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Will Steve Hilton or Spencer Pratt win in CA? · The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated

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  Speaker 2: Good Morning, Glory, evening Gray. Ant a privilege to say
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  Speaker 2: that I'm Alex Marlowe, headitor in chief of Brightbour News
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  Speaker 2: and friend and mentee. If you Hewitt in today for
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  Speaker 2: three hours for you is going to be an unbelievable show.
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  Speaker 2: Today we get a wide array of guests, but none
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  Speaker 2: more important than Housing in Urban Development Secretary Scott Turner,
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  Speaker 2: who's with me on the line. Now we're going to
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  Speaker 2: get straight into it with the Secretary Secretary. Thanks for
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  Speaker 2: being here with me, and I want to get your
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  Speaker 2: comments on a couple of things that I think are
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  Speaker 2: topical and of the moment. But I know you're out
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  Speaker 2: there right now. You're making a big funding announcement overhauling
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  Speaker 2: the failed status quo of homelessness assistance. I got to
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  Speaker 2: hear all about this as a Los Angelino. It's a
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  Speaker 2: constant topic of conversation, wars on our minds out here,
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  Speaker 2: what's happening and what's new.
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  Speaker 3: Well, Alice's great to be with you. Thanks for having
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  Speaker 3: me again. Yes, we just made an announcement on our
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  Speaker 3: twenty twenty six Continuum of Care competitive NOFOLK and really
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  Speaker 3: for you and your listeners. The Housing First model, which
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  Speaker 3: was the model that has been in place over the
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  Speaker 3: last decade or so, what this really created was a
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  Speaker 3: homeless industrial complex. And so it was just housing our
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  Speaker 3: homeless neighbors, but we had no way to treat them,
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  Speaker 3: to get them transformed and get them back to a
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  Speaker 3: life of self sufficiency. And so since the Housing First
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  Speaker 3: model has started, homelessness has risen twenty seven percent in
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  Speaker 3: alex that's what record funding during the Obama and Biden
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  Speaker 3: administration's record funding from HUD. But yet homelessness has risen
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  Speaker 3: almost thirty percent through the years, and so that's a
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  Speaker 3: failed model. It was a bad play to run. And
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  Speaker 3: so with this new nofold what we're saying there has
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  Speaker 3: to be a paradigm shift. No longer can we just
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  Speaker 3: house people. We want to get people treated, get them
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  Speaker 3: transformed with wraparound services, and get them back to a
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  Speaker 3: life of self sufficiency.
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  Speaker 2: So I want to know where the money's going because
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  Speaker 2: I know how much I'm taxed, particularly out in California. Obviously,
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  Speaker 2: the federal tax rates so high. Presidents trying to bring
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  Speaker 2: it down as best you can. But we got city taxes,
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  Speaker 2: we get state taxes. Where who gets it? Because I'll
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  Speaker 2: tell you the problem seem to get worse each and
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  Speaker 2: every year exactly.
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  Speaker 3: And so these are like NGOs, non government organizations. These
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  Speaker 3: are nonprofits that are popping up. That's about four hundred,
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  Speaker 3: if you will, continuum of care entities around our country.
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  Speaker 3: And this new no fold that we sent out is
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  Speaker 3: over four billion dollars or so. Prior to this issue,
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  Speaker 3: you think three point nine billion, three point six billion,
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  Speaker 3: three point seven billion fund and has gone out of
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  Speaker 3: tax payer money, and yet homelessness continues to rise and
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  Speaker 3: sow these nonprofits. There's been a blind eye, if you will,
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  Speaker 3: Alex turned to these entities that have been receiving HUD
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  Speaker 3: money or taxpayer money as it pertains to treating homelessness
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  Speaker 3: in our country. So now we'll say, you know what,
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  Speaker 3: We're not turning a blind eye. Money is not going
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  Speaker 3: to just be renewed every single year during the Biden
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  Speaker 3: administration that there was a ninety to ninety five percent
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  Speaker 3: automatic renewal in regardless or regardless if there are results
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  Speaker 3: or not. And what we're saying that's over. We're not
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  Speaker 3: going to just renew grantees start throwing money at people
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  Speaker 3: even though they're not bringing the results they're supposed to bring.
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  Speaker 3: And that's where the word competitive comes in. And so
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  Speaker 3: there's going to be transparency. It's going to be based
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  Speaker 3: upon merit. It's not going to just be based upon
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  Speaker 3: units filled or money flowing. It's going to be based
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  Speaker 3: upon the results that the American people, in particular homeless
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  Speaker 3: neighbors deserve, so that they too can be stood up
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  Speaker 3: and live a life for self trans sufficiency.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, this is a good segue to talk about efforts
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  Speaker 2: in your making to root out waste, fraud and abuse
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  Speaker 2: within the Housing Nerve and Development Department, but also just
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  Speaker 2: in general trying to figure out a way to make
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  Speaker 2: it so that we're wasting less money. And there's so
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  Speaker 2: much fraud be uncovered, particularly in my neck of the woods.
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  Speaker 2: But tell me about some of those.
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  Speaker 4: Efforts, Yes, sir, So one thing I will say and
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  Speaker 4: I'll give you kind of an example in California alone,
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  Speaker 4: since we started taking the Point in Time report in
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  Speaker 4: two thousand and.
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  Speaker 3: Seven, homelessness in California has risen thirty percent and there
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  Speaker 3: has been record funding every single year. And so you know,
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  Speaker 3: there's a lot of waste, there's a lot of fraud,
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  Speaker 3: does a lot of abuse, many of which right now
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  Speaker 3: we are investigating. And so I can't talk a lot
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  Speaker 3: about that. But what we have put in place is
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  Speaker 3: modernizing our process, is modernizing the way that we track
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  Speaker 3: we're funding is goal. We have a tremendous team in
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  Speaker 3: our cfo's office that is making sure that our process
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  Speaker 3: is a very transparent so that when money goes out,
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  Speaker 3: we know exactly where it's going. But this is also
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  Speaker 3: to hold these entities that receive tax payer money to
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  Speaker 3: hold them accountable because prior to us coming in to
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  Speaker 3: be honest with al As, there really was no accountability,
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  Speaker 3: no transparency. It was just an automatic renewal. Well, we
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  Speaker 3: have to stop, yeah, because our first goal here would
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  Speaker 3: be good stewards over tax payer of dollars.
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  Speaker 2: Right, Because the goal is to identify the problem, spend
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  Speaker 2: the money. It's not to fix the problem. It's being
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  Speaker 2: back to California. And I don't talk politics, but we're
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  Speaker 2: doing a lot of politics on the show today in California. Inevitably,
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  Speaker 2: I don't need to weigh in politically, but how did
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  Speaker 2: the homelessness problem get so bad here? Because it feels
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  Speaker 2: like all the solutions don't work. It all just encourages
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  Speaker 2: more people to bring their homeless and literally drop them
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  Speaker 2: off in California. Why do you think things are so bad?
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  Speaker 2: We were told for years that it's all about they
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  Speaker 2: just need four walls and every problem gets solved. It's
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  Speaker 2: never worked. How come there's no innovation in the space.
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  Speaker 2: How come there's no new ideas that actually seem to
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  Speaker 2: get tried.
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  Speaker 3: Out out there? And that's a question that the voters
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  Speaker 3: there have to have for leadership. You know, it's all
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  Speaker 3: about leadership. It's about paradigm, it's about priority, it's about
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  Speaker 3: you know, are you just in this particular case, as
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  Speaker 3: we're talking about continuum of care, it has been housing first,
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  Speaker 3: housing only, But what we're saying is that it's not
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  Speaker 3: housing first, it's people first. And the way you put
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  Speaker 3: the people first is put wrap around services around them.
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  Speaker 3: And so as you ask a question, about in California.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's been a lack of leadership. It's been
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  Speaker 3: a lack of priority, it's been a lack of transparency.
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  Speaker 3: It's been just housing first, it's been you know what,
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  Speaker 3: let's give drug addicts clean needles so they can continue
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  Speaker 3: to remain drug addicts. Let's give drug addicts paraphernalia. Well,
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  Speaker 3: what we're saying, no, let's not give drug addicts paraphernalia.
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  Speaker 3: Let's put wrap around services around people who have drug
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  Speaker 3: addiction to get them healed, to get them whole again,
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  Speaker 3: look at them as a holistic person of a physical,
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  Speaker 3: spirit and emotional and then get them transformed and back
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  Speaker 3: to a life of self sufficiency. You have not had
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  Speaker 3: that in California, not only in California, but states around
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  Speaker 3: our country. And so I'm grateful that we have this
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  Speaker 3: opportunity now to change that whole paradigm.
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  Speaker 2: Secretary of Scott Turners, my guests from housing in urban development.
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  Speaker 2: One thing that we talk about all the time out
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  Speaker 2: here in California is cost of living, and people want
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  Speaker 2: to move, they want to go somewhere, but they don't
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  Speaker 2: necessarily identify places. I noticed this that earlier this week.
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  Speaker 2: You're out in Iowa, you're building homes or starter homes
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  Speaker 2: for people where would have that for humanity and that
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  Speaker 2: stuff a public private partnership. Contextualize this is there a
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  Speaker 2: broader initiative going on within the Trump government to try
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  Speaker 2: to get more starter homes built in areas that are
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  Speaker 2: not just necessarily to the hostile to family formation the
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  Speaker 2: way it is out here.
