Real Coffee with Scott Adams - The Scott Adams School - 05⧸07⧸26 Kyle Becker joins the Home Team

00:00:00.000 we are alive alive good morning you guys it's may 7 2026 good morning here owen and marcella

00:00:11.920 and kyle becker joins us again today we're so happy to have him here um so i realize that i

00:00:21.120 don't think we need as much time to chat when we come in i feel like it's um we can get to the sip

00:00:26.240 faster for some reason and i'm parched are you guys parched let's hope i don't pick a duplicate

00:00:32.460 clip it's the wheel of clip heck back here let's do it and all it takes is a thousand people to

00:00:41.440 rush in here the next thing you know well this sipping is going to be happening and all you need

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00:01:17.760 spicy good stuff did he say spicy coffee well i have spicy coffee i put a little cinnamon on my

00:01:27.680 foam you know it's a little spicy who knows yeah i make little foamy foam whatever sometimes when

00:01:36.020 i'm feeling extra perky and just like you know ready to go at it like let's have some foam get

00:01:40.940 this going i don't know how did scott drink his coffee i guess black black black black black huh

00:01:46.600 so the spoon stood up right there all right no fun in his coffee just black coffee he had foam on it

00:01:53.780 when he had the melee that you remember the the very fancy machine that never worked that that

00:02:01.360 rarely worked yeah a lot of money oh the coffee battling with that yeah i do i do add cinnamon

00:02:08.220 and creatine to my coffee that's a good one and a little bit of l-theanine too you're so extra

00:02:14.200 all the time collagen's not bad either but anyway just leave me with my chobani sweet cream and i'm

00:02:21.600 good morcella how do you drink your coffee yeah just um oh my god it's just milk and coffee

00:02:30.480 but i do foam it i do do the foam i froth too i'm like a little cappuccino

00:02:36.420 yeah little frothing is fun i'm not gonna lie and i will give you a little behind the scenes i don't

00:02:42.740 froth as much as i used to with the live stream because i would take a sip and the froth would

00:02:48.020 like stick to my lip and i'm like there's no like gracious way of getting it off my face

00:02:53.300 so i do a gentle frothing now lord the things you guys we have so much news today and i have

00:03:02.180 like i said if you could see what my clips look like back here and i just want to say again

00:03:07.860 if i'm telling you we're going to talk about spencer pratt and ilhan omar pops up

00:03:14.260 that's just what i'm dealt the cards just pretended spencer pratt just pretend spencer

00:03:18.980 is ilhan and everything will be okay but anyway you guys i watched that debate last night was so

00:03:26.340 good we're talking about the mayoral debate for los angeles where marcella lives a man am i

00:03:33.380 learning a lot about la and its problems i thought i knew but who did you watch marcella no

00:03:41.460 she's like a typical los angeles person does watch i guess oh um i you know what joel pollack

00:03:49.860 did a whole thing about following every question i saw the clips i you know so joel watched it

00:03:56.180 for me thank goodness good okay so you can definitely i can't stand seeing karen bass

00:04:03.460 i just can't oh yeah it's just terrible well i don't know if you guys well i mean listen i'm

00:04:09.460 i'm in new jersey but this is just you know must-see tv for me i loved it um so i'm just

00:04:15.140 gonna play a couple of quick clips okay just to give you a little flavor we'll chat about it but

00:04:20.820 first uh the first topic i wanted to show you the difference in two people so here is um

00:04:28.820 karen bass who is the current mayor who let la let the palisades burn down and oh and what i just

00:04:36.340 want to point out like i can just you know hear scott you know explaining to you she's talking

00:04:40.500 about how homeless rates have gone down in the last two years if they went down it's because you

00:04:46.180 You had a bajillion homeless people, and now you have just under a bajillion homeless people.

00:04:52.520 It's like, let's not be proud.

00:04:53.640 It's not like you went from a bajillion to 20.

00:04:56.060 So anyway, here's Karen Bass, the current mayor who wants to be reelected.

00:05:01.440 And I don't know why you'd want to be reelected.

00:05:03.580 But anyway, here we go.

00:05:04.580 I think that I deserve a second term, and I'm going to fight for that because we have

00:05:10.460 made significant progress in a variety of areas.

00:05:13.420 for example, homelessness was going up year after year. And under my watch, it is the first time

00:05:19.880 we've had a decrease in street homelessness. While it went up in the country, 18%, it came down in

00:05:26.500 Los Angeles, 17 and a half percent. So, and then you got a little behind the scenes while she was

00:05:35.020 talking there of of what's happening in la so uh that was karen and then here is i hope here is uh

00:05:44.380 spencer pratt you guys might have seen him from the hills reality show on mtv back in the day

00:05:51.260 he is has been forced to run for mayor to save the place that he loves and lives and here's um

00:05:58.300 his talk on homelessness say councilwoman robin acts like she doesn't have any authority with

00:06:03.260 with this homelessness. She was the third most powerful person in city council. She runs the 0.72

00:06:07.920 homeless housing thing. She acts like this is just Mayor Bass. First off, inside safe. I like to say

00:06:13.680 inside safe makes all of us outside unsafe. The reality is no matter how many beds you give these

00:06:20.080 people, they are on super meth. They are on fentanyl. The DEA statistics says 93% of this

00:06:26.020 is a drug addiction problem. Nithya, Councilwoman Robin's plan for treatment first, I will go

00:06:32.220 below the Harbor Freeway tomorrow with her

00:06:34.320 and we can find some of these people 0.99

00:06:35.740 she's going to offer treatment for. 1.00

00:06:37.540 She's going to get stabbed in the neck. 1.00

00:06:39.280 These people do not want a bed. 1.00

00:06:41.780 They want fentanyl or super meth.

00:06:43.840 These ideas cost us over $400 million

00:06:46.480 to house 3,000 people for $400 million.

00:06:51.600 This is an absolute failure for both of them.

00:06:54.380 They're a team.

00:06:56.220 So I love him.

00:06:58.900 It was just like that.

00:06:59.840 It was very Donald Trump a la 2015 of just speaking common sense.

00:07:07.820 Kyle, I'm going to come to you first.

00:07:10.080 You're our guest news host today.

00:07:13.500 Did you watch any of this?

00:07:15.360 What did you think about what you saw?

00:07:16.640 I saw enough of it to know that Spencer Pratt definitely won this debate.

00:07:22.860 And I think 88% of those respondents to a certain poll, they agreed with that.

00:07:28.200 And I think that when you get the Democratic Party on stage with common sense people, you can call them Republicans if you want, but just anybody who has common sense, they just argue.

00:07:40.920 And if they can spit facts about the damage that these Democratic Party politicians are going to affect on their cities, then I think that the track record speaks for itself.

00:07:52.720 You don't even have to be the most polished rhetorician.

00:07:56.140 You don't have to be Cicero to simply just lay out the track record of failure that the

00:08:00.280 Democrats have in these cities.

00:08:01.580 And it's just abysmal.

00:08:03.440 And how you can reelect somebody who oversees such destruction is beyond me and beyond most

00:08:09.720 sensible voters who would watch such a debate.

