00:03:00.180His agenda in Peru would take him into high altitude.
00:03:04.360So a lot of uncertainty here now following this news from the Vatican about the results of the Pope's surgery.
00:03:15.080Well, and Christopher, this, of course, was quite a lengthy surgery, seven hours, according to the statement from the Vatican.
00:03:25.680Can you talk a little bit about the hospital where he's treated?
00:03:29.500They've apparently treated other popes there in the past.
00:03:33.540And, I mean, as you point out, 71, I mean, we've seen pontiffs serve for into later years than that.
00:03:43.260And as you point out, he had seemed to be in good health.
00:03:47.520And, of course, for those of us here on this side of the Atlantic, he was hailed as the first American pope.
00:03:55.340Really a surprise when, of course, he was elected.
00:03:59.500Yes, that's right. I mean, he was elected at the relatively young age for a Pope of 69.
00:04:09.500He's now 71. We've had in the run up to that conclave that elected him Pope Francis in
00:04:18.500the hospital, the Gemelli, for a number of weeks. He was in there in the hospital with
00:04:25.500lung problems too. He had pneumonia and he of course as a young man Pope Francis had had part
00:04:31.600of his lung removed so he'd had those health problems for Pope Francis and there was a feeling
00:04:37.720that Pope Leo the first American Pope was seen to be in very good shape. I should say though that
00:04:47.420the surgery or the Pope was in the operating room for approximately three hours and the surgery
00:04:54.640lasted around 90 minutes. I also did speak to a lung expert earlier in the week who did
00:05:04.280believe or suspected that it could be cancer, but he did say that the outcomes for this
00:05:12.880kind of surgery, I mean this kind of removal of a nodule that is cancerous, the outcomes
00:05:20.300are pretty good so i think there is also uh reason to be hopeful um despite this obviously very uh
00:05:28.620concerning news and i think you know we're we're expecting the pope to spend the next week in
00:05:35.500hospital uh and he has cancelled so neil uh you know i talked to harnwell just this whole thing
00:05:43.660and the word around uh rome is they knew something when they went and did this at first but i guess
00:05:48.300they concluded. Your thoughts, Neil McCabe. Well, immediately I was thinking about Ruth
00:05:56.900Bader Ginsburg in 2018 had two nodules removed from her left lung. She later was felled by
00:06:07.540metastasized pancreatic cancer. And so I'm not saying it's directly the same, but when you have
00:06:15.040somebody that important uh who you know certainly a pope is more important than a supreme court
00:06:20.300justice but certainly with someone that who's who's passing would create uh you know this
00:06:26.560you know cascade of events right uh bit of a shock uh the probe is 71 you know it was a six
00:06:34.320supposedly or we've been told it's a successful surgery and you know but it was malignant the
00:06:41.240doctors did say it was malignant, and so they removed that lower left lung, and it'll take
00:06:48.260him about a week to recover. He was, as we heard in the cold open, it was about three hours in the
00:06:54.240operating room, but it was only about 90 minutes of the operation, and the operation was done
00:06:59.480with small incisions into the chest and sort of one of those, you know, video, video, you know,
00:07:08.100aided surgeries where the surgeon were actually, we're making the cuts and things, uh, you know,
00:07:13.740it wasn't like the old days where you take big sear, you know, scissors and cut open the ribcage.
00:07:18.880And so, so the Pope was getting the most modern medical attention as you'd expect. Uh, there's
00:07:25.220going to be a mass for his recovery in the morning at St. Peter's at 10 AM. Obviously there are masses
00:07:32.100around the world in Peru and Chicago, especially. Uh, but as you know, as you can imagine something
00:07:39.480like this sort of stirs things up in the Vatican, you know, uh, Pope Benedict retired when he was
00:07:45.68085. And so that's 14 years, uh, that, you know, and then he lived beyond that, uh, 14 years
00:07:52.960difference from the Pope being 71. But a lot of times just to fill this thing out in a conclave,
00:07:59.720when you go with an older man, what it means is the different factions haven't really settled.
00:08:05.400And so when Pope Leo XIV, when he was selected as pope, the word was that the conservatives and
00:08:13.460the moderates had sort of formed a coalition against the more modernist or liberal elements.
00:08:20.240And when you go with an older pope, it's because things aren't settled, right? If there was a
00:08:25.500dominant faction in that conclave, they would have gone with a younger man, Steve.
00:08:29.720Yeah. Neil, thanks. We'll get an update tomorrow. Of course, Harnwell will be on tomorrow night to lay it all out, all the inside baseball.
00:08:37.840Real quickly, we have Michigan up. Abdul's gone out of his way in all of his MSNBC and meet the press interviews to challenge the president for going to Michigan.
00:08:47.640On that map that he showed us earlier, has he logged in for Michigan yet, sir, for a visit?
