Episode 4992： AI Takes Forefront Going Into 2026; Fighting For Trump's Nominees
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Summary
On today's show, we have a special treat for you - a mashup of some of my favorite moments from the past week in politics. First, I talk about how much I love the fact that a Republican state voted against a Trump-backed effort to rig their congressional map. Then, I discuss how our government is becoming more and more corrupt by the day, and why it's a good thing. And finally, I give you a quick run down of what's going on in the world right now and why you should care.
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Tonight, Indiana Republicans have rejected the Trump-backed effort to rig the state's
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21 Republicans crossed party lines to defeat the measure in the Republican-controlled state
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That's more than half of the entire Republican caucus.
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The idea cooked up, you know, years ago that Donald Trump was going to be all-commanding
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in all power, that there was going to be unitary executive power, you know, they cooked up
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It's already fallen apart, and it's fallen apart because that's not the way America works.
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I mean, you have people in Indiana, Republicans, who maybe six months ago would have never dared
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People elected us to represent Indiana, not to represent Donald Trump.
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Minnesota, as it exists now politically, in terms of the people and celebrities and celebrity
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Congress people and so on that are on our TV all the time, is about to face a meteor that's
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Now, those people are not going to be, some of them won't want to even be an American a
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The levels of financial malfeasance are so high.
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Not only was there not vetting, but there was opposite vetting.
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I'm not letting you into this government before you prove you're more corrupt than me.
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You know, you have to be at least as corrupt as me if you want to be part of this thing.
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The damn thing is a criminal gang, which is just the right size.
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But it's small enough for people to still like see it in a snow globe, how it really
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See, Washington's too freaking big a corrupt enterprise for us to even see one tiny part
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But this Minnesota thing will allow us to sort of watch in almost a stadium version how our
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politics works and how our people lie and how the money gets sucked up and how it gets
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President Trump has signed an executive order limiting states power to regulate artificial
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intelligence, creating a national framework to keep the U.S. competitive.
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The order launches an AI litigation task force, threatens funding cuts for states that mandate
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altered AI outputs and calls for a federal law overriding most state rules.
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Supporters say it's key to counter China, while critics call on an assault on states' rights
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And on AI, if you look at who he's with at these events, if you look at who he socializes
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with, if you look at who he talks to, and if you look who's probably the biggest beneficiary
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And there's a certain logic that we do have this technological war that ultimately, I think,
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will dictate war itself in terms of who gets to the best AI the fastest.
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But there's another side to this, and this is the one that the administration has largely
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ignored, which is it's going to have an effect on jobs.
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If you start to automate things, somebody, at least in the short term, suffers from that.
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And what you see here is the president, David Sachs, saying, listen, we need unfettered regulation.
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We need these companies to be able to move as fast as possible.
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We don't want states to get in the way, despite the fact that we have a federal system, despite
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the fact that states do have the right to regulate different companies on their terms
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The danger there, and this is the one that really puts them at odds with MAGA, with your
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Steve Bannons of the world, is that the people who could suffer could be the working class,
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could be a lot of people who voted for Trump, who might lose their job or who feel threatened
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If they're wrong, and right now, if you looked at AI as a political candidate, it's as unpopular
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as a lot of the president's policies on the economy or the inflation.
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And so he is betting not just his presidency on it.
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I think the Republican brand, because Republicans have had to fall in line.
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Will President Trump's pardon actually free Tina Peters?
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Our system of government gives states authority to run their own criminal justice systems.
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This president doesn't respect the rule of law, but he doesn't have authority to undermine
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how we operate our judicial system here in Colorado.
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It's ultimately going to be opportunity for a lot of people.
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But right now, people are saying, I'm afraid that it's going to raise my energy, electricity
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And they don't yet see or feel that opportunity.
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And that's where you get Steve Bannon, a lot of the MAGA hardcore saying the brologarks are
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weeding the president astray and that he's going to be in a bad place for his base and
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It's the have, the have-nots, and the have-lots.
