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Can Republicans flip a few Senate seats? · The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to today's podcast sponsored by Hillsdale College. All things
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  Speaker 1: I'm Hugh Hewitt. Thank you for joining the program today.
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  Speaker 1: A special welcome to our C-SPAN audience that is joining
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  Speaker 1: us this week. Always great to have the C-SPAN audience
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  Speaker 1: tune in for a week of Hugh Hewitt shows. And
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  Speaker 1: we're giving you a special start to this hour. Michelle Tafoya,
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  Speaker 1: who I think is going to be the next senator
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  Speaker 1: from Minnesota, joins us. Michelle, welcome back. I want to
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  Speaker 1: give the audience, especially our C-SPAN audience, a little background.
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  Speaker 1: Minnesota's deep blue state, but you're in the margin of
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  Speaker 1: error with Peggy Flanagan, left winger from La La Land.
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  Speaker 1: And in fact, the latest KSTP survey USA poll had
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  Speaker 1: you tied with And the Real Clear Politics average has
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  Speaker 1: it as a 2.2 race, which is margin of error.
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  Speaker 1: How do you feel it's going?
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  Speaker 2: Well, we know we're going in the right direction while
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  Speaker 2: the state is going in the wrong direction. And people
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  Speaker 2: do call this a blue state. I think it's more
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  Speaker 2: purple than people realize. And I think a lot of
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  Speaker 2: conservatives are coming out. And I'll tell you, today we
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  Speaker 2: dropped an ad. of Democrats who are crossing the line
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  Speaker 2: to vote for us, to vote for me, for the
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  Speaker 2: United States Senate. They know Minnesota's been going the wrong direction,
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  Speaker 2: 100 miles per hour speed for the last eight years.
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  Speaker 2: And they told Tim Walz, don't run for governor again.
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  Speaker 2: And so he stepped out of his race. But his
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  Speaker 2: lieutenant governor, Peggy Flanagan, my opponent, thinks she deserves a promotion.
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  Speaker 2: I think Minnesotans disagree. And I think they're going to
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  Speaker 2: come out in 20 days and tell us that.
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  Speaker 1: So, Michelle, I want to cover a lot of things
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  Speaker 1: with you, but I want to begin with the Somali
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  Speaker 1: gang shooting in Eden Prairie. The shooter is already out
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  Speaker 1: on bail. And I've had mail from my friends in
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  Speaker 1: the Twin Cities who are astonished that that happened. I
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  Speaker 1: watched your clip on Somali gangs. First thing you do
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  Speaker 1: is name the problem, and you did. What can a
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  Speaker 1: senator do about that?
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  Speaker 3: Well, there are a lot of things.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, there are levers we can pull in the Senate,
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  Speaker 2: whether it's regarding FBI assistance, U.S.
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  Speaker 3: Marshals.
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  Speaker 2: And those are two things that I have talked about,
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  Speaker 2: as well as the Kids Online Safety Act. We can
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  Speaker 2: incorporate some of this gang violence into that act. And
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  Speaker 2: I will propose that the minute I get to the Senate. Look,
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  Speaker 2: we do have to name this problem. We have a
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  Speaker 2: Somali Ramsey County sheriff, undersheriff calling it a Somali problem.
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  Speaker 1: Problem.
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  Speaker 2: And he, like I said, he is of Somali descent.
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  Speaker 2: He said, look, we've got to name this. So that
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  Speaker 2: was number one. But there are things, of course, that
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  Speaker 2: a senator can do. And it starts with picking up
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  Speaker 2: the phone and saying to the governor and everyone in
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  Speaker 2: the state of Minnesota, let's get a handle on this.
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  Speaker 3: And I'll tell you.
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  Speaker 2: Something, my opponent hasn't done anything in eight years and
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  Speaker 2: she still hasn't commented on this violence.
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  Speaker 3: I think that's just absolutely disqualifying.
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  Speaker 1: You know, shooting in Eden Prairie, I used to go
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  Speaker 1: to Minnesota on a yearly basis for the Patriot, and
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  Speaker 1: I would walk around Somalitown in St. Paul's, and it
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  Speaker 1: was not like a threatening place at all. It was
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  Speaker 1: kind of interesting and colorful. What has happened? Is the
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  Speaker 1: second generation or the first generation caught up in drug activity?
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  Speaker 1: Is that a way to make money?
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  Speaker 3: It's hard to say exactly what's at the root of this.
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  Speaker 3: We just know it's there.
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  Speaker 2: And a lot of it gets promoted online, whether it's
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  Speaker 2: Instagram or TikTok. And that's one place that we can
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  Speaker 2: interfere with it, disrupt it, and also hold these platforms accountable. Look,
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  Speaker 2: if violence is happening and being promoted and bragged about
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  Speaker 2: on your platforms, look, you.
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  Speaker 3: Profit off our kids' attention.
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  Speaker 2: You better step in when it's resulting in gang violence.
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  Speaker 2: As for this shooter that was let out in Eden
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  Speaker 2: Prairie after two days in.
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  Speaker 3: Jail on $ 10, 000 bond.
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  Speaker 2: This is the kind of soft on crime policies that
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  Speaker 2: we're seeing, like the Hennepin County D.A., Mary Moriarty. She's
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  Speaker 2: just extremely soft on crime. This is not what voters
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  Speaker 2: in Minnesota are looking for. They want to feel safe
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  Speaker 2: at a homecoming game. They want to go to Mall
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  Speaker 2: of America knowing they're not going to be targeted. I
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  Speaker 2: don't think that's too much to ask. Hugh, I think
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  Speaker 2: it's the bare minimum and we've got ways to help.
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  Speaker 1: So, Michelle Tafoya, let's also talk about the Minnesota fraud problem.
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  Speaker 1: Minnesota kind of invented massive fraud. I thought California did
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  Speaker 1: with its unemployment in the prison. But the Learing Center
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  Speaker 1: changed my mind. Has Peggy Flanagan ever said, I'm sorry?
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  Speaker 1: Tim Walz did. He said, yeah, I'm sorry. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: going to run again. What about Peggy Flanagan? Does she
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  Speaker 1: own any of the problem?
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely not.
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  Speaker 2: She just points to her boss, Tim Walz, and says,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the governor said this was under his purview,
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  Speaker 2: so I'm going to let him take care of it.
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  Speaker 2: The reason she can't get away with that, Hugh, is because, A,
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  Speaker 2: she's second in command. B, she's been completely attached at
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  Speaker 2: the hip to Tim Walz since the minute they got
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  Speaker 2: sworn into office together. She has said this is the
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  Speaker 2: Walz-Flanagan administration, and they have lived it that way. So
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  Speaker 2: she can't simply bypass this and say, nothing to see here, folks.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't know anything. She's either culpable or she's absolutely clueless.
