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Mark Levin
David McCormick: Bob Casey Has Supported 98% of Biden's Policies
"Could not put your finger on a single thing that he's done from from is what arguably one of the most significant states in the country, the birthplace of our country and a battleground state. But here's the thing, Mark, that is just shocking. Under Joe Biden, Bob Casey has voted 98 % with Joe Biden. He's a rubber stamp that has over and over again supported the policies that are taking our country in a terrible direction, whether it's the border, inflation, law and order. And so this is emblematic of someone who's not actively fighting for the interests of Pennsylvania, but has essentially adapted of the terrible policies of Joe Biden. And that's why I believe that when presented with an opportunity to vote for someone who's going to fight for them, who's an independent leader, who's going to fight for the people of Pennsylvania and who's going to act as a leader, I think that there's a real chance that Pennsylvania's will will make the different choice. And I'm going to work hard during their vote. Well, the Democrat ruling class in Pennsylvania is frightened of you. The governor put out an edict, which is intended to harm your election chances, automatic voter registration. He did it without any legislation from the legislature in Pennsylvania. That's directly aimed at you, I believe. case In of the Bob Casey, what he does is he overwhelms the airwaves. It's very expensive in Pennsylvania. You have all these these big cities, but you have these sort of cluster areas of big cities with suburbs. And so the media market is very expensive, and he expects to overwhelm you with all kinds of donations from Schumer, the hard -left Democrat billionaires, and all the rest of it. And this is why I've endorsed you, because I think you're good you're on the issues, a good debater, and you have at least some finances, significantly so, to take
News and Perspective with Tom Hutyler
Fresh "Legislature" from News and Perspective with Tom Hutyler
"206. The of city Seattle is on pace to break a record for homicides this year. There have been 62 so far in 2023. The record is 69 set back in 1994. Friday night someone was stabbed to death near T -Mobile Park. The violence has these people on alert. Part closed. I mean, just kind of stay in groups, try to come up with more than one person and just kind of stay together. I'm uncomfortable at different hours of the day roaming around. And I think it's about like being and putting yourselves in non confrontational situations. It doesn't feel like it's just an area. You can't be sure of kind of any area when you're walking around because people can kind of just go off at any point. Como4 reports in the month of September there were 12 homicides in Seattle in September of 2022. There were just four. There were only three in September of 2021. Prosecutors filing the first round of charges against a group of robbery suspects accused of targeting Asian families in Seattle. Six defendants face burglary and weapons charges in connection with a series of home invasions in South Seattle over the summer. Casey McNerney is the King County prosecuting attorney's office telling Como4 it's not clear yet if they will have eventually able to be filing hate crime charges along with state law around hate crimes is very and specific what we're going to do is look to see if we can can prove that if we get additional that information. Police recovered $31 ,000 in cash fentanyl cocaine Mexican pesos ammunition and clothing worn by the suspects during the home invasions. A state lawmaker says she has been receiving death threats for her position on Iran. More from Northwest News Radio's Jeff Bojala. Representative Afar Avar is herself Iranian American born to parents who fled the country's oppressive Islamic regime but her Opposition to sanctions have led many to believe she supports the government of Iran. Baravar tells the Seattle Times she opposes sanctions because they only hurt the Iranian people and have little effect on the nation's leadership. She says she's has also received death threats for not overtly supporting protests over the death of Masha Amini, a young woman killed in Iranian police custody for allegedly violating the country's hijab law. Faravar even penned an op The -ed in Stranger outlining her positions and calling for the threats of violence to stop. Jeff Bojala, Northwest News Radio. Republicans and Democrats disagree on how to fix a gerrymandered legislative district. The summer of federal court found that the 15th legislative district covering Yakima and parts of Pasco to was illegally dilute drawn the power of Latino voters. According to Crosscut, Democrats are okay with a judge deciding on a new map, but Republicans want the redistricting commission to decide. However, having the redistricting commission draw up a new map would require a special session of the legislature, which would in turn require action by the governor or a two -thirds vote of lawmakers. After the 2020 census, the 15 legislative district was redrawn, but was found to be especially gerrymandered as commuters driving from Yakima to Pasco would have to district leave the and pass through two others before returning to the 15th. Well, we've already known Washington's minimum wage was going up. Now we know by how much. Here's Northwest News Radio's Corwin Haake. From $15 74 cents an hour now to 1628 January 1st. That's what the State Department of Labor and Industries is saying as it adds 54 cents an hour to what was already the highest statewide minimum wage in the country. Every fall, LNI announces the coming year's hike. It arrives at a number by calculating more than 200 average costs for food, beverages, housing, transportation and other common household expenses. The new rate will be the highest among states, although Washington D .C.'s new minimum be will 72 cents an hour higher. The federal minimum wage remains $7 .25 an hour unchanged since 2009. Corwin Haake, Northwest News Radio. Northwest News Time 2 10. It's kind of fun sports from the Beacon Plumbing Sports Desk and Bill Schwartz and on the Seahawks. East Rutherford, New Jersey, where two in one Seattle plays one and two New York Giants. He started his NFL career with the Jets Monday night game, you know, primetime game. Uh, you know, Wait, can't you know, can't wait. Just another opportunity for us to go out there and prove ourselves against another good defense. The Hawks are slight underdogs of 5 15 kick off tonight on ABC Como TV for Washington State had a bye weekend, but the Cougars move up three spots to number 13 in the Associated Press pool. WSU plays UCLA at the Rose Bowl Saturday afternoon, seventh ranked Washington number eight Oregon on a collision Course, they'll meet one o 'clock October 14th at Husky Stadium, a promising Seattle Mariners baseball season ends Sunday with a one nothing victory over Texas. The M's were 88 74, but not quite good enough for a playoff berth. Here's Seattle shortstop JP Crawford. Take this feeling into the off season every day. Just every time you're working out a train, just remember, you know how much it pisses you off. Monday night preseason hockey at Seattle Center. The Kraken skate against Edmonton Sports with sports at 10 and 40 after the hour. Northwest News Radio Northwest News Time 2 11 Ukrainian attack drones are causing panic in Russia. Exploding in the Russian city of Slomensk in video circulating online on the battlefield, Ukraine's counter offensive grinding on with Ukrainian commanders now predicting a long war of attrition. This assault brigade training for its next attack right near the battle zone. These men have just come off the front lines. They've got to get this right on the Russian positions quickly when they go back into those fierce battles again. President Biden saying the US will not walk away from supporting Ukraine after
Simply Bitcoin
A highlight from Saylor Now Own's Almost 1% of All Bitcoin, BUYS MORE | EP 831
"Yo intro first You're against freedom Yeah, we're gonna salute Bitcoin live we're your number one source for the peaceful Bitcoin revolution for breaking news culture manic warfare We will be your guide through The separation of money and state. I hope everyone had an amazing effing weekend I did I got to chill, you know everyone on the weekends like man like like what'd you do? What like, you know, what did you do anything crazy news, whatever? No, man I stayed home and I chilled and I relaxed because the week, you know, it's the Bitcoin rollercoaster making Bitcoin media You know, it's a grind. I'm not gonna lie It's very purposeful and I'm very very grateful and privileged Opti and I are and the rest of the simply Bitcoin crew But but it is it is quite a bit of a grind. So on weekends, I get to chill. Anyways enough of that breaking news Michael Saylor buys Even more Bitcoin the man or micro strategy better said now owns almost 1 % of all Bitcoin sky talk about Conviction this is conviction Michael Saylor is proving to the world and this is something that I've been saying guys in the next two or three years it is going to be Undeniable, it's gonna be an undeniable fact that naim bukele's Bitcoin strategy and Michael sailors strategy on the public company level is Going to be an alternative than holding fiat currencies on their balance sheets Especially with the FASB rule changes, especially with the Bitcoin ETF around the corner there They're gonna they're trying to do whatever it takes and I believe it's politically motivated I'm not the only Bitcoin or that has said this by the way That they're you know, they're trying to slow this down But it's gonna be undeniable and they're gonna have a very hard time Debunking this that Bitcoin Itself, it's just a better money It's just better money and governments are gonna have a hard time disputing that and the reason they're gonna have a hard time Disputing that number one is because they're always going to do they're always gonna want to debase their currency They can't afford the endless wars. They can't afford sending billions of dollars to Ukraine If they didn't have the money printer, so they're gonna have a really hard time explaining that away and number two Censorship, of course, right and the control on money itself, right? A lot of the reasons that the BRIC nations have sought alternatives to the US dollar Not only because the US government is printing a ridiculous amount of money but also because they've politicized the money they've weaponized the money against their political opponents and Fine, you could you can make the argument. I'm not gonna I'm not gonna make those judgments the government of North Korea are bad Okay, and the government of Russia is bad the government of Cuba is bad. I'm not gonna get into those arguments, right? but let's talk about The vast majority of people that live in those countries that are not have nothing to do with the government They're just like you and you and me. They're just trying to get by they get caught in those sanctions they have nothing to do with it and The system that they want you to live in is if you live in a certain if you were if you happen to be born in a certain country You happen to have certain political beliefs. You are not entitled to have to open a bank account You are a danger. You're a risk. Well Bitcoin is for you Bitcoin is your money it works. So they're gonna have a hard time and this is why we call it the separation of money and state This is why we bring up the book the sovereign individuals so much because it absolutely Hit the nail on the head this what we're living through right now, but it's not only money It's also the disintermediation of information which is happening at the same time. You're seeing it with the Russell Brand stuff You're seeing it with the Tucker stuff Independent content creators are now getting more views and more traction than the legacy corporate media of which they cannot control and that freaks them out too, so After we got over this hill after we endure this this this bumpy transitionary period and if we win the race to avoid the war I Agree with Corey Clifton from swan I think that there's a bright orange future ahead of us and I've never been so pumped about it But I got to say one last thing before I bring up my legendary co -host Michael sailor Please leave some Bitcoin for the rest of us. Anyways Opti. How you doing, brother? I'm doing great man doing great. I also unplugged this weekend. It felt good I was literally joking with everyone in the spaces. I literally lived the meme. Did you guys catch the game this weekend? I unplugged completely what game did he catch? I caught all the games. I didn't do anything yesterday I literally did not a thing yesterday, but watch football Throw tomatoes all you want, but it was it's a great weekend It's good to be a big corner and then also guys mad sailor leave some Bitcoin for the rest of us she It's almost like you taking it all it's almost like you trying to buy all the Bitcoin. Yeah. No, he definitely is bro He he owns 1 % he almost owns 1 % of every Bitcoin. We're at that point. We're at that point in the movie, dude Well, I think this is the PSA where we tell everyone to stop selling your Bitcoin to Michael sailor and huddle onto them coins We're in the dark it actually I saw a good tweet before we go on Nico I saw a good tweet this weekend and it was something on the lines of like Dang, I wish I could remember but it was something like Willy. Woo is bearish Someone there is another part and then it's like and Bitcoin maxis are watching d3 football like if you can't tell that this is the deepest parts of a bear market Like are you even watching there? It was a great tweet I wish I could say it off the top of my head But as you can tell we're in the deep parts of the bear market I hope you guys are stacked and I hope you guys are getting your cash flows up and Just you know getting your body right mine, right? This is the time to get your UTXOs in order to make sure that everything is copa static as we move into a crazy Bull run. Anyways, Nico, we were gonna have a guest today But I'm kind of glad that they didn't show up because I wrote an article for once guys And I'm actually really hyped on this one so I'm gonna read it for you I'm gonna do my best guy Swan impersonation today, and I I think you guys are gonna really like this one So, I don't know it. It's got a lot of soul. It's got some spirit in it It gets me hyped up and maybe I'll give you context for it. I'll just read it and see what Nico thinks He I don't even think Nico seen this yet So I'm excited to get his response his reaction to we're gonna do a reaction video on today's simply Bitcoin Anyway, you go let's get into the show. Are we gonna get a Nico Jones take today? Are we gonna get a wild Nico John? I think so. We got something spicy for the numbers, bro. Let's jump in today. 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Dollars realized monetary inflation one point seven five percent the market capitalization of Bitcoin 513 billion dollars with the B Bitcoin verse gold market cap three point nine nine percent All right, everybody so Opti said Nico Jones ran potential Nico Jones rant What what is this potential Nico Jones rant gonna be about? Well, we've talked about the you know It comes from like the political front this this this saying but I'm gonna apply it to Central bankers, I'm gonna apply to politicians Right, and there is something in the in the political Rhetoric recently and it's called the iron law of something projection, right? So we're gonna take away the political rhetoric because we believe on simply bitcoins not left versus right, right? It's a party of orange versus party of green party of central bank digital currencies nihilism poverty slavery versus a party of freedom Bitcoin Prosperity opportunity optimism, right? So that's really what it's about But I'm gonna take that rhetoric because it is very very powerful rhetoric and I'm gonna say the iron law of central bank Politicians projection never fails it never frickin fails let me introduce you to senator Mendez of New Jersey and let's take a look at what he has to say about Naeem Bukele of El Salvador We have an increasing challenging situation in El Salvador one that threatens both the future democracy in the country and bilateral relations of the United States Over the last two years president Bukele has presided over a number a number of alarming setbacks for democratic governance undermining judicial independence intimidating opposition lawmakers by using security forces to occupy the legislature negotiating political pacts with gangs regularly attacking journalists and media outlets and In addition to these actions Bukele has also repeatedly used his network of Twitter trolls to attract and to attack And threaten not only government critics within El Salvador, but also United States officials We have an increasing challenging situation in El Salvador one So this is just internalize everything everything that this guy said right, you know senator meant You know, he sounded so legitimate.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Fresh update on "legislature" discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
"Why are the MAGA voters so upset? I was talking to an establishment person this weekend. They said, you know, Charlie, outrage is not a strategy. And the people that listen to your show, they end up being, you know, pretty fired up. And I got really I got really upset with him. I said, why do you think people are mad? He said, oh, you know, they're mad because they're told to be mad because of people like you. I said, no, they're mad because there's not an opposition voice because their values are not represented in these legislative fights. That's why people are mad. It would be one thing if the whole country was like California and this is just performative, if they had super majorities everywhere. We control one of the chambers. We control the purse to this date right now. We may never control it again after nonsense like this. We control the purse. We control the House of Representatives. We control tons of state legislatures. We control tons of AGs. We control tons of governors. And yet every time it feels as if regardless of how many election mandates we give, no matter how many pressure release valves that we pull, no matter how many times we tell Republicans, please go fight for me. Please say no. Please represent our values. We get the same sort of business as usual, like, oh, we're going to do it in 45 days and then they're just going to pass another six month thing. Or better yet, they'll pass like a 13 month thing. Oh, no, no, we're just going to, you know, go to the next Congress because it's a really important election and we can't do that. And the everyday commoner, the ordinary citizen is looking at this and they get demoralized, disgruntled, angry and so distrustful of all of our Washington, D.C. institutions that they just say I'm done. Forget it. What has the Republican Party done to earn the vote of the everyday American? Nothing.
