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00:01:48.000And if you lose even one part of that, possibly the House, it greatly limits what a president is able to do, what is plausible for you to do.
00:01:56.000And so we have to be looking ahead to the 2026 elections.
00:02:00.000And what's so useful about President Trump, what has made him such a formidable political figure, is he's very good at poking up against a lot of things that are just traditionally done in Washington and saying, wait, why are we doing that?
00:02:16.000Why aren't we seizing a bigger advantage?
00:02:19.000We say this country is in a big state of crisis because it is.
00:02:42.000And one of the most obvious is he looks at the House map and says, well, okay, they say we could draw House maps to win more seats for our party.
00:03:05.000And so throughout this year, we've seen campaigning in red states around the country, in Texas, in Florida, and we're going to be covering Indiana in just a moment here, where we look at a map and say, well, okay, if we were to move these districts around, instead of having 60% of House seats, we could have 65, 70, 75% of the House seats in this state.
00:03:29.000And we know Democrats already do this.
00:03:37.000They call it nonpartisan districting, yet they found a magical way to make it incredibly partisan how many Democrats are in California's seats.
00:03:45.000And so President Trump looked at that and said, we should behave the same way because if we lose the House in 2026, we're going to get a new order in Washington where it's going to be endless subpoenas, endless investigations, probably endless impeachments.
00:04:00.000You know, why not go for a third, a fourth, a fifth, a 10th impeachment of Donald Trump?
00:04:17.000Let's say Trump wins over Republicans to getting rid of the filibuster.
00:04:20.000Well, if you don't have the House, you still can't pass legislation because Democrats can block it.
00:04:25.000So we've been fighting to change House seats to get more Republican seats so that we have more of a potential margin in these upcoming midterms.
00:04:36.000He had a big win, a very important win for the state of Texas.
00:04:39.000Texas lawmakers got their ducks in a row.
00:04:42.000They passed a new map that looks like it should be able to deliver Republicans four or five extra seats in the House of Representatives.
00:04:50.000Now, that was very predictably blocked by a federal court judge who said, actually, you can't do that.
00:04:59.000Democrats are allowed to do it, but you're not allowed to do it, basically.
00:05:02.000But the Supreme Court yesterday struck that back and said, nope, Texas's maps are good to go for this election.
00:05:08.000And we're going to talk to Ken Paxton about how that happened and what we'll have moving forward.
00:05:15.000But there's still unfinished business.
00:05:17.000And one of the biggest sources of unfinished business is in Indiana.
00:05:22.000In Indiana, we've had more difficulty, unfortunately.
00:05:26.000There, you're not going to get as big of a win, but you have a state that is very Republican, one of the most Republican states in the country, but they have a House map that has carved out safe seats for Democrats.
00:05:38.000It would be doable in the state of Indiana to make a fully Republican state.
00:05:44.000And just so far, they have chosen not to do this.
00:05:48.000And so we're putting pressure on them to change their minds.
00:05:53.000Charlie's point of view was always we should have state lawmakers and federal lawmakers who are as conservative as the voters that they represent.
00:06:03.000And if you talk to rank and file Republicans in Indiana, conservatives in Indiana, Trump voters in Indiana, they want to have a House majority that can enact what President Trump ran on in 2024.
00:06:17.000And if they can redo their House maps in order to do that, they will support that.
00:06:23.000If they can do that, they want it to happen.
00:06:26.000And so I think we reasonably believe rank-and-file voters in Indiana want a new house map.
00:06:33.000Yet, state Republicans have so far declined to do that.
00:06:37.000They've come up with excuses for why it can't happen, why they're failing to do it, why they're refusing to do it.
00:06:43.000And so we have a story in Politico today that turning point action, we've always said we are going to put pressure on Republicans to reform themselves.
00:06:52.000And so we are prepared to back primary challengers to Republicans who are not willing to assist the president by redoing our house maps.
00:07:28.000Turning point action is at the Capitol in Indiana.
00:07:30.000And Blake, this is one of these dynamics that is really, I think, going, you're going to see it shift.
00:07:35.000Yeah, we still have to keep a focus on, you know, the swing states.
00:07:40.000That's what you got to do to win a national election.