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  Speaker 3: Sure, and so as you know, housing affordability is a
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  Speaker 3: top of mind of President Trump, myself and other leaders
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  Speaker 3: in the government and what we've been doing when the
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  Speaker 3: President signed two new executive orders, one to reduce the
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  Speaker 3: barriers to construction of affordable housing. Another one is to
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  Speaker 3: increase the competition in the mortgage industry to bring back
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  Speaker 3: the hometown lender or if you will, the community banks
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  Speaker 3: back to the lending game. At HUD, we've been tearing
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  Speaker 3: down burdens some regulations like Affirmatively Further and Fair Housing
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  Speaker 3: to restore flexibility and control back to local communities because
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  Speaker 3: they know their needs the best. We just issued our
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  Speaker 3: our Regulatory Best Practices Report, which is a report that
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  Speaker 3: gives suggestions, if you will, not mandates, but suggestions to
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  Speaker 3: state and local governments on how they too can take
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  Speaker 3: an inventory of their regulatory environment to ease regulations to
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  Speaker 3: allow builders to build and developers to develop, which in
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  Speaker 3: turn will make it easier for buyers to buy. The
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  Speaker 3: average the median age right now for first time home
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  Speaker 3: buyers forty years old and a median home price in
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  Speaker 3: America's over four hundred thousand dollars, and a lot of
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  Speaker 3: that is due to burdensome regulations and red tape. And
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  Speaker 3: so we've been tearing down these red tape and tearing
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  Speaker 3: down regulations in order to help people to build and
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  Speaker 3: buyers to buy. We also announced this at our FAHA
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  Speaker 3: Morgan Insurance program. We'll start taking Advantage score four point
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  Speaker 3: zero and FIO ten t to increase the amount of
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  Speaker 3: people that can be first time home buyers.
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  Speaker 2: Scott Turner, Housing and Urban Development, Secretary of the nineteenth
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  Speaker 2: Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. As Secretary Turner on
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  Speaker 2: the Everything app Thank you, Secretary. We'll be right back.
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  Speaker 5: John.
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna get straight in on the news with you.
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  Speaker 2: Why won't America give a guy with a hyper aggressive
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  Speaker 2: Nazi tattoo a chance? I am sick of the abuse.
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  Speaker 2: The grand platter is taken. No one has given this
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  Speaker 2: guy the shot that he deserves. He is the most
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  Speaker 2: inspirational oyster farmer I've ever met or seeing, and I
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  Speaker 2: can't wait to see the Guy's the limit for this guy?
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  Speaker 2: What's going on? And you guys are part of the problem.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, well we are. And you know he's not just
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  Speaker 6: an oyster farmer. He's he's a harbor master. I don't
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  Speaker 6: know if you saw that story I.
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  Speaker 2: Heard on your show. It's unbelievable. Explain this one.
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  Speaker 6: He said he was a harbor master and then they
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  Speaker 6: called the guys working at the harbor and they're like,
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  Speaker 6: uh no, not exactly. He's we really don't have anybody
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  Speaker 6: like that just fits the description of that job that
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  Speaker 6: he claims to hold. But this guy is an absolute lunatic.
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  Speaker 6: Of course, the Nazi tattoo isn't just a Nazi tattoo.
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  Speaker 7: It's a totin cough. This is this is the.
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  Speaker 6: Insignia worn by the guards at the concentration camps. It's
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  Speaker 6: the worst of the worst you could possibly imagine. And
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  Speaker 6: then when you pile on all of the other terrible
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  Speaker 6: things that we're learning about every single day, there's no
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  Speaker 6: explanation for why Democrats would want somebody like that to
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  Speaker 6: be their standard bearer in a state like Maine, other
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  Speaker 6: than their left wing consultants look at somebody like him
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  Speaker 6: and think, yes, this is what your average man voter is.
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  Speaker 6: We have a problem with masculinity in our party. No
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  Speaker 6: man wants to vote for a Democrat, So we're going
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  Speaker 6: to pick somebody out who we think represents the voters
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  Speaker 6: that aren't choosing us. And it's the most offensive thing
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  Speaker 6: they could even come up with. I mean, I don't
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  Speaker 6: understand why they're doing this, but you got to think
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  Speaker 6: that Susan Collins can beat this guy in November.
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  Speaker 2: You got to think so. But this is really interesting
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  Speaker 2: because Dwayne, do we have that clip, handy. I'll play
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  Speaker 2: it after the break, but the clip of their leaning
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  Speaker 2: into this talking point that this isn't toxic masculinity, this
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  Speaker 2: is the great masculinity stepping out on your wife having
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  Speaker 2: a represent do you want to play it, you got it, going.
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  Speaker 5: To do it.
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  Speaker 3: Masculinity in certain ways, the Democrats have trouble connecting with
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  Speaker 3: mail voters.
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  Speaker 5: Describe the masculinity that you represent.
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  Speaker 8: I think it's just a healthy form of it, which
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  Speaker 8: is Yeah. Look, I mean I lift weights, I shoot guns.
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  Speaker 8: My background is obviously in the military. I work outside.
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  Speaker 8: Most of my hobbies are things that people tend to
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  Speaker 8: associate with, like manly stuff. I guess at the exact
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  Speaker 8: same time I go to therapy. I have a very
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  Speaker 8: open sort of dialogue and emotional relationship.
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  Speaker 9: With my wife.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, an open relationship. Yees, certainly so, John. I'll tell
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  Speaker 2: you when I got caught secting six to twelve women
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  Speaker 2: and I was compassing you through my wife with therapy,
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  Speaker 2: and she said, what's going on here? I said, well,
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  Speaker 2: I lift weights. I mean, that's it, right, that's the explanation.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I just do all the normal things that men do.
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  Speaker 6: You know, it's absolutely it's absolutely insane that this guy
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  Speaker 6: is even in the conversation as a candidate for them.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, they've really pulled out all the stops on
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  Speaker 6: lunacy this cycle. They've got Tallarico in Texas, who is
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  Speaker 6: a complete, completely different kettle of fish.
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  Speaker 7: He's the guy who they think.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, this is what a Christian conservative Christian looks like.
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  Speaker 7: And it's like they have no clue.
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  Speaker 6: They won't change a single policy, they won't change anything
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  Speaker 6: that they did in terms of their message from last election.
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  Speaker 6: They think that they can change the characters and all
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  Speaker 6: of a sudden, everybody's going to get tricked into voting
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  Speaker 6: for them in twenty twenty six and I'm just not
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  Speaker 6: seeing it.
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  Speaker 7: I mean, they do have some wind at their back.
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  Speaker 6: This is a mid term Those usually don't go great
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  Speaker 6: for the party in power, but the kinds of candidates
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  Speaker 6: that they're putting forward are certainly given Republicans every chance
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  Speaker 6: to hold on to the House and Senate.
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  Speaker 2: And they're putting out a fake the insie Now, I
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  Speaker 2: also saw this on your show. I'm talking to the
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  Speaker 2: real Dan Sullivan about an hour so I'm looking forward
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  Speaker 2: to this. They put out a fake Dan Sullivan now
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  Speaker 2: in Alaska.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: So there's a press release that went out a few
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  Speaker 6: days ago for Dan Sullivan for Senate and it mentions
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  Speaker 6: Senator Dan Sullivan several times. He is rightly pissed off
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  Speaker 6: about this because Democrats Democrats are using all kinds of
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  Speaker 6: tricks to try to like hook or crook these elections
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  Speaker 6: where they don't really think they have a chance. And
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  Speaker 6: Alaska is a really interesting state. They've got this woman
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  Speaker 6: named Mary Piltola, and they try to pretend like she's
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  Speaker 6: some kind of an outsider because nobody outside of Alaska
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  Speaker 6: has heard of her. Well, she's been in Alaska politics
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  Speaker 6: for forty years. She's a career politician. And I think
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  Speaker 6: that Dan Sullivan's going to beat her. I mean, the
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  Speaker 6: last time money was spent against her, when she was
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  Speaker 6: running a statewide race, she came up short, and I
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  Speaker 6: got to think that it's going to happen again.
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  Speaker 7: But it's going to take a whole lot of work.
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  Speaker 7: I'm glad you're.
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  Speaker 6: Talking to Sullivan today because he's a really good candidate.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And one thing that you guys identified on your show
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  Speaker 2: I think is really brilliant is that this is not
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  Speaker 2: just Graham Platner, and it's not just about a guy
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  Speaker 2: with a Nazi tattoo who's an oyster farmer with one
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  Speaker 2: client who happens to be his mom and an out
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  Speaker 2: house fetish. This is about the Democrat consultants and they're
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  Speaker 2: a party establishment. They're so lost. They stand for nothing
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  Speaker 2: other than calling people like you and me fascist and Nazis. Ironically,
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  Speaker 2: they've nominated a Nazi. It's this shows a real rot
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  Speaker 2: within their party. But tell me what does that mean
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  Speaker 2: for us? Because we have to hold the Senate, we
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  Speaker 2: have to win. Does this give us a better shot?
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  Speaker 7: I think it does.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, you know, we talked a minute ago about
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  Speaker 6: the headwinds that Republicans face just naturally because you always
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  Speaker 6: do if you're the party in power. But the reality
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  Speaker 6: is when they are nominating I still, Alex, I cannot
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  Speaker 6: get over the fact that the guy is a Nazi.
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  Speaker 6: You know what I mean, should and you should everything
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  Speaker 6: else with the second and everything else.
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  Speaker 2: It's not like that's.