00:08:13.900 I was nervous for Spencer because it's his first debate and now he's going up against

00:08:18.800 politicians.

00:08:19.440 But common sense just does outshine these politicians.

00:08:24.320 And so he was talking about an organization or something they made called Inside Safe.

00:08:29.740 And the theory was if you bring people inside, they'll be safe.

00:08:33.540 And I love how he goes inside safe, you know, means outside dangerous, you know, because they're not solving anything.

00:08:40.760 So, you know, and he's right, Marcella, you know, giving people beds and trying to force them off the street is not going to solve this problem if they're addicts.

00:08:48.960 So did you, you know, how did you feel about that clip?

00:08:52.740 I mean, I won.

00:08:55.600 I don't want anybody to think that I don't want Spencer Pratt to win.

00:08:59.000 But the issue is difficult in Los Angeles for him to win

00:09:04.360 because of the fact that the unions are against him and everything else.

00:09:08.940 But you know what?

00:09:09.600 It's great that he's running because he's bringing them against their own issues.

00:09:14.880 he's getting um karen bass um like he's basically talking to her about hey you i don't have a house

00:09:23.200 because of you you know so it's great to see that somebody is actually telling them what this is

00:09:30.000 causing um everything that they they're just word salads about everything they talked about illegal

00:09:37.840 immigrants voting um of course they want that to happen um but spencer said no you know and so

00:09:48.480 you know i i want him to win and he did really good he really did a lot he was able to think on 0.70

00:09:56.400 his feet and he was able to fight back but still be um restrained although mbc kept saying oh

00:10:07.600 at the beginning of the debate they were like no name calling okay no name calling and when he

00:10:14.580 called karen bass a liar which i don't believe is a name call um i could have called her many

00:10:21.140 worse names um they said you're name calling her yeah and so they made it appear as like oh you're 0.97

00:10:28.540 the bad white male, you know, colonizer kind of person.

00:10:34.540 Oh, not the colonizers. 0.98

00:10:36.540 Oof.

00:10:37.540 It's like we're back in the 19th century.

00:10:39.540 Yeah, I know.

00:10:40.540 We love the word colonizing here.

00:10:41.540 Who's colonizing nowadays?

00:10:43.540 Are there a lot of colonizers you run into on this?

00:10:45.540 Spence, I guess it is.

00:10:47.540 Hey, hey, you're oppressing me.

00:10:48.540 Stop colonizing me.

00:10:49.540 They got the whole outfit and everything.

00:10:51.540 So, Owen, did you-

00:10:53.540 I watched the clips, people.

00:10:54.540 I watched the clips. 0.99

00:10:55.540 Yeah, she watched the clips.

00:10:56.540 know did you get to see any of this or are we just going to show you clips because oh my god

00:11:01.100 it was so good it was and he really and i love that he he also would take his time instead of

00:11:06.820 answering the question the moderator would give him he's like i'm using my time to just debunk

00:11:12.240 with these two lunatics just said and he did it so effectively um and respectfully and really

00:11:19.420 painted a picture so um i don't know what you got i know owen's so so busy right now so

00:11:24.180 what do you think I did not see it before so I'm just listening to the clips as you're showing them

00:11:30.280 to me but I do think that you know it's it's kind of just a sad situation that I think it's probably

00:11:37.280 very likely that one of these Democrats is going to get elected just because that's how

00:11:41.420 the politics are in LA but I really I do hope that Spencer can have an upset I think it's

00:11:49.080 well-deserved um i think it if people were following common sense they would be electing him

00:11:55.160 um and i'm hoping that we you know he'll be able to use some of the persuasion techniques like the

00:12:01.000 ai videos and the things that we've been seeing and it's been kind of interesting but um i tend

00:12:06.520 to think it's you know like even those ai videos are probably only being watched by people that

00:12:11.080 would have already voted for spencer and um you know i don't even know how many people watch the

00:12:16.680 the debate frankly and um so i don't know how much is going to move the needle i just looked

00:12:21.540 on polymarket and it was interesting to me but and spencer did take a little bit of a jump up but

00:12:27.560 not much and the interesting part was that it looked like um karen bass actually went up

00:12:33.640 pretty significantly and took the lead away from raman so i don't know exactly if maybe there's

00:12:41.340 another clip that explains that but it looks like before the debate um ramen had a pretty big lead

00:12:48.620 like like it was like close to 50 chance that she would be winning she didn't do bass was way down

00:12:55.380 and for some reason polymarket suddenly shifted and now karen bass is in the lead according to

00:12:59.960 the odds it was pretty funny because nithia ramen i don't think she did well but um they did a an

00:13:05.900 ad together bass and ramen being like you know like trying to like align each other to make

00:13:11.500 spencer look like you know the bad outsider in an ad and it was funny because when i put on the

00:13:17.900 debate they were like you know bickering with each other the two women and um you know and then

00:13:23.980 nithia even like took this opportunity to say you can see what's happening here they're obviously

00:13:29.500 afraid of me because those two are working together to gang up on me and then spencer's like 0.78

00:13:34.540 Like, that's pretty, you think I'm working with a woman who let my house burn down and

00:13:40.220 my parents' house burn down and like ruin California?

00:13:43.500 He's like, that's hysterical, which, you know, he got a lot of laughs too.

00:13:47.280 So I think once the clips come out, more of these clips from the debate, that people are

00:13:51.740 going to be like, you know what?

00:13:52.800 I think I'm curious to see like in a week where that goes, but I do want to just show

00:13:58.020 the one clip on Hollywood because Hollywood's done.

00:14:01.120 They're done and they depend on it.

00:14:03.320 Now, here's Spencer, who knows the Hollywood industry.

00:14:08.500 So here's what he had to say about one of their most important industries.

00:14:12.660 We needed a mayor three years ago that was going to Sacramento and fighting the governor to get uncapped tax credits.

00:14:20.780 We need post-production tax credits.

00:14:22.960 And Councilman Rahman will tell you, my husband's a producer, blah, blah, blah.

00:14:26.940 The reality is she's been in power for five years.

00:14:29.200 Now, all of a sudden, she has these tweets and these posts and she's doing sub stacks. 1.00

00:14:33.320 Both of these people have been the reason why there's no more Hollywood.

00:14:37.420 Not to mention, even if they do, you know, these things,

00:14:40.780 we're still going to have drug addicts all over the street

00:14:42.820 because they're treatment first, open beds, not mandatory treatment.

00:14:46.840 Do you know I talk to producers?

00:14:48.080 They have to pay gang members right now to keep the streets safe,

00:14:51.760 to go film anything on the streets of L.A.

00:14:54.300 So absolutely no, these two politicians have failed Hollywood times a thousand.

