On this week's show: President Trump defeats a sitting Congressman in a primary upset in the Bluegrass state of Kentucky, David Pollack defeats Thomas Massey in the primary, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average hits new all-time highs!
00:04:05.380You know, David, there's also the frequency with which Massey deployed some of his tactics that I think really worked against him.
00:04:13.260I know what it's like to be in office and because you have a principled view on something or a deeply held belief, you may have to take a vote that that isn't popular, that that you view as as in line with your moral code, but that isn't where your district wants.
00:04:29.580Now, you typically don't want to do that with high frequency.
00:04:33.480If you do that on the spending bill and on the border bill and on procedural votes, then I think it starts to have a cumulative weight, which is what we saw.
00:04:43.920And I also I know what it's like to have to take on a leader in your own party.
00:04:47.800I, of course, never did or would have treated President Trump the way that Massey did.
00:04:52.400But when I took on Kevin McCarthy, I had to make sure my constituents knew that it was for them.
00:05:00.360It wasn't some feud between me and Kevin McCarthy.
00:05:03.340It was because I legitimately believed that my actions would make the place operate better for the people who sent me there.
00:05:10.440And I think at times when Massey chose to frequently appear on CNN and MSNBC criticizing President Trump, there were enough voters in his district that didn't really feel like that battle about the Epstein files or any other thing really put them at the center of the discussion.
00:05:31.760And I think that's another critical takeaway.
00:05:35.080I think that's a brilliant point because – and you're exactly right.
00:05:38.200Also, you knew your voters, you knew your constituents, you knew what side of the aisle they fell on on a particular issue.
00:05:45.440And the thing is, when you took on McCarthy, he was pretty on – that's like basically you taking on John Thune right now.
00:05:52.300I think your constituents would be like, hell yeah, Matt, go get him.
00:06:25.080It's more about Massey than it was about the constituents.
00:06:28.560And I think that was at the end of the day.
00:06:29.860A lot of people are saying Israel bought a seat.
00:06:32.040It was the most expensive seat in congressional history.0.94
00:06:34.660Can you imagine 35 – any time you were in Congress, if somebody said, Matt, I'm going to drop $35 million in this race for a house seat, you would be like, that is the dumbest thing I've ever heard in my entire life.
00:06:55.340I found this interesting because a lot of the national media discussion has been around the role that Israel's supporters in the United States have played in this contest.
00:07:09.480And without question, that resource advantage was driven by a particular donor base that was motivated by Massey's votes on foreign policy that they didn't like.
00:07:19.220And their equal opportunity political participants.
00:07:50.680But the voters were talking about immigration.
00:07:52.980The voters were talking about Massey's style, whether they liked it or didn't like it.
00:08:00.800And I wonder if, you know, in all the discussion about Israel policy and the wedge that at times it's created in the Republican Party, whether we may just be overdoing it a bit.
00:08:11.620I mean, a lot of people are saying on social media on X specifically that X isn't a real place.
00:08:17.020You know, just because people are upset or want to talk about Israel and X, it doesn't reflect the pulse of the voters.0.99
00:08:22.220And, you know, I think that's accurate. I mean, congressional races, as you know, they're so much more local than some of these national races, the Senate races, the presidential races.
00:08:32.640It's easy to get a group of people to think and feel a certain way about these giant anonymous issues like Israel.
00:08:39.800But when you get to these congressional races, the voters are much smarter than people give them credit for.
00:08:44.840You can have contact with your congressman. They're in your community. They're in your district.
00:08:48.500You have contact with their office. You see them at the hobnobs and the meet and greets.
00:08:52.680So it's much harder to convince voters that there's a big bad wolf that's controlling things from behind the scenes on a congressional race where I feel like it's a little bit more intimate with the local voters.
00:09:02.920And I think that really is what it is here. I think national politics took center stage and a local race, even though, yes, a Congress race is a national race.
00:09:10.260It's really a local national race. It's about as local as national races go. And I think really that's what it was.
00:09:16.080I think online, a lot of people became obsessed with the battle, David versus Goliath.
00:09:22.240Can the incumbent be unseated by, you know, the spoiler and all these things and who's behind who?
00:09:26.880And yes, it makes for great content and it makes for a lot of energy, makes for good monetization.
00:09:31.820But at the end of the day, I think it's people that are disconnected from grassroots politics that didn't really understand the way this election would turn out.
00:09:39.980You knew it. You called it. I mean, I think those of us who follow politics.