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  Speaker 6: Great either, but that but that they're like looking the
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  Speaker 6: other way on a guy with a Nazi tattoo. That's
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  Speaker 6: that that should be like the full stop scenario, Like
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  Speaker 6: under what circumstances would anybody think that that's an okay
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  Speaker 6: thing for a major party to get behind. And every
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  Speaker 6: single candidate that Democrats are running across the map should
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  Speaker 6: have to answer for it. I saw on h on
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  Speaker 6: X yesterday that Vindmann the House candidate was being pressed
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  Speaker 6: about Platner and uh, you know, interaction with a reporter
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  Speaker 6: in his race, But he was being pressed about Platner's
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  Speaker 6: like sexual escapades, not do you support a Nazi?
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  Speaker 7: Are you comfortable like that?
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  Speaker 6: That is the part that the meat mainstream media has
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  Speaker 6: blown past that I think is beyond the payal this cycle,
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  Speaker 6: and you know, every single one of their candidates should
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  Speaker 6: have to answer for that, and many Democrats today are
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  Speaker 6: still sticking with him.
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  Speaker 2: John, I'm going to tell you. I'm going to tell
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  Speaker 2: you that you guys predicted on your show we're going
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  Speaker 2: to get an October Dick pic and it's not going
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  Speaker 2: to matter. That's the quote clip. That quote is not
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: going to matter because he's a Nazi. That's what matters
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: the most. So think about that. He's not the sexting stuff.
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: It does matter, but not nearly. Nothing really matters. I
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: got a minute with you, John, and I want to
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: plug you. Guys did a fantastic interview. Sender Ben sas
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: my wife's no oncologist. We're super excited about the drax
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: and racib which he's on, which is increasing doubling life
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: expectancy for stage four cancer patients. Who do not are
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: not responding to other treatments. It's really revolutionary, it's really inspiring.
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: I only have thirty seconds left, but give me one
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: inspiring thing from the interview that you want people to
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: check out.
• 17:44
  Speaker 6: I mean, this guy was so sick when he did
• 17:48
  Speaker 6: this interview. He had a barf bucket right next to
• 17:51
  Speaker 6: the desk that you couldn't see. He said he'd thrown
• 17:53
  Speaker 6: up thirty one times. And yet he is still out
• 17:55
  Speaker 6: there sharing the message about how important family is, how
• 17:59
  Speaker 6: important work is, how important purpose.
• 18:01
  Speaker 9: In life is.
• 18:02
  Speaker 6: And I really think everybody should check it out because
• 18:04
  Speaker 6: Ben Sas is a terrific guy.
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: John Ashbrook, thanks for joining me on the Hwitch Show
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: Ruthless Podcast. Wherever you get your pods, I listen, you
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: should too. We'll be right back on the Huge Show.
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: Alex marlow in for Hugh. James Lylyx is with me
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: humorous Substack contributor. He's at Lylex l I l e
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: Ks on the Everything app and James Lylex dot substack
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: dot com. James, really nice to make your acquaintance. I've
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: read your stuff for quite some time, and I'll tell
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: you Dyne Dwayne told this clip and I wanted to
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: get your take on this. I thought this'd be perfect
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: things to start the conversation. This is Chris Murphy, the
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: Senator and media prostitute. Shall we say on CNN with
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: Casey Hunt, let's play cut twelve.
• 18:46
  Speaker 10: I think it's hard to just say everybody should be
• 18:49
  Speaker 10: good and moral. I think you've got to create a
• 18:51
  Speaker 10: set of rules that promote goodness, promote the common good.
• 18:55
  Speaker 7: And that's what this book is really about. Should those
• 18:58
  Speaker 7: rules apply to Democrats too?
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: I mean, do you support Grand Platner even in the
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: wake of all of this?
• 19:04
  Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean I haven't you followed the minute by
• 19:06
  Speaker 10: minute of what's happened over the last few days.
• 19:08
  Speaker 5: But I do think there's a.
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: Difference minute by minute for the guy with the Nazi
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: tattoo James.
• 19:15
  Speaker 5: Right by minutes.
• 19:17
  Speaker 11: Well, I do think there actually should be some sort
• 19:19
  Speaker 11: of rules, and I've heard of some rules that may
• 19:22
  Speaker 11: be ten of them come to mind us how one
• 19:24
  Speaker 11: should live with all of this? This is all incredibly convenient,
• 19:29
  Speaker 11: depending on what we're talking about, and you know that
• 19:31
  Speaker 11: no matter what Platner's done. And I just love the
• 19:33
  Speaker 11: fact that he's described as an oyster farmer, which makes
• 19:36
  Speaker 11: him just sound like a bride sentened man of the
• 19:38
  Speaker 11: sea or the beds.
• 19:40
  Speaker 5: And the rest of it.
• 19:41
  Speaker 11: You know, when he's this weird guy who's texting this
• 19:44
  Speaker 11: peculiar stuff over be the course of the years and
• 19:46
  Speaker 11: we the tattoo all of the rest. But they'll vote
• 19:49
  Speaker 11: for him, they'll absolutely vote. They will vote for the
• 19:52
  Speaker 11: Nazi because it's important that he win so the Nazis
• 19:56
  Speaker 11: don't win. That's the calculation. Anybody on the left has
• 19:59
  Speaker 11: got be good and worthy of your vote, because the
• 20:02
  Speaker 11: alternatives destroy our democracy. And by our democracy, of course
• 20:07
  Speaker 11: we mean a stay like California, which has one party rule.
• 20:10
  Speaker 11: But you know if you had, if you had two
• 20:12
  Speaker 11: parties in competition in California, that would be destroying our
• 20:15
  Speaker 11: democracy because the other side is beneath contempt cannot even
• 20:20
  Speaker 11: be discussed. The minute you start to admit that there
• 20:23
  Speaker 11: might be ideas on the right or people on the
• 20:25
  Speaker 11: right who have the nation's best interest at heart and
• 20:27
  Speaker 11: some great ways to bring us to prosperity, then all
• 20:30
  Speaker 11: of a sudden you open the door for considering that
• 20:32
  Speaker 11: they might have some other ideas on the right that
• 20:35
  Speaker 11: we should consider, and that's off the table.
• 20:37
  Speaker 5: You can't, so we have to vote for the guy
• 20:39
  Speaker 5: in the left. And that's why Plattner I haven't kept
• 20:41
  Speaker 5: up on the end the Yang, the aid to the z.
• 20:43
  Speaker 11: But whatever, he's got to be ergo, he's got to
• 20:47
  Speaker 11: go in.
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: In my last book, Breaking the Law, I had a
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: chapter called the Democrats hate Democracy, and then now I
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: think that the Nazi Party or the Anti Nazi Party
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: embracing the Nazi. It really is that type of the
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: consistency that I feel like maybe Americans are getting numb
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: to it. I feel that's the only explanation of why
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: a guy like partners here. You mentioned he's oyster farming.
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: You know, he's only got one client. It's his mother.
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: This is a true story. His only client is his mom.
• 21:13
  Speaker 5: Right, I know? And how much can you a shuck
• 21:16
  Speaker 5: to keep ma heavy? The term is a lot.
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: Two exactly twenty four.
• 21:23
  Speaker 11: Well, you know, you supposedly had supposedly had that aprodisia
• 21:26
  Speaker 11: get fit, So maybe that's the problem. He's been getting
• 21:29
  Speaker 11: high in his own supply. The term has lost any
• 21:32
  Speaker 11: meaning because it's been red, bandied about, rooted and thrown
• 21:34
  Speaker 11: at people who don't deserve it. It's like all these
• 21:36
  Speaker 11: other magic words that we're supposed to make people just
• 21:38
  Speaker 11: reel back and shut up and win and Wilton the
• 21:40
  Speaker 11: rest of it don't work anymore because they've just been
• 21:42
  Speaker 11: used all over the place inconsiderably inconsistently, and they've lost
• 21:45
  Speaker 11: their power.
• 21:46
  Speaker 5: So all the magic words that they have don't mean
• 21:49
  Speaker 5: anything anymore.
• 21:49
  Speaker 11: Nazi doesn't mean anything to the right anymore, because if
• 21:52
  Speaker 11: you believe in a reduction of the capital gains task,
• 21:54
  Speaker 11: you're right out there with Himler and Garrett, and so
• 21:57
  Speaker 11: you know, when this guy actually turns out to have
• 21:59
  Speaker 11: actual Nazi in you know, it's it's just what are
• 22:02
  Speaker 11: you gonna do?
• 22:04
  Speaker 5: Yes, the terms have become meaning, So we need new ones.
• 22:06
  Speaker 11: We need new sober quests that we can hurl at
• 22:09
  Speaker 11: people that actually stick, because the rest of these just
• 22:11
  Speaker 11: bounce off like Bbi's on the on the medieval armor.
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: I also love that he was sexting with between six
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: and twelve women. I like that range. That's great range there.
• 22:21
  Speaker 5: Well, that that tells me the man can multitask.
• 22:25
  Speaker 11: It also is an indication that he's prepared for the
• 22:28
  Speaker 11: intricacies of the bureaucratic state, because you don't know exactly
• 22:31
  Speaker 11: who you're giving, you're paying off if you're running the
• 22:33
  Speaker 11: California High Speed rail system. You don't know if you're
• 22:35
  Speaker 11: paying off at union today or if you're paying off
• 22:38
  Speaker 11: the construction concrete delivery guys.
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: If you can text six to twelve.