00:15:03.320 all right so i hope hollywood hears that because they know that the struggle is real and i know

00:15:08.740 it's real because they're all coming to new jersey i'm not happy um all right so marcella i'll come

00:15:14.760 to you first you shook your head about you know gang members having to be security for

00:15:20.840 these people to shoot movies yeah even gang members who want the homeless out

00:15:27.460 even they enforce the law um you know the thing about hollywood is i i'm just hoping that there's

00:15:36.880 a you know how when the when trump first ran there was this secret trump voter maybe there'll

00:15:44.120 be a secret pratt voter where they have to tell everybody of you know every friend of theirs oh

00:15:50.620 I'm voting for the socialist ramen, or I'm voting for, you know, Karen Bass. So I'm hoping that's

00:16:00.380 what will happen. But yeah, Hollywood is really Finnish. And it's, and it's not just Hollywood, 0.98

00:16:07.900 I mean, it creates a whole industry. So where there is, you know, restaurants, catering,

00:16:16.860 every all sorts of things carpenters you know all sorts of like uh tradesmen that work in that

00:16:24.700 field that i know and they're having to go to new jersey they're having to go to nevada or wherever

00:16:31.320 the filming is gone to um yeah there's no and the thing about um spencer pratt is that he does

00:16:42.460 get that reality out to, you know, to the public. But the other thing is that Karen Bass and

00:16:50.740 Raman, I don't, I forget, Nithya. Nithya Raman, they don't have a solution. They're part of the

00:17:00.700 problem. They created this. Well, yeah, they've been there for years and years and years. So now

00:17:05.380 suddenly you're like, we have a plan. Oh, well, that's nice. Where was that? But all right. So

00:17:09.500 I'm going to move on from the story if you guys don't mind, but that, so we'll keep an

00:17:12.860 eye on that.

00:17:13.960 Kyle, I wanted to ask you, I wanted to move on to this Louise Lucas story, and I do have

00:17:19.760 a clip, but can you just give us a quick little snippet before I run the clip of what we're

00:17:24.740 moving into next?

00:17:26.060 Right. 1.00

00:17:26.560 So Louise Lucas is an ally of Governor Abigail Spanberger. 0.97

00:17:30.660 She's a state senator.

00:17:31.720 She's actually the Senate pro tempore, and she had been under investigation since the 1.00

00:17:38.900 Biden administration for running illegal cannabis or hemp distribution centers. And there are now 0.85

00:17:46.180 bribery implications for these centers that she was participating in. So the FBI raided one of

00:17:54.200 those distribution centers and seized assets and actually arrested a handful. And she's been there

00:17:59.680 a long time. Yeah, she's quite up in the age. I can't give you an exact age, but yeah, she's been

00:18:06.960 there for a while. Let's see. We'll look at the clip and then the three of us will

00:18:09.960 chitty chat about it. The four of us looking at you three. Hold on. One of the most powerful

00:18:14.920 political figures in Virginia is under the FBI spotlight. Yeah. So this morning, federal

00:18:20.160 investigators raided the office and business of Senate Finance Chair Louise Lucas. It happened

00:18:25.440 in Portsmouth, which is where she's from. The FBI is not releasing much information tonight,

00:18:29.760 but it all stems from allegations of corruption. Our Matthew Torres has the latest on the

00:18:34.700 investigation tonight. Senator, is there anything you can say? Virginia Senator Luis Lucas driving

00:18:40.840 off from the scene of an FBI raid in Portsmouth. Investigators seen searching her office and a

00:18:45.700 cannabis dispensary she co-owns. The exact reason is still unclear other than it's part of a

00:18:50.960 corruption investigation. Her colleague, State Republican Senator Bryce Reeves. Whether it's a

00:18:56.100 Republican or a Democrat, to have something like this happen is not a good thing and it does not

00:19:03.880 bode well for Virginia. A longtime friend and Virginia House Speaker Don Scott is among the

00:19:08.960 Democratic leaders casting doubt on the investigation. In a statement, Scott says,

00:19:13.440 I am deeply concerned by today's FBI raid, giving the politicization of this administration,

00:19:18.560 an FBI led by Kash Patel and a Justice Department run by President Donald Trump's

00:19:22.540 former personal attorney. I think people should take this with a grain of salt and allow the

00:19:26.880 facts to come out before jumping to conclusions. I want to provide Virginians with more certainty

00:19:32.480 and stability. Lucas has been in office since 1992. She's the Senate Finance Chair and a big

00:19:38.600 critic of President Trump. Lucas was instrumental in helping push for redistricting in the Commonwealth 0.53

00:19:43.440 to dramatically favor Democrats. Her quick wit and sharp tongue expressed on camera and social

00:19:48.940 media have also gained her even more attention. Because she holds the purse strings, she's the 0.87

00:19:54.200 most powerful, politically powerful ranking senator that we have. So this does not bode

00:20:02.140 well. It's very concerning. Lucas was a major proponent in legalizing simple possession

00:20:07.300 of marijuana in 2021. It's the same year she opened her cannabis business, which is now

00:20:12.340 part of the FBI probe. Her store has been scrutinized over allegations of mislabeled

00:20:17.340 products years ago. To note, Senator Lucas has not been charged with anything. Meanwhile,

00:20:21.700 Democrat Virginia Attorney General Jay Jones is also weighing in, saying that he is questioning this investigation.

00:20:28.500 We've also reached out to Governor Abigail Spanberger, who says that she is waiting for more details to become public before she provides a strong statement.

00:20:39.400 Okay, so what you guys can't see, I thought Marcella was going to have a stroke and fall over behind that clip. 0.75

00:20:47.700 Oh, my God. Marcella is like, they're totally wrong.

00:20:52.080 Dot is wrong. All right. Marcella, just go. Go ahead. Before you burst.

00:20:57.020 This the federal federal law enforcement had opened this investigation under the Biden administration.

00:21:06.160 So it was never a cash, Patel, FBI. It was under Biden that this was open.

00:21:13.300 so for him to say oh you know the political association or whatever he said um no no you

00:21:21.180 know she's being investigated because there's concern about some of the things that she's doing

00:21:26.860 and she's in charge of all the finance and on top of that she does have a dispensary but you know 0.99

00:21:32.720 and i love how her dispensary is right next to her office that's so convenient there's a bakery next 0.89

00:21:37.660 to it that's i love that how they went to like murder fantasy attorney general jay jones for

00:21:42.600 comment like okay here's the voice of reason and authority on this subject but like you were saying

00:21:48.420 the politicization is the fbi failing to do due diligence and uh pursuing their leads if whenever

00:21:57.160 they run into a democrat dead end you know and that's what the democrats have been doing hunter

00:22:01.120 biden and then the biden family and the and the rest of you go on and on but the funny thing is

00:22:06.880 they're saying Cash Patel is politicizing the FBI simply because he's pursuing investigations that

00:22:14.280 the Democrats stopped pursuing for political reasons. I mean, you can't make this up. And

00:22:19.400 the corruption right now is like so astounding. It's like we've taken the lid off of all of the

00:22:24.340 corruption and we have a decentralized media landscape now. So now all of these things are

00:22:29.640 going viral. The stuff in Ohio, did you see that? The Luke Rosiak stuff. Even in the California race,

00:22:34.920 just wanted to point out, Xavier Becerra, who ran HHS, he is, I saw a very damning investigation

00:22:41.120 with Steve Hilton unleashed it. And it was like Churla with the illegal aliens who are doing, 0.98

00:22:46.120 who are taxpayer funded, right? Taxpayer funded, like I think 93% of their, you know, revenue is

00:22:53.260 like roots from taxpayers. And they are actively, they endorse Becerra for governor, and they are

00:23:01.040 actively campaigning for him using taxpayer money and illegal aliens so i'm just like the entire

00:23:06.400 landscape the somali fraud scandal maybe we'll talk about that but virginia is captured i mean

00:23:11.520 it blows my mind where we're at right now we have this i mean this may sound like hyperbole i mean

00:23:16.720 i'm a cold war buff so this isn't hyperbole to me like we have actual communists like garen bass

00:23:21.840 uh we have katie wilson in seattle brandon johnson in chicago uh we have uh you know michelle

00:23:28.000 Wu in Boston. We have Zoran Mamdani in New York City. These guys are, they say they're

00:23:33.640 democratic socialists, but they're undemocratic socialists, okay? First of all, this is striking.

