the
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: biggest challenge coming into this administration was not acquisitions. It
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: was not developing strategy. It was not developing new equipment.
• 38:55
  Speaker 3: It was restoring a military culture. And I thought that
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: Pete Hegseth getting down and knocking out push-ups with the infantry,
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: you know, is a guy who led these soldiers. And
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: I know you've been very, very involved with the military
• 39:13
  Speaker 3: for a long time. I just thought this was the
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: most important thing he could do. And it's bizarre to
• 39:20
  Speaker 3: me that people who damn well should know better, like
• 39:23
  Speaker 3: Mark Kelly– are down on him for reemphasizing basics.
• 39:30
  Speaker 9: Yeah, well, a lot of that, of course, is politics.
• 39:34
  Speaker 9: And I'm not a veteran. You're right.
• 39:36
  Speaker 15: I've been involved with the department since 1993 in different
• 39:42
  Speaker 15: capacities when I went into the House. I don't know
• 39:45
  Speaker 15: what it's like to have served, but I do know.
• 39:49
  Speaker 15: that we need very high standards. We need to expect
• 39:51
  Speaker 15: everybody to live up to them. And what he's doing
• 39:54
  Speaker 15: in getting DEI out of the department is absolutely essential.
• 39:59
  Speaker 15: I mean, it's a toxic philosophy everywhere. You know, look
• 40:02
  Speaker 15: at everybody through the prism of race and these various
• 40:06
  Speaker 15: identity markers. But the worst place to try and do
• 40:09
  Speaker 15: it is in.
• 40:10
  Speaker 9: The Department of War.
• 40:12
  Speaker 15: And I You know more about this than I do,
• 40:15
  Speaker 15: but I know that when you're a serviceman or woman
• 40:18
  Speaker 15: and you're looking at the guy or gal next to you,
• 40:21
  Speaker 15: you need to see a comrade in arms. You need
• 40:24
  Speaker 15: to see somebody who is out to perform the mission
• 40:27
  Speaker 15: as part of a team, or you just need to
• 40:30
  Speaker 15: see an individual, you know, a buddy, somebody you can,
• 40:34
  Speaker 15: you know, go on leave with or something. You do
• 40:36
  Speaker 15: not need to be looking at them through some intersectional
• 40:40
  Speaker 15: stack you know, based on race or ethnicity or this
• 40:43
  Speaker 15: sort of thing. So I'm really pleased that he's doing that.
• 40:48
  Speaker 15: And as far as morale is concerned, all you got
• 40:50
  Speaker 15: to do is look at the recruiting and retention numbers.
• 40:52
  Speaker 9: I mean, you know, the proof's in the pudding, Kurt.
• 40:55
  Speaker 15: We're recruiting people, we're keeping people, and that's because they
• 40:58
  Speaker 15: like the changes that the Secretary is making. I will
• 41:03
  Speaker 15: have to tell you, rebuilding the military industrial base, getting
• 41:10
  Speaker 15: acquisition in order That's equally as important. But the personnel
• 41:15
  Speaker 15: changes are vital.
• 41:18
  Speaker 3: Boy, there are so many topics I could talk to
• 41:21
  Speaker 3: you about today. And I want to briefly touch on
• 41:25
  Speaker 3: President Xi.
• 41:26
  Speaker 9: Pick some I know something about, will you? I mean,
• 41:28
  Speaker 9: Dwayne doesn't always do that on the pod.
• 41:31
  Speaker 3: Well, look, Xi is here meeting with Donald Trump today.
• 41:36
  Speaker 3: CNN has informed its eager readers that Xi is coming
• 41:40
  Speaker 3: in with a lot of swagger because he's really, you know,
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: he's in control. He's the man, and Donald Trump's going
• 41:48
  Speaker 3: to have to be a supplicant. I don't quite see
• 41:50
  Speaker 3: it that way. How do you see it?
• 41:53
  Speaker 9: No, definitely the president's not a supplicant.
• 41:57
  Speaker 15: Well, I think the purpose, we have to look at
• 41:59
  Speaker 15: this visit in the context of the overall relationship between
• 42:04
  Speaker 15: the two countries. I think the object of the visit, Kurt,
• 42:07
  Speaker 15: is really the visit. I think both sides here, I
• 42:11
  Speaker 15: think both Xi and the president, want things, want the
• 42:17
  Speaker 15: relationship between the United States and China to stay stable,
• 42:21
  Speaker 15: at least for the time being. Now, I think they
• 42:23
  Speaker 15: want it for different reasons. I think the president wants it.
