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Bombshell Economic News the Media is Covering Up: We now have the HIGHEST Median Income Ever Recorded & the LOWEST Poverty Rate Ever Recorded, plus Talarico & El Sayed Caught in More Lies · The 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson

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  Speaker 1: Welcome.
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  Speaker 2: It is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you.
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  Speaker 2: It's so nice to have you with us if you
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  Speaker 2: are listening on radio stations around the country. And Senator,
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  Speaker 2: we've got a lot to talk about in the show,
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  Speaker 2: including some really great numbers that deal with the economy,
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  Speaker 2: and they're being completely overlooked by the media who wants
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  Speaker 2: it to be doom and gloom before the midterms.
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  Speaker 3: So today, the Census Bureau released new numbers, and Right now, today,
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  Speaker 3: in America, we have the highest median income for American
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  Speaker 3: families ever recorded, ever recorded in history. At the same time,
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  Speaker 3: we have the lowest poverty rate ever recorded in history.
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  Speaker 3: Both of these are historical records. It is a big
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  Speaker 3: damn deal. And you know what? I'm willing to bet
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  Speaker 3: money it didn't lead the news enough. on ABC News.
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  Speaker 3: It didn't lead the news on NBC News. It didn't
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  Speaker 3: lead the news on CNN. Because we are six weeks
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  Speaker 3: out from an election. And the only thing they want
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  Speaker 3: to cover is how bad the economy is, how terrible
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  Speaker 3: everything is. Don't believe the facts. Don't believe the numbers.
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  Speaker 3: Just believe their message that orange man bad, Trump bad.
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  Speaker 3: That's all they want to say. These numbers are a big,
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  Speaker 3: big deal. They're cause to celebrate. And we all ought
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  Speaker 3: to be celebrating.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they're really incredible.
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  Speaker 2: And we're going to break them down for you in
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  Speaker 2: a moment so that you understand what this means for
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  Speaker 2: so many Americans, especially those that were living in poverty.
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  Speaker 2: with one of the lines that I think should not
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  Speaker 2: be political. It should be celebrated by everyone in this country,
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  Speaker 2: by the way, who's in Washington, D.C., your colleagues. And
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  Speaker 2: that is we have the lowest level of people living
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  Speaker 2: in poverty since there has been any data on this
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  Speaker 2: in the United States of America. In my entire lifetime,
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  Speaker 2: in your entire lifetime, any age group that's listening or
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  Speaker 2: watching this show on YouTube, this is the best it's
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  Speaker 2: ever been. How is that not breaking news? Front page
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  Speaker 2: of every newspaper. And as you described a moment ago,
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  Speaker 2: it's like it didn't even happen.
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  Speaker 3: Well, if Barack Obama was president, it would be front
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  Speaker 3: page news. If Joe Biden were president, it would be
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  Speaker 3: front page news. It's not front page news because Donald
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  Speaker 3: Trump is president and we have a Republican House and Senate,
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  Speaker 3: and the media doesn't want it to be front page news.
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  Speaker 3: But here, I want to read to you the Reuters
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  Speaker 3: story reporting on the numbers that came out.
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  Speaker 1: The U.S.
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  Speaker 3: Poverty rate edged down to the lowest on record in 2025,
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  Speaker 3: while median household income hit a record high, the Census
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  Speaker 3: Bureau said on Tuesday. There were 34.5 million people in
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  Speaker 3: poverty in 2025, the agency said. The decline marked the
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  Speaker 3: second consecutive annual drop in the poverty rate and brought
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  Speaker 3: it to its lowest level since the Bureau began tracking
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  Speaker 3: the measure. It came as policymakers debate the impact of
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  Speaker 3: federal spending cuts on safety net programs. The poverty rate,
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  Speaker 3: the percentage of people living in poverty, dipped 0.5 percentage
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  Speaker 3: points to 10.2% last year, the Bureau said. The supplemental
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  Speaker 3: measure of poverty, which takes into account non-cash government benefits
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  Speaker 3: and taxes, was at 13.1%. And the median household income
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  Speaker 3: increased 2.6% to $ 87, 460. In 2025, a family with two
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  Speaker 3: adults and two children was classified as in poverty if
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  Speaker 3: their annual income was less than $ 32, 649, the Bureau said.
