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Trump speaks about the government shutdown and why he believes Chuck Schumer's time in the Senate is coming to an end. Also, President Trump announces a deal that could lead to peace between Israel and the Gaza region and the Palestinians.
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Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries and the congressional Democrats are holding the entire
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federal government hostage. I will tell you, a lot of Democrats want to get this thing
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open too. They do. They're calling us and they just want to get it open. And all we're
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doing is saying, just play the same thing until we get it straight. And they don't know
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how to go about it. I mean, it's true. And the problem is we really don't know who the
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hell is leading the Democrats. You have this AOC. I don't know her at all. But I watched
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her the other day. She said, well, if they want, they could come to my office. That's
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not leadership. The only one that challenged her actually was Nancy Pelosi. Nancy's not
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looking too good. I don't know what happened to Nancy. But she's not looking great. But
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she was the only one to give her credit. She was the only one to challenge her. But
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AOC said that they can come to her office and negotiate, the Republicans, and say, oh,
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I didn't know she was in leadership. But she's taking Hakeem Jeffries' place. And Schumer's
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afraid that she's going to run against him. And right now, I don't know. He can change.
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Life is crazy, right? But right now he can't beat, I don't think he can beat anybody. So
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he'll lose in a primary. I would say he'll retire before he loses in a primary. So I
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think Schumer's going to retire because he can't beat anybody. His polls are so bad.
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Hello, everybody, and welcome to The Great America Show. It's great to have you with us.
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There you go. You have some news from President Trump. He believes crying Chuck Schumer's time
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is coming to an end in the Senate. And I think it's great. I think it's great for everyone.
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It's great for the people of New York, great for the Senate. New York will finally get a
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Marxist, true Marxist. I think Schumer's a Marxist convert. But they'll get a true Marxist
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like AOC in there and continue to make New York great again, right? They're doing a great job
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surplusing money. Taxes are low. Crime is low, right? All great. That's what happens when you let
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Democrats run a city. Well, it's quite the opposite to that. So the government shutdown still going,
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I guess, for a day eight, day nine, losing track at this point, because every single day I turn
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on TV, it's the same nonsense from Chuck Schumer. It's the same nonsense from Hakeem Jeffries. It's
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lies after lies and no ownership of who's really to blame here. We all know it's the Democrats. We
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know it's the Democrats who refuse to pass the continuing resolution to open this thing up and
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get people paid again while they reconcile a budget. But it's not stopping the Trump administration
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from working. And I mean, working full force, full steam ahead. ICE, the DHS and President Trump
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himself yesterday holding a roundtable for some young journalists at the White House today, holding
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a cabinet meeting early in the morning. And President Trump last night during that roundtable
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with a big announcement. We may finally have peace in the Middle East between Israel and the Gaza
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region. President Trump is now taking a trip over there Saturday or Sunday to Egypt to sign a
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proclamation. He expects the hostages and the remains to all be handed over Monday or Tuesday
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of next week. Now, during his cabinet meeting today, some of the members of his cabinet letting us all
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know who's responsible for making this deal and who made it all possible.
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You know, I don't know if one day perhaps the entire story will be told about the events of yesterday,
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but suffice it to say, it's not an exaggeration that none of it would have been possible without
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the President of the United States being involved.
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It really began with your trip to the Middle East, where these relationships were forged with
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partners in the region, personal relationships, close relationships that created the foundation
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where all this was possible. Where I think this really took a turn. Remember, a month ago,
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no one thought this was possible. Where it really took a turn about a month ago, less than a couple
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weeks ago, is when we were at the United Nations. And you convened a historic meeting, not simply of
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Arab countries, but Muslim-majority countries from around the world, including Indonesia was there,
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Pakistan was there, and created this coalition behind this plan. Then on that following Monday,
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you met with the Prime Minister of Israel here, and that plan was presented. And then, of course,
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our great negotiating team followed up on it. In the interim, again, perhaps the stories will be told,
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perhaps they will never be told. The President had some extraordinary phone calls and meetings
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that required a high degree of intensity and commitment, and made this happen. And I think what's important to
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understand is that yesterday what happened was really a human story. There's a geopolitical aspect to it,
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there's no doubt about it. It creates the conditions for Gaza to one day be a normal place again, and
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people to have a better life, and Israelis to be safe. But yesterday was a human story. And because
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of the work you put in, honestly, there is no, not only is there no other leader in the world that could
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have put this together, Mr. President, but frankly, I don't know of any American president in the modern
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era that could have made this possible. Because of the actions you have taken unrelated to this,
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and because of who you are, and what you've done, and how you're viewed. And this weekend,
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because of that, at some point very soon, we are going to see 20 living human beings emerge from the
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darkness into the light for the first time in two years. And that is because not only were you,
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you used the credibility, and the power, and the prestige of this office, and the relationships you
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created, and you committed yourself to making it happen. And I think it will go down as a historic
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moment in the history of our country, and something our country should be very proud of,
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that we have a president that's committed to the, not just peace, but to the human aspect of
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reuniting these families. My last point on this is, just a couple days ago, Secretary Lutnik hosted us
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all, many of us, at the Kennedy Center. And we have these families, we've interacted with them for so
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many years, for two years now. And the stories are heartbreaking, both whose families are alive,
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and those who are deceased as well, who want their relatives back so that they can complete the
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process of grieving. And it was, we had all hoped that perhaps that was the day that we would have
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an announcement for them on the anniversary of the 7th. But I know you were able to speak to some of
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those families last night. And I just hope the whole nation understands what, how incredibly proud
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they should be of their president and of their country for the role that they've played. And I don't
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want to let this moment pass, Mr. President, without also noting the incredible work of Steve
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Woodcoff and Jared Kushner. They're an incredible team working together, facing some substantial
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impediments to even being there this weekend and doing it. Suffice it, let me just leave it at that.
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And they've done a great job on their behalf, Mr. President, and they deserve a tremendous amount
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of credit. But thank you for what you've done here to the world, for the world. Thank you very much.
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President Trump, not just making America great again, but he's making the world great again,
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and the world safe again. And it's all part of America no longer being the world police. And I
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think we've got to get away from that in order to reinvent this country and to have it a world run
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without America having to intervene in every single schoolyard fight. And President Trump,
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obviously, doing a terrific job at that, among some other people speaking at that cabinet meeting
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with J.D. Vance and J.D. Vance, I mean, absolutely leveling the Marxist Dems for their politics are
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playing with our American people's money and our American people's job.
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Mr. President, first of all, congratulations on yesterday. It was a big day to Marco, to Susie,
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to the entire team. But in particular, viewing it from this perspective, where for months,
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the fake news media attacked you, attacked the entire team, attacked your approach. You know,
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the definition of insanity is to do the same thing again and again, expecting a different result.