Mark Levin
Breitbart: Biden Grants Quasi-Amnesty to 470k More Venezuelan Migrants
"They can use them to travel freely around the United States excuse me and yes even a vote yes even a vote all the security measures all the barriers intended to prevent illegal voting are all one by one being destroyed and then we have a guy like this governor Shapiro in Pennsylvania we're told he's a moderate he's the future the Democrat Party Josh Shapiro announced Tuesday which is national voter registration day that the state will now automatically register register register residents devote while getting their driver's license or their state ID state ID says I made a commitment when I was campaigning for this office that we would bring automatic voter registration to Pennsylvania break down the barriers for legal eligible voters he didn't do this with legislation he didn't get a vote out of the legislature Pennsylvania a Department of State spokesperson told ABC News the people who are not eligible to vote will not be presented with
Morning News with Manda Factor and Gregg Hersholt
Fresh "Legislature" from Morning News with Manda Factor and Gregg Hersholt
"In the KOMO 4 Weather Center, meteorologist Kristen Hark. Raining in Seattle right now where it's 57 degrees, Northwest News Time 106. Opening statements are expected this week at the trial of the three Tacoma police officers charged in connection with the death of Manny Ellis in 2020. Two Tacoma police officers are facing charges for second degree murder and manslaughter, and third a for manslaughter in Ellis's death. Advocates for police accountability say this trial is historic in many ways. It is the first criminal case against police officers to go to trial once voters pass I -940 in 2018. Prosecutors now no longer have to prove malice or ill intent behind officers use of force. Voters wanted this badly and I think we're all watching it. For Leslie Cushman, who was the citizen sponsor of I -940. She's watching the first time legislation she worked on will be put into practice. What we're gonna see is that is our statute useful? Is it written so that a prosecutor can apply it and a jury can understand the charging requirements. 30 seats will be reserved in the courtroom each day for members of the public to come and watch the trial. Proceedings will also be live streamed through Pierce County's website that trial expected to run into December. That's coma 4's Lin -Ann Nguyen. Prosecutors filed the round first of charges in an ongoing investigation of home invasion robberies. Police say a group of robbers targeted Asian families in Seattle. Here's Casey McNerthne with the King County prosecuting attorney's office. These charges that we filed right now are the charges that we believe with the current evidence that we can prove beyond a reasonable doubt. Prosecutors filed unlawful possession of a firearm charges against four who have prior criminal records and robbery charges against a 16 year old who is now held in youth detention. This certainly is not the end of the road. We expect to get significant amounts of information from Seattle police. Pictures from Seattle police show part of what officers found during series a of search warrants. $31 ,000 in cash, guns, drugs and ski masks. Police say they're still working to see if these guns are connected to other shootings in what has been violent a year in Seattle. That's coma force Jeremy Harris. The Spokane City Council is being urged to pass another moratorium on new housing developments even as the booming region faces a desperate need for more housing. A group called Citizen Action for Latah Valley is pushing the idea of another moratorium. The region includes several neighborhoods off US 195 south of I -90. Kai has lived there for 15 years until KHQ traffic and escape routes in the event of fire already are compromised. And new plan developments without widened roads and other infrastructure improvements are a recipe for disaster. Fortunately we're probably lining up ourselves for loss of life whether it's from traffic related or for fire. Nearly 400 million dollars of promised and sewage infrastructure have yet to happen. Part of that money would build a new fire station. The current fire station operates out of a home the city purchased in 2015 and then remodeled via makeshift fire station. Carlene Johnson, Northwest News Radio. A legislative district in central Washington needs to be redrawn but the parties disagree over who should do it. Northwest News Radio's Jeff Poggila explains. This summer court a found that the 15th legislative district which encompasses Yakima and parts of Pasco was illegally drawn dilute to the power of Latino voters. Democrats appear content with a judge deciding on a new map according to Crossgun but Republicans argue the state redistricting commission which drew the original map should handle the job. However in order for the redistricting commission to do it a special session of the legislature would be required. After the 2020 census the district was redrawn but was found to be especially gerrymandered as commuters driving Yakima from to Pasco would have to leave the district and pass through two others before returning to the 15th. Pojola, Jeff Northwest News Radio, coming up after sports. I'm Brian Calvert. A three -week journey is completed and something very sacred is now back home on tribal land here in the northwest. First to the Beacon Plumbing Sports Desk for an update from Bill Swartz. A winning Mariners season falls just short of the playoffs. Huge crowds all weekend at Seattle's T -Mobile Park trying to will the Mariners into season. Saturday's 6 -1 loss to Texas coupled with Houston's win prevented the M's from the playoffs two years in a row. Here's skipper Scott Servitz. We've got many big years ahead of us.
CoinDesk Podcast Network
A highlight from MONEY REIMAGINED: The Thrilling Frontier of Tokenized Assets and Their Impact on Bitcoin
"Hello, and welcome to Money Reimagined. I'm Michael Casey here this week with my co -host Sheila Warren. You can listen to us weekly on the CoinDesk Podcast Network or wherever you get your podcasts. We would love to hear from you. So tell us what you think in an email at podcasts at coindesk .com using the subject line Money Reimagined. All right. Well, Sheila, that's it. Summer's over. Labor Day weekend done. Get down to work. All right. This is it. We're sort of diving in here. Bit of news going on around the place in the regulatory world, which of course is a major interest of yours. But I think today I'd really like to dive into the conversation around tokenization. It seems as if the word that was a buzzword for a number of years has become an even bigger buzzword. There's a lot going on in this RWA, real -world asset concept. Some sort of seeing it as the mainstream, or at least the trad -fying killer app almost for crypto. But I got a lot of thoughts, a lot of different ideas on it. But before we go into that, what's going on? We've got news out of Australia. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's a roundup on the sort of the global regulatory front. Yeah. Well, there's always a lot going on. I mean, I'm not going to do the full global rundown. But two things I thought were kind of interesting that got some press were what happened in Australia. There was a bill that have been introduced to basically think about some regulatory parameters around crypto that got rejected. I think that's my view on this is it's less of the headline maker than it's kind of being touted to be. It's just a slowing down of the function. And so the prime minister in Australia had put out this really interesting token mapping consultation exercise February, in I believe. And that was supposed to lead to this consultation around how do you actually regulate and license crypto asset service providers. The legislature basically said, let's wait until that work is done, essentially is how I read the rejection of this bill. But it got some press worthy of mention. And of course, you with your Australian roots, might have some interesting comments on politics in Australia's general matter. The other thing that happened in region, I'll just kind of stay in that region, is Singapore. Singapore, of course, has a new has new leadership. The new president, who used to be a central bank chair, has expressed a view around crypto, you know, calling it, I believe the quote is slightly crazy. You know, I, for one, do not think that is an inaccurate assessment of the crypto ecosystem. Relatively reasonable assessment of the overall. It's also modified slightly somewhat. You know what I mean? But also, I don't think we should be surprised that a central bank chairman is going to have a view that is, you know, influenced by the focus that that individual and anyone in that position is going to have on monetary policy, on fiat, on M0 and M1, you know, etc. So, again, something that made some headlines, I didn't read too much into that. I found it more entertaining than anything else. And I think just a healthy sense. I think that the industry does need to have a healthy sense of humor about some of these things and recognize, you know, that our reputation perhaps precedes us. And that isn't always, you know, it isn't always that we're seen as the most calm, rational, sober actors, you know. And who would want it to be anyway? Ecosystem. Right, exactly. So, I'll stop there. Crazy is kind of what draws me into something. Isn't that, you're not above, right? Yeah. And I thought it was actually, yeah, as you said, like pretty accurate. It's slightly crazy. Yep. Well said. True. Correct. Look, I think that the reason why maybe they got some headlines, both of these things, is they because run a little counter to the narrative that, you know, we talked about. They, hey, the rest of the world is embracing this stuff, you know, that Japan's moving forward and Hong Kong is now all into it and Dubai, et cetera, et cetera. And like, you know what? Yeah, there's still hesitancy out there. And look, I think, as you said, yeah, a former central banker, like, should we be surprised? I think, you know, the fact that - I don't think so. Seems on brand.
Morning News with Manda Factor and Gregg Hersholt
Fresh update on "legislature" discussed on Morning News with Manda Factor and Gregg Hersholt
"The Comerford Weather Center, meteorologist Kristin Clark. In Seattle right now have we cloudy, rainy conditions and it's 57 degrees at 1206. Prosecutors have filed the first round charges of against a group of robbery suspects accused of targeting Asian families in Seattle. Six defendants face burglary and weapons charges in connection with a series of home invasions in South Seattle over the summer. Casey McNerthy in the County King prosecuting attorney's office tells KOMO4 it's not clear yet if they're going to eventually file hate crime charges too. State law around hate crimes is very specific and what we're going to do is look to see if we can prove that if we get that additional information. Police recovered $31 ,000 in cash, fentanyl, cocaine, find out. Thanks for watching! The city alcohol, of New York is 69. That was sent back in 94. On Friday night someone was stabbed to death near T -Mobile Park. the violence The with these people on alert part close. I mean, just kind of stay in groups, try to come up with more policeMusic Stay together. I'm uncomfortable at different hours of the day roaming around And I It's think about like being and putting yourselves in non -confrontational situations. It doesn't feel like it's just an area. It's You can't be sure of kind of any area when you're walking around because people go off at any point. Come before reporting that in the month of September there were 12 homicides in Seattle in September 2022. There were four and just three the year before that in September 2021. A state lawmaker says that she's been receiving death threats for her position on Iran. We get more from Northwest News Radio's Pojala. Jeff Representative Daria Farivar is herself Iranian American born to parents who fled the country's oppressive Islamic regime, but her opposition to sanctions have led many to believe she supports the government of Iran. Farivar tells the Seattle Times she opposes sanctions because they only hurt the Iranian people and have little effect on the American's leadership. She says she's also received death threats for not overtly supporting protests over the death of Masha Amini, a young woman killed in Iranian police custody for allegedly violating the country's hijab law. Farivar even penned an op -ed in The Stranger outlining her positions and calling for the threats of violence to stop. Jeff Poggio, Northwest News Radio. Republicans and Democrats disagree on how to fix a gerrymandered legislative district. This summer a federal court found that the 15th legislative district, that's near Yakima, parts of Pasco, had been illegally drawn to dilute the power of Latino voters. According to Crosscut, Democrats are okay with a judge deciding on a new map, but Republicans want the redistricting commission to decide. However, having the redistricting commission draw a new map would require a special session of the legislature, which would in turn require action by the governor or a two -thirds vote of lawmakers. After the 2020 census, the 15 legislative district was re -drawn, but was found to be especially gerrymandered as commuters driving from Yakima to Pasco would have to leave the district and pass through to others before returning to the Washington State ferry rates just went up. According to the State Transportation Commission, the increase in prices the to meet department's revenue requirements for 2023 right through 2025. The rate hike means this it'll cost riders just over 4 % more that goes for passenger and vehicle fares this year and there is more. The price of those sailings will also go up again. Look for another 4 % hike the same time next year. The state of Washington is helping Spokane County recover two from deadly wildfires to the tune of four million dollars. In August, the Gray and the Oregon Road fires killed two people and destroyed 366 homes. They are the most devastating fires in Spokane County's history. The money is going to pay for case managers who will help people who lost their homes to find temporary places to to live. Northwest News Time 12 10. Time for an update on sports from the Beacon Plumbing Sports Desk at Air Kynes. When the Seahawks kick off their prime time game tonight in East Rutherford, New Jersey against the Giants, they'll bring a 70 % win percentage in games on Monday night football with them. But linebacker Bobby Wagner says, despite the glitz and glamour of Monday night, they have to treat this as just one of 17 regular season games. Obviously, growing up as a kid, you watch Monday night football. Then it turns like Sunday night and Thursday night is just a game. It's going to be a fun game, a lot of people watching and you just your want to best put foot forward. Safety Jamal Adams will play his first game since he tore his quad muscle last season. However, cornerback Trey Brown is expected to miss the game because of a concussion. Kickoff is 520 on ABC. Mariners The closed out the season with the victory, blanking the Texas Rangers 1 -0. George Kirby earned his 13th win after tossing six innings, giving up three hits and striking out seven. Isaiah Campbell earned his first save of the season. However, the M's fall short in qualifying for the playoffs. The playoffs begin tomorrow with the wild card round. Toronto at is Minnesota, Texas is at Tampa Bay in the American League. In the National League, Arizona's at Milwaukee, and Miami is at Philadelphia. And the Kraken host the Oilers in a preseason game tonight. Sports at 10 and 40 past the hour, Eric Heintz, Northwest News Radio. Northwest News Time 12 11. A massive search continues for a nine year old girl who disappeared from a New York campground over the weekend. The day turned into every this nightmare. Officials say Charlotte Senna simply vanished from Moreau Lake State Park north of Albany. She was last seen Saturday riding bikes with friends around dinner time. She's finally go around one more time by herself. That figure I'll do it by herself. When she hadn't returned 15 minutes later, her parents knew immediately something was up. They called her name. People started mom, calling 911 to report her missing multiple agencies combing Moreau Lake State Park from the air and the ground using dogs and drones. Authorities issuing an amber alert. After that exhaustive search, when we couldn't find her here, it was quite possible that an abduction had taken place. Charlotte's family describing her as a joyful fourth grader who had just been elected to student council. We continue to dedicate all resources that we can find that we can to find Charlotte and bring her home safely. Officials are deploying wide a range of resources in this massive search, including underwater rescue teams, along with a boat equipped with sonar. new camera camera. We also know that aircrafts are searching as well. More than 100 people involved in this massive effort. We're also hearing from the family. They say, quote, We just want her returned safely. They add no tip is too small. ABC's Morgan Norwood, a rare murder conviction in a death related to fentanyl. She's Jim Ryan reports from Texas where a 22 year old man has been handed a 45 year prison sentence for killing a person with fentanyl on July 15th of last year, 21 year old Andres Diaz ground up and snorted a Percocet pill laced with fentanyl. He'd be dead within hours. The latest in a string of overdose deaths in in Wichita Falls, Texas, where John Gillespie is district attorney. This community wanted to see action. We've taken action and now our jury has said we are going to convict and we will give strong justice. 21 year old Jacinto Jimenez becomes the first person in Texas convicted of murder in a fentanyl case. Wichita Falls police say fentanyl arrests have declined since word got around that murder charges were being handed out. Jim Ryan ABC News Dallas. A star clerk in California continues to recover after he was set on fire trying to stop a man from stealing at a convenience store for the third time in the same day. The happened incident on September 22nd in El Sabrente, California. Surveillance video shows the moment the suspect poured lighter fluid on the worker and then set him on fire. The clerk suffered second and third degree burns on his face, neck and and shoulder Contra Costa County Sheriff's Department said they've arrested 38 year old Kendall Burton and he's facing charges including assault with a deadly weapon, battery, arson and robbery. He's currently being held without bail. I'm Michael Kastner. Northwest News Radio is your home for breaking news and traffic
The Mason Minute
No Signs (MM #4537)
"Sadly, the state of Tennessee is in the news again. Our state legislature in the news, they're having a special session to talk about gun safety and school safety. And of course, they're in the news because they've kicked out citizens in the gallery for carrying handmade signs. They basically were taking pieces of paper and writing messages about gun control on them. And they were escorted out of the building by state troopers. The ACLU has stepped in and got that turned around, but the state legislature has made new rules about what you can and can't do for decorum. A lot of people are upset. A lot of people say they don't want to deal with the real problem. And of course, sadly, a lot of the people in the gallery are parents of kids who were shot here in Nashville last school year. It's kind of sad and I wish we could find some kind of compromise, but obviously the legislators don't want to be here. I often wonder where these politicians get their mandate. When you start seeing polls that say 70 % of Tennesseans disagree with the way they're handling themselves, something's got to be wrong here. Right or wrong, it doesn't make sense. And a lot of people are upset. It's going to get worse before it gets better, sadly.
