00:02:16.400Rich Lowry of National Review will be with us. Glenn Greenwald will be with us for the evening of System Update on Substack.
00:02:24.720They'll be on set with me for the for the entire evening.
00:02:27.560And we will also be hearing from Emily Jashinsky, Saurabh and Sean, Tom Bevin, Michael Knowles, Jack Posobiec, polling specialists like Henry Olson, Rich Barris and so many more.
00:02:38.020So join us at 7 p.m. live for all perspectives that you want to see covered.
00:02:43.700President Trump's closing message yesterday, meantime, what did he do?
00:02:53.320And then for some reason, he wanted to go in front of the reflecting pool, which was second guessed by a bunch of Republican insiders who don't think that's a great story for Trump or for the GOP.
00:03:05.520And here's a preview of his closing message.
00:03:10.280As you know, this is the last day before the midterm elections, the most important midterm, I believe, in our lifetime.
00:03:17.600The Democrat Party has nominated the most extreme and dangerous slate of candidates in American history.
00:03:24.740These are the most dangerous candidates ever put up.0.85
00:03:29.320There's never been anything like what we're seeing, jihadists and Muslim Brotherhood members and people that nobody can even believe what we're looking at.0.79
00:03:38.940and all committed to the same radical agenda, open borders, raising your taxes by trillions1.00
00:03:45.860of dollars, taking away your guns, transgender mutilization of your children, abolishing oil0.94
00:03:52.440and natural gas, sending energy, costs skyrocketing, and opening the floodgates to millions of1.00
00:03:59.360migrants from all over the world, hoping to get them to be able to vote. That's the only reason0.97
00:04:05.960they're letting them in there. So we'll defend our country, our culture and our heritage for
00:04:10.460generations to come. We're going to keep it the way it is. We're going to make it better and just.
00:04:17.740OK, this was not a bad closing, if that's all it had been. But the president seemed to really
00:04:23.800want to talk more about the reflecting pool itself than the election. Here he is talking
00:04:30.540about how poorly Presidents Obama and Biden managed algae problems. Tremendous algae problems.
00:04:38.680And you have that picture with the algae. Yeah, let me see that. This is this was a picture taken
00:04:47.060when it was just before they closed it down. We have great equipment in there now that this
00:04:54.040doesn't happen. But the green, that's not grass, that's algae that it took over the entire pool.
00:04:59.000and then they closed it down, but they didn't remove any of the dirt and the filth. And it
00:05:04.440looked like that for, not like this, they took out the water. So all you saw was dirt and filth
00:05:11.080and paper and everything else for years under the Biden and Obama administration is pretty bad.
00:05:20.880Mr. President, let's stay on message here. You need Republicans to get to the polls
00:05:28.280in droves to overcome the early voting advantage that the Democrats reportedly have.
00:05:33.500We do not need today to be about the algae. But the problem is Trump is a builder and he loves
00:05:40.540projects like this. And he really does believe that they've solved a major beauty issue
00:05:44.920in Washington, D.C. that has been annoying for several administrations and no one's done
00:05:50.200anything about it. But it's almost like just don't do not take the doggy to the dog park
00:05:56.980with the liver snaps. Okay. Like it's, he is not going to be able to resist the liver snaps if you
00:06:04.100put them right in front of him. Um, listen, that that's president Trump and he's not technically
00:06:12.240on the ballot tonight, but in many ways he is entirely on the ballot tonight and will probably
00:06:18.200be the driving force pro or against, you know, that's what we're going to find out in a matter
00:06:24.640of hours. But there's no ignoring the 800-pound gorilla. Trump is going to drive the votes
00:06:31.160tonight, pro and anti, and we'll be left to figure out what exactly the message is when
00:12:09.040Yes. The difference was, yeah, they only picked up nine seats. They did take the House, squeaked by, and they lost one seat in the Senate.
00:12:19.260People, I couldn't believe that. And I thought it would be based on the polls and the hype from the Republicans.