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The reason we're here is because the president actually charted a different course with a
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different team. He vested a lot of authority in Steve Wyckoff in particular. And that's why we're
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here. It's because you did something different. And I think it's important to recognize that.
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I also think the president, you know, Marco mentioned the president's personal touch being
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a big part of this. The one thing I would say is, is obviously the president of the United States,
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a New York real estate billionaire, one of the most famous New Yorkers in the world,
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has a lot of interaction with a lot of people who are very pro-Israel. I think that was an
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important set of experiences and life experiences that he brought to the table. He also, of course,
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knew one of the most famous Palestinians in the world, Chuck Schumer. And I think without that
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background of knowledge, it would have been impossible to get us to this.
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Second thing I would say, just on Chuck Schumer, the president mentioned this, that Chuck Schumer said,
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this has been very good for us this morning about the shutdown. One of the things that we talked
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about before all the media came in and that all of us are going to work on for the rest of the day,
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we've been working on for days, is how to make the shutdown as painless as possible on the American
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people. So while Chuck Schumer brags about this being good, and I think the president is right,
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it's not good for him politically as much as he might think that it is. It's causing real
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consequences for the American people. There's a low-income food program, the WIC program,
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that my mom actually used when I was a baby. That program is about to be underfunded and it's about to
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get cut off because Chuck Schumer won't open the government. We have troops. Secretary of War
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mentioned how well we're doing on recruitment. We're trying to figure out how to pay our troops
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because Chuck Schumer is shutting down the U.S. government. There are veterans benefits that
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are going to suffer. There are Americans that are going to suffer because Chuck Schumer refuses to
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do his job. So while we're all celebrating this incredible success that we've had on the world stage,
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the country could be doing so much better if Chuck Schumer did his job and opened the government.
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Every single Republican except for Rand Paul has voted to open the government. A few moderate
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Democrats to their credit have voted with us to open the government. We just need five more
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Democrats to come to their senses and let the people's government serve the American people.
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I hope that they'll do that. Not too much to ask for Chuck and Nancy and AOC and all the other
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Marxist Dems holding this government hostage, holding the people's jobs hostage. Folks, we're going to
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take a quick break here on the other side of this break. We're going to be joined by Mark Mitchell of
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Rasmussen Reports. He's got some new polling for us on who the American people are blaming for this.
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Is President Trump doing a good job or is he not? He's also got some new polling on Middle East
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and what the American people are saying about that. We're going to take a quick break here.
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one moment, folks. We're coming right back. Mark, it's always a delight to have you with us. I want
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to start with first the American people, according to CNN and their preeminent pollster, Harriet. And
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I got to say, he's doing a pretty good job and I'll get your take on it after this video. But
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CNN is admitting the truth that President Trump is doing exactly what he promised he was going to do
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by an overwhelming majority. Take a listen. Sometimes I think it's worth taking that 35,000
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vote view. And as far as the American people are concerned, Trump could be better known as Steady
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Eddie. What are we talking about here? Well, why don't we take a look here? Favorable view of Donald
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Trump. You know, you go back to October of 2024, 44 percent of the American public viewed him favorably.
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Now, despite everything, look at this 43 percent, which is well within the margin of error of that 44 percent.
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And here's the thing to keep in mind. This was good enough to get Trump reelected back in 2024.
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And Donald Trump is basically at the same point here right now, which I think would surprise a lot
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of folks, especially a lot of folks on the left who very much disagree with a lot of what Donald
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Trump has done. What do you see is underneath that and driving that? Why is he basically the same?
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OK, you know, to quote the esteemed collar Dennis Green, the former head coach in the National Football
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League, Donald Trump is who the voters thought he was. What are we talking about here? Well,
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is Trump doing what he promised in the 2024 campaign? Yes. Fifty two percent. The majority
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of Americans say that Donald Trump is doing what he promised compared to 48 percent who said no.
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So what essentially is going on here is the voters expected all of this from Donald Trump.
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The majority did. And that is why his favor rating simply has not really moved all that much compared
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to where it was a year ago. Trump is basically doing what the American people thought that he was
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going to do. Indeed, if you look at the numbers, Trump has basically the steadiest favorable rating
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this much through a presidency of any president on record. And it's basically where he was
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a year ago, good enough to get him reelected. So then what is what are you saying is how this
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is impacting midterms? Yeah. OK, so one of the questions we basically had as we've gone on through
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the numbers, right, is that Democrats have not been able to run away with it. And now we know it's
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basically because Donald Trump is where he thought he was, which was good enough for the Republicans
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to maintain control of the House last time around. Look at this, the race for Congress,
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Dems versus Republican margin. You look at the New York Times poll. It was tied a year ago at this
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point. Now it's Democrats plus two within the margin of error. Look at Yahoo, YouGov. It was plus
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three Democrats at this point a year ago. Now it's plus four. Maybe the Democrats have gained a little
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bit. But in reality, Kate, what we're really seeing is that the American public is pretty much
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steady. They are basically where they were a year ago at this point. Maybe Democrats can take control
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of the House where the polling is right now, but maybe not because the bottom line is we've seen
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numbers fairly similar to what we have right now. We had it a year ago and it was not good enough for
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Democrats to take control. The bottom line is this. As long as Donald Trump is where he is,
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Republicans will, in fact, remain competitive. If they, in fact, gain a little bit, it really would
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not be that surprising to me if Republicans were able to maintain control of the House, especially
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given their redistricting efforts in many of those states. Fascinating. It's a really good look,
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Kerry. Thank you so much. Thank you, Kate. A really good look.
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52% say he's doing what he says he was going to do. 43% approval. I just looked at the number.
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You guys got him at Rasmussen. I'm at 49%. So whatever. He's inside the margin of error at 44.
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I think 44 for CNN polling. What I'm trying to get at is this is way better than what we saw the first
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time. It's still not accurate, but it's way better than what we got the first time. I mean,
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you look at some numbers, but you look at Reuters. Ipsos has him at 40. CBS has 42. So whatever. Say
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he's at 43 inside of a margin of error of two points. It could put him at 45 or 346 inside that margin.
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Well, you know, Harry sometimes is allowed to say good news. And then the very next week,
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he'll probably have a bit next week about how Donald Trump's underwater on immigration. He's
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all over the place. But this is the stuff I've been saying forever, which is okay. Trump's agenda
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is more popular than he is. But then Trump also won the election, the national popular vote. And that
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also everybody sandbags his favorability rating. I have him at 49% job approval after a shutdown.
