00:00:00.000Hey guys, it's Jack. I'm excited to let you know that finally the new edition of Unhuman
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00:00:23.280This is what happens when the fourth turning meets fifth generation warfare.
00:00:30.000a commentator international social media sensation and former navy intelligence veteran
00:00:38.760this is human events with your host jack persovic christ is king spreading like a lot
00:00:45.040of disinformation and lies on commercials about me uh saying things like i want to abolish prisons
00:00:51.560and i want to defund the police why would i want to do that when i want her locked up
00:00:56.280and punished in jail for what she has done and so you know we are going to continue to stump on
00:01:03.020this campaign trail all across the state from the panhandle to the keys and we're looking forward to
00:01:08.360them calling me senator on november 3rd you we're both christians and and the bible is silent on the
00:01:14.440issue of abortion it means you and i both have to look at at different scriptures to try to come
00:01:19.240to a conclusion to add that the bible is not silent on abortion there is the ten commandments
00:01:24.100that should not kill. And as Catholics, we take great insults, I guess, sometimes was
00:01:30.480spouted that way. New details about the investigation into Democratic Congresswoman Ilan Omar of
00:01:35.540Minnesota. Sources are telling News Nation that investigators did seize her phone during a raid
00:01:41.040on her D.C. home on Monday, and at least 15 subpoenas have been issued, including to some
00:01:46.440of her relatives. However, a subpoena doesn't mean somebody is accused of a crime, and several
00:01:51.700reports suggest investigators could be building a case to strip Omar of her citizenship.
00:01:57.140President Joe Biden's Justice Department collected information on at least 639,000
00:02:03.300Republican voters, donors and supporters. The information, including employment records,
00:02:10.600physical addresses, credit card numbers and even people who purchased red MAGA hats and
00:02:16.120Trump memorabilia. Chuck Grassley saying the new findings, quote, further corroborate that Jack
00:02:22.060Smith and his partisan team aimed to map out the entire Republican Party apparatus. We begin with
00:02:27.960the midterm elections and new economic figures that challenge President Trump's campaign message
00:02:32.240on the economy. The president rallied for Republican candidates in Arizona and Montana
00:02:36.800after we learned prices rose nearly four percent in September compared to a year ago.
00:02:41.840Polls show the economy and the cost of living are voters' number one issue this fall.
00:02:46.340The Treasury Department now slapping a massive $1.2 billion fine on Bank of America for allegedly violating anti-money laundering and sanctions laws.
00:02:57.040Federal officials say the bank failed to flag years of suspicious financial activity, including transactions that raised serious national security concerns.
00:03:05.200This morning, the Pope is recovering in the hospital after undergoing a surgery to remove a cancerous mass in his lung.
00:03:12.660Vatkin saying doctors removed the lower lobe of Pope Leo's right lung during a minimally invasive surgery at Rome's Gemelli Hospital.
00:03:20.020An examination of the tissue confirmed lung adenocarcinoma.
00:03:23.740Initial reports suggesting the cancer was caught early.
00:03:27.580And police officers' deaths in the line of duty have reached an 80-year low.
00:03:32.500that's so good. And we're bringing the death penalty back for anybody that kills a police
00:03:36.860officer, by the way, or anybody in law enforcement. And I will tell you, the drugs coming in.
00:03:46.180We have some breaking news. A moment ago, President Trump providing an update on the
00:03:50.420execution of Nidal Malik Hassan. That was a guy who killed 13 people in the Fort Hood shooting.
00:03:57.460Now, President Trump says it will no longer be live streamed, posting on true social this.0.99
00:04:02.500I think streaming the execution for all to see might have been a strong deterrent for the world to witness how America deals with terrorists and scum like Hassan.0.92
00:04:10.880But many very good and well-meaning people would rather not watch him die through streaming or through any other visual device.0.97
00:04:19.700He will die as scheduled by firing squad, but this event will not be streamed.
00:04:24.760That said, the execution may be viewed in person by the immediate families of the victims if they so choose.
