Episode 4065： Investing Into A Healthy Country
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In the wake of President Trump's picks for the Justice Department and other key Cabinet posts, some are questioning the motives behind them and whether they are part of a larger strategy to destabilize the White House. Alex Blumberg and Nickels Schulte break down what they think of them, and why they think they should be confirmed.
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Together, Trump's candidates constitute an attempt to wreck the American government.
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All three of Trump's most high-profile picks, Tulsi Gabbard, Pete Hegseth, and Matt Gaetz,
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are defined publicly, both by the things they've said in the contempt they have for the role of
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the departments they're now going to lead, and the views that they have that are in stark contrast
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to many of the Republicans who have now been asked to vote to confirm them to lead those agencies.
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Here's how Steve Bannon reacted to the choice of Matt Gaetz as A.T.
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Matt Gaetz is the fiercest of the fierce warriors. He is the firebrand of firebrands.
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He's going to hit the Department of Justice with a blowtorch, and that blowtorch is a guy named Matt Gaetz.
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I could say a lot of things about Bannon, but at least he says it all out loud, right?
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Trump's picks are part of this project that Bannon has described for years now publicly
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as the destruction of the administrative state, the fulfillment of a vision Bannon has been fighting for for years.
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We're going to burn some of these institutions down to the ground because you know why?
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I think that the first time that Steve Bannon ever said the phrase, and it actually is the deconstruction
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of the administrative state, which is the same thing as the destruction of it, but I think the
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first time he said it out loud to everybody in the world was in February of 2017 at CPAC,
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where he was, the Trump forces were ascendant at that point.
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Steve was in the White House at that point, and he was, I think, interviewed on stage at
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CPAC by Reince Priebus, or at least was on stage with Reince Priebus, but I think it was Priebus
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talking to Bannon, and Bannon talked about the big priorities in the Trump term.
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He talked about nationalism in terms of foreign policy.
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He talked about nationalism in terms of economic policy.
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And then the third thing he talked about was this deconstruction of the administrative state.
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And, you know, it's a, the one thing you can, Steve is not only someone who's been saying
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this out loud forever, for, you know, through that entire, from the moment they walked in
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the doors there in January of 2017 until now, when he was out, when Trump was out of office,
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he's also someone who's very, he's, who is unlike Donald Trump, an extraordinarily well-read
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And, and when I say sophisticated, I don't want anybody to think that that means I think he's
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a good thing in terms of some of these thoughts, but I mean, he is someone who has thought a lot
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He's read his, he's read his Lenin, and that's what this is really.
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And I think to your point, Nicole, I think there's a lot of things going on with these,
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with these, some of it is directed at the media, and that's the frame that you were just putting
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on it, which is to create chaos in, in terms of how we cover it.
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But it's also, I really importantly, these are tests of the Republicans in the Senate.
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It is not a coincidence that, that Trump dropped the Matt Gaetz announcement to basically break
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up John Thune's welcome party, his victory party, as having won as majority leader on
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the, on the Senate side, on the Republican Senate side.
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It was, it was like dropping a, a turd in his punch bowl at his party, basically, and sort
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of saying, okay, um, this is the most unacceptable, or among the most unacceptable people you could
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Pray for our enemies, because we're going medieval on these people.
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Here's the one that I got a free shot at all these networks lying about the people.
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I know you've tried to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to
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And where do people like that go to share the big line?
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I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.
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Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?
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If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.
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It's Monday, 18 November, Year of the Lord, 2024.
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Okay, we're going to have Jeff Clark is going to do a reprise of the little bit we had on
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Because we have to talk about the big fight is the confirmation fight.
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They're getting to the judges fight, which we will talk about in the second hour.
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I guess what they're taking to be a radical idea about the president forcing both houses
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of Congress into recess where he would put some of these nominees forward.
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Really, Pete Hexeth and Matt Gaetz drawing the fire.
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I think it says a lot when you see Nicole Wallace and Hallman and all of MSNBC in the focus on
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Right now, Christy Noem and believe it or not, RFK Jr. getting a pass, which I guess is some
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We're going to talk about Tina Peters out in a nine-year prison sentence in Colorado.
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The NBC News is doing some amazing reporting on the Justice Department and the lawyers there
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And also, we're going to go to Silicon Valley, talk about venture capital.
