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00:02:15.000He was a little confused, but then he knew what I meant.
00:02:17.000Citizen Kane, Mr. Kane, happy second day of Christmas, the greatest day of the year.
00:02:23.000Yeah, you should tell people that as soon as you sent me that text, I sent back, was Mike Woodson fired by Indiana University?
00:02:32.000So just so everyone knows, Kane and I share a passion for college sports, and it is without a doubt the four greatest days of college sport fandom of being March Madness.
00:02:43.000And Kane, you have some strong opinions and connections with all that, but just riff on that, Kane.
00:02:52.000March Madness is still one of the great American traditions that I hope doesn't get ruined by the left.
00:03:08.000And so your last statement there about potentially ruining the tournament, it is.
00:03:12.000You know, for people who complain, I'm going to just say quickly, you need to understand the America First movement is filled with alpha males and females.
00:03:21.000And one of the things that a lot of us did growing up was play hoops and play sports.
00:03:26.000And so there's reasons that we still pay attention.
00:03:29.000So yeah, these last couple days, you know, Bloomington, I'll give people a little bit of background.
00:03:36.000You know, IU didn't make the tournament this year.
00:03:38.000They won five in a row heading in and they got blown out by the by the Japanese kamikaze point guard from Nebraska.
00:03:47.000From Nebraska, 5'11 shooting guard is probably a better description of them.
00:03:52.000And actually, Nebraska plays later today, but we got blown out by 30.
00:03:56.000Mike Woodson got his second technical of the game with eight minutes to go, and then he walked off the floor like a crippled old man with everyone watching him.
00:04:05.000So there's some unrest and anger in Bloomington about Mike Woodson.
00:04:26.000So Kane and I were texting during the Oakland, Kentucky game yesterday.
00:04:30.000And this senior transfer to Oakland, who played for Hillsdale College for three seasons, hit 10 three-pointers yesterday and scored 32 points.
00:04:42.000Jack Belke or something, if I'm not mistaken.
00:05:13.000Well, bottom line, my final answer is probably not, Charlie.
00:05:17.000And I mean, I can go either way, but look at what we got, right?
00:05:22.000We went through turmoil through several months after getting rid of Kevin McCarthy.
00:05:27.000And the Mike Johnson speakership is doing the same thing with these spending bills, with these stopgap spending bills.
00:05:34.000I wouldn't be again, you know, I don't have huge feelings either way.
00:05:38.000If they want to get rid of Johnson, that's okay with me.
00:05:41.000But I don't think that in an election year, they're going to be able to choose any speaker who's going to be willing to shut down the government.
00:05:48.000They're too afraid of losing the media battle when you don't have control of the media and they're going to blame Republicans.
00:05:55.000So I feel like it's, you know, I understand Bannon's push.
00:05:58.000And I, and look, this debt is out of control, right?
00:06:02.000We're looking at 35 trillion for a national debt just around the corner.
00:06:07.000And I've been putting up the national debt clock numbers showing that it's going to be 12 trillion higher in four years, that we'll be looking at 46 or 47 trillion.
00:06:19.000So we have to wake up and get a hold of spending.
00:07:26.000We have like a splinter majority, but if you count the moderates, it's effectively the Unit Party has taken over, you know, the entire imperial capital.
00:07:34.000And finally, I just, I'd hate to try to do something too dramatic that stops Donald Trump's incredible momentum right now.
00:07:41.000That's where I'm at in the sense of because Donald Trump is stronger than ever, despite everything they're throwing at him, despite all the asymmetric warfare.
00:07:49.000Why would we voluntarily go into something that might jeopardize that?
00:07:54.000Yeah, I think that's the right theme there.
00:07:55.000And you mentioned Ken Buck, and let's not forget the final line where he said the Republicans are not so upset about my resignation, but they're worried about the next two or three to resign.
00:08:05.000Meaning there's a hint out there, there's a threat out there that some Republicans who are upset about what happened to McCarthy could take revenge and essentially resign.
00:08:16.000And that would flip before we even get to November.
00:08:19.000That would flip the House back to Democrat control if two more Republicans.
00:08:25.000And that is a threat that Ken Buck has put out there.
00:08:27.000And what you're saying about Trump and the momentum and how this sort of, you know, you saw the crowd of reporters around Marjorie, right, on the Capitol steps an hour and a half ago.
00:08:38.000They were, I mean, the left is begging for this, right?
00:08:40.000They are begging for us to vacate Speaker Johnson.
00:08:45.000And so should we give them what they're begging for?
00:08:48.000That's, that's where I checked myself.
