Verdict with Ted Cruz - March 20, 2025


Bonus: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton - Mar 20 2025


Episode Stats

Length

1 hour and 2 minutes

Words per Minute

174.00322

Word Count

10,823

Sentence Count

709

Misogynist Sentences

37

Hate Speech Sentences

37


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 This is an iHeart Podcast.
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00:00:04.660 Welcome, everybody.
00:00:05.720 Thursday edition of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton show kicks off now,
00:00:10.960 and we've got a lot to break down with all of you.
00:00:14.060 Our friends, plural there.
00:00:16.660 I had to make sure I threw in the plural.
00:00:17.820 Our friends, Julie Kelly and Ryan Gradoska will be joining Julie in the second hour
00:00:21.580 on the judicial coup that is still very much underway
00:00:25.680 and a major challenge for the Trump agenda,
00:00:28.340 but one I think that they are up to the task of tackling.
00:00:33.080 And then Ryan Gradoska on some of the numbers, including Clay.
00:00:35.760 That discussion yesterday that we had,
00:00:38.160 I had a lot of people reaching out to me off air,
00:00:40.900 either about hearing us on the show, talking about that,
00:00:43.980 or even just in my life who had seen those numbers.
00:00:48.140 And we've got to put some of these questions out there again,
00:00:50.680 like college-educated white women.
00:00:53.620 Zelensky is the thing that they are the biggest outliers on,
00:00:56.220 how much they love Volodymyr Zelensky.
00:00:58.980 There's some crazy.
00:01:00.100 And DEI.
00:01:01.260 Those two things go together.
00:01:02.580 I think also I saw today,
00:01:04.480 and it ties in with what we were talking about yesterday, I think,
00:01:07.960 because I said if we overlaid the different groups,
00:01:12.340 I think what you would find is that white college-educated women
00:01:15.200 are the least happy of all of those groups,
00:01:18.160 whether it's non-college-educated white men and women
00:01:21.800 or men who went to college.
00:01:23.660 Did you see this today, Buck?
00:01:24.780 It's actually really kind of sad.
00:01:26.880 The United States overall happiness index,
00:01:30.020 to the extent that they track this,
00:01:32.440 hit an all-time low.
00:01:34.520 And it's being driven by people under the age of 30,
00:01:38.300 and I would bet that it's women under the age of 30,
00:01:41.820 overwhelmingly, who are unhappy.
00:01:43.760 And I think it's hard not to believe at this point
00:01:46.320 that all of this isn't directly connected to social media.
00:01:49.700 I mean, if you go look at the charts,
00:01:52.600 overall mental health rates,
00:01:54.160 now certainly COVID didn't help,
00:01:56.080 but overall mental health rates just collapsed about 2014
00:02:00.100 when social media became prevalent in everybody's lives.
00:02:04.700 And I think we're going to find out
00:02:06.020 that this is like the nicotine or cigarettes of our generation
00:02:10.660 where we allowed these phones and these social media apps,
00:02:13.620 particularly for young people,
00:02:15.040 to really kind of lead us astray in terms of our life's pursuits.
00:02:18.920 So there's an early, big-picture idea
00:02:21.500 that I think ties in with yesterday.
00:02:23.740 So we've also got some updates on the border.
00:02:26.700 Tom Holman pointing out that they are rocking on all cylinders here
00:02:32.200 to enforce the law comparing it to Biden.
00:02:34.400 We'll give you those updates.
00:02:36.360 Trump on the recession that people are predicting.
00:02:40.020 This is not a recession.
00:02:41.560 He is not worried at all,
00:02:43.660 which is, I'm sure, not a surprise to any of you.
00:02:45.840 The war against Tesla, which we discussed a bit yesterday,
00:02:49.100 there's more on that.
00:02:50.100 It is just insane and destructive and wrong on every level.
00:02:55.720 And I know yesterday I shared that I'm thinking about getting a Tesla.
00:02:59.080 I'm trying to convince Kerry.
00:03:00.280 The problem is we don't really use the car that we have that much,
00:03:03.300 and we still have a lease on it.
00:03:04.420 Do you have two parking spots or one?
00:03:06.360 Two parking spots, one car.
00:03:08.040 But we have a lot of guests who come over here.
00:03:09.880 So we have friends that come visit.
00:03:11.060 So it's nice to have a little guest spot.
00:03:13.020 Anyway, thinking about getting a Tesla,
00:03:14.840 and people say, oh, Tesla's for rich.
00:03:17.560 You can get a Tesla right now?
00:03:19.220 I know I sound like a Tesla salesman.
00:03:21.220 For about what you can get a reasonably equipped Toyota Corolla for,
00:03:28.560 a new Toyota Corolla.
00:03:29.500 I mean, you can get a Tesla for like three-something a month,
00:03:32.760 which is really low compared to what you can see across the car marketplace.
00:03:39.320 Cars have been very expensive recently.
00:03:40.520 Anyway, we have that.
00:03:42.540 And used cars.
00:03:43.620 Prices have been.
00:03:44.360 It's not cheap to buy a car anywhere, to be frank.
00:03:48.440 So I know people have their problems with the EVs and everything else.
00:03:51.560 Okay, I get it.
00:03:52.320 But the point is they're going after Elon,
00:03:55.020 and they're trying to hurt his company,
00:03:57.640 and they're celebrating, and it's madness.
00:03:59.740 But let's talk about something else for a second here,
00:04:01.780 or something that has gotten both of our attention on this week,
00:04:07.000 and that is the Chuck Schumer, Chuck Schumer as a leader, I guess,
00:04:11.420 of the Democrat Party still.
00:04:12.960 You know, he's one of the gray hairs.
00:04:14.120 He's been around for a long time, been in the game a long time.
00:04:16.620 And you're starting to hear a little bit of the resentful.
00:04:21.920 It reminds me of the Obama era.
00:04:23.560 You didn't build that, because Trump has completely cornered the narrative
00:04:28.460 on robust capitalism, winners, building, creating wealth for the country,
00:04:38.080 and, you know, individual prosperity, and all that stuff.
00:04:41.700 Democrats are the party of, hmm, I don't know.
00:04:45.020 And here's Chuck Schumer on The View,
00:04:47.240 complaining about Americans who want to keep more,
00:04:49.840 this is 14, keep more of their money.
00:04:53.060 You know what their attitude is?
00:04:54.460 I made my money all by myself.
00:04:56.800 How dare your government take my money from me?
00:04:59.280 I don't want to pay taxes.
00:05:00.680 Or I built my company with my bare hands.
00:05:03.220 How dare your government tell me how I should treat my customers,
00:05:07.220 the land and water that I own, or my employees?
00:05:12.080 They hate government.
00:05:13.860 Government's a barrier to people,
00:05:15.920 a barrier to stop them from doing things.
00:05:18.120 They want to destroy it.
00:05:19.380 We are not letting them do it, and we're united.
00:05:22.420 They're just a left-wing authoritarian party, Clay.
00:05:24.960 That's really what the Democrats have become.
00:05:26.540 They want to tell you what to do with everything,
00:05:28.200 and they control everything, even though they're imbeciles.
00:05:30.760 I want Democrats to have to answer the question.
00:05:34.900 And I know we're not very far away from April 15th,
00:05:37.780 which is not a very happy day for a lot of our listeners out there.
00:05:41.560 But what is a fair share?
00:05:43.960 Like, I pay 40% of my income to the federal government most years now.
00:05:50.960 40%, boom.
00:05:52.300 You know, I work until May,
00:05:54.180 and so I'm still working basically for the federal government.
00:05:58.760 What would be a fair share?
00:06:00.200 We have an insanely,
00:06:03.260 an insanely aggressive tax policy for people who actually pay taxes.
00:06:09.760 First of all, and very few people talk about this,
00:06:13.360 income taxes are only paid by about 50% of the United States population.
00:06:19.840 So, first of all, right off the top,
00:06:22.180 over, I think it's 51% of people,
00:06:24.480 don't pay a single dollar in federal income tax.
00:06:27.760 Now, payroll taxes is different, right?
00:06:30.720 I'm talking about federal income taxes.
00:06:33.240 And then a lot of you, you live in New York,
00:06:36.320 you're listening to us right now,
00:06:37.680 you live in California,
00:06:39.320 you live in Illinois,
00:06:40.860 then you have to pay another 12% or 13% state income tax.
00:06:45.520 And then that doesn't even get into what your property taxes are going to be,
00:06:48.860 or what your sales taxes are going to be.
00:06:51.260 I mean, the government is taxing us like crazy.
00:06:55.540 And I just, what percentage?
00:06:57.820 I haven't lived in New York in, what, going on three years now?
00:07:01.280 Two and a half years?
00:07:02.320 And they still want me paying taxes there somehow.
00:07:04.740 It's crazy, okay?
00:07:05.900 The system we have is absolutely nuts.
00:07:09.000 I got taxed because Fox Sports is based in LA,
00:07:12.020 and I would travel a lot to LA to do television shows.
00:07:17.220 And, Buck, I remember when they would take that money out of my paycheck.
00:07:20.400 It's by the day.
00:07:21.480 It's by the work day.
00:07:22.860 Same thing in New York City.
00:07:23.880 Same thing, I think, in Utah, if I remember correctly.
00:07:26.380 When I've been to Salt Lake City in the past,
00:07:28.140 I've had to pay, like, hundreds of dollars in income tax to Utah.
00:07:31.540 For the privilege of being in Salt Lake.
00:07:33.260 It's a beautiful place.
00:07:34.460 It is lovely, but I just was surprised that Utah was grabbing into my pocket there.
00:07:39.220 We appreciate everybody who listens in Salt Lake City,
00:07:42.680 where I believe we're number one.
00:07:44.100 We are.
00:07:44.540 We are.
00:07:44.840 Number one consistently for three-plus years now.
00:07:47.800 Thank you, Salt Lake City.
00:07:48.460 Great station.
00:07:49.420 I will say, like, when you look at these arguments,
00:07:55.260 isn't it interesting they never get pushed back?
00:07:57.480 They say, Eunice, you should pay your fair share.
00:07:59.560 That's their line.
00:08:00.800 What is the fair share?
00:08:02.020 And I think a lot more people are looking around in the Doge era
00:08:06.680 when we're recognizing how much money is wasted,
00:08:09.380 and this conversation becomes even more paramount than it should be,
00:08:13.320 which is important all year round and all the time,
