On today's episode of White House Correspondent, we talk about the latest in the Trump administration, the culture war, and the latest on the Ukraine crisis. Plus, we have a special guest on the show, Angela Bel Camino.
00:04:01.000What a lot of you don't know about me is that I'm actually, you know, my background's in mental health, and I've been doing that full-time for the past many years.
00:04:10.000And I recently left my job to start my own podcast coming up in September, which is going to be streaming on Rumble.
00:05:27.000From the prime, from the post-millennial, breaking, Ken Paxton files suit to vacate state house seats held by Dems who fled over redistricting vote.
00:05:36.000Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit with the state Supreme Court in order to declare the seats held by 13 Democrat House lawmakers who fled the state amid a vote on a new congressional district map vacant.
00:05:48.000The rogue Democrat legislators who fled the state have abandoned their duties, leaving their seats vacant.
00:05:54.000These cowards deliberately sabotaged the constitutional process and violated the oaths they swore to uphold.
00:06:00.000Their out-of-state rebellion cannot go unchecked, and the business of Texas must go on.
00:06:05.000I have asked the Texas Supreme Court to clarify what has been clear from the beginning: that the runaway members have officially vacated their offices in the Texas House, Paxton said in a statement.
00:06:16.000This is a bit of a surprise for some people.
00:07:01.000What's social credit going to do for them?
00:07:03.000When elections become, you know, like become the face of the Democrat Party.
00:07:08.000I mean, everyone's vying for that right now.
00:07:11.000Do you think that state legislators leaving really are going to have an impact on national Democrats?
00:07:20.000No, what I'm saying is if you arrest them.
00:07:22.000I mean, yeah, but I mean, the point that I'm making is as state, most of the time, most Americans don't really pay attention to their own state governments, never mind the state government in Texas.
00:07:33.000Now, there are people that are worked up because this is about redistricting and stuff, but redistricting is not, you know, redistricting halfway through the time for the census is not unprecedented.
00:08:46.000With like Mom Donnie, I would argue Mom Donnie's probably like the biggest, most popular face in the Democratic Party right now.
00:08:53.000But if these guys are, you know, carded out in the jail and stuff, like all of a sudden everyone's going to know their names, know who they are, know what their positions are.
00:09:02.000Because it's my opinion that Democrats are really floundering.
00:09:07.000Part of the reason why they're doing this is because, you know, Democrats still, just yesterday, there was a clip of Nancy Pelosi talking about how they want to nationalize gender reassignment surgery for kids.
00:09:34.000Or is this just something to distract from the fact that they still have nothing except for Zorhan Mamdani, who is really unpopular in their own party?
00:09:46.000I mean, there are some people that are very pro Mamdani, of course, but the people that are against Mamdani, like this is really going to split the Democrat Party, even though it's only the mayor of one city, not even a national level Democrat.
00:09:59.000Yeah, no, it's a big one, like myself included.
00:10:02.000Like I am, you know, not as progressive.
00:10:07.000Like, and a lot of this stuff is really turning me off.
00:10:10.000So, you know, being a Democrat, like I, you know, I don't know that this is the issue, but I think you're onto something whereas they're not really changing their tune.
00:10:18.000They're sort of doubling down on the scene.
00:11:40.000There is going to have to be something that'll happen.
00:11:42.000But the Democrats that I've heard talking, the Texas Democrats that I've heard talking, they've kind of alluded to the idea that they're willing to stay on the land as long as it takes.
00:11:52.000Because you just said a lot, they're going to have to come back.
00:12:04.000They're going to slowly get fined, and then they're going to look very bad for staying out of their districts and not doing anything and essentially filibustering inevitably to prevent the state house from accomplishing anything that'll be extremely unpopular.
00:12:16.000So politically, they're going to have to come back.
00:12:19.000It'll be unpopular on the state level.
00:12:22.000Do you think that it'll be popular with national Democrats?
00:12:26.000Do I think it'll be unpopular with Nemo?
00:12:27.000No, do you think that it will be popular with national Democrats?
00:12:31.000Because it will be looked at as, oh, they're taking it to Trump and they're giving it.
00:12:35.000Maybe, but I could still not name one of these.
00:13:09.000The gerrymandering is going to work and we're going to move on and no one's going to care about these people down the road.
00:13:13.000Well, I mean, I think that I think you're probably right about the long-term consequences unless one of these state legislators actually is exceptionally politically talented.
00:13:29.000Because it's like you could take someone.
00:13:31.000I mean, no one thought that Barack Obama was going to be the president six months before he got into office as the junior senator in Illinois.
00:13:42.000But because he's very politically talented, has a lot of charisma, you know, very quickly it became apparent that, wow, this guy's actually going to be a force.
00:13:49.000And then, you know, within just, you know, a year or so, he had taken over, basically taken over the whole Democrat Party.
00:13:56.000So I do think that as long as there are no, there are none of these people are actually politically talented, I think you're right.
00:14:04.000But this is the kind of thing that brings out, you know, that shines the light on politically talented people.
00:14:31.000So it's like this is what they see as their opportunity for that good trouble not coming back.
00:14:35.000And plus you can be on broadcast it every day on social media.
00:14:39.000Yeah, I mean, that's, I think that that's the kind of what I'm getting at is this is the kind of situation that really does take your nobodies and make them into somebodies.
00:14:50.000So it could be that this is an opportunity for them.
00:14:53.000Now, I mean, I could be totally wrong about the individuals.
00:14:56.000And this really does depend on the individuals in question.
00:15:00.000Like if none of them are, if they're just, you know, run-of-the-mill, you know, clowns, then they're not going to be able to capitalize on this.
00:15:05.000But this kind of attention could make a star out of them, especially if they're perceived as someone that's taking it to Donald Trump.
00:15:14.000Because that's the whole point of this, right?
00:15:16.000The whole point of this is: look at us.
00:15:19.000We're not letting Donald Trump destroy democracy for the 75,000th time, right?
00:15:24.000Like it's always about they're destroying democracy.
00:15:26.000They're going to destroy our democracy, et cetera.
00:15:29.000But, you know, this is not going to make a mess.
00:15:32.000There's going to be, I think I heard them, I think I heard the governor talking that there would be four new districts they're talking about.
00:15:41.000One of them would be, they would all be likely predominantly Republican.
00:15:47.000One would be predominantly black and one would be predominantly Hispanic, though they would be Republican still.
00:15:54.000So it's not like the Democrats really can go with their normal catchphrases or what have you.
00:16:00.000Like they're, oh, this is about racism, et cetera.
00:16:17.000Like, I think this story is really very much so like for the insiders and the people that are paying attention, the kind of the smaller percentage of people out there.
00:16:25.000Like if you ask somebody on the street, do they care about this?
00:16:28.000I think once, you know, their absence starts affecting people in Texas, like if there aren't social programs that people are relying on or whatever the case is, you know, if that starts falling through, then I think people would be like, you know, start getting outraged, but I don't know.
00:16:43.000Kind of like what Raymond said a lot of theater.
00:16:45.000And Jasmine Crockett, she's probably going to lose her seat.
00:16:50.000I think that now, Jasmine Crockett, that's someone that I think is politically talented.
00:16:56.000Again, there's going to be a lot of people that are going to wig out that I'm saying, but she gets attention.
00:17:01.000And that's what people are kind of neglecting.
00:17:05.000I've had arguments with people around this table before about like AOC's political talent.
