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  It's six Eastern.
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  Three o'clock Pacific.
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  He's literally the former director of the FBI.
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  He knows exactly what 8647 means.
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  From coast to coast and around the world from America out loud talk radio.
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  But I'm sick and tired of the fact that our president has been targeted over and over again with rhetoric that clearly calls for the assassination of this man.
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  It's time for Truth Be Told with Booker Scott.
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  The weekend started with a big May Day on Friday.
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  And I hope you had a great May Day and a great weekend as well.
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  It is a Monday night.
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  I'm Booker.
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  This is the truth be told.
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  We have a lot to talk about this hour.
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  And as always on Mondays, we do it with Matt Palumbo.
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  I call it Mondays with Matt.
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  I think it's been a while since I've called it that.
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  But Matt, welcome back into the program.
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  How was your weekend?
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  Uh good to be back.
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  And uh average.
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  Did you enjoy May Day?
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  How did you celebrate your May Day?
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  No, it's some calmie uh nonsense.
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  It is commie nonsense.
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  It is.
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  We'll get into it here in a minute.
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  What about the Kentucky Derby?
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  I know you're not a big sports guy, but the Kentucky Derby may be a little bit different.
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  You get to dress up and you watch horses run.
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  Did you pay any attention to the Kentucky Derby over the weekend?
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  Uh I'm now learning for the first time that I missed the Kentucky Derby.
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  Oh my goodness, you don't even do horse racing.
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  I don't even I don't it's not even that I'm not even into sports.
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  It's I have no idea what's even happening in the sports world.
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  Well, the Kentucky Derby, the 152nd running of it was Saturday afternoon, and the winner was a 23 to 1 long shot.
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  Golden tempo.
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  The interesting thing was it made history.
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  It was the first female trainer to ever win the Kentucky Derby.
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  Her name is Cherie DeVaux, and that's the reason why I bring it up and talk about it here.
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  But congratulations to her.
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  There has been one other lady, uh female that has been a trainer that has won a triple cup uh race, but never before the Kentucky Derby.
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  So she won that on Saturday.
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  Congratulations to her.
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  But let's get back to this May Day.
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  We had this uh Friday, and I guess kids all across the country were skipping school at the encouragement of the teachers there.
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  Is that what you saw?
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  Um I yeah, I've seen some stuff to that effect.
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  I saw a video on YouTube about how some teachers in Chicago were holding a protest and were busting their own students to them.
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  So I guess make them appear more uh appear larger.
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  So yeah, yeah, I think I saw what you're referring to.
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  Yeah, there were a bunch in Chicago.
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  I have some sound here from Chicago.
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  Let's go to Fox News with this report.
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  I want to show you right at the very front of the big march, like he's Grand Marshal of the parade is Chicago mayor Brandon Johnson there.
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  Uh leaving the numbers out here.
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  We've got thousands of people.
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  We can't get close to him right now.
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  You got all the bike cops up here doing their job, uh, making sure everyone in the uh march is safe.
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  But uh, you've got thousands of people out here right now.
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  It's quite a crowd.
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  And one of the things that you might notice is you got a lot of young faces in the crowd.
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  That's because there are a lot of students here who were encouraged by their teachers to walk out, if you will.
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  That's another word for skipping school.
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  Uh even though, with all the young people that you see in this crowd, you know, the elementary schools have just started letting out five minutes ago.
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  Uh, buses have been provided.
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  Uh so there's a little bit of sound.
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  They get to the buses there that you were talking about, Matt, but that is over with.
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  Just uh, like you said, another communist commie thing, and we're gonna get to more of that in this hour too with Bernie Sanders on the fight oligarchy conferences that were going on in places like Detroit and Minneapolis.
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  I should say this too, Matt.
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  I don't know if you saw this.
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  There was a special election in Texas, and it was really good for the Republicans.
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  Yeah, I think it was what, like a 17-point overperformance.
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  Correct, yeah.
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  Really good, yeah.
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  It was it was a race that uh it was a race that Trump won, I think by 34, and this race over the weekend was uh 75 to 24, so that's a 17-point uh better than what Donald Trump did.
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  That's good news.
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  And we also had another one that was the same way, and I can also report the latest polling in Michigan for Senator, which is going to be an open seat.
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  Uh Gary Peters is retiring there.
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  Mike Rogers is leading right now, 44 to 40 percent.
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  So good news there.
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  I know I've been uh probably sounding a little bit negative away all these races have been going, and I I have been.
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  I'm not trying to blackpill anyone, but I am trying to put the fear into people that if we don't get out and vote, then it really doesn't matter what else happens.
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  And in both of these cases, well, in the case of that special election in Texas, people got out and voted, and it made a huge difference.
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  They picked the worst possible.
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  I mean, I know that the the um I don't believe they've um had the primaries yet for the Democrat candidate, but the guy leading is uh an Arab American who when we killed the Ayatollah of Iran, um, didn't put out a message supporting it because he was worried it would alienate some of his voters.
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  So he's he's he's like a supporter by the Hezbollah caucus or the Iran caucus or or whatever, but no, it it is a total lunatic that is their front runner, which is good news for us.
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  It certainly is.
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  Finally, there's some good news there.
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  Also, let's stay here with elections.
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  The Supreme Court decided that gerrymandering was perfectly fine the way that they were wanting to do it.
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  So quickly, Florida, which already had a special session uh scheduled, they had that last week.
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  Ron DeSantis signs it into law, and as a result of that, the Republicans are probably going to pick up four Republican seats.
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  People like Debbie Wasserman Schultz, say so so fallen to her.
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  She's she's gone now.
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  What uh what one thing I noticed that I thought was interesting was um and you know, when you hear gerrymandering, uh you know, there are even though you're increasing the number of Republican seats, the Democrat seats that do remain like the districts become more Democrat leaning.
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  And I noticed that Darren uh Moskowitz's district went from basically lean R.
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  It was a Democrat plus two to being pretty solid.
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  It was a Democrat plus ten as a result.
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  And he had been appointed, despite being a Democrat had actually been appointed to a number of important posts by Ron DeSantis before he ran for Congress.
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  So he he I'm wondering if it was done on purpose just because he's friends with DeSantis, and maybe DeSantis saw him as I I think the conservative or centrist Democrat is a myth, but you know, as being not maybe as crazy as all the other ones.
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  Yeah, I don't think he is terrible.
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  And I have sent him a message before to try to help me with something.
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  He didn't respond, but I did that because I don't think he's so far left that he wouldn't consider helping a conservative.
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  But at the same time, there's only so many places you can draw lines.
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  There has to be Yeah, someone someone has to, you know, back to it.
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  Yeah, there's gonna be a benefit somewhere along the way for a Democrat.
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  There's going to be a benefit somewhere along the way for a Democrat.
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  You hope just to pile them all up in one congested little area and uh draw lines all over the place.
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  You hope just to pile them all up in one congested little area and uh draw lines all over the place.