00:09:43.180I did not expect Massey to win. Yeah, I did not expect Massey to win and I did not expect it to be a one or two point race.
00:09:50.040And really, it was how voters were reacting on the on the immigration issue.
00:09:55.140It was also the age factor. I have never seen a race that had age as a dispositive feature of how someone was likely to vote more than this.
00:10:07.460Where do you see the age divide or the age coalition in the party right now?
00:10:13.160I mean, certainly in any party, different types of issues motivate people of different age groups,
00:10:18.880whether you're in the workforce or not, whether you're in the parenting years or not,
00:10:22.580whether you're more in the fixed income side of things.
00:10:25.360But how do we get the young voters who maybe voted for Thomas Massey
00:10:32.400or who's donated to him from around the country to really stay engaged and involved
00:10:37.580in the current incarnation of the Republican Party, undeniably led by President Trump.
00:10:42.620Well, you know, that's an excellent point with respect to the age thing.
00:10:46.360I heard Brandon Strzok was on the show today, and he was talking about this generational gap,
00:10:50.920boomers versus millennials or Gen Zers, Gen Xers, whatever generation they might be.
00:10:56.280I don't even know what generations people are.
00:10:58.520I just know that in politics, we target older voters because they're consistent voters.
00:11:05.280They're your four out of four, three out of four, and what I'm speaking to translate to the audience is the people who show up to every primary and every general, those tend to be your older voters because you know what?
00:12:22.700Yeah. Well, I'm just saying, I'm sure I'm sure they didn't appreciate the joke Thomas Massey made in his speech that he gave conceding the election.
00:12:29.560He says, oh, sorry, it took me a while to get here. I was waiting to talk to Ed in Tel Aviv.
00:12:34.600And so that tells you what his mentality was. He he really spiteful to his base and the base didn't appreciate it.
00:12:44.400Yeah, it was a different base, you know, for him than he had relied on in the past.
00:12:48.800And when you when you go through that type of an oscillation, it's typically not highly reliable.
00:12:53.440I want to go to the ideological out of the personal into the ideological component of this, because in coalition building, you know, President Trump has been has been a master class.
00:13:03.680Right. He brought together this historic, multigenerational, multiracial coalition.
00:13:08.620He concentrated the mail vote, particularly in 2024.
00:13:12.000And I wonder where kind of the libertarians fit into the Republican coalition going forward.
00:13:19.400I admittedly have a bit of a libertarian streak on some issues.
00:13:23.480I don't believe that moral judgment in excess is something that voters crave from their political leaders.
00:13:31.240But, you know, there are there are moments of tension on issues like E-Verify, where I strongly believe in government power to protect our interests.
00:13:41.640Libertarians were thrilled with President Trump when he pardoned Ross Ulbricht and kept a number of other promises.
00:13:47.760Libertarians tend to be more restrictionist on foreign policy.
00:13:51.420So how do we get this crazy chorus all singing out of the same sheet of music when you have libertarian-leaning Republicans like Thomas Massey not seeing some of their issues reflected at the forefront of the agenda at all times?
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00:14:38.960that's interesting and i could talk about the libertarian coalition issue for probably an hour
00:14:43.900because it's such an interesting dynamic libertarians have always been politically
00:14:47.380homeless they have their party but none of their candidates ever do much and but they really want
00:14:52.320their values and their wishes represented so they kind of pick a party and that's how they get
00:14:57.020representation and they get mad when they don't get what they want but I think and I've always
00:15:01.220said this there's three political parties in America and it's not Democrat Republican NPAs0.94
00:15:05.000it's it's basically libertarians communists and hypocrites those are the three political parties
00:15:10.160according to David Pollack because all of us at our core are libertarian right we want limited
00:15:15.260government we don't want the government in our lives where we don't want it to be if you're a
00:15:18.200Democrat you don't want the government telling what you could do with your body if you're a
00:15:21.020Republican, you don't want the government until you can do it with your guns. We all are libertarian
00:15:24.280about certain things until we become hypocrites. Well, if we're Republican, we win. Well, we want0.93
00:15:29.320to keep you from being able to have an abortion. And if we're a Democrat, we win. We don't want0.97
00:15:32.500you to have a gun. So that's when we become hypocrites, right? We're all libertarian until0.95
00:15:36.160we want the government to tell you you can't doing something like a giant HOA. And then,0.98
00:15:40.180of course, there's a communist who want the government to do everything. And that's really
00:15:43.680who we're fighting. So to answer your question, Matt, the libertarians, if they want to build a
00:15:48.480coalition they can choose do you want to build a coalition with the hypocrites that are winning0.91
00:15:52.640or do you want to build a coalition with the communists because democrats have become communists0.95
00:15:57.360those democrats with common sense have either become uh libertarian or conservative or at least
00:16:02.440vote republican and so at the end of the day if libertarians want to have a voice well you better
00:16:06.620choose the party that wants to limit the size of government to some extent versus the party that
00:16:11.400wants to expand government where you have no rights at all so the coalition is simple hey
00:16:15.440libertarians i get it you want everything but you're not going to get anything if you vote
00:16:19.960democrat and at least you'll get some things if you vote for trump if you don't like it
00:16:23.400be nicer and maybe santa will bring you better presents next christmas that's my take
00:16:27.460steven miller is someone i like and respect a great deal and he is the deputy chief of staff
00:16:35.320he's president trump's longest serving senior staffer if you carry from trump one to trump two
00:16:40.820And Stephen often makes the point that there is no political constituency for the libertarian message, that there isn't really some large group of voters out there that actually wants less spending and limited rulemaking and some of the stuff that the libertarians espouse.
