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Hantavirus in Not Covid · Booker Scott: Truth Be Told

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  Speaker 5: It's time for The Truth Be Told with Booker Scott.
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  Speaker 4: The hated hantavirus is on cruise ships. Is this the
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  Speaker 4: same thing as COVID? In a lot of ways, it
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  Speaker 4: feels that way again. I hope not. gerrymandering was the
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  Speaker 4: word of the week last week, and we're going to
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  Speaker 4: talk about that now with Matt Palumbo. I'm Booker. This
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  Speaker 4: is The Truth Be Told. As always on Mondays, we
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  Speaker 4: have Matt Palumbo, and we're going to switch things up
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  Speaker 4: a little bit different here, Matt. I'm going to let
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  Speaker 4: you start this hour with any subject that you want
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  Speaker 4: to talk about instead of me going to my list
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  Speaker 4: and me starting it out. We're going to get to
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  Speaker 4: I Had the Virus. We're going to get to Ilhan Omar,
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  Speaker 4: Charlie Kirk, the China visit. We'll get to all of that,
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  Speaker 4: but before we do, Let's get to whatever Matt wants
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  Speaker 4: to get to. Matt, what do you want to get to?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I don't know if this is cheating, but after
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  Speaker 1: this show, I'm going on a show to summarize the
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  Speaker 1: UK's election results.
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  Speaker 4: You're cheating on me or cheating on the subject?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, technically, I'm cheating on the other show. I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to use it here first. So it's less offensive
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  Speaker 1: to you, then.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I guess. We're breaking it.
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  Speaker 1: You won't even know I covered it here. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: let's do that. Obviously, we normally talk about U.S. issues
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  Speaker 1: on this show, but... There was a lot of wins
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  Speaker 1: on the right in terms of gerrymandering last week. And also,
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  Speaker 1: and I know I'm not going directly into the topic yet,
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  Speaker 1: but there's also major wins in Illinois where every single
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  Speaker 1: Republican senator that was up for reelection, that was being primaried,
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  Speaker 1: that voted against redistricting.
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  Speaker 4: Indiana, Indiana, not Illinois, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Indiana, not the Mike Pence's state. Every single Republican except
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  Speaker 1: one that voted against gerrymandering to make the state more
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  Speaker 1: Republican lost their primary race. So that was very good
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  Speaker 1: news there. Then there was, you know, to steal what
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to be talking about on the next show, Alon,
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  Speaker 1: there was also great news across the pond in the
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  Speaker 1: UK and that the Reform UK party, which is Nigel
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  Speaker 1: Farage's party, it's their right-wing populist party, and You know, granted,
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  Speaker 1: this is Europe we're talking about. So no matter how
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  Speaker 1: right wing they are, they're always going to be like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, support socialized medicine or some crazy regulations here
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  Speaker 1: or there. But it is seems to be the best
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  Speaker 1: you could get if you're a Republican living overseas in
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  Speaker 1: the U.K. There was local elections in the U.K., and
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  Speaker 1: they were the number one seat getter. They won something
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  Speaker 1: like 1,400 seats. The Labour Party and the Conservative Party,
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  Speaker 1: not sure what the Conservative Party there actually conserves. I
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  Speaker 1: think just whatever the left believes 10 years prior. But
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  Speaker 1: they both got destroyed there. And it's just interesting in that,
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  Speaker 1: like the US, the UK has basically had a two-party
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  Speaker 1: system for hundreds of years. The smaller parties have been
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  Speaker 1: Small to the point where even if they do win seats,
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  Speaker 1: it's usually Labour or Conservative wins outright, and there's no
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  Speaker 1: need to form a coalition or anything. So they've been
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  Speaker 1: basically irrelevant, all the third parties. So this is really
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  Speaker 1: the first time we've seen the two-party system there. be broken.
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  Speaker 1: And what was the issue that won Reform UK? Well,
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  Speaker 1: it was all immigration. They are seeing, like America, an
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  Speaker 1: unprecedented wave of immigration, legal and illegal, but a lot
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  Speaker 1: of illegal there, people who do not want to assimilate.
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  Speaker 1: And The thing about America is, despite any issues we
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  Speaker 1: may have with immigration, at least of the legal ones,
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  Speaker 1: there's at least some vetting going on. We have standards
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  Speaker 1: for how much income you have to have, whether or
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  Speaker 1: not you're going to be taken from the system. In Europe,
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  Speaker 1: it's basically a total free-for-all. You come in, we'll give
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  Speaker 1: you citizenship in a few years, and you cannot speak
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  Speaker 1: the language. You can be on welfare eternally. There's no
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  Speaker 1: vetting whatsoever. So that's been the major issue there. Conservatives,
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  Speaker 1: they are unfortunately presided over, actually, most of the mass
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  Speaker 1: immigration to the UK. Labour has continued that. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: they're ideologically totally in favour of it. and tried to
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  Speaker 1: moderate their stance ahead of the election on that issue,
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  Speaker 1: but voters saw through that. So I think it is
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  Speaker 1: good news to see that even in Europe, which generally
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  Speaker 1: speaking is to the left of America in quite a
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  Speaker 1: lot of ways, especially in economics, for a right-wing party
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  Speaker 1: to win there, I just think it's a good sign
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  Speaker 1: of things to come here.
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  Speaker 4: A couple of things that came to my mind as
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  Speaker 4: you were speaking about that election in the U.K., Do
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  Speaker 4: you think that what is happening with illegal immigration in
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  Speaker 4: this country now that Donald Trump has effectively shut down
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  Speaker 4: the border, is that a driving factor for the upcoming
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  Speaker 4: midterm since it appears to be fixed? Do you think
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  Speaker 4: that the conservatives, the Republicans here in this country will
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  Speaker 4: just stay at home and not vote like they have
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  Speaker 4: been doing since November? Or is that something still that
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  Speaker 4: can drive them to the polls?
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  Speaker 1: Well, you know, it's tough because, you know, of all voters, unfortunately,
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  Speaker 1: it's whatever happened two weeks prior that's going to determine
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  Speaker 1: their vote. And if mass prices are still high, that
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  Speaker 1: is going to hammer us despite how good anything else is. But,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Trump has objectively made a lot of gains
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  Speaker 1: in immigration. He has really solved the border issue and
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  Speaker 1: proved that there was literally a magic switch. You could
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  Speaker 1: just flick and all of a sudden there was no
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  Speaker 1: more illegal immigration. That's really what it seems like. I
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  Speaker 1: will say I am a lot more optimistic heading into
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  Speaker 1: the midterms ahead of how demoralized the left appears with
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  Speaker 1: redistricting efforts. I don't even see people online like leftists saying,
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  Speaker 1: all right, guys, now we really got to outvote them.
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  Speaker 1: It's more like we need to kill these people or ourselves.
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  Speaker 1: Literally either or. Those are the two narratives. I want
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  Speaker 1: to kill my enemies or I want to kill myself.
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  Speaker 1: Those are the two responses I'm seeing from the left.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I have seen them say that. I have seen them.
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  Speaker 4: We've got to go vote.
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  Speaker 1: They're not stable people. But I will say with the Illinois....
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  Speaker 4: Indiana.
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  Speaker 1: I've done this 80 times in a row.
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  Speaker 4: Well, they both start with I's.
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  Speaker 1: They're basically the same word. With the Indiana results, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: that was because Trump encouraged... people to go out and
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  Speaker 1: vote and vote against the people who would not, I guess,
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  Speaker 1: gerrymander the map further.
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  Speaker 4: Do you consider those that won in Indiana last week,
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  Speaker 4: they would be anti-Republican establishment, maybe their own party in
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  Speaker 4: a similar way to those that won in the UK?
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  Speaker 4: And I was going to get to that. Do you
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  Speaker 4: see that similarity there?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, for sure. So, you know, yeah, that is the thing.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, you know, the Trump Republican Party is a
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  Speaker 1: new party. You know, if we were in a European
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  Speaker 1: country with 10 different political parties, there's no world in
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  Speaker 1: which Trump and Mitt Romney or Trump and George W.