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  And like I said, it's going to be plus four in Florida.
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  And like I said, it's gonna be plus four in Florida, and the governor of Tennessee, Bill Lee, announced over the weekend that Tennessee is going to have a special session now to do the same thing.
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  And the governor of Tennessee, Bill Lee, announced over the weekend that Tennessee is going to have a special session now to do the same thing.
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  Maybe they pick up a couple more.
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  Maybe they pick up a couple more.
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  So to read the scorecard too for everyone so far.
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  So to read the scorecard too for everyone so far.
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  So you know, if the Virginia map stands, uh Republicans are still up and net.
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  If the Virginia map stands, a Republicans are still up a net three seats.
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  But for some reason, Utah decided, let's create a Democrat seat just to be fair.
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  I don't really sure the logic was there.
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  Then we would obviously have more too if the Illinois Republicans didn't completely flake.
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  Not only did the redistricting fail in Illinois, it even failed within the Republican conference.
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  So they they betrayed us there.
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  But if Virginia fails, I think it's what plus seven or eight seats Republicans benefit from the redistricting.
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  They would coming out ahead of this.
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  And the potential there is for 19 Republican seats.
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  If everybody did.
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  Yeah, but they're they're not.
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  Indiana has already said they won't.
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  So there are some seats that are going to be left on the table for the Republicans, and that's fine.
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  So Tennessee is going to redistrict.
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  We had Joe Jim Comey.
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  We had Jim Comey last week.
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  He was indicted.
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  We didn't really talk about that.
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  But let's talk about that just a little bit because I believe this is going somewhere else.
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  Catherine Harridge, uh, formerly of CBS and Fox News.
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  I think she does a great job.
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  She is suggesting that this is part of the grand jury that's in Florida.
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  She says the final chapters are being written now for that grand jury on John Brennan, and she says that Comey kind of goes along with it.
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  Interesting.
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  Yeah, I mean, I I will admit the I you know, and I I've seen, I think Todd Blanche hinted it's more than just the eighty-six forty-seven posts, because you know, it you know, every restaurant, you know, if you if you work at a restaurant, that's just slang for remove something from a menu, 86 it, and I I think you could very easily make a legal defense of, yeah, I meant, you know, I want Trump out of office, and I'm not saying to kill the guy.
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  So I I do hope they have a lot more than just that.
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  Um, although if a grand jury indicted him, I assume there has to be more than just you would think so, but I don't think that 8647 necessarily is enough to do anything.
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  Yeah, I just don't think that's gonna go anywhere.
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  Uh yeah, I mean, it I would not interpret that personally as a death throne.
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  I would just interpret it as I don't want Trump to be in office anymore.
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  There has to be more things irresponsible thing for a former FBI director to post regardless.
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  No, it's just I just don't think the case is that strong, unfortunately.
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  Yeah, based on that.
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  Well, the Fed, they met last week, and again, they did not reduce the interest rates.
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  Jerome Powell, he uh had his last meeting as the chief of the of the Federal Reserve.
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  So he is leaving, and Kevin Worse is coming in.
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  And uh, what do you think there?
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  What are your expectations with the the change of Powell to Worsh?
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  Well, I saw his um testimony before the Senate, I believe it was, and and um you know, he he does seem to be a Trump loyalist.
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  You know, he was asked the question of you know, who who do you think won the 2020 election, and um, you know, kind of danced around the question as to not offend Trump.
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  Um I think I you know, I I think he's probably in the boat that he thinks Biden won, but also didn't want to counter uh Trump's narrative.
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  Um which, you know, my my point being it shows a level of loyalty to trust uh to Trump um and the kind of narratives he wants to push.
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  Um now the chairman of the Fed it is supposed to be a totally independent uh position um for obvious reasons.
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  Um so you know, I I would like an independent Fed, and I I think Powell has been doing things on purpose to um you know the contrary to what which what he would be doing under a Democrat.
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  Um I I do think interest rate should be lower.
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  So, you know, even if this new guy is um, you know, I think someone being independent entirely would be an improvement over Powell.
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  Um if he is a you know uh very, very pro-Trump guy.
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  I mean, it's not you're not supposed to be partisan as a chairman of the Fed, but you know, uh obviously as Trump fans, uh I I don't have the biggest problem with that either.
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  Matt, something else that people don't think about is there are 12 governors on the Fed, and all of them have an equal vote.
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  So last time, just as an example, there were three that actually voted to increase the interest rates.
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  There was one that voted to decrease it, and they stayed the same because all 12 vote.
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  So the chairman, even with Worsh coming in, I don't think it makes a whole lot of difference, but there is the problem with affordability right now.
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  You hear it being talked about a lot.
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  It's gonna be a big issue coming up in the midterm in November, no doubt about that.
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  Gas prices are very high.
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  Uh you have interest rates that have gone back up, mortgage rates on houses.
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  They had gotten down to six percent, and they are now back up to six and a half percent, making you know the housing uh a you know tough situation right now.
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  It is a buyer's market right now in the country.
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  My wife and I are looking at move soon out of a condo into a house, and that we had a daughter, and uh and then it really is crazy that the interest rate almost matters more than the price of the house.
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  And in fact, you know, given our switch, I think it actually does a much bigger variable than even the price in terms of the monthly payment.
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  So I I uh I I long for uh uh my uh the three and a half percent days.
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  Well, you got spoiled in that.
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  I did.
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  You did.
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  Well, I don't think it's well, I I worked for PNC um when I got um like after I bought my my first property, and they had uh a thing where if you were an employee of theirs, you could refinance with them, yeah, and no matter what your rate was, they take half a point off.
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  So like I I really luck out um on my first purchase, but uh you know, when I move it's gonna it wasn't that long ago, Matt, that people were celebrating getting down to six percent.
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  You know, that was a very low interest rate.
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  It wasn't that long ago, and that's why I think we really got spoiled uh at three two point seven five percent.
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  Like I said, it's back up to six and a half percent.
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  Oh, and with my parents, I mean that was probably what, like seven to twenty percent back in the day.
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  So yeah, seventeen, eighteen percent.
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  In historical terms, we're still pretty good, but uh fantastic.
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  I'm nostalgic for five years ago.
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  Well, what happened is the price of houses went up dramatically and the interest rate was down at 3.25%.
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  The houses are still trying to sell for that same amount of money, but the interest rate is up at six, six and a half percent.
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  So what you're talking about with you trying to buy a house is exactly right.
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  If the prices would come down if it were more affordable, then uh the interest rate really doesn't matter as much if the price of the house.
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  It's all relative, I guess, is what I'm saying.
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  I guess is what I'm saying.
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  And uh by the way, we're three to four million dollars, uh three to four million homes short of having enough homes in this country, needing the number that we have.
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  And uh by the way, we're three to four million dollars, uh three to four million homes short of having enough homes in this country, needing the number that we have.