• 22:42
  Speaker 11: Women have their names kept straight, and be kept straight
• 22:45
  Speaker 11: with whatever particular kink you happen to be discussing in
• 22:47
  Speaker 11: that channel, that's a mind that can multitask.
• 22:49
  Speaker 5: And maybe he is good and the right guy to
• 22:52
  Speaker 5: actually steer the government.
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: I heard, so, don't think so, this is so, this
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: is so right on. I was just wondering how much
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: free time this guy's got in his hands. He reminds
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: me there's this big hit piece on Andrew Heuberman, the
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: podcaster Neuro's scientist, and it had been revealed that he
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: had five girlfriends throughout the country. And then I thought, oh,
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: he really is a genius, like anyone who can balance
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: five girlfriends at the same time he is. I will
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: now take cues from him on science because it's proven
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: his intellect is just way too high. Someone who's intellect
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: is not super high. A doctor Jill Biden, who's got
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: a doctor an education, James, she's out there now with
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: the book. It's called View from the East Wing. The
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: photo just got the cover dropped, and she is thriving
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: right now. I got a small cut of her doing
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: the media rounds cut eleven guys.
• 23:36
  Speaker 5: I would never want to put our family through that again.
• 23:38
  Speaker 12: But does he believe to this day that he would
• 23:40
  Speaker 12: have defeated Donald Trump in that election?
• 23:42
  Speaker 5: I believe he would have beat Donald Trump in that election. James,
• 23:48
  Speaker 5: which election is she talking about?
• 23:50
  Speaker 11: Is she talking about the talking about dog Catcher of
• 23:54
  Speaker 11: Santa Barbara. I mean, what we saw on the debate
• 23:57
  Speaker 11: should not have come to a surprise to anybody else.
• 23:59
  Speaker 11: What we saw in the was an extrapolation of what
• 24:01
  Speaker 11: we saw on twenty twenty when they didn't let the
• 24:03
  Speaker 11: guy out of the basement and he's doing these hostage
• 24:05
  Speaker 11: videos from somewhere.
• 24:07
  Speaker 5: This was not a man in twenty twenty that we
• 24:09
  Speaker 5: knew was the sharp.
• 24:10
  Speaker 11: Old, nasty Joe Biden that we loved so much in
• 24:13
  Speaker 11: the eighties. So it was obvious that the man had
• 24:15
  Speaker 11: lost not just a step, but practically a marathon.
• 24:18
  Speaker 5: So his performance there, for whatever reason, should.
• 24:20
  Speaker 11: Have come to it was of no surprise to any
• 24:22
  Speaker 11: of us who've been watching him, and if it's a
• 24:24
  Speaker 11: surprise to her, then I have to wonder exactly how
• 24:26
  Speaker 11: good her diagnostic skills are.
• 24:28
  Speaker 5: Oh, that's right, I'm sorry, she's not a doctor. I'm
• 24:30
  Speaker 5: sure she.
• 24:31
  Speaker 11: Would stand up if on an airplane they asked for it.
• 24:33
  Speaker 11: Is there a doctor here? Yes, But it's it has
• 24:36
  Speaker 11: to do with literature and its connection to the human
• 24:39
  Speaker 11: spirit in the ren.
• 24:41
  Speaker 5: Doctor.
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: That's the type of doctors that really really make a
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: difference when it comes to getting on MS now and
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: giving the commentary. James, tell me about your take, and
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: this could be serious one or a humus one, obviously,
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: but I'm curious your observations of what's going on out
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: in LA with these ai ads from Spencer Pratt. Are
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: we embracing these ads or is this a sign of
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: just sort of the Is this ladder stage capitalism and
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: times for us?
• 25:09
  Speaker 5: No? I think it's great.
• 25:10
  Speaker 11: I think it's absolutely fantastic because instead of putting it
• 25:12
  Speaker 11: in the hands of the consultants and the people who
• 25:14
  Speaker 11: focus tested everything and massage the fund out of it
• 25:17
  Speaker 11: and have to do come up with something that the
• 25:19
  Speaker 11: candidate can approve at the end, you have these rogue
• 25:21
  Speaker 11: things coming in from the margins by people who are
• 25:23
  Speaker 11: dedicated to the cause and also want to get their
• 25:25
  Speaker 11: name out there and have a more imagination than you
• 25:28
  Speaker 11: find in a great deal of these political consultants. So
• 25:31
  Speaker 11: the spencer as have been fantastic, and I look at
• 25:34
  Speaker 11: the end of them.
• 25:35
  Speaker 5: It doesn't matter whether he's endorsing it.
• 25:36
  Speaker 11: He's making a point that nobody else has been able
• 25:38
  Speaker 11: to make, and making it clearly.
• 25:40
  Speaker 5: With a lego figurine with three grays standing outside of you.
• 25:43
  Speaker 11: And if it's all Ai generated, I don't particularly care.
• 25:46
  Speaker 11: It's ingenious and subversive and energetic in a way that
• 25:49
  Speaker 11: the Republican Party has not been in an awful long time.
• 25:53
  Speaker 7: I'm more of it.
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: I say, yeah, I'm with you on this, and I
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: was hoping you'd say that I think that the democratization
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: it really is democracy. He's proving a guy who had
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: no political background is able to come out here and
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: make a difference simply with some of the power of
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: being able to use technology and to use attention seeking behavior. So,
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: but my question, give me your three sixty manage point.
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: How do you think the country's doing. We're heading into
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: historic summer America two fifty America two fifty festivities are
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: off the rail from a planning perspective, But where are
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: we at culturally?
• 26:21
  Speaker 5: James, Oh, up and down, here and there. It's all
• 26:26
  Speaker 5: over the road, and it usually is. In retrospect.
• 26:28
  Speaker 11: We always cast our eye back and say, ah, that
• 26:30
  Speaker 11: truly was a golden age.
• 26:31
  Speaker 5: I talk to people who were romanticized the seventies. I
• 26:33
  Speaker 5: was there. I can tell you it wasn't It was horrible.
• 26:36
  Speaker 11: We look back at the bi centennial celebrations of seventy
• 26:39
  Speaker 11: six and they look all great and wonderful, but at
• 26:40
  Speaker 11: the time they were criticized for being cheesy and overly
• 26:43
  Speaker 11: patriotic and not enough and the.
• 26:44
  Speaker 5: Rest of it. Listen, it's always been a mixed bag America.
• 26:47
  Speaker 5: I'm still hopeful. I still think we're going in the
• 26:49
  Speaker 5: right direction. Nana. I've got optimism for the next two fifty.
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: Absolutely perfect. James Lylas dot substat dot com. Thank you,
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: my friend. We'll be right back back to the Hugh
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: Hewitt Show. Alex marlow in for Hugh. Today we had
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: David Drucker with me. David and Gleake, great to have
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: you back on the show. Thanks for joining me again.
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: And I want to ask you we got a couple
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: of political topics I want to get to. But your
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: latest piece at the Dispatch is on the DNC and
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: their autopsy fiasco, which I thought was just an unbelievable moment,
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: and it kind of came and went from the new
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: cycle very quickly, as things do these days. Can you
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: give us a taste of the piece and can they
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: move past it, because it really was sort of an
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: embarrassing moment.
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 27:31
  Speaker 13: Look, I mean what ended up being the story of
• 27:33
  Speaker 13: the autopsy was that it was completely worthless, and the
• 27:36
  Speaker 13: DNC will tell you that, right. So, you know, initially
• 27:38
  Speaker 13: I started reading the autopsy, I'm like, where's this?
• 27:41
  Speaker 5: Where's that?
• 27:41
  Speaker 13: How can they leave this out? How can I leave
• 27:43
  Speaker 13: that out? And then I, you know, when I finally
• 27:44
  Speaker 13: got around to doing more reporting, you know, I realized, yeah,
• 27:48
  Speaker 13: that's the whole problem.
• 27:49
  Speaker 5: They actually know what the problem is.
• 27:51
  Speaker 13: And so the real story was one of mismanagement by
• 27:54
  Speaker 13: chairman Ken Martin and the fact that he basically hid
• 27:58
  Speaker 13: the truth from from Democrat for you know, almost six
• 28:02
  Speaker 13: months and then finally said, yeah, this is the reason
• 28:05
  Speaker 13: why I didn't release it, because you know, it was
• 28:07
  Speaker 13: a worthless product. He commissioned it to the wrong person
• 28:09
  Speaker 13: who wasn't equipped to do it, and it just became
• 28:13
  Speaker 13: one of those things. And so I think this is
• 28:15
  Speaker 13: just more about him as a as a DNC chairman.
• 28:19
  Speaker 13: These things not tend not to matter ultimately as much
• 28:22
  Speaker 13: as some people think. Part of that is because we're
• 28:25
  Speaker 13: in a midterm election cycle where the campaign the congressional
• 28:29
  Speaker 13: campaign Committees or paramount and the d SCC and the
• 28:32
  Speaker 13: d TRIP are you know, doing what they're supposed to
• 28:34
  Speaker 13: be doing in terms of raising money and things of
• 28:39
  Speaker 13: that nature. The DNC, though, is going to have to
• 28:41
  Speaker 13: be in good shape for twenty twenty eight. So I
• 28:43
  Speaker 13: think the real question is, you know, and I haven't
• 28:46
  Speaker 13: taken a deeper dive into this yet, but you know,
• 28:48
  Speaker 13: is everything else the.
• 28:49
  Speaker 5: DNC is doing operating properly?
• 28:52
  Speaker 13: And then you know, finally Ken Martin's raised the fair
• 28:55
  Speaker 13: amount of money, but a lot of it's gone out.
