00:08:10.140what are these illegal aliens that governor newsom is is paying to bring into the state doing0.97
00:08:18.960well i mean what illegals always do they come here and they soak up welfare and they take up1.00
00:08:24.420housing and they commit crime and you know they rape and murder and pillage our our state that's0.79
00:08:29.280just typically what they do um he was uh the story was that he wasn't directly you know putting these
00:08:36.220people on planes and spending a billion dollars bringing them in the story was that he was
00:08:40.400spending a billion dollars giving them to these ngos and these migrant services agencies uh like
00:08:47.780catholic charities and one of them was uh to chirla which you probably know that name he spent
00:08:54.220110 million dollars 110 million dollars on chirla which is a one-stop activist machine with the
00:09:02.800ability to produce propaganda, engage in legal action, and most importantly, get people into
00:09:07.560the streets. And these are the guys who last summer were burning down LA. I mean, these are
00:09:13.760evil people. And he's given them $110 million so that they can bring terrorists into our country.
00:09:19.740It's just astonishing that we have to put up with this. That's, that's a great story. Like,
00:09:24.820that's something we should have the FBI going after, honestly.
00:09:27.860no doubt about it now i i look at it and i wonder to myself what's going to be the newsom
00:09:36.540immigration agenda in 2028 he's obviously running for president he's doing these things as governor
00:09:42.360of california are we going to expect a version of gavin newsom in the democratic primaries that is
00:09:49.160a you know borders are racist import the third world put everybody on welfare or are we going
00:09:57.080to get a version of Newsom that moderates on this and kind of tries to bring the Democratic
00:10:02.320Party back to what he calls more normal. What in his history would ever think that he would
00:10:08.380try and moderate anything that he's doing? I mean, you want to know what he's going to do when he
00:10:13.820gets in? We've seen what he's going to do. He has pushed the most radical, insane agenda that I have
00:10:20.380ever seen in my life, consistently, every single thing that he does. And no one stops him. None of
00:10:27.500the Democrats stand up and say, hey, buddy, that's too far. You need to step back. They're all on
00:10:32.680board. So I don't think there is a bridge too far for him. And I don't think he's going to moderate
00:10:37.360himself because he's proven that he doesn't need to. Somehow, like we've talked about, he keeps
00:10:41.780failing upwards and getting rewarded for it. He's been doing it since he was in San Francisco. So
00:10:48.000I think he is the political machine of the left-wing party. He is the epitome of all that
00:10:54.680is evil and corrupt. And God help us if he gets in. I think that there are some areas, Pearson,0.99
00:11:03.640where he's tried to moderate the Democratic Party. And by the way, I don't think that that is
00:11:08.080a sincere effort to bring moderation to our governance. I think that he wants to make an
00:11:14.440electability argument to people who, in my opinion, lost three elections to Donald Trump.
00:11:20.400He wants to have the Democratic Party be kind of a centrist entity and try to cast all of us
00:11:28.280as right-wing radicals. And then if he gets elected, he wants to do the very things like
00:11:34.820you're showcasing to our audience, where he's drawing in people illegally into the country0.71
00:11:40.160and wasting taxpayer money to do it.0.64
00:11:42.360But you mentioned failing up, and when it comes to national politics,
00:11:46.560there's somebody else who has an interest in that.
00:11:48.540Perhaps Florida Governor Ron DeSantis was not elected president,
00:11:51.300but now, according to an Axios report, is actively seeking a job in the Trump administration.
00:11:57.280People have talked about Secretary of War, if Pete Hegseth moves on,
00:12:01.060Attorney General, or even a spot on the Supreme Court if we get a retirement there.
00:12:06.040Question to you, Pearson Sharp. Do you want to see Ron DeSantis in the Trump administration? And if so, where?
00:12:12.540I think I would I think I'd be all right with that. I know you're not his biggest fan, but I think that what I've seen out of Florida has been mostly good.
00:12:23.980I was just reading today that he passed and I somehow missed this when it came out.
00:12:28.220He passed the education bill on communism where all the students in Florida have to be educated on communism and its evils.
00:12:36.040starting in the sixth grade, I believe, on up through high school.