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  Speaker 2: And either way, again, disqualifying $ 9 billion in fraud and
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  Speaker 2: you didn't know anything? And all you're going to say is, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's really disappointing. It is disappointing, and it's even more
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  Speaker 2: disappointing that you did nothing about it, Ms.
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  Speaker 1: Flanagan. If your lieutenant governorship works like mine in Virginia
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  Speaker 1: or when I used to live in California, when the
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  Speaker 1: governor is out of the state, the lieutenant governor is
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  Speaker 1: in charge. Tim Walz was not in Minnesota when he
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  Speaker 1: was the vice presidential nominee in 2024. She was running
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  Speaker 1: the state. Did she do anything about fraud in those months?
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  Speaker 3: Hugh, nothing has been done.
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  Speaker 2: No one in the Minnesota state government has been fired,
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  Speaker 2: not a single commissioner, no one. The only people who
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  Speaker 2: paid a price for raising red flags were the whistleblowers
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  Speaker 2: who were just taunted and abused or moved out of
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  Speaker 2: their jobs or told to shut up. That's what they
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  Speaker 2: got for trying to bring attention to this problem. Nobody
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  Speaker 2: else in government has paid a price, including Peggy Flanagan.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, let's talk about voter enthusiasm, Michelle Tafoya. The key,
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  Speaker 1: of course, in the midterm is a lot of traditional
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  Speaker 1: Republican voters just say, ah, I'm not going to go out.
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  Speaker 1: What are you doing to get people lit and come
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  Speaker 1: into the polls?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, my gosh.
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  Speaker 2: We have been on the road every single day talking
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  Speaker 2: to people. Yesterday, we were in White Bear Lake. Today,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to Egan and going on to Hastings, Minnesota.
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  Speaker 2: And we are just talking to people. And it does
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  Speaker 2: feel different. Now, granted, I'm an outsider. This is the
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  Speaker 2: first time I'm running. But the enthusiasm we feel at
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  Speaker 2: these events is is unbelievable. I walked into the grocery
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  Speaker 2: store this morning and I had a table of six
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  Speaker 2: people that were eating at the little grocery store restaurant
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  Speaker 2: call me over to say that they were supporting me.
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  Speaker 3: That happens all the time. And I just, I don't.
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  Speaker 2: Recall feeling like this before or seeing this for a
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  Speaker 2: candidate in the past. So I'm hoping and really optimistic
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  Speaker 2: that voters in by what they've been seeing over the
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  Speaker 2: last eight years. And frankly, they're fed up that no
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  Speaker 2: one's been held accountable. And so here's Peggy Flanagan saying,
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  Speaker 2: promote me. I deserve a promotion to the U.S.
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  Speaker 4: Senate.
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  Speaker 3: And we're saying, give her a pink slip. That's all
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  Speaker 3: she's earned.
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  Speaker 1: All right. We've got three minutes left. I want to
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  Speaker 1: ask you two things. One, you're a broadcast professional over decades.
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  Speaker 1: You know how long those hours are and how exhausting.
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  Speaker 1: How's that compare with campaigning because broadcasting the NFL or
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  Speaker 1: anything takes a lot of energy. And then, two, Peggy
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  Speaker 1: Flanagan's just weird. Have you exploited that, or is she
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  Speaker 1: destroying herself by herself with those ads? I mean, that
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  Speaker 1: was the weirdest ad I've seen this cycle.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we're going to let her do her thing. As
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  Speaker 2: far as the broadcasting, let me tell you something. Working
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  Speaker 2: on Sunday Night Football and Monday Night Football, was the
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  Speaker 2: most exhausting work I've ever done. I don't think people
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  Speaker 2: really understand what it requires to be prepared for a broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: And that was self-imposed pressure by our entire team, from
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  Speaker 2: our producer, Fred Godelli, to our director, Drew Esikoff, to
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  Speaker 2: Al Michaels and Chris Collinsworth and John Madden when I
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  Speaker 2: worked with him. We just put a lot of pressure
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  Speaker 2: on ourselves to be overly prepared. And not so that
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  Speaker 2: it hurt our broadcast, but so that we were ready
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  Speaker 2: for everything that could come up.
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  Speaker 3: And that's how hard we worked.
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  Speaker 2: I saw my friends from Sunday Night Football recently, and
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  Speaker 2: I told them, you guys, on this campaign, I'm working
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  Speaker 2: harder than I've ever worked in my life.
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  Speaker 3: And one of them said, I don't believe you. And
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  Speaker 3: I said, believe me.
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  Speaker 2: So this is, but this is a labor of, this
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  Speaker 2: is even more passion and love.
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  Speaker 3: This is a commitment.
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  Speaker 2: This is a, this is, This is a mission that
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  Speaker 2: I'm on, Hugh, and I know you sense that, and
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  Speaker 2: I appreciate all your support.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I noticed great candidates. I was teaching a class
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  Speaker 1: with my Democratic friend earlier today by Zoom, and I said,
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  Speaker 1: you are the equal of any candidate that I've seen
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  Speaker 1: in my 30 years of broadcasting because you bring sparkle
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  Speaker 1: and energy. I'm just wondering if your staff can keep
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  Speaker 1: up with you. Let's close on that. Who is helping you?
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  Speaker 1: Are they old pros or are they all newbies?
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  Speaker 3: No, they're all pros.
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  Speaker 2: Look, one thing a leader should know is that you
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  Speaker 2: surround yourself with really good people who know what the
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  Speaker 2: heck they're doing. And that was the first step I
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  Speaker 2: took when I got into this race. I said, I've
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  Speaker 2: got to have great people around me who know what
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  Speaker 2: they're doing. So I'm incredibly blessed to you. I have
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  Speaker 2: a phenomenal team and we all push each other very
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  Speaker 2: hard every single day.
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  Speaker 3: So 20 more days.
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  Speaker 2: If people want to help, go to MichelleTafoya.com. We would
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  Speaker 2: love to have you on Team Tafoya.
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  Speaker 1: And there's one L in Michelle. I've misspelled it.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Too many people do. I misspelled it many times. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: my gosh.
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  Speaker 3: Tafoya is hard enough. T-A-F-O-Y-A. But yeah, so, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I'll take two L's. That's OK. You'll get there eventually
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  Speaker 3: if you if you Google it.
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  Speaker 1: MichelleTafoya.com. Go and help her out. Attend the rallies or
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  Speaker 1: the events. If you're in Minnesota, go out and see
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  Speaker 1: her and hear her talk. It's a state in deep
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  Speaker 1: trouble on many levels, and it cannot elect. A far
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  Speaker 1: left DSA adjacent and DSA endorsed Peggy Flanagan. Gosh, she's odd.