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And the have-lots are anybody who's heavily invested in AI or building one of these companies
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If you're in that batch, Joe was talking about it earlier, that's what's popping up
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And if you're in the stock market, like Trump is right, the stock market is booming.
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There's parts of the economy that are extraordinarily strong.
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But where you see the pain, where you see the angst, is with people who are not heavily
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invested in the stock market, who aren't benefiting from AI and, in fact, could suffer from AI.
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And that is going to be, I think, the topic of next year.
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I think it will dominate who ultimately wins the election.
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Pray for our enemies, because we're going medieval on these people.
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Here's one time I got a free shot at all these networks lying about the people.
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I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it.
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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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Friday, 12 December, year of early 2025, we're going to get into the Tina Peters pardon
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and how that plays into the effort behind the scenes to get Tina Peters free and out of prison.
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The massive loss yesterday in Indianapolis for not only did we not go 9-0, we only got 7-2.
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So we'll address that, what has to happen there to turn that around.
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But I want to start with artificial intelligence.
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Mike, the EO, what the executive order did was set up that you're going to have a federal
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framework right now and a process, which David Sachs is essentially going to oversee or run.
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This is far from defeat because they basically concede your four Cs have to be part of this.
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I actually think it's got to be even broader than that.
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But just walk me through your thoughts right now, the EO, the morning after, as we get
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So I do think it was a productive first step with this executive order that the tech bros
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have understood that they can't just get federal preemption and no federal rules of the road,
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So this EO sets up where there's going to be a legislative task force that comes up with
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legislation that provides federal preemption but addresses the four Cs that we care about,
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children, conservatives, communities, and creators.
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And so that's a big win for the Article III project and the war room posse that were very
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Just take a second and explain to people the fight.
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The initial fight was they wanted total amnesty, absolutely nothing, and really no regular,
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no really even regulatory apparatus at all, just accelerationists, accelerationists, accelerationists.
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They didn't get preemption because this says there's going to be a federal regulatory apparatus,
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and they specifically, I think it needs to be broader than the four Cs, but they very specifically
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add the four Cs in there to show that that specifically has to be taken care of, right?
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So moving in, is this all part of a negotiating process?
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We've gone from AI amnesty and leading to, if it's preemption, it's got to have a federal
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regulatory apparatus around it because the state's, quite frankly, got to say so here,
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and they're never going to agree to it, correct?
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Because remember, four months ago in the big, beautiful bill, at 2 o'clock in the morning,
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It was going to be included, this AI amnesty was going to be included in the big, beautiful
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bill, and it ended up going down 99 to 1, including Ted Cruz, the lead sponsor, voting against
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his own legislation after the war room posse went into action and lit up the Senate and let
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people know that we're not supporting AI amnesty.
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And so here we are, four months later, there was talk about putting it, putting this AI amnesty
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The war room posse teams up with the Article III project, and we lit up the Senate again, and
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And then they are very much going to address the four C's, because they know they have
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to, because we've created that political frame, so they have to address these four C's, or
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they know they're not going to get federal preemption.
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So this is a big win for the Article III project.
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Frankly, it's a big win for President Trump, because this would not have gone well for President
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If they would have won, these AI bros would have won and got amnesty.
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And then, for example, you have these AI platforms with teddy bears that are talking sexually
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The states can't do anything about it, and there's federal preemption and no federal rules
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That would have ended badly for President Trump.
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So these four C's are going to be good for everyone, especially President Trump.
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I think that he, you know, I think he realized after the two face plants, because what Sachs
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tried to slide into the big, beautiful bill and to the NDAA was absolutely open field running.
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There would be no controls whatsoever over the accelerationists and AI.
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And I think President Trump, and you can see his handprints on this in crafting the thing
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that you've got to have some sort of federal regulatory apparatus.
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I think they've got SB 53, which is kind of broader in context.
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That's really where they want to know where the companies are going, et cetera.
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DeSantis has really stuck, I think, more to the four C's.
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What is going to happen now at the state level?
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What is your, because DeSantis and these guys are not going to back off, right?