00:12:25.960But the only difference that I can see that might not make the analogy valid is when that was happening, nobody was talking about affordability and war.
00:12:36.440Janet Yellen was telling the people, oh, don't worry about the 9%.
00:26:59.280Will they do this? Probably not. But they need to get healthy again, too. And their misunderstanding of their mandate just may start to set the stage.
00:27:10.020OK, so you're the perfect person to ask about both of those takes, Victor, on how she thinks the current Republican Party needs the rebuke.
00:27:17.120And the current Democrat Party, if it wins tonight, will misjudge its mandate. And the best thing it could do is to reject the temptation at excess and simply govern.
00:27:29.280Well, if she's talking about Trump's tweets or his crudity, is that what she's talking about?
00:27:35.920She talks about, she says, Mr. Trump's problem is that everyone on both sides of the issue
00:27:40.080knows he's out of his depth in running a major war.
00:30:49.880She could have given examples and then said, here's what a newly reformed MAGA that wasn't
00:30:57.220going back to the Bob Dole, Romney, McCain paradigm would look like. That's all she had to
00:31:03.020say. And give us an example. Is it Marco Rubio the head of it? Maybe he wouldn't be as contentious.
00:31:08.740Is it J.D. Vance? Maybe they would be wiser and they would not be as eccentric. She could have
00:31:14.140said that, but she didn't because she thinks that she has a despise. I can understand people get
00:31:21.420very critical of Trump, but then just tell us. Well, she worked for Reagan too, and it was a
00:31:26.400different time. It was a different country. It was, you know, Trump came in like a wrecking ball
00:31:31.740because that's what the country and the party needed. They wanted that. And look, people get
00:31:37.360tired of thinking about Trump all the time. Trump loves it. Attention is his oxygen. But the people
00:31:43.240get tired of it because they want to think about themselves. But I do think her second point is an
00:31:48.060interesting one because in my experience in this anchor chair, never underestimate the Democrats
00:31:53.860ability to screw up their own storyline like they will they will overreach they will over impeach
00:32:00.800they will harass every member of the trump family they will investigate investigate investigate as
00:32:06.800opposed to doing the people's business and the reasons they'll do it are number one they want to
00:32:12.040and number two they believe that's why they're i you know possibly going to be put back into power
00:32:19.860In the same way Trump's base wanted him to go after the people who were behind the targeting of Trump supporters and Trump himself and tried to steal the election, all this stuff, and got mad when they didn't think Trump did enough of that, the Democrats think their base want investigation-rama for the next two years.
00:32:40.060And I think they're wrong. They're dead wrong. If the Republicans are unlucky, the Dems will listen to Peggy Noonan and they'll focus on governing and not all this retribution type stuff.
00:32:52.940No, that's not going to happen. And I said that earlier when I said in the case of Clinton and Obama, the Republicans overplayed their hand.
00:33:02.020They always do. The party will overplay and the Democrats especially. And they'll do three things.
00:33:06.980They won't just go after the Trump family. Slotkin said they're going to go after younger people who join the Trump administration.
00:33:15.380And Susan Rice said the same thing. She said we're going to go after CEOs and people that supported it.
00:33:20.640And Kara Swisher just said that. She's a big leftist mouthpiece who said she wants the guy affectionately called Big Balls who worked on Doge who's only 20 years old to potentially get dragged in front and criminally charged.
00:33:33.860And the reason they're going to do that is that unlike the first term, which I thought was pretty successful, but the second term, whatever you like it or not, they went after the symptoms, not the causes of the progressive project.
00:33:46.920And they said, how does the progressives become so influential and powerful when they don't have the Supreme Court, they don't have the Congress, and they don't have the presidency?
00:34:02.300So let's cut 270,000 bureaucrats, which they did, let's close the border, let's deport 500,000 criminals, let's self-deport a million and deport another, let's look at DEI and the indoctrination in the universities that creates that power they have, let's go after PBS, NPR, and a biased media.