00:23:38.500 And then the other thing is they've captured Virginia. We have a former CIA operative who's

00:23:43.800 running the state. We have murder fantasy attorney general Jay Jones, who is presiding over the law

00:23:49.440 enforcement in the state. Wait, Kyle, remind everyone about him, about Jones, what he did,

00:23:53.960 Cause I can't even believe he got it.

00:23:55.560 So like a Republican, uh, Virginia Senate leader, uh, you know, uh, Jay Jones, there

00:24:03.500 were taxed exchanges where he's laughing and talking about murder fantasies about him and

00:24:07.340 his children.

00:24:08.200 And, uh, you know, they went public during the race, Abigail Spanberger refused to like

00:24:13.200 strongly condemn Jones and like backed, backed him up, uh, in the race.

00:24:17.580 And so now he's actually the attorney general.

00:24:19.500 I don't know why that story sort of like disappeared off of the landscape, but

00:24:23.800 Imagine if a Republican did that to a Democrat and actually won the state attorney general's race.

00:24:28.880 I mean, it would just be nonstop blast.

00:24:31.220 And I would be on the same page.

00:24:32.680 I'm just like, you can't have a Republican attorney general who's fantasizing about this sort of thing.

00:24:37.300 One hundred percent.

00:24:38.920 And so Republicans, they disown the disgraceful politicians.

00:24:43.520 I see it all the time where Republicans are, you know, they try to police their own.

00:24:49.460 Democrats don't seem to police their own at all.

00:24:51.400 So it's just to see this, you know, be there. They're not concerned. There's no media concern that she actually did this and maybe had bribery. You know, there's actually substance to the bribery accusations. Right. And so they're not like pressing like, you know, citizen journalists would or independent journalists would to like actually say, well, maybe if this is true, it's very concerning.

00:25:15.480 i don't get any of that from these local news reports i don't know they have to like uh go to

00:25:21.760 these so-called reputable sources like jay jones or whatever to try to get comment from him like

00:25:26.840 he's going to give us an he's going to be an honest broker right what the situation is there

00:25:31.320 uh it's just they play defense this way they try to use like use appeal to authority to try to or

00:25:38.720 appeal to brand which is kind of like my original point most of these democrat voters like if if

00:25:44.560 these mayors ran on like, I don't know, uh, the communist party ticket or whatever, they'd be

00:25:50.580 like, what is this? You know, what are we voting for? I have no idea. But since it's under the

00:25:55.160 democratic party, uh, uh, Trojan horse, so they just don't even see it. Virginia was fully a

00:26:03.060 Trojan horse, especially with Spamberger flipping everything. Oh, and what do you, you know, um,

00:26:09.120 can you stand these people anymore you know it's just it's so blatant and nothing ever happens so

00:26:16.040 it is i mean the comment i made online when i saw this story was you know somebody needs to tell

00:26:21.800 lucas that the preferred way to do crime in congress is insider trading that you can get

00:26:26.560 away with that but you know if you do this bribery stuff you're you're really on shaky ground i don't

00:26:32.320 know this cannabis outlet stuff you know you should stay away from that sort of thing but

00:26:36.080 the insider trading i mean that's where you really make the big money for sure right and maybe it's

00:26:42.240 a little less damaging for everybody else but i mean it is crafty to have the dispensary next

00:26:46.940 door so i do like that because it's like you know when the landlord lives next to their tenants you

00:26:51.420 can keep an eye on them so that's good and um yeah so we we have to follow that kyle you have to give

00:26:58.220 us updates as you see it but oh my god the corruption in virginia is well everywhere but

00:27:03.680 I find it very interesting that Virginia is the home of like the CIA with like Langley and there's Quantico. And so the Democrats capture the stage, which is like the heartbeat of of all of these massive federal agencies that are very powerful. And so, like, I do like what Cash Patel is doing. On the contrary, they accuse him of weaponizing them. Of course, he's getting rid of some partisan actors. That's true.

00:27:28.080 But he's also sending a lot of FBI agents back to their branch offices to be boots on the ground with the investigations leading, which I think is very smart.

00:27:38.720 But in my opinion, we need to do something about the way that D.C. – I would just like to see it sort of dissolved ultimately.

00:27:49.900 I just think it's an antiquated political arrangement.

00:27:53.340 It's not necessary. It's not a way it doesn't represent Americans the best way that it could if we had a better sort of design.

00:28:00.820 There was a there was a rationale for it in the 18th century to have it have a location where they would all meet in person and discuss things.

00:28:08.140 Now, with K Street and Quantico and Langley and all of these things in this sort of hub, it's just too much centralized power.

00:28:14.940 And like, you know, if I have my I think if James Madison and Jefferson were here today, they would be, whoa, this is, you know, this is a problem.

00:28:23.340 you know imagine this yeah yeah right yeah it you're so right i think about this all the time

00:28:29.820 and why is everything in one cluster and why is there so much of it and what you're right like uh

00:28:36.540 i forget what story it was but i do like that patel is putting people back in their districts

00:28:42.540 like why are you all in one spot go go do stuff um all right so you guys that's amazing isn't it

00:28:49.740 all right our next oh i love our next story somebody said the word somalia um so i cannot

00:28:58.540 you guys you know there's a few people i cannot handle and the next one is our beloved ilhan omar

00:29:08.780 okay so i'm getting a little excited because i feel like you remember the old saying we used to

00:29:14.380 say the walls are closing in um and i do want to let you know that i purchased a leering center

00:29:22.220 sweatshirt it's on its way okay so let's talk about what's going on with ilhan omar i'm going

00:29:27.740 to play a clip of uh benny johnson speaking with jd vance first just to kind of summarize it and

00:29:34.220 then we're going to go into another clip and then we'll chitty chat it out hang on talk about ilhan

00:29:39.100 Omar and Tim Walz and obviously Ilhan Omar. The president and the White House have been out saying

00:29:44.340 that she married her brother, that there is immigration fraud going on here. These are

00:29:49.420 deportable denaturalization offenses. Can you give us an update on that? Yeah, so we actually think