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  Speaker 1: Bush are in the same party. And Trump is he
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  Speaker 1: has made it, you know, once again into a conservative
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  Speaker 1: Republican Party. I think it was kind of interesting. The
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  Speaker 1: party for at least 20 years before Trump, and maybe longer,
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  Speaker 1: I just haven't been in politics that long, but it
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  Speaker 1: really seemed like it wasn't actually interested in winning. It
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  Speaker 1: just wanted to be this sort of permanent opposition where
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  Speaker 1: they would critique power but never actually hold it themselves.
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  Speaker 1: didn't really have any great plans for what to do
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  Speaker 1: when they got power. And yeah, I would like Republicans who,
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  Speaker 1: you know, while we agree that we want government to
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  Speaker 1: have as few functions as possible, that there are ones
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  Speaker 1: that have to get done and there are legitimate uses
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  Speaker 1: of power. So I think Trump is transforming the party
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  Speaker 1: for sure, too.
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  Speaker 4: I think that the Republican establishment party is still right
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  Speaker 4: where you described them. They still want to be that
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  Speaker 4: opposition party. They are not effective in governing. You can
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  Speaker 4: see that by what's happening in the Senate, in the
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  Speaker 4: House of Representatives over the last year and a half
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  Speaker 4: now that Trump's been in office. Now let's move on
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  Speaker 4: to the Hanta virus. Hanta, Hanta, I'm not sure. How
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  Speaker 4: do you say it? I'm hearing Hanta.
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  Speaker 1: I've just been trying to pretend it doesn't exist.
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  Speaker 4: Well, bear your hat.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just not doing it. Hanta virus, nope, never heard
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  Speaker 1: of it. Don't know what that is. I don't want
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  Speaker 1: to know.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not wearing a mask. No one's wearing a mask.
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  Speaker 1: I have heard, some people were claiming it has a
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  Speaker 1: 40% death rate, in which case there's nothing to do.
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  Speaker 1: It's just sit here and wait.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I'm going to let most of the doctors that
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  Speaker 4: are on this network, on America Out Loud Talk Radio,
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  Speaker 4: deal with it because it's not my thing, nor is
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  Speaker 4: it Matt's. But I did want to address it here
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  Speaker 4: as we start this hour because, you know, the University
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  Speaker 4: of Nebraska, do you remember them when COVID first started?
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  Speaker 4: Because it started on cruise ships and people were being
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  Speaker 4: taken to the University of Nebraska where they have this
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  Speaker 4: special quarantine area. where it's triple door and they were
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  Speaker 4: CNN and other people on the outside of it. They
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  Speaker 4: were doing interviews, trying to talk to doctors. And I'm
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  Speaker 4: having these flashbacks and I'm like, we are not going
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  Speaker 4: there with the hantavirus. And so here, let me let
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  Speaker 4: you listen to Dr. Michael Olmsted. He was on CBS
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  Speaker 4: Face the Nation on Sunday. Listen to him.
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  Speaker 5: Actually, in terms of the ability to transmit to somebody else,
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  Speaker 5: it's only a rare person that does that. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: we've had many examples of people that were infected from mouse, urine,
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  Speaker 5: or feces contact in Argentina, for example, where this particular
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  Speaker 5: strain never results in person-to-person transmission.
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  Speaker 4: It's a very rare exception.
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  Speaker 5: So in that sense that you may only need a
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  Speaker 5: limited amount of time, but it has to be one
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  Speaker 5: of those super spreaders that actually is the person sharing
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  Speaker 5: the virus with you.
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  Speaker 4: Matt, I have an idea. Instead of everybody else wearing masks,
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  Speaker 4: we get super spreaders to write super spreader across their forehead.
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  Speaker 4: Everybody just stay away. Don't you think that would work?
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  Speaker 4: I think that's a plan.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I would just say contain those people and, you know,
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  Speaker 1: don't put them in nursing homes.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, for sure. No, I agree. Now let's get to
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  Speaker 4: the big story last week, and you brought it up earlier,
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  Speaker 4: was the gerrymandering that took place. We have Texas that
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  Speaker 4: did it for five Republican seats. Florida also concluded for
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  Speaker 4: four seats. Tennessee is the one that really got everybody
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  Speaker 4: going nuts because of the way Memphis was split into
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  Speaker 4: three parts. And I talked about it on the show
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  Speaker 4: Friday night, but go ahead. Let me get your thoughts
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  Speaker 4: on it.
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  Speaker 1: Well, with Memphis, the way the Democrats are framing it
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  Speaker 1: as is black people are losing their last district. And
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  Speaker 1: they're making it from, you know, they're trying to make
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  Speaker 1: it a racial issue instead of just being honest and saying, listen,
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  Speaker 1: we're Democrats, so we want an extra Democrat district. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know why, what the point in lying is, but
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  Speaker 1: they're trying to, well, actually, I take that back. It's
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  Speaker 1: to once again do the whole everything is racism narrative.
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  Speaker 1: So they're saying, you know, they took away a Black district,
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  Speaker 1: but the representative is Steve Cohen, who is obviously not
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  Speaker 1: a Black guy. And the woman favored to now lead
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  Speaker 1: the district is a Black Republican. Oh, the irony. So
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  Speaker 1: it's clearly not a race thing. It's just which party
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  Speaker 1: wants the seat.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Steve Cohen is a jerk, and he has been
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  Speaker 4: for a long time. I met him in 1986 when
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  Speaker 4: my ex-wife actually worked at the state legislature there for
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  Speaker 4: Annabelle Clement O'Brien. And I forget the other guy's name.
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  Speaker 4: He was actually murdered by Tommy Low Tax Looper was
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  Speaker 4: his name. Low Tax. He legally changed his name to
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  Speaker 4: Low Tax to run for office. But Steve Cohen was
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  Speaker 4: a jerk back then. Hopefully he is gone now. And
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  Speaker 4: maybe a black woman can finally represent Memphis in the
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  Speaker 4: form of a Republican. That may happen. Let's listen to this.
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  Speaker 4: Martha Raddatz from CBS on Sunday.
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  Speaker 6: Virginia Democrats suffered a major setback on Friday when the
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  Speaker 6: state Supreme Court struck down a congressional map recently approved
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  Speaker 6: by voters that could have created four Democratic House districts.
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  Speaker 6: The court's majority found that the timing of the referendum
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  Speaker 6: process had violated the state's constitution. Virginia Democrats say they
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  Speaker 6: plan to challenge that decision. Meanwhile, serious Democratic protesters charge
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  Speaker 6: state capitals in Louisiana, Alabama, and Tennessee. when legislators there
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  Speaker 6: took steps to redraw current district maps that would be
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  Speaker 6: favorable to Republicans.
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  Speaker 4: Now, Matt, we knew that this Virginia thing was going
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  Speaker 4: to be reversed. As soon as it was voted on,
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  Speaker 4: it was illegal from the get-go. You have to go
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  Speaker 4: through the General Assembly to be able to put this
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  Speaker 4: on the ballot. Governor Spanbarger there, Berger, whatever her name is,
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  Speaker 4: she just completely forgot about that. They went around that.
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  Speaker 4: They broke the law. This is not even going to
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  Speaker 4: go to Supreme Court. I know that there are people
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  Speaker 4: that are going to try to appeal it, but there's
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  Speaker 4: no one to appeal this to. The Supreme Court of
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  Speaker 4: Virginia has made the decision, and I don't see SCOTUS
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  Speaker 4: ever taking this because the election clause in the Constitution,
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  Speaker 4: it's all done in the state. The state put that
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  Speaker 4: in the Constitution by vote that it had to be
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  Speaker 4: done that way, and then they just went around it.
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  Speaker 4: I don't see SCOTUS taking this up.
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  Speaker 1: Nor do I. Plus, we know how the SCOTUS would
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  Speaker 1: rule on that. It would be... We would see a
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  Speaker 1: lot of calls for packing the Supreme Court afterwards. So
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  Speaker 1: after this, too, it seems like Republicans are going to
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  Speaker 1: be up double digits on redistricting. And then you add
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  Speaker 1: in the Voting Rights Act being struck down and those
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  Speaker 1: districts have to be redrawn. And I think that's another
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  Speaker 1: at least 12 to 20 seats, depending on the estimates
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  Speaker 1: I've seen. But if you look at I saw some
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  Speaker 1: recent polling that Basically, you know, the current map projection
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  Speaker 1: with all the redistricting is now 217 Republican seats to
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  Speaker 1: the exact amount of Democrats. But I think it's only
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  Speaker 1: like 15 or 16 toss ups, meaning, you know, if
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  Speaker 1: that map is true, it is accurate about how the
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  Speaker 1: Republican seat. seats will go you know they need to
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  Speaker 1: win less so it's like five percent or less of
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  Speaker 1: the tall sub seats to keep a majority so that
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  Speaker 1: was unthinkable not too long ago and it's the first
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  Speaker 1: time i can think of in quite a while the
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  Speaker 1: right nationally has actually wielded power and done it in
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  Speaker 1: a way to actually help uh their you know their
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  Speaker 1: own voter base so i'm very proud of the party
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  Speaker 1: i will say on this I.
