In this episode, I talk about the impact of gerrymandering on our democracy and why we need to fight back against it. I also talk about why we should all be ready to fight for a free and fair election in 2026.
00:00:00.000Republicans in Texas yesterday released the first draft of a new congressional map aimed at picking up five seats in next year's midterms.
00:00:08.060Texas Governor Greg Abbott added redistricting to the special session agenda at the urging of President Trump and his political team.
00:00:15.540Republicans currently control 25 of the 38 congressional districts in Texas.
00:00:20.620Under the new maps, the President Trump would have carried 30 of 38 seats, all by more than 10 points.
00:00:26.800House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is in Texas meeting with Democrats as they weigh their options on how to fight their redistricting efforts, which could include leaving the state.
00:00:37.160Jeffries is supposed to hold a news conference today at the state capitol in Austin.
00:00:41.760Meanwhile, the Texas Tribune has new reporting that California Governor Gavin Newsom has told aides he will move forward with a plan to redraw his state's congressional lines to install more Democrats if Texas Republicans pass their own updated map.
00:00:56.100What Donald Trump is doing to the rule of law is he is breaking it.
00:01:00.080What he is doing to our democracy is subverting it.
00:01:11.620He is already going after his political enemies by misusing the Department of Justice.
00:01:16.720He is already breaking federal law and the U.S. Constitution.
00:01:20.860And he already is he is acting like an authoritarian.
00:01:26.220And as we move towards the next phase of challenges for our democracy, which are free and fair elections in 2026, we need to have no illusions.
00:01:35.180He has no he has no expectation that he is going to follow what the law is or be constrained.
00:01:45.840The Supreme Court actually starting in Texas in 2003 clarified that states can redistrict gerrymander whenever whenever they want.
00:01:56.020It doesn't need to be right after the census.
00:01:57.460And what is unique this time is how little pretense there is that this is about anything but helping Trump get more seats.
00:02:04.020So this started with Harmeet Dillon at the DOJ sending texts a letter and saying we have civil rights concerns about some of the majority minority districts that were drawn in 2021.
00:02:15.220But listening to the Republicans defending this and posting about social media, they are describing this in the problems in Austin as giving Trump five more seats and talking to Republicans in Indiana, Missouri, other places where they have the power to draw more seats if they want to.
00:03:03.060I mean, you know, the fact is Donald Trump and the vote suppressors, the election deniers, they look at the results of 2024 and they say we won.
00:03:13.180We accomplished what we wanted to accomplish.
00:03:15.620And so, sure, they didn't have to actually steal any elections for president after 2024 because Donald Trump won the popular vote and won the electoral college.
00:03:25.980But they then rolled that out in North Carolina to try to do just that.
00:03:32.540You know, they they view North Carolina not as a defeat, but as a lesson learned for the tactics that are working and the tactics that need to be improved.
00:03:43.080They look at their voter challenge program in states like Georgia, again, as as tactics that they will refine as we move forward to Senator Offsau's reelection there.
00:03:52.080And it is happening in every state in the country.
00:03:55.240I mean, there is not a state in the country in which Republicans and the RNC and the right wing, vast right wing dark money groups funded by billionaires are not active.
00:04:05.980I mean, I see them in court by law firm and I we are in we are in 50 lawsuits in more than more than more than 25 states.
00:05:31.200It's Thursday, 31 July, Year of the Lord, 2025, the last day of July before we get to August, the traditional, you know, big vacation month for everybody.
00:05:40.940We're going to focus today on the three R's.
00:05:44.260That would be recess, rescissions, and redistricting.
00:05:54.840Also, bill blaster because we're going to need to get to work here.
00:05:57.800There's a lot of, as we explain things to you today and give the information, we hope your blood boils and you're going to want to do some work to make sure we can set things right here in the war.
00:06:07.960We want to start with redistricting in the great state of Texas.
00:06:11.360Anytime Mark Elias' head's blowing up, it's a good thing.
00:06:14.540Down in Texas, they finally put the map out.
00:06:16.440In Denver, you can go ahead and put the map up.