The Mason Minute
No Signs (MM #4537)
"Sadly, the state of Tennessee is in the news again. Our state legislature in the news, they're having a special session to talk about gun safety and school safety. And of course, they're in the news because they've kicked out citizens in the gallery for carrying handmade signs. They basically were taking pieces of paper and writing messages about gun control on them. And they were escorted out of the building by state troopers. The ACLU has stepped in and got that turned around, but the state legislature has made new rules about what you can and can't do for decorum. A lot of people are upset. A lot of people say they don't want to deal with the real problem. And of course, sadly, a lot of the people in the gallery are parents of kids who were shot here in Nashville last school year. It's kind of sad and I wish we could find some kind of compromise, but obviously the legislators don't want to be here. I often wonder where these politicians get their mandate. When you start seeing polls that say 70 % of Tennesseans disagree with the way they're handling themselves, something's got to be wrong here. Right or wrong, it doesn't make sense. And a lot of people are upset. It's going to get worse before it gets better, sadly.
The Mason Minute
No Signs (MM #4537)
"Sadly, the state of Tennessee is in the news again. Our state legislature in the news, they're having a special session to talk about gun safety and school safety. And of course, they're in the news because they've kicked out citizens in the gallery for carrying handmade signs. They basically were taking pieces of paper and writing messages about gun control on them. And they were escorted out of the building by state troopers. The ACLU has stepped in and got that turned around, but the state legislature has made new rules about what you can and can't do for decorum. A lot of people are upset. A lot of people say they don't want to deal with the real problem. And of course, sadly, a lot of the people in the gallery are parents of kids who were shot here in Nashville last school year. It's kind of sad and I wish we could find some kind of compromise, but obviously the legislators don't want to be here. I often wonder where these politicians get their mandate. When you start seeing polls that say 70 % of Tennesseans disagree with the way they're handling themselves, something's got to be wrong here. Right or wrong, it doesn't make sense. And a lot of people are upset. It's going to get worse before it gets better, sadly.
The Mason Minute
No Signs (MM #4537)
"Sadly, the state of Tennessee is in the news again. Our state legislature in the news, they're having a special session to talk about gun safety and school safety. And of course, they're in the news because they've kicked out citizens in the gallery for carrying handmade signs. They basically were taking pieces of paper and writing messages about gun control on them. And they were escorted out of the building by state troopers. The ACLU has stepped in and got that turned around, but the state legislature has made new rules about what you can and can't do for decorum. A lot of people are upset. A lot of people say they don't want to deal with the real problem. And of course, sadly, a lot of the people in the gallery are parents of kids who were shot here in Nashville last school year. It's kind of sad and I wish we could find some kind of compromise, but obviously the legislators don't want to be here. I often wonder where these politicians get their mandate. When you start seeing polls that say 70 % of Tennesseans disagree with the way they're handling themselves, something's got to be wrong here. Right or wrong, it doesn't make sense. And a lot of people are upset. It's going to get worse before it gets better, sadly.
The Mason Minute
No Signs (MM #4537)
"Sadly, the state of Tennessee is in the news again. Our state legislature in the news, they're having a special session to talk about gun safety and school safety. And of course, they're in the news because they've kicked out citizens in the gallery for carrying handmade signs. They basically were taking pieces of paper and writing messages about gun control on them. And they were escorted out of the building by state troopers. The ACLU has stepped in and got that turned around, but the state legislature has made new rules about what you can and can't do for decorum. A lot of people are upset. A lot of people say they don't want to deal with the real problem. And of course, sadly, a lot of the people in the gallery are parents of kids who were shot here in Nashville last school year. It's kind of sad and I wish we could find some kind of compromise, but obviously the legislators don't want to be here. I often wonder where these politicians get their mandate. When you start seeing polls that say 70 % of Tennesseans disagree with the way they're handling themselves, something's got to be wrong here. Right or wrong, it doesn't make sense. And a lot of people are upset. It's going to get worse before it gets better, sadly.
The Eric Metaxas Show
A highlight from Mike Wilkerson
"Ladies and gentlemen, looking for something new and original, something unique and without equal. Look no further. Here comes the one and only Eric Metaxas. Hey, what do you know? I'm talking to Jack Pessobek. Yes, Jack Pessobek agreed to hang on into hour two. After the segment, we're talking to my friend Mike Wilkerson. Get ready for that. A lot of crazy stuff, but I want to tell you, Jack, we haven't mentioned Maui, and there's so much crazy news. What is your best guess of what in the world has happened and is happening in Maui? What we see in Maui, it's very clear because I see the mayors, I see the governor, I see these are all elected Democrats, by the way, the state legislature. When you look at their eyes, when they're giving these press conferences, these briefings, I see fear. I see abject terror in their eyes. They are hiding something. They are hiding something the same way that when my wife, who was born in the Soviet Union, just a few years before she was born, the Chernobyl incident happened. The same way those Soviet officials were hiding what went on during Chernobyl from the people. That's what's going on in Hawaii because we're getting stories out now that children were separated from their parents. Children were sent home without the systems. Everyone knows that Hawaii's got the most effective early warning system, these sirens, in the entire country because they are at risk from these typhoons that hit constantly in these areas. They've got one of the best systems. I was stationed on Guam when I was in the Navy, so I'm very familiar with the type of systems that are used in the Pacific. And the fact that this wasn't put out, unfortunately, we're looking at a situation now with these hundreds, potentially thousands of people missing. Many of them were told children, just thepostmillennial .com ran a story the other day where they're crunching the numbers. They're saying as many as 25 % of children have not re -enrolled in schools. They're trying to go around and recheck to make sure how many people are coming in so that when the schools reopen, 25 % of the desks are going to be empty. And there are stories now that children were incinerated in their homes, hugging the family dog in one story with their entire families in cars while they were trying to flee because they didn't know until it was too late. And even people, and Tulsi Gabbard, when she went down there to interview people, this is her old district, by the way, that's where she represented in Congress, that when she was talking to people, they said, I tried to use my hose. I tried to fill up a bucket from the sink, from my tub. The water was shut off. The fire department would come. They would go to the fire hydrant. It wouldn't come on. But the questions are why? In other words, I want to know, to the extent that we can, what is it that happened? You're getting some conspiracy theories or some theories, I should say, that somehow this was planned, somehow this was intentional.
The Charlie Kirk Show
A highlight from The Hair in Georgia's Biscuit with Colton Moore and Sen. Ron Johnson
"We are representing a second whistleblower from the FBI, Marcus Allen. Due to whistleblower retaliation by the FBI, I've been suspended without pay for over a year. Because of you, ACLJ donors, you get the best attorneys in the world. Hey everybody, Senator Ron Johnson joins the program and then some breaking news out of Georgia, Colton Moore is ready to proceed with impeachment of Big Fannie Willis. Email us freedom at charliekirk .com and subscribe to our podcast. Get involved with Turning Point USA at tpusa .com. That is tpusa .com. Start a high school or college chapter today at tpusa .com. And as always, you can email us freedom at charliekirk .com. Buckle up everybody, here we go. Charlie, what you've done is incredible here. Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus. I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk's running the White House folks. I want to thank Charlie, he's an incredible guy. His spirit, his love of this country. He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA. We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country. That's why we are here. Brought to you by the loan experts I trust, Andrew and Todd at sierra pacific mortgage at andrewandtodd .com. Joining us now exclusively, Senator Colton Moore, a great American. There is fight left in the state of Georgia. And there is an official petition to investigate Fannie Willis, as well as now his letter to Governor Brian Kemp. I'm going to read this. Colton Moore, welcome to the program. Dear Governor Kemp, we, the undersigned, being the duly elected members of the Georgia House of Representatives and Georgia Senate, and compromising three -fifths of each respective house pursuant to article four section two paragraph 7b, making sure my Roman numerals are right, hereby certify to you in writing with a copy of the Secretary of State that in our opinion emergency exists in the affairs of the state, requiring a special session to be convened under that section for all purposes to include that limitation, the review and response of the actions of Fannie Willis. Sincerely, Colton Moore. Colton, welcome to the program. Tell us about it. Charlie, thank you for having me. I mean, we're in a dire situation. After these indictments came out, I woke up, ate my biscuit, and I was like, is there a hair in my biscuit? I mean, this is disgusting. We have a district attorney using taxpayer money, using her government authority to persecute her political opponent to the tune of the death penalty. I will not be a sitting senator in this state and potentially have the former president be executed in the state of Georgia. Yeah, so let's just kind of walk through this. You are now leading a legislative campaign of oversight. What does that look like constitutionally in the state of Georgia? Tell us about it. So I have a job to do as a Senator, Charlie, and part of that job in the legislature is providing oversight. The Constitution gives us some tools to do that. First of which is the power of the purse, right? We control the money. And my constituents, Georgians outside of the city of Atlanta, don't feel that their tax dollars ought to be used for this type of purpose. You know, we've also got the power to investigate any judicial or executive official, and we ought to be doing an investigation on Fannie Willard. And if that investigation turns out that she's corrupt, like many of us suspect, it's time for impeachment. And so what is impeached? So in the Georgia Constitution, the House or the Senate can impeach a prosecutor. Is that correct? That's correct. Yeah, it's one of those checks and balances that we're blessed with here in the presidential system of American government. So let me ask you, read the room for us amongst your colleagues. You're leading this. It's now going totally viral as finally, praise God, good on you. Let's use some of this constitutional power to slow this down, investigate her. Was she given an external power? Why is she and why is she indicting the entire Republican Party, such as Trump? It's John Eastman, Rudy Giuliani, Jen Ellis. It's totally out of control. It's a fellow senator. It's a colleague of mine in the Senate. Is it also included on that indict? So what is what is the temperature check of the Georgia Senate? Is this going to be met? Yeah, please. Yeah, I mean, Republicans in the state of Georgia are asleep at the wheel, OK? Everything is talk, talk, talk. I talked to my other fellow senators and everything's well, you know, we're kind of wait this out, talk about it, you know, post the tweet, you know, let's make a Facebook post. I have a job to do. It's time to take action. And Charlie, let me tell you, right after this and that, I was having dinner with my mother and I told her, I said, no more talk like I have a job to do. Time to take action. And she was worried. He's like, I don't know, you know, they've got these guys charged with crimes that could potentially result in lethal injection. I don't know if I want you meddling in that. And I was like, mom, that's the time to take action, because as a red blooded American, you should never fear a Gestapo political tactic from a power like a D .A.. So I don't want to get you in trouble here, but just I want to I want to drill this down. Your other do you think your colleagues are going to support this? Oh, I think when their constituents start calling them up, they're going to be supporting them. Boom. Right. Because it's time to take action. Well, according according to Fannie Willis, it's a conspiracy to ask your lawmakers to do something. But whatever. Let's let's let's just be clear. So for the patriots of Georgia, they need to call their state rep on their state senator. And what is the ask? What is the order? To help us with this process to begin defunding the district attorney and investigating through the means of a special session. That's our job as a legislature to put a check and balance on this judicial branch, to put a check and balance on the judicial branch. And and praise God, you have the courage. Were you cautioned not to get into this by certain, let's just say older Republicans? Were you told, don't send this letter? You know, the caution comes in many forms. They're all cautious. And that's the scary part. That's what makes me so afraid. I mean, I'm 29 years old, Carly. I do not want to live the next 30 years of my life worried about a regime. I mean, this is some Putin fascist nonsense. So the letter is composed to the governor. Does he have to be the one to actually call the special session? No, no. So part of that check and balance process, the governor himself could call a special session and we could start right now. We could start tomorrow. But the governor has already made his statement. You know, he's looking back at this like this is a 2020 issue. Well, it took 19 days to count the votes. And these individuals have a legitimate concern about the election. Right. They were they were using their First Amendment to express concern about the election. And then now they're being charged with it. They're being taken political prisoner. And so so then you guys can call the session with three. That's right. Without the governor. Right. Without the governor. Does he preside over it or is he called into it or? No, no. The legislature would be operating independently and it gives us full subpoena power. So what are the what are the numbers, the House and the Senate, as far as the Republican majorities? So if every Republican in the Senate signed on, we would have we would have what was necessary. It's going to take every GOP Republican to stand up and abide by the principles of freedom, regardless of whether you like Donald Trump or not, regardless if you have a beef with some of these other folks who are indicted. These folks were using their freedom of expression and they had a concern. So the problem we're going to have over in the House is we're going to have to pick up a few Democrats. The margins are a little tighter there. But here's the other thing about this district attorney. The ACLU reports that half of the inmates in her jail have yet to be charged with a crime. And in meanwhile, we've got Young Thug, Young Slime, who's got RICO charges similar to what these political prisoners are about to have, and they haven't even picked a jury in over a year now. So so now we have evidence it's Young Thug. I thought is this some sort of a rapper or something? I believe so. Yeah, I'm not I'm not a big rap music fan, but his name is Young Thug. And I think the crime syndicate called Young Slime. Got it. So, yeah, so they they're standing for RICO charges and she's going easy on him. Meanwhile, so I mean, and by the way, Fulton County, it's like a third world country. When I go there, crime is up. It's terrible. And yet she's going she's trying an interstate RICO case. I this and claims that she can get it done in like six months. Right. And 18 people. And yet it's ridiculous. And yet Republicans are asleep at the wheel and say, I don't know, just let's let it play out. You know, so we have to wake up the Republican Party. I'm sure you have some colleagues that are going to stand with you, but we have to each Republican Georgia senator one by one. We need every county in Georgia. We need mass mobilization. This is the call to action. I just want you to riff on this. I'll be honest. I love the people of the state of Georgia. I love Georgia. But you guys have really disappointed in some ways in the last couple of years. It's a strange Republican apparatus. This is a chance for Georgia redemption. Yeah, no doubt.
Mark Levin
William Barr's Conflict of Interest Into the Hunter Biden Case
"Of the tax fraud activity of Hunter Biden and the other the biggest bribery issue. They're now off the table because Hunter Biden was not indicted. And in fact to the best of my there knowledge isn't even a grand jury. Imagine that. That's the guy who Bill Barr chose. In irregularities, Bill Barr is one sanctimonious man. Says he told his US attorneys to look for any election irregularities. The former US attorney from Philadelphia said he tried to present some to Bill Barr and he rejected them. In fact some of the lawyers in Philadelphia tried to get some of the information to Bill Barr and it was his director. Now were these no. There are literally constitutional challenges to what the Democrat Party and their lawyers like Mark Elias had done in certain states. Like in Pennsylvania where the election law was changed. Not by the state legislature, mind you. As the Constitution compels regardless of what any Supreme Court says. It was a very important case. It went up to the Supreme Court. It was obvious that they had at least three justices that wanted to take up the case but you need four. That was a constitutional legitimate challenge.
The Dan Bongino Show
Christopher Rufo: Bringing Balance to New College of Florida
"I want you to pick it up wherever you get your books. It is worth your time. It is worth your time. And your answer to them say, will hey, we should just play cutesy time and play nice with them and eventually they'll understand where the better people. That's right. So, the story begins in January. Governor DeSantis appointed me and a number of other conservative intellectuals and scholars to the Board of Trustees of the new College of Florida, which was a struggling, failing university within Florida's public university system. And he said something very simple. He said, look, legislators want to shut this college down, but instead I'm appointing a new board. You guys are going to take it over, fire the leadership, abolish the DEI, and restore this university classical to liberal arts education, rebalance the faculty, recruit new students, and turn this university around entirely. And so what we've done is we got in, we fired the president, we pushed out the provost, we abolished the DEI department, we fired the DEI director, we brought in a whole new team, we've, you know, through a series of of incentives, about a third of the faculty have quit. They don't want classical liberal arts, they don't want a discussion, they don't want a debate, and so we now have turned this around, we've raised, you know, more money from the legislature than ever before. We have the largest incoming class. And I think what we've done is we've shown that conservative voters, you know, in places like Florida, want conservative, at least conservative friendly institutions. And so I make no apologies about it. That's exactly what we're doing. We're something creating different. We're going back to the
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The Charlie Kirk Show
A highlight from THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 8 To Debate or Not to Debate? Kill the Boer? Lizzo's Banana Republic?