• 42:26
  Speaker 15: because he knows we're getting stronger vis-a-vis China, because he's
• 42:30
  Speaker 15: rebuilding the tools of power that we just talked about,
• 42:32
  Speaker 15: including the military tools on the energy front, everything that
• 42:36
  Speaker 15: we're doing and rebuilding the manufacturing base, critical minerals, which,
• 42:41
  Speaker 15: as you know, is probably our key vulnerability regarding China.
• 42:44
  Speaker 15: And the president wants to get stronger in all these areas,
• 42:49
  Speaker 15: you know, before doing anything that significantly increases tensions. He's
• 42:54
  Speaker 15: not going to let them push us around But he's
• 42:57
  Speaker 15: not looking for a confrontation with China.
• 42:59
  Speaker 9: Now, on the other hand, Xi, I.
• 43:01
  Speaker 15: Think, wants stability because he's been backfooted by what the
• 43:06
  Speaker 15: president's done on trade. He's dealing with a property sector,
• 43:10
  Speaker 15: which is where they have invested hundreds of billions of
• 43:13
  Speaker 15: dollars that, as you know, is collapsing.
• 43:16
  Speaker 9: He's dealing with.
• 43:17
  Speaker 15: Energy supply chains that are extremely unstable. I mean, what's
• 43:21
  Speaker 15: happening in the Middle East is not good news for China.
• 43:25
  Speaker 15: And he's also dealing, I mean, he's been purging everybody
• 43:29
  Speaker 15: in the PLA. I mean, I don't know that he's
• 43:31
  Speaker 15: got any uniformed officers left on the Central Military Commission.
• 43:36
  Speaker 15: So he doesn't want an increase in tension right now either.
• 43:40
  Speaker 15: And I think that's what they're going to project in
• 43:43
  Speaker 15: this meeting. You're not going to see any big agreements.
• 43:46
  Speaker 15: They'll talk about AI. They'll talk about trade. But I
• 43:49
  Speaker 15: think right now we're rebuilding the tools of power, dealing
• 43:52
  Speaker 15: with the Western hemispheric threats effectively. And I think the
• 43:56
  Speaker 15: president will get to China maybe with some more initiatives later.
• 44:00
  Speaker 3: Well, Senator Jim Tallent, it is always a pleasure to
• 44:03
  Speaker 3: talk to you.
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: I wish we could talk more.
• 44:05
  Speaker 3: I couldn't ask you about the midterms. Oh, well, we'll
• 44:08
  Speaker 3: get to that. Maybe next time I guest host. I'm
• 44:10
  Speaker 3: Kurt Schlichter. This is The Hugh Hewitt Show.
• 44:13
  Speaker 2: Stick around for more. Silver wings.
• 44:19
  Speaker 3: Welcome back to the Hugh Hewitt Show. I'm guest host
• 44:22
  Speaker 3: Kurt Schlichter, retired United States Army colonel, five jump chump.
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I had silver wings on my chest.
• 44:29
  Speaker 3: My next guest had wings too. He's Pennsylvania Senator Dave McCormick.
• 44:34
  Speaker 3: You can follow him at senmccormick.pa. Senator McCormick, how many
• 44:41
  Speaker 3: jumps do you have?
• 44:42
  Speaker 2: Because you were in the 82nd, right?
• 44:45
  Speaker 10: Yeah, I probably have, I don't know, 50 or 60.
• 44:47
  Speaker 10: I was a jump master. So I, uh, I had
• 44:50
  Speaker 10: a few, most of them at night.
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: Nice. Uh, a lot of people don't know that you
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: can go to airborne school.
• 44:56
  Speaker 3: You can get five jumps and you can wear the
• 44:58
  Speaker 3: wings forever and use them to pick up chicks. But
• 45:01
  Speaker 3: I know that from personal experience. So that's, uh, that was,
• 45:06
  Speaker 3: that was, that was my style. Look, we're both, uh, uh,
• 45:10
  Speaker 3: Pennsylvania guys. My family came from, uh, Pennsylvania, of course, uh,
• 45:14
  Speaker 3: My parents' family, mom's family lived in Bloomsburg, where you're from.
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: You've developed kind of a unique style.
• 45:21
  Speaker 3: As a senator from Pennsylvania, kind of cut yourself your
• 45:26
  Speaker 3: own kind of pattern.
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: Tell us a little about that. How are you different
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: than other senators?
• 45:33
  Speaker 10: Well, first, let me start with it's great to be
• 45:36
  Speaker 10: with you. And it's a real privilege to be in
• 45:39
  Speaker 10: the Senate. I ran for this job twice, lost the
• 45:42
  Speaker 10: first time by 900 votes and won the second time
• 45:45
  Speaker 10: by 15,000 out of 7 million. And I like to
• 45:49
  Speaker 10: say that I'm the 54th elected senator in Pennsylvania's history.