00:04:32.500They deserve to witness justice. So that news just out from President Trump.
00:04:36.900That we do in fact see a 2026 Senate map if the polls underestimate Republicans by two to four points.
00:04:44.660Well, remember all that blue that was on the map before? All that blue went bye-bye. See you later.
00:04:50.500Adios amigos. Sayonara. Those Democratic chances and those Democratic hopes down there into Lake Erie.
00:04:58.180Look at this. Now what we're dealing with, if in fact the polls underestimate the Republicans, is 53 Republican Senate seats compared to 47 Republican seats.
00:05:08.900Maine, that stays red. How about a flip in Michigan where Abdul Syed, very neck and neck in the polls with Mike Rogers.
00:05:20.860Now, I will note, I will note that even in this scenario, right, you still get a situation where North Carolina stays blue and Georgia stays blue.
00:05:39.780So a very clear Republican win in the Senate if the polls are underestimating the Republicans like perhaps they did in 2020, like they did in 2016, so on, so forth.
00:05:50.380And on the House side, what about this?
00:05:53.000By the way, I'm getting a little schvitzier.
00:05:54.480I think I'm going to have to have a drink in a second.
00:05:56.140If the polls undershot the Republicans by greater than three points, well, that's all you need.
00:06:01.180That's all you need for Republicans in order for them to actually probably hold on to the U.S. House of Representatives.
00:06:07.540They would likely win 218-plus House seats.
00:06:12.060And keep in mind, this polling error absolutely has happened before.
00:06:16.400Therefore, when we talk about the race being within the margin of error, the House of Representatives, even if Democrats are favored, it is still within the margin of error that Republicans can win if we see polling misses like we have before.
00:06:28.980Well, ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard today's edition of Human Events Daily.
00:08:33.120It's a real moment for independent media to be able to come in to tell people that we're not going anywhere, that new media is here to stay, that we are, in fact, driving the narrative.
00:08:47.380And real America's voice is at the forefront of it.
00:08:51.860And so now please enjoy our sit-down interview with the new White House Press Secretary, Katie Zachariah.
00:11:25.200And he's actually, by showing deference to Xi Jinping, effectuating his ability to get that deal rather than just kowtowing or showing favor.
00:11:36.180Well, it's, as you know, from living in China, it's the concept of face.
00:11:45.400That's very much East Asian and China in general, that someone who is from there would obviously know, or had spent time there, would know that.
00:11:52.340Yeah. And really, Jack, a lot of the American people don't understand that. And so when Xi Jinping came out to the United States and President Trump hosted him, the criticism of pomp and circumstance was actually it's so means you just really don't understand what happens in China.
00:12:07.580and that President Trump is after a deal for the American people.
00:12:10.440He has never deviated from being America first.
00:12:14.400Everything he does for Americans is for Americans and is America first,
00:12:19.020including showing up and giving deference to Xi Jinping when he comes to visit.
00:12:24.100And so what I love to do is to be able to communicate that to the American people.
00:12:28.680Why is your president doing these things?
00:12:31.440And although he's getting criticism, I'm going to come up and support him
00:12:34.380and say exactly why his policy is right on the money.
00:12:36.980and he is right on with his deal making and the way he's engaged all around the world,
00:12:42.020I think, is just it's so necessary to have someone who can communicate the why,
00:12:46.260because there are many critics in the media and many unfriendly voices that don't want to see us
00:12:52.100win. And we need a team of people who can celebrate the wins and explain why what he's doing is
00:12:58.340helping win for America. So you're out there, you're doing the job for True Social. What was
00:13:04.340the process like the president uh you know i've seen reporting that said the president called
00:13:08.820you directly did you know that you were perhaps um you know in the running how did that how did
00:13:14.340that go i didn't know i was in the running because again i was very specific about not lobbying for
00:13:19.460it and the i was taking my youngest son to a pumpkin patch field trip day so he stayed home
00:13:26.820from school he's he's five about to turn six and i was getting ready to go and i got a phone call
00:13:33.220And I was very excited by this phone call from from the president and basically, in short order, flew out on Thursday to meet with him on Friday and accepted the job on Friday and then had to fly home, Jack, on Saturday back to California and pack up all my suitcases because I was only in D.C. with a carry on bag and a hotel and packed up two suitcases.
