The Megyn Kelly Show - Wray Pressed, and Disney's Declining Attendance, with Nikki Haley, Joe Pags, Jaimee Michell, and Chris Barrett ｜ Ep. 586

00:00:00.440 Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show, your home for open, honest, and provocative conversations.

00:00:11.560 Hey everyone, I'm Megyn Kelly. Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show. Big news day. Later,

00:00:16.160 I'll be joined by the founder of Gays Against Groomers, an organization that has taken center 0.99

00:00:21.820 stage in the culture war fight in America and now finds itself under fire. We'll get into it.

00:00:28.600 But we begin with fireworks on Capitol Hill. Congressman Matt Gaetz straight out asking

00:00:34.180 FBI Director Christopher Wray whether the FBI is protecting President Biden's family

00:00:40.100 when it comes to allegations of corruption. Meantime, overseas, Joe Biden bows out of

00:00:46.060 attending a NATO dinner with world leaders to get some rest. Here to discuss it all,

00:00:51.180 Republican presidential candidate and former governor of South Carolina, Nikki Haley. She also served as 1.00

00:00:57.100 former President Trump's ambassador to the United Nations. Great to have you with us today. Thanks

00:01:02.160 for being here. Thanks so much, Megyn, for having me. I appreciate it. Oh, the pleasure's all mine.

00:01:07.280 All right, let's kick it off with what's happening on Capitol Hill as Christopher Wray subjects himself

00:01:12.000 to questions from judiciary, the committee chaired by Jim Jordan. And in particular, he's being pressed

00:01:19.220 on whether the FBI is protecting the Biden family. Here's just a sampling of how it went when Matt Gaetz

00:01:24.740 got his shot at questioning the FBI director.

00:01:29.740 I'm sitting here with my father. I will make certain that between the man sitting next to me

00:01:35.120 and every person he knows and my ability to forever hold a grudge that you will regret

00:01:39.880 not following my direction. I am sitting here waiting for the call with my father.

00:01:45.940 Sounds like a shakedown, doesn't it, director?

00:01:51.560 I'm not going to get into commenting on that.

00:01:53.820 You seem deeply uncurious about it, don't you? Almost suspiciously uncurious. Are you protecting

00:02:00.080 the Bidens?

00:02:01.880 Absolutely not. The FBI does not.

00:02:04.940 You won't answer the question about whether or not that's a shakedown and everybody knows why you

00:02:09.500 won't answer it. Because to the millions of people who will see this, they know it is. And your

00:02:15.080 inability to acknowledge that is deeply revealing about you.

00:02:20.060 What do you make of that? Do you agree that it's deeply revealing that he won't say it outright?

00:02:24.820 Absolutely. And I'm glad to see them having these hearings. Look, the American people have lost

00:02:29.120 complete trust in our intelligence departments, in our intelligence agencies, and in the Department

00:02:34.220 of Justice. And the only thing is, I would ask Congress to go a step further. All of these questions

00:02:39.500 asking him, you know, he's saying, I'll get back to you. I'll get back to you. They need to ask,

00:02:43.420 when are you going to get back to us? When are you going to see it? Why aren't you letting us ask

00:02:46.900 these people? Why aren't you letting us do more? I mean, these are some serious questions and

00:02:51.540 allegations. And the American people want answers, and they deserve answers. And so, you know, I

00:02:56.940 appreciate and applaud Congress for having this oversight hearing. But be firm with Christopher Wray.

00:03:01.880 He owes us a lot of answers, and he needs to give it in a timely manner. We can't have this drag out

00:03:07.620 for another year or two years. These are serious issues that we need serious answers to.

00:03:12.900 What is the theory on Christopher Wray, lifelong Republican appointed by President Trump to run

00:03:18.320 this organization? A lot of its problems happened under Jim Comey, as we both know. But what is the

00:03:24.280 theory that he is anti-Republican? Why would Chris Wray run cover for Joe Biden? Are the problems

00:03:30.100 inside the FBI going to be solved by getting rid of Chris Wray, as you've said you would do if you

00:03:35.380 won the presidency? I don't think it's just Chris Wray that we have to get rid of. I mean,

00:03:40.940 I think you have to get rid of all of senior management. You have to go back to the mission.

00:03:44.660 You know, when I was governor in South Carolina, we replaced the heads of all the agencies. But we

00:03:49.000 also put people into each of those agencies to clean it out, pull down regulations, pull down

00:03:54.000 any bureaucracy, and get rid of problem children. And so, in some cases, we tweaked agencies. In other

00:03:59.820 cases, we gutted agencies. This is an agency that's going to need a serious overhaul, just because the

00:04:05.980 whole mission has been compromised. And so, we've got to make sure that they go back to understanding

00:04:10.700 politics should never be in our intelligence agencies. And I'll take it further. On our national

00:04:15.840 security, they have missed a lot of things that they should have had and been aware of. And they

00:04:22.200 haven't had that. And so, I also question really just the way they're going about gathering information

00:04:28.760 from our threats that are abroad. I don't think that they've been as strong on that. And I think

00:04:33.180 it's because they've been so distracted with everything going on politically in our own country.

00:04:38.460 What do you make of Christopher Wray? This is a guy recommended, I think, to the president by

00:04:41.960 Chris Christie, another guy running for president on the GOP side, who I believe was Chris Christie's

00:04:47.880 lawyer during Bridgegate. I don't know that that qualifies one to run the FBI. But who would you

00:04:56.140 replace him with? In other words, how do you find somebody who actually knows how to clean up the

00:04:59.500 organization to scrub the politics out of it the way, well, at least some of us were deluded into

00:05:04.660 believing it once was? You know, I had to basically gut my law enforcement division when I became governor.

00:05:12.860 And the way you do it is you put someone in that you know is going to be completely away from the

00:05:19.520 politics. Understand that this is about morale. This is about also making sure that you are at the top

00:05:25.420 of your game in terms of getting all of the intelligence that you need to have and that you

00:05:30.180 are prepared to clean house the way you want to. But more than that, you have to bring trust back to

00:05:35.540 the agency. That's why I think Christopher Wray has to go is the trust is gone. So you have to get rid of

00:05:40.220 him. And I also think that you have to look at anybody that's been a part of what has happened

00:05:45.440 with the Bidens, any of these other issues that have come about, whether it's, you know, investigating

00:05:50.240 or asking gun ownership or Catholic issues that have come across. We need to go and see anybody

00:05:56.540 that's been a part of any of this. You have to get rid of them because you can't have any bad eggs in

00:06:02.020 this. We've got to go build this agency back up to where it's trusted again. And that's, you know,

00:06:06.860 it can be daunting at times, but I do think it's necessary. And so Christopher Wray may be a

00:06:11.620 perfectly great guy and I've met him on occasion, but that's not what this is about. This is about

00:06:17.420 trust of the American people. And we just don't have that in that agency right now.

00:06:21.800 Yeah, that's for sure. It's bizarre listening to this, the cross examinations where all the

00:06:25.520 Republicans are running roughshod over him and all the Democrats are defending the FBI. I mean,

00:06:30.080 you go back 10 years, it would have been exactly the opposite. As you know, it's just a bizarre sort of

00:06:35.080 twist in the way we see our, not just the FBI. But don't you wonder why the Democrats are

00:06:39.360 supporting him so much? That only makes us think he's covering up more. So it's just a strange

00:06:45.140 dynamic when you look at the partisan play here, how he's played it, but also how the Democrats

00:06:51.000 have played it. And I think that that's added to more of the distrust and the belief that politics

00:06:55.700 is at play here. Well, I don't know about you, but whenever I hear Eric Swalwell say anything,

00:07:00.220 I know I'm on the opposite side. I did. That's exactly right. Right. If you don't know where

00:07:04.860 to stand, you listen to him talk. And then it's very clear where you need to land. All right,

00:07:09.980 let's talk about NATO. Let's talk about NATO and Ukraine, because this has become an issue. Should

00:07:14.700 should Ukraine join NATO? This is, of course, been the thing Vladimir Putin has been pushing against

00:07:19.740 now for decades. He doesn't want the expansion of NATO at all. And he certainly doesn't want Ukraine 0.90

00:07:24.300 in it. And Joe Biden said it's not time. Well, I mean, I think everybody agrees right now in the

00:07:28.540 midst of a war. It's not time. But Joe Biden was saying they're not ready. And I heard you on

00:07:32.800 Cavuto yesterday saying there's no reason Ukraine should not be part of NATO. And this, of course,

00:07:38.240 makes you more hawkish on this issue than some of your your competitors in the GOP race,

00:07:43.200 because the pushback on it, as you know, Ambassador, would be. World War three, right,

00:07:48.820 that it's extremely provocative to Vladimir Putin, even more so than we have been to actually make them

00:07:55.640 a part of Ukraine, made a part of NATO. We would have no obligation or no choice but to defend them

00:08:01.080 in further provocations down the line if they got into further skirmishes with Putin. And it could

00:08:07.120 literally lead to World War three with a nuclear power. Actually, I think it's the opposite. This

00:08:12.900 is about preventing war and the way you prevent. And this is also about ending this war quickly. We

00:08:18.120 don't need this to drag out. And the problem is, and I dealt with the Russians at the United Nations, 0.54

00:08:23.080 they love to intimidate, they love to scare, and they hope that that's helps them get what they

00:08:28.560 want. Let's be clear, Article five, if you were to allow Ukraine into NATO, we would not have to do

00:08:36.140 anything more than we're already doing. You don't have to put troops on the ground, you don't have

00:08:40.060 to give them cash. We are already working with our allies to give them equipment and ammunition.

00:08:44.940 And not only that, it sends a message to Putin. NATO is a 70 year success story in the fact that

00:08:51.660 Russia has never invaded a country that is a member of NATO. The only countries that Russia

00:08:58.020 has invaded, Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine, they are not members of NATO. He's not going to do that

00:09:05.140 because he doesn't want the wrath of NATO. Actually saying, yes, we're going to continue to defend

00:09:10.580 Ukraine. And yes, we're going to allow them in NATO would get him to see that he better figure out a way 0.59

00:09:16.400 out now and would get him to realize he's got to find an exit strategy. That's what we want for

00:09:21.720 Putin. Because keep in mind, this war is not about Ukraine. This is about the fact that Russia invaded

00:09:27.020 a free country. And so one, it's a win that we got Finland and Sweden in there. But look at Ukraine.

00:09:33.720 Ukraine has shown that they are a force when it comes to military, when it comes to will,

00:09:38.920 when it comes to might, and when it comes to strategy. And so you look back at where we are,

00:09:45.380 Russia had gained 27% of Ukraine's territory. Now Ukraine has got it back down to 12%.

00:09:53.000 We know Putin's hit rock bottom when he's getting drones from Iran and missiles from North Korea.

00:09:58.940 They've raised the draft age in Russia to 65. And then this monster of a military that he created 0.64

00:10:05.020 with the Wagner group, you know, now suddenly turned on the guy that thought he was invincible.

00:10:10.100 And now he realizes he's actually vulnerable. The strength of NATO and those countries to say,

00:10:16.560 you know what, we do want Ukraine to be a part of this would have sent a massive red flag to Putin

00:10:21.540 that, oh no, now they're going in there too. There's nothing he fears more than the alliance that

00:10:27.840 is NATO. And we have to, you know, I think that it was a missed opportunity altogether,

00:10:32.380 because we actually could have worked on ending this war quicker. Had they gone and been strong

00:10:36.960 on, yes, we're going to want Ukraine into NATO. They've shown that they deserve to be there and

00:10:41.460 that they have the will to defend freedom in this country, in their country.

00:10:46.500 Prior to that announcement by the Biden administration,

00:10:48.780 it sounds like you think they've been handling this war well.

00:10:53.600 That Ukraine has been handling it well.

00:10:55.880 Joe Biden has been that Joe Biden's been doing the making the right moves when it comes to Ukraine

00:11:01.040 from your own description that you just took off.

00:11:02.980 I don't think he's done it well. I actually don't think we would have gone to war had Biden done

00:11:07.540 what he was supposed to. Keep in mind, Russia surrounded Ukraine a whole year before they

00:11:13.460 invaded. That was the time he could have prevented war. That's what he could have done. Trump had

00:11:18.700 arranged for equipment and ammunition to go to Ukraine in March and then again in May of that year

00:11:25.720 before he invaded. Biden pulled that because he didn't want to provoke Putin. There again,

00:11:31.660 you missed the opportunity. What they should have done was shown that we were going to have the backs

00:11:36.620 of Ukraine so that it would prevent Putin from doing that. But the biggest mistake that Biden made

00:11:43.160 was none of this, whether it's Iran building a bomb, North Korea testing ballistic missiles,

00:11:48.320 whether it's Russia invading Ukraine, whether it's China on the march, none of that would have

00:11:53.320 happened had we not had that debacle in Afghanistan. My husband's a combat veteran. He deployed to

00:11:59.320 Afghanistan. The idea that he and his military brothers and sisters had to watch America leave

00:12:05.480 Bagram Air Force Base in the middle of the night without telling our allies who stood shoulder to

00:12:11.120 shoulder with us for decades because we asked them to be there. Think about what that told our friends,

00:12:16.440 but more importantly, think about what that told our enemies. It was after that that Russia went on 0.52

00:12:22.380 provocate aggression with Ukraine. It was after that that China started really getting aggressive

00:12:26.480 with Taiwan. It was after that. But I'm trying to get to what would you do differently if you became

00:12:31.900 president instead of Joe Biden? What would you do differently with respect to Ukraine? Because

00:12:35.560 all those rollbacks of the Russian, you know, advance and advancement in Ukraine happened under Biden's

00:12:41.820 watch. And so what kind of differences would we see toward Ukraine if you were to become president?