00:07:42.000But what I have observed, what Charlie knew, was that the fact that we had spent so much time in swing stakes is sometimes these solid red, predictably red states have not gotten enough attention, especially nationally.
00:07:55.000And what happens when you see that dynamic play out is that the voting public, the grassroots, the base begins to sometimes get out of alignment with their elected people, right?
00:08:06.000You have incumbent political machines, you have incumbent elected leaders that just sort of stay entrenched.
00:08:11.000And so you get this Bush-era early 2000s conservatism in a MAGA world where Trump is the president and there's a misalignment.
00:08:18.000And so when President Trump says, hey, let's get these maps so that we're more competitive in 2026, you see senators in the state of Indiana that are standing in the way.
00:08:28.000And so this is a rally to say, listen, the base is on board.
00:08:40.000And we're going to, you mentioned your audio was cutting in and out for me, but I heard you mentioned Texas.
00:08:45.000We're going to have Ken Paxton on with a huge win on the Texas redistricting maps.
00:08:51.000But we have to all be rowing in the same direction.
00:08:53.000And so when you see senators, for whatever reason, whether it's because Trump used a naughty word and he didn't like it or whatever the reason is that they want to give, we have 40 Republican senators in the Hoosier state.
00:11:25.000390, Brett Galaszewski, our national enterprise director at Turning Point Action, is kicking things off 390.
00:11:33.000You cannot afford to give power back to Nakeem Jeffries, AOC, Alan Omar, and all the radical leftists that will stop our ability to make this country great.
00:11:46.000Yeah, and so Blake, I mean, I'm told the energy in the room is like through the roof, and that on MS Now, you can barely hear the reporter over the roars of the rally in that state house.
00:12:05.000We saw this with a lot of our discussion this week over the Heg Seth and the boat drama where you have some Republicans that say, oh, we might need this investigation of this whole thing.
00:12:17.000We might have to spend weeks, maybe two years investigating this.
00:12:20.000And then the response from the people who email us, Freedom at Charlie Kirk, is overwhelmingly, no, I support them taking out drug boats.
00:12:28.000I support them being able to execute their agenda.
00:12:32.000I definitely don't want Republicans getting in the way of something that, reminder, we ran on.
00:12:39.000And I think it's the same thing with this.
00:12:41.000The rank and file would say, we want our side to win and to get wins.
00:12:46.000Why would we not do things that get us wins?
00:12:50.000Well, you mentioned drug boats, Blake, and I just have to give a shout out to our good Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth.
00:13:13.000I said, every new attack aimed at Pete Hegseth makes me want another narco drug boat blown up and sent to the bottom of the ocean.
00:13:21.000And as if it was like Christmas morning, Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, replied to yours truly and said, your wish is our command, Andrew.
00:13:40.000And you guys tell us that you are supportive of the immigration moratorium.
00:13:44.000When you guys tell us that you are in support of President Trump blowing up these narco boats before they can deliver poison to our shores, when you guys tell us that you're actually pretty supportive of this forward-facing, more, I would say, aggressive posture when it comes to the Western hemisphere, we communicate that back.
00:15:29.000And Blake, I'll give you the last minute.
00:15:30.000Charlie was big on this, huge on the redistricting fight, which is why we had Ken Paxton booked this morning after his big win at the Supreme Court.
00:15:39.000This was something he was absolutely committed to, and this was something he was messaging on in the final days before he was taken from us far too soon.
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00:18:26.000We said, no, it's political, just like all these other Democratic states around the country that are gerrymandering based on political points of view.
00:18:34.000And we had a three-judge panel rule against us 2-1, arguing that because there was some letter from DOJ that it was based on race, we said no.
00:18:50.000And when we lost at the lower court level with the three-judge panel, we appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court directly.
00:18:58.000And fortunately, we got a stay, which means that the original court, the three-judge panel, had put a stay on our maps, and it threw our primary into chaos because our filing deadline ends December 8th.
00:19:35.000And so now we can go forward, at least for 2026, we can go forward with these maps and hopefully we'll resolve this over the next year and we'll be able to keep the maps for at least the next two elections.
00:19:45.000That's great news, huge news, especially after the news out of California.
00:19:50.000So it was basically a wash if you look at it that way.
00:19:53.000I have to have, just have to ask, are there any remaining legal challenges the Dems can mount to block this, at least for 2026?