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A lot of these governors are saying, hey, we have a responsibility here to protect our
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And, you know, we're not that, we don't believe David Sachs and this crowd, Mark Andreessen,
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put the citizens of our state first, particularly children and creators, sir.
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I mean, look, I get the point that the tech pros are making that you have these terrible
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laws, like in Colorado, where I live, where they're essentially, they want AI.
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They actually want their AI machines, their algorithms to pump out DEI and nonsense.
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And so I get the tech pros' concerns about that, that if you have to, you know, in order
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to comply with Colorado statute, you have to change your algorithms.
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I get why they would want a, you know, one rule of the road to them, but they have to
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I mean, again, they have to address, at a minimum, they have to address the four Cs in
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Look, as you know, Steve, we tried this with the tech pros.
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We gave them Section 230 amnesty, you know, 20 years ago or almost 20 years ago.
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It led to Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple that crushed competition, shuttered small businesses
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and canceled conservatives and others with whom they disagreed.
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They became, these big tech platforms became trillion dollar monopolists that did the government's
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And so we're going to proceed more cautiously, more smartly with AI than we did under Section
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Mike Davis, you're walking us through the process that we got to get.
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So, I mean, I think that they finally concede among the AI crowd that in order for them to
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get preemption, they have to address the four C's.
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And so this is total victory for the Article III project and the War Room Posse.
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We're working with President Trump's AI team, and we've proposed legislation, and we're working
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And so there are credits, and David Sachs' credit, and the AI team's credit.
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They're working with those in good faith, right?
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I don't think it was malicious what they were doing before.
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I don't think they were maliciously trying to screw us.
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I just don't think that they have been around Washington, D.C., or the legislative process
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And so this is probably a new thing for David Sachs to come to Washington and deal with
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And again, I do think he's trying to work with us in good faith.
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I disagree with him on all this tech bro stuff, but he's not a bad guy.
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So in the 100 pages of proposals you gave him, your point is it was too late to incorporate
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that into what they were trying to do with the NDA.
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This process, you're highly confident that, because the 100 pages is just a start, but
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You believe, or you're comfortable telling the audience that some version of this you believe
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is going to be in there, and you're going to have to do it anyway, or DeSantis and these
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guys are going to be taking it to court and slowing it down?
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Well, I mean, if they don't address the four Cs, they're not going to get federal preemption
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because we'll crush them again like we did the last two times.
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I said, if you want preemption, you're going to address the four Cs.
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And I think that unless they have our blessings with the Article 3 project in the war room,
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I just, I don't think, I don't see any path where any legislation would pass.
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I want to shift to Tina Peters for a second, because you've been, the vice or has been one
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of the folks working on this also with many, many other people.
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President Trump did go through the pardon process on a federal level.
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And of course, immediately, I think he had the attorney general, we played it in the cold
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open, saying this is irrelevant, this is a state, but it's much more complicated than that.
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Is it not, Mike, and their alternatives people are pursuing right now to make sure that we
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It is outrageous what is happening to Tina Peters.
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She was a county clerk in Colorado, again, where I live.
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And the Democrats' Attorney General, Phil Weiser, and the Democrats' Secretary of State,
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Jenna Griswold, two partisan monsters, teamed up with the local DA and this, you know, this
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judge, this local judge, and they put Tina Peters in prison for nine years.
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And they can come up with any excuse they want for doing this, but it came down to this.
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And these Democrat operatives and their weak Republican rhinos who went along with this,
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She was a 69-year-old woman who they put in prison for nine years.
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Now they have her in solitary confinement, that she's getting abused by other prisoners.
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I mean, they have her in solitary confinement, and they're saying they're doing that to protect
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her, according to Tina Peters' allies who have reached out to me.
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It's just, it's sickening what they're doing to her.
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This is effectively a death penalty for Tina Peters because she dared to question election
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And so I've, look, I, there's, the president cannot pardon Tina Peters for state crimes.
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That has to come from the governor of Colorado.
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And so I, you know, even if this Democrat governor, Jared Polis, is not what to pardon her, he
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And so that's one thing the War Room Posse can do is go to article3project.org, article3project.org.