00:12:39.940And they have to be taught, you know, what communism does and how evil.
00:12:43.100You know, that's phenomenal. I support that.
00:12:46.060So, yeah, I think everything that I've seen him do has has been generally positive.
00:12:51.100Florida is definitely a much better state since he's taken over.
00:12:54.800Everybody in the country wants to move there, myself included.
00:12:58.520So I think that says something about his leadership abilities.
00:13:01.340And I think attorney general probably wouldn't be a bad spot for him.
00:13:06.040Well, let me start by saying you would make a great Florida man.
00:13:09.420And secondarily, I try to see Ron DeSantis through a clear and objective lens.
00:13:16.680He has been a transformational governor.
00:13:18.720He has done a great job for the state of Florida.
00:13:21.260He just wasn't a really good candidate for the presidency.
00:13:24.400And if he's pursuing a job like Supreme Court, maybe that reflects strong self-awareness.
00:13:30.200Maybe this is a really positive thing.
00:13:32.000Ron DeSantis pursuing a spot on the Supreme Court because he's young, he's healthy, he is a brilliant legal mind, he's undeniably conservative, he is fearless, and he's not going to be president.
00:13:45.560And when you put all those together, maybe putting Ron on the Supreme Court would be effective.
00:13:50.080Now, he had some pretty terse things to say about President Trump during the presidential campaign.
00:13:54.740That's what campaigns are, rough and tumble.
00:13:56.940Certainly, President Trump knows that. But do you think that Ron DeSantis said anything on the campaign that to you would be disqualifying to serve in the Trump administration?
00:14:06.700Not that I recall. I you're right. It does get pretty contentious. And I think that's just the nature of it.
00:14:12.080But Trump has proven time and time again that if you are loyal, if you pledge fealty and I don't mean selling out, I just mean that you show that you will support his agenda, that he's willing to forgive and forget.
00:14:26.000I mean, look at Marco Rubio. They were at each other's throats on the campaign trail. I covered it when they were in Las Vegas back on his first term. And now they're best of friends. Trump can't find a position he doesn't want Rubio for at this point.
00:14:42.620So I think DeSantis would be a phenomenal pick for the Supreme Court, but if they want that to happen, that's going to be, I mean, who's stepping down?
00:18:23.220I don't know. It's it's terrifying that we've come to a place where these these people, you know, that are point zero one thousand percent of the population are running the rest of us in circles.
00:18:33.400It's just so disgusting that we have to live with this.
00:18:38.960I averaged one death threat a week when I was in Congress, and it wasn't something where me as a grown guy with some notoriety and platforms could always fight back.
00:18:52.240Sometimes it was an intern answering the phone.
00:18:55.480Sometimes it was a staff member opening the mail.
00:19:05.500And, you know, and I guess a bout of dark comedy, my staff actually had a wall in our congressional office where they would put up the photographs of all the people who had submitted death threats against us.
00:19:17.740At times, the FBI and the Department of Justice would investigate and charge those.
00:19:21.640At times, they wouldn't. It usually depended on an individual United States attorney and how they viewed these very vicious threats.
00:19:29.540Sometimes they targeted me. Sometimes they targeted my parents. Sometimes they targeted my wife.
00:19:35.880It usually went along with swatting, where people would call 911 in my community where I live in Niceville, Florida,
00:19:42.800and say that me or my wife or my parents were killed or that we were being held hostage.
00:19:49.520so much so that we literally had to have a protocol with our local sheriff's office
00:19:53.280and our local police office about what to do when my family was swatted.
00:19:58.060People would send, like, dozens of pizzas to my home, to my sister's home, to my parents' home.
00:20:04.900And it never advanced the other side's politics, but it shows what they think of us.
00:20:10.520Look, as much as I want accountability against the deep state,
00:20:14.400As much as I cheerlead the Southern Poverty Law Centers being exposed for what they were up to,
00:20:21.920I never want physical harm to come to my enemies.
00:20:26.400I don't want anyone to be shot that I disagree with.
00:20:29.760I don't want their spouses, their children, their parents to be tormented and terrorized.
00:20:35.320And I think that's actually how most conservatives feel.
