Juno News - July 24, 2024


Trump’s life depends on what happens next

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Kim Cheadle's appearance at Congress COVID
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Kim Cheadle has resigned in disgrace after admitting to the Secret Service s colossal failure in not stomping an attempted assassination on Donald Trump that left the former U.S. President a quarter of an inch from death. Her appearance at the House Oversight Committee, however, raised more questions than answers.

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00:00:00.000 Kim Cheadle has resigned in disgrace after admitting to the Secret Service's colossal failure
00:00:14.680 in not stomping an attempted assassination on Donald Trump that left the former U.S.
00:00:19.980 President a quarter of an inch from death. Her appearance at the House Oversight Committee,
00:00:24.520 however, raised more questions than answers. Questions like who is Cheadle covering for,
00:00:31.220 as the former director stonewalled Congress time and time again, failing to provide basic answers
00:00:37.520 like a timeline of the events. Cheadle should not be the only head that rolls for this failure,
00:00:43.600 which serves as an important reminder that in Canada, like in the U.S., we can have the best
00:00:50.260 political leaders in the world. But if our corrupt, self-serving, DEI-ridden government
00:00:56.440 institutions are not overhauled, they will be stymied time and time again. And so federal
00:01:02.860 conservative leader Pierre Polyev should take a cue from the Republican presidential nominee
00:01:07.300 and promise to drain the swamp. Let's just hope that unlike Donald Trump, his life doesn't depend
00:01:13.540 on it. I'm Rachel Parker and you're watching Rachel in the Republic. Okay, everyone, I'm sure a lot of
00:01:27.680 you have seen the viral clips that have been circulating about Kim Cheadle's devastating
00:01:32.560 appearance at Congress this week. She appeared at the House Oversight and Accountability Committee
00:01:37.280 to talk about what led to the assassination attempt on Donald Trump and why the Secret Service wasn't
00:01:42.920 able to stop it. I have watched hundreds, not even exaggerating, hundreds of committee meetings
00:01:49.000 in my lifetime. I used to cover that exclusively for a living, so I would cover one to two a day
00:01:54.060 sometimes. I have never seen anything so devastating as this appearance. She was absolutely beaten down 0.98
00:02:00.660 by politicians. And typically, even for me, you know, when I'm watching someone who might have more
00:02:04.880 liberal leanings getting really pummeled and just looking really stupid in a committee meeting, I can't 0.98
00:02:09.920 help but feel a little bit bad for them. But in this case, it was actually impossible to have any sympathy 0.99
00:02:15.000 for Kim Cheadle because she refused to answer the questions. She just continually gave platitudes and 1.00
00:02:21.660 pointed to the fact that an investigation was ongoing as an excuse not to answer questions. And it was so
00:02:27.060 frustrating watching Congress trying to get answers out of her. And she was just simply not collaborating
00:02:33.340 with them. She was not working with them. She seemed totally uninterested in getting information
00:02:37.480 to the American public and far more interested in saving herself. Let's play this one clip for you
00:02:42.940 guys. I felt like this was a really powerful moment, which summed up basically how intense
00:02:47.740 that committee meeting was. Here is Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, absolutely grilling Cheadle. Let's take a look
00:02:53.500 at this first clip here. It seems as though that when you were asked earlier from Rep. Krista
00:02:59.120 Morthy about whether or not Secret Service was aware of a threat, you had said no, they were unaware of a
00:03:05.040 threat. And yet, according to communications, again, from law enforcement that were in some of these
00:03:10.920 group chats, they actually had reported that Secret Service was made aware of a threat at around 5.59 PM
00:03:17.980 as a part of the command, including Secret Service, aware of messages and requests about information about
00:03:24.440 the suspect's location. Can you please tell me if you have knowledge of that at all?
00:03:29.240 Again, I think we're conflating the difference between the term threat and suspicious.
00:03:36.120 But you guys did have knowledge at 5.59 PM, according to those group chats, did you not?
00:03:40.660 Of a suspicious individual.
00:03:42.180 Okay. Chairman, in my opinion, according to some of the testimony today, I feel that you have perjured yourself in some instances.
00:03:50.840 And so I'm going to ask for a full review of the transcripts by staff. And if you find that to be the case, I do ask that you bring perjury charges against the director.