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  Speaker 1: And I know Michelle Tafoya doesn't want to say that.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, future Senator Tafoya. We will have you back
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  Speaker 1: as we come in to the closing sprint in 20
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  Speaker 1: days out of our 21 days left. Go nowhere. Stay
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  Speaker 1: right where you are. I'll be right back here on
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  Speaker 1: the Hugh Hewitt Show, especially you folks on C-SPAN. Don't
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  Speaker 1: turn the dial. Welcome back, America, and especially to our
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  Speaker 1: C-SPAN audience today. I'm Hugh Hewitt, and I'm pleased to
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  Speaker 1: welcome Emily Dominich, the smart Dominich, to the program. Emily
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  Speaker 1: is a veteran of the Hill. She worked for Speakers
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  Speaker 1: Johnson and McCarthy, both great guys, and now she's gone
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  Speaker 1: off to try and right the ship that is federal
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  Speaker 1: permitting over at the Permitting Council. Emily, welcome. First, I've
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  Speaker 1: got to begin with a little family business. Ben is
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  Speaker 1: a weekly guest here, your brother. He was really a
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  Speaker 1: nerd growing up. How did you put up with him?
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  Speaker 5: You know, I did my best to try to make
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  Speaker 5: him as cool as possible, but it was a really
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  Speaker 5: tall order. I played all the sports in the family
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  Speaker 5: and Ben did all the reading, but it seems to
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  Speaker 5: have balanced out as we've gotten older. So, you know,
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  Speaker 5: it's always good to follow in his footsteps, especially on
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  Speaker 5: this program.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I'm very glad to have you. And I am
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  Speaker 1: a permitting lawyer from long ago. I've retired now. So
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  Speaker 1: I can't tell you how good it is to know.
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  Speaker 1: I retired in 2016. This legislation was passed a year
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  Speaker 1: before I retired from the practice of law. What does
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  Speaker 1: the council do? Explain it to people, and then let's
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  Speaker 1: get down to some brass tacks because, boy, everything in
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  Speaker 1: America depends on permits.
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  Speaker 3: You're exactly right.
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  Speaker 5: So the Permitting Council, as you mentioned, was established by
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  Speaker 5: Congress in 2015, really to serve as a project manager
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  Speaker 5: for the large projects that are navigating federal permitting. We
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  Speaker 5: had a recognition that the process was often too take,
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  Speaker 5: it was too complicated, and it was unclear what was
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  Speaker 5: expected of our project developers and of federal agencies, frankly.
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  Speaker 5: So we serve as that coordinating function. We bring together
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  Speaker 5: all of the federal agencies, we bring them together with
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  Speaker 5: the project sponsor, and we build trust. transparent and predictable
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  Speaker 5: timetables for projects navigating federal permitting. And then frankly, we
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  Speaker 5: get to be the cops that keep everybody in line
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  Speaker 5: with that timetable and make sure projects get done when
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  Speaker 5: we say they'll get done. I tend to believe that
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  Speaker 5: the federal government should be able to tell you what's
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  Speaker 5: expected of you. And then we should be able to
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  Speaker 5: make it really clear so that you can comply with
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  Speaker 5: the law and meet those requirements that give us the
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  Speaker 5: most robust and best environmental stewardship record in the world.
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  Speaker 5: So we really are here to make things more transparent
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  Speaker 5: and predictable and easier for people to build things in America.
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  Speaker 1: Get things done. Now, I will play later in the program,
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  Speaker 1: President Trump in Alaska with Dan Sullivan telling Dan, your
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  Speaker 1: 850 mile long pipeline is permanent. I just told Dan backstage,
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  Speaker 1: you got every permit. I frankly can't believe that. And
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  Speaker 1: there will be lawsuits. But tell me, how did that happen?
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  Speaker 5: So the Permanent Council has been involved with the Alaska
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  Speaker 5: LNG Pipeline, which is the Since really the first Trump administration,
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  Speaker 5: we helped prepare a timetable for the project. We helped
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  Speaker 5: it navigate federal permitting the first go around. We helped
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  Speaker 5: that project navigate lawsuits that came during the Biden administration.
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  Speaker 5: The project came back to the Permitting Council. We built
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  Speaker 5: it a new timetable. and finished all the permits ahead
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  Speaker 5: of schedule for the project in December of 2025. So
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  Speaker 5: we are really excited to see this project get built
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  Speaker 5: and to make sure that there aren't federal impediments.
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  Speaker 3: To it moving forward.
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  Speaker 5: Obviously, we need to be able to provide the right
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  Speaker 5: financing to get the project built in the long term.
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  Speaker 5: But for too long, particularly in Alaska, the federal government's
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  Speaker 5: been the impediment to things being built. And we really
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  Speaker 5: want to flip that script in the Trump administration and
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  Speaker 5: be partners, not just for our Republican senators, but also
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  Speaker 5: for everyone in Alaska who's trying to build infrastructure to
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  Speaker 5: make the state one of the best states in the country.
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  Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure Senator Sullivan will be calling you frequently
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  Speaker 1: if there are any delays. Let's turn to national security, Emily.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, he calls us all the time.
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  Speaker 6: I'm sure.
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  Speaker 1: He is not a passive guy. He's going to, where's
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  Speaker 1: my permit? Let's talk about submarines. There are a couple
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  Speaker 1: of submarine cities in the United States, Groton, Connecticut, Portsmouth,
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  Speaker 1: New Hampshire, and Maine. But Cleveland wants to be sub-city.
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  Speaker 1: That's where the submarine facility the president announced in Ohio
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  Speaker 1: a couple days ago is going to be. And Baltimore
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  Speaker 1: is going to be where Anduril does submarine maintenance. Those
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  Speaker 1: will not magically appear. You're going to have to get
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  Speaker 1: like permits for endangered fish, endangered species, clean air. Are
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  Speaker 1: you the one to navigate on behalf of Anderle and
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  Speaker 1: whoever's going to run the submarine city in Cleveland project?
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  Speaker 5: So we certainly are hoping to help with those particular projects.
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  Speaker 5: But I love that you brought up the Baltimore project
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  Speaker 5: because it's one where the Permitting Council has already played
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  Speaker 5: a pretty significant role. So the Sparrows Point container terminal
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  Speaker 5: is one that was on our permitting dashboard. We built
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  Speaker 5: a timetable for that project and we did essentially all
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  Speaker 5: the baseline permitting for that site.
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  Speaker 3: In advance.