00:29:55.220 that Ilhan Omar definitely committed immigration fraud against the United States of America. And I

00:30:00.300 talked to Stephen Miller about this actually recently. We're trying to look at what the

00:30:04.080 remedies are. That's the thing that we're trying to figure out is what are the legal remedies now

00:30:08.020 that we know that she's committed immigration fraud. How do you go after her? How do you

00:30:12.180 investigate her? How do you actually do the thing? How do you build the case necessary to get some

00:30:16.420 justice for the American people? There's a related issue, Benny, which is she has been at the center

00:30:23.140 of a lot of the worst fraudsters in the Somalian community. So do I know that Ilyana Omar was aware 1.00

00:30:29.300 that the Quality Leering Center was defrauding the American people? I'm not certain of it,

00:30:34.000 but we at least need to investigate it because if people can commit wrongdoing without even

00:30:39.280 the fear that they're going to be found out, that's a fundamental problem. So I'm worried

00:30:44.640 about the immigration fraud. I'm also worried about what did Ilion Omar know about what was

00:30:49.560 happening in the Somali community and why was nobody looking into it until frankly, Donald

00:30:54.500 Trump came along. Do we, all right, first of all, do you love how he calls her Ilion? Like,

00:31:00.660 I just love how he adds it in. And I love how the quality leering center just rolled off his tongue

00:31:05.660 like JD's so fricking hip and cool. I love that. Um, okay. So who wants to, does anyone want to

00:31:14.100 like brush up and just like what you said, Kyle, like, or Owen, I think you said it, you know,

00:31:19.640 no, we both did that. You could just have this fraud and broad daylight with no fear of getting

00:31:26.260 caught or being in trouble is definitely concerning. And you know what, let me play this

00:31:32.100 other clip because this will bring us up to date. Okay, guys, one more clip and then we're done with

00:31:36.540 her. Ready? Oh, and I think you're going to have to hear her voice, I think. So I'm sorry. I'm 0.97

00:31:41.860 sorry ahead of time. Squad Democrat Ilhan Omar closing in on a deadline set by Minnesota

00:31:47.160 Republicans to turn over documents about potential ties to a state fraud ring after she dodged a

00:31:53.000 hearing last month. Our senior correspondent Mike Tobin is reporting live out of Chicago.

00:31:57.360 He's got the latest details for us. Hey, Mike. And Sandra, that deadline is today for Minnesota

00:32:01.440 Congresswoman Ilhan Omar to turn over documents and communication tied to defendants in that

00:32:06.460 massive Feeding Our Futures scandal. The Minnesota House Committee on Fraud Prevention and State

00:32:11.380 Agency Oversight is holding its last meeting of the legislative session today. However,

00:32:16.720 the committee does not have enough votes to subpoena the congresswoman, so the committee

00:32:20.820 doesn't have a legal mechanism to compel Omar to cooperate. The chair of the committee has sent

00:32:26.080 Omar multiple invitations and requests for documents. Omar does not respond. Omar now

00:32:31.680 sponsored the 2020 Meals Act, which removed the guardrails on COVID relief money and helped the

00:32:36.520 fraud run up to $250 million. Despite that, the chair of the Fraud Prevention Committee does not

00:32:42.040 anticipate the Minnesota congressman will respond by the deadline. It shows her continued disdain

00:32:49.100 for the taxpayers. She feels like she's above having to answer for her involvement in the

00:32:55.940 fraud and her responsibility as a member of Congress who, you know, she passed the bill

00:33:03.300 that took the guardrails off the school nutrition program that led to the conditions that enabled 1.00

00:33:08.580 Feeding Our Future. Now, Amy Bach was convicted as the mastermind of the Feeding Our Future 1.00

00:33:13.540 scandal. Defendants billed the government for meals that were never provided through existing

00:33:17.940 restaurants and sham companies. Now, in Bach's trial, Omar's name appeared in an email chain

00:33:23.320 with Bach. Trial evidence showed text communication with Bach and Omar. Trial evidence also showed

00:33:29.100 Bach exchanged emails with one of the defendants who fled the country. The title of that email

00:33:33.560 chain was Ilhan's office. Now, back in January, our Alexis McAdams interviewed Amy Bach. She said

00:33:40.560 she never spoke directly with Representative Omar, only people in her office, and the conversation

00:33:45.880 She said, we're never substantive. Sandra, back to you. Got it.

00:33:51.280 Oh, we didn't have to hear her voice. Oh, you're welcome. You're welcome. Okay. Extra points for

00:33:56.440 me. All right. Oh, and I'm going to come to you first and just get your take on what's happening

00:34:01.040 with, um, with our favorite Somalian. I mean, I would just say like this, everything that's going

00:34:06.420 on in Minnesota seems like it's all connected. You know, we, you have, first of all, just how

00:34:11.380 we end up with this massive somali community there and then second you know the ilan omar

00:34:17.460 seems like some kind of creation that came out of that where she was sort of just like chosen

00:34:22.900 somehow to become representative of that and then we now we see the result of it with all this

00:34:28.340 massive fraud i don't think this was all just organic where all these individual people decided

00:34:33.700 hey we're gonna do this fraud i'm sure it was at least shared between them like hey i'm doing this

00:34:39.460 you know fake daycare and look at all the money i'm raking in and everybody copied them and

00:34:45.040 it's very clear that the government was turning a blind eye to all this stuff

00:34:49.440 and that they knew it was going on and they were doing nothing about it they were just letting it

00:34:54.640 happen and tim walls and now now that some people are actually being put on trial for it they're

00:35:00.760 giving him like slap on the wrist penalties like one of them just got out recently with no jail

00:35:05.480 time another one had like hardly anything they're basically giving them the judicial system is also

00:35:13.000 kind of just saying yeah no big deal you know we don't need to really give these people real

00:35:17.020 sentences and so it seems like there's just no order no law and order in minnesota everybody

00:35:23.140 from the executive branch to the legislators to the judicial branch everybody is just hey we're

00:35:29.580 just going to let people steal a bunch of money and you know just let it all go on oh all right

00:35:34.480 marcella i'm going to come to you next and then kyle will finish that up what vice president

00:35:41.340 van said it worries me because if if her marriage was not genuine and um she's being accused of

00:35:51.380 marrying a relative i guess a brother i suppose um and it was a sham marriage then she can face

00:35:58.340 deportation and easily um and she could possibly face crime um punishment for it's a crime to have

00:36:06.820 a sham marriage so i don't know to me that seems like they're taking the very uh like very they're

00:36:16.500 taking this very differently because she she can't be touched i don't know i i could be wrong but

00:36:24.340 she can easily be deported many people are um every day almost if there's a sham marriage 0.90

00:36:30.660 and i think they should be if that's the case there shouldn't be this two-tier justice system

00:36:35.060 where you say oh you're a special case because you're in congress no you you should have the

00:36:39.000 same penalties anybody else would have for a crime like that no one's above the law and let's not 0.92

00:36:44.300 forget that they're so disloyal to america like their first prior her first priority is somalia

