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Speaker 1: Ohana means family. Family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: We have a lot of important, heavy-hitting news to get
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Speaker 1: into today. In the second half of the program, we
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Speaker 1: are going to bring in Texas Attorney General Ken Paxson
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Speaker 1: to talk about some breaking news about an arrest that
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Speaker 1: he just made of an illegal Venezuelan criminal along with
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Speaker 1: another individual. in his stay connected to the killing of
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Speaker 1: a young woman. It's going to be really interesting. We're
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Speaker 1: also going to talk about his Senate run against one
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Speaker 1: of the worst so-called Republicans in Congress. It's going to
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Speaker 1: be a packed morning, but you guys don't want to
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Speaker 1: miss this. I want to talk about Lilo and Stitch.
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Speaker 1: As you can see from that intro, Disney's new remake
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Speaker 1: of Lilo and Stitch. We have to do it. I've
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Speaker 1: been thinking about this for days now. I've been talking
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Speaker 1: Michael Ziroff about it because, first of all, I love
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Speaker 1: the original Lilo and Stitch. It came out in 2002.
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Speaker 1: So I was like the perfect age for it, right?
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Speaker 1: I was two years old at the time, but I
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Speaker 1: probably saw it when I was like two, three. And
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Speaker 1: my little siblings afterward have loved it for years on.
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Speaker 1: Lilo is a little Hawaiian girl. She lives with her
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Speaker 1: older sister after the death of their parents. They adopt
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Speaker 1: a dog named Stitch, except it isn't actually a dog.
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Speaker 1: He's an alien. If you've seen it, the premise, if
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Speaker 1: you haven't seen it, the premise sounds kind of whack.
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Speaker 1: If you have seen it, of course, This all makes
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Speaker 1: a lot of sense. The story is actually quite beautiful.
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Speaker 1: And I've discussed it with Michael, you know, just not
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Speaker 1: this movie, but the idea of, okay, what if something
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Speaker 1: horrible happened to my parents? And I would want to
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Speaker 1: take in all of my siblings if that happened. It
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Speaker 1: would be crazy, right? Because there's a lot of kids
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Speaker 1: that aren't yet 18 that still live with my parents.
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Speaker 1: There's six of them still at the house. But I
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Speaker 1: think it would be the right thing to do because
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Speaker 1: we would need to stay together to not separate into
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Speaker 1: different households, which is probably what would happen considering there
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Speaker 1: are so many kids still living at home in my family.
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Speaker 1: And that's exactly what Nani did, the older sister in
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Speaker 1: Lilo and Stitch. She's 19. She's trying to hold down
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Speaker 1: a job and raise Lilo at the same time. And
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Speaker 1: she's doing this because she wants to keep her family
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Speaker 1: together after there was, I guess, an accident. Both of
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Speaker 1: their parents died. And she's got this social worker breathing
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Speaker 1: down her neck, but she powers through. She gets her
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Speaker 1: life together. because she knows that her and her sister
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Speaker 1: are better off together than apart. And this line is
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Speaker 1: repeated constantly in the film. Ohana means family. Family means
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Speaker 1: nobody gets left behind, even Stitch, the alien who is
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Speaker 1: a part of their family now. Here is the end
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Speaker 1: scene as Stitch makes the case for his family before
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Speaker 1: he is about to be taken away by alien authorities.
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Speaker 1: Can Stitch say goodbye?
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Speaker 2: Yes, thank you.
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Speaker 3: Who are you?
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Speaker 4: This is my family.
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Speaker 2: I found it all on my own.
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Speaker 1: It's little and broken, but still good. Yeah, still good.
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Speaker 1: It's a really cute movie. I think the other aliens
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Speaker 1: want to like euthanize Stitch and the government of course
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Speaker 1: wants to place Lilo in foster care because all three
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Speaker 1: fight for each other. They are able to stay together.
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Speaker 1: I think this is a really powerful message especially for
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Speaker 1: indigenous people who have historically been separated from their families
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Speaker 1: and placed in residential schools in places like Canada and
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Speaker 1: mainland USA. Anyway, what Disney decided to do in this remake,
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Speaker 1: they decided on, first of all, making a terrible CGI stitch,
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Speaker 1: but Disney also decided to have Nani give up Lilo
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Speaker 1: so she can leave Hawaii, ironically, to study marine biology.
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Speaker 1: So pursue her passion and hand over Lilo to some
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Speaker 1: neighbor until Lilo is eventually adopted. And people are not
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Speaker 1: happy about it. People across the political spectrum are not
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Speaker 1: happy about it. Here is one, I think, very good,
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Speaker 1: succinct reaction from a TikToker. Take a listen.
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Speaker 5: At the end of Lilo and Stitch, Nani gives Lilo
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Speaker 5: up to Child Protective Services so that she can go
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Speaker 5: party at college. And I'm not sorry whatsoever that I
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Speaker 5: just spoiled that for you, because I don't think this
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Speaker 5: movie deserves to make a single cent. Like, even rage watching.
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Speaker 5: I hope this loses loads of money. The remake for
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Speaker 5: destroyed every message that the original movie put out. Like
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Speaker 5: the original one was like, Ohana means family. That was
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Speaker 5: the basis of the entire movie. Now the basis is
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Speaker 5: it's more important for a woman to follow her dreams
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Speaker 5: than to take care of her sister. And even that
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Speaker 5: doesn't make any sense within the context of the movie
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Speaker 5: because Nani wants to be a marine biologist. I challenge
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Speaker 5: you to find a place where you have a better
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Speaker 5: chance of learning to be a marine biologist than Hawaii. Oh,
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Speaker 5: I'm sorry, does the University of Wisconsin have a great
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Speaker 5: marine biology department? She was already in Hawaii.
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Speaker 1: OK, what's funny about this is Michael and I do
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Speaker 1: know somebody who went to the University of Wisconsin to
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Speaker 1: study marine biology, which is it's kind of funny, but
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Speaker 1: it doesn't really make sense for her in the context
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Speaker 1: of this story to leave, to go off and pursue
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Speaker 1: her passion, to pursue her, I don't know, career at
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Speaker 1: the expense of her little sister, of keeping her family together.
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Speaker 1: That was the whole message of the original story. And
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Speaker 1: of course, it makes sense that they would kind of
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Speaker 1: have this subversive message because it's all about girl bossing.
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Speaker 1: It's all about feminism. It's all about following yourself and
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Speaker 1: staying true to yourself and your truth. And sacrifice doesn't
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Speaker 1: really seem to play a huge role in modernity. It's
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Speaker 1: not valued as much in modern life. Everything is about
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Speaker 1: comfort and myself and frankly, selfishness, not selflessness. So no
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Speaker 1: one is really happy with this message. A lot of
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Speaker 1: left-wingers are calling it a colonizer message. But I want
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Speaker 1: to note that sometimes prioritizing Native family unification hurts Native children.
