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00:01:46.000We've spent a lot of time on this show talking about our wins.
00:01:48.000We've even gone through lists of how many wins President Trump has made good on, how many promises that he has delivered for the American people on.
00:02:10.000To focus on how evil and vile many, unfortunately, too many on the left have become.
00:02:17.000And I have story after story that we are going to go through this morning, Blake, on college campuses that are happening as we speak because I have a theory that the left is getting emboldened.
00:03:01.000They're not as fired up as we are about the border or rolling back DEI or reindustrialization, all the wins that we've talked about.
00:03:08.000Some people are not going to be sold on those.
00:03:10.000But what maybe they should be reminded of, what they could maybe be sold on is look, There are a lot of nasty people out there, and you may not see them every day.
00:03:39.000And all you have to do is look at Brazil and what they're doing to Flavio Bolsonaro and the political opponents, jailing them, removing their passports, to understand that.
00:03:49.000When they get in political power, you are about to see, we are on the threshold of about to see very radical, dangerous, destructive, and yes, violent political actions from the left.
00:07:35.000Xavier Perry is a DSA student at the University of Maryland.
00:07:39.000And on September 10th, on the one year anniversary of Charlie's murder, He approached a TPUSA tabling event and proceeded to pour ketchup down his neck and began to convulse, reenacting Charlie's assassination.
00:07:54.000He then posted this video in this image that you proudly on social media that you can see there.
00:08:02.000Shout out to them for covering it.0.89
00:08:04.000And it said, Yo, you best protect your neck because apparently he's also a thug.
00:08:13.000Now, the dean of the University of Maryland, dean of students and director of student conduct, James E. Bond, dismissed complaints against Perry, saying it wasn't criminal, it wasn't a criminal act.
00:08:26.000I don't care if it wasn't a criminal act, it was contemptible and vile and evil at the very least.
00:08:39.000And now our students at the University of Maryland, unfortunately, require police presence at any tabling event that they do or any chapter meeting that they do because the university refuses to hold those accountable that would threaten them.
00:08:53.000And the same people who make those threats will then, their allies and the admin will say, This is why we can't allow turning point events.
00:09:53.000Most Americans across the political spectrum say political violence is never justified, but younger and more liberal Americans are more likely to disagree.
00:10:04.000You see that very liberal, that top graph in the bottom portion there, the top bar, political ideology, very liberal.
00:10:30.000I guess you could look at this and say, I'm glad that a majority still don't think violence is justified.
00:10:36.000But as Charlie's murder taught us, all it takes is one.
00:10:40.000All it takes is one lunatic, one deranged psychopathic lunatic to get into a group chat or on Discord or on Blue Sky.0.90
00:10:50.000And to be radicalized, to become convinced that violence is justified, that taking a sniper rifle to your political opponent is completely okay for the greater good.0.96
00:11:02.000And then you have the media apparatus.
00:11:04.000You have Jimmy Kimmel, you have CNN, MS Now.
00:11:08.000You have guys like we had on yesterday, Tim Miller, who dehumanize ICE agents and they go after them too, calling them thugs and Nazi, Gestapo.
00:13:19.000And especially these days, their coalition includes a lot of really mentally immature, imbalanced people.1.00
00:13:26.000So that's why we see those trans shooters.0.99
00:13:27.000They're told every day if they don't affirm your fetish, your weird sexual perversion, That you maybe got from watching too much pornography online or whatever, they're trying to genocide you.0.99
00:13:39.000They are trying to do the Holocaust on you.0.85
00:13:41.000And because those people are also, as it turns out, often on the autistic spectrum, they take things very literally.
00:13:46.000They tend to follow everything to its maximally extreme conclusion.
00:13:52.000And so they go, oh, they're saying they're trying to murder me?
00:14:16.000Because when you have that proportion, it makes it that much more likely that their political faction is going to have to worry about those people.
00:14:23.000They might have to cater to them because they don't want to alienate them.
00:14:27.000There's a story that came out of Germany that's related to this, actually.
00:14:31.000A woman on a far left party, text messages came out that she wanted to run for mayor, but she decided not to.
00:14:38.000Because she feared radical Islamists in their coalition would be mad because I think she wasn't a Muslim and they want to get a Muslim mayor of Berlin.
