Episode 128 – Happy Veterans Day! Dead Voters for Biden？ Will Nancy Pelosi Lose Her Title of Speaker of the House？ Cleaning House at the DOJ. Stand Your Ground Laws Strengthened in Florida.
10,000 confirmed or suspected dead have returned their mail-in ballots to vote in the state of Michigan. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis wants to expand the state s Stand Your Ground law to include self-defense as a defense.
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00:00:55.820Today's top story comes from the Epoch Times, dead and voting in the state of Michigan.
00:01:02.640Peter Schwab has the piece, and it's astonishing what this particular study found.
00:01:08.100More than 10,000 people confirmed or suspected dead have returned their mail-in ballots to vote in the state of Michigan.
00:01:15.940According to analysis of the state's election data, about 9,500 voters confirmed dead through the Social Security Death Index are marked in the state's mail-in voting database as having returned ballots.
00:01:29.340So Social Security thinks they're dead, but they're actually voting in the state of Michigan.
00:01:34.080Another nearly 2,000 are 100 years old or more and aren't listed as being known, living centenarians.
00:01:44.640So the analysis was provided by Richard Barris, who is the director of Big Data Poll.
00:01:50.520The data includes that somebody else was trying to vote on behalf of these people.
00:01:54.960And this is a quote from Barris, quote,
00:01:57.660It is also entirely possible that some of them aren't even real people.
00:02:02.280If someone is 110 or some ridiculous age, we should have their death record, but do not.
00:02:08.880So Americans older than 110 are pretty darn rare.
00:02:12.420Only a handful of them are known to live in the state of Michigan.
00:02:15.820And so it's very bizarre that you have this high propensity of people registering to vote, voting, and some of them we know are dead, others we suspect are dead.
00:02:26.760Now, I'm not sure that this exact analysis proves that there is fraud at the scale to overturn the specific result in the state of Michigan.
00:02:37.300But I don't think that that ought to be the standard for us to take curative action to fix the problem.
00:02:43.580Right now, Joe Biden is ahead by about 150,000 votes in Michigan, far more than the 10,000 that would potentially be implicated through this analysis.
00:02:54.280But I do believe that we've got to clean up our election process, not just for the sake of the 2020 election, but for the sake of every election that will follow.
00:03:05.080And I'm willing to bet that this dead vote swung overwhelmingly for Joe Biden.
00:03:10.600So we've got to clean it up, we've got to get to the bottom of it, we've got to use state legislators and governors and state elections officials to clean the voter rolls and ensure that we have a fair, reliable, legal vote count in this election and every one that follows.
00:03:33.880That's the message Governor Ron DeSantis is sharing with those who would potentially do harm to my fellow Floridians.
00:03:40.800This is Ron DeSantis proposing today an expansion of Florida's Stand Your Ground law to ensure that anyone who is attacked as a consequence of mobs or riots has the full complement of self-defense available at their fingertips for response.
00:03:58.120So here's how the law has developed around the Stand Your Ground law.
00:04:01.280In the common law, there is a duty to retreat if someone attacks you and you have the ability to retreat.
00:04:09.660Well, we didn't believe in Florida that you should have to have a duty to retreat, that you ought to be able to meet force with force.
00:04:15.920So first, we passed the Castle Doctrine, which says that your home is your castle and if someone breaks into your home with the intent to commit a felony or do a harm, then you have the ability to respond with requisite force.
00:04:31.300We then expanded the Castle Doctrine to include encounters that one might have on a public street.
00:04:36.780So if you're, you know, outside in a park on a beach and someone attacks you with deadly force in the state of Florida and you have a reasonable fear that they are attacking you with deadly force, you don't have a duty to retreat.
00:04:50.400You actually have the ability to respond with deadly force and it is a complete defense.
00:04:55.540Now, Governor DeSantis is saying that that very same right to respond with deadly force if you are under attack would apply in the event of looting or rioting.