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  Speaker 3: The official poverty rate for children fell to an historic
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  Speaker 3: low of 13.4% in 2025. So not only is the
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  Speaker 3: poverty rate at an historic low, but the poverty rate
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  Speaker 3: for children is at an historic low. Most people in
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  Speaker 3: the United States had health insurance for some or all
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  Speaker 3: of 2025, the Bureau said. But 26.7 million people, or 7.9%
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  Speaker 3: of the population, did not have health coverage at any time.
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  Speaker 3: This was not a significant change from the previous year,
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  Speaker 3: the Bureau said, and the uninsured rate remains near historic lows. Now,
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  Speaker 3: I want you to ask yourself something. Why are you
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  Speaker 3: not hearing that on the news?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It's deliberate. It's deliberate. It is.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I don't think we can overstate how deliberate
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  Speaker 2: this is because I was watching the news today and
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  Speaker 2: I was getting ready to go on TV tonight right
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  Speaker 2: before we were recording this. And everybody was talking about, well,
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  Speaker 2: gas prices, diesel prices, this is terrible, that's terrible. They
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  Speaker 2: were not talking about this issue because they know that
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  Speaker 2: if the American people are proud of this country, if
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  Speaker 2: they're excited about where this country is going... If they realize,
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  Speaker 2: and we connect part two of the story, that the
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  Speaker 2: medium income is the highest it's also ever been in
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  Speaker 2: our lifetime.
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  Speaker 1: That is like every American is doing better. This is
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  Speaker 1: great for us.
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  Speaker 3: Well, here's what the White House put out on Twitter.
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  Speaker 3: New Census Bureau data shows real household income reached its
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  Speaker 3: highest level in history, $ 87, 460 in 2025, surpassing the previous record.
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  Speaker 3: You know when the previous record was sent?
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  Speaker 1: When was that?
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  Speaker 3: In President Trump's first term. So the old record was
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  Speaker 3: Trump won. The new record is the second term. After-tax
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  Speaker 3: household incomes rose by 3.1% in 2025. The poverty rate
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  Speaker 3: in the US fell to its lowest level in history,
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  Speaker 3: falling back to the lowest level of the first Trump administration,
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  Speaker 3: also in 2019. And the child poverty rate reached an
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  Speaker 3: historic low in 2025. Now, what do you think happened
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  Speaker 3: to after-tax household income during the first Trump administration?
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  Speaker 1: What was that?
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  Speaker 3: It rose an average of 3.9% a year.
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  Speaker 4: Yep.
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  Speaker 3: What do you think happened to after-tax household income under
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  Speaker 3: Joe Biden?
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  Speaker 1: What was that?
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  Speaker 3: It dropped an average of 1.2% a year. So under
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  Speaker 3: Trump 1, it's going up 3.9% a year. Under Biden,
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  Speaker 3: it is not going up at all. It is going
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  Speaker 3: up zero, and it is, in fact, going down 1.2%
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  Speaker 3: a year. What do you think it's doing now in
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  Speaker 3: Trump 2?
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  Speaker 1: Give me the numbers.
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  Speaker 3: Going up again 3.1%. So it's real simple. You are richer.
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  Speaker 3: You have more money. Your family has more money. You
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  Speaker 3: get paid more in your job. Your assets are worth more.
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  Speaker 3: Your 401k is worth more. Your savings are worth more.
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  Speaker 3: With Trump as president, with a Republican Senate, with a
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  Speaker 3: Republican House, when the Democrats are in power, you make less,
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  Speaker 3: your family makes less, your assets are worth less, the
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  Speaker 3: stock market is worth less. And by the way, when
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  Speaker 3: the socialists and communists are in power, which is where
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  Speaker 3: the Democrats are going, you don't just make less. They
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  Speaker 3: come and take what you have already.
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  Speaker 2: Now, Senator, while we're doing this, we talk about, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the headlines at CNN and CBS and NBC and ABC.
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  Speaker 2: I just want you to know right now exactly what
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  Speaker 2: is on the home page of CBS News. Their top
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  Speaker 2: story is this. UN experts say U.S. may have committed
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  Speaker 2: war crimes recently. with two Iran strikes. Their next story
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  Speaker 2: next to that is Farmer, who voted for Trump, says
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  Speaker 2: farmers are all just in survival mode. Below that, Iran
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  Speaker 2: downed at least two American drones in recent days, officials say.
