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00:04:58.380I want to play this on the economy first for Morning Joe.
00:05:00.960A quick hit on Morning Joe to set the table.
00:05:02.880Then I'm going to bring in Brian Costello and Mark Paoletta.
00:05:07.540Let's go ahead and play the economy part.
00:05:10.000And it's the same thing with young voters.
00:05:11.620And I can't emphasize what you've said enough about this economy.
00:05:15.120This economy disproportionately hurts Americans, I think, under 35, under 40, who can't afford their first home, who really can't afford to live the type of life that their parents lived, who see themselves falling further and further behind every single week.
00:05:40.360And they hear us talking about how great the economy is and what I hear an awful lot.
00:06:02.240And I would also just say that, you know, the lack of real competition in American democracy at this point is a problem, because, you know, if if those voters are looking at their choices as either Donald Trump or Joe Biden, and that's what the choices seem to be at the moment, the option is is clear.
00:06:22.060But they're being asked to swallow a whole lot.
00:06:24.680Yeah. And so there's there's no real alternative that's saying, you know, hey, I will I will attend to your needs because the Democratic Party has essentially, I believe, for many years now.
00:06:36.360And this is this is not a new phenomenon.
00:06:38.060It has taken the votes for granted of both black people, people of color in general and young people that hasn't changed.
00:06:46.520And as these numbers really start to deteriorate for Joe Biden, you would hope that there would be more tension there.
00:07:11.860They don't own anything and they're not going to own anything because of the neoliberal policies and these policies of of the Biden regime in this massive government spending has impoverished them.
00:07:25.220You know, if you go back and look at the data in the Trump in the golden Trump years, those years of peace and prosperity.
00:07:32.600That's all Trump's got to run on peace and prosperity.
00:07:40.740The Democrats now understand that their policies and the radical nature of their policies and the way their policies kowtow to the extremely wealthy.
00:08:32.140Because now the balance sheet of the United States is starting to have a massive impact.
00:08:38.240And that impact will only increase over time.
00:08:41.920I want to talk about I want to bring in Mark Paoletta.
00:08:44.620Mark was at the White House in the White House Counsel's Office over the vice president was was critically important in the selection of of the justice for the Supreme Court.
00:08:54.920Also very close to Clarence Thomas wrote an incredible book, Mark, I want to shed some light on areas that don't get enough light.
00:09:03.620They're hammering the Supreme Court justice for these relationships with with different individuals.
00:09:09.700And yet you've got this guy is David Rubenstein.
00:09:13.520He is one of the most powerful people in D.C.
00:09:16.240First off, he's the head of the Carlisle Group, which is if you want to talk about the swamp, it's like the railhead.
00:09:21.940We've got a massive private equity group in D.C. that's always made it's always made its money on government relations.
00:09:30.360Former government officials go in and work there and they're and they're totally in bed with the CCP.
00:09:35.540This is where Glenn Youngkin made his fortune.
00:09:37.720But this is I don't know if it's the second or third year in a row.
00:09:41.320Biden goes up to his, I don't know, 25, 35 million dollar mansion on Nantucket and hangs out for the for the Thanksgiving weekend.
00:09:48.900And this guy's involved in a lot. They're they're hammering the Clarence Thomases and Alitos, these other justices on the Supreme Court.
00:09:56.360They want to have, you know, show trials on them. They want to get them off the Supreme Court, all of it.
00:10:01.240But nobody's talking about David Rubenstein and his connections, not just the court, but the entire Democratic Party.
00:10:09.040Yeah, Steve, thanks for having me on. Look, as you said, the what I've been focused on is the Democrats absolute unprecedented assault on the Supreme Court.
00:10:20.400And in particular, Justice Justice Clarence Thomas, a good friend of mine, they've been after him for 40 years, but they've really amped it up because the court is the last bastion to protect our Constitution in our government, in our country.
00:10:33.040And the Democrats are trying to because they lost the war on jurisprudence. Right.
00:10:38.520And it's the it's the Clarence Thomas court in terms of the originalist approach to to to cases.
00:10:45.020They're now trying to go after their personal lives and they've gone after all their friends.
00:10:50.200It's really despicable. And what's happening now is that the Democrats, it's led by Senator Durbin and Senator Whitehouse,
00:10:59.000have threatened subpoenas on some of Justice Thomas's friends and some of Justice Alito's friends.
00:11:04.920And so, you know, this coming week over the past couple of weeks, there's been this sort of fight playing out with the Democrats wanting to try and get some subpoenas on on some of these people who are friends with the justices.
00:11:16.220And the Republicans, to their credit, to their great credit, and this is Lindsey Graham, this is Mike Lee, Ted Cruz, Tom Cotton, John Kennedy, Marshall Blackburn,
00:11:26.360have have offered up one hundred and fifty subpoenas to look at the sort of the friends and the Democrat side of the equation.
00:11:35.680If you want to play this game, if you want to go down this road, let's go.
