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Paxton to WIN - What Last Tuesday Shows · Booker Scott: Truth Be Told

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Speaker 1: and around the world.
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Speaker 2: The Democratic brand right now has about the appeal with
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Speaker 2: the American voter as the Cracker Barrel rebrand has.
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Speaker 1: From America Out Loud Talk Radio, it's time for Truth
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Speaker 1: Be Told with Booker Scott.
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Speaker 3: I hope you had a great Memorial Day weekend. We
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Speaker 3: are back here for Tuesday night. I'm a little confused
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Speaker 3: because we're not having Mondays with Matt. We are having
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Speaker 3: Tuesdays with Matt as he was off for the Memorial
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Speaker 3: Day weekend. Matt, how was your weekend, and welcome back.
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Speaker 4: It was a great weekend. I did absolutely nothing, and
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Speaker 4: it was everything I wanted it to be.
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Speaker 3: And similar to me, I do have my wife, or actually,
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Speaker 3: I do have my daughter, who is in town with
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Speaker 3: my grandson, and they're celebrating Christmas. over at the beach
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Speaker 3: this week, so I get to spend some time with them.
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Speaker 3: We're going to talk about several things here tonight. We
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Speaker 3: have the Iran peace deal that we're going to get
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Speaker 3: into a little bit later, and we have teen takeovers
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Speaker 3: in America. I'm not sure what to make of that,
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Speaker 3: but the most important thing we want to get to
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Speaker 3: right off the bat here is the election that took
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Speaker 3: place on Tuesday. There were several states that had elections
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Speaker 3: in the primary. We have a big one today on
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Speaker 3: Tuesday that and those results should be coming in from
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Speaker 3: Texas at any moment with Ken Paxton and John Cornyn.
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Speaker 3: First of all, Matt, what did you make of last Tuesday,
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Speaker 3: May 19th, and that primary election?
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Speaker 5: Well, I was happy because I correctly predicted on the
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Speaker 5: show that they had to lose, so I was right
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Speaker 5: for once.
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Speaker 3: In the prediction.
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Speaker 4: And I was wrong.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I was wrong, and that may be the first. No,
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Speaker 3: I've been wrong more than that, but Yeah, let's start there.
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Speaker 3: Let's start with Thomas Massey and Galran. What did you
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Speaker 3: take away from that?
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Speaker 5: Well, Trump's influence within the party is still as strong
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Speaker 5: as ever. I don't know, Massey kind of flamed out
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Speaker 5: really for no reason at all, same with Marjorie Taylor Greene.
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Speaker 5: The Epstein stuff was just a bizarre hill to die
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Speaker 5: on in that he has access to the files. If
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Speaker 5: there is some big revelation he wants us to see,
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Speaker 5: he can just tell us at any point. He has
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Speaker 5: on the House floor, there was four men he accused
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Speaker 5: of being, him and Ro Khanna had accused of being
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Speaker 5: part of Epstein's pedophile conspiracy. And it Turned out they
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Speaker 5: were completely innocent and he never addressed that or apologized. So,
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Speaker 5: you know, I am, you know, I think it's a
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Speaker 5: good thing that he did play a role in getting
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Speaker 5: the 2.5 million pages released.
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Speaker 4: But the.
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Speaker 5: You know, let's just sit back a second. You know,
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Speaker 5: what we know about Jeffrey Epstein now and what is
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Speaker 5: in the files is basically that, yes, this guy was
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Speaker 5: into underage women. Yes, he was trafficking women. The more,
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Speaker 5: you know, pedophile conspiracy extortion angle of the Epstein theory
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Speaker 5: has not really seemed to have played out, at least
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Speaker 5: in what we've seen so far in the files, or
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Speaker 5: if no one's perhaps no one has found it yet.
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Speaker 6: But I don't know.
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Speaker 4: It's He's just endorsed.
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Speaker 5: A more fringe, conspiratorial version of the truth, and it's
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Speaker 5: just a weird hill to die on for me.
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Speaker 3: And so many people still want to see those files released,
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Speaker 3: and Thomas Massey was on programs Sunday over the weekend,
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Speaker 3: and here's what he had to say about the Epstein files.
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Speaker 7: They bamboozled the people here in Kentucky. They used artificial
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Speaker 7: intelligence to create a video, lifelike video, that showed me
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Speaker 7: checking into a hotel room with AOC and Ilhan Omar.
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Speaker 3: I guess I should interrupt. This is the wrong clip,
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Speaker 3: but this is the reason why Thomas Massey says he lost.
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Speaker 3: You say it's because he's kind of gone to the fringe. Well,
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Speaker 3: he says that the boomers that voted for him don't
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Speaker 3: know what they're doing. The younger people know because of
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Speaker 3: this artificial intelligence commercial.
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Speaker 7: And holding hands with them. It was actually very effective
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Speaker 7: on the boomers. But here's the thing, Kristen. That's only
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Speaker 7: going to work for a little bit longer.
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Speaker 3: The boomers are going to, you know, leave this country.
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Speaker 3: Leave this country. He's talking about the boomers dying. And
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Speaker 3: then maybe Thomas Massey may have a shot. This is
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Speaker 3: really desperate from Thomas.
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Speaker 7: Gen X and the Gen Z and the Gen Y
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Speaker 7: and the millennials. And those folks are the ones that
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Speaker 7: I won overwhelmingly. That makes me really hopeful for this country.
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Speaker 7: They don't get fooled by artificial intelligence and they check
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Speaker 7: the news. They get news sources like from podcasts and
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Speaker 7: other sources. So they won this race by fooling by
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Speaker 7: voters and expanding the base of people who vote to
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Speaker 7: the uninformed voters. But look, I got 45 percent of
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Speaker 7: the vote.
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Speaker 3: 45% of the vote is a loser every time, no
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Speaker 3: matter how you count it. 45% loses. Thomas Massey is
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Speaker 3: not addressing the real issues. As I looked at people
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Speaker 3: being interviewed, coming out of voting, they didn't say anything
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Speaker 3: about that video that he just talked about. They talked
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Speaker 3: about Thomas Massey not doing anything for them and his constituency.
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Speaker 3: for years and that he has become something more than
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Speaker 3: a representative for the people of Kentucky for. That's what
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Speaker 3: I kept saying or seeing. That's what I kept seeing
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Speaker 3: there about Thomas Massey. He's not being honest with himself.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, but it is.
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Speaker 5: Concerning how few people can seem to tell AI apart
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Speaker 5: from reality, but I don't think that was the... I
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Speaker 5: don't think an Ilhan Omar hotel video was the defining factor.
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Speaker 3: In this election.
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Speaker 4: I think it was the most expensive election in U.S.
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Speaker 4: history for a House race.
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Speaker 9: It was.
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Speaker 4: So clearly that played a larger role, and he did...
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Speaker 4: He was overplaying.
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Speaker 6: I don't know.
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Speaker 5: He seemed to be blaming it on his concession speech
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Speaker 5: on Israel. He did the whole, I had to call
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Speaker 5: my opponent to concede in Tel Aviv or something.
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Speaker 4: He had some dumb line.
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Speaker 5: But one of his top donors was also a Jewish
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Speaker 5: guy who was pro-Israel. So it's like, well, you're both
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Speaker 5: funded by those people.
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Speaker 4: I don't know. You can't really attack the other guy
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Speaker 4: for doing it.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I agree. Let's go to some more analysis
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Speaker 3: from Tuesday, because in total you had Alabama, Georgia, Idaho, Kentucky.
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Speaker 3: Oregon and Pennsylvania all had primaries on May 19th. In Alabama,
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Speaker 3: you have an open primary, which means if you're a Republican,
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Speaker 3: you can go and ask for a Democrat ballot and vote.
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Speaker 3: There are 3.8 million registered voters. The turnout rate there
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Speaker 3: was about 23 percent. Democrats had 43 percent of the vote.
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Speaker 3: which is a significant increase over 2022. You have to
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Speaker 3: compare it to that off-year midterm. The Republicans had 57%
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Speaker 3: of those, about 500,000 votes, and here's the problem that
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Speaker 3: we keep running into. That 500,000 represents about a 25%
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Speaker 3: decline over 2022. Alabama is a heavily Republican red state,
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Speaker 3: but in places like Madison County, Montgomery County, Jefferson County,
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Speaker 3: Democrats had greater turnout, 52%, than the Republicans. Now let's
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Speaker 3: go to Georgia. It also is an open primary. You
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Speaker 3: get your pick. Seven and a half million registered voters.