00:05:06.700And I think it's a good thing to deter this type of violence with our laws and to put the law on the side of law abiding people.
00:05:15.320If someone's not breaking the law, if they're managing their storefront, if they're going to get their hair done or their nails done or make a purchase, they should not have to worry that the latest political kerfluffle will justify violence.
00:05:30.860Far too many governors and mayors in some of these left-wing areas are willing to tolerate violence.
00:05:41.540And that's exactly how we like it in the Sunshine State.
00:05:45.320Resignations, departures, an exodus at the United States Department of Justice.
00:05:53.680And some might say it didn't quite come soon enough.
00:05:57.640Richard Pilger was the head of the Elections Crimes Unit and he has resigned that position following Attorney General Bill Barr's memo indicating that the department needs to investigate these substantial irregularities in the voting process.
00:06:15.020He ends up being reassigned as a line prosecutor in the Public Integrity Division.
00:06:20.080But one has to ask the question, why was he given this really important position in the first place?
00:06:27.060Shouldn't the Trump administration, Attorney General Bill Barr, ensured that the person we had as the head of the Election Crimes Division was aggressive?
00:06:37.540We did not do enough prophylactic work to stop fraud on the front end.
00:06:44.180The way fraud works with these mail-in ballots is typically before the Election Day.
00:06:49.460It is the harvesting and the signing of ballots, the returning them, the funny games that some may play with the dating of ballots.
00:06:59.220All these things that could potentially happen, happen before Election Day.
00:07:04.000And it is just incredibly difficult following the election to go and build the case for fraud because oftentimes the ballots that have the identifying information, the signatures, have already been separated from the ballots themselves.
00:07:17.800If there were failures to protect the integrity of the vote in this election,
00:07:22.860Those failures can be traced directly to Richard Pilger and his inability to go and ensure that we had the protocols and procedures and safeguards in place,
00:07:34.200particularly in some of these urban areas where there is a history of stuffing ballot boxes and limiting the utility of legal and lawful votes by polluting those votes with improper votes.
00:07:48.220And this is an endeavor that is going to call on many of us to do work in the years to come.
00:07:54.360State legislators will have a specific role to play in this process.
00:07:59.200I discussed it on the Sean Hannity program last night.
00:08:02.780Every Republican state legislator has an obligation now to pursue election integrity legislation in their state to ensure that we do not have these mass mailings of ballots.
00:08:13.240We deserve to know that the person who voted that ballot intended to vote that ballot.
00:08:18.680And once you get the ballots separated from the signature envelopes, it becomes very difficult to chase the fraud after the fact.
00:08:25.860You have to catch the fraud in the act.
00:08:28.220That's why Florida's laws create greater confidence in the outcome in the election.
00:08:32.280In every state in America, we absolutely need our Republican colleagues looking for ways to use technology better, to use verification better.
00:08:42.000I mean, we have ways to identify people in this country.
00:08:45.200If you don't think so, try getting on an airplane.
00:08:47.920But somehow we treat the ballot box, the voting process, less important from an identity verification standpoint.
00:08:57.360And that has to change if we want honest elections.
00:09:03.360House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had a hard time with the question of whether she would condemn socialism.
00:09:14.420We always have we always have a beautiful dynamism in our caucus.
00:09:20.580But no, I think people are some people.
00:09:27.400I would say we have a healthy difference of opinion within our caucus, but not in any way to be problematic in how we legislate.
00:09:36.620What the conversation was about what is the winning message outside and the message in the districts that we have to win is the message that unifies us, a message for America's working families.
00:09:52.320There's a lot of speculation surrounding the leadership future of Nancy Pelosi.
00:09:57.780House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy said he doesn't believe she has the votes to be speaker.
00:10:02.400A Newsweek also put out a piece recently saying that they expect her to be unopposed for the speaker position among her fellow Democrats.
00:10:10.360So there are a few things that I want to talk about to break this analysis down.