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Speaker 1: So in the United States, we have something called ICWA,
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Speaker 1: the Indian Child Welfare Act, which essentially says that adoption
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Speaker 1: or foster care placement for Native children should be with
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Speaker 1: other natives. So whites, white people usually cannot adopt Native
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Speaker 1: American children, indigenous children, even if white couple, the white
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Speaker 1: couple or white individual are family of said native child.
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Speaker 1: So this means that in America, we don't always prioritize
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Speaker 1: the wellbeing of native children. And I don't like that. However,
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Speaker 1: Nani in Lilo and Stitch, she's a good sister. She
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Speaker 1: is not a fentanyl addict. She wasn't abusive. She was
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Speaker 1: providing for her little sister. Struggling, yes, maybe she's 19,
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Speaker 1: but this is not some drug-addicted mom with a felon
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Speaker 1: boyfriend who beats her up on the weekends. This is
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Speaker 1: a very different situation. So what happened in this remake,
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Speaker 1: yet again, is Disney fundamentally rewrote the emotional core of
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Speaker 1: the original story. The 2002 film wasn't just a quirky
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Speaker 1: sci-fi comedy. It was a deeply human, culturally grounded tale
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Speaker 1: about love lost and the unbreakable bonds of family. In
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Speaker 1: the remake, Disney flips that message on its head by
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Speaker 1: having Nani voluntarily give Lilo up. It replaces the selflessness
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Speaker 1: of Nani with self-interest, and it undermines love. the very
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Speaker 1: theme that made the original so beautiful. And it really
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Speaker 1: feels like Disney has lost its ability or even its
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Speaker 1: willingness to tell stories that touch the soul to the
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Speaker 1: point where even leftists, who this is supposed to pander to, ironically,
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Speaker 1: are not happy. Disney has literally gone so woke. They're
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Speaker 1: too woke for the woke left. One of the other
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Speaker 1: criticisms is Nani is played by a very white-looking girl.
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Speaker 1: I guess this young actress, she's Filipina, mixed with white,
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Speaker 1: and has some Native Hawaiian ancestry, but she doesn't look
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Speaker 1: like the dark-skinned Hawaiian woman from the original cartoon. For
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Speaker 1: the same reason I think it's annoying when Disney turns
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Speaker 1: a white character black, it's annoying when they make a
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Speaker 1: dark Hawaiian woman a white-looking mixed girl. Some of you
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Speaker 1: might say, well, who cares? It's just skin color. But
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Speaker 1: it's not. It's not just skin color to Disney. It
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Speaker 1: never is. They care way more about virtue signaling than
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Speaker 1: they do about telling good stories. And this is why
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Speaker 1: I think people are mad. Either we make it well
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Speaker 1: or don't we make it at all. Respect the source
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Speaker 1: material or get creative and put out something good for once.
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Speaker 1: But they won't do that. They've lost their sparkle, their
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Speaker 1: ability to connect with people on a real human level.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I think it's as if AI wrote these
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Speaker 1: scripts and maybe AI is writing these scripts. I don't
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Speaker 1: even know. But it's really bad and no one is happy.
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Speaker 1: on board with it. And I don't blame them. And
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Speaker 1: I think some people were commenting, why are we talking
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Speaker 1: about Disney? And why are we talking about Lilo and Stitch? Yes, yes, yes.
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Speaker 1: I get all your comments. We talk about whatever I
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Speaker 1: want to talk about. It's my show. But I will
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Speaker 1: say that I think this is the same problem facing
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Speaker 1: the Democratic Party. There's an institutional sickness that you can
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Speaker 1: observe a through line when it comes to Disney, when
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Speaker 1: it comes to our education system, when it comes to
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Speaker 1: the media, when it comes to the Democratic Party itself.
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Speaker 1: There are so many of these institutions that seem to
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Speaker 1: have gone so far woke they've forgotten how to be human.
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Speaker 1: I want you to listen to this fascinating soundbite from
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Speaker 1: Jake Tapper realizing that his party is actually one of
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Speaker 1: hate and division, the exact opposite of what he thought
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Speaker 1: it was. Take a listen.
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Speaker 2: I went on a left-leaning podcast that shall remain nameless,
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Speaker 2: and we were talking about my kids. because I think
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Speaker 2: they were both people without kids. And they asked me
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Speaker 2: about my son, and I said he was, you know,
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Speaker 2: he's a football player, and he wants to be a policeman.
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Speaker 2: And their joke was, about my 15-year-old son, oh, how
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Speaker 2: does he feel about minorities? Like the idea that he
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Speaker 2: wants to be a policeman, therefore he's racist, my son.
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Speaker 2: And like, you know, that was the big laugh, and
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Speaker 2: then I got dragged in the comments and all that stuff.
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Speaker 2: And I thought to myself, this is why you fuckers
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Speaker 2: are losing elections.
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Speaker 1: 100%.
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Speaker 2: Like, my football-playing son, who has no political views, he's 15.
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Speaker 2: He thinks about World War II and gaming and playing linebacker.
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Speaker 1: That's his world.
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Speaker 2: You're deciding he's a racist because he wants to be
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Speaker 2: a cop. And why does he want to be a cop?
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Speaker 2: He wants to be a cop because he wants to
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Speaker 2: help people, you know? And he thinks that's the best
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Speaker 2: way he can help people. And that's how the democratic
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Speaker 2: party talks to men, not just white men, but men. And, um,
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Speaker 2: I mean, I, I get the idea that they thought
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Speaker 2: Tim Walsh, uh, could, what, what, what's the term he,
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Speaker 2: he used code switch or something. He thought that he could,
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Speaker 2: he could translate the democratic party values because he, uh,
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Speaker 2: hunts and fishes and owns a gun and was in
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Speaker 2: the army and drinks a beer. I mean, at least
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Speaker 2: there was an attempt, but, um, I find it just insane.
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Speaker 1: Okay, so first I just have to say, and this
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Speaker 1: is going to be hard for Jake Tapper to hear,
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Speaker 1: but your football-playing, video game-loving, World War II-obsessed son, probably red-pilled. Like,
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Speaker 1: I know you're saying he's not political. I know you
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Speaker 1: think that this is just your regular guy son who
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Speaker 1: doesn't care about politics whatsoever. I'm going to say it.
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Speaker 1: I think this kid's probably red-pilled. I think that Jake Tapper...
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Speaker 1: has a secret right-wing son just by the evidence given
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Speaker 1: to us by Jake Tapper himself. But you guys drop
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Speaker 1: a comment. You tell me what you think. And, I mean,
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Speaker 1: really the question is why wouldn't he be? This is
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Speaker 1: what Jake Tapper is observing in this video on his own.
