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00:01:47.000It was a two hour program starting around 5 30.
00:01:50.000This is a veteran group, not panicked or shaken, he says, just focused on the work and the task at hand.
00:01:55.000There were about 75 to 100 people in the room.
00:01:58.000Many cabinet members were there, including Scott Besant, Howard Lucknick.
00:02:02.000RFK, Sean Duffy, along with their most senior aides.
00:02:08.000The meeting was hosted by Susie Wiles, who spoke briefly.
00:02:10.000The pollster and strategist, Tony Fabrizio, who Charlie loved, presented with about 25 slides on the data of what voters care about, the demographics, the issues, the messages that resonate, and what do not.
00:02:24.000The economy will be the issue in the election, he said.
00:02:30.000Messages that break through, banning stock trading for Congress.
00:03:24.000Tony is beloved by the Trump administration, by the team, trusted deeply.
00:03:29.000But again, let's just hover on these slides.
00:03:32.000I really love, I do love, I do, banning stock trading for Congress is an interesting one.
00:03:37.000I know people, I think that is underrated because I do think there's been really all the way back since the big crash in 08, over and over again, public attention goes back to how wealthy members of Congress are, how much wealthier they routinely get while they're in Congress, the fact that insider trading for a long time had no restrictions at all, it's still not that restricted.
00:04:02.000Now, there's always like new ways that you can cash in, and people notice it.
00:04:06.000It's like you can literally borrow a theme.
00:04:09.000I see a theme in these issues that they list.
00:04:12.000There is an underpinning of the populist energy in each one of these, right?
00:04:17.000And it's coming from a conservative angle.
00:04:19.000So the question is how can you get wins that resonate, that stick in the brain of voters?
00:04:26.000You're also accomplishing a massive portfolio of policy agenda items that are having huge impacts actually on the economy, underlying economic.
00:05:25.000It's not even, according to Tony Fabrizio, stopping the invasion at the border, which is a huge accomplishment that guaranteed has more impact on your daily life than any of the things I'm going to list.
00:05:37.000He actually says, apparently, Fabrizio in his presentation, he said, This is from Mark Halpern.
00:05:42.000Taking credit for closing the border does not resonate much, which is a bummer because it is an incredible accomplishment of this administration.
00:05:51.000But if it's not resonating, it's not resonating.
00:05:54.000You should still do it, of course, because it's good.
00:06:42.000One last thing, and then I want us to move into this.
00:06:44.000I really like how it's not just, oh, we need more of a domestic focus on the economy.
00:06:49.000It's that specific bit of, This is a specific thing like banning stock trading or really honing in on prescription drug crisis that will be noticed and will produce results.
00:08:12.000They're targeting, he typoed this, it's 36 targeted House races and seven key Senate races.
00:08:17.000And they're Frank, Frabizio, and then James Blair gets up, the political czar, and they say historically they know it's common for the president's party to lose seats, often a lot of seats in the midterms.
00:08:27.000They believe they'll only lose the Senate if we lose 50 House seats.
00:08:34.000We're likely to keep the Senate, keep the ability to confirm Supreme Court justices, confirm appointees, unless it's a true massive bloodbath.
00:08:41.000And I think they're aware, as long as they take the right moves, they might lose seats.
00:08:44.000It's likely they'll lose seats, but not catastrophically.
00:08:48.000He says, trying to argue about wages being up will not help.
00:09:05.000But everyone else, you know, they can.
00:09:07.000Stay on their message, and they'll expect you know, Trump has good instincts.
00:09:11.000They talk about it as a parallel path that everybody that can stay on message, do it.
00:09:15.000Trump's gonna go with his gut, he's gonna message on instinct.
00:09:17.000He's the president, after all, he's earned the right.
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00:11:15.000So, we want to get to this Potomac story.
00:11:18.000Yes, the Potomac, not the Potomac, because it has just experienced the largest sewage spill in U.S. history.