00:14:03.220saw my kids, flew home on Sunday, or flew back to D.C. on Sunday, and then started the job on
00:14:10.840Columbus Day, which is a federal holiday, Monday. But he asked me to be in office on Monday,
00:14:15.700and Monday I showed up. That's, I mean, that's obviously an incredibly hectic weekend, I think.
00:14:21.180So you go from, you go from Friday at the pumpkin patch to Monday morning at the podium, basically.
00:14:26.000Well, Wednesday at the pumpkin patch. Yeah, Wednesday phone call, Thursday flight,
00:14:31.060Friday meeting, Saturday flight, Sunday flight, Monday, Columbus State Federal Holiday, start work,
00:14:38.420wants a brief, Tuesday morning. And typically, Jack, briefs are in the afternoon, 1 p.m., 1.30 p.m.,
00:14:46.280where the press secretary has an ample amount of time to have discussed with all the necessary
00:14:52.820people, get all the right information, be briefed, and walk out. And this was a very different
00:14:59.100in incoming intake I basically had the brief the briefing materials got to me
00:15:05.820the evening on Monday because again it was a federal holiday so we got Monday
00:15:13.140Monday Columbus Day is when I got the briefing materials and then Tuesday
00:15:18.160morning they were completed and I woke up at 3 in the morning on Tuesday to
00:15:22.500prepare with what I had but they weren't finalized until we didn't finalize
00:15:26.880everything until about 8 a.m. And I never had a full briefing beforehand. And I went out and I
00:15:36.840effectuated the briefing. Now, there were some people were asking questions. I noticed about
00:15:41.400the length of it. I also noticed that just looking at the president's schedule that he was flying to
00:15:46.320Alaska. Was that because of that travel or were you planning to do one with a normal length is
00:15:52.780about an hour yeah so knowing knowing that white house protocol is pretty specific it was absolutely
00:15:59.840my goal to keep it short considering he is his own best spokesperson and he be he would love and does
00:16:07.860love gaggling with the media as as he goes to marine one and so i wanted to give ample deference
00:16:14.260and not barge into his time because you knew he was about to because i knew he was about to so my
00:16:39.760Now, you mentioned, so you did mention about spending time in China, you know, that I have as well.
00:16:44.600and there's been this whole question, Wall Street Journal did a huge piece about this,
00:16:50.560you know, this question about, of course, everyone wants to know your legal background,
00:16:54.920your legal resume. I read the piece, talked about how you had graduated from Pepperdine,
00:17:00.900sat for the bar, didn't go your way, but then instead of sitting again, you went and moved
00:17:05.100to China. Walk us through that whole story. What's going on there? Yeah. So I think it's
00:17:10.300important to have the context of my husband and i had a long distance relationship only from he
00:17:16.700lived in beijing china where he was already there he was already there his his his dad introduced us
00:17:22.300to each other his dad was an adjunct professor at pepperdine law and he said do you want to meet my
00:17:27.100son and i met his son and and his son lived in beijing and so it was long distance while i did
00:17:32.380law school and he was practiced or he was in private equity an american private equity company
00:17:38.300in china i had already pre-registered to take the bar and i didn't want to withdraw from that and
00:17:45.260we knew we would be moving out to china and i was obviously incredibly i know distracted and
00:17:52.060overwhelmed and excited for finally being married to someone who had been long distance from for
00:17:56.700at least a year a year and a half when you include the engagement and we just said let's
00:18:04.460let's take this time and i'll take the bar and see what happens the results are somewhat
00:18:10.700inconsequential because i knew i wouldn't need the bar in china and um and we left for shortly
00:18:17.260thereafter and after moving to china i think i didn't i didn't really think much of the bar
00:18:23.820results or consider that something that i needed to focus on and i was offered a job at a in an
00:18:30.220international practice division of a of a Chinese law firm called Zhonglin Law Firm and the
00:18:35.660international practice were four associates under a senior partner and we worked the international
00:18:42.380side the English language side and we had a Chinese counterpart that was there there's no
00:18:46.780Chinese bar I had the enough credentials which was my law degree to be able to do this practice and
00:18:52.460these were multi-million dollar shareholders agreements and transactions that were cross-border
00:18:57.100and there I had all the necessary requirements to do that and I was able to do it effectively
00:19:03.900and well and have going recommendations from the senior partner who oversaw my time there.