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Speaker 1: People aren't dumb. The party talks to people as identities.
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Speaker 1: They obsessively put everyone in these boxes, oppressor, oppressor. And
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Speaker 1: it's so incredibly off-putting. What have they done to young men?
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Speaker 1: They've said, you're in this box, white men, the devil reincarnate,
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Speaker 1: and we are going to put every single social ill
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Speaker 1: in the world on your shoulders. I mean, how oppressive,
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Speaker 1: how demoralizing is that, especially for young men? You haven't
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Speaker 1: done anything. I mean, you're just a guy. You wake
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Speaker 1: up in this world, and suddenly an entire political party
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Speaker 1: hates you, and you have no idea why. So it
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Speaker 1: makes a lot of sense to me, and I think
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Speaker 1: even to Jake Tapper, as he'll admit, that young men
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Speaker 1: are turning away from this party, but I think people
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Speaker 1: in general are, because this messaging is incredibly divisive. It's
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Speaker 1: incredibly off-putting. This week we learned that the Democratic Party
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Speaker 1: has budgeted $ 20 million. for a new initiative called Speaking
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Speaker 1: with American Men, a strategic plan aimed at reversing the
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Speaker 1: erosion of democratic support among young men, especially online. And
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Speaker 1: I'm just going to.
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Speaker 4: Say it, guys.
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Speaker 1: It's not going to work. You can't belittle and insult
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Speaker 1: people and hope to buy them back with $ 20 million
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Speaker 1: in who knows what they're going to waste it on. Influencers,
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Speaker 1: fake podcasters, buying off I don't know, more television ads,
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Speaker 1: whatever it is, I don't think this is going to
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Speaker 1: reverse the damage of really decades of demoralization and demonization
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Speaker 1: of men, specifically white men. I want you to listen
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Speaker 1: to MSNBC's Jen Psaki hosting James Comey, of all people,
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Speaker 1: who promptly labels Republicans white supremacists. And this is relevant
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Speaker 1: because these are people that the Democratic Party needs to
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Speaker 1: win back. They have to win back this support. And
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Speaker 1: here is how they're characterizing the people that they allegedly
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Speaker 1: need to win back the votes of. Take a listen.
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Speaker 4: Do you think there's a— I mean, one of the things
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Speaker 4: that is happening now is that the Trump administration is,
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Speaker 4: of course, testing the system in ways it hasn't been
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Speaker 4: tested before. In the law enforcement sense, do you think
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Speaker 4: there are laws that should be put in place that
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Speaker 4: would help better manage this that aren't in place now?
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Speaker 4: I mean, are we equipped? Is the law enforcement system
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Speaker 4: and the legal system equipped to deal with what we're
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Speaker 4: seeing now?
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Speaker 6: Probably there could be changes at the margins, but in
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Speaker 6: the main, we have the tools. There are cultural impediments
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Speaker 6: to doing this work. Let's say you work in the FBI.
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Speaker 6: You know that one of the two political parties is,
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Speaker 6: let me put it nicely, white supremacist adjacent at a minimum.
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Speaker 6: And so why would you want to throw your career
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Speaker 6: on that side of the line and be summoned to
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Speaker 6: Capitol Hill to be asked, why are you pursuing these
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Speaker 6: innocent groups? And so we have a cultural impediment to
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Speaker 6: working it effectively that should get more attention than it does.
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Speaker 1: These are people that the left has to win back.
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Speaker 1: They have to. bring back people that have gone to
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Speaker 1: the other side, that have been won over with Trump's
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Speaker 1: populist messaging. And now they're calling them white supremacists. And
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Speaker 1: they did that for the last four years, right, under
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Speaker 1: Joe Biden. They weaponized half the country against the American people,
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Speaker 1: going after traditional Catholics and parents at school board meetings
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Speaker 1: and pro-lifers and January Sixers and President Trump himself. But
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Speaker 1: after you've done that and you lost... You'd think there'd
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Speaker 1: be some self-reflection, maybe a messaging shift, and there hasn't
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Speaker 1: been at all. They've doubled down on what's making them loose.
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Speaker 1: By the way, when I was at UChicago, Andrew McCabe,
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Speaker 1: former deputy FBI director, he did a remote session with
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Speaker 1: students where they talked about January 6th. They reflected on
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Speaker 1: it on the two-year anniversary. It was around the date
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Speaker 1: of the two-year anniversary. And he essentially called half the country,
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Speaker 1: so literally he called it mainstream Republicans akin to domestic
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Speaker 1: terrorists and Islamic extremists. This is what he said about
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Speaker 1: half the country. This is not a winning strategy. You
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Speaker 1: can't insult people and expect them to vote for you.
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Speaker 1: It's hysterical. It's unhinged. It's insulting. What we're seeing, whether
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Speaker 1: it's Disney rewriting the heart of Lilo and Stitch or
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Speaker 1: Democrats spending millions to win back the very men they've
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Speaker 1: spent years mocking and demoralizing, I think is a deeper
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Speaker 1: crisis of connection. Institutions that once understood human nature of family, sacrifice, storytelling,
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Speaker 1: they now operate in hollow abstractions focused more on signaling
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Speaker 1: virtue than speaking the truth. We kind of talked about
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Speaker 1: this yesterday with the education system. The way that we
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Speaker 1: have institutions of higher learning that used to be oriented
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Speaker 1: to the truth, used to be oriented toward the pursuit
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Speaker 1: of Jesus Christ, religion, suddenly abandoning it all for identity politics.
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Speaker 1: These are people that have just said, we're done with
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Speaker 1: our original message. This is Harvard's original message. We're done
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Speaker 1: with it. We're shaking it off. And all we're going
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Speaker 1: to do now is focus on left-wing activism and that
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Speaker 1: we think is really human, right? They portray themselves as
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Speaker 1: caring so much about the human experience and the marginalized
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Speaker 1: of society. But in reality, it just feels so thin,
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Speaker 1: so hollow. There's nothing really to it because you don't
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Speaker 1: really view anyone as an individual. You're just constantly putting
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Speaker 1: them in these boxes. You're constantly trying to do what's right,
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Speaker 1: to do what's most woke. And it comes off as
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Speaker 1: very meaningless. It comes off as very vapid. And it
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Speaker 1: doesn't resonate. It's not even resonating with the political left. Remember,
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Speaker 1: like I said, the biggest critics of this Lilo and
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Speaker 1: Stitch film? Not Republicans. Although nobody seems to like it,
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Speaker 1: they're left-wingers. It's not working. It's not landing. Whether in
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Speaker 1: politics or entertainment, these people have forgotten how to be human,
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Speaker 1: how to resonate, how to mean something. And people feel it.