00:11:38.400And so one of the people, as you just mentioned, is David Rubenstein.
00:11:42.120And there's you know, he gave his jet to to Stephen Breyer, liberal justice, a Clinton appointee, a Ted Kennedy guy to go to go up to a wedding on on Nantucket in 2014.
00:11:56.800You know, as you said, Rubenstein hosts the president.
00:12:00.400I think he's got a 20 million dollar mansion up in Nantucket last year, the year before, and I think in 2014.
00:12:06.440And so this is the kinds of, you know, relationships that if the Democrats want to play this game, the Republicans say, let's go.
00:12:13.980And and so this could play out next week.
00:12:17.200I hope the Democrats realize that this is a terrible idea and they're they're sort of jumping the shark and and it's a bad road to go down.
00:12:26.760But the but the Republicans have stood up and said, you know, some of these amendments are the GPS locations of Joe Biden and Hunter Biden on certain days.
00:12:38.180It's also with respect to some of the other justices, Morris Kahn, who took Justice Ginsburg to Israel and around the Middle East on his private plane and funding her entire trip.
00:12:51.060So it's the Pritzkers. Right. That billionaire.
00:12:54.340Talk about a billionaire family. The Pritzkers in Illinois.
00:12:57.200J.B. Pritzker, who wants to be president one day, they sent Stephen Breyer around the world.
00:13:02.040They have a family organization 17 times.
00:13:05.200OK, over the course of at least back to 2004 that I could find flying him around, putting him in hotels, vacation.
00:13:12.900I call them vacations. There's their conferences or whatever they try and dress it up as.
00:13:18.080But but but that's what the Democrats do.
00:13:21.120Nobody seems to care about it. But this is the way they go after the Republican appointed conservative constitutionalist justices.
00:13:28.300What is their objective here? Is the objective to try to embarrass them?
00:13:34.360Is the objective to try to get them to recuse themselves on certain like the Chevron deference and some things about taking down?
00:13:41.340As you know, you were very focused with Don McGahn on the administrative state.
00:13:45.960Is it to get them to recuse themselves in these hugely important cases are coming or is it actually a force them off the court?
00:13:52.920You know, Steve, it's everything. I think it's throwing the kitchen sink at trying to make the American people believe it's a corrupt court.
00:13:59.340Right. And so, you know, so then you say we need to fix the court.
00:14:03.440And and when you look at the polling numbers, the court number, it's interesting.
00:14:06.540The court numbers are a little bit down. It's in the 40s.
00:14:08.960But they were in the 40s from 40 percent approval back in the mid teens, actually, from about 2012 to 2018.
00:14:17.160It went up above 50 percent under President Trump.
00:14:23.040It's sometimes in the 50s. But you look at Congress.
00:14:25.560Congress, I think, is at 16 percent approval and has been there for many years.
00:14:29.340So in terms of who's, you know, you're going off of polls and who's broken and who's not respected, it's Congress.
00:14:34.740Mark, hang on for one second. Just want to take a short commercial break.
00:14:40.260We're in return. We're talking about they're trying to subpoena people around the Supreme Court for hearings on the Democrat controlled Senate.
00:14:49.660Also, we're going to drill down on the connections of the in the administrative state in money capital markets with Brian Costello next in the war room.
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00:16:26.240So, Mark, we've sent out or they're proposing to send out 150 subpoenas for the David Rubensteins of the world and the guys on the left that are totally, completely corrupt and have this merger of kind of the swamp, the administrative state and capital markets on Wall Street is kind of the connective tissue.
00:16:52.660Tell me how we're – because we wanted to have you on today to kick off the show to send kind of a warning shot that two can play this game and, honestly, we can play it harder.
00:17:01.580So, tell me, if we don't – if we control the Senate, is there a way to get the House involved here or how do you – you're a man of action.
00:17:10.520In fact, you're – I remember you and McGann saying on the committee we sat on, we've had too many problems with putting people on the court that – because of their biography or because of their position.
00:17:33.900You remember in those – the chart that showed, right, how every justice over the years has gotten more liberal going back, you know, back into the – from the 30s forward and finding justices that would stay strong through their career.
00:17:49.820I think the greatest justice like that is Justice Clarence Thomas, and that's why I love fighting for him.
00:18:11.140If they get defeated in the Senate, and they probably will if they take them up, if the Senate moves forward with this disastrous thing.
00:18:18.580You know, the House, the House of Representatives, right, their brawlers over there, Comer, Jordan, they could take up these subpoenas and issue them.
00:18:27.560And, you know, I worked – I was a chief oversight counsel in the House for 10 years.
00:18:31.520It's a lot easier to enforce a subpoena in the House than it is in the Senate.
00:18:35.360In fact, in the Senate, I think you could filibuster it on the floor.
00:18:38.540So, you know, if they want to – so playing – you know, fighting fire with fire is what the Republicans are doing.
00:18:43.920And they got the will and the capabilities and the talent.