00:08:16.420 but I think Elon has elevated it.
00:08:18.060 There's also some big philosophical distinctions here that I think should be made.
00:08:23.480 Clay, for example, as we have seen from the efforts of Elon and Doge,
00:08:28.620 thank you, Trump, for putting them in the game to do this,
00:08:31.140 every dollar of government spending is somehow sacred to Democrats.
00:08:36.280 This is what we've seen.
00:08:36.960 Have they actually said on anything that Doge has done,
00:08:41.480 look at what Doge has been finding,
00:08:43.460 look at some of the ways that your money, you know,
00:08:46.040 we talked about the transgender Muppet shows in Mongolia
00:08:49.540 and all this stuff that's going on.
00:08:51.600 Every dollar the government spends is both sacred and it's not enough.
00:08:57.420 There always should be, you can never cut and there always should be more.
00:09:01.860 Meanwhile, the American people whose hours, labor, creativity, and effort
00:09:09.560 are what is actually the economy.
00:09:11.740 This is something that Democrats and the government don't really understand.
00:09:14.600 It's not that the government creates the economy.
00:09:17.500 The government, if it's operating well,
00:09:20.200 should create some of the guidelines,
00:09:23.060 the rules of the road and enforcement mechanisms
00:09:25.240 for contracts within the economy.
00:09:27.040 But it is all of you listening who show up somewhere
00:09:30.340 and build a good, provide a service,
00:09:33.800 do something that is worthwhile to society
00:09:37.080 and you get money for that.
00:09:38.560 That is the actual economy, the productive economy.
00:09:41.940 And anybody within that who feels like the government,
00:09:45.820 that every dollar is sacred and never is it enough spending,
00:09:50.760 if we say that something needs to change, that's terrible.
00:09:53.820 I mean, this whole thinking needs to be flipped on its head
00:09:57.920 because what are you really getting for your money
00:10:01.620 with so many of these things?
00:10:03.140 What is really worthwhile?
00:10:04.020 Remember, we have a state government too.
00:10:05.980 The fact that Trump's about to shut the Department of Education, right?
00:10:08.580 That executive order is going to come down
00:10:10.020 and people go, oh no, education.
00:10:12.540 The Department of Education has nothing to do with educating your children.
00:10:16.940 All it does is make it worse
00:10:18.500 and create a holding pen for boring bureaucrats
00:10:22.400 that get paid to do nothing.
00:10:23.820 And we're wrong about everything COVID.
00:10:25.820 I was reading, Buck, yesterday to credit of the New York Times,
00:10:30.740 which just suddenly realized, hey, we screwed up everything with COVID.
00:10:33.940 They had a story about Oakland area kids, Buck,
00:10:36.880 and I've met a bunch of these kids as I've been traveling around
00:10:39.540 and started to speak on some college campuses.
00:10:41.440 These kids in many parts of New York State and California and Illinois,
00:10:47.340 but this particular kid's in Oakland, Buck,
00:10:50.320 they shut down their schools on like March, whatever it was, 15th of 2020.
00:10:56.080 They never came back to school if you were a junior.
00:11:00.420 I don't know that we talk enough about how many kids out there,
00:11:04.760 and I know some of you are listening to us right now.
00:11:07.180 I remember we had a caller from Utah,
00:11:08.680 a young woman who was voting for the first time, 18-year-old,
00:11:12.160 talking about how angry she and some of her classmates were.
00:11:14.640 It was a great call.
00:11:15.720 Good memory.
00:11:17.140 But, I mean, it hit me because can you imagine
00:11:20.320 if you're out there listening to us right now,
00:11:22.860 think about all the things that happen to you
00:11:24.980 when you're 16, 17, and 18 years old
00:11:28.360 and how embedded in an integral fashion
00:11:31.360 so much of your life experience happens 16, 17, 18.
00:11:35.380 You remember everybody out there to a large extent,
00:11:38.360 you remember things when you're 16
00:11:40.040 better than something that happened when you're 36, 46, or 56
00:11:44.000 because all the years start to run together.
00:11:46.720 It imprints on you in an interesting way.
00:11:49.120 Those kids went home in many parts of our country
00:11:53.000 in March of 2020, and they never came back.
00:11:57.320 You miss your junior year prom.
00:11:59.660 You miss your junior year spring sports season.
00:12:03.320 You never returned.
00:12:04.640 Buck, the article in the New York Times
00:12:05.880 was talking about these kids came back
00:12:07.380 at the end of May for graduation,
00:12:09.460 and they had to be six foot distant,
00:12:11.620 and they didn't even recognize each other
00:12:13.560 because also think about how much you change
00:12:15.680 in that year and a half.
00:12:17.440 They just all went home,
00:12:18.560 and they never were in physical location together again.
00:12:23.240 I get angrier the more I think about it,
00:12:26.940 even though it's been five years.
00:12:28.900 And so I think for my, you tell me that I have to cut checks,
00:12:32.760 it's one thing if I think the government's doing a great job.
00:12:35.500 It's another thing if I'm still furious about what they did,
00:12:37.920 in particular the Department of Education,
00:12:39.840 to keep our kids from being able to be in school.
00:12:42.880 And they now are at the point where I think they're on the edge
00:12:46.180 of seeing the Department of Education get officially shut down.
00:12:49.640 There have already been cuts made.
00:12:50.840 I know a judge is going to reverse it if he hasn't
00:12:53.280 or she hasn't already,
00:12:54.140 and they'll also reverse the shutdown.
00:12:56.180 And the whole plan here is essentially
00:12:58.180 to have the judicial coup in effect
00:13:00.920 for really Trump's whole term,
00:13:03.720 if they can get away with it,
00:13:04.560 to stop him from doing what he should be able to do.
00:13:07.700 But yeah, the Department of Education,
00:13:09.340 it employs around 4,200 people
00:13:11.680 until the most recent round of cuts.
00:13:14.460 When you look at what does it do,
00:13:16.880 what does the Department of Education actually do?
00:13:19.220 Everything that it does is either superfluous,
00:13:23.340 political, or could be done by the states
00:13:26.000 much more effectively
00:13:27.260 and much more within the federalist system that we have.
00:13:31.660 If you live in Texas,
00:13:35.160 why should some bureaucrats in D.C.
00:13:36.880 be influencing the curriculum of your school in Texas?
00:13:40.360 People say, oh, because they have to make sure,
00:13:42.140 well, they have to make sure
00:13:42.960 the test scores don't actually budge
00:13:44.620 and if anything get worse over the last 40 years,
00:13:46.720 because that's what's happened.
00:13:49.320 Failure within government needs to be treated
00:13:51.220 much more like failure within the private sector
00:13:53.760 where you and I have been at places, Clay,
00:13:55.540 where it's a fire sale and everyone's getting fired
00:13:57.220 and it stinks and like, you know,
00:13:58.900 but that is what happens.
00:14:01.000 And this notion that the government is
00:14:02.960 and always will be,
00:14:04.500 not just existing as it is,
00:14:06.520 but growing and getting more money,
00:14:08.500 that is a change in the way that we are governed
00:14:12.320 that absolutely needs to happen.
00:14:13.300 And look, we were just talking about the tax situation here.
00:14:16.900 IRS is a pain, all right?
00:14:18.360 I mean, I'm hoping that the IRS
00:14:19.680 gets a nice doge audit of itself going here,
00:14:22.460 but the IRS is a rough agency to have to deal with.
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00:16:21.760 We have our friend Ryan Gruduski joining us at the bottom
00:16:25.460 to talk about some data
00:16:28.580 and particularly diving into what we learned about
00:16:31.640 white college-educated women yesterday.
00:16:36.220 They idolize Vladimir Zelensky,
00:16:40.920 which is very strange for a lot of women
00:16:43.880 who I think have probably very likely,
00:16:46.040 very few of them ever seen combat,
00:16:48.160 know anything about war or the military,
00:16:50.480 but they're all about Zelensky.
00:16:52.720 So the propaganda there has clearly,
00:16:54.940 clearly been effective.
00:16:57.280 We'll talk to Ryan about that.
00:16:59.620 Democrats are turning on Schumer,
00:17:01.760 which is not a surprise
00:17:04.160 because they're in the panic phase of things.
00:17:07.260 You know, this is where in Lord of the Flies,
00:17:10.340 they all start sharpening sticks
00:17:12.240 and just poking each other with them
00:17:13.780 because they don't know what else to do
00:17:15.140 and there's no real leadership.
00:17:17.060 And remember, it's a great book.
00:17:18.780 You remember reading Lord of the Flies in school
00:17:21.140 back in the day?
00:17:21.960 Oh, Lord of the Flies, Buck, is my argument.
00:17:27.020 Everybody has one friend who reads like one book
00:17:30.020 and tries to analogize everything that ever happened.
00:17:33.400 You know, like not somebody who reads a lot of books.
00:17:36.140 I had a buddy who read like one book in his whole life
00:17:38.920 and it was Lord of the Flies
00:17:40.220 and he would try to analogize anything that happened
00:17:45.480 to the one book that he had ever read,
00:17:47.280 which was Lord of the Flies.
00:17:48.640 Well, that's like a lot of people now with Harry Potter.
00:17:50.780 No offense, because I know you read a lot of other things too
00:17:52.840 and you're a Harry Potter guy,
00:17:53.960 but everything is Voldemort.
00:17:55.860 Everything is the Quidditch.
00:17:57.600 You know, the Harry Potter became so dominant.
00:18:00.040 At least there are seven Harry Potters,
00:18:01.920 although a lot of people didn't even read them.
00:18:03.380 They just watched the movies.
00:18:05.500 I didn't either, so there we go.
00:18:07.380 I probably should get on that.
00:18:08.880 Now, we have the Democrats turning at each other,
00:18:12.820 turning on Schumer,
00:18:13.820 and we've got all that happening,
00:18:16.180 but I wanted to spend some time here
00:18:17.620 on the war on Tesla
00:18:20.040 and how it factors into as well
00:18:22.920 the Democrat approach to the economy.
00:18:25.260 So let's just look at what's going on here right now.
00:18:28.180 The fact that you have these Democrats
