Did Comey Leak to NYT, Leftists Want More DC Crime, and Fixing CA, with John Solomon, Steve Hilton, Rich Lowry, and Charles Cooke
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Summary
A new piece from John Solomon of the New York Times points the finger at former FBI Director James Comey. It details how he may have leaked classified information to the media through a Columbia University professor friend of his to make his case for why he should be fired.
Transcript
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We like to walk that fine line between techno thriller
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Live on Sirius XM Channel 111 every weekday at noon east.
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We've got new reporting today on the intelligence leaks
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aimed at undermining President Trump before and during
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his first term in office and the complete lack of care,
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or so it would seem, by the intelligence community.
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Yesterday we began the show with Just the News' John Solomon.
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Today we're going to do the same as he's got yet another big piece
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This one involves newly declassified intelligence
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that squarely points the finger at former FBI Director James Comey.
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Both men in the same job, one fully transparent,
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I mean, Comey wanted a message out there, that's for sure.
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and through intermediaries so his fingerprints weren't on it,
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It appears the intermediary says he can't be sure.
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He doesn't think he passed on classified information,
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plus a free rechargeable frother and glass beaker.
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through a Columbia University professor friend of his
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five years, that he used Richmond to leak some memos
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of these alleged conversations with the president.
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at least the things that Richmond provided the media,
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were deemed to have classified information in them.
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so Administrative Expensure General Investigation,
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not even following his non-disclosure agreement
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when Kash Patel transmitted these documents to Congress
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of James Comey for leaking possible classified information.
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the question of whether he leaked confidential information.
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We know that because they indicted a president for doing it.
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for having classified information at Mar-a-Lago.
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They accused him of waving it around in a document,
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So he got indicted down in Palm Beach County, Florida,
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or to leak classified information that you shouldn't.
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of figuring out who they thought the leakers were.
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Richmond, Comey's still FBI director at this point.
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He's brought in as a special government employee,
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And his goal is to work around the press office
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and who's trained in how to handle these issues.
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And Comey gets him a top secret security clearance
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and that he tried to obstruct his friend, James Comey.
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under penalty of being charged with lying to the FBI
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I'm sure, quote, comma, with a discount, comma,
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when you're denying whether you leak something?
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This is like one of the great non-denial answers
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his presidency you'll remember if you look back
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allow to be used to use his presidential powers
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well while he was under investigation and so on
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so i think what they're doing is they're taking
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they're trying to discredit the rest of it which
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i'll tell you what she has a literally a vested
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the things she has said but also the things that
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her husband has written that were award-winning
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and there is really no question that she should
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not be allowed to sit in that chair and opine on
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allegations that directly involve her husband now
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and the veracity of his reporting and his reputation
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the national guard troops that president trump dispatched to
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washington dc arrived yesterday they showed up in droves
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and uh i guess you know to say that the democrats are
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not grateful would be an understatement the mayor has
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waffled between kind of being grateful and saying
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you know you can say crimes down try telling that to the
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victims family members and getting pushed by her fellow
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leftists into saying but he's authoritarian and you know
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of course we hate him but the troops they're not such a
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terrible idea uh in any event they've arrived and judge
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the district of dc uh was asked yesterday about
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the troops and the allegedly falling crime rate and here's
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how that went what this makes clear to me is that there is a
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whole community that is suffering because of the violent crime in
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this district all members of the minority community i am here today to
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tell you that on behalf of all of these victims all of these families that
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they're going to be accountable that we are going to make a difference and i
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guarantee you that every one of these individuals was shot and killed by
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someone who felt that they were never going to be caught and i want to send a
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you said it's guns on the street that's causing this problem are you concerned
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that the doj's funding cuts to gun violence prevention programs undermine the
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efforts we are putting all kinds of resources onto the street
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it's never enough this change this changed it's never enough you tell these
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families crime has dropped you tell the mother of the intern who was shot going
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out for mcdonald's near the washington convention center all crime is down you
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tell the kid who was just beat the hell and back with a severe concussion and a
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broken nose crime is down no that falls on deaf ears and my ears are deaf to that
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and that's why i fight the fight thank you boom then she dropped the mic not not
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literally but she should have rich well done by janine piero and there really are
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some horrific stories i suppose you could find them in any large metropolitan
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area but dc in particular has got some awful ones like that one about the intern i
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think it was 19 years old they're doing an internship in washington it's like a
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kid's dream going out to get a mcdonald's and gets killed that we could spend all
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day going through these she had the pictures of a lot of those young victims
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in particular up on those boards right up in the face of those reporters saying
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how dare you it's never enough don't tell me don't tell the family members of
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these dead people crimes down so we don't need more law enforcement
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yeah i'll say a couple things one i have no use for mario bowser and and she has
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vacillated a little bit here but i think basically though from where she's coming
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from a fairly constructive attitude right she's saying yeah crime's down we
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don't need this but if we're getting more federal assets let's use them to
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reduce crime and if that had been the message by democratic mayors all around the
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country about ice you know saying oh i don't like these tactics i don't think it's
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really necessary maybe you're going too far but yes thank you for coming and
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going getting the criminals off our streets i think that debate would be in
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a much better place and i don't think the national guard
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troops make much of a difference they basically guard federal buildings maybe
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they free up some police resources to do other stuff but
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certainly the sheer presence if you're a young woman jogging on the streets of dc
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you're going to enjoy seeing those guys you're going to feel a little safer