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  Speaker 4: Think that a lot of the people that I'm paying
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  Speaker 4: attention to on social media, there is a fear from
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  Speaker 4: me that a lot of people are going to think, well,
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  Speaker 4: now it's fixed. We don't have to do anything. And
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  Speaker 4: that's the last thing that needs to happen.
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  Speaker 1: Although someone drew like a hypothetical maximum gerrymander map where
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  Speaker 1: like what if every legislature, every blue state drew it
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  Speaker 1: like the most blue possible map um you know logistically
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  Speaker 1: speaking and if every right uh red state did the
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  Speaker 1: same thing republicans would have like a 230 seat majority
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  Speaker 1: yeah um so so if we really saw the escalate
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  Speaker 1: into total chaos and both sides are willing to do
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  Speaker 1: every single thing they could possibly do gerrymander it would
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  Speaker 1: still favor the right so i i don't know it's
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  Speaker 1: pretty cool we actually won this battle because when they
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  Speaker 1: were doing the the virginia redistricting and then um when
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  Speaker 1: indiana Failed to do theirs. Thank you. I thought, like, oh, man,
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  Speaker 1: we might actually come out on the losing end of this.
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  Speaker 1: But it seems like that's not going to be the case.
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  Speaker 1: And not only that, Democrats, I think, spent, what, like
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  Speaker 1: $ 80 million in Virginia?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it was $ 70 million.
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  Speaker 1: $ 70 million. So that money's gone forever. Thank God.
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  Speaker 4: For nothing. They blew it.
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  Speaker 1: For nothing.
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  Speaker 4: Let's listen to this from CNN with Scott Jennings. Listen
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  Speaker 4: to this conversation.
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  Speaker 2: Black people will elect people who will actually represent them,
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  Speaker 2: who have their best interest at heart. And what Republicans
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  Speaker 2: have done in Tennessee is dismantle the power for black
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  Speaker 2: people to have their voice. They did the same thing
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  Speaker 2: in Texas because they said they thought Latinos were going
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  Speaker 2: to swing for Republicans. There are black people that are represented.
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  Speaker 2: I'm black and I got a Republican president right now.
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  Speaker 2: Black people don't elect black people based on race. They
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  Speaker 2: elect people that are aligned with their moral, their beliefs
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  Speaker 2: and justice. And I just took that away from them
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  Speaker 2: in Tennessee and in other states.
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  Speaker 1: I just disagree that the only person.
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  Speaker 5: The only kind of a politician who can elect black
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  Speaker 5: people in Congress must be a Democrat.
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  Speaker 1: This is just an artificial.
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  Speaker 2: That's not what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: Democratic.
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  Speaker 2: That's not what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: Black voters are still.
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  Speaker 4: What was she saying? Or what was she trying to say?
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  Speaker 1: I have no idea. And then when she was like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we can be like we can be represented
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  Speaker 1: by white people. I have a white president who you
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  Speaker 1: didn't vote for.
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  Speaker 4: And didn't vote for and don't support in any way.
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  Speaker 1: They don't support, so I don't understand. And Jennings, I
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: don't think he didn't bring up that a black, I
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: don't think he brings up in that clip that it's
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: probably going to be actually a black woman who ends
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: up re-representing the seat like we were just saying. No,
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: he didn't.
• 17:09
  Speaker 4: But yeah, that is true. Let's go to one more
• 17:11
  Speaker 4: clip here. Martha Raddatz, because we are talking about the midterm,
• 17:14
  Speaker 4: and the Democrats, really there are 25 seats in the
• 17:18
  Speaker 4: middle that kind of determine the power of the House
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: in every election, midterm, or in the general election for president.
• 17:25
  Speaker 4: And in this case, in this year, 2026, the Democrats
• 17:29
  Speaker 4: think they can do something about 44 of those seats.
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: Let's listen to this.
• 17:36
  Speaker 7: Is tighter than ever and could come down to a
• 17:39
  Speaker 7: handful of swing districts here in the battleground Keystone State.
• 17:44
  Speaker 7: Democrats have identified four districts here in Pennsylvania they think
• 17:48
  Speaker 7: they can flip in the midterm. That's more than any
• 17:51
  Speaker 7: other state. and it includes the district here in Lehigh Valley.
• 17:55
  Speaker 7: Republican Congressman Ryan McKenzie flipped Pennsylvania's seventh district seat by
• 18:01
  Speaker 7: just one percentage point in 2024, about 4,000 votes. The
• 18:07
  Speaker 7: city of Allentown now at the heart of Democratic efforts
• 18:11
  Speaker 7: to take back the House.
• 18:13
  Speaker 8: If people come out and vote in large numbers in
• 18:16
  Speaker 8: a city like Allentown, that can have a huge impact.
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: On the county.
• 18:20
  Speaker 7: Democratic Mayor Matt Turk knows it'll be a tough fight,
• 18:24
  Speaker 7: but remains optimistic.
• 18:26
  Speaker 8: The path to a Democratic majority in Congress is places
• 18:30
  Speaker 8: like Allentown, places like Scranton, lots of different places in Pennsylvania.
• 18:35
  Speaker 8: If this is a blue flip, a blue wave that
• 18:38
  Speaker 8: starts here, that has huge implications for life in Washington, D.C.
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: Matt, it always comes down to who goes out and votes.
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: And It's going to be key. I have seen a
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: lot of Democrats that are using the gerrymander of last
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: week as a reason to get people energized to go
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: out and vote. I don't know how that's going to work,
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: but it's going to be interesting to watch over the
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: next few months. Don't forget primaries are going on. Now
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: until September, keep up with who you should vote for
• 19:07
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• 19:11
  Speaker 4: non-party affiliated judges are very important. Keep up with those
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: primaries in your local elections and make sure you go
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: out to vote.
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: More Truth Be Told with Booker Scott in minutes on
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: America Out Loud.
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: Someone asked me the other day, how do you even
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: get a sense of what's going to happen next? It's hard.
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: I don't know that we can the way the news
• 19:31
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• 19:35
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• 19:38
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• 19:42
  Speaker 4: are betting on outcomes. Political elections, big policy moves, even
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: events you wouldn't expect. It's kind of like a live
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: pulse on what the public actually believes. And you can
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: see trends before they even happen, and before they even
• 20:00
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• 20:04
  Speaker 4: It's about understanding the probabilities and where the momentum is shifting.
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: If you like or love the news like I do,
• 20:12
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• 20:14
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• 20:17
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• 20:33
  Speaker 4: with Matt on The Truth Be Told. Matt Palumbo is
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: joining us, the author of 11 books. One of those
• 20:39
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• 20:42
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• 20:46
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• 20:50
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• 20:54
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• 20:58
  Speaker 4: get into some conversation here about Charlie Kirk real quick,
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: because I think the court made a big decision this
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: week and one that I was glad to see, that
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: every bit of this trial is going to be on
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: the television so everybody can see it. Complete transparency.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: Yes. I think every court trial should be at least
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: recorded or have a recording somewhere. I don't know if
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: that is already the case, but I'm glad that this
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: one is going to be televised as well. Now the,
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: I will say though, I do have, I am torn in,
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: you know, will this help conspiracy, like squash certain conspiracy
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: theories or will it help amplify them in that?
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: How do you think it'll help it? How do you
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: believe it would help it?
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: Well, stuff being clipped out of context. So, you know,
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: there was the report from the Daily Mail where, It
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: was claiming they couldn't trace the bullet to the gun
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: of the shooter. But the context was, well, the bullet
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: was so destroyed. That's the reason why. This is very common.