"The U .S. dollar has lost 85 % of its value since the 70s, when the dollar decoupled from gold, and the government seems bent on continuing the tradition. Charlie Kirk here. From now until after the elections, the government can print as much money as they want. The last time they did that, inflation went up 9%. Gold is the only asset that has proven to withstand inflation. Invest in gold with Noble Gold Investments. You will get a 24 -carat, one -fourth of an ounce gold standard coin for free. Just use promo code kirk. Go to noblegoldinvestments .com. That's noblegoldinvestments .com, the only gold company I trust. Hey, everybody. It's the Charlie Kirk show, Thought Crimes. That's right. We have Blake Neff, Tyler Boyer, Jack Posobick. We talk about Jack Smith. We disagree about some of the Trump stuff. We talk about Lizzo and more. Remember, this show is a little bit spicier, so for the homeschoolers out there that you have been warned, we get some emails. Charlie, I don't like Thought Crimes. The topics are a little bit R -rated. Well, it is, so you've been warned. Support our program by going to members .charliekirk .com and becoming a member today. That's members .charliekirk .com. You can email me your thoughts, as always, freedom at charliekirk .com and get involved with Turning Point USA at tpusa .com. That is tpusa .com. As always, you can email me freedom at charliekirk .com. Buckle up, everybody. Here we go. Charlie, what you've done is incredible here. Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus. I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks. I want to thank Charlie. He's an incredible guy. His spirit, his love of this country. He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA. We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country. That's why we are here. Boy, I've got to be honest. The name of the show just becomes more and more timely as we continue. Blake Neff is with us, the increasingly popular Blake Neff. Tyler Boyer. Hey, how are you doing? Campus Victory Project t -shirt. And Jack Pysobik, never heard of him, but he's with our show right now. Jack, who are you? They sometimes typo our ad reads, so they mention this guy. That's why we found him. I know, Jack, you look like something as a combination of inception and hell. It looks like your background, but exactly. That's exactly you know. Well, I'm in Washington DC. Well, OK, so that's what you were going for. Inception, but hell. OK, let's. So everybody, this is thought crimes. The reason why this show becomes more and more timely is that this indictment right here, Blake, you've read it multiple times. I've read it twice. Tyler, you've read it as well. And Jack, I know you've gone through it. This actually the center of this is thought crimes. Is that fair? Jack Pysobik, Donald Trump thought things that you were not allowed to think. Well, he not only Charlie, not only did he think them, but he had the even far greater audacity and criminal intent mens rea, as we say in the biz, to actually speak his thought crimes publicly at one point, believe it or not, from a microphone in front of the White House. And not only did he speak these unlawful opinions publicly, he even apparently shared them privately. He shared them with, you know, people that you're not allowed to discuss legal strategy with, like, like lawyer. Right, of course, because that's illegal now, too. In fact, all of these things that he did, like cite laws and precedent and hold speeches and have opinions. Those are all illegal now, because we we named this show. What is this episode seven, episode eight something, though, about two months into the show here, we said we're going to call the show incredibly. And there we go. It is a it's a very appropriately timed show. So, Blake, I mean, like you're you know, you're hyperdrive, Normie. Right. So you don't engage in any of the, you know, let's say tribal tribal talk that Blake, Tyler and I do. Right. You're you're Blake, you're the one that's like, this is insane. It's it's completely nuts. Like, you know, I've certainly had a lot of criticism. We've even discussed, you know, the other indictment where I'm like, okay, whatever else. This was totally avoidable. This one. This is bad. And like, you don't it's not a matter of whether you think like any of the fraud claims are accurate or not. What it literally is, is they're basically saying Trump committed a crime by asserting that he believed in them. And they're like, we can read his mind. He didn't really believe this. This was knowingly false. They use the phrase like knowingly false probably 50 times in that indictment. And it's just over and over again. What it will be is it'll just be like, well, you know, Trump's lawyer, this one lawyer told him that this was not true. And so after he's been told this, that means it's knowingly false that he said that. Well, you know, they don't talk about who else told them these things, who else was Trump listening to, like what who is giving these narratives to Trump that he was deciding to believe this. And literally, they just decided to criminalize that Trump chose to believe one person over another person. So, so, Blake, we have the indictment here and I'll hand it to you. And I want you to find some examples, but can you cite some examples of that? Because I just I'm sure that for sure. Yeah. And so, so, Tyler, do you want to chime in here before I go back to Jack on this? Because, I mean, this indictment is multifaceted, but let's talk about the political side, right? You're like the great political mind of the generation. Part of the RNC actually cares about it. The politics of this is flummoxing the people. You know the base really well. Donald Trump's getting more popular since these indictments have gone down. Yeah. I mean, look, well, let's take that first part. So everything that happens to Donald Trump, and this is starting all the way back to 2015, every attack that is made on Donald Trump from either the establishment or from the left increases his popularity. And it makes their job harder. So it's like crazy that we're still here and that they're going to the, it's like every time they keep leveling up, you know, I call it like the Wile E. Coyote type stuff, right? Which is that the Wile E. Coyote is trying to do something more like more insidious every time and the roadrunner still like outruns him. So that's kind of where we've been politically since 2015 and Donald Trump. And it seems like nothing works. Yeah. I mean, so Tyler, help me make sense of this. And this is a tangent while Blake finds the examples. I actually, I actually, I've just got it right here. Like on the same page, this is just talking about the state of Wisconsin that same day in response to the court decision that had prompted the Wisconsin governor to sign a certificate of final determination, the defendant, Trump, issued a tweet repeating his knowingly false claim of election fraud and demanding that the Wisconsin legislature overturn the election results. Then two paragraphs later, on January 6th, 2021, the defendant publicly repeated knowingly false claims that there had been tens of thousands of unlawful votes. January 6th, that means they're charging for something he said in his speech at the White House. I couldn't disagree more with this. I've spent a lot of private time with President Trump. He believes this. You could think he's off the wall on it and all this. I think he's onto something more so than not. But you're allowed to believe things that are not mainstream. You're allowed to be delusional. This is the country. You could think he was Napoleon and it would be insane for them to charge him. But Blake, let's just play devil's framing this. What's the crime here? Like the regime frame. If you were to like, say, like Blake, play devil's advocate, what is their art? How could you possibly spend that? You know what I think it is? Not to interject here, but the same way that they, this is like kind of a more pertinent thing that we've seen in like real society, that speech is not protected. And this is the case when people commit suicide, for example, is that if you talk someone into suicide or say something enough that it causes them to commit suicide, so you can be held liable. So I think what their angle that they're trying to do is this is in that same vein that President Trump knows better. He knew the truth. He knows the facts. And he was still pushing people to do things that were driving them insane. And all these people went insane. Normal people went insane doing things that they normally wouldn't do because of Donald Trump's rhetoric. Well, keep in mind, they didn't so far, they might be planning to do this. There are signs they do, but they're they currently haven't charged him with like incitement to insurrection. They do have conspiracy, if you look on the front here, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding and that conspiracy against rights. So what the conspiracy against rights is the crazy one, because what they're basically saying is by repeating all of his knowingly false claims about the election that he's destroying people's right to vote, that people have the right to vote and have their vote be counted. And he's delegitimizing the election with his his scheme. And they do have there are certain quotes in here, like, you know, if you listen to someone for three months, you'll probably get a bad quote out of them. But they did get those quotes where like he's he's, you know, he's pushing Pence, for example, to go along with their idea for January 6th when they're counting, you know, say that there is a dispute and we can't count them yet. And there's a point where he basically says like, you're too honest, Mike is what he supposedly says to Mike Pence while they're on the phone. And, you know, they're framing this as like Trump knew this was all a lie and was just running a really aggressive shtick of fraud because he wanted to remain president. And there's a few examples, they have to really stretch it because like there's cases where they say that like a person will say, like, you know, we have a lot of theories, but not a lot of proof yet or whatever. And that proves they knew it was false. I think it's much more like these people very strong. They very strongly believe it because but, you know, they're kind of vibe readers. Trump is very much a vibe guy. Like, yeah, I just believe the fraud. So, Jack, I want to get you in on here. You've read the indictment. What? So, I mean, a lot of people listen to this podcast. They're not into this. They'll hear our rather forceful explanations of this. And they might be tempted to be like, oh, Charlie, Jack and Blake and Tyler, you guys are partisan actors. You're over -exaggerating, but Jack, even from the most sober reading of this indictment, they're criminalizing disagreement that you can't look at an election and see something differently. Charlie, at one point in here, in one of the page numbers, section 44. But it says, December 4th, after four Republican leaders, I got the citation, you're gonna love this. The leaders of the Pennsylvania legislator issued a public statement that the assembly lacked the opportunity to overturn the popular vote. Doing so would violate the code, da, da, da. And then the defendant retweeted a post labeling the legislators coward, period. So, so they were actually going through President Trump's retweet on his Twitter timelines before he was suspended. So this was December, he was, he was suspended the next month after January 6th. They're using retweets, calling somebody a coward, which guess what, you know, you may not like that. You may say it's repugnant. You may say that I don't want a president who talks that way. You might be, you know, part of the sort of never Trump National Review crowd and saying, I think it's all reprehensible. No president should ever act this way. But calling somebody a coward or re -tweeting someone, calling someone a coward is not criminal. And it should never be used as evidence of criminality. And I think that's what Blake is getting to here, that there's no criminal intent. What you see is somebody who's essentially trying to use a process. Now you can make all sorts of arguments about what the process, you know, followed correctly. Was he, you know, was he doing things the proper way, et cetera, et cetera. But those are all process question. The point is he's trying to follow a process. And by the way, and this is going to come up in court, he was acting on the advice counsel the entire time. And count one really stands out to me, too. I want to say that it's this conspiracy to defraud the United States and the framing is they use the fraudulent over and over again in on page 22 of this year in section 54. They have the December 9th memorandum, which the prosecutor calls the fraudulent elector instructions. That is what they are officially labeled in court documents where they're saying like this whole scheme to is like like they're trying to trick Mike Pence, like they're going to send in this like sheet of paper and be like, this is a trick on him. And like also, I mean, this was all this was not a mystery leading up to this, though, in the indictment they have. And then Donald Trump sent out a tweet. Let's see what Mike Pence does. He has a chance. I mean, I just I know that this is not the best defense, but I think just from a layman's perspective, if you're launching a conspiracy against the United States, you're not live tweeting it. Well, you're not like, let's see what Mike does. Like, wow, there's some secret plan like you were being honest the whole time. Well, Charlie, Charlie, they do this thing. I'll just say because they bring it up all the time. And I'm in the clip. The January 6th hearing brought up this clip where it's Steve Bannon. It's war room. It's January 5th. And he had this line about all hell's going to break loose. Okay, I'm sitting there right next to him. I think Raheem Kassam's in the room.
Mark Levin
Caroline Glick: A Showdown in the Israeli Supreme Court
"Knesset our parliament and so what the Supreme Court is doing by having this hearing is they're setting up Israel for a civil war effectively because if they if they if they abrogate this law then what they're saying is that there are no limits on their their power that the rule of law doesn't limit their power that no law limits their power that they get to decide the rules of the game for the government for the elected branches of Israeli governance the government and the effort and they also get to decide the limits of their power for which they accept zero based on whatever they feel like they're just are leaving the mothership and if this goes through you know it's going to be very difficult to call Israel a democracy because we will actually just be officially a judicial tyranny so that's starting tomorrow and it's about what is it called when a when a president when a prime minister is infirm and capable of carrying out his duties so the purpose of the legislature was always to say that you know if you're struck by a stroke like Ariel Sharon was or you know you're in a coma whatever or then you obviously can't fulfill the office and you have to be removed from office but our Attorney General wants to remove Benjamin Netanyahu from office and so she was trying to expand the definition based on nothing and so the the connect that went very clear went to quickly amend the existing law to make it clear that she couldn't just out the Prime Minister she because didn't like the way he was behaving and so they they limited it so that they that you can only ask the Prime Minister from office if he's medically incapable of performing his duties. And the Supreme Court is going to be adjudicating this tomorrow
Mark Levin
Understanding 'Ohio Issue 1,' up for Vote Next Week
"One to 60 % to approve changes to the state constitution left red -wing groups states are like targeting Ohio to pass left -wing policies through ballot measures that they otherwise get through the state legislatures in fact the Communist Party of Ohio opposes issue 1 often these ballot measures don't clearly state what the impact so they want to get it to 50 % plus one you see so this is a model for the left they've done this in California to use in other red states and why the business small community farmers second amendment advocates pro -family pro -parent pro -life groups are working together to try and change the statute to a 60 % threshold in Ohio by voting yes on issue 1 on August that's next week this time yes yes on issue 1 this week Cleveland's left -wing mayor made to use the ballot measure the process to scale back second amendment rights so this what is I mean when people say my populace well this is populism having all these ballot measures but if people vote for ballot measure and they deny you your constitutional and unalienable rights that's a problem. So we don't believe in populism we believe in constitutionalism. Otherwise you would vote for this to reduce the 60 % threshold that changed the Ohio Constitution to 50 % plus one there and they get what they want
The Eric Metaxas Show
America Is No Accident With Michael Medved
"To God, I think, for anyone to seriously read American history, and I majored in American history at the time. It's a purposeful universe. America is a purposeful country, and not as a reward for our goodness, but because we have been chosen as an instrument. It's what Abraham Lincoln says, I write in the book about Lincoln speaking to the state legislature in Trenton, New Jersey, not too far from Philadelphia, that Lincoln described America as the almost chosen people. And not chosen for special privilege, but chosen for special responsibility. That was one of my questions. You know, what does it mean to be chosen when we talk about Israel being chosen? It doesn't mean you win a prize. It means you've been given a burden, a tremendous responsibility. And it seems inescapable when one reads your book that America has been chosen, like it or not. I've written about this myself in a couple of books, but it comes with tremendous responsibility. But I wrote a book called If You Can Keep It where I mention a few of these miraculous things, which make it seem unavoidable that America is, you know, chosen by God for his purposes in history. But when I read your book, I just couldn't believe how many other stories, extraordinary stories, you had discovered.