00:18:30.220 openly rooting against
00:18:32.460 an all-American car company,
00:18:37.160 one that, you know,
00:18:38.020 the cars are manufactured here,
00:18:39.660 I mean, they've got the huge facility in Texas.
00:18:43.800 I think 80,000 people work for Tesla, Clay.
00:18:47.240 80,000 jobs.
00:18:48.980 If you believe that climate change
00:18:50.900 is any kind of threat,
00:18:52.020 never mind existential,
00:18:53.080 you should think that what Tesla's doing,
00:18:55.260 because remember, it's not just the cars.
00:18:57.440 It's the technology.
00:18:58.900 It's autonomous driving.
00:19:00.460 It's the interface.
00:19:01.820 It's the battery technology.
00:19:03.760 It's, you know,
00:19:04.600 how far are we from Starlink
00:19:06.440 being able to control all the cars
00:19:08.620 and maybe we get VTOL,
00:19:10.020 so vertical takeoff, you know,
00:19:11.800 and landing for meaning
00:19:14.480 that basically flying cars.
00:19:15.840 I mean, things are going to get
00:19:16.760 really interesting in our lifetime, folks.
00:19:19.040 So that's pretty cool, right?
00:19:20.700 Well, not if you're Tim Walz,
00:19:22.380 who thinks he can beat you up,
00:19:23.600 I might add.
00:19:24.340 And I mean you, not Clay.
00:19:25.840 Like you listening to me.
00:19:27.040 Tim Walz thinks he can take you in a fight.
00:19:29.280 I think we have legions of great...
00:19:32.020 I think we have legions of guys over 75
00:19:34.020 that would smoke Tim Walz.
00:19:36.140 Did you see our 86-year-old listener
00:19:38.360 who emailed me about...
00:19:40.040 That was one of the fun...
00:19:40.880 I need to read that email at some point
00:19:42.500 because that was a great email.
00:19:44.120 I know the conservative talk radio audience
00:19:46.160 and there are guys over 75
00:19:47.540 that would whoop my ass,
00:19:48.580 so I definitely know
00:19:49.480 they would take Tim Walz in a fight.
00:19:51.840 But Caroline Leavitt at the White House
00:19:54.900 speaking as the press secretary
00:19:57.240 just goes after this.
00:19:59.420 I mean, it's astonishing.
00:20:01.320 It's outrageous
00:20:02.360 that he is rooting for the failure
00:20:04.760 of a company.
00:20:05.400 Again, because Elon wants to cut government waste.
00:20:07.920 Play eight.
00:20:08.620 Governor Walz saying last night
00:20:09.960 he frequently checks Tesla stock
00:20:12.380 in doing so to, quote,
00:20:14.080 give me a little boost during the day.
00:20:16.480 How should Americans view politicians
00:20:18.040 who take pride in the downfall
00:20:20.960 of an American car company?
00:20:22.120 I think that's quite sad,
00:20:23.500 but I think Governor Walz, unfortunately,
00:20:25.540 is living a sad existence
00:20:26.740 after his devastating defeat
00:20:28.240 on November 5th.
00:20:29.400 It is sad,
00:20:31.880 and his defeat was devastating.
00:20:33.340 It's sad, though,
00:20:33.860 that somebody would be rooting
00:20:35.100 for an American.
00:20:36.180 Think about what that means.
00:20:38.080 It's not just Tesla.
00:20:39.780 It is a...
00:20:41.180 I mean, you and I have never sat here
00:20:42.920 and been like,
00:20:43.220 you know what I want?
00:20:44.340 I want Amazon to go bankrupt
00:20:46.400 because it employs huge numbers of people.
00:20:49.960 It's an enormously valuable company,
00:20:51.980 and it has been incredibly effective.
00:20:54.560 I mean, it has saved millions,
00:20:56.620 maybe billions of man hours for people.
00:20:59.060 And look, I know Jeff Bezos
00:21:00.100 is more on our team now
00:21:01.820 than he used to be,
00:21:02.640 but he's still not really on our team.
00:21:04.120 We're all very aware of this.
00:21:05.900 But to root for a huge American company,
00:21:08.440 it'd be like sitting here, Clay,
00:21:09.620 and just saying,
00:21:10.420 you know, I want Ford and General Motors
00:21:12.040 to just cease to exist
00:21:13.600 and all their people to get fired
00:21:14.920 because I don't like what this...
00:21:16.220 I don't like who the CEO voted for.
00:21:18.000 There's something deranged about this.
00:21:19.840 I think two things
00:21:21.020 that are important here.
00:21:22.460 One, if you truly cared
00:21:24.300 about climate change,
00:21:25.460 then the idea
00:21:27.000 that you would want Tesla to fail
00:21:29.640 is the most heretical thing
00:21:32.620 that you could possibly say
00:21:34.060 because I'm not sure
00:21:35.680 there's any company in America
00:21:37.260 that has done more
00:21:38.320 to fight climate change.
00:21:39.400 And this is supposed to be,
00:21:40.260 as we talked about yesterday,
00:21:41.280 an existential threat
00:21:42.620 to the entire world
00:21:44.600 and to our nation.
00:21:46.140 And yet you have Tim Walls out there
00:21:48.340 saying that he's checking
00:21:49.140 to see what the stock price is
00:21:50.460 because he's rooting for Tesla to fail.
00:21:52.280 That doesn't add up
00:21:53.660 if you actually believe
00:21:54.920 that climate change
00:21:56.280 is the existential threat.
00:21:57.780 And I think what it forces Democrats
00:21:59.160 to do is decide
00:22:01.080 what do we hate more,
00:22:03.700 climate change or Trump?
00:22:06.020 And the reality is
00:22:07.300 they hate Trump more than anything.
00:22:08.880 And so the Elon connection to Trump
00:22:10.540 means they root against it.
00:22:11.760 Second, choosing whether or not
00:22:13.660 to spend your money on products
00:22:16.240 based on whether they share
00:22:18.220 your values or not
00:22:19.380 is, I think,
00:22:20.660 a very rational choice to make.
00:22:22.580 I would argue that Tesla
00:22:23.480 actually shares the values
00:22:24.820 of Democrats.
00:22:25.400 But leaving that aside,
00:22:27.220 what is not is
00:22:28.400 when, for instance,
00:22:29.860 we said,
00:22:30.780 hey, Bud Light's got a trans,
00:22:32.560 you know, spokesperson,
00:22:34.520 maybe drink another beer.
00:22:36.040 We didn't say
00:22:37.160 and throw Molotov cocktails
00:22:39.120 at people driving around
00:22:41.000 in Budweiser trucks.
00:22:42.480 What the left has done
00:22:44.100 with Elon
00:22:44.680 is not only reject
00:22:46.060 their own principles
00:22:47.080 upon which they stand,
00:22:48.600 but actually take it
00:22:50.120 to the next step,
00:22:51.440 they're lighting Teslas
00:22:52.600 on fire everywhere.
00:22:54.820 People are getting busted
00:22:56.180 on the Tesla cameras
00:22:58.300 keying Tesla vehicles
00:23:00.760 all over the place,
00:23:02.500 behaving in a fundamentally
00:23:04.480 ridiculous and, frankly,
00:23:07.420 violent manner over this.
00:23:10.100 And to me,
00:23:10.580 it just kind of ties in
00:23:11.900 with it's one thing
00:23:13.320 to make a decision
00:23:14.180 about a product
00:23:15.080 that you like or don't like.
00:23:16.400 We said, hey,
00:23:17.560 you make a great product.
00:23:19.180 The benefit typically is
00:23:20.580 even if you disagree
00:23:21.820 with the product,
00:23:22.700 you'll probably still consume it.
00:23:24.200 When we say Chick-fil-A,
00:23:25.680 there's nobody who,
00:23:26.400 I'm sorry,
00:23:27.160 there's nobody who makes
00:23:27.900 a better chicken sandwich
00:23:28.920 than Chick-fil-A.
00:23:29.860 And one of the great things
00:23:30.760 about the Chick-fil-A sandwich,
00:23:31.840 by the way, Buck,
00:23:32.540 is the pickle.
00:23:33.640 Lots of gay people,
00:23:35.140 lots of gay people out there
00:23:37.040 rolled into Chick-fil-A
00:23:38.500 like crazy.
00:23:39.300 They're like,
00:23:39.640 ah, you know,
00:23:40.200 I wish they supported
00:23:41.040 gay marriage.
00:23:42.040 But man,
00:23:43.340 their chicken nuggets
00:23:44.640 are just so good.
00:23:45.820 I'm going to go in
00:23:46.920 and get them anyway,
00:23:47.800 right?
00:23:48.800 Second,
00:23:49.320 we talked about this yesterday
00:23:50.420 before you had it stricken
00:23:53.780 from the record.
00:23:54.900 Yes.
00:23:56.620 When you talked about
00:23:58.740 how much your wife,
00:23:59.300 Carrie,
00:23:59.520 loves Costco,
00:24:00.260 I also love Costco.
00:24:01.500 Costco has stayed committed
00:24:02.440 to DEI.
00:24:03.300 I think they're wrong there.
00:24:04.720 They're still the best
00:24:05.640 warehouse shopping center
00:24:07.660 option out there.
00:24:09.600 And I still really like
00:24:10.880 their samples,
00:24:11.640 and I'm still going to
00:24:12.440 spend money at Costco.
00:24:13.880 Their brand is so good,
00:24:15.460 much like Chick-fil-A,
00:24:16.620 that even if they have
00:24:17.520 politics that are somewhat
00:24:18.620 different than me,
00:24:19.980 that I'm not going to shop,
00:24:21.140 I'm going to continue
00:24:21.720 to shop there.
00:24:22.500 Tesla makes the best
00:24:23.380 electric vehicle in the world,
00:24:25.480 is my understanding.
00:24:26.560 I'm not an expert on this,
00:24:27.800 but the people who have Teslas
00:24:29.400 rave about them, Buck.
00:24:31.460 And this is one reason
00:24:32.260 I'm looking at
00:24:32.920 potentially buying one.
00:24:33.960 You're looking at
00:24:34.540 potentially buying one.
00:24:36.100 I want to stand up
00:24:37.520 and say,
00:24:38.520 hey,
00:24:38.660 I believe in American
00:24:39.600 exceptionalism.
00:24:40.500 I think Elon Musk
00:24:41.880 is an exceptional
00:24:42.840 American capitalist
00:24:44.020 in all facets,
00:24:45.120 and I would like to believe
00:24:47.080 that it is rational
00:24:48.460 Americans out there
00:24:49.540 who aren't going to
00:24:50.560 punish him because
00:24:51.180 he's trying to make
00:24:51.900 the government more
00:24:52.620 efficient, Buck,
00:24:53.740 in his free time.
00:24:56.040 Like,
00:24:56.340 he didn't have to do
00:24:57.120 this at all.
00:24:57.820 He's just giving back
00:24:59.400 to the country
00:25:00.260 to try to make sure
00:25:01.940 that our deficit
00:25:03.440 doesn't drown all of us
00:25:05.100 in red ink.
00:25:06.560 And you've got
00:25:07.540 a couple of voices
00:25:08.460 weighing in on this,
00:25:10.300 defending the,
00:25:12.140 remember,
00:25:12.440 it's not really about
00:25:12.980 defending Elon personally.
00:25:14.280 This is about the company.
00:25:15.100 This is about Tesla,
00:25:15.780 which is doing great things.
00:25:17.740 It's innovating.
00:25:18.880 It's employing people.
00:25:20.140 It's making incredible products.
00:25:22.820 You know,
00:25:23.380 we're,
00:25:24.240 there's so much about it.
00:25:25.700 It's here in America.
00:25:26.820 The cars are made
00:25:27.880 here in America.