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seeing those guys and men and women in camouflage
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standing there but i think the key thing is the driver of most of the gun violence
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involved in the engaged in the criminal justice system
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have long rap sheets have probably been in prison already and are
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largely known to authorities can you working with the local
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police with additional dea and and fbi resources really in this 30-day period
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try to move the needle in arresting more of those guys and making them worry
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about consequences that's huge and then the carjackings which are so awful
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you know they're 14 year olds carrying these things out so you need as janine
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was saying you need them to to believe they're going to be
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consequences that involves i think changing the laws congress has a role
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done in 30 days but you can move the needle and i hope there's an incentive
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created here for dc to say no we don't need this federal intervention
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we're doing fine because we're going to get tough and and these you know in ways x y and z
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that would be a very constructive outcome the cops have been super grateful for it charlie
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the cops union came out and said thank god we we need help we actually cannot handle this
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on our own which went unreported by the new york times's daily podcast yesterday when they took
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their deep dive into local reaction they forgot to mention that the police are really grateful
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for it and say it's necessary um but here's just another example of what was on the two boards
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she was showing pictures of victims she said look at these 45 victims all 19 and under
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all killed by gunfire in the last 18 months in dc and you tell me crime is down two of the victims
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charlie were three years old one little girl's name was honestly cheetle uh it happened last month
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via the local nbc police arrested a man who they say fired shots that killed a three-year-old girl as
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she sat in a car with her family after fourth of july fireworks they believe the shooter intentionally
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targeted the family's car she was taken to a hospital and died days later um and then just
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today i retweeted someone named maddie karen not to be confused with maddie kern um who says as
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follows i was called into court she's a dc resident to give a statement about a man who had exposed
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himself to me on the metro he had over 200 charges to date court was delayed four hours for him to quote
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calm down after calling the judge the c word once he had she dismissed the new charges and let him go
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that is what so many crime victims have faced if the police do arrest the perpetrator and charge with
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the right charge as opposed to a downplayed charge which is what is allegedly happening within the dc
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police they're downplaying the charges to so that they can make it look like crime is down
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but if they get charged adequately and then get into the court system you run into a judge like this
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who's really not particularly impressed maybe unless you've actually murdered a three-year-old
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and even then questionable yeah i haven't heard a good argument against this move yet it may be true
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that crime is down perhaps a lot of that's the artifact of reporting but it may be true
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it's irrelevant though because crime is still very high if you look through the reports it is at an
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unacceptable level i am not a fan of the idea that we can make paradise on earth sometimes when you hear
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the phrase for example if it saves one life i think well no we live in a free country you cannot completely
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eradicate bad things happening that's not what we're discussing here we're discussing a city that is a mess
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a city in which people are assaulted and killed and victimized all the time and the fact that it may or may not
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be relatively down from its absolute high a few years ago is immaterial the question is is it acceptable
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and the answer is that it's not and that it's not is largely a choice we're not talking here about a hurricane
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or a tornado or an earthquake we're talking here about government policies that don't work you mentioned one of them
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which is letting people off another is treating crime as if it's some sort of charming foible of the city
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you sometimes hear this in discussions of new york oh do you remember back when uh is as if it was some
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sort of you know fun thing you would do in the 1970s between seeing led zeppelin and going to watch
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star wars you get a knife in the back but a charming knife uh that's nonsense people hate crime and there's
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no reason they should be subject to it and the arguments made in its favor are ridiculous the other bad
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argument is that crime is worse elsewhere first off that's irrelevant too but you hear this well it's worse in
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new orleans or it's worse in st louis maybe those are cities and states though and under our system the burden is
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much higher for the federal government to get involved but washington dc is a federal district
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the district clause in the constitution gives plenary power to the federal government to take care of it
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if it wants to it can delegate some of that power out to a city council or a mayor or whatever apparatus
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it desires but it doesn't have to and if it is the case as it clearly is here that the delegated
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authority is just not doing a very good job then it's entirely reasonable for the federal government
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which runs the federal district which incidentally is the capital of the united states there is an
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interest here in making sure that it's not a hellhole it's embarrassing that dc is the way that it is
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to step in and there's nothing that trump has done thus far that has violated the law and there's
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nothing he's done thus far that would require congress to act although congress probably should take
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control back so i don't see any good arguments here that don't amount to either it's not so bad
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it is or crime isn't too much of a problem anyway it is or this is racist it's not or this is an
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overreach from the federal government which is ridiculous given that we're talking about washington
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dc which is run by the federal government all good points you've got morons like eric swalwell
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well that's really my only point you do have yeah but in this particular instance he decided to try to
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make a thing out of a recent crime event where a man according to uh nbc for washington they posted
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a man is dead after a shooting in dc's logan circle neighborhood officers looking for a suspect
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this moron swalwell tweets it out trump owns it so now every crime that happens in dc
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is trump's fault because he's tried to supplement the law enforcement i mean i do we maybe we'll give
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it 30 seconds who which of you would like to take it i can see both of you actually
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i mean what does that even mean megan like if if somebody takes over custody of a child whose
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parents are unfit to look after them and then the child falls over and scrapes her knee you wouldn't
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say ah well there you go that just proves that the custody change i mean obviously that's not what's at
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stake here and if even maybe 10 years you had the same people running things and there was no
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improvement sure point that out but that is just that's that's actually i needed 30 seconds but just
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give me a moment that that actually is why i say that there are some people who are functionally
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in favor of crime because either they have some ideological opposition to fighting crime that they
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believe is rooted um in history and is usually completely incomprehensible or they are so polarized
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against those who don't like crime that they end up effectively siding with crime and we've seen a lot
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of that over the last week a lot of the coverage here has just been trump wants to do it therefore
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it's bad trump wants to fight crime therefore crime must have something going for it and and it
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doesn't it doesn't have something going for i think the average person watching this thinks it's lunacy
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that's so well said all right wait that i've got a couple of examples of that teed up for you guys
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here's simone sanders who undoubtedly is earning millions over at msnbc where she co-hosts one of the
