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00:01:11.000I'm Andrew Colvett, joined by Blake Neff in studio back here in Phoenix after an amazing, amazing evening in Ole Miss in Oxford, Mississippi.
00:01:21.000Truly one of the most amazing events that I have ever seen in person to be a part of.
00:01:30.000Blake, you held down the home fort here yesterday.
00:01:43.000What we need to do is we need to have like a bunch of turning point kids just call in, like make it available to them, and we'll just do like a dumb question.
00:01:49.000Can we turn the tables, do an Ask Gen Z where we try to figure out what is 6'7?
00:03:27.000Charlie would be so proud because he believed in JD from a very early day.
00:03:31.000And we've seen him, he's always had so much promise, but we've also seen him just get better and better and way better.
00:03:38.000Because he's been, and the way you should get better, which is just getting out there, fighting every day, getting the experience, getting the reps the same way Charlie did.
00:03:51.000Now, you know, you hear about the greatest generation.
00:03:56.000And Erica really wanted to make a point last night that she believes that Gen Z, and by the way, I believe this too.
00:04:02.000As a millennial, I believe this about you, Gen Z, that you are the courageous generation.
00:04:07.000My generation is and was sort of like, you know, we're still getting over the Obama hangover or whatever.
00:04:15.000We got really excited about Obama in 2008 and 2012.
00:04:18.000Gen Z has a chance to be the courageous generation.
00:04:21.000And she, almost like in this prophetic, authoritative tone, she spoke right into the heart of Gen Z and said, You are the courageous generation.
00:05:00.000I mean, you could hear her repeat, repeat, repeat.
00:05:03.000It was almost like she wanted to force their hearts to burst open and believe this thing that Charlie believed about them, that they are the courageous generation, that they really can be a turning point.
00:05:23.000And Charlie, by sheer force of will and pure action, action, action, offense, offense, offense, went into these college campuses, changed the narrative.
00:05:32.00015 billion social media views later helps get President Trump elected.
00:06:26.000Each one of you in this room, everyone watching.
00:06:28.000When you earn your voice and you stand up for what is right, that is a part of your legacy, your family's legacy, just as much as it is part of Charlie's legacy.
00:06:44.000Because if there's one thing I've learned, especially being with Charlie for the past seven years, it's that the hope we're looking for is not found in Washington.
00:07:08.000I mean, just to put it in perspective here, by the way, and we are going to get to the JD clips, but just to put it in perspective, there's about 27,000 students at Ole Miss.
00:07:19.00014,000 of them registered for this event.
00:07:36.000Hear me again, 13,000 adults that we had, our team worked with the Ole Miss PR department to communicate with them and say, please do not come.
00:07:45.000It's going to be rainy and you can't get in.
00:08:27.000How about we, you know, let's just do, for example, he took a question on people have highlighted, you know, since immigration, H-1B's immigration from India has become an issue.
00:08:36.000And he just confoted, you know, he is himself married to an Indian woman.
00:08:57.000The best guess is probably 25, 30 million people.
00:09:01.000I've heard estimates as high as 50 million.
00:09:04.000When something like that happens, you've got to allow your own society to cohere a little bit, to build a sense of common identity for all the newcomers to assimilate, the ones who are going to stay, to assimilate into American culture.
00:09:17.000Until you do that, you've got to be careful about any additional immigration, in my view.
00:09:22.000Yeah, I mean, I love that he went right for it.
00:09:25.000There was actually Usha played a particularly interesting role in some of the questioning, and we can get to some of that.
00:09:32.000But what stood out to me is that he did not dodge.
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00:11:56.000So JD Vance says, listen, we're not here to say that if the government made a deal with you and you're here legally, that we're here to take that away.
00:12:05.000But that doesn't mean that in the future, we're just obligated to continue letting in millions and millions of people.
00:12:12.000Like, oh, we have to have forever let in infinite people.
00:12:15.000And he went through the history of immigration, the ebbs and the flows, and how we used to do it and how assimilation used to be expected of immigrants.
00:12:22.000And then this girl, I presume she's a student at Ole Miss.
00:12:41.000Yes, my wife did not grow up Christian.
00:12:42.000I think it's fair to say that she grew up in a Hindu family, but not a particularly religious family in either direction.
00:12:49.000In fact, when I met my wife, we were both, I would consider myself an agnostic or an atheist, and that's what I think she would have considered herself as well.