00:25:28.640 It's not some,
00:25:29.900 you know,
00:25:30.320 we're not having
00:25:31.340 some sweatshop somewhere
00:25:32.820 putting together iPhones.
00:25:34.660 just saying.
00:25:36.040 Again,
00:25:36.840 I wish I could tell you
00:25:37.700 I don't have an iPhone.
00:25:38.600 I do,
00:25:39.120 but it's because
00:25:39.640 I don't like the other options
00:25:41.340 and, you know,
00:25:41.820 but I'm aware
00:25:42.480 of what goes on here, right?
00:25:43.640 It's not always perfect
00:25:44.520 to make these,
00:25:45.220 make these kinds of choices.
00:25:47.240 Kevin O'Leary, though,
00:25:48.400 points out that Tim Walsh
00:25:49.620 is a bozo.
00:25:51.240 This is Mr. Wonderful,
00:25:52.260 cut nine.
00:25:52.960 I'm talking about Tim Walsh
00:25:54.280 and his comments
00:25:55.080 about the Tesla stock.
00:25:56.300 He says it gives him a boost
00:25:57.340 to see that stock going down.
00:25:58.660 That poor guy
00:25:59.500 didn't check his portfolio
00:26:00.740 and his own pension plan
00:26:01.900 for state.
00:26:02.920 It's beyond stupid
00:26:04.080 what he did.
00:26:04.660 He's talking down
00:26:05.660 a three and a half percent
00:26:07.060 weighting in his own pension plan.
00:26:09.040 I mean,
00:26:09.540 what's the matter with that guy?
00:26:10.560 He doesn't check
00:26:11.100 the well-being
00:26:11.960 of his own constituents.
00:26:13.440 I mean,
00:26:13.940 that's their investment point.
00:26:15.520 What a bozo.
00:26:16.460 He's pointing out the economic
00:26:19.700 illiteracy of somebody
00:26:21.020 like it.
00:26:21.400 Tim Walsh.
00:26:22.260 Companies like Tesla
00:26:23.300 are what have been moving
00:26:24.940 the market in recent years,
00:26:26.560 which means 401ks,
00:26:28.600 which means pension plans.
00:26:31.500 The, you know,
00:26:32.340 the growth of the major
00:26:34.280 American corporations
00:26:35.660 is lifting up
00:26:37.420 the overall market.
00:26:38.740 And even if you think,
00:26:40.520 oh, I'm not in the market,
00:26:41.600 oh, no,
00:26:41.940 you're in the market
00:26:42.620 because it affects
00:26:44.040 the cost of borrowing.
00:26:45.080 It affects the cost
00:26:45.860 of your rent
00:26:46.420 or your mortgage
00:26:47.020 or the payments
00:26:48.280 on your car
00:26:49.060 or the credit card
00:26:50.040 interest rates
00:26:50.660 that you have.
00:26:51.620 There is no escaping
00:26:53.060 the market
00:26:53.780 if you're operating
00:26:54.660 in America today
00:26:55.720 and to want companies,
00:26:58.020 whether it's Tesla
00:26:59.060 or NVIDIA
00:26:59.900 or, you know,
00:27:00.360 the magnificent
00:27:01.420 seven stocks
00:27:02.220 they'll talk about,
00:27:03.320 when you root
00:27:03.820 for those to fail,
00:27:04.680 you're rooting actually
00:27:05.440 for the American economy
00:27:06.440 to feel pain
00:27:07.120 and there to be less wealth
00:27:08.000 in this country.
00:27:08.560 And that's what they're doing
00:27:09.800 because they don't like Elon
00:27:10.940 because he's too nice to Trump.
00:27:12.940 And again,
00:27:13.980 they're also rooting
00:27:15.080 for climate change,
00:27:16.400 which is like,
00:27:17.720 at its most basic level,
00:27:19.400 did you see this idiot astronaut
00:27:21.720 Mark Kelly,
00:27:22.560 senator from Arizona,
00:27:24.020 went and traded in his Tesla
00:27:26.800 and went and got
00:27:28.160 a gas guzzling SUV
00:27:29.780 to replace it?
00:27:31.100 So what is the story
00:27:32.980 that you support, right?
00:27:34.580 I mean, again,
00:27:35.720 I think part of being adulthood,
00:27:37.720 you mentioned the iPhone.
00:27:39.640 Part of being an adult
00:27:40.760 is recognizing
00:27:41.760 that everybody's not
00:27:43.160 going to agree with you
00:27:44.200 on every single thing
00:27:45.900 and still making decisions
00:27:47.600 that are somewhat rational
00:27:48.800 when it comes to products, right?
00:27:50.220 Like, I don't want
00:27:51.280 my toilet paper
00:27:52.760 to have a strong position
00:27:54.560 on any political issue.
00:27:56.140 I just want them
00:27:56.860 to kind of make toilet paper
00:27:57.840 that doesn't fail, right?
00:28:00.220 That actually works.
00:28:02.220 And I think most Americans,
00:28:03.860 I don't want my cat litter brand
00:28:05.360 to send me an email
00:28:07.240 about what they think
00:28:07.900 about BLM.
00:28:08.940 I think most Americans
00:28:09.980 just want the product itself
00:28:12.180 to not take a particular stand.
00:28:14.480 Elon has not said
00:28:16.280 that Tesla has a particular stand, right?
00:28:19.520 This is Elon Musk individual
00:28:21.520 donating his time
00:28:23.440 to try to make the government
00:28:24.980 more efficient.
00:28:25.960 It isn't actually directly connected
00:28:28.200 to Tesla at all.
00:28:29.960 It would be different
00:28:30.660 if he had said,
00:28:31.800 hey, I don't want any Democrat
00:28:34.220 to drive my car.
00:28:35.840 I would think that's
00:28:36.540 a really bad move.
00:28:37.620 I'm old school, Buck.
00:28:39.140 I'm like Michael Jordan.
00:28:40.520 Republicans buy sneakers, too, right?
00:28:42.240 Like, you should try
00:28:42.940 to appeal to everyone.
00:28:44.760 The Commerce Secretary,
00:28:45.940 Howard Lutnick,
00:28:46.940 who has been very outspoken
00:28:48.080 about a lot of things
00:28:48.700 in the economy,
00:28:49.360 he spoke,
00:28:50.240 he straight up said,
00:28:51.200 he's a senior government
00:28:52.240 official cabinet member.
00:28:53.760 Well, I'll let you listen
00:28:54.680 to what he said about Tesla.
00:28:55.660 Play 10.
00:28:56.220 He's the guy
00:28:56.980 who's going to build
00:28:57.920 the next generation technology.
00:29:00.040 I think if you want
00:29:01.300 to learn something
00:29:02.080 on this show tonight,
00:29:03.460 buy Tesla.
00:29:04.720 It's unbelievable
00:29:05.960 that this guy's stock
00:29:07.640 is this cheap.
00:29:08.480 It'll never be this cheap again.
00:29:10.140 When people understand
00:29:11.400 the things he's building,
00:29:12.500 the robots he's building,
00:29:14.020 the technology he's building,
00:29:15.820 people are going to be
00:29:16.640 dreaming of today
00:29:17.820 and Jesse Waters
00:29:19.000 and thinking,
00:29:19.940 gosh, I should have bought
00:29:21.080 Elon Musk's stock.
00:29:24.100 I mean, who wouldn't invest
00:29:25.060 in Elon Musk?
00:29:25.900 You've got to be kidding me.
00:29:26.620 All right, so you're
00:29:27.120 calling the bottom.
00:29:28.420 This is it.
00:29:30.040 Whether today's
00:29:31.000 the bottom or not,
00:29:31.820 I tell you what,
00:29:32.760 Elon Musk is probably
00:29:34.040 the best person to bet on
00:29:35.460 I've ever met.
00:29:38.140 There you go.
00:29:39.100 Pretty strong endorsement, Buck.
00:29:40.960 Yeah.
00:29:41.440 The Commerce Secretary
00:29:42.340 effectively saying
00:29:43.780 this is the most impressive
00:29:44.800 CEO living today
00:29:47.660 in the world.
00:29:49.100 It's a big deal,
00:29:50.080 I thought, you know.
00:29:51.120 And he's trying
00:29:52.900 to help the government
00:29:53.600 instead of just running
00:29:55.160 his incredible companies.
00:29:57.140 Yeah.
00:29:57.340 So it says something.
00:29:58.740 And again,
00:29:59.060 Tesla is not doing anything.
00:30:02.460 Bud Light did something.
00:30:04.460 Right?
00:30:04.800 We didn't say,
00:30:05.800 oh, the Bud Light CEO
00:30:07.120 did something
00:30:08.020 and therefore
00:30:09.140 you can't drink Bud Light
00:30:10.700 anymore.
00:30:12.180 Elon Musk runs a company,
00:30:13.840 but he has the right
00:30:15.020 to free speech.
00:30:15.760 He has the right
00:30:16.500 to make choices.
00:30:17.900 The Tesla Corporation
00:30:19.200 is not actually doing anything
00:30:21.340 that you would disapprove of.
00:30:23.260 I think that's a pretty
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00:32:02.680 Our friend Ryan
00:32:03.240 Gerdusky joins us now.
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00:32:17.640 So, Mr. Gerdusky,
00:32:18.900 great to have you with us.
00:32:20.080 How are you?
00:32:21.400 Yeah, we're good, man.
00:32:22.440 So, we have a lot of things
00:32:24.180 to run by you,
00:32:24.820 but first off,
00:32:26.160 what was your biggest takeaway
00:32:27.380 when you looked at those numbers
00:32:28.540 that were released yesterday
00:32:29.620 where the outlier extraordinaire
00:32:32.580 was white college-educated women
00:32:35.200 who are apparently obsessed
00:32:36.940 with Zelensky and DEI?
00:32:40.440 Yeah, I don't think
00:32:41.300 that shocked anybody.
00:32:42.440 That was with the NBC polls
00:32:43.620 that they held from Sunday.
00:32:44.740 They just live...
00:32:46.960 White men without a college degree
00:32:48.740 and white women
00:32:49.360 with a college degree
00:32:50.200 don't live in the same country.
00:32:52.120 I mean,
00:32:52.360 they just fundamentally don't.
00:32:54.040 Men without...
00:32:54.600 White men without a college degree
00:32:55.680 live in Texas
00:32:56.420 and white women
00:32:57.540 with a college degree
00:32:58.880 live in, like, Sweden.
00:33:00.660 So, it's just...
00:33:01.580 It's not...
00:33:02.180 They don't have the same concerns.
00:33:03.900 They don't have the same issues.
00:33:05.820 It's bizarre.
00:33:07.020 And when I can kind of...
00:33:07.740 I can kind of, like,
00:33:09.740 sit there and really
00:33:10.520 break it down to an ideology
00:33:12.580 is that one has
00:33:13.580 a very comfortable level of living
00:33:15.260 and one does not.
00:33:16.120 If your biggest issue
00:33:16.920 is Zelensky,
00:33:18.080 you're probably not worried
00:33:19.640 that much about
00:33:20.340 your monthly bills
00:33:21.340 or an illegal alien,
00:33:23.440 you know,
00:33:23.820 attacking you
00:33:24.760 or breaking to your ranch
00:33:26.080 if you live on the border.
00:33:27.240 This is just a completely
00:33:28.220 different life that they live.
00:33:29.940 And, yeah,
00:33:31.380 I mean,
00:33:31.640 it's a totally different world.
00:33:33.060 And it makes for bad politics
00:33:34.200 because white women
00:33:35.360 with a college degree
00:33:36.300 who are on the left
00:33:37.240 are getting more radicalized.
00:33:39.180 They're getting further
00:33:39.960 to the left
00:33:40.560 and that's a problem.
00:33:42.260 So,
00:33:42.900 does the problem
00:33:43.760 get resolved
00:33:45.460 in any way
00:33:46.260 if abortion
00:33:47.140 becomes
00:33:48.060 less of a
00:33:49.180 national political issue
00:33:50.780 and more of an