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primetime hours i think it's the one vacated by joy reid and uh she appeared on morning joe with
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scarborough and had the following exchange sought 10. you don't think more police make streets safer
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uh no joe i'm a black woman in america i do not always think that more police make streets safer
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i when you walk down the streets of georgetown you don't see a police officer on every corner but you
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don't feel unsafe so what is it about talking about places like southeast dc right ward 8 if you will
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um that people say well we need more officers to make us safe i think we have to rethink what safety
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means in america rich rethink what safety means what does anyone not know what safety is right
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it's being able to walk down the street without looking over your shoulder or let your kid go out
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and play without worrying about him or her being harassed or shot i mean it's very basic and if you
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showed that clip to uh the average resident of a dangerous neighborhood in southeast dc they would
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think she's crazy right that's only that's a luxury belief right there and that that famous phrase she
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can say that because she safely goes from green room to green room and from democratic fundraiser
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democrat fundraiser or whatever else it is and doesn't have to worry about crime and you know this
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this um the counter argument that look we shouldn't do this because violent crime's down 25 percent in
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dc whatever it is talk to anyone who lives in dc and ask them how they feel actually i give joe scarborough
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credit he's been reading these anonymous missives from democrats he knows who are saying why didn't
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this happen sooner i don't feel safe in the city we talked on the editor's podcast with our reporter
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audrey fallberg is down there in dc says routinely harassed and menaced on the metro and that everyone
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knows someone who's been mugged or gotten hurt that is totally unacceptable abc anchor just the other
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day right said that she she was mugged outside the abc's studio yeah not a uh not a what shouldn't be a
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dangerous part of town kind of near jupont circle right uh right across the street from a luxury
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hotel i forget the name it might be the mayflower i i forget but should you you go there and you're
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like is this really dangerous but it is if you're there the wrong wrong a place at the wrong time with
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the willard i think she's a crazy person your willard yeah so um everyone knows even if the the numbers
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have gone down it's still not a place where you you feel safe and uh simone it doesn't matter what
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simone sanders says everyone knows that it's a little bit trying to spinning crimes a little bit
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trying to like spin spin the economy doesn't matter what you say people know what their pocketbook is
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and people know what safety is so could we just is a joke charlie she she this woman 100 rides to
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to and from work in a lincoln town car driven by a driver when she gets to msnbc there is security
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there waiting for her she gets escorted into the building i know a thing or two about working in
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cable news for her to be like i feel totally safe except when i see a cop because i'm a black woman
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in america is a lie keep going well so we don't even have to assume can we just take a second to
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focus in on her argument the actual logical chain that she offered up there was policing doesn't
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improve things in areas with crime because in areas without crime there aren't many police
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what kind of argument is that that's like saying that food doesn't help people who are hungry
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because people who already have lots of food don't need any more like yes obviously there aren't police
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all over georgetown it's a relatively wealthy safe area what the hell does that have to do with people
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who don't live in georgetown i mean that is she said that you said she makes millions of dollars a
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year why she said that on television what what kind of argument is that that's what i'm talking about
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the fetishization of crime the defense of crime and she says as a black woman in america what does
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that mean like does she have any real arguments but that she is pro-crime not not in the sense that
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people use that in the sort of archie bunker way but she would rather have more crime than fix it
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for whatever ideological reasons that she has has come up with this she's willing to go on television
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and say well it's fine for me in georgetown come on it's she's not she's not the only one um i don't
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know if you're aware of anand giri dardis he's a professor at nyu yeah and he goes he goes on msnbc
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all the time and he's got the following concerns sat nine i think it's really important to be clear
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about what is going on here and a relatively small crime problem is being used for specific
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authoritarian purposes that we know and understand so let's be clear about dc does have a really one
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really big crime problem which was the january 6th insurrection incited by the current president
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united states and his first act and coming back was pardoning all the people who tried to overturn
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constitutional republic order in washington dc when i go to dc i'm not afraid of losing my wallet so much
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as i'm afraid of losing my vote i'm not afraid of losing my wallet so much as i'm afraid that my
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children's freedom to breathe will be stolen in a world where climate change policy is non-existent
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rich you're in dc a lot is that is that what you feel that your your children's right to breathe
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is being stolen said second by second and that's what you worry about when you walk down the streets
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of dc at midnight again it's very easy to say up up until the time you get mugged right and i didn't i
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didn't like january 6th i think there people committed none of us officers don't like sweeping
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pardons but that doesn't mean that that people should be unsafe in in dc and and what constitutes a
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small crime problem and a big crime crime problem to him again this is something where i give marielle
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bowser credit she said oh the numbers are going down maybe she's right maybe she's wrong but she
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said it doesn't matter to you if you're the victim of crime right and fourth highest homicide rate in
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the nation yeah higher if or stayed higher than any other state and you see it in public places right
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we talked again on the editors yesterday about union station just feels like a blasted out
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barren zone because homeless people took it over so you couldn't have one place to sit
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because a homeless person would build a mini encampment there right and and they and the
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authorities gave in to the homeless so i think this is another thing that could happen actually in 30 days
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the homeless encampments are getting cleared up and they're going going to homeless people now
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that's where you're wrong my friend that is where you are wrong you you that's your luxury belief that
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the homeless are going away thanks to law enforcement because here's what's actually happening the
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resistance is fighting back to keep the homeless in union station and i'm not even making this up
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we have videotape here and a soundbite of a liberal woman who is taking that problem on herself she does
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not want the homeless removed from union station she does not want your damn benches back rich lowry you
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can stand um and here is her plan to stop those guard troops from doing it in sod 11 it's august 11th i am
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outside union station in dc where folks on the ground are telling me that they are about to start
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rounding up unhoused people tonight uh the folks here at the encampment in front of union station
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are handing out these whistles to give to unhoused folks that way they have a way to call for help if
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they are kidnapped by federal law enforcement so if you're in the area and able to swing by
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right in front of union station they have tons of these bring them back to folks in your community
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so they have a way to call for help because this is how a fascist authoritarian regime starts
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the homeless people are going to blow into the whistles and love whistles well people love
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whistles for some reason who is going to come who is going to respond and where are they going to
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take them so that they don't have to leave go ahead charlie i know i'm a little obsessed with these