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"legislature" Discussed on Dennis Prager Podcasts
"Wade but of course I just want you to understand it didn't they did not make abortion illegal it simply said people should be able to vote on it in their given states which is what the Warren Court one of the most destructive institutions in American history world war and should be regarded if you love this country and its values as a villain what did Eisenhower say was the biggest mistake he made appointing him Republicans make a lot of mistakes in appointing justices it's a worthy question to pose which I will talk about some other time they also voted to to call on the denomination to financially support abortion access in the measure titled denouncing the Dobbs decision and proclaiming abortion as health care well they did that what is it the National Council of Jewish women did that I wrote about it and I broadcast it about it there there is really nothing that guarantees moral clarity in the human being it's a conclusion I have drawn after a lifetime of working on the issue of moral clarity the you would think that an organization that called itself Jewish or an organization that called itself Church of Christ would have some clarity the vast majority of abortions are not moral acts and you don't have to even be religious to recognize that is there any other example in life where the worth of of a human or the worth of whatever you want to call it is completely determined by one person if the woman wants to give birth it's a human being infinitely precious and if she doesn't want to give birth it's a pimple do you realize the logical and moral absurdity of that you don't have to be Jewish or Christian to to understand that's absurd she she does not have the right to proclaim the worth of what she is carrying she she that is that is a godlike power that human beings don't have now I'm for moral time for political compromise on it because I always believe that the best is the enemy of the better and because I believe moral improvement is better than utopian dreams so how about the first trimester you can allow it perhaps but my biggest single recommendation would be that the woman going not the birthing person the woman going for an abortion be fully informed that's what I would push be fully informed about two things what she is doing let there be a video about the the human fetus or the unborn whatever term you wish to use and what will happen to it and then she can consent at least in the first trimester also in terms of being fully informed she should be fully informed of options such as adoption just want you to know that if you do give birth to this child that the one you you don't any number of people I don't know what the number is a million five hundred thousand I don't know who ache to have that child and love it I am such a parent I know of what I speak the measure passed with 611 delegates voting in favor 24 against 13 abstaining the United Church of Christ has a long long history apparently of being what they call a progressive organization I just finished the O'Reilly book on the last days of the war in the Pacific the United Church of Christ condemned the dropping of the atom bomb on Hiroshima as soon as it happened I'm sure you weren't aware of that but it makes sense to you so I'd like to I'd like to devote we should devote time I should I will play the PragerU video given by a Notre Dame professor and and priest and talk about it what if you could be shown that it saved a million lives plus Japan's behavior in Asia was Nazi like you know how rare it is for me to give Nazi parallel but it was the experimentation on human beings that the comfort women which I don't think the Nazis had maybe they did I'm not aware of it raped by twelve soldiers a day tens of thousands of captured women mostly Korean the hideous experiments and tortures the slaughtering of prisoners of war I think I think those things are worthy of remembrance when one thinks about the morality of Hiroshima we return on my pillows 20th year anniversary with over 80 million pillows sold Mike Lindale at my pillow wants to thank each and every one of you by giving you the lowest price in history on their my pillows you will receive a queen size my pillow for $19.98 regular price is $69.98 and just $10 more for a king size in addition to the anniversary offer you will receive deep discounts on all my pillow products such as the bedsheets mattress toppers pet beds mattresses my slippers which are my favorites and so much more this is the time to try out some of their other amazing products go to my pillow and click on the radio podcast square and use promo code Brandon to receive this amazing offer on a queen size my pillow for $19.98 or call 800-976-8379 this offer comes with a 10-year warranty and a 60-day money-back guarantee it's time to start getting the quality sleep you deserve go to my pillow calm and use promo code Brandon or call 800-976-8379 today hello everyone I'm Dennis Prager I have a guest and I will introduce a momentarily I will introduce the subject first what happened in Afghanistan after we left the number of people who care I think is quite small I was 100% opposed to leaving it would be irrelevant to me whether it was Donald Trump or Joe Biden I don't know if Trump would have done it he might have I find every one of these arguments about leaving emotional rather than rational like the one well what do you expect us to stay there indefinitely what we've stayed in Germany and Japan indefinitely the world is a better place because of that we've been in Korea indefinitely the Korean Peninsula and therefore Asia is more stable thanks to that fact I don't quite understand why there should be a built-in time limit if you're already there it was it was a catastrophic move on the part of the Biden administration if you wish to say regime given the political prisoners in America it would be the first time in my life I would allow the term regime to be used for an American government there's a Canadian journalist who has spent time in Afghanistan Dan Brotman he's reporting about that and the consequences of the American withdrawal he's now in Portugal and I welcome Dan Brotman to the Dennis Prager show thanks for having me Dennis and I just like to correct you I'm actually American living in Canada all right that is a very fair correction I got the impression that you were Canadian which makes sense given that that's pretty much where your work has been published correct correct I have been an ex-pat for most of my adult life and I moved to Canada two and a half years ago but I'm originally from the Boston area that's worth leaving yeah as I have told people on many occasions and this is this is a completely ego-free statement the only airport in America no one ever came over for a selfie was Logan Airport in Boston I can I can truly walk around Boston incognito the the reach of me and Prager you there is minimal it's a it's another world Boston okay anyway what prompted you to go to Afghanistan so I'm an adventure traveler and I really like going to countries that the media depicts in a negative light so I can go see for myself what the real situation is on the ground I've been to North Korea Iran Iraq and again it's not for the adrenaline it's really to educate myself when we hear about these countries in the media we often hear about their horrible governments but we never hear about the people on the ground and how they're getting by day to day and I know or company young he's freezing up well I'm sorry then I can hear you perfectly yeah but we can't hear you perfectly you froze up twice okay let's give it another try and then maybe we'll have to get it non-videoed all right so you go to all these countries to see how the people are living continue correct and I received an invitation to go to Afghanistan with a grand adventure tour company young pioneer tours and they were bringing back six tourists it was their first group back yeah we took power all right well we'll have to take we'll have to figure out a clear away Sean I'm sorry folks is it Skype Sean is that it's our we're on yeah all right well we'll take a break in a moment let's say he's a pretty gutsy guy there there are places I wouldn't go and I've been to 131 countries I've been to Syria Lebanon Jordan Egypt Syria was I guess the most quote-unquote exotic of those in terms of places people don't tend to visit but that was a long time ago I would not I personally would not go to Iraq but that's partially because I would be I might well be a target and I nevertheless I was invited to Afghanistan actually by a charity that runs a hospital there I thought it was too dangerous in light of my prominence as both an American and a Jew and sure enough a father and son visiting the very same place were then shot hello I'm Dennis Prager this is the male female our second hour of the show every Wednesday perhaps probably the most honest talk about men and women in the media and as I remind you each week I'm not a man fan or a woman fan I'm a good person fan and they come in both there is no amount of repetition of the absurdity that there are more than two genders that will enable me to ever say what is a patent lie but it shows you the ability to have people say anything that people say with a straight face there are more than two genders there is nothing I am people believe and say in great numbers nothing all you need is a massive dose of media and it works if people can say with a straight face that there are 57 genders then they can say anything with a straight face topic today is actually a I hope and I believe will be a helpful one and it is one of those times where I react to you rather than you reacting to me so call in immediately if the following took place in your marriage your marriage was headed downhill or to mix the metaphors it was an uphill battle it was an uphill battle but it was going downhill now it could be both is not answerable and it turned around and now you have a good marriage how did you turn it around and I need this I need a specific a response as possible one eight Prager seven seven six please understand that you might save a marriage by calling in and answering the question how or what turned your marriage around when it was clearly headed in a bad direction one eight Prager seven seven six eight seven seven two four three triple seven six I have not done I don't think I have done a show on this specific topic except in so far as I believe I don't know if I did a whole hour but I know that I've covered the subject on the male-female hour if there was an infidelity involved and your marriage survived it what what took place to make that possible I want to make clear I am NOT at all focusing on an infidelity here most marriages that end did not end because somebody was unfaithful or if there was an infidelity it was all it followed rather than precipitated the marriage in decline it was not the reason for the decline the infidelity was a symptom of the decline or a product of the decline so I'm not talking about infidelity as such I want to know your marriage was really headed in a bad direction and you turned it around the help that you will be offering that to people is tremendous eight seven seven two four three triple seven six or one eight Prager seven seven six and if you turned it around did you turn it around did you both turn it around was it somebody changing a specific behavior was it both of you changing certain behaviors as I am really interested in hearing from you and I am I am certain that as I said you can help somebody by doing this I would like to know the mechanics did you sit down one day with your spouse and say you know at the rate we're going the this marriage may dissolve so we better we better work on it was it helped by marital therapy I do wonder about that I have marital therapy so I don't know the batting average of marital therapists would you like to know that what percentage of troubled marriages do and I'm not laughing at the therapists I'm laughing at the question do they really help in fact you can perhaps ask do they did they ever hurt a marriage did they make it clear I know that many therapists will say look I'm not here to save your marriage I'm here to make your ending it as healthy as possible which by the way I believe on occasion is the appropriate attitude of a therapist I'm going to help you divorce more peacefully it just may be too far gone who knows what what you did so let's see here I know all the lines are taken so I'll just begin with the one I see st. Joseph Michigan Candace hello hi Dennis I always good to talk to you you and I stood on the deck together and went through the Panama Canal oh yeah I've had a great trip anyway my first marriage was absolutely spec to a what to a wonderful wonderful man but we had our problems and we talked about it and said do we want to go into our later years unhappy and no so we had a tremendous counselor who just helped us we read a book called Harville Hendrix getting the love you want my husband was a divorce lawyer oh wow yeah and he ended up handing that book out I he died what was that again what was the name of the book getting the love you want okay and then his subsequent book was keeping the love you find and they're both they're just wonderful simple practical solutions for people who think they're done a way to get a way to get back recommended the book to you our counselor actually I actually heard it on Oprah Winfrey as well yeah he introduced she actually had Harville Hendrix on her show it's a really it's a wonderful guide so had you read the book would you have needed the counselor I don't know that I don't know that I only know that the counselor was absolutely superb just alright so give us an example of something that changed well for my husband would come home from a long day at the office and I would just you know light into him immediately with everything that had gone wrong in the day with the kids were horrible and this and that and and of course he just couldn't faith anymore and you know he'd already had a hard day and the counselor said you know he knows you're going to he's going to get this when he comes through the door so he puts up his defenses and communication ended so he said you know it's fair for you to say I've had a rough day there are some things I'd like to talk to you about when would be a good time I hold on that's what I need to hear folks as many specifics as possible male female hour one eight Prager seven seven six the Dennis Prager show hello everybody male female hour what turned your marriage around for the better it's a fantastic subject you may truly already have one suggestion that was a big deal in one individual's life so Candace's marriage was turned around and one suggestion which she I guess adopted was not grieving her husband immediately with the problems of the day is that a fair summary yes absolutely okay yeah is there a second thing you you can tell us to turn to marriage around well there were there were many I mean again reading that book was it gave us all kinds of excellent suggestions for viewing things different from a different perspective softening our position the book was actually written by him for people whose marriage came to him believing their marriages were done finished well and he had a way to get people to at least consider the possibility that that there was hope so but then I did I married a second time and and that was a totally different way wait I don't understand well my husband died oh okay yeah well that's pretty important and I'm sorry about that okay I'm gonna let you go I thank you for that and we have a line open what turned your marriage around all right and let's see here Columbus Ohio Tom hello yes sir how are you thank you so much thank you you you really push men to be a better man and I really appreciate it I really want to do that thank you so we've been married for 15 years lots of ups and downs most of the times they were I was in the military so it was deployment where we're difficult and but I know it's cliche that everybody says communication but it really is key first and foremost a god-centered marriage you have to have a god-centered marriage I mean that's I think that's one of the most important things that people need to have and then the second is communication not only not only speaking but understanding listening and portraying that to your spouse that you understood what they say you know that that you're you're taking into consideration what they're saying we went through marriage counseling and they gave us this thing called the imago dialogue and it is basically if I give her I'm angry that you put the dishes in the dishwasher wrong her response wouldn't be well that's just the way that I like it her response would be okay what I'm understanding or hearing from you is that you don't like how I put the dishes in the dishwasher learning how to talk to your spouse knowing your spouse's love language and how to speak that to them well that one I totally believe in what you're saying but I I don't quite get so you said let's say let's say you would be you say to her or she say to you I don't like the way you put the dishes in the dishwasher correct correct and then the other one says so I hear you saying you don't like the way I put dishes in the dishwasher it it doesn't strike me as real of course that's what you heard that's what she said yes it's it's it seems simple and it seems dumb when you're initially doing it but like we just did it in marriage counseling a couple weeks ago and her her outlook on things made a total 180 from when we first went into the office we left understanding each other so it's it is showing them that you hear what they're saying and you understand what they're saying and you're you know you're taking it to heart right okay so really it okay so if I hear you correctly you use the dishwasher as an example but in reality someone has said something more complex and I don't like the way you put the dishes in the dishwasher and then you're saying so let me get it straight this is what you said by the way thank you I just want you all to know and and it will resonate with many of you if you are regular listeners I often say to guests on my show allow me to summarize what you said and I say for two reasons one is for the audience's sake for their benefit and one is to make sure that I heard you correctly and I'm not married to my guests and it's not done for relationship reasons it is just done to make sure I heard it right so there is there is something to be said about that in in any relationship including interviewer interviewee this is what I heard you say sometimes it will happen the person as well you got it almost all right but I just want to correct one thing that's important so I I actually subscribe to that okay Tom in st.
Dennis Prager Podcasts
"legislature" Discussed on Dennis Prager Podcasts
"119 degrees is hot. It's unearthly hot, although it happens on earth, but very rarely. I took a picture of it on my car screen, from my car screen. 119 degrees. Let's put it this way. Today it is 77 in Los Angeles. That means it was 42 degrees hotter than 77. Is that a good way of putting it? 42 degrees less than 77 is 35. So 35 is essentially freezing. It's a big gap. But it was worth it. It was very important to be there. I will play you my talk. I hope to put it up on the internet within a day, and hopefully many people will see it. What I said to the Democrats and the Republicans, Anthony Kern was the chairman of the session, a state senator in this is the type of person we need in political life. They had representatives from Arizona State there. Of course I had no problem with their being there. I'm glad they were. My biggest problem was staying awake. I'm not being cute. You see, word salad puts me to sleep. Whenever asked any penetrating question, they said, we'll get back to you. They had no answers to the most important questions that were posed to them. Well, that's not my area, so I'll get back to you on that. I'll get back to you on that. They'll get back to them by the time the session is over, obviously. It was widely covered, actually, because it is a very big deal. Every state legislature should have a hearing on free speech, whether it exists in their area. What is AC Central, the Arizona Republic, right? Yeah, that's the major paper in Arizona. I assume it's on the left. The title was of their piece covering it, Genuine Free Speech Crisis or a Performance, State Lawmakers Probe ASU Incident. The first meeting of a Republican-led legislative committee to investigate free expression in Arizona's public universities either addressed an instance where free speech was stifled or served as a performance, depending on whether you ask Republican Senator Anthony Kern or a Democratic Representative Analiza Ortiz. I'm just bringing this because I think you'll find it interesting. One of the Democratic legislators is non-binary. The individual goes by they, not he or she. I don't trust our universities just period, said Kern, who co-chaired the committee. They do not teach our students well-rounded dialogue so that the student can make the decision on how they want to think and the direction in life they want to take. Technically he should have said he or she, but they has actually three functions. Plural of people in the third person. When you are referring to all people, as in this case, or when a person claims to be neither male nor female. I don't believe such a thing. Obviously I don't believe such a thing. There's no human being who is neither female nor male unless they had ambiguous genitalia, in which case even their chromosomes should tell you male or female. But it doesn't objectively exist, but it's not what I want to get into now. The formation of the committee came just weeks after Ann Atkinson, the former director of an Arizona State University Center promoting personal development and conservative values. They put in conservative. Is there anything that promotes left-wing values in the Arizona Republic's view or even liberal? Publicly alleged that she lost her job after bringing several right-wing speakers to campus. The use of the term right-wing would not disturb me if they actually identified professors as left-wing. For all of the left-wing newspapers, New York Times, Washington Post, Arizona Republic, LA Times, there are right-wing individuals, but there basically are no left-wing individuals. The right-wing speakers to campus in February for an event titled Health, Wealth and Happiness. The event included speeches from Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk as well as Robert Kiyosaki, founder of a personal finance education company and author of Rich Dad Poor Dad and Dennis Prager, host of a conservative talk radio show. It's funny that they didn't mention PragerU. Isn't that interesting? On Tuesday Atkinson told lawmakers she experienced condemnation, censorship and chilling of speech during her time at the university. This situation embodies a free-spreach crisis woven into the maroon and gold fabric of the university. University has strongly denied her claims and so on and so forth. I wonder if and the answer is the answer is well that's it they don't they don't hang around you know it's interesting it's too bad because as you will hear later I pretty much gave a pretty clear statement of what the professor's are like so it's to say that it is a big issue is to understate the case moving on here a very a quite remarkable column nurse let's see where is it about the Church of Christ and the trick is to find it I just had it up they have what they have come out now and said is mind-blowing they actually well I'll bring it to you when we come back it's about abortion and other subjects if you want to know why so many churches are closing just look at the United Church of Christ liberal church body urges funding abortions for pregnant people Wow gold dealers are a dime a dozen they're everywhere what sets these companies apart and whom can you really trust this is Dennis Prager for am fed coin and bullion my choice for buying precious metals when you buy precious metals it's imperative that you buy from a trustworthy and transparent dealer that protects your best interests so many companies use gimmicks to take advantage of inexperienced gold and silver buyers be cautious of brokers offering free gold and silver or brokers that want to sell you overpriced collectible coins claiming they appreciate more than gold and silver what about hidden commissions and huge markups Nick Grovitch and his team at am fed always have your back I trust this man's why I mentioned him by name Nick's been in this industry over 42 years and he's proud of providing transparency and fair pricing to build trusted relationships if you're interested in buying or selling call Nick Grovitch and his team at am fed coin and bullion 800-221-7694 American federal.com American federal.com yeah I read this and of course it answers the question about why mainstream Protestantism is is dying just as a non-orthodox Judaism and Judaism is dying the parallels are what are complete their their religion is leftism but with a facade of the given religion in one case Judaism in one case Christianity it's it's hard to believe actually they recently passed a measure condemning the Supreme Court's decision last year in Dobbs versus Jackson's women's health organization that overturned Roe v.