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  Speaker 2: Below that, Trump ordered DOJ not to appeal ruling or
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  Speaker 2: loosening gun limits, sources say. Nothing about the economy. You
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  Speaker 2: go to ABC News, their top story. Drone reports briefly
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  Speaker 2: paused flight.
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  Speaker 1: Operations at D.C. airports.
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  Speaker 2: Their other big story, most stressful winter as El Nino
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  Speaker 2: fueled coastal erosion in SoCal, likely to get worse. And
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  Speaker 2: their other story, body found in the Grand Canyon. So
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  Speaker 2: nothing there. Go for the trifecta. You go over to
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  Speaker 2: NBC News. Their top story, Josh Shapiro urges swift AI rules. Again,
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  Speaker 2: doom and gloom with AI. Says relying on tech companies
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  Speaker 2: is flat out wrong. Their other big story, Ohio mother
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  Speaker 2: of 16 kids found living in squandered home pleads not
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  Speaker 2: guilty to child endangerment. Those are their top two stories
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  Speaker 2: on NBC News.
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  Speaker 1: So it's proof. We're not just saying it, Senator.
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  Speaker 2: They're doing everything they can to make sure that there
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  Speaker 2: is no good news on either of these stories.
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  Speaker 1: They'll just be silent on them completely.
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  Speaker 3: By the way, CNN, what do you think their lead
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  Speaker 3: story is? I just pulled it up, the lead story.
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  Speaker 3: One place you won't find President Trump, starring in GOP ads.
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  Speaker 3: Then the next story, Trump scene with Kennedy Center demolished poster.
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  Speaker 3: Judge orders 30-day notice before... Any Major Changes. The next story,
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  Speaker 3: Kevin Warsh Justified Donald Trump, Now What? The next story,
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  Speaker 3: Princess Diana's Brother Claims Charles Sounded Giddily Elated the Night
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  Speaker 3: of Her Death. It is not even on, as I'm
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  Speaker 3: scrolling through, I don't even see it on CNN's website.
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  Speaker 3: It's not news.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, CBS News, they have different tabs, right?
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  Speaker 2: So they have U.S., Iran war, truck safety, midterms, world politics.
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  Speaker 3: By the way, here's some more. Everyone hates data centers.
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  Speaker 3: Lawyers love them. The world's busiest, deadliest sea route keeps
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  Speaker 3: getting busier with some kidnapped and forced onto boats. Fed
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  Speaker 3: up Pennsylvania Democrats plot to run for Fetterman's seat in 2028. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I got a word about a word.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, CBS News, they've got these tabs center.
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  Speaker 2: They have a money watch tab like surely that's economic
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  Speaker 2: news will be there. Their top story right now, what
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  Speaker 2: the Fed rate hike reveals about worse Trump and inflation.
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  Speaker 2: Then one in three Americans with health insurance have medical debt,
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  Speaker 2: survey says. And then OpenAI reveals six more incidents of
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  Speaker 2: unexpected or concerning AI behavior reported. Those are their stories
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  Speaker 2: on the money watch just tabbed. And then their big
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  Speaker 2: story is no relief in sight for U.S. drivers as
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  Speaker 2: gas and diesel prices surge.
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  Speaker 1: There it is. Not even on their money page.
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  Speaker 3: It is sadly their partisan agenda is not hard to
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  Speaker 3: figure out. They want you to think everything about the
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  Speaker 3: economy is horrible. And objectively, the highest median family income
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  Speaker 3: in recorded history is not horrible. That is an inconvenient fact.
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  Speaker 3: Also objectively, the lowest poverty rate ever recorded in American history,
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  Speaker 3: even if you're a crazy left-wing partisan, it's hard to
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  Speaker 3: spin that as bad news. And not only that, the
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  Speaker 3: lowest child poverty rate in recorded history. There's no way,
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  Speaker 3: if you're some lefty on TV, what do you say
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  Speaker 3: about that? Other than I hate Trump, which is their
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  Speaker 3: entire message. Trump bad, and they want to convince you, look,
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  Speaker 3: if you're looking at your 401k and the stock market
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  Speaker 3: keeps going up and up and up, like that's your
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  Speaker 3: savings for retirement, and they want to convince you, you
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  Speaker 3: should be really unhappy about that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you should be.