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arguments that people are making but we've just had three arguments in a row two from the msnbc guest
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one from her that inspire the follow-up question and then what yes right right so look i am a big
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critic of january 6th you've heard me say it a million times i don't need to re-rehearse it for you
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including right after january 6th on this show but january 6th was bad right so if january 6th was bad
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what would more crime be i mean what is the argument there that because trump did january 6th
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we can't also not have other crimes and then the unspoken argument from the same guy and then from
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her about authoritarianism what does that look like like what is the next step so we clear out homeless
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people from public places where they're not supposed to be and then what america becomes a
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dictatorship i don't understand what is supposed to happen next here it's never said it's just
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it's just implied it's floated out there as if we all understand but that's not authoritarianism
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there's no authoritarianism inherent in cleaning up a city or stopping people being criminals
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if anything the greater threat of chaos and anarchy and the destruction of freedom and order
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liberty comes from crime so i never quite know what it is that these people want or think is about to
01:13:12.980
happen and they never explain it okay but the other the other question raised by her whistle plan and for
01:13:19.280
the listening audience it's a bunch of plastic whistles in neon colors um is what happens forget like
01:13:27.060
she's arguing leave the homeless alone what happens if they if she does the whistle plan and the
01:13:32.540
homeless do what they're supposed to do and they blow into her little neon pink whistle then then what
01:13:38.780
who's coming that 19 year old girl with the blonde braid if she's gonna stop the national guard and then
01:13:46.380
what is she gonna take them back home for dinner what she's gonna take these homeless people back to her
01:13:51.000
house because it doesn't seem to be a big appetite in dc to you know have these people move in to the
01:13:56.200
domestic housing so what's her plan then like she's gonna fight the national guard so that they can
01:14:00.260
have the corner of union station that they've staked out ah it's a win you sit there that's your
01:14:06.180
corner so that they can defecate all over the floor of union station which is what your reporter was
01:14:11.040
talking about stepping in the other day rich like what is the plan exactly how is it a win to get the
01:14:16.540
homeless like like rose on the door at the end of titanic to blow their little whistles come back
01:14:22.360
come back or go away go away it drives me crazy because they think they're being compassionate
01:14:29.300
to homeless people by letting people who are seriously mentally ill and not getting treatment
01:14:34.500
or have substance abuse problems or some of them just kind of perversely like the lifestyle
01:14:38.660
sleep on grapes at night right and and someone crapping in union stations terrible for one union
01:14:45.000
station it's not great for that person either and given the amount of money that dc spends on
01:14:50.340
homelessness if there's not enough shelter for these people that's a scandal on its own so they
01:14:55.160
should be rousted out of public places the ones are mentally ill or have substance abuse problems you
01:15:00.540
try to get them help but they shouldn't be sleeping outdoors they shouldn't be out of their minds harassing
01:15:07.720
people or attacking them it's bad for everyone and they just can't get their heads around this
01:15:14.020
and and they they think they're they're doing the right thing they think giving a schizophrenic a
01:15:19.100
whistle so they can sleep in a dirty you know blanket in the corner of union station is a good
01:15:23.780
thing it's it's uh it it's infuriating it's amazing all right so i want to ask about something else now
01:15:30.520
so caroline levitt the press secretary at the white house tweeted out earlier today for the third straight
01:15:35.460
month there were zero illegal aliens released into the country under president trump the border is the
01:15:42.000
most secure it's ever been in american history i think that's objectively true uh at least in modern
01:15:46.980
american history and um he's continuing to try to get the illegals who are in the country out of the
01:15:55.120
country bit by bit and they're making some progress on that although clearly not as much as we would
01:16:00.540
like um nonetheless the leftist narrative is that it is a day and night struggle for those who are here
01:16:09.280
illegally to get through their days as they cower in fear of tom homan i don't know whether that's true
01:16:15.900
or not i doubt it but even if it is i don't care you're here illegally the people the immigrants who
01:16:21.040
are here legally have nothing to worry about and the ones who are here illegally need to go home and
01:16:25.580
there was data released just this week showing that the number of people living in the country who
01:16:30.860
are illegal who are here illegally has gone by down by 2.2 million since january and the belief is that
01:16:38.320
they are self-deporting because they are worried about tom homan so that is something i think to be
01:16:42.700
celebrated we're still up i think it's 8 million over where we were back in 2019 under under or 20
01:16:50.500
whatever under the joe biden years so we're still net up almost like 8 million okay my point is simply
01:16:55.840
you would think most people would say all right well that's you know it's a good thing enter john
01:17:01.040
oliver and monica lewinski monica lewinski decided to weigh in on the illegal immigrants and what they
01:17:09.820
must be going through and how she can relate take a listen to satwell i have to remind myself now with
01:17:17.320
all these stories going on i mean it's it's so hard it brings something out of it right kids there
01:17:23.260
that anxiety that i thought i've moved past that day that i got my yeah citizenship i thought it would
01:17:28.560
be gone then i didn't feel that uh the relief didn't feel enough i've had a sense of understanding
01:17:37.060
a tiny tiny bit that i empathize with the immigrants who are going through the crisis right now right
01:17:44.900
ice fuckers um yeah yeah and just of feeling hunted like a feeling unsafe of like something could happen
01:17:55.640
at any moment now for me the the hunting was the consequences of that were nowhere near with
01:18:01.400
their suffering but if you mean you know but i've had that of yeah you know be whether it's being
01:18:06.180
recognized or a paparazzi or there's there's something a feeling of unsafety wherever you are
01:18:11.580
and and probably a lot of women feel that in general i'm not sure i'm making sense right now but
01:18:15.900
no i think you're making total sense i think that idea of attention being weaponized
01:18:20.100
it feels like there's a lot of crossover there god okay ice fuckers she says okay so there's only
01:18:26.140
one person involved in this story on that set or in the topic that's known as a fucker and it's not
01:18:31.800
ice it is you madam that's how you got famous and you've never stopped trying to parlay some sort of
01:18:39.120
a career out of that moment she hasn't moved past it if god forbid this ever happened to me if i were a
01:18:44.520
19 year old girl i made a very stupid mistake and had an affair with the president of the united states
01:18:48.680
who was married and the odds of it was coming out were pretty much guaranteed i would take my
01:18:53.920
humiliation i would express public regret for a terrible decision i'd made and then i would go
01:18:58.160
become a lawyer or an interior designer or a writer and i would never talk about it again because it
01:19:04.820
would be the biggest shame of my life it's like when doug and i and the family went to um i can't
01:19:10.340
remember whether we were i think we were in sweden and we were in this museum and it was the construct of
01:19:14.900
this huge ship which they were very very proud of 100 years ago and they set the set it afloat
01:19:20.520
and it it sank and they had reconstructed it and put it in this museum and they were making the
01:19:25.500
comment that japanese tourists would go through and be like you made a monument to your greatest
01:19:29.880
failure like in our culture we get ashamed about our failures and we try to move past them and never
01:19:35.860
talk of them again this monica lewinski needs to be more like the japanese instead she's tried to
01:19:41.440
create an entire adult existence out of her blowjobs to the sitting president of the mary of the united
01:19:47.980
states bill clinton who is married so now she would like to parlay that experience into expertise on what
01:19:54.040
it's like to be an illegal immigrant who feels hunted because she's had the paparazzi following her
01:20:01.560
around and if memory serves she's from a very well-to-do family she's got a nice you know set of
01:20:08.560
parents and and income she's been writing for vanity fair nine times out of ten it's about her
01:20:14.120
experience or some related thing so now it's crossed over to she's calling ice a bunch of fuckers
01:20:20.200
she empathizes with the immigrants feeling hunted because she's a woman because you know you're
01:20:26.020
hunted as a woman in america and she's had photographers who want to take her picture charles
01:20:31.000
and by the way that's not even to say anything about john oliver who's more in your circumstance
01:20:36.000
charles who came legally and then legally became a united states citizen
01:20:41.140
yeah i mean that was all nonsense i am a legal immigrant and naturalized citizen i came from the
01:20:49.880
same place as john oliver i think i like america a lot more than john oliver but we went through the
01:20:54.740
same process i have never felt for a second as if i'm about to be deported because i'm a legal
01:21:01.720
immigrant and naturalized citizen no anxiety like he says he had no i don't but i also don't feel that
01:21:10.740
it is a problem if people who are here illegally feel that they might be discovered and deported
01:21:15.420
because that is the law we have a system in place so one thing i did feel before i was a citizen
01:21:22.820
was that i didn't want to break any laws not deliberately but inadvertently because i really
01:21:28.140
didn't want to be deported which i could have i actually i went boy with the whole story but i
01:21:32.860
called up the irs because they sent me too much of a refund and i sent them back 450 and the lady on
01:21:38.200
the phone said to me you're the only person in my 30-year career at the irs who has ever called up and
01:21:43.580
offered money to us and the reason for it was i thought oh no if i if i get this wrong and they
01:21:49.120
discover it they'll never let me become a citizen but i think that feeling of wanting to do the right
01:21:54.440
thing is good it's not bad it's not a problem it's not the occasion for expletives more broadly you said
01:22:01.760
at the beginning that the border is probably more secure than it's ever been in american history that's
01:22:05.700
probably true and that is a choice you can't perfect this area but the difference is night and day
01:22:12.440
because the last president joe biden did not want to enforce the border and the current president
01:22:17.700
donald trump does and i was put in mind of this over the weekend i was away on a trip and i drove