00:11:28.000240 million gallons of raw sewage flooding the Potomac in one month.
00:11:32.000This has been going on for weeks, which is just remarkable, actually, that anything this catastrophic and horrific and smelly and gross and disgusting would be allowed to happen.
00:11:57.000So here's the thing there's multiple layers to this story.
00:12:01.000Let's start with NBC is finally covering this 464.
00:12:05.000The river George Washington called the nation's river is tonight off limits and contaminated after a 60 year old sewage line in Maryland broke open last month, spewing more than 240 million gallons of raw waste.
00:12:19.000Into the river, the same river that flows past the Kennedy Center and the Lincoln Memorial and used by boaters, kayakers, high school, and college rowing teams.
00:12:28.000So you can see some of the toilet paper and the sewage up on the banks there.
00:12:32.000Riverkeeper Dean Nell Yokes says the stench and environmental damage are staggering, with E. coli levels more than 10,000 times above EPA quality standards at the time of the spill.
00:14:01.000President Trump has blamed Maryland's Democratic governor Wes Moore for gross mismanagement, while Moore fired back saying the pipe was federally built and regulated, and the Trump EPA has been slow to respond.
00:14:13.000The fear now the Potomac may not be safe for months.
00:14:48.000You know, when I arrived at DC Water, this was an organization that looked very similar to our industry.
00:14:55.000It was predominantly, you know, white male at the top, but this was a utility that's, you know, more than 70% people of color work at this utility.
00:15:04.000The people at the top, the executives, the chiefs in that C suite, they should look like.
00:15:10.000The employees that they serve and that they work with.
00:15:14.000And the same thing with the community.
00:15:16.000And so my executive team looks exactly like the community.
00:15:22.000It looks like the employees, the staff, be it people of color, women.
00:15:27.000Well, now they have a river filled with poop.
00:15:53.000You're telling me that the river that flows by the Kennedy Center and the Jefferson Memorial and the Lincoln Memorial right through our nation's capital is filled with poo.
00:16:02.000Now, admittedly, I feel obliged to point out that the Potomac actually has been polluted a long time.
00:16:07.000So I know when I moved to D.C., you were not supposed to swim in the Potomac, and that there was like a decade long cleanup process.
00:16:14.000And I think maybe a couple years ago, they finally said you could swim in it.
00:16:18.000And now it's just right back into the pool.
00:16:19.000Well, they have E. coli levels at 10,000 times higher than the pool.
00:16:47.000They built the most successful, functional, prosperous, and advanced societies on planet Earth.
00:16:54.000And if you are going to go into the C suite of a utility that runs your sewage for millions of people and you remove us arbitrarily, whether that be culturally or in this case bureaucratically, don't be surprised when your city regresses to the historical mean.
00:17:14.000Most places on planet Earth have rivers filled with poop.
00:17:18.000If you want to understand exactly how this works, there's a great X account.
00:17:22.000I'm going to shout it out to everyone, and we should talk about it on Thought Crime next time we have it.
00:17:25.000It's a Twitter account called Josie versus Josie.
00:18:49.000You know, be careful when you attack the people that uphold society, that produce in your society, that maintain it, that built it in the first place.
00:18:57.000You might just miss them when they are gone.
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00:22:46.000Porter, Steyer, Becerra, Villaragosa, and then undecided is still a huge chunk because, you know, it's early.
00:22:52.000If we were to get it where just two Republicans are the nominees in California for the governorship, that would possibly be the funniest thing I've seen in state level politics.
00:23:45.000But in practice, it's not going to happen because.
00:23:49.000The Democrat machine is not just going to surrender California.
00:23:54.000And right now, there's another thing that's happened, which is as well as the existing candidates that have been in the race for a while, people like, I can barely say their names without laughing, that these are the, as the president would say, they're not sending their best when you think about the Democrats.
00:24:11.000Eric Swalwell, Katie Porter, the billionaire climate fanatic Tom Steyer.