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They have him at 40 to 43. And if you see there, it doesn't say Reuters. Ipsos at the bottom of the
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screen. It says Harry Entence aggregate. Well, it doesn't include us and it includes a bunch of
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other people. And some of that stuff, you know, it's going to smooth out. It's going to make the
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margin of error less because we're combining multiple samples together. Right. And so the reason that they
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do that, the reason they take five points of a haircut off of his approval is because then every time
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something happens, they can drop it below 40 and have headlines about how bad his favorability rating is.
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It doesn't make sense in the polls on the thing that that guy explains. 52% say Trump's doing what
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they want, but he's only got a 44% favorability rating. That doesn't make sense. It doesn't make
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sense at all. The way I perceive it, Mark, is exactly what you just said, is that his policies are more
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favorable than he is. And we've heard this, Mark, for 10 years that Donald Trump, I hate the guy. I can't
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stand him, but I like his policies. If he just shut his mouth and he didn't tweet out, I would like him
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even more. See, I disagree. I like Donald Trump, the person he is. I like the, the genuine. Yeah.
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A wrecking ball. So that's where I think my opinion, I'm not a pollster, obviously, but that's
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where I think maybe the discrepancy is, is there's people who live in New York, Mark, who live in
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Staten Island, New York, who live in Brooklyn, New York, live in Queens, New York, who are tired of
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seeing migrants on their streets, criminals on their streets, but they don't necessarily care for
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Donald Trump. That's the difference. John, you're right. You're a hundred percent right. But you know
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what? Reuters Ipsos isn't out there integrating people into their Ipsos panel who live in the
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Rust Belt, in a rural area. They're just not. And so what my polling shows is that, yeah, Trump stuff
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is popular. It's in the 60s. It's like mass deportations of legal immigrants, 64 percent.
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Creating the swamp, 67 percent. And you're not going to hear any of that on the mainstream media news because
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they can't let that stuff seem to be that popular. And so in my opinion, there's a political
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realignment. We've gotten into this before, but it's not Republican versus Democrat anymore. And I
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think it's hard to look at what's going to happen in the House because Congress is functionally
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incompetent. It's not doing anything. But this is literally about complete redress of voters,
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grievances, justice, accountability. That's what I think the MAGA movement and Republicans need to focus
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on. Yeah. And I say this every single day, Mark. The only way the Republicans lose the midterm elections
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is if they lose them themselves, not the Democrats. The Democrats, I mean, they've literally done
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everything possibly wrong that you can possibly do wrong, including sending Hakeem Jeffries out in front
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of the camera every day and sending out drunk Nancy Pelosi, who looks like she's ready to fall down another
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flight of stairs and break her other hip. They're playing the thing completely wrong. Now, the Republicans,
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of course, they don't know what they're doing. They don't know how to exploit how the Democrats are
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playing this so wrong. But every morning, Mark, I do my morning read. I'll read Politico. I read
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Breitbart. I read the New York Post. I read the Gateway Pundit and I read the Daily Mail. And this
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morning I come across a article on the Hill, which is incredible enough, I think, to put down for your dog
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to go to the bathroom. Yeah. All paper alone. Democrats in every office in Capitol Hill. That and
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Politico. Yes. And that's where the money comes from. If you look at how much money they
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pay these people, whether you want it or not. Democrats win momentum over GOP in shutdown
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fight. Now, I've been following this closely every single day. I've been reading everything
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on Twitter. I'm doing exactly what you told me, Mark. I'm spending more time on Twitter,
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doing a lot of hate on Twitter. And I cannot find anywhere that even perceives the Democrats are
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winning this fight. No, no, they're not. Well, I can give you a lot of evidence that they're not
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going to. First off, everybody expected this shutdown. We had numbers approaching 70% of
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Americans. And America just saw the can get kicked. They saw a big, beautiful bill. But there's
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something about this shutdown where they're like, nope, everybody's digging in for this one.
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So people thought it was going to get shut down. And usually when people aren't surprised,
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you're not going to see a huge change in the polling. Donald Trump's approval rating dropped like
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four points to negative five. It's back up to negative one. That's like a matter of days,
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just gone. The last time that major shutdown, he dropped like 10 points and he was down for a
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month before it came back up because they cried wolf. We had the biggest shutdown in American's
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history. And people said, no, it wasn't as bad as we thought it was going to be. It had no impact
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on them. Only 10% of America said a major impact. And then America has actually been asking for a
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shutdown because it knows it's got a spending problem and wants to cut spending. Those numbers
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are like 56%. So I think it's going to be like, listen, who are the people saying this is a Trump
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MAGA shutdown? It's relegated to blue sky, which is dying. It's in the bowels of Reddit. And those
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people are an echo chamber. They're obviously going to believe that. But I think people are looking
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around and saying, well, nothing's really changed and I hate the federal government. And so I don't
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mind that much if park rangers are crying about not being able to make next month rent payment.
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Yeah. And, you know, even I got to give credit because I go up to the mainstream media every
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day, but I've got to give credit to the mainstream media there. I think reporting it is accurately
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as I've ever seen them cover anything inside the Donald Trump sphere. MSNBC, CNBC, CNN, Fox News is
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whatever. But they're all having on Hakeem Jeffries. They're having on Nancy Pelosi. They're
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having on Chuck Schumer and they're asking them straight to their face. You know, this is a
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continuing resolution. I don't want to see our most of us don't, but open this thing up and get
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this thing, you know, to a point where we can have a conversation. But these people are going on
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these networks, Mark, and they're looking like total fools. They're getting railroaded by the
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hosts. The hosts are saying, listen, this is a continuing resolution that you signed six months ago,
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the same funding from six months ago. And you guys don't want to sign it. Why? And Hakeem Jeffries
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goes in front of the camera with a sombrero on, dumbfounded. Nancy Pelosi drunk as a skunk. Chuck
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Schumer, you know, bloviating and lying. Why is nobody telling these people get away from the cameras?
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Yeah, I mean, I guess they've it's years and years of not being held accountable for being stupid.
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Because look at Kamala Harris. She was almost president and she couldn't fog a mirror at the
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debates. It was horrible. Remember the fight she had with like Brett Baer on Fox News?
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It's unbelievable. Yeah. So this is like the capability of these people. But again,
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like this is new polling. It's not out yet. But this isn't this isn't going to affect
00:21:36.580
public opinion. Who's which which political party is more to blame for the shutdown? Republicans,
00:21:42.200
41 Democrats, 37. But 27 percent of Republicans say Republicans. They don't care. It's like,
00:21:49.580
yeah, we shut it down. So unfortunately, what my question is, is like, where's Russ Vought right now?