00:03:58.640 I will say this. It is very frustrating. And I've talked to my colleagues, and we've said it to your face, that you have been up here, basically stonewalling our ability to get the answers to the American people.
00:04:09.760 And what I will also say is that every single member of Congress does not feel safe with you in charge. You have heard that. And I think that we are all sitting ducks with you and directing the Secret Service currently.
00:04:19.320 But more importantly, it sends a message to our adversaries that we are not protected. And we are one of the strongest countries in the world.
00:04:26.320 So you have essentially made us a less safe country because of it. As a result of that, I'm asking you to formally step down.
00:04:32.440 I share my same opinions as my Democrat colleagues. And I also think that your efforts to bring forward a full investigation and report in 60 days is unacceptable.
00:04:44.440 And as a result of that, I'm going to do everything in my legislative toolkit to ensure that that happens sooner rather than later.
00:04:50.440 And I'm sure that you know that we brought a vote on inherent contempt against Garland for essentially blocking a congressional investigation.
00:04:57.440 And I don't think that you should be any different. So I will say that I am just completely disgusted by your performance today.
00:05:03.440 And I understand that you're probably in a position where you're being told not to testify, which is why we had to subpoena you.
00:05:09.440 I think that goes back to Garland. But again, that is part of the flushing that we need to get out of Washington.
00:05:15.440 And I would be happy to assist in that process. Chairman, I yield the rest of my time.
00:05:18.440 So you can see there that Rep Luna kind of hints at that need to drain the swamp.
00:05:23.440 She says this is part of the flushing that we need to get out of Washington.
00:05:26.440 She is here hinting at the fact that Cheadle was not up for the job.
00:05:30.440 And, you know, there's lots of questions now about whether this was incompetence or maliciousness.
00:05:35.440 I think that both of those things are equally dangerous.
00:05:38.440 But you see here after the end of this, there was no way that Cheadle was going to be able to hold on to this.
00:05:42.440 There were some thoughts given to us. Why was she allowed to resign?
00:05:46.440 She should have instead faced the embarrassment of being fired.
00:05:50.440 I think that that is a point worth making.
00:05:52.440 At the end of the day, the best thing right now is that she is out of that position.
00:05:56.440 And she will still have to answer questions about what all went wrong.
00:05:59.440 But now hopefully we can get somebody in that role who was qualified, who was qualified, who knows what they're doing,
00:06:05.440 who's able to answer questions for Congress, and most importantly, is able to protect the elected politicians in America,
00:06:12.440 one of the most powerful countries in the world, as was mentioned.
00:06:15.440 I also think we would be remiss when having this conversation that what we're seeing here is we're really seeing the full last two decades of a push for DEI,
00:06:24.440 why diversity, equity and inclusion come to roost for the last two decades.
00:06:28.440 There's been a big push to hire people, not because they are qualified for the job, but because of their gender or because of the color of their skin,
00:06:35.440 because they fit into a nice little neat race box.
00:06:38.440 And we want to fill as many of those boxes as we can, rather than hiring people because of their experience and because of the knowledge that they would be good for the job.
00:06:45.440 So here, you know, we've seen this sort of in the airline industry.
00:06:48.440 I feel like every day I'm on to X and it seems like there's a near miss with two planes crashing each other.
00:06:53.440 And people are saying, why does it seem like our world is falling apart?
00:06:56.440 Why do things that used to run smoothly 20 years ago no longer run smoothly?
00:07:00.440 And the same can be said for the Secret Service, which has a no fail mission.
00:07:04.440 So then when we're in a case where a former president and the Republican nominee has a shooter 150 yards from him,
00:07:10.440 it does raise a lot of questions about why the Secret Service seems to be falling apart.
00:07:14.440 Unfortunately, I don't think that everyone who recognizes that Kim Cheadle failed in her role as the director of the Secret Service recognizes the role that DEI has to play on this.
00:07:24.440 I think that there is some Democrat politicians who are taking advantage of the crisis to raise their profile,
00:07:31.440 but likely won't be the ones to say it's time to do away with DEI and to focus on co-locations first.
00:07:36.440 And who better to represent that than Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, better known by her fan base as AOC. 1.00
00:07:44.440 Here she is at that committee meeting grilling Kim Cheadle. Take a look at this next clip.
00:07:48.440 So the notion of a report coming out in 60 days when the threat environment is so high in the United States, irrespective of party, is not acceptable.