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Speaker 1: And that's why they're turning out. Because you can't manufacture authenticity.
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Speaker 1: You can't shame or buy your way into the trust
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Speaker 1: of the people that you've betrayed. Michael, do we have
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Speaker 1: Ken Paxton?
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Speaker 3: No, we don't?
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Speaker 1: All right, no worries at all. Listen, you guys, we're
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Speaker 1: going to, I think, hopefully bring in Ken Paxton in
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Speaker 1: short order. And I want to delve into some breaking
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Speaker 1: news last night from his office. But first, we need
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Speaker 1: to get to some of our wonderful sponsors. All right.
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Speaker 1: I want to get to a little more. I want
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Speaker 1: to dig a little more into what is happening with
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Speaker 1: young men in America. I was on Fox and Friends
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Speaker 1: this morning. I think they clipped it. If you go
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Speaker 1: to foxnews.com, they clipped this hit that I did. It
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Speaker 1: was very early, by the way. Michael and I had
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Speaker 1: to get to the studio at like five in the morning.
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Speaker 1: We've been here for a while, guys. But they asked
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Speaker 1: me about all of the money that Democrats are pouring
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Speaker 1: into young men, just obsessing over this generation, wanting to
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Speaker 1: win them back. And I said, you know, I think
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Speaker 1: this is not going to work because what's happening with
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Speaker 1: young people is What's happening with young men specifically is
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Speaker 1: a response to a spiritual crisis. This is not Republicans.
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Speaker 1: Let me tell you, Republicans are not good at messaging
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Speaker 1: to young people. Republicans are not good at messaging to anyone.
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Speaker 1: The Republican consulting class, I think, is probably the greatest
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Speaker 1: inhibitor of electoral success among the political right ever. However,
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Speaker 1: We are seeing this resurgence, this movement among young people
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Speaker 1: to embrace traditional values. There is a reason why young
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Speaker 1: men switched to the political right by nearly 30 points
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Speaker 1: from 2024 compared to 2020. There is a vibe shift underway.
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Speaker 1: We got them. And what's important is that it's organic.
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Speaker 1: It is not manufactured. It's not fake. There is something
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Speaker 1: very real, very raw happening because I think this is
21:36
Speaker 1: a generation that is craving authenticity. They are craving tradition.
21:41
Speaker 1: They are craving all of the values of the past.
21:45
Speaker 1: And it makes sense when you consider that Gen Z
21:47
Speaker 1: has hit rock bottom when it comes to the COVID lockdowns.
21:50
Speaker 1: When you think about the forced vaccine mandates, the way
21:53
Speaker 1: that many of their friends have been tranced or that
21:56
Speaker 1: young women are losing out on opportunities. We've seen the
21:58
Speaker 1: worst of the worst of leftism. and we're looking for
22:01
Speaker 1: something different. All right, I want to bring in Texas
22:05
Speaker 1: Attorney General and U.S. Senate candidate Ken Paxton. Attorney General Paxton,
22:09
Speaker 1: thank you so much for being here.
22:11
Speaker 7: Glad to be back. Thank you. I appreciate it.
22:14
Speaker 1: So I want to get right into what happened yesterday.
22:16
Speaker 1: Your office announced the arrest of two illegal aliens over
22:20
Speaker 1: the killing of Ava Moore. This is an 18-year-old woman
22:24
Speaker 1: who was struck and killed by a jet ski in
22:26
Speaker 1: what seems to be a hit-and-run incident. First, If you would,
22:29
Speaker 1: tell us a little bit about the background of this case.
22:32
Speaker 1: And then, of course, what went down yesterday?
22:35
Speaker 7: Pretty simple.
22:36
Speaker 8: There was a young woman, Ava Moore, who was just
22:39
Speaker 8: about ready to head off. She'd been in a preparatory
22:41
Speaker 8: school to go to the Air Force Academy, obviously young.
22:45
Speaker 8: And she was about to head off to the Air
22:47
Speaker 8: Force Academy this fall. And she was out kayaking on
22:50
Speaker 8: Lake Grapevine over Memorial Weekend. And a jet skier ran
22:55
Speaker 8: over her and killed her. And that jet skier was
22:58
Speaker 8: an illegal from Venezuela. She did not stay to help
23:01
Speaker 8: the young woman. She left the scene. And then another
23:05
Speaker 8: illegal helped her try to get away. And then he
23:07
Speaker 8: got in an accident. And a day later, my fugitive
23:12
Speaker 8: apprehension unit tracked them down and arrested them so that
23:15
Speaker 8: they faced the consequences of their action. But I mean,
23:19
Speaker 8: even if they were legal, they would have been responsible
23:21
Speaker 8: for rendering aid after causing an accident and harming somebody else.
23:25
Speaker 8: And yet, you know, Anybody should be responsible, yet they
23:28
Speaker 8: were also here illegally, unfortunately.
23:31
Speaker 1: It was such a tragic incident, and I'm so glad
23:33
Speaker 1: that you're on top of things. And I want to
23:35
Speaker 1: just let you know, Attorney General, that in the comments
23:38
Speaker 1: right now, we're live stream. People are very happy with
23:43
Speaker 1: you and the job that you've been doing. And I'm
23:45
Speaker 1: going to tell all of you in the chat, if
23:46
Speaker 1: you want to ask a question of the Attorney General,
23:48
Speaker 1: just drop a comment. Michael might collect some of them
23:50
Speaker 1: toward the end of the show so that we can interact.
23:53
Speaker 1: But I want to get into this on a little
23:55
Speaker 1: deeper of a level, because you're obviously dealing with these
23:59
Speaker 1: illegal aliens in this country. You're taking it seriously. But
24:02
Speaker 1: there are members of Congress who are actively sympathizing with
24:05
Speaker 1: not just illegals in this country, but illegal gang members.
24:09
Speaker 1: They're traveling to Venezuela on behalf of Kilmar Abrego Garcia,
24:13
Speaker 1: this MS-13 trafficking wife beater. And the argument is, oh,
24:17
Speaker 1: due process. Due process is not being respected, allegedly. How
24:22
Speaker 1: do you respond to these cries from the political left?
24:26
Speaker 7: I don't know. It's really hard to relate to. You're
24:28
Speaker 7: talking about a U.S.
24:29
Speaker 8: Senator of Eastern Connecticut heading down to take care of
24:33
Speaker 8: a gang member who is involved in violent activity and
24:37
Speaker 8: is involved in harming Americans.
24:39
Speaker 7: He's involved in harming his own family. And that's where
24:42
Speaker 7: the U.S.