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Speaker 3: It was record high turnout for a with over 2
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Speaker 3: million ballots cast, which is 28%, compared to about 22%
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Speaker 3: over 2022. It seems that the urban areas and heavily
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Speaker 3: Democrat areas were very energized. However, there was Republican turnout
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Speaker 3: in the rural areas a little bit lower than 2022
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Speaker 3: because there is a governor race there that may make
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Speaker 3: a difference for the Republicans to turn out in Georgia. Idaho,
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Speaker 3: I don't even want to talk about because it's just
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Speaker 3: Republican turnout. And in fact, no party is 26%. The
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Speaker 3: Democrats only have 12% registered. So there's not much there
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Speaker 3: to learn about what may happen in November. However, all
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Speaker 3: of the far right candidates, most of them incumbents, they lost.
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Speaker 3: So maybe there is. In Kentucky, it also is, well,
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Speaker 3: it is a closed primary. You have 3.4 registered voters there.
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Speaker 3: And I don't know really what we can learn there.
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Speaker 3: Republicans are 48% of the state's voters, Democrats are 41%,
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Speaker 3: and no party is about 11%. 2026 midterm saw a
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Speaker 3: high turnout with 864,000 voting, 26% rate, which is higher
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Speaker 3: than 2022, and that was driven by a Senate race
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Speaker 3: to replace McConnell and also that Thomas Massey race. That
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Speaker 3: Massey race generated 105,000 votes of that 864, so that
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Speaker 3: obviously skews that number a little bit. Oregon, I don't
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Speaker 3: think there's any real reason to discuss that, but Pennsylvania,
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Speaker 3: there is. Pennsylvania also is a closed primary. Eight and
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Speaker 3: a half million registered voters. Democrat voters, 3.65 million. Republican, 3.53 million.
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Speaker 3: So it's very even. Independents are about 1.4 million. 1.9
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Speaker 3: million voted, which is a 24% turnout, which is kind
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Speaker 3: of typical moderate turnout for an off-year midterm election. The
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Speaker 3: striking difference in Democrat and Republican turnout was similar to Georgia.
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Speaker 3: Democrat voter turnout was 57%. Now, keep in mind, these
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Speaker 3: are people that go and say, give me a Democrat ballot.
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Speaker 3: 57% of the people that turned out to vote Tuesday
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Speaker 3: were Democrats. Republican raw vote represented about 37%. Independents, they
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Speaker 3: don't get to vote, and either they can only vote
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Speaker 3: for issues or non-party races like judges and school boards
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Speaker 3: and things like that. Now, the governor's race in Pennsylvania,
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Speaker 3: to me, Matt, is the key takeaway. Democrat incumbent Josh
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Speaker 3: Shapiro got 1.1 million votes. He's running unopposed. The Republican
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Speaker 3: Stacey Garrity is also running unopposed, and she had about 600,000 votes.
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Speaker 3: She got beat by half a million because Republicans... They
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Speaker 3: are not showing up to vote in any of these elections.
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Speaker 3: And that's the pattern that I see, and that's the
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Speaker 3: concerning part going into the general election in November.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, but I guess to be fair, though, in that
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Speaker 5: specific instance, it is– when they are running unopposed, there
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Speaker 5: is almost no reason to vote and that if the
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Speaker 5: candidate gets one vote, they're going to win anyway. But
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Speaker 5: it is you're correct, that if you were going to
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Speaker 5: project out that sort of turnout, then in that case,
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Speaker 5: it is catastrophic. And it's also horrible for any sort
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Speaker 5: of down ballot effects as well, and that if Democrats
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Speaker 5: turning out more, it's going to boost everyone else down.
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Speaker 5: We saw that in New Jersey, where we had Mike
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Speaker 5: and Cheryl won her race against Jackson Aurelian and blow out.
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Speaker 5: And then basically anyone with a D next to their
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Speaker 5: name ended up winning their election.
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Speaker 4: In my town, our... mayor, a Democrat won by only
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Speaker 4: about 70 votes.
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Speaker 5: I think he spent $ 10, 000 on his campaign. And half
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Speaker 5: of that spending was on his election night party where
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Speaker 5: he didn't think he was going to win. So he basically,
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Speaker 5: you know, those effects are real and it's, I know
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Speaker 5: it's so cliche, but yeah, it all ultimately comes down
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Speaker 5: to turnout. The trend is that the parity in power
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Speaker 5: always loses seats in the midterms, but it's not like
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Speaker 5: that has to be the case. I mean, if Republicans
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Speaker 5: turned out in the numbers they did when Obama was president,
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Speaker 5: that would.
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Speaker 4: Not be the case, obviously.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, even presidents with approval ratings of plus 50, they
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Speaker 3: still lose seats in the midterm, typically. I think Bill
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Speaker 3: Clinton lost six with an over 50% approval rating way
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Speaker 3: back in 97, I guess. But I want to go
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Speaker 3: back to Pennsylvania real quick because I want to push
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Speaker 3: back a little bit on you because 500,000 votes, that's
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Speaker 3: a lot of Republicans not showing up. And that tells
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Speaker 3: you that they're not showing up for those down ballot
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Speaker 3: races that are opposed. So if they're because wouldn't you
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Speaker 3: pull the lever for a Republican governor if you happen
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Speaker 3: to be there voting for school board or a congressional district?
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Speaker 3: So that's the point that the Republicans continue to not
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Speaker 3: show up for these elections. Let's go back to Indiana
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Speaker 3: real quick, because I know a few times on the
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Speaker 3: show we have talked about the seven that were endorsed
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Speaker 3: by Donald Trump that won in that primary a few
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Speaker 3: weeks ago. In reality, six of the seven won. The
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Speaker 3: seventh lost by three votes, but they are challenging that
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Speaker 3: over 14 votes that they say they... changed from Democrat
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Speaker 3: to Republican, which is not allowed if you voted as
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Speaker 3: a Democrat in the last election. Even though it's an
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Speaker 3: open primary, that is one of the rules. You can't
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Speaker 3: flip if you voted in the last election over to
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Speaker 3: Republican because you were then just flipping. So that was interesting.
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Speaker 3: I found that out. Also, Fulton County, Georgia is still
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Speaker 3: a mess. I don't know exactly what all is going
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Speaker 3: on there. I have shows from time to time with
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Speaker 3: some experts in Georgia talking about Fulton County. I find
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Speaker 3: it odd that we have not heard anything about that
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Speaker 3: FBI raid since that took place in January. I was
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Speaker 3: expecting something before now. Here we are in May, or
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Speaker 3: almost June even, and we still haven't heard anything about
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Speaker 3: that Fulton County FBI raid from the FBI or the
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Speaker 3: Department of Justice. Do you find that odd?
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Speaker 4: Yes.
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Speaker 5: Either they're building a trove of evidence or have none whatsoever.
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Speaker 5: I hate to have no real analysis there, but yeah,
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Speaker 5: I'm just.
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Speaker 4: Going to wait and see.
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Speaker 3: Let's go back to Georgia real quick and let's hear
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Speaker 3: from Senator John Ossoff. He ran in the special election to,
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Speaker 3: I guess it was back in 21. And he won
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Speaker 3: and then he won the seat again for six years.
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Speaker 3: Here's what he had to say about Georgia and what
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Speaker 3: he is hearing from people on the ground there.
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Speaker 10: I am hearing from Republicans who come up to me
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Speaker 10: on the street or they approach me at the airport.
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Speaker 10: or maybe they have my number and they give me
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Speaker 10: a call. And they're telling me that they are voting
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Speaker 10: for a Democrat for the first time this year because
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Speaker 10: they've just had enough. The abuses of power, the blatant
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Speaker 10: self enrichment and corruption. While the American people face all
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Speaker 10: time high prices for rent and groceries and a meal
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Speaker 10: out at a restaurant and the power bill.
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Speaker 3: And he goes on and on, a typical Democrat response.
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Speaker 3: But do you think people are feeling this? Again, Georgia
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Speaker 3: is an open primary. And do you think there's any
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Speaker 3: truth to what Ossoff said right there as far as
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Speaker 3: the people that are going to vote? Do you think
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Speaker 3: that he's hearing from Republicans and they are saying that?
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Speaker 4: Oh, I'm sure it has happened to him.
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Speaker 5: The question is, is this something that has happened 10
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Speaker 5: times and is that something we can extrapolate out to
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Speaker 5: hundreds of thousands of votes?
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Speaker 4: And probably not.
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Speaker 5: And, you know, the thing is, too, if someone went like,
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Speaker 5: you know, I'm switching from Democrat to Republican, they're not
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Speaker 5: going to come up to him and tell him that.
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Speaker 5: So it's I don't I think it's just a kind
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Speaker 5: of a biased sample he's got there.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I would think so, too.
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Speaker 5: And from the primaries and everything so far, the reason
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Speaker 5: Democrats are winning is just because they're the ones turning out.
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Speaker 5: And Republicans are saying, oh, it's not from Republicans crossing
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Speaker 5: the aisle. If you look at party registration trends across
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Speaker 5: the states, it's not like the GOP is hemorrhaging voters either.