00:34:24.640you can call it what you want it might have been excessive but the left at least is smart enough
00:34:29.480to say that counter-revolution was addressing how we have power we have power through the
00:34:35.900foundations through the media through sports through dei through higher education through
00:34:40.500the schools of education this guy is the first republican that woke up and said he wasn't going
00:34:47.160to play by the marcus of queensberry rules and dole did and mccain did and romney did and the
00:34:53.480Bushes did. But they never stopped it. They got more and more powerful.
00:34:58.320Most of those people never won a presidential election.
00:35:00.520Yes. And so it's more powerful. And that's why they understand correctly that if they want to
00:35:08.100maintain their current level of influence, it transcends politics. They have to keep control
00:35:15.060of higher education, K-12 foundations, entertainment, Hollywood, media. And this
00:35:21.760with a wrecking ball, Trump comes in and says, I'm going to do what somebody had never tried.
00:35:27.440I'm going to take them all on at once. And that was very controversial. But if she thinks-
00:35:59.000They feel morally superior. And then if she says she doesn't tell me what are you or anybody what a reform mega.
00:36:07.080She says, well, I'm maybe she's a big Rubio supporter. Maybe she said Marco Rubio doesn't do these things like Trump.
00:36:13.300He stays on message. Or maybe she says J.D. Vance is more successful in combating in debates. He was wonderful in the 2024 campaign on the Saturday talk shows. There's other people. DeSantis is a kind of a technocrat. They're all MAGA people. But she can just tell us. Would she then vote for them? I don't think she would necessarily. Or maybe she would.
00:36:37.740And I don't totally credit her assertion that she believes the old establishment party is dead.
00:36:43.620I think that's the one she's still pining for.
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00:38:03.480the ongoing war in iran is front and center in this year's midterms and florida governor ron
00:38:12.120desantis yesterday explained why that is hurting republicans so much in an interview with stephen
00:38:18.440a smith watch here's the thing with iran and why i think it's been a big big drag um you know it
00:38:24.800was launched he obviously ran saying he wasn't going to do a middle east where they did so we
00:38:29.240have some of our voters who've checked out because they're like i didn't want any more middle east
00:38:32.980wars and now we're doing it had that been wrapped up in like a week like venezuela was very quick
00:38:37.500people probably wouldn't have been an issue right now right but what's happened is it's kind of an
00:38:41.920open-ended conflict and it's having a direct impact on people's finances because they're
00:38:47.120going to the gas pump they're saying energy prices have gone up and you know i made a comment this
00:38:51.600weekend uh when i was campaigning for our attorney general candidate and some of these republicans
00:38:56.860are saying oh well the gas don't worry you know it's not a big deal like they're trying to blame
00:39:00.640No, no, no. Listen, we just got to be honest. Gas is higher. It hurts people, working class people, and it's higher because of this conflict. That's just a fact. If you can't admit that to voters, then you're gaslighting them and they're not going to listen to you on other things.
00:39:15.860There you have it. The straight talk and Ron DeSantis. America's relationship with Israel has become a major point of contention as well. Their attitudes in America with respect to Israel and its government have changed dramatically across all three parties, Republican, Democrat and independent.
00:39:34.380Less in the Republican Party, they remain overall supportive of Israel and its government, but less, far, far less than they were right after 10-7 in 2023.
00:39:44.680And perhaps changes are already afoot because President Trump this morning on Fox and Friends on Election Day suddenly broke the news that the United States is ending its yearly aid of billions of dollars to Israel.
00:39:59.140He said it casually during an answer about foreign policy and shocked the hosts, so much so that Brian Kilmeade had to make sure he had understood the president correctly. Watch.
00:40:10.780We understand we've cut off aid to Israel, that we were giving them four billion and you're no longer going to be giving them four billion dollars.
00:40:17.620We were giving them four billion. We are, but it gets cut off at the end of the year.
00:40:21.640Why? Because they don't need it, Brian. I mean, I asked them because they don't need it. And because why should we suffer the slings from lunatics like an El Sayyad when they don't need it?