00:12:46.620 First, I wouldn't send any cash straight out to Ukraine. I don't think you should do that to any 1.00

00:12:51.940 country. We should know exactly how the money's being spent and do it accountability. That's the

00:12:57.300 first thing. The second thing is I would commit that we don't need to put troops on the ground.

00:13:01.840 And the third thing is I would work more closely with our allies to make sure we finish this. And that

00:13:07.960 is making sure they all step up. They give equipment, they give ammunition that we have strategy and that we

00:13:13.980 focus on more than just NATO. Keep in mind, Saudi Arabia just sent Ukraine money to defend themselves.

00:13:19.920 We need to bring in more allies than just NATO. And the biggest thing is we need to make sure that

00:13:25.080 through all of that, we never forget that China is watching every single ounce of this. And they said

00:13:33.080 before the Olympics, when they held hands with Putin, that they were unlimited partners. They showed up

00:13:38.840 after the Russian plane hit the US drone by showing back up in Russia. We need to remember a win for 0.74

00:13:45.420 Russia is a win for China. China has watched every company that left Russia. They've watched every 0.99

00:13:51.060 country that's helped Ukraine. They've watched what equipment and ammunition we've sent. It is strength,

00:13:56.060 Megan, that goes in there. And so I would make sure everybody is pulling their weight. Everybody's paying

00:14:01.440 their defense dues. And everybody understands this is a war that we have to finish. This is not the time to

00:14:06.860 take the foot off the gas. This is the time to keep the foot on the gas.

00:14:11.180 Republicans don't feel that way. In March of 2022, 51 percent of Republicans deemed Russians invasion

00:14:16.400 a major threat to U.S. interests. Today, it's only 28 percent of Republicans, according to a recent

00:14:22.060 pupil, who see this as a major threat to our interests. So the Republican Party is turning on

00:14:27.920 this war. This, as the Biden administration sends cluster munitions to Ukraine, which have been banned

00:14:34.140 by over 100 countries, including very close American allies like the UK, like Canada. They

00:14:39.720 don't like these cluster munitions that basically open up a bunch of grenades on a on a country that

00:14:44.420 could then explode later when children are playing in the field, children are playing in the field and

00:14:48.060 so on. Do you support cluster munitions despite the fact that Republicans are waning in their support

00:14:52.420 for this war? Well, first, I want to answer the first premise you said about Republicans.

00:14:57.380 You know, keep in mind that dictators always tell you exactly what they're going to do.

00:15:03.860 You know, China said they were going to invade Hong Kong and or China said they were going to take

00:15:08.440 Hong Kong. They did. Russia said they were going to invade Ukraine. We watched them. China said that

00:15:13.000 Taiwan is next. We better believe them. Russia said that after they take Ukraine, that Poland and 1.00

00:15:18.240 the Baltics are next. And that is World War Three. That is what we are trying to prevent. And so this is not

00:15:24.400 about what politics is saying. This is about the fact that that same mentality of us saying we

00:15:30.200 shouldn't defend Ukraine is the exact same mentality that you the Europeans had when they talked about

00:15:36.660 letting Nord Stream 2 go through when they allow when Germany got really close and and allowed

00:15:42.560 themselves to get close to Russia. You can never let an enemy advance at all, because if you're naive

00:15:48.800 and you think, oh, but we're going to provoke them, that's the wrong mentality, because they will go and

00:15:54.420 pull the rug out from under you. And we can't be so naive that this isn't going to happen later.

00:15:59.260 The biggest issue with Russia winning is China's aggression. And China has been preparing for war

00:16:05.400 with America forever. We see that in their infiltration. We see that with the threats that

00:16:10.280 they're doing to us from the outside. And we've got to make sure that a win for Ukraine sends the 0.92

00:16:15.240 biggest message to China as they go in and invade Taiwan. When it comes to the cluster munitions 0.97

00:16:20.460 that you were talking about, America has never banned cluster munitions. The reason that people 1.00

00:16:26.260 tend to be concerned about them is because cluster munitions can have like duds to them. And those can,

00:16:32.180 you know, if messed with can go and explode later. But Russia is using cluster munitions on Ukraine and

00:16:39.120 has been this entire time. If Ukraine says that they want cluster munitions, they have shown that they do

00:16:44.620 whatever they have to, to protect the Ukrainian people. And if they feel like that's going to

00:16:48.960 help them advance, then, you know, I have no problem with them getting cluster munitions. 0.90

00:16:53.960 On the subject of naivete, President Trump said he would settle the Ukraine-Russia conflict in 24 hours.

00:16:59.420 Is he being naive?

00:17:01.580 Oh, I just don't think it's being realistic. I mean, the only way you settle it in 24 hours is if

00:17:05.920 you give Putin something that he wants. And it's not realistic even to do that. Let's be clear.

00:17:10.640 This war, if we wanted to end it today, all you have to do is Russia has to get out.

00:17:16.440 Russia has to get out. Ukraine didn't do anything. Russia went into this freedom-loving country. 0.89

00:17:21.600 So, no, I don't think it's realistic to say that you can settle this in 24 hours. But I will tell you

00:17:27.600 what would have settled this really quickly is if the U.S. and Biden and NATO would have been stronger

00:17:34.300 on the fact that, yes, they are going to let Ukraine into NATO, because one, that would have

00:17:39.520 encouraged Zelensky to start being able to say to his people, look, we're going to be able to defend

00:17:44.860 ourselves going forward. And he would start looking at an exit strategy. And Putin would have started

00:17:49.500 looking at an exit strategy. We are trying to end this quickly.

00:17:52.640 And we're trying to prevent further war. That's the focus.

00:17:56.440 Let's talk about China for one second. Our Treasury Secretary, Janet Yellen, was over there

00:18:00.180 meeting with senior Chinese officials, and she bowed repeatedly. She bowed repeatedly.

00:18:05.340 Independent protocol experts, I mean, the Democratic university professors who studied this for a living,

00:18:10.700 said, we don't do that. What does she do? What is she doing, Ambassador? And what did you make

00:18:15.020 of the bowing?

00:18:17.600 It was just, again, we look weak. I mean, you look, Blinken went hat in hand to China. They said it was

00:18:24.840 a great meeting, which means China got something out of it. You've got, you know, Janet Yellen goes

00:18:29.560 and says, oh, we should get closer to China. So they roll out the red carpet. And then they go and say,

00:18:34.300 oh, but we scolded China, because she said, this shouldn't be a winner-take-all scenario. 1.00

00:18:39.380 This should be a situation where we can play by fair rules. This should be a situation where we see

00:18:45.860 each other as competitors. That right there shows that you don't understand China. China lives by 0.66

00:18:51.520 winner-take-all scenario. They've never played by fair rules. They don't see us as a competitor.

00:18:57.580 They see us as an enemy. And if you want to know how, look at how they have already infiltrated our

00:19:02.980 country and how the lack of any sort of response to this has been. They have bought up

00:19:08.940 400,000 acres of U.S. soil, most recently near Grand Forks Air Force Base, where our most sensitive

00:19:14.640 drone technology is. They have continued to send fentanyl to the cartel. They know exactly what

00:19:20.540 they're doing as Americans get killed. They are infiltrating our universities by sending millions 1.00

00:19:25.440 of dollars as they go through that. They have Chinese front companies lobbying our Congress on 0.76

00:19:32.340 behalf of the Chinese Communist Party. There are items, sensitive technology items,

00:19:38.140 that we should not be sending China because it helps them build up their military. But instead,

00:19:43.620 Commerce Department has that list. But Biden approved 70 percent of those requests to go to

00:19:49.160 China last year. Then you go and you look at their military. Here's the question. Should she have bowed?

00:19:55.040 And do you think it's indicative of the Biden administration's approach towards China writ large?

00:20:00.620 No. And I don't think Biden has handled China at all well. No, she shouldn't have bowed.

00:20:05.420 No, you go at a position of strength. She should have asked about all the infiltration they're doing

00:20:10.840 in our country and asking them what they're going to do about it and made them answer for that. But

00:20:15.180 none of the Biden administration has made them accountable for anything from COVID to fentanyl,

00:20:20.720 to stealing our intellectual property, to a spy center going off the coast of Florida,

00:20:25.100 where they will soon send military troops. We can't have this happen. And they have not handled

00:20:30.760 as well at all. Yes. The spy balloon was just one of the most prominent, visible examples of all of that.

00:20:37.220 All right. Let's talk. It was embarrassing. And some GOP politics. This jumped out at me. You were being

00:20:44.200 asked about Ron DeSantis's approach to the indoctrination of children in schools with sexual talk and gender

00:20:51.540 talk and so on. And he's basically said with the misnamed don't say gay bill. We're not having that.

00:20:57.080 We're not going to talk about sexuality. We're not going to talk about gender ideology at the young

00:21:02.600 grades. It was originally till third grade. And then the lawmakers down there expanded it through

00:21:07.400 12. You said before that you would go further than DeSantis. What would you have done?

00:21:12.340 So I was saying prior to when it was only at third grade that I didn't think it went far enough.

00:21:17.820 You know, we should not be talking to our children. You should not have school bureaucrats talking to

00:21:23.320 our children about gender, period. You know, when I was in school, you didn't have sex ed until seventh

00:21:29.680 grade. And even when you had it, you had to have a parent's permission for them to even be able to talk

00:21:35.200 to you about that. And my parents wouldn't sign it. So I was the uncool kid in the classroom next door.

00:21:40.980 This is not the job of schools to educate our kids on gender. That is what the parents should do. 1.00

00:21:47.160 So what I was saying is he didn't go far enough when they did it in third grade.

00:21:50.120 They shouldn't be talking about gender at all in schools. Let the parents handle that. 1.00

00:21:56.240 Education should be about math, science, history, civics, those types of things. I mean, you can look

00:22:01.120 at how our terrible education scores and realize the last thing we need to be talking about gender

00:22:07.360 when you've got 67 percent of eighth graders prior to COVID that were not proficient in reading or math.

00:22:14.580 You had 80 plus percent two weeks ago that said they're not proficient in history or civics.

00:22:19.280 And now last week, they say our 13 year olds are at the lowest levels of reading and math that we've

00:22:24.700 seen in decades. And you want to talk to them about gender. I mean, that's just not what American 0.96

00:22:30.400 parents want. We have one job. That's not the job we want schools to do.

00:22:34.200 What can we do? What could be done about that from the White House?

00:22:37.160 First of all, I think that, you know, as as president, what I will do is governors should

00:22:44.820 have more control. And the best way to deal with it is presidents typically meet with their

00:22:49.460 governors once a year. I will meet with our governors once a quarter, Republican and Democrat,

00:22:54.520 with the sole goal of sending as much as we can down to the states when it comes to education,

00:23:02.300 when it comes to health care, when it comes to benefits. I know as a governor that what I needed

00:23:06.940 in South Carolina was different than what someone needed in Florida or New Hampshire or anything else.

00:23:12.820 When we go and we allow the people to have better control, let the states decide these things. That

00:23:18.140 way you reduce the size of the Department of Education. You reduce the size of the federal

00:23:23.040 government as a whole and you empower the people. And, you know, that's what we should be doing.

00:23:28.240 What everybody doesn't realize is we still have 90 percent of our kids undergoing critical race

00:23:32.620 theory, which if a little girl goes into kindergarten, if she's white, you're telling 0.91

00:23:36.360 her she's bad. If she's brown or black, you're telling her she's never going to be good enough. 1.00

00:23:40.620 She's always going to be a victim. These governors need to know you don't have to take that money. 0.83

00:23:44.940 What the Department of Education says is if you teach this, we'll give you this much money.

00:23:49.220 You teach critical race theory, we'll give you this much money. We will empower the governors to know

00:23:53.520 don't take the money. You don't have to do that. And let's block grant. Let's send them 0.99

00:23:58.860 the funds down because I think we need to put vocational classes back in our high school so

00:24:03.820 that we start building things again. The vocational classes in South Carolina, where we make a lot of

00:24:09.880 things, is going to be very different than the vocational classes in another state. And so I'm all

00:24:14.460 about empowering the people and empowering the states and reducing the size of the federal government

00:24:19.000 and getting that power out of D.C. DeSantis has taken some political fire for the fight with

00:24:24.120 Disney. Disney rose up in response to this law and said, we're going to fight it. We're going to try

00:24:28.380 to get it reversed. We're going to march. We're going to do all these things. And then he got into

00:24:32.560 this battle where he's trying to change the tax laws. And it's ongoing between DeSantis and Disney.