• 45:54
  Speaker 10: I'm the ninth senator in the history of the country
• 45:56
  Speaker 10: from West Point. But I have a title that Dina
• 45:59
  Speaker 10: and our six girls would never have dreamed possible, which
• 46:01
  Speaker 10: is the best dressed senator from Pennsylvania. Because my buddy
• 46:07
  Speaker 10: John Fetterman would even agree with that. But, you know, listen,
• 46:11
  Speaker 10: I think about this as a business person. people elected
• 46:15
  Speaker 10: me to come to Washington to try to make change happen.
• 46:19
  Speaker 10: As a business person, you can do that through legislation,
• 46:22
  Speaker 10: which I've tried to be a leader on, but you
• 46:25
  Speaker 10: can also do it by using the platform to have
• 46:28
  Speaker 10: like the Energy and Innovation Summit with the president, bring investment,
• 46:31
  Speaker 10: bring jobs, the Defense Innovation Summit that the president did
• 46:34
  Speaker 10: with us in July, where we had all the defense CEOs.
• 46:37
  Speaker 10: So it's about making good things happen. It's about the results.
• 46:41
  Speaker 10: And as a business person, you know, I'm a strong conservative.
• 46:44
  Speaker 10: I've got a very strong conservative voting record. But you
• 46:48
  Speaker 10: got to work with whoever you need to work with
• 46:51
  Speaker 10: to get things done. And so I'm proud of the
• 46:53
  Speaker 10: fact that we can get a lot of things done.
• 46:55
  Speaker 10: And I think that's honestly what the people of Pennsylvania expect.
• 46:58
  Speaker 10: They they want to see you get things done.
• 47:01
  Speaker 3: Well, look, you've got a great relationship with Senator Fetterman,
• 47:04
  Speaker 3: who is a Democrat. I don't agree with a lot
• 47:06
  Speaker 3: of things he says, but a lot of things he
• 47:07
  Speaker 3: does seem to show a lot of common sense. Now,
• 47:11
  Speaker 3: we're told by all the smart people that the Republicans
• 47:15
  Speaker 3: are going to lose this Senate.
• 47:17
  Speaker 12: We're doomed.
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: We're done. We're finished. That it may, you know, the
• 47:21
  Speaker 2: Democrats may get, I don't know, one vote majority. I
• 47:24
  Speaker 2: don't know.
• 47:24
  Speaker 3: If that happens, you think you could talk your your
• 47:27
  Speaker 3: pal John into into coming over to the winning team?
• 47:32
  Speaker 10: Well, part of the friendship with him and I think
• 47:36
  Speaker 10: the trust he has is I never try to twist
• 47:38
  Speaker 10: his arm to do anything or I want him to
• 47:41
  Speaker 10: do what's right for him. But we honestly, so I
• 47:44
  Speaker 10: don't know what he's going to do. Then that's really truthful.
• 47:48
  Speaker 10: But we look for things to work on together. So
• 47:50
  Speaker 10: whether it's the flow of fentanyl or whether it's fracking
• 47:53
  Speaker 10: or steel manufacturing, steel making in Pennsylvania, whether it's the
• 47:58
  Speaker 10: fight against anti-Semitism, we have found ways to work together.
• 48:01
  Speaker 10: So that's been the strength of the relationship. And I think,
• 48:07
  Speaker 10: you know, I think people appreciate that and respect it.
• 48:10
  Speaker 10: In terms of the midterms, you know, I think, I
• 48:14
  Speaker 10: don't pay any attention to pollsters. They had me down
• 48:18
  Speaker 10: by 10 in all the polls 60 days before the election.
• 48:23
  Speaker 10: And you and I both know that it's all about closing,
• 48:28
  Speaker 10: It's all about I was a wrestler in college, and
• 48:30
  Speaker 10: I would always say, listen, if I can be within
• 48:32
  Speaker 10: a point or two in the third period, I'm going
• 48:35
  Speaker 10: to win because the third period is about intensity. It's
• 48:37
  Speaker 10: about focus. It's about resilience. And that's what we have
• 48:41
  Speaker 10: to do as Republicans. And there's two things that I
• 48:44
  Speaker 10: think we have to our advantage.
• 48:46
  Speaker 2: We have a lot to be proud of.
• 48:49
  Speaker 10: The president, with the majorities in the House and the Senate,
• 48:53
  Speaker 10: have secured the border, stopped the flow of illegal immigrants.
• 48:56
  Speaker 10: Fentanyl deaths are down by 60 percent in Pennsylvania year
• 49:00
  Speaker 10: over year from the Biden administration to Trump. Lowest crime rate,
• 49:05
  Speaker 10: violent crime in decades. Lowest poverty rate in decades. Energy
• 49:10
  Speaker 10: dominance that is benefiting Pennsylvanians. And Pennsylvanians and Americans have
• 49:16
  Speaker 10: more money in their pocket. And that's not to say
• 49:18
  Speaker 10: gas prices aren't too high.