00:14:46.000So she's now just living in fear of the Islamists in her own party.
00:15:32.000Because their ultimate God is the Nirvana, the utopia that they promised their people.
00:15:38.000As a Christian, we know that that will never happen here on earth.
00:15:42.000We never expect perfection here on earth.
00:15:46.000What we ask for and demand is that our God given liberties would be intact and not be subject to the whims of Congress or a king or a tyrant.
00:15:57.000We demand liberty to live our lives, freedom to choose as we would choose, to worship our God.
00:16:05.000The left demands subjugation and pure fidelity to the ruling authority because they're the ones, according to their religion, to their cult, that can deliver.
00:16:20.000Nirvana that can deliver this utopian false promise.
00:16:24.000And since it never will come true, they ultimately revert back to more and more authoritarianism, more and more coercion, seizure of property, because ultimately you, the free man, the free critical thinker, the child of God, is the only thing standing in their way.
00:16:44.000So everything becomes justifiable to them.
00:16:50.000To their perfect end that will never materialize because humans are fallen and sinful.
00:16:56.000So they can justify every type of evil, every type of violence.
00:17:00.000They can feel smug and virtuous as they mock a dead man who died innocently, exercising his God given rights of free speech and debate on a college campus.
00:17:12.000And they will jeer at you, and they will mock you, and ridicule you, and spit at you, and scream at you, and call you names.
00:17:20.000Feeling virtuous as they do it, feeling pure as they do it, feeling faithful to their ideology.
00:20:47.000I mean, you can't get much dirtier than that.
00:20:49.000And it's so, it's so low and petty and tells you everything, you know, the, They don't really stand for anything.
00:20:54.000I haven't heard one left wing speech where they say, This is what we stand for, except giving you money.
00:21:00.000Their whole defense of it is actually, it's like, Well, it's not that it's illegal or that we shouldn't have done it, it's that we do it all the time.
00:21:07.000That's their best defense, literally, on MS Now.
00:21:15.000This is the first time I can think of, maybe it's happened before in politics, where they actually do ballot stacking with somebody with the same name.
00:21:25.000It's got to have happened at some point.
00:21:41.000And they straight up had the campaign signs that said, vote Williams 1, not Williams 2, vote Williams 1.
00:21:47.000Think about the state of politics that we have low information voters that can't do the due diligence to go, which one has the R next to it?
00:22:14.000You talk about these low, you know, information voters, though.
00:22:17.000We've got candidates who literally have declared that they hate the country, they want to destroy the country, and then while they're running, they say, Well, I said that, but I don't really mean it.
00:22:26.000And literally, Some voters are like, well, gas prices are high.
00:22:31.000I said that when there was no backlash to what I said.
00:22:34.000And now that there are consequences, I'm going to decide to change.
00:24:14.000I'm not saying that every poll is targeted against us, but I think they're all slanted in a certain way.
00:24:19.000And I think the news media, if you go on Newsbusters where they keep track of what the news media is doing, they'll tell you that the reports of positive stories about the right are almost non existent.
00:24:29.000The reports of positive, negative stories about the left are almost non existent.
00:25:20.000And it just doesn't, you know, the polls you were showing before, before I came on, saying how many people support violence or at least support it in theory really tell you something, first of all, about the way ideologies work, the way they replace real values with fake values so that suddenly evil becomes good and, you know, and it washes out all conventional good.
00:25:41.000Under politics, it matters a lot more.
00:25:44.000The left is going to be a lot more outraged if you, you know, If you said something a decade ago that they decide is racist, then if you're a serial liar, if you're a serial adulterer, if you're known for being manipulative and cruel and awful, and in fact, they cultivate a lot of that.0.50
00:26:00.000So it's so visible with that girl at UT San Antonio that what she's saying is gross, but what's repulsive about is not the literal words.0.99
00:26:08.000It's that this is clearly a hateful, nasty person.0.92
00:26:12.000That even if she weren't saying this to our face, you can tell she is an awful person because of how she behaves.1.00
00:26:18.000Apparently, she's a Brazilian immigrant.1.00
00:26:45.000She doesn't have any kind of tragic problems that require death, that require murdering other people or laughing at the murder of other people.
00:27:38.000It's an action story, but it's got a lot of romance in it.