00:24:37.780 A lot of Republicans love this because it just shows that he's willing to fight. They're sick of these

00:24:41.560 woke corporations running roughshod over Republicans in particular and certainly Republican lawmakers.

00:24:46.500 You said in the past you would have just picked up the phone and called Disney, that you're not

00:24:51.740 particularly in favor of the way DeSantis has been handling it. But realistically, Disney wasn't going

00:24:57.980 to back down in response to a phone call. They're under so much pressure from so many different

00:25:03.620 constituencies to fight these fights. And that woke ideology has risen up from within and from outside

00:25:09.800 and their ESG scores and all of that. So, I mean, how honestly could a phone call have avoided this battle?

00:25:14.660 So, it's not just that a phone call would have avoided the battle. I mean, what I am saying is,

00:25:20.580 look, I agree with DeSantis on the fact that gender should not be talked about in schools. I've said 0.99

00:25:24.800 that. I said when it was only in third grade, I didn't think it went far enough and he needed to

00:25:28.800 go further on that. I also know that Disney's been woke for a long time. They didn't wake up and

00:25:33.360 suddenly become woke. I remember them hitting Trump on immigration and they've hit on a lot of things.

00:25:38.760 And we've got tons of woke companies. What I was saying is, as a governor, when I always partnered

00:25:45.240 with my businesses, there were times my businesses wanted to, they disagreed with me on things.

00:25:51.680 I would go pick up the phone and I'd call them and say, look, this is where I am. I'm not moving.

00:25:56.480 You can say what you want to say, but this is why, you know, I think what I think. But I never believed

00:26:01.200 in one, pressuring what they say because they can do whatever they want to do. But I'm more

00:26:08.200 importantly, don't think you spend taxpayer dollars in a fight against a woke company. 0.51

00:26:13.000 I think, you know, I hold, I'm an accountant. I think taxpayer dollars should be spent making sure

00:26:18.640 that we, you know, do what government's supposed to do, which is just protect the rights and freedoms

00:26:23.700 of the people, not be all things to all people. And I just think if he wants to get into a lawsuit

00:26:28.140 back and forth using taxpayer dollars, he has the right to do that. It's just not what I would have

00:26:31.960 done. Hmm. 2024, you are pulling behind, as you know, the who I've respectfully refer to Trump as

00:26:41.880 the gorilla because he's the 800 pound gorilla in the race who, you know, nobody seems to get past

00:26:46.780 used to work for him. And I know that you said, look, you know, it's early and that these polls don't

00:26:52.200 tend to settle until after Labor Day. But we went back and just looked for one year. What happened

00:26:58.060 after Labor Day in 2015 when he was the leader? He was never not the leader in the Real Clear Politics

00:27:02.880 national average from prior, from early that summer to the day he won the presidency. So what exactly

00:27:10.300 do you expect to change this time around? Because I'll tell you right now nationally, he's beating you

00:27:14.840 by 49 points in Iowa by 44 points in New Hampshire by 40 points, even in your home state of South Carolina

00:27:20.200 by 29 points.

00:27:23.620 I'm very comfortable with where we are. We had a few benchmarks that we had to overcome. We wanted to have

00:27:28.740 a good announcement. We had thousands of people show up in Charleston, South Carolina, which sent us on

00:27:33.380 our way. We have we wanted to be well received in Iowa, New Hampshire. I was just in the north country of

00:27:38.800 New Hampshire. We've done 39 events in New Hampshire, 25 in Iowa. I'm getting ready to go back to Iowa again.

00:27:44.260 And we wanted to show financial strength. And our campaign and our supporting organizations

00:27:49.280 have raised over thirty four million dollars. We've had one hundred and sixty thousand donations

00:27:54.560 from all 50 states. We will be on that debate stage, which I guess will be which my guess will

00:27:59.880 be with five or six other people. And so we're very comfortable. The reason you're not seeing my

00:28:04.480 polls move is we're not spending any money. You know, the other candidates are spending millions of

00:28:08.860 dollars. This is not the time to do that. People are not paying attention. What we're doing is making

00:28:13.400 sure the ground game is there. And what I'll tell you, going into Iowa in 2015, you can go back and

00:28:19.280 look. Ted Cruz going into Iowa in July of 2015 had four percent. In November of 2015, he had 10 percent.

00:28:27.440 In January, he won it outright. The Iowa caucuses at 28 percent. You look at Scott Walker. Scott Walker

00:28:34.240 was Teflon Scott. The media loved him and said he was going to be the next president. He had above 20 percent

00:28:39.540 in July of 2015. He never made it to Iowa. This is a marathon. It's not a sprint. And I'll tell you this,

00:28:46.620 Megan. When I first got into politics, I ran against the longest serving legislator in a primary. He had been

00:28:53.220 there 30 years and people laughed at me and I got to work and I earned their support and I won. When I ran for

00:29:00.800 governor, I ran against a lieutenant governor, an attorney general, a very popular congressman and a state

00:29:06.160 senator. I was Nikki who I had three percent in the polls. I had the least amount of money and I worked

00:29:12.220 South Carolina like no one else. And I won. When I went to the United Nations, they said I didn't have

00:29:17.520 enough experience and I got to work and I took the kick me sign off of our backs at the UN. I have been

00:29:23.740 underestimated in everything I've ever done. And it's a blessing because it makes me scrappy. No one's

00:29:31.660 going to outwork me in this. No one's going to outsmart me in this. So people can look at those

00:29:36.360 polls all they want. I will tell you, debates start in August. I can't wait. I will tell you

00:29:41.820 that things are going to move past Labor Day. And it doesn't matter to me what anybody says. I know

00:29:47.280 that we've got a country to save and I'm going to do everything I can to go and show everybody that

00:29:52.900 we deserve better. And I'm going to make sure that happens. I hear it. I hear it. I like scrappy,

00:29:56.980 but I mean, 40 points is 40 points. And I mean, it's 40 points in July of in July of 2020. But

00:30:03.960 he's held it. It's never happened that a candidate has had 40 point advantages over his opponents

00:30:10.060 for months and months and months on end and then completely crumbled. I mean, if you have a different

00:30:15.580 example, let me hear it. So what's your plan? There needs to be a plan to get rid of him. What's

00:30:21.620 your plan to get past Trump and his enormous advantage? Well, I have my strategy in place,

00:30:27.600 and you will see that play out through the through the fall. But also remind you, Republicans have

00:30:32.100 lost the last seven out of eight popular votes for president. That's nothing to be proud of.

00:30:37.140 We should want to win the majority of Americans. And I will tell you right now, we cannot afford a

00:30:43.180 President Kamala Harris. So what I will tell all your viewers right now, don't complain about what you

00:30:49.500 get in a general election if you don't play in this primary. We have to have a new generational 0.92

00:30:54.500 leader. We've got to leave the drama, the chaos and everything behind. We've got too many threats

00:30:59.980 coming at America from the outside and too many threats in America from the inside. We've got a

00:31:06.180 country to save. And so I will say it doesn't matter to me that he has 40 points. What America needs to

00:31:12.600 say is, do you think he's going to beat Joe Biden? Because Joe Biden's begging for Donald Trump to be his

00:31:18.920 opponent. There's a reason for that. And I'm not going to allow President Kamala Harris to happen 0.98

00:31:24.200 to this country. And so I'm going to fight and I have faith in the American people. And I know when

00:31:29.540 the time comes, they are going to do what will make America stronger and better and proud. And so I

00:31:36.140 will continue to have faith in the American people and know that this is all going to play out. And I

00:31:40.380 look forward to talking to everybody when these polls start to move and reminding them what they said

00:31:45.140 in July of 2023. Good. Well, you're welcome back here anytime between now and then and then after

00:31:51.580 then as well. I'll ask you one final question. The first debate, August 23rd, Fox News is hosting.

00:31:57.780 You said you'll go. DeSantis is going to make this stage. So are some of the other players. But

00:32:01.700 President Trump so far has said he's not doing it. And some people think that makes sense because

00:32:06.660 he's so far ahead. Are you going to miss him? Are you going to miss him a little if he's not there?

00:32:11.460 How's that going to feel? No, I want him on that debate stage. I think he should be on that debate

00:32:16.580 stage. He's got to prove to the American people that he's the right president for this time. I

00:32:21.660 think he was the right president at the right time when he won last time. He's got to get up there on

00:32:26.400 the debate stage now and say, are you still the right president at the right time? He should go up

00:32:30.820 against all of us and show why he thinks he's better and why he thinks he's going to do things

00:32:35.980 differently. And he should answer the questions of what he you know, what he's done. He there was

00:32:40.980 a spending binge while he was president. He needs to answer for that. He just brought everybody

00:32:46.620 together on China as a threat, but he only focused on trade. He didn't do anything about

00:32:50.520 the fentanyl and the infiltration that they've done into our country. You look at all of the

00:32:55.360 other things that's taken place. You know, he owes questions. He needs to answer questions to that.

00:33:00.320 And I think the American people are going to want it. I hope he's up there. I look forward to it.

00:33:04.840 And I think that it's good for the American people to see it. And at the end of the day,

00:33:08.380 you know, he's not going to want to sit out. I would expect him. He's a friend of mine. I would

00:33:12.700 expect him to want to be up there and fight just like the rest of us.

00:33:16.920 She was a very popular governor of South Carolina, UN ambassador as well. Did you know that ambassador

00:33:22.920 is the only title you're supposed to continue using for somebody post post office ambassador?

00:33:28.280 I like I don't know which one you like better, governor, but I've looked this up at one point and

00:33:32.280 ambassadors, the one you're supposed to go with. What do you think of it?

00:33:34.720 It's Nikki. Those are moments in time. I'm not into those titles.

00:33:39.500 Oh, you're awesome. Thank you so much for being here and we'll continue following it.

00:33:43.520 Thanks for having me on. I appreciate it.

00:33:45.640 All the best. Up next, our friend Joe Paggs rejoins the program with reaction of what we're

00:33:50.560 seeing on Capitol Hill. We've got some new updates for you in this Christopher Wray hearing

00:33:54.160 and to Nikki Haley. Stand by.

00:33:59.940 To react to what we just heard from Nikki Haley and so much more. So happy to welcome back our

00:34:05.380 friend radio host Joe Paggs. And you can all find Joe Paggs content at Joe Paggs dot com.

00:34:12.540 Joe Paggs, great to have you. So she's formidable. You know, I know why her numbers aren't higher. 0.99

00:34:17.500 It's because of the gorilla and DeSantis is very much in the news and people have a bit of a love

00:34:22.200 affair with him, at least at the Florida level. But she's I mean, she is formidable, smart, nimble,

00:34:29.580 well-informed. You know, you get a close up look at her and you think, gosh, I like what I see,

00:34:34.100 but there's just no way around the gorilla.

00:34:38.320 Yeah, I think she'd be great in 28. You know, I talked to Don Jr. not too long ago and he said,

00:34:42.000 you know, people keep asking me if I'm going to get into politics. And he said,

00:34:44.740 are you going to get in front of the freight train? And that's that's the truth. I mean,

00:34:47.520 Donald Trump is a freight train. He's the gorilla, as you said. I like Nikki Haley. Seems very nice. 0.97

00:34:53.240 I like Vivek. I like Chris Christie. I like a lot of the people that are running Mike Pence.

00:34:57.520 All of them should drop out. I mean, honest to God, there's I see no reason why these people

00:35:01.320 aren't waiting until 28 unless they're vying to be vice president. I don't understand why they're

00:35:05.960 doing it. And here's why I say that I would have to assume and I hope this is a good assumption

00:35:10.280 that each and every candidate for Republican for the Republican nomination voted for Donald Trump

00:35:15.540 in 2020. I would have to assume they thought he should get four more years. And she said one thing

00:35:20.620 that really jumped out at me. She said, I don't think this is his time. His time was in 16. This

00:35:27.380 isn't his time. Well, 2020 was his time. And I can make a good case that he probably should have won

00:35:32.420 anyway. But for these people to jump in now and say, I'm going to deny him the second the second term

00:35:38.660 that he should have gotten already after seeing all the good things he did conservatively in his

00:35:43.120 first term. It doesn't make sense to me. None of it really makes a lot of sense to me.

00:35:46.980 Well, let me ask you, let me ask you about that, because the theory is their theory. Their belief is

00:35:50.840 he did not win in 2020. And while the system was stacked against him, there was no provable voter

00:35:55.300 fraud and the system remains stacked against him. That's not going to change. So how many times

00:35:59.300 should we let him run and lose for the Republicans to give up the White House to somebody like Kamala

00:36:03.240 Harris, who is more than likely to become the president at some point, given Joe Biden's frailty and age

00:36:07.640 and so on? That's why they don't think it's his time. He had another shot. It didn't go well. He

00:36:12.420 lost. And now he needs to get out of the way. So another Republican can actually win this race.