00:24:17.000Well, on top of that, you've got another one now.
00:24:30.000And on the other side of it, the unions, they always get behind one candidate.
00:24:36.000They're going to pick their puppet, as it were.
00:24:38.000And it looks to me like they're getting behind Eric Swalwell.
00:24:41.000So within a couple of weeks, even maybe certainly within months, you will get two very well funded Democrats moving up purely because of all the money that the government unions.
00:24:53.000And the tech community are putting in.
00:24:55.000So, the real risk actually is that we get two Democrats in the top two.
00:25:01.000That's what I'm really concerned about.
00:25:03.000And then, of course, the chance for change in California is gone.
00:25:06.000And it has a massively negative impact on the other races in California.
00:25:11.000If there's no Republican in the governor's race, you can forget about any of the congressional seats in California that are in play that we absolutely need to protect the House majority.
00:25:21.000You can forget about voter ID, which is on the ballot.
00:25:24.000I wanted to update on that, Steve, actually, because we had Calvert on the show giving us the update where we stand on that right now.
00:25:46.000It's not just huge in its own right because it helps stop the cheating.
00:25:49.000It actually is a big part of why I believe we can really win this year.
00:25:54.000Because voter ID, of course, as we know, it's popular across the board, even in California, even among California Democrats, there's a majority for voter ID.
00:26:02.000But of course, it's really popular with Republicans.
00:26:05.000That means it's going to really help the turnout in November.
00:26:09.000And in a midterm, as you know, that's what it's all about getting your voters out.
00:26:13.000And so it's one of the main reasons I think we can actually win this year, truly win in November and elect me governor is voter ID being on the ballot.
00:26:23.000Well, and listen, there is, I mean, there is probably no politician in the United States so loathed and so mocked, save for like AOC and Ilhan Omar, as Eric Swawa.
00:26:35.000I mean, this, the fact to see his name ahead of, Katie Porter shocked me actually because, yeah, Katie Porter is got a terrible bedside manner, she's terrible to her staff, she's mean.
00:26:49.000Uh, but you know, she's a little like Eric Swalwell.
00:26:53.000I mean, also, we have to weigh the possibility that she may, if the race is close, simply eat Eric Swalwell.
00:27:00.000You do not have to chime in on any of this if you don't want to, uh, Steve Hilton.
00:27:04.000Well, I will say what I will say one thing, which is I can't decide between them.
00:27:21.000There's flatulating on camera, there's Fang Fang, and now the new one is his erotic poetry.
00:27:27.000He's given Stacey Abrams a run for her money.
00:27:30.000He once penned a graphic sex charge college poem boasting of lovers kissing till veins imploded and exploded with blood rolled down our chins.
00:28:34.000I mean, you can see it behind me because I'm on the road with that.
00:28:37.000We call it the Cal Affordable Tour because it's all of these, everything is the most expensive in California than anywhere else in the country.
00:28:47.000You've got to end the Democrat climate crusade.
00:28:49.000So, you get $3 gas, cut electric bills.
00:28:52.000We have the highest gas prices in the country, even though we have abundant oil reserves, higher than Hawaii in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
00:28:59.000We have the highest electric bills everywhere apart from Hawaii.
00:29:06.000Every rent, housing, all of these things.
00:29:09.000Charlie used to talk about, and that's one of the things that so resonates, of course, for all of us, is that simple American dream get married, raise a family.
00:29:17.000Buy your own home, a good, decent life.
00:29:19.000They've made that impossible in California.
00:29:21.000It's actually those simple things $3 gas, cut your electric bills in half, your first hundred grand tax free, a home you can afford to buy.
00:29:30.000That's really what people are responding to.
00:29:33.000And I think that's, and the Democrats have no answer, like literally nothing to say about any of that.
00:29:39.000And the idea that we're just going to have more of the same of this nonsense in California is just unthinkable.