• 28:57
  Speaker 5: The door and they still have a ton of debt.
• 29:00
  Speaker 13: And so he claims it's because he's shoving money out
• 29:03
  Speaker 13: the door to the state parties that he doesn't want
• 29:05
  Speaker 13: to have a big cash on hand. You know, we'll
• 29:07
  Speaker 13: find out if that's true and not a lot of
• 29:08
  Speaker 13: Democrats think it's it's boloney, and then he's just not
• 29:10
  Speaker 13: raising enough money and that's his excuse. But we'll find
• 29:13
  Speaker 13: out and we'll see how this plays.
• 29:14
  Speaker 5: Out over time.
• 29:15
  Speaker 13: But look, I've lived through periods where the DNC was
• 29:17
  Speaker 13: a mess, the RNC was a mess. If you have
• 29:19
  Speaker 13: a good presidential candidate that voters want to vote for,
• 29:22
  Speaker 13: it tends not to matter too much.
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's interesting to observe the Democrats knowing that Republicans
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: have a lot of headwinds, and regardless of what you
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: make of the Trump administration, some of the Republican candidates,
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: it's undeniable. The Democrats are fielding just the most horrific
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: slate of candidates that you've ever seen. Is caricatures of
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: ideas that consultants have drawn up, and it is just
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: not It doesn't feel like it's going to resonate all
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: the way until November. And this has to come from somewhere.
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: And there's a bit of a chicken and egg thing, David.
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: That thing's happening is is it these candidates the grand
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: Platters of the world, that they're so nuts or is
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: there an organizational failing that's taking place something that is
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: more latent within the party that is making them vulnerable.
• 30:04
  Speaker 13: I don't think it's organizational. I think the Democrats are
• 30:07
  Speaker 13: going through their own tea party moment where their establishment
• 30:11
  Speaker 13: just simply doesn't have the power that it used to.
• 30:14
  Speaker 5: Right, And look, I live through.
• 30:17
  Speaker 13: Twenty ten, twenty twelve, twenty fourteen, fourteen, not so much,
• 30:23
  Speaker 13: but ten and twelve for sure, where Republicans were trying
• 30:26
  Speaker 13: to identify really good candidates and were often big vooted
• 30:28
  Speaker 13: by the voters who preferred somebody else.
• 30:30
  Speaker 5: Sometimes this works out well.
• 30:32
  Speaker 13: It did with Marco Rubio in twenty ten, for the
• 30:38
  Speaker 13: Republican governor who's now a Democrat whose name I'm blanking
• 30:41
  Speaker 13: on here because I got little kids in a short
• 30:42
  Speaker 13: term memory. In Maine, for instance, right, and that's the
• 30:47
  Speaker 13: one on everybody's mind.
• 30:48
  Speaker 5: I mean, the.
• 30:49
  Speaker 13: Party leaders in Washington didn't want Graham Plattner. They recognized
• 30:52
  Speaker 13: that he was a potential train wreck. That's why they
• 30:55
  Speaker 13: want a Janet Mills. Yes she's older, Yes she's an
• 30:57
  Speaker 13: establishment player, but look, she's not scandal plagued, and she's demonstrated.
• 31:02
  Speaker 5: That she knows how to win in Maine. But they
• 31:04
  Speaker 5: were overruled by the voters. So you know it's not
• 31:06
  Speaker 5: the d Trip. There's plenty.
• 31:08
  Speaker 13: Look, there's plenty you can say about the Democrats, but
• 31:10
  Speaker 13: you know the d TRIP and the DFCC are doing
• 31:12
  Speaker 13: their jobs. The voters right now could care less what
• 31:15
  Speaker 13: their party establishment in Washington thinks.
• 31:17
  Speaker 5: It's the same thing.
• 31:18
  Speaker 13: Republicans went through and it cost them winnable Senate seats
• 31:22
  Speaker 13: in twenty ten and twenty twelve.
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: If you follow ups on that, First of all, do
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: you think mentioning Mills, do you think there's any chance
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: she restarts your campaign? Because her social media team did
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: point out that she merely suspended. The campaign is not
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: over because the platter stufre's not going to stop. It's
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: just going to be a steady drum beat. When you've
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: seen this must spoke, there's going to be so much
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: more fire that comes down the road, which is amazing
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: considering he's got an actual Nazi tattoo, that it could
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: somehow continue to be bad for them. So do you
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: think there's any potential for that or is that just
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: pie in the sky.
• 31:49
  Speaker 13: I think it's unlikely to happen. I think Graham Platner
• 31:52
  Speaker 13: has a lot of grassroots support. I think you know
• 31:54
  Speaker 13: that he represents for a lot of grassroots Democrats that
• 31:57
  Speaker 13: he's a fighter. And sometimes the way voters are is
• 32:00
  Speaker 13: the more scandals they have and the more the candidate
• 32:03
  Speaker 13: is willing to fight through the scandal and not step away,
• 32:06
  Speaker 13: the more it tells voters that you'll fight through anything.
• 32:10
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 32:12
  Speaker 13: We've seen that in Texas with Ken Paxton, sure, and
• 32:14
  Speaker 13: we're seeing it in Maine with Graham Platter.
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: But one thing with packs and I think a lot
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: of his stuff he was resident on some issues with people.
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: I think it's part of why that some of the
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: scandals were overlooked. But you're the phenomenon you're identifying is
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: really important because I see this as a media person
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: just seeing if people are getting attacked, even for legitimate
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: reasons online, it just seems to grow their base. But
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: will that translate to voters in Maine. That's what's interesting
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: because certainly the attacks gets you energy, but is that
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: energy does it turn into wins? I don't know. And
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: that brings me back to your calum about the DNC.
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: It's so it sounds like, you know, Martin's poor oversight
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: is sort of the problem here and that's leading a
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: lot of downstream effects. Why did he let this report
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: come out? Why do you think it was put together
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: so shoddily? Do you think it actually threatens his few sure?
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: Or is that just such a tough job right now
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: there's no one that's going to step up.
• 33:05
  Speaker 13: Look, I think that DNC members by and large don't
• 33:08
  Speaker 13: want to make a change.
• 33:09
  Speaker 5: They're the ones empowered to make a change.
• 33:11
  Speaker 13: I think grassroots voters sometimes forget that these institutions are
• 33:14
  Speaker 13: not really responsive to them. They're responsive to their own
• 33:18
  Speaker 13: constituency that in this case is the DNC members, and
• 33:22
  Speaker 13: we're close to a midterm election where Democrats are on
• 33:25
  Speaker 13: offense and the political environment.
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: I lost David there for a second. He freeze up
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: for you guys. Yeah, you froze up there at the end.
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: So if you wouldn't mind reiterating that conclusion.
• 33:37
  Speaker 13: I was to say, look, the Ken Martin, this is
• 33:40
  Speaker 13: an issue of Ken Martin's mismanagement, and it's not really
• 33:44
  Speaker 13: having an impact on the party, which is on offense
• 33:47
  Speaker 13: and in the middle of a good political environment for them.
• 33:50
  Speaker 5: I do think.
• 33:51
  Speaker 13: Though, as we pivot to twenty twenty eight, he may
• 33:53
  Speaker 13: have more questions to answer and that's where the DNC
• 33:56
  Speaker 13: is much more important. I think one of the things
• 33:59
  Speaker 13: protecting him right now is the DNC is really a
• 34:02
  Speaker 13: presidential committee.
• 34:03
  Speaker 5: So is the RNC.
• 34:04
  Speaker 13: It's the congressional campaign committees that are paramount in midterm elections,
• 34:08
  Speaker 13: and they're doing just fine, and so we'll have to
• 34:12
  Speaker 13: And these, by the way, these national party committees, they're
• 34:14
  Speaker 13: not in charge of messaging, they're not in charge of
• 34:16
  Speaker 13: candidate recruitment. They're they're operational and infrastructure. So something to
• 34:20
  Speaker 13: keep in mind.
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: Great reporting from the Dispatch, David Drucker, thank you for
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: being here and hope to talk to you soon. We'll
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: be right back on the Hugh Huite Show with me
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: Alex Marlin Percy. And we have another piece of evidence
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: to this effect. There is, of course Senator Dan Sullivan
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: of Alaska, but now there's another candidate, another Dan Sullivan,
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: who's running for Senate in Alaska. This is it appears
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: like a plant, like a prop of the Democrat Party
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: who is trying to use I would say, less than
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: democratic means, less than fear means for sure, to try
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: to win this race, try to rig this race. Senator
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: Dan Sullivan is with me now, Senator Salivan, thank you
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: for joining me here on the Hugh Huit Show. Tell
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: me what's going on, and you guys have taken action,
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: which is breaking news right now. I want to hear
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: what was going on and then telling me about the
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: action you've taken.
• 35:03
  Speaker 14: Yeah, sure, Alex, thanks for having me on. Look, the
• 35:06
  Speaker 14: Democrats you just mentioned it. You know I'm gonna beat
• 35:09
  Speaker 14: my opponent. My Democrat opponent is a former congresswoman. Failed
• 35:13
  Speaker 14: congresswoman named Mary Peltola. Okay, no record, two terms in Congress,
• 35:17
  Speaker 14: never got a bill pass right, So the Alaskan people
• 35:21
  Speaker 14: fired her right in twenty twenty four, she lost her election.