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"I was in Phoenix, Arizona. There was a five or six hour hearing, a joint Senate and House hearing on Arizona State University and does it suppress free speech in light of the Wall Street Journal article in June about Arizona State University's professors who urged people not to attend the talks that Charlie Kirk and I were invited to give and did give, and the amount of efforts that took place to suppress publicity of our coming to speak, the subsequent closing of the institution that actually hosted us at Arizona State, and I want to salute the Republicans of the Arizona State University. I was dedicated to going in 24 hours, going there, speaking there. I was there for all six hours or five hours. I think it's six hours actually. It was 119 degrees in Phoenix.
CNN Political Briefing
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"In the North Carolina legislature, overriding the veto of the democratic governor, Roy Cooper. When women's health is on the line, I will never back down. Meaning that the abortion ban will now become law going into effect on July 1st. Cooper had tried to pressure for Republican lawmakers who previously had supported abortion rights to try and get them to reject the override. But all four of them voted with their party, all the Republicans in unison were able to override the governor's veto. Now one of those lawmakers was representative Tricia cotham, and you may recall her name because we discussed her earlier this year when she switched from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party and it was that party switch that gave the Republican legislature there the veto proof super majority. In a statement, Gotham noted that she had had an ectopic pregnancy that resulted in a miscarriage quote some may call me a hypocrite since I voted for this bill, she said. Quote, in fact, Senate Bill 20 affirms the lifesaving care I received in that dire situation. This 12 week abortion ban in North Carolina does make some exceptions for rape, incest, and some physical health issues. Now in neighboring South Carolina, lawmakers reconvened earlier today after debating for more than 12 hours yesterday on a bill that would ban most abortions as early as 6 weeks, some exceptions would apply to that. Bill four 74 is also known as the fetal heartbeat and protection from abortion act. It has exceptions for fatal fetal anomalies or to prevent death or quote irreversible impairment of a major bodily function of the mother throughout pregnancy. Ahead of the debate on the bill, democratic lawmakers in South Carolina filed over 1000 amendments to the proposed ban. Warning that they planned to make fellow lawmakers debate each and every one of them. This is a delay tactic, a stalling tactic and an attempt to apply political pressure. Here's Democrat Heather Bauer on the state floor this afternoon. This bill won post physical and psychological burdens on anyone in South Carolina who could get pregnant. In pregnancy impacts almost every facet of a person's life and the physical and mental well-being to their economic and professional success. But Republican lawmaker Ashley tramped them says the state does care about its women and children. Our state is actually rich when it comes to services and things that women and children can tap into. And I went through the budget and I listed the millions and millions and millions of dollars that South Carolina puts forward every year to make sure that we do take care of mothers and children. The numbers speak now, as I said, this issue continues to be a very politically potent issue. Not just across the party divide in a D versus our world, but even within the context of this Republican presidential primary that's getting underway. We are starting to see candidates who aren't yet announced candidates, but likely candidates like former vice president Mike Pence or Florida governor Ron DeSantis, running to Donald Trump's right on this issue. Trying to make him seem a bit of a squish or moderate on this issue. And again, inside the context of the Republican primary electorate, that could potentially be a damaging line of attack for Donald Trump, who would need to defend himself. And in fact, that's what he's been doing. So if you remember last week at the CNN town hall, Caitlin Collins pressed former president Trump about where he stands on a federal abortion ban now that we are in a post war world. Here's that exchange. But if you are reelected and you're back in the Oval Office and you get legislation to your desk, would you sign a federal abortion ban into law? What I'll do is negotiate so that people are happy. I want to do what's right. And we're looking. And we want to do what's right for everybody. But what's right. But now for the first time, the people that are pro life have negotiating capability because you didn't have it before, you can tell that Donald Trump is feeling the heat from some of his likely competitors here because on an almost daily basis for the last week since that town hall, he has been asserting that it is his role as president and appointing the three justices to the Supreme Court that got the country to this moment that got conservatives to this moment where roe V wade was overturned. But the reason he's a bit defensive is because he hasn't really committed to a path forward. Trump did an interview with a new news outlet called the messenger on Monday where he said that many people in the pro life movement believe that Florida governor desantis 6 week abortion ban that he signed into law in Florida was, quote, too harsh, and give a listen to what he told newsmax yesterday. Now, desantis or run to sanctimonious as I call him, he came out with the 6 weeks. Other people agree with it and a lot of people don't. We're in a position now and I'm going to be leading the charge. We're in a position now where we can get something that the whole country can agree with. And that's only because I got us out of the roe V wade. That was Trump after he was clearly aware that desantis had taken a question yesterday about Trump's position on the Florida 6 week ban on Trump calling it too harsh or saying that pro life activists call it too harsh. Here was desantis pushing back on that notion. Protecting an unborn child when there's the detectable heartbeat is something that almost probably 99% of pro lifers support. I signed the bill. I was proud to do it. He won't answer whether he would sign it or not. That was courtesy of WS the N and yesterday, up in Concord New Hampshire, former vice president Mike Pence made clear. He is willing to state where he stands on a national abortion ban, unlike his former boss. I also believe that there is a role at the federal level. To advance the sanctity of life, whether it be a 15 week minimum standard, if I ever have any duties in Washington D.C., I'll certainly support that measure. I would support a heartbeat bill, a 6 week measure. So we are pretty much guaranteed to see this issue, play out on the debate stage in August in the Republican primary. And definitely guaranteed to see Joe Biden and his campaign employ this issue over abortion rights as a major issue on the campaign trail. Kamala Harris, the vice president has sort of been tasked with this as a key part of her portfolio on the campaign trail and Democrats believe that the success they saw in the 2022 midterms by avoiding that predicted red wave is in large part due to the concern among voters a majority of voters in the country about a restriction on abortion rights, and they plan to keep
The Breakdown with Shaun King
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"As it stands right now, it is highly likely that both Justin Jones and Justin Pearson are going to run again for their seats. If I have this right, them can be appointed by the Nashville city council and another can be appointed by the Memphis city council. I believe I have that right. In Tennessee, the local city who if a city or county loses someone in the state House to death or removal or whatever it may be, that city can appoint their replacement. And we believe that in both places that Justin Jones and Justin Pearson will be appointed as the replacement. And if that's not the case, it appears that both Justin Jones and Justin Pearson will run again for their seats and will very likely win if they do. They are more beloved, more supported, more known than they've ever been. And the eyes of the nation and even the world are on them. And they will receive more support, locally nationally than they ever have, and so I believe that both of these young men will get their seats back. But both of them very bravely and rightly said, no, we would do that again. We did what we did because it was necessary. To shine a light on a problem in Tennessee refuses to even acknowledge much less solve. And so I want those two young men. To fight and get their seats back. Absolutely. But what we're seeing is a major escalation. Of someone removing a a government body removing duly elected people truly just because they felt like it. Just because they could. And when you see something like that, ratchet up, it spreads. And I think it's only a matter of time until you begin to see this elsewhere and in fact, this did not start in Tennessee. It started in Florida when Ron DeSantis removed a district attorney just because he felt like it a duly elected district attorney. I think we are in the time and place where what we saw yesterday will not be the last time we see something like that. Let's continue to fight back, continue to speak out. Let's do everything we can to support these two young men. I'll keep you posted on their hopes and plans and thoughts on what's next, but let's keep on fighting all right. Love and appreciate all of you. Hope you have a great weekend. Take care everybody. Break it down. The great right now. I'm Tiffany Hawkins. I'm Alan boomer. And we are the momentum advisers every single week. We talk about wealth management, personal finance, and entrepreneurship. We are financial advisers by day, we're entrepreneurs by night. We're building wealth for ourselves and we want to make sure that you understand how to build wealth in your own family. Tune in for shows like is your money racist, retirement savings, investment one O one. We literally run the gamut on all the things that you need to know about financial wealth, creating a legacy for your family, can really just wealth creation as a whole. What we find is that these conversations are happening, but they're not happening as much as they need to in diverse communities. And so we're bringing a new voice, a new amount of energy, and we want you to tune in. So we bring the tips, we bring the strategy, and we always bring the good news. So make sure you tune in every week to the momentum advisers, there's something for everyone.
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"Agreed to use a North Carolina redistricting case to consider adopting a far reaching legal doctrine that would shift more federal election power to the state legislatures that are now disproportionately controlled by Republicans. Joining me is elections law expert Richard burr fault, a professor at Columbia law school. What's this North Carolina case about? The North Carolina case grows out of a challenge to the state legislature is redistricting of North Carolina's congressional delegation. State legislature is overwhelmingly Republican. There was a democratic governor that he can be outvoted. Because various can be overturned. The legislature adopted a very pro Republican plan, North Carolina is a pretty close state, but I think it would produce something like 13 Republican and three democratic districts. Here's where it gets interesting. The North Carolina Supreme Court interpreting the state's constitution concluded that that was an unconstitutional under the state constitution's partisan gerrymander. Embedded violated not a particular provision of North Carolina constitution aimed at gerrymandering, but it's general provision dealing with free and fair elections. And so they struck it down in order to plan. That has been challenged by the Republican legislature. And indeed, the Supreme Court just upheld the idea that the Republican legislators could actually sue independently because the democratic attorney general is not supporting this argument. On the theory of what has come to be known as the independent state legislature doctrine. What does that mean? Well, the provision of the constitution that deals with elections for Congress to article one. Basically says that the state legislatures shall determine the time place and manner of elections for Congress. Congress can override that. But in the first instance, it's the state legislature. Where does legislature? Until fairly recently, no one thought that meant a legislature in particular as opposed to kind of let's call it the state legislative process. But the question has come up as to whether or not the legislature in some sense is independent of its state constitution independently with state Supreme Court so that when the state Supreme Court interprets the state constitution to set aside with the state legislature is done, that triggers an article one question and maybe as an article one violation. And that's what's picked up this idea of the independent state legislature doctrine that somehow the saint legislature is actually independent of its own constitution. Independent of its own state Supreme Court is doctrine has been kicking around for about 20 years and a number of Supreme Court Justices have indicated some support for it primarily in the context of presidential elections because they similar provision in article two. Deals with the selection of presidential electors. So if the state courts don't have the authority to look at these maps, who does, who has the authority? Well, at this point, since the Supreme Court has renounced a federal gerrymandering claim, it's not clear anybody really does. I mean, in theory, the U.S. Supreme Court upon the U.S. Constitution could review state legislative plans if they had racial discrimination. For example, but the U.S. Supreme Court has said they're not going to look at plans for partisan gerrymandering. When they said that, and the rucha case a couple of years ago, they pointed to the role of the states in the coming more active in policing partisan gerrymandering. But this could undo that. Depending on exactly what the court does, how far it reads. The U.S. Constitution is a constraint on the ability of state courts to review and undo the decisions of state legislatures. So as you mentioned, the Republicans have been pushing this theory for decades, is this the theory they advanced in the descent in Bush V gore? Right. It was Ethereum by three of the justices and Bush V gore led by chief justice rehnquist. It was not embraced by the majority. It was also a theory that has been alluded to in various concurring and dissenting opinions by I think at least three justices over the court during a lot of the fighting over the 2020 presidential election. In which a number of them Alito, Thomas, maybe even fork Gorsuch Kavanaugh indicated some sympathy and alita, in fact, said that even if presidential election was over, there was a case that came out of Pennsylvania challenging these Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision interpreting Pennsylvania law to give more time for absentee ballots to be counted in the end it didn't make any difference in the court dismissed the case, but justice a leader said they should have taken the case in order to resolve this question of the independence in which your doctrine. It could be a significant both for congressional redistricting and potentially for presidential elections. Does it look like they have four votes already? They assume thanks for both to take sir. The questions will they have 5? And even when they agree that there is some review, it's not completely clear how much they would read state courts out of this. It's very unclear what this doctrine will do. I mean, it's hard to believe that state legislatures exist outside their constitution. But that's sort of part of the argument. Some have argued that it might make a difference if the state constitution has a very clear provision that deals with partisan gerrymandering. As opposed to situations where snake supreme courts are relying on very, very general provisions about the right to vote. But we just don't know what the Supreme Court will do if this court concludes that state legislatures are either unbound by their state constitutions or unbound by state Supreme Court interpretations or they're somehow the U.S. Supreme Court can review state Supreme Court interpretations of state constitutions, which something they have either never or hardly ever done in modern times. Coming up next, I'll continue this conversation with Columbia law professor Richard braff fault, and we'll talk about where this doctrine could lead. You're listening to Bloomberg. The
Bloomberg Radio New York
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"An electoral practice minimizes or cancels out the voting strength of members of a racial group or language minority group When we issued that guidance I noted that discriminatory redistricting schemes are illegal Attorney general Merrick Garland explained why vote dilution is illegal under section two of the Voting Rights Act but a divided Supreme Court ignored that definition By a vote of 5 to four the court reinstated in Alabama congressional map that a panel of judges found diluted the votes of blacks in violation of section two Joining me is Rebecca green a professor and co director of the election law program at William and Mary law school I've seen a lot of headlines that say in one form or another that this is a blow to minority voting rights Do you agree and if so how much of a blow Well if you believe in the protections the Voting Rights Act is supposed to afford minority voters in redistricting cases then this is certainly a blow because the map that the state of Alabama drew is sort of textbook vote dilution In other words it packs minority voters in one district and it cracks a group of minority voters in half to dilute their strength So it's sort of textbook packing and cracking and to the extent that the court's order means that the maps will go forward with those diluted districts than that certainly will be harmful Irreparably to minority voters in the event And just go back for a moment and explain what the lower court panel which consisted of three judges one appointed by former president Clinton and two appointed by former president Trump what they found So section two cases in the division context require a three part test First the court has to examine whether or not the minority voters are sufficiently large and compact to warrant their own districts of majority minority district Then the next two parts of the test look at racially polarized voting So whether or not for example the majority voters vote against minority voters candidates of choice or whether the minority community itself is politically cohesive And on all three measures the lower court unanimously found that those tests were meaning that the legislature had diluted minority votes in properly at least in violation of section two and that's why they ordered a second minority district he drawn Chief justice John Roberts was in the forefront as the Supreme Court gutted section 5 of the Voting Rights Act in the Shelby county case What does it tell you that he joined with the liberals here in support of having a new map drawn in Alabama Well chief justice Roberts has long been skeptical of Voting Rights Act section two jurisprudence But the legal or the processes set up by the Voting Rights Act in those two different sections are extremely different So you're ruling in one case and section 5 and Shelby county in 2013 and just doesn't map onto this section because the law is just very different So it's hard to sort of make connections Other than to say you know that certainly justice Robert has been skeptical of the Voting Rights Act sort of large obviously for a very long time But what's interesting about this case is that the law exists today is very clear and that's probably why you have an unanimous opinion below because like I said this is sort of a textbook violation of section two At least as far as the court has been concerned up until now There's no opinion for the majority but in a concurring opinion justice Brett Kavanaugh joined by justice Samuel Alito said that this decision was necessary because the lower court had acted too soon before coming election Do you buy that reasoning Well it's certainly a novel claim I mean the Purcell principle is it's known is this idea that federal courts shouldn't make changes right before an election because it would confuse voters and would make it difficult for the election officials to administer the election But neither of those issues are present here where we're months and months away from an election and where the Yale maps could be drawn basically with the snap of a finger So it's hard to square that argument and it certainly a very big extension of the principle to say in a month out of federal court can't mess with the state's plan And I think especially worrisome about it is maybe it's going to mean that line drawers drag their feet to pass maps because if they can get it within many months out from the primary election and maybe they can win on the Purcell principle which just is a very bad set of incentives to set up In her dissent justice Kagan fall to the majority for using what's called the shadow docket Basically emergency orders to usher in a major legal shift and justice Kavanaugh responded by saying Kagan was using catchy but worn out rhetoric Was there some tension there I think clearly there's been a lot of concern about how much activity is happening at the court in these emergency orders where there is an argument there isn't reason opinion that sort of a lot of action happening in the sort of extraordinary way where it's this emergency docket as opposed to your typical Supreme Court case And so I think there's tension between members of the court who think that that's just the order of the day and that's the top of the Supreme Court functions versus those that see an uptick in the number of these kinds of rulings and some concerns Since there's no reasoning that opportunity for argument and so forth Alabama's argument here was that it shouldn't have to elevate race over traditional redistricting criteria Does this decision indicate that the court's conservative majority may be open to weakening the role race plays in drawing voting districts I have a very short answer which is yes I don't often get unqualified answers from lawyers Tell us why you said yes What's extraordinary about this is that in 2013 when the court struck section 5 it said you know don't worry We have section two Still here to protect minority voters and then now you have the court kind of coming in and saying oh you know if states prioritize race this isn't what they've held of course because the case hasn't been heard on the merits but the implication is that if a state prioritizes minority voters protecting minority voters that they're somehow violating the constitution would effectively render section two of constitutional That is you simply can't protect minority voters under section two because doing so is somehow prioritizing race and constitutionally So it's a pretty surprising idea because for a long time the court has given Congress authority to enforce minority voting rights under the Fifteenth Amendment And so this would essentially be taking away Congress's power and at least to do what it did in section two The attorney general is challenging Texas's voting maps How does this decision play in that case Well anytime that a plaintiff is challenging 2020 maps trying to assert a section two claim Barriers are going to be perking up here in terms of the probable thinking on section two compliant So I think if you're voting rights attorney hoping to use section two to challenge a map you're shaking in your boots Thanks Rebecca That's Rebecca green of William and Mary law school Coming up next the second trial over ahmaud Arbery's killing This is Bloomberg What Drivers who switch and save with progressive save over $700 on average and those savings add up Imagine what you could buy.