00:12:56.000You know, everybody has to come to their own arrangement here.
00:12:59.000The way that we've come to our arrangement is she's my best friend.
00:13:02.000We talk to each other about this stuff.
00:13:04.000So we decided to raise our kids Christian.
00:13:07.000Our two oldest kids who go to school, they go to a Christian school.
00:13:10.000Our eight-year-old did his first communion about a year ago.
00:13:14.000That's the way that we have come to our arrangement.
00:13:17.000Now, most Sundays, Usha will come with me to church.
00:13:19.000As I've told her, and I've said publicly, and I'll say now in front of 10,000 of my closest friends, do I hope eventually that she is somehow moved by the same thing that I was moved in by church?
00:13:31.000Yeah, I honestly, I do wish that because I believe in the Christian gospel, and I hope eventually my wife comes to see it the same way.
00:13:41.000I mean, just when was the last time you saw a public figure just talk about their, you know, their families, it's a very personal thing to answer a question about.
00:13:52.000And he really just plunged into it, gave a pretty, seems to me, a very forthright answer.
00:14:53.000I just want to keep going with this gal because it seems like most of the articles I've seen from the left that are trying to attack this answer have been about this particular questioner.
00:15:01.000There was another questioner asked that was dating a foreign visa holder, visa holding student.
00:15:07.000And, you know, they're like, JD Vance is going to deport this kid's girlfriend.
00:15:22.000This is talking about how the fact there's too many people, too many immigrants in the country, and we don't owe it to, you know, we actually owe it to Americans to take care of this generation, our people, first and foremost.
00:15:56.000Okay, so again, I'm going to finish answering the question.
00:16:00.000There's too many people who want to come to the United States of America, and my job as vice president is not to look out for the interests of the whole world.
00:16:06.000It's to look out for the people of the United States.
00:16:34.000And man, it just feels great that think about, you know, we're seeing what Charlie built, which is we could hold an event on a college campus and not, you know, you know, it's not at Hillsdale.
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00:18:28.000I had to jump out of my cab and I'm sitting in a hotel lobby with a big sign that says no one may use this lobby unless you're a guest in the hotel.
00:18:34.000So it could have some excitement, some Gotham City excitement showing up.
00:18:39.000Yeah, I've got to be tried to evict me.
00:19:01.000By informed Spidey Census, we're going to see at least one more piece of pretty significant opposition research dropped in this race here at the end that will potentially shake things up on one of the candidates, of course.
00:19:45.000First of all, in two-way, we try to be transparent, right?
00:19:48.000We're not old media where we know secret things so we don't tell our audience.
00:19:51.000I was dealing with the source who I trust over years of dealing.
00:19:55.000And this person said, we have something.
00:19:57.000We're not sure we're going to be able to put it out.
00:19:59.000We've got to square the circle and dot the eyes, but we're trying to.
00:20:04.000And then two things have come out since I said that, which if Mamdani were being treated like a normal candidate, I think would have had a major impact on the race.
00:20:10.000But the New York Times in particular is covering him like they covered Barack Obama in 2008.
00:20:15.000It's all about rainbows and special ponies as opposed to scrutiny of the frontrunner.
00:20:20.000So one story was a video that never been out as far as I can tell of Mamdani comparing unfavorably the New York City police, who he might be the commander of in a few weeks, with the Israeli army, the Israeli military.
00:20:34.000And then another thing came out since then is mother said that he was not an American, that he didn't really identify as an American.
00:20:43.000Both of those things, I think, in a normal race, normal coverage would have been explosive.
00:20:47.000My source won't tell me if those are the things they were referring to.
00:20:50.000So there might still be something else, but it's possible that one of those two things, again, which should normally shake up a race, does have it because except for the New York Post and me, not many people are covering these things.
00:21:02.000Yeah, I mean, that's a pretty shocking thing to admit.
00:21:05.000I mean, I think it's something, and Blake, we can bring you in here.
00:21:10.000You know, it's a pretty shocking thing, actually, for the mother of the mayoral candidate in New York City, the largest, greatest city apparently that we have, according to many.
00:21:22.000And for him to basically have a family member, his mother, say that he doesn't even identify as American.
00:21:29.000Here's my thought, though, on this: is that essentially you have about, what is it, 60 or is it four?
