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"steve krakauer" Discussed on The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
"America stay tuned. Gary the indispensable is always fabulous. The show continues. Welcome back, America, Hugo at live inside of the Noah's ark that is California, where The Rain keeps coming down. Olivia beavers is inside the beltway, not in the middle of The Rain on the West Coast. Good morning, Olivia, how are you? Good morning, you all good. How are you? I'm great. Did you partake in the China select committee hearings last night? I watched it. It was three hours long, and I thought it was really informative. So I kind of look at some of these hearings in two different parts. One is that they first start out and you get sort of the top line topics and conversation. I was able to get my hand on pottinger pottinger's opening remarks before he delivered them. And he did such a wonderful job sort of dipping into the psyche of why China, why does CCP is working the way it is to try to counteract the U.S., he goes through the different myths. He goes through, you know, what they're saying in private versus what they're actually trying to project as Gallagher called it charm offensive, more publicly. And I thought it was a very compelling witness. Well, Matt pottinger is probably the most credentialed China hand in the United States. Mary kissel is close. There are some other ones who are around like miles. You at the napolis who was in the State Department as well. But among those who can talk, pottinger is probably the best. I'm not surprised. General McMaster also very effective last night. What I wanted to get to is they bipartisan nature of that chairman Gallagher was just on the show, praising Seth Moulton, praising Torres placing other members of the committee. Are you surprised by that, Olivia beavers? You know, I'm not surprised, but only because the committee was passed pretty overwhelmingly by Democrats and Republicans. And from talking to Gallagher, as soon as he was named chairman of his committee, he has been so adamant that this is going to be bipartisan that's going to be bipartisan. He didn't want to make decisions really until Hawking Jeffreys picked who was going to be his democratic counterpoint and it's clear that he's working he pointed to it earlier, but pulling in a progressive like Richie Torres to go talk about these Chinese unauthorized police stations at the New York, that is a really kind of interesting side by side of a Republican conservative and a progressive and they're both coming together and taking this issue and sharing the podium together. You know, I don't know much about congressman Tories. What should I know about him? Yeah, he's not in the squad, but he is progressive on the left. But it seems like he's someone who is willing to come together and work with everyone as it relates to China. And if you're willing to come and step across the aisle, that shows that a good sign of progress that this is a national security interest that will pull bipartisan support. Now, what's interesting to me, Olivia, as a media observer, is when a Ritchie Torres shoots up in the public understanding or awareness, the hearing is working. That's what happens when hearings work is that people make reputations. And do you see that happening last night? You know, I think the first one's too hard to tell, but I think that you saw a good job. There was a very sort of serious nature. It really didn't from what I was watching dip into the partisan politics nature. There was some mention of January 6th. There was some mention of some Democrats seem to start grilling a little bit into pottinger and HR McMaster from their Trump ties. But I also saw wording from Gallagher saying, you know, previous administration trying to show that these are people who are experts in their own right and they're not necessarily just tied to the president that they served in the past. And I think that that proved really interesting and one moment that I actually think it was actually very beneficial for them. I don't know if you saw the protesters standing up. No, I didn't. They were able to protesters. They had signs, saying, you know, that basically your third accusing them basically a bigotry. And one of the one of the witnesses was able to say, you would not be able to do that in China. That is a key difference here. You would have either been present or even worse, and that is a huge example of what's different from here versus their government. Now I live the last question. The biggest audience for that hearing was probably in the CCP offices in China. They are watching every minute of this and they're taking names and are they happier on happy this morning with what happened last night in Beijing. I think that the community did a really good job. I think that they're going to be more worried if the community can continue to work in this bipartisan fashion, dig deeper into what they're doing with weapons, how they're buying up farmland, which is what Ashley hinson brought up if they talk about industrial kind of efforts to control that process and trade. I think that they're going to be able to share this with the American public more widely and that's what will be more troublesome for China is, as you said earlier, being able to show that there are national security threat in addition to sort of this trade partner and economic sort of relationship that we form with them. You need to have them seen in both worlds. Representative Henson will be joining me next hour, Olivia beavers. It is all you good to see you on a Wednesday morning. Thank you for being up early and joining me have a great day. Go over and follow Olivia at Olivia beavers on Twitter and you can follow all of her work at Politico dot com. Follow me to our number three American, not only do we have Oklahoma senator James lankford, we have Olivia beavers. We have Steve kroc, author of uncovered splash bestseller, rocketing up as people take a look at a fairly comprehensive review of the nation's news media and all that ails and there's much to be discussed..