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  So uh Donald Trump, he gave a speech in the villages.
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  So uh Donald Trump, he gave a speech in the villages.
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  Do you know anything about the villages in Florida?
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  Do you know anything about the villages in Florida?
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  Not far from me.
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  Not far from me.
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  Yes, I um I my first job out of college actually was um it was a firm.
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  Yes, I um I my first job out of college actually was um it was a firm, well, it's like an intern show.
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  Well, it's like actually an internship.
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  I was still in college.
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  I was still in college.
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  It was a firm that they did private valuation, or they did like valuations for private businesses, so it would be for companies that were you know offering private stock to their employees, and you know, because the stocks not publicly traded, they would hire a third party firm to do the valuation.
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  It was a firm that they did private valuation or they did like valuations for private businesses.
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  And I remember they had the villages as a client.
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  I can't remember for the what exact service it was, but I you know, I had gone through their website and was looking at all the amenities and you know the the day, you know, day in the life there, and I thought, all right, I'll retire here in another 40 or so years.
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  I'm not sure.
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  I don't know if you'd fit in there.
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  I don't know if you'd fit in in the villages, but probably not.
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  Donald Trump was there.
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  It looked like the time.
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  Donald Trump was there Friday giving a speech, and he has a lot of support there in the villages.
• 15:10
  Here's what he had to say about Cuba when he was there.
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  And he comes from originally a place called Cuba, which we will be taking over almost immediately.
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  No, it's cubes.
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  Cuba's got problems.
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  We'll fill finish one first.
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  I like to finish the job.
• 15:29
  On the way back from what we'll do on the way back from Iran, we'll have one of our big maybe the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier, the biggest in the world will have that come in.
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  Stop about a hundred yards offshore, and they'll say, Thank you very much.
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  We give up.
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  Matt, people don't get that all of that is just a joke.
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  He is not serious.
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  And I know people will say he's the president of the United States, he shouldn't say things like that.
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  The market, the market, the market.
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  Who cares?
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  Yeah, who cares?
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  Lighten up, laugh a little bit.
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  That's all that was, it wasn't it.
• 16:05
  You know, that's well, I mean, the left does not understand actually saying I feel bad for the left, but I I can't imagine having the funniest man alive as your president, and you can't even appreciate it or enjoy it.
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  Like you're missing out on so much comedy gold.
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  Like you saw last week when um Trump had who was that the uh administrator of NASA, and he um you know anyone who doesn't know what he looks like, his ears are unfortunately large.
• 16:32
  Um, you know, not not to bully the guy.
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  You know who he looks like, and I'm not bullying him either.
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  But this is radio, it's audio only podcast.
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  He looks like the guy on uh mad magazine.
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  A little bit, yeah.
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  But but Trump was Trump is talking about when he's like, this guy, I mean, this guy can listen to really well.
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  Look at those ears.
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  Every day he says something that's that's a 10 out of 10 comment.
• 16:52
  Well, NATO has been in the news lately, and a lot of people in the Trump administration, they want to move out of NATO.
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  They can't do that arbitrarily.
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  It has to be done through Congress.
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  And guess who made that a law?
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  It was uh Marco Rubio back several years ago.
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  So you can't arbitrarily move out, but you can do other things.
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  And one of the things that we are hearing that America is going to do is move troops out of Germany.
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  And Donald Trump was called on the tarmac over the weekend on his way to watch the golf tournament in Miami at his golf course.
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  And here is what he had to say about Germany.
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  Why is the US removing Germany?
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  Uh we're gonna cut way down, and we're cutting a lot further than five thousand.
• 17:34
  Thank you very much.
• 17:35
  So more than five thousand troops are going to be removed from Germany, Matt, and I guess one way or the other, we can kind of draw down the troops from Europe and let them deal with it themselves.
• 17:46
  I think we've always done far more than every other country has in terms of NATO commitment.
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  And in fact, that's objectively the case.
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  And um Trump obviously has gotten them all to pay more recently, but there's still a you know, a many decades-long backlog where we were overpaying relative to them.
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  And and yeah, I'm fine with this.
• 18:05
  Um I would rather have the southern border or some more productive thrust.
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  We've got more of this conversation coming up after the break.
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  We're gonna talk about Christian nationalism.
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• 20:47
  Matt, let's get into a conversation about Christian nationalism.
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  I don't think you and I really ever have talked about it, but it's something that really triggers the left.
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  The Democrats, they can't stand the thought of Christian nationalism.
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  In your understanding, what is it?
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  In your understanding, what is it?
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  Well, it's one of those things that I think you and I could define in an honest way, but it's something the left just uses as a scare term.
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  Well, it's one of those things that I think you and I could define in an honest way, but it's something the left just uses as a scare term.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Um, because the thing is they understand about the left is they live entirely through fiction, which is why if you're online, you'll see the make analogies like the Republicans are Voldemort or uh you know, such and such Republican is just like this guy in the handmaid's tail.
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  Um, because the thing is they understand about the left is they live entirely through fiction, which is why if you're online, you'll see the make analogies like the Republicans are Voldemort, or uh, you know, such and such Republican is just like this guy in the handmaid's tale.
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  It's always a reference to fiction.
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  It's always a reference to fiction.
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  Um
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  Um, and with Christian nationalism, that's what they're trying to fear monger over.
• 21:33
  That it's going to be that people want theocracy, they want uh totalitarianism, they want you know something out of like uh, you know, mark it out with him with stale uh handmade stale, which I I just mentioned.
• 21:45
  Um in reality, it's just people who understand that the country was founded upon largely Christian principles, and yes, I understand not all the founding fathers were Christian, but the overwhelming majority were.
• 21:58
  Um yes, I understand the founders wanted uh separation of church and state, but uh that's because they understood a state church could be harmful to religion.
• 22:07
  That's right.
• 22:08
  Um it's I I mean, it's really just the ideology I think most people in this country have had since its founding up until relatively recently.
• 22:17
  Um now the Christianity seems to be unfortunately be declining, but uh it's um I I don't know, it it's just a fearmonger attacking from what from what I see.
• 22:27
  Now, there are people who do identify as Christian nationalists.
• 22:30
  I think there even in fact is a book out there called uh in def the case for Christian nationalism.
• 22:36
  But it it's a very it's it's uh you know very toned down to the fear, you know, relative to the fear mongering of the left claims that would you know people like that would believe.
• 22:45
  And the irony of this is coming through the Biden years where they weaponized the Department of Justice and the FBI to go after Christians, and now just because maybe some people in this country, they want to elect people that are Christians because of what you just mentioned.
• 23:03
  And a lot of people on the left call that Christian nationalism.
• 23:07
  That just happens to be my ideology.
• 23:09
  I want people that maybe think the way that I do.
• 23:12
  But let's go back to what the Biden administration did and uh persecuted uh in particular Catholics.
• 23:19
  Uh, there was a report released the 30th of April, and uh, I'll just read from it.