00:20:38.160I mean, to conserve something is to nurture it, to cherish it, to hold it dear.
00:20:42.440And I wonder what it says about our politics, that it does seem to be one side that is more interested in this type of tactic than the other.
00:20:51.360Well, I mean, to your point, just you don't see conservatives going out and doing this.
00:20:57.000I mean, maybe I've missed the stories. Maybe I've missed the headlines. It's possible.
00:21:00.980But when you look at what comes up in the news over and over and over again, it's these radicalized leftists who are attacking people, who are threatening Supreme Court justices, who are rallying outside people's houses and throwing rocks at their windows.
00:21:18.340You know, we have we have people in the administration who have to live on military bases because they're so threatened.
00:21:25.040you just you don't see that from our side and we're the ones supposedly with all the guns
00:21:31.220and and the other thing you know i agree that most of these threats are probably not to be
00:21:38.920taken seriously i i had one threat one especially bad threat here where we basically had to shut
00:21:43.780down the building and it resulted in an fbi investigation um nothing came of it but most0.91
00:21:51.240of them you know don't go anywhere the issue is this threat you know this is a tranny out there1.00
00:21:57.080threatening to shoot this guy and we know from their population these people more than likely1.00
00:22:04.000will shoot somebody you look at the for their percentage of population per capita they shoot
00:22:09.320more people than almost anybody else all these major shootings we've had in the last couple of0.50
00:22:13.400years is it the hormones is it something specific about mental illness taking these crazy hormones
00:22:19.360that throw their body oh it's you think it's the underlying mental well it's a combination i mean
00:22:23.660you take you you have a fire and then you put more fuel on that fire what do you think's going
00:22:29.140to happen like these people are nuts to begin with and they just start taking a cocktail of
00:22:33.940chemicals what's that going to do to their brains and they live in a fairy tale world and and then
00:22:38.700they get guns i democrats shouldn't have guns i mean we'll just put that out there if you want
00:22:43.960to make america safe again take guns away from democrats be pretty simple in my opinion but
00:22:49.000But Pierson, you know what would happen if there was a law that took guns away from Democrats,
00:22:54.900They would be like, oh, Mac Yates is like a beatnik Democrat, he doesn't get guns anymore.0.99
00:22:59.620That's like what they do with these statistics about the white people killing people.0.97
00:23:03.120This is a serious question, though.0.97
00:23:04.820What about, do you think transsexuals should be denied gun rights?0.99
00:23:07.680Yeah, well, because it's a mental issue.0.96
00:23:09.780Just like any other mental issue, you know, where you get red flag for this or that, if
00:23:14.440you have a mental disease, you shouldn't be allowed to have a weapon.
00:23:17.540I think the number of incidents of violence that have come out of this microscopic community far0.92
00:23:23.500outweigh the Second Amendment's ability to protect them because they represent such a threat to the
00:23:28.420rest of society. No, no, they should not have weapons, period. All right, I'm going to bring
00:23:35.440us to our next headline. I want to go global with this, and I'm going right into the Pearson Sharp
00:23:40.840Batcave. It's a subject you know very well, the U.S.-Russia relationship being impacted by this
00:23:46.680war between the United States and Iran. And as Americans are seeing higher gas prices,
00:23:53.100higher prices with fertilizer, food, product prices rising because petroleum is really the
00:24:00.460feedstock of a lot of manufacturing, clothing, plastics, other goods. Everything. As all this
00:24:06.280is going on, as all of this is going on, OFAC, which I have great respect for, especially under
00:24:12.120President Trump. They go and unsanction a bunch of Russian oil that is on Russian tankers out on
00:24:20.020the high seas so that that can help with this energy market shock that we've been dealing
00:24:27.000with the closure of the Straits of Hormuz. And the reason I want to talk to you about it,
00:24:31.400you've done incredible journalism on this war between Russia and Ukraine, and you essentially
00:24:35.640have a thesis that the war is stupid, that the United States should actually ally with Russia0.53
00:24:42.380to try to solve many of the world's problems. And so I'm dying to get your reaction to almost0.96
00:24:48.540an admission by the United States government regarding the value of the U.S.-Russian
00:24:54.700partnership in times of strife and chaos and war. I'm so excited when we get our Merriweather
00:25:00.880Farms shipments in. You get a beautiful piece of ribeye. Look at that marbling. Now, I take it out
00:25:06.180of the package, let it get down to room temperature. All I've got on here is a little salt, a little
00:25:11.020pepper, and then a little avocado oil. And then I've had my pan preheating with a little oil.