• 49:19
  Speaker 16: They are.
• 49:20
  Speaker 10: It's not to say we don't need to bring down
• 49:22
  Speaker 10: housing prices.
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: We do.
• 49:23
  Speaker 10: So it's not to say we don't have work to do,
• 49:25
  Speaker 10: but we have a record of accomplishment to run on.
• 49:28
  Speaker 10: That's to our advantage. We just have to tell that
• 49:30
  Speaker 10: story and we got to be unapologetic and go out
• 49:33
  Speaker 10: there and be on offense.
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: Second, We're running against a bunch of lunatics.
• 49:39
  Speaker 10: And we have an ascendance in the Democratic Party of
• 49:43
  Speaker 10: an extreme left that's anti-military, anti-law enforcement, anti-business, anti-Semitic, anti-American.
• 49:50
  Speaker 10: And this isn't some political talking point. Listen to these
• 49:54
  Speaker 10: people on the stump, Al-Sayed, Graham Platner, these candidates, previously
• 49:59
  Speaker 10: Graham Platner, who are talking about things that are truly anti-American.
• 50:03
  Speaker 10: So we need to make sure people understand what we've
• 50:05
  Speaker 10: done and what we'll continue to do. Let the president
• 50:07
  Speaker 10: have the majority he needs to finish the job and
• 50:10
  Speaker 10: also make sure that the alternative is clear. You and I,
• 50:13
  Speaker 10: when we were in the military against the Soviet Union,
• 50:16
  Speaker 10: we never dreamed that we would have to stand in
• 50:19
  Speaker 10: front of a bunch of young kids in 2026 and
• 50:22
  Speaker 10: describe to them why communism or socialism was bad for America.
• 50:26
  Speaker 2: But that's where we are.
• 50:29
  Speaker 3: Well, Senator McCormick, there was a big Senate meeting today
• 50:33
  Speaker 3: with pollsters that some of the pollsters said, hey, it's
• 50:36
  Speaker 3: looking pretty rough.
• 50:38
  Speaker 2: Was there a meeting today? Are things looking rough? And
• 50:41
  Speaker 2: how do you feel about how we're going to do
• 50:43
  Speaker 2: in 41 days? I was there.
• 50:45
  Speaker 10: I was there.
• 50:45
  Speaker 2: Listen, I was at that meeting.
• 50:48
  Speaker 10: I'd start by saying, you know, Mike Huckabee came on
• 50:50
  Speaker 10: the campaign trail with me and he said there's only
• 50:52
  Speaker 10: two ways to run, unopposed or paranoid. And so we
• 50:56
  Speaker 10: need to be paranoid as hell. And we need to
• 51:00
  Speaker 10: fight in every campaign and make sure that message is clear.
• 51:04
  Speaker 10: We need to have adequate resources to do it. We've
• 51:06
  Speaker 10: got a lot of great candidates. We need to get
• 51:08
  Speaker 10: behind those great candidates. So we need to be paranoid.
• 51:11
  Speaker 10: And historically speaking, as you know, when the party is
• 51:16
  Speaker 10: in the White House and in the majority, the midterms
• 51:18
  Speaker 10: are always tough from a historical, because everybody's running against
• 51:21
  Speaker 10: the people that have been in power. With that said,
• 51:25
  Speaker 10: the message from that meeting was not that.
• 51:28
  Speaker 2: The polling's looking worse.
• 51:30
  Speaker 10: It was that the polling's looking better and that a
• 51:32
  Speaker 10: lot of the polls in the media are not accurate.
• 51:34
  Speaker 10: It's not to say we don't have a hell of
• 51:36
  Speaker 10: a fight in front of us, but... But I like
• 51:38
  Speaker 10: where we are, and I think we can close in
• 51:39
  Speaker 10: these final days.
• 51:40
  Speaker 3: Well, as a fellow Army officer, we never back down.
• 51:43
  Speaker 3: We weren't trained to retreat. We don't know how to lose.
• 51:47
  Speaker 3: Senator Dave McCormick from the great state of Pennsylvania, home
• 51:50
  Speaker 3: of the Schlichter clan, thank you for joining us on
• 51:53
  Speaker 3: the Hugh Hewitt Show.
• 51:54
  Speaker 2: I'm Kurt Schlichter. We've got more to come, so stick around.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome back to the Hugh Hewitt Show.
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  Speaker 3: very pleased... to welcome back to the show, once again,
• 54:53
  Speaker 3: the Republican candidate for the United States Senate in Georgia,
• 54:57
  Speaker 3: the guy taking on John Ossoff, the devil who's down
• 55:01
  Speaker 3: in Georgia.