00:07:59.440 And I think it's very important to understand that this is not theater. This is not about jockeying.
00:08:05.440 This is about the safety of some of the most highly targeted and valued targets internationally and domestically in the United States of America.
00:08:17.440 So the idea that a report will be finalized in 60 days, let alone prior to any actionable decisions that would be made, is simply not acceptable.
00:08:30.440 It has been 10 days since an assassination attempt on a former president of the United States, regardless of party.
00:08:37.440 There need to be answers. Again, this party, this committee, this is not a moment of theater.
00:08:43.440 We have to make policy decisions and we have to make them now. We do.
00:08:48.440 And that may be a that may require legislation that may require policy that we must pass in the immediate term.
00:08:58.440 And without that, we are flying blind.
00:09:01.440 So the lack of answers and the lack of report is just simply not something that we can accept here.
00:09:06.440 So AOC is getting a lot of credit, a lot of praise from both sides of the aisle for her work at this committee meeting.
00:09:11.440 I don't know why. I don't know why, because she is the politician who she is the exact type of politician who does promote DEI policies and will continue to do so. 0.94
00:09:21.440 So because of people like her, we have people like Kim Cheadle in positions of extreme power who are not qualified for their job. 1.00
00:09:29.440 And then we have a situation where there is a near miss on an assassination attempt of a former president.
00:09:34.440 So I don't think she really deserves praise for this one.
00:09:37.440 I mean, what was she supposed to do say? Oh, it's too bad the shooter missed.
00:09:40.440 I say that being a little bit hyperbolic because obviously we know there are many people on the left who did say that indeed.
00:09:46.440 But I feel like she's sort of just doing her bare bare minimum at this point and isn't going to recognize that it is the type of policies that government institutions both here and Canada push for that results in people being unqualified for their position.
00:09:58.440 So moving forward, where do we go from here?
00:10:02.440 It looks like Kim Cheadle might actually face criminal charges. 1.00
00:10:05.440 Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene said that they will look at bringing criminal charges against her.
00:10:09.440 And the American people are still unsatisfied and fairly so. 0.67
00:10:12.440 As I've said, they weren't able to get many answers out of Cheadle in that committee hearing.
00:10:17.440 And instead, there was just more confusion than anything else because she had so little information and it seems like she was trying to cover up for somebody or maybe just save herself.
00:10:27.440 And there's still a desire for justice to be done.
00:10:31.440 Obviously, we will have more information in the weeks to come.
00:10:33.440 But at this point, a lot of people are pointing at Department of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas and saying we need to hear from him now and saying that maybe even his head should roll.
00:10:43.440 Of course, DHS oversees the Secret Service and he has given some public appearances since then.
00:10:49.440 And basically, whenever he's asked a question, he again says that the investigation is ongoing and declines to get into any details.
00:10:55.440 I honestly think that whenever there's some sort of government scandal, they open up an investigation, not because they're actually interested in getting answers, but because then whenever they're asked questions, they can say, oh, yeah, I can't talk about that.
00:11:06.440 The investigation is ongoing. It's sort of a way for them to avoid scrutiny and avoid talking about the situation.
00:11:13.440 The same thing happens with legal case. We can't talk about that because the case is before the courts. It's so frustrating.
00:11:18.440 We have these sort of systems in place and what they actually serve to do is to protect people in positions of power, not to protect the American public or the Canadian public and not to get answers to the public writ large.
00:11:29.440 So I definitely think that Donald Trump has his work cut out for him if he is reelected.
00:11:34.440 We know that the promise to drain the swamp was so front and foremost in his last campaign cycles.
00:11:40.440 And there's been some criticism that was one of the things that he maybe didn't do effectively.
00:11:44.440 And, you know, as I said in my opening, this is something that his life depends on now.
00:11:48.440 And so, you know, it'll be interesting to see if he is able to fulfill those promises should he be reelected, which is looking quite promising at the moment.
00:11:57.440 But just with all the speculation right now as to whether is this Secret Service incompetence or is this maliciousness within within the government, within the Secret Service, within the Department of Homeland Security, within the FBI.
00:12:10.440 That is something that I think people have differing opinions on.
00:12:13.440 And I'm not sure I'm not sure which one is worse.