00:17:10.000And someone's like, oh, she's just dumb and never blah, blah, blah.
00:17:14.000And that is a terrible, terrible perspective to take because whether or not she is someone that you politically agree with or someone that you find charismatic, she is charismatic.
00:17:26.000And she can definitely get people's attention.
00:17:30.000People rally behind her and feel very strongly.
00:17:33.000And she gets people like heated and she gets people to vote and be passionate about these things.
00:17:38.000When you were living in New York, were you in her district?
00:17:49.000I mean, I feel like she was really well-spoken and, like you said, charismatic.
00:17:53.000And like, I just, I think I tend to believe everything that she was saying easily.
00:17:58.000And so I think, you know, with My experience and kind of evolving, I'm more willing to really like, you know, do some more research and like, you know, and ask more questions.
00:18:09.000But she definitely had that quality or has that quality about her where, you know, where now I'm like, oh, okay, once I see the other side and I'm able to have conversations with people more.
00:18:33.000And that didn't, did that have, did that color your opinion of her when that happened, or was it something that really I don't remember that specifically being something that I, yeah, I was super involved in at the time.
00:18:46.000The reason I wonder is because that's the kind of thing that would turn a lot of people off if they, if it, when it's that type of thing that if it touches their lives, if it's like, you know, this really, I was really hoping for a job or something like that.
00:18:59.000I was, you know, I've been looking for work and et cetera.
00:19:02.000And the scuttlebutt going around was she's not in her district enough.
00:19:06.000She's always on the internet and she's always in DC and she's more concerned with being an influencer.
00:19:24.000But I see myself, you know, you were saying like kind of more of like a classic, like old school, modern liberal, a little more like left of center.
00:19:33.000Do you see this as like action, like what these Texas Democrats are doing?
00:19:37.000Do you see this as like something that the Democrats get behind?
00:19:40.000Or do you think that's, I think what I was saying is like me personally, I don't, I see it as more of like, you know, a bad look.
00:19:49.000Like I don't, it's not something I would rally behind personally.
00:19:55.000I just, I think with the Democratic Party in general, right now people are asking a lot of questions.
00:20:00.000And, you know, can you unpack that a little bit?
00:20:03.000You said, to your, you know, progressive or Democrat friends, what are the, what are the things that they say to you about the Democrat Party and about like your kind of evolution away from the more progressive side of the Democrats?
00:20:16.000Well, I'm definitely getting pushback from people on the left, like the more progressive.
00:20:21.000Like, you know, I'm seeing a difference where it's just getting very extreme, like more woke.
00:20:27.000And so by being more woke today still.
00:20:37.000So, you know, I'm getting a lot of pushback.
00:20:39.000I'm getting canceled by a lot of people that, you know, I was previously like having, you know, we were working together in the Democratic Party.
00:20:47.000And over the past several years, you know, since this most recent election, it's, I'm, you know, getting canceled for asking questions or not just like subscribing to this sort, you know, the bullet points and the, and I just find it super, you know, being called a Nazi and a fascist.
00:21:39.000When you said something, though, you said canceled.
00:21:42.000When you say canceled, what do you mean?
00:21:44.000Because colloquially canceled has meant lose a job, friends stop talking to you, possibly stop talking to you, and you find out about it because they make a big long social media post about how you're a terrible person, which has happened to me.
00:22:00.000I mean, it's been a long time since that stuff has happened to me because I've been fairly open about my opinions for a long, long time.
00:22:07.000But it was a new thing in 2013, 14, 15.
00:22:13.000People that I thought that I'd been friends with, that I'd grown up with, that I had heard say some of the most offensive, terrible jokes.
00:22:21.000And then they come out and say, oh, he's this terrible person for saying something that is night and day from what the things that I'd heard them say.
00:23:17.000You just, I mean, so that's kind of what I mean: blockings and name-calling, nasty comments, just a lot of people who are very vocal about talking to the internet.
00:24:42.000But I, you know, I think there's extremes on both sides.
00:24:46.000And so, you know, sort of trolling, you know, a bit there, but there is an authenticity and genuineness about it too, but just sort of like calling out and trolling extremes and like having fun with it too.
00:24:58.000Yeah, when you're like walking down the streets of New York, like strolling your stuff and like, I'm 40 and I'm ready for a baby, but I'm not going to have them because I'm free.
00:25:06.000Like, you know, that's that's kind of different.
00:26:13.000No, like the Democrat issues that you care about.
00:26:16.000And you were like, yeah, the mental health stuff.
00:26:18.000Well, it's not necessarily a Democrat issue.
00:26:20.000Like, that's why I'm more about bridging, like bringing people together.
00:26:24.000Like, right now, you know, I feel like I'm at least now, like, in this phase of like, we have more in common and trying to bring people together and we're all human and finding that sort of common ground is where I'm at right now.
00:26:37.000And does that mean you don't have like a bleeding hatred for the president?
00:27:03.000And that's why I'm here and why I want to like have more conversations and be like open.
00:27:09.000So, do you feel like you had a looking back now, right?
00:27:14.000To when you were more in the, I guess, liberal bubble.
00:27:19.000Do you feel like you were in a first of all?
00:27:20.000Do you feel like you were in a liberal bubble?
00:27:22.000And second of all, do you feel like you understand conservatives now better now after kind of coming out and making light of some of the more progressive ideas and also spending time with conservatives?
00:27:35.000Did you used to think that conservatives were a different kind of person, or is it something that you kind of like always were like, no, we're all kind of actually just having different opinions and come from different places?
00:27:46.000Yeah, I don't, I think that it's, I think that I can see the differences.
00:27:53.000Like, I feel like I might have lumped people all, which is not like me.
00:28:13.000But yeah, I don't think I realized now I have a better understanding.
00:28:18.000And I think getting to know people and their stories.
00:28:21.000Like, so I do interviews on X where, and I'm interviewing a lot of conservative people, Jay Sixers, et cetera.
00:28:28.000And so I would have thought the same thing, right, about that entire group of people.
00:28:32.000But like hearing their stories, you hear a whole other perspective, and not everyone's situation and where they were at that day is the same.
00:28:41.000And that's something I want to do with my podcast: really the storytelling piece and getting to know people's backgrounds so that we don't lump people and just make assumptions.
00:28:50.000But I also think like the 90s liberals are in a tough spot.
00:28:53.000Like the Conservative Party today versus the Liberal Party, like go back to the 90s, they're completely inverse.
00:29:35.000This is when, because the label on offensive records or whatever, that wasn't in the late 90s.
00:29:41.000That was in the early, late 80s, early 90s.
00:29:43.000It was when D. Snyder went before Congress and actually was talking to Congress.
00:29:49.000And it was Al Gore's wife who was the leader of the PMRC.
00:29:53.000So I do agree, you know, Republicans and conservatives have that stigma because of the fact that that's where the Christian conservatives were, but it wasn't just Republicans.
00:30:04.000And I, you know, point the Al Gore's wife.
00:30:07.000Sure, but the left was seen as the free speech party, the live and let live, the pro, you know, same-sex marriages.
00:30:13.000Like it was down with the machine, taking down the government.
00:30:21.000I think the PMRC was actually earlier, because Hook and Mouth by Megadeth references the PMRC, and that was on the, I think it was So Far So Good So What album.
00:31:21.000Going after, you know, heavy metal bands there were there were the people that were going after judas priest because they swore up and down that there were backwards messages in the songs yeah yeah yeah judas Priest had to go to court.