24:43
Speaker 8: Senator goes to focus instead of trying to protect American citizens.
24:47
Speaker 8: Many Kids have died from fentanyl overdose. Many kids have
24:50
Speaker 8: been trafficked and sex trafficked. And he's not worried about that.
24:54
Speaker 8: He's worried about this MS-13 gang member from Venezuela that
24:57
Speaker 8: makes literally no sense. And it speaks to something very
25:02
Speaker 8: wrong with some of our political leaders.
25:04
Speaker 7: Particularly in the Democratic Party. But I wish it was
25:06
Speaker 7: just there.
25:07
Speaker 8: You know, it's spread into some of the Republicans who
25:09
Speaker 8: also seem to care more about, you know, allowing illegal immigration,
25:14
Speaker 8: not doing anything to protect us against it, and not
25:16
Speaker 8: protecting U.S.
25:17
Speaker 7: Citizens and their own constituents.
25:20
Speaker 1: Yes, there seems to be just a, if not a
25:23
Speaker 1: siding with the Democrats, almost just like a weaponized inaction
25:26
Speaker 1: from members of Congress. And I don't even know really
25:29
Speaker 1: how to explain it because we have a lot of
25:31
Speaker 1: power in Washington right now, and it just feels like
25:33
Speaker 1: the only person doing anything is President Trump with his
25:36
Speaker 1: executive orders. And we're not getting a lot of these
25:39
Speaker 1: orders actually finalized in law and having some permanency. I
25:45
Speaker 1: want to get into some of the work that you've done,
25:47
Speaker 1: Attorney General, because you've been just on fire, frankly. You
25:50
Speaker 1: filed a lawsuit against BlackRock, State Street and Vanguard for
25:54
Speaker 1: illegally manipulating energy markets. I'm seeing some people talk about Pfizer.
25:59
Speaker 1: I want to get to that in a second. But first,
26:00
Speaker 1: can you tell us a little bit more about this?
26:03
Speaker 3: Yeah.
26:03
Speaker 8: So those three companies through proxy voting, you know, Many,
26:08
Speaker 8: many U.S. citizens, many investors invest through those companies, Vanguard,
26:12
Speaker 8: State Street. And so they end up proxy voting for us.
26:16
Speaker 8: And they ended up controlling these coal companies and stopping
26:20
Speaker 8: them from producing coal.
26:21
Speaker 7: They, because they're.
26:23
Speaker 8: Invested in it, make a lot more money when there's
26:26
Speaker 8: less production.
26:27
Speaker 7: But it also cuts off the U.S. supply of energy.
26:30
Speaker 7: And it makes us more dependent on foreign oil and
26:33
Speaker 7: foreign importation. And it drives up the cost for the
26:36
Speaker 7: average American. And this is collusion. This is wrong. They're
26:39
Speaker 7: not supposed to do this.
26:41
Speaker 8: And they are harming our country and our ability to
26:45
Speaker 8: operate in all kinds of ways and costing Americans.
26:48
Speaker 7: A lot of money. And it's illegal.
26:50
Speaker 1: A concern is that these asset managers are not just
26:54
Speaker 1: manipulating energy markets through ESG policies. They're actually laying the
26:58
Speaker 1: groundwork for technocratic total grid. It's framed as climate or
27:04
Speaker 1: social responsibility, but actually, it's a consolidation of power that
27:08
Speaker 1: could lead to centralized control over the essentials like food, energy, housing,
27:13
Speaker 1: even personal finance. Do you see ESG as a Trojan
27:18
Speaker 1: horse that enables these unelected corporate elites to create a
27:21
Speaker 1: world where your energy access, your credit score, your ability
27:26
Speaker 1: to transact could be contingent on some kind of political conformity?
27:30
Speaker 8: There's no doubt about it, because control with these shares,
27:33
Speaker 8: proxy voting, and when they collude, they're able to manipulate
27:37
Speaker 8: not just energy markets but other social policies. that allow
27:41
Speaker 8: them more control, because they are clearly running the energy
27:44
Speaker 8: markets if they're controlling the production of coal.
27:47
Speaker 7: And there's no doubt they can do that with other issues.
27:49
Speaker 7: And if it works, why not do it?
27:52
Speaker 8: If they have other issues they want to control Americans
27:56
Speaker 8: with and make more money and.
27:58
Speaker 7: Direct social policy, there's no doubt that they can do it.
28:02
Speaker 1: I mean, it's fascinating to see, right? I think the
28:04
Speaker 1: Democratic Party used to be, right, the Occupy Wall Street Party,
28:08
Speaker 1: and suddenly It's the Republican Party and fighters like you
28:11
Speaker 1: who are saying, no, actually, there are some real problems
28:13
Speaker 1: here and we're going to tackle them. And it kind
28:16
Speaker 1: of subverts a lot of what we assume about the
28:19
Speaker 1: two sides here. And it does seem like public policy
28:22
Speaker 1: is no longer being set by elected government officials, but
28:26
Speaker 1: instead by asset managers who are just wielding trillions in capital.
28:30
Speaker 1: And they're backed by these opaque global networks that nobody
28:33
Speaker 1: can really see into. And it's very dystopian. And I'm
28:37
Speaker 1: really happy to learn that you're taking this on. You're
28:40
Speaker 1: also investigating the manufacturers of children's fluoride toothpaste for, I guess,
28:47
Speaker 1: deceptive marketing practices. Can you tell me a little bit
28:49
Speaker 1: more about that too?
28:51
Speaker 6: Yeah.
28:51
Speaker 8: So A lot of the research suggests that this fluoride
28:54
Speaker 8: is not good for children. That affects their cognitive development
28:57
Speaker 8: and potentially affects their ability to think and their IQ.
29:00
Speaker 8: And they've known this for years, and so they've continued
29:03
Speaker 8: to market a product that's dangerous. That's a deceptive trade
29:06
Speaker 8: practice in Texas.
29:08
Speaker 7: I would encourage other states to look at this.
29:10
Speaker 8: And so we're involved in investigating that and trying to
29:13
Speaker 8: verify exactly what our theory is.
29:15
Speaker 7: So I am concerned about it because.
29:18
Speaker 8: Obviously, we don't want our children's intelligence and their ability
29:22
Speaker 8: to think to be affected by something that's harmful from
29:26
Speaker 8: a company that doesn't tell us the truth.
29:29
Speaker 1: Right. I mean, it has to be. I mean, think
29:31
Speaker 1: about even the fluoride being put in our water. So
29:35
Speaker 1: it's not even just children's toothpaste, but I think everybody, anywhere,
29:39
Speaker 1: if you recognize it's... are going to be affected. And again,
29:44
Speaker 1: this is something that we, for whatever reason, are constantly told, oh,
29:47
Speaker 1: it's a conspiracy theory, don't worry about it. And then
29:49
Speaker 1: the studies come out and they're like, still don't worry
29:51
Speaker 1: about it. And I wonder, is this something that you've
29:54
Speaker 1: noticed as you're trying to address these issues, especially with COVID?