00:12:16.440 Would it be worse if the maliciousness was that there are people working to have the former president killed or would it be worse if it was simply just incompetence?
00:12:24.440 And I think in either case, there is much work that needs to be done.
00:12:28.440 I don't know. I think that maybe in the case of incompetence, that could be easier to root out because you can start by taking a look at DEI hires and having them retested to see if they actually fit the needs of the job, if they're qualified for the job or if they were hired, as I mentioned before, solely based on their gender, on the color of their skin.
00:12:49.440 But either way, Trump, I think he recognizes the problem and one of his campaign promises this time around is to cut government employees.
00:12:56.440 So here this is from the Associated Press.
00:12:58.440 Donald Trump has plans to radically reshape the federal government.
00:13:01.440 That includes abolishing some government agencies and firing tens of thousands of workers.
00:13:07.440 So I'm just going to read this directly from the AP article, and I think it shows just the level of corruption within the government.
00:13:14.440 It says, quote, a collection of activists, advocates and legal experts is promoting new federal rules to limit presidential power while urging Biden's White House to do more to protect his accomplishments and limit Trump in a possible second term.
00:13:29.440 The office of personnel management, the federal government's chief human resources agency proposed a rule against reclassifying tens of thousands of workers so they can be more easily fired.
00:13:40.440 According to spokesperson Viettron, the office will finalize the rule in April.
00:13:44.440 That means that a future administration would likely have to spend months or even years unwinding it if they want to do so.
00:13:51.440 I'm not sure if I can express exactly how stunning that is that the government is already working against someone who is running for office.
00:14:00.440 They are already working against plans that someone who the government has no business in discussing how they are going to respond to a future president.
00:14:08.440 Their business is in running the government.
00:14:10.440 They should be doing the will of the current elected officials who are elected by the people.
00:14:16.440 Their job is to enact their well-enact policies that the government sets for them as, of course, the government is elected by the people.
00:14:23.440 Not to say we are worried that a future a future president might cut government and might cut jobs.
00:14:29.440 So we need to spend time and taxpayer dollars on protecting our jobs right now.
00:14:33.440 That is not what bureaucrats are for, but that is increasingly what bureaucrats have become about both in Canada and in the States.
00:14:42.440 Here in Canada, federal conservative leader Pierre Polyev, you know, he's a conservative.
00:14:46.440 We can sort of assume that he wants for a smaller government.
00:14:48.440 He hasn't specifically made promises to cut federal workers, which have grown exponentially under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
00:14:55.440 He did put forward one proposal a few years ago.
00:14:57.440 He said that he wants the government to move back to being plain language.
00:15:02.440 Once again, he said that he wants an average Canadian person to be able to go on a federal government website and to understand what the heck the federal government is talking about.
00:15:14.440 So he specifically here, this is from the National Post.
00:15:16.440 He wants the federal government to stop using overly complex bureaucratic wording by passing a law that will require the use of plain language.
00:15:24.440 According to a press release, he would pass a law to require government publications to use the fewest and simplest words needed to state information, but also require legal drafters to write laws as simply as possible.
00:15:36.440 So here we can see that he is noticing that the federal government and certainly the bureaucrats who work for the federal government are not doing what is best for the interests of the Canadian people.
00:15:46.440 Things are very difficult to understand.
00:15:47.440 I think we all experience this on a daily basis if you're trying to find information from the federal government or you have to say, get a hold of the CRA.
00:15:54.440 You're on the phone for five hours. These government institutions are very difficult to work with.
00:15:58.440 They're very difficult to get a hold of, and they do not seem to be doing an effective job of serving the Canadian people who, by the way, pay for their salaries.
00:16:06.440 So this is sort of an initial proposal that he's put forward to at least make the websites more manageable.
00:16:12.440 I went in kind of digging around on the federal government website to find an example of where this might be most beneficial, and it naturally took me to the Canadian government section on gender.
00:16:21.440 I don't know why we need the federal government to be commenting on gender.
00:16:25.440 But here, let's take a look at this on women and gender equality from the federal government. 0.86
00:16:29.440 I mean, as a reporter, I feel like you should never admit this. I had no idea what this was talking about.
00:16:34.440 I don't think I actually want to know. Just take a look at this.
00:16:37.440 Following the launch of Canada's first federal 2SLGBTQI plus action plan, building our future with pride, the government of Canada adopted the use of a new acronym.