00:32:00.000Russian President Vladimir Putin presented the Trump administration this week with a sweeping proposal for a ceasefire in Ukraine, demanding major territorial concessions by Kiev and a push for global recognition of its claims in exchange for a halt to the fighting, according to European and Ukrainian officials.
00:32:16.000President Trump said Friday he would meet with Putin in Alaska on August 15th following Putin's proposal.
00:32:21.000He didn't provide additional information about the meeting or the exact location.
00:32:25.000The Kremlin didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
00:32:29.000European officials expressed serious reservations about Putin's proposals, which would require that Ukraine hand over eastern Ukraine, a region known as the Donbass, without Russia committing to much other than stopping fighting.
00:32:42.000The offer which Putin conveyed Wednesday to U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff in Moscow set off a diplomatic scramble to get further clarity on details of the proposal.
00:32:51.000This is something that most people that have been watching the war in Ukraine kind of figured was going to happen.
00:32:59.000So I don't know that Putin, well, the news isn't really the actual news.
00:33:05.000It's Putin saying, you know, making the remark that's actually the news.
00:33:09.000But this is something that, you know, there's always been the assumption, or at least since Putin's advance was stopped.
00:33:17.000The assumption was he was going to take the Donbass.
00:33:20.000He was going to take the places that are predominantly Russian speaking.
00:33:24.000And he was going to say, okay, this is where I'll stop.
00:33:27.000Because no one at all ever thought that Crimea was going back.
00:33:31.000Ever since 200, whatever, 12 or 13, when he actually invaded Crimea into Crimea, everyone has kind of been like, well, I guess Crimea is part of Russia now.
00:33:39.000And there are people that are like, no, especially those fellas on X. They love to say, no, we're going to kick Putin out of Crimea.
00:33:47.000And it's like, man, that ain't happening.
00:33:48.000Like, you're just, you're a clown if you think that.
00:33:58.000So this is like, this is probably a best case scenario.
00:34:02.000And it's also what kind of people really thought was going to be the end game anyways.
00:34:08.000But if I understand correctly, some of the details that Putin wants is like, there will be no UN or Ukraine will not enter into the UN.
00:34:17.000There will be no Western forces in Ukraine, which just kind of means that Putin's going to be like, all right, we'll stop fighting now until I feel like it again.
00:34:27.000So I mean, is it $80 billion well spent?
00:35:01.000It's easy to answer because it's Russia.
00:35:02.000It's Trump and Russia, the Russia gate.
00:35:05.000Anything against Russia, Russia does, they're going to hate their whole offense.
00:35:09.000The Democratic Party side is going to hate, even no matter what, to do something good, do something bad.
00:35:13.000That's why day one, they instantly put their flags in their bio because it's Russia and they're told to hate Russia because of Russia Gate.
00:35:42.000So, I mean, a lot, what do you feel is the proper course of action?
00:35:48.000Do you think that this is what was always going to be the situation?
00:35:51.000Do you think that we, I mean, I don't think we can trust Russia personally, but what do you think?
00:35:56.000So for President Putin, I think the Ukraine war is legacy-defining.
00:36:01.000He wants to take a bigger chomp out of Ukraine that he's been able to.
00:36:05.000In the initial assault, he almost split Ukraine in half when he sent that long convoy to Kyiv.
00:36:11.000I don't know if you guys recall, but they definitely want a lot more territorial gains than this.
00:36:16.000And I don't think at the negotiating table is the way that Putin will be able to achieve this.
00:36:20.000Ukraine will not give up half their country without a fight, considering how much I think they've already fought for the eastern parts of Ukraine.
00:36:27.000And from Putin's strategy, if you guys have been paying attention, President Trump has been giving this guy a ton of different deadlines that he repeatedly just has to push back because Putin doesn't want to negotiate.
00:36:38.000And I think President Trump actually knows that he's leading him on, and he just needs to allow him to do so because Trump needs to bite for more time because there's no serious solution to this that it doesn't take a large amount of political capital that I don't think the president wants to expend right now in Russia.
00:36:55.000The administration right now has been trying to pivot to the Pacific.
00:36:58.000That's been like that's actually been the government's direction pretty much since Obama's pivot to the Pacific.
00:37:04.000And right now, a lot of people pivot to the Pacific, you're talking about China.
00:37:10.000So there's a lot of people in the administration who like generally talk about that issue as a top issue.
00:37:17.000Eldridge Colby is this one of the top guys in the DOJ or in the military, I believe.
00:37:24.000And then there's also Pete Hexeth, who's been known to talk about the Pacific a lot.
00:37:28.000And they don't want to get bogged down in Russia and the type of investment that it would require to militarily remove Putin from Ukraine or stop him from advancing would be a lot.
00:37:40.000And it would be a kind of sinking of our treasury, our military treasure in Ukraine.
00:37:45.000So I think he's trying to balance all of this out.
00:37:48.000I do think it's also worth mentioning that president promised, I think it was originally on day one, that he would end the war in Russia and Ukraine.
00:38:11.000But otherwise, I don't know why people wouldn't start calling President Trump a neocon once more because he did allow a ton of arms to flow to Ukraine.
00:38:20.000Despite NATO paying for it, we're still sending a bunch of arms that Ukraine wouldn't be able to procure otherwise.
00:38:27.000I furcy us being much more involved, though, militarily, once there isn't a diplomatic solution to this.
00:38:33.000Putin, again, is just leading the president on more and more.
00:38:36.000We're seeing secondary sanctions on India that aren't panning out exactly as the way that we planned.
00:38:41.000We were trying to sanction Russian oil.
00:38:43.000There's so many different elements to what's going on here.
00:38:45.000Well, I mean, for sanctions to work, we need good partners, and good and Europe has not been a good partner anymore.
00:39:09.000I think the main buyers right now are China, India, and a couple of other small countries.
00:39:14.000And look, I do and don't blame India because from their argument, the way they see it is that, hey, we're a bunch of poor Indians and I have over a billion Indians who need cheap access to cheap oil and cheap oil from Russia.
00:39:30.000So like, you know, we're telling them to live in squalor and not buy cheap Russian oil.
00:39:37.000But they are, in a sense, also, you know, paying for the Russian economy to run and it's a wartime economy and they're just producing arms to attack Ukraine.
00:39:48.000I think we should keep our eyes on China.
00:40:31.000But if the president says, look, you need to go and talk to him, you need to be here, or whatever the conditions are.
00:40:39.000I don't know what the White House thinks that the Ukrainian president is going to do.
00:40:43.000But if the White House, hypothetically, if the White House were to say, hey, you need to sit down and talk because you're losing 5,000 people a week or whatever, and we want this to stop, and you don't have the human capital to continue this, and NATO's not coming in.
00:42:39.000You know, you go back 20, 30 years, a nuclear war was a big fear for a lot of people, even in our country.
00:42:45.000I mean, Phil knows, you know, we used to do drills for that stuff.
00:42:48.000But the point I'm making is, you know, with Trump, the position he's in, like he, the whole no new wars, and we got to end these wars, like he's in a tough position here, too, you know, because the American people don't want these wars.
00:43:02.000We don't support these wars, you know.
00:43:04.000I don't think that the U.S., I think the American people don't support sending money.
00:43:12.000I do think that if the, I think that to a lot's point earlier about where the money is coming from to pay for the arms, I think if you can sell the American people on Europe is paying American weapons manufacturers to manufacture weapons and those are the weapons that are going to Ukraine, I think you could sell the American people on that.