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Speaker 4: So I don't think it's that.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, we just got to get energized to get people
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Speaker 3: to go vote. And that's what it's all about. And
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Speaker 3: if not, then we're going to have problems. We have
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Speaker 3: an Iran peace deal again. And we're going to talk
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Speaker 3: about it.
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Speaker 4: Groundhog Day.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, we're going to talk about it. In just minutes.
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Speaker 4: What's going on here in the land of the free?
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Speaker 5: Many women and men have died for the freedom for
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Speaker 5: you and me.
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Speaker 3: with us on a Tuesday. I know it's confusing. It
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Speaker 3: doesn't take much to confuse me, and I am totally confused.
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Speaker 3: And I'm also sort of confused on what's happening in Iran.
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Speaker 3: We had news come out over the weekend that we
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Speaker 3: are 95% to a peace deal. I'm curious of what
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Speaker 3: that 5% is that is keeping us from getting there.
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Speaker 3: I understand that there is communication problem on the Iran side,
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Speaker 3: and the IRGC continues to put out propaganda, and that's
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Speaker 3: not in a positive light as far as this peace
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Speaker 3: deal goes. What are you seeing here, Matt?
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Speaker 5: Well, you know, details aside, I think we're just going
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Speaker 5: to have to see it to believe it in terms
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Speaker 5: of it actually being put into effect. I think we've
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Speaker 5: kind of covered this story every week for the past
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Speaker 5: three months or so where we're on the verge of
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Speaker 5: a verge of the verge of a deal and nothing
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Speaker 5: happens or it's just sort of unexplained and we never
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Speaker 4: So.
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Speaker 5: Unfortunately, the stock market's not even open today, so we
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Speaker 5: can't see how that's reacting to the news to see
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Speaker 5: how they're processing it. But, you know, obviously we should
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Speaker 5: hold that hope. I think Trump has made, I think
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Speaker 5: he's on his 20th threat or so far. So hopefully
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Speaker 5: this is the one that finally does it in, but
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Speaker 5: we'll see.
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Speaker 3: You wonder how many it takes for people in Iran
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Speaker 3: to wake up. And I guess what this has to
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Speaker 3: do with is, I think, opening the Strait of Hormuz first.
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Speaker 3: And then there's a 60-day window to get the rest
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Speaker 3: of it done, which to me is what Iran does.
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Speaker 3: We talked about this way back with Gaza and Hamas
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Speaker 3: and Israel peace deal, that there were two parts of it.
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Speaker 3: And the first part was to stop shooting each other,
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Speaker 3: which they have really done since then. The second part
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Speaker 3: of that was Hamas turning over their weapons, which they
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Speaker 3: have not done. And we said they probably would never
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Speaker 3: do that. So if the first part of this is
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Speaker 3: to open up the Strait of Hormuz, and then the
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Speaker 3: second part in the next 60 days is negotiating getting
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Speaker 3: rid of all their nuclear weapons, we know that Iran's
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Speaker 3: red line in the sand is we're not giving up
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Speaker 3: our right for nuclear weapons. And we also know that
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Speaker 3: Donald Trump's is you're not going to have nuclear weapons.
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Speaker 3: So how does this all end again?
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Speaker 5: We kill more of their leaders and brand their replacements gay.
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Speaker 5: That's the only way forward strategy so far.
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Speaker 3: Oh, well, that's a good one. That would probably work.
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Speaker 3: Let's listen to Marco Rubio. He was in India over
19:09
Speaker 3: the weekend on a trip there. Listen to him.
19:11
Speaker 2: Multiple political leaders, multiple presidents of the United States have
19:14
Speaker 2: all said the same thing. Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon.
19:17
Speaker 2: The only one who's tried to do anything and has
19:18
Speaker 2: actually done anything about it in a real way has
19:21
Speaker 2: been President Trump. So his commitment to that principle that
19:24
Speaker 2: they'll never have a nuclear weapon shouldn't be questioned by anybody.
19:27
Speaker 2: And the idea that somehow this president, given everything he's
19:31
Speaker 2: already proven he's willing to do, is going to somehow
19:34
Speaker 2: agree to a deal that ultimately winds up putting Iran
19:36
Speaker 2: in a stronger position when it comes to nuclear ambitions
19:39
Speaker 2: is absurd. That's just not going to happen. But our
19:41
Speaker 2: preference is to address this through a diplomatic means. And
19:45
Speaker 2: that's what we're endeavoring to do here. I think we've
19:47
Speaker 2: made some progress. I'm always cautious when I say that
19:50
Speaker 2: because you can agree to things on paper. They actually
19:53
Speaker 2: have to be implemented.
19:55
Speaker 3: And the implementation is going to be the difficult part
19:57
Speaker 3: on the back end of this if there is a
19:59
Speaker 3: peace deal. Who knows? I don't know, but they have
20:02
Speaker 3: been very consistent. No nuclear weapons is what they've always said,
20:07
Speaker 3: isn't it?
20:08
Speaker 5: Yeah, and I guess we could put Marco Rubio in
20:09
Speaker 5: charge of Iran.
20:10
Speaker 4: He could be the new Ayatollah. He'll do his 50th job,
20:13
Speaker 4: and he's doing very well.
20:14
Speaker 3: Yeah, those are funny memes. Yeah, I saw him last
20:18
Speaker 3: week in a meme when it was announced that Tulsi
20:20
Speaker 3: Gabbard was going to resign at the end of June,
20:24
Speaker 3: that he was now wearing a white suit and he
20:26
Speaker 3: had black hair. Yeah, that was funny. Senator Chris Van Hollen,
20:31
Speaker 3: you may remember him, he was The guy that went
20:34
Speaker 3: and had a margarita with... A margarita, yeah. A margarita
20:37
Speaker 3: with Abrigo Garcia, the Maryland dad, back when they... Where
20:42
Speaker 3: did they send him? Venezuela? Is that where that was?
20:44
Speaker 3: Or Ecuador?
20:44
Speaker 4: It was El Salvador, and then... The whole saga was,
20:49
Speaker 4: after that, after we.
20:50
Speaker 5: Brought him back for some reason, they threatened to send
20:54
Speaker 5: him to Uganda. And his lawyer said, well, we can't
20:57
Speaker 5: send him there because he doesn't speak the local language.
21:00
Speaker 3: Yeah, he was going to become the Uganda dad.
21:03
Speaker 4: Now, what is the local language in Uganda? It's English.
21:08
Speaker 5: So we can't send it to Uganda because it doesn't
21:10
Speaker 5: speak English, but we have to keep them in America
21:12
Speaker 5: where the official language is English.
21:14
Speaker 4: That was the logic from his lawyer.
21:16
Speaker 3: Well, here is Senator Van Hollen talking about Iran. Now
21:19
Speaker 3: he is a specialist in the middle east period.
21:22
Speaker 11: Will not see at this war against iran has been
21:25
Speaker 11: a big blunder of from the very start uh... the
21:29
Speaker 11: president should have stuck to his campaign pledge shows keeping
21:32
Speaker 11: us out of war and focused on bringing down prices
21:35
Speaker 11: he's done just the opposite prices are going up interest
21:39
Speaker 11: rates are going up and were mired in this war
21:42
Speaker 11: in iran and when you're digging a hole you should
21:44
Speaker 11: stop digging that's what this agreement sounds like it sounds
21:48
Speaker 11: like We will go back to opening the Strait of Hormuz, which,
21:52
Speaker 11: of course, was open before the war started. I will say, however,
21:57
Speaker 11: it looks like Iran will retain more control over those straits.
22:02
Speaker 11: We also know Iran has an even more hardline regime
22:06
Speaker 11: in place now.
22:08
Speaker 3: Okay, he has no information to say any of that
22:10
Speaker 3: with any knowledge. He really doesn't. And he's out there
22:13
Speaker 3: running his mouth. But someone that does have a little
22:15
Speaker 3: bit of knowledge on this is Scott Jennings. You see
22:18
Speaker 3: him on CNN, and he does a great job. He
22:21
Speaker 3: also has a radio show, and he was on a
22:23
Speaker 3: call with a senior administration official, and here's what he
22:27
Speaker 3: put out over the weekend. After receiving a briefing from
22:29
Speaker 3: a senior Trump administration official on the status of the
22:32
Speaker 3: Iran negotiations, someone in the know, and not just speculating,
22:37
Speaker 3: I can tell you the following. USA is not giving
22:41
Speaker 3: Iranians money for nothing. All speculation and propaganda to the
22:46
Speaker 3: contrary is false. Some hardline elements of Iran's government, IRGC,
22:51
Speaker 3: have pushed fake stories and propaganda to try to kill
22:54
Speaker 3: this negotiation. The Iran deal is not done. 95%, but
23:00
Speaker 3: still haggling over some language. No deal being signed over
23:04
Speaker 3: the weekend. Maybe a few more days. I think now
23:06
Speaker 3: Trump has given five to seven days. Iran will not
23:09
Speaker 3: get any money or sanctions relief up front. Iran must
23:14
Speaker 3: turn over nuclear stockpile to get anything. USA position is
23:19
Speaker 3: that failure to meet deal commitments means Iran gets absolutely nothing.