29:58
Speaker 1: We can talk about that too, but just As you're
30:00
Speaker 1: trying to actually follow the science and react to just
30:05
Speaker 1: what is in the best interest of human flourishing, what
30:08
Speaker 1: is in the confines of the law, and people are
30:11
Speaker 1: just saying, well, you're a conspiracy theorist. You're crazy.
30:13
Speaker 8: No, we're actually looking at science. I mean, we have
30:16
Speaker 8: studies that talk about this issue. We have studies that
30:19
Speaker 8: talk about some of the additives to, you know, cereal
30:22
Speaker 8: that affects children. We looked at the effects of the
30:26
Speaker 8: vaccine that Pfizer put out and what they said they
30:29
Speaker 8: were doing versus what was actually happening. So, some of
30:32
Speaker 8: these large companies think they're immune from not telling the
30:35
Speaker 8: truth and putting out harmful products.
30:37
Speaker 7: They should not be immune from that.
30:39
Speaker 8: And even though the federal government has protected vaccine manufacturers
30:42
Speaker 8: in a very strong way, states are not under the
30:45
Speaker 8: same obligation. We have not protected them from lying. We
30:48
Speaker 8: have not protected them from harming our kids and harming
30:51
Speaker 8: other people.
30:52
Speaker 7: And we're going to do everything we can to stop it.
30:54
Speaker 8: I don't, you know, I am a proponent of business
30:58
Speaker 8: in the United States and, encourage it and want wealth
31:01
Speaker 8: creation in our country and jobs, but I don't want
31:03
Speaker 8: them lying and harming our people.
31:06
Speaker 1: This is what I think is so wonderful about just
31:12
Speaker 1: the new figures that we're seeing lead our country, especially
31:16
Speaker 1: in the age of Trump. You're seeing people actually following
31:19
Speaker 1: the science, actually listening to the studies instead of being
31:23
Speaker 1: dogmatic about things that we should just be honest about.
31:27
Speaker 1: We should just be authentic with it. Even just so
31:30
Speaker 1: everybody in the chat knows, just yesterday, RFK Jr. stopped
31:33
Speaker 1: the CDC from recommending COVID shots for healthy pregnant women
31:37
Speaker 1: and children. This is an obvious, very easy policy to
31:40
Speaker 1: carry out that makes perfect sense given what we know. Now,
31:44
Speaker 1: I want to talk a little bit more about what's
31:46
Speaker 1: going on with Pfizer. So you've had some legal setbacks,
31:49
Speaker 1: but you filed a notice of appeal in January 2025.
31:54
Speaker 1: to continue legal action against Pfizer. Any updates on this case?
31:58
Speaker 7: No, we're still waiting on the Fifth Circuit.
32:00
Speaker 8: Hopefully we'll get an opportunity to argue this case and
32:03
Speaker 8: successfully bring it to conclusion. We are convinced that Pfizer,
32:07
Speaker 8: and you know these vaccine manufacturers are not held responsible
32:11
Speaker 8: under federal law. They can They don't have to test
32:13
Speaker 8: these vaccines. They don't have to be effective. They can
32:15
Speaker 8: cause harmful side effects. And yet they're protected under federal law.
32:20
Speaker 8: But in Texas, they're not protected under state law. If
32:23
Speaker 8: you lie about a vaccine and you don't test it
32:26
Speaker 8: and it has negative impacts on people and it doesn't,
32:30
Speaker 8: it's not effective. You say it's 95% effective and we
32:33
Speaker 8: think it's like 1% at best. Well, that's not telling
32:36
Speaker 8: the truth and you should be held responsible. I think
32:39
Speaker 8: the federal government went too far in, I understand you
32:42
Speaker 8: want to have the opportunity to develop vaccines for kids
32:45
Speaker 8: and for others. But at the same time, if a
32:47
Speaker 8: company knows that it's not effective and that it has
32:50
Speaker 8: side effects, the public should be told the truth and
32:53
Speaker 8: they shouldn't be able to get away with this and
32:54
Speaker 8: have no liability.
32:56
Speaker 1: I mean, this is just basic transparency. This is just honesty.
32:59
Speaker 1: You can't just lie or grossly misrepresent how the efficacy
33:06
Speaker 1: of your vaccine or any kind of product is just
33:08
Speaker 1: kind of common sense. We're actually now being told, I
33:11
Speaker 1: think this is like news as of yesterday, that there
33:13
Speaker 1: is a new COVID-19 variant spreading in the U.S. This
33:18
Speaker 1: is per Forbes. Is it time, Attorney General, to get
33:23
Speaker 1: out the boosters again, to put the masks on and
33:26
Speaker 1: re-lock down the country? What do you say?
33:30
Speaker 8: That didn't seem to work very well last time. You know,
33:33
Speaker 8: the masks, I never understood that. No one could ever
33:36
Speaker 8: explain why that made any sense. Those masks were not effective.
33:40
Speaker 8: And the vaccine was effective. I mean, I don't think
33:43
Speaker 8: there's any demonstration that these vaccines actually stop.
33:46
Speaker 7: And I always, you know, I never took the vaccine.
33:49
Speaker 8: And the reason I didn't was because I got COVID
33:51
Speaker 8: before I could take it. And then I was like,
33:53
Speaker 8: I don't understand the pressure here. If you've had the vaccine,
33:56
Speaker 8: why do you care if I get it? If it
33:58
Speaker 8: actually prevents spread and you've got the vaccine, you shouldn't
34:02
Speaker 8: worry about me. And yet there was all this pressure
34:04
Speaker 8: threatening people with their jobs, social pressure, just unbelievable pressure.
34:09
Speaker 8: It didn't make sense. If the vaccine actually worked, it
34:12
Speaker 8: should have spoken for itself. And guess what? The vaccine
34:16
Speaker 8: didn't speak for itself. It created a lot of questions
34:19
Speaker 8: about side effects. I truly believe there have been many
34:22
Speaker 8: negative side effects to that. And more studies, as we
34:25
Speaker 8: get more studied on this, we're going to find out
34:27
Speaker 8: that it didn't work in the way that they suggested
34:29
Speaker 8: it would.
34:31
Speaker 1: I couldn't agree more. I think that you're definitely on
34:34
Speaker 1: the right track here. And you're a rock star, Attorney General.
