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The Blue Tsunami · David Pollack Primetime

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the show.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Pearson Sharp, filling in for my good buddy David Pollack,
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  Speaker 2: who'll be back on attack by Monday.
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  Speaker 1: Now then, to the heavy stuff. Come January, Democrats run Congress.
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  Speaker 1: They've told us the plan.
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  Speaker 2: Open the border, spend your money, and spend two years
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  Speaker 2: going after President Trump.
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  Speaker 1: There's no mystery there.
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  Speaker 2: The real question is what we give voters instead, because
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  Speaker 2: Tuesday hurt. Democrats are at 54 Senate seats. They've been
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  Speaker 2: called winners in more than 250 House races. We lost Maine,
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  Speaker 2: North and South Carolina, Ohio, Iowa, Kansas and Texas. Mississippi
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  Speaker 2: and Alaska are still hanging. Yes, history is part of it.
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  Speaker 2: Clinton lost 54 House seats. Obama lost 63. The president's
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  Speaker 2: party always gets hit in the midterms.
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  Speaker 1: That's just how it works. But let's be honest about
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  Speaker 1: the rest, because that matters.
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  Speaker 2: Democrats banked the early votes while we didn't. Independents swung.
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  Speaker 2: And on the economy, the number one issue, we split
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  Speaker 2: the room. Gas prices tied to the Iran war didn't help.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody wins the kitchen table by losing the gas pump.
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  Speaker 2: Vice President Vance pointed to disaffected Trump voters who wanted
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  Speaker 2: the war ended, costs lowered, and America put first. Well,
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  Speaker 2: some walked away. We knew they might. We knew that
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  Speaker 2: we'd need them back. But here's what's getting missed. While
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  Speaker 2: our side chases the frustrated Republicans out the door, it's
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  Speaker 2: forgetting the ones still sitting inside.
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  Speaker 1: The base showed up. Don't take them for granted.
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  Speaker 2: Black and Latino working families gave Trump a chance in 2024.
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  Speaker 1: Trump won.
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  Speaker 2: Star County, Texas, the first Republican to do it in
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  Speaker 2: over a century.
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  Speaker 3: Why?
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  Speaker 1: We showed up. Faith, family, hard.
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  Speaker 2: Work, a secure border. Those were already their values. This time,
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  Speaker 2: they felt ignored. Meanwhile, the succession fight has started. Vance
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  Speaker 2: is the frontrunner, Rubio has kept his record clean, DeSantis
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  Speaker 2: is the lone outsider, and the establishment is circling, hoping
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  Speaker 2: to take the party back from the people who built it.
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  Speaker 1: Now look at Florida, a red beacon in a blue sea.
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  Speaker 2: Byron Donald's won, Ashley Moody held her seat, Republicans swept
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  Speaker 2: the cabinet, and Florida's first black governor thanked President Trump.
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  Speaker 1: Is Florida the blueprint for 2028?
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  Speaker 3: Maybe.
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  Speaker 2: One thing is certain, this party doesn't need to change
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  Speaker 2: its values to win. It needs to stop abandoning the
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  Speaker 2: people who share them, and it needs to force the
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  Speaker 2: establishment to go back to interacting with the voters instead
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  Speaker 2: of just their donors. Joining me now for a special
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  Speaker 2: midterms edition of Fired Up Friday, he's the founder of
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  Speaker 2: Operation Free Nation, and he's fired up about this week's midterms.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to the program, Chad Caden.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks for having me.
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  Speaker 2: Chad, President Trump keeps telling Americans the economy is doing great,
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  Speaker 2: pointing to investments, economic growth and falling inflation. But that
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  Speaker 2: doesn't mean much to a family that's still struggling to
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  Speaker 2: afford groceries, insurance and a mortgage. Is Washington completely disconnected
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  Speaker 2: from the economic reality facing ordinary Americans?
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  Speaker 1: And how do Republicans fix that?
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  Speaker 4: Well, and as a former firefighter, I was very used
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  Speaker 4: to my local fire politicians wanting to come by my
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  Speaker 4: firehouse when it was election time. We love it when
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  Speaker 4: you jump up on the soapbox and tell us how
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  Speaker 4: much you love us. And then as soon as you
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  Speaker 4: take office, all of a sudden we're a budget problem.
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  Speaker 4: We are not sure we can give you raises. We're
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  Speaker 4: not sure we can give you new apparatus that would
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  Speaker 4: keep you guys safe or give the job more efficient
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  Speaker 4: in order to save houses. So I bring this from
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  Speaker 4: a micro, but when you look at D.C., they're always
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  Speaker 4: going to be completely disconnected from the American people because
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  Speaker 4: that's the ivory tower. There's few that try to keep
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  Speaker 4: themselves grounded like a Tim Burchett and some others. But nonetheless,
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  Speaker 4: is once you get to go to a gala every
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  Speaker 4: night in Washington, D.C., and people are constantly kissing the ring,
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  Speaker 4: you find yourself in this egotistical little world that you
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  Speaker 4: don't understand. And you only listen to the people that
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  Speaker 4: have your number. This is where we call them gatekeepers.
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  Speaker 4: And essentially what happened here is a bunch of things.
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  Speaker 4: And I could go through it, but we ain't got
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  Speaker 4: enough time. So the way I'm gonna explain it to
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  Speaker 4: you is at the end of the day, the people
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  Speaker 4: do have the power. And when they choose to use
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  Speaker 4: that power, they can be very, very, very strong. Like
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  Speaker 4: we've seen with putting a Donald Trump back in office
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  Speaker 4: after losing or whatever you want to call it in 2020.
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  Speaker 1: So here we are.
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  Speaker 4: And the American people flex their muscles. Not sure I
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  Speaker 4: understand the protest vote concept because now we may have
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  Speaker 4: a button on our machines that say protest vote. I'm
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  Speaker 4: not sure.
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  Speaker 1: It looks like we're willing to sink the whole ship
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  Speaker 1: to punish one guy who's not responsible for all of it.
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  Speaker 5: But, but.
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  Speaker 4: We got the risk and the reward, right?
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 4: So now we got to find out if, in fact,
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  Speaker 4: the reward is going to be worth the risk you
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  Speaker 4: just put by putting the DSA in charge.
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  Speaker 2: We have to be honest, though, because President Trump was
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  Speaker 2: elected in part because Americans were tired of the endless
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  Speaker 2: foreign wars, and they wanted their government to put America first.
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  Speaker 1: And yet.
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  Speaker 2: Here we are, another war in the Middle East that
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  Speaker 2: we're fighting with Americans paying the price, specifically at the
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  Speaker 2: gas pump and really everything else. Has the war in
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  Speaker 2: Iran undermined the very America first principles that got Trump elected?