23:25
Speaker 3: Long term, USA objective is preventing Iran from having nuclear weapons.
23:29
Speaker 3: Initial deal point is to reestablish free flow of commerce
23:34
Speaker 3: by reopening Strait of Hormuz. The deal should have two phases.
23:37
Speaker 3: Step one, open the Strait of Hormuz, give world economy
23:40
Speaker 3: breathing room. Iran agrees to give up enriched uranium. Step two,
23:45
Speaker 3: get the nuclear material turned over. Only then can Iran
23:50
Speaker 3: get sanctions relief. Bottom line, the goal is to make
23:54
Speaker 3: a deal that lowers costs for Americans, calms the world
23:58
Speaker 3: energy markets, and guarantees that Iranians cannot have a nuclear
24:03
Speaker 3: weapon over the long term. We aren't there yet. Iran
24:07
Speaker 3: takes forever to get you a response on even small things,
24:11
Speaker 3: but we are close, although it still could take a
24:14
Speaker 3: few days. Quote from the senior administration official, quote, if
24:18
Speaker 3: we get what we are demanding, this is going to
24:21
Speaker 3: be a historic deal, unquote. SAO, according to Scott Jennings, says,
24:27
Speaker 3: sounds prepared to do what no deal at all, if
24:31
Speaker 3: all Iran will do, is a bad deal. So if
24:36
Speaker 3: Iran will only do a bad deal, America's not doing
24:39
Speaker 3: a deal. And I guess then we get into bombing
24:41
Speaker 3: them again, which it seemed like it was imminent that
24:44
Speaker 3: that was about to happen prior to the weekend. What
24:46
Speaker 3: do you make of everything that Scott Jennings put out
24:48
Speaker 3: there from a senior administration official over the weekend?
24:52
Speaker 5: Oh, you know, I hate to repeat myself, but it
24:54
Speaker 5: obviously sounds promising.
24:55
Speaker 4: But I've got to see it to believe it.
24:57
Speaker 5: I just feel like we've heard this story many, many times,
24:59
Speaker 5: and nothing has followed up. But there obviously is going
25:03
Speaker 5: to be a time when there actually is a deal
25:04
Speaker 5: that goes forward, so hopefully this is it.
25:07
Speaker 3: Did you happen to see Marco Rubio in India, and
25:10
Speaker 3: he got that question about racism? Did you see that
25:14
Speaker 3: over the weekend?
25:14
Speaker 5: I think I saw it, but you might have to
25:17
Speaker 5: jog my memory a little bit.
25:18
Speaker 4: Was there any H-1B stuff at all?
25:20
Speaker 3: No, it was just about a crazy social media post, possibly.
25:24
Speaker 3: I'm not sure. The reporter asking the question didn't really
25:27
Speaker 3: know who said it or how they said it or
25:29
Speaker 3: what it was about. But here is Marco Rubio taking
25:32
Speaker 3: that question and his response on that.
25:33
Speaker 2: Look, I'm sure that there are people that have made
25:36
Speaker 2: comments online and other places because every country in the
25:40
Speaker 2: world has stupid people.
25:41
Speaker 4: I'm sure there are stupid people here.
25:43
Speaker 2: There are stupid people in the United States that make
25:45
Speaker 2: dumb comments all the time. I don't know what else
25:49
Speaker 2: to tell you other than the United States is a
25:51
Speaker 2: very welcoming country. Our nation has been enriched by people
25:53
Speaker 2: who come to our country, have come from our country,
25:55
Speaker 2: from all over the world, have become Americans, have assimilated
25:58
Speaker 2: into our way of life, and have contributed greatly. So
26:03
Speaker 2: that's all I can comment on that in regards to
26:06
Speaker 2: your point. Your second question is another question.
26:07
Speaker 3: I think that Marco Rubio is doing a really good job,
26:10
Speaker 3: and I think he does a great job talking on
26:13
Speaker 3: his feet. and coming up with great answers. I think
26:17
Speaker 3: he did there, and I have some more that I
26:19
Speaker 3: will play, but I'll get your comment on that if
26:21
Speaker 3: you have any. And I would also say that the
26:23
Speaker 3: predictive markets now have Marco Rubio, at least Coushey does.
26:27
Speaker 3: I haven't looked at Polymarket. They have Rubio ahead of J.D.
26:31
Speaker 3: Vance as the president in 2028. Have you seen that?
26:35
Speaker 1: Interesting.
26:36
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I agree with him.
26:38
Speaker 5: I think one of the problems that we have with
26:39
Speaker 5: assimilation is, well, what are they assimilating into? You know,
26:43
Speaker 5: right now, the dominant culture, or at least the dominant
26:46
Speaker 5: culture for many decades through, whether it be the education system,
26:51
Speaker 5: what you see in the entertainment industry, on TV, etc.
26:53
Speaker 1: is a.
26:56
Speaker 5: Liberal version of America. And a lot of the newer
26:59
Speaker 5: rivals are internalizing that. I think something like 70% of
27:02
Speaker 5: our new immigrants are voting Democrat once they become citizens.
27:05
Speaker 4: And can vote.
27:06
Speaker 5: So, you know, we definitely have to step up in
27:09
Speaker 5: terms of what exactly are we assimilating them into?
27:13
Speaker 3: The press conference there that Marco Rubio was asked that
27:16
Speaker 3: question in was on Saturday. Here was him on Sunday
27:21
Speaker 3: trying to clean this up a little bit if he
27:23
Speaker 3: had to at all. But here's Rubio again.
27:25
Speaker 12: The question you got yesterday on racist comments. I don't
27:29
Speaker 12: know who he was talking about. But I figured, I
27:32
Speaker 12: assumed that he was talking about people posting stuff online.
27:34
Speaker 12: I don't even know, some of those could be a
27:36
Speaker 12: troll or could be a bot. I don't know. So
27:38
Speaker 12: that's why I asked him specifically, can you tell me
27:40
Speaker 12: what you're talking about and who you're talking about? He
27:42
Speaker 12: didn't have a specific example. But the bottom line is
27:45
Speaker 12: that in the modern era, you go online. And there
27:48
Speaker 12: are people saying all kinds of crazy stuff online. I
27:50
Speaker 12: don't even know if they're real people or who they are.
27:52
Speaker 12: But I didn't know what he was coming from.
27:54
Speaker 3: I think there was something that was reposted by the
27:55
Speaker 3: president where he was talking about India being going global.
27:59
Speaker 12: Well, I gave him a chance to tell me that.
28:00
Speaker 12: That's not what he said. The president loves India. He
28:03
Speaker 12: said it last night. Were you guys there when he
28:05
Speaker 12: called in for the event last night, the 250? The
28:07
Speaker 12: president's a big fan of India, a big fan of
28:09
Speaker 12: Prime Minister Modi. I wouldn't be here if the president
28:12
Speaker 12: didn't want me to be here. He wouldn't have sent
28:14
Speaker 12: someone like Sergio to be our ambassador, someone who's very
28:16
Speaker 12: close to the president. But I gave that reporter a
28:20
Speaker 12: chance to tell me who he was referring to, and
28:23
Speaker 12: he didn't. So I just assumed he's talking just about
28:25
Speaker 12: random voices out there. I mean, people say stupid stuff
28:27
Speaker 12: all the time on social media in every country in
28:29
Speaker 12: the world, unfortunately.
28:30
Speaker 3: I don't think it's a big story, but you heard
28:32
Speaker 3: the name there of Sergio. You may not remember that name, Matt,
28:36
Speaker 3: but Sergio was in the White House in the Trump
28:38
Speaker 3: administration at the beginning of this 47th presidency, and they
28:42
Speaker 3: sent him to India to get him out of the
28:45
Speaker 3: White House. He was causing some problems in the Trump
28:47
Speaker 3: administration at the beginning. You and I talked about it
28:50
Speaker 3: back then, back in 2025. But I don't think this
28:53
Speaker 3: is much of a story. Do you?
28:55
Speaker 13: No.
28:55
Speaker 5: The thing about social media is you can basically create
28:58
Speaker 5: your own reality. So, you know, he is right. You
29:00
Speaker 5: can find pretty much any perspective. And we're a world
29:03
Speaker 5: of billions of people. So you can see a few
29:05
Speaker 5: hundred posts of one opinion and think that's everyone's opinion
29:08
Speaker 5: when it's just a very small fragment.