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: It means nothing.
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: It was not conclusive is what they said. They said
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: it was not conclusive at the time.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: Correct.
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: They're going to have it checked by the FBI who
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: has other types of ways to look at that bullet.
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: Go ahead, because I know that they took off with that.
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so just stuff like that or taking things out
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: of context or– on Netflix, anytime they do a documentary
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: where they are trying to claim a guilty person as
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: actually innocent, basically they just re-litigate the case but only
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: show you the defense's argument. So I mean just giving
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: a one-sided account of– the facts can give a very
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: misleading picture. I mean, on the other hand, I think
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: everyone's mind is already kind of made up. And if
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: you have some like schizophrenic ideas about the shooting, it's
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: probably not going to be changed either way. But I
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: don't know. I guess my, my prediction overall that it
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: will be a good thing, but I am predicting that,
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: that we are going to see a lot of out
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: of context clips and all that just for clickbait.
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: Oh, absolutely. Because that's what those people do. You know,
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: they don't deal with the truth. They, Only deal with
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: half true, which is lies, and those are the best
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: way to try to get people to believe what it
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: is that you're trying to sell them. It's creating a narrative. Well,
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: let's go to Rebecca Woodland. She was on Fox. She's
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: a trial attorney. Here's what she had to say about it.
• 23:20
  Speaker 9: The judge needs to show the world what has happened.
• 23:24
  Speaker 9: Let there be transparency in the legal proceedings. The prosecution
• 23:27
  Speaker 9: said the courts aren't going to be in any way affected.
• 23:31
  Speaker 9: The jury pool's not going to be affected by cameras
• 23:34
  Speaker 9: within the courtroom. The jury pool's going to know anyway
• 23:37
  Speaker 9: because there'll be media coverage no matter what. But cameras
• 23:40
  Speaker 9: in the courtroom will allow for the prosecution to show
• 23:44
  Speaker 9: the truth for all of these conspiracy theories. We have
• 23:47
  Speaker 9: so many that don't really make any sense. Let them
• 23:51
  Speaker 9: be dispelled by the facts and the evidence in the case.
• 23:55
  Speaker 9: Show the world every day. There's nothing to hide in
• 23:58
  Speaker 9: a courtroom.
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: Matt, you and I have been together on this since
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: the beginning, is that there has never been more evidence
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: in a murder case in the history of America than
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: that that they have on Tyler Robinson for murdering Charlie
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: Kirk last September.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: It was.
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: you know, amazing that it was on television. It was terrible.
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: But this trial should be on television as well. And finally,
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: maybe a lot of these people that have been swayed
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: by influencers trying to get them to believe in some
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: conspiracy theory, like Candace Owens, for instance, who says the
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: Egyptians and the Israelis are involved and that can be
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: over with for a lot of people. And I understand
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: what you're saying, that they'll use some clips and they'll
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: try to continue to spin so that they don't have
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: egg on their face. But I still believe that most
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: people are going to pay attention to this and say, OK,
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: this guy did it because it's obvious he did it.
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: Go ahead.
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, the Egyptians and Israelis are involved because we
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: know the Egyptians and Israelis just love each other and
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: want to work together. No, listen, in most of these cases,
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: it's the simplest explanation is the true one. And in
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: this case, the options are the leftist dating a transgender
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: who confessed to the crime is guilty and not guilty. um, some,
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: you know, team up involved, some team involving the Mossad
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: in Egypt for some reason.
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: He confessed multiple times, not just once, but there were
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: multiple confessions by him. His own father turned him in.
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: I don't know what else people need to see. Uh,
• 25:30
  Speaker 4: you know, it just, it's bizarre to me that people
• 25:32
  Speaker 4: will believe someone like Candace Owens and the crap that
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: she is trying to sell. Let's go to Ilhan Omar.
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: She was in the news last week. Here is Kaylee
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: McEnany on Fox news.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: Fox News alert.
• 25:44
  Speaker 10: Ilhan Omar missed Tuesday's deadline for Minnesota Republicans to turn
• 25:47
  Speaker 10: over documents in the Minnesota Feeding Our Futures fraud scandal.
• 25:51
  Speaker 10: Democrats blocked an effort to subpoena the congresswoman, all as
• 25:54
  Speaker 10: we learned that Omar's name came up six times in
• 25:58
  Speaker 10: the case against Amy Bach, the founder of Feeding Our Future. Now,
• 26:02
  Speaker 10: Bach spearheaded the scheme, which stole federal funds intended for
• 26:06
  Speaker 10: children and was convicted of wire fraud, conspiracy and bribery.
• 26:10
  Speaker 10: Ilhan Omar's name first came up in an email chain
• 26:13
  Speaker 10: with Bach back in February 2021. The subject line read,
• 26:17
  Speaker 10: help with USDA food program and a message to Omar's office. Now,
• 26:22
  Speaker 10: about two weeks later, Bach emailed Omar's office with the
• 26:25
  Speaker 10: subject line, FNS approves Minnesota school P-E-B-T plan. Then one
• 26:30
  Speaker 10: day later, Bach exchanged messages with this Feeding Our Future
• 26:34
  Speaker 10: employee who fled the country after he was indicted in 2022.
• 26:39
  Speaker 10: The subject line of their emails was Ilhan's office. And
• 26:43
  Speaker 10: the emails kept flowing after that. In March, Bach emailed
• 26:46
  Speaker 10: Omar's office again about the state's school food program. There
• 26:50
  Speaker 10: were also text messages between Bach and Omar's office, which
• 26:54
  Speaker 10: was uncovered during a raid of Bach's Minnesota house. Now,
• 26:58
  Speaker 10: while we know Omar's office was communicating with a now
• 27:01
  Speaker 10: convicted fraudster, we don't know the contents of those messages
• 27:04
  Speaker 10: or if Omar herself engaged in any wrongdoing. In a
• 27:08
  Speaker 10: jailhouse interview with Fox, this is how Bach described those conversations.
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: Did you have any conversations with Ilhan Omar that make
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: you kind of think twice now?
• 27:19
  Speaker 11: I've never actually spoken to her. I had spoken to
• 27:23
  Speaker 11: members of her office. It was always really general, mostly
• 27:28
  Speaker 11: pertaining to how the Department of Education was handling applications
• 27:36
  Speaker 11: and the approval or denial of those.
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: Matt, I believe there are a couple of things here
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: that we can talk about. One, is obviously the fraud
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: in Minnesota, but Ilhan Omar not doing what she was
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: supposed to do, the subpoena failing in Minnesota because it
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: took two-thirds of the vote, so she will not be
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: subpoenaed there in Minnesota. So I think that's the first part.
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: Let's talk about that.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: Well, I know we have to say allegedly, so I
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: think she's allegedly guilty as hell here. I mean, a
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: million things, A, starting from the whole, you know, brother
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: incident that even J.D. Vance says there's evidence for. If
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: that's the case. And that can be proven. There is
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: a possibility she could actually end up being denaturalized as well.
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: And I will take a deportation over criminal charges any
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: day of the week. So that would be nice. But
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: her net worth as well recently went from being over
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: $ 30 million to $ 100, 000, which she blamed on her accountant. Yeah.
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: If you have $ 100, 000 to your name, I think you'd
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: be pretty aware that you don't have $ 30 million to
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: your name in signing that financial disclosure. In fact, it's
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: the weirdest thing ever as a politician. You would want
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: people to think you have less than what you have,
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: not more. which is what I think is really happening here.
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: That's why I think she's revising it downward. But but
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: you'd never do it. You'd never have 100 grand. Your
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: name is a politician and claim you have 30 because
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: it could make you look out of touch or whatever.
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: But the winery as well that her husband claimed to
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: have just mysteriously shuttered recently. And that is what I
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: believe a large source of that wealth was. So it's
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: a very weird situation there as well. There's going to
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: be so many different angles to go after her.
• 29:28
  Speaker 4: Well, one thing that I want to talk about with
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: this is the Minnesota fraud. We know that there has
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: been about $ 300 million in fraud in Minnesota that they
• 29:38
  Speaker 4: have convictions on. There is more that will be coming, obviously.
• 29:42
  Speaker 4: But I want to go back to when this story
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: blew up with Nick Shirley reporting it because it was
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: reported that it was $ 9 billion. And then a lot
• 29:49
  Speaker 4: of people on social media said it was $ 18 billion.