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  Speaker 4: The messaging of the Iran war has absolutely been a
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  Speaker 4: part of the cause. Absolutely. But whether or not the
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  Speaker 4: war is justified, there's been eight presidents prior to Donald
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  Speaker 4: Trump that said we need to do something about Iran. Afghanistan, Iraq,
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  Speaker 4: even all the way to, I mean, Afghanistan and Iraq,
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  Speaker 4: those themselves were the symptom of the problem, Iran being it.
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  Speaker 4: So Trump actually made a move. And if OPEC goes
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  Speaker 4: away and our gas goes to $ 1. 50 and we don't
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  Speaker 4: have to worry about the Straits of Hormuz, nor do
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  Speaker 4: we have to worry about having this wealthy terrorist organization
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  Speaker 4: in charge of a very wealthy country when the oil
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  Speaker 4: is pumping. is that going to make Donald Trump better
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  Speaker 4: in the history books or just the right now? That's
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  Speaker 4: what I'm saying. This, the messaging in the concept of
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  Speaker 4: how we've done the Iran conflict, because this has had very,
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  Speaker 4: we've had 14 losses of life from a helicopter crash. And,
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  Speaker 4: and I don't even think there's been a purple heart
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  Speaker 4: in this war.
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  Speaker 6: Right. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: So at the end of the day, we need to
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  Speaker 4: start being honest with our messaging and stop being flippant
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  Speaker 4: about it. And that's something that I hope that the
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  Speaker 4: Trump campaign recognizes and we're seeing them making moves now.
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  Speaker 2: Now, here's something that I think right now, and we're
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  Speaker 2: still licking our wounds, but I think Republicans are overlooking
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  Speaker 2: that Democrats don't actually take control of Congress until January,
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  Speaker 2: which means Republicans still have nearly two months to pass
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  Speaker 2: legislation and confirm the judges. Shouldn't Republican leadership be canceling
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  Speaker 2: vacations right now, keeping Congress in session and doing absolutely
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  Speaker 2: everything they can to deliver on their promises before it's
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  Speaker 2: too late?
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  Speaker 4: Well, if I thought they were feckless, I would say, yes,
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  Speaker 4: you guys have an opportunity. But I don't. They're obstructionist.
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  Speaker 4: This is the establishment circling the wagon to hurt a very, very, very, very,
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  Speaker 4: very powerful person in Donald J.
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  Speaker 5: Trump.
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  Speaker 4: And they use their particular position to make him look
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  Speaker 4: really bad. I heard all kinds of people like Trump
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  Speaker 4: didn't pass a budget. I didn't know that they did that.
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  Speaker 4: I know that he can try to help. He can
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  Speaker 4: use the bully pulpit, all of those things. He's been
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  Speaker 4: kind of backed into a political corner. And now we
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  Speaker 4: have an obstructionist House and Senate. I'm not giving Mike
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  Speaker 4: Johnson a pass.
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  Speaker 6: No.
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  Speaker 4: And especially in the Senate with Thune. So I don't
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  Speaker 4: think they really give a flip, frankly. And I wouldn't
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  Speaker 4: expect a whole bunch of stuff coming out of the Senate, frankly.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, we've got About a minute left.
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  Speaker 2: So quickly, one of the most alarming things I saw
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  Speaker 2: coming out of this election was Texas. Greg Abbott lost
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  Speaker 2: the governor's match and Republicans lost a Senate seat and
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  Speaker 2: Democrats made enormous gains in a state that's been reliably
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  Speaker 2: Republican for decades. Quickly, is Texas a warning for what's
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  Speaker 2: coming to other red states and what can Republicans do
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  Speaker 2: to reverse that?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I'm in South Carolina, and I could speak more
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  Speaker 4: to that, although they were different in why we ended
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  Speaker 4: up with a Darlene Graham losing. Texas, I hope it's
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  Speaker 4: a warning. But as the saying goes, as Texas goes,
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  Speaker 4: so does the nation.
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  Speaker 6: Right.
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  Speaker 4: I hope that's not true. But I like sayings because
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  Speaker 4: they're usually true. So I hope that I think we
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  Speaker 4: might have missed our warning. And now it's going to
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  Speaker 4: be very complicated because even in twenty twenty eight, we
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  Speaker 4: mathematically can't get the Senate back. So even if we
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  Speaker 4: put a Republican president in, we have to take the
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  Speaker 4: House or we're going to have a split, a split Congress.
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  Speaker 5: Yep. All right.
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  Speaker 1: Chad, we're in trouble.
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  Speaker 2: Founder of Operation Free Nation, thank you for coming on
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  Speaker 2: the show and being such a little beacon of hope
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  Speaker 2: for us.
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  Speaker 6: You're right.
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  Speaker 2: Still ahead tonight, California is one of the most blue
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  Speaker 2: states country, but the policies affect how Democrats act across
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  Speaker 2: the nation. We look at what America might look like
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  Speaker 2: under a similar Democrat control. Then a police officer killed
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  Speaker 2: in a drunk driving incident, one that should never have
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  Speaker 2: happened because the driver not only didn't have a license,
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  Speaker 2: she was here illegally.
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  Speaker 1: We'll be right back.
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  Speaker 2: To change direction Tuesday. Instead, they stepped harder on the accelerator.
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  Speaker 2: Democrats swept every major statewide office. Javier Becerra is the
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  Speaker 2: next governor. Rob Bonta remains attorney general. Fiona Ma won
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  Speaker 2: lieutenant governor. Shirley Weber stays secretary of state. Malia Cohen
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  Speaker 2: stays controller. And Eleni Kounalakis becomes the treasurer. And in
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  Speaker 2: Los Angeles, voters replaced one progressive mayor with someone even
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  Speaker 2: further to the left. Nithya Raman, a member of the
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  Speaker 2: Democratic Socialists of America who entered the race at the
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  Speaker 2: last minute, defeated Karen Bass. She becomes the first challenger
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  Speaker 2: in more than two decades to unseat a sitting Los
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  Speaker 2: Angeles mayor. So California did not reject the policies that
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  Speaker 2: created its problems. It rewarded the people promising more of them.
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  Speaker 2: Start with Los Angeles. About 44,000 people were homeless there
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  Speaker 2: last year, including 27,000 living without shelter. Rahman's own campaign
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  Speaker 2: admits the city spends hundreds of millions of dollars every
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  Speaker 2: year on homelessness without enough accountability. And that four out
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  Speaker 2: of 10 people placed indoors through Bass's signature program returned
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  Speaker 2: to the streets. Her solution includes more government-built housing, stronger
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  Speaker 2: restrictions on landlords, expanded unarmed emergency response, and immigration platforms
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  Speaker 2: she calls Immigrants In, ICE Out. She once tweeted, defund
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  Speaker 2: the police. She now says LAPD should not get smaller,
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  Speaker 2: but she supports replacing officers with unarmed responders.
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  Speaker 4: For more calls.