00:06:18.200As you know, we've been hammering this thing for about three or four weeks now.
00:06:20.940I want to bring in Attorney General Ken Paxton from the great state of Texas.
00:06:26.840Attorney General Paxton, you got a tweet from a couple days ago about making sure your office is available to any law enforcement in the state of Texas to make sure that these Democrats can't run away like they've done before so you don't have a quorum.
00:07:10.660I mean, the House rules and the Senate rules both allow for these people to be arrested if they leave and they try to break the quorum.
00:07:19.300The challenge is if they go out of state, we lose jurisdiction.
00:07:22.980And it's been a challenge in the past, but in the end, as long as the governor is willing to keep concessions, ultimately they have to come home.
00:07:31.580Well, when we say that, can't you get the Texas Rangers?
00:07:38.120I mean, you've got pretty good law enforcement down there.
00:07:40.260How are we letting these guys, if they're leaving the state specifically for the purpose of not coming in for their elected duties, can't you stop them from leaving the state?
00:07:52.560The House would have to have the House or the Senate, and it's probably going to be the House, would have to have – they could have rules in place that require that these Democrats stay now.
00:08:01.820In other words, basically lock the doors, which is what happened in 2003.
00:08:07.940We were – basically, we slept there.
00:08:09.880So if you really wanted to protect it, that could be done by the Texas House or the Texas Senate, depending on which one thinks that – which Democrats are going to leave or both.
00:08:41.600If I were the Speaker of the House, if I were leaving the Senate, I'd put rules in place depending on which group they think is going to leave, but probably the House.
00:08:50.940That's the more likely group to leave the state of Texas.
00:08:55.660I'd put rules in place that basically lock us in until we get a vote because the House map is up on Friday.
00:09:03.820You could lock them in for the rest of the session, two weeks, and just serve them food there, and they sleep there.
00:09:08.400And that's just the way it is because we've got to get these maps passed.
00:09:13.820Well, talk to – what do you anticipate as far as legal challenges?
00:09:29.560I mean I've been defending redistricting maps since I've been in office, and so far we've been successful every time protecting those maps.
00:09:37.780No, I'm going to get – we are going to get challenges the way it is, and we will defend them, and I'm convinced we can be successful.
00:09:44.740We've got good maps, and the legislature has the right to draw the maps they want.
00:09:51.840They're politically based, not race-based, and if they're politically based, then they're defensible.
00:09:59.900Attorney General Paxson, your social media, and where can people go to keep up with this?
00:10:03.920Because obviously the whole nation now is focused on this.
00:10:06.980The MSNBC, they've finally woken up and realized they've got a real problem down in the great state of Texas.
00:10:11.640And I hope Republicans are awakened to what has to happen because this is vitally important.
00:10:16.600I know the president is watching closely.
00:11:03.360And what I find interesting is our Democrat friends who, ever since the last redistricting, have been in court arguing that the maps are wrong, that the maps are drawn wrong.
00:11:18.840And now, all of a sudden, when we're in the process of changing them, they have flipped to the other side and saying, oh, the maps are perfect.
00:12:10.080And since the federal government really only has control over the districts for the congressmen, the congressional districts, that's what they said need to be redrawn so that they reflect, properly reflect the population from the census.
00:12:30.940We've had some folks on from the House, but from the Senate side, can you work people through what your best estimate right now of the process?
00:12:57.160But it's my understanding that the like we do with all bills, the half of the Senate will take a look at it and the Senate will will take will draw their version of interpreting the the census data, the population data will draw their maps.
00:13:17.220We'll compare them to the house maps and and come to a negotiated agreement on a district by district basis, an agreement between the two of us.
00:13:28.840And then so that we will either adopt what the House has, if we say that's close enough, or we will send a modified version back to the House and they will either adopt it or modify it.
00:13:43.140We'll go to conference and work out the difference between the two and then have a map that both House committees, both the House and Senate committees agree on.
00:13:54.660And those who would go to the floor want the same one in the House and the same one in the Senate and voted on.