• 35:25
  Speaker 14: And so what's happening right now? They know they can't
• 35:29
  Speaker 14: beat me. So what they're gonna do is they're going
• 35:32
  Speaker 14: to cheat, and that's what they're doing.
• 35:34
  Speaker 15: But we've found them out. We are.
• 35:37
  Speaker 14: The NRC has a letter that is sent to the
• 35:41
  Speaker 14: Division of Elections head in Alaska and the Lieutenant governor
• 35:45
  Speaker 14: who's in charge of our Alaska saying, hey, you can't
• 35:48
  Speaker 14: let this fraud on the Alaskan people and the Alaskan
• 35:53
  Speaker 14: election system be perpetrated for this election.
• 35:56
  Speaker 15: So what's the fraud? Well, what happened was.
• 36:00
  Speaker 14: There was another candidate who filed at the last minute
• 36:04
  Speaker 14: with the name Dan Sullivan from Petersburg, Alaska. He's a
• 36:08
  Speaker 14: sham candidate, Alex. What do I mean by that? First,
• 36:13
  Speaker 14: he's doing everything in his power to confuse Alaskans. Right,
• 36:19
  Speaker 14: let me just give you a couple examples. He is
• 36:22
  Speaker 14: a liberal, progressive Democrat. We have all the records of
• 36:25
  Speaker 14: all the liberals he's supported. He's even supported again the
• 36:29
  Speaker 14: Democrat candidate in this race, Mary Peltola, a couple times
• 36:32
  Speaker 14: with donations. But at the last minute he claimed he
• 36:36
  Speaker 14: was a Republican last minute, so he filed as a Republican.
• 36:41
  Speaker 14: The reason he's doing that, he's not a Republican. The
• 36:43
  Speaker 14: Republican Party put out a press release saying this is absurd,
• 36:47
  Speaker 14: this is a scam, This is a sham. The reason
• 36:51
  Speaker 14: he's doing that he wants his name to be on
• 36:53
  Speaker 14: the ballot Dan Sullivan, Republican next to mine. Dan Sullivan Republican.
• 36:58
  Speaker 14: Alaskans known me as a Republican.
• 37:00
  Speaker 15: This guy's not. So that's intentional.
• 37:04
  Speaker 14: Confusing of Alaskans to rig the vote in favor of
• 37:09
  Speaker 14: the Democrat who's running against me.
• 37:12
  Speaker 15: My opponent Okay, it gets worse.
• 37:15
  Speaker 14: This guy also when he put out his campaign, his
• 37:19
  Speaker 14: campaign logo, his campaign letterhead alex it is essentially an
• 37:24
  Speaker 14: exactly my campaign logo and letterhead that I've been using.
• 37:28
  Speaker 15: For the last thirteen years.
• 37:29
  Speaker 14: It is like ninety eight percent identical. Again, the only
• 37:35
  Speaker 14: reason he would do that is to try to confuse Alaskans,
• 37:40
  Speaker 14: to get them to vote for him when they think
• 37:43
  Speaker 14: they're voting for me, completely rigging the vote.
• 37:47
  Speaker 15: Again, all of this would.
• 37:49
  Speaker 14: Be in favor of the Democrat who's running who I'm
• 37:53
  Speaker 14: who's running against me, this woman Mary Paultola.
• 37:56
  Speaker 15: So what's the final bit of evidence? This is the killer.
• 37:59
  Speaker 14: You're going to love this. This guy, Dan Sullivan, the
• 38:03
  Speaker 14: sham candidate. We call him sham candidate Sullivan. In this letter,
• 38:09
  Speaker 14: he put out a press release announcing his run for office. Well,
• 38:17
  Speaker 14: these guys aren't very smart. They left the metadata on
• 38:20
  Speaker 14: their press release. We downloaded the metadata and lo and
• 38:23
  Speaker 14: behold who wrote his press release. It's written by a
• 38:27
  Speaker 14: woman named Amber Lee.
• 38:29
  Speaker 15: Who is Amber Lee.
• 38:30
  Speaker 14: She is a Democrat activist, Democrat consultant who supports Mary Peltola,
• 38:37
  Speaker 14: the Democrat.
• 38:38
  Speaker 15: You can't make this stuff up.
• 38:40
  Speaker 14: These guys are literally trying to rig the Alaska election.
• 38:46
  Speaker 14: And by the way, this really ticks me off because
• 38:49
  Speaker 14: it's an insult to the people I represent. They are
• 38:52
  Speaker 14: purposely trying to confuse Alaskans to get them to rig
• 38:58
  Speaker 14: the vote in fai of the Democrat. So the question is,
• 39:04
  Speaker 14: obviously the Democrat campaign of Mary Peltola.
• 39:07
  Speaker 15: Is involved with this, but how high does this go?
• 39:10
  Speaker 14: I mean, is this something Shoomer or Jilibrian or the
• 39:14
  Speaker 14: DSCC knew about or did they direct it?
• 39:17
  Speaker 7: You know, the.
• 39:17
  Speaker 14: Democrats are always talking about fair elections. This is a outrage.
• 39:21
  Speaker 14: They're trying to steal an election in election.
• 39:24
  Speaker 15: It's not going to work.
• 39:25
  Speaker 14: I'm still going to beat her, but it just shows
• 39:27
  Speaker 14: you the lengths that they'll go to. And remember my seat,
• 39:30
  Speaker 14: you know, my seat. My reelection is likely going to
• 39:33
  Speaker 14: decide who's in control.
• 39:35
  Speaker 5: It's eventual.
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: But the Center I want to ask about that because
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: I was just I voted, or i'm voting. I'm using
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: the drop box when'm voting. In California, they've got a
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: million candidates for governor. I mean it's two pages, literally
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: two pages. If there was two Steve Hilton's I voted
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: for Steve Hilton. I would have known. I would have
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: just I just voted for the first Stieve Hill. I
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: didn't think could there be a second Steve Hilton? How
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: are people going to use that? What is the ballot
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: going to look like? And do you have recompense here?
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: Are you able to sort this out in time?
• 40:03
  Speaker 14: Well, what we're trying to do with the NSC letter
• 40:06
  Speaker 14: said was that to the Lieutenant Governor of Alaska that
• 40:11
  Speaker 14: you should not certify this guy to be on the
• 40:14
  Speaker 14: ballot at all. Yesterday was our filing deadline for the
• 40:18
  Speaker 14: all elections in Alaska, including the Senate. So we got
• 40:21
  Speaker 14: the NRC got this letter into the Lieutenant governor yesterday
• 40:26
  Speaker 14: and it said, this guy is a sham candidate. Yes,
• 40:30
  Speaker 14: you have a constitutional right to run for office, a
• 40:32
  Speaker 14: First Amendment right to run for office. But what you
• 40:35
  Speaker 14: don't have Alex and I'm the former attorney general for Alaska,
• 40:39
  Speaker 14: I know this stuff. You do not have a right
• 40:42
  Speaker 14: to run for office if your primary goal is to
• 40:46
  Speaker 14: confuse the voters of your state and rig the election
• 40:50
  Speaker 14: for another candidate, you don't have that right. And so
• 40:54
  Speaker 14: what the NSC has asked our lieutenant governor in Alaska
• 40:57
  Speaker 14: right now is don't certify him, even put him on
• 41:01
  Speaker 14: the ballot. So that's the battleground that we're fighting now,
• 41:05
  Speaker 14: and it's going to be really interesting because let's say
• 41:08
  Speaker 14: our lieutenant governor does do that and kick them off.
• 41:11
  Speaker 14: Will the Democrats in DC or in Alaska try to
• 41:14
  Speaker 14: force this sham candidate down the ballot through litigation?
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, this is what say I want to make. Not
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: only does this candidate the fake dance all that need
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: to come off the ballot, but we need to now
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: explain to the American people Democrats are openly cheating now
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: in election. This is riggy an election. That's the design.
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: And every single Democrat, especially Chuck Schumer and the rest
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: of them, they all need to condemn this. They all
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: need to verbally condemn this sort of behavior, don't they.
• 41:37
  Speaker 15: Senator one hundred percent? And that's what we've been calling for. Today.
• 41:42
  Speaker 14: I brief the Republican conference all my Senate colleagues, Republican
• 41:46
  Speaker 14: Senate colleagues at lunch. Every single one of them was
• 41:49
  Speaker 14: outrage and the first thing they all did was, let's
• 41:52
  Speaker 14: get Chuck Schumer to just verbally condemn this. Otherwise, look,
• 41:58
  Speaker 14: who knows, I don't know if he's complained. I don't
• 42:00
  Speaker 14: know if Jillibrand's complicit, but I'll tell you this, I
• 42:03
  Speaker 14: wouldn't doubt it, right I certainly want a doubt that
• 42:05
  Speaker 14: these guys will go to all lengths possible to gain power,
• 42:09
  Speaker 14: and in Alaska right now, it includes cheating. I mean
• 42:13
  Speaker 14: they are openly cheating. The people of my state right
• 42:16
  Speaker 14: now are livid. Remember, Alex, the Dems in Alaska were saying, oh,
• 42:22
  Speaker 14: we had nothing to do with this, and then we
• 42:24
  Speaker 14: found that metadata, saying, what do you mean you have
• 42:25
  Speaker 14: nothing to do with this? You wrote this guy's press release,
• 42:29
  Speaker 14: a Democrat consultant who's a very much of a Democrat
• 42:35
  Speaker 14: activist supporting my Democrat opponent.
• 42:40
  Speaker 15: Right this is outrageous. They got caught with their hand
• 42:44
  Speaker 15: in the cookie jar.