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  Speaker 2: But apparently, public safety is most important service. Here's what
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  Speaker 2: she said in her first remarks as mayor.
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  Speaker 7: You know, I have spoken to leadership at LAPD already.
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  Speaker 7: In fact, I'm speaking to Chief McDonnell. I spoke to
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  Speaker 7: him earlier today and it was one of the first
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  Speaker 7: calls that I made because public safety is the most
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  Speaker 7: important service that the city is delivering to its people.
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  Speaker 7: It is hands down the most important service. And I
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  Speaker 7: want to make sure that that whatever happens over this transition,
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  Speaker 7: that we are prepared to deliver that service at the
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  Speaker 7: level that Angelenos expect when I take office in mid-December.
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  Speaker 2: So all Angelenos must be expecting unarmed officers with kind
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  Speaker 2: words and maybe flowers stop all of the crime in
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  Speaker 2: their city. That is the next mayor of America's second
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  Speaker 2: largest city, two years before Los Angeles hosts the Olympics.
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  Speaker 2: And Sacramento is not moving toward the center either. Governor-elect
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  Speaker 2: Javier Becerra says that health care is.
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  Speaker 1: A human right.
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  Speaker 2: And once California moving toward a universal single-payer system, he
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  Speaker 2: has not ruled out higher taxes.
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  Speaker 1: Why would he?
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  Speaker 2: He promises to make California a firewall against President Trump
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  Speaker 2: and boasts that, as attorney general, he sued the first
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  Speaker 2: Trump administration.
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  Speaker 1: More than 120 times.
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  Speaker 2: Rob Bonta has already filed dozens of lawsuits against this
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  Speaker 2: Trump administration. California's top law enforcement officer has made fighting
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  Speaker 2: Washington one of his office's defining missions. Meanwhile, look at
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  Speaker 2: the state they're supposed to be governing. California's own fiscal
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  Speaker 2: analyst warns of chronic budget deficits potentially reaching $ 20 to
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  Speaker 2: $ 35 billion every year.
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  Speaker 1: The state has already.
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  Speaker 2: Confronted a cumulative $ 125 billion in budget problems over four years.
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  Speaker 2: California had the second highest average electricity price in America
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  Speaker 2: last year. In August, it had the highest rate in
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  Speaker 2: the continental United States. The median California home is valued
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  Speaker 2: at roughly $ 735, 000. Median rent is more than $ 2, 000. And
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  Speaker 2: despite politicians insisting that everyone wants to live under their policies.
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  Speaker 2: Another 216,000 residents left California for other states in a
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  Speaker 2: single year. Those are not Republican talking points. Those are
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  Speaker 2: government numbers. And yes, California remains wealthy. It has extraordinary people,
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  Speaker 2: natural resources, and the world's fourth largest economy.
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  Speaker 1: That makes these failures far worse.
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  Speaker 2: The state has every POSSIBLE ADVANTAGE, AND ITS POLITICAL LEADERS
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  Speaker 2: STILL MADE HOUSING UNAFFORDABLE, ENERGY PUNISHINGLY EXPENSIVE, AND GOVERNMENT STRUCTURALLY BROKE.
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  Speaker 1: WHY SHOULD YOU CARE IF YOU LIVE IN TEXAS, FLORIDA
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  Speaker 1: OR OHIO?
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  Speaker 2: BECAUSE CALIFORNIA DOES NOT KEEP ITS POLICIES INSIDE CALIFORNIA. ITS
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  Speaker 2: ENVIRONMENTAL RULES RESHAPE THE CARS YOU CAN BUY. ITS LAWSUITS
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  Speaker 2: CHALLENGE THE PRESIDENT YOU ELECTED. ITS REGULATIONS REACH BUSINESSES NATIONWIDE.
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  Speaker 2: When its spending promises exceed its tax base, Washington and
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  Speaker 2: therefore every American taxpayer faces pressure to.
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  Speaker 1: Help clean up the bill. California is not merely a state.
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  Speaker 1: It is the left's laboratory.
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  Speaker 2: Tuesday, voters handed that laboratory to the same party again
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  Speaker 2: and gave America's second largest city to an actual democratic socialist.
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  Speaker 2: The experiment is not ending, it's accelerating. Now the rest
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  Speaker 2: of the country gets to watch what happens when there
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  Speaker 2: is nobody left in power to say no. Joining me
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  Speaker 2: now is the host of Loud Majority Live, Kevin Smith.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the show.
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  Speaker 5: Thanks for having me.
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  Speaker 2: Kevin, California has sky-high taxes, rampant homelessness, and an affordability crisis.
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  Speaker 2: And now Gavin Newsom is moving to spare all 548
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  Speaker 2: death row inmates from execution, including convicted murderers. How do
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  Speaker 2: Californians keep electing politicians whose policies are clearly making our
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  Speaker 2: lives miserable?
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  Speaker 8: Well, you know, it's going to keep happening in these
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  Speaker 8: blue states. I mean, I'm from New York, and the
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  Speaker 8: mass exodus of New Yorkers down to places like Florida
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  Speaker 8: and Tennessee have made it even harder to elect Republicans,
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  Speaker 8: not only statewide, but in your local races as well.
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  Speaker 8: And for the people who live in California who don't
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  Speaker 8: live in Los Angeles, just know that California will bail
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  Speaker 8: out L.A., As we saw here in New York, the
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  Speaker 8: people of Buffalo, which is nine hours away from New
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  Speaker 8: York City, bailed out Zoran Mamdani.
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  Speaker 5: If you live on.
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  Speaker 8: The Canadian border here in New York, you are currently
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  Speaker 8: paying for the New York City subway. And if you
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  Speaker 8: don't think that's going to be happening to the people
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  Speaker 8: who live in Northern California up in wine country, they're
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  Speaker 8: going to be bailing out the homeless industrial complex down
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  Speaker 8: in Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 5: You got another thing coming.
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  Speaker 2: So Los Angeles just elected Democratic Socialist Nithya Raman, who
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  Speaker 2: wants more government housing, greater restrictions on landlords and immigration
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  Speaker 2: policies that.
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  Speaker 1: She calls immigrants in, ice out.
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  Speaker 2: What do you think Los Angeles is actually going to
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  Speaker 2: look like after four years of her policies, especially with.
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  Speaker 1: The Olympics coming in 2028? And how do we go
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  Speaker 1: from Karen Bass to this?
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  Speaker 8: You know, just when we think things can't get worse,
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  Speaker 8: they always do.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 8: You know, and I've been warning everybody around the country.
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  Speaker 5: You know, if you can do it in New York,
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  Speaker 5: you can do it anywhere.
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  Speaker 8: And they did it in Los Angeles. And just as
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  Speaker 8: a warning to the people of L.A., it's not going
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  Speaker 8: to happen quickly. It's going to happen drip by drip
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  Speaker 8: by drip. You're going to be the pot. You're going
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  Speaker 8: to be the frog in the pot, not noticing that
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  Speaker 8: you're boiling. It's going to start with more quality of
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  Speaker 8: life stuff.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, so there's a few more homeless people.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, so there's a little bit more drug use.