00:43:59.000People are like, look, man, I can't even buy a house and we're spending all this money over in Russia or over in Ukraine trying to save Ukraine.
00:44:05.000I can't afford groceries, but we're spending all this money over in Ukraine.
00:44:09.000It was a financial argument that the American people were most compelled by.
00:44:14.000So if you can convince the American people, like, look, not only are we not paying for these weapons, but we have Russia or we have Europe paying for these weapons and they're being made in America.
00:44:27.000That means there are American jobs that are being made.
00:44:31.000The money's going into American pockets to American people that work at these weapons manufacturers.
00:44:38.000And we're also putting a hurt onto our geopolitical enemies because Russia is a geopolitical enemy.
00:44:45.000Don't forget, just a couple years back, there were Russians, the Wagner group was fighting with Americans in Syria.
00:44:51.000Like there's a couple pretty famous engagements where U.S. special forces were fighting with Russian PMCs.
00:44:59.000And Americans, or at least Americans that pay attention, remember that.
00:45:03.000And they still look at Russia as an enemy.
00:45:05.000So I think that the American people could be sold on that if just so long as it's not Americans that are paying for it.
00:46:19.000Like, there's a lot of stuff that we get taken advantage of.
00:46:22.000People in the military, I've had a lot of people, friends that were in the military, they love going to war because they get paid triple time.
00:47:39.000No, I think you just read into the president what you want to hear.
00:47:41.000I think the president ran on a lot of different things, like peace through strength, and he ran on Iran never being able to get a nuclear weapon.
00:47:46.000I don't know if you were paying attention.
00:48:14.000I don't have the answers, but I tend to not want to be in war.
00:48:18.000And I definitely would ask, you know, have questions about why we're involved or, you know, was it the argument that Trump was making when he was campaigning?
00:48:28.000Was that an argument based on economics?
00:48:31.000Or do you think that it was an argument based on not being involved in war overall?
00:49:32.000They're sending money to our weapons manufacturers, and our weapons manufacturers are sending weapons to Ukraine so the Ukrainians can defend themselves.
00:49:41.000I feel like that's an argument that the American people will say, all right, fine, I don't care.
00:49:46.000Because I understand your perspective, Sean, that, you know, it's not our fight.
00:49:50.000It's not a fight the United States wants to be in.
00:49:53.000But the United States is not over there doing the dying.
00:50:46.000But I mean, you know, and when 9-11 did happen and we did have boots on the ground in Iraq, a lot of sentiment around the country was, we don't, you know, why are we there?
00:51:35.000We're the most, when you're the most powerful military in the world, that's the thing that people are going to come to you and say, hey, we have this problem.
00:51:43.000Your allies are going to come to you and say, hey, we have this problem and we want you to help us.
00:51:47.000Like that, whether or not the American people get behind it, that is part of being the most powerful military in the world.
00:51:59.000But I think that there's a difference between being the world police, right?
00:52:03.000Taking the initiative to say that we're going to stop this and stop that, and then selecting which conflicts we're going to involve ourselves in.
00:52:32.000And I think that whereas most, I would probably say most Americans don't make the distinction, but as far as like Washington goes, there's definitely a distinction in that.
00:53:21.000So there's not as, but I think I see people dying.
00:53:25.000I mean, I don't, you know, that's the part I don't like about obviously people, you know, there's very strong reasons why people are doing it and putting their lives on the line.
00:53:56.000So we're going to jump to the, we're going to at least talk a little bit more about Trump and Putin.
00:54:01.000From Fox News, Trump Putin will hold first ever in-person meeting since Ukraine invasion next week in Alaska.
00:54:08.000President Donald Trump and President and Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet next Friday, August 15th for the first person in for the first in-person meeting between the leaders of the U.S. and Russia since Moscow launched its deadly 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
00:54:21.000The leaders are expected to meet in Alaska, Trump said in a post on Truth Social.
00:54:24.000The highly anticipated meeting between myself as President of the United States of America and President Vladimir Putin of Russia will take place next Friday, August 15th, 2025, in the great state of Alaska.
00:54:35.000Trump wrote in his Friday evening post.
00:54:45.000The location of the meeting was a major point of interest after the summit was first floated following a call between Trump and Putin on Wednesday after White House envoy Steve Witkoff traveled to Moscow to meet with the Kremlin chief.
00:54:57.000Hungary, Switzerland, Italy, and the UAE were all under consideration, with Putin originally favoring Hungary, according to sources familiar with the planning.
00:55:05.000The Kremlin chief also shot down the idea of meeting in Italy, according to reports on Friday, due to Rome's perceived closeness with the Ukrainian president Vladimir Zelensky.
00:55:14.000Following the Wednesday, Trump Putin called the U.S. president, also spoke with Zelensky along with European leaders on the potential for a trilateral meeting.
00:55:21.000So I don't know how realistic a trilateral meeting would be, but I mean, again, to your point earlier, a lot, do you think that if Trump says, hey, Zelensky, get on a plane, do you think that he has the ability to say no?
00:55:36.000I don't think Putin wants to meet with Zelensky because it gives him more credibility than I think Putin believes he deserves.
00:55:43.000So he doesn't want to give him like a lot of respect to meet with him.
00:55:48.000I think Putin and Trump are going to meet in Alaska and nothing's going to get done.
00:55:52.000Like a bold lib at a bar, he's being let on.
00:56:11.000The way Putin talks about Zelensky is like that he's a rogue state, that Ukraine, you know, is a completely rogue actor and he's a leader of an illegitimate state.
00:56:19.000So if he meets with him, it's giving him like that credibility.
00:56:23.000And so he, Zelensky wants to meet with Putin.
00:56:26.000Putin doesn't want to meet with Zelensky.
00:56:28.000Putin wants to waste Trump's time in this meeting and lead him on more.
00:56:33.000And the war is going to go on because Putin wants definitely a bigger bite of Ukraine because they made baby gains, Russian military, very unimpressive gains in Ukraine.
00:58:24.000I think that I honestly, like, if you really think about it, I don't think that Donald Trump would want to risk that because Putin would get up and be like, all right, well, I'm leaving.
00:59:31.000Like, we were just talking about how the American people are like, okay, well, if Americans aren't doing the dying and we're not paying for it, fine.
00:59:38.000But the American people wouldn't be like, oh, you want to risk nuclear war so that way you can protect Ukraine, which I don't give an S about.
00:59:48.000The American people just that would not fly.
00:59:51.000Now, I do think that the U.S. has, I think that this is this particular engagement or this war has shown that Ukraine, or I'm sorry, Russia is kind of a paper tiger beyond their nuclear weapons, right?
01:00:05.000Like if it were U.S. versus Russia without nuclear weapons, there is no question in my mind the United States would stomp an absolute mud hole in them, right?
01:00:16.000Just absolutely decimate the Russians.
01:02:12.000Or the point that I'm making is the argument was he was he had cancer and he was, you know, he was degrading and et cetera, et cetera.
01:02:19.000It was like rumors that we didn't know.
01:02:21.000It was two years ago, and we haven't seen the fruition of this alleged cancer, right?
01:02:26.000Well, you can live with cancer for years.
01:02:28.000No, to rewind, what we were actually talking about was Russia's military capacity in Ukraine and their ability to overtake it, which they haven't displayed and haven't done a very good job of, but like they do have nukes.