00:36:17.600 That's their argument. I'm not a conspiracy theorist. I'm not talking about Dominion machines

00:36:21.540 or any other voting machines or any technology. But Donald Trump did win in 2020. And I'll make the

00:36:27.020 case. You're a lawyer. Tell me if you think I'm nuts. There are many states in this country that

00:36:30.880 allowed mail-in balloting that was against their own state laws. The legislatures in those states

00:36:34.940 make the laws to go and vote. And in those states, if you accepted even one mail-in ballot where it

00:36:39.600 wasn't law, it should have been thrown out. If you accepted any ballot that was dropped in a Mark

00:36:43.140 Zuckerberg dropbox, that should not have been counted. And they were. So I can make the case

00:36:47.480 that he really did win. And he was he was screwed out of that out of that election. And it has, 0.89

00:36:51.920 again, nothing to do with Dominion or any technology. It has to do. Screwed out of the election is one

00:36:55.860 thing, but actually did win is a different. That's that's a bridge too far for me. We haven't.

00:36:59.280 No, no, no. I understand that. Well, without a doubt, Joe Biden is is the president of the United

00:37:02.860 States. He was inaugurated. I'm not arguing that he that he isn't. But had we followed the law and

00:37:07.760 had COVID not happened, I think we'd be talking about a very different a different story. When

00:37:11.920 when when Nikki Haley just said, and I love the interview, by the way, I am taking notes when you

00:37:17.020 interview people because I one day I hope to be an interviewer like you. Unbelievable how you how you

00:37:22.000 weave these questions. It's amazing. But when she said that Biden wants to run against Trump,

00:37:26.480 I almost fell off my chair. If he wants to run against Trump, why is Jack Smith making up 37

00:37:31.500 charges? And maybe we'll drop their insurance policy soon. So I think he's their insurance

00:37:36.320 policy. I think the Democrats do want to run against Trump because they believe that they

00:37:39.920 that he's beatable. But Jack Smith, these indictments, I think, are their insurance policy,

00:37:45.180 right? Like the Democrats are not dumb when it comes to politics. You got to give them that. 0.97

00:37:49.440 Agreed. I mean, I'll play you the Swalwell clip in a minute. They are dumb in other ways,

00:37:53.540 Joe. But they're not dumb when it comes to politics. So they're belts and suspender in 1.00

00:37:57.700 this thing where it's like, let's run against him. We'll saddle him with 10,000 indictments.

00:38:02.780 And either that'll make him so unpalatable to the independents that will win or he'll be in prison.

00:38:09.020 I see the point, but I'm going to disagree respectfully because Donald Trump being attacked

00:38:13.980 constantly by Alvin Bragg and Jack Smith and and Merrick Garland and down the line, George is

00:38:19.260 probably going to do something soon. These that all is evidence that shows me very clearly they're

00:38:24.240 afraid of the guy. They've got to tie him up in court. They've got to tie up his resources.

00:38:28.280 They've got to try to stop him from being in the primary race at all. If they were if they really 0.51

00:38:32.580 wanted to run against him, they drop all the charges today and run against him and beat him

00:38:36.520 handily. I disagree. I think they're afraid of him because they know in 2020 what I just said is true.

00:38:41.660 You don't have COVID this time. You don't have mail in balloting where it's not allowed this time.

00:38:45.560 You're going to have a real race and maybe maybe Trump loses again. I'm not here to say that he

00:38:49.020 would win, but I think he's head and shoulders above the 17 others that have decided to jump

00:38:53.200 in since. Have we solved the mail in balloting problem? I think the mail in balloting problem

00:38:57.680 is still still out there. It's still going to haunt the Republicans unless and that's why you're

00:39:01.440 seeing more and more Republicans, including Ronna McDaniels at the RNC saying we've got to change

00:39:07.340 or even we have realized now we've got to if you can't beat him, join him. You know, we got to get off

00:39:11.640 of this message that Republicans don't do that and and into the current game. OK, let's talk about

00:39:16.780 what's happening on Capitol Hill. So interesting with this Chris Ray up there taking, you know, fire

00:39:22.320 from all Republicans. Would you listen to this more on Eric Swalwell? There are certain people

00:39:26.900 I never mentioned on the show. There really are. I try to avoid them like the plague. I got my favorite

00:39:31.380 Republicans and I got my favorite Democrats favorite air quotes. And he is at the top of the list on

00:39:36.760 that. He's just seems like a complete moron to me. I'm not going to lie. And you know what? I was 1.00

00:39:41.820 proven right again today. I am going to break my rule and show you a soundbite involving this guy.

00:39:47.200 Would you listen to how he describes the Hunter Biden laptop story?

00:39:54.440 Chairman, I've counted in this hearing and we're only about an hour and a half in the use of the word

00:40:01.560 laptop about 20 times. But the 2020 election was determined because the FBI, no, because the FBI

00:40:09.720 didn't let more Americans see a private citizen's nonconsensual nudes. Is that what we're saying

00:40:18.620 here? That you lost the election not because of your ideas, but because a private citizen's laptop.

00:40:25.340 Do you want an answer? Was it out there? That's bananas. Like you should be a party of ideas,

00:40:31.560 not a party of nonconsensual nudes to help you win an election. Oh my God.

00:40:39.280 Joe, help me. Nonconsensual nudes. That's what the laptop was about. 0.70

00:40:44.480 He knows as well as you know, as well as I know, as well as Jim Jordan knows that the laptop

00:40:48.500 studies have shown 16% of the people that voted for Biden might not have had the laptop been

00:40:53.180 been exposed or even known about. It had nothing to do with the nudes. It had nothing to do with

00:40:58.100 the questionable, the questionable sexual activity with girls and women. We don't even know how old

00:41:02.320 they were. Had nothing to do with all of his drug use. It had everything to do with the big guy.

00:41:06.500 Had everything to do with his admission that he, listen, Megan, you and I before, not, not very long

00:41:12.580 ago, before 2016, probably never thought about the FARA laws. FARA, the, the federal, what is it?

00:41:18.100 A foreign registration act for an agent registration act. Exactly. Basically you're

00:41:23.200 working for another country trying to lobby the United States to change policy. Hunter Biden is

00:41:27.460 the biggest violator in history of the FARA act of the FARA law and, and we're ignoring it. So

00:41:33.300 Eric Swalwell trying to somehow divert attention to nudes, divert attention to a private citizen's

00:41:38.800 laptop that is just chock filled with allegations and proof that Joe Biden, the current president is

00:41:45.220 corrupt. It, I would say it's laughable, but as you said, this guy is such a moron. You can't even 1.00

00:41:50.440 laugh at him. He thought going in today that this act that he just pulled was going to somehow be

00:41:55.460 successful thinking that people like you and me and those watching your show and listening to mine,

00:42:00.020 um, won't understand what he's doing. It's an attempt to divert attention and pretend that this is

00:42:05.160 private, um, sexting, uh, of each other on, on a laptop. It's not, it's proof that the Biden corrupt

00:42:11.640 family can be a Rico case tomorrow. Rudy Giuliani could, could prosecute them in about two weeks

00:42:17.580 on the same Rico laws. It took down the mob families in New York. The guy is a fool. When

00:42:21.780 you called him a moron, I was like, man, I've heard you curse on this show, Megan. I was hoping 1.00

00:42:26.280 for a curse word there because there's a whole, he's not just a moron. He's a something moron. 1.00

00:42:30.200 You know what I mean? He doesn't get me that worked up because he is so dumb and so not worth 1.00

00:42:34.760 spending time on. But this one is just like, I love every single word of that is a lie. You know, 1.00

00:42:39.180 he's Hunter Biden was interesting, not because he's a private citizen, but because he's the

00:42:43.180 president's son, the vice president's son, who was then the, you know, performer vice president

00:42:47.200 running to be president. That's why the whole thing was interesting and newsworthy. And they

00:42:53.060 were not non-consensual by the way, there were nudes on there. They were not non-consensual.

00:42:56.980 It was Hunter Biden taking the nudes of himself. How is that non-consensual for the love of God?

00:43:03.180 And on a separate matter, that's not what got people upset.

00:43:06.400 Yes, exactly right. But, but you've got to wonder what is the mechanism of somebody's brain

00:43:11.600 that does what he just did? Did he go in, did he get up this morning and think to himself,

00:43:16.340 here's what I'll do. I couldn't see the video. So he probably is unshaving. He thinks it looks

00:43:20.360 cool with the unshaving look lately. I'm going to, I'm going to not shave, look really cool.

00:43:24.240 Walk in because I'm Eric Swalwell and I'll say something so extremely stupid, but millions of 0.98

00:43:28.580 Americans will phone all over me and say, wow, he's right. It's a non-consensual nude. 0.99

00:43:32.580 Leave Hunter alone. When all of us realize that the FBI had that laptop since December of 19,

00:43:38.640 that the FBI had this FD 1020 or this 1023 since July of like 17, and we're not going to buy the BS

00:43:45.780 anymore. The diversionary tactics aren't going to work, but what really gets me, and I think it

00:43:50.120 gets you as well. I feel your angst is that this guy has such a high opinion of himself.

00:43:55.260 He thought we would fall for it. 1.00

00:43:56.480 He's so dumb. He's always saying dumb things. It's, you know, there's some comfort in knowing 1.00

00:44:02.040 that certain things are reliable in life. I will tell you, I was one of the nerds who was actually

00:44:05.700 listening to this live on C-SPAN before our show today. So I heard it myself. I texted my team

00:44:10.480 immediately, but this is being pushed by these pro Swalwell Twitter accounts. The only thing more

00:44:16.720 pathetic than being Eric Swalwell is being somebody who manages a pro Swalwell Twitter account. 0.97

00:44:21.360 Or the person who produces the view that says you've got to really boost Eric Swalwell. He's 0.95

00:44:26.460 right. Joe Biden is just a good father, and Hunter Biden took some nudes that nobody should see.

00:44:32.920 Oh, God. Okay. I've got to run this other soundbite bio, which is Mika Brzezinski,

00:44:38.500 who's very concerned about Biden's overseas tour right now. And what she really doesn't want is

00:44:43.200 for President Biden to embarrass himself, which is what he does at every turn. He's already blown off

00:44:47.640 the first state dinner with all the dignitaries from other countries, and he's too tired. And

00:44:53.360 this is where her anger lies. Listen.

00:44:57.840 I think his staff needs to own his age. I'm just going to be honest. I don't think they do a good

00:45:02.440 job helping out the president. And I'm not talking about it like I'm just saying, if you are managing

00:45:08.780 a president's schedule and you are managing a president getting on stage and getting off stage

00:45:14.360 and doing, getting on planes and getting off planes. And yes, he's 80. You need to be there

00:45:20.020 for him. And you need to make a pathway. And you sure as hell better make sure he doesn't fall on a

00:45:26.000 sandbag. And I blame the staff for that. I mean, these are the things that are going to hurt him.

00:45:31.180 These are things that are going to be played on a loop.

00:45:35.080 It's the staff's fault, Joe Paggs.

00:45:38.120 Listen, asking the president to speak and get on stages and stuff and fly around in planes,

00:45:43.500 Megan. That's just way beyond the pale. And my God, can't somebody say, hey, Mr. President,

00:45:48.800 there might be a sandbag holding your teleprompter that you're reading and looking at.

00:45:53.340 Don't trip over that as you feign or as you pretend like you're going to jog off stage. 1.00

00:45:57.620 This is so dumb. Remember when Donald Trump slowly walked down that ramp and I made fun of him. I 0.99

00:46:02.360 thought it was funny. He says now he had leather shoes or something. He was going to slip.

00:46:07.160 Remember when he high-fived like 600 different cadets and he couldn't lift his arm? He helped his arm,

00:46:11.660 you know, drink a glass of water. They were 25th Amendment-ing this guy.

00:46:15.460 Joe Biden should not be told to stand on a stage. Did you see yesterday? I'm sure you did,

00:46:20.380 because you're just as much of a geek as I am when it comes to this stuff.

00:46:23.080 The Lithuanian president dragging him around, telling him what to do. The king of England 0.53

00:46:27.260 telling Joe Biden which way to look and where to point. Please stop talking to the guard of

00:46:32.200 Windsor Castle. What staffer's going to go around and say, do me a favor. Don't talk to the guys

00:46:37.020 with the big fuzzy hats on. Who's going to tell him that? And there ought to be a sandbag.

00:46:40.680 And don't fall upstairs. Don't fall upstairs, sir. Like, how are they going to protect him from his

00:46:44.420 walk up the stairs onto Air Force One? I mean, or like his wandering around the White House where

00:46:48.860 they've said, gee, you just walked from A to B. Here I am, sir. Come right here. Or don't spend your

00:46:53.160 time instead of glad-handing with the constituents talking to the Easter Bunny, sir. I mean, in the

00:46:57.880 stash defense, how much do they have to foresee?

00:47:00.660 And again, and if they do that, from what we understand now, because they're now leaking

00:47:05.160 all this out, he's very mad. He'll yell the F word at you. What blows my mind, and I don't

00:47:09.280 know if you've seen my Instagram feed, but it's up to 200,000 now. I've grown 180,000 in about four

00:47:14.880 or five months just by doing these videos showing Joe Biden doing something stupid. And at the end, 1.00

00:47:19.560 I yell, come on. In these videos, it's an everyday thing. When he's done speaking, he doesn't know to

00:47:26.520 go left or right. When he's done at the podium, at the dais, when he's up there taking a picture,

00:47:30.660 when he's walking around Windsor Castle, he doesn't know to take a left or a right.