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  Speaker 5: It's nothing new. And then it will cascade.
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  Speaker 8: If we compare it to New York, so far Zorhan
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  Speaker 8: Mamdani has passed one law in the year that he's
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  Speaker 8: been in office. but New York has gotten significantly worse
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  Speaker 8: because they just stopped enforcing the law. When you send
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  Speaker 8: unarmed peace officers to handle domestic violence cases, you are
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  Speaker 8: going to get more violent crime because the people have
• 18:49
  Speaker 8: no way to defend themselves from lunatics.
• 18:52
  Speaker 5: Exactly. And that's what's going to happen.
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: Exactly.
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: Rahman once supported defunding the police, and now, like you said,
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: she wants these unarmed responders handling more of the emergency calls.
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: Is this simply the same... defund the police agenda but
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: repackaged with better marketing.
• 19:08
  Speaker 8: Oh it's it's the exact same thing and and they
• 19:11
  Speaker 8: keep talking about these social workers they're going to hire
• 19:14
  Speaker 8: to handle these do they think that social workers just
• 19:17
  Speaker 8: grow on trees oh.
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: And by the way i don't interrupt you but by
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: the way most social workers are women so think about
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: them going to solve these domestic problems Oh, yeah.
• 19:27
  Speaker 5: That's going to go over really well.
• 19:28
  Speaker 8: You're going to have some 105-pound sociology major go deal
• 19:34
  Speaker 8: with a guy who's been living on the street for
• 19:37
  Speaker 8: 30 years who's like a hardened criminal, a hardened, mentally
• 19:42
  Speaker 8: ill schizophrenic. Let me know how that's going to go
• 19:45
  Speaker 8: when she gets thrown in front of a bus, which
• 19:48
  Speaker 8: is going to happen, which is going to stop people.
• 19:50
  Speaker 5: From applying for those jobs.
• 19:52
  Speaker 8: Therefore, there will be none of those social workers, those
• 19:55
  Speaker 8: mythical social workers that these people want to hire.
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: Prop 39. What happened? Is this just the same question?
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: Voters have no idea what they're doing. They just vote
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: as they're told.
• 20:07
  Speaker 8: That's really what it is. And it's also the way
• 20:10
  Speaker 8: a lot of these propositions get worded. They're worded very cleverly.
• 20:14
  Speaker 8: And Prop 39 was certainly an example of that, for sure.
• 20:18
  Speaker 5: It's deception.
• 20:21
  Speaker 8: At the highest form. They know these things are going
• 20:23
  Speaker 8: to pass. But I will say this about California. They
• 20:26
  Speaker 8: did stop Prop 40 and Prop 42.
• 20:30
  Speaker 6: So those are wins.
• 20:32
  Speaker 8: In a year where there were very few wins around
• 20:36
  Speaker 8: the nation, stopping that wealth tax from going in may
• 20:42
  Speaker 8: stop the slide of California, of the California exodus. I mean,
• 20:46
  Speaker 8: it's only the sixth largest economy in the because every
• 20:49
  Speaker 8: Silicon Valley tech giant is there. The minute they end
• 20:52
  Speaker 8: up going to Austin, well, I guess they're not going
• 20:54
  Speaker 8: to Austin anymore. I guess they're going to go to
• 20:57
  Speaker 8: Nashville or Boise, the last two places where Republicans control
• 21:02
  Speaker 8: in America. Soon you're going to start seeing all these
• 21:07
  Speaker 8: tech bros. They're going to be taking over Collins Avenue.
• 21:09
  Speaker 8: There used to be nightclubs. Now there's going to be
• 21:13
  Speaker 8: Google C-suites.
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's so depressing, and we used to have places
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: we thought we could run to, but clearly Texas proved
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: us wrong. Kevin Smith, thank you for coming on the show.
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: I really appreciate your time.
• 21:24
  Speaker 6: Thanks for having me.
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: Coming up next, a police officer is killed in a
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: drunk driving accident.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: The driver, she didn't.
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: Have a license, and she was here in this country illegally.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: Randy Sutton of the Wounded Blue joins me after the break.
• 21:41
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• 22:16
  Speaker 2: America keeps learning the same lesson too late. Laws that
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: are not enforced before a tragedy cannot protect anyone afterward.
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: A police officer and a mother of three are dead.
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: The woman charged with killing them was allegedly driving drunk,
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: had never possessed a driver's license, and according to federal authorities,
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: was living in this country illegally. Now, ICE has lodged
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: a detainer, but it's too late.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: The damage has been done. Those lives are gone. That
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: is the problem.
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: Our system repeatedly discovers that someone is here illegally only after.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: An American has already paid the price.
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: Bridgeport police officer Cooper Whiteside and his longtime girlfriend, Brittany Islami,
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: were riding his motorcycle through Danbury, Connecticut, early on July
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: 13th when police say a Jeep crossed into their lane
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: and struck them head on. Cooper Whiteside spent his life
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: running toward danger. He served as a volunteer firefighter, a
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: rescue diver, and finally achieved his childhood dream of becoming
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: a police officer. He had worn the badge for only
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: two years.
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: Cooper was 38.
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: Brittany was 34 and leaves behind three children. The Jeep's driver,
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: Melissa Esperanza Ramirez Romero, faces two counts of second-degree manslaughter
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: with a motor vehicle, DUI, and other charges. She has
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: pleaded not guilty, of course. According to the arrest warrant,
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: her blood alcohol level was.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: 14.
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: She tested positive for cannabis, and investigators recovered empty alcohol
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: containers and a THC vape cartridge from her vehicle. Prosecutors
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: also say she admitted she had never possessed a driver's license.
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: Her attorney says she was born in Mexico, but had
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: spent virtually her entire life in Connecticut. Federal authorities say
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: she is here illegally, and ICE is now asking the
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: state to hold her if she is released. And while
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: police families confront consequences like these, part of the radical
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: left continues threatening law enforcement as the enemy.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: The Squad Victory Fund, authorized by.
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley, and Rashid Tlaib, raised
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: a record $ 2. 35 million this election cycle. Its rules specifically
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: reject donations from the Fraternal Order of Police, America's largest
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: police organization. The fund does not explain why. What message
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: does that statement send while officers are being hunted down?
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: The Fraternal Order.
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: Of Police reports that 60 officers have been shot in
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: ambush-style attacks this year. Thirteen were killed. Police officers do
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: not need politicians rejecting them to impress activists. They need
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: elected leaders who enforce the law, literally their only job.
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: Protect the badge and act before another family is destroyed.
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: This is not about denying anyone due process. It is
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: about using due process to enforce the laws already on
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: the books and building a system that identifies unlawful status
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: before the only remaining response is an ICE detainer attached
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: to a homicide case.