00:33:51.700 individual state issue?
00:33:53.480 Because it seems like to me,
00:33:54.680 and I'm curious
00:33:55.340 if you buy this thesis, Ryan,
00:33:57.320 that Democrats
00:33:58.020 have uniquely
00:33:58.980 exploited the fears
00:34:00.560 of educated white women
00:34:02.480 when it comes
00:34:03.780 to reproductive rights
00:34:05.240 and that that is
00:34:07.040 the motivating factor
00:34:08.420 for many of them,
00:34:09.760 particularly if you're
00:34:10.480 in your 20s or 30s,
00:34:12.400 given the fact
00:34:13.080 that abortion,
00:34:13.960 whatever you think about it,
00:34:15.060 the numbers haven't
00:34:15.820 really changed that much
00:34:17.160 since Roe v. Wade
00:34:18.080 was overturned.
00:34:19.520 Is the impact
00:34:20.680 of abortion
00:34:21.260 as a national political issue
00:34:22.960 maybe something
00:34:24.120 that could bring
00:34:24.980 these women
00:34:25.520 back to some measure
00:34:26.880 of political sanity
00:34:28.060 or not?
00:34:30.040 No,
00:34:30.680 I don't think
00:34:31.100 that it's abortion.
00:34:31.880 I mean,
00:34:32.040 I think abortion
00:34:32.580 is part of the question.
00:34:33.940 But part of it,
00:34:34.600 certainly a large part.
00:34:36.040 But the second,
00:34:36.900 the biggest group
00:34:37.680 of white women
00:34:38.640 to vote for Democrats
00:34:39.880 were white women
00:34:40.520 in their late 20s,
00:34:41.780 early 30s.
00:34:42.480 That would be
00:34:42.800 the abortion group.
00:34:43.780 The second largest
00:34:44.860 were white women
00:34:45.680 over the age of 70,
00:34:47.080 but under the age of 80.
00:34:49.060 So if it was
00:34:50.500 just an abortion thing,
00:34:52.500 that's probably not
00:34:53.200 Sorry to cut you off,
00:34:54.100 but that's fascinating.
00:34:55.100 What do you think
00:34:55.600 is motivating
00:34:56.220 those white women
00:34:57.320 college educated
00:34:58.400 70 to 80?
00:35:00.160 Because again,
00:35:00.860 abortion,
00:35:01.260 to your point,
00:35:01.920 I don't think
00:35:02.480 they're getting abortions.
00:35:04.560 Yeah,
00:35:04.960 they're watching
00:35:05.840 MSNBC and Rachel Maddow
00:35:07.520 and they are BLM
00:35:09.360 and they are,
00:35:10.560 listen,
00:35:10.940 the baby boomer generation
00:35:12.620 was the very,
00:35:13.740 it was the second
00:35:14.340 most progressive generation
00:35:15.780 to millennials.
00:35:16.800 I mean,
00:35:17.500 they are a progressive generation.
00:35:20.100 And if your entire life
00:35:23.300 is basically politics,
00:35:24.680 which I mean,
00:35:25.480 for a lot of women
00:35:27.160 in their 70s and 80s
00:35:28.440 who either A,
00:35:28.980 don't have husbands
00:35:29.740 because they passed away
00:35:30.680 or they never married
00:35:31.680 or they don't have children
00:35:34.440 or grandchildren
00:35:35.080 because their millennial children
00:35:36.400 never had children,
00:35:38.000 politics becomes a bigger
00:35:39.360 and bigger and bigger issue
00:35:40.380 in your life.
00:35:41.200 And what we saw
00:35:43.120 in the other thing
00:35:44.620 that came out on Monday,
00:35:45.720 which I wrote about
00:35:46.220 for the National Poppins News
00:35:47.160 that are David Shores thing,
00:35:49.220 David Shores' big piece on data
00:35:51.560 was that people
00:35:52.740 who paid attention
00:35:53.780 to politics a lot
00:35:55.240 voted very,
00:35:56.340 very heavily
00:35:56.860 to Kamala Harris
00:35:57.520 and people who got their news
00:35:58.640 from mainstream media outlets.
00:36:00.340 If you look at the average CNN
00:36:01.460 or MSNBC viewer,
00:36:02.680 they are over the age
00:36:03.500 of 70 years old.
00:36:04.560 They are 70 year olds,
00:36:05.920 usually college educated
00:36:07.160 or not college educated,
00:36:08.100 but mostly college educated
00:36:08.920 white women
00:36:09.600 who obsess about politics.
00:36:11.520 It is their religion.
00:36:12.460 It's their QVC.
00:36:13.900 It's the children
00:36:15.800 that they didn't have
00:36:16.440 or the grandchildren
00:36:16.880 they didn't have.
00:36:17.460 It becomes their whole world
00:36:18.980 and that's why
00:36:20.200 it's become so toxic
00:36:23.220 and they also fall in line
00:36:24.540 on every issue.
00:36:25.660 They're not only for BLM,
00:36:27.180 they have long COVID.
00:36:28.340 They don't only have long COVID,
00:36:29.880 they need to protect abortion rights.
00:36:31.460 They don't only need
00:36:31.940 to protect abortion rights.
00:36:32.860 They need to protect trans rights
00:36:34.180 in Angola
00:36:35.040 through the USAID.
00:36:37.240 Every single,
00:36:37.880 tyranny is on the run
00:36:40.740 every single second
00:36:41.900 of every single day
00:36:42.860 if you hear them.
00:36:44.040 It's exhausting
00:36:45.140 to live that way
00:36:46.100 but that's the second biggest group
00:36:48.380 outside of like
00:36:49.160 late 20, early 30s.
00:36:50.320 It's not abortion.
00:36:51.160 It's just straight up ideology
00:36:52.560 and perhaps because
00:36:54.220 they live in such
00:36:55.420 comfortable environments,
00:36:56.420 suburbs,
00:36:57.340 wealthy parts of cities,
00:36:58.560 they don't have to worry
00:36:59.180 about crime
00:36:59.780 or the fact that
00:37:01.980 they don't have money
00:37:02.720 coming in the next month.
00:37:03.760 They're probably living
00:37:04.480 pretty comfortably.
00:37:05.200 So, Ryan,
00:37:07.860 I wanted to ask you
00:37:08.640 about this
00:37:09.400 slew of people
00:37:11.760 including Gail King,
00:37:13.140 Nancy Pelosi
00:37:13.760 and others
00:37:14.340 who are really giving
00:37:15.880 Schumer some rough stuff.
00:37:17.260 Is this just about
00:37:18.440 the CR
00:37:19.360 that he went along with
00:37:21.240 so that the government
00:37:21.900 didn't shut down?
00:37:22.760 I mean,
00:37:22.920 we could expect that
00:37:23.960 or is this
00:37:25.060 going deeper
00:37:26.060 to the power struggle
00:37:27.060 within the Democrat Party
00:37:28.320 right now?
00:37:29.020 And if so,
00:37:30.420 who is angling
00:37:31.580 to take over
00:37:32.820 what feels like
00:37:33.740 a ship
00:37:34.720 that has sprung
00:37:35.420 many leaks
00:37:36.220 over at
00:37:36.880 Democrat land?
00:37:38.640 Well,
00:37:39.220 I think the fact
00:37:39.940 that not only did he
00:37:40.520 vote for the CR
00:37:41.200 but he left
00:37:42.100 vulnerable House
00:37:43.340 Democrats,
00:37:44.380 I mean,
00:37:44.960 they all voted against it
00:37:46.540 except for Jared Golden
00:37:47.540 up in Maine 2nd.
00:37:48.840 You have a dozen Democrats
00:37:50.300 who live in Trump districts
00:37:51.820 who just voted
00:37:52.640 to shut down the government
00:37:53.800 and they just voted
00:37:54.980 against all the things
00:37:56.100 that that means,
00:37:56.880 all the funding
00:37:57.580 for military
00:37:58.820 and veterans
00:37:59.540 and seniors
00:38:00.320 and everything
00:38:01.200 and there will be
00:38:02.120 a campaign commercial
00:38:03.060 coming to every one
00:38:04.300 of those districts
00:38:04.960 in a few,
00:38:05.580 in the next year
00:38:06.180 in 13 months
00:38:07.360 or 15 months
00:38:07.940 saying,
00:38:08.960 you know,
00:38:10.220 insert Democrat here,
00:38:11.640 voted to shut down
00:38:12.620 your government
00:38:13.200 and suspend your,
00:38:14.620 you know,
00:38:15.080 payments to your veterans.
00:38:16.460 That is going to hurt them
00:38:17.980 and it's going to be
00:38:18.480 so toxic
00:38:19.300 and it makes them
00:38:19.980 look like they can't govern
00:38:21.080 and, you know,
00:38:21.980 they say they didn't
00:38:22.460 get anything out of it.
00:38:23.200 They got the old Biden budget.
00:38:24.440 I mean,
00:38:24.580 there was like,
00:38:24.920 I think,
00:38:25.100 10 billion in cuts.
00:38:26.280 There was nothing
00:38:26.840 really in cuts,
00:38:27.640 substantial,
00:38:28.560 but it makes them
00:38:29.400 look bad,
00:38:29.960 it makes them
00:38:30.240 look like they can't govern
00:38:31.060 and who replaces Schumer?
00:38:33.000 I don't know.
00:38:33.940 It used to be
00:38:34.660 with like Dick Durbin.
00:38:35.600 He's 83.
00:38:36.660 He's on his way out.
00:38:38.220 It won't be Bernie.
00:38:39.400 I mean,
00:38:39.860 Elizabeth Warren is 76.
00:38:41.640 It'd have to be somebody
00:38:42.480 who can bring in
00:38:43.180 a lot of money
00:38:44.380 because that's really
00:38:45.260 a big part of the job
00:38:46.400 as being leaders
00:38:47.140 who can raise
00:38:47.720 a lot of money.
00:38:49.280 It's not like
00:38:49.560 Kirsten Gillibrand.
00:38:50.420 They have a big,
00:38:51.160 big issue.
00:38:51.620 Who is the best?
00:38:52.460 Who is the best fundraiser,
00:38:53.880 Ryan?
00:38:53.980 Because you'd actually know this
00:38:54.840 and I'm just curious
00:38:55.480 because you're,
00:38:56.180 who's the best Democrat fundraiser now
00:38:58.240 who's under 65.
00:39:01.080 The best fundraiser
00:39:02.260 on the Republican side
00:39:04.100 is,
00:39:04.640 I think,
00:39:05.240 I'm pretty sure
00:39:05.800 it's Tim Scott
00:39:07.060 for sure
00:39:07.660 on the Senate side.
00:39:08.960 Tim Scott's
00:39:09.300 the best fundraiser.
00:39:10.520 On the Democratic side,
00:39:11.920 I believe it's Schumer
00:39:12.940 and his PACs.
00:39:13.840 Schumer and his PACs
00:39:14.500 raise over $100 million
00:39:15.900 a year.
00:39:17.060 But I'm talking about
00:39:17.760 the younger generation.
00:39:18.740 Is there anybody
00:39:19.400 who's already starting
00:39:20.640 to...
00:39:21.020 AOC.
00:39:22.100 AOC for sure.
00:39:22.880 Cori Bush
00:39:23.400 who's right.
00:39:23.700 AOC.
00:39:25.220 Yeah,
00:39:25.620 AOC raises
00:39:26.180 a bucket loads of money.
00:39:27.740 Yeah,
00:39:27.900 and she usually
00:39:28.340 gives it all away.
00:39:30.020 We're talking
00:39:30.800 to Ryan Gerdusky.
00:39:32.200 Ryan,
00:39:33.100 I love the data
00:39:34.200 that you bring to bear.
00:39:35.700 Encourage people
00:39:36.180 to check out
00:39:36.660 your podcast.
00:39:37.960 The data reflects
00:39:39.180 that Trump
00:39:40.140 did not actually
00:39:41.440 do better
00:39:42.060 with white voters,
00:39:43.120 right?
00:39:43.400 The white voters
00:39:44.240 from like 2016
00:39:45.380 to 2024
00:39:46.320 have stayed
00:39:47.420 basically similar
00:39:48.780 and that,
00:39:49.960 in fact,
00:39:50.200 moved a little bit
00:39:51.080 Democrat maybe,
00:39:52.080 but that the reason
00:39:53.360 why Trump won
00:39:54.240 in all 50 states,
00:39:55.480 black,
00:39:55.880 Hispanic,