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00:17:25.540Caroline Wren's going to join us after the Senator Joe Lavagnier, special counsel, senior counselor to the Secretary of Treasurer of Beyond.
00:17:33.780We've got a lot of economic news to talk about.
00:17:42.220Senator, we have, I think, 12 days, a couple days here, two weeks.
00:17:47.420Given the process you just walked through, the Senate, you're going to take your time as you're sure, discern this, do your fiduciary responsibility.
00:17:54.720Is there enough time to go through all this and to actually get to a vote before the special session ends in essentially two weeks?
00:18:01.980Yes, I think there is enough time in it.
00:18:06.260I mean, it could go as fast as the Senate just takes up the House map when it comes out of the House formally and accepts it and adopts it.
00:18:19.720And I would only expect changes in it if there was something the Senate felt that there was significant, an important difference in the two.
00:18:31.280I don't think you're going to see, well, you know, opinions.
00:18:34.140I'd like to see this district drawn this way or that way.
00:18:37.380I think we're looking at if this meets the criteria that was established to have these, you know, properly drawn and balanced the way they should be, that there's any reason that the Senate would prolong it with arguing different maps.
00:18:57.600But if we did, I would expect to be called back in immediately.
00:19:02.900I'm talking about, I mean, I say immediate, the next day or so to finish it up.
00:19:08.200If we did get into a squabble over significant redrawing, we'd have another 30 days to work that on.
00:19:15.980That's because each special session, once it's called, it's for up to 30 days.
00:19:22.560So, in other words, like some states can only have, you know, one special session.
00:19:26.240Now, you're saying in Texas, the governor, the lieutenant governor's got the bill.
00:19:29.860If you can't get it done, the next day they say, hey, be back here next week.
00:19:41.080And we'd be in special sessions right up until the next session started, if that's what he chose.
00:19:45.780A couple of sessions back, I almost thought that's what was going to happen because I don't think we got out of here until about December that year with everything that went on.
00:19:56.240Sometimes we've been involved in these things, or oftentimes we've been involved in these things in Texas.
00:20:00.760And the Democrats, you see them leaving the state, hiding.
00:20:04.220You know, we just had the attorney general on.
00:20:05.940He put out a tweet saying he would be assistance to all law enforcement in the great state of Texas.
00:20:10.860Do you anticipate any shenanigans like that?
00:20:13.100I mean, Hakeem Jeffries, I think, came down and gave him a pep talk, said, hey, you've got to do what you've got to do to stop this because this is the death knell of Hakeem Jeffries being Speaker of the House.
00:20:22.180Do you have any thoughts on that, about what the Democrats plan to do, and more importantly, what the Republicans and the governor, the lieutenant governor, attorney general, prepare to do, and law enforcement to stop it?
00:20:33.540I hope our governor is prepared to do whatever it takes to keep them here, here in the speaker.
00:20:40.580The lieutenant governor really doesn't have a hand in that side of it in there, but history has shown that they have no qualms in just packing up and leaving in order to disrupt the process if they don't like it.
00:20:56.040I heard what our attorney general, Ken Paxton, had to say earlier, and that would be just fine.
00:21:02.640Lock the doors and bring in the food and keep them here until we get this done.
00:22:43.720And I also think we ought to do – I think we ought to do another census right now, a mid-decade census.
00:22:47.880The Constitution says you've got to do one at least every decade.
00:22:51.080It doesn't say you can't do more, and I think we ought to do more because the – in California, Illinois, and New York, who are, you know, frothing to get something done,
00:23:00.740they've got constitutional issues related to that.
00:23:34.200Matt and the team had in Vegas a couple of weeks ago by video, and it's just – the work you guys put in, the effort you put in is paying off.
00:23:42.160And Mark Elias, who's the greatest enemy of MAGA, he gave you a big shout-out on MSNBC.
00:23:47.920He said, hey, these guys are winning all over the country because of the work, and that's why we get these redistricting done.
00:24:19.520It was just absolutely incredible, but it shows you the power of what happens when we start getting President Trump's team in.
00:24:28.320You know, Joe Kent got confirmed yesterday, but these are onesies, twosies.