00:25:22.340Head to meriweatherfarms.com and enter promo code MATTG for 15% off your first order.
00:25:28.280I mean, I think it's a phenomenal story. It shows, I think, some great acumen on Trump's part. One, we can possibly help lower prices. I mean, that's a phenomenal step. Two, I think this just adds weight to my theory that Trump and Putin behind the scenes know what's going on and they're trying to work together as best as possible.
00:25:49.560If we can unsanction this oil and help Russia and help ourselves, I mean, that's a win-win for everybody.
00:25:55.880So kudos to Trump. Kudos to all of them for getting that to go through.0.65
00:25:59.800Of course, the left has their spin on the narrative.
00:26:02.640But Russia should not be our enemy. I mean, period.
00:26:06.800And I think this is a great step towards hopefully, I mean, everyone's focused on Iran right now,
00:26:12.120but hopefully winding down a war that never should have existed in Ukraine.
00:26:16.540where if this is like the start of the wave if this if this could ignite some momentum
00:26:25.340for a stronger u.s russia relationship take just a moment pearson and detail for us
00:26:31.520where we might see benefits in friendship as opposed to hostilities well energy would be a
00:26:37.800huge one. Energy cooperation. We could, well, if we could become, I guess that's too much of a
00:26:49.680fantasy to hope for. Eliminating NATO, the need for it, period, would be phenomenal. And Trump's
00:26:57.060already sort of hinted that he wants to go that direction. But just the amount of money that we've
00:27:04.500wasted on this war that could have gone to so many other things. I think having that money back
00:27:10.360in America would have been phenomenally helpful over the last couple of years. The inflation,
00:27:16.140the spending, the waste, the fraud, all of that has hurt America. So I think, and just, you know,
00:27:24.480the threat of a looming war, having bombers flying over, you know, threatening each other
00:27:29.640and international incidents and saber rattling,
00:28:55.880And how could that be a real force multiplier for safety in the world?
00:29:00.840Well, I want to add to that, too. I think that if we could cooperate, since Biden pushed Russia away and started this, Russia and China have become a lot closer out of necessity.
00:29:12.620And I think that is one of the worst things possible for the United States, for the Western world in general.0.56
00:29:19.000China should be our number one adversary. They should be the evil that we're fighting.0.99
00:29:22.680I mean, they're horrific. All the things that they're doing to our country, the fentanyl and the drugs and the subversion and just everything, planting bombs at our military bases, spying on us.
00:29:35.480But they're paying Congress. They're paying our lawmakers. They have everybody in their pocket.
00:29:39.660So it's really easy for them to do that and really hard for us to go after them.0.90
00:29:42.720So I think an alliance with Russia would strengthen us dramatically in curtailing China's growing power, which is a threat to freedom everywhere in the world.0.91
00:29:53.800As far as Islamic threats, which you know where I stand on that, Russia has its own set of issues.0.97
00:30:01.960You know, they have a lot of Muslims in Russia.
00:30:05.020You know, they have a lot of people from Kazakhstan still live in Russia.
00:30:08.960um chechnya you know they've had terrorists come out of chechnya before now the the leader of
00:30:15.320chechnya and putin are close at this point but it hasn't always been that way and there's still a
00:30:19.300lot of people you know they had the the attack on the school the terrorist attack on the school
00:30:23.180that was horrific um i think russia who is intimately involved in syria at this point and
00:30:30.000you know as we know iran would probably welcome a chance to work with the united states in these
00:30:35.520areas. They've been in Afghanistan. They've been heavily involved in the Middle East for
00:30:39.640decades. So that would be phenomenal for us as far as getting rid of this existential threat1.00
00:30:45.940that is rapidly growing around the world. I would love to see that happen.