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Brian Costello is going to be here talking about the venture capital firms there and their
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She was a vice presidential candidate with RFK, came forward and supported President Trump.
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Nicole, the reason I wanted to have you on here is to kind of kick this off.
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We haven't had a lot of opportunity to really focus on what RFK is doing over HHS as he
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But in his whole thing of make America healthy again, a huge aspect of that that nobody's
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talking about and that we pray President Trump is just as aggressive as he's been on
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these other nominations is the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
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That merger, when we talk about make America healthy again and everything RFK is going to
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do with big pharma and big medicine and that whole biopharma, biopharmaceutical industrial
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complex, you're coming at it from a different angle and that's agriculture.
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The nomination for head of the USDA is happening right this moment and there's an opportunity
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for the first time ever to get somebody in there who's a real farmer, who's going to look
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out for the small family farms and who's going to revitalize our soil systems.
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I came to agriculture through a very narrow lens of looking at climate change and this
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is almost 10 years ago now and I'm a technologist here in Silicon Valley and I looked at every
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one of the climate schemes that they had brought up that were being brought up and sold as these
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green energy programs and none of them made sense to me looking at just the science and
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If we just look at carbon through this myopic lens of we have excess CO2 in the atmosphere
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and that is allegedly leading to a heating and climate change and climate change patterning.
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If you just look at it through that, you actually, and you spend time on the science and you realize
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the opportunity of soil and you realize the many, many benefits of tending to our farmland.
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There's about 900 million acres of farmland in the United States and you look at the history
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When you don't take care of the soil, you get the dust bowl.
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When you don't take care of the soil, people go hungry.
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When you cut down American farmland, you get inflation, you get expensive food products
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And we saw that during the COVID-19 pandemic and the lockdowns.
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So you can't talk about any of these really big issues like inflation or climate without
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You can't talk about health without addressing the soil.
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In this country, we use an enormous amount of glyphosate.
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Glyphosate has been tied for decades now to all kinds of autoimmune issues and cancers.
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In fact, Bayer and Monsanto, Bayer acquired Monsanto, has paid out over $11 billion in damages
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due to people getting sick from glyphosate and farmers getting sick.
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And these very well-defined cancers that have been defined and linked conclusively to glyphosate
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You cannot address so many of the issues we have in America without addressing the USDA.
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Tom Vilsack, the current head of the USDA, he was the head of the USDA under Obama as well,
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is it's even hard to call him a commodities guy.
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He's just he is somebody who is a puppet who's put in there to keep this whole system running as it is.
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He's made no major changes to say that he's dedicated anything towards things that liberals
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care about, such as conservation, is, you know, we've seen no movement there.
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The farm bill is something we don't hear much about that we really ought to be listening and
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paying much more close attention to in terms of what's going into it.
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These are five and then 10-year bills, budgets.
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The next one that's up right now is going to be the first 10-year farm bill that exceeds a trillion dollars.
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So, you know, this is stuff that we have to be paying attention to.
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The farm, calling it the farm bill doesn't even make sense.
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It's over a trillion dollars mostly going to the SNAP program.
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As you know, this is a populist nationalist show with a huge mega audience and we always try to support
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But when you have 900 million acres, and we love family farms and the family farmer and
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the little guy, but isn't that just fond nostalgia for an America that's passed?
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I mean, to feed America and to feed the world or to help feed the world, don't you need massive
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Don't you, isn't this something that scales up and why people, I think, appreciate the
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fact, you know, your show, Back to the People and all your things are related to family farmers
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I've looked at the science and when you take care of the soil, you get long-term yields.
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You get higher yield in the density, nutritional density of the food.
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So if you really do want to feed people, you have to tend to the soil.
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And look, if there's large-scale production that is producing high nutrient-dense foods,
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But those nutrient-dense foods have to actually translate to healthy people.
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And that's not what we have going on right now.
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We have commodities, massive commodities, that a lot of it results in high-fructose corn syrup,
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We know causes all kinds of dysregulated behavior in small children.
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I mean, I'm not sure how to reference this idea of nostalgia.
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I'm talking just strictly efficiency about if we want to invest dollars in to healthy people,
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Actually, you know, in the latest consensus of the 900 million acres that we have in the United States,
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we're farming only about 500 million acres of them.