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  Speaker 5: It was designed to make it easier for large developers
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  Speaker 5: like Anduril and the Navy to come in and make
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  Speaker 5: their permitting load much lower in the long term. So
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  Speaker 5: not only are we helping to revitalize the Port of
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  Speaker 5: Baltimore with this Sparrows Point project, but we made it
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  Speaker 5: easier for these big investments to happen. So yes, there
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  Speaker 5: will be additional permitting for the Navy and the shipbuilding
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  Speaker 5: centers across the country, but we're really trying to produce
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  Speaker 5: a a model where the federal government can sort of
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  Speaker 5: do that baseline work and make it easier for a
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  Speaker 5: developer to choose to build in the United States. So
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  Speaker 5: we're really excited to see Sparrow's Point, this concept we
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  Speaker 5: developed here at the Permitting Council, really come to fruition
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  Speaker 5: with this investment from Anduril, and we're looking forward to
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  Speaker 5: helping them navigate the additional permits that are necessary for shipbuilding.
• 16:00
  Speaker 5: So a port isn't quite the same as building a ship.
• 16:03
  Speaker 5: There's different impacts from different environmental laws, and we really
• 16:06
  Speaker 5: are here to help make sure we're responsibly implementing all
• 16:09
  Speaker 5: of them across the board.
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: So, Emily, big, big question. When I would run into
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: a nightmare with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: the Army Corps of Engineers, the answer was always go
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: to the Department of the Interior or go to the
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: Department of War and talk to different bureaucrats. What's your
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: role in making people just return phone calls and process permit?
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: Sometimes permit applications would sit on desks for a year
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: and no one would look at them.
• 16:37
  Speaker 5: Honestly, a year is not that long in the scheme
• 16:40
  Speaker 5: of the federal bureaucracy. So we really are designed to
• 16:43
  Speaker 5: keep that from happening for projects that are a priority
• 16:46
  Speaker 5: for the president and for the White House and, frankly,
• 16:48
  Speaker 5: for the country. So every project that's on our dashboard
• 16:51
  Speaker 5: has someone from my team who has decades of experience
• 16:53
  Speaker 5: in federal permitting. assigned to make sure that that project
• 16:56
  Speaker 5: makes it through the process. And we're there to make
• 16:58
  Speaker 5: sure every single bureaucrat knows every single milestone that has
• 17:02
  Speaker 5: to be accomplished to get.
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: That project done.
• 17:04
  Speaker 5: So we keep people accountable at the field level to
• 17:07
  Speaker 5: do their work and to kind of avoid the standard procedure,
• 17:10
  Speaker 5: like I just didn't get to that document or it's
• 17:13
  Speaker 5: on the bottom of the pile on my desk. We
• 17:15
  Speaker 5: make sure it's at the top of the pile and
• 17:16
  Speaker 5: we make sure it moves through the system. If for
• 17:18
  Speaker 5: some reason it gets stuck, we have a formal council
• 17:20
  Speaker 5: made up of the deputy secretaries of every federal agency
• 17:22
  Speaker 5: that does printing, that are my counterparts, who I can
• 17:25
  Speaker 5: call to say, hey, your guy in field office XYZ
• 17:28
  Speaker 5: is moving slower than he should. So there's a really
• 17:30
  Speaker 5: good system here to keep everyone accountable from top to
• 17:32
  Speaker 5: bottom inside the federal government. And again, make sure we're
• 17:35
  Speaker 5: a partner for developers, not the impediment to getting through
• 17:38
  Speaker 5: the system.
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: So a hard question. Who has done the most to
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: improve their pyramid? I think the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: Service is the worst by far. I mean, the absolute
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: positive worst when it came to endangered species. But in
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: your opinion, Who's improved the most in their ability to
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: get a permit done?
• 17:56
  Speaker 5: So I you know, it's hard to pick because I
• 17:59
  Speaker 5: think all of our federal agencies have really improved their
• 18:01
  Speaker 5: processing under President Trump.
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: I'd say the U.S.
• 18:04
  Speaker 5: Army Corps has done really great work in being sticking
• 18:06
  Speaker 5: to their process, using their the tools that they have
• 18:09
  Speaker 5: in the toolbox, like nationwide permits. But that kind of
• 18:11
  Speaker 5: is President Trump's perspective from top to bottom.
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 18:14
  Speaker 5: It's how do we use things like the Permitting Council,
• 18:16
  Speaker 5: like nationwide permits? Like regulatory reform, like new rulemakings to
• 18:20
  Speaker 5: make sure the process really is, we are following the law,
• 18:23
  Speaker 5: no more, no less. We don't need to add a
• 18:25
  Speaker 5: bunch of bells and whistles to the permitting process to
• 18:27
  Speaker 5: be good stewards of our resources. And we want to
• 18:29
  Speaker 5: ensure that we're following everything Congress has told us to do.
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: You mentioned U.S.
• 18:33
  Speaker 5: Fish and Wildlife Service as maybe a bad actor. They
• 18:36
  Speaker 5: have a history of.
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: I wouldn't disagree with you, but we.
• 18:39
  Speaker 5: At the Permanent Council are actually helping them by helping
• 18:42
  Speaker 5: to modernize their systems so their data sets on endangered
• 18:45
  Speaker 5: species are more accessible to developers. So by building technology
• 18:49
  Speaker 5: tools that are searchable, that are publicly available, and then
• 18:52
  Speaker 5: incorporate all the species data we have, Fish and Wildlife
• 18:55
  Speaker 5: Service and NOAA and the National Fisheries Service into one place,
• 19:00
  Speaker 5: With a single investment from the permanent, we're making that
• 19:02
  Speaker 5: process work faster and better and, frankly, be more responsive
• 19:07
  Speaker 5: to the laws that Congress passed.
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: So we're looking for all the ways we can to.
• 19:11
  Speaker 5: Help these agencies that have historically bad track records faster.
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: Emily Dominich, I wish you had been there when I
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: was practicing, but I'm glad you were there for people
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: who are trying to build things in America again. Emily Dominich,
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: Executive Director of the Permanent Council. Don't be a stranger.
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much for joining me today. I appreciate
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: it very much. Don't go anywhere, America. I'll be right back.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: Welcome back, America. I'm Hugh Hewitt, joined now by Seth Mandel,
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: senior editor at Commentary Magazine, participant in the Commentary Daily podcast.
• 19:39
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• 19:45
  Speaker 1: called the Commentary Podcast. Seth, how are you?
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: I'm good.
• 19:50
  Speaker 6: Hugh.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: How are you?
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: I'm good. I noticed that your wonderful wife, Bethany, is
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: reading Unbroken about Louis Zamperini, and so I sent her
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: an interview with Louis last night. Have you read Unbroken yet?
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: I have not, no.