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: Because enforcement... after the funeral is not protection.
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: It is an admission that the system acted too late.
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: Joining me now is retired police lieutenant Randy Sutton, founder
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: of the Wounded Blue.
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: Thank you for joining us today.
• 26:01
  Speaker 5: Thanks for having me. This is a very, very important topic.
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: Randy, we have a police officer and a mother of
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: three dead, allegedly killed by a woman who authorities say
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: was in this country illegally, driving drunk, and had never
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: even possessed a license. How many more tragedies like this
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: have to happen before we start taking immigration enforcement seriously?
• 26:25
  Speaker 5: This unfortunate tragedy is one of a number of such
• 26:30
  Speaker 5: tragedies that we have experienced over the years, and we
• 26:33
  Speaker 5: don't seem to be learning our lesson at all. Now,
• 26:36
  Speaker 5: the battle lines have clearly been drawn. This election cycle
• 26:41
  Speaker 5: really impressed upon me that there is a division between
• 26:48
  Speaker 5: within this nation that is getting worse, not getting better.
• 26:53
  Speaker 5: And much of it centers around public safety, or in
• 26:57
  Speaker 5: our case here, the lack of public safety. We have
• 27:01
  Speaker 5: seen that these individuals who created this fund did so
• 27:09
  Speaker 5: to undermine the ability of law enforcement to be effective.
• 27:14
  Speaker 5: And they have been very successful in doing just that.
• 27:18
  Speaker 5: They have.
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: That is what troubles me the most about this, I think,
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: because we know what the problem is. We know that
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: we have laws to protect our people, and they're not
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: being enforced anymore. And the problem is not that the
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: politicians don't understand this or don't have the tools to
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: handle it.
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: I think the.
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: Problem is that the politicians, one, don't care, or two,
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: are not enforcing these intentionally. They want this to happen.
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: And that's the horrifying part to me.
• 27:54
  Speaker 5: It is absolutely irrational. advantage here of people knowing exactly
• 28:10
  Speaker 5: what they stand for and elect them anyway. We are
• 28:14
  Speaker 5: literally seeing the voters acting like lemons. They're dashing off
• 28:20
  Speaker 5: the cliff, allowing people to be in office who don't
• 28:24
  Speaker 5: care about their safety. Not only do they not care,
• 28:27
  Speaker 5: they encourage criminality. They look at it.
• 28:31
  Speaker 6: And they.
• 28:33
  Speaker 5: They seem to embrace it. And it's irrational to me.
• 28:37
  Speaker 5: And yet we are electing these people. And we just
• 28:40
  Speaker 5: saw in this blue tsunami that that just took place
• 28:45
  Speaker 5: across this country. I can tell you this. I'm going
• 28:47
  Speaker 5: to forecast this right now. What we have seen in
• 28:50
  Speaker 5: the past will pale in comparison to the injustices and
• 28:55
  Speaker 5: the death that we are going to see at the
• 28:58
  Speaker 5: hands of criminals, illegal aliens, and those who commit crimes
• 29:03
  Speaker 5: against the people of this country. We're going to see
• 29:07
  Speaker 5: more of it.
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: It's not just the police that are going to suffer,
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: these police that are being targeted. It's the people they're
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: intending to protect. So these politicians that are targeting the police,
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: they're hurting us, too. And according to the Fraternal Order
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: of the Police, 60 officers have been shot in ambush-style
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: attacks this year, and 13 have been killed. Now, you
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: have spent your career defending law enforcement officers.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: What's driving this violence?
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: And do you believe that the political rhetoric from these
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: people demonizing police is making it so that police can't
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: operate safely in our country and that they're now being
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: seen as legitimate targets?
• 29:45
  Speaker 5: Absolutely. You know, I run a nationwide organization called the
• 29:48
  Speaker 5: Wounded Blue. We're a nationwide charity that helps injured and
• 29:52
  Speaker 5: disabled officers. I see this every single day. I see
• 29:56
  Speaker 5: the tragedy. I see the heartache. I see the victims.
• 29:59
  Speaker 5: I deal with the families of those officers who have
• 30:02
  Speaker 5: been killed and injured in the line of duty. I
• 30:04
  Speaker 5: see the heartbreak every single day. In fact, right now,
• 30:10
  Speaker 5: I am at a conference right now where last night
• 30:13
  Speaker 5: I spent time with the wife of a police officer
• 30:15
  Speaker 5: who was murdered in the line of duty. Seeing the
• 30:19
  Speaker 5: tears come down her face as she spoke about the
• 30:23
  Speaker 5: needless death of her husband at the hands of a gunman.
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: It.
• 30:28
  Speaker 5: Breaks my heart. And I've been dealing with this for years.
• 30:31
  Speaker 5: And here's what's happening. The encouragement of criminality by the
• 30:36
  Speaker 5: political left is making it less and less safe every
• 30:41
  Speaker 5: single day for law enforcement. Last year, more than 80,000
• 30:45
  Speaker 5: police officers were physically assaulted in the line of duty,
• 30:47
  Speaker 5: almost 90,000. This is unbelievable. And this is an increase
• 30:53
  Speaker 5: by about 80% from just 12, 13 years ago.
• 30:56
  Speaker 6: It is insane. And literally....
• 31:03
  Speaker 5: It's going to get worse. I just wrote a book
• 31:05
  Speaker 5: about this called Rescuing 911, The Fight for America's Safety.
• 31:10
  Speaker 5: And this has been building for a while. The history
• 31:13
  Speaker 5: that we have seen, the great lie of Ferguson of
• 31:16
  Speaker 5: hands up, don't shoot, the George Floyd insanity has deteriorated
• 31:22
  Speaker 5: the ability of law enforcement to effectively retain and hire
• 31:28
  Speaker 5: police officers. So we are in a criminal justice crisis
• 31:31
  Speaker 5: that nobody's talking about.
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: What young man or woman out there would want to
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: sign up to be a police officer after seeing the
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: abuse that they suffer from not only the citizens, but
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: their own lawmakers.
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: Retired police lieutenant Randy.
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: Sutton, founder of the Wounded Blue, thank you for coming
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: on the show.
• 31:50
  Speaker 5: I appreciate it.
• 31:51
  Speaker 6: Thank you, David.
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: When we come back, Paraguay's president is facing impeachment following
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: the collapse of a prominent bank in the region. How
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: the two events are related and why it may matter
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: here in the U.S. Then the Democrats ran on two things,
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: get Trump and the economy. But the numbers show the
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: economy isn't as bad as they were saying. Corey Ruth,
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: Emergence Global, joins me.
• 32:14
  Speaker 5: Stick around.
• 32:20
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  Speaker 2: Your bank account is frozen. Your card doesn't work.
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: Your paycheck is trapped. Your pension is gone from the screen.