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And, in fact, here in the state of California, where we produce half of the fruits and vegetables in this country,
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half of the fruits and vegetables come from the state of California.
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And the state of California currently has a plan to cut water down 40% to farmers,
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which means we're going to lose 40% of the fruit and vegetable production coming from the state of California,
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I mean, so this is merely looking at it strictly through the lens of, you know, not flowers and bunnies and things.
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I'm looking at it strictly from a business lens.
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No, we have nostalgia for the small farmer, too.
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But you come at it from science and from technology.
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You know, one of our anthems here, one of my favorite songs.
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These cabinet nominations, and I think Nicole Shanahan's got some recommendations.
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As she tries to shake up the United States Department of Agriculture in the MAGA Revolution,
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President Trump is a blunt force instrument for change, an anti-systems person, as is RFK, Tulsi Gabbard, Matt Gaetz,
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and the rest of their compatriots now into the Department of Agriculture.
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Incredibly important as it works together with HHS to make America healthy again.
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RFK Jr. is putting together his team at HHS and getting ready for what will be a firestorm by Big Pharma and Big Medicine when he comes forward to end that nomination process.
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I had a chance to spend a few minutes with RFK Jr. at Mar-a-Lago on Friday, and we caught up with the great Tony Lyons.
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Nicole Shanahan was the vice presidential candidate running as an independent on the ticket with RFK.
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She's very focused on the agricultural department.
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First time you've been on, and I want to make sure our audience is very focused on family farms and the small farmer.
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The current head of the USDA, this is his second turn in the barrel.
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He's been the governor of Iowa, which is obviously one of the states that are the breadbasket of the country and the world.
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Are you saying – and he's a guy with a liberal perspective, progressive.
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Are you saying he's failed to make the changes that a Nicole Shanahan or the people she supports to head the USDA would make?
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I mean I think most of the audience would find that shocking.
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He's worked for Obama, arguably the most progressive president of modern times.
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He does not have the perspective you have that you think is a cornerstone of make America healthy again, ma'am.
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Yeah, it's hard for me to categorize Tim Vilsack as either corrupt or uninformed and quite stupid.
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I think that there's a great deal of corruption that has been hidden under the mask of progressive values around conservation and climate management.
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And I'm really concerned, having seen some of the actions under this administration, how they have treated farmers around this country like criminals.
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We've seen more raids of small family farms, organic farms.
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We've seen raids of Amish farms in this country.
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I've seen, you know, I've seen the words conservation and aquifers floated around.
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But when you actually look at the behaviors here in the state of California, we've been out of a drought for the last three years.
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I have a full map of every farm in the state of California and how we should have been investing in those farms and restoring those aquifers.
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Instead, they're paying farmers to fallow their lands.
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They have a pilot program here to fallow their lands.
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And we know that California is a test bed for these policies.
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And if they work here, they spin them out into the rest of the country.
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Tom Vilsack has very much been a puppet of what I think is this climate death cult that looks at human and human needs through this very negative lens.
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And they are blind to this whole other body of science, the body of soil science that says if we restore the soil organic matter, S-O-M, soil organic matter of our soil by like 5%,
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we can pay off an enormity of our carbon debt and our emissions debt.
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And we get the added benefit of feeding people healthy, nutritious food.
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Because when you increase the soil organic matter of our lands, it goes directly into the seeds and the roots and the leaf.
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You're very focused on this, on the current, what's going to happen in the USDA.
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Walk us through, who do you recommend that, if you were talking to President Trump right now,
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who do you recommend that President Trump and his transition team put forward as the new leadership in the USDA?
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You know, the beneficial remark that I'd like to share right now, full of optimism,
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is that we have a list of 20 people who would all be amazing, amazing leadership of the USDA.
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These are people who work with other farmers and train other farmers in need and help turn farms around who are going into debt.
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And we have got some of the best farmers in the world in this country.
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But if I'll give you some names, amongst those that we think would just be wonderful,
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And if you know Massey, he's tried many times to present bills that are very pro-farmer,
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very protective of the family farm, and really all about food freedom.