• 23:24
  Today the task force to eradicate anti-Christian biased publisher report detailing how the Biden administration's prosecutions, policies and practices demonstrated anti-Christian bias throughout the federal government.
• 23:39
  The acting attorney general serves as the chair of the task force, and the Justice Department coordinated the significant interagency effort.
• 23:48
  Quote, no Americans should live in fear that the federal government will punish them for their faith.
• 23:55
  And that was from acting attorney general Todd Blanch.
• 23:58
  He went on to say, as our report lays out, the Biden administration's actions devastated the lives of many Christian Americans.
• 24:06
  That devastation ended with President Trump.
• 24:08
  The Department of Justice will continue to expose bad actors who targeted Christians and work tirelessly tirelessly, tireless, they'll work their ass off.
• 24:19
  They're gonna work their ass off to restore restore religious liberty.
• 24:24
  Go ahead, Matt.
• 24:25
  There is a Biden prosecutor who, and I think it must have been from that report.
• 24:29
  I think I saw Mary Margaret Olahan on the Daily Wire, uh, or should I think with the daily the Daily Something, well, wire signal, one of the two, um, covered it where he was basically salivating over the prospect of targeting nuns to prosecute.
• 24:43
  Um, which it's uh it's like a cartoonish level of evil you would expect from like a right-wing fan fiction of the liberals take over the country, but that's exactly what they were doing.
• 24:53
  They were targeting they were literally targeting nuns.
• 24:56
  So no, these are supremely evil people, and they are far more totalitarian than any Christian nationalist would ever dream of being.
• 25:04
  This report found that President Biden pushed policies to eliminate statutory protections for religious Americans that interfered with his policy goals, although he failed to change federal law under his direction.
• 25:18
  It also says the Biden Justice Department aggressively opposed concerned parents through the Garland School Board memo and diligently attempted to use its enforcement authority against parents who defended their children's safety at local school board meetings.
• 25:34
  You remember all of that?
• 25:35
  Most of that I think really took place in Virginia, and then the election after that we had a lot of the school boards in Virginia, they went conservative after that, and then this latest election, those school boards in Virginia, the Virginia, they flip back to Democrat, unfortunately.
• 25:51
  But that's uh sort of some background there on that report that just came out the 30th, which I guess would have been last Thursday.
• 25:58
  So I don't know if you saw that or not, Matt.
• 26:00
  Oh, yeah, I know 100%.
• 26:02
  Um, but uh yeah, my favorite part of the school board meetings was a lot of them were about um bathrooms.
• 26:09
  You know, yeah, yeah, bathrooms and then also books that were borderline pornographic being in schools, and the the left had some success at first in framing it as war against book bands, but then once people started, you know, wising up and asking, well, what what exactly are the books being banned?
• 26:26
  And you know, by ban, they really just mean they're not gonna put it in a school curriculum, which it is not a ban.
• 26:32
  There, there's you know, there's tens of millions of books out there in the world.
• 26:35
  You gotta pick what 10 a year to read the kids.
• 26:38
  But so, but but um people are really wised up to that.
• 26:41
  My my favorite clips that would emerge from those meetings were when the parents would walk up to the podium and they would start reading from the books, and they would uh silence them by saying it wasn't appropriate for the meeting.
• 26:54
  And it's like so they're not appropriate for a school board meeting, but it's appropriate for the schools that the school boards oversee.
• 27:00
  Okay, that makes sense.
• 27:01
  Yeah, it's perfect for a second grader, but not for you, the adult that makes those decisions.
• 27:06
  A lot of them also were about the bathrooms.
• 27:08
  I remember the one in Virginia where this young man went into uh uh you know a same-sex bathroom and he ended up raping a girl, and it turns out that there's illegal.
• 27:19
  Yeah, well, and he was also at another school prior, did the same thing.
• 27:23
  They moved him from one school to the new one, and he did the same thing again.
• 27:27
  And that dad was so furious in that school board meeting, he was ready to kill someone and they arrested him.
• 27:33
  I remember that.
• 27:33
  Yeah, in a school board meeting.
• 27:35
  I I think sometimes we forget about all of those things that happened and the things that we went through.
• 27:40
  We're gonna segue now into Iran and what is going on there, which it seems like it's pretty quiet.
• 27:46
  I don't know who's in charge still, and it's no one knows no one knows.
• 27:52
  I mean, even Trump's saying it.
• 27:54
  Yeah, Trump Trump is saying that at this point.
• 27:56
  He's like, they'll say Muhammad's in charge.
• 27:57
  I don't know who the which one's that.
• 27:59
  It could really be anyone.
• 28:00
  It could really be anyone.
• 28:01
  Yeah, they don't know who is in charge.
• 28:01
  Yeah, they don't know who is in charge.
• 28:03
  The blockade is still going on, and I guess Iran now is trying to get around a couple of different ways to get their oil out so they don't have to completely shut down the pumping of uh oil rigs.
• 28:03
  The blockade is still going on, and I guess Iran now is trying to get around a couple of different ways to get their oil out so they don't have to completely shut down the pumping of uh oil rigs.
• 28:16
  Uh they are using the rail system that they have that goes to China.
• 28:16
  Uh they are using the rail system that they have that goes to China.
• 28:20
  The problem with that is it doesn't hold as much oil as a tanker in the ocean, and it's also um more costly.
• 28:20
  The problem with that is it doesn't hold as much oil as a tanker in the ocean, and it's also um more costly.
• 28:27
  And when China is buying oil.
• 28:27
  And when China is buying oil, they like to steal it and not pay much of anything for it, and that drives up the cost of the oil.
• 28:35
  But uh Iran's in uh big big trouble here, and we keep waiting for something to happen, but it doesn't really seem like anything is, uh, except for our gas prices are going up here to four dollars and twenty-nine cents is what the national average is now, and that's a problem.
• 28:52
  And we're starting to worry about inflation and things here at home.
• 28:55
  And I think as this midterm election gets closer and closer, it's gonna be something that's gonna be a concern to Donald Trump, and he's gonna have to find a way to get this thing over with.
• 29:05
  Gas prices are one of those things that is going to be a huge factor going into um the the midterms, as you say.
• 29:12
  I mean, Trump largely won in 2024 because the people were far more confident in Republicans on the economy and the border, obviously, too, then the Democrats.
• 29:23
  Um then unfortunately seems to have shifted quite a bit in the Democrats' favor as a result of this.
• 29:28
  So yeah, something he has to get under control quickly.
• 29:32
  I mean, we can we can pray that um there's a category of voter out there that if gas prices do crash back to where they were under uh before the Iran war, we'll maybe uh hopefully forget what preceded it and then just be happy with low gas again.
• 29:48
  But no, it is something that objectively is gonna hurt us, and uh I probably have broken record with this, but uh they need to wrap this up pretty quickly.
• 29:55
  Yeah, I agree.
• 29:55
  And here is the CEO of Chevron.
