Scott Jennings: A Revolution of Common Sense

No BS Newshour Episode #380

Scott Jennings: A Revolution of Common Sense

The world according to the only guy anyone listens to at CNN. 

(12:27) Trump’s financial penalty tossed.  Even the judge ruled it was lawfare.

(28:13) Who can argue against zero murders in Washington D.C.? Lunatics, that’s who.

(36:56) The people who complain loudest about disinformation engaged in the biggest disinformation operation in American history.

PLUS- (0:04) Happy Labor Day. A person should earn a good wage. A house and a car. A shack and a boat. We used to have that here in Michigan, and our companies still made profits. Now the companies make more profit somewhere else, while our shacks on the water have been repossessed. 

 

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Transcript:

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When I was a cub reporter at the New York Times,

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I was talking with an editor about a strike at an

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auto parts plant in Flint.

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There was some story in the paper that day about workers

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who were spending their idle time antique shopping

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and speeding around the lakes in their power boats.

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I complained to the editor.

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Since when’s it a bad thing to have a boat make good

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money?

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I asked him.

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The editor,

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who was a smart guy with a weak chin and wire-rimmed

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glasses, put his palm to his nose and said,

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Those people had about this much foresight.

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They should have seen the writing on the wall and gone

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to college.

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That’s what he said.

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But if we were all poets,

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we’d starve on words.

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I wrote that more than 25 years ago,

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just as NAFTA began to kick in,

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and I can’t help remembering it now as Labor Day approaches.

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Look around.

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That plant in Flint is gone for one,

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a casualty of the global thirst for profits.

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And with the factories gone,

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legions of first world workers in America have become

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a generation of secondhand shoppers as third world

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workers have flowed in,

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making second world wages.

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As the work in America has changed,

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so has the definition of work itself.

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Being a white collar worker now means you have a bachelor’s

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degree, even if you work in a coffee shop rather than

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an office with a desk and a chair and a mug.

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And the definition of blue collar now means that you

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don’t have a college degree,

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even if you sit at home typing in your underpants

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while drinking cappuccinos.

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Notice today how the chattering class of cable TV refers

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to the people as the working class rather than the

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middle class.

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I don’t know if Trump tariffs will bring good work

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back to America,

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but I know it’s worth trying.

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The UAW thinks so.

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The Teamsters think so.

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Without the unions,

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there would be no Labor Day,

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no great American middle class,

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no shack on the water.

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That used to be a Democratic Party thing.

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The so-called experts,

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those who have never physically labored,

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I might add,

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are ginning up anxiety over rising prices of automobiles

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should the tariffs fully go into effect.

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It may happen.

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But the Manhattan editors never speak about the price

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of labor,

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the cost to a person who has married his life to a

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machine, but is unable to afford the product he’s

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built.

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A person should earn a good wage.

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A house in a car,

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a shack in a boat.

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We used to have that here in Michigan,

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and our companies still made profits.

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Now the companies make more profit somewhere else while

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our shacks on the water have been repossessed.

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We want it back.

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Words won’t get us that.

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Only work will get us that.

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Work for a fair wage.

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And if you don’t know what work is,

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then never mind you.

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My family been working the shores of Lake Huron for,

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oh geez, at least 1000 years.

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So I’m glad to have a part of it.

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Sometimes I can feel them.

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I like it best because sometimes the city can just

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turn you into an animal.

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And in the country,

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you can be a little more human.

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Happy Labor Day.

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Live from downtown Detroit.

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It’s the No Bullshit News Hour with my main man,

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Charlene LeDunn!

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And Karen Dumas.

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It’s just a break in this.

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Double or bullshit.

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Double or bullshit.

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American Coney Island.

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So good, even Al Roker from the Today Show eats here.

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Not like that other guy,

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Al Joker,

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who eats at Lafayette.

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So make sure you’re a Roker and not a joker.

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American Coney Island.

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Is this the…

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Hole in one.

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It’s a hole in one,

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$50,000 if you hit it.

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Luke Nowacki,

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Financial Wealth Management.

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What is 50 grand after tax?

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37,750.

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What about state tax?

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Yeah, that’s,

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I’m throwing both in there.

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What about sales tax?

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There’s no sales tax.

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Well, you’re buying the beer.

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It’s income.

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You’ll buy the beer.

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We write that off.

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Luke Nowacki,

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Financial Wealth Management.

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Well, you know,

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when it rains,

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the power goes out.

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And when the power goes out,

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the internet goes out.

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When the internet goes out,

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I call my friend Matt and Bernie at XG Service Group.

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Look at Bernie here on his hands and knees,

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giving it everything he’s got.

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Look at that man crack.

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So busy.

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He forgot to wear a belt.

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There’s Matt right there getting the board together.

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That’s 734-245-4100.

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If you need Matt and Bernie to come take care of your

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voice over internet,

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your security cameras,

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off-campus access control,

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Wi-Fi and cameras for homes and business,

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they’ll design it for you.

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got restaurants,

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they do drive-thru systems,

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railroad cameras for public safety.

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Total wireless camera systems for your home and business.

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Yeah, that’s right.

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Call XG Services at 734-245-4100.

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We’re actually in a fight for the future.

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future of Western civilization.

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I believe that,

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and I believe the American president has to believe

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it and has to understand that that’s part of their

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job responsibilities.

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And I think he gets it.

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I think Vance gets it.

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And I think there’s evidence of it all over the world,

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and there’s evidence of it in our country.

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And so we’re not going to be,

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we don’t win that fight.

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We won’t be around to argue about tariffs or anything

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else.

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The fight for the future of the West,

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the fight for the future of free speech,

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A way of life,

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a little shack on the lake,

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right?

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The fight for an American future,

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because I think what we’re fighting here is a very

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un-American future where you can’t say what you want

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to say.

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Boom.

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Where, you know,

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your occupation or your economic opportunities don’t

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afford you the chance to live what you would consider

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to be an American dream.

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Boom.

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These are real things for everyday people.

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And it’s different than just fighting about the day-to-day

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political ping pong that we fight about.

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There’s something bigger going on.

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And I think Trump has ignited a conversation and he’s

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brought people into the Republican Party on these

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issues that would have never,

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ever considered voting Republican before.

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And he did it.

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And you forget the other.

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old school Democratic principle plank in the platform

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that he’s taken from the Democrats,

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which is no war.

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Freedom of speech,

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a good way of life,

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and no war.

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And I don’t know how,

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you saw in the New York Times the other day,

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like the net gain for Republicans,

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registered Republicans in 20 states don’t register

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you by party.

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Almost a 5 million person gain for the Republicans

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They’re not,

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with all due respect,

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you came up with Mitch McConnell and the Bushes.

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This is a different sort of Republican Party.

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It is, but I will just tell you all the same people

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in Kentucky where I live who voted for George W.

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Bush twice and Mitch McConnell 7 times,

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all vote for Donald Trump.

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all those same people vote for Rand Paul and Thomas

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Massie.

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I mean, there are different corners of the Republican

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Party.

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What you cannot deny nationally in the statistics you

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just cited bear it out.

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is that he has changed and also expanded the Republican

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coalition.

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And so you have a lot of traditional work.

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Does it last,

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this coalition,

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once he’s gone?

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I think his personality and his attitude attracted

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people, but only results keep them.

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It will be impossible for any future presidential candidate

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to replicate his,

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whatever you call it,

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charisma,

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image,

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charm, whatever it is that he has,

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it’s not able to be replicated.

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But if what he promised,

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if we’re on a trajectory towards that and you can

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keep that,

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you can hold a coalition together.

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But he’s no doubt a unique property in that he was

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such a known person before he got into politics and

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he has such a charisma about him.

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In writing the book,

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I spent some time with him.

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You watch him in person.

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When you’re around him,

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you get it.

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I never really got it before.

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I mean, he did a lot of things I liked,

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but I didn’t quite get it.

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And watching him up close and the way he operates politically

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in the room.

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I interviewed Scott Bessant,

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the Treasury Secretary.

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He told me that his favorite Republican president before

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Trump was Teddy Roosevelt.

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And because Roosevelt was said to be able to overwhelm

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people and situations with just the force of his personality,

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and he thinks

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the greatest modern analog to that is Trump.

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Walk into a situation and sort of overwhelm it with

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this, the force of his personality,

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it’s just hard to replicate.

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So can you hold it together?

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You won’t be able to mimic him or replicate him,

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but if the policies deliver on the promises and you

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keep the flame alive,

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I think you could hold it.

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Then, okay,

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so

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I don’t see you much on TV because I don’t watch much

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TV and I really don’t watch CNN.

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But I see you on Twitter tearing them up.

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And how do you deal,

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not the host,

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they have a big assortment of boobs.

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How do you keep it together where it just doesn’t get

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personal?

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Well,

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There are some rules of punditry that I try to follow.

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Number one is never take it personally.

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You cannot take it personally.

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And the best people,

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it’s like golf.

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You just got to hit the next shot.

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You got to hit the next shot.

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You can’t dwell on the last one,

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but some people can’t do it.

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It’s interesting.

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I also run into objectively ignorant people.

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I mean, I’ve debated a guy on TV the other night who

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legitimately does not believe that Trump was shot

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in Butler,

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Pennsylvania.

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I’ve ran into a real life ear truther.

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He does not believe Trump was shot in Butler,

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Pennsylvania.

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And we pressed him three times.

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No, this is for real.

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For real.

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This is supposedly A sophisticated.

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Yeah, he’s on it.

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He’s on a national debating show.

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And his position that day was Trump was not shot.

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Now, a few weeks before that,

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he and I got into it.

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And he was saying,

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you know,

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Trump is an authoritarian.

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It’s violating the Constitution.

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I said, how?

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And he said,

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well, you know,

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he took over the military.

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And I said,

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and I said,

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the Constitution makes the president our commander-in-chief.