• 29:50
  Speaker 4: It was $ 19 billion. Well, the entire amount of money
• 29:55
  Speaker 4: that was given to Minnesota during the time period in
• 29:57
  Speaker 4: question was $ 18 billion. It was never going to be
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: $ 18 billion. The $ 9 billion came from a quote from
• 30:03
  Speaker 4: the U.S. attorney there who said there could be, might be,
• 30:06
  Speaker 4: as much as up to $ 9 billion in fraud. And
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: everybody took off with that number. The problem I have
• 30:12
  Speaker 4: with those great big numbers that there is no corroboration
• 30:15
  Speaker 4: and you can't prove is that everybody's going to say
• 30:19
  Speaker 4: it's a lie. And then when the truth comes out
• 30:22
  Speaker 4: and maybe it's 700 million, maybe it's a billion, which
• 30:25
  Speaker 4: is bad and it should be, the story is going
• 30:27
  Speaker 4: to be about the fact that you were a conspiracy
• 30:29
  Speaker 4: theorist and said it was 9 billion. And I have
• 30:32
  Speaker 4: a problem with that. And even my old neighbor from
• 30:35
  Speaker 4: 15 years ago, he sent me a message over the
• 30:38
  Speaker 4: weekend on Messenger on Facebook. And do you know anything
• 30:41
  Speaker 4: about the Biden's financial situation right now from Hunter to
• 30:45
  Speaker 4: Joe Biden? The fact is they're about broke. So they
• 30:49
  Speaker 4: don't have any money. If they do, they've hidden it
• 30:51
  Speaker 4: somewhere and they're not living like they have that kind
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: of money. But he said this to me because he
• 30:56
  Speaker 4: says that this is an official leaked document. Ukrainian kickback records.
• 31:00
  Speaker 4: I don't know if you've seen this going around social media.
• 31:03
  Speaker 4: Joe Biden and his family got $ 92 million. Mitch McConnell,
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: $ 89 million. Nancy Pelosi, $ 86 million. Chuck Schumer, $ 66 million.
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: Lindsey Graham got $ 62 million. Mitt Romney, $ 71 million. this
• 31:17
  Speaker 4: is bullcrap. This is not true. This didn't happen. There's
• 31:21
  Speaker 4: no evidence of this. And those types of things make
• 31:24
  Speaker 4: the truth harder to get out when you're throwing around
• 31:28
  Speaker 4: these types of numbers that cannot be corroborated and they're
• 31:31
  Speaker 4: nowhere near the truth.
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure. I mean, we always want to be accurate.
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: And it is, you're totally right that the directionality of
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: the fraud matters. And that if we say it's a
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: hundred million and it's a billion, then, it's wow. It's
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: 10 times the worst than what we thought. If we
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: say it's 10 billion and it's one, it's see, you
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: guys were off by 10.
• 31:53
  Speaker 4: This isn't even a story. Why are you making a
• 31:55
  Speaker 4: story out of it? You know, and a billion would
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: be a big story if you hadn't said it was
• 31:59
  Speaker 4: going to be 10.
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: I will say, you know, there, there were just a
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: few blocks where Shirley was documenting like tens of millions.
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: So I think it will definitely be into the billions,
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: but yes, we don't, we will never know the exact number. Uh, Well, actually,
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: we may never truly know the exact number.
• 32:15
  Speaker 4: No, I don't think so.
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: But we could approach it, hopefully. Yeah. And unfortunately, we'll
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: probably recover, you know, one or two cents a dollar
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: of the whole thing by the end of it.
• 32:23
  Speaker 4: Big story coming up this week, Matt, is the visit
• 32:26
  Speaker 4: to China with Donald Trump and Melania Trump. They are
• 32:30
  Speaker 4: heading there to meet Xi Jinping. This is going to
• 32:33
  Speaker 4: be an interesting visit. You know, it's going to include
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: what's going on in Iran. China has been pulling away
• 32:39
  Speaker 4: from Iran over this. You have Taiwan is going on trade.
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: The tariffs that Donald Trump put on will be a
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: part of the conversation. You have artificial intelligence, semiconductors. It's
• 32:52
  Speaker 4: a big trip right now this week.
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's actually my first time hearing that. It's from you.
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: So I also get my news from the show as
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: a commentator on the show. But I somehow missed that one. No, it's...
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: What is, you said they're pulling back on their relationship
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: with Iran.
• 33:12
  Speaker 4: Tell me more. Well, yeah, they have been pulling back
• 33:16
  Speaker 4: as a result of not being able to get oil.
• 33:19
  Speaker 4: And I think that from what I understand from people,
• 33:22
  Speaker 4: that they are frustrated with Iran and with what's going on. So,
• 33:27
  Speaker 4: you know, it's affecting trade. It's, you know, China's economy
• 33:31
  Speaker 4: is in bad shape. They're not in great shape, so
• 33:34
  Speaker 4: they can't stand a lot of inflation, and they need oil,
• 33:37
  Speaker 4: and they're not getting it. So I think another part
• 33:40
  Speaker 4: of this visit is Donald Trump trying to sell American
• 33:42
  Speaker 4: oil to China, which will then put a wedge between
• 33:45
  Speaker 4: countries like Russia and America, Iran and America, the BRICS nations.
• 33:50
  Speaker 4: So we'll have to keep an eye on this. It's
• 33:52
  Speaker 4: going to be interesting. The Xis will be coming here
• 33:55
  Speaker 4: to America pretty soon. Let's listen to Ted Lieu. He
• 33:58
  Speaker 4: was on Face the Nation. He's one of my favorites.
• 34:01
  Speaker 4: I know you love him, too, don't.
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: You, Matt? Oh, God, no.
• 34:05
  Speaker 6: Secretary Rubio said Taiwan will likely be discussed during President
• 34:09
  Speaker 6: Trump's visit to China this week to meet with Xi Jinping.
• 34:12
  Speaker 6: This is a hugely consequential summit. On Friday, Taiwan's parliament
• 34:18
  Speaker 6: approved $ 25 billion in funds to buy more American weapons.
• 34:22
  Speaker 6: Are you largely supportive at this point of the Trump
• 34:25
  Speaker 6: administration's willingness to strengthen Taiwan's defense?
• 34:28
  Speaker 12: Both Democratic and Republican administrations have had the exact same policy,
• 34:33
  Speaker 12: which is to preserve the current status quo. And we're
• 34:36
  Speaker 12: trying to keep China from doing anything stupid in the Indo-Pacific,
• 34:40
  Speaker 12: including a military conflict.
• 34:42
  Speaker 4: And I just want to.
• 34:43
  Speaker 12: Emphasize that the Iran war has shown that we need
• 34:47
  Speaker 12: a brand new strategy in the Indo-Pacific. because in any
• 34:51
  Speaker 12: prolonged conflict with China or Russia, the U.S. will run
• 34:55
  Speaker 12: out of defensive munitions. We already started running out of
• 34:58
  Speaker 12: defensive munitions.
• 34:59
  Speaker 11: In a war that.
• 35:00
  Speaker 4: Well, we're not running out of munitions yet, but it
• 35:03
  Speaker 4: does take a lot of munitions to do what was
• 35:07
  Speaker 4: going on in Iran and what has been going on.
• 35:09
  Speaker 4: So I don't think that's a bad point that he's
• 35:11
  Speaker 4: making there, Matt. But, you know, it's going to be
• 35:14
  Speaker 4: interesting to watch what happens here with Donald Trump and
• 35:18
  Speaker 4: Xi and China. I really sense that things are changing
• 35:21
  Speaker 4: in the world. I think Donald Trump on the world
• 35:24
  Speaker 4: stage over the last year and a half, he's been incredible.
• 35:27
  Speaker 4: I think everything that he's done has been perfect. You know,
• 35:31
  Speaker 4: I think, well, I'll take that back. The IEPA, the
• 35:34
  Speaker 4: tariffs invoked under IEPA, I think was a stretch. And
• 35:38
  Speaker 4: I think that that cost them, obviously, we're paying back
• 35:41
  Speaker 4: $ 166 billion in tariffs. So I think that was probably
• 35:45
  Speaker 4: a misstep. There were other laws that he could have
• 35:49
  Speaker 4: invoked to put tariffs on. And I know that there
• 35:52
  Speaker 4: are limitations on those other laws, but it was a
• 35:56
  Speaker 4: little bit of something is better than nothing of something,
• 36:00
  Speaker 4: if that makes any sense. And that's what we ended
• 36:02
  Speaker 4: up getting because IEPA was invoked there.