00:18:47.900And so, again, going back, Steve, to what's going on here, the left is furious.
00:18:55.880They are furious that the court – they don't control the court.
00:19:00.080You know, talking about the uniparty for a generation since Warren came in, really, even a little bit before that.
00:19:08.060You know, the court has been a left-wing institution, no matter – you had Republican presidents.
00:19:12.200Republican presidents appointed David Souter, Harry Blackmun, John Paul Stevens, right, all of these left-wing justices, right, that kept the court left of center, hard left of center sometimes.
00:19:24.480And now, right, President Trump comes in, appoints three justices, and it changes the world.
00:19:30.200I cannot – it is the most significant thing that happened, you know, in the past 10 years, 20 years, 30 years of President Trump appointing justices that, in my view, are more in line, closer to Justice Clarence Thomas.
00:19:43.220Thomas, been on the court for 33 years, has laid down a jurisprudence of over 700 opinions that has led the court back to this originalist, you know, approach.
00:19:58.600They – right, death threats to justices, right, going after them, sicking them, the Biden administration, sicking them on justices at their homes, you know, violence, assassination of threats, all the 24-hour security.
00:20:10.920These justices live under 24-hour security now, okay, and I know some of them, and it's terrible.
00:21:23.280You know, a lot of times, Steve, what you saw over the years, right, is like Senator Grassley works with Republicans in the House, so they can work together.
00:21:31.100And by that, I mean they have the capacity, they have some of the bandwidth, I think, in the Senate to work with the Republicans in the House.
00:21:37.920So the Republicans can issue the subpoenas, right?
00:21:42.380They can issue the subpoenas, and, you know, they're – again, I know a lot of those guys are doing great work, and it's over the target with respect to the Biden family, right?
00:21:52.140But they can issue the subpoena, and then they could – you know, they can share it with their Senate counterparts, Republicans, to pour through what's coming in.
00:22:01.000That's what I think is the way to go forward on this.
00:22:03.800And as I said, it's pretty easy, right, to issue subpoenas in the House and to get them enforced.
00:22:09.640It's a different process in the House than in the Senate, but that's how I can see them working together.
00:22:13.980People should know, it was the work of Mike Davis and Mark Paoletta that – with others, but these two were the tip of the spear that got these great gestures on there.
00:23:30.800And as I said, MarkPayletta.com is my website where you get all my information in terms of the stuff I've written to defend the court and show the lies and hypocrisy of the Democrats.
00:24:25.360He's a power player that runs Carlisle, which is the most powerful financial organization, right, private equity in Washington, D.C., and it's the railhead of the swamp.
00:24:37.240You've been doing a lot of research about their connection to the CCP, all this mess with Sequoia, all of it.
00:24:53.380I mean, you hit on it in that excellent segment with Mark, right?
00:24:56.660What China's figured out to do is that you get access to the China market for two reasons, political influence, and you have technologies.
00:25:05.640Like Musk and Apple, those guys have gotten access because of technology.
00:25:09.700But the Carlisle Group and Rubenstein and his cronies got access because of their political influence.
00:25:15.160So they've been given sweetheart investment deals in China, dating back to 2000, 2004, 2005, really America's first investment entry into there.
00:25:27.420Rubenstein actually backed Neil Shen from Sequoia's first company at Carlisle.
00:25:45.560Then that fraud suit – so he knew Shen was a fraudster and he knew everything he was – Rubenstein knew Shen was a fraudster and he knew everything he was dealing with in China.
00:25:54.080I mean, he even – he filed a suit against one of the partners from Carlisle Group from Sequoia.
00:25:59.160Private equity guys don't sue each other.
00:26:00.720So then he backed out of that suit and then started getting into sweetheart investment deals like Focus Media, taking it private at Carlisle.
00:26:08.520So he's been side dealing with Shen and the CCP for years.
00:26:12.200Rubenstein, just two, three weeks ago, he had – and I don't know if we want to play this segment in the second half.
00:26:20.060Rubenstein had Shen on a panel with Fink and Schwartzman and Dalio and all the China lobbyists in Washington and asked him softball questions about TikTok being a national security threat.
00:26:34.300Amazingly, here's a Jewish guy, and I assume Rubenstein is pro-Israel, is saying this is a joke.
00:26:41.660And then obviously the next week we have how the American people are being influenced, TikTok related to supporting Palestine.
00:26:48.800So the fact that Biden's going to this guy's house for Thanksgiving and is considering going on TikTok at the same time, Newsom's on TikTok, TikTok – the viewers need to understand TikTok's an influence election tool, right?
00:27:03.360So I think this is getting lost on everyone.
00:27:05.820The reason these debates are still happening isn't that anybody's watching them, right?
00:27:09.980The Keebler-Elves up there or the Newsom-DeSantis debate.
00:27:13.840It's to take the clips from those and put them on TikTok to influence the 18- to 30-year-old demographic in the swing states against Trump.
00:27:25.180It's the content that they want to put on the Chinese propaganda platform.
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