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And one of the action items is to contact Governor Jared Polis and tell him to show some decency
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We don't need to kill this woman just because they have political disagreement.
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Not to get too hard, not to get too far ahead of things, but it is, you know, they took her
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up on state because they realized in federal, she would, you know, if there was federal charges,
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ultimately, if we got back in power, you know, she could be pardoned.
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But Griswold's hands, I mean, Griswold's got dirty hands here at a federal level, right?
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Isn't a lot of this about the preservation of records and records about the 2020 stolen
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And I'm sure that's being looked at by a number of people, sir.
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I don't think she's capable of shame because she's such a terrible human being.
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But what Jenna Griswold did here to Tina Peters is monstrous.
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And yes, we should – I'm very happy that the Attorney General, Pam Bondi, and Harmeet
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Dillam, the head of the Civil Rights Division, opened up an investigation on the Colorado
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And that's almost certainly going to include the mistreatment of Tina Peters in these Colorado
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And thank you for taking time away to join us by phone.
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But you saw what happened in Indianapolis last night.
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But this is inextricably linked with the progress we're making on getting legislation and nominees.
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We've got Mark Walker, who's going to be on the show right after you bounce.
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That's been, I think, eight or nine months and hasn't been confirmed yet.
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But this issue about blue slips, and I know Senator Grassley's working through this right
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now, but this issue about blue slips and the issue about the filibuster, because – and
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I think President Trump has been adamant about this – unless some things change, he's
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And you've got both the blue slips for the judges and really for the U.S. attorneys, and
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you've got this – you've got the situation of the filibuster.
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Can you take the blue slips first and explain what it is to the audience and why President
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Trump wants changes and why he's so upset about it?
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I've been fighting with people all night on X and all morning on this issue.
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I got rid of blue slips for circuit judges when I was the chief counsel for nominations
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eight years ago when I worked for Senator Grassley.
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And so that's how President Trump was able to confirm a record number of circuit judges.
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I tried to get rid of blue slips for U.S. attorney, U.S. district court, U.S. marshal, but there
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was way too much opposition in the Senate to getting rid of those, including from too
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What angers me is when people are blaming this on Chuck Grassley, my old boss.
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And so what needs to happen is, is if we want to get rid of these blue slips for U.S.
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attorney, U.S. district court, U.S. marshal, John Thune needs to work with the Trump White
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House and round up 50 signatures, at least 50 signatures from Senate Republicans, including
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every Senate judiciary Republican saying that they will vote to confirm U.S. attorney, U.S.
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district court, U.S. marshal nominees who lack blue slips, right?
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That is going to be a very tall order because here's the problem.
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Too many Senate Republicans do not want to give up their blue slip problem.
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So it's, but to blame Grassley for this is what really pisses me off because it's not
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If they don't have, if you have Senator John Kennedy, for example, or Senator Tom Tillis
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saying they're going to vote against these nominees who lack blue slips, then Grassley
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But by the way, just for the audience, blue slips is the way that senators in their states
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marshals, uh, and certain judges can actually, uh, override the president's choice.
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It's a BS hundred year old bus tradition in the Senate where home state senators get an
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absolute veto over the president's pick for U.S.
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And I, and I, again, I say this somewhat jokingly, but it's not really a joke.
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These home state senators do not want to give up the ability to hand select the U.S.
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district court judge who would oversee the trial and the U.S.
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But if we want to be smart and actually win, we should actually direct our energy to fixing
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the problem instead of directing our energy to dividing the Republican Party and going
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after President Trump's most effective Senate ally, Chuck Grassley.
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You're, you're, you're, we got about 30 seconds.
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You're a traditionalist, but you agree that we got to get rid of the filibuster and we have
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There's no question we need to get rid of the filibuster for legislation.
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Now you can get nominees confirmed with, you know, 51 votes or 50 votes in the BP.
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We need to, we need to do the same thing with legislation.
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It currently requires 50 votes to pass most legislation.
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I would say to Senate Republicans, don't be stupid here.