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And he said,

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well, he didn’t say anything.

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He just looked at me like I had invented the wheel.

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Like he had no,

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he had no idea.

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So I run into people.

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But then, you know,

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when you watch the clips,

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like the rest of this assortment of Cantina creatures

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isn’t lining up behind you.

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They’re just sitting there.

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I know.

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Oh, dude.

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Yeah.

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It’s a meat grinder.

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No, I’m in for them,

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not for me.

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Let’s do some news before you walked in.

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A New York appellate court tossed out the $500 million

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penalty against Trump,

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right, today for mortgage fraud.

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And one judge wrote,

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Freeman, I believe,

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that it was politically motivated.

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Letitia James,

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Judge Engerin,

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law fair.

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It was easy.

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to see.

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There was no crime.

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Nobody claimed they were ripped off.

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But it’s weird.

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They left it.

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I lived in New York many years and the judiciary,

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they’re very left and they’re very cowardly and they

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drink cocktails.

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So this is quite remarkable that they leave it sort

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of unsettled in the sense that,

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okay, James was allowed to bring fraud.

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Did she bring it rightfully so?

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we can keep going to

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It’s the Supreme Court in New York’s called the appellate

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court.

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Your thoughts on that?

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Well, we know it was politically motivated because

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the prosecutor said it was.

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She ran her entire campaign.

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The entire platform was,

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I’m going to use every possible tool of this office

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to go after Donald Trump,

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criminally,

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civilly, whatever I can do,

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I will do it to him.

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That was her pledge,

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not to uphold justice,

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not to prosecute violent criminals,

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but to punish

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and try to upend Donald Trump’s political career.

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So she did it.

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She fulfilled her promise.

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Of course,

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this was destined to be thrown out.

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500, almost $500 million was completely excessive violation

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of his Eighth Amendment rights,

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I think.

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And so what is the Eighth Amendment?

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What the issue here is the punishment was well beyond

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whatever fraud you were even possibly claiming.

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Right.

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So it’s just one part of what’s happened to him in

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New York.

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The Alvin Bragg case.

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I mean, there’s not a lawyer alive that thinks that

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case would have been brought against anybody not named

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Donald Trump.

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Never been prosecuted and it will never be prosecuted

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again.

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Never before and never again.

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So just him.

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That one for the listeners that don’t remember is.

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So this is the case about Stormy Daniels.

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Hush money.

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Who he paid.

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And for the.

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And look, the crime was supposedly,

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I mean, ultimately was a campaign finance.

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A misdemeanor of like fobbing off faking business receipts,

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right?

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Well, which is a misdemeanor unless that was in aid

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of committing a felony,

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which was campaign finance,

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which he was never prosecuted for.

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It was never a felony.

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That’s not a state purview thing,

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right?

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And the FEC looked at it,

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the DOJ, everybody looked at this and said,

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there’s nothing here.

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And then you have a local prosecutor saying,

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well,

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We’re going to charge this man with 34 felonies.

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By the way,

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this is all happening in,

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you know,

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2021, 2022.

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This, whatever,

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rendezvous happened in 2006.

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I mean, we’re a lot of years later,

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a lot of years later.

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And it was all for the purpose of being able to say,

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he’s a convicted felon.

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That’s what they wanted.

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They wanted their talking point.

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And they got it.

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Every Democrat who went on television in the 2024 election,

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every candidate,

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every single person in their party,

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that was the first words out of their mouth in every

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interview.

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Well, you know,

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he’s a convicted felon.

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But they’ve since admitted this case was not a real

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case.

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It was for the purpose of trying to stop him or append

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him from running for president again.

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And it failed,

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it backfired.

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The American people didn’t like it.

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So in the state of New York,

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he has absolutely been the target of lawfare by extremely

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partisan prosecutors.

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They talk a lot about institutions and institutional

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integrity.

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What is the integrity of taking prosecutorial offices

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and saying,

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my only job here is to make miserable and hound one

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person?

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There’s no integrity in that at all.

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No, there’s not.

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But my problem is,

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as an independent guy from Michigan,

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how does it affect me and my people?

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This is, okay,

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you took a misdemeanor that expired.

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And there’s a superseding charge,

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a greater charge that brings that to a level of a

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felony because you committed a felony with this misdemeanor.

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This misdemeanor becomes a felony.

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But you never said what the superseding felony was.

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You never,

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it’s sort of like,

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do you carry,

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you have a concealed pistol license?

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Don’t need one in Kentucky.

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Okay.

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You don’t need one here if it’s showing.

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But if you hide it,

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you have to have one.

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If you commit a felony,

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even without your gun,

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but you’re carrying it,

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you can now have a felony gun charge.

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So that’s sort of like this is how it would play out

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locally.

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And we’re hitting you with a felony gun charge.

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Well, why is it a felony?

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I got a license.

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because you commit a felony.

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Well, what was it?

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Yeah, I don’t know.

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You know, we’ll let the jury decide.

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Was it armed robbery?

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Was it carjacking?

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Was it shoplifting?

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You know?

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Yeah.

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That’s where I start to get really pissed off that

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there’s so much gray area in between our paper,

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our founding documents.

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Supreme Court makes a decision.

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They can’t enforce it.

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Andrew Jackson said,

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what army do they have?

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So what I’ve been seeing is you’re taking full advantage

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of the gray area,

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the historical norms,

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and you want to blow them up for what?

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Four years in the White House?

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Politics.

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Stealing money?

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Politics.

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I mean, the entire project,

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it actually revealed an extreme lack of confidence

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among Democrats in their own ability to win an election.

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They thought the only way to win

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was to take him out legally.

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They thought the only way to win was to use lawfare

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to try to either run him out of the race or damage

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him to the point where people wouldn’t vote for him.

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To me, and these are elected Democrats doing this in

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New York,

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how little confidence must you have in your own party

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that you can’t win a national debate,

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that you have to go down this road?

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It’s pretty outrageous,

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actually.

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And now James,

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the attorney general,

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she’s under investigation.

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for mortgage fraud herself.

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And also she’s under investigation for,

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I think, the DOJ is looking at her for violating Trump’s

521
00:18:39,344 –> 00:18:41,824
civil rights and using her office to go after him

522
00:18:41,824 –> 00:18:43,184
in this business case.

523
00:18:43,184 –> 00:18:44,984
So she’s got her own issues to deal with.

524
00:18:44,984 –> 00:18:46,984
So the more we go down this road,

525
00:18:46,984 –> 00:18:49,264
the more times we get to the Supreme Court,

526
00:18:49,264 –> 00:18:51,224
we realize the lawfare,

527
00:18:51,624 –> 00:18:53,304
all this shit was unconstitutional.

528
00:18:53,384 –> 00:18:55,424
It was against the law what they were doing.

529
00:18:56,504 –> 00:18:58,024
It is certainly against

530
00:18:58,904 –> 00:19:02,264
the spirit and the normal practices that we have been

531
00:19:02,264 –> 00:19:04,184
used to for almost 250 years.

532
00:19:04,664 –> 00:19:08,144
Trump broke a lot of people and a lot of people came

533
00:19:08,144 –> 00:19:11,904
to the conclusion that the ends justify the means

534
00:19:11,904 –> 00:19:12,184
here.

535
00:19:12,504 –> 00:19:13,064
Yeah, man.

536
00:19:13,064 –> 00:19:14,744
And the end is we got to take this guy out.

537
00:19:14,744 –> 00:19:15,464
So the means,

538
00:19:15,464 –> 00:19:16,504
because we’re moral,

539
00:19:16,504 –> 00:19:18,664
we can do whatever we want and get away with it.

540
00:19:18,704 –> 00:19:19,264
That’s what they thought.

541
00:19:19,264 –> 00:19:20,024
They’re so dumb.

542
00:19:20,024 –> 00:19:22,664
They don’t realize where the end really is.

543
00:19:23,224 –> 00:19:23,384
Right.

544
00:19:23,384 –> 00:19:24,344
You might take him out.

545
00:19:24,504 –> 00:19:25,944
But as we were talking earlier,

546
00:19:26,104 –> 00:19:28,344
could be the end of the civilization as we know it.

547
00:19:28,504 –> 00:19:29,864
And that’s not an overstatement.

548
00:19:30,184 –> 00:19:32,624
Well, it certainly changes the fabric and character

549
00:19:32,624 –> 00:19:33,864
of our democracy.

550
00:19:34,384 –> 00:19:37,304
When you treat another politician this way.

551
00:19:38,504 –> 00:19:40,024
It means if you can do this to president,

552
00:19:40,024 –> 00:19:42,904
you can do it to Jimmy down the block and nobody’s

553
00:19:42,904 –> 00:19:43,224
looking.

554
00:19:43,624 –> 00:19:44,584
Well, it means you can.

555
00:19:44,584 –> 00:19:45,784
It means you can change.

556
00:19:46,344 –> 00:19:47,464
the character,

557
00:19:47,544 –> 00:19:50,024
nature, and fabric of any of our institutions,

558
00:19:50,024 –> 00:19:51,704
of any of our democratic processes,

559
00:19:51,704 –> 00:19:53,464
of any of our legal system.

560
00:19:54,024 –> 00:19:56,384
And so, and who’s to say they won’t?

561
00:19:56,384 –> 00:19:57,944
I mean, look at the redistricting fight that’s playing

562
00:19:57,944 –> 00:19:58,344
out right now.

563
00:19:58,344 –> 00:19:59,064
Gavin Newsom,

564
00:19:59,384 –> 00:20:00,264
the governor of California,

565
00:20:00,264 –> 00:20:01,064
has said as much.

566
00:20:01,224 –> 00:20:02,744
Barack Obama has said as much.