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: Has she been telling you about it? Has she read it?
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: She has.
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: I had the same expectation.
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: It's definitely a good recommendation. I just wonder if I
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: know too much about it at this point. But supposedly
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: both the book and there was a movie a few
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: years ago that told the same story. We're supposed to
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: both be very good. So I've heard very good things.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: It will stun you, the capacity of the human to survive.
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: It's not unlike the hostages in Gaza.
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: Louis Zamperini is like they are, like their testimonies are.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: They're an inspiration to people in difficult times. Seth, who
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: do you think is going to be the next prime
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: minister of Israel, or at least the interim prime minister
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: of Israel?
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: The interim prime minister of Israel is going to be
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: Bibi Netanyahu, I think, because I don't think that anybody's
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: on a path to get to 61 votes to have
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: their own governing majority of the Knesset of the parliament.
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: And so I think that in the interim, That leaves–
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: I mean not I think. In the interim, that would
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: leave Benjamin Netanyahu in power to sort of oversee things
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: as a caretaker prime minister of sorts, which he's done before.
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: And a few years.
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: Ago when they went through– maybe more than a few
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: years ago now when they went through– almost a decade
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: ago when they went through a series of elections that
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: were inconclusive I think is probably the best way to
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: describe them. You can't form a coalition. This is what happened,
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: and they had a few different elections. And in the meantime,
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: Netanyahu would run the country as the head of government,
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: and whoever he needed for defense would also be involved.
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: So at one point, you actually had Bibi Netanyahu and
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: Benny Gantz running against each other for prime minister as
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: leaders of opposing parties and trying to form a coalition
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: against each other. But the two of them were essentially coerced.
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: practically running the country on their own because Gantz was
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: running the defense ministry and he was needed in times
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: of war. So I think that's what you'll see interim.
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: Long term, harder to predict.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: Seth Mandel, can you explain to people what the issues
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: are that are driving these? Look, they're our most important
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: strategic ally, the most powerful military in the world that
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: works hand in glove with us, wing to wing in
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: our recent battles with Iran. And I'll play you something
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: in a moment from Donald Trump. They might be resuming soon.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: But what is this campaign being fought over? What's dividing
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: the Israeli electorate? Anything new?
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: Not really anything new, but sometimes the world forgets that
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: Israeli politics has a domestic angle at all. So people
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: fail to think about the fights over, for example, drafts
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: draft evasion or draft protections for the ultra-Orthodox Yeshiva students.
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: That's something that is, again, taking center stage in this election.
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: I don't know that it's on its way to being resolved,
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: but it is something that comes up time and again.
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: And certainly this election, it's playing a role because the
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: opposition is bringing it up routinely about drafting the Haredim,
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: as they're called, the ultra-Orthodox. So some things are domestic.
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: Another thing that's domestic is Prices, economic issues. Years ago,
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: Israel had what they called the cottage cheese protests, which
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: were basically a way of saying that normal people were
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: tired of paying inflated prices for certain foods that they
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: had to bring in from the outside. And these are
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: kitchen table issues. So the kitchen table issues exist. But
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: Israel's economy is fairly strong. It has held together throughout
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: the war and after. It has held its investments. The
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: shekel has done very well in terms of holding its
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: value and the central bank in managing that. And so
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: I don't think the economic concerns outshine anything else. And
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: on the defense front, it's October 7th. This is the
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: first time that Bibi Netanyahu is going to the polls
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: since October 7th. And that is– George Bush went to
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: the polls.
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: George W.
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: Bush went to the polls yesterday. After the Iraq war
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: had started right for his reelection campaign, he and that
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: was he was able to make that a referendum. On
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: the war itself, he was able to say, whatever you
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: think so far, you can't put this guy, John Kerry,
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: in charge, right, et cetera. So something similar is happening
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: in Israel. Yes, Bibi was in office when October 7th happened,
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: and his argument is that he's the guy to finish
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: the job, that whatever happened when it happened, which is
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: an issue that is on everybody's minds also, but Bibi's
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: argument is forward, looking ahead, you can't take the chance
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: of putting these guys in charge of finishing that. And
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: it's kind of a don't change horses midstream sort of thing,
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: even though, again, the war began on his watch. So
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: I think you have to look at it similarly to
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: George W. Bush's re-election. And I think you will see
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: a similar outcome because Bibi has a good chance at
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: winning outright, just not getting enough seats to form a coalition.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: All right. So, Seth, let me play you what President
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: Trump said in Alaska, where he went to campaign for
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: Dan Sullivan. Kind of a throwaway comment, but maybe not.
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: Cut number five for Seth Mendes. Disrespected us. They laughed
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: at us. They don't laugh anymore. Now they said, sir,
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: you're the hottest country anywhere in the world. We're the
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: hottest country in the world. Oh, wait till you see
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: what we do to Iran. We're going to do a number.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: Wait till you see. They're just waiting. They're waiting.
• 25:59
  Speaker 7: Wait till you see what we do to Iran because
• 26:02
  Speaker 7: we sort of had it.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: You know, we've had it. But, you know, it doesn't matter.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: Seth Mandel, what's that say to you? We're going to
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: do a number on Iran. We've had it.
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: Well, look, the president knows whatever Israel is planning to
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: do before it does it, not necessarily at the beginning
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: of the planning, but Israel is not going to do
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: something to Iran without President Trump knowing. So it's funny
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: to watch the sort of, well, they say and we
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: say and this, you know, it's he's the guy who
• 26:36
  Speaker 4: says ultimately and makes the calls. Look, I thought recently
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: as two weeks ago, I thought we were for sure
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: heading for an escalation. And I was wrong. I guess
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: I misread the situation. A lot of people felt the
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: same way that there was The way Trump was talking
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: was the way he has talked in the past before
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: ramping up operations against Iran. And it just so happens
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: that Iran has been increasing its firing on ships through
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: the Strait of Hormuz and trying to wrest back some
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: control of traffic through the Strait of Hormuz. So the
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: timing seemed to work.
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: It didn't.
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: At some point, I think you get too close to
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: the Israeli election. which is, by the way, very close
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: to the U.S. midterm elections. So whether it happens before
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: or after, I don't know. But you're starting to run
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: out of time to do it before. And, you know,
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: I think that the president just has to decide that
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: he wants victory, full victory, and Iran on its knees.
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: And that's the end of it. And then once he
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: decides that, Israel will happily help him in that regard,
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: I think.