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: Now, imagine learning that the president once owned part of
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: the company behind that bank and appointed one of its
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: former executives to lead the agency responsible for regulating it.
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: That is just what happened in Paraguay.
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: In less than four days, one bank failure froze millions
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: of accounts, threw thousands of people out of work, and
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: put the president on trial in the Senate.
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: The bank is Ueno.
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: It grew from an obscure finance company into one of
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: Paraguay's largest banks in only a few years. It offered
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: generous cashback rewards sponsored by the national soccer team and
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: put its name on the country's biggest stadium. Nearly 3
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: million people became customers.
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: Almost half the country.
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: And more than $ 800 million in government money flowed into it,
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: including pension, healthcare, and hydroelectric funds. But behind the marketing,
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: regulators allegedly found risky loans to companies connected to the
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: bank's owners. Loans without enough collateral and expenses improperly counted
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: as assets. Once the books were corrected, Ueno reportedly had
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: less than half the capital legally required to absorb its losses. Tuesday,
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: Paraguay's central bank seized it and the people took to
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: the streets in protest.
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: The app went dark. Cards stopped working. Branches locked their doors.
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: Millions of people could not reach their money while thousands
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: of employees wondered whether they would ever receive another paycheck.
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: And then attention turned President Santiago Pena. Pena held a
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: stake in Ueno's parent company until last year.
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: He appointed a former Ueno.
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: Executive to run the central bank, the regulator supervising Ueno.
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: Lawmakers also accuse his government of allowing too much public
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: pension money.
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: To be deposited there. Those are allegations.
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: Pena has not been convicted of a crime, and he
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: says he will cooperate with investigators. But his own conservative
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: Colorado party turned against him. The lower house voted 78
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: to nothing to impeach him. Pena offered to resign, but
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: lawmakers refused to let him escape the Senate trial and
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: the potential loss of immunity that could follow his removal.
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: Prosecutors have now opened three criminal investigations. Senior bank executives
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: have been detained, top presidential aides have been resigned, and
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: Peña' s government could fall within days. So why should an
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: American care about a bank in Paraguay? Because this is
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: what happens when political connections replace independent oversight. The bank
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: grows too quickly. Government money pours in. Regulators ignore the
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: warning lights. And ordinary people discover the truth only after
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: all of their money is locked behind a dead app. Yes,
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: this can happen here. Silicon Valley Bank collapsed in 48
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: hours after depositors tried to pull $ 42 billion in a
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: single day. Signature Bank and First Republic followed. The FDIC
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: now calls those the fastest bank runs.
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: In American history. America has stronger protections.
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: FDIC insurance automatically covers qualifying deposits up to $ 250, 000 per
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: depositor per insured bank and ownership category. But anything beyond
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: that limit can be exposed. And even insured customers can
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: face disruption when a bank fails.
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: The warning from Paraguay is simple.
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: Never confuse a popular app, a famous sponsor, or politically
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: connected executive A safe bank. When the regulator works for
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: the regulated, the powerful leave through the back door and
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: working people are left standing outside asking where their money went.
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: Joining me now is the CEO of Artorias, Stefano Rittendale.
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: Welcome to the show.
• 37:12
  Speaker 5: Thank you so much for having me.
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: Stefano, this is an extraordinary story. In a matter of days,
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: one bank collapses, nearly three million customers lose access to
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: their money, thousands of people are out of work, and
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: the country's president is facing impeachment. How does something of
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: this magnitude happen seemingly overnight? And what does that tell
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: us about the fragility of the modern banking system?
• 37:38
  Speaker 9: Well, first, I think, you know, one of the crazy
• 37:40
  Speaker 9: things is, as you highlighted, is this scale of Duenos
• 37:44
  Speaker 9: Bank inside of Paraguay. You know, 3 million customers, that's
• 37:47
  Speaker 9: about 60% of the adult population use this bank. And
• 37:52
  Speaker 9: for it to collapse so quickly does show that there
• 37:54
  Speaker 9: is severe lack of oversight, both from the government and
• 37:58
  Speaker 9: from other institutions that allow this to happen. Obviously, there's
• 38:01
  Speaker 9: investigations that are going on. Obviously, right now, the Congress
• 38:04
  Speaker 9: and the Senate have already taken their course. It's also
• 38:06
  Speaker 9: going to be criminal investigations to see what happened and
• 38:09
  Speaker 9: how this played a role. But this is a wake-up
• 38:11
  Speaker 9: call for not only the United States, but I would
• 38:13
  Speaker 9: also look at this in South America as a whole,
• 38:15
  Speaker 9: because unfortunately, South America has a long history of political
• 38:18
  Speaker 9: connections with business. And we see time and time again
• 38:21
  Speaker 9: major political sandals impacting both conservative, liberal, centrist candidates who
• 38:27
  Speaker 9: promise one thing, but at the end of the day,
• 38:28
  Speaker 9: enrich themselves. And it shows a lack of accountability and
• 38:31
  Speaker 9: oversights that fortunately in the United States, at least we
• 38:33
  Speaker 9: have better institutions to handle it that South America simply
• 38:37
  Speaker 9: do not. And we see these events spiral out of control,
• 38:39
  Speaker 9: as Paraguay is a clear example of.
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: What really stands out here is the relationship between this
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: bank and Paraguay's government. The president previously owned a stake
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: in its parent company, and he appointed a former bank
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: executive to lead the very agency responsible for regulating it.
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: Is this just a conflict of interest, or is this
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: full-blown corruption?
• 39:01
  Speaker 9: I mean, I think that's where we're going to have
• 39:02
  Speaker 9: to let the investigation take its course to really lessons learned.
• 39:05
  Speaker 9: You can have both in reality. I don't think one
• 39:08
  Speaker 9: mutually excludes the other. But unfortunately, this is a very
• 39:11
  Speaker 9: common story across South America, where corruption and conflict of
• 39:14
  Speaker 9: interest is more the norm than the exception, is there's
• 39:16
  Speaker 9: not really strong anti-corruption measures. And I think the United
• 39:19
  Speaker 9: States might assist a lot of these governments in South
• 39:22
  Speaker 9: America to do it. And I also highlighted an important
• 39:24
  Speaker 9: aspect about Paraguay and about President Peña, is that he
• 39:27
  Speaker 9: is a close American ally.
• 39:29
  Speaker 6: He did.