00:32:27.000The sources noted it would likely be a joint U.S. Israeli campaign that's much broader in scope and more existential for the regime than the Israeli led 12 day war last June, which U.S. eventually joined to take out Iran's underground nuclear facilities.
00:33:54.000We haven't really been talking about it.
00:33:56.000It's been in the background compared to.
00:33:59.000Shut down in Washington compared to the ICE stuff, compared to basically a lot of other issues.
00:34:04.000And there's no, I think if you were to say, if we were to, if Trump were to go on air and say, we're launching a regime change war against Iran, I think a lot of people would be wondering why it's happening now.
00:34:14.000Last summer, there was actual war between Iran and Israel.
00:34:19.000Their argument would be that there is this mass uprising and then the regime came in, crushed it.
00:34:24.000We're talking about tens of thousands of dead protesters, which is obviously horrendous, but there's horrendous things that happen all over the world.
00:34:31.000Now, the Pro Iran lobby would say this is the time you could push them over the top, etc. etc.
00:34:37.000So, this is what's interesting here the timeline.
00:34:40.000The Israeli government, which is pushing for a maximalist scenario targeting regime change as well as Iran's nuclear missile programs, is preparing for a scenario of war within days, according to two Israeli officials.
00:34:52.000Some U.S. sources tell Axios that the U.S. might need more time.
00:34:55.000Senator Lindsey Graham, this is the part where it got my ears right up.
00:35:00.000Senator Lindsey Graham said strikes could still be weeks away, but others say the timeline could be shorter.
00:35:06.000This is what it says The boss is getting fed up.
00:35:09.000Some people around him warn against going to war with Iran, but I think there is a 90% chance we see Connecticut.
00:35:15.000Action in the next few weeks, one Trump advisor said.
00:35:19.000And what is prompting a lot of this is that there has been attempted Iran U.S. diplomatic negotiations going on, and there is no evidence of a diplomatic breakthrough with Iran on the horizon.
00:35:32.000But there's more and more evidence that war is, in fact, now imminent.
00:35:36.000We should know that the president has done this a few times.
00:35:42.000I feel like everyone thought we were going to topple that government.
00:35:45.000And then instead, he just yoinked out Maduro.
00:35:47.000And instead, you have just kind of a much friendlier relationship with essentially the same government still.
00:35:53.000Yeah, and all reports from Venezuela, to be fair, you even have former General Petraeus, retired General Petraeus, praising Trump's handling of Venezuela, which is interesting.
00:36:02.000And all reports indicate that it's going well.
00:36:05.000Now, there's going to be bumps along the road.
00:37:57.000So it's an interesting thing to keep in the back of your mind that we have the capability, certainly, to do it from a military standpoint.
00:38:05.000The question is, would that be part of this?
00:38:06.000You can see how they may have even been selling the president on this that, for example, a lot of people, us included, were very concerned last summer.
00:38:24.000I think a lot of people would have said, this is a very risky operation where a lot of soldiers could be killed.
00:38:29.000And instead, total success, no U.S. losses.
00:38:33.000And we took them all out and they were completely humiliating for the regime such that they basically had to submit to us because they're worried we could blow them all to smithereens with no losses.
00:38:45.000The people who are most concerned that an intervention would become a quagmire have, we should just say it, they have been incorrect.
00:38:53.000And the people who've said we can do this easily with no losses have been correct several times.
00:39:00.000Then, yeah, I have to offer that caveat that if you do that over and over, eventually you do get unlucky.
00:39:06.000And you only have to get unlucky once, and we're in another five, 10 year mess.
00:39:10.000So, the Ayatollah, I was just looking at his Twitter feed, you know, and you got to imagine this is playing into President Trump's psychology here because you don't threaten America when President Trump is president and basically get away with it.
00:39:25.000Americans say, come negotiate with us about your nuclear energy, and the result, by the way, nuclear energy, it's not just energy you guys want.