00:08:50.000Especially if there's no, if there's no, you know, what do we get for that, right?
00:08:54.000What do we get by removing by removing Mike Johnson?
00:08:58.000We get another protracted battle where we sort of look like a party who can't govern while they search to find another leader who will probably come into power and go with the same plan of not shutting down the government before November.
00:09:12.000So I really don't think it makes a lot of sense.
00:09:14.000And I think the vote probably wouldn't pass.
00:09:17.000But, you know, perhaps Marjorie is making her constituency and the rest of us happy, at least by showing Johnson that we're, you know, that we're not happy about the spending.
00:09:26.000It isn't, you know, the MAGA base doesn't really care about the details.
00:09:30.000What they want to stop is the crazy deficit spending.
00:09:41.000We get press conferences about, you know, about the bill, but we don't get any press conferences about what are the actual ways we could cut 500 billion out of a budget or a trillion out of a budget.
00:11:44.000We had last month saving babies with pre-born by providing ultrasounds.
00:11:48.000And we're doing again this year what we did last year.
00:11:50.000We're going to stand for life because remaining silent in the face of the most radically pro-death administration is not an option.
00:11:55.000As Sir Edmund Burke said, the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing, and we're not going to do nothing.
00:12:01.000Your gift to pre-born will give a girl the truth about what's happening in her body so that she can make the right choice.
00:13:49.000You know, it's been 16, 17 hours, nine in the morning till two o'clock at night.
00:13:54.000The threats to Trump, though, you know, well, first, I got to tell you, they're burning couches in Lexington after what Jack the Ripper did, the former Hisdale about Hilldale player last night.
00:14:12.000So the legal threats, they're disappearing, right?
00:14:16.000The Fannie Willis case, I don't think is going to go to trial before the election.
00:14:20.000We'll see if it even goes to trial at all.
00:14:23.000Everyone knows about the appeal that was accepted by Judge McAfee.
00:14:27.000So for them to appeal to the Georgia, the Georgia Court of Appeals, whether they can remove, you know, whether they will decide to remove Fannie Willis.
00:14:35.000If not, it can go to the Georgia Supreme Court.
00:14:39.000Georgia also passed a law that kept signed just about a week ago that allows a commission to be created that could remove prosecutors.
00:14:46.000So I'm not that worried about the Fannie Willis case, even though that is the one where you and I both thought they were pretty much guaranteed to get a conviction just because of the Fulton County jury.
00:14:55.000Now, yeah, regarding the DC cases, they've sort of been put on hold too.
00:15:00.000We're going to be waiting for the Supreme Court to decide on both Nathan versus Fisher and that obstruction charge, that cooked up Enron charge.
00:15:08.000And we're going to be waiting on the immunity ruling.
00:15:10.000So, and then once that begins again in July, then it's 90 days of motions at a minimum before that starts.
00:15:18.000So I really don't think Trump has any legal threats.
00:15:24.000Although, again, there's a chance that that's a good idea.
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00:19:05.000In a second, we're going to have Raheem Kassam to walk us through this very important story that he's published on the national pulse about the influencer network that is being funded through dark money apparatus that is going to play a big role in the upcoming election.
00:19:26.000You see, a lot of these discussions happen on social media.
00:19:30.000We talked about banning TikTok, but it is a fact that the trans and gay agenda is pushed primarily on these social media applications through the algorithms, through preferential elevation.
00:19:57.000And now, with transness, I'm hoping that it's the same trajectory of like, you know, the people that are being so outwardly transphobic online in my comments and my DMs, I'm hoping that that will become like increasingly embarrassing for them and that these media organizations and these social platforms will be equally embarrassed that they tolerated and allowed these things to happen and didn't step up when we needed them most.
00:20:20.000But I also think about how specific to TikTok, because I still am like, what is this app?
00:20:44.000In fact, a lot of the women who support the trans agenda, they say, well, finally, somebody understands us and somebody is understanding our struggle.
00:20:52.000Welcome aboard, is what some of them say.
00:20:54.000Let's go to this one here, Cut 64, transgender colonel in the space force, Brie Fram.
00:21:00.000If someone who's going to revolutionize the way we fight in space, you'll hear the rest.
00:21:07.000And if that brain who's going to revolutionize the way we fight in space, we fight in cyber just happens to be in a trans body, you should want them all serving alongside me.
00:21:18.000That is a colonel in the space force talks about how you're going to want them serving alongside you in the space force.
00:21:28.000Does that make our military better prepared to have someone who with very serious mental issues masquerading as a woman in the space force?