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The next time Democrats control the White House, House and Senate, they are going to nuke
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They're going to add states like Puerto Rico, like D.C.
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If we, if we let that happen, let's beat them to it.
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We've talked about – so just to set the framework, this revolt, and that's what it was in Indiana,
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and you're seeing it across the nation on these redistricting.
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Remember, we have to win these redistricting battles now.
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And the reason we were on a roll is that this audience and the folks, the grassroots in Texas,
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forced Abbott to actually take action when they didn't want to back in July to go after those five seats.
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All the people in Texas, all the rioters in Texas, oh, they're not going to – that's going to be thrown.
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But the Republican establishment is trying to thwart President Trump at every level.
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So the fight he has is not just with these radical Democrats.
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Every day you see that and the hatred coming from the Democrats and the media and the established order in this country.
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I mean, I don't know how the guy takes it day in and day out, day in and day out.
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He's already gotten through a couple of assassination attempts.
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But the bigger fights with the Republican establishment, and you can see this in the Senate,
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where the establishment still controls the United States Senate on the Republican side.
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You don't have any really – the effort on filibuster is not getting traction.
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The whole discussion about doing, you know, allocating $2,000 per American citizen coming out of the tariff revenue,
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You're seeing – there's no recess appointments.
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In fact, now I don't see really a lot of effort to get his appointments through at all.
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I just had Bridge Colby, I think, the other day, a couple of deputies, even at the committee level.
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Sir, you've been nominated to be the ambassador.
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Yes, in early April, now more than eight months ago.
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And the position is ambassador at large for international religious freedom.
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This was a position written up by Republican legislation.
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They dragged Bill Clinton kicking and screaming in 1998.
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I would be the seventh ambassador for such, which is there's an intelligence component to this as well.
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But our job is to advocate for those people, whether it's Syria, whether it's in China, the Middle Eastern countries, Africa.
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A lot of the persecution, targeting, blasphemy laws, even rape pillaging and killing of these folks.
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And specifically, most of it driven by Islamist groups, whether it's Boko Haram, Iswab, al-Shabaab, and others.
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It lists this position as the principal advisor to both the Secretary of State and to President Trump on all things that are international religious matters.
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And as we know, a lot of these wars are driven by these false religions.
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We've traveled back and forth to D.C. nearly every week meeting with senators and a lot of support that we do have across the board from cabinet members, from senators.
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But we've not been able to get the hearing quite yet.
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Well, let's go through your background for a second.
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This, I think, was what you are someone that's very well known.
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You've been a man of action and delivered a lot.
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So why are you on the war room on the 12th of December on a Friday heading up to the Christmas holidays and you haven't had a hearing yet so we can get you confirmed and get you to work on all over the world?
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You know, we don't have what they call the blue slip for specifically nominees.
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That's more on the legal side with judges and appointments.
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But they do have sometimes these gentleman agreements where if you have one senator that's maybe pushing back or kind of giving a wink and nod to the chairman of, in this case, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, they do slow play that out.
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The entire leadership, we have unanimous support across the leadership in the Senate.
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Had a great call with President Trump last night who gave me his word.
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I don't expect him to be able to track hundreds of appointments or nominations.
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And we're looking forward to him having him help push.
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But the point I think you're making, Steve, is that the president shouldn't have to be taking time trying to singularly go out and try to find each nomination and push through and then go get another one.
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And trust me, you have to go through all kinds of divestations.
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You have to go through all these security clearances.
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And for President Trump to have to weigh back into this, it's unfair to him because it's pulling away from something else.
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We have tons of nonprofit groups that are out there pushing, writing letters to the president and everything else.
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Unfortunately, it looks like we may have to go through a renomination process because the last hearing, I believe, took place yesterday.
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And, yes, we're not historically, I guess, considered a bomb thrower.
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But I'm proud to have the highest pro-Trump policy scorecard when I served in Congress there and even serving and doing so there in leadership.
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But don't let the ministry background fool you.
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If we need to scrap or fight or stand up for what we believe in, we're not afraid to do so.