00:20:02.000Well, the good thing is we went to the highest court and it was our request.
00:20:05.000There's nowhere for them to go on this appeal.
00:20:08.000They can fight the maps in future elections, 2028 and 230, which I expect they will.
00:20:14.000But I feel pretty confident we're going to win in the long run.
00:20:17.000It's just we have to go through the process of actually having the actual case on the merits.
00:20:21.000And that's just for the future to deal with.
00:20:23.000But for now, these maps should be set for the 2026 elections because our primary is March 3rd and early voting starts February 17th.
00:20:31.000So if we had been thrown off and had to open filing back up and use the old maps, it would have been delayed for months and months and months.
00:20:45.000I know this particular case was not about racial gerrymandering that we've heard so much about.
00:20:53.000Explain how significant this win is, I think politically, but also legally.
00:20:59.000And is there an effort maybe in the future to set legal precedent that we can't have these racially gerrymandered maps?
00:21:07.000Yeah, I mean, legally, it's important because we were able to establish this as political.
00:21:11.000I mean, we have Democratic and politically important because all these Democratic states have been doing this for years and years and years.
00:21:16.000I think the entire New England state delegation is all Democrat.
00:21:25.000The Republican states have not done that.
00:21:27.000We're finally stepping up to the plate and getting it done.
00:21:30.000Our legislature did a great job in putting these maps forward.
00:21:33.000And our entire state leadership team was behind it, including the governor.
00:21:38.000And so I think if we're going to have a fair playing field, we in Republican states need to be able to do exactly what the Democrats have done.
00:21:47.000And that's exactly what happened in Texas.
00:21:48.000And hopefully Indiana and Missouri and other states can follow.
00:21:51.000If we don't, we're playing on a very unfavorable playing field where the Democrats gerrymander based on political considerations.
00:21:58.000And we just stay on the sidelines and let them win the House.
00:22:01.000Yeah, I mean, I think I speak for all this audience where we're just super grateful for your dogged pursuit of this, Mr. Attorney General.
00:22:08.000You have done a fantastic job pursuing this and being dogged.
00:22:14.000As soon as I saw this news report last night about these Texas Democrats who fled the state when this whole process was unfolding, could you just remind us, you know, has any have any of them been held accountable?
00:22:55.000As soon as we got an injunction to stop him from paying out of this charity, then they came back.
00:23:00.000So it was, I think, important to stop the funding.
00:23:02.000Now we're dealing with the consequences of whether these legislators are going to be punished under state law for abdicating their responsibility.
00:23:11.000We're trying to get some of them removed for leaving the state when they were supposed to be in the state voting.
00:23:43.000And, you know, so there's political questions.
00:23:45.000And this is not necessarily relevant for your statewide race, but is there any concern in the state of Texas that these new maps are going to be, I guess, maybe too tightly drawn, that if we see a pullback of Hispanic support in future races, that we might be actually jeopardizing some of these gains?
00:24:07.000I mean, the future is always unknown, right?
00:24:10.000So we don't know with certainty how elections are going to turn out.
00:24:13.000We certainly have to continue to send our message to not just Hispanics, but all voters that the type of Republican politics of low taxes, border control, protecting the border, giving opportunity for everyone to do well in Texas by creating opportunity instead of taxation and regulation and allowing small business owners to create jobs, that that message will continue to resonate with our voters.
00:24:49.000I envision that helping Republican states.
00:24:51.000We're going to grow both wealth and with population.
00:24:55.000And in the end, I think it's going to benefit our voting base and we're going to become stronger, not weaker.
00:25:00.000Yeah, I actually, you know, something Charlie talked a lot about was how this move to the Sunbelt is changing the electoral math of the United States.
00:25:12.000And Blake knows this well because he was the one that did the research when we went into winner-take-all, Nebraska, because we were seeing the math.
00:25:17.000This is only going to continue on as new censuses are done.
00:25:22.000And frankly, this is unrelated, but Blake would probably agree.
00:26:03.000And they want to even have the controversy that we had.
00:26:05.000It's already been settled by the U.S. Supreme Court.
00:26:08.000So I would encourage them to go forward.
00:26:10.000We need to make this a fair process as fair as we can, given that the Democratic states have already gone down this path and California is trying to add to that.