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"steve krakauer" Discussed on The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
"Here. Look at my scars, right? And Chris Christie, moving on ABC's this week. You've been on the sidelines. You've been commentating. I've been actually doing this fight. And I think that I know your Republican primary book. It will gravitate to yourself who's actually been trying to do things. As opposed to someone who's been perfectly good at the job of commentating on IBC news, but I don't think Chris Christie's window of opportunity probably was in 2012. And by 2016, it was kind of closed. And it's not looking to be better for 2024. Well, you know, I don't make predictions. I'm in Switzerland because there are so many weird things going on in the American electorate. But I did ask him about the GOP's ultimate dilemma, and everyone recognized that the NBC poll confirmed it in a strategist. Remember you used to have in this direction you talked to when you wanted to know something, you referred to them in a different way. Oh, Obi-Wan Kenobi. I'll be one. And Obi-Wan has gone from the morning jolt. I think he's mad at you, but I have, I have an Obi-Wan. I call him mister X like George kennan. And my mister X told me that his polling shows between 25 and 30% are only Trump voters, not always Trump, not sometimes Trump only Trump voters. They leave if he's not the nominee and that the same percentage, roughly 25 to 30% are never Trump voters. That puts the GOP in a world of hurt, doesn't it? Yeah. Putting the Trump era behind us was never going to be easy. I do think there are things that certain figures in the field and say to the only Trump crowd that in a head to head match come September October early November 2024. They say to him, do you really want four more years of Joe Biden or for that matter by Kamala Harris by that point? Or do you want blue things in a more right word direction? I think some of the people will, you know, okay, all right, I'm going to vote. I'll vote for the Republican nominee. I'm not sure. I think a chunk of them well. I think it's pretty clear that we've already seen what happens when you throw Donald Trump off against Joe Biden. What happens when you have two doddering old men yelling at each other at the debate stage? This is not general workout well for Republicans. But it's a real. And it's going to be a case you have to make to say, and I'm sure it is exceptionally likely that if Trump is not the nominee, that he was much as possible to throw a fit. I don't put a lot of stock into the independent who's going to run as an independent argument. So many states have sore loser. They once you've run as a nominee of a major party. And you don't get the nominated. You can not run as an investor. You don't think that's really the option. I think there's no Trump running around spending all of 2024 talking about how terrible standards or whoever else it is is how they can do the job. They're not strong enough on this stuff. Yeah, I can be a real problem Republicans, but some of the sudden very strong things about it back in 2016. Jim Gary, follow him on Twitter at Jim Garrett as he follows us covering that Chris Christie transcript. You'll be amazed at some of the things he said. You do not. By the way, about Fox News as well. He'd rather be dominions lawyers than Murdoch's lawyers right now. To ten seconds, James, what do you think about that? Well, we all knew Sidney Powell was a nut job. Some of us were willing to say so. And the Fox was like, that's fascinating. They tell me more about the Venezuelan hackers. In fact, how significant is their signs of bamboo in those in the ballots in Arizona? But if we all knew what Chris Christie said is, there are no damages if we all knew. And he's probably right. Jim Gary, of national view and The Washington Post, not of the swamp. He's outside the beltway. He's in the middle of the country, not. Thank you, Jim. I'll be right back..