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I mean, you've taken a couple, not just have you supported President Trump's agenda.
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There's been some, you know, people have asked, hey, can you do this?
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You've got a track record of putting the MAGA movement, putting the country, putting your state of North Carolina before yourself.
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I mean, you've got a demonstrable track record.
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Why are we the president who's got the weight of the world on the shoulders?
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The reason we know he considers it important, you were in his first batch, you know,
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back eight months ago when everything was going on, we're flooding the zone, it's days of thunder.
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You know, he's he's solved, you know, eight wars.
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We're going to have Eric Prince on here in a moment to talk about how difficult it is with President Trump.
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They're trying to denigrate what he's done, how some of these countries are at each other's throats.
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Right. And your your billet would be to make sure that that the interest in faith based folks are their interest or come to the table.
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And you've taken you've taken incoming for the team.
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I mean, there's got to be somebody to blame for this.
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How can we possibly be in the position to have the president of the United States now with everything he's got going on,
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refocus on a guy he nominated that he thought important enough that he do it at the beginning of the administration.
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And now we're going to go through potentially another process, sir.
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Yeah, I think it comes down to without without kind of beating around the bush, a hometown, home state senator that needs a little encouragement from President Trump that I shared last night.
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And look, sometimes personality conflicts or what have you.
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But and I get that if your feelings were hurt in a campaign three and a half, four years ago.
00:39:04.320
The fact that somebody would think that they should have the wherewithal to push back on President Trump's agenda when he's got the weight of the world on him,
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when he's taking flack every single day from the left, they're trying to root him.
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You even mentioned his first assassination attempts and everything else.
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We ought to be doing everything we can, much like the Democrats.
00:39:25.680
When Joe Biden put somebody forward, they line up immediately to support their president because they've got bigger fish to fry, bigger fights to take on.
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So we hope even though we've got we feel like 50-51 senator support.
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In fact, we may even have a Democrat or two that ends up supporting us.
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But but the bigger thing is, is I don't want to be so much focused about me when when each and every week after President Trump named me this or nominated me this.
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Last week alone, I met with people from from Ethiopia, from Burma, from Iraq, from from Syria.
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In fact, I was in London recently when a sweet lady named Baroness Emma Nicholson came up.
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She said, Congressman, she said, America is the last hope for religious expression.
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And she said, the reason why is because America is the only country where it's written in your law.
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Please stand up and advocate for the people that no longer or do not have that ability to be able to stand up for themselves.
00:40:26.380
So we're excited about taking on this role to be that beacon of hope, to be that light, to be an advocate, to be the President Trump's principal advisor on this matter.
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But we've got to get through this hearing to be able to to get up and moving.
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And and hopefully we are hopefully we're getting closer every day.
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The religious aspect is top of mind for the activists that watch War Room and are part of the War Room posse.
00:40:58.240
Is this actually going to have to go now through a renomination process?
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There are some technical procedures that that a senator can reach out to the cloakroom.
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I won't get into the weeds, but but probably so, because the Democrats will use this to their advantage by by by by being blocked.
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Now, Democrats can reject any kind of extension, forcing President Trump to once again have to go through a renomination process.
00:41:25.640
But to answer your question, we'd love for your audience to reach out to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and encourage them to have a hearing on on the Ambassador for International Religious Freedom.
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We will take care of that and we'll do that, sir.
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What's your what are your coordinates, social media?
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How do people catch up with what you're working on and everything you're going to be doing as the ambassador?
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Appreciate this is important to you in the audience.
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They can look us up on all different social media handles.
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And it's an honor to be President Trump is asking me to do this.
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We're ready to get out there and and happy to do so.
00:42:07.060
And grateful that you would take the time and let us share our story a little bit.
00:42:16.200
And it also gets in this situation of why we've had this why we've had this morass.
00:42:22.540
And we're going to keep up to date on this and have you back on.
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It's not just the president has to get involved here.
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And the in the vetting process is extraordinary.
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The financial vetting process, any conflicts, all your background, the vetting process is
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He wouldn't put this in the first wave of his nominations if it not been.