00:39:56.520 Asian support rising.
00:39:58.840 I'm curious,
00:39:59.940 is that Trump?
00:40:00.920 Yeah.
00:40:01.660 Is that Trump's support
00:40:03.040 you think
00:40:03.560 as we look ahead
00:40:04.500 to 26 and 28,
00:40:06.760 how much of that
00:40:07.660 do you think
00:40:08.040 is attributable
00:40:08.700 to Trump himself
00:40:09.980 as opposed
00:40:11.120 to the Republican Party?
00:40:12.500 In other words,
00:40:13.700 does that movement
00:40:14.520 continue if it's
00:40:15.580 J.D. Vance
00:40:16.220 or someone like that
00:40:17.320 or is Trump
00:40:17.940 a unique political unicorn
00:40:19.380 in that respect?
00:40:20.380 So this is the episode
00:40:23.160 for a Numbers Game podcast
00:40:24.680 that's coming out
00:40:25.400 next Monday.
00:40:26.180 I'm super excited
00:40:26.780 about this data
00:40:27.340 comes from David Shore,
00:40:28.460 who's a Democrat,
00:40:29.780 a data scientist.
00:40:30.420 He's brilliant,
00:40:31.240 very, very smart.
00:40:32.100 His data,
00:40:32.820 and he did a really
00:40:33.560 deep dive
00:40:33.940 on not only
00:40:34.600 exit polling,
00:40:36.380 but where people
00:40:37.460 were voting
00:40:37.980 and looking at voting
00:40:38.740 files.
00:40:40.480 What happened was
00:40:41.500 between 2016
00:40:42.300 and 2020,
00:40:43.460 Trump lost
00:40:44.320 about 1%
00:40:45.160 to 2%
00:40:46.000 of the white vote
00:40:46.920 in between
00:40:47.380 those two elections.
00:40:48.440 He gained
00:40:49.040 all that back
00:40:49.920 in 2024.
00:40:51.520 So there were
00:40:52.200 Trump or
00:40:53.300 Gary Johnson,
00:40:54.700 Biden,
00:40:55.400 Trump voters.
00:40:56.220 There was that swing.
00:40:57.680 Basically,
00:40:58.160 all the people
00:40:58.660 who voted for
00:40:58.980 Gary Johnson
00:40:59.720 instead of Hillary
00:41:00.400 and then voted
00:41:00.900 for Biden
00:41:01.380 came back to Trump.
00:41:03.300 That was worth
00:41:05.140 1.5%
00:41:06.720 of his three-point
00:41:07.900 national game.
00:41:08.880 Half came
00:41:09.540 from white people.
00:41:10.720 The other half
00:41:11.600 came from minorities.
00:41:14.180 He didn't gain
00:41:14.680 that much with blacks.
00:41:15.600 It was a small amount.
00:41:16.420 The biggest was
00:41:16.940 black conservatives.
00:41:17.800 He gained about
00:41:18.080 eight points
00:41:18.680 over the course
00:41:19.220 of the last eight years.
00:41:20.380 But among
00:41:20.780 Hispanic moderates,
00:41:22.240 he gained 23 points.
00:41:24.140 In 2016,
00:41:25.060 Hillary won 81%
00:41:26.360 of Hispanic moderates.
00:41:27.620 Trump won 50,
00:41:28.480 sorry,
00:41:29.100 Kamala won 58%
00:41:30.480 eight years later.
00:41:31.500 So from 81 to 58.
00:41:33.620 The other part
00:41:34.240 was Asian moderates.
00:41:35.800 Hillary won 78,
00:41:37.060 Kamala won 67,
00:41:38.240 a double-digit drop
00:41:39.460 among moderates
00:41:40.780 in the Asian community.
00:41:42.200 Is this a Trump thing?
00:41:43.380 Partially,
00:41:43.920 but it's part
00:41:44.420 of a larger
00:41:45.240 national story.
00:41:46.800 In England,
00:41:47.460 you see the conservative
00:41:48.240 party doing better
00:41:49.360 among minorities.
00:41:50.640 In Canada,
00:41:51.400 you see the conservatives
00:41:52.500 doing better
00:41:52.880 among minorities.
00:41:53.760 It is a thing
00:41:54.480 along the entire West
00:41:56.000 where you've started
00:41:56.860 seeing part of minority,
00:41:58.820 part of minority coalition,
00:42:00.540 vote their ideology
00:42:01.700 instead of their race,
00:42:02.820 which they usually vote
00:42:03.620 their race
00:42:04.020 over their ideology.
00:42:05.240 Is it a Trump thing?
00:42:06.220 That's a great question.
00:42:07.880 Actually,
00:42:08.440 Trump was more
00:42:09.000 of a deterrent
00:42:09.880 than a supplier
00:42:11.300 of this.
00:42:11.860 The people
00:42:13.140 who don't trust
00:42:14.040 the Democratic Party
00:42:15.260 is higher
00:42:16.420 than the people
00:42:17.180 who voted for Trump.
00:42:18.020 Had everybody
00:42:19.260 been forced to vote,
00:42:22.220 David Shore's estimate
00:42:23.240 is that Trump
00:42:23.740 wouldn't have won
00:42:24.260 by 1.7%.
00:42:25.860 He would have won
00:42:27.280 by 5%.
00:42:28.600 Because when you ask
00:42:29.920 on issues
00:42:30.700 like everything
00:42:31.620 from AI
00:42:32.400 to poverty
00:42:34.340 to not only
00:42:35.520 just the economy
00:42:36.240 and immigration,
00:42:37.500 but student loans,
00:42:39.260 they trust Republicans
00:42:40.780 way more than Democrats.
00:42:42.580 The only issue
00:42:43.480 Democrats have
00:42:44.180 a sizable advantage
00:42:45.180 that people care
00:42:46.060 on an issue
00:42:46.420 that people care about
00:42:47.240 is health care.
00:42:48.420 That is the only issue
00:42:50.060 that they have
00:42:51.120 over Republicans.
00:42:52.440 On everything else,
00:42:53.240 they have a deep,
00:42:54.160 deep distrust
00:42:55.300 of the Democratic Party.
00:42:57.080 And I'll say one more thing.
00:42:58.200 Voters who got
00:42:58.940 their information
00:42:59.880 from social media
00:43:00.960 were much more inclined
00:43:02.640 to vote for Trump.
00:43:03.480 The biggest group,
00:43:04.480 the biggest demographic
00:43:05.340 to vote for Trump,
00:43:06.540 according to the
00:43:06.960 David Shore data,
00:43:08.100 white men
00:43:08.720 under the age of 20.
00:43:10.980 75% of white men
00:43:13.280 under 20
00:43:14.160 voted for Trump.
00:43:15.940 That is the largest
00:43:17.280 demographic
00:43:17.860 of any group ever,
00:43:19.460 more than seniors,
00:43:20.600 more than any other
00:43:21.920 racial group.
00:43:22.900 Trump won
00:43:23.600 a majority of voters
00:43:25.120 under 20
00:43:25.740 white women,
00:43:27.120 white men,
00:43:28.080 and non-white men.
00:43:29.420 The only group
00:43:30.060 under 20
00:43:30.660 that Trump lost
00:43:31.820 to Kamala Harris
00:43:32.880 were non-white women.
00:43:35.360 That's amazing, Stan.
00:43:36.760 That is amazing.
00:43:37.800 Yeah.
00:43:37.980 Do you think
00:43:38.980 that's COVID?
00:43:39.680 Yeah, it's,
00:43:39.880 it's,
00:43:40.580 yes,
00:43:41.940 it's completely COVID.
00:43:42.980 It is the lockdown
00:43:43.700 generation.
00:43:44.700 Lockdowns split
00:43:45.660 Gen Z
00:43:46.700 Zoomers in half.
00:43:48.360 So older Zoomers
00:43:49.620 who had already
00:43:50.180 gone through
00:43:50.720 the high school experience
00:43:51.880 and graduated
00:43:52.640 or were even
00:43:53.480 past college,
00:43:54.540 they are much more
00:43:55.480 liberal than those
00:43:56.240 who were locked down
00:43:57.180 and missed graduations,
00:43:58.760 games,
00:43:59.980 friends.
00:44:00.620 They were,
00:44:01.260 they were getting
00:44:01.660 all their news
00:44:02.380 on the internet
00:44:02.880 and they were coming
00:44:03.720 at a time
00:44:04.160 where the BLM riots
00:44:05.160 were happening,
00:44:05.980 that Me Too
00:44:06.600 was happening
00:44:07.200 and there was
00:44:07.900 a surge
00:44:08.440 of internet
00:44:08.860 personalities.
00:44:10.140 Everyone from
00:44:10.640 Jordan Peterson
00:44:11.460 to Ben Shapiro
00:44:12.500 to, you know,
00:44:14.160 more nefarious characters
00:44:15.180 on the internet
00:44:15.580 but nonetheless still,
00:44:16.760 they were being
00:44:17.240 inundated with information
00:44:18.540 from social media
00:44:19.560 free of the gates
00:44:21.580 that,
00:44:22.180 that the regular
00:44:22.900 media provides.
00:44:24.280 And so,
00:44:24.820 the younger generation
00:44:25.940 right now
00:44:26.240 is the most Republican,
00:44:27.880 18 to 20 year olds
00:44:28.840 in the last election
00:44:29.520 are the most Republican
00:44:31.040 generation,
00:44:32.160 according to the
00:44:32.580 David Shor data,
00:44:33.200 which I do trust,
00:44:34.540 the most Republican
00:44:35.260 generation since
00:44:36.140 the greatest generation
00:44:37.040 that fought World War II.
00:44:38.140 That is how far
00:44:39.140 right wing,
00:44:39.700 especially white men
00:44:41.300 under the age of 20,
00:44:42.720 the most Republican
00:44:43.740 generation we have seen
00:44:44.980 probably in 60 to 70 years.
00:44:47.680 Go check out more
00:44:48.860 from Ryan Gerduski
00:44:50.180 with It's a Numbers Game,
00:44:51.660 his podcast on the
00:44:52.460 Clay and Buck Network.
00:44:53.460 He does the best data
00:44:54.180 analysis of anybody
00:44:54.960 in the game
00:44:55.520 and subscribe to
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00:44:57.160 populist newsletter
00:44:58.400 on Substack.
00:44:59.340 Ryan,
00:44:59.800 really interesting as always,
00:45:00.880 man.
00:45:01.020 Thanks for being here.
00:45:02.600 Thank you.
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00:46:48.560 Appreciate all of you
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00:46:50.460 We are joined now
00:46:51.220 by our good friend,
00:46:52.320 Julie Kelly.
00:46:53.320 We were just talking
00:46:54.400 earlier in the program
00:46:55.840 at the top of this hour
00:46:56.940 about all of the craziness
00:46:59.420 coming from the federal
00:47:00.660 district court judges.
00:47:02.620 And Julie,
00:47:03.080 I'll start off with this.
00:47:04.740 I said that I am
00:47:05.960 somewhat optimistic
00:47:06.900 that things are going
00:47:07.760 to get better
00:47:08.460 with the judiciary
00:47:09.900 in the years ahead
00:47:11.620 because Trump won
00:47:13.180 and I think one reason
00:47:15.100 Democrats lost
00:47:16.040 was because they went
00:47:17.120 so political.
00:47:17.880 you have been covering
00:47:19.600 and they try to put him
00:47:20.500 in prison
00:47:20.920 and they try to bankrupt
00:47:21.680 him and all those things.
00:47:22.760 You've been covering
00:47:23.680 these cases like crazy.
00:47:25.600 We've never seen anything
00:47:26.580 like the resistance
00:47:27.560 that Trump is getting
00:47:28.520 from the federal district
00:47:29.500 courts right now.
00:47:31.020 Are you optimistic
00:47:31.700 in the future
00:47:32.440 or do you think
00:47:33.300 our judicial system
00:47:34.320 is just a huge pile
00:47:35.860 of steaming poo?
00:47:38.820 Well, I hate to disagree
00:47:40.200 with you,
00:47:40.960 but I'm going to go
00:47:41.920 with the latter
00:47:42.560 because, of course,
00:47:45.020 I have covered,
00:47:45.900 especially in Washington, D.C.,
00:47:47.260 and I've talked about
00:47:48.380 with you guys
00:47:49.040 what's happened
00:47:49.540 with the J-6 proceedings