00:16:59.720But I also saw Donald Trump go to the Libertarian Convention in a moment of great courage.
00:17:07.000Like, when do you ever see a presidential candidate go to an opposing party's convention?
00:17:11.740But Trump wasn't there just to pick a fight with the Libertarians.
00:17:25.340But it seems like Trump knows, come election time, they're not an insignificant part of the coalition.
00:17:33.100Do you think there's something we need to do between now and the midterms to see that the liberty component of the Republican Party is motivated to vote?
00:17:42.400I mean, look, I think it's not Trump that can't build a coalition.
00:20:52.740You say the New York Times, which is called the funny pages, right?
00:20:55.320You remember back in the day you take Silly Putty when we were younger, before technology, we'd take Silly Putty on a Sunday and we'd stick it on the funny pages and then you'd peel it off and you'd have some of the print.
00:21:04.880And at the same time, we were told if you played records backwards, the devil music would come out of it.
00:21:09.320So I have this theory that if you take Silly Putty and you put it on the New York Times and you rip it off, potentially what comes out of it might be true.
00:21:30.760No, I think the point of this story and whoever gave them the information is just trying to make the United States look unfocused and foolish in a time of very critical negotiations with Iran.
00:21:47.260Whatever you see in the New York Times or the funny pages or whatever you see I think is a result of whoever wants to see that deal fall apart.
00:21:54.620Because no matter what, every time Trump makes a deal, it's bad for Iran.
00:21:58.100Trump goes to China, it's bad for Iran.
00:22:00.200Trump goes to the Middle East, it's bad for Iran.
00:22:02.480So what Iran really wants is to make it look like Trump can't make a deal.
00:22:05.660But Trump did something very smart here, Matt.
00:22:07.640He went to Saudi Arabia about a year ago, I think it was, maybe more.
00:22:55.080and he's winning in all of this I think
00:22:56.320Well, I will grant the premise that the New York Times frequently tries to propagandize through these anonymous leaks.
00:23:05.620I just posted the article because I was trying to make a broader point that it's usually a bad idea for the United States to try to pick leaders in the Middle East aligned with what you just said from this Trump doctrine.
00:23:17.940And like, yeah, all of the responses I got were like, how dare you share the New York Times?
00:23:22.200But it sounds like you agree with the core premise that the United States can make things happen all over the world and we can make more things happen with greater specificity and certainty in our own neighborhood, in our own hemisphere.
00:23:37.660But like us playing Game of Thrones in Persia seems like a really costly and odd objective, don't you think?
00:23:44.820I had this conversation in an X space a couple of weeks ago.0.73
00:23:48.540I had, I think it was a Shia woman, because I think the government, I think the, if I'm remembering, I always get the Sunnis and Shias mixed up, but I believe the government is Sunni now, right, in Iran, or the Ayatollahs?
00:24:05.140So the Sunnis want to take control of Iran and have a secular government, and the Shias are the ones that don't have the secular government, and I'm sitting here having this whole space, and at the end of the space, I asked this woman, I said, wait, hold on.0.99
00:24:15.500I said, is there any part of Islam that would live peacefully with Jews or Christians?0.95
00:24:22.360And she's like, oh, no, definitely not.0.92
00:24:24.120I'm like, so does it matter if it's a Sunni government or a Shia government?
00:24:30.220I think the United States isn't going to be able to go, hmm, who hates us less?