00:27:40.000I was at Poison Pen, which is one of the two greatest crime bookstores in the country.
00:27:46.000It's right here in Phoenix, in Scottsdale.
00:27:48.000If you've never been to it, it's a really great bookstore.
00:27:50.000And the place was packed, and it was incredibly touching.
00:27:54.000They ran out of books, but they won't do that in Dallas.
00:27:56.000I'll be in Dallas on Friday at the Interabang bookstore.
00:28:00.000And it's been incredibly moving to have people show up and talk about what it means to have some some art that isn't destructive, that isn't putting forward this leftist vision that we get over and over in every movie, every TV show, every late night comic has the same opinion.
00:28:17.000And if you don't have that opinion, they will hound you to death.
00:28:19.000And somehow, basically, because I have a publisher who has supported me even when my book was published.
00:28:40.000He's got a portrait at the White House.
00:28:42.000But he is a hard, hard boiled guy who just will take the flack that we have taken together.
00:28:47.000And the thing about this is this thing about these books, you know, these are books about a man who was a bad man.
00:28:53.000He was an assassin who was trying to become a good man.
00:28:55.000And the reason I'm writing these is because if you watch TV, if you watch the great shows that came out in the 2000s Breaking Bad, The Sopranos, The Shield, The Wire, it was all about real men, but they were all bad guys.
00:30:13.000And yet we've turned it into something that's.
00:30:15.000You know, like so much of our culture, it's like completely upside down.
00:30:19.000But I think, you know, that's why what you're doing is actually really important because you're ensuring that there's a remnant at the very least.
00:31:11.000And so the Overton window has completely expanded, and I think in a positive direction.
00:31:18.000But we are also living in a time where you have a lot of bad actors, charlatans, frauds, grifters, con artists that have infiltrated the ranks.
00:31:49.000Every reform movement in America gets taken over by the left.
00:31:53.000And when it gets taken over by the left, its original intentions become the opposite of what they were.
00:31:58.000So they put you in a position where you attack.
00:32:00.000Them and they think you're attacking the original intention where really you're attacking leftism.
00:32:05.000So, for just for instance, you start out with Martin Luther King saying, Don't judge a man by the color of his skin, judge him by the content of his character.
00:33:25.000You know, listen, I've been alive since the Jurassic period, and the Biden administration was the largest assault on the First Amendment rights of Americans I've ever experienced.
00:33:37.000What they always say the McCarthy era was.
00:33:42.000They tackled people for walking outside.
00:33:45.000They threw people off social media for speaking the truth.
00:33:48.000They told you, you know, the Daily Wire was almost destroyed.
00:33:51.000I mean, we really had to fight back to not be thrown off Facebook and all the social media.
00:33:57.000With the collusion of the government, which the Supreme Court has already said is against the Constitution, they colluded with the government and social media to say, you can't say these things.
00:34:42.000That rebel media, and we'll just call it that, it's as good a term as any rebel right wing media, that fought to exist in the first place, now they have the luxury to chip at each other and to complain and kvetch about gas prices or the Iran war, which, to be fair, we've kvetched about a little bit here too.
00:35:05.000But the fact that they have that ability is a luxury that was so hard fought.
00:35:10.000And it reminds me of one of, I think, one of the most powerful biblical stories.
00:35:15.000Where Esau sells his birthright for a bowl of porridge.
00:35:24.000And what are we getting in return when we shoot inside the tent?
00:35:30.000When we fray at the edges, where you've got Marjorie Taylor Greene, you've got Tucker Carlson, you've got who else do we got?
00:35:39.000You've got, I guess, Joe Kent, you've got Thomas Massey, these people, James Fishback, they're trying to coalesce around sort of like a fringe offshoot, which, if you know the way American politics work, That will end in pure destruction.
00:35:54.000You are handing the power over to the left.
00:35:57.000If you're successful in getting in the ballot or creating enough disillusionment on the right, that's the only place that ends.
00:36:04.000It's such a suicidal thing because the reason politics just endlessly feels higher stakes is that we have seen the left has increasingly gone in the direction of being a blow up America now button.1.00
00:36:15.000That they will openly say, like, we need to destroy the Constitution, destroy the Supreme Court, destroy the presidency, destroy America's borders, absolutely flood America with foreigners.0.82
00:36:33.000And then you have a faction of people, supposedly conservative, supposedly on the right, who say, yes, what we need to do is help these people win an election.