00:16:47.440 I just can't keep reading it.
00:16:49.440 As communities in Canada called during public consultations for the acronym used by the government of Canada to be updated.
00:16:55.440 This acronym represents two-spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and additional people who identify as part of sexual and gender diverse communities.
00:17:05.440 So it goes on. You can take a look at it there for yourself.
00:17:09.440 I don't know what most of this stuff means. I doubt that the average person knows what most of this stuff means.
00:17:13.440 These are the types of things that we need to get cleaned up so that people understand what their federal government is working on and we aren't just continually wasting taxpayer dollars.
00:17:23.440 And then essentially lying to the Canadian public about it by not explaining to them what the funding is being spent on and using all the sort of coded language that no one, not an average person would understand.
00:17:33.440 Just to give you another example of a way that bureaucrats here in Canada go against the interest of their elected leaders, particularly when those elected politicians are conservatives.
00:17:43.440 Back in 2022, I was working at the Western Standard and I received a survey from a source that was actually from the union who represents the CRA and the survey asked the government employees how they would be impacted by conservative government and ask them how they think their salary would be impacted, how their benefits would be would be impacted, how their their working relationship would be impact job security, sick leave.
00:18:09.440 And it just struck me that this is something that the union who represents bureaucrats is spending their time on.
00:18:15.440 Bureaucrats are being asked how they would be impacted by a future conservative government. Of course, we didn't have a conservative government in 2022. Now we're in 2024. We still don't have one, but that you could see that the union was concerned and it wanted to hear directly from employees when this is really not in the interest of the mandate of someone who works for the Canadian people.
00:18:34.440 Your interest, as I said before, is to do the will of the elected officials and they will set the priorities for the government. It isn't your job to speculate as to how a future government might impact you, especially while getting while you're on the taxpayers time.
00:18:48.440 It is your job simply to implement their mandate and their vision for a future vision for Canada as they were elected by the Canadian people. And it seems that bureaucrats have really lost their way on that front.
00:19:01.440 They've become more about their own interests, the interests of their specific department and ensuring that they have job security in the future.
00:19:08.440 I understand, you know, we all want job security, but when you are being paid by the taxpayer, I think you need to understand just as an elected official would understand that there might not be as much certainty with your position because there is change in government and you are paid by the taxpayer.
00:19:25.440 So if the will of the taxpayer changes and a new government is elected with a new mandate, you might not have a job anymore.
00:19:31.440 And if that's something that you're not interested, then go find a job in the private sector, go find a job in the private sector.
00:19:36.440 There should be many available maybe under the next future government.
00:19:39.440 I know we have a scarcity of jobs right now under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, partly because of all the people that we are bringing in.
00:19:46.440 But that is a conversation for another time. Before we head out here, we need to talk a little bit about Joe Biden because so much has happened since last week.
00:19:53.440 As you likely know, Joe Biden has announced that he will not run as the Democrat presidential nominee.
00:20:00.440 No surprise there. I think a lot of us saw this coming. I was personally surprised he held on as long as he did.
00:20:06.440 But part of the reason why he might have stepped down is due to a major health threat that he had.
00:20:11.440 We saw him leaving only since since he stepped down. We've seen him only about two times.
00:20:17.440 First, he left Las Vegas. It was sort of an emergency.
00:20:21.440 There were some reports that he had become very sick and that he needed to be transported back home to Delaware.
00:20:26.440 And here's a video of him leaving Las Vegas. He's getting helped into a car from this vehicle.
00:20:31.440 He was whisked off to the airport where he was flown home to Delaware.
00:20:34.440 And this was one of the last times we saw him before he went missing for five days.
00:20:38.440 The White House said he had COVID. And you can see him here being helped into the car.
00:20:42.440 Take a look at this clip and listen very carefully to what the reporters are saying about it. Take a look.
00:20:46.440 And we did note he wasn't wearing a mask there when he came down the stairs.
00:20:50.440 But it does appear once he gets in the car that he puts that mask on.
00:20:54.440 Puts the mask on. It appears that he might be getting a little help just getting into the car there.
00:20:58.440 Hard to make out through the rain what exactly is going on there.
00:21:01.440 But it does look like certainly that the president's feeling the effects of, you know, early in the stages of COVID.
00:21:06.440 And many of us have been there. So we do wish him a speedy recovery.