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: Seth Mandel, I think you're right. We're going to do
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: a number on Iran. I think that's a telegram. We
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: will see if anyone reads it in Tehran. Seth Mandel,
• 27:57
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  Speaker 1: Or visit usmedicalplan.com. Welcome back, America. I'm Hugh Hewitt, and
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: a special welcome to our C-SPAN audience today. I want
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: to introduce you to an old friend of the program, Dr.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: Michael Youssef. Dr. Youssef is the founder of the Leading
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  Speaker 1: the Way Ministry. It's a media ministry across a number
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: of different platforms. Founding pastor of Church of the Apostle
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: in Atlanta, author, prolific author, and his brand new book,
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: An Unholy Alliance. An Unholy Alliance could not be more
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: timely given the debate about Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan. Doctor,
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  Speaker 1: good to have you back. Yousef, good to have you back.
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  Speaker 1: Tell me a little bit, how do you feel about
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: Egyptian descent, Abdul El-Sayed saying, I'm a dual citizen, then
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: saying I'm not a dual citizen, saying I'm not in
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: the Muslim motherhood, but his sister says the family is.
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: How have you been following that? It's just right out
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: of the pages of an unholy alliance. Exactly.
• 31:25
  Speaker 7: And I've been following him and and several others. There
• 31:29
  Speaker 7: are 200 candidates right now for different offices across America
• 31:34
  Speaker 7: who are not just Muslims, but Islamists. And I always
• 31:38
  Speaker 7: make that distinction because I have some dear friends, like
• 31:42
  Speaker 7: even President Sisi of Egypt is a friend, and I've
• 31:45
  Speaker 7: been with him several times. And he is as much
• 31:49
  Speaker 7: against political Islam.
• 31:50
  Speaker 6: As I am.
• 31:51
  Speaker 7: And so he has deep roots in the Muslim Brotherhood,
• 31:55
  Speaker 7: which is outlawed in Egypt, in Jordan, in Saudi Arabia,
• 32:00
  Speaker 7: and in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain. They're all
• 32:03
  Speaker 7: outlawed from there. It's like one world leader looked at
• 32:07
  Speaker 7: me and said, how come they're outlawed in many Middle
• 32:10
  Speaker 7: East countries? Then you go to England and they come
• 32:12
  Speaker 7: to the United States and you all give them a
• 32:14
  Speaker 7: welcome mat and the satellite channels from which they can
• 32:17
  Speaker 7: attack us. I said, please, I'm sorry, I cannot, I
• 32:21
  Speaker 7: don't have an answer. Is it suicidal or ignorance or both?
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: So I went too fast, but let me slow down
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: a bit, Dr. Youssef. You did say, you wrote on
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: page 145 and on Holy Alliance, Islamists represent only a
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: small fraction of the global Muslim population. I think you
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: thought maybe the radicals were at about 140 million, using
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: some stats from the Hoover Institution. But before we zoom
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: in on the Brotherhood, which I want to do, let's
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: talk a little bit about the Omnicase, the Red-Green Alliance.
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: That's why you wrote this book. It's important. What is it? Yeah, absolutely.
• 32:57
  Speaker 7: The Omnicars is these leftists, greenies, who basically would jump
• 33:03
  Speaker 7: on any cause that is anti-Western civilization. And it doesn't
• 33:08
  Speaker 7: matter whether they believe in it or not. If it's
• 33:10
  Speaker 7: against the West, they will go for it. The environmentalists and,
• 33:15
  Speaker 7: you know, they worship the environment. They are anti-Western civilization.
• 33:21
  Speaker 7: That's really the bottom line. And so all the people
• 33:24
  Speaker 7: on the left and all the anarchists and they're all
• 33:27
  Speaker 7: jumping together with the Muslim Brotherhood and the Islamists in order.
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: And they're doing it in England.
• 33:32
  Speaker 7: They're doing it in France.
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: Look what's happening in France. They're burning it.
• 33:35
  Speaker 7: And certainly coming in the United States, not just in Dearborn,
• 33:39
  Speaker 7: Michigan and Paterson, New Jersey. but Texas now, believe it
• 33:44
  Speaker 7: or not. So, yeah, I mean, that's the only cause.
• 33:47
  Speaker 7: They would jump on any cause that, as long as
• 33:50
  Speaker 7: it's against capitalism, as long as it's against Western civilization, which,
• 33:56
  Speaker 7: as we know, the Western civilization based on, and not
• 34:00
  Speaker 7: even the Greek, but really it was the fruit of
• 34:03
  Speaker 7: the Reformation period. the respect for the individual. All these
• 34:11
  Speaker 7: are biblical roots that created Western civilization. With other problems
• 34:17
  Speaker 7: and other people have abused it, but nonetheless, that's what
• 34:22
  Speaker 7: they want to destroy.
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: They're revolutionary.
• 34:26
  Speaker 7: The Islamists want a Sharia, and they want a caliphate,
• 34:30
  Speaker 7: and the leftists want a Marxist environment.
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: Now, I have... I spent a lot of time over
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: the years on this program interviewing people like Bernard Lewis,
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: The Crisis of Islam, Lawrence Wright, The Moving Tower, and you.
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: And everybody has always said the same thing. The Muslim
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: Brotherhood is bad news. It's terrible news. You write about it,
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: pages 36 to 37, pages 46 to 47. Would you
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: explain to people why what Donna started in Qutub refined
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: and what has spread all over the Islamist movements, why
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: is the Brotherhood so dangerous?
• 35:06
  Speaker 7: It is very dangerous because it really represents, and it's
• 35:11
  Speaker 7: some other ship, if you like, from which came Takfir wal-Hijrah,
• 35:14
  Speaker 7: it came Jihad, and it came ISIS, and all the
• 35:19
  Speaker 7: others came out of the Muslim Brotherhood. But that's Sawoom,
• 35:22
  Speaker 7: and it was founded in 1920 in Egypt by really
• 35:30
  Speaker 7: an elementary school teacher, librarian named Hassan al-Banna. And now
• 35:36
  Speaker 7: his grandson is going around the world basically espousing his
• 35:42
  Speaker 7: grandfather's teaching. And so they wanted, initially they said they're
• 35:47
  Speaker 7: against the British occupation of Egypt.
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: Fine.
• 35:50
  Speaker 7: But then they said, no, no, no. We see the
• 35:53
  Speaker 7: Turkish Ottoman caliphate disappeared. We want to bring it back
• 35:59
  Speaker 7: and we want to bring it back through the Arabic
• 36:02
  Speaker 7: speaking world, not Turkey. And so that's really the goal
• 36:07
  Speaker 7: of it. Introduce Sharia, dominate the world, bring a caliphate,
• 36:11
  Speaker 7: or caliphate really means successor of their prophet, who will
• 36:16
  Speaker 7: rule as the head of the military, the head of
• 36:19
  Speaker 7: the politics, the head of religion, the head of everything.