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"And you have to have a lot of privilege and not a really good understanding missions the my paints before as as we've seen from education conference in the legislature legislature.
RJ Politics
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"So they were very interested in the outcome of these negotiations that resulted in before ninety. Five and john geller. Who i talked to. The legislature at the very end was was not shy about saying look. We put these initiatives on the ballot to get these guys to the table to make them come up with With these taxes did not oppose what we were doing so that we could get what we wanted and essentially what they wanted more money for schools in invalid case more money for schools budgets to pay teachers who are members of the clark education association. So that i think is really interesting. That trend of these initiatives designed not to set policy but to force industries to essentially negotiate. When they otherwise wouldn't i think is a fascinating development up in the legislature. Yeah you know. That was a very very interesting. That was one of the few ones. I actually watched you know. Some of what was happening. Certainly a online basically. 'cause i wasn't up there on an now. Only make sure that i mentioned in his correctly. It seemed like i think. I think it was senator hansen ira hansen. I think he was talking about the fact that win. Win these ballot initiatives. That the cca hat you know they were supposed to go to the voters in that the legislature. Supposed to sort of move them along in that way to the voters and that now they won't which is which was what he was saying was basically against policy and things like that and he was making some interesting points about. Hey why is it. Why isn't gaming now here and we're taxing. Then why is it. Only mining obviously from mining area. I thought that was an interesting argument to you because it was. I definitely i saw. I saw a lot of tweets about valerie. Dida i saw when the governor came to the legislature for that the first person that that apparently went to him according to colton was valerie valerie. Dnc was right up to the governor talking to him about stuff like that the it it definitely seemed like there was a major politicking. That happened apart from a simple. Hey here's a bill. Here's an amendment. You know we're going to. We're going to take a vote in committee now on a definitely seemed like that. Bill had a totally different journey through the process in any of the other bills. That were that were up there. No you're absolutely right and in fact you have hit on the other part of this this issue. That is actually forecast to go forward because there's a constitutional battle that may i stress may be looming in the future on this because ira hansen. Who is mad about a lot of stuff is not wrong about this one. The constitution says if a statutory initiative is proposed and the get the signatures. It goes to the secretary of state she sends it to the legislature now if the legislature fails to act within forty days which they did in this case. They took no action. On either of those initiatives one would raise the sales tax one raise. The gaining gags is stated in the constitution. The secretary of state shall send these to the ballot in twenty twenty two. It's mandatory language. There's no option..
The Daily
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"Think of some new strategies if they want to kill this bill again many. Let's zoom out a little bit. So i'm thinking about texas is demographics and you know i understand that. Basically politics political races at the end of the day. Either win or you lose right. So the democrats did lose. But isn't the bigger picture here that the demographics are changing in though the democrats are losing. They're losing by smaller margins so why would republicans really doubled down on this strategy. That kind of flies in the face of that. I think just kind of goes back to this notion that they want wanna craft their own texas and no demographers. New strategists are going to change their belief that they could mold texas the way they want to. Despite any changing demographics and also i think a lot of this has to do with primary elections in texas in republican politics in texas the primaries where the action is and no republican lawmaker wants and start grassroots fired up. Far-right conservative to challenge them for their seat in the texas house the texas senate and so these lawmakers come into the session wanted to make sure that they're scoring points with the people who vote and the republican primaries. These are the voters that go to the candidate forums. They go to the debates. They watched the debates they show up at the campaign events. They have the yard signs. These are you're fired up texas conservatives and they drive a lot of the action in texas republican politics. I mean it strikes me that it's really a response to a large part of the republican base. That never really bought what the joe straus is at the world you know. The chamber of commerce republicans those kind of fiscal conservatives were selling and for now at least republicans in the state can win by appealing to them. Exactly the they win by appealing to them. And the republican lawmakers told us they feel like they were given a mandate and the mandate is the democrats tried to flip the house. The voters said no thank you and that is their mandate one. Republican lawmaker said elections have consequences and in his is. This was a consequence of the democrats failing to flip the texas house. They believe that they are doing what the voters want them to do. So many hearing all of this. The thing i really want no is what does what's happening in texas mean about where we are in american politics. You know it tells us a couple of things in texas it's about the president versus the future. Republicans have their hands on the levers of power and as long as they're holding onto they're gonna use it in the present and they're not worried about what may or may not happen in the future. What bluewave mayor monopoly. Coming years down the road they have their hands on the levers of power in the present and so far it's been working for them and also don't forget texas legislative politics may seem small but it reverberates far beyond texas's borders just because of the sheer size of texas because of its way congress because of its enormous economy those small texas republican.
NEWS 88.7
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"This legislature over more restrictions for what some voting rights groups claim are already some of the toughest voting rights rules in the nation. Also in a state with one of the biggest Muslim populations in the US, not a single state lawmaker is a Muslim. How some in the Texas Muslim community or trying to offset a lack of direct representation, plus a Grammy winners, tribute to coastal Texas and her mother, those stories and more when the Texas Standard gets underway. Right after this. I from NPR news in Washington I Windsor Johnston. A federal grand jury in Minnesota has indicted former Minneapolis police officer Derrick Show Vin and three other officers for violating the constitutional rights of George Floyd. NPR's Carrie Johnson reports. The federal case comes nearly three weeks after a jury convicted Children in Floyd's death. George Floyd died last year after shoving leaned on his neck and back for nine minutes and 29 seconds. The Justice Department says show Vin used excessive force, and it says to other police on the scene to Tao and J. Alexander King failed to stop him. They in 1/4 Officer Thomas Layne, these charges for willfully failing to provide Floyd medical care as he cried and gasped for breath. Children is in state custody following murder and manslaughter convictions. Last month, he's asked for a new trial. The three other officers are scheduled to go on trial on their own state charges in August. Lloyd's death caught on videotape help spark a worldwide movement for racial justice. Carrie Johnson NPR NEWS Washington Employers in the U. S added 266,000 jobs during the month of April, far fewer than economists were forecasting. Nations jobless rate went up 6.1%. MPR's Chris Arnold has more on the latest numbers from the Labor Department. This is a much weaker jobs report than expected, most economists predicted a gain of well over a million jobs. So this is just a quarter of that. Also, job gains from prior months were revised a bit lower. There are still about eight million fewer people employed than before the pandemic, and at the same time, businesses say they're having trouble finding people to fill the jobs that they have open. So It's a bit puzzling to economists. Some people are still unable to return to work because their kids aren't back in school or due to covert health risks. Also, more generous unemployment benefits probably have some people waiting to return to work on the bright side, as restaurants and bars reopened they hired on 187,000 more people last month. Chris Arnold. NPR NEWS The Taliban have captured the second largest dam in Afghanistan as they escalate their fighting across the country. NPR's DEA indeed, reports it comes as American and foreign troops begin to withdraw. Taliban spokesman in the governor of an adjacent province confirmed that the insurgents sees the dam in the southern province of Kandahar. They've also launched new attacks against Afghan forces across the country. Those battles are widely seen as a test of Afghan forces and whether they can continue fighting without the support of foreign troops on the thousands of exhilarate contractors who help maintain and supply equipment to pro government forces. Or, if an indirect way to aid them can be found as NPR's Day Ahead. Deed reporting here listening to NPR news in Washington. Republican led legislature in Texas is pushing ahead with a bill that would impose a series of new restrictions on voting. The measure would bar election officials from sending voters unsolicited mail in ballot applications and give partisan poll watchers more access to voting sites. Legislation is pending approval and both the state House and Senate in Florida voting rights groups have filed a pair of lawsuits challenging as similar measure that was signed into law yesterday. A piece of space junk is making an uncontrolled descent into the atmosphere and trackers aren't sure where it will land. Brendan Byrne from member station W. Empathy reports it could crash down sometime this weekend. The nearly 24 ton rocket part comes from recent Chinese launch and it's tumbling back down to Earth at an estimated 18,000 MPH Theo. US Space Command says it's tracking the object, but its exact entry point cannot be pinpointed until within hours before its re entry expected around Saturday. Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics astronomer Jonathan McDowell is tracking the object. And says because of its size, not all of it will burn up in the atmosphere. Despite the uncertainty, there's little worry as an individual Both you're worried for yourself. Don't be right. The Earth is big. The chance that it's gonna land on your head is pretty tiny. Last year, a piece of the same type of rocket crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of West Africa. For NPR News. I'm Brendan Byrne in Orlando on Wall Street. The Dow was up 151 points. This is NPR news in Washington. Support for NPR comes from NPR stations. Other contributors include C F P certified financial planner professionals focused on providing holistic financial planning from retirements and investments to taxes and estate planning. In the client's best interest. Let's make a plan dot orc Hello. I'm Nikki Baby. Join me for this week's aren't sour from the BBC with active turned director Michael B. Jordan or That's all in the arts hour from the BBC. That's coming up tonight at nine o'clock right here on these 88 7. No matter where you are, it's Texas. Standard time on the seventh day of May 2021 I'm David Brown. Great to have you with us and happy Friday. You may recall earlier this year Governor Greg Abbott issuing a list of legislative priorities as the biennial session got under way at the Capitol and near the top of his list, something he described his election integrity. I.
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"It and they literally give that information to the legislators and sometimes that make makes a difference too busy to to. Don't people are worried that they're gonna start asking me questions that i'm not going to know the answers. There too worried that they're too busy to do that. But even if they do not have the answer just say i'm sorry i don't know the answer but i'll get back to you and But yes they worked for you. And you're the expert in the things that you're concerned about so don't hesitate to contact their office and if it's during the session contact their office at the capital if it's if it's outside the cap the session than contact their office in the district in. That's all own line. You can find all that it's all online you can go to the texas legislature online. You can find all that information as he say. They're dealing probably within avalanches of potential legislation. Here and i imagine on a lot of things. They don't get a lot of feedback directly from constituents. So if you do reach out you might be one of the louder voices on a certain topic. I can guarantee you. That's correct unless it's a very concrete confrontational bill and none of these are so certainly I would highly encourage our listeners. If they're interested in these things to check it out. And i think also you're going to put in the notes A webpage that i've created with Our bill analysis. That i have done on the major bills and it has links to all of this stuff is well and as jennifer mentioned your homework. Check out the links she discussed. Those are down in the description. The show notes for this episode. And i know you're always looking for ways to get extra credit so don't forget to keep up with the latest latest whether it's policy or just good ideas in teaching by following. Tc on social media. Don't forget to liken. Subscribe to the podcast recommended to your friends. And if you want to go the extra mile you every educators make sure you check out. Our elementary technology conference coming up online this summer. There's still time to register and that means there's still time to get in on this fun learning event where you won't have to go through all the sessions figure out which ones right for you. They're all going to be right for you if you're an elementary educator and you can check out the sessions on the website right now go take a.
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"Seventies and the late two thousands. You're probably familiar with schoolhouse. Rock i know. I am a big fan and if you're familiar with schoolhouse. Rock the series of educational cartoons. You might know their hit single. I'm just a bill about how a bill becomes a law at least at the federal level. Now i won't seem that for you one because i'm not a very good singer objected to that but also because we don't have the rights to a take a minute to imagine in your head. Remember it me too anyway. I only bring that up. Because understanding the legislative process can be difficult. It can be difficult on the federal level or the state level. Luckily here at ti. We have our own legislative expert and she is joining us as our guest speaker in the club this week to discuss the texas legislature. Right now. they're in the middle of their biennial session. And they are sprinting to the finish line and they're considering a number of important educational topics topics. The tci members have been paying attention to for a long time like online assessment and broadband and more.