00:30:54.840Chinese President Xi Jinping said that there was a no-limits relationship between China and Russia,
00:31:01.200No limits. Financial support, military support, support in international organizations.
00:31:08.380And I just wonder, given that this war has kind of calcified an anti-Russia attitude with a lot of people in Washington, D.C.,
00:31:18.200is it possible, with a turning point in how we think about some of these things, to pull Russia away from China?
00:31:24.660Has this gone on so long and created such a negative sentiment that it's inevitable that Russia and China will now be fused?
00:31:32.540Because you and I both know in the post-World War II era, one of the major geopolitical objectives of Republican and Democrat administrations in the past
00:31:40.960has been to keep the largest producer of energy on the planet away from such a strong alliance with the largest consumer of energy on the planet.
00:31:49.600Do you think that there's a chance to fix what's gone wrong here?
00:31:52.760There is a chance. But the problem is we have to prove that we deserve the chance because we have burned. And I mean, we, the Western world, NATO, Brussels, the UK, America, Washington, we have burned Russia so many times, so hard over the last couple of decades since the fall of the Soviet Union, lied to them repeatedly, villainized them for our own goals, that they have a pretty bad taste in their mouth.
00:32:22.280as far as trusting the United States, who, from the people I've talked to, they view as0.69
00:32:25.940one of the great evils in the world because of our alignment with demonic forces. You know,
00:32:32.560they view this as a spiritual war. And Russia is holding up the Western Christian world,0.61
00:32:39.100the last bastion of that. So we have to prove that we would not turn on them again. And that's0.98
00:32:46.220going to be a tough pill to swallow. If I were Russian, I'd have a hard time believing that our1.00
00:32:50.580stripes had changed. You know, Trump's in office. That's phenomenal. We'd need another 20 years of
00:32:57.460Trump, I think, to turn this around because it's we're the neighbor, you know, down the road and
00:33:04.480out of sight. China's the neighbor who lives next door. Their houses are attached. They live in a
00:33:09.720townhouse. You know, they can't afford to just turn their backs on China. They have to be very0.95
00:33:16.980careful with what they do there because China, if Russia and China went to war, I don't think
00:33:21.800Russia would win. I mean, they have more advanced technology, but the Chinese have more people to0.99
00:33:27.480throw at the war and nobody's in Siberia. They can't control that border. So Russia has more0.98
00:33:35.560interest, I think, at this point in maintaining a good relationship with China than they do with
00:33:39.000the United States. But like I said, it would be in everyone's advantage if they could get that
00:33:43.660good relationship back, but we just have to earn it. I hope there's a chance to do it. I agree with
00:33:51.780you. The scar tissue from this conflict could, uh, could last for quite some time. What's your
00:33:56.940next headline? Well, we have a great story out of Virginia, something finally that we can be
00:34:03.000satisfied about. Uh, you know, the, the Democrats out there, the communists, commiecrats, uh, are
00:34:09.920trying to eliminate Republicans out of the whole state, trying to gerrymander it. They had a six to
00:34:15.920five congressional district map, and now they try to gerrymander it into a 10 to one with no
00:34:21.020Republicans at all, essentially. And a judge just struck that down and said, no, you can't do that.