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  Speaker 2: Let's talk strategy for just a second, because I keep
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  Speaker 2: getting asked this question and look, it goes, it's the
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  Speaker 2: economy stupid. I think a new way of putting it
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  Speaker 2: in 2026.
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  Speaker 3: By the way, do you know what the number one
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  Speaker 3: driver is of your stock market at record highs?
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  Speaker 1: What is that?
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  Speaker 3: And your 401k at record highs? data center construction in
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  Speaker 3: the U.S., and the Democrats and the radical left are
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  Speaker 3: doing everything they can. They want to halt all data
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  Speaker 3: center construction in America. Bernie Sanders has introduced legislation to
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  Speaker 3: do that. You know who else wants to do that?
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  Speaker 3: The Chinese communists want to halt all data center construction
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  Speaker 3: in America. That is the major driver of job growth
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  Speaker 3: across the country. And by the way, Not just blue-collar jobs,
• 13:15
  Speaker 3: construction jobs, construction workers, electricians, but also white-collar jobs are
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  Speaker 3: being driven by that. But it is also driving the
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  Speaker 3: stock market gains that are, if you're a teacher and
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  Speaker 3: your pension fund is invested in the stock market, your
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  Speaker 3: pension fund is going up, your 401k is going up,
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  Speaker 3: and the left is literally trying to strangle the economic
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  Speaker 3: growth that is happening. And you know what they'll do
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  Speaker 3: if they succeed, right? in halting all data center construction
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  Speaker 3: in America, they'll then blame the economic devastation that they
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  Speaker 3: know will result from that. They'll say it's all Trump's fault.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: This, this, I mean, this is the game plan.
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  Speaker 2: Now I go back to just how dishonest they are
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  Speaker 2: on this. And it reminds me strategy wise, we've got
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  Speaker 2: to do a better job. And when we give you
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  Speaker 2: this information, everybody that's listening or watching, like, please share
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  Speaker 2: this with your friends.
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  Speaker 1: They're not going to hear about it anywhere.
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  Speaker 3: We just, your friends don't know. I promise your friends
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  Speaker 3: don't know. Think of your 10 closest friends, ideally people
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  Speaker 3: who are going to be voters on election day or
• 14:16
  Speaker 3: people who should be voters, and ask them, hey, how
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  Speaker 3: do you think median income today compares to historically? How
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  Speaker 3: do you think poverty rate compares? And I promise you,
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  Speaker 3: if they're liberals, they'll say, oh, median income is way
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  Speaker 3: down and poverty rate has gone through the roof because
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  Speaker 3: Trump is terrible. Even if they're not liberals, if they're
• 14:35
  Speaker 3: just apolitical. If they're just someone who kind of lives
• 14:39
  Speaker 3: and occasionally watches the news, I'm willing to bet if
• 14:42
  Speaker 3: you ask them, they're going to say median income is
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  Speaker 3: way down and poverty is way up because that's what
• 14:48
  Speaker 3: the dishonest corporate media is trying to convince them every
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  Speaker 3: single day because they have a political objective and that
• 14:54
  Speaker 3: objective is furthered by lying to the voters. So let's
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  Speaker 3: use this podcast to counteract the lies with the truth.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Senator, let's get into another big issue, and
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  Speaker 2: that is James Tallarico. I guess he's being called a
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  Speaker 2: liar by his lesbian pastor who says he's lying to
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  Speaker 2: you about what his true political beliefs are. So if
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: you're being called out by your lesbian pastor that you're
• 15:21
  Speaker 2: lying to everybody, but doing it, I guess, in a
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  Speaker 2: weird complimentary way, I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: This is like as confusing as him.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, a side note, I feel like, to
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: be fair and balanced here, I need to ask you
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: the same James Tallarico question. Who is your favorite Texas
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  Speaker 2: drag queen?
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  Speaker 3: I feel quite confident. I don't have one.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, no, wait, wait, wait.
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  Speaker 3: That's not accurate. That's not accurate.
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: You took 10 seconds too long to answer that question.
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  Speaker 1: It's supposed to be instant. Like, what's your birthday? Where
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: do you go to church?