00:21:55.780
Well, I he's probably concocting some sort of play. I mean, the shutdown is going to end
00:22:00.680
eventually. Right. I'd say probably in the next week. It doesn't have to end. I mean,
00:22:05.720
in all likelihood, it has to, man, these people have to hear my masterstroke, John. This is what
00:22:10.480
we should do. OK, so John Thune out there talking to Politico says, well, you know, people have been
00:22:17.180
calling for the nuclear option, including me, including me for months. But it's not going to
00:22:22.840
happen. And here's why, because the Democrats really want it. They've told us they want to
00:22:26.840
use the nuclear option. And yeah. And by the way, everybody I talk to says when they get them a
00:22:31.400
Senate majority, they're going to do it. Sure. But Republicans are split because they don't want
00:22:36.260
to give the Democrats that power. That's literally what John Thune says. So they know the Democrats are
00:22:41.940
going to do it. And yet the Republicans can't unify around this. And so it's not going to happen.
00:22:46.300
But what they could do tomorrow is use the nuclear option not to open the government up.
00:22:52.320
They should keep the government shut down and pass bills, good bills every day between now and the
00:22:59.020
end of the session. And it's like all the things that Americans want codify every Trump executive
00:23:04.200
order. Yeah. Which they still haven't done eight months later. No, you're absolutely right.
00:23:08.520
But by them doing nuclear and opening the government, it gives the Democrats a free pass
00:23:13.000
on everything that they've literally been fighting against on the American people for the last
00:23:17.340
nine days or whatever it's been since the shutdown. So I 100% agree. And I'm finally happy to see John
00:23:24.240
Thune. If he tried to get rid of this filibuster for this nuclear option, and he didn't go in August
00:23:29.820
when it was time for appointments, I think the writing would have been on the wall and then someone
00:23:34.620
would have had to help hold him accountable for just being a lowlife. So I'm glad that he's standing
00:23:39.080
strong on this. But I don't know. I to me, I feel like eventually, in the next I say week or so,
00:23:45.520
the Democrats are going to have to cave. They're losing on the messaging mark on every single turn.
00:23:51.660
I don't see how they pull themselves out of this. Now, to me, it seems this time around,
00:23:55.220
Americans are just like, kind of disconnected and disengaged. We've got big elections coming up that
00:24:01.560
in the next month that people are focused on your state of New Jersey for governor,
00:24:05.960
my state of New York for mayor, you know, there's a bunch of big race government that I think people
00:24:10.880
are probably more focused on than just a government shutdown. It doesn't affect me, right? But it
00:24:16.300
affects, I think, everyone. I was flying the other day from Vegas to New Jersey, and it was like a
00:24:21.600
three-hour delay going into Newark. I said, screw this. I went into JFK instead. We're seeing that now
00:24:27.420
all across the country. So it's going to start now affecting the ordinary Americans' lives, and they're
00:24:34.160
going to start getting pissed off. That's why I think it ends sooner than later.
00:24:39.420
Maybe. This is after the Biden administration. Just think about what people went through.
00:24:45.020
The Democrats wanted to put the unvaccinated in prison camps, and they wanted to throw people
00:24:50.120
who questioned the efficacy of the vaccine in jail. And then all of the small businesses were shut down.
00:24:56.300
Justice was weaponized. They tried to jail Donald Trump. They flooded the border with 8 million
00:25:02.400
illegal aliens and stuffed fentanyl down everybody's throats. And so the level of anger,
00:25:07.940
remember, only 30% trust the federal government. There's palpable anger. There's a signal of people
00:25:12.820
wanting to get arrested. And so what I've been framing the new politics as is that this system
00:25:17.740
needs to be burned down. That's where I think most voters are. And that's not where the Republicans are.
00:25:22.180
And so they need to get there fast and bending over backwards in order to reach a bipartisan
00:25:28.960
resolution so that the DC can just get back to milking the Joe taxpayer that doesn't have a single
00:25:36.020
cent left. It's not the right optics. And that's the thing that blows my mind is because I just feel
00:25:42.140
that what Republicans want is to get this thing back going again so that they can focus on this big
00:25:48.080
budget reconciliation thing. And they're going to pat themselves on the back for passing like
00:25:52.440
another 10% of Trump's agenda into it. But 90% of it is just going to be like the same DC garbage
00:25:59.580
because the one big, beautiful bill, it wasn't a win. It wasn't really a win yet. And so the same
00:26:05.500
thing. So is all of Trump's legislative agenda just going to be like hijinks that happen inside these
00:26:10.920
reconciliation bills? It would appear that that's the case. That's not the level of accountability and
00:26:17.200
change that people want. Yeah. Speaking of accountability and change, I want to bring
00:26:22.040
this to you now. I don't, I don't regard Gallup in the highest level anymore. I think they used to do
00:26:26.400
a pretty decent job. They've, they've lost their way a tiny bit. They've got a new poll out. DHS sees
00:26:32.420
the biggest jump mark in public approval among federal agencies. This new poll, 42% of respondents
00:26:39.460
to job to job being well done by DHS. And it's either excellent or good. Last year at the same point,
00:26:45.340
Mark, 32% said they were favorable. 23% in the Gallup polls. So the job is being done. Only fair
00:26:51.920
30, 33% say the job was poor. So this goes to the sentiment that people approve of what President
00:27:00.700
Trump is doing. And I mean, immigration, this is the thing that boggles my mind, Mark, you've got JB
00:27:06.600
Pritzker, you've got Brandon Johnson, you've got Rachel Maddow as the, the governor of, of Oregon.
00:27:13.060
Um, I don't know if you've seen this woman, but she looks just like Rachel Maddow with gray hair
00:27:18.260
and, um, nevermind. I'm not gonna get myself in trouble. But, uh, so you've got all these people,
00:27:23.700
Mark, who are fighting saying, let the illegal stay. They're good people. Number one, if you think
00:27:28.520
they're good people, you should take them to come live with you and you should offer a place for
00:27:31.480
them to live. That's the easiest thing. And you can harbor them if you want to. That's number one.
00:27:35.900
Um, number two, things have ramped up now to a level. This is why I'm saying this, this, this
00:27:42.400
number is, is remarkable to me because they've ramped up to a level where we're seeing riots
00:27:46.620
around streets, protecting illegals, where we're seeing, uh, ice agents hurt and harmed because of
00:27:52.740
illegal aliens. And we're seeing police officers told to stand down and protect the illegal aliens.