• 36:22
  Speaker 7: One person representing Allah on the earth to dominate the world.
• 36:28
  Speaker 7: And so they talk about three jihads. They said our
• 36:32
  Speaker 7: first jihad was in the middle of 600s, and we
• 36:35
  Speaker 7: took over Christian lands like Egypt and North Africa and
• 36:38
  Speaker 7: so forth by the sword. They said the second jihad
• 36:42
  Speaker 7: was the middle of 1400s when we came all the
• 36:44
  Speaker 7: way to Vienna, and we did this by the sword.
• 36:50
  Speaker 7: Their thinker, a man named Yusuf Qaddafi, just died four
• 36:53
  Speaker 7: years ago, In Qatar.
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: He's Egyptian.
• 36:56
  Speaker 7: And he said the third jihad in which we're really
• 36:59
  Speaker 7: going to take over Europe and Western civilization is going
• 37:03
  Speaker 7: to happen not with the sword, but it's going to
• 37:05
  Speaker 7: happen with birth rate, immigration, and petrodollar investments. And when
• 37:12
  Speaker 7: you think that Qatar owns Harrods, Barclays Bank, and a
• 37:17
  Speaker 7: lot of institutions in England, you can understand why the
• 37:20
  Speaker 7: British are so cartel-ing to them.
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: So I want people to get an unholy alliance so
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: that they're well read on this. But I want to
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: ask you one closing question, Dr. Youssef. Leland Vitter is
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: a friend of mine and an anchor at News Nation.
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: He wrote today, the Muslim Brotherhood and the KKK aren't
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: that far apart. He added, it's remarkable that no Democrat
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: will have a reasonable conversation or defend Abdul El-Sayed. Does
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: Abdul El-Sayed worry you? Egyptian, you're an Egyptian immigrant. He's not.
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: He's born in the United States. Does he worry you?
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: Do you think he's in the brotherhood?
• 37:53
  Speaker 3: Completely.
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: Completely.
• 37:56
  Speaker 7: Especially when you know that lying, called taqiyya, is part,
• 38:02
  Speaker 7: it's a virtue. It's not unethical. It is a virtue
• 38:06
  Speaker 7: to lie to the infidels. So he's now trying to
• 38:09
  Speaker 7: present himself in all kinds of images, throwing the football
• 38:16
  Speaker 7: with women and show that he's progressive, he's not really
• 38:19
  Speaker 7: an Islamist. But deceiving your enemy is part of the virtuous.
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: Call.
• 38:27
  Speaker 7: And so I don't trust him one bit. I don't
• 38:29
  Speaker 7: trust anything he says. I don't trust anything comes out
• 38:32
  Speaker 7: of his mouth. Both his parents and his in-laws both
• 38:37
  Speaker 7: have deep roots in the Muslim Brotherhood. And so this
• 38:41
  Speaker 7: is really worrisome to me as far as I'm concerned
• 38:45
  Speaker 7: for Michiganians.
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: I hope they'll wake up in time. Well, they're listening
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: right now, and the book is An Unholy Alliance, available
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: at Amazon, bookstores everywhere. Dr. Michael Youssef from Leading the
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: Way Ministries. You couldn't have had a more timely book.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for joining me, Dr. Youssef. I'll be right back, America.
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: Stay tuned. Welcome back, America. I think that is the
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: perfect pump music for Comfortably Smug, one of the Ruthless
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: Podcast fellas. Smug, I could not believe my ears today
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: when I listened to the Wednesday edition of the Ruthless
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: Podcast and discovered that the Fox News channel is going
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: to allow you villains to go live on Sunday at noon.
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: What is that?
• 39:25
  Speaker 6: That's right. So we are very excited about this. It's
• 39:29
  Speaker 6: the perfect timing. Like I said on the show is, folks,
• 39:31
  Speaker 6: you can come back from church on Sunday. You can
• 39:34
  Speaker 6: watch an episode of Ruthless on Fox News at noon Eastern.
• 39:37
  Speaker 6: And then you can start watching the football games on Fox.
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: Couldn't be better.
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: Now, is it live to tape or is it live live?
• 39:45
  Speaker 6: It's going to be live to tape.
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: Okay. Thank goodness. I was worried about the FCC.
• 39:49
  Speaker 6: They don't trust us that much yet. I work for Fox, too.
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: I just thought, oh, my God. It could be shuttered
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: on Monday.
• 39:56
  Speaker 6: We're getting the trust going.
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: All right. So, Smug, explain to people. I just got
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: done teaching a virtual class for a friend of mine
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: who's been teaching for a long time. And a lot
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: of young people say, you're going to get wiped out.
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: The blue wave is coming. It's going to destroy you.
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: You guys had a positive take today on early returns.
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: Can you explain it?
• 40:18
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it's very interesting. So for the folks who have
• 40:22
  Speaker 6: listened to our episode, which went up today, until Election Day,
• 40:26
  Speaker 6: we're going to have four episodes and start with our
• 40:28
  Speaker 6: usual three. And the episode that comes out on Wednesdays
• 40:31
  Speaker 6: is specifically focused on the midterm and providing data and
• 40:36
  Speaker 6: information that we feel people aren't getting. We broke down
• 40:40
  Speaker 6: the data on what mailed in ballots are looking like
• 40:44
  Speaker 6: so far, how they compare to 2024 and how they
• 40:47
  Speaker 6: compare to 2022, the previous midterm election. And a lot
• 40:51
  Speaker 6: of the data that we're looking at, this is specifically
• 40:54
  Speaker 6: in the swing states and the contested Senate races. A
• 40:57
  Speaker 6: lot of the return data is like within the range
• 41:01
  Speaker 6: that we have previously seen it. It has not materialized
• 41:04
  Speaker 6: in some sort of like a blue wave of doom yet.
• 41:07
  Speaker 6: In terms of the ballot so far.
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: That's my, Dwayne often leaves his phone on close to
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: the microphone and makes that thing. So go back. The
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: data has not, always have a producer to blame. You
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: know that, right?
• 41:22
  Speaker 6: That's the best part of the job, right? Yeah.
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: Wolf does everything wrong on your show and Dwayne doesn't.
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: So the margin.
• 41:29
  Speaker 6: But the data is 100% within bandwidth.
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: So does that mean that we are not going to
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: have a blue wave? Is that what your bottom line is?