00:24:31.520I mean, we've got a couple of judges, I think four or five judges now.
00:24:35.160You've got – I think she's the first U.S. attorney to actually be confirmed.
00:24:39.880Seagal Chata and some of the other contributors to the War Room have gotten in because of this acting basis.
00:24:46.620Of course, they're trying to throw a lean habob out.
00:24:49.140Tell me about the event last night and how important it is to actually get our arms around this vast government to get these confirmations done, ma'am.
00:24:57.300Yeah, the event last night was wonderful.
00:25:01.120It was put on by Mike Davis, the Article 3 project, and so it was to, you know, celebrate now Judge Emil Bovee being able to get in.
00:25:08.600What I found pretty special about it is Mike Davis gave some words and the judge gave some words, and the judge said, which is absolutely true,
00:25:16.760when you go through confirmation processes like this, it can feel so lonely.
00:25:20.380They were throwing everything at this guy to keep him out.
00:25:22.800I mean, attacking him, his personalized family, and it was really – it was Article 3 project, Mike Davis, the War Room posse, that were so loud in his corner.
00:25:36.720I had this army behind me online of people I don't even know who were supporting me, and that is the power of this War Room and what we need to be doing and focusing on because we have a problem.
00:25:45.500There are certain senators – like you had Tom Tillis saying, what was it, like a week or two ago saying, I'm going to be – I'm going to stand up against President Trump and his nominee so much harder than even Mitt Romney did.
00:25:54.580And these are the type of people, and Bill Cassidy and others, that are blocking some of these great Trump nominees who are immensely qualified.
00:26:01.420You just have these, you know, career bureaucrat or politicians who just hate MAGA, they hate the movement, and they're Republicans in name only who just want to block these folks from coming in.
00:26:11.000And so, frankly, you have 144 nominees now pending.
00:26:14.560This is outrageous, and the Senate should not have a recess without triggering President Trump's recess appointment authority.
00:26:20.840So either stay in session in August and do your damn job or let President Trump make recess appointments to fill his team because he needs his team in there.
00:26:30.200President Trump has had the most successful first six months that has ever existed in presidential history.
00:26:36.440Can you imagine if he had his full team operating and in there what could get done?
00:26:40.720That is why they want to block these folks from coming in, and that is why President Trump and John Thude and Mike Johnson should steamroll this and get these folks through and stay in in August and get it done.
00:26:50.000So we have Senator Lee's going to come on, and he's got this idea.
00:26:54.600He's put up, I call it the Lee Plan, and saying, hey, there's 149 guys to go.
00:26:59.880We stay in, and here's the program of how we have to do it.
00:27:03.860Semaphore has up today, Ben Smith, Semaphore has an exclusive story, I think, saying, hey, Thune's got an idea.
00:27:10.700They're going to do some changes because right now everything's being filibustered.
00:27:15.880They're going to the absolute maximum time.
00:27:18.680So he's got a solution to do some structural changes to that so they don't have so much time.
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00:29:35.560Do you have any issues with this White House taking the power of the purse away from Congress?
00:29:41.600Do you worry that what's happening right now is sort of making Congress a rubber stamp and, I'm careful how I say this, but a lesser branch of government?
00:29:51.280You know, I think for a long time Congress has been abdicating their power of the purse.
00:29:56.500In fact, what happens almost every year is there are no appropriation bills and there's one big bill.
00:30:02.960And really, most rank-and-file people have nothing to do with it.
00:30:06.660Even the appropriation committees have very little to do with it.
00:30:09.440And one person, the leader of the majority and the leader of the minority, work out the details.
00:30:14.700And if you're a special interest and you want one specific tax break, you don't bother talking to any rank-and-file congressman to tell them the pros and cons of this.
00:30:23.860And that's why the leaders in both parties raise millions and millions of dollars because both corporate and labor interests only go to the top of the party, only go to the leadership.
00:30:35.320And the whole, you know, having the power of the purse and the adjudication of what we spend doesn't really happen because the process is so broken.