00:24:33.820That's really not our problem to figure out.
00:24:36.760Well, I mean, you just praised all the Sunni governments who are there.0.66
00:24:39.940You just said we could reasonably rely on our allies in the region to contain Iran.0.88
00:24:44.560they're all suny governments well what i'm saying is i don't know who is who i'm not going to say0.97
00:24:51.480okay this group is better than this group i'm going to say you do you and as long as it doesn't
00:24:56.240affect me the united states i don't care and that's america first right we'll get along with
00:25:02.060whoever we have to get along with but the second you're sounding like a guest on the matt gates
00:25:05.280show more and more i mean it's practical man i'm a practical person i don't believe that we can pick
00:25:10.360winners or losers we don't know what governments are going to interact with us in a favorably or0.61
00:25:13.980negative way at the end of the day it becomes about dollars you know russia's our big enemy0.93
00:25:17.900china's our big enemy but yet we fly rockets together and hang out in the international0.90
00:25:21.720space station so there's things we can get along with so how about we just figure out a way to do0.99
00:25:26.320business together make everybody a bunch of money and stop bombing each other but the second you
00:25:30.660start bombing us well we have a problem and that's the way i see it weren't the first bombs dropped
00:25:37.900by the united states and israel i don't think so i think it was as soon as the uh the islamic0.73
00:25:42.840regime in iran took over they declared war on the united states they they they bombed our barracks
00:25:48.680they attacked our soldiers and they've been assisting terrorist regimes all over the world
00:25:53.660in placing roadside bombs anywhere the united states forces are operating in a forward position
00:25:58.620so no iran has declared war against the united states well before u.s started dropping bombs
00:26:03.320the bombs is the end result of an antagonistic regime going back five decades in my opinion
00:26:08.240Yeah, but some might say that they haven't done anything to us in the United States where there have been these these events that you've described.
00:26:16.120It's in Iraq where we're in the Middle East.
00:26:19.620OK, so like if we're out in public, right, we go to a restaurant and somebody throws something at you and like, well, it's fine because we weren't in my house.
00:26:28.480I would have been really offended if we were in my house and you attacked me.0.54
00:26:31.500But if it was in Baghdad, I might feel different than if it was in La Jolla.
00:26:34.740could you imagine but no the thing is here and right actually actually i might be more likely
00:26:43.160to have something thrown at me in la jolla i had to take a minute to figure out how i'm going to
00:26:47.600process this in a way that we didn't have to edit it post right right but at the end of the day
00:26:52.540but the reality is um united states can be attacked not within our own borders but they
00:26:58.640have attacked us in our own borders there has been allegations and trump has said it that iran
00:27:02.600has tried to assassinate president trump iran we know iran has sent hezbollah through both cuba0.62
00:27:08.880and venezuela trying to come across our southern border we know that iran has been um putting
00:27:15.420misinformation in our social media to affect our political elections we know that iran has engaged
00:27:19.760in cyber attacks on the united states so just because they haven't dropped a bomb on the united
00:27:24.080states doesn't mean they haven't been at war and doesn't mean they haven't attacked us and so i0.97
00:27:28.680I don't look at it as I'm totally for killing all of those people.1.00
00:27:31.720If they send if they send Hezbollah across our border, I am line them up and subject them to firing squad.1.00
00:27:38.160It sounds like you just changed your position on the war in Iran.0.98
00:27:41.560No. Well, I feel differently about protecting the homeland than I do about like dropping a bomb on a on a bunch of schoolgirls in Iran.0.90
00:27:50.940And, like, I feel differently about a Hezbollah person or a Hamas person coming across our border than I feel about, like, killing 40,000 children in Gaza.0.68
00:28:00.100Like, to me, the geography matters, and that's why I'm, like, very pro-intervention in the Americas, because I think we have a stake here that is different than the stake that we have in the Middle East.0.78
00:28:13.480But the United States didn't kill—and I agree with you.0.52
00:28:15.980But the United States didn't kill 40,000 people in Gaza.
00:29:47.080We could be the law firm of Pollock, Rian, and Gates at One America News these days.
00:29:52.840We have so many lawyers in our primetime lineup.