00:36:41.000That's totally going to work out great for us.
00:36:43.000And as you said before, it's like gas prices are high, so I'm going to vote to the.
00:36:46.000All I'm going to say is Hassan Piker will criticize people on the left.
00:36:49.000He's never, ever going to do a clip where he says, vote straight ticket Republican because that'll get what we want.
00:36:59.000Which is kind of what we did with MAGA.
00:37:02.000MAGA was like, hey, we want politicians that are as conservative as their voters.
00:37:06.000The place to express your grievances within the conservative movement is in primaries, it's in party conventions, it's in debates online or with your friends over what direction the party should take on issues.
00:37:20.000We're having a lot of debates at Amfest.
00:37:21.000Show up at Amfest and participate in those debates.
00:37:24.000In an actual election against the left as it currently is constituted, Your duty as an American is to not vote for them.
00:37:32.000Your duty is to vote for the alternative because otherwise you're voting in favor of people who want to press the blow up America now button.
00:38:12.000But right now, those ideas pale in comparison in their severity and their potential for destruction and, you know, malaise, violence, compared to what the left is offering.
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00:40:06.000Again, it's a movie you are going to want to experience on the big screen.
00:40:12.000We have one of our fan favorites back.
00:40:16.000I wouldn't say he's my favorite, though.
00:40:18.000You see, he gives me too hard of a time sometimes.
00:40:45.000So we want to talk, Mark, about, yes, the midterms, But specifically, you had a take on this Alaska decoy Dan case, which now the DOJ is aggressively pursuing its investigation, potential criminal investigation on depriving voters of their rights.
00:41:05.000But the big bombshell yesterday was from the New York Times, which was, I think, added to the effect that the story had, certainly, because you don't necessarily expect the New York Times to come out with this.
00:41:18.000But a scoop from Kellen Browning, who's a good reporter over there, I've worked with him in the past.
00:41:23.000And basically, it connected Mary Peltola's campaign directly with the recruitment of this other Dan Sullivan, the decoy Dan.
00:41:33.000And you believe this could have pretty powerful ramifications in that race.
00:41:40.000The prediction markets only moved about 5%, but you were more forceful in your read of the events.
00:41:46.000What do you think is going to happen and how is this going to play?
00:41:49.000Well, I think I tweeted that almost 24 hours ago.
00:41:53.000And After monitoring the Alaska media and the national media, I'm less confident it will have an impact on the race because it's not being framed the way I'm framing it.
00:42:11.000There's people who do this all the time.
00:42:13.000They support somebody on the ballot, not because they really support them, but because they're trying to hurt the other side.
00:42:19.000I find her and her campaign lying about it, not just before the New York Times story and not just in the New York Times story.
00:42:26.000But even today, even yesterday, they're still lying about their role.
00:42:30.000When the New York Times reporter, it's not, she said, she said.
00:42:34.000They've got the receipts, they have the text chains.
00:42:37.000So I thought that people would frame it that way and they'd say, Come on, Congresswoman Mary Patel, you're not telling the truth.
00:42:46.000Like, come clean on what you did, explain your lies and explain why you did this.
00:42:51.000It appears now that she's taking a page out of the Republican handbook.
00:42:55.000She's saying, Oh, you can't trust the New York Times.
00:42:57.000They're just doing this for clicks and subscriptions.
00:43:00.000So I think that the impact on the race will probably be minimal.
00:43:03.000And I think, I think at a minimum, though, for Dan Sullivan, the real one, I think people in Alaska will be more aware now about who the real one is and the fact that there are two.
00:43:13.000But I don't think at this hour it's going to revolutionize the race the way I thought it might yesterday.0.98
00:43:17.000I mean, that's unfortunate because, but it gets that part of the article where one of the things they got is text chains emails where they're joking after a focus group, like, oh, I bet, you know, these kind of these idiots will fall for our little game that we're coming up with.0.97
00:43:33.000It seems like that's their strategy now.0.99
00:43:35.000That if they lie through their teeth, these dumb cattle that we thought would fall for fake Dan Sullivan will also fall for what we're saying now.0.99
00:43:44.000The cynicism of the campaign feeling like they can just dupe dumb people and the cynicism of lying brazenly, repeatedly, that that wouldn't have a more dramatic effect on the outcome of this race is pretty depressing.