01:02:45.000But conventionally, they are clearly unable and falling very short, probably losing hundreds of thousands of Russians for a lot less than I think they anticipated to get originally.
01:02:55.000This looks like, from a Russian perspective, almost like they're Afghanistan.
01:03:03.000No, it's not even close to Afghanistan because like almost every, like, I can't think of a significant engagement the United States lost in Afghanistan.
01:03:36.000Yeah, like in Iraq, it was like, oh, we're going to set these.
01:03:40.000We'll be welcomed as liberators in Iraq, et cetera, et cetera.
01:03:44.000Afghanistan, it was just like, you're in the Stone Age and we're going to keep you there for 30 decades if you don't.
01:03:48.000There's no nation to go in Afghanistan.
01:03:51.000And the funny thing, and after 9-11, you remember this, Phil, like the Americans were all on board for that strike in Afghanistan because it just got hit.
01:04:20.000Well, I mean, yeah, I don't think that the American, I think that we've made it fairly clear that the American people don't support having an actual war in Ukraine where the U.S. is actually on the ground and involved in the fight.
01:04:35.000But, all right, I think that we've talked enough about military force in Ukraine.
01:04:40.000Maybe we should talk about military force in Mexico.
01:04:50.000President Donald Trump has reportedly ordered the Pentagon to begin using military force against drug cartels that have been deemed terrorist organizations under his administration.
01:04:59.000People familiar with the matter revealed to the New York Times.
01:05:02.000Anna Kelly, a spokeswoman for the White House, told the outlet when asked about Trump authorizing military force against cartels, President Trump's top priority is to protect the homeland, which is why he took the bold step to designate several cartels and gangs as foreign terrorist organizations.
01:05:20.000The sources said that the U.S. military officials have begun preparing options for how to go after the designated cartel groups.
01:05:28.000Per the outlet, the directive is focused on U.S. forces directly capturing or killing people involved in the drug trade.
01:05:35.000Now, I just saw a tweet from President Scheinbaum, and she straight up said that there is no chance of U.S. military forces in Mexico.
01:05:48.000Now, I think she was referring to boots on the ground.
01:05:52.000Actually, let me see if I can find that.
01:05:56.000While you're looking for that, Phil, a lot, do you support this?
01:05:58.000Do you support boots on the ground in Mexico?
01:06:03.000But yes, I feel like this has to be dealt with militarily.
01:06:07.000I just am very nervous of an outlandish cartel response or the killing of Americans visiting in Mexico or even them breaching American territory and trying to send a message to Americans.
01:06:22.000But I'm confident President Trump is doing this lightly.
01:06:26.000Also, like, I think we have, I wonder what troops she's talking about specifically, because I do believe we already are like deeply ingratiated there with like our DEA agents or have been on and off for some time.
01:06:54.000I mean, you hear rumors that there are former U.S. military special forces guys that are actually training some of the cartel members, which is a terrible, terrible development.
01:07:05.000And I think that should they actually be, should that actually turn out to be true, the U.S. should deal with these people accordingly.
01:07:53.000There is precedent for the U.S. to be involved militarily going after cartel members.
01:07:59.000I understand, but I'm just saying in Mexico, the people have accepted the cartels as this iron fist or whatever you want to call it.
01:08:06.000Us going in and disrupting it, don't you think something else is just going to pop up in their place?
01:08:10.000Allegedly, or ostensibly, what should happen is the U.S., should the U.S. go in and actually directly involve themselves with the cartels, what should happen is the local police forces that are supposed to be, you know, run by the municipalities, they should step in and say, okay, we weren't able to fight the cartels.
01:08:33.000Now that the U.S. has either decapitated or significantly degraded their ability to murder people by the dozens.
01:09:18.000I think, like, you know, I personally think the best offense is a good defense.
01:09:22.000And I do believe in a lot of those principles that come out of the American first movement where it's like we need to be focused on home and focused on.
01:09:29.000How is a narco country on our southern border not focused at home?
01:10:02.000All I'm saying is when you're the bully and you go in and you're saying, hey, we're going to fundamentally change this, just like Afghanistan, just like Iraq.
01:10:09.000You can't go in and tell people, hey, the way you live is wrong.
01:10:13.000We're going to kill them and put in what we want.
01:10:29.000Then when they start, you know, you get them out and then they're actually attacking us, like doing like bombing buildings or cars or whatever the case is.
01:11:00.000So what do you say to the idea that the United States has actually been disassembling terrorist organizations for 20 years?
01:11:12.000And whereas I understand if you're making the argument that changing a government doesn't work, I can concede that.
01:11:23.000But the idea that the United States is not successful or has not been successful dismantling terrorist organizations, that's just flat out wrong.
01:11:31.000So a lot of people love to say, oh, well, you know, the U.S. tries to go in and do all these changes to these countries, et cetera, et cetera.
01:11:53.000And that's what the U.S. has been doing for 20 years.
01:11:55.000There has been a sharp decline in terrorist attacks Against the United States in the past 15 years, the last time there was some kind of significant upswing in terrorist attacks was ISIS, and the U.S. completely wiped ISIS out.
01:12:22.000We're going because I'm not because I'm not talking about drone campaigns.
01:12:25.000Let me finish the sentence and stop talking before I'm done.
01:12:28.000I'm not talking about just drone campaigns.
01:12:30.000I'm talking about dismantling terrorist organizations.
01:12:33.000The drone campaigns were one aspect of an overall system, right?
01:12:40.000So it was intel, it was actual boots on the ground, like Delta Force going in and killing bad guys.
01:12:46.000That's why there was, that's why Bagram Air Force Base in Iraq still has U.S. soldiers there, is because they use that as a Ford operating base, or they did use that as an afford operating base when Syria was being overrun by ISIS.
01:13:00.000And then subsequently, when they had the civil war that was going on, right?
01:13:05.000So like the U.S. is extremely good at dismantling terrorist organizations, and we've got 20 years of doing it.
01:13:14.000And I understand, like, people love to say, oh, well, you know, Afghanistan, blah, blah, blah.
01:13:18.000The U.S. didn't lose engagements in Afghanistan.
01:13:23.000And the U.S. did there were serious, serious fights in Iraq, but even that, like the U.S. lost the politics of it.
01:13:32.000The U.S. didn't lose a lot of engagements.
01:13:34.000The U.S. military and U.S. political goals are totally different things.
01:13:41.000And the U.S. military is second to none at finding and killing terrorists.
01:13:47.000And if the U.S. has actually decided, or if the U.S. were to actually decide, hey, we think that the terrorist organization or the cartels in Mexico are terrorist organizations, and we're going to apply the same pressure to them that we did to ISIS.
01:14:04.000I don't think that it's the situation where, oh, you know, we can't do anything about it anymore.
01:14:57.000No, no, we're talking about some of the things that I've been talking about.
01:14:59.000I watched that one of the big lib issues during this administration that's kind of been an 80-20 issue for them.
01:15:06.000And that's kind of President Trump's like reinvigoration of ICE and like the Democrat opposition to that.
01:15:12.000I think it was governor from Minnesota, Tim Waltz, said the ICE that they're like the Gestapo.
01:15:18.000And it's part and parcel for how many Democrats describe ICE.
01:15:22.000What do you think of the president's, I guess, immigration strategy?
01:15:27.000I mean, being in New York City, like I'm, you know, I'm giving Trump props on this one, like from what I see.