00:27:57.840
Yet we have an uptick by 10 points, even with all this, we can call it uproar if that's how the left
00:28:05.160
wants to perceive it with all this uproar. It's still a 10 point increase that people want the
00:28:10.640
illegals gone. Uh, people have been paying, I think a lot closer attention to the federal government
00:28:16.700
because we were tracking mostly the FBI during Biden's administration and, uh, middle of Trump's
00:28:22.840
first term, the FBI had a 62% favorable rating, but once they started getting involved in manipulating
00:28:28.600
the outcome of elections and creating Russia collusion hoaxes, and then rating Mar-a-Lago with
00:28:32.980
the authorized use of deadly force, it got into the forties and lost 20 points. People didn't trust it
00:28:38.460
anymore. And they called it Joe Biden's personal Gestapo. And so, yeah, people pay attention. And when
00:28:44.220
an organization does its job, this is what a federal agency is supposed to do. People take notice.
00:28:49.100
That's what happens when 64% of America wants mass deportations and you give it to them.
00:28:54.000
So this is a lesson for Republicans, like breathe this in. And I think most of the Republicans would
00:28:58.400
probably distance themselves from the DHS because they'd say, Oh, look at the means it's posting on
00:29:02.620
Twitter. It's so non-presidential. This is people aren't going to know. People want these
00:29:07.100
illegal aliens put into human cannons and shot back over the border. That's the level of what they want
00:29:13.480
right now. So, uh, I mean like how many more times do we have to prove this?
00:29:19.820
That's like, I don't know if you, do you remember outside the white house when they rested like 50
00:29:23.680
drug lords, there was this very, very overweight woman and everyone was sharing her meme and she'd
00:29:29.480
been deported for like fentanyl. Uh, and then, and the meme was just going viral everywhere. It was made
00:29:36.500
into all these, uh, AI videos, which by the way, the AI videos, Mark, have gotten out of control.
00:29:42.660
Yeah. I just sold on that. You can't show. I mean, they're, they're absolutely crazy. Insane.
00:29:49.080
Uh, but I mean, it's literally become like a normal phenomenon that people are, I mean, happy
00:29:54.160
as we should be. These people are prowling our streets. They're putting drugs on our streets.
00:29:58.240
They're taking the jobs of people. Uh, you know, you, you hear the fight Mark constantly. Well,
00:30:04.000
if, uh, you don't have the illegals doing it, then who's going to do it? Well, there's
00:30:07.160
only one way to find out in my opinion, Mark. Right. Yeah. Oh, I remember this one. This
00:30:12.460
issue is crying that there was a studio Ghibli picture of her. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And you
00:30:18.040
can put it up for the audience so they can be on board with us. Yeah. Yeah. Sure. Hold
00:30:22.920
on. Both in trouble here. You know, like the part though, that it gets me though, is that
00:30:27.200
when Democrats were flooding the border with illegal aliens, they kind of were able to have
00:30:33.160
these ridiculous stances. Right. But now that they aren't, why are they doubling down? Because
00:30:39.960
like, let's step back and acknowledge what the Democrats are doing right now. They are likely
00:30:44.860
protesting the most popular government agency. Yes. And you, you see Tom Holman, who's in that
00:30:51.540
picture clearly right there. And this poor woman crying. Well, it turns out this one was a
00:30:55.860
distributing fentanyl in America. So I'm not entirely sure how poor of a woman is, but that's
00:30:59.900
their new thing. Now they want to go after Tom Holman. So they're going after Tom Holman
00:31:03.620
saying he accepted $50,000 and he was going to help somebody with something. Yeah. He was
00:31:09.460
doing consulting work as everyone did when they left the white house, because there's no
00:31:14.640
other way to get a job when you leave the Trump administration. That's how they've done
00:31:18.360
it. We're now under the Obama administration, you got jobs at Amazon, you got jobs at Apple,
00:31:22.200
you got board of director jobs, even though you're grossly unqualified, you got millions of
00:31:26.520
dollars from Ukraine, millions of dollars from China, you know, a four different situation
00:31:30.400
than you saw in the Trump administration. So yeah, Tom Holman's out there doing consulting
00:31:35.720
work. And now they're coming after him saying he made $50,000. Well, I hate to break it to
00:31:41.020
you, but you're really not going to corrupt somebody for $50,000. It's very hard to do.
00:31:46.300
Yeah. Well, we had a poll back in the spring and we asked people, one of them was how angry
00:31:53.480
are you at the level of waste fraud and abuse? And we got 72% who said angry, but then we had
00:31:58.600
another question. How likely is it that your elected representatives are profiting from ill
00:32:04.240
gotten connections or something like that? I forget exactly what it was. Basically, are
00:32:08.920
your elected representatives enriching themselves fraudulently? And it was like 70%, 70% of Americans
00:32:14.520
like, oh yeah, sure. Of course they are. That's what they do. They're lying scumbags. They hate
00:32:18.560
Congress. They hate the federal government and they actually kind of liked Kamala Harris. Like
00:32:23.460
she got actually pretty close to the presidency. And so there's disagreement about how to fix
00:32:28.520
this beast. But the problem is, is that America feels like it was oppressed. It feels like every
00:32:33.240
cent is being squeezed out by this maximum rent seeking, the way that the market is concentrated.
00:32:38.560
I just saw a report this morning. I forget where it was from, but the financial markets are more
00:32:44.200
concentrated now than they've been in 50 years. That's a really bad sign. It's like, everybody's
00:32:49.180
piled into 10 AI plays. It's probably going to come crashing down.
00:32:54.300
Yeah. Maybe some people deserve it. Maybe that's how you get a market corruption. I don't know. But
00:32:59.160
things, I mean, something's got to give with the housing markets. I mean, it's insane.
00:33:03.600
The insurance prices in states like Florida are absolutely insane. The property taxes in places,
00:33:10.160
is absolutely insane. I mean, everything is just in this massive bubble that I don't see how it
00:33:15.740
doesn't pop or implode somehow. It's almost the inevitable. It's going to be going on for far too
00:33:21.120
long. Well, your viewers are smart enough. Put this up, put this chart up. Let's get it up there.
00:33:28.660
What do we got here? Can you make that a little bit bigger? Gold price.
00:33:33.620
Right. This is a massive play right now. You look at gold. I mean, go back. You got a 10 year on the
00:33:39.960
gold or it's only a five year. Let's see a 10 year on the gold.
00:33:44.340
I mean, it's unbelievable. We're going to 4x basically.
00:33:50.540
I mean, this is what happens. You know, this is what happens. This is dollar weakness.