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: Someone needs to go to jail for this, and we
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: need to make a big example of it. This is
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: a big scandal. Sanerdy in Soulvent from Alaska. Thank you
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: for joining me on the Alex Marlow Show.
• 42:54
  Speaker 3: Keep Up with.
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: Everything is a really important racers essential race. We'll be
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: right back after this.
• 42:58
  Speaker 4: Now.
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  Speaker 2: I just want to go through a million interesting topics here,
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  Speaker 2: but I am eager to get your take on the
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  Speaker 2: Iran war, because do you feel like there is a
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  Speaker 2: quick path to a victory for the United States. I
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: feel like there's some pillars that have got to come down,
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  Speaker 2: clearly the straits got opened up, and no nuclear weapons.
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  Speaker 2: The number of my heads, fifteen years, maybe twenty years,
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  Speaker 2: maybe the best we're going to do. We're not gonna
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  Speaker 2: have permanent infinity, no nuclear weapons. We're gonna always have
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  Speaker 2: to keep an eye on it. I feel like those
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  Speaker 2: two starts the air and then everything else is sort
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: of negotiable. But is there a path to get there soon?
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: And what else is in your list of what it
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: takes to declare victory?
• 45:32
  Speaker 9: Sure? Thanks, Alex, and it's great to be with you.
• 45:34
  Speaker 12: I think your time frame, well, you know, tragic in
• 45:39
  Speaker 12: many ways, is realistic. We have to put this conflict
• 45:43
  Speaker 12: in the context of the broader fifty year campaign that
• 45:46
  Speaker 12: the Islamic Republic of Iran has waged against the United States,
• 45:50
  Speaker 12: against Israel, and against Western civilization at large. And so
• 45:55
  Speaker 12: right now we're in this impasse. We're in the battle
• 45:58
  Speaker 12: of the blockades, as each side believes it has leverage
• 46:03
  Speaker 12: over the other, and the question.
• 46:05
  Speaker 9: Is how are we going to break free?
• 46:07
  Speaker 12: How are we going to change the equation so that
• 46:10
  Speaker 12: we can relieve the pressure on the global economy and
• 46:14
  Speaker 12: the American economy from the Iranian blockade as well as
• 46:18
  Speaker 12: continue to exert pressure on the Iranian regime to whittle
• 46:23
  Speaker 12: it down, to get the rest of the leadership to buckle,
• 46:28
  Speaker 12: to reduce its security establishments, and to degrade the apparatus
• 46:34
  Speaker 12: of repression that the regime uses against the Iranian people.
• 46:39
  Speaker 9: Here's what I think.
• 46:40
  Speaker 12: I think that if President Trump wanted to, he could
• 46:44
  Speaker 12: order an operation to destroy the Iranian assets along the
• 46:48
  Speaker 12: coast that threatened shipping across the Strait of Ormus. That
• 46:53
  Speaker 12: operation would take time, it would mean a resumption of
• 46:56
  Speaker 12: a military campaign, and it would carry risks, would be
• 47:00
  Speaker 12: risks to US forces, just as there were during the
• 47:03
  Speaker 12: Operation Epic Fury. It seems me that's really the only
• 47:08
  Speaker 12: leverage President Trump has yet to exert on Iran, and
• 47:12
  Speaker 12: I don't think he's willing to do it quite yet
• 47:15
  Speaker 12: for a few reasons. One is money. That is to say,
• 47:20
  Speaker 12: even though gas prices are down some twenty cents on
• 47:23
  Speaker 12: average from last month, he still doesn't want to increase
• 47:27
  Speaker 12: the pain at the pump or the larger prices.
• 47:31
  Speaker 9: Of oil set on the global market.
• 47:33
  Speaker 12: Another concern is munitions, which is, you know, we have
• 47:36
  Speaker 12: depleted our munitions, There's no question about that, especially the
• 47:40
  Speaker 12: high end of sophisticated munitions.
• 47:44
  Speaker 9: And then the third is the monarchs.
• 47:46
  Speaker 12: That is to say, the Iranians have concentrated their fire
• 47:50
  Speaker 12: on the golf monarchies, and I believe that the golf
• 47:53
  Speaker 12: monarchies are worried that they lack the air defenses to
• 47:56
  Speaker 12: protect their desalinization and power plants from an Iranians.
• 48:00
  Speaker 9: That's right.
• 48:01
  Speaker 12: So for that reason, Trump hasn't yet explored the kinetic option. Instead,
• 48:04
  Speaker 12: what we're doing now is this blockade, while it's a
• 48:08
  Speaker 12: ceasefire without a ceasefire in a way, because we've Iranians
• 48:11
  Speaker 12: have hit us, We've hit the Iranians. The Iranians have
• 48:14
  Speaker 12: hit the Kuwaitis, Kuwaitis and UAE have hit the Iranians.
• 48:18
  Speaker 12: But Iran continues to lose money every day. And I
• 48:23
  Speaker 12: think that the primary concern for Trump right now is
• 48:26
  Speaker 12: to keep the leverage on Iran while watching the markets
• 48:30
  Speaker 12: and making sure that they remain steady.
• 48:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it definitely identifies as a ceasefire without I don't
• 48:35
  Speaker 2: know if biologically being a ceasefire, but you've identified the tension, Matt,
• 48:40
  Speaker 2: And this is what I kind of want to explore,
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: is that there is a political imperative for President Trump
• 48:44
  Speaker 2: to wrap this thing up as soon as humanly impossible,
• 48:47
  Speaker 2: But he understands there's a global historical implication here that
• 48:50
  Speaker 2: if he is able to have a resounding victory against
• 48:53
  Speaker 2: Iran and then be able to report back to the
• 48:55
  Speaker 2: American people with evidence in a persuasive way that he's
• 48:58
  Speaker 2: done that, I mean, that'll be a history moment for
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  Speaker 2: his presidency. This has to be attention that's not just
• 49:03
  Speaker 2: eating at him, but the people surrounding him in the
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: White House. And I honestly don't know what's I got
• 49:08
  Speaker 2: to talk to the President quite a bit, but I
• 49:09
  Speaker 2: haven't spoke to him recently enough to have any idea
• 49:12
  Speaker 2: which is winning out for now, But it looks like
• 49:14
  Speaker 2: beating Iran's top priority.
• 49:18
  Speaker 9: That's right. I think the top priority for.
• 49:19
  Speaker 12: President Trump is denying Iran a nuclear weapon. That has
• 49:23
  Speaker 12: been his red line since before he became president, and
• 49:27
  Speaker 12: he's going to continue to pursue that red line.
• 49:29
  Speaker 9: The question is how do you achieve it.
• 49:32
  Speaker 12: We know for a fact that the only setbacks to
• 49:34
  Speaker 12: the Iranian nuclear program over the last twenty years have
• 49:37
  Speaker 12: been done through force. The Iranians have not negotiated their
• 49:41
  Speaker 12: nuclear program. The Obama nuclear deal was a farce. President
• 49:46
  Speaker 12: Trump rightly called it one of the worst deals in
• 49:48
  Speaker 12: history because it left the nuclear infrastructure in place, correct,
• 49:52
  Speaker 12: and it was sunset. But now President Trump knows, with
• 49:56
  Speaker 12: Operation Midnight Hammer and Operation Epic Curity, if you want
• 49:58
  Speaker 12: to deny Iran a nuclear bomb, have to fight them.
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  Speaker 2: He drew the red line in Stone a year ago,
• 50:03
  Speaker 2: and he's really been talking about it almost forty years.
• 50:06
  Speaker 2: Matt stick with me. I'm an asker. You got Graham
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: Plattner in California and we come back. This is the
• 50:09
  Speaker 2: he would shout. Matthew Contineti's with me. I'm Alex Marlowe.
• 50:19
  Speaker 2: By the way, please to be in for my friend
• 50:20
  Speaker 2: Hugh matt Are we watching the worst mainstream political candidate
• 50:26
  Speaker 2: in the history of American politics? And could he somehow
• 50:28
  Speaker 2: still win given the very bizarre tribal environment that we're
• 50:33
  Speaker 2: in in our politics. Of course, I'm talking about Graham Plattner,
• 50:35
  Speaker 2: a guy with not just a Nazi tattoo, but a
• 50:37
  Speaker 2: hyper aggressive Nazi tattoo. He's got bizarre fetishes, He's obviously
• 50:41
  Speaker 2: some sort of a pervert, and he also is living
• 50:43
  Speaker 2: with stolen valor, where he acts like he's some sort
• 50:45
  Speaker 2: of a populous He's absolutely not. Is someone who is,
• 50:49
  Speaker 2: I would say, someone who's got a finger on the pulse.
• 50:51
  Speaker 2: What's happening in Washington. Have you ever seen anything like this?
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  Speaker 9: No, Alex, I haven't, and you know it's striking.
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  Speaker 12: As I listened to you describe Platner, it occurred to
• 51:03
  Speaker 12: me that I haven't been more concerned about political figures
• 51:07
  Speaker 12: arising on the left in my lifetime than I've been
• 51:10
  Speaker 12: over the past couple of years. Because, of course, Grand
• 51:13
  Speaker 12: Platner is guided by and supported by the same forces
• 51:17
  Speaker 12: that elevated Zoron Mamdani to the mayoralty of New York City.