• 39:30
  Speaker 9: Was signed and joined the Shields of America, the organization
• 39:34
  Speaker 9: really pushed by the second Trump administration, led by Secretary
• 39:37
  Speaker 9: of War Pete Hegseth, and this counter cartel coalition. He's
• 39:41
  Speaker 9: really been a key American ally to expand US influence here,
• 39:44
  Speaker 9: but it shows that even that, We might have to
• 39:47
  Speaker 9: be careful because now there's a political liability with such
• 39:49
  Speaker 9: a corrupt figure who his own political party has impeached
• 39:53
  Speaker 9: and more than likely would be convicted and face prosecution
• 39:56
  Speaker 9: in jail. So I think it's important that we let
• 39:58
  Speaker 9: the investigation take place. Obviously, we're going to see increased
• 40:02
  Speaker 9: level of protests inside of Paraguay to do this. But
• 40:04
  Speaker 9: the economic fallout is clear. And we'll have to see
• 40:06
  Speaker 9: if the United States or South America as a whole,
• 40:08
  Speaker 9: the World Bank or the IMF might do emergency measures
• 40:11
  Speaker 9: to try to protect Paraguay's financial institutions.
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: So Americans might look at Paraguay and think, well, it's
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: a developing country.
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: That could never happen here.
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: But we watched Silicon Valley Bank collapse in 48 hours,
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: followed by Signature Bank and First Republic. Are we really
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: that much better protected in the United States? Or are
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: we just one serious financial crisis away from seeing something
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: like this happen here? And I think most importantly, what
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: can Americans do to protect their money in a situation
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: like this?
• 40:45
  Speaker 9: Well, look, I think the 2008 financial crisis is another
• 40:48
  Speaker 9: case point we can look at. And I think there
• 40:50
  Speaker 9: was a lot of lessons learned. I mean, Lehman Brothers
• 40:52
  Speaker 9: is a perfect example, right? The rapid collapse of this
• 40:55
  Speaker 9: and the behemoth of U.S. financial institution and how it
• 40:58
  Speaker 9: required a massive bailout by the U.S. government to make
• 41:01
  Speaker 9: sure our financial institutions were still solvent. And I think
• 41:04
  Speaker 9: a lot of us forget that the collapse of the
• 41:06
  Speaker 9: financial sector in 2008 was the largest financial crisis we
• 41:09
  Speaker 9: had since the Great Depression. So obviously there's a lot
• 41:12
  Speaker 9: of lessons learned. And I think there's still a lot
• 41:14
  Speaker 9: of lessons that needs to be applied. And we continuously
• 41:16
  Speaker 9: see US financial institutions run contrary to US regulations and laws.
• 41:21
  Speaker 9: And I think that's why regulations and other aspects that
• 41:25
  Speaker 9: need to be done, both from the executive branch and
• 41:27
  Speaker 9: the legislative branch, are critical to ensure the American people
• 41:30
  Speaker 9: are protected. But to your broader question, I mean, obviously,
• 41:32
  Speaker 9: there's always a concern when we have financial institutions and
• 41:35
  Speaker 9: banks coddle up to the political power, regardless of whichever
• 41:39
  Speaker 9: political institution is there. And Paraguay is a perfect example.
• 41:41
  Speaker 9: And I think it's important that the American people maintain
• 41:44
  Speaker 9: are well-informed to look into these situations and make sure
• 41:47
  Speaker 9: that they demand, both from the executive and legislative branch, that, look,
• 41:50
  Speaker 9: Just because these financial institutions might appear to be too
• 41:53
  Speaker 9: big to fail doesn't mean they should run amok and
• 41:55
  Speaker 9: run freely. And there should be oversight in what they
• 41:57
  Speaker 9: do because Paraguay is the worst case example. But it
• 42:00
  Speaker 9: would be foolish to think that it couldn't happen here
• 42:03
  Speaker 9: if we don't maintain strong regulation and oversight.
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: CEO of Artorias, Stefano Rittendale, thank you for coming on
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: the show. And we might have to start digging some
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: holes in our backyard to hide our money at this point.
• 42:14
  Speaker 5: Well, thank you so much for having me. All right.
• 42:16
  Speaker 5: Thank you.
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: After the break, the left ran their midterms messaging on
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: the economy, but the latest numbers proved that it wasn't
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: nearly as bad as they were telling the nation it was.
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: We take a look at the October jobs report.
• 42:29
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  Speaker 2: I want you to remember something. For months, the message
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: from the Democrats' campaign machine was simple. The economy is
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: a disaster and you're drowning.
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: Every ad, every stump speech, every cable hit. Doom, doom, doom.
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: Well, the election's over and this morning, the Bureau of
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: Labor Statistics dropped its October jobs report.
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: Let's see how the doom is holding up.
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: America added 165,000 jobs in October. Economists were expecting somewhere
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: around 60 to 65,000. That's not a beat. That's more
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: than double. The August numbers were revised from 53,000 to 186,000.
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: In September, that number got revised up to from 29,000
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: to 60,000. Unemployment down to 4.1%. Wall Street wanted to
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: see it hold steady. It actually fell. And wages, well,
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: the average hourly earnings rose 14 cents in a single month,
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: up 0.4% to about $ 38 an hour. Paychecks going up,
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: more people working. Funny way to run a catastrophe. Now
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: let's talk about the thing that every family feels every
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: single week, the pump. CBS News is reporting that the
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: national average for gas is sitting around $ 4. 06 a gallon,
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: and the experts at GasBuddy expected to dip below $ 4
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: within days. the first time since July. Diesel could fall
• 44:37
  Speaker 2: under $ 6 by Thanksgiving. Brent crude just dropped below $ 100
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: for the first time since September. Oil tanker traffic through
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: the Strait of Hormuz is picking back up, and the
• 44:47
  Speaker 2: Trump administration has been pulling the levers the whole way,
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: waving the Jones Act, opening up diesel supply, easing the squeeze.
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: So let me get this straight. Jobs up, unemployment down,
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: wages up, gas heading under $ 4, and we were told
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: the sky is falling.
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: Now, let me be fair.
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: $ 4 a gallon is still not cheap. Plenty of families
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: are still stretching every dollar. And yes, the experts say
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: that some of that gas drop is seasonal, winter blend,
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: fewer road trips. But here's my point. There is a
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: big gap between prices are too high and the economy
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: is collapsing. One is a legitimate argument. The other is
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: a campaign slogan. And this morning's numbers just put it
• 45:32
  Speaker 2: through the shredder. Because here's the thing. You can't tell
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: a guy who just got hired that the job market
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: is dead. You can't tell a family watching the gas
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: fall that the sky is falling. People live in their economy.
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: They don't live in your talking points. The lesson for
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: the left campaigning on pessimism is a gamble. And when
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: the data turns around on you, you look like you
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: were rooting against the country. Now, the Fed's watching all this, too,
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: so we'll see how it plays out in December. But today,
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: the facts are the facts. More jobs, lower unemployment, higher pay,
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: cheaper gas. I'm not saying it's morning in America, but
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: I am saying that it's a whole lot better than
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: the forecasts you were sold. Joining me now, he's the
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: CEO of Mergence Global. Please welcome Mr.
• 46:19
  Speaker 5: Corey Ruth.