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  Speaker 3: My favorite drag queen in Texas is a beautiful young
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  Speaker 3: lady named Benjamina Ferguson. Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Here we go.
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  Speaker 3: Look, the two most radical, the two most dangerous Senate
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  Speaker 3: candidates in America are James Tallarico and Abdul El-Sayed in
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  Speaker 3: Texas and Michigan. There are a lot of extreme and
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  Speaker 3: radical candidates running as Democrats across the country, but Tallarico
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  Speaker 3: and El-Sayed are the two worst in the country. Every week,
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: more facts come out about how radical and extreme they are.
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  Speaker 3: This week, the facts came out that Tallarico's own pastor
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  Speaker 3: accused him of being a liar. Now, she didn't mean to.
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  Speaker 3: She was caught on tape.
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  Speaker 1: This was an accident. Yeah, this wasn't a sermon.
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  Speaker 3: So I'll read from the Daily Wire. Exclusive. Tallarico's lesbian
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  Speaker 3: minister caught on camera saying his political makeover is a lie. Quote,
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  Speaker 3: I can guarantee you that once he gets elected, he'll
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  Speaker 3: change his tune back to where he was. A lesbian
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  Speaker 3: minister at James Tallarico's longtime Austin church believes the Democrat
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  Speaker 3: is playing a political game in an attempt to flip
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  Speaker 3: Texas blue as he races to recast his record on
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  Speaker 3: transgender issues at his declaration that God is non-binary, according
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  Speaker 3: to undercover footage obtained by the Daily Wire. Reverend Babs Miller,
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  Speaker 3: minister to the parish at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, was
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  Speaker 3: caught making stunning admissions about Tallarico's political makeover as he
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: seeks to win over conservative-minded Texas moderates. The newfound shifts
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  Speaker 3: include striking new positions, including support for a national ban
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  Speaker 3: on gender transition surgeries for minors, and opposition to transgender
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  Speaker 3: athletes competing in girls' sports, when he believes it, quote,
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  Speaker 3: threatens safety or fairness. When an undercover journalist told Miller
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  Speaker 3: that Republicans were attacking Tallarico over his, quote, God is
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  Speaker 3: non-binary comment, she responded, duh, agreeing with the theological assertion
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  Speaker 3: before shedding light on his internal political strategy. Quote, he's
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  Speaker 3: getting some advice that I don't think he should be following,
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  Speaker 3: Miller said. Miller then suggested that Tallarico would reverse to
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  Speaker 3: his embrace of the LGBT movement's most extreme elements, if
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  Speaker 3: he wins the race against Texas Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton. Quote,
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  Speaker 3: I can guarantee you that once he gets elected, he'll
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  Speaker 3: change his tune back to where he was, she said.
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  Speaker 3: When the undercover journalist suggested Tallarico had to, quote, play
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  Speaker 3: this game, Miller shook her head and agreed. Quote, that's
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  Speaker 3: what his campaign has convinced him of. Miller said the
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: Democratic Party is backing off of their stance on trans
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  Speaker 3: and all this. So his staff is encouraging him to
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  Speaker 3: do kind of the same thing just for the next
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  Speaker 3: 50 weeks, whatever days. Quote, I think it's bad advice personally,
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: but if it helps him win, OK. By the way,
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: this is a pastor saying he's lying. But if it
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: helps him win, okay. I don't recall thou shalt not
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: lie unless the lying helps you win and deceive the voters,
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: and then you can force your radical left-wing agenda on
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: the voters. But according to this pastor, and okay, by
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: the way.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, let's be clear, though. This is not
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: that crazy.
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: If you believe that God's non-binary and there's six genders,
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: then there's probably 17 different versions of the truth, right?
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: This is the version of the truth for today, and
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: then tomorrow there could be new truth.
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: You're wrong on that. Tallarico does not believe there are
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: 17 versions of the truth. There is one truth, the
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: woke truth, the radical woke truth. This is the guy
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: who says, I love trans children. This is the guy
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: who says there are six genders. This is the guy
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: who says God is non-binary. He is a zealot.
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: Don't forget the favorite drag queen. Don't forget how fast
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: he can answer that question, too.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: Let's throw that in there.
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  Speaker 3: He is a zealot, and so it's not that he
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: believes what he's saying today is the truth. He doesn't
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: believe that at all. He knows he's lying. His pastor
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: knows he's lying.