00:30:46.680So it's what I've been telling people since the first big, beautiful bill of the summer is we're going to get another big, beautiful omnibus come the end of September.
00:31:23.200Of course, you saw yesterday President Trump drop the hammer in Brazil.
00:31:28.260Now, that was about Bolsonaro and also shutting down free speech and social media sites, et cetera.
00:31:33.680But some of that is about Lula and his interview in The New York Times and Smat talking about the bricks and the de-dollarization and all that.
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00:31:50.480Right there, I told you this was happening.
00:31:53.300Rand Paul let the cat out of the bag the other night on Stephanie Rule.
00:31:57.580They're going to come in and they're going to hold President Trump's government hostage.
00:32:01.800They'll say at midnight on 30th with no funding package, it's going to shut down.
00:32:07.680And instead of just doing a CR and playing the game, let's just kick it down to Christmas and then we'll deal with it before Christmas.
00:34:19.820Yeah, no, that's right, and there's an adjustment period.
00:34:22.440I mean, you had, as Secretary Besant, Steve has highlighted many times, I mean, we got the economy that looked like it was at full employment with a deficit to GDP that was nearly 7%,
00:34:32.720which you've never had during peacetime or not in a recessionary period.
00:34:51.840And the pace of layoffs, which is low, is falling even further.
00:34:57.200If you look at the most recent jobless claims, they've now moved down to recent lows.
00:35:01.860That bodes well for a much bigger pickup in second-half hiring, which is consistent with what happens when you have the CapEx story, the hiring then follows.
00:35:10.980So you could poo-poo the Q2 GDP number is all you want, but you're going to be disappointed it was a good number.
00:35:15.960And the best thing is growth is going to broaden out going forward, and we're going to look at a boom.
00:35:20.620Yeah, and this gets us to – if this is a predicate, it gets us to a 3.4, 3.5, and then even higher.
00:35:38.400So when he's sitting there banging on Powell and wanting a big rate cut, a couple hundred basis points, that's just from his – that's his natural reaction because he's a real estate developer, and they always want lower rates because it's much easier to finance their projects.
00:35:55.820He understands interest rates, the structure of them.
00:35:57.900There's actually a very compelling argument to be made about what we call natural rates versus what should happen right now.
00:36:04.840Can you walk through – because we had Fishback on the other day, he's of the same school of thought we are – that there's a big miss here on the modeling.
00:36:12.320Can you walk people through what this concept of how they model it, what are natural rates, and what's the logical – where should rates really be today?
00:36:21.080Steve, the president has great instincts, and you could make a very compelling – in fact, the strongest case for why rates should fall, which the president instinctively knows.
00:36:31.320And that is, the Federal Reserve makes an estimate of what it thinks the neutral rate is, or the real rate, or R-star, all these fancy terms.
00:36:39.760Essentially, are rates helping keep the economy – are they pushing the economy down, or are they pulling the economy up?
00:36:47.640By the Fed's own estimates – and there's a range of estimates – the full range of estimates all show that the current level of interest rates that the Fed sets is too high,
00:36:57.680meaning that the Fed's current rate structure is actually impeding growth.
00:37:02.780So as good as the economy is, and as nice as that rebound in Q2 was, and as optimistic as we are for the second half of the year,
00:37:10.180we could do even better if rates weren't so high.
00:39:28.060Will the Secretary of Treasury go out?
00:39:29.620Will he address the Fed's – I think the Fed has a two- or three-day Jackson Hole conference.
00:39:34.980Will the Secretary of Treasury go out and address the central bankers and big hedge fund managers out there?
00:39:42.340Yeah, I don't believe that the Secretary is going to Jackson Hole this year, but the Fed will discuss the outlook.
00:39:49.380And the markets typically look for the Fed chair to tell us something about what the Fed thinks will happen at the September meeting.
00:39:55.560The bond market right now is sort of iffy on whether the Fed will cut rates in September, and that's because of what Jay Powell said yesterday.
00:40:05.340But again, Steve, you could make a very strong argument, an intellectual argument, an academic argument, if you will, why interest rates are much too high.