01:22:23.100
back to florida and the freeway was closed because of an accident so i had to take this sort of back
01:22:28.140
road and i came through into florida from georgia in this tiny town there can't have been more than
01:22:33.940
180 people who lived in this town and the sign said welcome to florida and then 100 feet after it
01:22:40.880
the sign said in florida we use e-verify that is a choice that wasn't on the freeway that was on the
01:22:48.460
entrance to florida from georgia in this tiny town that's a choice florida has decided that they're
01:22:53.860
going to try to make it more difficult for illegal immigrants to stay in the country and when you do
01:22:59.520
that you don't get rid of all of them but you get rid of a lot of them and you enforce your laws
01:23:03.640
and the fact that this is being compared on you know to the gestapo that that monica lewinski says
01:23:11.300
that she she feels that uh these people are being hunted that john oliver says that he doesn't feel
01:23:17.440
secure in his own citizenship is complete lunacy in the eyes of 70 80 90 percent of the public which
01:23:24.400
has been radicalized on this question of deportations because the government has refused to do the basic
01:23:30.300
things that it can do so i think that was an insane clip but i almost feels like that was a
01:23:36.120
missive from another world you know 10 months ago before things changed the the part of it that rings
01:23:43.740
true to me rich is him saying like and her saying like they feel anxious over what these illegals must
01:23:50.660
be going through because this is what leftists do right they they try to take on other people's
01:23:56.400
problems and pretend that they're happening to them remember that video of selena gomez like
01:24:01.080
my people like this multi multi probably hundred millionaire like like would you stop right like
01:24:08.980
this is what they do they see a problem out there and they try to get you to feel sorry for them
01:24:13.200
because they're so upset this is happening yeah that and and they also they just love the idea they
01:24:18.760
love the thrill of being threatened by fascism or supposed incipient fascism right so that the national
01:24:25.080
guard in dc is a classic example of this what did the national guard do in la you know they showed up
01:24:29.600
they stood in front of the the federal building and then when things come calm down they they mostly
01:24:33.860
left right they'll do the same thing in dc it affects no one they're not arresting dissidents or
01:24:39.020
seeing what you say or believe about donald trump and harass you on the basis none of that they're
01:24:42.840
standing in front of federal buildings right but they love the idea they love the word they love the
01:24:47.620
anxiety it makes them feel important makes them feel alive and this is another example of this
01:24:52.300
they're not going after john oliver monica lawinsky's experience had nothing to do with this and i will
01:24:58.420
say these these numbers about the number of illegals that seem to be leaving are really heartening and
01:25:04.220
surprising me on the upside you know i was a little critical they need to do more you know you just can't
01:25:09.580
pick off the criminal aliens yes you should try to do that you need to go broader but if you do have
01:25:13.960
this and you know it's it feels harsh to say but if you do have a certain level of anxiety
01:25:18.300
among the legal immigrants in this country maybe my job's not secure maybe i could get deported
01:25:23.400
maybe it's easier to go home that's the golden ticket to really moving the needle and this trend
01:25:29.200
continues i mean we're going to see the first large-scale negative uh movement of people you
01:25:35.120
know out of the united states instead of into the united states since i don't know eisenhower i mean it'll
01:25:39.500
be a historic accomplishment on top of what he's doing at the border i was i was critical of christy
01:25:45.320
gnome and her photo op at that el salvadoran prison but i mean the deterrent effect may be
01:25:52.700
legit and real and tom homan making himself available to any news outlet that asks and being
01:25:58.740
unapologetic about his efforts also helpful like all the people see these things and they they have
01:26:04.580
an effect all right last topic because we're on the subject of these you know these privileged
01:26:10.220
beliefs right these luxury beliefs rich um as you put it which is a term that brings me to and this
01:26:16.840
is like this this hits on a particular sweet spot for me but it brings me to actress christine baranski
01:26:23.220
who i happen to love she's very funny there i fell in love with her when sybil shepherd had her own
01:26:29.920
eponymous show called sybil and um she was quoted in like in this show where uh
01:26:37.460
she had to give advice to an unborn baby and everybody who was giving advice to the baby said
01:26:44.200
things like be a good person be nice to others do unto others etc and they get to her and she was
01:26:49.300
already playing this sort of snooty character and christine baranski looks at the unborn baby and she
01:26:54.580
says when you're sitting on the airplane in first class and the coach passengers get on try not to make eye
01:27:02.620
contact okay so i think she is hilarious it was a character thing but anyway she's very funny
01:27:10.600
so she's in a new uh hb or in an hbo show called the gilded age and she was doing a promo interview for
01:27:18.700
it and she this is a risk for anybody in hollywood given how powerful jeff bezos is okay she took a risk
01:27:26.380
when she when the topic of everyone's favorite astronaut gail king and her fellow blue origin
01:27:33.420
astronauts came up listen to this in sat 19 one of the reasons i'd love this show to continue is
01:27:41.860
because i think there is a such an exploration to be done in terms of the corruption that goes on the
01:27:48.640
buying of government influence which is happening now excuse me and the you know grotesque
01:27:56.360
displays of wealth sending women into a spaceship for what so they can you know do their makeup
01:28:09.600
please do get her started i it had the same effect on her ridge as it had on all of us and i i would
01:28:20.900
submit to you that it's one of the reasons why gail king is reportedly not going to get her contract
01:28:24.300
reviewed at cbs the thing was an unmitigated disaster on many levels for many people
01:28:29.240
yeah totally a luxury trip right this what how's this advancing space travel exploration science
01:28:38.600
anything it's just a joy ride for a favorite group of people who can pretend that you know
01:28:44.500
this was a groundbreaking and historic event right what elon musk is doing in space is is really going
01:28:50.420
to make a difference and it may be something that's talked about a hundred years from now
01:28:54.600
this is just buttering up celebrities yeah and it just to me it taps into something people are feeling
01:29:02.480
in the country charles you know some people feel it and they're going to vote for zora mondani some
01:29:07.020
people feel it and they applaud the murder of a health care executive so there are lunatics
01:29:11.820
who are reacting to this so-called income inequality and these you know out of touch gazillionaires
01:29:17.840
in very negative ways but do they have to add fuel to the fire does jeff bezos have to send his vapid
01:29:27.240
fiancee to space with gail king who then insists that we call her an astronaut and tells us how inspirational
01:29:33.680
we are like those people really are part of the problem and those of us who have absolutely no problem
01:29:39.620
with billionaires and actually may think it's wonderful that we live in a country where if you
01:29:43.560
come up with a great idea and you can execute on it you can become one i think a lot of us would still
01:29:48.240
like them not to be so absurdly out of touch by going on what would be a three hundred thousand
01:29:55.720
dollar a person quote space flight and then when they come back and tell us they're an inspirational
01:30:01.960
astronaut and we say no not respond by saying well have you been no literally no one's been
01:30:09.400
it costs three hundred thousand dollars for a seat yeah i think you were more upset about this than i
01:30:16.600
am although i do agree with you that the uh calling themselves astronauts part is completely
01:30:21.780
visible i'm very pro gilded age not the hbo show although it's fine but the actual gilded age i think
01:30:28.080
we have a totally uh unreasonable historical view of it that has been corrupted by the left which has
01:30:35.300
decided that the gilded age was bad and they call the people who are in charge of it robber barons
01:30:40.460
i actually love the gilded age it was a period of great american uh entrepreneurship and industry
01:30:47.220
and explosion of art and uh everyone uh got much richer including people right at the bottom
01:30:54.500
um so if i ever write a book mc and i'm i think about history i think i'm going to write a book
01:30:59.040
defending the the gold the gilded age um so i i don't particularly care about what bezos did there
01:31:06.680
um i do find the people who went on the trip quite annoying and the way that they've treated it
01:31:11.680
afterwards i think that the disconnect is less between bezos and me obviously he has lots of money
01:31:17.500
he can do what he wants with it he wants to burn it it's fine with me uh and more with the people
01:31:22.620
who went up in that uh spaceship who don't seem to realize that they were the playthings and
01:31:29.520
beneficiaries of a billionaire that they are not astronauts that they were not doing anything
01:31:34.240
groundbreaking and that they look rather silly um that to me is the big disconnect it's not with
01:31:39.260
jeff bezos we've always had these eccentric billionaires in our country who do things that
01:31:44.080
we find extraordinary some of them are ostentatious with their wealth some are not but um whatever
01:31:49.700
i love that christine baranski had the nerve to say it i have to say like it it took guts because
01:31:56.900
you know jeff bezos is one of the main justine bateman gave a very interview a very interesting
01:32:01.940
interview the other day talking about how you know the studio system is basically down to a few
01:32:07.020
billionaires now uh like tim cook who runs apple and jeff bezos who runs amazon and that they're the
01:32:14.140
movies are all secondary that the main castle is their tech business and that the moat
01:32:19.600
around the castle to keep it protected is their movies on netflix or on apple or on amazon that
01:32:25.940
like kind of keep people interested and they fund you know different projects that will keep them
01:32:31.180
interested in an amazon or in an apple or in technology but those are all just secondary to
01:32:36.480
their main business and it's dangerous she had a good point in any event um it's dangerous to
01:32:41.780
criticize jeff bezos for someone like christine baranski who makes her living acting on stage so i give
01:32:47.720
her credit once again she's done a very strong interesting amusing thing guys thank you both so
01:32:53.840
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01:37:05.320
when kamala harris announced last month that she would not be running for governor of california
01:37:14.720
the conventional wisdom was that it was opening up an opportunity for another democrat to lead the
01:37:19.100
nation's largest state but could a republican i said it actually take the reins of the golden state
01:37:27.160
for the first time since arnold schwarzenegger left sacramento in january of 2011 steve hilton who is
01:37:34.540
running on a campaign to make california golden again is trying to make that happen and a new poll
01:37:39.880
from emerson has him currently in second place behind former democratic representative katie porter
01:37:47.720
she's at 18 he's at 12 all the others are down by like four or five my god what's happening steve
01:37:54.940
joins me now steve what is happening and katie porter's got a long list of problems so like it