00:08:53.840uh it's rumor it hasn't been announced yet but i would fully expect that to be
00:09:00.880on the travel plan along with iowa and i really believe that if he's needed in south carolina
00:09:07.400he'll show up there too oh yeah no doubt okay neil mccabe where social media where do people
00:09:12.820get you until tomorrow neil you can find me on all the socials at reporter mccabe my columns
00:09:19.800are at the South Shore Press. And tonight I'll be hosting the Trump Tuesday Space on X. Thank you,
00:09:25.980sir. Thank you, sir. Appreciate you. Let's go back to Michigan. Ronald Armstrong, you've actually
00:09:31.880got a couple of charts you want to put up about how you think this thing is rolling out right now
00:09:36.220and some mathematics we can look at. And I know this comes from this tremendous grassroots effort
00:09:41.760you guys are putting in to make sure we get everybody to the polls and particularly lower
00:09:47.100propensity voters and maybe even some true Trump voters who have just are very discouraged by some
00:09:53.380of the policies, particularly the war and other things that they're pretty adamantly opposed to.
00:09:58.600Can you walk us through it, sir? I will. I want to give some credit where credit is due here. And
00:10:03.020I really looked at it this last cycle. A Sentinel Action Fund who focused on Senate races around the
00:10:08.760country raised $40 to $50 million in the 2024 cycle. They focused on Pennsylvania, Ohio, and
00:10:14.720Montana. If not only did we win all those Senate races, but they were all incredibly close. We got
00:10:21.260a little bit of money for Rogers, but not much because the polling looks so bad. And now we know
00:10:26.020not to trust it so much, but they are all in with over $18 million being spent. But the important
00:10:31.260thing is it's not being spent in bad television ads, but instead it's being spent on the ground.
00:10:35.680They've knocked almost 600,000 doors. They're focusing on 1,300,000 low propensity voters in
00:10:41.740Michigan. They've sent over 8 million text messages, 5 million pieces of mail. They have
00:10:47.880500 people, many of which are paid people on the ground in these districts. They're focused also
00:10:53.240on the congressional districts because rising tide lifts all boats. But what you're seeing in
00:10:58.400the early returns, unlike 2022, is you are seeing in that graphic that we are almost equal or even
00:11:05.460with the turnout. And another graph that you had shared as well shows that there is an increase in
00:11:12.040both strong Republican counties and leaning Republican counties. Their turnout is higher
00:11:17.500than it was in the last cycle in 2022. And the Democrats' percentage is down by 2%, by 1%,
00:11:25.400which means they are depressed. Now, they were depressed voters in 24 as well, meaning they did
00:11:30.500not have the energy or they didn't have the corruption. We know it's both. What I'm thinking
00:11:35.380we're seeing here, though, is a better organized grassroots led effort. And it's not just it's
00:11:40.280sentinel action and what it is they're doing. It also is America First Works, who also is on the
00:11:46.180ground in these congressional districts, which I think is making a difference. We're seeing
00:11:51.080Turning Point Faith, who held a pastoral summit three weeks ago to get pastors in specifically
00:11:56.280to share with them the importance of churches to get themselves on board and get their congregations
00:12:02.520out to vote and get them engaged and involved. But that really leads me to one area I'd really
00:12:06.700like to share with you, Steve, and that is that we, first of all, at Stand Up Michigan,
00:12:11.920we have three pillars. It's the care, to inform, and to activate. And that is, first of all,
00:12:16.860to have and identify the people where they are, the struggles that they know exist, to provide
00:12:21.700them hope and inspiration for a better path for them and for their children. The consultant
00:12:25.960class is the same every cycle. They treat us just as voters. They don't really care about the
00:12:30.620grassroots. They don't want to hear from us. They are the reason that we have the problems that we
00:12:35.520have because the messaging is bad. They offer, of course, lower taxes, affordable health care,
00:12:41.260and creating jobs. And do you know what the people of Michigan are screaming? They're screaming,
00:12:45.480we have jobs. My wife has a job. I have a job. The problem is we're not making ends meet and1.00
00:12:51.720everything is too expensive. They won, of course, because they hear legacy media blame the war and
00:12:56.560blame other things, because we honestly haven't been enough of honest with them about the fact
00:13:02.080that $7 trillion spent during the COVID crisis has caused these interest rates to go up, has caused
00:13:07.480the inflation, which makes our dollar not go as far as it went before. And we need to do a better
00:13:12.480job of conveying directly to the people the hole that was dug for us and what it's going to take
00:13:17.240to get out. But I do believe that it is beginning to resonate because these on-the-ground grassroots
00:13:22.120efforts are doing just that. And we've got to do that both now, but we've also got to do that
00:13:26.620after the election and ongoing. The left understands, Steve, and this is what we see
00:13:32.360with them. They are relationally organizing with their people year-round, and voting is a byproduct.