• 51:22
  Speaker 12: And they both are part of this Democratic Socialist takeover
• 51:26
  Speaker 12: of the Democratic Party. And it's a Democratic Socialist party
• 51:30
  Speaker 12: that is virulently anti Israel, that is, as Platner has said,
• 51:36
  Speaker 12: communistic in its economic views, that is anti Western civilization,
• 51:42
  Speaker 12: and I think deeply dangerous to the American way of life.
• 51:46
  Speaker 12: And on top of it all, unlike Mamdani who lied
• 51:51
  Speaker 12: on his college application calling himself an African American when
• 51:55
  Speaker 12: he applied to the university where his father is a
• 51:58
  Speaker 12: university professor, highest title by the way.
• 52:01
  Speaker 2: I've been telling my friend Joel Pollock, he's a South African.
• 52:03
  Speaker 2: I've been telling him. You've got to say you, Joel's
• 52:07
  Speaker 2: been missing out, curly harrit you.
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  Speaker 15: Why does the day?
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  Speaker 9: I mean, rather did it work? I didn't work for
• 52:14
  Speaker 9: mom Dona Columbia.
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  Speaker 12: But that was the biggest kind of scandal, uh during
• 52:19
  Speaker 12: his not that is ethical scandal during his candidacy. Plattner
• 52:23
  Speaker 12: has ethical scandals a mile long. And the latest is
• 52:27
  Speaker 12: this New York Times story about his sexting with women
• 52:31
  Speaker 12: well married. And I have many questions about the story,
• 52:35
  Speaker 12: including how many women were involved, because the story itself
• 52:38
  Speaker 12: Alexis I'm sure he noticed it says it's between at
• 52:41
  Speaker 12: least six.
• 52:43
  Speaker 7: Twelve or more.
• 52:45
  Speaker 12: When are the women going to come forward? I think
• 52:47
  Speaker 12: that's a big question. And are there is there another
• 52:50
  Speaker 12: story waiting in the wings. For all these reasons, I
• 52:53
  Speaker 12: do think that while Republicans can know that they have
• 52:58
  Speaker 12: a campaign to wage against gram Pa, they still can't
• 53:01
  Speaker 12: get over confident.
• 53:03
  Speaker 9: It's still pretty early in the cycle.
• 53:05
  Speaker 12: Maine has trended blue, and this radical turn on the
• 53:09
  Speaker 12: Democratic Party is rising.
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  Speaker 9: There's no question about it.
• 53:13
  Speaker 12: But nonetheless, I think that Susan Collins who is the
• 53:18
  Speaker 12: right fit for Maine, which she has represented for decades
• 53:21
  Speaker 12: in the United States Senate. She has the material to
• 53:26
  Speaker 12: win herself another term against this lunatic.
• 53:29
  Speaker 2: I think so, and as of now, that's my official prediction.
• 53:32
  Speaker 2: But the polls are saying it's more complex than that.
• 53:34
  Speaker 2: But here's what I want to point the finger out.
• 53:36
  Speaker 2: I want to point the finger at Democrat consultants who
• 53:38
  Speaker 2: put this guy up, and I want to put the
• 53:40
  Speaker 2: finger at other Democrat senators who are We played a
• 53:43
  Speaker 2: just hilarious clip yesterday of Corey Booker immediately pivoting to
• 53:47
  Speaker 2: healthcare and gas prices when I asked about the literal
• 53:50
  Speaker 2: nazi who's running for the Senate in Maine in his party.
• 53:53
  Speaker 2: When he keeps they keep calling us Nazis and fascists
• 53:56
  Speaker 2: for the last decade, it feels like there's a lot
• 53:59
  Speaker 2: of shared blame here. It's not just on this one lunatic.
• 54:04
  Speaker 12: No, and you're right. I mean, it's not Platner himself.
• 54:08
  Speaker 12: It's this democratic socialist network that is rising within the
• 54:12
  Speaker 12: Democratic Party, and then it's the Democratic establishment which doesn't
• 54:17
  Speaker 12: have the will to fight it.
• 54:18
  Speaker 9: I mean, just think of this. Why is Planner.
• 54:21
  Speaker 12: Doesn't even officially have the Democratic Senate nomination.
• 54:24
  Speaker 9: He is sailing toward that nomination.
• 54:27
  Speaker 12: Because Janet Mills, the governor of Maine, Chuck Schumer's preferred
• 54:30
  Speaker 12: candidate in this race to challenge Susan Collins.
• 54:33
  Speaker 15: She dropped out.
• 54:34
  Speaker 12: She didn't want to have a fight when a fight
• 54:37
  Speaker 12: is absolutely necessary about the future of the Democratic parties.
• 54:41
  Speaker 12: I mean, this is beyond Obama's party. This is Zorn
• 54:44
  Speaker 12: Mamdani and Bernie Sanders and AOC's party, and it is dangerous.
• 54:50
  Speaker 2: I think the Sanders thing is so interesting because you
• 54:52
  Speaker 2: see the reverence that Platner has for Sanders, which is
• 54:55
  Speaker 2: a really interesting guy with the Nazi tattoo and the
• 54:58
  Speaker 2: Porta Potti waterfat ash. He's got still thinks Bernie is
• 55:01
  Speaker 2: the guy. Very very interesting phenomenon. Matt, I can't risk
• 55:05
  Speaker 2: I can't risk missing out on the chance to ask you.
• 55:08
  Speaker 2: You're observing from across the country. You're taking what's happening
• 55:11
  Speaker 2: in California. There's a fervor out here, but maybe it's
• 55:15
  Speaker 2: only online. I think there's a lot of optimism. We're
• 55:17
  Speaker 2: going to get a Republican into the LA runoff, as
• 55:20
  Speaker 2: well as the California government dubernatorial runoff. Do you think
• 55:24
  Speaker 2: this has any broader implications. I think in terms of morale,
• 55:27
  Speaker 2: excitement level of the conservative movement heading into November, if
• 55:30
  Speaker 2: Republicans can do well.
• 55:31
  Speaker 12: Today, well there's no question that if Spencer Pratt and
• 55:36
  Speaker 12: Steve Hilton make the runoff in their respective races, the
• 55:39
  Speaker 12: Republican Party and Conservative and MAGA movement will have new stars.
• 55:44
  Speaker 12: Now Pratt, of course, he doesn't say he's Mogg. He
• 55:46
  Speaker 12: says he's common sense, and he's absolutely right, and they're
• 55:48
  Speaker 12: adjacent cradit categories.
• 55:50
  Speaker 9: But I will say this, Alex.
• 55:51
  Speaker 12: I've been saying on this program since the wildfires last
• 55:54
  Speaker 12: year that when you have a natural disaster and you
• 55:58
  Speaker 12: have incompetent, corrupt, liberal democratic government, even in a one
• 56:02
  Speaker 12: party system, there will be accountability. Because what I'm watching
• 56:06
  Speaker 12: in California right now and in Los Angeles is what
• 56:09
  Speaker 12: I saw in New Orleans and Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina
• 56:13
  Speaker 12: twenty years ago. And it was Hurricane Katrina that at
• 56:17
  Speaker 12: the time everyone was blaming the federal failure, but the
• 56:20
  Speaker 12: actual voters they looked around and they blamed Mayr Nagan,
• 56:24
  Speaker 12: and they blamed Governor Blanco, and that had electoral repercussions
• 56:28
  Speaker 12: down the road. I think we might be on the
• 56:30
  Speaker 12: verge of seeing something similar in California after that horrific
• 56:34
  Speaker 12: tragedy of the fires, and not only that, the incompetent
• 56:38
  Speaker 12: failure to rebuild quickly.
• 56:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, great points. And also just as someone who lives
• 56:43
  Speaker 2: out here, and I've spent more than three quarters of
• 56:45
  Speaker 2: my life out here, and not a single one of
• 56:46
  Speaker 2: the problems that were imbued in the society in the
• 56:49
  Speaker 2: state when I started to become politically sentient as a teenager,
• 56:53
  Speaker 2: not a single one of them has improved. Every single
• 56:56
  Speaker 2: one of them has gone in the wrong direction. So
• 56:58
  Speaker 2: I do think, and I'm opening the show talking about this,
• 57:01
  Speaker 2: talking about how this is a big test, because I
• 57:03
  Speaker 2: do think that if California doesn't at least get some
• 57:05
  Speaker 2: Republicans in the runoff, I think the rest of the country,
• 57:09
  Speaker 2: at least right of center, is going to completely give
• 57:11
  Speaker 2: up on the state, maybe for the least a generation.
• 57:15
  Speaker 12: And it'd be so sad because, of course, the beauty
• 57:18
  Speaker 12: of California, the economic importance of the state, because of
• 57:22
  Speaker 12: Silicon Valley, and the.
• 57:24
  Speaker 9: History of the state.
• 57:25
  Speaker 12: This is the state where Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan
• 57:29
  Speaker 12: both hailed from it was critical to the rise of
• 57:31
  Speaker 12: the conservative movement. We can't write off California, and I
• 57:34
  Speaker 12: will just use this opportunity to say this as well.
• 57:37
  Speaker 9: California has got to get its vote counting Act together.
• 57:40
  Speaker 12: There's no reason we should be waiting longer than a
• 57:43
  Speaker 12: few hours to find out the winners.
• 57:44
  Speaker 5: And we take two weeks.
• 57:46
  Speaker 2: It's insane. Matthew Continent of the AI Wall Street Journal
• 57:49
  Speaker 2: and you huge show every week. Thank you, Matt, always
• 57:51
  Speaker 2: nice to talk to you.
• 57:52
  Speaker 7: We'll be right back