00:36:50.260 somalians um so i i mean i have an issue with her i have an issue with anybody who wants to wave

00:36:56.660 another country's flag um try to turn our country into their country i have an issue with people 0.96

00:37:03.780 that were born in another country being a member of our politics to begin with um i just don't

00:37:10.260 think that hey well i do you're not in politics i i i do maybe i will be well maybe i won't like it

00:37:18.260 um i i just i want americans representing america i i haven't i just yeah i just don't feel like

00:37:26.420 you know she's she talks so much about you know how terrible america is and you know how she's

00:37:34.020 like these are my people you know she's talking to the somalian community if you go vote in

00:37:38.980 minnesota they think they don't even speak english in a lot of these places like everyone's in the

00:37:43.860 gear and like they don't speak english they don't want to talk to you and then remember waltz changed

00:37:49.140 the flag to look very much like the somalian flag like the state flag it's like what the hell is

00:37:53.940 going on um i'll start cursing i will so go ahead kyle well the democratic party has broken up

00:38:00.580 america into a number of political fiefdoms and they even racially gerrymandered they set up urban

00:38:06.340 party machines and i think uh in minnesota they even changed the flag like you're saying to

00:38:11.380 resemble the somalian flag to show just how disloyal to the united states they are

00:38:15.860 uh well ilhan omar i'm less concerned about the alleged marriage fraud than i am that her father

00:38:21.460 was a colonel in somalia and she's not actually a refugee she was not fleeing persecution and

00:38:27.540 therefore she might have lied about her reasons for being in the country she came here to be

00:38:32.340 allegedly participate in this fraud that was in this community in minnesota and she passed this 0.66

00:38:38.740 meals program that kind of paved the way and helped clear the way for allegedly 250 million

00:38:45.060 dollars in fraud or approximately that much and so of course attorney general keith ellison he's

00:38:50.420 been nailed as you know associating with some of these sleazy business owners and the same can be

00:38:57.060 said for ilhan omar and she it looks like she got kickbacks at some point to her campaign uh that

00:39:03.300 That was like a derivative of this kind of money laundering machine that they have up

00:39:08.820 there.

00:39:09.060 And so the Democratic Party at this point, I think that they function a lot like a protection

00:39:15.140 racket, like similar to a criminal enterprise.

00:39:18.580 That's just systematically what the process looks like to me.

00:39:23.800 And they are just siphoning off our federal taxpayers for illegitimate purposes to get 0.92

00:39:29.960 these little political strongholds and to turn them into mini Somalias, as some people have

00:39:35.300 coined it. Oh, yeah. So Ilhan Omar, they protected her. They protected her with this committee vote. 0.59

00:39:41.600 I mean, three of the members refused to go along with the subpoena just to look to see if there's

00:39:47.440 any there there. And that was after Ilhan Omar refused to comply. She's like a made person in

00:39:54.160 sort of democratic party there and uh so now there's uh questions about whether or not she'll

00:40:00.960 be expelled in the house of representatives they're actually looking at that i hate repeating

00:40:05.680 news about them looking at stuff because if they were serious they'd actually do that and then you

00:40:10.000 know well before after they do fauci like fauci first because you know we have a deadline uh you

00:40:15.680 know five days five days that auto pen pardon that he supposedly uh you know uh received from uh you

00:40:22.640 You know, someone in, you know, performing duties in Biden's name unconstitutionally, at least you could argue that maybe and see if it holds up in law, a court of law.

00:40:32.840 But, you know, Ilhan Omar is just a poster child. 0.88

00:40:35.760 And, you know, maybe we shouldn't want to expel her, you know, keep her around as the, you know, as the poster child of all this Democrat corruption, because every time she opens her mouth, she makes voters screen crawl outside of, of course.

00:40:47.960 Well, I'll just I'll take it a controversial step further. 1.00

00:40:51.460 and let's not forget her husband's winery and the you know 30 million dollar oops mistake on her 0.85

00:40:57.940 her returns you know okay and she's a muslim right why is she well i don't don't lead me

00:41:03.600 down the path kyle that's just where i'm going i mean i don't know just asking questions this is

00:41:08.160 why she's here okay this like i'll say it this is why she's here islam has a plan okay and i'm not

00:41:16.200 giving you, I told you guys, I'm not giving you my pre-qualifier of not all. There's a plan.

00:41:22.020 She's here. She's part of it. You see what's happening to Minnesota. You see what's happening

00:41:27.220 all over this country. And they're just waiting us out and growing and growing and growing. So

00:41:33.320 don't be afraid to talk about it. This is serious. This is do or die. So I want to believe that

00:41:41.080 this administration knows what's happening and they know why she has to go. And if they need

00:41:48.880 to dance around it and say it's because she lied to come here and married her brother 0.98

00:41:53.220 and she's a fraud, fine. But you still have another problem of almost 5% of this country

00:42:01.720 now that's going to need to follow and get the hell out of here too. So we have an Islam problem 1.00

00:42:06.960 and um she is made and she was put here so that's all i'm going to say about that for now um 0.98

00:42:14.400 just say just add the magnitude of what's going on in minnesota the fraud is literally more than

00:42:20.660 the gdp of somalia yes so all the money they're stealing it's like double their gdp so they

00:42:27.000 clearly have a lot of motivation to keep this going because it's essentially like the majority

00:42:32.400 their economy at this point oh my god chunks that's great chunks just said in the chat she

00:42:38.400 really needs to prove she loves her brother you know like all right prove prove to us that was a

00:42:43.760 real marriage um okay so uh i'm gonna move on from her but i like i will never literally move on from

00:42:52.560 her because i just she is the head of the snake um remember the snake story trump used to tell

00:42:58.960 us to go to sleep at night okay so let's move on my last clip and um oh and i'll let you lead this

00:43:07.860 one this is brett bear on fox news okay so this we're talking about redistricting um and just

00:43:16.040 lord here just here's the clip here we go democrats are decrying the supreme court ruling today

00:43:21.680 against a black majority district in louisiana that rolls back a key provision of the voting

00:43:27.360 Rights Act. We get details tonight from Fox News chief legal correspondent, anchor of Fox News

00:43:31.940 Sunday, Shannon Breen. Certainly the precedent of this decision will impact other states.

00:43:38.980 As redistricting fights across the country aim to reshape the midterm playing field,

00:43:43.760 the Supreme Court has issued a decision that could send states scrambling to redraw maps

00:43:48.560 in a move seen favorable to Republicans and one that has the potential to impact somewhere in

00:43:53.880 in the neighborhood of roughly 20 current congressional districts.

00:43:56.980 Would you consider it a win for a win for a Republican?

00:43:59.280 I love it.

00:44:00.280 The 6-3 opinion finds Louisiana erred in drawing a second predominantly black district,

00:44:05.880 which it had done in response to earlier litigation challenging its map at the time.

00:44:11.080 Justice Alito writing for the majority, quote,

00:44:14.080 no compelling interest justified the state's use of race in creating SB-8.