567
00:20:03,304 –> 00:20:04,104
You know, they have said,

568
00:20:04,104 –> 00:20:04,744
well, you know,

569
00:20:04,744 –> 00:20:07,144
we normally wouldn’t endorse these kinds of tactics,

570
00:20:07,144 –> 00:20:09,144
but because Republicans,

571
00:20:09,544 –> 00:20:10,424
we have to do it.

572
00:20:10,424 –> 00:20:12,344
I mean, they’re telling you upfront,

573
00:20:13,304 –> 00:20:14,624
In service of politics,

574
00:20:14,624 –> 00:20:15,704
in service of power,

575
00:20:15,704 –> 00:20:18,464
we are willing to violate whatever norms we need to.

576
00:20:18,464 –> 00:20:20,584
You have Democrats writing op-eds in the New York Times

577
00:20:20,584 –> 00:20:21,064
right now,

578
00:20:21,624 –> 00:20:23,224
saying, as soon as we get power again,

579
00:20:23,224 –> 00:20:24,584
we have to pack the court,

580
00:20:25,144 –> 00:20:26,904
eliminate the filibuster in the Senate.

581
00:20:27,224 –> 00:20:30,984
We have to add DC and Puerto Rico as states.

582
00:20:30,984 –> 00:20:34,144
I mean, they’re telling you right now what they want

583
00:20:34,144 –> 00:20:35,784
to do to obliterate

584
00:20:36,264 –> 00:20:38,104
the institutions that govern this country,

585
00:20:38,104 –> 00:20:39,464
if they ever get power again,

586
00:20:40,184 –> 00:20:41,984
all in service of politics.

587
00:20:41,984 –> 00:20:42,624
Do me a favor,

588
00:20:42,624 –> 00:20:44,904
like when you go back to the East Coast and you’re

589
00:20:45,064 –> 00:20:47,224
dealing with these dumbbells,

590
00:20:47,224 –> 00:20:47,384
right?

591
00:20:47,704 –> 00:20:48,504
Cable cannon,

592
00:20:48,544 –> 00:20:49,344
broadcast Barbie,

593
00:20:49,344 –> 00:20:51,064
and they’re talking about redistricting.

594
00:20:51,064 –> 00:20:51,944
Look into Michigan.

595
00:20:52,104 –> 00:20:55,464
We got one of these independent redistricting boards,

596
00:20:55,504 –> 00:20:56,304
which aren’t.

597
00:20:56,424 –> 00:20:56,664
No.

598
00:20:56,984 –> 00:20:58,344
They redo them by race.

599
00:20:58,424 –> 00:21:01,544
They blew it all up because they violated the Voting

600
00:21:01,544 –> 00:21:02,064
Rights Act.

601
00:21:02,664 –> 00:21:03,144
Our

602
00:21:03,624 –> 00:21:04,504
gerrymandering,

603
00:21:04,584 –> 00:21:06,264
pushed really by the Democrats,

604
00:21:07,224 –> 00:21:09,704
was ruled to be racist.

605
00:21:10,024 –> 00:21:11,864
And I don’t hear anybody talking about it.

606
00:21:12,024 –> 00:21:13,704
Michigan’s a big swing state.

607
00:21:13,944 –> 00:21:16,104
They tried to manipulate everything.

608
00:21:16,264 –> 00:21:18,744
So would you look into that and remind everybody?

609
00:21:18,904 –> 00:21:20,704
I will look into it and I will just make a comment

610
00:21:20,704 –> 00:21:22,504
about independent redistricting commissions.

611
00:21:22,504 –> 00:21:24,384
The reason Democrats say they love them is because

612
00:21:24,384 –> 00:21:25,624
they know that they’re not independent.

613
00:21:26,584 –> 00:21:27,544
They know they control them.

614
00:21:27,544 –> 00:21:29,704
Look at the one we’re talking about in California,

615
00:21:30,104 –> 00:21:32,984
the supposed independent commission where Republicans

616
00:21:32,984 –> 00:21:35,664
get 40% of the vote and have only 17%.

617
00:21:35,941 –> 00:21:36,781
of the congressional seats.

618
00:21:36,781 –> 00:21:39,061
That was drawn by an independent commission.

619
00:21:39,061 –> 00:21:40,741
At Gavin Newsom’s press rally,

620
00:21:40,981 –> 00:21:41,741
press conference,

621
00:21:41,741 –> 00:21:43,901
where he was announcing his new plan,

622
00:21:43,901 –> 00:21:44,581
his new map,

623
00:21:44,821 –> 00:21:47,461
one of the members of the supposed independent commission

624
00:21:47,461 –> 00:21:49,061
was there to speak on his behalf.

625
00:21:49,381 –> 00:21:50,741
Now, if you were actually independent,

626
00:21:51,301 –> 00:21:53,821
you would be out fighting against this if you believed

627
00:21:53,861 –> 00:21:55,221
that your commission was independent.

628
00:21:55,861 –> 00:21:56,821
They’re not independent.

629
00:21:56,981 –> 00:22:01,341
And so for Democrats to be crying about what Republicans

630
00:22:01,341 –> 00:22:03,301
are doing in Texas right now after what they’ve done

631
00:22:03,541 –> 00:22:06,901
in so many blue states and what they would do in others

632
00:22:06,901 –> 00:22:08,421
is rank hypocrisy.

633
00:22:08,421 –> 00:22:09,141
I think people know it.

634
00:22:09,701 –> 00:22:11,221
And well, they complain about everything.

635
00:22:11,221 –> 00:22:11,861
Like again,

636
00:22:12,661 –> 00:22:14,941
dude, you get a lot of boobs around you.

637
00:22:14,941 –> 00:22:15,501
I don’t like,

638
00:22:15,541 –> 00:22:15,781
you know,

639
00:22:16,021 –> 00:22:16,741
pick up the phone.

640
00:22:17,421 –> 00:22:19,301
Let’s get something spirited and smart.

641
00:22:19,541 –> 00:22:22,581
But why is it every night nobody can

642
00:22:23,701 –> 00:22:26,181
affirm that some good things are going on.

643
00:22:26,181 –> 00:22:27,061
Let’s hear.

644
00:22:28,181 –> 00:22:31,621
What’s wrong with having Putin in a car and talking

645
00:22:31,621 –> 00:22:32,021
to the guy?

646
00:22:32,181 –> 00:22:33,301
If you don’t talk,

647
00:22:33,781 –> 00:22:34,981
all you get is death.

648
00:22:35,061 –> 00:22:37,541
If the crime response in DC.

649
00:22:39,141 –> 00:22:40,821
Detroit faked homicides.

650
00:22:40,901 –> 00:22:41,941
I did that one.

651
00:22:42,101 –> 00:22:43,301
You’re now seeing it in DC.

652
00:22:43,461 –> 00:22:44,581
Reclassifying.

653
00:22:44,701 –> 00:22:46,061
Detroit hid 10%

654
00:22:46,581 –> 00:22:48,341
of its murder in the last decade.

655
00:22:49,861 –> 00:22:50,741
The border shut down?

656
00:22:51,221 –> 00:22:53,621
I don’t know anybody against it.

657
00:22:53,941 –> 00:22:54,661
Anybody.

658
00:22:54,661 –> 00:22:58,661
Or a possible economic reset.

659
00:22:58,661 –> 00:23:00,021
People might be nervous,

660
00:23:00,341 –> 00:23:01,621
but they’ve been aching for it.

661
00:23:01,781 –> 00:23:02,341
Why?

662
00:23:04,141 –> 00:23:05,781
can’t anybody see it?

663
00:23:05,861 –> 00:23:07,741
Well, the number one motivating.

664
00:23:07,741 –> 00:23:08,901
That’s why it’s going out of business,

665
00:23:08,901 –> 00:23:09,261
by the way.

666
00:23:09,461 –> 00:23:14,021
The motivating plank of the Democratic program right

667
00:23:14,021 –> 00:23:15,301
now is just if Trump is for it,

668
00:23:15,301 –> 00:23:15,861
we’re against it.

669
00:23:16,341 –> 00:23:17,781
without giving any thought to,

670
00:23:18,101 –> 00:23:20,181
is being against this good or bad for us?

671
00:23:20,581 –> 00:23:23,341
They have chosen to die on the wrong side of virtually

672
00:23:23,341 –> 00:23:24,501
every 80-20 hill.

673
00:23:24,501 –> 00:23:28,341
So the people who are sitting there with are partisan

674
00:23:28,501 –> 00:23:29,941
instead of experts.

675
00:23:30,661 –> 00:23:31,541
Some are experts.

676
00:23:31,541 –> 00:23:32,181
I mean, I mean,

677
00:23:32,181 –> 00:23:33,421
some of them have real experience.

678
00:23:33,421 –> 00:23:34,021
I mean, I’ll tell you,

679
00:23:34,021 –> 00:23:36,301
my two best friends at the network are David Axelrod

680
00:23:36,301 –> 00:23:37,221
and Van Jones.

681
00:23:37,781 –> 00:23:39,061
And I respect them both.

682
00:23:39,061 –> 00:23:40,581
I think they’re experienced guys.

683
00:23:40,581 –> 00:23:41,941
Some people who show up there.

684
00:23:41,941 –> 00:23:42,861
I do too, actually.

685
00:23:43,021 –> 00:23:44,581
And Van, especially,

686
00:23:44,581 –> 00:23:47,181
will often tell people on the left things they don’t

687
00:23:47,181 –> 00:23:47,621
want to hear.

688
00:23:47,621 –> 00:23:48,861
And he takes a lot of grief for it,

689
00:23:48,861 –> 00:23:49,541
truthfully.

690
00:23:50,181 –> 00:23:50,901
I respect that.

691
00:23:51,381 –> 00:23:54,381
But some people who show up there show up as abject

692
00:23:54,381 –> 00:23:54,901
partisans.

693
00:23:54,901 –> 00:23:56,181
You take the DC crime issue.