00:21:41.000We're going to fight in space with a bunch of trannies.
00:23:06.000The group Midas Touch, which I think a lot of people might have seen in passing on social media, but have never really understood quite who they are, what they are, where does their money come from.
00:23:16.000They've gotten away for a very long time with peddling a number of hoaxes, frankly, against the political right.
00:23:22.000And they were behind the bloodbath hoax from Donald Trump's Ohio speech last week.
00:23:28.000So we decided, you know, it's time somebody spent a fairly decent amount of time researching not just the background and the origins and the connections of these guys, but actually, you know, where is their money coming from?
00:23:42.000And what are their end goals here, really?
00:23:45.000And it's funny, in just a couple of days' work, you know, we've managed to tie them to Reid Hoffman, who is the Eugene Carroll, Nikki Haley, Fusion GPS, LinkedIn founder, multi-billionaire left-wing mega donor, and also to Jack Smith through Midas Touch contributors and collaborators on their network.
00:24:06.000They have been very clearly amassing a power base on the political left that is putting the old hat groups like David Brock's Media Matters and others, putting them out of business, quite frankly.
00:24:20.000They're faster, they're sharper, they're more impactful.
00:24:24.000And if you are somebody on the political left who wants lots of misinformation and disinformation peddled about Donald Trump and the MAGA movement, then right now, Midas Touch is where you go.
00:24:36.000Yeah, so talk about who's funding it, their infrastructure.
00:24:39.000And there's obviously some sort of deal.
00:24:43.000They get SEO placement on Yahoo and Google.
00:24:54.000It's essentially a Democrat super PAC that's getting preferential treatment and search engine optimization.
00:25:00.000Search engine optimization amongst the corporate media, even on X.com, formally Twitter.
00:25:08.000Everything that they do appears to be boosted.
00:25:11.000They have a large number of people, some anonymous, some people who we've identified who are working for them around the clock, pulling clips, quoting them out of context.
00:25:21.000And really what's interesting to us is: yes, okay, so Midas Touch is run by the Macellas brothers out of originally in Hollywood and left-wing entertainment law circles.
00:25:34.000And they first started doing this really around 2020, and they started doing it in a relatively transparent manner.
00:25:40.000You could see where their money was coming from, lots of Hollywood donations.
00:25:44.000Their father is a big entertainment lawyer, very well connected on the West Coast.
00:25:49.000But last year, they went very, very dark money.
00:25:53.000Now, you no longer get to know who puts money into Midas Touch.
00:25:57.000You no longer get to know where their funding streams come from.
00:25:59.000And if you look, if you look on YouTube, if you look on TikTok, if you look on X, the numbers they're getting are just absolutely extraordinary for the size of their natural audience, which comes back to your point.
00:26:14.000For instance, if anybody researches my website, The National Pulse, on Google, you'll notice that they still refuse to put us in Google News.
00:26:23.000They still refuse us front page, even when people Google specific terms about us.
00:26:28.000But if you Google something very basic about what's going on in political media or political news, Midas Touch will actually come up as one of the first recommended places.
00:26:39.000Now, they don't pretend really to be a news outlet.
00:26:42.000They say themselves, and they've said in many interviews, they did one just this week with Semaphore, where they say, look, we are here just to mess things up for Donald Trump.
00:26:52.000So it's no surprise that a week before the State of the Union, they were invited by Anita Dunn, Joe Biden's communications strategist, into the White House and got a special preview screening from the first gentleman and from Anita Dunn themselves.
00:27:33.000So they had previously been a PAC, and you could see at the time where the money was coming from and how the disbursements were being made.
00:27:40.000As I say, in 2023, they changed their status.
00:27:43.000That is an article that we are currently working on at the moment to walk people through exactly how they operate, exactly.
00:27:49.000You know, they have an LLC, but is everything going through there?
00:27:53.000They have affiliate organizations, some of which I know you're familiar with.
00:27:57.000They paid, for instance, a group like Patriot Takes, which is anything but patriotic, a lot of cash in the run-up to the 2020 election and thereafter to peddle falsehoods about Donald Trump and about the political right again.
00:28:10.000And I noticed just going through some of their stuff today that one of their focal points is Charlie Kirk.
00:28:17.000You seem to be a particular thorn in their side.
00:28:20.000And I can see, you know, you can see once you start to know what you're looking for, you can see that Cogstern can start to get aware of these things.
00:28:27.000But it's disturbing because Rasmussen came out with a poll this morning that showed 40% of U.S. likely voters believed that the bloodbath hoax was actually Donald Trump saying that he wanted to inflict political violence on his enemies.