00:44:17.000You know, look, when Republicans and other Democrats do this stuff, they don't leave a paper trail and they just don't answer the reporters' questions.
00:44:25.000And people may say, well, that's no better.
00:44:26.000But to have someone who wants to be United States Senator just continue to brazenly lie when she's been caught, I find it troubling.
00:44:34.000But unfortunately, You know, most of the media coverage before all this, we shouldn't have needed the New York Times story to know what a fraud this was.
00:44:41.000But most of the coverage is still, oh, how weird it is.
00:44:43.000And, you know, President Trump's upset.
00:44:46.000It takes a lot for Lisa Murkowski to speak out on Donald Trump's behalf.
00:44:58.000The guy in the story, who was involved, one of the many people involved in the conspiracy, who said his name showed up on documents, even though he wasn't involved in the effort.
00:45:06.000Because of auto, whatever he said, it's one of my favorite auto, whatever, whatever, whatever, whatever.
00:45:12.000Anyway, I think that, um, that uh, the Alaska media really is kind of cemented my view that this isn't going to have a big effect, even though yesterday again I thought it could cost her the race, you know, by itself.
00:45:26.000The Alaska press is pretty minimal and it's pretty much she said, she said, it's not focused on her lying about it.
00:45:32.000Well, I do think you're right about the other point that you were making, which is that this does bring more attention to the fact there's two Dan Sullivans because.
00:45:40.000You got to believe there's going to be people going into that ballot box that somehow they've been living under a rock, especially in Alaska.
00:45:45.000There's so many people who just don't know what's going on.
00:45:48.000And they'll just go in there and get confused, won't look for an R next to one of them, and they could vote for the wrong Dan Sullivan.
00:45:55.000You know what I thought was interesting, though, is that actually Dan Sullivan himself put out sort of like, hey, if you're going to do ranked choice voting, you can rank him after me, but just don't rank Mary Peltola.
00:46:07.000So it's very interesting the way the Alaskan system works, anyways, which I think is confusing for voters.
00:46:14.000Actually, a really unfortunate system.
00:46:18.000I think it's the ranked choice voting, everybody should reject it.
00:46:57.000You might see a lot of races where Democrats do way better than they did two years ago in red states and red districts and fall just short.
00:47:04.000But it's getting close to 50% chance that this is a wipeout.
00:47:07.000Based on talking to folks in the Republican side about their private polling data and what they're seeing in the races, there's not one race, with the possible exception of Iowa, in the contested Senate races that I would say Republicans are feeling better about this week than last week.
00:47:31.000Pretty close to done for the Democrats are three of the four they need, assuming they don't lose Michigan.
00:47:37.000I think Ohio, Kansas, and North Carolina are pretty close to done for the Democrats.
00:47:42.000And that means Republicans would only, or Democrats would only need to win one, assuming they win Michigan, of Maine, Iowa, Texas, Nebraska, and Alaska.
00:47:58.000The president was supposed to go to Kansas on Saturday and he just canceled.
00:48:02.000And I think, I think no one's told me this, but I think probably he's heard what I've heard, which for about 10 days, the numbers have just not been there for the Republicans.
00:48:14.000Well, that one's got a particular circumstance, which is Senator Marshall was told by his colleagues, get in gear, you could have a race, and he just didn't.
00:48:21.000Didn't hire staff, didn't raise money, didn't develop a plan to beat a very skilled Democratic candidate.
00:48:31.000And He's just getting killed on the air.
00:48:34.000He's getting killed in the air and media.
00:48:36.000And he's become, you know, for Kansas voters, the embodiment of all the things Republicans are up against the war, the high prices, the tariffs, the corruption, the buck raking, and the ballroom.
00:48:52.000Healthcare, he's had a special problem on healthcare because he's a doctor.
00:48:57.000And the Democrats' opposition researchers did a great job of getting the New York Times to run this story about how Dr. Marshall's patients were.
00:49:04.000Chased down to pay their unpaid bills and turned him into a bad guy.
00:49:08.000And they've dined out on that for weeks on the Democrat side.