00:40:14.260Do you think that he's now being – this is purely political, that this is because of the disagreements he has with President Trump and particularly about not just the running of the Fed but also the cost overruns with what we call the Versailles on Constitution Avenue?
00:40:33.080Do you think it's just – he's just being ornery?
00:40:35.840He's just not going to – when all the evidence points to logically you should have a rate cut, that he's just not doing it because of personality and politics?
00:40:45.540Steve, the tariff is – the Secretary has argued that if there is a tariff impact, it is a one-off price level adjustment.
00:40:53.500There are a couple of theories that might suggest there's some tariff effect, very minimal.
00:40:58.060The point is that overall, the data the last five months have been essentially better, all the data have almost been better than expected, whether it's the consumer price index, import prices, producer prices, the consumer – the personal consumption expenditure deflator, all these different metrics all have been better than expected.
00:41:16.680We still haven't seen an aggregate – any tariff effect, so I'll leave it there.
00:41:20.740But the data certainly say there's not an effect, so I'm not sure what people are waiting for.
00:41:24.320Joe, where do people keep up with you on social media?
00:41:30.500At Livornianomics, Steve, at Livornianomics.
00:42:02.000He said you're going to have one shot, your last shot, to do a supply side cut.
00:42:05.240That means to focus tax cuts on production, on capital, on capital formation, that you can actually turn America back into a manufacturing superpower, right?
00:42:17.640And we said, hey, to even have a chance to try to grow your way out of this, which is a long shot, you've got to get to 3.5% growth or higher.
00:42:27.140The first way you do that is kind of get to the 2.8% to 3% that President Trump – he had an average of 2.8% in his first term.
00:42:34.240It went to 3.4% in 2019, the fourth quarter, before the bioweapon of the Chinese Communist Party was dropped on our head.
00:42:41.760And you have to get there, and that's why the print yesterday I think was an incredibly solid print.
00:42:46.560And the left-wing haters are in meltdown.
00:42:50.280This is why you can't – you can't compromise these people.
00:42:53.700Nothing you can do is – nothing you can do is they're going to agree with or they're going to support you.
00:43:08.300Remember, the big, beautiful bill was passed because of assurances we're going to have rescissions, pocket rescissions, impoundments.
00:43:14.360You've got to cut because the Senate's playing games.
00:43:17.180Just like they're not giving President Trump his team, and it's obvious they're not giving him his team, they're also not going to do any cuts.
00:43:24.000In fact, they're going to come in with more spending in September.
00:45:27.620We're talking to people about what's going on.
00:45:29.760I'm continually getting information and putting up articles and things that I think you ought to read.
00:45:37.100Even a lot of time, I go to the most progressive or liberal, the Guardian and others, so you can see kind of the counter-narrative because this is all narrative warfare, right?
00:45:48.020John Solomon gives us stuff all day long.
00:45:50.600So this is why Getter is totally free, and it's super easy.
00:45:54.160Like I said, I'm an idiot in this regard.
00:45:57.540I can really use Getter well every now and again.
00:46:00.940Grace or Moe or Elizabeth has to help me out, but, you know, they've taken the training wheels off.
00:46:25.120This is about how you take down the deep state.
00:46:27.420And if all the great stuff that we're doing, if we haven't taken apart the deep state by the time President Trump's terms end,
00:46:35.540then we will have absolutely failed in our effort to make America great again.
00:46:40.100We will be, you know, 90 percent of the way there economically and all the great stuff President Trump's doing is securing the border and deportation.
00:46:47.100But a lot of that can be unwound when President Trump leaves.
00:46:51.200And this is why we've got to take the deep state on now and crush it.
00:46:54.500That's what this entire thing is about.
00:46:56.520And I'm a big advocate either through the grand jury process, a special counsel, however they want to give it to a U.S. attorney.
00:47:03.360Somehow justice has got to get a team to do this.
00:47:05.920Now, they said they put together a strike force because it's so complicated and they're so busy.
00:47:10.140I mean, you know, and they've only got a handful of people over there and they're fighting, I think, still 175 court cases on the Democrats and these radical judges trying to suppress President Trump's Article 2 powers because to delay is to deny.