00:26:19.000So we might as well play the same game.
00:26:21.000If we don't play the same game they're playing, we are going to lose.
00:26:40.000It really is on this sort of thing, it's that simple, especially because California has already acted.
00:26:47.000That's what really grates on me about so much of this debate is some people are mad that we that President Trump chose to fight this battle, but the left embraced fighting that battle.
00:26:58.000They have redrawn their lines in California with their rushed ballot measure there.
00:27:03.000So at this point, you have just decided if you are sitting out this fight, you have just decided, no, I want to sit out.
00:27:43.000Not one single accomplishment that's good.
00:27:46.000We certainly have him fighting Donald Trump on the border wall, constantly voting for amnesty, spending his time not supporting President Trump running for re-election or in 2016.
00:27:57.000And then, of course, siding with Joe Biden on Second Amendment restrictions.
00:28:00.000So this is not a Republican that should be re-elected in Texas.
00:30:07.000Ryan Cole Jr., a 30-year-old white man from the D.C. suburbs, is charged with transporting an explosive device in interstate commerce and with malicious destruction.
00:30:28.000Definitionally, if he's doing bombings at CNN, he's got to be a white guy.
00:30:33.000Even if he's black, he's been infected with some form of whiteness is probably what Jake Tapper meant because he's a criminal because CNN, there's no other option here.
00:30:47.000I think it's because he's in a, I don't want to, I don't want to say, I'm going to get myself in trouble.
00:30:51.000I just, it's humorous to me how badly these people want to want this man to be white.
00:31:10.000I gotta tell you, it kind of makes me looking at this crowd doing a victory lap when all the senior FBI officials across all key divisions have been fired for political purposes.
00:31:23.000When in some field offices, up to 45% of the FBI officers who were doing things like counter-espionage and cyber have been assigned to do immigration cases, it's a little rich that they're saying they're America safer.
00:31:40.000How much earlier could we have caught this guy if resources hadn't been diverted?
00:32:40.000What is being reported is that he has told authorities, or it's been reported that he's told authorities that he was upset about the 2020 elections.
00:32:51.000So he may have believed there was sort of a conspiracy to take it away from President Trump.
00:32:57.000Now, if he was leaving pipe bombs at the RNC, he clearly is not blaming only Democrats for this.
00:33:03.000He may have had a very broad vision of who was to blame for his grievance.
00:33:08.000But also, if this is just him telling it to authorities now, who knows?
00:33:12.000It could be, you might already have the case where he would want this to be his statement because he wants to link the case to what else happened in D.C. that day.
00:33:24.000Because what has already been brought up is President Trump's J-6 pardon was quite broad.
00:33:29.000It basically just said he is issuing a full pardon for everyone linked to the events around the Capitol on January 6th.
00:33:37.000So it's inevitable his defense is going to say he's covered by that pardon.
00:33:41.000This case needs to be dropped immediately.
00:33:43.000And so it would be useful for him to construct a motive that links to that.
00:33:57.000They've updated it since with a new image of him.
00:34:00.000So I just want to be editorially clear.
00:34:03.000That was the original image, but they've updated it.
00:34:05.000The image there is actually his father.
00:34:06.000Yeah, the other image is the one you saw during the tapper clip earlier.
00:34:10.000But what's also very funny is just because we have a very small world.
00:34:14.000So this is reported by the Daily Wire that this alleged bomber's family had sued the Trump Department of Homeland Security over illegal immigration-related things.
00:34:26.000They basically asked the Biden DOJ to arrest, to address alleged racism against them.
00:34:31.000And the best part is to do this, as you saw in that photo of his father, the other man there was attorney Benjamin Crump, who's practically this forest gump of every racial grievance story in America over the past decade.
00:34:46.000He was Trayvon Martin's family attorney.
00:34:49.000He was involved in a lot of BLM stuff.
00:34:51.000He showed up in the George Floyd extravaganza.
00:34:53.000He's just been this guy who appears in every one of these cases.
00:34:57.000And so naturally, he was already involved with the family of the alleged pipe bomber.
00:35:23.000Blake, if you would have given me a thousand bucks to bet on which direction that was going to go or to make up what the suspect would look like, sound like, be involved with, this would not have been on my bingo card.