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If not Thomas Massey, we've got this wonderful farmer, Jimmy Emmons,
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who is loved by the left and loved by the right and loved by every farmer he meets
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and is just this jovial, wonderful, brilliant man who's a farmer and a soil scientist.
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He was a farmer first, became a soil scientist.
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He'd be a great deputy secretary at the USDA or ahead.
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Um, he's a Republican member of the Tennessee State Senate.
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Also a farmer, also understands the bureaucracy.
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He understands where the money is, where the bodies are buried.
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And, and I've published it on my ex, uh, who I'd love to see out there.
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Um, and I just, you know, the, the thing we have to remember is we have every tool to turn
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And this is something that's going to impact every budget item related to the government.
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Uh, we'd love, um, the audience loves learning nomenclature.
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When you've used this term food freedom, what does that mean?
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It's the right to grow our own food and it's the right to, um, be able to afford a lifestyle
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Um, one of the, you know, biggest issues around food freedom today is that we aren't able to
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grow, for example, dairy products the way that we'd like to.
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Um, we are now on the precipice of being forced to inject our cattle with the mRNA vaccine.
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So just like we talk about medical freedom for humans and the desire to not have mandates
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telling us what we have to put in our bodies, food freedom is an extension of that.
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We want the ability to eat meat that isn't, um, that full of these inputs.
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I mean, let's talk about the Nuremberg trials, right?
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The idea that humans have a right to be fully informed about what they're putting into their
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So MSMEC, the Progressive Channel, if they would say, in fact, when they see this tonight
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or tomorrow, they'll say, look, if you let a nutcase like Bobby Kennedy take over, um,
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HHS, every kid's going to have measles and every other disease.
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And if Nicole Shanahan has her way at the USDA, you can be drinking raw milk and other dairy
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products and getting all kind of, uh, uh, bacillus and diseases in you that, that these people
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They want to take America back to the 17th or 16th, 15th or 16th century.
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And Shanahan's almost as dangerous as Bobby Kennedy.
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In fact, we are just on the frontier of probably one of the most exciting, exciting scientific
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There is so much life in a handful of healthy soil, and we're going to understand how that
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soil interacts with our health and can actually feed us in ways that, you know, we haven't
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Um, I, I think that if you talk to a PhD here at Stanford university, um, who's studying
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ecosystem science and you ask them, what is the most interesting breakthrough area of the
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They're going to tell you it's this microbiome.
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There is this whole world of life under our feet and we can solve so many of humanity's
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greatest issues, um, by exploring, uh, the majesty of soil.
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Um, Nicole, you've got to know, you've got a foundation, you have a venture capital fund.
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Cause I'm telling you, the audience is fascinated about this.
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We're a huge believer in, uh, the family farm and the, uh, and the little guy, uh, particularly
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against agribusiness and this farm bill, which you're correct.
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It's, it's not simply that snap is food stamps, but the food, they're not really buying food.
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And this is what's destroying the health of the country.
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So I think you and you and, uh, I would talk to Bobby though, about, about eating the big
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max on, uh, on president Trump's plane coming back from the UFC.
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I guess he gets so jacked up in the gladiator arena.
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Um, where do people go for all your platforms and the following you on social media, ma'am?
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Well, first of all, I'd like to put a plug in for big max.
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And, uh, I, I grew up eating McDonald's and it's, it's really not so much the fact that
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It's the, um, dough conditioner in the dough that is linked to all kinds of GI issues.
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And, and I, and, and, you know, frying French fries in seed oils, it'd be much better if
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we could fry our French fries and beef tallow, um, or coconut oils.
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I mean, there's so many, there's so much we can do and innovate around in terms of healthier
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And especially with, you know, these branded American, um, nostalgic things.
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So, um, but to answer your question, uh, you know, check me out on X.
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Many of the posts, majority of the posts are my own.
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Jeff, Julie Kelly, we're going to get Julie Kelly in a moment.
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NBC News is reporting that Merrick Garland was stunned and shocked about 5 November's results
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and that their senior lawyers in the Justice Department were weeping openly about the results,
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They say we didn't do anything wrong, but Trump and these evil people like Jeff Clark
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Look, Steve, I spent a total of six and a half plus years at the Justice Department in
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I can tell you and the audience with great assurance that at no point did I ever break down weeping
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about any election results or even any case results were supposed to be adults at this
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I was about to say men, and I recognize that maybe that's a little bit, you know, too male-centric.