694
00:23:56,181 –> 00:23:58,021
I’m sitting out there every night lately with people

695
00:23:58,501 –> 00:23:59,541
who cannot stand it,

696
00:23:59,701 –> 00:24:01,261
that there hasn’t been a murder in Washington,

697
00:24:01,261 –> 00:24:01,501
D.C.

698
00:24:01,501 –> 00:24:02,501
in the last seven days.

699
00:24:03,061 –> 00:24:04,261
There hasn’t been a murder in a week.

700
00:24:04,501 –> 00:24:06,461
It’s been years since they went seven days without

701
00:24:06,461 –> 00:24:06,901
a murder.

702
00:24:07,861 –> 00:24:09,301
I was in Union Station the other day.

703
00:24:09,301 –> 00:24:12,181
No one was taking drugs in front of my children.

704
00:24:12,181 –> 00:24:14,661
No one was committing public acts of lewdness.

705
00:24:14,661 –> 00:24:16,421
No one was defecating on the floor.

706
00:24:16,661 –> 00:24:19,621
I mean, Union Station looked a little better than it

707
00:24:19,621 –> 00:24:21,061
has in years to me,

708
00:24:21,061 –> 00:24:23,821
all because there were some National Guard guys hanging

709
00:24:23,821 –> 00:24:24,421
around.

710
00:24:24,661 –> 00:24:26,181
They have arrested hundreds of people.

711
00:24:26,181 –> 00:24:27,461
Some of them are illegal aliens.

712
00:24:27,461 –> 00:24:30,581
One of them was an MS-13 gangbanger here in the country

713
00:24:30,581 –> 00:24:31,141
illegally.

714
00:24:31,461 –> 00:24:33,461
Illegal guns have been taken off the streets.

715
00:24:34,421 –> 00:24:37,221
Why is this a problem for you in Washington,

716
00:24:37,221 –> 00:24:37,781
D.C.?

717
00:24:38,181 –> 00:24:40,861
No one who lives there or who visits there often will

718
00:24:40,861 –> 00:24:41,781
tell you that it’s safe.

719
00:24:41,781 –> 00:24:44,501
But I sit with people every night who are making a

720
00:24:44,501 –> 00:24:47,221
passionate argument about how Washington was a safe

721
00:24:47,221 –> 00:24:50,021
utopia and Donald Trump’s messing it up.

722
00:24:50,021 –> 00:24:52,341
And everybody knows it’s complete and total bullshit.

723
00:24:52,661 –> 00:24:53,501
Everybody knows it.

724
00:24:53,941 –> 00:24:54,741
Everybody knows it.

725
00:24:54,741 –> 00:24:57,861
So if they want to make fools of themselves and further

726
00:24:57,861 –> 00:25:00,341
divorce themselves from the average American person

727
00:25:00,341 –> 00:25:01,941
who just looks at things like this through the lens

728
00:25:01,941 –> 00:25:02,821
of common sense,

729
00:25:03,141 –> 00:25:03,941
Be my guest,

730
00:25:04,101 –> 00:25:06,501
but there’s a reason your political party has a 19%

731
00:25:06,501 –> 00:25:07,221
approval rating,

732
00:25:07,381 –> 00:25:09,581
and there’s a reason you’re down in net 5 million

733
00:25:09,581 –> 00:25:11,021
registered voters over the last four years,

734
00:25:11,021 –> 00:25:12,021
and it’s that right there.

735
00:25:12,021 –> 00:25:15,461
It’s a huge mistake to think that small crimes don’t

736
00:25:15,461 –> 00:25:16,261
lead to big crimes.

737
00:25:16,301 –> 00:25:17,301
Of course they do.

738
00:25:17,941 –> 00:25:22,821
The permissive nature of vagrancy and just the crap

739
00:25:22,821 –> 00:25:25,421
you see on the streets of Washington and other major

740
00:25:25,421 –> 00:25:26,341
American cities,

741
00:25:26,581 –> 00:25:28,421
when you have a permissive culture of that,

742
00:25:29,101 –> 00:25:32,341
When you let violent people out of jail with no bail,

743
00:25:32,581 –> 00:25:33,541
cashless bail,

744
00:25:34,061 –> 00:25:35,621
when you take people who’ve been,

745
00:25:35,781 –> 00:25:37,781
or in my hometown of Louisville the other day,

746
00:25:38,261 –> 00:25:40,421
we had a guy that had been sentenced to 15 years in

747
00:25:40,421 –> 00:25:41,781
jail in 2024.

748
00:25:42,501 –> 00:25:43,701
He kidnapped a woman,

749
00:25:44,421 –> 00:25:45,101
pregnant lady,

750
00:25:45,101 –> 00:25:46,181
and her kids,

751
00:25:46,261 –> 00:25:48,301
forced her to drive him to a bank.

752
00:25:48,301 –> 00:25:50,181
He robbed the bank and stabbed her in the stomach.

753
00:25:50,901 –> 00:25:51,781
Now, you may be asking me,

754
00:25:51,781 –> 00:25:53,781
Scott, if he had been sentenced to 15 years,

755
00:25:53,781 –> 00:25:55,621
how was he out of jail just the other day?

756
00:25:56,021 –> 00:25:57,781
Shock probation after five months.

757
00:25:58,501 –> 00:26:00,981
off of a judge that decided he had learned his lessons.

758
00:26:01,061 –> 00:26:02,581
Well, why did he stab the woman?

759
00:26:03,221 –> 00:26:04,501
Because he’s a violent person.

760
00:26:04,501 –> 00:26:05,621
So he robs the bank.

761
00:26:05,621 –> 00:26:07,541
And then stabs the lady and runs that way.

762
00:26:07,541 –> 00:26:08,901
Stabs the teller?

763
00:26:09,221 –> 00:26:12,341
No, the person he kidnapped in the car.

764
00:26:13,221 –> 00:26:15,781
The point of this is 15-year sentence,

765
00:26:15,781 –> 00:26:18,021
shot probation after five months,

766
00:26:18,021 –> 00:26:20,581
and the first thing he does is kidnap a woman and

767
00:26:20,581 –> 00:26:22,101
her kids and go rob a bank.

768
00:26:22,661 –> 00:26:24,021
Why is this person on the street,

769
00:26:24,021 –> 00:26:26,181
that terrible beating in Cincinnati?

770
00:26:26,901 –> 00:26:29,381
One of the people in that crowd had been,

771
00:26:29,381 –> 00:26:30,181
same situation,

772
00:26:30,181 –> 00:26:31,621
had been sentenced and was out of jail,

773
00:26:31,621 –> 00:26:32,821
should not have been out of jail.

774
00:26:33,061 –> 00:26:34,981
I interviewed the head of the police union in Cincinnati

775
00:26:34,981 –> 00:26:35,461
the other day.

776
00:26:35,461 –> 00:26:38,181
He’s fit to be tied about these judges in Cincinnati

777
00:26:38,181 –> 00:26:39,541
letting these people out of jail.

778
00:26:39,861 –> 00:26:42,021
In blue cities across this country,

779
00:26:42,661 –> 00:26:45,781
you can commit violent acts and get back on the street

780
00:26:45,781 –> 00:26:46,821
in no time at all.

781
00:26:46,821 –> 00:26:47,541
And guess what?

782
00:26:47,861 –> 00:26:50,261
The most likely predictor of you’re committing a violent

783
00:26:50,261 –> 00:26:51,621
act is if you already committed one.

784
00:26:52,181 –> 00:26:53,541
So why put them on the street?

785
00:26:53,541 –> 00:26:54,341
You want to know how

786
00:26:55,301 –> 00:26:56,741
You heard about CompStat,

787
00:26:56,741 –> 00:26:57,421
New York,

788
00:26:57,461 –> 00:26:58,181
Bill Bratton,

789
00:26:58,181 –> 00:26:59,221
Rudy Giuliani,

790
00:26:59,541 –> 00:27:00,821
the broken windows theory.

791
00:27:02,581 –> 00:27:03,861
This is how they really did it.

792
00:27:03,861 –> 00:27:05,261
Nobody knows this part of it.

793
00:27:05,261 –> 00:27:07,221
I was reported in New York this time.

794
00:27:08,661 –> 00:27:08,981
Basically,

795
00:27:08,981 –> 00:27:10,421
if you were a squeegee guy,

796
00:27:10,501 –> 00:27:10,821
you know,

797
00:27:10,821 –> 00:27:12,061
you’re vagrant,

798
00:27:12,061 –> 00:27:13,781
you’re annoying people,

799
00:27:14,981 –> 00:27:15,861
you’d get a ticket.

800
00:27:15,861 –> 00:27:19,061
The cop will give you a ticket for whatever,

801
00:27:19,221 –> 00:27:19,941
panhandling.

802
00:27:20,661 –> 00:27:21,781
Here’s how it really worked.

803
00:27:22,661 –> 00:27:26,021
The cop working the beat would know the panhandler.

804
00:27:26,661 –> 00:27:30,101
There was a special squad of prosecutors that they

805
00:27:30,101 –> 00:27:31,701
would call and they would say,

806
00:27:32,261 –> 00:27:33,141
he’s out here again.

807
00:27:33,141 –> 00:27:34,341
Did he answer the summons?

808
00:27:34,821 –> 00:27:36,021
No, he did not.

809
00:27:37,221 –> 00:27:38,621
Now you’re under arrest.

810
00:27:38,621 –> 00:27:40,981
You’re under arrest for not answering the summons.

811
00:27:41,221 –> 00:27:42,581
You’re getting 30 days.

812
00:27:42,981 –> 00:27:44,501
This got around quick.

813
00:27:44,901 –> 00:27:48,421
So that’s really how it worked with the basic

814
00:27:48,981 –> 00:27:50,741
Everyday lifestyle crime.

815
00:27:50,901 –> 00:27:51,101
Yeah.