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  Speaker 2: It's Mike Collins. Mike, welcome to the show.
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  Speaker 11: Appreciate you having me, Colonel.
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  Speaker 9: Good to be on.
• 55:08
  Speaker 2: Look at you. You're in shirt sleeves. You're sitting in
• 55:12
  Speaker 2: the seat of a car. It looks hot as heck
• 55:14
  Speaker 2: out there. Look at that, right?
• 55:17
  Speaker 3: You're doing what needs to be done, and it's paying off,
• 55:20
  Speaker 3: isn't it? Your numbers are looking better and better, even
• 55:23
  Speaker 3: though the mainstream media has written you off.
• 55:26
  Speaker 11: Yeah, you know it is, and that's okay.
• 55:28
  Speaker 17: But what people don't realize is we never ran any
• 55:30
  Speaker 17: TV during the primary. The only time we ran TV
• 55:34
  Speaker 17: was like the last week of the runoff, and it
• 55:36
  Speaker 17: was only like one or two slots a night.
• 55:38
  Speaker 11: So we knew we were going to come out in
• 55:40
  Speaker 11: the hole. We did.
• 55:41
  Speaker 17: But as the cavalry came, and boy, have they showed
• 55:44
  Speaker 17: up in a big way. and had began to get
• 55:46
  Speaker 17: our message out. This thing went from 13 down to
• 55:49
  Speaker 17: nine to seven, past four.
• 55:51
  Speaker 11: This thing is in the margin of error.
• 55:54
  Speaker 17: John Ossoff has gone from 50.6 down to 48, and
• 55:58
  Speaker 17: he is continuing to slide. And it's because people see
• 56:01
  Speaker 17: this is the clearest race in the country with two
• 56:04
  Speaker 17: people that couldn't be more polar opposites than between me
• 56:07
  Speaker 17: and John Ossoff. The people of the state of Georgia
• 56:10
  Speaker 17: have a choice. You can either have a small businessman
• 56:13
  Speaker 17: that has gone to Washington and delivered in just two
• 56:15
  Speaker 17: short years, or you can keep the trust fund kid
• 56:19
  Speaker 17: who has never had a job in his life, who
• 56:21
  Speaker 17: actually wants men playing in girls' sports, who wants the
• 56:25
  Speaker 17: borders wide open, and voted for all that Biden inflation
• 56:29
  Speaker 17: debacle that has caused all the prices to go up.
• 56:32
  Speaker 3: Well, you know, what we hear is we hear those
• 56:35
  Speaker 3: formerly Republican counties surrounding Atlanta saying, I mean, those those
• 56:40
  Speaker 3: those wine women and those, you know, guys who've never
• 56:43
  Speaker 3: worked a day that never had to shower after a
• 56:46
  Speaker 3: day of work. They're they're not they're not going voting
• 56:50
  Speaker 3: for Republicans anymore.
• 56:52
  Speaker 8: Is that true?
• 56:54
  Speaker 15: No.
• 56:54
  Speaker 17: Well, I'm going to tell you, the fact of the
• 56:56
  Speaker 17: matter is that the people in Atlanta, Georgia, especially whether
• 57:00
  Speaker 17: you call them the suburban crowd, they just appreciate the
• 57:03
  Speaker 17: fact that I never quit fighting and went up there
• 57:05
  Speaker 17: and got something done. In particular, that Lake and Riley
• 57:08
  Speaker 17: Act in which John Ossoff and the Democrats let these
• 57:12
  Speaker 17: criminals just invade our country.
• 57:14
  Speaker 11: And one of them murdered a young lady in my district.
• 57:17
  Speaker 17: They know that I fought to make sure that their
• 57:19
  Speaker 17: kids and they would be safe. And that's why they're
• 57:22
  Speaker 17: attracted to our campaign. That's why they're latching on to
• 57:25
  Speaker 17: our campaign. The other fact of the matter is John
• 57:28
  Speaker 17: Ossoff is just using Georgia as a platform. This guy's
• 57:31
  Speaker 17: never voted in anything that resembles the people of Georgia
• 57:35
  Speaker 17: or our values. Because at the end of the day,
• 57:37
  Speaker 17: he is running to be the DSA candidate for president.
• 57:42
  Speaker 17: Anybody that joins up with that, Abdel Al Saeed, and
• 57:45
  Speaker 17: he did. He's supporting him and endorsing him. The guy
• 57:49
  Speaker 17: that his best buddy is, Hassan Piker, the one that
• 57:53
  Speaker 17: said that America deserved 9-11. Hassan Piker says that John
• 57:56
  Speaker 17: Ossoff is his dark horse pick for 2028.
• 57:59
  Speaker 11: America, let that sink in now.
• 58:02
  Speaker 17: If we don't get rid of him here in Georgia,
• 58:05
  Speaker 17: this is going to be a problem for the country.