29:10
Speaker 3: Yeah.
29:10
Speaker 4: But yeah, he's correct.
29:11
Speaker 3: Well, let's go to one more from Rubio while we're
29:13
Speaker 3: here in India. This is another one that was made
29:16
Speaker 3: over the weekend about Iran, and they're not going to
29:19
Speaker 3: have nuclear weapons.
29:20
Speaker 2: On the other hand, Iran likes to sponsor proxy groups
29:24
Speaker 2: of terrorists, and these terrorists don't care what they blow up.
29:27
Speaker 2: They blow up anything and everyone. This is who we're
29:29
Speaker 2: dealing with. This is an Iran that not long ago,
29:34
Speaker 2: through their Hezbollah proxies, blew up a Jewish center in
29:36
Speaker 2: Argentina and killed a bunch of people. This is Iran
29:40
Speaker 2: that innovated the use of roadside bombs that killed and
29:44
Speaker 2: maimed a bunch of people, including American servicemen, but a
29:46
Speaker 2: bunch of other people. This isn't Iran that has organized
29:49
Speaker 2: the assassinations and the attempted assassinations of people all over
29:52
Speaker 2: the world, including civilians and dissidents and people they don't
29:56
Speaker 2: agree with. There is no nation on Earth that sponsors more.
29:59
Speaker 4: Terrorism than Iran.
30:01
Speaker 3: He's absolutely right, and Donald Trump is right by saying
30:04
Speaker 3: they can never have a nuclear weapon. It's going to
30:06
Speaker 3: be interesting to see how this unfolds. And we, like
30:10
Speaker 3: you said, we've been talking about it and I know
30:13
Speaker 3: everybody else talks about it, but it's an important issue,
30:16
Speaker 3: especially going into the midterm because you have gas now
30:19
Speaker 3: at $ 455 a gallon. It's really high. It's affecting people's
30:23
Speaker 3: lives and people are really questioning whether we need to
30:26
Speaker 3: be there at all. And, you know, that was one
30:28
Speaker 3: of the things that Thomas Massey did is, you know,
30:30
Speaker 3: he wants no foreign wars. And people say, well, that's
30:33
Speaker 3: what Donald Trump campaigned on. And here we are in
30:36
Speaker 3: the middle of a war in Iran. And I think
30:38
Speaker 3: that is a fair question from a lot of people.
30:40
Speaker 3: What do you think?
30:42
Speaker 4: Um, no, a hundred percent.
30:43
Speaker 5: Um, I, uh, and I think when the war started,
30:46
Speaker 5: my opinion was more in the, in terms of this
30:49
Speaker 5: isn't really a war, it's more of a precision strike.
30:52
Speaker 5: And obviously Trump has had a lot of success in
30:55
Speaker 5: the past, whether it be Venezuela or earlier strikes on Iran,
30:58
Speaker 5: where it was this one time thing, there was a
31:00
Speaker 5: clear objective that was met and then nothing escalated from that. Um,
31:05
Speaker 5: I will say this has escalated far more than I
31:07
Speaker 5: thought it would.
31:08
Speaker 4: And, uh, I am, I don't know, starting to think
31:10
Speaker 4: it may have been a mistake overall.
31:12
Speaker 3: But we'll see.
31:13
Speaker 5: I mean, it's going to take a little while to
31:15
Speaker 5: analyze after the fact. But it's, I mean, we're feeling
31:18
Speaker 5: it at the pump. There's no clear progress.
31:20
Speaker 4: I don't know. I'm not loving it, to be honest.
31:22
Speaker 3: In a lot of ways, it's sort of what's happening
31:25
Speaker 3: in Ukraine and Russia. And I don't know if you
31:27
Speaker 3: saw this over the weekend, but Russia, for the first time,
31:30
Speaker 3: used a supersonic, hypersonic missile that is capable of carrying
31:35
Speaker 3: a nuclear weapon that And they bombarded Kiev, Ukraine. That
31:40
Speaker 3: happened over the weekend. They are still fighting each other.
31:43
Speaker 3: And in some ways, this Iranian thing, getting a peace
31:46
Speaker 3: deal is going to be very difficult. I'm not sure
31:49
Speaker 3: why we ever negotiated with them. However, I stay consistent
31:52
Speaker 3: in saying that I like the foreign policy of Donald Trump.
31:56
Speaker 3: I think until Iran is put in their place, that
31:59
Speaker 3: the Arab nations that are there in the area... they're
32:03
Speaker 3: not going to have peace either because they're concerned about Iran.
32:06
Speaker 3: And if they get a nuclear weapon, they are the
32:08
Speaker 3: ones that are going to have to deal with it.
32:10
Speaker 3: And I don't know if you saw this over the weekend,
32:12
Speaker 3: but on Sunday, Donald Trump put this out. He said
32:15
Speaker 3: that he thinks it would be crazy for all of
32:18
Speaker 3: these other Arab nations not to sign on to the
32:21
Speaker 3: Abraham Accords as a part of this peace deal. So
32:23
Speaker 3: if that happens, that also will help peace in the
32:27
Speaker 3: Middle East. So I've always kind of agreed with Donald
32:30
Speaker 3: Trump doing what he is doing here and not kind
32:33
Speaker 3: of I have. I just think we have to be patient.
32:35
Speaker 3: But I and I've been consistent also saying there isn't
32:39
Speaker 3: a long runway here because of the midterm coming up
32:42
Speaker 3: unless gas prices come down, which I think they would.
32:45
Speaker 3: You and I both have agreed on that in the
32:46
Speaker 3: in the past. If this thing ends and we get
32:49
Speaker 3: to a peace deal, then a barrel of oil may
32:51
Speaker 3: come down to zero because there's so much oil around.
32:54
Speaker 3: And then gas prices are going to be back down
32:56
Speaker 3: to $ 250, $ 260, where they were before all this, at
33:00
Speaker 3: least here in Florida. That's what I was paying.
33:02
Speaker 6: I don't know.
33:02
Speaker 3: What were you paying in New Jersey?
33:04
Speaker 5: We're at $ 450 right now. I feel like it was
33:06
Speaker 5: $ 250 to $ 280 beforehand.
33:08
Speaker 3: About the same. And I think we'll get back down there.
33:11
Speaker 3: And I don't think it will take a long time either.
33:14
Speaker 3: If you remember when this started, it took three days
33:16
Speaker 3: for them to raise the price of gas. Somebody was
33:21
Speaker 3: making some money on that. What about Virginia Governor Spanberger?
33:25
Speaker 3: I don't know if you saw this executive order she
33:27
Speaker 3: signed last week, but let's go to some audio here
33:30
Speaker 3: of Governor Spanberger. She is the socialist that said she
33:34
Speaker 3: was a moderate, and everybody that voted for her, they
33:37
Speaker 3: bought it. And here's what they got.
33:39
Speaker 12: I heard it first here.
33:40
Speaker 14: Tomorrow I'll be issuing an executive order. So surprise. Sorry
33:45
Speaker 14: to my comms team on this one.
33:47
Speaker 12: Let it out, Governor.
33:48
Speaker 1: Let it out.
33:50
Speaker 3: Matt, do you have any comment about that person that's
33:53
Speaker 3: hosting saying let it out? It just strikes me funny
33:56
Speaker 3: that someone that is he's so giddy over it. Let
33:59
Speaker 3: it out. You know, that struck me funny.
34:04
Speaker 14: In ensuring that we are putting out from the state
34:07
Speaker 14: level some guidance and across public spaces, including polling places,
34:14
Speaker 14: of how Virginia state employees or people who are working
34:18
Speaker 14: in support of Virginia's state-run elections can react to, in
34:25
Speaker 14: this particular case, federal agents who might be appearing at
34:28
Speaker 14: a location where the worry is that they're principally there
34:32
Speaker 14: to intimidate or scare people.
34:34
Speaker 3: You know, the first thing I take out of that, Matt,
34:36
Speaker 3: is she's scared to death to say anything actually what
34:39
Speaker 3: she's doing, which is keeping ICE out of election places,
34:44
Speaker 3: voting places, polling stations. That's what she's doing. And that
34:49
Speaker 3: isn't even a thing. That has never been announced by
34:52
Speaker 3: Donald Trump, his administration, or anyone else. That is manufactured
34:56
Speaker 3: by the Democrats to put fear in people, to energize them,
34:59
Speaker 3: to get them to go vote. Now she is signing
35:01
Speaker 3: an executive order saying that the state police, National Guard,
35:05
Speaker 3: whatever it takes for her to make sure that people
35:08
Speaker 3: can fairly vote in the election in November to keep
35:11
Speaker 3: ICE out of there. Because the Democrats think Donald Trump's
35:14
Speaker 3: going to send ICE in there because all the illegals
35:16
Speaker 3: are voting and it's going to be like fishing in
35:18
Speaker 3: a barrel.