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that. I mean, obviously the way that the Iran
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: conflict has been dragging on has not been ideal. I mean,
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: it was initially going to be, I think, a six
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: to eight week endeavor was the time frame. We're obviously
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: well beyond that. And I have to do a double
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: take every time I see gas prices. And I think
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: a lot of other people are probably in the same boat. So,
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: I mean, obviously, you know, away from the fact that it's...
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: You know, it's causing a bit of financial strain, and
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: that could end up blowing up on us in the midterms,
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: among other issues. But we'll see.
• 36:40
  Speaker 4: Well, I think Donald Trump is kind of stuck here
• 36:44
  Speaker 4: on this Iran thing. I think the right thing to do,
• 36:47
  Speaker 4: the right thing to do for the world and the
• 36:48
  Speaker 4: right thing to do for America is to finish it.
• 36:51
  Speaker 4: And I don't know how long that's going to take.
• 36:54
  Speaker 4: But as you said, the midterm is coming up here
• 36:56
  Speaker 4: in five or six months. And with gas at $ 4. 50, $ 4. 75,
• 36:59
  Speaker 4: that's not going to win any Republican seats. And then
• 37:04
  Speaker 4: you have two years of impeachments coming on. So, you know,
• 37:07
  Speaker 4: he's trapped. He's cornered. And Iran is proving that they
• 37:12
  Speaker 4: can just keep lasting. And that's been their history as
• 37:15
  Speaker 4: well throughout the world history with Iran and fighting wars.
• 37:22
  Speaker 4: They somehow last and they outlast people. to the point
• 37:25
  Speaker 4: where they give up. And I would hate to see
• 37:27
  Speaker 4: that Donald Trump doesn't really finish the job here. And
• 37:30
  Speaker 4: I'm mixed, too, so I can only imagine how Donald
• 37:33
  Speaker 4: Trump feels. Everything that he's saying in military, we had
• 37:36
  Speaker 4: kicked their ass. There's no doubt about that. But now what?
• 37:40
  Speaker 4: You have the straightforward moves that is not allowing the
• 37:44
  Speaker 4: ships to go through. It has oil. It has other
• 37:46
  Speaker 4: products that are needed for the world. And it's kind
• 37:50
  Speaker 4: of a mess in some ways, and it's going to
• 37:52
  Speaker 4: have to take some intestinal fortitude for Trump to see
• 37:55
  Speaker 4: this through to that end. Otherwise, it is all for nothing.
• 38:00
  Speaker 4: You know, everything that we did was done for nothing,
• 38:03
  Speaker 4: including the lives of 13 Americans. Thoughts on that?
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, it's... How do we finish when we
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: don't even know who we're supposed to negotiate with? We
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: don't even know who's in charge yet. It's some allegedly
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: gay guy who's also crippled that we haven't seen, or
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: is it someone else? No one really knows. Even Trump
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: has referenced that. So, yeah, I don't know. I mean, it's.
• 38:33
  Speaker 4: I think you are. I literally have.
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: No idea how the hell we get out of this.
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: I'm like trying to brainstorm as if I'm going to
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: solve this within five minutes.
• 38:42
  Speaker 4: But I think your sounds are the way American people
• 38:45
  Speaker 4: feel about it right now. You know, I think we
• 38:48
  Speaker 4: just don't know what to say. If we're supporters of
• 38:51
  Speaker 4: Donald Trump, generally, we're looking at this going, I'm not
• 38:55
  Speaker 4: so sure. You know what I mean? And we want
• 38:59
  Speaker 4: to get out of it, and he probably does too,
• 39:01
  Speaker 4: but how do you do it and not finish the job?
• 39:04
  Speaker 4: And that's the problem. We're going to get out of
• 39:06
  Speaker 4: it like this. We're going to push a button to
• 39:08
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• 40:19
  Speaker 4: And welcome back to The Truth Be Told. Coming up
• 40:21
  Speaker 4: here tonight at 9 o'clock, it is After Dark with
• 40:23
  Speaker 4: Rob and Andrew. Before that, the National Security Hour with
• 40:27
  Speaker 4: the two mics. And coming up in just a few minutes,
• 40:30
  Speaker 4: it is Unleashed, the political news hour. I'm Booker Scott,
• 40:33
  Speaker 4: along with Matt Palumbo here on a Monday night. It
• 40:36
  Speaker 4: is Mondays with Matt. Thank you for joining us here tonight.
• 40:40
  Speaker 4: Got some more things to talk about before this hour ends.
• 40:43
  Speaker 4: I want to talk about the L.A. mayor race and
• 40:45
  Speaker 4: Spencer Pratt. Did you see the debate last week? What
• 40:48
  Speaker 4: are you thinking about Spencer Pratt?
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: He's doing awesome. I had no idea who he was.
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: I guess my wife had watched The reality show that
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: made him famous 20 years ago. So she was very
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: excited to see him on there. But it seems like
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: reality show people are very good at politics. So people
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: who are naturally good at speaking off the cuff and
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: playing characters and knowing how to present themselves in different situations.
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: And I mean, that's Trump's rise was reality TV. Sean
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: Duffy got his sort of reality TV and now maybe
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: Spencer Pratt.
• 41:19
  Speaker 4: So I don't know.
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: It's funny. I heard he was. On the show he
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: was on, I think it was called The Hills. He
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: was like the most unlikable character and had a reputation
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: of being like a jerk with anger issues and among
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: other problems. But I'm assuming that to some extent, that's
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: just a character he was playing. I don't know.
• 41:37
  Speaker 13: Yeah.
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: So I mean, I think they all kind of do
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: that to some extent. But anyway, but as it comes to.
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: As it relates to the L.A. mayor's race, he was
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: the most normal person up there on the debate stage.
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: He never got flustered. He was– you could tell, too,
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: when the other people were speaking– Everything they said was
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: something they had rehearsed beforehand or scripted and made sure
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: it was poll tested or whatever the process was. Well,
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: probably was just speaking off the cuff. You know, like
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: the one woman is this Indian woman who's in the L.A.
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: city council that's running. I noticed like she would repeat
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: certain things repeatedly. A certain talking points over and over
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: and over throughout the debate, like she would randomly keep mentioning,
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: you know, as a mother in the race. And it's like, OK,
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: we heard you the past four times. But but I
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: guess one of your talking points was I'm running for
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: office as a mother. So she knew. So it was
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: one of those things you just keep repeating and not
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: even realizing what you're doing. But Pratt is very, very good.
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: He almost took the place of the moderators at certain times.
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: If anyone hasn't seen it, you can just find highlights
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: on YouTube in 10 minutes and get the whole summary there.
• 42:46
  Speaker 4: It was worth watching. Spencer Pratt was in Palisades where
• 42:52
  Speaker 4: the fire happened in January, and he was there taking
• 42:55
  Speaker 4: questions from residents there. Here is an exchange with a resident.
• 42:59
  Speaker 4: They have compared you to Zohra Mamdani.
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: In the sense, I mean, your politics are obviously very, very,
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: very different, but in the sense that you've really harnessed
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: the power of social media to get your message out.
• 43:09
  Speaker 4: What do you think of that comparison?
• 43:11
  Speaker 3: You know, the one thing I connect with is I
• 43:13
  Speaker 3: know he promised his voters, like, the subway will be free,
• 43:17
  Speaker 3: and I'm promising my voters the metro, the metro buses,
• 43:21
  Speaker 3: the metro trains, they will be free from urine, feces, stabbing, attacks,
• 43:27
  Speaker 3: so that's kind of similar. We both had free things
• 43:30
  Speaker 3: for public transportation, but You know, I think he connected
• 43:35
  Speaker 3: with people because they felt like change. They wanted change.