00:19:08.300So when when you eventually do come back and I'm just doing the timeline here you eventually do
00:19:12.460come back why didn't you decide to go back and try the bar again? Well when we moved back Jack we
00:19:19.180We got a surprise baby. Our first baby is, this is his birthday today, and he is 12 years old.
00:19:28.600And he, we got pregnant and we decided, all right, well, we're going to stay in the United States
00:19:34.300and we are not going to move back abroad because that was still an option. We were considering
00:19:39.000maybe Singapore or somewhere. My husband is more than fluent in Mandarin and very,
00:19:45.420very good with the business culture in Asia and particularly in China and Chinese-speaking
00:19:51.920countries. So that was still an option on the table that we might move abroad. And when we
00:19:56.740got pregnant, we, in short order, he found a job. We got health insurance, which was kind of
00:20:01.700important in having a baby. And we had four kids in six years. So 2014, 2016, 2018, and 2020, boy,
00:20:10.440girl, boy, boy. A lot of the misinformation, miscommunication, Jack, is around the fact that
00:20:16.880I labeled myself lawyer, and I consulted for a very long time. Many people in the field,
00:20:25.300is it okay and acceptable if I label myself lawyer, not attorney at law, not Katie Zachariah
00:20:32.180Esquire, but lawyer, and provide legal analysis, not legal advice? And they said, absolutely,
00:20:38.320absolutely across the board you can call yourself a lawyer you have a JD and to
00:20:43.280buffer that you have international legal experience and transactional law which
00:20:47.860gives you the ability to analyze it not necessarily give advice and so that's
00:20:52.480that's where a lot of this discussion has come from and you know it's
00:20:58.000unfortunate that people dub this is some kind of conspiracy or want to put me in
00:21:04.780camp the truth is is i was very careful how i executed this and i never came across as someone
00:21:09.740who was an attorney at law do you plan to weigh in on legal matters as you're with the president
00:21:16.060as you're with others is that something that's going to be part of your duties here as press
00:21:19.420secretary no no the for the press secretary my job is to amplify and communicate
00:21:25.500his message and to interact with the press and build relationships and strengthen relationships
00:21:30.300and communicate clearly the message of the administration and i only intend to do that
00:21:36.380and i'm not being hired as white house counsel and that's the long and the short of that you
00:21:42.300you say you choose family over going into the practice of law and i totally understand that
00:21:47.980as a family self you know tanya and uh that being said though you're moving into this position
00:21:54.860it's a tough job it's it's long hours you've just come back from i think a four state swing
00:21:59.880How are you going to balance that out?
00:22:01.620Well, first of all, my family is going to be moving over to Washington, D.C.,
00:22:06.080and that from California, and will be in this area.
00:22:09.600And the truth is I look at this as an element of service to my country,
00:22:15.000that I have for my whole life been a political guru growing up on Rush Limbaugh,
00:22:22.440Sean Hannity radio, and really the entire fountain of my conservative upbringing was Rush Limbaugh
00:22:32.080and the EIB network behind the golden mic. And that was all my memories as a kid were
00:22:38.860conservative politics. I was known through even late elementary school, middle school,
00:22:46.720high school as being the kid that debated president of college Republicans at Pepperdine.