35:20
Speaker 5: We're supposed to believe illegals are not voting in elections,
35:23
Speaker 5: but also ICE will deter people from voting. Who would
35:27
Speaker 5: ICE deter from voting? It's not going to be me
35:29
Speaker 5: because I'm not in the country illegally.
35:31
Speaker 4: There's only one type of person.
35:33
Speaker 5: I don't know if the argument is supposed to be
35:37
Speaker 5: it could inconvenience someone who is a Hispanic person who
35:41
Speaker 5: is in the country legally because ICE may profile them.
35:44
Speaker 5: But If they're in the country legally, there's not going
35:47
Speaker 5: to be a problem. It's going to be a 30-second inconvenience.
35:50
Speaker 5: So if her goal is to energize the base with
35:53
Speaker 5: these types of comments, I think it could have the
35:56
Speaker 5: opposite effect. If Trump does not plan on sending ICE
35:59
Speaker 5: to the polling booths, but Democrats are sending the message
36:02
Speaker 5: that they are, it could repel certain types of turnout.
36:06
Speaker 4: Maybe. Yeah, but we don't know. We don't have any
36:09
Speaker 4: precedent for this or history of this. But I don't know.
36:12
Speaker 4: It's a weird thing to fearmonger over if there's no
36:14
Speaker 4: illegal voter.
36:15
Speaker 3: I've seen it for a while from Democrats and others
36:18
Speaker 3: on the left that they are putting fear into people
36:21
Speaker 3: that Donald Trump has, again, weaponized government. And he's going
36:25
Speaker 3: to do the same thing here, going to send ICE
36:27
Speaker 3: in there. And I think it's just to energize the
36:29
Speaker 3: base to get them to go vote and Who knows?
36:32
Speaker 3: But I think it's silly.
36:33
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37:33
Speaker 3: Byron Donalds was on with CNN and he was being
37:36
Speaker 3: questioned about the $ 1. 8 billion slush fund that right now
37:40
Speaker 3: the Republicans are arguing about. about this partial government shutdown,
37:45
Speaker 3: the last piece of the funding that needs to be
37:47
Speaker 3: done for the 2026 budget. Are you keeping up with
37:51
Speaker 3: this story at all?
37:52
Speaker 4: Unfortunately, I am not.
37:54
Speaker 3: Okay, well, you're a little busy right now. You have
37:56
Speaker 3: a young daughter.
37:57
Speaker 4: This was for the January 6th slush fund?
37:58
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, it's not just January 6th. It's for anyone
38:02
Speaker 3: that has been wrongfully persecuted or prosecuted by the Department
38:06
Speaker 3: of Justice. There's $ 1. 8 billion. The Republicans now are arguing
38:11
Speaker 3: behind closed doors. about this $ 1. 8 billion, and it's holding
38:15
Speaker 3: up everything on the funding. Let's go to this clip
38:17
Speaker 3: with Byron Donalds on CNN.
38:19
Speaker 15: I know that you are tracking closely, and that is
38:22
Speaker 15: what the Justice Department is doing with this anti-weaponization fund.
38:26
Speaker 15: Acting Attorney General Todd Blanch declined to rule out that
38:30
Speaker 15: individuals convicted of assaulting law enforcement on January 6, 2021,
38:33
Speaker 15: will be able to get money from this $ 1.
38:35
Speaker 12: 8 billion fund.
38:35
Speaker 15: Where do you stand on that?
38:41
Speaker 3: Well, first, let's be very clear.
38:43
Speaker 16: Understand that there were many people that the Biden Justice
38:46
Speaker 16: Department overcharged with respect to what happened on January 6th.
38:50
Speaker 3: That is a fact.
38:52
Speaker 16: That's what happened if you look at some of the
38:53
Speaker 16: trials that were conducted during that time period. Number two,
38:57
Speaker 16: that fund, as I understand it, is open to anybody,
39:00
Speaker 16: Republican or Democrat, independent, no matter what your political viewpoints are.
39:05
Speaker 16: If you were subject to a weaponized prosecution by the
39:09
Speaker 16: federal government, then that fund is available in order to
39:12
Speaker 16: make the necessary payments, quite frankly, for pain and suffering
39:16
Speaker 16: and mental anguish with your government choosing to persecute you.
39:20
Speaker 3: For political purposes.
39:21
Speaker 16: And that list is way— that list is way long. We
39:24
Speaker 16: can go back to Lois Lerner back in 2014 when
39:27
Speaker 16: that IRS under the Obama administration— was targeting Tea Party groups.
39:32
Speaker 16: So I think this is a fund that, quite frankly,
39:34
Speaker 16: is long overdue. If you're an American who was prosecuted
39:37
Speaker 16: by this government for political purposes and gone after by
39:40
Speaker 16: this government for political purposes, there should be some ability
39:44
Speaker 16: to compensate you for that.
39:46
Speaker 15: Yeah, but as you know, people have pointed out that
39:48
Speaker 15: this is primarily going to benefit Trump allies. And to
39:51
Speaker 15: be clear, Congressman, yes or no, should individuals convicted for
39:55
Speaker 15: violence against law enforcement, law enforcement that continues to protect
39:59
Speaker 15: you on a daily basis as a member of Congress,
40:02
Speaker 15: be eligible for compensation from the federal government?
40:05
Speaker 12: Yes or no on that?
40:07
Speaker 16: Well, no, it's more detailed than that.
40:08
Speaker 3: You're just saying yes or no.
40:10
Speaker 4: How is it?
40:10
Speaker 3: No, they're convicted of.
40:11
Speaker 4: Attacking a police officer.
40:12
Speaker 3: Let me explain why.
40:13
Speaker 16: Because if the Justice Department official overcharges in that case,
40:18
Speaker 16: if they decide to then go and do other prosecutions
40:21
Speaker 16: for political purposes, and let's be very clear, that is
40:24
Speaker 16: what the Biden Justice Department was doing, then that, in
40:27
Speaker 16: my view, is not following the equal justice under the law,
40:30
Speaker 16: which is the law of the land here in our country.
40:32
Speaker 16: So under those circumstances, then yes, this fund like this
40:35
Speaker 16: should be utilized.
40:36
Speaker 3: Here's the biggest problem with this $ 1. 8 billion fund, Matt,
40:40
Speaker 3: is there are no really regulations. There's no instructions. It's
40:45
Speaker 3: just $ 1. 8 billion. Who gets it? How do they get it?
40:48
Speaker 3: What do they have to do? But do you have
40:50
Speaker 3: any comment there on what Byron Donald said in the
40:52
Speaker 3: questioning from CNN?
40:54
Speaker 4: You know, I'm in favor of it overall.
40:56
Speaker 5: I mean, obviously, we don't know exactly how it will
40:58
Speaker 5: be distributed or awarded or whatever. But, yeah, there do
41:01
Speaker 5: need to be consequences and a deterrent for government overreach.
41:06
Speaker 5: You're a liberal looking to target us, and one of
41:09
Speaker 5: the consequences is the person whose life you try to
41:12
Speaker 5: ruin gets a multimillion-dollar payout. It does act as a deterrent,
41:15
Speaker 5: so I'm in favor of it. When someone brought up
41:18
Speaker 5: the whole, like, would January 6th people who attacked police
41:21
Speaker 5: get it? Obviously, I would hope the answer is no,
41:24
Speaker 5: but that was a very small amount of people, and
41:27
Speaker 5: of all the people– that have been pardoned by Trump.
41:30
Speaker 5: There's some liberal sites who were publishing stories early on
41:34
Speaker 5: of people that Trump pardoned who then went on to
41:36
Speaker 5: commit other crimes to kind of paint this picture of
41:39
Speaker 5: Trump is freeing criminals who are then reoffending, but someone
41:42
Speaker 5: computed the data, and the recidivism rate for January 6th
41:46
Speaker 5: people is below 1%. It's like half a percent. The
41:50
Speaker 5: national recidivism rate is close to 50% for criminals. So
41:54
Speaker 5: this is overwhelmingly a law-abiding group of people who, you know,
41:58
Speaker 5: some may have made one mistake on that one day,
42:00
Speaker 5: but that was really it.
42:01
Speaker 3: I have one more here for you to listen to,
42:04
Speaker 3: and this is one that you love to talk about,
42:06
Speaker 3: and that is reparations. We have Congresswoman Presley, who is
42:11
Speaker 3: doing H.R. 40, that will pay reparations. And here she
42:16
Speaker 3: is giving a talk on it right on the Capitol steps.