34:38
Speaker 1: And a lot of the comments that I'm getting right
34:39
Speaker 1: now are about your Senate run. You're running for Senate
34:43
Speaker 1: against John Cornyn. Now, I guess the Texans, all the
34:47
Speaker 1: Texans in the chat, they know. But for all of
34:50
Speaker 1: you in the other parts of the country, here's just
34:52
Speaker 1: a little rundown on Senator John Cornyn. The guy has
34:55
Speaker 1: supported federal legislation that just brazenly violates the Second Amendment.
34:59
Speaker 1: He opposed Trump's presidential runs and the border wall. He
35:03
Speaker 1: applauds the risky experimental COVID vaccines. He pushed for legislation
35:07
Speaker 1: allowing the Biden admin to force public schools to to
35:12
Speaker 1: teach racist, anti-American CRT. He opposed House Republicans who were
35:17
Speaker 1: trying to investigate Democrats' witch hunt against former President Donald Trump.
35:20
Speaker 1: He repeatedly sent blank checks to Ukraine. He helped to
35:23
Speaker 1: round up J6ers and get them thrown behind bars by
35:26
Speaker 1: working with Avril Haines, of all people. And this is
35:29
Speaker 1: one I just learned yesterday. He called the BLM riots
35:32
Speaker 1: powerful demonstrations and believes that racial injustice is an issue
35:37
Speaker 1: in America's courts and I mean, it's kind of unbelievable. Like,
35:42
Speaker 1: with friends like this, who needs enemies, right? So, Attorney General,
35:45
Speaker 1: what will you do differently?
35:47
Speaker 5: Everything.
35:49
Speaker 7: I will never have a president.
35:51
Speaker 8: Joe Biden applauded John Cornyn for restricting gun ownership rights.
35:56
Speaker 7: He worked with President Biden. He said President Biden wanted this.
36:00
Speaker 7: We delivered it. Joe Biden was extremely grateful to John Cornyn.
36:03
Speaker 7: I can tell you this.
36:05
Speaker 8: That will never happen with me. There will be no
36:07
Speaker 8: Democratic president congratulating me on passing a restrictive bill that
36:12
Speaker 8: restricts gun ownership. And this has been the history of
36:15
Speaker 8: John Cornyn. We've watched him for 23 years. I've watched
36:18
Speaker 8: him deliver the kind of results you're talking about. You
36:20
Speaker 8: listed some of the things that he's been against and
36:23
Speaker 8: been for. This may be a senator for Vermont or
36:27
Speaker 8: maybe even Maine, but not Texas. We need somebody more
36:31
Speaker 8: like Ted Cruz that votes conservatively, that doesn't fund things
36:35
Speaker 8: that we don't believe, that actually believes in protecting the border,
36:38
Speaker 8: that actually is not insinuating that amnesty instead of a
36:41
Speaker 8: border wall is the way to go. This guy has
36:43
Speaker 8: not represented Texans well, and he's gotten away with it
36:47
Speaker 8: because he can fund his race from Washington. He's going
36:49
Speaker 8: to try the same thing. But you know what? It's
36:52
Speaker 8: time for change. He's been there for 24 years. He's
36:56
Speaker 8: been in public office for almost 40 years. And it's
36:58
Speaker 8: just time for him to go.
37:00
Speaker 1: I have to imagine, Attorney General, that the Bushes probably
37:07
Speaker 1: still have a lot of influence in the state of Texas.
37:10
Speaker 1: And I feel that there is... just a real disconnect.
37:14
Speaker 1: And a lot of these people like John Cornyn, who
37:16
Speaker 1: have been in politics for a really long time in
37:18
Speaker 1: sort of these political dynasties in the Republican Party, who
37:22
Speaker 1: just are not in sync with the modern Republican Party,
37:26
Speaker 1: the way that we've shifted into something much more populist,
37:30
Speaker 1: into a party that will say, hey, we're going to
37:33
Speaker 1: go after the BlackRock and Vanguard, and we're going to
37:36
Speaker 1: actually do what is right for the American people, standing
37:40
Speaker 1: up for the little guy in a way that I
37:42
Speaker 1: just think this party hasn't in a long time. What
37:44
Speaker 1: do you think is going to be your biggest challenge
37:46
Speaker 1: if you are elected into the Senate? Because, I mean,
37:50
Speaker 1: if I'm being honest, as somebody on the political right
37:52
Speaker 1: who's looking into that chamber, I'm saying there is seemingly
37:57
Speaker 1: a lot of Republicans who look just like Democrats.
38:00
Speaker 6: Yeah.
38:01
Speaker 8: And the Bushes, unfortunately, were not what they purported to be.
38:05
Speaker 8: They would get into office and not, if you look
38:07
Speaker 8: at the history, whether it's H.W. who said, no, read
38:10
Speaker 8: my lips, no new taxes, and then passed the largest
38:13
Speaker 8: tax bill in U.S.
38:13
Speaker 7: History. And then you've got George W. Bush.
38:17
Speaker 8: What did he actually deliver? And he is the guy
38:19
Speaker 8: that enabled John Cornyn to be John Cornyn. He's the
38:22
Speaker 8: one that put him on the Supreme Court. He's the
38:24
Speaker 8: one that encouraged him to create this school finance plan
38:27
Speaker 8: called Robin Hood. It was a judicial activist move on
38:30
Speaker 8: John Cornyn's part of the Supreme Court of Texas. where
38:32
Speaker 8: they took over our schools and turned it into a
38:34
Speaker 8: wealth redistribution program. It's been bad since John Cornyn did that.
38:39
Speaker 7: His reward for doing that.
38:40
Speaker 8: For Bush, because Bush wanted it done when he was
38:42
Speaker 8: governor of Texas, was they, Karl Rove and George W. Bush,
38:47
Speaker 8: helped him become attorney general of Texas and then ultimately
38:49
Speaker 8: a U.S.
38:50
Speaker 7: Senator. So John Cornyn has been answering to that group,
38:53
Speaker 7: Karl Rove and George W.
38:55
Speaker 8: Bush and the other Bushes, his entire career. And the
38:59
Speaker 8: reality is it It hasn't taken care of America. We
39:03
Speaker 8: haven't had leadership that was much different than what the
39:06
Speaker 8: Democrats were doing. And that's what I love about President Trump.
39:09
Speaker 8: He has led in a way that actually he cares
39:11
Speaker 8: about the American people. He's implementing policies that help us,
39:15
Speaker 8: as opposed to the Bushes, who got along with the
39:18
Speaker 8: Clintons and the Obamas that are all kind of in
39:19
Speaker 8: the same club.
39:20
Speaker 7: And that's one of the biggest problems with the U.S. Senate.
39:23
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely. I couldn't agree more. And I want to
39:26
Speaker 1: ask one question of you. This one's from the chat.