00:29:55.400But this legal case that has captivated my attention involves J.P. Morgan and this executive
00:30:02.000in their leveraged finance division, Ms. Hajdani, who was sued by a male underling alleging
00:30:09.000that she wanted to make him her sex slave and that in fact he had performed some of those
00:30:13.380activities at her direction and demand. There's been a lot that broke after that lawsuit was
00:30:20.440filed that called those claims into question. An HR investigation showcasing a lot of innocence
00:30:27.420on the part of Ms. Hashtani. Now we are seeing that she may be going after him legally for making
00:30:35.160that claim and harming her, we both know the litigation privilege well. If you put something
00:30:41.720in a pleading that has any basis in fact, you can't get sued for it. But if it is frivolous,
00:30:48.800if it is deemed a sham pleading, you lose that privilege. So if it's Judge David Pollack
00:30:55.260assessing the various claims here, what's the evidence that's going to matter most to you?
00:30:59.740Yeah, that is really interesting because I was looking at the lawsuit that she filed today and
00:31:04.140She's claiming unspecified damages, but in excess of $50,000, so it's in the Superior Court of New York.
00:31:09.660But, yeah, she's claiming defamation, but it's defamation per se, which means the subject matter of the defamation was so salacious that the damages inferred are severe.
00:31:20.620And in this instance, drugging and raping is something that would qualify as defamation per se.
00:31:25.640But, yeah, so the interesting part here is he made all these statements, and then she became famous as a result.
00:31:30.680Apparently, she lost, like, a volunteer gig.
00:31:32.380it's interfered with business interests she got emotionally sick from it it got mental
00:31:36.480mental anguish from it so yeah i i it's an interesting part from you're talking about
00:31:42.240privilege because it's in the pleadings but at the same time it's beyond the pleadings it's in
00:31:45.380the public sphere now and it's in newspapers so i think the defamation claim is valid and um i
00:31:50.800think she has significant damages and it's going to be easy to prove in this instance because of
00:31:54.660the per se so um judge pollack thinks this guy has a pattern of making these ridiculous claims
00:32:01.580against people this woman who became famous not not wanting to be has now been harmed as a result
00:32:07.920and so this is what the courts are for look he can file his lawsuit against jp morgan turns down a
00:32:13.040million bucks he's going to regret that someday and then uh she gets to turn around and sue him
00:32:17.000for making ridiculous claims that are false and uh well that she argues are false and i guess we'll
00:32:21.900let the uh evidence do the talking yeah i think what this is going to come down to whether he
00:32:29.280gets a judgment against him is going to be whether or not he has any evidence of any of
00:32:35.580these claims. There has to be evidence other than his attestations for him to avoid some sort of
00:32:43.340liability here. And if he doesn't have text messages, calendars, emails, video, some
00:32:51.180contemporaneous statement to a third party, other witnesses, that's all the stuff JP Morgan looked
00:32:57.860for. That's all the stuff they tried to find. Now, you make the point. We've seen this reporting
00:33:02.220that there was allegedly this million dollar offer. Did they make that million dollar offer
00:33:06.960because there was some smoke? Did they make it just because they didn't want these headlines
00:33:10.960to be around the JP Morgan brand? But if he does not have some corroborating evidence,
00:33:17.080you could see the man who alleged he was a sex slave, a slave to a judgment of a different kind,
00:33:23.360An economic judgment. And that I think that would be justice.0.88
00:33:27.400Look, you should not be able to abuse the litigation privilege.
00:33:30.580The litigation privilege is important. It exists so that people can go to court and get a reasonable resolution of their claims.
00:33:37.820But it's not a license to defame people.
00:33:41.840Right. And I think that some accountability on that side would probably be good for the justice system.
00:33:46.420Well, and you remember, privileges can be waived as well. Who leaked information to the press about the substance of the lawsuit?
00:33:51.980So if it was him, then arguably he published the defamatory information.
00:33:56.280I'm interested to know where that information came from because clearly J.P. Morgan didn't call the press and was like, hey, cool, guess what is going on?
00:34:03.540So I'm interested to know how that got out there too.
00:34:06.940Well, very, very important legal point because the litigation privilege only covers the filing.
00:34:11.960If you send the filing elsewhere, if you add commentary to it, if you're speaking to reporters off the record, then yes, that would exist outside the litigation privilege.
00:34:19.960All right. Law school class with the law firm of Pollock and Gates.
00:34:24.780I like the way that sounds. I do want to get to a. Yeah, there we go.
00:34:29.080I want to get to a big piece of legislation. It's been bouncing around in Congress.
00:34:33.960President Trump's been talking about it. I am hearing from my sources on Capitol Hill could be coming up very soon for a vote.