00:33:56.660
Caused by way too much. It's also uncertainty, Mark. People like to have
00:34:01.140
the whole Wall Street thing and the normal person investing really only came
00:34:06.960
to be big, Mark, in the last five, six years since COVID when Reddit blew up Wall Street bets
00:34:12.700
and people realize like normal people can start making money by just day trading and,
00:34:17.400
you know, doing X, Y, and Z. Before that, it was always the notion you need to have
00:34:21.080
$25,000 in your account and you got to do this. And the average person doesn't have that, Mark.
00:34:26.180
Most people live paycheck to paycheck. So it was always the notion that, you know,
00:34:30.760
you got to be this big baller and then this comes around.
00:34:33.220
But the thing with gold is that it's a tangible good that people could actually hold.
00:34:37.800
And if people flee somewhere, they could take that gold with them unless you go to jail like
00:34:41.640
Bob Menendez. But it's an actual tangible good that you can hold and that you know you possess.
00:34:47.020
Whereas you invest in a company and people, you know, goes belly up and you lose the stock and
00:34:51.560
people, you know, there it is. So I think this is a revolt against the American government and
00:34:57.780
the US dollar by people stockpiling gold. A hundred percent. Everything's gotten so
00:35:03.140
expensive. You just talked about it. Housing is expensive. Groceries are expensive. You know
00:35:07.500
what I mean? Like literally the cost of everything. Insurance is going up. And is it because of
00:35:12.040
scarcity or is it because of like too many dollars? And it's like, well, that's the problem.
00:35:17.620
It's not even that too, Mark. I was telling the audience today, I pay over $900 a month for
00:35:22.420
healthcare. I'm a healthy, no preexisting conditions. I've been to the hospital maybe
00:35:28.060
one time in my life to get stitches on my hand. I mean, I've literally never, I go to the doctor
00:35:32.060
once a year, twice a year for blood work. I go to the dentist once a year, like the best
00:35:37.120
possible healthcare case you could possibly have of not going to the doctor or the emergency room
00:35:43.580
or anything. I mean, I've broken fingers, Mark, and I don't even go. I still have a finger
00:35:46.760
that I never got repair. And not over $900 a month, just the possibility of something happens
00:35:54.480
to me. This is what Obamacare did to this country where people don't realize.
00:35:59.020
Well, it's worse than Obamacare. And here's this theory of political realignment that I've
00:36:02.720
been working on, John. We've talked about the fourth turning, and I think that explains some
00:36:07.360
of it, like how institutions rise and fall. Basically, we become corrupted and fall apart.
00:36:12.900
But there's this other term in Silicon Valley called in shittification. And so the idea is
00:36:18.320
that like normally a company builds a good product, the customer likes it, and there's a good exchange
00:36:23.480
of value. But over time, when the scumbag MBAs get involved, and when the stock goes public,
00:36:28.480
and they got to make earnings per share, what they do is they squeeze every little bit out of the
00:36:33.140
product that they can. And obviously, the customer experience gets worse, but the customer's
00:36:37.980
already locked in. And so everything just gets garbage. That's what's happened to our entire
00:36:42.880
society. Everything over the last 30 years, 40 years, they've globalized everything they
00:36:49.280
can. They've squeezed every cent that they can. They've put every manipulative trick of
00:36:56.400
federal government appropriations in place in order to milk as much money out of the taxpayer.
00:37:02.040
And it's all ground to a halt. It's stuck. And so unfortunately, I think we're in a place
00:37:07.620
where there's like no easy answers here. And we're going to run into this situation with scarcity.
00:37:13.300
The healthcare is like the biggest one. It's like over 20% of our GDP. And the outcomes have not
00:37:19.880
improved. We're basically just paying for like hover rounds for diabetic boomers and putting open heart
00:37:27.620
surgery and super expensive chemo. Like that's what is happening is all of our wealth is going to
00:37:34.580
taxpayer funding people to enrich the health industry and not improve health outcomes.
00:37:41.460
Yeah, the health industry is the biggest, perhaps the biggest scam industry. And I'll tell you what,
00:37:46.540
I got blood work. Now that we're on the topic of healthcare, I think it's probably pertinent to
00:37:49.620
talk about this. I got blood work maybe two or three weeks ago, Mark, just a regular blood panel.
00:37:54.380
I get a letter in the mail the other day from Quest Diagnostics that I owe $1,700. That was because
00:38:00.060
they didn't have my insurance card. So I'm obviously not paying $1,700, nor would I pay it. I would take
00:38:04.840
the bill, I'd rip it up into a million pieces and I would send it back to them, tell them to go F
00:38:07.920
themselves to think that for five minute blood work that you're going to charge someone $1,700.
00:38:16.100
That's if you don't have insurance, $1,700. I mean, I couldn't believe it, Mark.
00:38:22.080
I know that's ridiculous. It enraged me. And then it made me realize why people hate corporate
00:38:28.580
America, why people hate the industrial complex of these institutions. Now I see it from both sides.
00:38:36.740
I've had family members who ran Fortune 500 companies, and I see it from the side of someone
00:38:42.240
who is getting taken advantage of by the system. And we all are one way or another. Even if you're
00:38:48.220
part of the system, you're getting taken advantage of by the system. There's no way around it.
00:38:53.220
I guess it's just the perk of being an American and living in the greatest country in the world.
00:38:58.000
But we're literally all victims of the system in one way or another. And this is why you have such
00:39:03.920
hate. Now I'm not justifying what... John, it's worse than that. We subsidize the system. We
00:39:09.760
subsidize the system. We socialize the banking losses in the 2008 financial crisis. And then the
00:39:16.540
Bernanke dollars and all of the... We had recovery acts. Where did that money go? It went to connected
00:39:22.520
private equity investors in order to build green energy scams. Where did the Bernanke dollars go?
00:39:27.500
It went to invest in foreign nations and outshore our engineering and ship all of our manufacturing
00:39:32.380
overseas. It is parasitic. Going back to what I was saying, you see some of these polls and things
00:39:39.300
that people are saying about Luigi Mangione. He's the guy who gunned down the CEO of United Healthcare.
00:39:43.440
Now, on a preface of saying, I don't agree with what he did. He's a scumbag and he's going
00:39:47.820
to go to jail for the rest of his life, hopefully get the pet, the debt chair. But the reason
00:39:51.360
you're seeing people, sick people agreeing with him is because of their sentiment that
00:39:56.000
corporate America has created. They've created a line and you're on one side and you're on
00:40:01.900
the other side. And in most cases, you're all on the same side because they're screwing you
00:40:06.000
all equally. But this is why you're seeing sick people who are getting demented and who are
00:40:12.960
believing things like this. And it's enraging them to do bad things in this country. And I
00:40:22.020
Yeah, it is. I have heard no viable solution. And I just looked at Grok while we were talking here.