00:22:51.620And so this has been a lifelong passion. And truly, as I have four kids, Jack, I look at serving President Trump and the ability to serve President Trump at this historical time as a way to protect the integrity of our nation, the sovereignty of our nation, to fight for the president, who I deeply believe saved this country.
00:23:15.600When he won in 2016, he reset America's trajectory.
00:23:20.080We were all being told Hillary was going to win.
00:23:23.660The golden days or the glory days of America were over, that China was on the horizon.
00:23:29.300I remember this very distinctly, having just come from China, thinking, how is China the next country on the horizon?0.63
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00:34:41.920We're talking about our exclusive sit-down interview, Real America's Voice, Katie Zachariah.
00:34:48.120And, Rich, we talked about how Katie comes from the MAGA movement and really sitting down with Real America's Voice or sitting down with new media at all as a first interview is a massive, massive signal.
00:35:03.460And it's a testament to the fact that the White House clearly looks at new media as a place to set the narrative because, and we've had a number of members of the administration on recently, including the vice president as well as the secretary of war.
00:35:18.120And they've used our program to break news, to set out new policies, now to do a first interview.
00:35:24.920It's very clear that the huge through line through all of this is that they understand that this is about the establishment versus independent media versus new media.
00:35:36.400And the idea that the White House press secretary is doing the first interview with a show like this as new media is a huge, huge sign of that.
00:35:45.700it's you know what it's more than that and not to glaze you here but i'm being deadly serious when i
00:35:50.920say it also matters who you pick through those venues because i'm a pollster i'm an elections
00:35:56.440guy and i'm looking at the numbers and okay who do republicans got to turn out who do they have
00:36:00.540to excite this was really smart um of katie to sit down with you and do this i mean you said it
00:36:05.920before we went to the break you said it humanized her it did but it's more than that if you're the
00:36:10.120administration and you want to reach the people that you're having trouble motivating right now
00:36:14.260you got to go through og maga to do it you have to i mean people who have those og maga bona fides
00:36:20.400um there's a lot of new faces on the scene they're doing a lot of good work sure but there is a
00:36:26.260difference between who certain groups trust and listen to uh so i think what they're doing is
00:36:32.220smart i wish they would have started to do it earlier but you know what better late than never
00:36:35.520and um i was going to say this before that segment ended last last block you know this this is good
00:36:41.900I like what I'm seeing here. I mean, there are changes that are happening. It happens all the
00:36:45.640time with every White House. After the midterms, we're going to get more folks. There are people
00:36:50.100who have been in positions right now that are already past their average tenure. A lot of these
00:36:55.060positions are very high turnover. It's a very, very serious burn rate on them. They're burning
00:37:01.080both candles at both ends kind of jobs. And if this is any indication of what the president
00:37:07.540intends to do this is the right move this is you know this this is the right move again better late
00:37:13.120than never i would have liked to see him do it a little bit earlier but this is good well and and
00:37:16.980and not to not to push back but the administration has always brought in a lot of new media to uh to
00:37:25.440the white house but uh to do something on such a high level as this is as as far as i can tell
00:37:31.460it's unprecedented i can't think of another another time where we've seen something like this and of
00:37:37.420course you know the rest of the media is now and you know i'm people i'm starting to see clips and
00:37:42.500and uh you know clips and and people bringing things up from our show and it's like that's
00:37:49.580right you've got to cite real america's voice now you've got to cite human events you've got
00:37:53.780a jake tapper when he was getting up there told jake taper over on cnn saying saying pete hanks
00:37:58.960sitting down with jack pasobic and you know you know it just he has he has to give us credit and
00:38:06.200it, it drives them absolutely bonkers. And so it made sense that, you know, and actually I didn't
00:38:12.160know that either about, about Katie. It said, she said, well, I was, you know, I grew up listening
00:38:15.540to Rush Limbaugh. I said, what? And I was almost going to add, if we were doing more of a podcast
00:38:20.340kind of format, I would have added that, you know, I, I didn't get into Rush until I would say
00:38:25.720college. I was definitely in, already in college when, when I started listening, but man, once I
00:38:30.920started listening, I did not stop. I like, you know, just to go down memory lane here a little
00:38:35.780bit i started with rush early and i remember um working young and you had to get working papers
00:38:42.260back then i'm not sure how it even works now but back then up north in tri-state area you had to
00:38:47.260get working papers um and i got a job with this guy who was super liberal you know i was like 17
00:38:52.720years old and he used to come in the office he had a coffee import and roasting company which by the
00:38:57.600way sold to hillary clinton and he loved it you know i mean that was that kind of guy he sold her
00:39:02.680chinese silver oolong tea and once a month he would deliver the bag to this place where she
00:39:07.820told him to drop it off and that was like the pride and joy of his month right and i would sit
00:39:13.200in that office and listen to the eib and the golden microphone he hated it but what was he
00:39:19.000gonna do he can't tell his employee he can't listen to what he wants to but yeah i mean cut
00:39:23.080cut my teeth on russian on the very first presidential election that i could vote in
00:39:27.920And I'm listening to Katie just go through this.