00:34:40.620the SCORE Act. The SCORE Act, folks are going to want to check it out. This is a legislative regime
00:34:46.580to rein in the ability of college athletes to demand very high prices in pay-for-play. I mean,
00:34:54.860we call it NIL, name, image, and likeness, but come on, it's pay-for-play for college athletes.
00:35:02.600So you and I, both big sports fans, we're Floridians, and you're basically required to
00:35:07.000be a college football fan to get into the sunshine state uh so what how are you thinking about the
00:35:12.140score act how do you see the the landscape of nil and college sports well the score act is
00:35:17.600interesting and i've struggled with this because there's a whole bunch of things going on here one
00:35:22.380i think nil and the transfer portal combined have ruined college football like ruined it like
00:35:27.880basically you could play for a year somewhere and then you go and get paid millions of dollars to
00:35:32.040go play somewhere else for a year and then you just go to the nfl and it's not about education
00:35:35.980anymore i think college athletics have just been ruined by nil and transfer portal but that's a
00:35:40.180whole nother issue and that's since that 2001 ruling that basically says that the ncaa double
00:35:44.680a can't tell um and this is to give the audience background in 2001 supreme court decide or 2001
00:35:51.640or 2021 i don't know what date it is anyway uh 2021 the supreme court just said that the ncaa
00:35:58.600can't cap the amount of money essentially that an athlete can get on their nil because it's
00:36:04.060essentially an antitrust violation because they were conspiring with schools and saying,
00:36:08.240hey, this is how much you can pay this person to play.
00:36:11.220And so the Supreme Court said, no, you can't do that.
00:37:57.340Since athletes play across state lines and because the money transfers and this isn't a state issue, the government can regulate this.
00:38:03.260Now, the problem is how does the government know a bureaucracy, know what a player is worth, a concussion is worth, a blown out ACL is worth?
00:38:10.060And you're asking these kids to go and lift heavyweights, to go out and try to kill each other, essentially, for the entertainment of the fans.
00:38:15.720The universities can rake in all this cash.0.94
00:38:17.560And when you end up with a broken neck, oh, that sucks.
00:42:56.160I'll still make 30 million bucks. So I do think there's a contractual relationship that would solve a lot of these problems.
00:43:01.460And we don't need the federal government deciding what the free market can't figure out on their own.
00:43:06.920There is a party breaking out in the studio right now among the producers with your excellent comparison to OAN,
00:43:15.500because they're fully expecting now that you will be taking 10 percent of your salary and putting it into a general fund that could be redistributed to all of the OAN employees.
00:43:25.560I think what's good for the goose should be good for the gander.
00:43:30.020I'm in San Diego, and you could take 10% of my salary, and I think it might buy donuts.
00:43:42.020It'll be interesting to see the role the unions play.
00:43:44.560Let's never forget whenever there's – like you and I are having this discussion, like rational people evaluating a marketplace and the objectives that we want to see in a fair market.
00:43:53.180And I admit reasonable people can disagree on that. Democrats, I think, will lock down with whatever the unions say, because the unions look at college athletes as prospective members.
00:44:05.060And I'm a critic of unions because I think oftentimes they they work for the benefit of their worst members, not not their best members.
00:44:13.120And I think that the the answer of having like the Teamsters in charge of college football is probably the worst about all outcomes.
00:44:34.420Well, look, I want to make sure we're about at the end of our hour.
00:44:38.720I want to make sure our viewers have a great opportunity to continue to follow you.
00:44:43.020What are some of the stories you're going to be looking at in the coming week
00:44:46.680and some of the conversations you're going to be having on David Pollack Primetime?
00:44:49.360So the biggest story I think that we should be covering because of what might happen, and I'm going to talk about this tomorrow on the show, Raul Castro's indictment.
00:44:58.960I know a lot of people are like, who's Raul Castro? He's a 93-year-old communist from Cuba. Who else cares?
00:45:03.700Southern District of Florida signed an indictment saying that Raul Castro can stand trial for murder in the United States.
00:45:11.040Maduro had a similar indictment, and you remember what happened there.
00:45:13.880Right at this moment, a U.S. aircraft carrier is heading to the Caribbean in support of operations because of the rising threat in Cuba.
00:45:26.720Marco Rubio, I think he's already suiting up, and that's a role he'd gladly play.
00:45:32.060And so I think this indictment that you saw come out of the Southern District of Florida is very interesting to those who were impressed with the Delta Force operation to remove Maduro from Venezuela.
00:45:42.460So watch very closely what happens to an aging communist in Cuba in the next few weeks.
00:45:47.360So we're going to be talking about that because that is going to be a developing story.