816
00:27:51,301 –> 00:27:52,541
And you go around Washington,

817
00:27:52,541 –> 00:27:54,501
D.C., you can’t.

818
00:27:54,581 –> 00:27:55,541
New York City right now.

819
00:27:55,941 –> 00:27:56,421
I don’t care.

820
00:27:56,461 –> 00:27:56,581
Good.

821
00:27:56,581 –> 00:27:57,301
You’re from Kentucky.

822
00:27:58,101 –> 00:27:58,501
That’s right.

823
00:27:58,781 –> 00:28:00,021
Probably came from my home state.

824
00:28:00,341 –> 00:28:02,821
You know why guys from Kentucky get circumcised?

825
00:28:04,621 –> 00:28:04,981
Tell me.

826
00:28:05,141 –> 00:28:06,861
So they got a place to put their chew while they’re

827
00:28:06,861 –> 00:28:07,501
brushing their teeth.

828
00:28:08,901 –> 00:28:09,461
Go blue.

829
00:28:12,501 –> 00:28:15,221
I think if you go around Washington or any of these

830
00:28:15,221 –> 00:28:16,181
blue cities,

831
00:28:16,181 –> 00:28:17,221
these urban areas,

832
00:28:18,021 –> 00:28:18,821
New York City right now.

833
00:28:18,821 –> 00:28:22,181
You walk up and down the street and the permissive

834
00:28:22,581 –> 00:28:27,461
culture that we’ve created for people to annoy or

835
00:28:27,461 –> 00:28:30,341
worse, everybody else on the street and knowing they

836
00:28:30,341 –> 00:28:31,701
can get away with it,

837
00:28:31,701 –> 00:28:33,101
leads to other things.

838
00:28:33,101 –> 00:28:34,541
And the cops ain’t copping.

839
00:28:35,941 –> 00:28:37,141
I think they’ve been told not to.

840
00:28:38,501 –> 00:28:39,021
I mean, A.

841
00:28:39,301 –> 00:28:40,741
Amongst themselves for sure.

842
00:28:40,741 –> 00:28:44,981
I think there’s fear among police officers about engaging

843
00:28:45,221 –> 00:28:45,861
in some of this.

844
00:28:45,941 –> 00:28:47,901
A, B, I think they’ve been told not to.

845
00:28:47,901 –> 00:28:50,741
And C, we have a massive police shortage.

846
00:28:51,221 –> 00:28:52,261
We don’t have enough cops.

847
00:28:52,421 –> 00:28:52,901
Exactly.

848
00:28:52,901 –> 00:28:53,221
Why?

849
00:28:53,461 –> 00:28:55,221
Because being a police officer right now puts you in

850
00:28:55,221 –> 00:28:56,901
the crosshairs of the Democratic Party.

851
00:28:58,021 –> 00:28:59,061
They say you’re the problem.

852
00:28:59,061 –> 00:29:02,261
I mean, they’re out right now calling ICE agents the

853
00:29:02,261 –> 00:29:04,341
Gestapo, terrorists.

854
00:29:05,221 –> 00:29:07,341
Would you want to be an ICE agent right now when a

855
00:29:07,341 –> 00:29:10,821
major American political party is effectively influencing

856
00:29:10,821 –> 00:29:12,181
their supporters to attack you?

857
00:29:12,341 –> 00:29:13,101
It’s a scary world.

858
00:29:13,101 –> 00:29:13,421
I’m sorry,

859
00:29:13,421 –> 00:29:16,341
I was just reading the paper like we’re on the subway

860
00:29:16,341 –> 00:29:18,301
here, but it’s the New York Times,

861
00:29:18,301 –> 00:29:20,901
my favorite Manhattan editor type people.

862
00:29:21,061 –> 00:29:23,461
Here’s what they wrote last Sunday.

863
00:29:23,781 –> 00:29:29,341
Okay, let’s just see how success starts to come around.

864
00:29:31,301 –> 00:29:32,181
It’s the New York Times.

865
00:29:32,181 –> 00:29:36,261
Virtually all sides in the debate about crime made

866
00:29:36,261 –> 00:29:38,941
mistakes during this intense period in the summer

867
00:29:38,941 –> 00:29:39,381
of Floyd,

868
00:29:40,341 –> 00:29:40,981
Joe Biden,

869
00:29:40,981 –> 00:29:42,741
the whole last four or five years.

870
00:29:43,381 –> 00:29:45,741
Among the most damaging was the growing belief among

871
00:29:45,741 –> 00:29:48,461
Democratic officials that enforcing the law could

872
00:29:48,461 –> 00:29:51,821
be counterproductive when it involved low-level offenses

873
00:29:51,821 –> 00:29:53,381
such as public drug use,

874
00:29:53,541 –> 00:29:54,421
shoplifting,

875
00:29:54,581 –> 00:29:55,861
and homeless encampments.

876
00:29:56,101 –> 00:30:00,181
Some Democrats believed enforcement of these laws disproportionately

877
00:30:00,181 –> 00:30:02,861
hurt minority groups and did not contribute much to

878
00:30:02,861 –> 00:30:03,701
public safety.

879
00:30:04,181 –> 00:30:06,421
That argument never made sense,

880
00:30:06,581 –> 00:30:08,181
says the New York Times now.

881
00:30:08,501 –> 00:30:09,461
Never made sense.

882
00:30:10,421 –> 00:30:13,461
especially given the polls showed strong support for

883
00:30:13,461 –> 00:30:16,981
basic law enforcement across racial and income groups.

884
00:30:17,301 –> 00:30:19,461
And the real world results were miserable.

885
00:30:19,621 –> 00:30:20,741
Parts of San Francisco,

886
00:30:20,741 –> 00:30:21,741
Seattle, Portland,

887
00:30:21,741 –> 00:30:24,741
Oregon, and other cities came to feel lawless,

888
00:30:24,901 –> 00:30:26,741
not feel they were my brother.

889
00:30:26,901 –> 00:30:30,381
They were almost done with people defecating and shooting

890
00:30:30,381 –> 00:30:33,141
up in public and store owners locking up items to

891
00:30:33,141 –> 00:30:35,621
reduce theft or simply closing their shops.

892
00:30:35,781 –> 00:30:36,421
Finally,

893
00:30:37,301 –> 00:30:38,261
With crime falling,

894
00:30:38,261 –> 00:30:40,381
however, there is a risk that public officials will

895
00:30:40,381 –> 00:30:42,221
once again become complacent.

896
00:30:42,501 –> 00:30:44,821
Democratic leaders in particular should remember the

897
00:30:44,821 –> 00:30:46,981
pandemic era crime spike.

898
00:30:47,141 –> 00:30:49,461
They should continue their worthy efforts to reform

899
00:30:49,461 –> 00:30:50,741
the criminal justice system.

900
00:30:51,061 –> 00:30:53,701
Racial discrimination is a serious problem in policing,

901
00:30:53,861 –> 00:30:56,661
and the courts and abusive officers too often escape

902
00:30:56,661 –> 00:30:57,381
accountability.

903
00:30:57,381 –> 00:30:57,781
But

904
00:30:58,421 –> 00:31:01,141
Reformers should move carefully and avoid undermining

905
00:31:01,141 –> 00:31:03,381
the policies that prevent disorder.

906
00:31:03,621 –> 00:31:06,581
They should make clear that most officers do a hard

907
00:31:06,581 –> 00:31:10,341
job admirably and provide a crucial service to communities.

908
00:31:10,901 –> 00:31:14,981
Had they said that a number of years ago,

909
00:31:14,981 –> 00:31:16,421
maybe a lot of people wouldn’t be dead,

910
00:31:16,421 –> 00:31:16,821
Scott.

911
00:31:17,061 –> 00:31:17,941
Yeah, I mean,

912
00:31:18,501 –> 00:31:22,981
it is incredible what we convinced ourselves to do

913
00:31:22,981 –> 00:31:25,981
during the COVID and Floyd eras and the arguments

914
00:31:25,981 –> 00:31:26,901
that were made for it.

915
00:31:27,821 –> 00:31:30,421
I mean, think about the Floyd riots.

916
00:31:31,021 –> 00:31:32,421
I mean, this was during COVID.

917
00:31:32,741 –> 00:31:33,941
Now the rest of us were inside,

918
00:31:35,141 –> 00:31:36,261
told to stay inside,

919
00:31:36,581 –> 00:31:37,541
told if you went outside,

920
00:31:37,541 –> 00:31:38,421
you’re a grandma killer.

921
00:31:38,901 –> 00:31:40,581
But then the public health regime told us,

922
00:31:40,581 –> 00:31:41,381
well, unless you’re.

923
00:31:41,781 –> 00:31:44,341
This protest is okay because it’s moral.

924
00:31:44,341 –> 00:31:45,541
And actually,

925
00:31:46,261 –> 00:31:49,061
this racism is actually worse than COVID.

926
00:31:49,061 –> 00:31:50,341
So you’re fine if you do that.

927
00:31:50,661 –> 00:31:51,541
So essentially,

928
00:31:51,541 –> 00:31:53,581
they told us that the virus could tell whether you

929
00:31:53,581 –> 00:31:54,901
were a moral person or not.

930
00:31:54,901 –> 00:31:57,461
It wouldn’t hurt you if you were protesting something

931
00:31:57,461 –> 00:31:58,981
that was moral and right.

932
00:31:59,621 –> 00:32:00,181
Think about,

933
00:32:00,261 –> 00:32:00,981
and we bought it.

934
00:32:01,381 –> 00:32:02,021
I didn’t buy it.

935
00:32:02,021 –> 00:32:02,981
I mean, our culture,

936
00:32:03,061 –> 00:32:04,021
our society,

937
00:32:05,381 –> 00:32:06,421
I mean, our government,

938
00:32:06,581 –> 00:32:07,781
our public officials said,

939
00:32:07,861 –> 00:32:08,741
okay, fine.