00:40:35.960It's a bad it's a bad talking point because we say, why don't we give everybody four billion dollars? Israel's our number one. We give them more than anybody else. And they no longer need it.0.86
00:40:44.860we've been doing it for years. I've been doing it. But Israel is a very thriving country. They
00:40:49.860don't need it. If they did need it, I would say keep it going. But Bibi Netanyahu, we reached an
00:40:55.860agreement on that. And can I be honest with you? He brought it up. He brought it up. He said,
00:41:00.400I think it would be appropriate if we do not receive aid, because he understands that this
00:41:06.720is one of their points of contention. Joining me now to tell us what's going to happen today
00:41:12.760is mark halperin he is host of next up with mark halperin on the mk media podcast network which
00:41:17.460you can find on youtube and all podcast platforms mark i know you don't make predictions but give
00:41:23.220us a sense of where things appear to be trending or is it true that nobody knows well first of all
00:41:31.040having me on after victor david's hands is like having me on after frank sinatra it's just not
00:41:34.680really fair. So I'll do I'll do my best. But, you know, going into today, things looked a little
00:41:42.740better for Republicans, despite two public sets of data that showed Democrats way ahead in the
00:41:47.180battleground Senate races. Republicans were feeling a little better going in today. Democrats
00:41:51.000a little worse. But the early vote in places like Texas and Florida and Kansas has has alarmed
00:41:59.100Republicans, Georgia as well. So I would say if you don't see a very robust same day turnout today,
00:42:06.520you can lean towards the notion of a blue tsunami. But right now, with the exception of North
00:42:13.220Carolina, I can't tell you a single red to blue flip that I that I'd be confident saying is going
00:42:18.080to happen. They might all happen if there's a big blue tsunami. But but based on people I've talked
00:42:23.080to ohio could stay red kansas should stay red iowa texas maine they all could stay red and and so
00:42:30.880the short answer is i don't know anybody who's sure about what's going to happen but i do know
00:42:34.900it's still possible as i've been saying for several weeks possible that there would be a
00:42:38.660major blue tsunami that wipes out a lot of republican seats at all levels and you know
00:42:45.340for lack of a better way of phrasing it why like why what is it we'll all be looking at the exit
00:42:52.500polls tonight to get real answers to that. But what's your sense right now? Well, I think
00:42:55.760political analyst Ron DeSantis was onto something saying the loud part even louder and nothing he
00:43:00.640said there is the least bit controversial, but it was stunning, including to some in the White House
00:43:04.620to hear their ostensible ally Ron DeSantis enunciated that clearly. If there's if it
00:43:10.200happens, Megan, I don't think it's going to be a mystery. In fact, I think some people are going
00:43:13.440to say, well, of course it happened. The president's unpopular for actions he took
00:43:18.940that voters connect to the biggest issue in their lives for which they blame him.
00:43:24.880It's pretty simple. That's how presidents get shellacked in midterms. And then from a
00:43:29.780demographic level, we've talked about this before, you just turn four knobs. More Democrats are going
00:43:35.300to vote today probably in these red places than usual. Many more independents are going to vote
00:43:39.800Democrat than Republican than usual. More Republicans will not vote than usual in rural
00:43:45.260areas and other places. And more will vote Democrat by a little bit than usual. If you
00:43:50.300turn those four knobs, it's not hard to go from someplace like Kansas, where a Democrat hasn't
00:43:55.000won a Senate race in almost 100 years, to winning. They also may fall just short. I don't think
00:43:59.900you're going to see Republicans blow out Democrats in any of these contested races, but they might
00:44:04.240win them all narrowly or a lot of them narrowly because we're still talking about that red wall,
00:44:08.680about the historical changes Democrats would have to make to go from two years ago when Donald Trump
00:44:14.580won these congressional districts and states by 10 points or more to Democrats somehow winning
00:44:19.540them this year. The prediction by Hillary Clinton, for what it's worth, is that Trump is going to be
00:44:29.080getting angrier and even more out of control if the Democrats win back control of the House and
00:44:36.760Senate. And then she added this in SOT 11, where she appeared on The View. Where are we in America?