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And this gets to the point of people working with President Trump in a horrible environment,
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President Trump needs as much support as possible, particularly from the Republican establishment.
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And you're seeing in the Senate where these things are being blocked, you know, the blue
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Colonel, we talked today about the Republican establishment fighting President Trump.
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His biggest battles right now are not even with the radical Democrats, although he's hammering
00:46:58.200
It's really the Republican establishment is trying to thwart him at every turn.
00:47:03.260
You've announced, sir, I would say, charitably, a long shot bid to be the governor of Texas.
00:47:13.520
Now, number one, what's the problem with Abbott, who's been there for like a half a century?
00:47:17.820
And why do you think it's necessary to announce, you know, step out of your life, all the good
00:47:24.340
you've been doing to say, hey, I want to take this guy on and I think I can do a better job.
00:47:35.260
And, you know, excuse me, I'm on the campaign trail.
00:47:41.000
The bottom line up front for me is that this nation is in the throes of a color revolution.
00:47:46.280
And if we haven't seen it, we need to, as a watchman, announce it.
00:47:53.260
If I'm a forcing function in this state, then I'll be a forcing function.
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But when we put our name in the hat, we went up against that establishment to include folks
00:48:05.840
We have no problem with that because Texas is the target.
00:48:09.420
As the domino of the Fly River states, it is the target.
00:48:13.800
I've witnessed too many sentinel events on Operation Lone Star on that border, on the
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COVID mission, watching the conditions being set for disenfranchisement, destabilization,
00:48:24.260
and then currently where we are in a fight amongst our own party.
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Because you had Biden and you've had the Republican established for years.
00:48:50.880
But why did Abbott and other senior Republican officials in state government, in the state
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legislature, why did they not use the powers that they have, which are substantial, to close
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the border during those horrible years of President Trump in the wilderness when 12 to 15 to 20
00:49:12.920
And a lot of half, at least half of those are more through the great, your beloved state
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On Operation Lone Star, when we kicked it off for me three years ago, getting to the border,
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it could have, we could have stopped that then.
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12,500 a week came across 1,254 miles of Texas border.
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Now, for me, as the guy that's looking for a needle in a stack of needles down there, not
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only the task force surgeon, but a liaison to special operations, when I called for specifically
00:49:49.960
a designation of FTO, foreign terrorist organization, with my team to the governor's staff, it fell
00:49:56.380
on deaf ears, and I get it, we sometimes have to follow, we do have to follow the orders
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However, when we advise these things, we don't do it because we believe or don't believe anything
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And Operation Lone Star, unfortunately, and I'm going to tell the honest truth here, was
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an optic versus reality, which was we had literally 30,000, in my estimate, bad actors
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This is under Tren de Aragua, CCP actors, and other born actors, especially from the
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Middle East, where now we're looking at a Sharia problem in the state of Texas, to include
00:50:40.660
It cannot be under the state or federal constitution.
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Is Governor Abbott getting the joke by declaring a Muslim Brotherhood in care a terrorist organization,
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And you have Brian Harrison on frequently, and he gets it, and he understands it.
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There has been a declaration, if you will, of a foreign terrorist organization without teeth.
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And when you say that you've outlawed Sharia law, which is what the governor has said, when
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you look at the fine print, because the devil's always in the details, when you look at the
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fine print, it outlawed certain practices of that.
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And so we've got to get past that, because somebody asked me last night, what are you
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I said, well, I'm not going to lie to you for 11 years, right?
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So I'm going to come in, we're going to fix the problem, because this is the time of
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cartoon character legislators, and this Hegelian dialectic and optics is over.
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This is a soft war, but it's a hybrid and threat, and it is a color revolution.
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He's running for the Republican nomination in the great state of Texas against Governor
00:52:02.960
Abbott, the incumbent, been around for a long time.
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Eric Prince is going to join us about the heavy lift President Trump has throughout the
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Joe, Joe Allen and others are going to bring us, get back to us and hopefully get Ben Harnwell.
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The question is, does the Republican establishment got it?
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