• 58:08
  Speaker 17: You know, John Ossoff's the same guy that's been hauling
• 58:10
  Speaker 17: that Tallarico guy all over the country raising money.
• 58:13
  Speaker 11: He's building his little team. You know, Tallarico, the guy.
• 58:17
  Speaker 17: That claims that God is non-binary, and I don't know
• 58:20
  Speaker 17: how many genders he's up to, but this is John Ossoff.
• 58:25
  Speaker 3: Well, you know, I'm at my Texas house now, and
• 58:28
  Speaker 3: I'm in a liberal area, and there's a few Tallarico signs,
• 58:31
  Speaker 3: but I came across a Paxton sign yesterday. I think
• 58:34
  Speaker 3: the Republicans are starting to move, Mike Collins. I think
• 58:39
  Speaker 3: I'm feeling the Republicans are saying, you know, I'm not
• 58:42
  Speaker 3: happy about everything, the.
• 58:43
  Speaker 2: Way everything's going.
• 58:44
  Speaker 3: The Senate could have done a little more, but I'm
• 58:47
  Speaker 3: not going to let these lunatics run our country.
• 58:51
  Speaker 11: Oh, amen, brother.
• 58:52
  Speaker 9: Amen.
• 58:52
  Speaker 11: And that's why we're out here. I mean, I'm just
• 58:55
  Speaker 11: an old trucker.
• 58:56
  Speaker 17: I've been in the trucking business for 30 years, and
• 58:57
  Speaker 17: I believe in going and seeing my customers in person.
• 59:00
  Speaker 17: So we're not holed up in Atlanta, Georgia like John Ossoff,
• 59:03
  Speaker 17: who runs to his little podium and does a little
• 59:06
  Speaker 17: press conference.
• 59:07
  Speaker 11: I might hear five, six events a day.
• 59:10
  Speaker 17: I mean we're just making laps around this state like
• 59:12
  Speaker 17: oh ricky bobby man just making laps seeing people when
• 59:16
  Speaker 17: you start out monday morning in south georgia and you
• 59:20
  Speaker 17: walk into a room with a hundred vets and they
• 59:23
  Speaker 17: get it I mean, yes, Georgia is becoming one of
• 59:26
  Speaker 17: the most populated states, especially in the southeast for veterans
• 59:29
  Speaker 17: to call home. They understand what's going on. And we're
• 59:33
  Speaker 17: calling them to serve. Just one more time, help us
• 59:35
  Speaker 17: get this thing through. Because they fought to keep us
• 59:38
  Speaker 17: free and safe. And look at where we're going and
• 59:42
  Speaker 17: how close we are. The DSA makes up over 12%
• 59:45
  Speaker 17: of the Democrat Party right now.
• 59:47
  Speaker 11: They rule that party.
• 59:49
  Speaker 17: And if we don't stop the head... of the party,
• 59:52
  Speaker 17: John Ossoff, who voted over 90% of the time with
• 59:55
  Speaker 17: Bernie Sanders. He wants that mantle to be passed off
• 59:59
  Speaker 17: to him, and he's going to head this thing.
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 11: They get it.
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 17: And everybody that we met with around this state this
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 17: week and the ones that we've got lined up with
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 17: next week, it is amazing. We can feel it. Georgia,
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 17: I feel it. I feel you pushing. We're going to
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 17: stay out there. At the end of the day, I'm
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 17: going to win this race. But I need help. I do, Colonel.
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 17: I need some help out there. If folks could go
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 17: to MikeCollinsGA.com, help us out. I mean, chip in, 5, 10, 20.
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 17: It doesn't matter. Help us out so that we can
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 17: make sure that we don't turn John Ossoff into a
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 17: problem for the rest of this country.
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 3: Well, look, are you able to coordinate with a gubernatorial candidate?
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 2: I think it's Rick Jackson.
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 9: Are you guys working together?
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 11: Rick Jackson, sure we are.
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 2: Excellent. He's putting out some great ads, too.
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 11: He has.
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 17: And the neat thing about it is, you know, Rick
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 17: Jackson is your big business guy in the race. And
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 17: he's got his base of people. And then you've got me,
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 17: the small businessman. So it is a fantastic combination, especially
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 17: when you look at. And John Ossoff and Keisha Lance Rockbottoms.
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 11: They're running right together. I mean, they're holding hands on
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 11: this thing.