01:38:00.020
i feel like you could close that gap yeah exactly well it's great to be with you megan i'm very excited
01:38:05.480
about closing the gap um yeah there's another poll actually that our campaign did to full disclosure
01:38:10.780
but actually had me leading so whichever way you look at it we have this ridiculous top two system
01:38:15.760
in california um don't get me started on that but you've got to get the two candidates there's not a
01:38:21.000
democrat primary or republican primary the top two candidates in next june's primary go forward
01:38:25.860
to the general election and all the polls so far showing that it's me and katie porter so there you go
01:38:30.640
by the way can i just say one thing megan um you've had back-to-back naturalized citizens um
01:38:36.360
today on the show and i can confirm that i also don't feel anxious i'm walking around you didn't
01:38:43.960
run around feeling anxiety about whether you're swearing in what happened or not and whether you'd
01:38:49.820
get hunted it's insane so by the way one thing um i actually i hadn't really i don't think i've spoken
01:38:57.140
about this publicly before but it just brings it to mind um when i got my citizenship 2021 so we moved
01:39:04.320
here my wife and my two sons in 2012 um took quite a while to get through it 2021 got my citizenship the
01:39:10.920
first time i went back to the uk afterwards um i guess out of habit i i had my british passport and i
01:39:18.040
used it in those electronic gates we went back to christmas time to see friends and family and it
01:39:23.280
didn't work so i thought wow it's really happened i got out my u.s passport it worked i sailed through
01:39:29.020
and i thought that was the end of it and my british citizenship had been cancelled turns out
01:39:33.980
you actually have to proactively do that and renounce there's a sort of paperwork process you
01:39:39.760
have to go through which i'm in the middle of doing right now so very soon i will be 100 proudly
01:39:46.340
american no so i tom homan might be watching this he might come get you if it's not it's not
01:39:52.040
it's been no renouncing no um exactly so i think it's very bold of you because california is a hot
01:39:59.120
mess and they don't really like republicans although they like them more than we knew in the wake of this
01:40:03.720
redistricting battle that's happening in texas and now gavin newsom's threatening to retaliate it's come
01:40:08.780
out that there's actually a significant portion of the of the state that is republican they're just not
01:40:15.740
reflected in the congressional districts because of gerrymandering because of the very thing
01:40:21.100
gavin newsom is being so hard on governor abbott in texas for he's what he says he's doing
01:40:26.920
exactly i mean this is a point i've been making for years and it's highly relevant now um everyone
01:40:33.400
talks about including gavin newsom well we have an independent uh districting process in california
01:40:38.520
it's true that in 2008 and then in 2010 the voters chose an independent system they chose to take
01:40:45.180
the power to draw the maps away from the politicians and put it in the hands of this commission but
01:40:50.240
classic california the democrat machine got hold of the process and um said you know we're gonna do
01:40:58.580
what we can to favor democrats so as you say i'm pretty much constantly for the last um 20 years or so
01:41:05.080
there's been a 40 percent or so republican vote in california 40 percent but in terms of the
01:41:10.800
congressional representation it's 17 and it's the same sort of pattern to the state legislature
01:41:16.020
that's why i've said when i'm governor we're going to restore the integrity of the system
01:41:20.060
and if gavin newsom goes ahead with his scheme to steal even more seats i announced last week that i'm
01:41:25.700
going to be filing a lawsuit to block him because he hasn't thought through all the legal obstacles
01:41:30.420
and i just don't think he can do it yeah he's they've tried to tie his hands um from doing it with
01:41:37.640
this legislation that you mentioned which was passed and he's going to have to live up to that
01:41:41.340
so his threats do sound a little empty just for the record gavin newsom can't run again because
01:41:46.400
there are term limits in california so this really is going to be an open seat which leaves a big big
01:41:51.080
opportunity for you um so he's been trying to like get his swagger going over this whole redistricting
01:41:59.040
battle and act like a tough guy um because he obviously wants to be president and that's where his eyes
01:42:05.000
are focused so he's been sending out these bizarre tweets first he just started threatening like if
01:42:11.780
you do this in in texas which by the way they they did have to do we went back and actually looked at
01:42:17.580
it more seriously that the districts in texas had resulted these few that they're targeting as a result
01:42:24.260
of racial lines being drawn unfairly to try to group blacks and hispanics together and exclude whites
01:42:31.440
and the doj said that's illegal you have to redo them so they're redoing them and we are going to
01:42:37.800
wind up with five net new seats in texas and that state will reflect its voting block appropriately as
01:42:44.560
a result of this california already has an imbalance in favor of democrats where it has almost no democratic
01:42:51.580
representatives and gavin newsom is acting like a spoiled child because he needs attention he wants to
01:42:57.500
look tough um so here but i just want to read a couple of the tweets because it's getting he's
01:43:02.120
getting like weird all right so he tweets this out and he signed it gn so this one came from him
01:43:07.100
donald taco trump as many call him that taco according to leftist stands for trump always
01:43:14.020
chickens out ask iran if that's true um missed the deadline now by the deadline he means his own
01:43:22.020
declared deadline for donald trump to back down in texas gavin newsom said you have till tuesday
01:43:28.600
to stop it and trump blew him off like the flea that he is um he missed the deadline california will
01:43:36.320
now draw new more beautiful maps they will be historic as they will end the trump presidency
01:43:43.280
dems take back the house this is in all caps with an exclamation point big press conference this week
01:43:49.180
with powerful dems and gavin newsom your favorite governor that will be devastating for maga thank
01:43:55.440
you for your attention to this matter gn an obvious attempt to sound like trump in trump's truth social
01:44:03.440
posts and totally missing the reality steve that there's only one donald trump and he cannot be
01:44:10.160
copied i know it's so embarrassing i mean it i mean you know my as my teenage sons would put it cringe
01:44:17.620
um of the highest order what what is he doing and i and this has been going on for a while now
01:44:23.160
actually they've been using that account with these ridiculous parody posts and it's not funny
01:44:27.640
i mean we'll get into it i mean especially when you think about all the problems the real problems like
01:44:31.900
it is the worst run state in america california he's got a lot to deal with right here in california
01:44:38.180
the fact that we have the highest unemployment rate in the country the highest poverty rate the highest cost
01:44:43.540
for everything that matters housing gas electricity water you name it the worst business climate in
01:44:49.880
america like everything is a disaster i mean never mind homelessness and crime and not everything else
01:44:54.800
and then he's doing this kind of thing and exactly as you say this this idea that texas started it is
01:45:02.540
ridiculous if you just look at the raw numbers and you say what would it look like if we did have fair
01:45:08.660
representation in california just on the congressional districts we would have from california an extra 12
01:45:15.420
house seats for republicans 12 for republicans they've already taken 12 now he wants another
01:45:21.920
five or six i mean it's just completely ridiculous and he's running around doing this kind of thing on
01:45:27.140
social media it is utterly pathetic i really said i'm on the road the whole time since launching my
01:45:32.340
campaign at the end of april people are so angry and fed up with the way things are going
01:45:37.260
they're fed up with the struggle the cost of everything the hassle of everything i honestly
01:45:42.360
believe we right of course you know i'm not saying it's going to be easy to win at all it's going to
01:45:47.720
be very difficult their machine is very powerful they got the unions all of that but i really think we've
01:45:53.160
got our best shot in at least 20 years people are desperate for change and you know that's the plan
01:45:58.140
i mean we've got to deal with these real problems you mentioned the homeless problem in california
01:46:03.860
i've experienced it myself i've been out to la a few times over the past couple of years
01:46:07.720
you literally have to step over the homeless encampments like the tents and like just to get
01:46:12.260
from a to b it's so ubiquitous there it's really seriously problematic um you toured a homeless
01:46:18.960
encampment near the san jose airport and this is some video you posted to uh your x account on monday
01:46:26.120
here it is south 41 just here right by the san jose international airport and then you get off the
01:46:33.960
plane and say oh the capital of silicon valley and they brag about this being the world's fourth
01:46:39.860
biggest economy and there look this is what you get this is what you get this is what you get from
01:46:50.940
democrat one party rule it's an absolute disgrace how have we allowed this to go on for so long
01:46:56.460
look at this tent after tent after tent just from garbage as far as you can see and let's go across
01:47:02.740
here yeah just look it's unbelievable just walk down here a bit this for the listening audience this
01:47:11.860
is gavin newsom's california this is democrat run california it stinks of piss and shit
01:47:17.680
unbelievable yeah so that what were those trailers and the second like were those campers
01:47:24.240
steve like parking out what was what was that in part two yeah it's a permanent encampment i mean
01:47:28.760
that the i i described it as the kind of third world slum conditions it's not the favelas in in rio
01:47:35.540
de janeiro it's it's san jose they brag about being the capital of silicon valley it is so shameful
01:47:40.580
and it's this has been there for years and years and years and it's it's right across the state
01:47:46.140
well by the way it doesn't even have to be like when i went to the um the premiere of mr bircham
01:47:51.460
which was my fun little cartoon i did with adam carolla which was at this like swanky place where
01:47:56.140
there you know it's like a very nice neighborhood same it looked the same as that and so you don't
01:48:01.180
have to go out like very far to find this 100 it's everywhere and the smell is a real that's why i
01:48:07.000
always make this point i was covering the protests in um la when you were the ice stuff going on and the
01:48:11.880
riots and all of that right there reporting on that and talking to people and making the case for
01:48:16.960
let's not get into the specific argument about what was going on but there too i mean we saw
01:48:22.900
the chaos and the crime and the lawlessness and setting cars on fire all of that but throughout it
01:48:28.000
all and days afterwards and all of everything else had been gone you were left with the stink the
01:48:33.160
in in la our second city about to host the olympics everywhere you walk in downtown los angeles
01:48:39.800
it stinks of piss and shit that's the truth and it is so shameful it's been like this for years
01:48:47.860
and they've done nothing about it and these are the people these democrats who brag who go on and on
01:48:51.980
about lecturing everyone about equity and social justice and how compassionate they are it's just
01:48:57.780
beyond belief on a lighter note though i do i have to say i'm very happy that you showed us the