• 29:58
  His name is Mike Wirth.
• 30:00
  He was on CBS with Martha Raditz.
• 30:03
  If there is an actual negotiated end to the war, do prices come down, or is uh just a truce enough to give relief?
• 30:11
  Well, what's really needed is for flow to resume through the straight of horn news.
• 30:15
  You can't take 20% of the energy out of the system, and some of it's finding its way around to the Red Sea.
• 30:20
  But there's still a substantial amount of world energy supply that is not able to flow.
• 30:26
  And uh, and so that's the key thing is to restore that flow.
• 30:30
  It allows markets to begin to rebuild these inventories, it allows us to uh get products to where they're needed and to alleviate some of the pressure.
• 30:37
  But that that all will take time.
• 30:39
  It's a world where we got logistics of uh ships and pipelines and moving things around to markets around the world, and so that's why I say I think it's gonna be with us for some time because even if the strait were to open today, uh getting supplies to where they're needed and resuming uh the the normal functioning of the system is going to take some time.
• 30:59
  And I think that's a little bit funny because when all of this started, it took about two days for gas to go up a dollar.
• 31:05
  Yeah, they definitely gotta I think Trump should pull a page out of the left playbook and be like it's corporate greed, their price gouged, it's that's way out of our hands.
• 31:15
  We can't do anything.
• 31:16
  And that was uh not that was face the nation.
• 31:18
  That was not uh Martha Raditz, but I do have her, and here's a piece from uh Democrat Senator Jack Reed.
• 31:26
  He was on with her on Sunday, so this is ABC, and he is talking about Iran and what is going on there in the conflict.
• 31:34
  Um, your colleague on the Armed Services Committee, Richard Blumenthal said on Thursday that he had the impression from briefings that an imminent military strike is very much on the table, one that could put America's sons and daughters in harm's way and have the potential for mass casualties.
• 31:50
  Have you heard the same?
• 31:51
  Do you believe a new round of strikes is imminent?
• 31:55
  Well, uh, they're certainly positioned for strikes.
• 31:58
  That's what a military force has to be.
• 32:00
  Uh again, one of the things that's so confounding in this whole situation is I don't believe the president has a plan.
• 32:07
  I think it's impulsive, it's day-to-day, it's how he feels, and he's not being uh given uh I think the the support and the uh planning that is necessary to make judicious judgments.
• 32:23
  Matt, I think there are all kinds of plans out there for Donald Trump to choose depending on what he wants to do.
• 32:30
  And I don't think that he is not thinking this through.
• 32:34
  I think that ultimately it comes down, and he made the comment about this over the weekend too.
• 32:39
  It comes down to Iran is never going to have uh a nuclear capability.
• 32:43
  That has always been the objective for Donald Trump for 25 years.
• 32:47
  He has been consistent about that, and he says we're not gonna leave until that is accomplished.
• 32:52
  He mentioned that over the weekend.
• 32:54
  I think it's inaccurate to say he didn't have a plan.
• 32:57
  I think his plans um had assumed this would be over within I think the four to six weeks or the the six to eight weeks timeline um that he initially gave that we are now beyond.
• 33:07
  But there obviously was a plan in place.
• 33:10
  Um it is unfortunate in that you know it's selling this to the American public.
• 33:15
  It it's not like you can show what the counterfactual would look like if I ran as a nuclear weapon.
• 33:22
  It's not like we can um you know put everyone in the time machine and goes 30 years in the future and go, see, if we didn't do this, uh you know, half the world would be blown to smithereens.
• 33:32
  Right.
• 33:33
  I it's it's uh you know one of those things that people just have to kind of uh hope it's for the best.
• 33:37
  And it it is admittedly a tough sell for a lot of people.
• 33:40
  Um you know, even with issues like climate change.
• 33:43
  If you pull people on the um climate and say, you know, do you think that you know, and the government should do X, Y, and Z to fight the so-called climate crisis?
• 33:52
  It pulls very favorably when you add another variable and and ask, would you be willing to pay an extra ten dollars in taxes every month to further this goal?
• 34:02
  Then people overwhelmingly turn against it.
• 34:05
  So, you know, when the when the price of something, even if it's a good clause and a noble clause and one that could save millions of lives down the road, cost people an extra couple hundred bucks a month in gas prices.
• 34:16
  It does become a political liability, even if objectively it's the right thing to do.
• 34:20
  Well, Matt, what about Spirit Airlines?
• 34:22
  Have you ever flown on spirit?
• 34:24
  Oh, I I've uh I I've seen the uh the videos of social media.
• 34:29
  Holy hell, man.
• 34:30
  I'm actually upset because I I think Spirit was doing a very noble thing in serving as like a containment zone, meaning all the people uh that would fly spirit that are causing problems and you know behaving the way we've seen.
• 34:46
  It you know, at least they're not on your airline then.
• 34:48
  Yeah, uh so I I don't know if this means they're not gonna be able to afford to fly anymore, or if they're now gonna be in my airplane.
• 34:55
  But I'm I'm hoping it just prices like uh a lot of people out of being able to fly to us.
• 35:00
  Well, when you charge $29 to go to New York from Los Angeles, you're gonna get some of this.
• 35:01
  Well, when you charge 29 dollars to go to New York from Los Angeles, you you're gonna get some of this.
• 35:07
  I have some of that video.
• 35:07
  I have some of that video.
• 35:08
  Let's listen to this.
• 35:08
  Let's listen to this.
• 35:10
  This is what Matt is referring to.
• 35:10
  This is what Matt is referring to.
• 35:11
  We've seen the endless videos of fights with Spirit Airlines.
• 35:14
  It's a video that's now been viewed by millions.
• 35:14
  It's a video that's now been viewed by millions.
• 35:19
  Oh my gosh.
• 35:19
  Oh my gosh.
• 35:20
  Oh, oh.
• 35:20
  Oh, ooh.
• 35:22
  Spirit Airlines passengers attacked employees, upset for having to verify their bag size.
• 35:22
  Spirit Airlines passengers attacked employees, upset for having to verify their bag size.
• 35:31
  Total chaos at the ticket counter.
• 35:33
  Broward County deputies were forced to cuff some passengers who'd had enough.
• 35:38
  The trouble exploded after Spirit Pancalled Nine Flight.
• 35:42
  The Spirit Airlines is more than just Mortal Kombat.
• 35:45
  Yes, that does appear to be a rat on the I don't know about you, Matt, but I have never flown Spirit.
• 35:51
  But I have never had any of that happen on any plane that I've flown while I'm waiting there at the gate for the plane to come in.
• 36:00
  None of that has ever happened, but it seemed to happen all the time with Spirit.
• 36:04
  Spirit filed bankruptcy twice.
• 36:06
  They did last year, again, chapter 11.
• 36:09
  They were trying to merge with uh uh jet blue, I guess it was, and uh the Biden administration said no, and and we've done a great thing for the American people.