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: He's willing to lie because the truth of his radical
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: vision is so compelling, his whole life is devoted to it.
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: All right, by the way, I don't want our listeners
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: just to take my word for it that this is
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: what his pastor said. I want you to listen right
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: now to his pastor, the Reverend Babs Miller, caught on
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: undercover camera. Give a listen.
• 20:22
  Speaker 5: Trump people are attacking Tallarica for saying that God is non-binary.
• 20:27
  Speaker 5: That's literally what he is. He went on Fox News
• 20:33
  Speaker 5: and walked that back. Did you see that?
• 20:37
  Speaker 6: Yeah, he's giving some advice that I don't think he
• 20:43
  Speaker 6: should be following.
• 20:44
  Speaker 5: Yeah, because that's why, frankly, something that attracted me to
• 20:49
  Speaker 5: this church was like.
• 20:51
  Speaker 6: And I can guarantee you that once he gets elected,
• 20:55
  Speaker 6: he'll change his tune back.
• 20:56
  Speaker 5: To where he was. Okay, but he has to kind
• 20:58
  Speaker 5: of play this game.
• 20:59
  Speaker 6: Yes, that's what his campaign has convinced him of, is
• 21:03
  Speaker 6: that the Democratic Party is backing off. on their stances
• 21:07
  Speaker 6: on trans and all of this. And so his staff
• 21:13
  Speaker 6: is encouraging him to kind of do the same thing
• 21:17
  Speaker 6: just for the next 50 weeks or whatever days or
• 21:22
  Speaker 6: whatever days, I guess. I think it's bad advice personally,
• 21:27
  Speaker 6: but if it helps him win, okay.
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: If it helps him win, okay. Now, she said 50 weeks.
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: She then corrected herself and said 50 days, Senator, meaning.
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: This just happened. He'll flip the day after Election Day.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. Trust me. Believe me.
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: I know he's going to go back to what he
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: was saying. I think he's getting bad advice, but he's
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: just got to lie to you so that people can
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: get elected because, you know, he's been saying all these things.
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: By the way, is there a better summation of anti-Christianity,
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: of really— that, frankly, the ethos of Satan, then if
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: it helps him win, okay. Yeah. Like, that's simply, that
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: at the end of the day, and by the way,
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: when I say the ethos of Satan, I'm not engaged
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: in hyperbole, like Lucifer. was an angel, and he looked
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: upon God and wanted to be God. And if it
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: helps him win, okay, follow your own, whatever you want
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: to do, whatever your impulse is, whatever your desire is,
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: give in to that desire. There is no sin, there
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: is no wrong, there is no right, there is no truth.
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: It is only if it helps him win, okay. If
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: it feels good, do it. If someone else is hurt,
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: it doesn't matter. If children are hurt, that's okay. If
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: it helps them win, okay. That is the very essence
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: of the opposite of Christianity.
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: Let me ask you a question on the Tallarico campaign
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: in general. You've obviously run for election in Texas several times.
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: So many people from outside Texas are looking at this
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: race and wondering how it could be quote-unquote so close,
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: knowing what you're.
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: Saying right now.
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: And I heard an interesting theory from a reporter that
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: asked me about it, and they said, well, It seems
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: that Texas is more focused on gas prices and economic
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: issues than social issues, and they don't seem to be
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: that bothered by Tallarico. Do you agree with that or
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: disagree in 2026? I personally disagree with that. I do
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: think that Texans care about these issues. I do think
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: they're going to care when they hear, for example, that
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: his pastor's like, oh, don't worry, he's lying to you,
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: and he'll change back the day after the election after
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: he wins. I think these things of being able to
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: instantly name your favorite drag queen in Texas, that is
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: not in the norm of Texas voters. And I reject
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: this idea that, oh, no, it's got to be just
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: about these other issues like the economy.
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: Look, there is a basic dynamic that has played out
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: in American politics for a long time, which is conservatives
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: win when we effectively articulate what it is we believe.
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: And there's a reason for that. This country is fundamentally
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: a center-right country. Most Americans, certainly most Texans, agree with
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: center-right common sense ideas and values. They work. They make sense.