00:40:28.780
Only between 40 and 45% of all blood work in the US is not taxpayer funded. So that's $1,700.
00:40:37.580
That's you and me paying for other people to go. And you go as many times as you want. Oh,
00:40:42.180
I don't feel good. Oh, go get a blood work. You know what I mean? Oh, I have to go get this
00:40:46.160
procedure done. Go get a blood work. $1,700. And it's the taxpayer footing that bill.
00:40:51.540
And so I talked about this political spectrum. We've talked about this before. And maybe I could
00:40:59.420
put this up too. But this is my theory of modern politics about how this needs to be looked at by
00:41:06.300
the Republican Party. And if people are familiar with political spectrums, you have conservative
00:41:11.780
on one side, liberal on the other. And then the wonks in the political science fields decided,
00:41:18.800
well, that's not good enough. They need two axes. And so one is economic freedom versus
00:41:24.980
socialism. And the other is authoritarianism versus libertarianism. But I don't think that
00:41:34.080
makes a lot of sense. Because what is the right right now? Is it really about economic freedom? Not
00:41:39.560
really. It's about rejiggering the entire system. I think this explains it. So this is authority trust
00:41:47.380
on the vertical axis. The higher you are, the more you trust people like Anthony Fauci.
00:41:51.880
And on the bottom, you want them in jail. And then on the right and left is grift tolerance.
00:41:57.280
Like how much inefficiency, theft, and fraud are you allowing out of the system?
00:42:03.360
And so I think 65% of the country is in green, which has burned the system down.
00:42:08.240
They don't trust anybody. They think it's all fake. They hate it. And they want it fixed.
00:42:13.120
But the problem is that I think Republicans and a lot of Democrat representatives are in the blue,
00:42:20.560
which has long lived the system. They're fine if 30% of Medicare is just like
00:42:26.820
duplicate payments to Venezuelan drug lords. That's okay because it's still a good system.
00:42:32.620
And of course, they trust authority. They are authority. They're doing fine. You go down to
00:42:37.140
Congress and they're happy with their performance. So how do you bridge that gap between John Thune
00:42:43.320
and MAGA voters? And then the other two quadrants, most Democrat voters, I think, are in the red.
00:42:49.780
They just think that their experts are doing better. They think Pete Buttigieg was the best
00:42:54.580
Department of Transportation guy in the world. They want him back. And then the commies are in the
00:42:59.560
lower, in the purple. They just want, like George Soros and AOC, they want to steal the system
00:43:04.660
from the right. The people in that red quadrant are the same people that look up to politicians
00:43:11.560
like they're godly figures, like Kamala Harris was some sort of godly figure that was going to come
00:43:16.940
down and save them. Clearly, she didn't. And thank God she didn't. Yeah, it's a totally broken system,
00:43:23.220
Mark. Before we wrap up, Mark's got a short, you can only do a short hit today. Mark's got to go watch
00:43:28.660
his kids play soccer, which is good. And forcing kids to go out and play sports is the best thing you
00:43:33.400
could possibly do and not give them an iPad or a cell phone is the next best thing you can do.
00:43:43.540
Mark's got some new polling for us out across the pond and somewhere in the Middle East.
00:43:48.780
Mark, take it away. What do we got? Well, you know, not too many people poll on Israel.
00:43:55.020
You know, me and Rich Barris joke about every time we poll on Israel, the ADL writes a new page
00:43:59.520
about us. But it's been pretty uncomfortable just that like in a year and a half, the support for
00:44:06.300
Israel as compared to Palestine has been utterly collapsing, almost 15 points just in a year and a
00:44:11.940
half. I think it's probably even worse. We're going into the field with that same question again.
00:44:15.940
And it's all because of the way that BB is handling this whole stuff down there. And whether it's a
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genocide or not, like it doesn't matter. It's all public perception. And I'm saying that public
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perception is going to run out on Israel soon, especially because of the way they're saying
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things like having Ben Shapiro, Mark Levin and getting in a fight over Tucker, who is very
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trusted. Like this is not the way to win people's hearts and minds. But one of the things we asked,
00:44:42.820
you know, Donald Trump is famously anti-war, but not all Republicans are. There's still a lot of
00:44:48.460
boomer cons that grew up on Tom Clancy novels that think that we're America's world police.
00:44:52.360
But how popular is war? Well, okay. Well, it depends on the war. So we asked,
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would you approve or disapprove of the US going to war to defend Ukraine against Russia?
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Would you go approve of the US going to war to defend Taiwan against China? And would you approve
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of going war to defend Israel against Palestinians? And the war for Israel is the least popular war in
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America. Only 38% approve of that, but it's 44% who approve of Taiwan and 41% who approve of Ukraine.
00:45:27.180
It's massively, massively underwater, 14 points. That's pretty big. And only half of Republicans,
00:45:37.300
Wow. And I want to, this isn't about being anti-Semitic, which I feel like I have to preface
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with everything I say whenever you talk about Israel, because you're automatically declared
00:45:50.720
an anti-Semite or Mark Mitchell and John Foster being paid by Katara. Well, we're not, but if you
00:45:56.660
want to send the check, let us know. We'll take it. But that's what it's come to. And I've realized
00:46:01.960
this on Twitter. Anytime you speak out against anything, and it's not a Jewish thing, it's not
00:46:07.660
an Israeli thing. It's not on its face, an Israeli person. It's the government of Israel. It's the
00:46:14.100
politicians of Israel that are giving them a bad name, not the people in the country. But anytime
00:46:20.640
you speak out or say anything about it, you're automatically owned by Qatar. You're owned by
00:46:25.720
another entity, maybe Hamas or whatever. You can never have a dialogue, which I want to roll this
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clip for you. Matt Gaetz was on with Tim Kast the other night, and he was talking about his time in
00:46:36.960
Congress about AIPAC. And now that's something we talk about here on the show a lot. Now AIPAC,
00:46:42.320
folks, it's a PAC, American-Israeli PAC, where they spend the most amount of money in any foreign
00:46:50.380
government by a factor of like 100 and something million dollars, and the money that they pour
00:46:56.560
into this politics. Now, Matt sat down, Matt Gaetz sat down with Tim Kast the other day and was asked
00:47:01.240
about his time in Congress at AIPAC. Take a listen to this. And I want you to just think in the back
00:47:07.480
of your mind how long before it comes out that Matt Gaetz is allegedly paid by Qatar.