00:47:34.540 My entire point is this. Can't somebody say, take a left or a right? Come on.

00:47:40.680 Just make it standard. It's just always be left. In his administration, it's always a left turn.

00:47:45.160 That should be easy for him to remember. Joe Paggs stays with us. Don't go away. We'll be right back.

00:47:52.720 Joe Paggs, it's not looking good for Disney. Not looking good at all. The latest report is that

00:47:58.220 their theme parks are not doing so well. First, I thought, well, what can we tell by the wait times

00:48:05.220 at the rides? They're down from 31 minutes in 2022 to 27 minutes now. Okay, so that's four minutes.

00:48:12.560 Do we care? Granted, it's down from 47 minutes in 2019. But the group whose job it is to watch this,

00:48:22.080 they collect waiting time data from info provided by the Disney Parks mobile apps. And they measure it.

00:48:29.200 This is the sole purpose for this organization. They come out and said that this is actually

00:48:33.360 unfathomable, this fall time or this, this, yeah, the fall time in the wait list, which is good for

00:48:38.620 the rest of us. But it's bad for Disney. And it comes at a time where, of course, Disney's reputation

00:48:44.680 is hemorrhaging. Disney's movie business has lost a ton of money. We covered that last week because of the

00:48:49.800 huge investment in woke films that nobody wants to go see. And now even Bob Iger, who was president

00:48:56.420 now is back as CEO, is saying, I think we may have misjudged things on our price hikes. Maybe

00:49:01.900 perhaps there wasn't the market for these big inflated prices. Hello, Bob, especially not given

00:49:06.600 what you've done to your brand, you and your predecessor. So what do you make of the hemorrhaging

00:49:11.320 over at Disney? I remember growing up, I'm from New York originally, but we grew up in South Florida.

00:49:16.380 And I remember my dad and my mom saving up money the entire year. Let's go three hours away to

00:49:21.160 Orlando and go check out Disney World. It was the entire year we were focused on going there.

00:49:27.240 Parents aren't doing that anymore. Families aren't doing that anymore because of leaked audio and

00:49:31.380 video saying 50% have to be LGBTQ XYZ or whatever as the stars of our animated films, which is crazy.

00:49:39.700 I never thought of a cartoon having a sexuality. Also our live action films, 50% have to be this,

00:49:45.540 and we have to ESG and DEI that thing. They can still save it. This isn't Bud Light. Bud Light's

00:49:51.020 done. They're off the top 10, even of the favorite beers in America. Now they were number one before

00:49:55.980 the whole Dylan Mulvaney thing. Disney can still save it if they use their brains. If they decide,

00:50:01.280 let's just make wholesome family fun. Doesn't matter what their sexuality is. Doesn't matter what the 1.00

00:50:05.600 makeup of their family is. Let's just get them into the theme park. It takes me back to the 1980s

00:50:09.760 and 90s when Michael Jordan had the Jordan brand shoes pretty, pretty new with Nike. And somebody

00:50:15.180 said, you know, why are you pushing this for everybody? You've got to take a stand against this

00:50:19.480 politically or that politically. And he said, even Republicans buy sneakers. At some point, these

00:50:24.180 companies, these corporations, these woke ideologies have to be put aside and they have to think to

00:50:29.260 themselves, we have to make the money first and then we can do whatever we want charitably after

00:50:33.360 that. We can make any decision we want around our kitchen, you know, dinner table at night with our

00:50:37.300 families. But when we want the entirety of the country or even the world to travel to Orlando

00:50:41.720 or Anaheim and go and go to our parks or go to the movie theater and spend a hundred dollars for a

00:50:46.360 family to go see a movie with some, some beverages, we probably should keep our mouth shut about things

00:50:51.620 some people have a problem with. It's really kind of that simple. I really, do you agree with that

00:50:55.620 Megan? I think that Disney can save it if they use their brains. Yes, of course. I wish they would,

00:51:00.320 but I think they're too far gone to actually do so. I mean, it's not just their movies anymore.

00:51:03.720 We ran video a couple of weeks ago of some guy in the bibbidi-bobbidi-boo boutique where you go

00:51:10.500 with your little girl who wants a Disney princess dress. And it was a guy, it was a guy dressed as

00:51:15.360 a woman. And look, my kids are now 13, 12 and almost 10. So they're old enough to understand,

00:51:21.680 you know, they've been around me long enough to understand what's happening in the gender thing 0.99

00:51:24.800 lane. But I would not take littles into that store and have them be confused by that. This guy's

00:51:30.340 an address trying to be their fairy godmother. No, it's a hard no. So I do think that there's

00:51:36.120 a fair element of politics here where Republicans and conservatives and even Democrats who are not

00:51:40.580 on board with this nonsense are not going to go support this brand that's doing it or subject

00:51:44.960 their kids who are trying to have a magical experience to this kind of nonsense. So

00:51:49.440 it is magic. A guy in a beard was a princess. That's magic, isn't it? Um, no, I'm with you.

00:51:55.180 I saw that video. I couldn't agree more. When, when you walk in, when you take your family,

00:51:59.140 you want that fantasy. I just don't understand what the companies think they're gaining.

00:52:03.180 What did Bud Light think they were gaining by having this guy make, who's making fun of women

00:52:07.080 drink a beer with his picture on it. What does Disney think they're gaining by having the princess

00:52:11.240 be a bearded man? I don't know. If they can explain to me, here's what we get.

00:52:15.680 This is what we get at. Okay. Please enlighten me. It gives them the ability to say they're

00:52:20.680 better than us. That's what they want. Moral superiority. That's what wokeism gives these

00:52:26.500 people meaning in a meaningless life, the ability to look at the deplorables out there. Uh, and that

00:52:31.920 includes way more than just the diehard Trump supporters folks, uh, and say you're shitty people 0.99

00:52:36.880 and we are the enlightened elite. I'm part of a special cabal of enlightened people. You wouldn't 0.97

00:52:43.920 understand cause you're not part of it, but I will lecture you on how to live your life well

00:52:47.420 and be respectful and inclusive of other groups. Let me lead by example. I'll put Dylan Mulvaney

00:52:53.340 on a beer can and I'll solve all the world's problems. I'll put a dude in a dress in the 1.00

00:52:56.680 bibbidi-bobbidi boutique. And therefore I will leave this earth knowing I left it better than

00:53:02.100 the way I found it. That's how they think. Yeah. But are they so dumb that they don't realize

00:53:05.800 as they're looking down their nose, I'm keeping my money in my wallet and you're keeping it in your 1.00

00:53:09.600 purse and we're not going to go there. We're not going to travel there.

00:53:11.800 I hope that their wait times are two seconds soon. And then maybe they'll realize, holy

00:53:16.120 crap, nobody's waiting for our rides. Maybe we should change, um, our, our, our elitism 0.88

00:53:21.380 and hide it at least negative. They're smart. They'll at least hide it. They're putting it

00:53:25.580 right out there for us all to say, well, then I choose not to go to your, your little park.

00:53:29.100 I'll go to Matt Rushmore. Yeah, that's exactly right. Um, all right, let's talk about Megan

00:53:34.240 Rapinoe. Uh, I I'm not her fan, this soccer player with the blue hair or the purple hair.

00:53:38.960 Well, depending on the season, she's a great soccer player. She's an annoying person. And, 1.00

00:53:43.180 uh, having made her millions as a soccer player from us, from the American consumers who've 0.99

00:53:49.800 supported the soccer team and supported her and in support of the endorsements, the brands that

00:53:53.120 she's representing and so on. Uh, now, now that she's made all of her millions, she has a little

00:53:59.000 message for the, for the rest of us. And that is, we're not allowed to say anything. She doesn't

00:54:03.040 approve of when it comes to trans athletes. She's all for men playing against women when posing as 1.00

00:54:09.200 women in women's sports. Now that it doesn't affect her Joe packs. She comes out and says to 1.00

00:54:14.720 time magazine that in particular, she's got a problem with Dave Chappelle, Martina Navarrola

00:54:19.120 and Sage Steele, Sage Steele of ESPN, a commentator who's brilliant, uh, and bold. And she says,

00:54:25.580 I don't want to mince words here. Dave Chappelle making jokes about trans people directly leads to

00:54:34.880 violence, whether it's verbal or otherwise against trans people. How, where, when, what specific

00:54:43.440 instances, because you're making that up. It's a bunch of bullshit. It's not true. And it's something 1.00

00:54:49.400 activists like Megan Rapinoe used to try to silence dissenting voices. Uh, and it's really

00:54:54.420 irresponsible. I think that it's important to first say the truth. She's lying. Now we have to

00:55:01.320 figure out why she's lying. Does she really, in some part of her brain, believe what she's saying

00:55:05.460 as the women's team lost 12 to nothing to Ryan Reynolds, you know, uh, football club in England

00:55:11.500 as the women lost in 2017, I think it was seven to five or five to two against a 15 year old men,

00:55:18.120 uh, boys and under team. The women on a sports level cannot compete with the men. 1.00

00:55:24.080 Shaq was seven, one, three 40. I once asked, uh, Becky Hammond, who was one of the best 0.90

00:55:28.840 WNBA players to ever play. I said, how would you do in the NBA? She said, I'm five, six

00:55:33.580 Shaq is seven, one, three 40. How do you think I would do? This is a non-question. She has to know

00:55:39.480 that she's lying, but I just don't know what she gains Megan. And again, maybe you can help me with

00:55:43.480 this, but, but when she says that it's unfair that we don't open all sports for all people of all

00:55:48.720 genders, she's not listening to Caitlyn Jenner, friend of mine was Bruce Jenner was the guy we

00:55:53.860 all wanted to be was the best athlete on the planet. He, he won the decathlon. I wonder how

00:55:57.760 he would have done in the hat cap one, which is the women's version. Well, he would have won even 0.75

00:56:01.920 bigger. It doesn't make any sense why this argument is happening. What do you think she

00:56:05.680 gains? Is she looking for some more DEI sponsorships? She knows that she's lying.

00:56:10.020 She can't really believe what she's saying. And to your point about the violence against trans people,

00:56:15.220 these people believe, and I know that, you know, this, they believe that if you say something about

00:56:19.440 a trans person, that is violence. And you and I both know that words can't be violent. So it 1.00

00:56:23.680 doesn't make any sense. I just wonder what she's gaining by knowingly lying to the American public.

00:56:28.280 She's not gaining any more support out of it. She's making us all go. What are you crazy?

00:56:32.580 I would refer you to my earlier answer on that. That's my theory anyway, but listen to this. So she goes on 0.98

00:56:37.580 and says that what's happening here is women's sports is being quote weaponized. Oh, now we care about 1.00

00:56:44.140 fairness. Now we care about women's sports. That's total bullshit. She says, and show me all 1.00

00:56:48.980 the trans people who are nefariously taking advantage of being trans in sports. It's just 0.98

00:56:55.060 not happening. Okay. Megan Rapinoe, let was stand by. All right. I'll start with the obvious

00:57:00.720 Leah Thomas. Uh, that's, that's one that comes to mind. The North Carolina volleyball player who

00:57:06.140 seriously injured another high school girl and playing up opposite her. Austin Killups in cycling,

00:57:11.000 Rachel McKinnon in cycling. Here's a mother, trans cyclist, uh, Tara Saplavi, Leslie Mumford, 0.98

00:57:17.300 Tiffany Thomas, Molly Cameron. Uh, let's go to Connecticut with a state that I live in where

00:57:21.840 the two, uh, we had the girls on my show, the girls who lost scholarships or who didn't get

00:57:26.160 the advantages or the placements that they hoped for in running because they lost to two trans guys

00:57:31.400 who had done absolutely nothing to make themselves less full of testosterone. Like, uh, Terry Miller

00:57:37.480 and Andrea Yearwood. Uh, I could go on. Here's another trans runner. Uh, it's Athena Ryan,

00:57:43.620 uh, the weightlifter, Laurel Hubbard in 2021, the cyclist, Emily Bridges. We could keep going.