00:43:34.780All right, folks, Jack Posobiec back live here, Real America's Voice, Human Events, Daily.
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00:45:06.900And I want to get on with Rich Barris, because, Rich, obviously, look, you've got your book that's out, that's tearing up the charts.
00:45:13.480It's called Burn It Down. And you have made this thesis out there.
00:45:19.660And, you know, we obviously we share a co-author, Joshua Lysak.
00:45:22.440And so we talk about very similar things. Brilliant guy. Oh, yeah, absolutely.
00:45:26.520And we talk about similar similar trends in unhuman socialist revolution,
00:45:31.640because you're talking about what's happening out there.
00:45:35.400And in terms of the people's public opinion,
00:45:38.400we talk about how that can turn into socialism,
00:45:41.440turn into an actual revolution in the United States.
00:45:44.680When we talk about this direction from the White House towards, you know, that 2016,
00:45:51.440and she brought it up a couple of times, she said 2016, she said Rush Limbaugh,
00:45:54.720She talked about how and she talked about the fact that China at that point in time, right, going back prior to Trump, we were all told that China was about to leapfrog us and surpass us.
00:46:08.300And I remember when I was working in China, which was actually a couple of years before her, that, you know, people were saying the exact same thing.
00:46:17.320And so, Rich, it's what do you think about that energy meeting the burn it down thesis?
00:46:23.580Yeah. And, you know, first of all, the hardcover came out a little bit after, right, the preorder stage was over, maybe like six to seven days.
00:46:32.920The president got the very first hardcover copy of Burn It Down. It's also the first signed one.
00:46:38.780It's it's kind of the part of it's exciting. It's also concerning.
00:46:42.100and i think back to rush and how he handled donald trump in a very different way the the the rise
00:46:49.580the ascendancy of donald trump in a very different way than others did and i think it's now looking
00:46:55.220back it's really clear that maybe even you know rush he was a very smart guy i mean he saw he was
00:46:59.640like a futurist and maybe he even saw this before many of us did like look this guy is speaking to
00:47:06.860needs uh that you guys the establishment the political class and either party has not spoken
00:47:12.700to and if you don't let him deal with it or try to deal with it it could get much much worse than
00:47:19.480this all right i mean donald trump has turned out to be actually what you would always think a lot
00:47:25.240of these so you know conservative pundits loved and and dreamed about uh but i think rush did know
00:47:30.580that that was a very real danger jack you just approach it your book just approaches it from a
00:47:35.040different point of view but we're arriving at the same conclusion which is you know we don't get
00:47:39.900complacent america is special but it's not exempt and if we don't rise to this chat these challenges
00:47:46.840this is what we're going to get and this is what we're going to deal with and even the president
00:47:51.160knows that you know that even the president understands um that you know it's either
00:47:56.560maga or mom donny brother mom donny looks really ugly no both both physically and spiritually uh
00:48:03.700That, you know, it's a situation where, no, and it's a situation where, like, when people say, oh, you know, the president needs to listen to people more.