• 36:19
  And Sean Duffy talks about that.
• 36:21
  Here he is speaking about boot edge edge.
• 36:24
  Uh, there was a proposed merger between Jet Blue and Spirit.
• 36:29
  And Joe Biden and P.
• 36:31
  Puta judge, along with the Biden DOJ, uh, decided that they didn't they did not want that merger to take place.
• 36:38
  And at the time, uh the Biden and boot a drudge DOJ bragged and said uh as they canceled the option for this merger, that this was a victory for U.S.
• 36:48
  travelers who deserve lower prices and better choices.
• 36:52
  Now, uh many at the time said this was a disaster.
• 36:56
  Uh this merger should have been allowed.
• 36:58
  And this uh today uh would indicate this is not better for travelers.
• 37:02
  This is not better for pricing.
• 37:04
  This is not better for competition.
• 37:06
  Actually, it's worse.
• 37:07
  Now all those people that flew on spirit are gonna have to find another low cost carrier.
• 37:12
  And there are some.
• 37:13
  You have Frontier, you have Allegiant.
• 37:16
  I've flown Allegiant before.
• 37:17
  Great planes, new planes, very clean, just no frills.
• 37:21
  Um, what's another one?
• 37:22
  Other than Frontier and Allegiant, there's a couple more.
• 37:26
  I think.
• 37:26
  Yeah, there are a couple more options, but Spirit is gone, and they say they will repurpose those planes.
• 37:32
  But maybe those scenes at the gates will be better than what they were at Spirit Airlines.
• 37:39
  So I guess it's gone.
• 37:40
  The unfortunately, 17,000 employees are without a job, but they knew it was coming.
• 37:46
  They pretty much saw the writing on the wall uh for the last several years with Spirit.
• 37:51
  Spirit blamed the price of gas as the reason why.
• 37:54
  And of course, uh, you know, most airlines, they they will hedge oil and gas purchases six, eight months out, then they buy it when the market is low so that they can average the cost out and and keep things affordable.
• 38:08
  Spirit didn't do that.
• 38:09
  And because of that, they are now out of business.
• 38:12
  And that's the way it goes.
• 38:13
  It should be pointed out, too.
• 38:15
  They went bankrupt twice in the past year leading up to this.
• 38:19
  So I I listen, it's undeniable that higher gas prices didn't help, you know, it did not help, but they were going to go bankrupt again, regardless.
• 38:28
  And in fact, I believe that every single major American airline in existence right now has gone bankrupt at least once in the past 30 years.
• 38:37
  So it it's unfortunately very common.
• 38:39
  And I'd like to one I think m uh Trump mentioned that there was a possible bailout, and I'm glad that didn't happen.
• 38:46
  I wanna I want to start seeing banks fail, uh, airlines fail, whatever it is.
• 38:51
  The government needs to get out of that business of propping up these companies.
• 38:55
  The thing is, too.
• 38:55
  I mean, once it fails, its assets are gonna get bought up probably by another low carrier airline.
• 39:01
  So, you know, there's still gonna be net job losses and a huge net destruction of wells, but it's not like everything's going away forever, like like bankrupt does not necessarily doesn't always mean uh the the company disappears forever.
• 39:15
  It can be taken over by someone else and so on and so forth.
• 39:18
  So they may keep the brand as well.
• 39:20
  And they might keep the brand.
• 39:21
  I don't know who would want that brand, but they might keep it.
• 39:23
  I was hoping if they were gonna bail it out, it would be to turn it into like a deportation airline only kind of thing, which would have been cool.
• 39:30
  But um, it was funny because on social media, Elizabeth Warren was talking about how horrible it was that they were going out of business, and then people were pointing out that the year prior, she was praising the Biden administration for blocking the merger.
• 39:43
  Um and the merger, too.
• 39:45
  I think you know, they claimed it was on like anti-monopoly grounds.
• 39:48
  I think they only would have had something like eight percent market share.
• 39:51
  And there was a there was another company that the Biden DOJ also prevented from merging with another company.
• 39:56
  It was called iRobot.
• 39:58
  Um they do what's it called?
• 39:59
  The um what are they called?
• 40:02
  The uh I'm looking at her at the Roomba.
• 40:04
  They make a group uh uh the robot hell, you know, uh appliances, and they were trying to merge with Amazon.com, and it was blocked again on Monopoly grounds.
• 40:13
  Um, right after that fails, the company goes bankrupt, and then a major Chinese company buys it up.
• 40:19
  And now you know, so now our number one, you know, robotics home appliances company was formerly American-owned, would have been American-owned by Amazon, is now owned by one of America's enemies.
• 40:30
  So that's the result of their policy.
• 40:31
  I think you're on to something with the deportation airlines.
• 40:35
  I think we need to pitch this.
• 40:36
  Yeah, yeah.
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• 42:21
  Well, let's move into Cole Allen.
• 42:25
  He was the assassin that was there at the Hilton in Washington, D.C.
• 42:25
  He was the assassin that was there at the Hilton in Washington, D.C.
• 42:29
  last week.
• 42:29
  last week.
• 42:30
  It really didn't seem to phase Donald Trump at all.
• 42:32
  No.
• 42:33
  It didn't that night, but then this week it's like it never even happened.
• 42:37
  But it did, and we have found out some more information about this guy.
• 42:41
  And really, he's just trying to be a hero, a martyr is what he's trying to do, isn't it?
• 42:45
  Well, what's amazing is he fought the first two Trumpist vaccination attempts.
• 42:50
  And then by first two, I mean Butler and then the golf course one.
• 42:53
  There's actually more than a dozen.
• 42:55
  But you know, I'm including some that admittedly are kind of half-assed.
• 42:59
  But there have been far more than just the three we think of.
• 43:03
  But um he thought the first two were staged.
• 43:06
  So he wanted to do the only real one.
• 43:08
  And then immediately after doing so, it it I mean, and I'm just going off social media comments here, but it seems like a majority of liberals also think this one was staged.
• 43:16
  Right.
• 43:17
  So that's gotta be the most frustrating thing ever when you risk when you basically destroy your entire life to try to do something that everyone goes, oh, you're just a right-wing plant.
• 43:25
  Which I will say is the most satisfying outcome.
• 43:29
  Did you happen to see over the weekend that this guy running for Senate in Pennsylvania was arrested for threatening Donald Trump and John Fetterman, Fetterman's 13-year-old daughter as well.
• 43:40
  Yeah, there's uh a lot of kooks up there.
• 43:43
  The thing about Fetterman is Fetterman's an interesting case study in politics in what matters more.
• 43:48
  Is it rhetoric or your actual voting record?
• 43:51
  And we've said this, I feel like every week on the show that Fetterman comes up.
• 43:54
  Well, we said it a lot.
• 43:55
  Yes.
• 43:56
  Yes, he says the right things on Fox News, but once he actually goes to vote, I mean, under Biden, it was 90 plus percent in favor of Biden.