01:15:35.000So this is, again, I know, but it's, it's, it's a bold lib thing to say this, but I feel like it's a bold statement because a lot of Democrats wouldn't say that, right?
01:15:45.000Like, I want to give, like, I'm not rooting against Trump and I'm not rooting against the country.
01:15:58.000I have seen, I think he has been successful in doing that.
01:16:02.000And yeah, I definitely don't agree with, you know, violence against ICE agents and against ICE.
01:16:09.000So, and I do believe that people, you know, should be here legally and go through the right process and steps.
01:16:18.000So, again, with the sense of humanity, like I care about people and their families and their situations, but I also, you know, if they're here illegally, like I feel, you know, that that's a concern that needs to be dealt with.
01:16:32.000And they should, like, you know, I have, I wouldn't go to another country.
01:16:36.000Like, I feel for their situations and why they're fleeing.
01:16:40.000But I wouldn't expect to go to another country and just be able to be there.
01:16:45.000You just got canceled by the rest of your Democrat friends.
01:17:17.000I want a 10-year moratorium on all immigration except for 0-1 visas.
01:17:21.000I want to see actual punishment for people that hire or rent apartments to illegal immigrants because the best case scenario is a scenario where people deport themselves.
01:17:36.000I don't like the idea of ICE having to run people down and going through neighborhoods to pick up illegals and stuff.
01:17:44.000So the best possible situation is making it incredibly hard for them to stay.
01:17:48.000So if you are renting to someone that's an illegal, that person should possibly lose their property.
01:17:55.000Maybe second offense, they lose their property.
01:17:56.000Definitely they go to jail in their first offense.
01:17:59.000If you are hiring illegals, you should run the risk of losing your business, tax remittances at 90%.
01:18:07.000So that way they can't get the money that they make out of the United States.
01:18:11.000And of course, anyone that's caught that's illegal, they just go out and they can never come back.
01:18:16.000And H-1Bs, because that's corporate slavery.
01:18:20.000And H-1Bs, I like H-1, not H-1, the 0-1 visas, but there should be a lot of, what's the word I'm looking for?
01:21:17.000So Delta's, Delta was, Delta Force was involved in picking up Pablo Escobar in Colombia and El Chapo in Mexico.
01:21:22.000I've targeted raids against powerful narco-cartel gangs in like northern Mexico, farther from the centralized government where they're most potent on our northern border.
01:22:14.000We're going to jump to this story to close it out tonight.
01:22:16.000From the post-millennial again, Virginia high school staff accused of secretly helping students get abortions, including pressuring a girl who was five months along.
01:22:28.000An investigation is underway in Virginia's largest public school district after allegations came out claiming a staff at a local high school arranged and funded abortions for students without notifying their parents.
01:22:39.000The claims involved Centerville High School in Fairfax County, where employees allegedly helped at least one 17-year-old obtain an abortion in 2021.
01:22:48.000The story was first reported by the WC Dispatch, which said there were two instances of female minor students saying school officials arranged and bankrolled abortions at Fairfax Health Center without so much as a phone call to their parents.
01:23:01.000Under Virginia law, physicians must attest that at least one parent or guardian was contacted before performing the abortion on a minor.
01:23:10.000The 17-year-old student was allegedly assisted by a school social worker who scheduled and paid for the appointment and kept the information from the student's parents.
01:23:18.000A second female student who was five months pregnant was allegedly told by the same social worker that the student had no other choice, but the student fled from the clinic and did not go through with the procedure.
01:23:28.000Per the outlet, school principal Chad Liam allegedly green lit the procedures, which were paid for with school funds.
01:24:17.000If I understand correctly, at five months, it's possible that the baby could be born and survive under, you know, it has to be in care and stuff, but like it can survive at five months.
01:24:26.000So like the idea that thankfully the girl ran away from them, which kind of makes it more horrible, right?
01:24:33.000Like the girls like being ushered in, like it just gives you like this concept of like them trying to be like, no, you got to get rid of that thing.
01:25:01.000I am pro-choice, but also coming from like a health background, mental health, what like this is all shady because there should be there, you know, they, there is, you know, they do need to have parents' permission to do anything as a minor.
01:25:19.000So this does not seem like it was gone about, obviously, the right way.
01:25:24.000Well, that's, that's kind of the shocking thing.
01:25:25.000And like, this, this, a lot of this came out during the critical race theory and the COVID, you know, during COVID when, you know, parents could see what their kids were doing in school.
01:25:44.000In a lot of states, the schools trump parents' rights.
01:25:48.000So the school can say, you know, schools will treat a kid as trans.
01:25:53.000If a kid says they're trans, a school will treat them as trans and won't will never tell the parents, you know, abortion like this, never tell the parents.
01:26:02.000And to Phil's point, like they do say, you know, like, these are our kids.
01:26:05.000We love these kids like they are our kids.
01:26:07.000And then you see like this weird weirdness of them including the parents.
01:26:11.000And I've talked to a lot of educators, especially that were on the left, and their argument is always their defense is, well, a lot of these kids have troubled homes.
01:26:19.000And we know if we tell their parents they're trans or they're this, like they're going to be treated like crap at home and yada yada yada.
01:26:27.000But it's at the end of the day, it's not their kid.
01:26:31.000I mean, if you say that, like you're a Republican, if you say, oh, it's parents' rights, like the parents' rights don't exist on the level.
01:26:58.000Have you heard, you've heard stories of minors going for transition surgery and stuff?
01:27:06.000I mean, this to me seems like the mild situation, which is ridiculous.
01:27:14.000I mean, the fact that I'm even articulating this idea is mind-blowing to me.
01:27:18.000But an abortion paid for and handled by the school is actually significantly less.
01:27:27.000I mean, I'm not, I'm actually, I'm not sure about that, but it strikes me as significantly less offensive than a teenager or maybe young teen getting some kind of transition surgery without the parents' involvement.
01:27:44.000I think like those things can like coexist, right?
01:27:46.000They can both be, I don't know that one, everyone's situation is different, but I also agree with you in terms of I don't think those surgeries should be done on children either.
01:27:56.000I definitely think that children can feel a certain way.
01:28:00.000Maybe they feel more like a man or a person.
01:28:35.000They see this as like keeping the kids safe from the parents.
01:28:38.000So it's like, it's hard to like explain to people that literally think they're doing a good thing for kids, like, hey, this is horrible child abuse and the parents should be involved.
01:28:48.000I'm not so sure that there are people that really believe that they're helping so much as they really believe that there should be more people that think like them.
01:29:02.000Like, I think that's a little bit of a problem.
01:29:04.000I think that when it comes to like the LGBT stuff, especially when you're talking about trans people, I think that they are looking to make more of them.
01:29:50.000No, it's, I want these kids to be like me.
01:29:53.000It doesn't matter that the kid, if, because if it was really about the kid, they could be like, well, we can wait.