00:49:12.000Also, the diesel prices in a place like Kansas, right?
00:50:38.000Huge crowds all over the country, from New York to California, from Alaska with Nick Beggett running for the house up there, all the way to South Florida.
00:50:45.000We have gigantic crowds, big excitement.
00:50:55.000I mean, I know it's popular to rail against the public polls, but I'm not basing what I'm telling you is thought to be likely to happen on public polls.
00:51:06.000I'm basing it on private polls, and in this case, mostly largely Republican private polls.
00:51:11.000So I think if the speaker were being honest, I mean, no disrespect to him.
00:51:15.000He wouldn't say that because I think his private polls aren't great either.
00:51:19.000So you think he's trying to keep morale up?
00:51:26.000I mean, do you think there is a possibility, though, with maybe some of the turnout models are wrong, some of the weighting in some of these polls are off?
00:51:36.000For example, in Arizona, we were projecting, and listen, things could change in the last couple days here, but most of the polling had a projection of 15 to 18% under 30 vote.
00:51:50.000Right now, I think it's at about 6.4% of the vote.
00:51:54.000So that changes a lot of the projections, right?
00:51:57.000We know that we've lost ground with younger voters, but so those.
00:51:59.000Those types of anomalies or phenomenons could change the way this thing works out.
00:52:06.000If you're not right about who's going to vote, the poll's meaningless.
00:52:09.000If you think the electorate's going to be 20% black voters and it's 40% black voters, your poll's meaningless.0.51
00:52:15.000And this is a very unpredictable election regarding Democrats, independents, and Republicans, the three sizes voters come in.
00:52:22.000Very unpredictable who's going to vote.
00:52:24.000What we do know is even though polls historically have often underestimated Republicans, and that's just a fact, they might be underestimating Democrats this time, might be.
00:52:34.000That's why I tell people don't live or die for the next five days by the polls.
00:52:38.000You'd be making a mistake to stake whether you vote or not on the polls or how you're feeling about things on the polls.
00:52:44.000Because the public polls are not usually all very good.
00:52:47.000They're not usually that high quality.
00:52:49.000I'm basing what I know on the analytics and the polling of private folks who spend way more on these things and have a higher stake than a CBS News or NBC News press release.
00:53:00.000So, Mark, obviously, You've laid out what you think will happen, but let's say we get.
00:53:28.000What do you think will be the surprises within the electorate, within public sentiment that made that come to pass?
00:53:36.000That the president's trips around the country really turned out the base and appealed to some independent voters.
00:53:42.000That Democrats were reliant on people like young men, Hispanic voters, and irregular voters to turn out.
00:53:50.000And that the Republicans had just enough margin for a state that's plus 10 Trump or a congressional district that's plus 15 Trump, where they gave a lot of ground and they lost a lot.
00:54:02.000But it doesn't matter where you win a district or a state by 15 or two, you still get to take the seat.
00:54:17.000So, let's say we get a result like that, which technically would be a big gain for Democrats.
00:54:21.000They might flip the House, they might get these, but it's less than they expected.
00:54:25.000What then do you think would be the reactions of the parties?
00:54:28.000Would it still the spin end up being Republicans have lost ground?
00:54:31.000They just haven't lost it all the way?
00:54:33.000Or will there be some element that Democrats badly dropped the ball and need new strategies?
00:54:38.000If Democrats narrowly take the House and fail to take the Senate, There'll be a lot of questions, depending on which races they lose.
00:54:45.000There'll be a lot of questions within the party about what kind of candidates they should be nominating.
00:54:50.000And there'll be a lot of questions about whether they should have had more of a message that they didn't really run on anything except not Trump.
00:54:58.000What happens to AOC's future or the far left of the party writ large if guys like El Syed win in Michigan?
00:55:09.000I think his winning in Michigan would transform the party's debate about what kind of party they are.
00:55:14.000And I think if she chooses to run for president, it would help her.
00:55:17.000But I think he's more likely to run for president than she is.
00:55:22.000You think he's going to go pull the full Obama.
00:55:25.000So it's not even just emulating his intonation and his ways of speaking, but he's going to do two, you know, gets elected in 06 and then runs in 08.
00:55:52.000I think that's important, you know, and.
00:55:54.000I'm a firm believer that, listen, if you're listening out there and you're frustrated with President Trump, I think it's really important to look at the future if you don't show up and vote.