• 44:04
  And I I think, you know, in the past few years under Trump, I think he is the Democrat that has broken with the party the most in the Senate, but he's still it's still like 75 plus percent he's voting with his party.
• 44:18
  So uh, you know, it does seem that rhetoric is more important in um determining voter opinions than is actual policy.
• 44:28
  And this look like the the biggest proof is that his approval rating has shifted more than a hundred points among Democrats, and that when he got elected, it was almost universal support among Democrats.
• 44:41
  He's now underwater with Democrats, but has a positive approval rating among Republicans, yeah, which is a crazy situation to be in for him.
• 44:48
  Well, Fetterman has been very supportive of what Donald Trump is doing in Iran, and he was very supportive of Israel, and I think those things have made conservatives really pay attention to Fetterman because he is on target on both of those ideas from a conservative standpoint, not from the left.
• 45:05
  And I think those two things alone are what give you those numbers.
• 45:08
  Let's listen to special agent, former special agent Johnny Gruosing of the FBI talking about Cole Allen.
• 45:16
  Some of Allen's writing, you know, he said uh that uh what happens with the president with the elected officials is now on his hands.
• 45:26
  So he's putting himself as this martyr, as this patriot, uh, is the only one who can really fix this thing that's broken.
• 45:36
  And that's very dangerous.
• 45:37
  It's scattered instead of focused.
• 45:40
  Which is a good thing.
• 45:41
  You know, if if he would have been focused, he would have uh probably been more successful.
• 45:46
  Yeah, the guy didn't have much of a plan, did he, Matt?
• 45:49
  So who is that talking about who I missed uh Johnny Gruosing, uh former uh special agent for the FBI.
• 45:56
  Johnny Gruosing is his name, talking about Cole Allen, the assassin.
• 46:00
  Oh, yeah, no, that was uh probably the worst planned uh assassination attempts I've ever seen.
• 46:04
  Not like I've seen very many, but uh go you know, doing the Naruto run through security probably wasn't the best run.
• 46:11
  No, that wasn't a good plan.
• 46:12
  No, it didn't.
• 46:12
  Although it was it was, I mean, it was, I'm not gonna lie, it was a funny clip, but you know, you gotta you know, ignore what happened afterwards.
• 46:21
  Yeah, and thank God that the um you know the Secret Service did what they were supposed to do, and now they are going to get paid because DHS is funded.
• 46:29
  Thankfully, that that government shutdown of 76 days is now over.
• 46:34
  I don't know if you saw this over the weekend, but there was oligarchy conferences, fight oligarchy conferences going on.
• 46:41
  They had one in Minneapolis, they also had one in Detroit on Sunday, and guess who was there?
• 46:47
  It was Bernie Sanders.
• 46:49
  He was the one leading this, and let's start off with this audio from Bernie Sanders, so you can get an idea.
• 46:55
  I want to thank you all for the role that you have played in standing up to Trump's domestic army called ICE.
• 47:12
  There is a reason why the last No Kings rally was scented at your state capitol in St.
• 47:19
  Paul.
• 47:23
  And why a hundred and fifty thousand people came out to that rally.
• 47:32
  Minnesota's grassroots resistance to the illegal, unconstitutional and brutal actions of ICE inspired the entire nation.
• 47:45
  Matt, when you have people communist in particular, going around the country speaking like this, you're going to continue to get Cole Allen's Butler P.A.'s, the golf course in Florida.
• 47:55
  Those things are going to continue.
• 47:57
  And I think last week on the show you mentioned, there's actually been like 17 assassination attempts.
• 48:02
  But we really only know about three.
• 48:05
  Yeah, I think I still have 19 total.
• 48:07
  I mean, and any other some of them are like, you know, a guy tries to mail race into Trump.
• 48:13
  Like things that never had any conceivable um way of even ever being successful, but still still do count as attempts.
• 48:22
  Um I mean, the one that I think most notable was his first campaign in 2016.
• 48:28
  There was a guy who got close to him, tried to grab a cop's gun, and it's only because he couldn't unholster it properly that he was tackled in time.
• 48:36
  But he hit the, you know, Trump could have been killed 10 years ago in that case that I don't think even most people are aware of or even remember.
• 48:42
  Um, as for the whole being against oligarchy, um, it's one of those things where they they just are upset about it because they want to be oligarchs themselves.
• 48:50
  Yeah.
• 48:51
  To have centralized power, to have socialism or communism, you basically need that.
• 48:55
  It's a prerequisite.
• 48:56
  So they're they're not against it, they're just against who's doing it.
• 48:59
  Well, Minnesota Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan is running for the U.S.
• 49:00
  Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan is running for the U.S.
• 49:03
  Senate.
• 49:03
  Senate.
• 49:04
  She was there speaking on in the fight oligarchy conference.
• 49:04
  She was there speaking on in the fight oligarchy conference.
• 49:08
  She was there with Bernie Sanders, and here are some of her words.
• 49:08
  She was there with Bernie Sanders, and here are some of her words.
• 49:11
  The very first vote in the second Trump administration that he brought forward was for the Lincoln Riley Act.
• 49:11
  The very first vote in the second Trump administration that he brought forward was for the Lakin Riley Act.
• 49:18
  It was one of his biggest priorities.
• 49:19
  It was one of his biggest priorities.
• 49:23
  It stripped due process away from immigrants.
• 49:26
  Allowed for the indefinite detention of adults and
• 49:26
  Allowed for the indefinite detention of adults and children.
• 49:31
  And was the green light to give ice unprecedented power to totally terrorize our communities.
• 49:40
  And I want to be clear.
• 49:42
  That there is a straight line from the Lakin Riley Act vote to what we saw in the streets of our communities.
• 49:52
  Now Lake and Riley Act really has nothing to do with any of that.
• 49:56
  Did you hear the people boo when she brought up the Lake and Riley Act?
• 50:00
  That's how sick these people are.
• 50:02
  Lakin Riley was the young lady in Georgia that was killed by an illegal immigrant.
• 50:08
  You know, that's how bad these communists are.
• 50:10
  Yeah, and all the consequences she lists in the Lincoln Riley Act.
• 50:18
  Yeah, me too.
• 50:19
  Yes.
• 50:23
  Listen, obviously we believe in due process, but when it's yeah, we want due process, but boy, do we really want it for uh Venezuelan rapists?
• 50:33
  It's like, all right, it's a little weird.
• 50:35
  Um I'm for due process for American citizens, but if you break the rules to get in here, I don't think you should get it.
• 50:41
  And uh to any liberal listening to this saying, well, blah blah blah, court ruling says that illegals actually have the same right to due process.
• 50:49
  I just don't care.
• 50:50
  Uh, this is my opinion.
• 50:51
  I don't care.
• 50:52
  I don't think they should have the right anyway.
• 50:53
  Well, let's go on to voting in North Carolina and a little bit from Minnesota Governor Tim Walls in this.