00:57:49.120 We could go all day long, do your homework, do your homework before you get out there and spew a

00:57:53.840 bunch of nonsense because there are a lot of trans people taking women's spots, opportunities, 1.00

00:57:58.400 and prize money all the way from poker to cycling, to running, to weightlifting. Open your eyes. 0.98

00:58:06.180 To beauty contests. But, but the thing is, it's not about her educating herself. Megan,

00:58:11.320 she knows everything you just said. This is about those who won't do the research,

00:58:15.620 those who won't listen to you or me, those who won't educate themselves, just buying it. Oh my God,

00:58:20.280 we've got to stop the violence against trans people. Oh my God. Or, you know, Rachel Levine

00:58:23.740 really is a woman. Oh my God, that beauty queen over in the Netherlands really was, you know, um, 0.98

00:58:28.580 uh, somebody who is better, um, suitable to win that contest over all these women that joined. 0.81

00:58:34.280 She knows these things. I don't think she's stupid. Like we talked about Swalwell. Yes, 0.99

00:58:38.260 he's a moron. I agree with you. I don't know that, that Megan Rapinoe is, is unintelligent. 1.00

00:58:43.440 I think that she thinks she stands to gain something. I don't know what this trans ideology is,

00:58:48.840 but when Martina Navratilova, one of the first outed gay players in tennis ever,

00:58:53.740 and one of the best women players ever is against it. I'm going to listen to her when

00:58:57.700 Caitlyn Jenner is against it. I'm going to listen to Caitlyn Jenner because these people are people

00:59:01.680 who actually lived the life that we're talking about. Martina Navratilova knows she would have 0.99

00:59:06.820 lost to every man period. The Serena Williams and Venus Williams, both won. Riley Gaines brought

00:59:11.660 this out in Congress the other day. They both lost to the 202nd ranked man. These are two of the

00:59:17.800 most dominant female we've females we've ever seen play tennis. So I, maybe I'm giving her too much 0.92

00:59:22.660 credit. Maybe I'm glass half full, but I think Megan Rapinoe knows she's a liar. I just, I'm, I'm 0.99

00:59:28.320 at the point where I want to know why, and nobody will ever answer that question to me. I don't know

00:59:32.620 what she gains unless there is secret millions of dollars going into her bank account from all these

00:59:37.500 LGBTQ, XYZ, one, two, three organizations. I don't understand why else she would make this up.

00:59:42.400 She's not stupid, and I'm sure she has the internet. So she, she can't not know what she's 0.90

00:59:47.580 saying she doesn't know. It's something called psychic income. Um, and that's what I think she's

00:59:53.720 getting. All right, let's, let's talk about another psychic income pusher. Uh, and his name is Jonathan

01:00:00.800 Perkins. Now I had no idea who this person was up until two days ago and nobody does. So this person

01:00:07.060 decided to take this picture that Kristen Bell, the actress Kristen Bell tweeted out of her. She's

01:00:12.680 married to Zach. Uh, I mean to Dak Shepard. Um, she tweeted out this picture with all these Hollywood

01:00:17.820 stars. It's got like Jennifer Aniston and Courtney Cox and Jimmy Kimmel, I think is in there. I'd all

01:00:22.700 these people who you'd know are in this picture and his reaction. I saw it online was to tweet it out

01:00:28.820 and ask something to the effect of, I'm, I'm genuinely curious. Like what I want white people 0.63

01:00:34.860 to answer this. When you look at this, like if you walked into this party and didn't see any black 0.91

01:00:39.580 faces, like, what would you do? Like, do you recognize how problematic this is? And then he

01:00:43.920 was taking responses pretty much only from, you know, self-flagellating white people who would say

01:00:49.480 I would never, I would be a serious problem for me. I would recognize the, you know, overt white 1.00

01:00:55.120 supremacy of the fact that there are no black people. There are no people of color. And so we took a 0.92

01:00:59.880 little dive into this guy, Jonathan Perkins, and it turns out this guy's been a race hustler for a long,

01:01:04.540 long time. He hosts a podcast with his sister now, um, all about race and racism and all the,

01:01:11.700 you know, stuff that you would expect straight out of the Robin DiAngelo playbook in 2011, which is

01:01:16.660 what 12 years ago, while a student at UVA, this guy had a personal experience, Joe Pags of racial

01:01:23.080 profiling. He's a, he's a person of color from the university's police department, poor guy, he's black 1.00

01:01:27.960 and he got targeted by the cops. It resulted in FBI involvement, not looking into the cops, looking

01:01:33.980 into Jonathan Perkins himself. Why? Because he made the whole thing up. He was forced when he

01:01:40.140 was found out to recant his absurd allegations. And ultimately the full story came out. He went on

01:01:47.440 not to be punished for this, but to practice at a Philadelphia law firm to go on to be in the office

01:01:53.180 of the general counsel at Harvard university. He currently serves as the director of race and

01:01:58.860 equity at UCLA, where he opines still on race, racism, and speaks largely to white people who

01:02:09.760 want to dismantle racist systems, like a lunch that Kristen Bell was at, which shockingly and 0.99

01:02:16.560 abhorrently had all white faces. Well, Megan, I think you have to understand in this day and age, 0.94

01:02:22.640 if you show up to lunch and there's nothing about white people, you're going to have to order that 1.00

01:02:25.400 they get a black person in there. Because if you don't, it's just not going to be a proper lunch. 1.00

01:02:29.360 It is so stupid. It is so unbelievably stupid. I didn't watch the essence awards, but I saw this 1.00

01:02:34.220 idiot singer change the name, uh, change the words of the star spangled banner. And, and, and they, 0.99

01:02:39.320 they showed the audience, you know, there might've been one or two white people, but I, I don't know.

01:02:43.420 There was way too much black people in that audience. This is so stupid. It would be like me 1.00

01:02:47.660 saying, you know, I can't watch the NBA way too many black people in the NBA. When I actually believe in 1.00

01:02:52.180 meritocracy and 80% players in the NBA are black because they're the best available players. And

01:02:56.820 you know, the team owners want to win. When did we get to a point? And I think it's rather recently,

01:03:01.620 I'll be honest with you, where we start counting the number of faces. Yeah, but I don't think we

01:03:05.460 have any, I don't think we have any Latinos in there or Latinx people. I'm not really sure we've

01:03:09.780 got any native Americans or indigenous people in there. How dare you have lunch where there aren't

01:03:13.860 enough Lithuanians? You know, when, when did we, Megan, when did we start doing this? It's ridiculous. 1.00

01:03:18.900 It would be like people watching us right now going, you know, he might be Oliver. I think 0.82

01:03:21.820 he's Southern Italian, but he's still kind of white. Why is he on with this white lady?

01:03:24.920 White lady should have somebody else on except this guy. What, what can we put our feet down 1.00

01:03:28.860 and say, Kristen Bell can have lunch with anybody she wants to? Can we just do that and say,

01:03:33.160 this guy is a fraud. He's a known fraud might have a podcast. God bless him, but he should not

01:03:38.620 be in charge of anything at any university ever. Can we just say that? And people take us seriously

01:03:43.620 or are there people watching and listening to you saying, wait a second, there really weren't

01:03:48.560 enough black faces there. He's right about this. Like who sits down and comes up with their guest 0.99

01:03:53.120 list based on skin color? Like, okay. Or religion. You know, I got a Buddhist. I got a Muslim. I got

01:03:58.620 a Christian. I got a Jew. I'm good. Now I got a brown person. I got a black person. I got an Asian

01:04:02.600 person. I got a white person. Like that's absurd. It reminds me, Joe Paggs, after I was, I was under

01:04:07.720 fire at NBC and they were calling me a racist in the paper. And some of my friends were like, MK,

01:04:12.720 hey, they're like, your friends are from every single walk of life. Do you, we should do like

01:04:17.760 a group picture of you out with your breath, your black friends and your brown friends and 0.99

01:04:21.300 your whatever. And I was like, it's a no guys, this is bullshit. We're not playing this game. 1.00

01:04:27.120 And yet this is what this guy wants. He wants tokenism, I guess on demand. It'll make him feel

01:04:33.540 better. If at the next luncheon, Kristen Bell and Dak Shepard, who co-hosts his podcast,

01:04:38.580 very successful podcast, I believe with an Indian gal, he needs to put her front and center. 0.87

01:04:43.580 She should have been in that photograph. I don't know whether that would have counted though,

01:04:46.980 because for guys like this, brown Indians, they may not make the grade. Whereas like 1.00

01:04:52.280 guys like Jonathan, he needs to see himself represented. Otherwise your party sucks. 1.00

01:04:56.720 You know, I went to lunch the other day and I was like, where's the lady with the hijab? 0.99

01:04:59.660 What's going on? Why is there more representation here? Way too many Catholics here. You know, 1.00

01:05:04.220 you're absolutely right. And by the way, if he co-hosts with an Indian person,

01:05:06.980 you're allowed to be a racist against Asians. You didn't hear? So, so that probably doesn't

01:05:11.440 count. I think you're right. It doesn't check the box, you know, but can I say this? I've been

01:05:15.160 in this business 34 years now, started in 1989, small radio station. I have never cursed on the

01:05:20.240 air. Every time you have me on, you have me that close, Kelly, that close to dropping a bomb.

01:05:25.040 I haven't done it yet on a microphone, but I'm telling you, when I do it and it's going to happen,

01:05:30.740 it's going to be on your show. I feel. Oh, good. I'd be honored. Please save it for me.

01:05:35.160 Um, my mom is here. My mom is the one who doesn't like my swearing. She's downstairs. I think she's

01:05:39.460 listening right now. You're going to pull me the other way, Joe Pags, instead of me taking you down

01:05:44.080 with me. We'll see. Great to see you, my friend. So good to be on Megan continued success. Thank you

01:05:50.720 so much to you too. All right. Coming up next, we've got two executives from gays against groomers, 0.97

01:05:57.060 including the woman who founded the group. She founded this group a year ago. Remember people were

01:06:00.980 saying, where are the gays in this trans fight? Like they're co-opting all these gay rights groups 1.00

01:06:05.820 and the interests don't align. Well, back in June of last year, she formed this group.

01:06:10.740 And now here we are a year later. She's got, I mean, hundreds of thousands of followers on social

01:06:16.160 media, half a million alone, I think on Twitter. And of course, now as they grow in power, they're

01:06:20.520 coming under fire. So we'll talk about it all right after this.

01:06:23.200 We shift gears now and turn to a group I have long admired online. I love what they're doing.

01:06:31.720 They're called Gays Against Groomers. Says it all, doesn't it? An organization that is doing great

01:06:36.420 work trying to sound the alarm about the indoctrination and sexualization of children

01:06:41.240 under the guise of radical gender activism. Joining us now, the founder of that group, Jamie

01:06:47.920 Michelle. She's also the CEO of Gays Against Groomers and Chris Barrett, the co-director

01:06:52.280 of chapters at Gays Against Groomers. Jamie and Chris, welcome to the show.

01:06:56.960 Thank you so much for having us. Oh, it's great to have you so much again.

01:07:01.320 I've been watching you guys do battle with all these people online. And, you know, I applaud you

01:07:06.560 because people say this about feminists and they say this about the LGB part of LGBTQ. Like, where 1.00

01:07:13.200 are the activists who are going to stand up for women, for children, for gays, for lesbians against 0.75

01:07:20.280 this radical ideology that trans activists are pushing and that is taking over, that is sweeping 0.72

01:07:27.500 the nation. So, Jamie, tell me, like, what led you to actually do something about it? It's the one

01:07:32.060 thing to sit on your couch and lament. It's another to actually form a group and grow it as you have.

01:07:37.740 Yeah, exactly. Well, you know, this is hurting us just as much as well. It's hurting us a little

01:07:42.100 less than kids, but we're right up there. You know, this is just ideology is so destructive.

01:07:47.520 And the backlash is happening against all of us within the community, including the majority of

01:07:52.700 us that just want to live our lives at home and leave everybody alone, most of which children. So,

01:07:58.140 you know, back in June of 2022, I was seeing the onslaught of videos like everybody else was

01:08:02.900 of these inappropriate drag shows with kids involved with them, you know, almost nude and dancing very

01:08:09.900 sexually. I saw the material in the schools. I saw children being told they should permanently

01:08:15.240 medicalize themselves, sterilize themselves and have their healthy body parts cut off. 0.54

01:08:20.360 I just couldn't take it anymore. You know, I had a bit of a platform prior to that. I was online as

01:08:25.360 this online personality under the name The Gay Who Strayed. I had built up over 200,000 followers and

01:08:31.620 I was at the point where I was like, you know what, I can't have this platform and not try and do

01:08:35.860 something because I knew I wasn't alone in feeling this way. And, you know, I had I have a lot of gay

01:08:41.680 friends and even trans friends and I just got them all together. I said, hey, guys, I'm starting this

01:08:46.900 thing called Gays Against Groomers. We got to, you know, have a unified voice to fight back against

01:08:51.760 this. And it just skyrocketed like I ever since I've been trying to play catch up because it just

01:08:57.200 exploded. So, Chris, when you talk to people who are in your group, like describe the average

01:09:03.380 member of Gays Against Groomers. Sure. The average member of Gays Against Groomers, I would 1.00

01:09:10.660 say, politically speaking, is probably moderate to maybe a little bit right leaning, but we

01:09:15.600 do have left leaning people within our organization as well. I think the main thing is that we have

01:09:23.540 lots of people within Gays Against Groomers who are just simply tired of all of this stuff

01:09:30.820 being done in our name. We're very sick of it. And like Jamie alluded to, we realize that it is

01:09:39.900 making us look bad. Now, here's the other thing as far as like other people, all the other people

01:09:47.000 with Gays Against Groomers. One thing that I love about it is we've got people from all walks of life,

01:09:52.860 all sorts of different professions, that sort of thing. I'm just kind of an average Joe myself.

01:10:00.000 But we've, you know, we've got former military members and things like that who are chapter

01:10:06.000 leaders. And so we're definitely a very varied group. People like to try to pigeonhole us,

01:10:13.480 but they can't because we are actually pretty diverse.