00:56:07.000What the left will bring to bear if you don't show up and vote.
00:56:10.000They're on college campuses mocking Charlie's assassination every day.
00:56:15.000Mark Halperin, everybody check him out.
00:59:04.000So, uniting the states, you picked six crucial moments that forged the American miracle.
00:59:10.000First of all, why do you call it a miracle?
00:59:13.000And then I want to get into some of your six moments.
00:59:15.000Out of all the interviews I've done, Andrew, you're the only one to ever ask me that.
00:59:19.000And that is because none of it makes sense.
00:59:21.000I mean, like the way it became a country, the way we were challenged, the resourcefulness and resilience that we've experienced, and some mystical things that have happened.
00:59:29.000And I think I might have talked to you about this when we were doing George Washington's Secret Six.
00:59:35.000But, you know, when Washington's in the Battle of New York, he gets backed up in Brooklyn, and they still got this little memorial for the Battle of Brooklyn, which we got just hammered in.
00:59:47.000And Washington has to decide at night, he's like, listen, we're about to get up in the morning, and we're not going to be able to face this army.
01:00:43.000How did it happen that in the War of 1812, when 1814 comes up and they cut through our militia like paper mache and burn Washington to the ground and British don't plan on leaving our capital?0.55
01:00:56.000Out of nowhere, a tornado rolls through Washington and blows them right out of the Capitol, something our army couldn't do.
01:01:04.000So that, and then you have the miracle of New Orleans, where a 41 year old self trained general, Andrew Jackson, sets up at the perfect place to block the British from getting to New Orleans.
01:01:19.000He just took an educated guess and he just built a wall, dug a canal, and he said, if the British try to get here, they're going to have to scale this wall and the canal.
01:01:29.000But if the British landed about You know, about a thousand yards separately, they would have been able to get around it.
01:01:35.000But they landed at the exact same place to allow their entire army to be basically wiped out in 45 minutes.
01:01:42.000They just defeated Napoleon's Invincibles.
01:01:45.000So many times things happened that would stop us in our tracks, and it just didn't happen.
01:01:50.000And we come out bigger and stronger afterwards.
01:03:04.000I mean, if there wasn't a slave rebellion right in the Caribbean at the right exact time, if there wasn't a sense that the British were going to fight and try to do a preemptive attack on France to stop Napoleon, if he didn't have these crazy designs in Austria and Russia, He would never have sold us anything.0.57
01:03:23.000In fact, we were willing to fight to get them out of New Orleans because we needed the mouth of the Mississippi because it was like the Strait of Ramuse for us.
01:03:31.000And we just said, Jefferson just says, listen, we need this.
01:04:51.000Now we have the ability to accept thousands of more people who just wanted a shot at freedom and reaching a potential.
01:04:58.000It's, I mean, it's just one of the greatest things in world history that this big, rich American continent is controlled by a British descended country with its success.0.88
01:05:11.000Like, if we just left it to Spain, the world would be vastly worse off.0.61
01:05:15.000If we left it to France, the world would be worse off.
01:05:17.000But I wanted to ask another one of the six that really intrigues me looking at the list Daniel Shays.
01:05:23.000That's not a name you usually hear as an important figure in the American founding in a positive way.
01:05:32.000Sort of summary here, but you describe him as the man who loses everything to stand up for the little man and inspires the Constitutional Convention.
01:05:39.000Why did Daniel Shays get in this book as one of the key six?
01:05:44.000So, Blake, you mentioned before I do the series, What Makes America Great.
01:05:48.000I got a brand new season coming out, I think in December.
01:05:51.000And what I do is when I go out with these people, I used to be so into sports where you go out, you talk to the coaches, you get to be managers, you get to get insight.
01:06:22.000And when I come to these libraries, when I go to John Quincy Adams' house, John Adams' house, and I know these people live every day to bring a handful of people through this house, I talk to them about what's important.
01:06:34.000So I read about Shay's rebellion, how it led to the Constitution.
01:06:40.000Well, I met the guy that wrote the book that found the quote that James Madison said Daniel Shays' little rebellion did more to lead us to a constitution than any other single event.
01:07:22.000I don't want to start drawing central government.