• 46:20
  Speaker 2: Corey, the economy added 165,000 jobs in October, more than
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: double what economists expected. Is this the beginning of a
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: genuine economic turnaround, or should we be cautious about celebrating
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: a strong one month? And perhaps more importantly, do voters
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: even care about this? Because it seems like they don't.
• 46:42
  Speaker 10: You know, the one challenge for the economy, which is
• 46:45
  Speaker 10: built on confidence, is that the administration and Republicans in
• 46:48
  Speaker 10: general have not yet made a clear, sustained case for
• 46:53
  Speaker 10: Trump's economic agenda. We don't see them making a full-throated argument,
• 46:58
  Speaker 10: particularly outside of the core communicators on Trump's team. Argument
• 47:04
  Speaker 10: for some of the economic wins. I mean, the American
• 47:07
  Speaker 10: people are still largely unaware of much of the positive
• 47:10
  Speaker 10: things that the Trump administration has been able to accomplish.
• 47:13
  Speaker 6: A lot of what you said today.
• 47:14
  Speaker 10: Around the Strait of Hormuz and things that you said
• 47:18
  Speaker 10: around inflation and the things you said around gasoline. The
• 47:23
  Speaker 10: American people just don't know. What they're hearing is a
• 47:26
  Speaker 10: total opposite. And I think the administration and Republicans in
• 47:30
  Speaker 10: general have to do a better job communicating that.
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: Democrats spent months campaigning on a struggling economy, yet today's
• 47:37
  Speaker 2: jobs report came in surprisingly strong. Did Democrats underestimate the
• 47:41
  Speaker 2: economy's resilience or did Republicans fail to communicate their success completely?
• 47:48
  Speaker 10: I think the economists underestimated it for sure. I mean, 165,000
• 47:53
  Speaker 10: new jobs, that's 180% higher than expectation. And what's really
• 47:58
  Speaker 10: good about it is that that number is driven by
• 48:02
  Speaker 10: 96% of it is driven by private sector jobs. So 159,000
• 48:07
  Speaker 10: new jobs. And that's on top of the prior two
• 48:10
  Speaker 10: months that you said was revised upward. So for a
• 48:13
  Speaker 10: combined 61,000 net new jobs, that weren't previously estimated.
• 48:20
  Speaker 6: So this was gangbusters.
• 48:23
  Speaker 10: And then those 159,000 private sector jobs were unusually broad
• 48:28
  Speaker 10: based in that 70,000 of them came from professional services.
• 48:32
  Speaker 6: So these aren't low-end, low-wage jobs.
• 48:36
  Speaker 10: 42,000 in healthcare, 19,000 in manufacturing jobs, which is incredible.
• 48:41
  Speaker 10: And that means there were over 100,000 new manufacturing jobs
• 48:44
  Speaker 10: since January.
• 48:45
  Speaker 8: Right.
• 48:46
  Speaker 2: We have to be realistic, though, too, because wages are rising,
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: but prices are still too high and Americans are still
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: struggling to make ends meet. What will it actually take
• 48:56
  Speaker 2: for working families to regain the purchasing power that they've
• 48:59
  Speaker 2: lost over the last several years?
• 49:01
  Speaker 10: Well, I do think that there's a portion of the
• 49:03
  Speaker 10: affordability crisis that has a lot to do with like
• 49:07
  Speaker 10: this sort of COVID economy where we started tipping more
• 49:12
  Speaker 10: for every service that we that we use and where
• 49:15
  Speaker 10: we're using delivery services more, so that item that cost
• 49:19
  Speaker 10: you nine dollars now cost you 15 because you're delivering it.
• 49:23
  Speaker 10: And also where we have these micro financing for retail.
• 49:27
  Speaker 6: So in a firm.
• 49:29
  Speaker 10: And so what happens is people are buying more than
• 49:32
  Speaker 10: they normally would because they can microfinance it.
• 49:35
  Speaker 6: And then they don't realize where that money went.
• 49:37
  Speaker 10: So part of the affordability crisis is that, is sort
• 49:41
  Speaker 10: of the COVID economy. And the other part is during COVID,
• 49:45
  Speaker 10: we shut the economy down completely. But really what we
• 49:48
  Speaker 10: did is we shut off supply.
• 49:51
  Speaker 6: We never stopped demand. So demand was pent up.
• 49:54
  Speaker 10: And so when they reopened the economy, supply since then
• 49:59
  Speaker 10: has still been trying to catch up with demand, and
• 50:01
  Speaker 10: that's driving prices up.
• 50:03
  Speaker 2: So Republicans just suffered enormous losses in the midterms, despite
• 50:08
  Speaker 2: those encouraging economic numbers. What needs to happen over the
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: next two years for Americans to feel genuinely better off,
• 50:14
  Speaker 2: regardless of what the economic statistics say?
• 50:17
  Speaker 6: We got to do a better job communicating, man.
• 50:19
  Speaker 10: You know, the Trump administration, obviously, President Trump is the
• 50:23
  Speaker 10: lead communicator and he talks about it often.
• 50:26
  Speaker 6: But we need a broad based communication. We need Republican governors.
• 50:29
  Speaker 10: We need Republican senators and Congress people not to hold
• 50:33
  Speaker 10: the administration and its accomplishment at arm's length. I mean,
• 50:36
  Speaker 10: we barely saw any Republicans that were running for office
• 50:40
  Speaker 10: willing to defend tariffs and the jobs and the manufacturing
• 50:45
  Speaker 10: that was coming back and the factories that are being built.
• 50:48
  Speaker 10: You know, when people were talking about shutting, putting a moratorium,
• 50:52
  Speaker 10: for instance, on data center bills, we rarely saw Republicans
• 50:56
  Speaker 10: making a full-throated case for why we need to win
• 51:00
  Speaker 10: the AI race and what that actually means, not just
• 51:03
  Speaker 10: as a cliché. And so we have to do a
• 51:05
  Speaker 10: better job being a cheerleader of these policies because we
• 51:09
  Speaker 10: can't expect that to come from the broad-based media, and
• 51:12
  Speaker 10: we certainly can't expect it to come from Democrats.
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: I completely agree. I think AI is going to be,
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: if it's big now in the next two years, I
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: think it's going to be huge for 2028. Absolutely.
• 51:22
  Speaker 2: CEO of Emergence Global, Mr. Corey Ruth, thank you for
• 51:25
  Speaker 2: coming on the show.
• 51:27
  Speaker 6: Absolutely. Thanks for having me.
• 51:29
  Speaker 2: That's our show for tonight. Thanks for sticking with us.
• 51:31
  Speaker 2: David Pollack will be back again on Monday. So join
• 51:34
  Speaker 2: us then for another indispensable breakdown of today's headlines. As always,
• 51:38
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• 51:40
  Speaker 2: You can find David at DavidPollackUSA on all platforms or
• 51:44
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• 51:48
  Speaker 1: Have a great weekend. America, be safe. Don't despair. And remember,
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: Christ is King.
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