00:47:12.680
Initially, I resented the fact that there was no appreciation for nuance. Like if you asked any
00:47:18.080
questions about any decision of the Israeli government in any place regarding settlements,
00:47:24.080
regarding Gaza, whatever, you were like, you had deviated from the script. And I just, in any
00:47:31.560
policy area, I had resentment over that. And then I saw the way the AIPAC worked. And that was weird
00:47:39.780
for like a country lawyer like me. I remember my first AIPAC reception and like your fundraiser tells
00:47:45.500
you, you have to go. And your chief of staff tells you, you have to go. Your committee chairman
00:47:49.760
will tell you, you have to go. And you get there and you wear this name badge. And I remember there's
00:47:53.600
a QR code on it. And what we were supposed to do was go talk to donors. And then if they liked you,
00:47:59.620
they scanned your QR code to make a donation like on the spot. And so this, can you just imagine how
00:48:06.840
demoralizing that is to like be told that your job for the next several hours to go chat people up,
00:48:11.940
hoping they would scan you like a can of tomato soup on the way out of the meeting.
00:48:19.440
Right. And so I saw that and I was like, wow, that is so freaking weird. And then, you know, I was in Israel.
00:48:25.820
I went multiple times and I did not like the fact that I found someone in my room rooting around in my
00:48:31.280
stuff that should not have been there at the King David Hotel when I came back to my room when no one was
00:48:38.460
And I just don't believe Israeli launch. I don't know who it was. I just thought like,
00:48:42.420
this is weird. All of these things combined are odd. And then the policy outgrowth seems to be an
00:48:48.300
obsession about the Middle East that has not served my generation. Well, I just don't.
00:48:53.540
So I think it's only fair we give equal time to a pack, Mark. And they responded to Gates's
00:48:58.420
claims and they say a pack denied Gates's claims in a social media post writing quote.
00:49:03.220
The accusations about fundraisers is, of course, a lie. Barcodes are on the name badges,
00:49:08.000
but for security reasons, not fundraising and are scanned for that purpose.
00:49:12.960
Maybe at Matt Gates was confused because he wanted people to scan his barcode and they didn't even
00:49:17.900
want to talk to him. I think I'm probably going to err on the side of Matt Gates on this issue, Mark.
00:49:24.040
Yeah, I mean, take it with everything else. And it's it's so difficult to track this, but it's
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important. Like, objectively, the other country should not have more influence than Americans.
00:49:35.080
And you've talked about the fundraising numbers. It's absolutely ridiculous.
00:49:39.980
But I think Americans see this because time and time again, for whatever reason, we do things that
00:49:44.780
are quite obviously not in America's best interest. And yet they suit the needs of the time.
00:49:50.040
So, like, I don't know where this is going, but it's not it's not working. It's going to run out on
00:49:56.280
them because more and more questions are being like James Wood just posted a tweet on Twitter.
00:50:00.680
Sure. And let's acknowledge that Twitter being a marketplace of free ideas is the probably the
00:50:07.540
biggest problem for APAC and the Israeli lobby. But James Wood just talked about like dual
00:50:13.720
citizenships. Yes, it should be banned at the Supreme Court. Like, why is that even controversial?
00:50:18.500
And that's an objectively good take. Yeah, we probably shouldn't have people with
00:50:22.800
split allegiance. And yet if you ask any AI, they'll say, oh, no, there's not a single elected
00:50:29.160
representative that has dual citizenship. Well, is that true or not? Like, I don't I don't know.
00:50:33.440
I remember seeing graphics five or 10 years ago that made large lists of people who are allegedly
00:50:39.140
dual citizens. And now every information source says, no, there's not a single one zero.
00:50:44.700
Wikipedia told me just like eight months ago that Randy Fine was a dual citizenship with Israel.
00:50:50.600
And now you can't find that anywhere on the Internet. It's so unbelievably bizarre.
00:50:54.300
Very, very strange. As you see, this website we got up here track a pack dot com. It tells you every
00:51:01.400
member of Congress and people who have. Let's see if we can get gates. He's not even on there anymore.
00:51:08.120
Any member. Interesting. Tom Cotton. Here we go. Tom Cotton has taken one point, almost one point two
00:51:15.700
million dollars expenditures of nine hundred and sixty. That's a very interesting one.
00:51:21.980
Two hundred. It's interesting to see. His expenditures are nine hundred sixty thousand nine.
00:51:27.720
Almost a million dollars, we'll call it, which is weird. Why are they spending that much money on him?
00:51:32.340
Yeah, it's interesting to see Rick Crawford and Tom Cotton next to each other, because somebody I know
00:51:36.680
that tracks these things knows that they have competing vision of how U.S.
00:51:42.240
counterintelligence is done in competing legislation. Rick Crawford's pushing the Secure Act that apparently
00:51:47.300
does something very different than Tom Cotton's. So it's like Rick took a little bit of APAC money, but
00:51:53.920
I don't know. Yeah. And like I said, this isn't an issue of anti-Semitism or anything like that.
00:52:00.520
It's the issue of you can't sit here and say you're all for getting corrupt money out of politics and
00:52:05.700
then say, OK, but I'm fine with with APAC money. It doesn't work both ways. You get all of the money
00:52:10.500
out of politics. And that's how you fix the issue. Mark. Yeah. Go ahead.
00:52:16.100
Anybody who says that outside money should be in politics doesn't quite understand the intent behind
00:52:21.740
how representative democracies are supposed to work. Yeah, you're absolutely right.
00:52:26.160
Mark, we're going to let you run. You've got to go watch your kids play soccer. I'm sure it's very
00:52:29.700
dreadful, but you're a great father. So we'll see you next week. Mark, any streams this week?
00:52:35.020
Where can people find you? What's happened? I was going to stream tonight, but unfortunately,
00:52:39.420
I have a Jack Cittarelli poll to process. The results should be out tomorrow and depending on
00:52:44.520
how they are, I'll determine whether I go to his rally or not. So maybe I'll do a video and I got
00:52:51.420
a video in the works covering James Comey stuff, which we didn't even talk about. But my big one
00:52:56.740
Monday night, I put out it's an hour and a half one super long. It's depressing. You're probably
00:53:01.920
going to want to drink after it, but it presents my whole theory about how the problems that we have
00:53:07.960
are much bigger and more different than what everybody thinks. This is not a fight between
00:53:12.600
Republicans and Democrats. It's something much, much larger. And if the right doesn't shift course
00:53:17.780
on this ASAP, there's going to be wailing and gnashing of teeth. Yeah, I agree with you. And you can
00:53:24.880
follow Mark on Twitter at Honest Holster at Rasmussen underscore poll on YouTube and catch him for his
00:53:30.580
weekly streams there. Mark Mitchell, we'll see you next week, my friend. All right. Great to be here.
00:53:34.680
Thanks, John. Thanks to Mark Mitchell, folks. And thank you all for being with us today here on
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