01:07:24.000The last thing I want is another king.
01:07:26.000But when he saw that Daniel Shays, a war hero that Lafayette gave a sword to, started as an ensign, ended up as a captain because of the way he fought and the fearlessness and way he led, he said, Listen, I never saw anybody fight like you.
01:07:40.000I want everyone to know that comes into your house in the future what a great man you are.
01:07:45.000And when Washington hears that this great man was so fed up and so frustrated with the lack of representation when it came to taxes and demands, that they were jailing farmers and putting them in debtor's prison without any voice or without any court case.
01:07:58.000And he finally formed a group of regulators along with another guy named Wheeler.
01:08:03.000And they decide to block the courthouse.
01:08:05.000And they just say, no one's getting arrested.
01:08:08.000We're not going on trial until we understand that farmers don't have cash, we have crops.
01:08:14.000And every time we have a bad season, we can't pay it.
01:08:17.000But they understand in two years we'll make up for it.
01:08:19.000But instead, you're putting us in jail for your new rules, which we had nothing to do with.
01:08:26.000The next time, Henry Knox, of all people, our first secretary of war, put together a militia, first shot over his head, then shot for their heads.
01:08:49.000Looked at as a war hero, but it shook Washington to the point when Madison and Knox came to see him and he said, basically, All right, let's do this.
01:09:56.000Yeah, and here it is, but for a different reason.
01:10:00.000I think Pearl Harbor, because we weren't going to get in that war.
01:10:03.000If you read FDR and you read about this stuff, I'm not an FDR expert, but I read about what buildup.
01:10:08.000We could not convince this country to get into the war, but he knew we absolutely had to get into that war.
01:10:14.000And I don't want to focus on the amount of people who lost their lives violently, the way they fought back that day, the amount of ships that got sunk, but we needed something titanic to hit us in order to get in the war to change the world and save the free world.
01:10:28.000Literally, the free world was in the balance.
01:10:30.000FDR, with all its power, literally with all its power in the Congress and the Senate, couldn't do it.0.56
01:10:36.000We were trying to lend lease England and had them fight for themselves, but it wasn't so Japan bombed us.0.61
01:10:43.000And then we said, while we're at it, we're declaring war on Germany.
01:10:46.000And even Hitler said, What did you do?
01:11:53.000And if you watch what you do on Fox and Friends and how knowledgeable you are, you mentioned how you get straight to the meat of it and you always kind of know where the controversy is or where the key question is.
01:12:04.000I don't know how you have time for all of it.
01:12:50.000If Republicans lose the House, what's the margin?
01:12:54.000And if the margin is small, you got about five true blue socialists who don't like the country, you know, hate Israel, hate Israel, who will have leverage.
01:13:05.000You know, Kevin McCarthy had a hard time.
01:13:06.000He ended up losing his job because Matt Gaetz and company wanted to get him out.
01:13:10.000And Speaker Johnson didn't get a lot done, had all types of hellacious votes, and maybe could have done more, but he has such a small agenda, and certain people were, it was almost impossible to get.
01:14:33.000Not only do Republicans need to flip that seat if they want to keep their majority, I think, but if the people of Michigan, who this is not Washington state, this is not California, if the people of Michigan, who Donald Trump won that state twice and almost won it three times, if they think that El Said best represents them, who doesn't like Jewish people, hates Israel, the black community he has no interest in,
01:15:01.000and he has Haley Stevens, the one he beat by one point, say, up.
01:15:06.000I don't know who I'm going to vote for.
01:15:07.000I'm on the team who lost two Democratic, Michigan Democratic strategists who got Whitmer elected.
01:15:14.000If he wins, losing all this foundational support, I think we're in a lot of trouble, especially because he's got a solid candidate against him.
01:15:23.000I'm not asking you to vote for a guy that's terrible.
01:15:26.000I mean, you've got a real experienced guy, Mike Rogers.
01:16:44.000I think he's going to go after Corey Lewandowski.
01:16:47.000I think that he's going to look at Donald Trump's relationship with business people.
01:16:50.000Here's the scary thing I think that people like Zuckerberg and people like Musk and people like Sergey Brin and people like David Sachs, who never would give the Republicans a time of day, they got used to Trump.
01:17:03.000They go, man, we've been misled and he's been mischaracterized.