940
00:32:09,221 –> 00:32:11,141
And we were forced to live under this regime.

941
00:32:11,141 –> 00:32:12,261
It was insane.

942
00:32:12,501 –> 00:32:13,621
But on the crime issue,

943
00:32:13,781 –> 00:32:14,741
the permissiveness,

944
00:32:15,301 –> 00:32:18,421
the common sense person walks into a store and says,

945
00:32:19,141 –> 00:32:21,221
why do you have to put the toothpaste behind under

946
00:32:21,221 –> 00:32:21,941
lock and key?

947
00:32:22,821 –> 00:32:22,941
Right.

948
00:32:22,941 –> 00:32:23,301
I mean, is.

949
00:32:23,681 –> 00:32:27,041
Do I live in that kind of a place where the toothpaste

950
00:32:27,121 –> 00:32:28,401
is under lock and key?

951
00:32:29,281 –> 00:32:30,321
And they start to wonder,

952
00:32:30,481 –> 00:32:31,441
why is it this way?

953
00:32:31,441 –> 00:32:32,561
Who made it this way?

954
00:32:33,161 –> 00:32:33,761
And guess what?

955
00:32:34,001 –> 00:32:35,361
Democrats made it this way.

956
00:32:35,601 –> 00:32:37,441
The people who run these cities made it this way.

957
00:32:37,441 –> 00:32:38,321
You in Washington,

958
00:32:38,561 –> 00:32:41,441
they don’t really prosecute people under the age of

959
00:32:41,441 –> 00:32:42,161
25.

960
00:32:43,041 –> 00:32:44,241
This is a law in Washington.

961
00:32:44,481 –> 00:32:46,641
They don’t prosecute you under the age of 25.

962
00:32:46,641 –> 00:32:48,881
Now, if you read any of the coverage of the crime spike

963
00:32:48,881 –> 00:32:51,281
there, it’s roving bands of teenagers.

964
00:32:51,681 –> 00:32:53,121
Now I’m only moderately good at math,

965
00:32:53,201 –> 00:32:55,121
but teenager is less than 25.

966
00:32:55,361 –> 00:32:57,481
So the people committing the crimes are not really

967
00:32:57,481 –> 00:32:58,881
in danger of being prosecuted.

968
00:32:59,441 –> 00:33:02,081
So they can go around in groups of 10 or 15 or 20,

969
00:33:02,561 –> 00:33:03,681
terrorize the streets,

970
00:33:03,761 –> 00:33:05,921
beat up some poor 19-year-old kid who worked at the

971
00:33:05,921 –> 00:33:06,961
White House the other day.

972
00:33:07,521 –> 00:33:08,561
they’re not really in trouble.

973
00:33:08,801 –> 00:33:10,801
If you’re under the age of 25 in Washington,

974
00:33:11,041 –> 00:33:12,961
you will likely get away with it.

975
00:33:13,361 –> 00:33:14,001
Why?

976
00:33:14,321 –> 00:33:15,361
Because we decided,

977
00:33:15,441 –> 00:33:17,121
or they decided as a culture,

978
00:33:17,441 –> 00:33:18,561
as a society there,

979
00:33:18,561 –> 00:33:21,601
well, it’s better to let them commit violent acts

980
00:33:22,161 –> 00:33:24,641
than to accidentally commit racism.

981
00:33:24,641 –> 00:33:26,881
It wouldn’t be racism to put a violent person in jail,

982
00:33:26,881 –> 00:33:27,521
in my opinion.

983
00:33:27,521 –> 00:33:28,681
It doesn’t matter what their race is.

984
00:33:28,681 –> 00:33:30,321
If they’re violent against a fellow citizen,

985
00:33:30,321 –> 00:33:31,521
they should pay the consequences.

986
00:33:31,921 –> 00:33:33,921
But these are the things we talked ourselves into.

987
00:33:33,921 –> 00:33:35,361
It doesn’t have to be this way.

988
00:33:35,681 –> 00:33:37,601
Trump doesn’t think it has to be this way.

989
00:33:38,481 –> 00:33:40,081
And so he’s trying to do something about it in the

990
00:33:40,081 –> 00:33:41,521
one place where he can,

991
00:33:41,561 –> 00:33:42,401
which is D.C.,

992
00:33:42,441 –> 00:33:43,281
a federal zone.

993
00:33:43,281 –> 00:33:45,001
He’s effectively the governor of Washington,

994
00:33:45,001 –> 00:33:45,601
D.C.

995
00:33:46,921 –> 00:33:47,681
And he can do this.

996
00:33:47,681 –> 00:33:49,601
It’s legal for him to do it and it’s working.

997
00:33:49,881 –> 00:33:52,481
And the fact that they’re raging against it is political

998
00:33:52,641 –> 00:33:53,281
insanity.

999
00:33:53,921 –> 00:33:56,641
Because human beings like it.

1000
00:33:56,721 –> 00:33:57,601
They do like it.

1001
00:33:57,681 –> 00:33:58,241
They do.

1002
00:33:58,481 –> 00:34:00,321
They like to be able to go out to dinner.

1003
00:34:00,561 –> 00:34:02,161
They like to be able to shop.

1004
00:34:02,401 –> 00:34:04,081
You know what else about Washington is true?

1005
00:34:04,081 –> 00:34:05,441
It’s our nation’s capital.

1006
00:34:05,441 –> 00:34:07,121
It’s not just for the residents.

1007
00:34:07,761 –> 00:34:10,641
Millions of people visit there from every state.

1008
00:34:11,361 –> 00:34:12,281
So if I have four kids.

1009
00:34:12,281 –> 00:34:13,281
From every country.

1010
00:34:13,281 –> 00:34:13,441
Yeah.

1011
00:34:14,001 –> 00:34:14,561
On earth.

1012
00:34:14,801 –> 00:34:15,441
You go there,

1013
00:34:15,441 –> 00:34:16,441
you take your family.

1014
00:34:16,441 –> 00:34:17,441
This is America,

1015
00:34:17,441 –> 00:34:18,361
holy shit.

1016
00:34:18,721 –> 00:34:20,401
It’s our nation.

1017
00:34:21,281 –> 00:34:22,401
The capital is different.

1018
00:34:23,201 –> 00:34:25,241
You should not have to walk into the Capitol and feel

1019
00:34:25,241 –> 00:34:26,561
like this is a disgrace,

1020
00:34:26,561 –> 00:34:27,761
this is despair,

1021
00:34:28,081 –> 00:34:30,881
this is societal decline.

1022
00:34:30,881 –> 00:34:31,721
Point well taken,

1023
00:34:31,801 –> 00:34:32,681
especially the Capitol.

1024
00:34:32,681 –> 00:34:33,481
Point well taken,

1025
00:34:33,481 –> 00:34:35,121
not to spin it out,

1026
00:34:35,121 –> 00:34:38,561
but in any city in this country,

1027
00:34:38,881 –> 00:34:41,761
these are great cities given over to squalor,

1028
00:34:42,441 –> 00:34:43,241
and wildness.

1029
00:34:43,241 –> 00:34:43,921
what I mean?

1030
00:34:44,161 –> 00:34:46,641
I don’t believe in beating people’s asses for no reason.

1031
00:34:46,641 –> 00:34:47,041
I don’t.

1032
00:34:47,121 –> 00:34:48,801
believe in locking them up for life.

1033
00:34:49,041 –> 00:34:52,401
But there’s got to be order so children prosper.

1034
00:34:52,481 –> 00:34:53,121
Public order.

1035
00:34:53,441 –> 00:34:53,921
Public order.

1036
00:34:53,921 –> 00:34:54,561
Public order.

1037
00:34:55,361 –> 00:34:56,321
You can have it all.

1038
00:34:56,721 –> 00:34:58,401
You can have a society that’s just.

1039
00:34:58,961 –> 00:35:00,961
You can have a society that treats everybody equally

1040
00:35:00,961 –> 00:35:01,601
and fairly.

1041
00:35:02,041 –> 00:35:05,681
And you can do it without having to permit public disorder

1042
00:35:05,681 –> 00:35:07,441
and violence on your streets.

1043
00:35:07,921 –> 00:35:09,921
That’s what the Republicans believe right now.

1044
00:35:10,241 –> 00:35:11,441
That’s what Trump believes.

1045
00:35:11,641 –> 00:35:13,521
And I think that’s what the American people want.

1046
00:35:14,401 –> 00:35:17,121
But he will be opposed on this at every turn.

1047
00:35:17,401 –> 00:35:19,441
You know, the debating point from the Democrats as

1048
00:35:19,441 –> 00:35:19,761
well, the,

1049
00:35:20,161 –> 00:35:20,401
you know,

1050
00:35:20,401 –> 00:35:23,201
eight of the 10 most violent states are red states.

1051
00:35:24,081 –> 00:35:27,121
Yeah, but it’s the cities that are run by Democrats

1052
00:35:27,121 –> 00:35:28,001
in those states.

1053
00:35:28,161 –> 00:35:30,081
Are you asking the Republican governor to call out

1054
00:35:30,081 –> 00:35:30,881
the National Guard?

1055
00:35:30,881 –> 00:35:32,001
Be careful what you wish for.

1056
00:35:32,321 –> 00:35:32,881
They might.

1057
00:35:33,041 –> 00:35:34,201
If this works in Washington,

1058
00:35:34,201 –> 00:35:34,641
they might.

1059
00:35:34,641 –> 00:35:36,081
And in some places like

1060
00:35:36,481 –> 00:35:37,201
Memphis or St.

1061
00:35:37,201 –> 00:35:39,281
Louis, they might be founded in doing so.

1062
00:35:39,361 –> 00:35:40,721
Detroit, maybe.

1063
00:35:41,121 –> 00:35:42,241
But we had.