00:21:59.000And, you know, the other thing might be a net ad too.
00:22:01.000He basically said that the IDF, the Israeli military, laces up the boots of the NYPB and suggests they're both kind of like jack-booted thugs.
00:22:10.000Again, there'd be some constituency for that.
00:22:13.000And certainly this is an unorthodox campaign.
00:22:19.000You know, I've been referring lately regarding Mamdani to Donald Trump's famous, I could shoot somebody on Fifth Avenue and I wouldn't lose support.
00:22:29.000What would have to come out about Mamdani for the New York Times to write a front page story about the frontrunner?
00:22:42.000So it's not like, you know, total ancient history.
00:22:44.000So like I said, my source has gone a little dark on me.
00:22:47.000And there may still be something else, but it's possible that one of those two things were the things they put out.
00:22:53.000And they had the perspective I did, which is you would think at this point in the campaign, they would be concerned about their place in history for failing to scrutinize the frontrunner.
00:23:03.000Well, it just strikes me that what could even, you know, we have early voting in New York and he has got, according to the polls, a pretty big lead.
00:23:11.000What even, let alone New York Times writing about it, just what could possibly actually close that gap in the amount of time that's remaining?
00:23:18.000And yeah, I kind of feel there might be nothing.
00:23:21.000Well, well, so two very prominent New York top post columnists have come at and said basically, Andrew Cuomo is a bum, but he's our bum.
00:23:31.000That they were voting for Suomo, Cindy Adams and Michael Goodwin.
00:23:36.000And I have seen, again, it's anecdotal, but I have seen and heard from many people, Republicans, who said, I'm just not going to waste my vote on the Republican nominee, Curtis Liwa.
00:23:47.000And the bandwagon effect is not nothing, right?
00:23:50.000If people think if they vote for Cuomo, they might be able to stop a socialist mayor who they don't want to see.
00:23:55.000I also think I'm predicting, I don't know this reporting-wise, but I would say I'm predicting.
00:23:59.000I wouldn't be surprised if there were robocs maybe from Donald Trump and others to Republicans over the weekend saying don't vote for Curtis, you know, vote for Cuomo because it's the only way to save the city.
00:24:10.000So if you looked at public opinion polls, you'd say the race is over, but it's hard to poll this electorate, right?
00:24:17.000Because as you know, you try to poll regular voters, people who vote on a reliable basis.
00:24:23.000A lot of Mamdani supporters wouldn't show up there.
00:24:26.000So I don't know which way that cuts, but I just know there's some volatility here and Cuomo could get wiped out or it could be quite close.
00:24:33.000And we're just not going to know till Tuesday.
00:24:36.000And if it is close, or even if it's, you know, as long as Mamdani gets below 50%, where there's the sense if they'd consolidated fully to beat him, I do feel like there's going to be a lot of questions asked, you know, why was there a failure to fully consolidate the field?
00:24:53.000There's a lot of pressure that was put on Sliwa to drop out and Republicans to just get behind Cuomo.
00:24:58.000But I also heard people validly ask, okay, first of all, why is it ever okay to just say, oh, the entire Republican Party has to quit this race because Democrats couldn't get a better, you know, centrist candidate against Mamdani?
00:25:09.000But also, was anything seriously offered?
00:25:12.000Like, what was the, was there an incentive given for Republicans or for Sliwa specifically where you will get this concession?
00:25:19.000You know, this is going to be a much more conservative Cuomo government than it would be otherwise in order to incentivize the creation of that unified Mamdani anti-Mamdani coalition.
00:25:29.000I've seen Cuomo now go on with Maria Bartaromo and Fox Business, things like that.
00:25:33.000And Sliwa has claimed, correct me if I'm wrong, Mark, here, but that somebody offered him $10 million to get out of the race.
00:25:40.000I haven't heard from a policy standpoint the concessions, but it does seem like Cuomo is trying to present himself as more of a centrist.
00:25:47.000He's been hinting at the fact that there is a civil war within the Democrat Party and that he believes that the far-left Democrats, Democrat socialists, like Momdani are going to destroy the party.
00:26:00.000Maybe you have more insight for us, Mark.
00:26:02.000Well, look, Cuomo is not the most liberal member of the party by any means.
00:26:06.000He's got some very liberal positions on some social issues, but he's not a flaming liberal on economics and certainly not as compared to Mamdani.