39:28
Speaker 1: People are asking... about what other attorney generals from red
39:34
Speaker 1: states can do to emulate what you have done in Texas.
39:38
Speaker 1: I think there are a lot of people in the
39:39
Speaker 1: chat who are coming from Republican states who are just
39:42
Speaker 1: noticing a lot of inaction. Is there a template? Is
39:46
Speaker 1: there advice that you can have for maybe other attorney generals,
39:49
Speaker 1: but even just for what people on the ground should
39:52
Speaker 1: be doing to have the same kind of energy you've
39:54
Speaker 1: been able to create in Texas?
39:55
Speaker 8: I think it's just, you know, recognizing the issues that
39:59
Speaker 8: are out there, and they're obvious, and having the courage
40:02
Speaker 8: to stand up against the political class, the elite, who
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Speaker 8: try to tell us, along with the lobby and bureaucrats
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Speaker 8: that we need to do it a certain way. It's
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Speaker 8: pretty simple to figure out what to do. You talk
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Speaker 8: to the American people, you talk to your constituents, they
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Speaker 8: know what they want. They're the ones you represent. And
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Speaker 8: it merely takes, it doesn't take a genius to figure
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Speaker 8: this stuff out. All you have to do is have
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Speaker 8: the courage to listen to your constituents and do what
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Speaker 8: they ask you to do.
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Speaker 7: And Obviously, when you do that, you will.
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Speaker 8: Suffer consequences from the political class and from the bureaucracy
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Speaker 8: and from even weaponizing the legal system like they've done
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Speaker 8: against President Trump and me and others. But the reality
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Speaker 8: is that's why we're elected. We're elected to take care
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Speaker 8: of the people of our states and of our country.
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Speaker 8: And most politicians back away from that job and are
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Speaker 8: worried about being friends with everybody and getting along and
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Speaker 8: making sure that their friends are taken care of and
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Speaker 8: both the political class and other people associated.
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Speaker 7: With the political class.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you have to be willing to make tough decisions.
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Speaker 1: You have to be willing to lose friendships to do
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Speaker 1: what's right. Otherwise, what do you stand for? Why are
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Speaker 1: you even in power? I have one more question for you.
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Speaker 1: This one's from the chat. People want to know what
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Speaker 1: you think President Trump should do in response to all
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Speaker 1: of these activist judges inhibiting his rightful powers in the executive,
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Speaker 1: especially when it comes to some of the inhibitors of
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Speaker 1: his immigration agenda?
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Speaker 8: Well, that's a huge problem. And part of the problem
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Speaker 8: was created by Republicans. I mean, George W. Bush didn't
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Speaker 8: always appoint, nor did his father, conservative constitutional judges. So
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Speaker 8: we have an institutional problem created by both Democrats and Republicans.
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Speaker 8: I think the question is, is Congress ever going to
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Speaker 8: step up and impeach judges? that are not following the Constitution.
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Speaker 8: That's the appropriate role for Congress. The president can appoint people.
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Speaker 8: Congress oversees the courts. They were never supposed to be even,
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Speaker 8: they were not supposed to be, they were supposed to
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Speaker 8: be the weaker of the three branches. And as it
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Speaker 8: turns out, because of judicial activism and this complete disparaging
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Speaker 8: of the Constitution and the rule of law, Congress has
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Speaker 8: to step in and take people out that are not
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Speaker 8: following the Constitution. And so if you are one of
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Speaker 8: these judges that's decided that I can run the policy
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Speaker 8: of immigration through my court for the entire nation. Congress
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Speaker 8: needs to look at those people and say, it's time
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Speaker 8: to get rid of some of these judges.
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Speaker 5: Amazing.
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Speaker 1: Attorney General Paxton, I want to be respectful of your time.
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Speaker 1: Give us just your elevator pitch. Tell us where people
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Speaker 1: can go to follow your campaign, to stay up to
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Speaker 1: date on everything that you're working on as AG as well. Also,
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Speaker 1: people really want to know where they can donate to
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Speaker 1: your campaign. So if you could also Mention that as well.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, KenPaxson.com is the place to donate and catch up
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Speaker 8: on what we're doing. KenPaxsonTX is our Twitter handle and
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Speaker 8: also Facebook. And look, do I need to run another race?
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Speaker 8: I've been an attorney general for, it'll be 12 years.
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Speaker 8: I've loved doing it. I've had the chance to make
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Speaker 8: a difference in both my state and the entire country,
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Speaker 8: fighting for the people of Texas and fighting for constitutional
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Speaker 8: rights and.
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Speaker 7: John Korn has never done that. He's never going to
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Speaker 7: do that right now.
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Speaker 8: He's running to be a MAGA guy for one year
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Speaker 8: while he's running against me.
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Speaker 7: After that, he'll be back to being the real John Korn.
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Speaker 8: And, you know, look, Texans, I think, want something different.
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Speaker 7: I've felt it. I've seen it.
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Speaker 8: I've seen him booted, you know, Republican conventions where people
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Speaker 8: know what's going on. And he's going to lie to
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Speaker 8: us and try to tell us he is something that
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Speaker 8: he is not.
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Speaker 7: I wish he'd just be who he is. Just come
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Speaker 7: out and say, this is what I believe. I don't
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Speaker 7: believe in a border wall. He's been saying this before.
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Speaker 8: And during the next, you know, 10 months, he's going
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Speaker 8: to be dishonest with us and try to be somebody else.
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Speaker 8: I truly believe that Texas voters, especially Republican primary voters,
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Speaker 8: are smarter than that. And that they are going, I
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Speaker 8: know they want to change.
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Speaker 7: And I believe we're going to accomplish that.
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Speaker 1: I think that we have a lot of people in
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Speaker 1: Congress right now who unfortunately have proven that we can't
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Speaker 1: trust them. And it's very disheartening. And so I hope
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Speaker 1: others will stand up and actually start to primary some
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Speaker 1: of these people. I really appreciate you joining the show,
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Speaker 1: Attorney General. You're doing amazing work. For all of you listening,
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Speaker 1: we're going to have links to Ken Paxton's website, his
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Speaker 1: social media in the comments. So make in the description.
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Speaker 1: So make sure to go there if you're interested in more.
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Speaker 1: But as always, you guys, thank you so much for
44:41
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Speaker 3: I think a lot of people are underestimating the Trump
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Speaker 3: effect in this midterm. You've heard it yourself. Act like
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Speaker 3: I'm on the ballot. Why is he saying that? You
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Speaker 3: think he doesn't know what he's doing? That is the
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Speaker 3: X factor. Folks, elections are a math issue.
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Speaker 1: That is it.
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Speaker 3: This is not a football game. If you vote, we
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Speaker 3: will win. It is not complicated.
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