01:10:18.920 Oh, I'm sure you're about 30 seconds away from being labeled a hate group by the Southern

01:10:22.800 Poverty Law Center, some alt right gay rights hating whatever group. But that's just that's

01:10:29.040 par for the course. So I looked online and I saw you guys in an online fight having some of your

01:10:34.580 employees come forward and say, hey, I'm a Joe Biden voter. So get off my case. It's not all right

01:10:39.160 wing. You got people on the left. You got people on the right. But they're shared in their mission

01:10:42.980 to stop this. Jamie, what do you make of the fact that every time I see like a trans group 1.00

01:10:47.700 complaining, the trans activists have the worst activists of any group? I see GLAAD joining in 1.00

01:10:52.140 with them. Like what happened to GLAAD? What happened to like human rights campaign? That

01:10:56.080 was another one that used to be about gay rights. And now they've got this. I don't know what she

01:11:00.040 considers herself non-binary or gender. I have no idea what the woman is who runs it, but she's not

01:11:04.640 not. She's whatever part of the queer crowd. She's lecturing us about the trans issues and not at all 1.00

01:11:11.340 caring about the gay issues anymore. Right. Well, I think it's kind of like it kind of goes hand in

01:11:17.300 hand with how you see our original pride flag. Now this triangle of trans and all kinds of stuff is 1.00

01:11:23.720 is cutting through it and erasing gay people. And I think that that's kind of happening in society and

01:11:29.980 with these groups in general, these radical alphabet organizations that were started for gays and

01:11:36.820 lesbians to advance the cause of equality, which we achieved. It's sad. You know, for me personally,

01:11:44.560 I don't think the LGB and T should have ever been lumped together just because one is, you know,

01:11:49.940 being gay or being a lesbian is who you love. And being trans is about who you believe you are,

01:11:56.920 your identity. And they really aren't related, you know? So I don't know. I think that these people

01:12:01.980 saw that the money was drying up after we won our rights. We actually won that battle. And as far as

01:12:08.080 I'm concerned, we should have all packed it up and gone home and just got on with our lives,

01:12:11.520 but there's no money to be made off of that. So now they're trying to keep us, you know,

01:12:16.660 and use trans people and make up the myths like there's a trans genocide happening, which obviously 0.73

01:12:23.520 is not true, to keep the oppression train going because that that brings in the money.

01:12:30.220 You've got some weird things happening, of course, in school. We've discussed that many times what

01:12:36.100 they're teaching, allowing transitions at school. And then the child goes back to his or her normal

01:12:41.220 gender when they go home. And this school helps cover it up with the parents. I told the audience 0.99

01:12:45.860 a couple of months ago, we went to a new we moved to Connecticut and now we just finally are getting

01:12:50.820 our new pediatricians. And the pediatrician said to my kids, OK, you know, next year they're still on

01:12:56.520 the young side. But next year we're going to send mom and dad out of the office and we're going to

01:13:00.760 have a one on one talk with you. And I will probe further before that actually happens.

01:13:07.100 But I think it's about to talk about sex. Like, well, are you doing it? Is there, you know,

01:13:11.800 like so they don't want mom lurking there so that maybe the kid could actually say so and

01:13:15.320 be educated on what the risks are. I'll find out. But there's just today in the news,

01:13:21.620 a guy who found out the hard way that his pediatrician had a totally different agenda.

01:13:26.280 It happened right in front of his wife and he posted this online. I thought of you guys. It's

01:13:30.300 at 25. I just pulled over to do this video because I'm literally on fire right now.

01:13:37.940 I just got off the phone. My wife who took my nine and seven year old boys to the doctor today to get 0.99

01:13:44.780 physicals for tackle football and school next year and all that other shit. The first my nine year old 0.99

01:13:51.140 someone in first, and the first thing this woman asks him is if he identifies as a boy, a girl,

01:13:58.860 gender fluid, or non-binary. My son, he's never heard of any of that shit before. You've been 1.00

01:14:07.220 dealing with him your whole life. He is clearly a boy's boy. So what are you trying to plant a fucking

01:14:14.820 seed in his head? The only thing I could be thankful for is that my wife took them instead 1.00

01:14:24.680 of me and props to my wife because she said something. And if she didn't, they would ask

01:14:30.140 my seven year old son the same damn question. This shit is ridiculous. 1.00

01:14:37.900 It is ridiculous, Chris. And this guy's not alone. 1.00

01:14:43.740 Right. Well, I kind of have a little bit of a personal theory on some of the stuff. I think

01:14:50.160 that the gender theorists and the queer theorists and you would think that queer theory is like

01:14:55.560 something that would be gay friendly or something because he used the word queer. Well, it wasn't.

01:15:00.720 I mean, in my opinion, this was a Marxist push and they were looking for the gay community to be 0.99

01:15:09.840 their new revolutionaries. Well, gay people like Jamie alluded to, for the most part, I'd say the vast

01:15:18.560 majority of us, when we got our rights, we packed it up and went home, but they didn't like what we

01:15:25.120 were doing, that we wanted to assimilate into society, that we wanted to get married and those

01:15:31.480 sorts of things. That's not what they wanted from us. So I really do think that now a lot of these

01:15:39.320 people who have been captured by this ideology, whether they realize it or not, some of them

01:15:44.760 probably don't even realize what they're doing, but they're happy to recruit new members. And this

01:15:52.160 is one way of doing that. My God, our seven-year-olds, our nine-year-olds. And this is why

01:15:57.400 your group is so important because it's like half the battle is awareness. Half the people might

01:16:03.640 believe, I don't know if you heard the last segment, but somebody like Megan Rapinoe, when she says,

01:16:07.580 there's no trans athletes trying to game the system against women. Show me the trans athletes who are

01:16:12.960 doing that. Are you an idiot? Like pay attention. There are two. And like, there are a lot of people 1.00

01:16:18.240 who are out there just living their lives who might actually believe something like that, Jamie.

01:16:21.500 And then bump into it headfirst like this dad and his wife when they're just going to the

01:16:26.900 pediatrician's office. Well, yeah, that's the problem. You know, the other side, the people

01:16:32.140 pushing this, they gaslight the public so hard, you know, that I always say that awareness is kind

01:16:37.920 of the biggest issue that we face in stopping all of this. So many people, you know, we're in it. We

01:16:43.300 live this every day. We're tuned in. But the majority of Americans, I really don't think know that this

01:16:48.940 is happening. They don't know that women are losing their scholarships, women and girls, and

01:16:55.640 they're getting hurt, physically hurt by biological men playing on the same teams as them. And furthermore, 0.55

01:17:02.980 you know, that that this word to pivot a little bit, the word gender affirming care drives me

01:17:08.720 absolutely insane because that has nothing. You know, they can't. This is what they do. They candy coat the

01:17:14.480 language. So you think, oh, so nobody could ever come out against that. Why would you want to be

01:17:19.540 against care for children? Right. But the truth is, is it's a sterilization and mutilation, but they

01:17:25.040 don't want to they don't want that to be known. So, yeah, that's not as marketable. No, it's very

01:17:29.820 deceitful. And no. And that's the thing. As soon as people learn that this is actually happening,

01:17:34.940 they immediately oppose it. They really do. I mean, I've had experience with staunch Democrats

01:17:39.820 that that I was speaking to and I let them know, like, hey, have you heard of gender

01:17:45.820 from and care? They're like, no, what's that? I'm like, well, they're you know, I explained the

01:17:49.320 whole thing and then they're instantly enraged and they want to fight against it. And so, you know,

01:17:54.500 they're very deceitful and that's on purpose. They did the same thing with BLM, you know, calling

01:17:58.580 calling their Marxist violent movement Black Lives Matter. So you can't come out against that. 0.77

01:18:03.520 You know, somebody is going to come out and say, oh, no, I don't think Black Lives Matter. No,

01:18:07.540 that's not really it. So they're very intentional with their language.

01:18:11.940 One of the most prominent faces of this movement is Dylan Mulvaney. And this person has now,

01:18:17.720 I guess, traveled to Peru trying to pretend that despite the what, 10 million followers on Instagram

01:18:22.760 and the tons of dough that Dylan has made with these endorsements for these products, I mean,

01:18:27.420 they're lining up out Dylan's door in order to get Dylan's face on their product at places like Ulta Beauty.

01:18:32.760 We could go down the list of the endorsements that this guy has gotten. This is a man who said,

01:18:37.800 OK, I'm a gay man. Then he said, I'm non-binary. Then he said, I'm trans. Then he said, I'm a lesbian.

01:18:48.180 I can't keep up with all the things. But now you'll be glad to know Dylan's apparently found himself.

01:18:53.360 And this is his latest message from Peru. Here's a little bit.

01:18:57.220 I've seen a lot of llamas and the people here are so kind. I feel very safe here.

01:19:03.920 It's a little sad that I had to leave my country to feel safe, but that will get better eventually.

01:19:09.720 So Dylan doesn't feel safe in America, notwithstanding, I presume the millions he's made.

01:19:14.300 He says this trip is a great way to get to know himself better.

01:19:17.060 I mean, I guess that is going to be the final chapter of the journey of male, female, non-binary, gay, lesbian. 0.88

01:19:23.440 Who the hell knows? But what do you make of him playing the victim?

01:19:28.080 Also pointing out he has not yet been kissed. Oh, my God.

01:19:32.120 Who would like to take that one? 0.54

01:19:34.300 Go ahead, Chris.

01:19:35.040 Okay, Danny. Yeah, this guy drives me insane.

01:19:41.080 You know, there's a lot of people who will go online and attack, especially lesbians. 1.00

01:19:50.500 I've noticed, like, trans women coming after lesbians saying that they should be open to being with them. 0.76

01:19:56.400 But I've also seen it happen with gay men as well.

01:19:58.680 And I really do think that the thing that Dylan is doing by changing his sexual orientation all these times is just feeding into that sort of thing.

01:20:07.780 Now, of course, I don't think that it's real with him.

01:20:10.320 I mean, I think that it's just a marketing tactic for himself.

01:20:13.620 He's wanting attention, and that's exactly what it is.

01:20:18.440 Right, exactly. He wants clicks.

01:20:20.740 Yeah, I agree.

01:20:21.360 And, you know, we have to remember that Dylan was an actor before this and not a very good one and kind of not progressing in his career.

01:20:28.680 So, obviously, and that's the thing.

01:20:31.140 Like, trans is very trendy right now.

01:20:33.140 In schools, in society, you're rewarded for being trans.

01:20:37.400 You're given special privileges.

01:20:38.660 You can break all societal norms and rules that have been in place for all of human history up until five minutes ago.

01:20:45.540 And, you know, and so it's very appealing for attention seekers. 0.53

01:20:50.860 This is serious, so I will say attention whores, because that's actually what I believe that Dylan is.

01:20:55.840 But, you know, so it's all a sham, and it's all for money and cliques and popularity.

01:21:02.920 And it's sad to see that our community and people like us, regular gays and lesbians, are being thrown under the bus and associated with all of this.

01:21:09.920 And we're trying, you know, to really separate ourselves, draw a big red line between us and this radical ideology and the people that are enraptured by it.

01:21:18.760 And get your flag back to your point at Brown University.

01:21:22.580 They just did a study that showed that 38 percent of the current student body identifies as LGBTQ, whatever, plus 38 just 10 years ago or it was 2010.

01:21:33.620 So I guess, you know, 13 years ago, it was 14 percent.

01:21:37.660 But we're not supposed to believe that it was that it's a social contagion.

01:21:40.840 And we're not supposed to accept, Jamie, that it's got any sort of cachet to identify as part of this group now.

01:21:49.500 Yeah, I mean, it's totally crazy.

01:21:50.940 First of all, this there's no way that you can look at these numbers and think that that's natural.

01:21:55.740 You know, the trans rights activists, they like to say that this is just this is natural and organic and solely due to society being more accepting. 0.88

01:22:03.180 So these kids and youth are able to come out and be their true selves when obviously that's ridiculous.

01:22:09.120 You know, we wouldn't see a jump like that if that were the case.

01:22:12.460 And, you know, we see primarily the jump in the youth.

01:22:15.360 Like if that were the case in all of society, why aren't the numbers matching across the board and in other age groups?

01:22:21.820 But, yeah, this this is the children are the most impressionable people on this planet that walk this earth and planting ideas in their minds from the it's just a constant bombardment.

01:22:32.780 And of alphabet propaganda in schools, in media, everywhere they look on.

01:22:37.900 On top of that, it's seen as trendy, as I was saying before.

01:22:41.200 My fiance has a young sister.

01:22:43.920 She's 15 now, I believe.

01:22:45.420 And she was telling us that in school, you know, you're not cool if you if you're just some straight kid now, you know, like it's very there's a lot of peer pressure to identify as non-binary or trans or somewhere in the rainbow.

01:22:57.360 So it's scary.

01:22:58.880 Not to mention at a place like Brown, it's probably rather helpful to have it in your application essay about how you've been brutalized as a member of the LGBTQ, you know, society. 0.98

01:23:12.740 And to me, it's really like a co-opting.

01:23:15.180 It's like, you know how when you pretend that you had a military injury or you had military heroism and it's fake and they call it stolen valor, Chris.