01:49:03.100
whistle lady earlier because now i think maybe with the you know the californians are sitting around
01:49:08.840
thinking there's this audit a few few months ago saying 24 billion dollars of our money spent on
01:49:14.240
homelessness no one can track where it went the problem just got worse i think we know now they
01:49:19.220
bought whistles neon yes right plastic and neon very cute very cute i'm telling my 12 year old would
01:49:25.280
would love that um but not to my speaking of money disappearing we just did a story on am update
01:49:30.460
earlier this week on the california wildfires all these big stars came out to raise money and made
01:49:36.780
promises that the money would go directly go directly to the californians whose homes had
01:49:41.860
burned it didn't we're trying to track down a hundred million dollars now which appears according
01:49:47.860
to the reporting that we did uh based on some local sources to have gone to a combination of like
01:49:53.060
immigration groups random leftist causes as opposed to to rebuild homes you see these aerial shots of
01:50:02.180
what's been rebuilt in the palisades and nothing the answer is nothing absolutely nothing has been
01:50:06.980
rebuilt he and gavin newsom is worried about doing parodies of trump tweets online it's exactly right
01:50:14.400
i mean it really illustrates so many of the deep problems of california i'm there often i was in
01:50:19.720
altar dina the other week palisades i was there for the six month anniversary on the same day that
01:50:24.540
gavin newsom at a press conference was bragging about this being the fastest recovery effort in history
01:50:30.480
historic speed of recovery he was talking about i did my press conference standing in front of a pile
01:50:35.980
of rubble in the middle of pacific palisades that was kind of flowing out onto the street and onto the
01:50:42.180
road he couldn't even clear the sidewalk he promised six months ago a i mean this is classic newsom he just
01:50:48.460
runs around saying things nothing happens he promised a marshall plan to rebuild palisades it's just a joke
01:50:56.120
but the point about the missing money is very very deep actually because this is exactly the serious
01:51:02.460
answer to where the 24 billion dollars of homeless taxpayer money has gone is exactly where the fire
01:51:08.480
aid money has gone this this unbelievably corrupt network of non-profits and charities so-called and
01:51:15.780
all these groups and activist organizations that form part of this this sister the democrat industrial
01:51:22.560
complex i call it because that's the same story for everything you this is why we pay the highest taxes
01:51:28.400
in the country but have some of the worst outcomes on everything because the money just gets funneled into
01:51:35.120
this democrat machine there's there's something that is rarely discussed which is something called vmt
01:51:40.800
vehicle miles traveled which is this thing they came up with part of their extreme climate agenda talk about luxury
01:51:48.720
beliefs the climate extremism is a classic example of that and they are they just put this fictional
01:51:54.500
amount of charge for the amount of money amount of miles that are traveled for any new road project or
01:52:01.480
housing project anything you want to build they put this allowance in for vehicle miles traveled how much
01:52:06.600
traffic is going to be generated and then they charge taxes on that guess where the taxes go it's called
01:52:12.300
mitigation for climate impacts and it goes right back to the ngos and the climate activists
01:52:18.560
and all these organizations this is what goes on in california this is what you get with 20 years
01:52:23.940
nearly of one party rule this kind of corruption there was news on that just today on california's
01:52:30.180
extreme climate measures which is just over the top but we all need to worry because it's true that as
01:52:34.420
california goes so goes the nation when it comes to that stuff they adopt these very restrictive
01:52:39.440
carbon emissions requirements and lo and behold the biden administration was adopting the same ones
01:52:44.380
now it's all being undone by trump but there was news in politico today which the headline is as
01:52:49.060
follows another one of california's trump proofing planks just broke and what they had tried to do
01:52:56.020
in the biden administration before joe biden left was to try to get truckers out there heavy duty heavy
01:53:02.260
duty truck manufacturers and their trade associations to promise that they would continue meeting the
01:53:08.360
states zero emissions sales targets and um so it was like no matter what trump does you've promised
01:53:14.920
that you're going to do it so that he's strong-armed them into doing it and uh the federal trade
01:53:19.200
commission under trump just declared those agreements unenforceable so now these groups are free to yeah
01:53:26.280
there's going to be some emissions there's going to be jobs there's going to be purchases of you know
01:53:30.640
these kinds of vehicles and they're going to be used and more efficiently and it's going to get done
01:53:34.020
in any event it's not working biden's last minute attempt to get wind through everywhere that we're
01:53:39.080
going to have a full report on that this with the trucks in california but they're so focused on you
01:53:43.620
know everything's got to be green green green green green green you know what kind of a damage people
01:53:47.980
suffered to their lungs and their health as a result of those wildfires because there wasn't
01:53:53.520
adequate planning steve they didn't have competent administrators everything look it's it's it does it's
01:54:01.440
the climate stuff is the main reason that everything is so expensive because of all these
01:54:06.260
policies it makes housing more expensive gas electricity everything highest in the country
01:54:11.000
that's why people can't afford to pay their bills you can't afford to buy a house in california the
01:54:15.800
california dream has been destroyed that dream of owning your own home and building your life that
01:54:21.000
used to represent better than anywhere else the american dream it's the climate extremism more than
01:54:26.000
anything else that is destroying that that's why i've pledged to reverse it and so i've said
01:54:31.060
also that it's not enough i think for us to i mean of course it's great that we have a federal
01:54:35.860
administration that's pushing back on all this but we can't just rely on the federal government
01:54:41.280
to save us in california we have to fight and stand up for ourselves and get this common sense
01:54:47.580
change that we need in california and that's what my plan is all about is to lower people's costs
01:54:52.540
reduce the hassle of doing anything whether that's you know running your life running your business
01:54:57.100
whatever it is it's just endless bloated nanny state bureaucracy making everything so complicated
01:55:03.300
and costly right across the board that's what we got to get rid of and that's why i think it's not
01:55:09.080
just that i can you know lay out the policies i mean people may know me from fox but before i did that
01:55:15.300
you know i i taught at stanford and i started a business here i was a policy advisor senior advisor
01:55:20.200
to the prime minister back in the day in the uk david cameron um i've done this right i've i've
01:55:26.140
been there at the heart of a government you know fighting the bureaucracy not with um the kind of
01:55:31.720
success i would have liked i wasn't the boss i wasn't in charge but i know what it's like to take on
01:55:36.840
a bureaucratic system and that's why i'm doing this because i really know that we can get this done we
01:55:42.760
just need you talked about competence and just people who know what they're doing for so long
01:55:48.520
in california we've had these machine politicians their only skill is navigating the the the party
01:55:55.500
machine and like kamala harris exactly you were talking about it just last week i really thought
01:56:01.940
of this when you were talking about kamala harris and all these people but they're all the same
01:56:05.840
newsom karen bass whatever they're sick of it they the results are so painful for people and we've
01:56:13.240
just got to get in there and shake it all up and get the other thing that really reminded me when
01:56:17.800
you're talking about you know sydney suena i know it sounds of course it's a different topic but
01:56:22.860
that reminder that returning to normalcy right that that's true in the cultural arena but in
01:56:30.800
california it's also needed in the policy arena we've got these crazy extreme ideological policies
01:56:38.080
that are just making everything ridiculously expensive and complicated the answers to these
01:56:44.160
things are not complicated it's just normal basic competent requires some courage that focuses
01:56:50.600
requires courage by the politicians and it requires boldness by the voters when you know the the actual
01:56:55.940
voting day comes along i do want to show the audience um you out there in front of the fires
01:57:00.380
well in front of the spot where the fires were and what you found um this was posted on july 7th
01:57:06.560
sat 43. hi everyone thank you for coming today i've just been listening to gavin newsom
01:57:12.040
bragging about the response of his administration to the devastating wildfires we saw here six months
01:57:25.200
the fastest response in terms of debris removal in modern history
01:57:39.640
gesturing behind you um for the listening audience it looked like it looked akin to 9-11
01:57:45.720
i mean the devastation behind you that hasn't even been removed never mind rebuilt
01:57:50.860
look this is the everything that we're talking about the the luxury beliefs climate policies the
01:58:02.200
incompetence the inability to really do anything these sort of promises that never get delivered
01:58:06.360
it's all because you've got these are not serious people they don't understand how to get anything done
01:58:11.680
all they just constantly assume they're not going to get a challenge from the other party
01:58:16.580
they're so arrogant all they care about is saying the right things to
01:58:20.740
you know pander to the activists and the unions who fund their campaigns and so on
01:58:25.100
and that's why we have this massive mess in california
01:58:35.860
to pander to the internal audience of our party
01:58:39.980
instead of just focusing is it possible steve you know because my my feeling way over here on
01:58:44.980
the east coast is these californians are never going to do it there they love feeling like a
01:58:50.660
good little liberal they're never going to actually when voting day comes put a republican governor back
01:58:56.380
here back in there it's it's a long time since 2011 in schwarzenegger
01:59:00.680
but it's a lot worse it's a lot worse for people i mean just you know i'm on the road as i said the
01:59:09.100
whole time and the word that captures what i'm feeling from people you know we do hundreds of
01:59:15.100
events thousands of people and you just see it in their eyes and i feel it so strongly the word
01:59:20.960
that represents better than anything else what's going on is struggle just the struggle the pain
01:59:26.960
of just existing of trying to feed your family and pay the bills or run your restaurant you know i
01:59:34.000
ran a restaurant back in the day in england i know what it's like to start and run a small business and
01:59:40.280
the pain that people are going through and so i think it is part part of what i'm trying to do and
01:59:47.300
i'm running a very active energetic campaign and some people are saying they haven't really seen
01:59:51.420
anything like that so early but the reason that i'm doing it is because we've got to give people
01:59:57.340
hope it doesn't have to be like this that is the message like we we don't have to live like this
02:00:03.860
it's a choice well and california has gone so rad we're not even talking about the cultural issues
02:00:09.680
and california's gone so radically left on that under gavin newsom i don't care what he told charlie