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: The inverse is equally true, which is liberals win when
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: they effectively obfuscate what they believe, when they lie, when
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: they cover it up. Why? Because the country is fundamentally
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: a center-right country. And the crazy left-wing views of the
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: radical left are not where the voters are. And so
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: what Tallarico is doing, that is what left-wing candidates always do.
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: They lie, they deceive you. You know, earlier today, I
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: did something I do every year, which is a group
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: of cadets from West Point will come down to Washington,
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: and I'll sit down with like 20, 30 cadets and
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: spend about an hour talking to them and answering their questions.
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: And one question I got today was what lessons, what
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: advice would you give? And I said, you know, the
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: advice I give newly elected members of Congress is do
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: what you said you would do. Whatever you said in
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: September and October, you told the voters you were going
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: to do, do that in January or February. Now, that
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: sounds radical. But it is simple truth. Tell the truth
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: on the front end and then do what you said
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: on the back end. And principled conservatives, that's what they do.
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: And radical leftists, that's the opposite of what they do.
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: Senator, I want to get into another big story, and
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: that deals with the other radical candidate you were talking
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: about and warning about earlier in the show. And that
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: is El-Said. And there is some news that's been broken
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: by the Free Beacon about some deletion of some videos from,
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: you know, just some of those around him.
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: Well, not just some of those around him. His pastor
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: is his imam in this case. And there's an interesting parallel.
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: Both Tallarico and El-Said are trying to lie to the voters.
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: they're both trying to cover up what they actually believe
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: because the voters are horrified by what they actually believe,
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: by what they're committed to, and in both instances, their
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: religious leaders, their pastors, are inadvertently revealing that they are
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: lying to you. And so, all right, let's give the
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: facts on Al-Said. I'm going to read from the Washington
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: Free Beacon. Abdul Al-Said's imam scrubs videos of sermons lauding
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: Hamas leader urging congregants to vote for El-Said. Abdelhamid Al-Ghiziawa
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: of the Muslim Community Association of Ann Arbor called Ismail
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: Haniyeh a, quote, heroic martyr and a, quote, symbol of jihad.
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: Left-wing Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Said's email scrubbed videos of
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: his sermons from YouTube. including one in which he gave a, quote,
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: absentee funeral prayer, hailing the late Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: as a, quote, heroic martyr, and another in which he
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: urged his congregants to vote for al-Said. The Muslim Community
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: Association of Ann Arbor's YouTube channel featured dozens of recordings
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: of Imam Abdelhamid al-Ghizawa's sermons as recently as Tuesday, but
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: now shows only the message, quote, this channel doesn't have
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: any content. A video of Al-Ghazawa's August 2nd, 2024 sermon,
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: by the way, this wasn't a long time ago, this
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: was two years ago, eulogizing Haniyeh, which was also accessible
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: on Tuesday, is now, quote, unavailable and set to primate.
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: I wonder why.
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: So is a sermon al-Ghazawa delivered in the wake of
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: al-Said's primary victory, in which the imam described his victory as, quote,
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: a very big victory for Muslims and for the Islamic nation.
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: Listen to those words again. His imam said al-Said's Democrat
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: primary victory was a very big victory, quote, for the
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: Islamic nation. What nation do you think he's talking about?
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: He's talking about this country. He's talking about this country
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: as an Islamic nation under forced Sharia law. That's what
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: he believes. It's what El-Sayed believes. It's why El-Sayed says
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: he has a, quote, obligation to follow Sharia law. And
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: by the way, The imam agrees on the obligation. Let
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: me continue reading. The removal comes in the wake of
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: a series of Washington Free Beacon reports on Al-Ghazawa and
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: the MCA of Ann Arbor, where Al-Said typically prays, according
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: to a source familiar with the situation. There, Al-Ghazawa spoke
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: about Al-Said personally, telling his congregants that the Muslim community
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: had a, quote, obligation to vote for Al-Said in November.
• 29:04
  Speaker 5: Why?
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: To, quote, change the society. He also eulogized Hadiyeh in
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: a sermon delivered two days after the late terrorist leader
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: died from an explosive device smuggled into his guest house
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: in Tehran. Here's what he said, quote, he is a
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: symbol of jihad, a symbol of struggle, a symbol of patriotism,
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: and a symbol of devotion. No one loves him except
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: someone who loves God and his messenger. In other words,
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: if you love God, you love the head of Hamas,
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: who carried out the October's 7th rape and murder of
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: over 1,200 innocent civilians, rape of little girls and women.