• 41:38
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't think right now in terms of if
• 41:41
  Speaker 6: you're looking at just the comparison between the early voting,
• 41:43
  Speaker 6: which has come in, that the theory of the blue wave,
• 41:46
  Speaker 6: the whole media story right now of like, well, Republicans
• 41:49
  Speaker 6: are getting wiped out. The data does not show that
• 41:52
  Speaker 6: so far. I think the most critical takeaway from this
• 41:55
  Speaker 6: is that every single person go out and vote. This
• 41:58
  Speaker 6: is going to be an election where every single voter
• 42:01
  Speaker 6: matters and early vote. If you can get that ballot
• 42:04
  Speaker 6: locked in, don't let a bad day of weather make
• 42:07
  Speaker 6: it so that your voice isn't heard.
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I will be voting on Monday in Virginia because
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: I'll be back. I am in Maine this week reporting
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: from Maine on Collins, Troy Jackson. Have you focused on
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: Troy Jackson, by the way? If you look up schlub
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: in a Yiddish to English dictionary, you will see his picture.
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: Have you seen this guy?
• 42:24
  Speaker 6: It's incredible. And, you know, they had to scramble after
• 42:26
  Speaker 6: the Graham Platner situation. It doesn't seem like they found
• 42:28
  Speaker 6: anything much better. I'm always going to be siding with
• 42:32
  Speaker 6: Susan Collins on that. She always seems to find a
• 42:34
  Speaker 6: way to win, but it's going to take every single vote.
• 42:36
  Speaker 6: Don't take it for grand, folks.
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: Now, Michelle Tafoya began the program today, and she's a
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: sparkling candidate. She may be the equal of a candidate
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: because she's got TV chops and articulate and smart. What
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: do you think about Minnesota? I'm going to go down
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: the row here. We've got nothing going on in Indiana.
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: I'm going to finish with you on North Carolina. But
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: we've got Senate races in Minnesota, which is Holmes land.
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: We've got a Senate race in Ohio, which is Ashbrook land,
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: and we've got North Carolina. What does Holmes say off
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: the record and now on the record about Minnesota?
• 43:09
  Speaker 6: Yeah, well, I think it's the same message that we
• 43:12
  Speaker 6: share when we're on the show about Minnesota is there
• 43:14
  Speaker 6: is a very unique situation. Two things about Minnesota. Candidate
• 43:18
  Speaker 6: quality absolutely matters. Michelle Tafoya is incredible, does a tremendous
• 43:24
  Speaker 6: job of campaigning, does a tremendous job of communicating. And secondly,
• 43:28
  Speaker 6: Minnesota is in a very unique situation where the atmospherics
• 43:32
  Speaker 6: within that state are different than you've been hearing nationally.
• 43:36
  Speaker 6: The fraud cases, the Somali daycare cases, that has really
• 43:41
  Speaker 6: changed the voter perception in the midterm, and that's already
• 43:46
  Speaker 6: coming out in the polling. For a Senate race in Minnesota,
• 43:49
  Speaker 6: this is the closest that polling has shown. It's been
• 43:52
  Speaker 6: in a very long time for Republicans. And again, having
• 43:55
  Speaker 6: Michelle Tafoya, a tremendous candidate, really helps out, too.
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: Now, I also want to go to Ohio. Ashbrook doesn't
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: really know anything about northeastern Ohio because he's from Cincinnati,
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: which is more Kentucky than Ohio. But the president went
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: to Mahoning County. That is Trump country. I'm feeling pretty
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: good about John Houston holding his Senate seat. What say
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: the fellows?
• 44:15
  Speaker 6: So there's a lot. We actually had a segment that
• 44:18
  Speaker 6: Ashbrook went into about Ohio, the Oppo Boppo segment, where
• 44:23
  Speaker 6: Sherrod Brown had published an op-ed about where he said–
• 44:27
  Speaker 6: this is back in the early 70s. That tells you
• 44:30
  Speaker 6: how long Sherrod Brown has been involved in politics. But
• 44:33
  Speaker 6: he wrote an op-ed saying that he's asking North Vietnam
• 44:37
  Speaker 6: to not release the American POWs.
• 44:40
  Speaker 3: It's unbelievable.
• 44:41
  Speaker 6: It's unbelievable that this news has not gotten out more.
• 44:45
  Speaker 6: One of the great accomplishments of President Nixon, one of
• 44:48
  Speaker 6: the many, was he brought those POWs home. He hosted
• 44:51
  Speaker 6: them at the White House. He reunited them with their families.
• 44:54
  Speaker 6: Sherrod Brown was opposed to that happening, and he said
• 44:57
  Speaker 6: that he wants the POWs to stay there because that's
• 45:00
  Speaker 6: the only trump card that the Viet Cong and the
• 45:03
  Speaker 6: North Vietnamese hold to prevent Nixon from bombing them in Hanoi.
• 45:07
  Speaker 6: If you're more concerned about the lives of the Viet
• 45:09
  Speaker 6: Cong than American service members, you have no business in
• 45:12
  Speaker 6: the Senate. Secondly, Houston is a tremendous candidate. He's working
• 45:17
  Speaker 6: so hard to get reelected. I'm really pulling for him, too.
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: Sherrod Brown with DSA. Before there was a DSA. Okay,
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: we've got a minute, Smug. I had Michael Whatley on yesterday.
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: He's still upbeat, still energized, but most of the predictors
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: have put that one into Roy Cooper's column. You're the
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: Tar Heel. What say you?
• 45:36
  Speaker 6: So this Friday, I am going to be voting early.
• 45:39
  Speaker 6: I encourage every single person in North Carolina, vote early.
• 45:43
  Speaker 6: The story of North Carolina is it typically breaks late
• 45:45
  Speaker 6: and breaks right, but I'm not taking that for granted.
• 45:49
  Speaker 6: No one should take this race for granted. Either way,
• 45:51
  Speaker 6: Roy Cooper has been able to lie about his record.
• 45:53
  Speaker 6: He's a far-left radical, and he's already been elected statewide,
• 45:57
  Speaker 6: which makes it a challenging race, but it is going
• 45:59
  Speaker 6: to come down to turnout. I know folks love saying that,
• 46:02
  Speaker 6: but that's the truth. When it comes to North Carolina,
• 46:04
  Speaker 6: it breaks late. Never give up hope. Make sure you
• 46:07
  Speaker 6: vote early.
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: Comfortably smug. Great to see you. I'll be watching Sunday
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: before the Browns game. They've got to recover from their
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: loss to the Jets, but I will be watching the
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: ruthless Are they going to call it the Ruthless Show
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: or the Ruthless Podcast? What are they going to call this?
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: Sunday at noon.
• 46:22
  Speaker 6: You have to tune in to find out. I will.
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: Sunday noon, Fox News Channel. See the fellas from the
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: Ruthless Podcast in whatever their show is named. And a
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: beeper will be close at hand. It's live to tape,
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: so there is a safety net. Stay tuned, America. Thanks, Mike.
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: I'll be right back.