01:30:00.000Because there are even, even if you're making arguments that are pro-transitioning, right doing it to children is bad if only because there's not enough material to fabricate the genitals of the opposite sex when they're children because the gen you know their genitals haven't grown so now this is not in any way like some kind of endorsement i think that it's an abomination but if you really care about the kids then you would want to have as much material
01:30:31.000work with so you have the best possible outcome but they don't want that they or they don't care about that they want the transition to happen as early as possible because it validates their own mental yeah i agree okay there definitely are the activists and there definitely are the useful idiots but at the end of the day most of them still think they're saving the kid's life from committing suicide because that is i think that that's the end goal if they don't transition the kid they are convinced that
01:31:00.000the kid will self-harm i disagree i think i disagree i don't think that it's actually the the like fundamental motivation is not about the kid it's not about saving the kid it's not about having a kid that transitions and has a better happier life it's about get this kid to transition because that validates me i think it's narcissistic and i think that it's not about the child because like i said there are arguments for people that agree like i can make i
01:31:30.000don't agree with this but i i can make the argument that if you think that it's good to transition you should wait until their genitals have fully matured so that way you have the most material but they don't think they're gonna make it that long they truly if you talked i mean angela back me up here i mean i they're lying right it's hard whenever you generalize like i don't think every like you can't generalize across the board i think everything is situational but i would say in my experience i more believe that
01:32:00.000they think that they're helping like i think it might be an overreach or a stretch or based on being older and thinking you know you've been had no but i do like i have relative like i have a trans cousin um i my aunt has like i've seen her go through that process like i genuinely don't think that she is pushing anything on her right like i think that she feels like she's trying like he was bullied in school and i think she and you know they're unhappy and
01:32:29.000potentially suicidal and i so i do think my experience has been more that people genuinely are trying to help and think that they're doing the best thing but i i agree with you that i that's a it's a young age to be doing like a surgery like that they're activists at the top totally that know exactly what they're doing and are trying to further the ideology like you're saying but i think a lot of the educator uh educators especially like truly believe they're helping the kid like they just spend you know they've
01:32:59.000been brainwashed into thinking this is the way so your your argument is not that the educators as in like people that you would teachers regular normal people yeah like regular bought into the line that the trans people that are who run the schools who are at the top of the schools yeah yeah yeah yeah okay i i can understand that i think that i think that that does make sense i think the people that are the activists that are the the most likely to do things like kidnap a kid take them to a place where they can get a
01:33:29.000transition yeah i think those people are are the ones that i'm referring to yes i don't think that they're actually motivated to help people i think they're motivated by the fact that they're narcissists and that they want to see more people like them and it validates their own uh what's the word i'm looking for their their own self-image yeah their own yeah their own like motivations and it's like and it's sad too because like the hardest thing on the left these days which is really sad it's like you know everything you're saying is right phil about like why they shouldn't be doing it but
01:33:59.000as soon as you have that discussion with an educator uh on that level like they shut down they stop listening they stop talking like you can bring up all these facts hey you should wait till you're 18 all these things hey this you know thing about like self-harm in a video game is not necessarily true whatever they don't they just shut down and so it's really hard to get through to them and they're the ones that are overseeing the education system you know so and like bringing it back to the story that we were on like i think the social work that i do think that they probably want to help
01:34:29.000these children but there are those measures in place for a reason, right?
01:34:33.000Like with going through the parents, and you, I mean, that's it, it's just like, yeah, it's crossing a boundary in a line for sure.
01:34:39.000I think it's most when it comes to teachers that would help a kid get an abortion.
01:34:45.000I think that that is them thinking that they're doing the right thing.
01:34:49.000Because if you listen to people make arguments for abortion, I think the vast majority of arguments for abortion are bad, but then because they're always like the extreme cases that are like, you know, 0.01%, oh, you know, they'll be poor.
01:35:04.000Oh, so it's better to kill a kid as opposed to have a poor kid.
01:35:39.000Well, you got to be careful on the conservative side because birth control is not necessarily the most popular on the conservative side, too.
01:35:46.000So that's where that whole discussion gets really weird.
01:35:50.000I think when you get to the abortion discussion, it's too late.
01:35:54.000Like there needs to be a whole discussion of what's happening before the abortion discussion.
01:35:58.000And, you know, the conservatives will say, okay, abstinence, more responsibility, yada, yada.
01:36:03.000The left will say, they used to say, use like protection and condoms and stuff like that.
01:36:16.000I mean, well, again, the distinction that you're making here is actually the distinction between the Christian conservatives and the broader MAGA coalition.
01:36:24.000So even the broad MAGA coalition would be like the Democrats from the 90s that we were talking about earlier.
01:36:28.000But I would still say broad MAGA does not support the Plan B. It does not support things like that.
01:36:45.000I think MAGA writ large is pro-choice.
01:36:48.000I think Trump's made this pivot in the Republican Party to now be relatively pro-choice.
01:36:54.000And when I say that, I mean that he's moving more in the pro-choice direction.
01:36:58.000In effect, what he's actually doing is allowing the states to make their own decisions and leaving it up to the states.
01:37:04.000But I don't think that's a fundamentally pro-life position.
01:37:06.000And compared to Republicans of the past, it's going in the pro-choice direction.
01:37:11.000And I think that's effective politically because it's dispelling, I think, Democrats' most potent attack against Republicans.
01:37:19.000I think for many women, the Republican Party was a little bit unappealing because of the abortion issue.
01:37:26.000That could get a little bit iffy for them.
01:37:28.000I don't know if I'm breaking any news here, but abortion is a little bit more personal for women than it is for men.
01:37:34.000So it's a little bit of a touchy subject for them.
01:37:37.000So I think politically, it's very potent, but it's also going at one of the traditional three stools, one of the stools of the Republican Party, which is religious conservatives that are completely unaligned with the MAGA, the larger MAGA movement on this issue, because they go as far as to not even believe in IVF.
01:37:57.000There are many Christian MAGA people who don't believe in IVF, let alone who are pro-life.
01:38:05.000So I think that's something important to consider.
01:38:08.000And that could be a core constituency in the future that could turn against the Republican Party if they keep heading in the pro-choice direction.
01:38:16.000But that's like, you know, what's the terminology?
01:38:21.000They're hitting stuff in their own foot.
01:38:23.000Like people like Lila Rose or something like that, they're telling people not to vote for Trump because he's not super, you know, pro-life.
01:38:30.000Vote for a Democrat so they can kill a baby in nine months?
01:38:33.000Like, they have no choice in the matter.
01:38:35.000Unless you have a third party, if you don't go with someone who's, you know, moderately released, leave it up to the states and move to the state that you want to live in where you can save your baby no matter what.
01:38:43.000And they can't, you know, whatever they got going on.
01:39:07.000And this is a drug that during COVID, it required like a meeting.
01:39:12.000Before COVID, it required a meeting with the doctor to be able to be prescribed it post-COVID because COVID disallowed people from meeting with one another.
01:39:18.000They changed the law such that women were able to be prescribed this and didn't have to be with the doctors.
01:39:23.000We're still under those COVID laws or post-COVID laws where women don't have to meet with a doctor to get this drug.
01:39:30.000This drug's becoming a lot more accessible.
01:39:32.000So when we think about how abortion will look in the future, it will become more medicalized.
01:39:38.000Women will have a lot easier access to it through Mephipristone.
01:39:41.000If it ever becomes illegal, women can easily, you know, get access to these drugs despite that because it's abortion and a pill.
01:39:49.000You don't need to do a crazy coat hanger or something.
01:40:45.000I'm going to stop using that as an example now.
01:40:47.000I always used to say, like, oh, you really abhor all the young women are encouraged to abort, but I guess not because the show is still going on.
01:40:55.000Also, on Mefepristo, real quick, the Trump administration actually defended its use in Texas.
01:40:59.000They're trying to not have different people and different courts go after women's access to mephapristo.
01:41:06.000And I think it really speaks to the pro-choice direction of the at least the administration right now.
01:41:12.000And they don't want to touch this issue with a 10-foot pole.