00:34:27.900We need to take a look at this and make sure it's actually legal. So now it's going to go to
00:34:34.000the Supreme Court, which it's a seven member Supreme Court in Virginia. It's four to three
00:34:40.660Republicans to Democrats. So there's a possibility it could go our way, but these are little c
00:34:46.200conservatives on the Supreme Court. And they were the ones who allowed this map, this vote to go0.92
00:34:52.600forward in the first place. They tried to shut it down previously. The legislature did. And the
00:34:57.940Supreme Court said, no, we're going to let it go to a vote. So it's anyone's guess what's going to
00:35:03.660happen. I don't have a lot of faith in these weak-kneed Republicans anymore, but there is a
00:35:08.700chance that it could be permanently shut down. Well, a chance, but I actually think your analysis
00:35:15.160there is spot on. This is one trial court ruling on one injunction matter. This is not final. This
00:35:22.140is not determinative. And you're right. If the Supreme Court of the Commonwealth of Virginia
00:35:26.640allowed this matter to go to the voters, if they allowed it to be the subject of an election that
00:35:33.380incur at all these costs, well, why would they then go and invalidate it later? I think it would
00:35:38.760have to be a very persuasive order by the trial court to have the Supreme Court not ultimately
00:35:47.000validate what is going to be approved by the voters of Virginia, which is this terribly
00:35:51.700gerrymandered system. And I think it teaches us a really important lesson about how the Democratic
00:35:57.740Party campaigns and governs in the modern era, there's a real delta there. I served in Congress
00:36:04.720with Abigail Spanberger, the current governor of Virginia. She always took great care to project
00:36:10.840this image that she's a moderate, she's a national security professional, she's not one of the kind
00:36:16.840of purple-haired, woketopian leftists, but she always voted with them. She always voted with
00:36:23.520Nancy Pelosi. She always voted with some of the most extreme power grabs from the left, some of0.98
00:36:29.160the extreme social policies. And once she got into that governor's mansion, the moderation was gone.
00:36:37.140And I don't think Abigail Spanberger is unique in this respect. Right now, there's a big
00:36:41.000governor's race going on in your home state of Ohio. And in Ohio, Vivek Ramaswamy is the
00:36:48.140Republican candidate, and I've not seen a poll showing him within even two or three points of
00:36:53.260the lead in that contest. And the Democrat there, she's running as a moderate, but she will do the0.59
00:37:00.560exact same thing as Abigail Spanberger, essentially the exact same thing as Gavin Newsom. Moderates in
00:37:06.600the Democratic Party are dead in 2026, and I think that they will campaign one way, but every single
00:37:14.840governmental decision is going to go through the praxis that is approved by George Soros
00:37:19.520and the crowd out in Silicon Valley. Am I wrong about that? No, you're absolutely right,
00:37:23.660which is horrifying. The moderate is dead. The extreme eats them alive. They put them up in the
00:37:33.100spotlight and say, you're not left enough. And then they just destroy them. And there's a bill
00:37:40.840that Virginia is, I'm not sure if they passed it or if they're working on passing it, but
00:37:47.540it's terrifying because it would essentially invalidate all the Republican voters in the
00:37:54.800state. The concept is if Republicans, if there's like a presidential election and Virginia
00:38:02.660votes for the Republican president, the voters choose a Republican, if New York and California
00:38:10.560voters choose a Democrat, then Virginia's electors will side with them and choose the
00:38:18.320Democrat and invalidate all the voters. And they're serious about this. I feel like I remember
00:38:25.700it. Why would somebody in the Commonwealth want to dilute their own vote? To me, I love being a
00:38:31.760Floridian. I love being a part of contributing to Florida's decision on where the votes are going
00:38:38.440to be cast in the electoral college it is like a self-defeating self-harm uh political act to say
00:38:46.320we are actually going to ignore the votes of our own voters and what if some democrat runs it up
00:38:52.440enough in california new york that's where we're going to send our electoral votes yeah what is
00:38:57.860compelling about this message what am i missing well it's not the voters who want that i mean
00:39:03.600that's the point. This is a top down decision. And the Democrats, they vote in block. And if
00:39:09.460you're a Democrat, you're a radical lefty in Virginia and you think, oh, there's a chance
00:39:14.560a Republican might win here. Well, how do we fix that? Oh, we can vote with New York and California.