00:13:37.940It is not an action that's been meant to be taken and get everybody activated over a six-week
00:13:43.500period of time every two years. Instead, they are connecting with them regularly on the issue that
00:13:49.020matters most with them and getting them engaged and operated. I'm not saying that's a GOP effort
00:13:53.960at a state level because we don't have an active state party. I'm not saying it's an RNC effort
00:13:58.320because we know we can't depend on them for everything or anything. I believe that it is a
00:14:02.400grassroots effort, but we need funding for those grassroots efforts, and we need it to come from
00:14:07.660people even like America PAC. We need to fund grassroots efforts on the ground connecting with
00:14:12.320people at a micro level all year round. And if we do that over the next several cycles, we can not
00:14:17.720only turn Michigan, we can sustain places like Iowa, but we can also get Arizona, Nevada, and
00:14:24.080others on board to where we can create what we need to, to not only win this cycle, but to carry
00:14:29.660on in the future cycles and generations. I want to go back for a second, go back, hit rewind,
00:14:37.120and talk about, I've seen this throughout the country,
00:14:49.040their policies are obviously very extreme.
00:14:52.500But I want you to hit, they look at politics very differently.
00:14:56.820That's why I told Politico six months ago
00:14:59.700when they had one in, they started to actually move in Texas.
00:15:02.780I said, the old politics, which you just nailed,
00:15:05.880It's to come back every cycle and say, you know, tax cuts, forever wars, you know, on and on the same playbook as you call it, the bad TV ads, and just do it in a concentrated period like the run up after Labor Day.
00:15:20.620They have a very different focus here.
00:25:03.540And I think that they immediately knew that based on what happened the last cycle and also what they see as a candidate, which I think was a became a bellwether, I think, for us to be able to say, you know, again, they think Mike Rogers is a good candidate and this is a winnable race.
00:25:21.240And I think that's why they're coming in so heavily.
00:25:23.100And they also know to control and keep the Senate, they have to try and flip a seat or two because they're likely to lose in a North Carolina or in one of these other areas.
00:25:31.540And if that happens, then the Senate becomes an issue and we can't have that happen.
00:25:36.840But I do think we've convinced many others because we overperformed in Michigan.
00:25:41.520I think America First Works also saw that in the polling and they continued to see that
00:25:46.820earlier this year that this was absolutely winnable.
00:25:50.860And I think there's more trust in the fact we are very Midwestern.
00:25:54.080If we all vote in Michigan, if the faith-based people get engaged and involved and we tell
00:25:58.840the message and connect with the voters. Michigan will become more like Ohio. It will become more
00:26:03.740like Iowa. We just have to engage off cycle and we've got to finish the job right now. And that's
00:26:09.540where it begins. Ron, where do we go find out more about Stand Up Michigan? You, social media,
00:26:14.960website, where do people go? Well, on X, it's Stand Up Michigan, we the people. And you can
00:26:19.880follow me on my public figure page on Facebook at just Ron Armstrong. But it really is about you
00:26:26.740getting involved in your own community. If you're in Michigan, get involved. Talk to your neighbors.
00:26:31.280Talk to your family. Talk to your family. A lot of times we get to after an election, we find out
00:26:36.020who didn't vote. It was your own kids. It was people who just didn't seem to have time. Whether
00:26:40.400it's the soccer field, your church, whatever it is, remember, we can endorse candidates. Talk to
00:26:44.700your pastor, the leadership. Get them involved. Talk about what is at stake and make sure that
00:26:49.960they get out and vote. It's not about events anymore. It's not about persuasion anymore.
00:26:54.040It's all about turning out the vote, and then we need to engage after the election.
00:26:58.780Ron, great, great message and great work.
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00:32:10.560Well, Iowa has a big opportunity to get people out to vote with a different message than they usually hear from Republicans.
00:32:17.520For one, we're finally talking about protecting family farms, protecting against vaccine mandates, protecting people that feel that they've not been heard over the years from Republicans.
00:32:32.280That message has resonated, and that is why we think that Zach Lane is going to be a positive message to bring people to the voting booth that would have actually just probably skipped this election like they've done in 18 or in 22.
00:32:50.260Two, we're focused heavily on we've selected people from the voting from the voter registration list that the people that have not have skipped one of those midterm elections in the last in the last two cycles.
00:33:05.980And if they skipped one, we're knocking on their door. We're going to get engaged with those people.
00:33:10.160They are the ones that need to understand that their vote matters.
00:33:13.720And when they find out that Ashley Henson and Marionette Miller-Meeks and the others, that they are the right choice, the added bonus is to talk about the issues that Zach Lane has brought up.