00:44:44.580in politics and can it get worse well i hope it doesn't get any hope because we are truly at the
00:44:49.660bottom and the kinds of things that have been said and done in this campaign you mentioned a bunch of
00:44:55.060them um are really outside the pale of any kind of political discourse and what it does is coarsen
00:45:03.860you know people's feelings desensitizes them you know that ad in ohio against you know amy acton
00:45:10.440whom I know and is just a incredible person and to see what she overcame, the way her family
00:45:17.100treated her, the way her mother betrayed her and how she's gone on to help people. I mean,
00:45:22.380the Republican governor, Mike DeWine, put her in charge of the covid response in the state
00:45:28.380that shows you what kind of person she is and how she was valued beyond partisanship and politics
00:45:33.860And for Ramaswamy to do that and for Vance to defend it and Trump to defend it, it is not just a financial corruption we're dealing with.
00:45:43.960We're dealing with a moral corruption.
00:45:49.280Mark, I'm just wondering, which is worse, a nasty campaign ad or creating a whole war room devoted to destroying any of your husband's affair partners who want to come forward and talk openly about what he did to them?
00:46:02.400Just, I mean, on the moral scale, if we're going to go to moral corruption, what do you think?
00:46:06.680Well, I'll tell you who shouldn't decide.
00:46:07.940The audience of The View should not be in charge of making that decision.0.55
00:46:12.580And with the nerve of Hillary Clinton to be talking to us about moral corruption, please.
00:46:23.500I'm not sure it's the greatest move for the Dems to trot Hillary Clinton out, along with Kara Swisher.
00:46:29.140They're promoting their new podcast together.
00:46:31.600Just to put people in, you know, into their minds, Republicans, as you point out, who might actually be thinking about voting Dem just to send the GOP a message who the standard bearers are of the other team.
00:46:42.140Yeah, I mean, really, Kara Swisher and Hillary Clinton on The View and an Anderson Cooper is designed for a certain demographic that, as you say, necessarily where Democrats want to be playing right now.
00:46:56.340But like most Americans, they have a podcast to promote and nothing will stop them.
00:47:01.000So what do you make, you know, you're saying, wouldn't it surprise you if all the swing states remained red, but, and I was talking with Victor about the fact that this Atlas Intel poll, which was, according to Nate Silver, the top rated performer in 2024, obviously it did not miss the Trump wave that was coming then.
00:47:21.140So it doesn't seem like we can write them off as a biased pollster is predicting all of these Senate seats.
00:47:29.180Not like the crazy ones like South Carolina or Mississippi, but I mean, all the rest, Alaska, New Hampshire, Maine, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Ohio, North Carolina and Texas are all going to go blue.
00:47:41.700Yeah. You know, if you compare their results, the New York Times numbers, they're actually in some races more favorable to the Democrats than the Times and vice versa.
00:47:49.100But both of them have the Democrats either even or ahead in all seven races.
00:47:53.880They're very good pollsters. I've met with them and they have an innovative methodology.
00:47:58.420They're not biased. They just they want to be the best.
00:48:01.120So those numbers could be right. But and significantly in both the New York Times polls and the Atlas polls, the front runner in this case, the Democrat, the leader is is at or near 50.
00:48:12.360And that's significant this close to Election Day.
00:48:14.580At the same time, we know that it's possible that they're simply not able to accurately model the electorate or turn out Republicans.
00:48:23.560I will say, again, I'm not a I'm not a predictor and I'm not someone who favors either side.
00:48:28.240But although polls in the past have at times underestimated Republican support, they may actually be underestimating or they may actually be underestimating Democratic support here.
00:48:38.340And so just as I wouldn't be surprised if the Republicans saved all their seats, but North Carolina, they may not save any of them.
00:48:45.560And if those two national or those two polls by national organizations are correct, they won't be particularly close either.