00:47:51.280 in Washington
00:47:51.940 and the case
00:47:52.860 against the president.
00:47:54.960 These judges
00:47:56.040 feel impervious
00:47:57.820 and they have not
00:47:59.900 been held accountable.
00:48:01.500 When Chief Justice
00:48:02.560 John Roberts
00:48:03.420 did that really
00:48:05.000 inappropriate,
00:48:05.940 I think,
00:48:06.340 statement
00:48:06.700 about impeachment,
00:48:09.100 not his place,
00:48:10.040 number one,
00:48:10.500 the problem is not
00:48:11.780 that impeachment
00:48:12.420 is thrown around
00:48:13.640 or overused.
00:48:14.740 The problem is
00:48:15.460 that impeachment
00:48:16.340 has not been used.
00:48:18.480 I think 14 federal judges
00:48:19.920 have been impeached.
00:48:21.400 Only eight have been convicted.
00:48:23.600 Congress has completely
00:48:24.620 advocated its oversight role
00:48:26.500 of the federal judiciary.
00:48:28.420 So this is how you get
00:48:29.660 Jim Bosberg
00:48:31.320 and this is how you get
00:48:32.360 Tanya Chukkin
00:48:33.260 and Beryl Howell
00:48:34.440 and these other judges
00:48:35.960 because they know
00:48:37.200 they're not accountable.
00:48:39.020 So until these judges
00:48:40.480 are held accountable
00:48:41.860 and not by being reversed
00:48:43.180 by the Supreme Court,
00:48:44.520 I saw that in the immunity case.
00:48:46.800 I saw that in the Fisher,
00:48:48.180 the overturning
00:48:48.780 of the 1512 B2
00:48:50.380 against J-6ers.
00:48:52.800 These lower court judges
00:48:54.000 don't care.
00:48:55.580 And if they're Democrats,
00:48:56.980 they don't think
00:48:57.580 that the Supreme Court
00:48:58.380 is legitimate anyway.
00:49:00.340 So this is a serious crisis.
00:49:02.900 This is why the public's trust
00:49:04.480 in the federal judiciary
00:49:05.680 is at an all-time low.
00:49:08.180 And Republicans
00:49:08.880 who are threatening
00:49:09.740 to file articles
00:49:11.040 in some speech
00:49:11.720 when I think
00:49:12.160 some have been filed
00:49:13.120 or to strict jurisdiction
00:49:15.520 from some of the most
00:49:17.420 egregious political actors
00:49:19.060 on the bench
00:49:19.760 or simply to shut down
00:49:21.500 the D.C.
00:49:22.520 federal court system,
00:49:23.720 which I've advocated
00:49:24.620 for years.
00:49:26.080 Strong measures
00:49:26.800 need to be taken
00:49:27.620 otherwise this is going
00:49:29.040 to actually help.
00:49:29.880 It really bothers me,
00:49:32.500 Julie,
00:49:32.740 to see how much
00:49:33.740 the D.C. Circuit Court
00:49:36.600 is essentially
00:49:38.640 an extra branch
00:49:40.960 of government.
00:49:42.080 It's like the fail-safe
00:49:43.160 for the deep state, right?
00:49:44.920 They can bring any case
00:49:46.380 they want there
00:49:47.260 and they know
00:49:48.160 that unless the Supreme Court
00:49:49.340 steps in,
00:49:50.020 they'll get their way.
00:49:51.460 And this is very clear.
00:49:52.540 The fact that they didn't,
00:49:53.700 I always have to remind people
00:49:54.780 of this,
00:49:55.360 that none of the J-6
00:49:56.840 related individuals
00:49:57.800 were able to get
00:49:58.660 a different venue
00:50:02.040 for the trial.
00:50:03.220 I think even,
00:50:04.180 I think Timothy McVeigh
00:50:05.160 was given a different venue
00:50:06.360 for his trial
00:50:07.120 from Oklahoma City
00:50:08.020 if memory serves.
00:50:08.840 Like,
00:50:09.220 this is a standard thing
00:50:10.580 in the justice system
00:50:11.700 for people
00:50:12.600 if there's considered
00:50:13.460 to be a prejudiced jury
00:50:14.420 to be able to get it.
00:50:15.420 No one, right?
00:50:16.200 No one got the court
00:50:17.760 or got the jurisdiction,
00:50:19.640 the venue,
00:50:20.680 moved from D.C.
00:50:22.200 So that's very troubling.
00:50:23.560 Some of these district judges,
00:50:24.960 though,
00:50:25.060 the stuff that they've come up with,
00:50:26.280 the ones that to me
00:50:27.960 are,
00:50:28.960 well,
00:50:29.140 the turning around
00:50:29.960 of the plane
00:50:30.620 with the Trenderagua guys,
00:50:32.160 that seems to be
00:50:33.200 the most egregious,
00:50:34.020 I think,
00:50:34.440 to most of us.
00:50:35.700 But a couple of other ones,
00:50:36.740 Julie,
00:50:37.340 and you're familiar
00:50:38.300 with these different judges
00:50:39.440 I know, too,
00:50:40.140 so that's a thing.
00:50:40.820 You know who these individuals
00:50:42.940 are from covering them.
00:50:44.500 The judge who said
00:50:45.420 that you can't ban
00:50:46.920 transgenders
00:50:47.800 from serving in the military,
00:50:49.620 and now there's a judge
00:50:50.540 that I believe
00:50:51.040 has ordered the DOJ
00:50:52.700 to return men
00:50:54.680 to a women's prison
00:50:55.740 who say they're transgender?
00:50:57.220 Like,
00:50:57.440 this is just,
00:50:58.100 they're just making up laws now.
00:51:00.140 They are,
00:51:01.040 and they're completely undermining,
00:51:03.360 and these are all related
00:51:04.760 to presidential executive orders.
00:51:07.780 So what you're talking about
00:51:09.220 is Anna Reyes,
00:51:10.200 who is the first
00:51:11.020 LGBTQ,
00:51:12.380 Biden-appointed
00:51:13.240 district court judge
00:51:15.260 in Washington,
00:51:16.640 basically reversing,
00:51:18.080 vacating
00:51:18.560 the president's executive order
00:51:20.420 on transgenders
00:51:22.520 in the military,
00:51:23.540 Royce Lambert,
00:51:24.580 a Reagan appointee,
00:51:26.280 who I watched
00:51:27.360 just absolutely
00:51:28.620 throw the book
00:51:29.900 at J6ers,
00:51:31.540 throwing grandmothers
00:51:32.880 in prison
00:51:33.560 for 57 months
00:51:35.280 on the obstruction count
00:51:37.660 that was later overturned,
00:51:39.980 and he himself
00:51:41.460 rejecting the president's
00:51:43.680 executive order
00:51:44.460 and ordering the government,
00:51:46.380 us,
00:51:47.120 to pay for
00:51:47.980 hormone therapy
00:51:49.220 and transitional surgery
00:51:51.460 for these transgenders
00:51:52.980 who are in prison.
00:51:54.620 These are criminals,
00:51:55.560 right?
00:51:55.780 We're not just paying,
00:51:56.660 you know,
00:51:57.000 for whoever wants it.
00:51:58.640 They are in federal custody.
00:52:01.020 And then,
00:52:01.480 of course,
00:52:01.820 Jim Bosberg
00:52:02.580 ordering
00:52:04.260 verbally
00:52:05.300 for the Department of Justice
00:52:07.360 and DHS
00:52:07.880 to return flights
00:52:09.720 that were already
00:52:11.520 in the air
00:52:12.460 out of U.S. airspace,
00:52:14.600 very likely,
00:52:15.480 traveling over
00:52:16.340 either Mexico
00:52:17.500 or Central America,
00:52:19.420 ordering the return
00:52:20.420 of those flights
00:52:21.160 carrying known
00:52:22.560 illegal immigrants
00:52:23.800 for suspected
00:52:25.280 Venezuelan terrorists
00:52:27.040 tied to
00:52:27.820 that CDA day.
00:52:30.940 Who do these judges
00:52:32.020 think that they are?
00:52:33.800 And so now
00:52:34.400 what Bosberg
00:52:35.040 is doing
00:52:35.620 is, I think,
00:52:36.660 setting up
00:52:37.080 a contempt trap
00:52:38.040 because he was saying,
00:52:39.140 well,
00:52:39.220 I made this verbal order.
00:52:41.140 You should have
00:52:41.660 turned the planes around.
00:52:42.760 No planes should have
00:52:43.580 taken off that day
00:52:44.560 at all
00:52:45.220 because I was holding
00:52:46.840 this hearing
00:52:47.340 and this is
00:52:47.760 a temporary
00:52:48.220 restraining order
00:52:48.980 that he issued,
00:52:49.860 actually two of them,
00:52:51.340 on Saturday
00:52:52.000 that will last 14 days
00:52:53.540 and again
00:52:55.060 preventing
00:52:55.780 the president
00:52:56.540 and his team
00:52:57.460 from executing
00:52:58.300 his proclamation
00:52:59.420 over the weekend
00:53:00.860 of the
00:53:01.540 Alien Enemies Act.
00:53:05.040 So,
00:53:05.320 excuse me,
00:53:05.740 this is
00:53:06.200 very reckless,
00:53:08.700 very destructive
00:53:09.480 and dangerous.
00:53:10.320 No one should be
00:53:11.440 defending
00:53:12.080 what these judges
00:53:13.100 are doing.
00:53:14.260 Now,
00:53:14.480 of course,
00:53:14.700 all of these
00:53:15.200 are going on
00:53:15.720 appeals.
00:53:16.760 There's oral arguments
00:53:17.780 in the
00:53:18.320 Senate
00:53:18.580 Relentara case
00:53:19.640 on Monday afternoon.
00:53:20.860 I'll be covering
00:53:21.640 that live.
00:53:23.260 But I'll tell you,
00:53:24.760 as bad as I knew
00:53:25.420 these judges were
00:53:26.420 and how they
00:53:28.300 just repeatedly
00:53:29.440 denied
00:53:29.940 SharePoint due
00:53:30.520 process for J6ers,
00:53:31.860 refusing every
00:53:32.800 single case
00:53:33.500 to move
00:53:34.080 those trials
00:53:34.680 out of Washington,
00:53:35.520 D.C.,
00:53:36.320 to now see them
00:53:37.400 leap to their rescue
00:53:38.560 and allegedly
00:53:39.800 protect the
00:53:40.500 due process rights
00:53:41.960 of illegal
00:53:42.740 and suspected
00:53:43.720 gang members
00:53:44.600 from Venezuela
00:53:45.440 that posed
00:53:46.180 a legitimate threat
00:53:47.340 to this country,
00:53:48.460 not the J6ers did,
00:53:50.280 it's a pretty
00:53:51.040 head-spinning
00:53:51.820 hypocrisy.
00:53:53.120 We're talking
00:53:53.880 to Julie Kelly.
00:53:55.080 Julie,
00:53:55.480 you mentioned
00:53:55.920 the J6ers,
00:53:56.980 and when you
00:53:57.440 first started
00:53:57.920 coming on
00:53:58.400 with us
00:53:58.820 four years ago,
00:54:00.460 you were one
00:54:01.020 of the very few
00:54:01.700 people out there
00:54:02.520 actually shining
00:54:03.520 a light
00:54:04.020 on how they
00:54:04.760 were being treated.
00:54:06.200 Given the
00:54:07.140 Democrat obsession
00:54:08.260 with January 6th
00:54:09.800 and the years
00:54:10.580 that they spent
00:54:11.300 on it,
00:54:12.240 are you somewhat
00:54:13.160 surprised that
00:54:14.120 Trump came in
00:54:15.060 immediately pardoned
00:54:16.460 every January 6er
00:54:18.060 and the story
00:54:19.200 just vanished?
00:54:20.280 I mean,
00:54:20.540 isn't that kind
00:54:21.520 of interesting
00:54:22.140 because there
00:54:23.180 were all these
00:54:23.660 arguments out there,
00:54:24.620 oh,
00:54:24.840 if Trump pardons
00:54:25.680 all the J6ers,
00:54:26.880 this will be
00:54:27.260 a constitutional
00:54:28.040 crime,
00:54:28.380 and he did it,
00:54:30.000 and no one
00:54:31.060 even mentions
00:54:31.720 hardly January 6th
00:54:33.220 anymore.
00:54:33.920 Are you surprised
00:54:34.820 at how quickly
00:54:35.460 it's kind of vanished?