• 43:39
  Speaker 3: That message would never connect here because we've already been
• 43:42
  Speaker 3: doing the socialist experiment pretty much for six plus years
• 43:46
  Speaker 3: and it's failed here in Los Angeles. So I think
• 43:48
  Speaker 3: my message is why it's resonating on social media is
• 43:51
  Speaker 3: it's the truth. It's authentic. It's from my heart. I
• 43:54
  Speaker 3: didn't want to be a politician. I'm standing in what
• 43:57
  Speaker 3: happened because of failed politicians. That's why I'm here. I
• 44:01
  Speaker 3: don't want to be. I want to go in. And
• 44:03
  Speaker 3: change L.A. so that this never happens to anybody. A
• 44:06
  Speaker 3: lot of people are like, oh, he only cares about
• 44:07
  Speaker 3: the Palisades. This isn't coming back for a long time.
• 44:11
  Speaker 3: Not fighting for other communities. This is going to happen
• 44:13
  Speaker 3: to a lot of people in the next four years.
• 44:15
  Speaker 3: There's less firefighters now than January 7th. There's 45 less firefighters.
• 44:20
  Speaker 3: We are not prepared. Don't listen to Mayor Bass if
• 44:22
  Speaker 3: you live in the Hollywood Hills, Sunland, Tujunga, Bel Air,
• 44:26
  Speaker 3: the Valley.
• 44:27
  Speaker 4: Anyway, Matt, like you said, I think he does relate
• 44:30
  Speaker 4: to people on social media. He just is real honest
• 44:34
  Speaker 4: about things. And we'll see. Do you think he has
• 44:36
  Speaker 4: a real shot at winning that race? Because I don't.
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: Let me look it up on Call of Duty.
• 44:43
  Speaker 4: I don't believe he does. Someone asked me about it
• 44:45
  Speaker 4: the other day. Well, what about Spencer Pratt? I liked
• 44:47
  Speaker 4: him in the debate. I said he has no shot.
• 44:49
  Speaker 4: So you're going to correct us.
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: He's at 32% on Call of Duty.
• 44:54
  Speaker 4: Okay, I will stay with my prediction.
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: One in three for a Republican in L.A. is pretty crazy.
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: Karen Bass said it bet 50%, and the rest is
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: that woman, Neitha Rahman, the city councilwoman.
• 45:06
  Speaker 4: The mother, the mother person.
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: The mother, the mother, the mother.
• 45:09
  Speaker 4: So I'm going to stay with my prediction that Spencer
• 45:11
  Speaker 4: Pratt doesn't have a chance in hell to win in
• 45:13
  Speaker 4: Los Angeles.
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: I actually... Actually, I will go on the record and
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: say I actually think he's going to pull it off.
• 45:19
  Speaker 4: Really? Okay.
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: Really? We can play this back.
• 45:22
  Speaker 4: Okay. I will write this down. I'll bookmark it so
• 45:25
  Speaker 4: we can go back to it. I say Bass will
• 45:27
  Speaker 4: win again. The communist Bass will win because people in
• 45:30
  Speaker 4: Los Angeles are just stupid. Then let's go to more
• 45:33
  Speaker 4: Spencer Pratt.
• 45:34
  Speaker 3: After CBS embarrassed Karen Bass by fact-checking her debate lies
• 45:39
  Speaker 3: about the Palisades fire, they clearly got the call. CBS,
• 45:42
  Speaker 3: film with me on my burnt-out lot for over an
• 45:45
  Speaker 3: hour talking about crime, housing, affordability, things that voters care about.
• 45:50
  Speaker 3: And they turned it over to Karen Bass's PR team
• 45:52
  Speaker 3: to edit it into a comical five-minute hit piece with
• 45:56
  Speaker 3: clips from the hills. They can't beat my ideas. They
• 45:59
  Speaker 3: can't beat me in the debates, so they've got to
• 46:00
  Speaker 3: try to turn my campaign into a sideshow. People are
• 46:03
  Speaker 3: done with these skeezy political tricks, and I'm done with CBS.
• 46:08
  Speaker 3: They should release the full, unedited interview. The voters deserve
• 46:11
  Speaker 3: to hear from their next mayor.
• 46:14
  Speaker 4: Do you know when that election is, Matt? I don't
• 46:15
  Speaker 4: even know when it is, but maybe there's time.
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: I think it's June 2nd. I don't know why I
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: think that, but it's why I think that.
• 46:23
  Speaker 4: We'll go with June 2nd, and I'm going to stick—
• 46:26
  Speaker 4: with my prediction there. And when it comes to California,
• 46:30
  Speaker 4: I'm going to stick to the Democrat there as well, because,
• 46:34
  Speaker 4: you know, Steve Hilton, I guess he's doing a pretty
• 46:36
  Speaker 4: good job in running that. Chad Bianco, he has disappeared
• 46:40
  Speaker 4: since Swalwell did. You don't hear him being talked about anymore.
• 46:44
  Speaker 4: So I guess it comes down to Steve Hilton and
• 46:48
  Speaker 4: maybe two Democrats. And I think ultimately, It's going to
• 46:51
  Speaker 4: be a Democrat in California, unfortunately. If you're in California,
• 46:55
  Speaker 4: you're listening to this, and you're a Republican, please go
• 46:57
  Speaker 4: vote support for the Republican. But I just have to
• 47:01
  Speaker 4: call it the way I see it, and I'm usually
• 47:04
  Speaker 4: pretty right.
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: Unfortunately.
• 47:06
  Speaker 4: In this case, yeah. In this case, unfortunately. Let's move on. Yeah,
• 47:10
  Speaker 4: go ahead.
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: I did check. It is June 2nd is the mayoral.
• 47:14
  Speaker 4: Okay. And again, keep up with your primaries wherever you live.
• 47:19
  Speaker 4: Know when they are. Get out there and vote and
• 47:22
  Speaker 4: make sure you know the issues, the candidates, and really...
• 47:25
  Speaker 4: Races like school board and judges, those can get away
• 47:29
  Speaker 4: from you. They've gotten away from me before. I've gone
• 47:31
  Speaker 4: in to vote and I don't have a clue when
• 47:33
  Speaker 4: it comes to 10 judges and I vote for five
• 47:36
  Speaker 4: of them. I don't have any idea. I'm just going
• 47:39
  Speaker 4: by their name. So make sure you pay attention to that.
• 47:42
  Speaker 4: Let's look at South Florida real quick and what is
• 47:45
  Speaker 4: coming out about a possible end of the grand jury
• 47:49
  Speaker 4: that is taking place for Russiagate. Have you heard anything
• 47:52
  Speaker 4: about that?
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: Actually, no. I didn't know we were suiting Russiagate stuff.
• 47:57
  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, you have Comey and Brennan, I guess, are
• 48:01
  Speaker 4: being investigated for the origins of that, which means they
• 48:05
  Speaker 4: would have to put together a conspiracy case, a RICO
• 48:08
  Speaker 4: case there. Kash Patel says there is evidence to bring
• 48:13
  Speaker 4: a strong case of conspirators. And that was last week,
• 48:20
  Speaker 4: as a matter of fact, when he said that. And
• 48:22
  Speaker 4: then you have John Solomon that is talking about the
• 48:26
  Speaker 4: 2020 cover-up of the election. There are still a lot
• 48:29
  Speaker 4: of questions about the 2020 cover-up. I'm wondering what happened
• 48:32
  Speaker 4: with Fulton County after the FBI went and raided that.
• 48:35
  Speaker 4: You had, what was his name, Chris Krebb of the
• 48:38
  Speaker 4: CISA that said it was the cleanest, best election ever.
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
• 48:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you remember that guy? Exactly. Let's go to John
• 48:48
  Speaker 4: Solomon here, hear what he says about the 2020 election.
• 48:51
  Speaker 14: There is a growing body of evidence, compliments of DNI
• 48:54
  Speaker 14: Gabbard and FBI Director Kash Patel and CIA Director John Ratcliffe,
• 48:59
  Speaker 14: that the government was aware of foreign intrusions in our
• 49:03
  Speaker 14: election starting in 2020, 2022, 2024, and that there was
• 49:08
  Speaker 14: an effort to keep this information from the people in
• 49:11
  Speaker 14: the government who most needed to know about it. the
• 49:14
  Speaker 14: President of the United States, the Congress, which has a
• 49:17
  Speaker 14: statutory right to be notified any time there's been a
• 49:20
  Speaker 14: foreign intrusion in our government. The evidence that we unveiled
• 49:24
  Speaker 14: this morning, which are unclassified documents that were transmitted around
• 49:28
  Speaker 14: the intelligence community after Tulsi Gabbard's DIG, its director's initiative group,
• 49:33
  Speaker 14: looked at some records, have some bombshells. There's an allegation...