00:47:28.100And so that's why you need special people on it.
00:47:30.500Now, we do know that there are some very focused individuals and very focused legal proceedings that are going on right now that are pretty advanced.
00:47:41.780And I think you're going to see the fruits of those very shortly.
00:47:44.640Now, one of the big things, and this kind of drives you crazy, of why we didn't demand it in the first term.
00:48:03.940And already, as part of this, you're seeing Fox News has got up sources alleged ties to Russiagate exposed and declassified annex of Durham report.
00:48:13.780Sub-headline is CIA Director John Ratcliffe and FBI Director Cash Patel coordinated in the declassification of annex as Grassley makes it public.
00:48:23.460You know, it begs the question, why didn't we do it last time?
00:48:25.600But, hey, that's a conversation for a different day.
00:48:27.580It's out now and it's pretty explosive and it shows you the highly coordinated effort.
00:48:36.060I think that you keep your hand on – you talk to grassroots leaders every day, the MAGA leaders of what they're working on, what they need for funding, you know, how it's going with them.
00:48:46.120You're also very close, obviously, with the donors.
00:48:48.780Walk me through the importance of keeping people with the program by sticking the landing on this Tulsi Gabbard situation and, in that process, getting some resolution to the Epstein situation.
00:49:02.940Well, this was an interesting thing that just came out now because the last time I was on your show, I kind of – I said Tulsi Gabbard just, you know, did what Durham never could do over, you know, the course of that two-year investigation.
00:49:20.480They didn't fully put out what his report was.
00:49:22.840Well, that is what just came out today, I think.
00:49:25.020Now I've gotten to read all of it, but my understanding is that they finally fully declassified a lot of the things that Durham did work on and put it out in the public.
00:49:32.620But it does beg the question of, like, why didn't they do this originally?
00:49:36.300And so I'm so glad this is why appointments matter, your cabinet matters.
00:49:41.060And so Mike Pompeo and others wanted to block this for forever, so cheers to John Ratcliffe and truly Tulsi Gabbard, who has been in the driver's seat on this, saying, no, no, no, I am not going to stop until you declassify and put this out and show some transparency.
00:49:54.480So I want to pour through all of this.
00:49:56.800It seems to be what we have always put together and known, which is that, you know, this entire Russia hoax started between Obama and the Clinton campaign, colluding to try and take down Donald Trump and to destroy his presidency.
00:50:10.020But the people in the public deserve and need to know the weaponization that our own government did against a duly elected president.
00:50:18.320And so, again, I'm so thrilled right now with Tulsi Gabbard.
00:50:22.440I applaud Kash Patel for working on this as well.
00:50:24.820This is the cabinet that we push so hard for, and this is the transparency that we want to see.
00:50:32.880You know, we're fighting this redistricting right now, and, you know, we're fighting for five seats in Texas.
00:50:37.080We're fighting for five in Florida and a couple more.
00:50:39.840I think you'd get up to 14 or 15 seats.
00:50:43.180But even when you get the redistricting, you still need the hardest core of the hardcore, the people that do the canvassing, the people that back Scott Pressler, the people that do the precinct strategy.
00:50:55.300The vanguard, right, of the movement are the ones that do the most work, right?
00:51:02.560They do it for the spirit of the country.
00:51:04.540You've got to keep those people motivated.
00:51:06.260If they get cynical, if they get apathetic, if they just say – if 10 percent of those people say, it's too much and I haven't seen anything, it's all talk, you're finished.
00:51:14.640Give me a minute on that before we go to break, ma'am.
00:51:16.680I would be remiss right now not to mention the fact that I would like to see a little bit of a harder fight.
00:51:22.480You're talking about the base and people have worked on this.
00:51:24.780Tina Peters is still sitting in a prison cell right now.
00:51:27.400Tyler Boyer is still under indictment in Arizona.
00:51:29.920We still have these electors under indictment bleeding out money, getting chased down in Arizona, Michigan.
00:51:36.440Fannie Willis, by the way, the Georgia case has not gone away.
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