00:54:37.080 Yes,
00:54:37.640 I will say
00:54:38.540 that I am.
00:54:39.520 As you guys know,
00:54:40.320 I talked to the
00:54:40.880 president a few
00:54:42.100 days before
00:54:42.600 Inauguration Day,
00:54:43.600 talked to him
00:54:44.200 at length
00:54:45.120 about what
00:54:46.000 had happened
00:54:46.360 to the J6ers,
00:54:48.500 you know,
00:54:48.800 the various
00:54:49.260 pardon proposals.
00:54:50.860 He expressed
00:54:51.680 he was very
00:54:52.240 committed to
00:54:52.860 blanket pardon
00:54:53.640 with a few
00:54:54.840 exceptions,
00:54:55.560 and that's,
00:54:56.040 of course,
00:54:56.260 exactly what
00:54:57.040 he did.
00:54:58.160 And there was
00:54:58.780 some noise
00:54:59.240 about it
00:54:59.700 for,
00:55:00.160 what,
00:55:00.380 a week
00:55:00.840 or 10 days,
00:55:01.720 and then
00:55:02.340 it has
00:55:03.420 completely
00:55:04.040 disappeared.
00:55:05.280 And the Democrats
00:55:05.960 even want to
00:55:06.540 forget about
00:55:06.960 January 6th.
00:55:07.780 I think it was
00:55:08.660 Jamie Raskin
00:55:09.740 said a few
00:55:10.200 weeks ago,
00:55:10.780 oh,
00:55:11.000 can we stop
00:55:11.480 talking about
00:55:12.040 January 6th
00:55:12.880 already?
00:55:14.180 That's really
00:55:15.000 funny.
00:55:15.500 Since when?
00:55:16.320 Right.
00:55:16.960 Yeah.
00:55:17.480 But yes,
00:55:19.260 I am very
00:55:20.420 surprised,
00:55:21.700 but happily
00:55:22.920 so.
00:55:24.220 And,
00:55:24.540 you know,
00:55:25.120 it's great to
00:55:25.580 see these people
00:55:26.280 starting to pick
00:55:26.980 up the pieces
00:55:27.580 of their lives.
00:55:28.860 But,
00:55:29.340 you know,
00:55:29.760 I was reading
00:55:30.300 one of the
00:55:31.600 filings today
00:55:32.260 in the
00:55:32.480 Venezuelan
00:55:33.080 terrorism case,
00:55:33.940 and these
00:55:35.160 illegals
00:55:35.920 have
00:55:36.580 stables
00:55:37.840 of lawyers
00:55:39.640 defending
00:55:40.640 them
00:55:41.080 and fighting
00:55:42.260 the government
00:55:42.820 on behalf
00:55:43.580 of the
00:55:44.140 alleged
00:55:44.460 rights
00:55:44.820 that these
00:55:45.180 illegals
00:55:45.620 have.
00:55:46.580 And it's
00:55:47.020 really disturbing
00:55:47.800 that we saw
00:55:48.660 none of that
00:55:49.400 for American
00:55:49.940 citizens
00:55:50.600 wrongly
00:55:51.820 prosecuted
00:55:52.500 for participating
00:55:53.800 in the events
00:55:54.560 of January 6th.
00:55:55.780 I mean,
00:55:55.980 the whole legal
00:55:56.660 judicial system
00:55:58.080 is so upside
00:55:58.900 down.
00:56:00.160 Can I just
00:56:00.960 jump in really
00:56:01.380 quick,
00:56:01.640 Julie,
00:56:01.820 to say that
00:56:02.460 from my
00:56:02.880 understanding
00:56:03.240 from friends
00:56:03.780 in the legal
00:56:04.440 world,
00:56:05.340 if you defend,
00:56:06.480 like if you
00:56:06.920 would defend
00:56:07.360 Osama Bin
00:56:07.960 Laden,
00:56:09.200 obviously that
00:56:10.120 won't happen,
00:56:10.880 but if someone
00:56:11.460 could do that,
00:56:12.560 that would be
00:56:13.100 considered a
00:56:13.680 feather in their
00:56:14.240 legal cap
00:56:14.920 going forward.
00:56:15.760 They could say
00:56:16.300 it's like John
00:56:16.860 Adams defending
00:56:17.500 the Redcoats,
00:56:18.180 like everyone
00:56:18.560 deserves,
00:56:19.580 but no one
00:56:20.500 felt that way
00:56:21.420 in a lot of
00:56:22.600 the big law
00:56:23.340 firms and in
00:56:24.300 sort of the
00:56:24.620 big law world
00:56:25.540 about J6
00:56:26.460 Americans.
00:56:27.920 Yeah.
00:56:28.060 Absolutely
00:56:29.760 not.
00:56:30.240 Most of
00:56:30.620 them relied
00:56:31.740 on public
00:56:32.360 defenders.
00:56:33.520 Some of
00:56:33.840 those public
00:56:34.300 defenders were
00:56:35.120 very good,
00:56:35.840 others were
00:56:36.420 terrible,
00:56:37.400 and I saw
00:56:38.000 both sides
00:56:39.480 to that.
00:56:41.000 But going
00:56:41.340 back to
00:56:41.700 Jeb Bosberg,
00:56:42.840 I was in
00:56:43.240 a support room
00:56:43.780 in December,
00:56:44.480 the week
00:56:44.860 before Christmas.
00:56:46.080 He put a
00:56:46.720 woman who
00:56:47.300 went inside
00:56:47.780 the Capitol
00:56:48.260 for nine
00:56:48.820 minutes,
00:56:49.200 committed no
00:56:49.820 violence,
00:56:50.340 charged with
00:56:50.760 four misdemeanors.
00:56:52.120 He put her
00:56:52.920 on trial the
00:56:54.280 week before
00:56:54.880 Christmas,
00:56:55.960 before a
00:56:56.440 D.C.
00:56:56.840 jury,
00:56:57.180 jurors from
00:56:58.100 a city that
00:56:58.620 had just
00:56:59.060 voted 92%
00:57:00.180 for Kamala
00:57:00.840 Harris.
00:57:01.600 He completely
00:57:02.400 ignored her
00:57:03.660 pleas to
00:57:04.760 postpone the
00:57:05.640 trial until
00:57:06.100 after the
00:57:06.980 president was
00:57:07.440 inaugurated,
00:57:08.680 knowing that
00:57:09.460 she would be
00:57:10.020 getting a
00:57:10.400 pardon because
00:57:10.940 of course she
00:57:11.440 only had
00:57:11.920 misdemeanors,
00:57:12.700 and he denied
00:57:13.860 postponing that
00:57:15.100 trial.
00:57:15.980 Put her on
00:57:16.760 trial for
00:57:17.800 three days.
00:57:18.460 She was
00:57:18.680 immediately
00:57:19.180 convicted by
00:57:19.940 the C.C.
00:57:20.560 jury.
00:57:20.820 So that's
00:57:24.060 the mindset
00:57:24.600 of these
00:57:25.500 judges.
00:57:26.040 No due
00:57:26.460 process,
00:57:27.300 no protection
00:57:27.900 of constitutional
00:57:28.840 rights for
00:57:29.360 American citizens
00:57:30.140 because they're
00:57:30.680 Trump supporters.
00:57:32.080 But he swooped
00:57:33.180 in Saturday
00:57:34.600 as soon as he
00:57:35.660 possibly could,
00:57:37.260 ordering claims
00:57:38.120 to be turned
00:57:38.780 around,
00:57:39.700 carrying
00:57:39.940 Venezuelan
00:57:40.620 terrorists,
00:57:41.800 and now
00:57:43.040 fighting the
00:57:43.660 government for
00:57:44.360 disclosure,
00:57:45.920 details of
00:57:47.000 those deportation
00:57:47.940 rights.
00:57:50.180 I mean,
00:57:50.900 how can a
00:57:52.040 government deal
00:57:52.540 with someone
00:57:52.920 like that?
00:57:53.620 You can't.
00:57:54.980 Buck, I'm
00:57:55.660 glad you brought
00:57:56.200 that up about
00:57:57.140 the quality of
00:57:58.000 legal representation
00:57:58.760 because I remember
00:57:59.400 this was one of
00:57:59.980 the first things
00:58:00.540 we talked about
00:58:01.220 with you,
00:58:01.760 Julie, was you
00:58:02.620 were raising
00:58:03.080 money so that
00:58:03.840 the lawyers
00:58:04.380 could be better.
00:58:05.720 John Adams
00:58:06.460 defended the
00:58:08.220 Boston Massacre
00:58:09.280 British soldiers
00:58:10.480 in a pre-revolutionary
00:58:12.960 America for
00:58:14.020 people out there
00:58:14.820 that have forgotten
00:58:15.660 because it used
00:58:16.980 to be,
00:58:17.940 a basically
00:58:19.480 foundational
00:58:20.380 belief of
00:58:21.540 lawyers that
00:58:23.040 everybody deserved
00:58:23.920 the best possible
00:58:24.780 legal representation,
00:58:25.660 even people who
00:58:26.740 were accused of
00:58:27.480 heinous crimes.
00:58:28.920 And to Buck's
00:58:29.460 point, and I
00:58:29.920 know you saw
00:58:30.440 this, Julie,
00:58:31.520 everybody wants
00:58:32.300 to line up.
00:58:32.960 I've got friends
00:58:33.740 who worked on
00:58:34.440 9-11 prosecutions.
00:58:36.220 The people who
00:58:37.080 were involved in
00:58:37.920 flying planes into
00:58:39.080 our buildings have
00:58:40.500 elite representation.
00:58:43.400 Look, I don't
00:58:44.800 begrudge that because
00:58:46.040 I think that is the
00:58:47.140 American system of
00:58:48.180 justice.
00:58:48.740 But Julie, just to
00:58:50.200 kind of finish here,
00:58:51.760 how many elite
00:58:52.780 lawyers were
00:58:53.620 willing to step
00:58:54.480 forward and
00:58:55.480 volunteer their
00:58:56.340 time to rep the
00:58:57.380 J-6ers?
00:58:58.360 There were no
00:58:59.500 elite white shoe
00:59:00.760 law firms that
00:59:01.600 stepped up to
00:59:02.640 defend a single
00:59:03.800 J-6er, not one.
00:59:06.000 Again, there were
00:59:06.640 some very good
00:59:07.300 lawyers, some that
00:59:08.340 were retained
00:59:08.820 privately, most that
00:59:10.080 were court-appointed
00:59:10.920 or public defenders,
00:59:11.960 lawyers, but not
00:59:13.320 a single.
00:59:14.540 You see all of
00:59:15.520 these law firms
00:59:16.340 lined up, not
00:59:17.120 just defending
00:59:18.240 these terrorists,
00:59:19.080 but fighting the
00:59:20.500 Trump administration
00:59:21.220 on anything.
00:59:22.000 These are all
00:59:22.700 big-name law firms.
00:59:23.980 None of them
00:59:25.280 stepped up for
00:59:26.000 American citizens
00:59:26.980 because they
00:59:28.700 considered them
00:59:29.640 terrorists.
00:59:30.500 You know, the
00:59:30.800 Venezuelan gang
00:59:31.560 members with
00:59:32.200 tattoos all over
00:59:33.100 the place who
00:59:34.680 have suspected
00:59:35.640 ties to TDA,
00:59:36.680 they're not
00:59:37.020 terrorists.
00:59:37.440 They're victims.
00:59:39.000 But you walk
00:59:39.940 inside the Capitol
00:59:40.640 for nine minutes,
00:59:41.680 commit no violence,
00:59:43.160 and you have the
00:59:43.880 chief judge of the
00:59:44.680 D.C. District
00:59:45.280 Corp putting you
00:59:46.000 on trial in the
00:59:46.700 most Democratic
00:59:47.280 city in the
00:59:48.280 country for a
00:59:49.040 quick conviction.
00:59:51.680 So, no, none
00:59:52.780 of them did.
00:59:53.300 So shame on
00:59:53.900 these law firms.
00:59:54.660 And this is why
00:59:55.180 I'm so glad to
00:59:56.100 see the president
00:59:56.740 doing what he
00:59:58.100 can to vilify
01:00:00.020 these law firms,
01:00:01.000 strip them of
01:00:01.620 security clearances,
01:00:02.680 access to
01:00:03.280 documents and
01:00:03.900 buildings, and
01:00:05.120 doing, yes,
01:00:06.020 damage to their
01:00:06.760 business because
01:00:07.420 that's exactly
01:00:08.240 what they deserve.
01:00:09.680 Julie, keep up
01:00:10.620 the good work.
01:00:11.440 Look forward to
01:00:11.920 talking to you
01:00:12.400 again, and thank
01:00:13.200 you for the last
01:00:13.840 four years.
01:00:14.560 How awesome you've
01:00:15.340 been talking to us
01:00:16.100 and keeping us
01:00:16.560 updated on all
01:00:17.260 this.
01:00:18.120 You guys are
01:00:18.720 awesome for always
01:00:19.460 having me on.
01:00:20.100 Thank you so much.
01:00:21.180 Talk to you soon.
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