00:44:19.280 that map is an unconstitutional gerrymander, and its use would violate the plaintiff's

00:44:24.240 constitutional rights. Justice Thomas authored a concurring opinion joined by Justice Gorsuch

00:44:29.880 going beyond the majority's ruling, quote, I would go further and hold that Section 2

00:44:35.280 of the Voting Rights Act does not regulate districting at all. The dissenters, Justices

00:44:41.300 Kagan, Sotomayor, and Jackson, warn they fear Section 2 is essentially, quote, a dead letter

00:44:46.960 following today's decision. The consequences are likely to be far-reaching and grave. If other

00:44:53.540 states follow Louisiana's lead, the minority citizens residing there will no longer have an

00:44:59.120 equal opportunity to elect candidates of their choice. I think what the Supreme Court is saying

00:45:04.800 is it doesn't matter what communities are actively harmed so long as you can't prove intent. It's

00:45:13.900 unclear whether some legislatures will now be able, if they want, to redraw their maps in time

00:45:19.620 to affect the midterms, since primary voting has already started in many states. Also today,

00:45:25.460 the court issued a unanimous decision in favor of a group of pregnancy centers in New Jersey.

00:45:30.940 They have been fighting a subpoena from the state attorney general seeking the names, phone numbers,

00:45:35.940 addresses, and even places of employment from some of their donors. The justices found those

00:45:41.680 demands created a burden on the right to associate under the First Amendment. Brett? Let's go Jersey.

00:45:48.940 Okay, Owen, I'm just going to come to you first. Yeah, well, I mean, certainly it was a huge

00:45:53.960 decision and the right decision. And I think it isn't consistent with saying you can't have a

00:45:59.320 racist district. So to me, it was kind of a clear decision and it should have been 9-0,

00:46:05.140 but of course it wasn't. And this was actually the story I posted that this was part of was

00:46:10.660 a little bit more broad about it was really about the democrats wanting to pack the supreme court

00:46:16.680 because they just want to have their way and they want to politicize everything and of course they're

00:46:22.120 complaining the exact opposite that oh it's being politicized and the court is being political when

00:46:27.140 they're doing this and they're just trying to help republicans so of course they always accuse

00:46:30.440 their opposition of doing what they're doing um but the other detail that wasn't really talked

00:46:35.680 about in the clip was that they you know the the dissent on this was delayed like over 30 days and

00:46:42.560 there was no reason it had to be delayed that way and i think there's a lot of speculation or

00:46:47.200 you know opinions and i think there there are you know people even in the supreme court that say

00:46:51.620 you know you're just doing this to try and prevent people from having time to

00:46:57.140 have this affect midterms it was a completely political decision to say i'm just going to sit

00:47:02.300 on my dissent so that we can't issue the full opinion so that people can't make the changes as

00:47:08.180 a result of it and um you know that i think they were somewhat unsuccessful that some states have

00:47:15.960 said you know we're going to delay our primaries because we need to potentially redistrict and

00:47:20.500 they're calling special sessions i think alabama and tennessee and a couple other places are looking

00:47:24.760 at doing that florida has already i think redistricted so like there there are a lot of

00:47:29.820 um republican states where they have the power to act on this um to that they are making these

00:47:35.800 changes in time for the midterms or at least they're trying to um but i think it was just

00:47:40.260 a blatantly political thing by um the the liberal justices to say oh we're just gonna you know try

00:47:47.400 and delay this and do everything we can to basically be a political activist it's very

00:47:52.080 clear that jackson especially is just a political activist i mean your opinions were just blatantly

00:47:58.020 insulting other supreme court justices and it's not showing any kind of restraint or or impartiality

00:48:05.700 it's damaging the reputation of the supreme court because you know if any justice is saying these

00:48:11.320 political things basically it just makes it look more political whereas what they should be doing

00:48:17.360 is trying to protect the reputation and improve the reputation of the supreme court as being

00:48:21.700 impartial and being based on the law not just based on a political opinion um but the democrats

00:48:27.380 are doing everything they can to try and just say we got to pack the supreme court and it's going to

00:48:31.540 start looking like congress after a while i think that i think the other justices are really getting

00:48:36.660 sick of jackson and i i kind of wonder if something amazing will happen like they're gonna

00:48:43.300 like they're gonna say something like she needs to be removed because they've they've already had

00:48:47.780 it with her but all right marcella you are our legal expert um i'm sad i'm sad about what goes

00:48:55.380 on with our supreme court justices and with judges all over this country um what what's

00:49:03.300 your take on what you're seeing with the redistricting um the decision followed the law

00:49:09.860 you know so i i don't know what the dissent uh the dissent um was what the dissent was but in reality

00:49:17.940 um racial gerrymandering is still allowed unless only if there's it's narrowly justified under

00:49:25.920 strict scrutiny the first image you showed of justice alito he indicated that this particular

00:49:32.540 district that they created did not have a reason to be created based on race they didn't give a

00:49:40.840 reason at all. So technically, if you don't have a compelling interest, then it's not

00:49:48.920 constitutional. That's very clear. We learned this in the first year of law school. I don't

00:49:57.260 know why Kagan, Sotomayor and Jackson play games with the timing of their dissent.

00:50:05.980 you don't know you really don't know well i do know but i'm this is how i'm saying it i'm sorry

00:50:12.960 good um thank you um so i i don't know why they play these games with the law um because they

00:50:25.420 themselves know this they know that it has to have a compelling interest um you know

00:50:32.900 they're playing politics like you said Owen so the the delay in their dissent is also political

00:50:41.180 and unfortunately they can't be removed you know and nobody can remove them so unless there is

00:50:49.880 you know obvious crimes they've caused or something like that but just based on a decision

00:50:56.920 can't be done even if they're playing politics like that I mean they're

00:51:01.140 Yeah, because they do it in a way where they have an excuse. We see it as them playing politics, but they're obviously not going to put it in a text. Oh, we're playing politics, Kintaji. Oh, yeah, we're playing politics too. It's like they're not going to make it. They use the system in order to do what they need to do.

00:51:27.820 That's sad. All right, Kyle, let us know what you think.

00:51:30.140 So I think it's pretty sad when the Supreme Court is blatantly committing election interference. If it turns out that these justices didn't have a justifiable reason to slow roll their dissents, I think it undercuts the legitimacy of their dissent because you have six justices who believe this is completely clear case and struck it down.

00:51:53.440 And then you have the three partisan justices making sort of spurious arguments that don't really cut to the heart of the case.

00:52:04.060 And so it's pretty sad. At the same time, the Democratic Party that nominated these justices, they're saying they want to pack the court.

00:52:12.660 And there's no reason to pack the court unless you just want to add more ideologues.

00:52:16.780 It's not like they think it will improve the law and the interpretation of it.

00:52:22.100 But I think just to get to the more overtly political implications of this, I find it kind of amusing that the Democratic Party, they are shocked and appalled that the Republican Party would ever return fire after they have been gerrymandering states for any reason that they could find for decades.