• 49:37
  Speaker 14: that a CIA analyst was asked to change CIA documents
• 49:41
  Speaker 14: to hide foreign influence efforts in.
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: The 2020 election.
• 49:45
  Speaker 14: There's an allegation that they massaged President Trump's PDB in
• 49:49
  Speaker 14: 2020 so they wouldn't have to tell him about potential
• 49:52
  Speaker 14: foreign intrusions. There's an allegation that... analytical products were hijacked
• 49:58
  Speaker 14: and suppressed because they rightfully used evidence showing that China
• 50:04
  Speaker 14: was trying to influence the election in a more aggressive
• 50:06
  Speaker 14: way than had been acknowledged publicly, or that Venezuela had
• 50:10
  Speaker 14: some capabilities in election machines.
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: Raise concern.
• 50:13
  Speaker 14: That doesn't mean they were deployed. But knowing that there
• 50:16
  Speaker 14: were vulnerabilities, knowing that there were exploits, knowing that there
• 50:20
  Speaker 14: were mal-influenced operations going on, you want your commander-in-chief, you
• 50:25
  Speaker 14: want your Congress.
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: To know this.
• 50:26
  Speaker 14: And it looks like the deep state, if these documents
• 50:29
  Speaker 14: are an accurate reflection of what the classified evidence is,
• 50:32
  Speaker 14: was trying to keep the commander-in-chief, the American public, and
• 50:35
  Speaker 14: the Congress dark about real threats to our election. Instead—
• 50:39
  Speaker 14: We were forced to have a narrative as the most
• 50:40
  Speaker 14: secure election in America. We now know that wasn't a
• 50:44
  Speaker 14: true story. What we're beginning to see is an overt
• 50:47
  Speaker 14: effort by intelligence officers to keep the people, the American
• 50:50
  Speaker 14: people elected, lawmakers in Congress, the president, from knowing and
• 50:55
  Speaker 14: acting on real threats to our election.
• 50:57
  Speaker 4: Now, let me add to that what Susie Wiles, the
• 51:00
  Speaker 4: White House chief of staff, said recently. She says she thinks,
• 51:04
  Speaker 4: this is a quote, thinks we're going to find out, unquote,
• 51:08
  Speaker 4: President Trump won many of the states the media claims
• 51:12
  Speaker 4: he lost in 2020. That's what Susie Wiles says. So
• 51:17
  Speaker 4: there is this information that is out there that's in
• 51:20
  Speaker 4: the court, in the grand jury. So maybe we're about
• 51:24
  Speaker 4: to get some information that is really what we've all
• 51:27
  Speaker 4: talked about for five or six years now. Maybe it's
• 51:30
  Speaker 4: to the point where we're going to get some clarity
• 51:33
  Speaker 4: on all of this. Let's real quick move to Texas,
• 51:35
  Speaker 4: where the gay judge in Bexar County has been removed.
• 51:39
  Speaker 4: We talked about this when this story came up. Her
• 51:42
  Speaker 4: name was Speedy Gonzalez, remember?
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: Oh, I remember Speedy Gonzalez, yes.
• 51:47
  Speaker 4: Yeah, her actual name is Rosie Speedland Gonzalez, and she
• 51:51
  Speaker 4: has been banned for life from ever serving on the
• 51:55
  Speaker 4: bench again after she unlawfully ordered an attorney to be handcuffed.
• 52:00
  Speaker 4: That is what got her in trouble. Also, here's another story, Matt.
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  Speaker 4: I want you to talk about this. The U.S. Postal
• 52:06
  Speaker 4: Service has now reported a net quarterly loss of $ 2 billion.
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  Speaker 4: That's not a shocker. I think that's actually a little
• 52:13
  Speaker 4: better than what it normally is.
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  Speaker 1: It's better than I thought.
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  Speaker 4: I think it's usually about $ 16 billion a year that
• 52:21
  Speaker 4: we bail the U.S. Postal Service out with our own
• 52:25
  Speaker 4: taxpayer money. But, Matt, what do you think? Is it
• 52:28
  Speaker 4: time to privatize the post office?
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the thing is, it's in this weird limbo where
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: they're not a government agency. But they're also regulated to
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: the point where they're not a private for profit business either.
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: They're just in this weird like business purgatory. So, yeah,
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: you know, the government can't run anything at a profit.
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: You know, the incentives just are not there. Right. If
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: you and I started a business and we were to
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: say to every employee, okay, just a heads up, you
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: can work really hard. In fact, you can work as
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: hard as you want. But no matter what, you're all
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: getting paid the same amount. Your raises will all be
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: the same every single year. There's not really much room
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: for promotion. You can't blame the employees for not working hard.
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: And that's the incentive structure that government gives. And it's one, too,
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: where it's very difficult to get fired as well. I
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: know Trump has... definitely changed that in recent years. I
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: actually didn't even realize he could fire a lot of
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: the people that he has. But it's still the case. Overall,
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: it's a safer job than the private sector. So the
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: incentives aren't there. I mean, in Canada, their marijuana industry
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: is run by the government, and it turns a loss.
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: So governments literally can't even deal drugs and make a profit,
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: which is one of the highest margin industries is illegal drugs.
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: So if the government can't do that, then I don't
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: think there's any business that can ever turn a profit off.
• 53:54
  Speaker 4: We're almost to the end of our hour, but we
• 53:56
  Speaker 4: have not talked about Mark Hamill and what he did
• 53:59
  Speaker 4: last week about Donald Trump wishing that he were dead.
• 54:02
  Speaker 4: And I don't even know why we care. First of all,
• 54:06
  Speaker 4: this guy was not a real Jedi. It was a movie.
• 54:09
  Speaker 4: And that was 50 years ago. It was 1977, 78.
• 54:11
  Speaker 4: I remember going, I went to the theater three times
• 54:13
  Speaker 4: to watch. Star Wars, but that's how long ago it was.
• 54:20
  Speaker 4: He has no relevance. Should we even care about.
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: This, Matt? No, he's clearly just trying to hold on
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: to any semblance of relevance whatsoever, but no, he just
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: seems like a miserable guy. I just can't imagine if
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: I was someone worth tens of millions of dollars that
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: had billions of fans even obsessing over anything to the
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: extent that these people obsess over politics. I don't know.
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: They won in life. Go be happy. Yeah.
• 54:46
  Speaker 4: Well, Matt, we are to the end of our hour.
• 54:48
  Speaker 4: We're going to watch this week for the China visit
• 54:51
  Speaker 4: by the Trumps. They will go there. That happens on Thursday.
• 54:55
  Speaker 4: And I guess that's about all we really have on
• 54:57
  Speaker 4: our radar this week. But I know that there will
• 54:59
  Speaker 4: be plenty for us to talk about. Are you looking
• 55:01
  Speaker 4: for anything else this week? No more gerrymandering, I guess.
• 55:04
  Speaker 4: Maybe Louisiana and Mississippi and Alabama. But in reality, that
• 55:08
  Speaker 4: might be two seats between all of them. So I
• 55:11
  Speaker 4: don't think it's a big deal.
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, having better than nothing. It's always good to demoralize
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: the meal as much as we can. Nothing in particular,
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: just more, you know, it's the status of the Iran deal,
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: that kind of stuff.
• 55:23
  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, thank you for joining us, Matt, as always.
• 55:26
  Speaker 4: Always a pleasure to have you here on a Monday night.
• 55:28
  Speaker 4: I call it Mondays with Matt. His name is Matt Palumbo.
• 55:31
  Speaker 4: Eleven books he has written. Go find him at Amazon. Matt,
• 55:34
  Speaker 4: thank you.
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: My pleasure.
• 55:36
  Speaker 4: And don't forget, you were told 2,000 years ago that
• 55:38
  Speaker 4: you are the salt of the earth. And salt without flavor,
• 55:41
  Speaker 4: it has no value. So whatever you do, keep being salty.
• 55:45
  Speaker 4: Have a great night. There is only one truth. You've
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