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But still, look, I think these reports are amazing in that they show the nature of the people who've
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And, you know, I don't have a lot of sympathy for them.
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I hear that they're making arguments of, you know, well, we're going to have to be bedeviled
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I've spent the last four years being bedeviled by those things just for doing my job at the
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And, you know, if there is some turnabout on that from the new Congress and from any
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investigations that might take place, you know, that's what they signed up for when
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they started weaponizing the Justice Department against their political opponents, Steve.
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It was pretty – they're freaking out about this proposal you put forward to actually get
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– to get to that point, we've got to get Matt Gaetz and Todd Blanch and people actually
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And all day long, they're talking about, oh, they're going to block this, although
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it's pretty evident no other Republican congressmen have come forward – well, first
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of all, I don't think anybody's come forward and said they actually will not vote for Matt
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Murkowski and I think Collins have indicated that he's got a tough sell.
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But walk us through – and if Denver can put up his report, at least the eight-pager,
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Walk us through this eight-pager because the president – there's two things out there
00:31:52.180
President Trump's talked about this Act of 1998 that he's prepared to use, and you're
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offering him another alternative in case we can't go through the normal process of
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advice and consent in the Senate to get his nominees across the finish line.
00:32:06.420
Let me start, if I could, Steve, by talking about English law.
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Eventually, the parliament made inroads against the first one especially.
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But the king could have the power to dissolve the parliament or to suspend it or what was
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And the framers, in their wisdom, completely appropriate, since they wanted to have three
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standing branches of government that were co-equal, they denied to the president the
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It's a body that continues in existence from election to election.
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The president doesn't have the power to do that.
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But they decided that some form of the power to prorogue essentially would be conferred on
00:32:54.940
But they put another check and balance on it, Steve.
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They put on it the idea that the president can order the two houses of Congress into a
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recess if the two houses disagree with each other as to whether to go into that recess.
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And so if that disagreement between the houses exists, the president can send them into recess
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And there are arguments floating around from the Wall Street Journal, from Ed Whelan, for
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We're coming up next April, folks, the 250th anniversary, so that's a quarter of a millennium,
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of the shot heard around the world, Lexington and Concord, next 19 April 2025.
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Has this ever been even talked—has it ever been tried anywhere in any presidency?
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And has it even been discussed, what you're talking about?
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Well, this is where one house would say, I want to go into recess.
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And the president can use that one house saying they want to go into recess.
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So this kind of is a reveal, but why Mike Johnson, who has nothing to do with confirmations,
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said out of the blue, oh, well, I support the recess nominations process.
00:34:19.580
So Johnson could put the house into recess, and Trump could use that house recess to force
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the Senate to force, if Mitch McConnell and John Thune didn't want to do it, to force the
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house into a recess and then put his nominees through?
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Short answer is yes, and what the president's given in the Constitution is a tie-breaking
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If the two houses disagree with each other, the president can send them both into recess.
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And it goes to, you know, normally, right, the houses decide for themselves when they're
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Well, the Senate has not been out of, was never out of session the entire first Trump
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Mitch McConnell did not trust, this was a, the only reason he did that was because he
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did not trust Trump to slide in a couple of nominations, correct?
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They created this pro forma process where they basically gaveled themselves in, and they were
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supposedly in session, but they really weren't in session.
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But the Supreme Court upheld that in this case called Noel Canning versus the NLRB.
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And so, you know, now it's well established that the Senate can use these pro forma adjournments,
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and they're not, you know, pro forma coming into session when they're actually not there
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The Obama administration tried to say that during those, you know, sessions where they're
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really not available, they're actually in recess, and therefore President Obama had
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They said that as we read the Constitution and its history, a recess of three days or less
00:36:02.620
is clearly insufficient to trigger the recess appointment power.
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For recesses 10 days and longer, they said that that is long enough, then the power definitely
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And then they said that recesses essentially between the three days and the 10 days presumptively
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are not long enough in order for the president to use the power.
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So if the president wants to use the power and not have it be questioned, a recess has to
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And what, and that, could the House say, I want a 10-day recess?