01:23:23.020 It's like stolen victimization because I'm sure, you know, like actual gays and lesbians have had an incident or two where they felt authorized or they felt like they didn't have equal rights.

01:23:35.520 Even in modern day America, these people who aren't really, quote, queer in any way, who are just glomming on are kind of stealing the identity just to make themselves feel special. 0.96

01:23:47.720 Right. Yeah, I absolutely agree, Megan.

01:23:52.340 And correct me if I'm wrong, Jamie, maybe, you know, this, but or Megan.

01:23:56.960 And but I think that if I remember correctly, that number, as far as like people identifying as LGBTQ, whatever, the numbers aren't going up for actual gay and lesbian, bisexual people.

01:24:12.600 It's going up with the TQIA plus crowd. 0.99

01:24:17.900 And because, you know, the thing is, is you can't identify into being gay.

01:24:23.240 That actually requires something of you without getting into the dirty details, obviously.

01:24:29.840 But, you know, that requires something of you.

01:24:32.700 But this other stuff you can just identify into.

01:24:35.640 Yeah, so it's very frustrating dealing with these people basically glomming on to us and saying we're somehow the same and all this sort of thing.

01:24:48.640 So, yeah, it's very frustrating.

01:24:50.840 It's a fraud. It's a fraud.

01:24:52.140 OK, so let me ask you about now.

01:24:54.200 Now, as you get bigger, you get more powerful, you get more incoming.

01:24:56.660 It's part par for the course.

01:24:58.780 And I saw this dust up the other day, Jamie, and I was like, what is happening here?

01:25:03.700 So a guy who was with your group named David Leatherwood, he was on the board.

01:25:07.620 He announced in sort of sunny terms, I'm leaving. 0.56

01:25:10.280 Everything's great, but I'm just going to leave gays against groomers. 1.00

01:25:12.660 And then Caitlyn Jenner weighed in and made a controversy out of it, saying, that's not what you said to me privately.

01:25:20.020 I'm paraphrasing here.

01:25:21.860 There's much more to your story.

01:25:23.560 Like, be direct.

01:25:24.900 And then Leatherwood comes out and says, all right.

01:25:27.440 The truth is, I'm pissed off about the DeSantis ad that he found to be homophobic.

01:25:36.120 It wasn't by DeSantis.

01:25:37.760 It was a group that supports DeSantis.

01:25:39.140 But the DeSantis war room retweeted it, in which they rip on Trump for being very pro Caitlyn Jenner and very pro trans people in the Miss Universe pageant.

01:25:48.780 And then it shows Ron DeSantis is like a badass Tom Cruise, Top Gun character, fighting all this stuff. 0.84

01:25:54.220 Rick Grinnell, who I really like, but he's a diehard Trump guy and he's openly gay. 0.97

01:26:00.460 He said, very homophobic. 0.99

01:26:03.040 Log cabin Republicans, those are openly gay Republicans. 0.99

01:26:05.700 They said homophobic. 0.98

01:26:07.400 And this guy Leatherwood said, I also think it's homophobic.

01:26:10.160 So what does that have to do with you?

01:26:11.660 Does that have to do with gays against groomers?

01:26:13.300 Well, he says the gays against groomers is a DeSantis group.

01:26:17.660 You, Jamie, are I think he actually said you're employed by DeSantis or you're getting paid by DeSantis.

01:26:24.220 And then all these articles started to be written.

01:26:26.940 So what's the truth?

01:26:28.760 OK, so first I want to address that gays against groomers is not a DeSantis group.

01:26:34.540 We are apolitical.

01:26:36.100 We are not politically affiliated in any way.

01:26:39.160 So within gays against groomers, there's like 100 of us and we all have our own personal opinions.

01:26:43.840 I personally am a very political person.

01:26:47.240 I'm also very vocal.

01:26:48.240 I have a hard time keeping my mouth shut.

01:26:50.700 And so I am very pro DeSantis publicly.

01:26:54.220 And so, you know, when that ad came out, which DeSantis had nothing to do with, many people on the right, gay conservatives, viewed that as homophobic.

01:27:03.880 I personally didn't.

01:27:05.440 I saw it more as a hit on Trump for, you know, kind of being OK with this radical gender ideology and if not being a little bit of a catalyst for it himself with, you know, allowing saying saying that men can compete in the women's beauty pageants and saying that men can go in women's bathrooms.

01:27:22.760 So that's what I saw. But, yeah, I mean, I think it's really unfortunate that we're going to let that certain people would let political differences, even I mean, me and David are on the same side at the end of the day.

01:27:33.220 We're both on the right. But to let primary preferences come in the way of the work that we're doing to protect children, which should which should not be political whatsoever.

01:27:42.080 You know, that's that's really unfortunate, but everybody is allowed to do whatever they want, obviously.

01:27:48.540 You know, so David did leave the board and it was very weird to see Caitlin randomly get involved and attack me.

01:27:55.860 You know, she actually before that tweet, which you mentioned, David had posted something that had nothing to do with gays against groomers or myself.

01:28:04.180 And Caitlin just jumps in and brings both of us up and throws us under the bus and just straight up lies about me. 1.00

01:28:10.100 She is the one that, you know, started spreading the rumors about me with the DeSantis campaign.

01:28:14.900 And that's just not true. So it's unfortunate.

01:28:17.780 But, you know, the movement carries on and we push forward and it's no big deal at the end of the day.

01:28:22.940 But it's just crazy to me. So so my understanding, just in following you online, is you are a DeSantis supporter, but you're not part of his paid team in any way.

01:28:32.580 Am I correct? Right. Yes.

01:28:35.520 OK. All right. So so you don't work for the DeSantis campaign or take money from that campaign.

01:28:40.280 I've never they've never paid me for a tweet. They've never paid me to speak out publicly against him.

01:28:46.700 I've been a supporter, a staunch supporter of Ron DeSantis for, I want to say, two years now, just like the majority.

01:28:52.780 I mean, all of Trump supporters were huge Ron DeSantis fans.

01:28:55.880 They were saying, make America, Florida for two years. And then I want to get to this.

01:29:00.500 But this is interesting to me because I know you voted for Trump twice when you were the gay who strayed, as you as you pointed out. 0.82

01:29:06.920 But you've switched over to team DeSantis now. And this is one of the ongoing questions about Trump. 0.71

01:29:11.820 Where does he stand on this? Because I understand why DeSantis is supporters now used Trump's earlier stance against him in the ad.

01:29:18.440 For sure. I get it. But it was 2016. It was 2015. You know, lots changed in the world since then.

01:29:25.300 So we'll find out where Trump stands on all of this right now. But what is it about why?

01:29:30.040 Why have you switched to DeSantis now? Oh, gosh, I could go on and on for a very long time about this.

01:29:35.600 So I'll try and keep it short. But I got off the Trump train. I want to be clear.

01:29:39.300 Yes, I did vote for him twice. I voted for him in 2020 as well, even though prior to that I was off the Trump train.

01:29:44.680 You know, my support really started dwindling for him in the height of the pandemic when he basically subsidized his presidency over to Fauci.

01:29:53.420 And and that was pretty much the down the beginning of the end of his successful presidency, I believe.

01:30:00.780 But there are so many reasons why I believe DeSantis is just a better candidate at this point.

01:30:05.460 And, you know, being the founder and president of Gays Against Groomers, this issue of protecting children is up there.

01:30:11.220 It is like one of the top issues for me and what I'm looking for in a presidential candidate to lead this country and destroy this agenda.

01:30:18.400 So no politician in the country has worked harder or been more successful at dismantling this toxic rainbow agenda than Ron DeSantis. 1.00

01:30:26.680 And I truly believe that if he is elected president, he will successfully ban it federally.

01:30:33.140 I think that, you know, he will completely overhaul the education system.

01:30:37.800 And these are things that really need to happen because children are our future.

01:30:41.640 And and I think he's proven that he's actually leading more Trumpian than Trump did, especially towards the end of his presidency.

01:30:48.380 Mm hmm. I understand exactly. I would like to clarify with Trump where he stands on all this, but I I could not vote for a candidate who didn't feel the way you just espoused, you know, who didn't see this as a serious threat.

01:31:01.980 It's it's abuse of children, boys and girls.

01:31:05.600 And in the athletic lane, it's abuse and allowing abuse and unfairness of girls. 1.00

01:31:09.540 I mean, just everywhere you turn. And the Biden administration is pushing it.

01:31:15.140 They they're completely on the other team on this, Chris.

01:31:17.880 And I think a lot of Democrats either don't prioritize it.

01:31:21.800 They're not paying attention to it. They don't know about it.

01:31:23.840 But, you know, I was asking Nikki Haley, what can you do about some of these things from the White House?

01:31:27.720 The truth is, this White House has done quite a bit to push this agenda.

01:31:33.860 Right, right, Megan.

01:31:34.780 Um, so interesting little side note about me before I joined Gays Against Scrumers and really started learning everything that was going on, I was actually pretty far left.

01:31:46.440 I was actually a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, um, and I totally bought into all of it, but I couldn't keep going along with it.

01:31:57.540 And the reason I couldn't keep going along with it is because of everything that was going on with kids.

01:32:03.100 And that is what started attracting me.

01:32:07.880 Well, first of all, made me sick with Joe Biden, uh, but also started attracting me to Ron DeSantis as well.

01:32:14.980 And, um, because I did see what he was doing in Florida, uh, to protect kids, um, and especially giving, uh, parents more rights in their education, because that's absolutely something that we need.

01:32:30.060 Well, we, when the name of the group is Gays Against Groomers and the, like grooming, I've defended this term before on the show.

01:32:39.400 It really is grooming.

01:32:40.520 It's, we did this thing on the, um, Jared, the subway guy, you know, there was a Netflix doc.

01:32:46.080 I think it was Netflix or Amazon prime.

01:32:47.480 Forgive me for not remembering right now, but this deep dive into that guy.

01:32:50.560 And this woman who helped bring him down, what is it discovery?

01:32:55.920 And anyway, my team is trying to tell me, um, this woman who helped bring him down, got him in tape on tape and so on.

01:33:01.120 And he was talking, Jamie, about the need to expose young children, to sexualize, talk inappropriate subjects at a young age to get them used to it.

01:33:11.100 So it's not so jarring when the pervert moves in to take advantage of them.

01:33:16.340 That has been completely lost.

01:33:20.180 There were having like teachers do trusted outside of your parents.

01:33:26.080 Your teachers tend to be your most trusted people as a child do this to them in the single digit grades.

01:33:32.920 Yeah, I mean, it's, it's horrifying.

01:33:34.980 And a lot of people don't like that our name is Gays Against Groomers, but that's literally what is happening.

01:33:40.080 That's what these people are. 0.92

01:33:41.400 You know, you don't have to be an actual sexual predator, like a child, a pedophile to, uh, actually be, uh, to partake in grooming behavior.

01:33:51.420 And to, uh, yeah, so, and I do want to clarify, obviously there are groomers and child predators and pedophiles outside of the LGBTQIA plus plus plus community.

01:34:02.000 We're just, you know, we look at ourselves as kind of the hall monitors of our own community.

01:34:06.820 Uh, it needs to be brought back.

01:34:08.980 Things have gotten way out of control.

01:34:10.740 I believe that the slippery slope, I pray to God, we're almost at the bottom of it.

01:34:14.920 I don't know how much further down we can go.

01:34:17.320 Um, but we're trying to bring things back to just a place of sanity.

01:34:20.440 Um, and, and, you know, they're, the red line has always been just leave kids alone, whatever adults want to do fine.

01:34:26.800 But, you know, they're children.

01:34:28.900 They're innocent for such a short amount of time.

01:34:31.780 Uh, and it's just devastating to see.

01:34:33.980 And it's, it's awful to see it happening in our name.

01:34:37.100 Yeah, I mean, the gays part is like encouraging members of the LGBTQ or LGBT community to come join, but it could have just as well been gals against groomers. 0.84

01:34:46.900 You're like what you're fighting, um, is something I'm fighting too.

01:34:50.980 And I'm not gay.

01:34:51.620 I get it.

01:34:52.100 I get it completely.

01:34:53.040 And grooming really is more widespread and problematic than people know.

01:34:57.560 God bless.

01:34:58.440 Good luck to you both.

01:34:59.300 Thank you so much for coming on.

01:35:01.220 Thank you, Megan.

01:35:02.320 Yeah.

01:35:02.600 Thanks, Megan.

01:35:03.360 All the best.

01:35:03.980 Yeah.

01:35:04.220 The pleasure is all mine.

01:35:05.180 Uh, and thank you to all of us for spending the day with us tomorrow.

01:35:09.020 Michael Knowles is on the program.

01:35:11.080 One of our favorite guests and you have to watch this.

01:35:14.360 Okay.

01:35:14.600 Because I've got a particular CNN clip.

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01:35:20.860 Trust me on that.

01:35:22.720 Look forward to sharing him and that moment with all of you.

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The Megyn Kelly Show - July 12, 2023

Wray Pressed, and Disney's Declining Attendance, with Nikki Haley, Joe Pags, Jaimee Michell, and Chris Barrett ｜ Ep. 586

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