00:52:43.120 In New England, they have 27 seats to zero Republicans, and there's 40% Republican voters

00:52:49.360 there, so no representation. Virginia, they seem to have an extremely flawed election to get this

00:52:56.540 map put in place. And then the Supreme Court, there's probably a very good chance that they

00:53:01.020 ultimately say no, they uphold that and say, no, this is not a legitimate map.

00:53:07.660 And after all of this is said and done, even with the slow rolling of of this dissent, it looks like there will be about 14 Republicans to like six Democrats in the sort of redistricting, you know, gains, net gains in this at this plays out.

00:53:23.980 And then in the next election, it could go as high as like 18, 18 seats for the Republicans versus six for the Democrats.

00:53:29.920 Again, putting Virginia aside for now, we don't know what's going to happen there.

00:53:33.480 And, you know, if it was probably going to be upheld, then it would be a bit of a different picture. But I think like the Democrats just must be very shocked. And we saw like the, you know, the Democrats sign Benny Thompson claiming this is the, you know, the second coming of the Civil War, you know, and it is for them because, you know, politics is a proxy for war.

00:53:54.960 And the Democrats understood this a long time ago, like decades ago.

00:54:00.000 And so now we're all like, you know, we shouldn't be stunned when progressives do this on the

00:54:06.520 court.

00:54:06.920 I don't think any of us here are like really that surprised.

00:54:09.560 We disagree with it.

00:54:10.680 We don't like it.

00:54:11.540 Right.

00:54:11.720 What we want is somebody like Thune, GOP Majority Thune, to like act like the way the Democrats

00:54:17.780 do, take it seriously, you know, nuke the filibuster, get the Save America Act in, you

00:54:24.860 know, do things that are going to be beneficial for this country moving ahead. Because if he

00:54:31.920 doesn't do it, the Democrats certainly, the way they're talking now, they will abuse any

00:54:37.100 institution we see with the Supreme Court. They'll abuse the Senate rules. They'll do whatever they 0.98

00:54:41.520 can. So we have to push back the same way. So Kyle, while we have you here, let me get your

00:54:46.500 take. What is up with Thune? Like why is he, what is it? Well, he's McConnell's boy. And

00:54:53.920 the fact that he was put in as majority leader and then Trump didn't throw a fit over it. I think

00:55:00.780 for me, that's the way the power brokering goes on in DC. Some of it's opaque, but there seems to

00:55:08.260 be some sort of handshake deal where you have the establishment and then Trump tries to calculate

00:55:14.740 this all out. He doesn't want to fight the Republican establishment at the same time as

00:55:20.720 the Democrat establishment in their giant machine. So he has to like play these power broker

00:55:25.900 politics. And, you know, Thune is kind of just the corporatist wing of the Republican Party.

00:55:33.960 He's he's the old, you know, old money establishment representative there. And

00:55:40.260 they like the status quo. They like their corporate handouts. They like the illegal

00:55:44.980 immigration to some extent because it's cheap labor. You know, there are a lot of really good

00:55:50.020 explanations for why thune is acting the way he is um they don't really want to see actual reformers

00:55:56.500 and um disruptors at the head of the senate uh this old money this old you know they don't want

00:56:02.580 to see uh voting there they don't want to see voting go right you know it would take um

00:56:11.220 it would take a lot of it would take a threat to their interests i would say like their money

00:56:17.060 interests uh you know their their power interests to uh really affect things and as far as they're

00:56:24.020 concerned uh you know our representation uh in the congress is uh not really foremost of

00:56:31.220 their concerns it's really just maintaining the status quo that's that's the way i read

00:56:35.620 the situation uh thune can prove me wrong by just you know changing the rules at least get

00:56:41.220 a talking filibuster i mean at least make it believable if you're going to have political

00:56:45.060 theater you know at least put on a good show for us and have a talking filibuster so you know more

00:56:50.180 people are persuaded that you're actually trying it's very frustrating owen or marcella do you want

00:56:55.780 to comment and yeah go ahead so i i went to grok to try to figure out if the dissent was laid on

00:57:03.060 purpose and this is just from grok it was not it was not the dissent itself that was laid but the

00:57:10.100 actual decision it was heard in um it was supposed to be heard in 2024 term or 2025 uh just uh supreme

00:57:20.900 court term um however it was postponed to this term by all of them and then when this term happened

00:57:28.980 there was an argument in march right and it's about 32 days after argument or some time allotted

00:57:37.140 for an opinion however a re-argument was ordered by the court the only dissenting justice for the

00:57:44.420 re-argument was justice guess who jackson no no no this is to re-argue the case right right right

00:57:53.300 so we're gonna we're thinking the the most republican judge uh justice oh thomas yes yes

00:58:00.340 so he was the only dissenting um opinion regarding re-arguing because the re-arguing

00:58:07.860 moved the date down to having it not be for the midterms bless him man bless him all right you

00:58:16.020 guys we only have um a couple minutes left and um i wanted to let you know that just an update that

00:58:22.740 uh shelley's family i heard from shelley's husband and um he uh appreciated all the you know

00:58:31.700 condolences and kind words and so did everybody else that i talked to so they're you know there's

00:58:39.620 there's they know your messages and your condolences and um shelley's husband shared

00:58:44.900 some pictures i didn't put them on here but of um you know he's reflecting and sunsets and

00:58:52.260 he's in one of their favorite places right now and he said that the thing that they love to do

00:58:57.860 was to watch the sunsets together and um so he said to share the information with everybody that

00:59:04.660 you know he appreciated um all the kind words that that were passed along and um you guys

00:59:10.980 were so great and so nice and you always are you still are um and then oh yeah i know i was just

00:59:18.580 gonna say and then um no so kyle do that now show your book hypernia all right so just if you're a

00:59:25.460 politics junkie who likes epic fantasy please check out my book it's getting good reviews 4.5

00:59:29.780 show it closer hello all right it's i mean it's great yeah working on the second book now it's

00:59:35.060 going great and so you know it's called hypernia hypernia and you said it's kind of like what like

00:59:42.420 a um i'm gonna say the wrong lord of the rings so oh he cut out

00:59:53.380 okay so it's kind of like a lord of the rings kind of like fantasy

00:59:57.780 political junkies will love it um it's called hypernia we can't hear kyle anymore for some

01:00:04.660 reason but we'll we'll post it after the show definitely grab it you guys and grab it for like

01:00:10.820 a reader grab it for yourself for a gift for anybody um and maybe it'll be a movie one day

01:00:17.140 it's that kind of book that you can see being a movie right um all right so you guys we will be

01:00:22.660 back tomorrow owen and marcella thank you as always every day kyle we love when you come on

01:00:28.100 thanks for coming on we'll see you again soon and to everybody here thank you so much and start

01:00:33.540 saying your goodbyes you guys but to scott and shelly we always thank them for allowing this

01:00:38.180 show to go on and we're all going to be useful today and calm and cool and collected and um as

01:00:45.060 always a closing sip to our beloved scott to scott bye guys to scott bj joins us tomorrow you guys

01:00:57.220 bj will be here tomorrow okay bye guys bye happy thursday bye happy thursday

01:01:08.180 All right.

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