1064
00:35:42,241 –> 00:35:42,961
Never happened here.

1065
00:35:42,961 –> 00:35:43,681
We’ve had,

1066
00:35:44,041 –> 00:35:46,161
when they talk on Capitol Hill,

1067
00:35:46,161 –> 00:35:47,281
like Alyssa Slotkin,

1068
00:35:47,761 –> 00:35:48,561
the military.

1069
00:35:49,841 –> 00:35:51,641
has occupied Detroit three times.

1070
00:35:51,641 –> 00:35:54,001
It’s the only city in America with a history like that.

1071
00:35:54,481 –> 00:35:56,401
The riots of 67,

1072
00:35:56,401 –> 00:35:58,641
43, and 1863.

1073
00:35:58,961 –> 00:35:59,841
So we know,

1074
00:36:00,001 –> 00:36:00,881
and it is legal,

1075
00:36:01,361 –> 00:36:02,321
no matter what they say.

1076
00:36:02,561 –> 00:36:04,401
That’s just a carpetbagger doesn’t know us.

1077
00:36:04,641 –> 00:36:05,761
So let me move it here.

1078
00:36:06,081 –> 00:36:06,721
Why?

1079
00:36:08,001 –> 00:36:10,801
The biggest thing facing us as a country,

1080
00:36:11,201 –> 00:36:12,161
the underpinnings,

1081
00:36:12,161 –> 00:36:12,401
right?

1082
00:36:12,641 –> 00:36:14,481
The institutions we have,

1083
00:36:15,441 –> 00:36:19,121
It’s now becoming transparent what happened during

1084
00:36:19,121 –> 00:36:20,241
the Russia hoax.

1085
00:36:20,481 –> 00:36:20,801
Yes.

1086
00:36:20,801 –> 00:36:22,561
The dark, unseen,

1087
00:36:22,641 –> 00:36:27,281
unknown, unelected people manipulating the popular

1088
00:36:27,281 –> 00:36:27,761
will.

1089
00:36:28,001 –> 00:36:31,041
This is way bigger than Epstein to me.

1090
00:36:31,041 –> 00:36:31,761
Okay, Doug,

1091
00:36:31,761 –> 00:36:33,361
I’d like to know all about Epstein,

1092
00:36:33,521 –> 00:36:35,041
but I want to know about this.

1093
00:36:35,281 –> 00:36:38,081
And I think that’s why you saw Donald Trump,

1094
00:36:38,201 –> 00:36:39,521
because he knew the stuff was coming.

1095
00:36:40,161 –> 00:36:40,561
He goes, oh,

1096
00:36:40,561 –> 00:36:42,761
Epstein, I got a better one for you.

1097
00:36:43,521 –> 00:36:44,441
The fucking CIA,

1098
00:36:44,801 –> 00:36:46,161
the deep state,

1099
00:36:46,881 –> 00:36:47,841
Hillary Clinton,

1100
00:36:48,001 –> 00:36:52,281
they’re trying to take over this country and hide

1101
00:36:52,281 –> 00:36:52,361
it.

1102
00:36:52,361 –> 00:36:53,921
This is Soviet shit they were doing.

1103
00:36:54,241 –> 00:36:55,521
So the people who.

1104
00:36:55,601 –> 00:36:56,201
Tell me I’m wrong.

1105
00:36:56,721 –> 00:36:59,481
The people who complain most about misinformation and

1106
00:36:59,481 –> 00:37:02,961
disinformation engaged in the largest disinformation

1107
00:37:02,961 –> 00:37:05,681
op in the last 50 years in this country.

1108
00:37:05,681 –> 00:37:07,601
It was a spy op on us.

1109
00:37:07,681 –> 00:37:10,881
The plan and the plot was we have to convince

1110
00:37:11,201 –> 00:37:13,841
half the American people in one entire political party

1111
00:37:13,841 –> 00:37:17,361
that Russia stole the election to delegitimize a president

1112
00:37:18,401 –> 00:37:21,521
so that he is ineffective and can’t come back.

1113
00:37:22,281 –> 00:37:22,881
And guess what?

1114
00:37:22,961 –> 00:37:23,601
They succeeded.

1115
00:37:24,481 –> 00:37:27,361
It is an article of faith among Democrats that Russia

1116
00:37:27,361 –> 00:37:28,881
stole the 2016 election.

1117
00:37:29,121 –> 00:37:30,401
They succeeded in the plot.

1118
00:37:30,481 –> 00:37:34,161
As it is amongst Republicans that the Democrats stole

1119
00:37:34,161 –> 00:37:35,201
the 2020 election.

1120
00:37:36,241 –> 00:37:39,521
I think it’s more my personal view is that the Russia

1121
00:37:39,601 –> 00:37:40,641
stole the election

1122
00:37:40,961 –> 00:37:42,881
of 2016 is far more pervasive.

1123
00:37:42,881 –> 00:37:43,761
That’s my view.

1124
00:37:44,641 –> 00:37:45,761
I could be debated on it,

1125
00:37:45,921 –> 00:37:48,401
but you couldn’t walk into a Democratic dinner,

1126
00:37:48,881 –> 00:37:51,561
fundraiser or any other political event and stand

1127
00:37:51,561 –> 00:37:52,401
up on a stage and say,

1128
00:37:52,961 –> 00:37:53,281
you know,

1129
00:37:53,281 –> 00:37:55,361
guys, I don’t really think Russia stole the election.

1130
00:37:55,361 –> 00:37:57,641
I do think Donald Trump was legitimately elected.

1131
00:37:57,641 –> 00:37:59,201
You’d be booed off the stage.

1132
00:38:00,321 –> 00:38:00,881
They believe it.

1133
00:38:00,881 –> 00:38:02,561
It’s an article of faith to them.

1134
00:38:03,201 –> 00:38:04,561
And so who caused it?

1135
00:38:05,361 –> 00:38:06,961
These people with intelligence titles.

1136
00:38:07,121 –> 00:38:07,521
Yes.

1137
00:38:07,521 –> 00:38:09,761
High positions in the Obama White House.

1138
00:38:09,921 –> 00:38:10,721
Obama himself,

1139
00:38:10,721 –> 00:38:11,441
perhaps.

1140
00:38:11,921 –> 00:38:12,641
Well, I mean,

1141
00:38:12,641 –> 00:38:13,681
there’s some evidence about this.

1142
00:38:13,681 –> 00:38:14,841
There’s a lot of evidence.

1143
00:38:14,841 –> 00:38:16,961
As they’re going out and as Trump is coming in.

1144
00:38:17,281 –> 00:38:18,561
So even after they leave office,

1145
00:38:18,561 –> 00:38:21,521
those people who held those positions then go on TV.

1146
00:38:21,521 –> 00:38:22,561
You get to debate them.

1147
00:38:22,561 –> 00:38:23,841
Every night and they say,

1148
00:38:23,841 –> 00:38:24,241
well, you know,

1149
00:38:24,321 –> 00:38:26,961
I was such and such intelligence person.

1150
00:38:27,041 –> 00:38:28,561
I have a security clearance.

1151
00:38:28,561 –> 00:38:29,521
I know.

1152
00:38:29,921 –> 00:38:31,841
And they intimate to the American people that they

1153
00:38:31,841 –> 00:38:32,441
know something.

1154
00:38:32,441 –> 00:38:34,161
I know something you don’t know because of my

1155
00:38:34,561 –> 00:38:35,361
access.

1156
00:38:35,361 –> 00:38:36,641
And just take my word for it.

1157
00:38:37,121 –> 00:38:38,241
Russia stole the election.

1158
00:38:38,241 –> 00:38:39,761
Trump was in on it.

1159
00:38:39,761 –> 00:38:40,801
They did it every night.

1160
00:38:40,921 –> 00:38:41,681
I’ll write that down then.

1161
00:38:41,681 –> 00:38:42,721
They did it every night.

1162
00:38:43,201 –> 00:38:43,841
I know they did.

1163
00:38:43,921 –> 00:38:47,201
And perpetrated this hoax on the American people.

1164
00:38:48,241 –> 00:38:49,681
Accountability is coming.

1165
00:38:50,721 –> 00:38:51,361
It has to come.

1166
00:38:51,361 –> 00:38:51,961
It has to.

1167
00:38:51,961 –> 00:38:53,601
You cannot get away.

1168
00:38:54,001 –> 00:38:57,161
Think about the downstream ripple effects of this and

1169
00:38:57,161 –> 00:39:00,161
how much it has affected everything else in our politics

1170
00:39:00,161 –> 00:39:01,241
ever since that moment.

1171
00:39:01,361 –> 00:39:01,681
Yes.

1172
00:39:02,241 –> 00:39:02,961
It’s not right.

1173
00:39:02,961 –> 00:39:04,481
If a person gets elected president,

1174
00:39:05,121 –> 00:39:05,841
fair and square,

1175
00:39:06,561 –> 00:39:08,521
they deserve to get to act as the president.

1176
00:39:08,521 –> 00:39:09,481
That’s the will of the people.

1177
00:39:09,481 –> 00:39:10,241
That’s our system.

1178
00:39:10,481 –> 00:39:13,161
They stopped him and,

1179
00:39:13,161 –> 00:39:13,361
you know,

1180
00:39:13,361 –> 00:39:16,121
for most of his term from having sort of full access

1181
00:39:16,121 –> 00:39:16,881
to the presidency.

1182
00:39:16,881 –> 00:39:17,761
That was the plot.

1183
00:39:18,321 –> 00:39:20,881
Let’s tie this up and delegitimize it for as long as

1184
00:39:20,881 –> 00:39:21,201
we can.

1185
00:39:21,201 –> 00:39:23,041
Well, do you go to the producers and say,

1186
00:39:23,041 –> 00:39:23,841
we out here,

1187
00:39:23,841 –> 00:39:24,641
if you want us to watch,

1188
00:39:24,641 –> 00:39:25,761
we want a little bit more.