42:20
Speaker 8: One promise has been kept to black Americans in this
42:22
Speaker 8: country when every bit of prosperity you enjoy was built
42:26
Speaker 8: on our backs. 400 years of labor. So we are
42:31
Speaker 8: long overdue for reparations. I'm proud to be the lead
42:34
Speaker 8: sponsor of HR 40. Black folks are certainly deserving of
42:39
Speaker 8: redress and reparative work. And one bill will not undo
42:44
Speaker 8: centuries of harm.
42:45
Speaker 3: Go ahead, Matt. I know you always have a lot
42:47
Speaker 3: to talk about reparations.
42:49
Speaker 5: Well, the line at the end is so revealing. The
42:51
Speaker 5: one bill will not undo centuries of harm. It means
42:54
Speaker 5: you can give us trillions of dollars in reparations, and
42:57
Speaker 5: next year we're going to want more. If you ever
43:00
Speaker 5: want to know how reparations will end up, look up
43:02
Speaker 5: the Dave Chappelle sketch on that. It is incredibly accurate.
43:08
Speaker 5: Then to the rhetoric of, you know, we built the country,
43:11
Speaker 5: it was built on our backs. Like, I get an
43:13
Speaker 5: expectation for that. You're 13% of the country. I could
43:16
Speaker 5: see you saying we built 13% of the country, but
43:19
Speaker 5: that's really the maximum we're going to get to.
43:22
Speaker 4: And it's just, I don't know, it's ethno-narcissism. It's delusional
43:26
Speaker 4: to think that.
43:26
Speaker 3: Yeah, their perception is that because they were slaves doing
43:30
Speaker 3: all of the work for the white slave owners, that
43:33
Speaker 3: they built the country. And it's not factual.
43:37
Speaker 5: No offense, guys, but there's not very much cottonwealth going
43:40
Speaker 5: around today.
43:41
Speaker 3: That's right. It seems to have failed here in America.
43:45
Speaker 3: I want you to listen to this one. This is
43:46
Speaker 3: Senator John Thune. And a lot of Republicans are after him.
43:50
Speaker 3: They want him gone. They want him out of power.
43:53
Speaker 3: He's nothing more than another Mitch McConnell in reality. But
43:56
Speaker 3: listen to what he says they have accomplished in the
43:59
Speaker 3: first 500 days of Donald Trump's 47th presidency.
44:03
Speaker 4: Mr.
44:04
Speaker 13: President, yesterday marked 500 days of the Republican majority here in.
44:08
Speaker 3: The United States Senate.
44:09
Speaker 13: And what a busy 500 days it has been. We've
44:13
Speaker 13: taken close to 800 votes since last January, confirmed just
44:18
Speaker 13: under 500 nominees to posts across the federal government and judiciary,
44:24
Speaker 13: and we've passed bills out of the Senate and into
44:26
Speaker 13: law to make life better for the American people.
44:29
Speaker 16: Mr.
44:29
Speaker 13: President, when Republicans took over last year, we set out
44:32
Speaker 13: to address cost of living issues, and put more money
44:36
Speaker 13: in Americans' pockets. We lifted costly Biden-era regulations, from rules
44:42
Speaker 13: that would have driven up the cost of household appliances
44:46
Speaker 13: to rules that would have forced Americans into expensive electric vehicles.
44:51
Speaker 13: At the start of this year, we took action to
44:53
Speaker 13: drive down the cost of prescription drugs at the pharmacy counter.
44:56
Speaker 13: And in March, the Senate passed the 21st Century Road
45:00
Speaker 13: to Housing Act, a bill that cuts red tape that
45:03
Speaker 13: has prevented the construction of new housing and kept too
45:06
Speaker 13: many Americans waiting to realize the American dream of home ownership.
45:10
Speaker 13: I'm proud of the broad bipartisan support this bill received
45:14
Speaker 13: here in the Senate, and I hope these commonsense reforms
45:16
Speaker 13: will make it to the President's desk in short order.
45:20
Speaker 4: Ms.
45:20
Speaker 13: President, lifting costly regulations and taking action to lower the
45:24
Speaker 13: cost of prescriptions and housing are significant actions. But what
45:28
Speaker 13: I consider to be the most consequential action, not just
45:31
Speaker 13: of this majority, But of my entire time in the
45:34
Speaker 13: Senate is the working families tax cuts.
45:38
Speaker 3: And I say most consequential, Mr.
45:40
Speaker 13: President, because of the permanent tax relief Republicans delivered in
45:43
Speaker 13: this bill. Tax relief that puts more money in hardworking
45:47
Speaker 13: Americans' pockets. That was the centerpiece of this bill.
45:51
Speaker 3: A couple of things here from John Thune. One, 500 confirmations.
45:55
Speaker 3: I don't think a lot of people realize that they
45:57
Speaker 3: have done that many. But the messaging on the tax cuts,
46:01
Speaker 3: it's going to fall short. People do not realize that
46:04
Speaker 3: there was an additional tax cut because, in reality, it
46:07
Speaker 3: was only a $ 200 tax credit. What they did was
46:10
Speaker 3: continue the original tax cuts that Trump did that Joe
46:14
Speaker 3: Biden and the Democrats never extended. Had they not been extended,
46:18
Speaker 3: then taxes would have been the highest tax increase ever.
46:21
Speaker 3: So they had to do that, but the messaging is off,
46:23
Speaker 3: I think, from the Republicans. What do you think?
46:26
Speaker 5: Yeah, it is hard to sell because you're kind of,
46:29
Speaker 5: you're cutting taxes against a counterfactual that people aren't experiencing.
46:33
Speaker 5: So it's not like, you know, if the Trump tax
46:36
Speaker 5: cuts had expired Biden's last month in office and then
46:38
Speaker 5: Trump restored them, then it looks like, oh my God,
46:40
Speaker 5: you see it's all this money. But from the perspective
46:43
Speaker 5: of keeping them where they were when they were supposed
46:45
Speaker 5: to expire, people don't get to experience the difference, which,
46:48
Speaker 5: you know, when it comes to You know, mobilizing voters
46:51
Speaker 5: is obviously unfortunate. But to speak to what he was
46:54
Speaker 5: saying in general, Trump has had an enormous amount of
46:55
Speaker 5: success in cutting the federal workforce. He's seen more reductions
46:59
Speaker 5: than any other president. I think it's 400,000 fewer workers.
47:03
Speaker 5: He's continued to gut regulations.
47:06
Speaker 4: I think.
47:07
Speaker 5: His first term in office and also now his second
47:09
Speaker 5: are the only presidents aside from, I think, Reagan's first
47:12
Speaker 5: term that have cut the federal register. Then immigration, too,
47:16
Speaker 5: is the big one. And even if you think the
47:17
Speaker 5: deportations aren't happening fast enough, and I wish they were
47:20
Speaker 5: happening at 10,000 times the speed they're happening, he has
47:25
Speaker 5: plugged the hole in that we have no new people
47:27
Speaker 5: coming in. It was 20 new arrivals under Biden that
47:30
Speaker 5: obviously are going to take quite a lot of manpower
47:32
Speaker 5: to get out.
47:32
Speaker 4: So he has at least stopped the bleeding there.
47:34
Speaker 3: One more clip, and I know you have to go
47:36
Speaker 3: tonight because of your daughter.
47:38
Speaker 5: Yeah, she's right in front of me.
47:41
Speaker 3: I've got one more for you to comment on, and
47:43
Speaker 3: I'll take us through the rest of the hour. But
47:46
Speaker 3: this is more Minnesota fraud, and this is the U.S. Attorney,
47:50
Speaker 3: Assistant U.S. Attorney Colin McDonald making the announcement about the
47:54
Speaker 3: arrest of 15 people.
47:56
Speaker 17: Today, we are announcing criminal charges against 15 defendants in Minnesota.
48:02
Speaker 17: for fraud schemes that targeted over $ 90 million in taxpayer dollars.
48:09
Speaker 17: Let me be clear up front about something. This is
48:13
Speaker 17: not the end of our work in Minnesota. This is
48:17
Speaker 17: not the end of the beginning of our work in Minnesota.
48:21
Speaker 17: This is the beginning of our work in Minnesota. The
48:26
Speaker 17: fraud here in Minnesota is shocking.
48:30
Speaker 3: I think if you add that to the other cases,
48:33
Speaker 3: what they have convicted and what they have charged, I
48:36
Speaker 3: think they're up to about $ 550 million now in fraud.
48:40
Speaker 3: But they continue to uncover the fraud in Minnesota and
48:43
Speaker 3: in other places. But I think that's good news, Matt,
48:46
Speaker 3: there that they're continuing. And he says this is only
48:49
Speaker 3: the beginning. Will they ever get to $ 9 billion? Probably not.
48:53
Speaker 3: Will we get any of it back? Probably not, but
48:55
Speaker 3: hopefully there are going to be some people held accountable.
48:58
Speaker 5: Yeah, and this would not have happened without Nick Shirley.