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: And by the way, according to this imam, if you
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: love God, you love him. Quote, he is a righteous
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: man and one of the righteous. He wanted to liberate Palestine,
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: his land and his homeland. He sought nothing more than
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: that except for murdering innocent civilians and raping women and girls,
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: but nothing more than that other than that. Yet despite this,
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: the unjust and wicked killed him. We ask Almighty God
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: to grant him a place in paradise, O God, place
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: him among the martyrs and the righteous. you know, there's
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: no ambiguity there. You know exactly what El-Sayed's pastor believes,
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: and by the way, I believe that's what El-Sayed believes
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: as well. But okay, you may say, all right, maybe
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: the place he worships the pastor is just a complete
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: whack job, but maybe, maybe El-Sayed is not. Well, we
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: also know that El-Sayed campaigned repeatedly alongside Hassan Piker. Hassan Piker,
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: the radical, America-hating, racist, person who hates African-Americans, who hates Christians,
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: who hates America, who said, quote, America deserves 9-11.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: Well, by the way, we put a montage.
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: We can't play it here because there's too many F-bombs
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: in it and you don't hear anything. But there's now
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: a montage online going around of Hassan Piker, how many
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: different times he says on his podcast, whatever you want
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: to call it, his live stream, that he blanking hates America.
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: And it's like years of him saying, God, I hate
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: this country. God, I hate America. I hate America. That's
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: what the guy really believes. And that's who the Democrats'
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: number one surrogate is.
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: And by the way, this is a clip from just
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: recently where he said America is worse than Al Qaeda. Here,
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: give a listen. He said that America is the top
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: dog in terrorism.
• 31:45
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: Do you think America then is worse than Al Qaeda?
• 31:50
  Speaker 7: Pound for pound, as far as the number of deaths, yes,
• 31:53
  Speaker 7: we've caused tremendous terror all around the world. I think
• 31:58
  Speaker 7: that that is not only terror that we are waging
• 32:02
  Speaker 7: on regular civilians in nations in the periphery, but it's
• 32:06
  Speaker 7: also having consequences on ourselves. It's having dramatic consequences on
• 32:11
  Speaker 7: the home front.
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: Pound for pound, he says, America is worse than al-Qaeda.
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: By the way, this is just days after the 25th
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: anniversary of 9-11, where al-Qaeda murdered nearly 3,000 Americans. He
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: also very much wants the Ayatollah in Iran... to have
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: a nuclear weapon. Here, give a listen.
• 32:26
  Speaker 7: Do you think the Middle East would be more stable
• 32:28
  Speaker 7: if Iran had a nuclear weapon? I believe yes. I
• 32:31
  Speaker 7: think that the Middle East would be more stable. Having
• 32:33
  Speaker 7: said that, once again, I'm not advocating. I'm not trying
• 32:36
  Speaker 7: to send Iran enriched nuclear uranium.
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: Oh, but he sure wants them to have it. He
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: sure wants them to have it. And look, these comments
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: are so extreme that even CNN, Dana Bash, couldn't take
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: it anymore. Listen to what she said about it. Yeah.
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: And for context, the clip we just played for you
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: guys of Assam Piker, this is what CNN had just
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: played on the air. And I want you to listen
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: to Dana Bash and how she responds.
• 32:59
  Speaker 4: El-Sayed's campaign did put out a statement saying that he
• 33:02
  Speaker 4: doesn't agree with his sentiment on al-Qaeda, probably because he's
• 33:05
  Speaker 4: running in a democracy to be part of a democratically
• 33:09
  Speaker 4: elected government other than as opposed to al-Qaeda, which is
• 33:12
  Speaker 4: an actual terrorist organization.
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: Senator, I got to say, I couldn't agree with Dana
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: more on that assessment.
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: Look, you know, in CNN's own words, he is running
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: to be democratically elected in actual democracy as opposed to
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: a terrorist organization like al-Qaeda. And yet, al-Said embraces this
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: radical imam who calls the head of Hamas a heroic martyr,
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: and he embraces Hassan Piker, who thinks that America is
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: worse than al-Qaeda. There is a basic principle in life.
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: When they tell you who they are, Believe them.
• 33:49
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• 34:01
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