00:48:53.380because i was listening to the new york times podcast yesterday and they were talking about how
00:48:59.060they know that they have had trouble getting maga republicans to respond to pollsters and therefore
00:49:05.740they have started all the pollsters kind of oversampling or extrapolating bigger numbers
00:49:10.900from the maga republicans that they do get um they weight them more in their polls to try to
00:49:16.260not make the same mistakes that they've made but they were openly discussing that risk that
00:49:21.340But in an election like this one, where there is negative sentiment on the GOP side about Republicans, not to mention on the Dem side about Republicans, they're not sure if that is the correct thing to be doing this time around or whether they're doing they're overdoing it.
00:49:39.200But, you know, if you look at some of the main issues that are firing up Democrats to vote and causing independents to turn towards Democrats in some numbers, most of those, or at least many of those, are issues that MAGA doesn't like Trump's position on.
00:49:53.460They don't like his position on data centers.
00:49:55.320They don't like his position on the war.
00:49:57.080They don't like the high price of diesel.
00:49:59.500They don't like how he handled Epstein.
00:50:01.540All these things make it confusing to poll because when you're polling, if you want to make sure you get the right number of Republicans, but you want to make sure you get the right number of MAGA Republicans versus Romney Republicans.
00:50:13.460But in this case, the additional complication is we talk on two way all the time to MAGA Republicans who maybe they're not going to vote Democrat, but they're going to sit it out because of the issues basket.
00:50:30.880So this I have said for months, this is the hardest midterm I've ever covered, the most complicated, the most difficult to understand.
00:50:37.520And that extends to the polling. I don't control a polling budget anymore.
00:50:41.560But if I did, I'd probably be doing fewer polls and spending a lot more in the individual polls to try to figure out the right way to model this electorate.
00:50:52.640I've been saying to the audience all week that either the Democrats are going to take, you know, the blue tsunami is coming and they're going to take control of the House and the Senate or polling is dead.
01:05:07.200Let me read you what Alex Berenson posted on X yesterday.
01:05:10.220I really respect him. He's I don't I don't think I'd call him a conservative. I don't really know what his partisan stripes are to his credit.
01:05:18.240He worked for The New York Times, but then he was like one of the chief covid skeptics who got targeted by the Biden administration and sued and won.
01:05:25.300So, you know, he's gone through what we've all gone through and being gaslit by our government on things that matter when it comes to public health, etc.
01:05:32.000This is what he posted. Clearly a reference here to Trump.
01:05:35.480The old man was treated unfairly in 2016 when they tried to crown Hillary.
01:05:40.0402018, when they pretended he was a Russian spy.
01:05:42.9802020, when they pretended COVID was the plague.
01:05:45.8602024, when they prosecuted him for the crime of beating Hillary.0.98
01:05:49.460But there's nothing unfair about the ass-whipping he is about to take.0.99
01:05:53.400He deserves every inch of it and more.1.00
01:05:55.660This time around, he has become the grifting, incompetent, doddering fool they said he was.1.00
01:06:00.860He has leaned into the caricature.1.00
01:06:02.740so far he's fallen over and taken the Republican Party with him. I take no joy in writing this.
01:06:08.200I voted for him in 24 and hope for better, but the next two years will be brutal. And he has
01:06:13.340only himself and the thieving courtiers he installed around him to blame. Wow. That's
01:06:19.720some harsh stuff there, but does he have a point? At least, is he speaking for some disaffected
01:06:25.460group of Trump 2024 voters there, Mark? He absolutely is. And when I did my litany before
01:06:31.700of things that liberals don't like about trump that many mega people don't i should have included
01:06:36.680the thieving courtiers i mean i hear this all the time from folks like they don't mind donald
01:06:43.540trump being rich but they do mind donald trump and his family and their friends getting rich
01:06:47.140while he's in the white house i hear it all the time you know you could add the ballroom to that
01:06:51.060too me too you know and so and so if we see defections tonight from people three-time trump
01:06:58.700voters who either don't vote in some of these races or who vote Democratic. It's not going to
01:07:03.640be there's it's not going to be like a search for the answer. The only search will be for every
01:07:08.580individual voter, which combination of data centers, Epstein, inflation, diesel, the war
01:07:15.060and Bach raking, which combination will it be in the heart and soul of these individual defectors?