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"The team you trust way have on the line with us A state Senator Derek Kitchen, the Legislature, of course, in section now, about halfway through And a lot of important issues facing the voters of Utah, the citizens of Utah a lot of important things that the legislators have to deal with. So how was it having Paris Hilton up there? Hey, Good morning, everybody. It was great. You know, she was She did a great job in front of our committee and I'm happy to have her story told. How did that come about? It was like it's a the things I read about it. It's such a surprise visit. Did she just pop in on you? Yeah, You know, I heard you know, in the halls of Capitol Hill last Tuesday, Um I believe it was last Tuesday. You know, whispers of parcel to meeting with President Stuart Adams and Jenna Governor Deidre Henderson. And And so there were these whispers sort of floating around and then all of a sudden, I You know, I get notification from the chair of my committee that Sure enough. We've got a celebrity joining us. So Yeah, it was sort of chaotic just because she's sort of brings you you know, the whole tribe with her, the paparazzi and all of her team and everybody so And of course, the news is there so it was a bit of a bad house. But you know, she she was really well spoken. She's grown up a whole bunch on D She's you know, using her her place of power and privilege to advocate for some really, really meaningful changes. Youth treatment facility industry. Youth treatment facilities is what is her cause she was in one or maybe two. Here in Utah. There are a lot of them in Utah. Her. She says that they and I think it's probably true that they are largely Unregulated. And they concrete's kids how they want s O. Is the Legislature going to do something about that? You know, we are moving fast in the Senate on the bill sponsored by Senator Mike McKell from Spanish Fork and you know what the House of representatives does is another story, but it will be before them. Probably this week. We're going to pass it out of the Senate, and so I've been getting out of this chamber is going to be known problem. Obviously, the house tends to be a little bit more rockets, but I'm hopeful that they'll they'll realize how important it is to get something addressed here and I feel strongly that this is something that needs to take place. Derek Kitchen, you. Ah, I know you you would propose to build toe allow restaurants to sell booze to go liquor to go. That have gone anywhere. I got out of the rules Committee. I'm still waiting to get it on the agenda of of the broader committee. Hopefully, this week will have some movement there. The thing is with alcohol if it's not blessed by No, those who determined then it doesn't go very far. But I'm really working it behind the scenes as much as possible. It's important that we have flexible alcohol policy. If we're going to be an adaptive economy, so I'm feeling optimistic that we'll get some movement. Whether or not I get to cross the finish line is another story, but I'm going to keep the pressure up. That's my job. Well, here's the thing Derek is that I can. Now just go and get a handgun and carry it with me wherever I want, But I can't join a wine club so that Z You are not responsible enough. Carrie. Why do you think the Governor Spencer Cox signed that so immediately? The the piece of legislation that passed through that said. You can get a concealed carry permit. Where's your permit? Well, yeah. I mean, you could just do it. Yeah, no promises, do it. You don't need a permit. What are you like? I like Governor Cox and I'm pulling for him. He needs you know, we all need him to do a good job, So he's got my support in many ways, but to be honest with you, you know, you paid attention to politics and you talk for long enough. You know that there's real tension between the executive branch. So the governor The legislative leadership over the years, and I guess I can't put words in his mouth. But you know, she didn't really He didn't really push back on this at all. You know, Governor Herbert committed to veto the same exact number years back, and he was much more conservative than we thought. S so I don't know what Spencer Cox You know, he's still early in his time as governor, So whether he'll be you know. Tool of the Legislature and just do it the Legislature wants or whether or not he'll like really struck out and create a name for himself. It's sort of still to be determined, but obviously with this, you know removal of the consumer permit. We sort of see the direction he's going at least in this this year, so we'll see what happens. Thank God I can carry my hog. Under my duster. I can carry my you know my sawed off shotgun under my Dutch, but you can't join the end of your wine. Sure, I can. You can't you can't. Now That's what there is sawed off shotgun under your nose. That's what he said is didn't carry a side arm. You can care that soggy is a sawed off. Yeah, I don't think so. You got guns or legal or hogs Legal in Utah. Derek, you know, find out, we'll call up against my advice. Yeah. Derek, I think you're right about the cocks in the word tool. I think you're correct there. But that's just me. Anyway, We're out of time. But thank thank you, Derek Kitchen. Best of luck. Stay safe. Stay healthy. We'll.
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"When the Legislature standpoint, the Legislature controls elections. That's the irony. Let's see. The Democrats. States are going to go over. Well overwhelmingly for the Democrat anyway, they knew they'd have to find a state that was just maybe purple. If not, you know, just a little bit red instead of blue. To pull this on to be able to change laws or change within change laws, they bypass all to be re bypass circumvent the law. And so that these were the testing grounds. And they got away with it. Now. I don't care what anybody says that they hear about. You know whether the election was stolen or whatever. There it is the undisputed truth. That Pennsylvania election officials Circumvented the law. They did not follow the law. They were supposed to use voter I d and signature verification and they did not follow it. And so that is against the law. That is the undisputed truth. People. Don't say what you're saying. Yura Yura, Yura Biden Denial or whatever. You're in election tonight. I'm just telling you what happened. And the only way to fix that is for people to sue them before they get to before we get to the election and for the Republicans to stand up before the election, and this is the lesson we learned. So is this is history going to repeat itself? I'm not saying that we're gonna have a Republican next time because it's all going to depend on who it is. If it's trump, I don't know. Can he win again? Who knows in four years? But I will tell you this. The same circumstances is not going to be there. This was the perfect storm. And don't forget what Rahm Emanuel always said. Never let a crisis go to waste. Oh, boy, did they play that one? And we've heard them say it forever. And we've heard them. Say it forever. Never let a crisis go to waste and we saw them using the crisis and nobody stopped. Um Remember when Dr Epstein in 2019 was testifying before the Senate and said. That Facebook and Google We're going to try to steal the election. Remember that? Yeah. Ted Cruz Native Marshall Black really All outraged. We're all outraged. We have them on talking about it. What did they do about it? Zero. They did zero about it. They listen to it. They got outraged. They stopped their feet. They They screamed, but they didn't do anything. They didn't stop Facebook and Google from limiting information you can get and from push polling people and from sending out notices just the Democrats. All the stuff that Dr Epstein says we're going was gonna go on went on. And he told him Well, over a year before we went on that it was gonna go on, and nobody stop it now one Republican stuff. The heck, man. So you want to know how we fix this? When you see it, come and stop it. And don't tell me we can't. Don't tell me the courts won't let you I don't know what the courts would have done Had they sued before the election, but I think you'd have been a different ball of wax because you're talking about votes and had not come in yet. Courts are very hesitant to overturn votes that have already been cast. They don't mind getting involved before there's ever a vote cast. But once they're cast their very scared to get involved. And that's what we saw here and that's on the Republicans will be back right after this. You.
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"legislature" Discussed on KLIF 570 AM
"Rock and roll but is only number One hit was his worst song ever. That story's governor with Ed Wellness with the moment in rock'n'roll history at 7 55. It is 7 40 right now. 20 minutes before eight o'clock is an old as a former California I've been a Texan now for nine years. I'm happy and I'm staying here. I'd like to reach out to the other California's They're just moving into town and say, Hey, guess what. Texas Legislature When a decision yesterday and in just over three months, they'll be done for two years. See if California did that. They wouldn't have the kind of mess that they've got right now. Full time Legislature. Anyway, Today's Day two and dark late Nevel is here to tell us what happened yesterday morning, Clayton. Good morning. Yesterday was opening ceremonies. The real big business that was done yesterday was the official vote for the House speaker. We know that Dennis bonding is no longer the speaker. He opted last year not to run for re election. That was amid controversy. We ran those stories last year, and that is that respondent is in the books, and now David feeling has officially been voted in. It was 143 in favor of date feeling. Two against in four didn't vote so an overwhelming vote from the house to make date Beetle in their speaker. He spoke yesterday. There were several other speakers that talked about some of the policies that will be in effect this for is covert 19 testing when you come in limited crowds in the gallery and things like that, so it was mostly ceremonial yesterday, but date feeling being elected officially is the House speaker. Where's the big business? Yeah, no real surprise there. Security also very tight yesterday because of the run on the Capitol in Washington, D. C. Any protesters any problems yesterday? No issues yesterday, Of course, the big question movie this weekend when protesters are encouraged from some organizations to go to state capitals across the country that Governor Abbott talked about this week, saying that DPS is prepared that they're always prepared for safety measures and things like that for security and that he had confidence in them for this week, But there were certainly an extra presents have seen some of the photos. From outside the capital of a significantly increased presence from law enforcement yesterday, wearing some of the tactical gear and things like that, so they already as some of the speakers will. Metcalf was a representative yesterday and he made a speech and he talked about how these air unprecedented times but the Legislature needs anyway. He said that the Legislature doesn't break or pause because of pandemics or because of natural disasters or any circumstance across the country. So Certainly unprecedented times as you go into the gallery with Max as the certain representatives and senators have precautions within their own office. They're doing a lot of virtual meetings and things like that. And then, of course, tension and state capitals across the country, so certainly a different legislative session for the 87th session, But they're getting to business Nonetheless, we're talking about their own plate, Nevel. The state Legislature, of course, can address and effect any number of laws in this state, but they're only real responsibility, according to the Constitution is to come up with a budget for the next two years, and there's gonna be a tough year for him, isn't it? Yeah, yeah, The budget is certainly the top priority is it always is, You know, when you talk about priorities every time the session means every time it gets together, it's the budget and it's education. Now this year, you can throw a pandemic relief in there as well. But the budget is going to be a task, you know, and it's a huge state 254 counties, all of the ground that Texas has to cover, so That'll be the big talk with topic as we go along, and the date beat one yesterday. One of the first things, he said, is let's lead by example, and let's work together. Now That's easier said than done, But that's the goal of the House speaker's. We move forward with the budget and with the other issues they're going to face. One other issue that they're talking about is to make the alcohol delivery bill permanent, so restaurants I guess can deliver alcohol to their customers, and that would really, really help him out financially. Yeah, yeah, The margaritas to go is kind of the plant is being used for this particular bill and feeling the dress that bill yesterday of all issues that the Legislature is going to take up. That was one that he mentioned in his opening speech was that margaritas to go? There seems to be a lot of moment. Um, around this. The thought about it is not to get people their margaritas more easy, but to make things more easy for Businesses to give them another source of revenue because we know that a lot of businesses and restaurants right now have limited capacity. Well, all of them have limited capacity. So filling alcohol to go is away where they can make some of that money up. Not all of it by any means. But that's the overall thought behind this is that this financially would help businesses. I talked to a couple lawmakers behind this last week if they said You know what you hear alcohol to go. You think over container and drinking and driving? Well, how does that work? Well, it doesn't violate any of that. The containers are closed. It's not like people are drinking it in their car. Well, they're not legally supposed to drink it in their car. It just allows people that get the margaritas get the tequila, whatever alcohol they want. Take it in small bottles and bring it home. So restaurants were able to do that and make a little bit more money. It seems like this bill has a lot of positive response. Alright, thanks very much. Very informative. Great Report. Clayton or so Kayla have some played Nevil. New York City is now banning President Trump will explain coming up and YouTube is as well but first traffic.
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"Correspondent for the new york times. No matter what happens in georgia runoffs in a few days. That were were waiting on. Congress is going to be very narrowly divided. Nancy pelosi in the house is going to have probably the narrowest majority over one hundred years. The senate at best is going to be divided fifty fifty With democrats in control at best for them. It may be a narrow republican majority. I think what this stimulus deal. That came together in. The last. Few weeks has shown. Is that there a set of kind of centrist in both parties that are chomping at the bit to get things done and feel like finally their day come to do that and and leadership at least for now seems willing to entertain it and think crucial you have a president elect in joe biden. Who somebody that would have identified with. Centrist group of lawmakers in crafting deal so. It's kind of a lot of factors that are coming together. That suggest certainly not on every issue but on matters of spending may be infrastructure may be some some policy not the big stuff but around the edges that this could be kind of adorable coalition that can put enough votes together and enough pressure on their leaders to to get stuff. Done you glass half full kind of person here okay. I'll you know all right. So i'll bring in the downer than i'll bring in the half empty which is okay. I see what you're saying but at the same time we know that we are headed into an election year and twenty twenty two is going to be a hard fought battle for control of congress as you pointed out house and senate both very narrowly divided control of both are on the line that at some point pretty quickly on the politics of trying to win a political fight in two thousand twenty two are going to overcome this moment of bipartisanship in getting stuff done in in congress. I suppose that i i think There is some mutual political interests for democrats and republicans in trying to accomplish a few things ahead of twenty twenty two when several incumbent republicans are going to be running in purple or bluish states gonna want to show some accomplishments when house republicans are going to want to show that they're a governing party. So again i think i think infrastructure is a real possibility. The president-elect biden has made clear that that's a top priority for him. He views that as a way not just to address backlog of need to invest in roads and bridges in internet and things like that but as a way to try and stimulate the economy to As we continue to buckle under the corona virus crisis. I think that's one potential issue. Prescription drug pricing could be another Because there's a lot of political upside for both both parties. You know but i agree. I think you can see a scenario where where pretty quickly A lot oath political energy goes into confirming a biden cabinet. There's a lot of fights around that and the goodwill quickly fades. And i think as hopefully vaccines were distributed in. The country begins to come out of is corona virus crisis We may see a little less will to be spending big chunks of money and be working across the aisle on on innovative solutions to get the country through it. Can you talk a little bit about at first they democratic caucus and the role that members like alexandria. Ocasio cortez and those on the left. You think will play in giving either pelosi votes. She needs or preventing pelosi from doing certain things the reality of having very narrow majorities as you say. Is you know if asean the squad or other progressives lock arms even if it's just five or six of them that could be enough votes to tank or completely alter a bill in the same thing is true among the monitors the new democrats at the blue dogs as they're known on that wing of the party. So i think the result is that what we're going to see from democrats contrary to what i think. Almost anybody in the party would of hoped going into the election is they're going to have to focus on either bipartisan issues. If they want to get him to law or heavily come consensus issue for democrats in there. Are you know a good number of those greater gun. Controls some updates to obamacare to prescription drug pricing. The equality act things like that which i think can still get through but so much of this dynamic is going to keep going back to depend on what happens in a few days in georgia. I think if if do in the senate. I think progressives are going to be a lot louder and more aggressive about using the majority's they have right now to do big things. Democrats want to do if if republicans keep the house. I think they're going to have to be realistic. That they're not gonna get much done and focus their energy on where they have in the last couple of years. Which isn't the kind of the political realm of trying to push the party further to the left. It's somewhat interesting because even though pelosi has a smaller majority than she did say after the two thousand election. She doesn't have as many sort of conservative. That's have to worry about right zone. Issue like guns or climate which were much more problematic for her more conservative members members in parts of the country that are now in republican hands. Now the party seems more unified. At least i think there are significant differences in terms of style aggressiveness That are gonna come to the fore and you know. Republicans have their own questions that they're going to Be facing on this front too. I mean obviously a lot will depend on how prominent figure President trump remains within the party on the national stage. Probably pretty prominent one. And how those other you know rep slightly younger. Republicans aspirations lead them to behave around him whether they decide to take a more conciliatory approach or that that presents kind of hugo listrik hardline tactics or the way to go could it could also determine what what happens in congress these two years nick. Faldo's thank you so much for coming on and helping us walk through this. We'll be talking a lot more about it. Obviously in the weeks and months to come thank you and happy new year. Happy new year nick. Fan faldo's.