• 51:00
  This is Kaylee McEnaney from Saturday on Fox News.
• 51:04
  A voting calamity in North Carolina, the State Board of Elections entered more than seven million voter records through a federal database.
• 51:11
  The results about 34,000 dead people on the state voter rolls.
• 51:17
  The head of the State Board of Elections responding, quote, while we expect it to find some cases, this is much higher than we anticipated.
• 51:23
  And while there are dead people on voter rolls in North Carolina, over in Minnesota, Governor Tim Walls passed automatic voter registration.
• 51:30
  We protected everyone's right to participate in our democracy by making your right to vote easier.
• 51:37
  We've established automatic voter registration.
• 51:41
  Nothing good is gonna happen out of that in Minnesota.
• 51:44
  But let's go back to North Carolina real quick.
• 51:46
  34,000 dead voters.
• 51:50
  And the Department of Justice has tried to get this information from every state.
• 51:54
  The only people cooperating are the states that are Republican.
• 51:58
  And the Democrat Democrat states are not.
• 52:01
  They are suing trying to get this information.
• 52:03
  The 34,000 dead people still on the voter rolls in North Carolina.
• 52:07
  That too is another problem going into the midterm election.
• 52:11
  I saw a graphic over um the weekend, and I haven't fact checked it, but it intuitively seems true that um, you know, there are states that require voter ID, and those are Donald Trump won every single one of those states.
• 52:24
  He lost every single state that doesn't require voter ID.
• 52:28
  And you know, I guess the um the innocent explanation would just be like, well, liberal states are against it, but they would have gone left anyway.
• 52:36
  But it it sure is a bit of an interesting correlation that is literally a hundred percent in both directions.
• 52:41
  Yeah, well, it's 36 states they require ID.
• 52:44
  And they and the majority of them are Republican.
• 52:47
  The the ones that don't are two to one registered Democrat to Republican, so you know that's the way those numbers but I interrupted you.
• 52:55
  Go ahead.
• 52:55
  I I I think I can't remember announced it on the show that I have been doing work with DHS recently.
• 53:00
  And no, we didn't we did not?
• 53:02
  Okay.
• 53:02
  Well, I I can't actually say the position I'm in, but I I'm I know the HS for a few moments.
• 53:07
  And that's why I never mentioned it because I didn't know if you wanted thousands and thousands to know that.
• 53:12
  So I'm working with the I just you know, I can't say what specifically, but during the training, there was an example we were going through where we were watching someone's immigration interview, and it was a student who was not a citizen, and it turned out he was registered to vote and had voted a presidential election.
• 53:33
  Uh, and you know, the the person with DHS interviewing him had brought this up to the guy and had him explain how this happened, and he tried to play it off as just being a mix-up or oh, I forgot I couldn't register to vote.
• 53:46
  But literally the process was he was at a he was at a college campus, there was a booth to register for voters.
• 53:53
  He, a non-citizen, just put down his information, and he was automatically registered to vote and was able to vote in an election.
• 54:00
  And there's no cross-referencing to anything.
• 54:03
  He just put his name down in his address, and that was all it took.
• 54:07
  So uh, yeah, it's pretty easy to vote illegally in this country.
• 54:12
  Yeah, we gotta shore that up one way or another.
• 54:14
  Last story we have time for tonight is another Gotti is going to prison up there close to you.
• 54:21
  You're up in New Jersey, so this is just across the water there from you, I guess, in New York.
• 54:26
  Uh, this is the 16th Gotti to go to prison.
• 54:29
  The grandson of John Gotti, this guy stole from you and me during COVID.
• 54:35
  Over a million dollars.
• 54:36
  Listen to this story.
• 54:37
  The grandson of John Gotti was sentenced to 15 months in prison.
• 54:41
  Carmine Agnello pled guilty to COVID relief fraud.
• 54:44
  Your thoughts are going to spend year over year in prison.
• 54:47
  That's all right.
• 54:48
  Could things could be worse.
• 54:49
  Carmine will be the 16th member of his family to go to jail.
• 54:52
  His lawyer Jeffrey Lickman says the actual sentence will be shorter.
• 54:57
  The actual time spent on a 15-month sentence now is approximately four or five months, I expect.
• 55:02
  Agnello admitted to taking over a million dollars in COVID relief funds.
• 55:06
  He stated in the courtroom that it was, quote, wrong, selfish, and criminal.
• 55:10
  His life has been has been wrecked, uh, I would say over the last few years due to his own actions.
• 55:16
  The 40-year-old has to pay back over 1.2 million dollars in restitution to the small business administration.
• 55:22
  During the pandemic, he received the loans for his business, crown auto parts and recycling, and used the funds to enrich himself and fund a gambling.
• 55:31
  Okay, I'm gonna stop it right there because of the the business that he has.
• 55:35
  Crown recycling and automotive.
• 55:37
  I can only imagine.
• 55:39
  Yeah.
• 55:40
  It's so the most stereotypical mob business is gonna.
• 55:43
  I I will say though, you could make a case in his defense that him doing this kind of fraud, like at least prevented him from doing fraud that results in people getting killed.
• 55:51
  Yeah, I guess so.
• 55:52
  Maybe this saved lives.
• 55:54
  We don't know.
• 55:54
  And the good news on this story.
• 55:56
  Do you remember his mom, Vicky, who was on the uh show, the reality television show with the her boys?
• 56:00
  The reality television show with her boys.
• 56:03
  She needs she needs a kidney, and he is giving one to her.
• 56:04
  She needs a kidney, and he is giving one to her.
• 56:07
  Is it like mob wives or something?
• 56:07
  Is it like mob wives or something?
• 56:09
  No, that she had her own.
• 56:09
  No, that she had her own.
• 56:11
  Oh, she did.
• 56:12
  I know we did.
• 56:13
  Yeah, you should you should go back and watch that.
• 56:13
  Yeah, you should go back and watch that.
• 56:15
  It's been a while.
• 56:15
  It's been a while, but that's uh give it a watch.
• 56:17
  We're out of time here, Matt.
• 56:17
  We're out of time here, Matt.
• 56:19
  Thank you for joining us again this week and every week.
• 56:19
  Thank you for joining us again this week and every week.
• 56:21
  I really do appreciate it.
• 56:21
  I really do appreciate it.
• 56:23
  We'll watch everything that happens this week, and we'll come back Monday night next week and we'll talk about it again.
• 56:23
  We'll watch everything that happens this week, and we'll come back Monday night next week and we'll talk about it again.
• 56:28
  And don't forget, you were told two.
• 56:28
  And don't forget, you were told 2,000 years ago that you are the salt of the earth, and salt without flavor, it has no value.
• 56:35
  So whatever you do, keep being salty.
• 56:38
  Have a great night.
• 56:38
  There is only one truth.
• 56:40
  You've been listening to The Truth Be Told with Booker Scott on America Out Loud.