00:48:14.460He just chose someone directly from the MAGA movement, brought them up, someone who, by the way, I don't mean to just say that, you know, this isn't someone who didn't have accomplishments and hadn't worked, had worked with Fix California, had worked with all of the fights that were going on with Spencer Pratt, obviously right now with Steve Hilton.
00:48:33.700in the fight that he's in, understanding that California had gone so far.
00:48:38.980And it doesn't surprise me at all that it would be like somebody listening to Rush Limbaugh out in California
00:48:45.840who understands what, who just gets it and would understand that your society, your entire state,
00:48:53.600state like California, which was so great in the 1990s, so great up through the 2000s,
00:48:58.280and then went completely down the drain very, very quickly would understand that they have
00:49:06.020to get up and go and fight. Because the only way to respond to that is through politics.
00:49:11.480And President Trump, again, by the way, New York City, right? Not exactly a guy,
00:49:16.080New York City, LA, what we're talking about, not exactly a place that's associated with
00:49:20.760traditional conservatism, but that's kind of the point, isn't it?
00:49:24.200It really is. And I remember going back even in the beginning of this thing, and they would always try to pin him down, a lot of them, because he would interview with everybody, left-wing media, right-wing media, and they would always try to pin him down because of the way a Republican primary works, you know, try to get him in that lane where he's not winning that many very conservative primary voters anymore.
00:49:44.880And they would try to get him to, you know, obey those litmus tests. Right. And obey the dogmas of the primary voter. And he would call himself a common sense conservative. And he would he would embrace it. He bear hugged it. Jack, he would say, you know, this I'm from Queens. I'm from New York City. You know, I'm I'm a conservative, but I get things done. I want to get things done. If it makes sense, then that's conservative to me. I'm a common sense conservative.
00:50:09.980It was almost like a better attempt of what the Bush family tried to do with compassionate conservatism, which he won the election with and then promptly abandoned it.
00:50:20.520Right. But Trump didn't. He never did. He always said, look, you're not going to pigeonhole me into this.
00:50:25.840And, you know, if it makes sense for the American voter, that's the way I'm going to go with it.
00:50:29.220And that's why, attitudinally, he appealed to this. It's been something to watch this coalition build.
00:50:35.400You and I saw it in the Midwest in early days in 2016, and then culminating with 2024, where this is a guy, like you said, I mean, he's a billionaire from New York City.
00:50:47.240He won 18 to 29-year-olds in the state of Michigan.
00:50:52.180And, you know, I remember talking about this with our Turning Point friends, you know, that 10 years ago, that was thought of as impossible, basically, or at least incredibly unlikely.
00:51:01.920When would a presidential candidate pull something like that off?
00:51:05.400um and and that that's why that's all the difference in the world jack is that attitudinal
00:51:10.600and even somewhat ideological difference and i i'm again happy to see him surrounding himself
00:51:16.580with people who really do and we use this phrase all the time but who really do get it and and not
00:51:21.820only get it but also get what's at stake because you talk about a state like california and that's
00:51:26.880the warning and burn it down it's a warning in your book this can happen very quickly and one
00:51:33.020minute you think you know you got everything under control it's in your grasp and a couple
00:51:37.160of demographic changes happen a couple of ladder swings and the next thing you know you're california
00:51:41.620all over the place and it's it's a very very real um you know possibility which by the way rich
00:51:47.620with just just on that point uh as you and i were i know we're just at the end of the show but you
00:51:52.000and i were chatting that virginia is undergoing those ladder swings right now isn't it it really
00:51:56.640is you know they call it the old dominion we might as well just call it the new dominion jack it
00:52:00.860It doesn't represent, it doesn't reflect, you know, the Virginia that we all came to know growing up.
00:52:06.980Even many of us who have been in politics for a long time.
00:52:09.520I remember that was the great white whale for Democratic presidential candidates.