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 17: You've got the worst mayor in the history of this
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 17: state running for governor. and Keisha Lance Bottoms, and you've
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 17: got the worst U.S. senator ever served in the U.S. Senate,
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 17: John Ossoff, holding hands up there, and they're running against
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 17: two solid, successful business people that want to help move
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 17: this state forward. This is such a clear-cut choice. And
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 17: like I said, I just need people. Go to MikeCollinsGA.com
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 17: right now. Go there, check us out, look at our
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 17: voting records. When you look at my voting record versus
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 17: John Ossoff, It's night and day. And I guarantee you,
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 17: you'll side with me any day of the week over
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 17: John Ossoff. We just need help making sure that we
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 17: get people to understand it is time to go vote
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 17: on October the 13th. And if you can't make it
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 17: in that early vote, November the 3rd is the big day.
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 3: Now, Governor Kemp has recently endorsed you after a very
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 3: tough primary where you beat his preferred candidate. Is Governor
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 3: Kemp lending you the support of that machine he built
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 3: that was so effective in Georgia politics?
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 13: He is. He is.
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 17: And Governor Kemp and I have known each other for
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 17: a long time. And so, sure, he's offered everything he's got.
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 17: He'll be out there with us. As a matter of fact,
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 17: I'll see him tomorrow night at an event that he's
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 17: going to be there. He and the first lady as well.
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 17: So we're united in this race. Everybody sees what's at stake. And, folks,
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 17: I'm just telling you, there is a lot at stake here.
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 17: John Ossoff means it. When they open up a DSA
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 17: office in Atlanta, Georgia, you better believe they've got a.
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 11: Candidate, and that's John Ossoff. So if you can go
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 11: to MikeCollinsGA.com, help us out.
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 17: Help us make sure that we win this race so
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 17: that this doesn't become a problem for the whole country.
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 11: And that's John Ossoff.
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 2: God bless you, Mike Collins. Go get them.
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 11: Appreciate it.
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 3: I'm Kurt Schlichter. This is the Hugh Hewitt Show. Stick
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 3: around because we've got more to come. Welcome back to
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 3: the Hugh Hewitt Show.
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 2: I'm guest host Kurt Schlichter broadcasting to you live from Houston, Texas.
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 3: Fort Schlichter here. Love it in the Lone Star State.
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 3: And I thought we'd talk to another Lone Star State native,
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 3: Steve Toth. He's running in the second district of Texas
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 3: for Congress. Steve, tell me a little about yourself and
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 3: a little about your district.
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 16: I am a recovering Baptist pastor, which just means I
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 16: can have a beer in the front yard. I am
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 16: a small business owner and a member of the Texas House.
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 16: And we just came through a primary battle and won
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 16: by 15 points in a four-man race. And now it's
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 16: on to the general election against a Democrat Socialist. that
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 16: is trying to pass himself off as a moderate.
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 2: Go figure, Kurt. There's a lot of that going on.
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 6: There really is, right?
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, Steve, tell me where.
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 3: Your district is because I think my in-laws live up there.
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 3: I live down in the Heights, so it's a pinko
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 3: palace down here. There's Tallarico signs and communists everywhere.
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 6: And who knows what.
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 5: I was down there, Steve.
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 2: What towns are you covering?
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 16: I'm the Woodlands, basically the Woodlands in Kingwood, Atascosita, over
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 16: towards Tomball.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 16: And so, yeah, we're North Houston, if you will, up
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 16: in Montgomery County and Harris County.
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 2: So you're just like normal people.
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 6: We are normal people.
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 16: We, I'm like, Kurt, if you were to ask me
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 16: what my favorite drag queen is, you know, most people
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 16: up here don't even know what a drag queen is.
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 6: I couldn't, I could not name.
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 16: I've got a friend, I've got a couple of gay
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 16: friends that couldn't name what a drag queen, know the
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 16: name of a drag queen.
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 6: I mean, it's just like, what a freak.
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 3: Look, look, I exactly that's why I had Rick James
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 3: is his bumper music. Look, I I am a California
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 3: expatriate about half the time I'm living in L.A., half
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 3: the time I'm living here.
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 2: So I don't pretend to know. But here's what I think.
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 3: I don't see any Tallarico signs outside of the liberal hotbeds.
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 3: I don't see people excited about my see Republicans a
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 3: little down, but they don't know a lot about this
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 3: guy yet. They just got a sense they shouldn't be
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 3: within a thousand feet of a school. So do you
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 3: think Tallarico is going to win?
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 6: No, I do not. I served with him for 10
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 6: years in the Texas house.
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 16: This is the, you know, like this is the biggest
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 16: makeover I have ever seen. Talk about somebody remaking themselves.
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 16: When he came into the Texas house in 2019, he
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 16: was this nasty, bitter, angry little man. And he's always
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 16: been this nasty, angry, bitter little man. Then all of
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 16: a sudden, when he comes into session this year, all
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 16: of a sudden now he's pastor James Tallarico and he's
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 16: just this kind, sweet, lovable fuzzball.
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 6: And, um, no, I'm not, I'm just not buying it.