00:28:45.000That is the exact kind of, you know, quote, misinformation, quote, disinformation that we were told, we've been told by the CIA, we've been told by X, we've been told by all these places that those things will be taken down.
00:28:57.000We will not tolerate those sorts of things.
00:28:58.000So I say to people like Elon Musk, you know, you said it yourself that you don't allow this sort of thing on your platform.
00:29:03.000You've begged borrow and stolen to make that case.
00:29:27.000Yeah, so Reid Hoffman was one of their first donors.
00:29:30.000They had a handful of very wealthy, early-on people who got involved.
00:29:34.000There was actually a very critical Rolling Stone magazine article about the way Midas Touch was operating, about the types of money that was flowing into it that was published some years ago now.
00:29:43.000It does seem like in the intervening period, the political left has gone from having casting a skeptical eye to groups like that, to hugging them with both arms.
00:29:51.000But yeah, Reid Hoffman, one of the early backers.
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00:30:42.000And this whole Biden influencer army strategy that they're trying to build out.
00:30:49.000Yeah, look, I make a habit of, for my sins, I suppose, consuming a lot of left-wing media.
00:30:55.000And there's a lot of jovial response this week to the fact that Joe Biden has, you know, they say double the amount of cash on hand than both the Trump campaign and the RNC put together.
00:31:11.000I think it's very obvious the screws that have been turning by the apparatus, by the regime, in order to starve the Trump campaign of cash in order to bleed it dry so that it can't actually take part in a free and fair election.
00:31:27.000Because, for instance, I was listening to the Politico Playbook podcast this morning, and they're not exactly hiding that fact.
00:31:33.000They're very open about the fact that it is the legal cases, it is the lawfare that is standing in Donald Trump's way at the moment of actually spending in the election.
00:31:42.000Well, you know, I know we say this all the time.
00:31:51.000The idea that you can launch a number of different lawfare incursions against your political opponent in an election year or in advance of an election year, but into the election year.
00:32:04.000You know, a lot of these cases, whether they will be heard prior to the election, just before the election, just after the election, significantly and seriously hampers Donald Trump's ability to spend money where it needs to be spent and then is out on the campaign trail.
00:32:18.000And so that is a requisite part of the gloating that you're seeing at the moment.
00:32:22.000And it's really, you have to look at it this way.
00:32:25.000They don't have anything else that they can do here, right?
00:32:29.000From a political strategy perspective, you're going into this as a Biden campaign saying all we have is money to spend, right?
00:32:38.000So we need to take it from the unions.
00:32:39.000We need to get it from all of our dark money operations.
00:32:42.000We need to funnel it through, whether it's places like Midas Touch or you name it.
00:32:45.000There'll be cash floating around every which way you could possibly imagine.
00:32:49.000They don't have a positive message to take out to the country.
00:32:52.000They don't have any good campaign faces and names to send out to the country.
00:32:58.000Joe Biden himself will not play well out in the country.
00:33:00.000Hamala certainly won't play well in the country.
00:33:02.000Pete Buttigieg won't play well into the country.
00:33:06.000You amass a war chest of $2 plus billion dollars, which is what they're doing, in order to just run fake, out of context hoaxes against your opponent.
00:33:19.000They're banking on the fact that everybody's just going to load up their Instagrams, their TikTok, their Xs, see these clips that are being peddled by the likes of Midas Touch and try and win the election that way.
00:33:31.000All at the same time, Donald Trump can't spend a penny in response right now.
00:33:37.000It's one of those things where we have to be careful about what we say, I guess, but perhaps it's a conversation for a thought crime episode.
00:33:46.000You know, I grew up in England, little old England, and I was told that across the Atlantic in America, there are all these brash bruisers who are ready to brawl for their nation and its freedom.
00:33:56.000And I just see the salami slicing every day over and over again.
00:34:00.000And I just keep thinking to myself, where are you, America?
00:34:05.000Yeah, I mean, we're allowing it to happen and just sitting idly by.
00:34:10.000Raheem, in closing here, what do you think is one of the things that you worry most about to impede Donald Trump winning in November that you don't think people are talking about?
00:34:20.000Yeah, look, I think for all of the talk about the money stuff, I think there is the ability of Donald Trump to get around that.
00:34:25.000He obviously can earn a lot more media.
00:34:27.000He does get a lot more traction in doing the campaign rallies and getting around the country.
00:34:33.000I suppose the thing I worry most about is this move by the Democrats to win the House.
00:34:38.000There's a lot to be said about what's going on, especially on the abortion argument.