01:07:19.840But it's a long list. It's a long list. And if you took Trump's name out of it, if you just did
01:07:24.680focus group with MAGA folks right after the 24 election and said, what would you think of a
01:07:29.500president who got us into an internet, a foreign war in the Middle East? Hate him. What would you
01:07:34.620think of a president where diesel under his watch or her watch, the diesel went to $6, $6? What would
01:07:40.580you think of a president who protected Jeffrey Epstein? What would you think of a president
01:07:43.640who made, who along with his family made billions while they were in office? These things would all
01:07:50.060be, what would you think of a president who stood with the billionaires who were making a fortune
01:07:54.260over data centers and said, these guys should just be able to do whatever they want. I mean,
01:07:59.500MAGA would say, well, I would never support somebody like that, even though it's the patron
01:08:04.540saint and the leader of the MAGA movement. And I'm not making his positions cartoonish
01:08:10.760or his record cartoonish. Those things, with the possible exception of Epstein,
01:08:15.120those things are all factual. They're not spin or whatever. Those are all true.
01:08:20.140And on Epstein, at a minimum, you can say they mishandled it in a way that allowed people to feel like they were covering something up.
01:08:27.420So, I mean, Epstein, the bite that's going to be, it will live in infamy.
01:08:32.180And I see it all the time in my comment sections is Epstein.
01:08:36.500Are people still talking about Epstein?
01:23:27.880Like he pointed out that he suggested to Adam he should have that Adam should have his own face put on little like three quarter zips to promote his company.
01:23:36.700And Adam has sent him a picture of Adam wearing it like he did it.
01:23:40.340And he sent his friend the picture showing him he had done it.
01:23:43.420And it did strike me that this was a very thoughtful man.
01:23:46.960He was he was thinking about his children and how to spend more time with them.
01:23:50.800He was thinking about the value of life and how many decades one could potentially get
01:33:08.680But I have to say, and as I said on the air yesterday,
01:33:11.960if you listen to that audio of this young woman,
01:33:14.900she was remarkably composed, remarkably composed.
01:33:21.220What would you sound like if you were placed in this position with these responsibilities when you knew certain death was approaching, when you knew the lives of others were about to end on your watch as you were in the co-pilot seat?
01:33:37.700I mean, the fact, yes, there were minor moments where she screamed, but she held it together and she provided a ton of information that the NTSB will use.
01:33:50.800And this woman saved lives by providing that information and explaining what they were going through.
01:38:41.960And this morning, well, basically all of today, they spent the day in a bizarre practice that I wasn't familiar with in Great Britain, where the judge basically summarized all of the closing arguments and evidence for the jury.
01:38:58.060Like, the prosecution had its final bite at the apple, the defense had its final bite at the apple, and then the judge reiterated all of what he thought were the salient points for the jury.
01:39:09.660I mean, it was actually kind of bizarre. He said he was going to be pulling together the threads of the case, that during his own summing up, he said he will miss out on some witnesses altogether and pick out the witnesses who seem to be the most significant.
01:39:26.740I mean, like, it's kind of extraordinary that the judge is making these calls and having read the whole thing.
01:39:33.900I mean, just the excerpts that I quickly got to before we came to air, it seemed like he was mostly fair.
01:39:41.700You know, he didn't say like, oh, that was a good point.
01:39:43.680But he said the defense raised this issue about this testimonial.
01:39:48.020And then the prosecution tried to rehabilitate that witness with the following.
01:39:52.620And he went through one after the other. And honestly, it was like, it was pretty, it was pretty well done. I mean, maybe the jury will find this helpful. I don't know. But he went over each individual, not each, but most of the individual women's claims, whether they said that they consented, whether they didn't.