00:10:15.140First, don't ever bet against Nancy Pelosi.
00:10:18.260Regardless of what you may think about her tactics or her ideology, she rules the Democratic caucus in the House of Representatives with an iron fist.
00:10:27.420A lot of them are afraid of her, so I wouldn't bet against her re-election as speaker among her fellow Democrats.
00:10:34.420Now, the second thing I would note is that she does have problems that exist both on the left and on the right of her caucus.
00:10:41.660With the squad, she had to make deals last time to secure the votes to be speaker.
00:10:46.460She had to give them the very prize plum committee assignments that they wanted, that they might not have otherwise earned as freshmen,
00:10:54.020but they had the power, they wielded it correctly, and they got what they wanted out of Pelosi.
00:11:00.300But also on the more moderate side of the caucus, you know, there are people like Jim Cooper of Tennessee who won't vote for Nancy Pelosi.
00:11:07.820Conor Lamb is back in Congress, and he did not vote for Nancy Pelosi.
00:14:34.020If a producer accesses footage, there is a very clear record in the Fox News system as to who accesses it.
00:14:43.280You're able to track that and see that and potentially punish that person.
00:14:47.820So I got a hard time believing that some like, you know, producer in their 20s went and harvested this off air footage of Sandra Smith and then leaked it.
00:14:58.520I think it's far more likely that the Fox News channel and some of the executives there wanted to virtue signal to the anti-Trump audience that they're just disgusted by those who would demand a review of the legitimacy of votes.
00:15:14.800And Fox News and all of their experts have called this election and they want a certain echelon of the people out there in the country to gravitate to this acceptance of how the election went down.
00:15:28.300And obviously, if the legal process concludes and if Joe Biden is sworn in as president, we'll accept that.
00:15:34.300And just like Tucker Carlson said, we'll encourage others to do the same.
00:15:37.920But that is not where we currently stand.
00:15:40.520There are legitimate allegations of fraud.
00:15:43.220There are affidavits signed describing weird entry points and times for ballots being counted.
00:15:51.140Unfair opportunity for the president's campaign to review this counting process.
00:15:58.060And so I think there's enough smoke that there's probably some fire.
00:16:01.200And I don't know if it's enough fire to burn down the election, but it's certainly worth an investigation.
00:16:06.560And for Fox News to potentially have leaked this, which I bet they did, is a sign where that network is going, particularly during their daytime programming.
00:16:17.860I think in the PM hours, you've got Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, others who have sufficient control over their theme and style and message that I think you'll hear a consistent message once the sun goes down.
00:16:31.320But when the sun's up, it's a different kind of Fox News.
00:16:35.260And based on this leaked video, I think they want you to know it.
00:16:39.160Three people have been banned from Yellowstone National Park because they tried to cook chickens in the hot springs.
00:16:50.480The New York Times' Johnny Diaz and Concepcion DeLeon have the story.
00:16:56.480There was a scoutmaster who was used to going in Yellowstone National Park with his troops.
00:17:01.900Every once in a while, they'd boil some hot dogs in the hot springs and have them as sort of a way to live off the land.
00:17:08.760And this time, they upgraded from the hot dogs with a couple friends to two whole chickens in burlap sacks.
00:17:16.200They were busted by park rangers who saw them hauling cooking equipment toward the hot springs.
00:17:22.800And apparently, it's illegal to do that.
00:17:25.500They've got two years probation and are facing between a $500 and $1,200 fine.
00:17:30.940It is noteworthy that they brined the chickens beforehand.
00:17:34.480They still ate the chickens and they said they were fantastic.
00:17:38.480Apparently, this is something that's frowned upon.
00:17:41.400Who knows if they're banned from all the national parks or just Yellowstone.
00:17:45.400But if your approach is to throw some brine chicken in a hot spring and eat it, you might get a good chicken, but you might also get probation.
00:17:54.920I guess we're glad it's probation and not, like, hard time incarceration.
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