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 16: This is, this is a guy whose main objective is
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 16: the transitioning of children and he'll lie all he wants
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 16: to and say that he's not for it, but vote
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 16: after vote after vote, he has supported it. I, you know,
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 16: I had heard, I had a bill this past year, uh,
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 16: We did it in special session.
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 6: And what it did was it.
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 16: Barred teachers in our public schools from transitioning children without
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 16: mom and dad knowing about it.
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 6: He voted against that amendment. It became law.
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 16: We became the first state in the United States to
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 16: ban the social transition of children in our Texas classrooms.
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 6: That's my legislation.
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 16: My opponent thinks that that's wasteful, that you know, that
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 16: we shouldn't be concerned about stuff like that. But yeah,
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 16: James Tallarico, James Tallarico is all about the trans baby.
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 16: He is just trans transnational James.
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 6: He's just all about it.
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 3: Well, you know how much he loves those trans kids. Hey,
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 3: tell us about your race. You've got to be a
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 3: Trump plus district. What, what Trump plus are you and
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 3: how's your polling looking?
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 16: It's Trump plus 10 and polling polling's tight right now.
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 6: I mean, this is just a really weird time.
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 16: So, I'm really grateful because it was people, you know,
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 16: basically from all over Texas that came to SteveToth.com and
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 16: helped us.
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 6: We were grotesquely outspent in the primary, 10 to 1.
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 16: And this time in the primary, what the Democrats have
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 16: done is they've picked a very wealthy person to self-fund
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 16: against me. He's putting up $ 2. 5 million of his own money. Plus,
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 16: across the United.
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 6: States, they... Texas Blue, what do they call themselves? Blue whatever.
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 2: Act Blue or something.
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 6: Act Blue, yeah.
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 16: Act Blue has sent over $ 700, 000 into Texas and Congressional
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 16: District 2 to defeat me. And so this is a
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 16: targeted race for Democrats. They think that they can– it's
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 16: a test case. And the reason why it's so critically
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 16: important for them is that 40% of the margin of
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 16: victory for Ken Paxton– 40% of the margin of victory
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 16: for Greg Abbott, 40% of the margin of victory for
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 16: our comptroller and our lieutenant governor are all coming from
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 16: Montgomery County, my district. And so it's critically important that
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 16: we turn out the vote.
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 6: And we need help.
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 16: We just need help for people to come to SteveToth.com
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 16: and help us out.
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 6: Look, we can.
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 16: Be outspent, um, four or five to one. We can't
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 16: be outspent 10 to one like we currently are.
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 2: Stevetoth.com.
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 3: Are you getting, uh, uh, resources from the, um, uh, uh,
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 3: the house, uh, uh, packs and the other, uh, packs, Elon.
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 2: And all those guys.
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 16: It's hard because they have so many races right now
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 16: that they're defending that, you know, it's a midterm. This
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 16: is this is typical midterm when Republicans are in control of,
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  Speaker 16: you know, Congress and the Senate and the White House
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  Speaker 16: that it's going to be a dogfight. But I've seen
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  Speaker 16: I was in Washington last week. I've seen the war room.
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  Speaker 16: We have a really good chance of holding the House
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  Speaker 16: and maybe picking up a seat or two. We just
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  Speaker 16: can't lose any seats like mine. And it's just critically
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  Speaker 16: important to hold onto this seat. So please, if your
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  Speaker 16: viewers can come, anything, stevetoth.com, we would greatly appreciate it.
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  Speaker 3: Well, Steve, you seem like you're highly amusing and you're
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  Speaker 3: not as stiff like so many other politicians are.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you're not.
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  Speaker 6: I don't tell my wife that.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we got to call it like we see it.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm very familiar with your area. These are nice,
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  Speaker 3: normal people. And I think when they realize that, you know,
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  Speaker 3: they're electing perverted, you know, they have a chance to
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  Speaker 3: elect a perverted communist or a regular normal guy.
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  Speaker 2: I think they're going to go for the normal guy.
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  Speaker 3: So you should go to SteveToth.com and help him out
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  Speaker 3: if you can.
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  Speaker 16: Folks, listen, listen to Kurt right now and go to SteveToth.com.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, we're unanimous. You got events tonight? Are you going
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  Speaker 2: to be on the road tonight?
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  Speaker 8: I am actually.
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  Speaker 16: It's midweek service, and this is the first time I'm
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  Speaker 16: going to get to go to church with my wife
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  Speaker 16: in probably two months.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, well, there's plenty of people in the pews, and
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  Speaker 3: those religious people better vote, not the Methodists, though.
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  Speaker 2: You don't want them voting. I'm Kurt Schlichter. This is
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  Speaker 2: the Hugh Hewitt Show. Stick around. We've got more to come.