49:00
Speaker 5: I mean, it was funny because when he first started
49:03
Speaker 5: exposing this fraud, the government's response in Minnesota and also
49:08
Speaker 5: California for some reason, I'm not sure why they decided
49:10
Speaker 5: to chime in, but what was that? This is rooted
49:13
Speaker 5: in racism, it's nonsense. So then once it became a
49:16
Speaker 5: national story and became undeniable, then it became... you know what,
49:20
Speaker 5: we're going to charge these people and we're doing the
49:22
Speaker 5: right thing because we want to fight fraud, too. Or
49:25
Speaker 5: they would even just kind of position it as if
49:27
Speaker 5: it was.
49:27
Speaker 4: Their idea to begin with.
49:29
Speaker 5: You know, I'm glad I guess they're finally doing the
49:31
Speaker 5: right thing after it became a national story. But the
49:34
Speaker 5: real scandal here is this kind of fraud is extremely
49:38
Speaker 5: easy to prevent because In states like New York, which
49:42
Speaker 5: obviously is not known for exactly being a well-run state,
49:46
Speaker 5: they have a ton of waste, fraud, and abuse as well.
49:48
Speaker 5: But in their daycare system, I was reading someone who–
49:53
Speaker 5: runs a daycare. They're talking about what the process is like.
49:56
Speaker 5: And they have state auditors show up every couple of
49:59
Speaker 5: weeks unannounced. Parents have to sign their kids in and out.
50:03
Speaker 5: There's a record of every parent, every kid. Everything is
50:07
Speaker 5: meticulously documented, so you can't have phantom students in phantom schools.
50:11
Speaker 5: And it's a system that you and I could come
50:14
Speaker 5: up with in five minutes to put in place to
50:16
Speaker 5: prevent fraud, which You know, leads me to believe to
50:19
Speaker 5: some extent they wanted this to happen. But the left
50:21
Speaker 5: loves using ethnic voting blocks. And this is one where
50:25
Speaker 5: that's the payoff. You all vote for us 100 percent
50:27
Speaker 5: of the time and you get all this free money.
50:29
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's amazing. Matt, I know you have to go.
50:32
Speaker 3: Thank you for joining us, as always, on a Monday
50:35
Speaker 3: slash Tuesday night this week. Take care of your daughter.
50:39
Speaker 3: What should we look for this coming week? I'll ask
50:41
Speaker 3: you that as you walk out the door here.
50:44
Speaker 5: I ran, I ran, I ran, and the results are
50:47
Speaker 5: probably going to start coming in by the end of
50:48
Speaker 5: your episode with a Ken Paxton race.
50:50
Speaker 4: My prediction is I think he'll win.
50:52
Speaker 3: I think Ken Paxton will win, too. Have yourself a
50:55
Speaker 3: great week. We'll do it again Monday night, next week.
50:58
Speaker 3: Thank you, Matt. I appreciate you.
50:59
Speaker 5: Sounds good.
51:00
Speaker 4: I'll see you then.
51:00
Speaker 3: And Ken Paxton, John Cornyn, Paxton got the endorsement from
51:04
Speaker 3: Donald Trump finally. Donald Trump stayed out of it for
51:07
Speaker 3: a long time. John Cornyn was not an ally of
51:10
Speaker 3: Donald Trump, but Everybody said, well, John Cornyn is the
51:13
Speaker 3: only one that can beat Talrico in the state of Texas. Well,
51:17
Speaker 3: Ken Paxton has run many, three statewide races in the past,
51:21
Speaker 3: and he's won all three across the state. So if
51:24
Speaker 3: he could win three in the past, why can't he
51:26
Speaker 3: win another one? It seems like a silly argument to me,
51:29
Speaker 3: and I think eventually he will be the U.S. Senator
51:32
Speaker 3: from Texas. I agree with Matt there. Ken Paxton will
51:35
Speaker 3: beat John Cornyn, and he will also beat Talrico. But
51:39
Speaker 3: you still have to go vote. If you're listening in Texas,
51:41
Speaker 3: Don't just take what I'm saying here and think that
51:44
Speaker 3: you can stay home because you can't. That's been the
51:46
Speaker 3: problem as we started this hour. That's what we've been
51:49
Speaker 3: talking about since November. There has been very low voter
51:53
Speaker 3: turnout for Republicans in every one of these races. And
51:57
Speaker 3: if that continues, then we're going to have problems in
52:00
Speaker 3: the general election. If the gas prices stay up at $ 4. 50
52:03
Speaker 3: because of Iran, then we're going to have more problems
52:06
Speaker 3: because of that. I believe Matt just mentioned about higher
52:10
Speaker 3: interest rates and things like that. Well, something happened this week.
52:13
Speaker 3: I want to take you to this audio clip of
52:16
Speaker 3: a brand new Fed chairman that we have. No more
52:19
Speaker 3: Jerome Powell.
52:20
Speaker 7: For the swearing in of our new chairman of the
52:23
Speaker 7: Federal Reserve Board of Governors, Kevin Warsh.
52:29
Speaker 3: And Kevin Warsh was sworn in and now he is
52:31
Speaker 3: the Fed chair. But keep in mind, there are 12
52:35
Speaker 3: governors that vote whether they raise or lower the interest rates.
52:40
Speaker 3: Donald Trump and Jerome Powell never got along in this term. Previously,
52:45
Speaker 3: they did. In fact, it was Donald Trump that gave
52:47
Speaker 3: Jerome Powell the job. But Powell made it very political,
52:51
Speaker 3: and the interest rates have not moved since Donald Trump
52:54
Speaker 3: became president in his second term, and he wants them
52:57
Speaker 3: to come down. And hopefully they will. We'll have to
53:00
Speaker 3: watch and see the next time that the Fed meets.
53:03
Speaker 18: Now to a nationwide trend known as teen takeovers, a
53:07
Speaker 18: kind of flash mob for a new generation. Lots of
53:09
Speaker 18: kids showing up in the same place at the same time.
53:12
Speaker 18: But police say it's a mess and sometimes it turns violent.
53:16
Speaker 18: CBS News correspondent Jason Allen has more.
53:20
Speaker 9: Sheriff deputies sprinted to break up fights as teenagers swarmed
53:24
Speaker 9: a trampoline.
53:25
Speaker 3: Business near Tampa. Just a teen takeover.
53:28
Speaker 9: In Chicago, teens raced up streets running on top of
53:31
Speaker 9: parked cars. In Jacksonville, teens could be seen attacking each
53:38
Speaker 9: other right in front of law enforcement. At another Jacksonville
53:45
Speaker 9: takeover event in February, five teenagers were shot.
53:49
Speaker 3: Organized on social media, a wave of spur-of-the-moment.
53:52
Speaker 9: Meetups has been creating chaos in American cities.
53:56
Speaker 3: What do you make of this, these teen takeovers? As
53:59
Speaker 3: I look at it and I think about it, I wonder,
54:01
Speaker 3: has COVID done anything to create this? We have gone
54:05
Speaker 3: from flash mob dances in malls not too long ago,
54:09
Speaker 3: which I actually like those. And I miss the flash
54:12
Speaker 3: mob dances. I thought they were fun. This is not fun.
54:15
Speaker 3: And I wonder, did COVID have anything to do with this?
54:18
Speaker 3: These kids were kept inside the house. They weren't socializing.
54:22
Speaker 3: And now here we have teen takeovers taking over cities
54:26
Speaker 3: and parks across the country. And hopefully law enforcement will
54:30
Speaker 3: get a handle on it. I think we should ask
54:33
Speaker 3: some questions about the psychology of these kids. You're talking
54:36
Speaker 3: about 14, 15, 16-year-old kids. If you go back six,
54:41
Speaker 3: five years ago to COVID, well, how old were they then?
54:44
Speaker 3: They were 9, 10, 11. They weren't socialized. And I
54:48
Speaker 3: don't know, with social media and with that in their history,
54:51
Speaker 3: it's something we're going to have to keep an eye
54:53
Speaker 3: on in that generation, I believe. I'm Booker Scott. Thank
54:56
Speaker 3: you for joining us tonight and every night. Join us
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Speaker 3: tomorrow night. Two mics from the National Security Hour will
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Speaker 3: join us. Speaking of that, coming up next, Unleash the
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Speaker 3: Political News Hour, followed by the National Security Hour. And
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Speaker 3: then at 9 o'clock Eastern Time, it is After Dark
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Speaker 3: with Robin Andrew. Don't forget, you were told 2,000 years
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Speaker 3: ago that you are the salt of the earth. And
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Speaker 3: salt without flavor, it has no value. So whatever you do,
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Speaker 1: There is only one truth. You've been listening to The
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Speaker 1: Truth Be Told with Booker Scott on America Out Loud.