02:00:15.400
kirk on his you know it's a question of fairness man when it comes to boys and girls it was a lie
02:00:20.480
he doesn't believe it just just today in the news um there's an article this week i guess i should say
02:00:26.820
that this one trans athlete which means a boy participating in girl sports um who won all
02:00:34.740
these events like the high jump and the long jump at the state championships in june um he was honored
02:00:40.860
he was honored by california lawmakers including california state senator sabrina cervantes who thought
02:00:49.160
it would be great to honor this this young man a b hernandez not the women not the girls who
02:00:54.960
competed against him who were forced to and found it you know tested their medal and actually got out
02:00:59.380
there and did it um him he's the only one who got the honors and i'll give you a feel for how their
02:01:04.160
celebration of this guy stand uh sounded and saw i think it's 16. this says certificate of achievement
02:01:11.140
presented to a b hernandez the group of valley city council is pleased to recognize a b hernandez
02:01:16.440
for winning cif state track and field championships your uh preservation and dedication are a testament to
02:01:23.400
your motivation to succeed so congratulations on this extent outstanding accomplishment and just wanted
02:01:29.840
to take a moment this evening to uh recognize a b hernandez uh for their grit their passion and their
02:01:36.940
dedication uh to the sport uh what we have two certificates of recognition on behalf of the california
02:01:43.440
state senate for your cif championship uh of course second place in the long jump and first place
02:01:49.580
in the high jump and triple jump uh i am just so proud to know that you continue uh to prevail despite
02:01:57.080
all the noise out there and you're focused uh on your goals and your dreams and your aspirations
02:02:02.440
uh we know how difficult it is to get to that level uh to be an athlete at that level and so again
02:02:09.100
oh my god your dedication and passion is an inspiration to so many oh my god so that was
02:02:15.660
cervantes the mayor was the first one there the nerve to talk about his first place and the amount
02:02:21.680
how hard it was to get there yeah for the girls for the girls steve okay so let me just i was there
02:02:30.160
i went there to the championships in june to announce what i would do to end this obscenity by the
02:02:35.880
i'm just i'm going to show you that people won't be able to see you aren't watching here's a bracelet
02:02:39.040
protect girl sports save girl sports which i've been wearing ever since that day it was given to me
02:02:43.740
by a brave campaigner that i stood there with to announce that's what i'm going to do and just to be
02:02:48.500
really clear why this is happening this all goes back to and it's what it's not even the competition
02:02:52.420
in a way it's you know it's everything i mean you've talked about this so much and been such a
02:02:56.240
powerful voice but it's the it's the locker rooms and it's the you know even field trips it's just
02:03:01.860
girls it their spaces being invaded there was a there's a story that made me so angry for a few
02:03:08.460
months before these championships in the central coast of california you may have seen it the the
02:03:13.160
teenage girl telling the story in front of a school board about how she was in the locker room with
02:03:19.380
her friends and a male walked in and as she described it started completely naked in completely intact
02:03:27.240
that was her word and she described what she saw with her friends like just right next to her
02:03:32.140
she complained about it she was punished she was punished for calling it out and then she went to
02:03:39.440
the school board to tell the story and the school board silenced her and gaveled her out and said you
02:03:44.220
can't say that so this is it all goes back to a law that was passed that ab 1266 passed in 2013
02:03:51.120
and so however outraged we are we got to know we got to realize the law is the law so i immediately
02:03:57.040
said what it's not enough just to be outraged what can i do about it as governor and i one of my team
02:04:01.960
is uh actually governor pete wilson's legal um advisor who did great work with governor wilson i said
02:04:08.800
look we've got to change this how can i do this because the legislature won't overturn that bill well
02:04:13.820
actually as the governor you have the power to challenge legislation that you think
02:04:18.340
is violates the california constitution and we think that this bill does in two particular areas
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section 28 which guarantees safe schools and section 31 which bars gender discrimination what
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is this if it's not discrimination against girls so my plan very clearly and i said it there at those
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track and field finals will be to overturn this obscene legislation and i mean as you say that's just one of
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many of these unbelievable extreme cultural things that they do there's another one that just popped
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up ab495 which allows any adult stranger to take custody of somebody else's child just by signing a few
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forms without any background checks it's just unbelievable that's coming up for a vote that's
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on the illegal immigration front right am i wrong like if somebody's about to get deported
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they basically let anybody step in and be like i'll i'll watch her i'll take i'll take the child but
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it's like that's part of how we got into this mess yeah take custody because we we already are doing
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that with unaccompanied minors who crossed the border not under trump but under biden giving them
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to unknown people who have maybe no connection with them and it's come out in the news many of these
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people turn out to be child molesters who are of course the ones who are going to line up to take
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an unaccompanied child the vetting system was piss poor under biden he didn't care
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and so now you're saying california's got a law that they're that they're that's basically going
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to allow the same kind of thing with very little screening to happen out there for to anyone not
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just anyone who's been involved in the immigration system all children all parents it's a state law
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that they're i mean it hasn't been voted on yet there's a big pro pastor jack hibbs who's good
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friend of mine and one of my supporters you know was rallying supporters to try and get them to vote this
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down because it's it's it's just you what just when you think they can't get more extreme they
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come out with something like this that anyone any adult can take custody of anybody's child it is
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just unbelievable but this is part of the this is again i come back to all the time because this is
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what happens with one party rule they get so arrogant they get so inward looking they get so
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captured by their own ideology and they just forget about regular normal people who see this kind of
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thing thing and say you you've got to be kidding me so that's why i think we're going to win next
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year because then i mean look i used to do a show on fox news it was called the next revolution
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i always say when next year we can have the california revolution that's what it's going to feel like
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but actually it's just regular people saying please can we just end this far left insanity
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well i mean the governor race the presidential race that those are still areas in which californians
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can be heard california republicans can be heard you may not get the uh congressional reputation or
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representation that you deserve but you can make your voice heard on a statewide level or the
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national level and you should steve we'll have you on many times between now and then good luck
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you know we're rooting for you oh with that can i just say one last thing i've got to say to you
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do we have a minute yeah go ahead we've talked a lot about california but there's one other place
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that i have to mention when i'm on with i've been saving it up because you will understand this
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better than anyone and the minute i say the word you'll know where i'm going with this sussex
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sussex so as we discussed i am now proud american naturalized my parents were hungarian immigrants i
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grew up in england born in london when i was very young they moved down to a town called brighton
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that's where i was born and raised it is on the south coast in the county of sussex east sussex so when i
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see your favorite jam company founder running around calling herself the duchess of sussex
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no not my it's gotta really it's gotta really irk you it irks me too and and her royal stationary even
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though she's not a working royal constantly requiring people to call her you know the the
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right titles do you believe that king charles or possibly more realistically in the future
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king william should strip them of their royal titles this could make or break you as the governor
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they i don't know i don't know what i can do about it but like what are you talking about
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you trashed the royal family you you you you you ruin the great queen's last month with your
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ridiculous evil assaults on her character and integrity in the family and you and you do everything
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you can say we don't want this and then you're after americans say oh by the way yeah we do want
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it because it helps us make money unbelievable yeah and no she is not my duchess the biggest grifters
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in california and that's saying something in a state that has hollywood as one of its hubs steve a pleasure
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thanks so much for coming on of course megan see you soon thank you all right and we're back tomorrow
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with stew bergeer and we'll see all of you then thanks for listening to the megan kelly show no bs