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01:43:22.000And afterwards, we have a little get-together for the Discord members after the live event.
01:43:26.000So you have an extension after live vet, and you get to meet people In the Discord at the live event.
01:43:31.000So I think there's still time to do that too, right?
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01:44:58.000Wyatt Caldenberg says: if they arrest one of these Dems, I think he's talking about the Texas legislators, he or she will become a superstar.
01:45:06.000If they arrest 30 or more, they become a faceless mob.
01:45:09.000Everyone remembers the first man to step on the moon.
01:46:55.000Ligma Johnson says Trump's promise to end the war on day one came before Biden Greenlit American missiles to be fired on civilian targets inside Russia.
01:47:03.000Biden did everything he could to fan those flames.
01:47:05.000Yeah, I agree, but at the same time, like what a cope.
01:47:09.000Yeah, I mean, his point isn't well taken, but at the same time, I don't think that Trump could have just stepped in and said, hey, stop.
01:47:19.000And I mean, you know, Putin was going to listen because Putin, again, Putin has all the cards.
01:47:25.000Putin is in the position of power there.
01:47:27.000Well, that's why it's like we are always in the impossible position of like trying to bury beefs, like end beefs.
01:47:34.000And it's like, I get we're powerful, but how do you stop people that have hated each other for as long as they hate each other?
01:47:52.000Shane H. Wilder says a Tarrant County judge granted Paxton's request for a temporary restraining order injunction against Beto O'Rourke's powered bythepeople.org.
01:48:02.000That was receiving funds to pay fines of the Dems.
01:48:06.000Big W. Hey, look, anytime Beto O'Rourke gets his fanny slapped, I'm happy.
01:48:12.000Well, hand slapped, smack in the face.
01:48:49.000He's one of the guys who fled, but he's also one of the guys who went on Joe Rogan's podcast like a week or so ago, and he's getting a lot of buzz.
01:48:56.000So if there's somebody who's trying to finesse this whole, you know, political stunt into something, it's this guy.
01:49:02.000And I mean, this is what he wants for us to keep our eyes on him.
01:49:06.000But I guess he's somebody to keep his eyes on.
01:49:22.000Shane H. Wilder again said, remember Warren's cherry pie album, 1990, had a 55-second track called Ode to Tipper Gore that consisted of clips of every foul word they said in concert as a big middle finger to the warning label.
01:49:43.000Yeah, artists were all like, because Walmart wouldn't carry them, like, family-friendly stores wouldn't carry them once they had that label on it and you lost a ton of money.
01:51:32.000The military makes sure that every nation is allowed to use the seas in a way that is not particularly preferential to other, you know, to other countries or to one country.
01:51:44.000And I think that that has been an actual benefit to the whole world for the entire time that the United States has been doing that.
01:51:52.000So the post-World War II order, with the United States being the, at least making sure that everyone can trade on the open sea, I think that that's been a benefit for the whole world.
01:52:06.000And I would like to keep it that way because I don't know that I think that it would be a significantly worse situation if Russia were in charge of part of the oceans and China were in part of the in charge of the South China Sea and we didn't have at least the ability to fend off a significant increase in piracy out from Somalia and stuff.
01:52:30.000Like the United States really does do a lot to keep that kind of stuff under control.
01:52:34.000So I think that's a that's a net good net positive for the whole world.
01:52:39.000Phil, real quick question for you, sir.
01:52:41.000would that be like all of the oceans but also like the seas like the black sea the red sea the u.s can't go into the black sea like the the just talking about the example talking just oceans straight up yeah yeah because the like the u.s isn't gonna if if you've like the black sea you know it's surrounded territorially by the gulfs do you think no because the because the thing is it's it's it's multiple countries that are are actually you know yeah when it comes like the gulf of oman or
01:53:11.000whatever there there are multiple countries that are are that border the gulf so if it's an international seaway then the u.s is going to make sure that it stays open and i think that's a a generally positive thing for the rest of the world don't get caught up on the on the black sea i was just uh throwing examples off the top of my head no hate let's see ian kenny says i know i'm late on this topic but i was busy in regards to the texas gerrymandering convo here's a wisconsin pbs headline democrats flipped 14
01:53:41.000in the Wisconsin legislature in 2024 after redistricting.
01:53:46.000Look, there are something like 40% of the population of Massachusetts are Republicans, maybe 35%.
01:53:53.000And there are zero Republican seats from Massachusetts.
01:53:56.000New York City is definitely something along the lines of like 30, 70, or in the greater New York metro area, all Democrats, if I understand correctly.
01:54:07.000So Illinois is largely controlled by Democrats.
01:54:11.000There are like at least 75% of the seats out of California are Democrats.
01:54:18.000The representation for conservatives in blue states is almost non-existent or actually non-existent in many of the blue states.
01:54:29.000So the idea that Democrats are, you know, the idea that Democrats are being somehow shut down and they don't have political power because of gerrymandering, like that's just a BS line intended to get Democrats worked up.
01:55:02.000And considering the massive shift of population after COVID from states like California to states like Texas and the influx of people from illegal, the four years of essentially open borders because of the Biden administration, there's a really strong argument to do redistricting now.
01:55:21.000So this idea or the argument that the left makes, it doesn't hold water.
01:56:41.000right down the road brother yeah right i mean it's like you know they say it's already alive in the womb you know in korea they start from when you get pregnant they start counting you don't have to put a super chat in even if you're on the show well i mean i i'll i'll i'll send the super chat as the uh tesla's driving us to the uh yeah there you go or maybe i'll just wait till it happens like surprising You're on the show.
01:57:00.000Put the super chat in before you run to the hospital.
01:57:02.000I mean, rumor has it the first one takes a while.
01:58:24.000And also, yeah, like if you are an expat or not even an expat, there are people that are just that just went to Mexico City to work, right?
01:59:29.000The problem is that there are Mexicans that can't find apartments and stuff like that.
01:59:32.000Which is, I guarantee, just like in the United States, the cost is because of things like zoning and because of the governments of the municipalities and then the state and country more broadly.
01:59:46.000But they're still blaming the Americans.
02:00:04.000I just don't understand how we're having an issue with population when literally every night there's two or kids in the super chats that are born.
02:00:35.000He might not have ended the war on day one, but if Biden didn't fan the flame, it might have been over by now.
02:00:41.000I mean, look, man, I don't know, but I really don't think that Trump had the ability to.
02:00:47.000And the reason is because Vladimir Putin has all of the cards.
02:00:52.000Like, the United States, the American people, were not going to support actual military action against the Russians in Ukraine.
02:01:01.000And that's the stick that the United States has, right?
02:01:04.000The U.S. can do things like try and sanction.
02:01:07.000The U.S. can do things like send weapons to Ukraine.
02:01:12.000But the real, you know, when the rubber hits the road, it's the United States military actually taking decisive action.
02:01:19.000And the U.S. isn't going to do it against Russia because of all the possibility of all those nuclear weapons.
02:01:25.000So, you know, it may sound nice and Trump can talk a good game, but it was never really in the cards of Trump coming in and saying, hey, get out of here, Putin.
02:01:39.000You know, that wasn't going to happen.
02:01:40.000Yeah, on that, Phil, just as much as I like to think America is how badass we are, and we can tell people what to do and how to live their lives in other countries.
02:01:48.000Russia's, when you think about it, Russia is stronger than I would think than I want them to be because they're another world power.
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