1189
00:39:26,201 –> 00:39:27,441
Okay, we want a little bit more.

1190
00:39:28,081 –> 00:39:28,881
discussion about it.

1191
00:39:28,881 –> 00:39:30,081
A little more honesty about it.

1192
00:39:30,081 –> 00:39:31,921
Okay, now I just got the five minute mark.

1193
00:39:31,921 –> 00:39:33,441
So last one,

1194
00:39:33,441 –> 00:39:34,961
because this is second to last one.

1195
00:39:34,961 –> 00:39:36,001
This is interesting to me.

1196
00:39:36,241 –> 00:39:37,601
Where was Scott Jennings,

1197
00:39:37,841 –> 00:39:39,921
also known as Uncle Cracker Barrel.

1198
00:39:40,161 –> 00:39:40,641
Sorry.

1199
00:39:42,001 –> 00:39:42,641
Took his job.

1200
00:39:42,641 –> 00:39:43,441
There’s no more,

1201
00:39:43,441 –> 00:39:45,281
there’s no more cracker or barrel in the logo,

1202
00:39:45,321 –> 00:39:45,641
by the way,

1203
00:39:45,641 –> 00:39:46,321
and he took it off.

1204
00:39:47,441 –> 00:39:48,961
All they had to do was put up a sign and say,

1205
00:39:49,041 –> 00:39:50,241
just take a quick minute.

1206
00:39:50,241 –> 00:39:52,521
That’s the only reason maybe sales are going down.

1207
00:39:52,521 –> 00:39:52,761
It’s like,

1208
00:39:52,761 –> 00:39:53,921
we don’t got time to stop,

1209
00:39:54,081 –> 00:39:55,561
but it’s a good restaurant.

1210
00:39:55,561 –> 00:39:58,001
Okay, but you’re from a small Kentucky,

1211
00:39:58,161 –> 00:39:58,561
coal town.

1212
00:39:58,561 –> 00:39:59,761
It was at Dawson Springs,

1213
00:39:59,761 –> 00:39:59,881
right?

1214
00:39:59,881 –> 00:40:00,481
Dawson Springs.

1215
00:40:00,481 –> 00:40:01,681
Got hammered by that.

1216
00:40:01,921 –> 00:40:02,321
Tornado.

1217
00:40:02,321 –> 00:40:03,321
Tornado, sorry.

1218
00:40:03,321 –> 00:40:05,641
My dad, every house that a Jennings ever lived in was

1219
00:40:05,641 –> 00:40:06,161
destroyed,

1220
00:40:06,401 –> 00:40:06,801
I think.

1221
00:40:07,361 –> 00:40:07,441
Wow.

1222
00:40:07,761 –> 00:40:08,961
My dad’s house was destroyed.

1223
00:40:08,961 –> 00:40:09,361
How many?

1224
00:40:10,241 –> 00:40:13,921
I think 3/4 of the houses in our town were destroyed.

1225
00:40:13,921 –> 00:40:15,441
How many people in that town?

1226
00:40:15,521 –> 00:40:16,321
When I was growing up,

1227
00:40:16,321 –> 00:40:17,041
it was about,

1228
00:40:17,481 –> 00:40:18,801
maybe a little less than 3,000.

1229
00:40:19,081 –> 00:40:19,801
There’s a lot fewer now.

1230
00:40:19,801 –> 00:40:21,401
A lot fewer because of the…

1231
00:40:22,081 –> 00:40:23,601
Yeah, a lot of people lost their homes.

1232
00:40:23,601 –> 00:40:24,881
They moved to different places.

1233
00:40:25,281 –> 00:40:26,161
You know, interestingly,

1234
00:40:26,401 –> 00:40:28,081
and I lived this with my dad,

1235
00:40:28,881 –> 00:40:31,681
he had a house and what the insurance value of it

1236
00:40:31,681 –> 00:40:35,601
was, nowhere near what it would cost to rebuild.

1237
00:40:35,681 –> 00:40:36,881
And so then you’re kind of stuck.

1238
00:40:38,001 –> 00:40:40,561
my dad, I’m the son of a garbage man and a factory

1239
00:40:40,561 –> 00:40:40,961
worker.

1240
00:40:42,081 –> 00:40:46,161
And, this is not a man of means and doesn’t have hundreds

1241
00:40:46,161 –> 00:40:48,321
of thousands of dollars laying around to rebuild after

1242
00:40:48,321 –> 00:40:49,121
the next tornado.

1243
00:40:49,121 –> 00:40:51,521
And so a lot of people were in that boat.

1244
00:40:52,401 –> 00:40:54,321
And this was devastating.

1245
00:40:54,321 –> 00:40:56,361
And so, the town is trying to come back,

1246
00:40:56,361 –> 00:40:58,641
a lot of towns in Kentucky and that storm,

1247
00:40:58,801 –> 00:41:01,721
that tornado went hundreds of miles through Kentucky

1248
00:41:01,721 –> 00:41:03,041
and a couple other places,

1249
00:41:03,041 –> 00:41:03,441
Arkansas,

1250
00:41:03,441 –> 00:41:03,841
I think.

1251
00:41:04,481 –> 00:41:05,921
And so a lot of people,

1252
00:41:06,401 –> 00:41:07,481
never really recovered.

1253
00:41:07,601 –> 00:41:08,521
The towns are trying,

1254
00:41:08,801 –> 00:41:12,561
but for a lot of poor working folks lost their homes.

1255
00:41:12,561 –> 00:41:13,001
There’s no way,

1256
00:41:13,001 –> 00:41:14,081
no way to rebuild.

1257
00:41:14,641 –> 00:41:16,601
We that kind of happened here economically.

1258
00:41:16,641 –> 00:41:17,281
You know, I don’t,

1259
00:41:17,281 –> 00:41:19,041
I’m not making light.

1260
00:41:19,041 –> 00:41:19,521
Oh, I know.

1261
00:41:19,521 –> 00:41:20,881
I mean, it’s certainly not the only place.

1262
00:41:20,881 –> 00:41:21,521
I feel it.

1263
00:41:21,521 –> 00:41:22,641
So what’s interesting,

1264
00:41:22,721 –> 00:41:24,481
you still live in the Louisville area,

1265
00:41:24,481 –> 00:41:24,801
don’t you?

1266
00:41:24,881 –> 00:41:25,681
Just outside of it,

1267
00:41:25,681 –> 00:41:25,921
yeah.

1268
00:41:26,001 –> 00:41:28,401
So you’re like on television almost every night.

1269
00:41:28,641 –> 00:41:29,441
close to it.

1270
00:41:29,761 –> 00:41:30,481
In Washington.

1271
00:41:31,521 –> 00:41:32,521
I do it in one of three places.

1272
00:41:32,521 –> 00:41:34,561
I have a studio in Louisville that I built.

1273
00:41:34,561 –> 00:41:36,201
I fly to New York or I go to DC.

1274
00:41:36,201 –> 00:41:37,841
Those are my 3 usual spots.

1275
00:41:38,001 –> 00:41:38,321
Wow.

1276
00:41:38,321 –> 00:41:39,681
So this is rare.

1277
00:41:39,681 –> 00:41:42,801
Like a guy from the middle who loves the middle,

1278
00:41:42,801 –> 00:41:43,921
represents the middle,

1279
00:41:44,001 –> 00:41:45,281
lives in the middle.

1280
00:41:46,961 –> 00:41:49,441
Some of your popularity has to do with it.

1281
00:41:49,441 –> 00:41:53,201
You just ring true because I don’t think you ever forgot

1282
00:41:53,201 –> 00:41:55,201
it or left it.

1283
00:41:55,601 –> 00:41:56,161
And so…

1284
00:41:57,121 –> 00:41:57,761
Part of my job,

1285
00:41:58,321 –> 00:42:00,801
I’m a conservative analyst,

1286
00:42:00,801 –> 00:42:01,201
but

1287
00:42:01,761 –> 00:42:03,201
From a family of Democrats.

1288
00:42:03,201 –> 00:42:04,321
From a family of Democrats.

1289
00:42:04,321 –> 00:42:05,681
But as much as that I am,

1290
00:42:06,161 –> 00:42:07,041
I do think about,

1291
00:42:07,441 –> 00:42:08,441
I’m one of the few,

1292
00:42:08,441 –> 00:42:10,681
if only, maybe the only pundit from Middle America

1293
00:42:10,681 –> 00:42:13,641
who lives in Middle America that goes into it every

1294
00:42:13,641 –> 00:42:14,081
day.

1295
00:42:14,641 –> 00:42:17,361
And I’m trying to give you an accurate reflection of

1296
00:42:17,361 –> 00:42:19,441
how people in the middle of the country will be absorbing

1297
00:42:19,441 –> 00:42:20,001
the news,

1298
00:42:20,201 –> 00:42:22,521
which is different than how people in the Acela corridor

1299
00:42:22,521 –> 00:42:23,241
will be absorbing it.

1300
00:42:23,241 –> 00:42:23,601
Yes.

1301
00:42:23,601 –> 00:42:24,321
Well, how do you know?

1302
00:42:24,321 –> 00:42:25,841
Because they fucking lived there.

1303
00:42:25,841 –> 00:42:26,001
Yeah.

1304
00:42:26,401 –> 00:42:27,121
With Scott Jennings,

1305
00:42:27,121 –> 00:42:27,601
the name of the book,

1306
00:42:27,601 –> 00:42:28,001
Scott.

1307
00:42:28,241 –> 00:42:29,801
It’s called A Revolution of Common Sense,

1308
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How Donald Trump Stormed into Washington and Fought

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for Western Civilization.

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It’s really great to have you.

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Thanks for coming in,

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brother.

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Thanks.

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Appreciate it.

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Next week.

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Thanks, Claude.