00:33:28.240is uh is there what about those folks that are have been trump supporters uh and even the lower
00:33:39.240propensity maybe don't come out but that they are have just sat there and go hey look i'm in iowa
00:33:45.120uh we don't we've always been very hesitant about all these global conflicts that america's in
00:33:50.900we're particularly very concerned about this middle east conflict we don't like the direction
00:33:56.560it's headed. We don't like the economic impact that it's had. How do you go about, now you got
00:34:02.920Zach Lane running a more populist, hey, let's make Iowa first. But we are saddled with some of the
00:34:11.680issues that we've got, particularly about the war, where maybe, you know, the Iranian, just to be
00:34:16.680blunt, the Iranian nuclear program is just not that big a deal to a family farm that's struggling
00:34:21.100in Iowa. How do you guys on the grassroots close that gap for people who are particularly saying,
00:34:27.920you know what, I'm just going to take a pass this time. Trump's not on the ballot, and he may come
00:34:31.400out here for a rally, but he's not on the ballot. I'm not a fan of Hinson. I'm not a fan of what's
00:34:36.260going on in the National Republican Party. How do you make that sale? We make the sale by telling
00:34:42.600people that we're, that Sac Lane, for instance, would be the governor that would protect Iowa
00:34:48.920culture. We don't want to be a state with six large cities and a bunch of robotic combines
00:34:55.280doing the harvest. That is where we're heading. If we don't do anything about the consolidation of
00:35:00.200farms, family farms that are being removed 20,000 in the last 20 years, things have changed. We are
00:35:06.280consolidation in the seed market. These things are real and they've happened within 15 years.
00:35:12.400But people know this. There is a big resonance. This resonates with people when they talk about
00:35:17.820what is Iowa culture? I'm a sixth generation Iowan. I have a third great grandparents buried
00:35:23.060in this land. So, and the same goes with Zach Lane. He repeats that message. He repeats the
00:35:29.120Iowa stories that make Iowa a memorable and a place to live and grow and to raise your family.
00:35:38.620That's why we need to be focused on getting the public education system here to be a higher
00:35:43.920ranking. That is done by allowing school districts to voluntarily innovate. They're being prohibited
00:35:49.940now. And then one of Zach's initiatives is to get 80 percent, by the time he leaves as governor,
00:35:56.760he wants to have 80 percent of the food served in public schools to be grown here in Iowa.
00:36:03.160This would create small micro industries that would help sustain farms who want a diversified
00:36:10.560income. A lot of farms are being hurt because they're focused on just one or two types of
00:36:17.780like corn or soybeans. A lot of these farmers wish they had cattle on their ground. And that's
00:36:23.880something that was something that has been kind of out of reach because it's a lot of money and
00:36:30.840investment. And that's the issue is people don't have money to invest in these other alternative
00:36:35.380ways of income. So these are the things that Zach is addressing. Zach Lane, he's bringing up in the
00:36:41.540conversation, and it is definitely something that catches people to their interest. We had a woman
00:36:49.220that was approached by one of the canvassers, and she said that she almost lost her job at the
00:36:55.460university because she would not take the vaccine. And once she heard that Zach Lane's message of
00:37:04.240food freedom and medical freedom, your right to choose on your choice of what you want to do with
00:37:15.360the vaccines or not. That is your option. It's your choice. When she heard that, she said two
00:37:20.640words. She said, thank you. And that is the message we're bringing to people so that they
00:37:25.500know that their vote really matters if they come out to vote on November 3rd.
00:37:29.100You said earlier, I'll let you go after this. We're going to have you back on and hopefully early next week. You said earlier that was Zach and that there's a huge amount of serious money and power in back of his opposition. Who is big agriculture backing the Democrat?
00:37:49.060it? Oh, it's funny to say that. Absolutely. It's a $13 million withdrawn from his billionaire
00:37:56.340family. And it is something that has been behind the scenes all along. For eight years,
00:38:02.720Rob Sand has been the auditor. He's bought his office, basically. The last cycle, he won
00:38:08.760against his opponent, barely, with a spending rate of 30 times more, 30 times more than his
00:38:16.820opponent. So he beat the Republican with 30 times more money. He spent $1.7 million against a guy
00:38:23.080who spent $60,000, and he barely won. But here's the thing. It's now a different game. He has all
00:38:30.520the money from his family. This family is basically, they claim they just make bone broth
00:38:36.120and other aftermarket products from agriculture. But they also include nitrates. And that nitrate
00:38:46.800are one of the issues that has been brought up finally.
00:38:49.920In Iowa, we have high nitrates in our water in many locations,
00:38:53.900and we can solve this through targeted initiatives.
00:38:56.760But the discussion, do you think it's really going to happen
00:38:58.700from a guy who's actually, his family makes nitrates?
00:39:01.360Do you think they're going to be the ones
00:39:02.780that are going to do the initiative to do any cleanups?