00:21:11.440 John Carl, you're reporting earlier on World News Tonight getting some pickup tonight across several news outlets.
00:21:16.440 You reported on this meeting that Chuck Schumer had with President Biden. This was Saturday.
00:21:22.440 So you can see Biden being helped into the vehicle there. We heard already that he had COVID.
00:21:26.440 And you can just hear what the reporters say. This just cracked me up too much.
00:21:29.440 He might be getting a little help just getting into the car.
00:21:32.440 It does look like the president certainly is feeling the effects of early in the stages of COVID.
00:21:38.440 And many of us have been there. I'm sorry. Many of us have been there.
00:21:41.440 Many of us couldn't get into a vehicle on our own because we had COVID.
00:21:45.440 Remember, this was characterized as a virus that you might not have any symptoms for.
00:21:50.440 You might feel perfectly fine.
00:21:52.440 But apparently the lamestream media is so desperate to pass off these attempts as Joe Biden being fine. 0.99
00:21:57.440 And now, of course, they look so stupid because they've been covering for Joe Biden for four years, 0.99
00:22:01.440 especially in the days the last year and since that disastrous debate performance. 1.00
00:22:06.440 They're still covering for him in this moment. He can't even get into a vehicle on his own.
00:22:09.440 And they're still covering for him. And now, of course, we know that he has said that he will not run again.
00:22:14.440 And these reporters aren't admitting that they that they were wrong.
00:22:17.440 They're continuing to just sort of move forward. Everyone get under Kamala. Let's push Kamala. 1.00
00:22:22.440 So I thought this was hilarious and ridiculous.
00:22:25.440 I can tell you that I had a cesarean with my baby and I as a major surgery, they cut through many layers.
00:22:31.440 And I was still able to get into a vehicle on my own two days after surgery, maybe even one day.
00:22:36.440 I couldn't stomach staying at the hospital. So we left quite quickly.
00:22:39.440 I could still get hobble into the vehicle on my own.
00:22:41.440 I didn't need someone to sort of lift me up and push me in.
00:22:44.440 So obviously there's something very serious wrong with the president and that is why he's not running again.
00:22:49.440 I don't know why they've been so tight lipped about what's going on with him.
00:22:53.440 You'd think that if they explained that there was some health emergency, it would make people more willing to kind of background Kamala Harris or just accept the fact that he won't be able to run again.
00:23:04.440 Maybe it's because they've been so busy lying for four years that they are embarrassed.
00:23:09.440 But the fact that now he has had some major health emergency, which is preventing him from running again.
00:23:14.440 But it all is very strange. So basically after that video was taken, we didn't see him again for five days.
00:23:19.440 During that time, he announced that he would not run again.
00:23:22.440 Now we saw him recently the other day. He left from Delaware to go to Washington.
00:23:26.440 And tonight at 8 p.m. Eastern time, he will be giving his first address to the American public from the Oval Office to explain how we can essentially finish his term as president.
00:23:36.440 Because many people are saying, well, if you're not fit to run for office again, how can you be fit to hold a presidency?
00:23:42.440 Because the new president won't be sworn in until January.
00:23:45.440 So he has months left of his term.
00:23:47.440 And I think there's a lot of concern that how is he able to run?
00:23:50.440 We've barely seen him when we have seen him.
00:23:52.440 He it's videos like that last one where he's not even able to get into a vehicle on his own.
00:23:56.440 So certainly very concerning.
00:23:58.440 And I am interested to hear what he has to say tonight.
00:24:01.440 Meanwhile, you guys, I'm sure know this already.
00:24:03.440 The Democrats are rallying around Kamala Harris.
00:24:06.440 It's looking like she's going to be their choice.
00:24:08.440 I definitely thought they were going to try to swoop in and to have someone maybe got maybe California Governor Gavin Newsom someone a little more likable sweep in the last moment.
00:24:16.440 But then they would have that issue of how they're going to get rid of their first, you know, black candidate, female black candidate. 1.00
00:24:23.440 I should say, of course, we had Barack Obama and this is the party of DEI.
00:24:27.440 So that certainly wouldn't have been a good look for them.
00:24:29.440 So it looks like it's going to be Kamala.
00:24:31.440 We'll have more to say about her in the weeks to come.
00:24:34.440 For now, I'm Rachel Parker.
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