00:26:13.000So, you know, elections are a better choices.
00:26:15.000There's three people on the ballot who are trying to become mayor.
00:26:18.000One of them is not going to win is Curtis.
00:26:24.000He was very good in both debates and he's enjoying it.
00:26:27.000So, and apparently, that's worth more than $10 million.
00:26:30.000So then if you're a voter, your choices are a guy who's a socialist and inexperienced and a guy who's deeply flawed and not particularly well-liked, but is not a socialist and has a lot of experience.
00:26:50.000He did a big rally with Bernie Sanders and AOC.
00:26:55.000Carl Rove has a really interesting comment in the Wall Street Journal today about the speech he gave, basically accusing the city of being anti-Muslim.
00:27:03.000And he's not closing on like a super skillful mode where he's been mostly campaigned.
00:27:10.000Who knows how voters will relate to that?
00:27:13.000But I think the key thing is Curtis's vote.
00:27:17.000If Curtis Sliwa, who's the Republican nominee, if his vote total is below 10, I think Fuomo can win.
00:27:22.000But some recent polls had him closer to 20 than to 10.
00:27:25.000Yeah, well, I was about to say, go up, throw up 274.
00:27:28.000This is Emerson College's recent poll where it has Momdani at 50%.
00:27:33.000And then if you add up Cuomo and Sliwa, you're just at 46% with 5% undecided.
00:27:38.000I suppose if all the undecided's broke for Cuomo and Sliwa got out, maybe they could combine the vote, consolidate the vote, and actually pull ahead.
00:27:47.000But this is like, you know, what I perceive is going on when you're talking about this new tone from Donnie in the closing weeks of the race here, Mark, is that it's sort of a mask off moment.
00:27:57.000He thinks he's got this thing in the bag and he's going to, he's, he's reverting to a deeper, more personal held beliefs, you know, that he's going full grievance politics about Islam and his family and 9-11 and all this stuff.
00:28:10.000That's the best analysis of the race I've heard from anybody in Arizona in a long time.
00:28:16.000The way you just said it's exactly right.
00:28:18.000And I've talked increasingly to people who are unsettled by the chances, by the prospects of his being there, not even because of his issue positions.
00:28:26.000They just find his manner to be strange.
00:28:29.000And we'll see if he does win, if he makes an effort to unify the city.
00:28:34.000I do worry, not in the short term, less about his policies, because I still think he's going to have trouble implementing a lot of this stuff he's proposing that a lot of people think is foolish.
00:28:43.000I just think there's going to be an explosion, explosive reaction from lots of constituents, particularly Jewish New Yorkers who are just truly emotionally unsettled.
00:28:53.000I call it Mamdani disadrangement syndrome.
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00:30:11.000And next up on the Megan Kelly Network, Mark, I want to ask you about last night's event with JD Vance and Erica Kirk.
00:30:18.000We got a two-minute segment here before we welcome back National Radio.
00:30:21.000You're one of the best out there about, you know, kind of feeling which way the wind is blowing and predicting where it's going.
00:30:28.000I got inundated, like I've never been inundated by texts and friends and colleagues, people I haven't heard from saying how refreshing last night was for the conservative movement to see Erica and her courage and her grace and JD just taking these questions unscripted.
00:30:45.000And I suppose what I've been saying to people today about it is forget their issue positions.
00:30:50.000Forget what you think about Turning Point or what you think about the Trump administration.
00:30:54.000Those are just two extraordinary performers, skillful on their feet, emotional in a positive way, clever, just the whole thing.
00:31:05.000And I keep warning these Democrats who are dismissive to JD Vance.
00:31:08.000This guy is maybe he's not in Trump's league or Bill Clinton's league as a political athlete, but he is damn good in getting better.
00:31:15.000And the two of them together was quite powerful.
00:31:18.000And I thought what I said on 2A this morning is everyone should watch that.
00:31:22.000If you haven't watched it, go watch the whole thing because you'll learn a lot about what's going on in this country.
00:31:27.000You'll learn a lot about the political futures of those of those potential and the political features of those two marquee performers.
00:31:35.000Yeah, I think it's, you know, something we commented on before you joined us, Mark, was just how much, I mean, we saw JD early and he was good.
00:31:44.000And Charlie saw it early, and he predicted just how good he was going to be.
00:31:47.000But we've seen JD grow leaps and bounds.