00:39:20.460Hey, that's a pretty good idea. We should do that. And, you know, I agree with you that you
00:39:26.240don't want to sell out your vote if you're a Virginian to somebody else. But I'm also thinking,
00:39:30.960you know if we're we're here in california if we had a way to vote with ohio or utah or something
00:39:41.040you know where california's vote would be invalidated we would go with whatever ohio voted
00:39:45.240for i might take that deal that might sound like a pretty good proposition from where i'm standing
00:39:50.240you know what if you want if you want to contribute to another state's electoral vote
00:39:57.400count, move there would be my answer. No, I agree. I don't get it. And I wonder, are there other
00:40:03.060states that were concerned might follow that type of a decision? I'm sure there are. I'm sure there
00:40:11.340are. If this passes, I mean, this is what we're seeing them do. They're trying to work around
00:40:17.680Republicans. They're trying to cut us out of every possible place that we exist. They did it here in
00:40:23.360California. We just lost five of our congressional members. We're down to four now in a state that
00:40:32.460has 52. So any chance they have to cut us out of existence, they're going to do that. And this is
00:40:41.160going to spread. This is so insane that if Virginia passes it, everybody's going to want to do it to
00:40:45.720get rid of Republicans. They don't care about representation. They care about power. That's all
00:40:50.300this has ever been about. Well, and I want to make a principled argument against a national
00:40:56.620popular vote and for the Electoral College. We are not just the United Citizens of America. We
00:41:02.560are the United States of America. And states have dignity. They have purpose. They have structure.
00:41:09.180You are a citizen of your state, in addition to being a citizen of the country. And the move for
00:41:15.400a national popular vote is basically to create massive centers of voter fraud in urban areas.
00:41:22.040And by the way, kudos to James O'Keefe for putting out reports recently showcasing how
00:41:27.060on Skid Row in California, votes, petitions, political participation, it's just all being
00:41:34.600bought and sold. And so they want a national popular vote. They want to go to places where
00:41:40.160they have huge voter bases and no rules. And then they want to make the people of Florida
00:41:45.080and Ohio and the suburbs and the rural areas of this country. Just live with it. And that isn't
00:41:50.600politics. That is the type of stuff that I fear could lead to violence, and we would never want
00:41:57.120to see that happen. And so I think that the Electoral College gets a lot of unfair criticism,
00:42:03.160and I think that it's okay to stand up for the dignity of our states. What's your argument for
00:42:07.460or against the Electoral College? No, I would completely agree with that. We need the Electoral
00:42:11.140College to balance out these massive blue centers, these massive blue utopias that spring up wherever0.86
00:42:17.300the Democrats congregate. You have centers, these bastions of Democrats that run ragged
00:42:25.640the rest of the population. When you look at the maps of the United States, when you have an
00:42:31.140election, the country's red, Matt. It's freaking red. And you have these tiny blue dots on the
00:42:38.220coasts. And those destroy everybody else because there's so many freaking weirdos who live there.0.97
00:42:44.320We need the Electoral College. That's the only thing that's saving us right now.
00:42:49.640Amen. Matt and Pearson will stand for the Electoral College. Maybe the only college
00:42:54.020that we're in favor of is the Electoral College. Absolutely, at this point.
00:42:56.400All right, let's go to another headline. Here's one I got for you. Okay.
00:43:00.820Lauren Boebert has just found out that she was under criminal investigation by the FBI
00:43:07.600for more than a year for the terrible crime of giving her family a tour of the Capitol
00:43:15.300as she was being sworn in to Congress.
00:43:18.560Now, I am so taken by this story because, first of all,
00:43:23.780if anybody was going to do a recon tour of the Capitol to tell others where entrances were and hallways were,
00:43:30.660you definitely wouldn't pick someone who was a freshman member of Congress who just showed up.
00:43:35.260When I got to Congress, it took me 18 months to figure out where the bathrooms were, and it was so wild and so crazy, but it didn't stop.
00:43:43.720Even after prosecutors put in writing that there was no basis for this whatsoever, that it did look like a woman just giving her family a tour, they still subpoenaed her bank records.
00:43:57.380They still went through her travelogues.
00:44:00.220They were trying to dragnet the life of Lauren Boeber to try to find any criminal activity0.97
00:44:05.620because the woman gave her family a tour of her workplace.
00:48:26.380And you're allowed to have your opinion if you think that there's not been a legal basis for him to draw a salary with what we see going on in the Senate.
00:48:34.060And I do worry that it's demoralizing to our voters.
00:48:37.920I worry that when voters see that you can't even get voter ID, what you start to tell them is you don't really cherish their vote.
00:48:45.120If a Republican government won't stop legitimate votes from being diluted,
00:48:50.480then we're not really telling people that their vote is important.
00:48:55.100And if you signal that enough times, people will start to believe it.