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And the president can force the Senate into a 10-day recess, and then he can put certain
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Ed Whelan at National Review, put up a National Review online?
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Ed Whelan was at the Office of Legal Counsel at the Justice Department.
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So Office of Legal Counsel is the internal law firm for the Justice Department.
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When you give them an executive order, they write essentially an opinion letter and helps
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with the, make sure it's constitutional, correct?
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I've worked with him and, you know, I think he's a good guy.
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Look, you know, Ed, our kids had even played together at one point when we were both younger
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All of our kids were playing out in the house in Arlington.
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I think maybe he thinks he did, but I didn't think it was a very effective response.
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So one of his responses, which he had launched before me, and now then he kind of used it
00:37:53.940
and put it in motion against me as well, is this idea that there would not be a disagreement
00:37:58.700
between the houses about recess, but rather the Senate would simply decide to stay in session.
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So this seems to me to be quite a semantic argument, Steve.
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So let me indulge your viewers and you to use what one of my law professors used to call a homely
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analogy, by which he would mean he would try to take some complicated legal subject and turn it
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I'm over a friend's house, and we're shooting baskets, you know, against the backboard on his
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driveway. And I say, hey, you know, this has been fun, but why don't you come over to my house
00:38:36.240
and we'll play air hockey? And, you know, he says, no, I want to keep playing basketball and
00:38:43.700
shoot the hoops, right? Well, what Ed is saying is that, you know, there's essentially an agreement
00:38:48.980
about, disagreement about whether to keep shooting hoops. There's not a disagreement about whether
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to go over to my house and play air hockey, right? But in reality, they're just the flip side of each
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other, right? A recess and a continuance of the Senate in session are just, you know, binaries,
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like two different sides of the same coin. So to say that it's a dispute about staying in session
00:39:10.020
versus in recess, it's inherently a dispute about whether to take a recess. Therefore, if the two
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houses disagree, whatever the Senate tries to say, like, well, we're not disagreeing with you about
00:39:19.160
a recess. We just want to stay in session. I don't think that's going to be good enough to stop
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the president from using this power if he wants to. All right. Your scheme or your proposal here
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to the president, would you use it after he tried? What was the act in 1998 that today he actually said
00:39:37.760
if I believe he said on a true social or said, if John Thune does not move my candidates,
00:39:45.400
my nominees through quickly on an orderly process, I will use this, what, the Avoidance Act of 1998?
00:39:56.360
So that statute's called the Federal Vacancies Reform Act, Steve, the FBRA. And it arose out of
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disputes with a Clinton official, Lonnie Chen, who seemed to serve at the Civil Rights Division forever
00:40:11.220
without Senate confirmation. And so they put this act in place. But before I kind of unpack that act
00:40:16.120
a little bit, let me say, look, whenever you're dealing with relationships between the political
00:40:21.020
branches, you're dealing with a situation in which, you know, deals can be made, right, in which
00:40:27.020
arrangements can be struck. Maybe the president talks to the Senate and he, you know, leads senators,
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and there are a few people that he wants to try to get recess appointed, you know, maybe,
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and there are others that he makes an agreement, you know, they'll go through the full process or
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whatever. These, these kinds of things may be taking place behind the scenes. And I think the
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framers anticipated that before you go to the cudgels about something that might actually show up in
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the courts, you exercise those softer persuasive, you know, tools that you have. All right. So now
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about the Federal Vacancies Reform Act. So, hang on, because we're going to go to break. You can stick
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around, right? Sure. What the, what the left is saying on TV and the Democrats are that these
00:41:12.220
appointments are in your face to actually take the government and start to tear it apart. And they,
00:41:20.260
defenders of the established order, are going to use the powers in the constitution of the Senate
00:41:27.720
basically being the human resources department. And that the FVRA option that President Trump,
00:41:34.420
I think, tweeted out earlier, and that Jeff Clark's idea are kind of these radical
00:41:40.160
tools that one reaches for when one can't get a cabinet nominee through a standard process.
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Quick response is this case that I discussed with you, Noel Canning, which is the leading precedent on
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the recess appointments clause. It's one where Obama was using it. He tried to put people on the
00:42:05.900
National Labor Relations Board during, you know, one of these short kinds of non-recesses because
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they didn't go for long enough. I didn't hear anything from the Nicole Wallace's of the world
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or the New York Times about like how terrible it was that Obama was trying to put recess
00:42:22.040
appointees in. It's only when they think their ox is being gored that they magically turn around.