00:31:50.000And I would even say since Charlie's assassination, you've seen JD blossom in this whole new way with authority and just a strength of moral clarity.
00:32:01.000I mean, I don't think we've seen the final evolution of just where he's going to land on this because every time he speaks, it's like it's new.
00:32:16.000So, Mark, a big thing that's been a topic on the right, especially online, but also in right-wing publications, is this Arctic Frost investigation that the FBI conducted under the Biden administration.
00:32:26.000And now we're getting more details about it, which is showing, you know, the Biden administration subpoenaed people.
00:32:50.000And they believe it should be a much bigger issue.
00:32:52.000Now, you're good at offering a lot of perspective on these sorts of things.
00:32:56.000So do you believe this is something where they have a good grievance, or do you believe this is something where they're fixating on something and blowing it up to more than it really is?
00:33:05.000Well, I didn't cover it this morning on the morning meeting, and I've heard from many people as well.
00:33:11.000Special counsels are really dangerous to liberty because their whole mandate, their whole reason to be is to investigate people and indict people.
00:33:19.000And so we always have to worry, particularly now when it involves members of Congress, because that's a co-equal branch, and we don't want any executive branch going after members of Congress who's going to subpoena power and the threat of prosecution or prosecution.
00:33:32.000So those are dangers at 101 that we need to look at.
00:33:35.000In this case, I urge everybody to wait a little bit more for the facts.
00:33:39.000When they say people were investigated or spied on, that's those fancy words for they were investigated under a lawful mandate by the independent counsel.
00:33:50.000So the fact that they looked at the phone metadata on its face is not a violation of constitutional rights if it was authorized and it seems to have been.
00:34:00.000So I'm all for the press looking at it.
00:34:02.000There needs to be full disclosure, but people shouldn't jump on the word spying to imbue it with something it doesn't necessarily mean.
00:34:10.000Well, and it's, you know, you've got Senator Cruz calling for the House to impeach Judge Bosberg, who was involved in the authorization of this inter I would call it spying, but, you know, whatever the word we want to use, but because it was authorized, your point, you make a good point.
00:34:27.000It does fall within the legal parameters of our system.
00:34:30.000And so we've got to wait for the facts to come in.
00:35:01.000We got about two minutes left here, Mark.
00:35:04.000Again, seeing which way the winds are blowing, you know, we had Rich Barris, people's pundit, and he's done some polling on this that shows that people are fatigued with international foreign policy, all the Israel talk, all the Russia talk.
00:35:18.000And while Trump's putting up wins, peace deals, that sort of thing, he was meeting with G yesterday.
00:35:24.000So he's making good progress, but people want to focus on domestic issues.
00:35:29.000We're starting to see these layoffs with AI.
00:35:31.000The entry-level jobs seem to be drying up to some extent.
00:35:35.000It's going to impact Gen Z. Which way are the winds blowing, Mark?
00:35:43.00030,000-foot view, minute and a half to you, Mark.
00:35:46.000Well, the economy is often talked about as a political issue, but it's more than that.
00:35:49.000Of course, first and foremost, it's about the real lives of real people.
00:35:52.000What's the Trump theory of the case in the economy?
00:35:54.000Less regulation, more energy production and distribution, low prices, and using tariffs to try to get America a stronger place in the world.
00:36:12.000I think voters will want to see it working, maybe not imperfection, but will it work by the midterm elections when Republicans around the country are going to want to run on the Trump man's economic record?
00:36:22.000That matters most, not just because pollsters say voters care about the economy.
00:36:26.000That's the real lives of real people, much less remote than what's happening in Gaza or what's happening in Ukraine.
00:36:32.000So I think there's a theory of the case there.
00:36:51.000It does have an economic impact, but it also has the snap impact.
00:36:55.000You know, there's a lot of headwinds here, plus this AI revolution that's drying up a lot of these entry-level jobs.
00:37:01.000And, you know, I happen to agree with President Trump's theory of the case, but this could be an interesting confluence of just bad timing with some of the AI boom.
00:37:13.000And I do believe I'm a glass half-full guy.
00:37:15.000I do think eventually these things are going to shake themselves out in the mix and we're going to have new industries that pop up, new jobs that emerge.
00:37:21.000But in the short term, it could be painful.
00:37:23.000So, you know, we're going to see how all this goes.