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Indeed, there was, I retweeted it today, there was, somebody put clips of Lawrence O'Donnell,
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and I think it was Nicole Wallace, but it might have her wrong, but at least Lawrence O'Donnell
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put out clips saying, you know, there's a constitutional power called the recess appointments
00:42:39.860
clause, and the president clearly has this power, right? So, you know, it's time for those
00:42:43.900
clips to get jammed back in their face, right? If Obama's exercising the power, they're totally good
00:42:48.480
with it, but if Donald John Trump wants to, they say no. Okay, hang on. We got a lot to get to.
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Julie Kelly's going to join us. We got Brian Costello about the venture capitalists and business
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And count the same day. Can we play the call over for Julie Kelly? Let's go and play it.
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Yeah. How has the choice of Matt Gaetz changed the equation or has it?
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It has. And that's the difference. There was worry about congressional investigations.
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They expected that. But the choice of Gaetz, which was, I think, a real surprise to many people inside
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the DOJ, you know, signaled everywhere, yes, that he, you know, he's a lawyer, but he's had no
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that there could actually be criminal investigations and prosecutions by the Trump administration of
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That plays much, much longer. We'll play that maybe in the next hour with Jeff Clark.
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Julie Kelly, NBC News is reporting that Merrick Garland was shocked and stunned by the results,
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that senior officials in DOJ were weeping on Tuesday the 5th in the evening as the results
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came in. And now they're petrified. One of the segments all day long in every show,
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one segment is about the fear inside the Justice Department for, of course, these uncalled for
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Yes, I think it's legitimate. I've talked to people who are closer to DOJ than I am who say
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that the fear and terror is real, not just among top DOJ officials, including Special Counsel Jack
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Smith and his team. We could talk about his being a flight risk and leaving as Mark Zaid is recommending
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top targets to flee the country around Inauguration Day. Just crazy talk. But that even lying prosecutors
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are terrified that they are going to be investigated, which they should, for violating the 1A,
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judges to deny due process to Americans, most the overwhelming majority of whom had no criminal
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So the fear is real. It is gratifying to see the tables turn on this vengeful DOJ who has destroyed
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so many lives over the past four years. And I'm sure that they're shocked, Steve, because I was in
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courtrooms leading up to Election Day, seeing how they're treating J6ers. There was no indication
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that they thought for a minute Donald Trump would win, that the January 6th, what they call the Capitol
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siege investigation, would end, that pardons would take place, and furthermore, the tables turned,
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as you said, the hunted becoming the hunters, which is precisely what's happening.
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Mark Zayed, the lawyer, he's actually saying that Brother Jack Smith should exit the country
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starting the afternoon of the 20th of January. Am I correct in saying that that's what he said?
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He did not say it specifically, but Mark Zayed, as you know, the lawyer who represented Eric
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Kiaramella, sorry, it's been a while since I've said his name, the so-called whistleblower in
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Ukrainegate that prompted the first impeachment of Donald Trump, also Mark Zayed, just a long-time
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dirty, dumb operative, openly recommending that people who fear prosecution, and this is DOJ officials,
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but also past officials from the national security state, John Brennan, Jim Clapper. He also listed
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Liz Cheney, this article in Politico listed Liz Cheney, to leave the country around Inauguration Day.
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Now, why would he say that? Is he saying, well, these officials, former and current, should wait to see
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what Donald Trump does on Inauguration Day, sign executive orders related to pardons or investigations?
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Also, his acting attorney general and acting DCUS attorney, more importantly, will really decide how to
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investigate those offices, right? Main justice, the special counsel's office, and then the DCUS attorney
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investigating what happened in that office with those prosecutors and investigate. Are they going to
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wait to see what happens the first few days and decide from there if they're going to become
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fugitives and not return? Keep in mind, Steve, where was Jack Smith and David Harbaugh, also one of his
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top prosecutors in a classified documents case that I covered? They were at the Hague in 2022,
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Julie, just hang here for one second. You'll hold through the break. Tina Peters' lawyer,
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