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"steve krakauer" Discussed on The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
"I can excuse his 'cause the obscure, but everyone knows the rosenbergs were guilty, right? Oh, I suspect you can find some lefty out there who would say it's not there. I know because I Googled it. And I know you talked about this in the program. And I may have mistaken that other with the other parts of the Hugh Hewitt midterm exam. Midterm exam. The pre race exam involves the triad Alger hits and the looming tower. But Jim, what about Rama Swami? Chris Christie was on inveighing against the idea that he should run for president. I don't think it will matter to most people. I think that's accurate. Look, when you're 37 years old, you haven't been elected anything before. You look very young, you know, I don't doubt that he's a terrific guy. And good conservative principles. I like the work he's done with remote incorporate. I don't mean to throw tomatoes at the guy. But the presidency is not an entry level job. And I think if you do an interview like this, then you don't know some issues that are kind of basic on national security defense. It's probably a time to go and say, no, you're a bright guy. You can do other things with your life. You don't have to be president. The house needs to be conservatively Republicans. The Senate needs to be state legislatures need to consider. There's a lot of things that you could do. This looks like somebody who wanted to get more attention for some other race somewhere else. And I don't, there are some people who speculate that other candidates in the rigs are really running to be the running mate or to be some other sadness position or something. It's not the first time that has happened. I don't like it. I'd like to say, hey, can we have a primary where it's just the people who genuinely want to be president? If we haven't done that since Michelle bachmann is actually Alan keyes in 2000. And I knew Alan at Harvard and he should never have been on the stage, but the RNC didn't have the hooks by in 2000. I think they will this time. We'll see. So Jim, I talked to Christie as a prosecutor about the former president's legal peril in New York and Georgia and in Jack Smith land at the special counsel. He thinks it's significant, and he thinks if you're under indictment, you're insane to run. That's his quote insane to run for president if you're under indictment. Do you think that will deter the former president and what is Chris Christie trying to do? No, how quickly can I say no to that question and insanity? Yeah, that's never stopped Donald Trump before. Why would it start stopping him now? Well, Chris Christie, what do you think his mission is in this race? Because he's getting it. He gave us a poker tell in the way that he answered. He definitely got to run. For several years now. I don't want to disclose anything that was mentioned off the record. But you can see Chris Christie doing on the record interviews in which he will talk at great length and in a very entertaining way about what's wrong with Ron DeSantis. What's wrong with Nikki Hale? Every other potential candidate. Chris Christie will talk to you all day about how wrong they are. And the end of his conversation. Well, the only person who's left who is terrible in the mind of Chris Christie. Chris Christie. And so he'll be like, well, I guess I just have to run because look, I like Chris Christie. Thank him for what he did to try to salvage my original home state of New Jersey from a terrible state. But I don't expect any wrongs and up on that stage. This answer is going to say, look, I was fighting against the pandemic quarantine spotting against woke stuff in the children and inappropriate Ron DeSantis can say I have been in the fight these last few years.
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"steve krakauer" Discussed on The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
"While we wait, I'm going to go play for you a clip by Glenn youngkin yesterday. Actually, two days ago, when Maria bartiromo talking about what we face in China, cut number 32. It Jake is able to well it's unbelievable to me that we've had such a soft response. They obviously have a plan. And if meticulous, they had that balloon fly over our installations, our military installations, nuclear installations, and you're telling me about let's cut that up, consider a Langford is back. Senator, I'm sorry about that. We were talking about CRT and DEI and ESG impacting race relations in the United States. And you're about to summarize that impact. Yeah, I'm just saying that when Americans are told what they have to do, they don't respond well to it for most Americans. Let's encourage people to be able to get to the table. If we're going to get all the issues on the table, let's get our feet under the same table. And my encouragement is have a meal together continue to be able to develop those relationships. It's okay to talk about race. We should talk about race because we're a country that is proud of our conversation that we're having about race. But when you start putting requirements on corporations, requirements on people, different teaching at school that try to teach one person should be guilty because of the color of their skin and the history of their race from a hundred years ago. That changes the dynamic significantly on it. So let's encourage race relations to encourage real friendships not just being cordial to each other and continue to be able to engage. But when government steps in and tries to compel, that does not work well with Americans. No, senator, I want to talk to you about the Senate as an institution here. People may not know that I did everything I could to beat John fetterman and get Doctor Oz elect it didn't work. John fetterman won. Now he's sick. And I do not appreciate people online mocking John fetterman because he's sick. What does the Senate do for a colleague like that? How does it when the Senate so closely divided is anything changed when one of your members is going to be gone for a while? It really does in many ways. Obviously, senator Schumer has to be able to make a decision on what bills he's going to bring up in the process that he's going to have he has full control of what Bill is actually come to the floor and the timing of those and so that dynamic is there. But I agree with you a decision made about anyone in the hospital or anyone who's seeking medical care or for mental health. Those things need to be respected for that individual on it, whether it is in a school or whether it's in a neighborhood or a church or a corporation or the United States Senate. We respect the rights of individuals to be able to seek care and to be able to get that. You have been in the House in the center for a while now, senator Langford, is it getting worse and more difficult to talk across the aisle or is it actually still the same, but the news media exaggerates are extrapolates from isolated incidents. So I would tell you as strange as it sounds, the last two or three months, I feel like it's getting better. Maybe this is just my positive optimism on this, but I feel like there's more conversation that's actually happening across the aisle that doesn't mean we agree on everything, but we can actually sit down and be able to have dialog and to be able to talk through some difficult issues that we need to do. That is the beginning point of saying, okay, we've got to be able to get some issues resolved. Things like death, debt is not a flippant thing that only affects one party it affects every single American. When we have a rise in debt, let's sit down and have some serious conversation. How are we going to address this? What's the long-term effect it's going to have for Americans. But I would tell you there's more conversation that I've taken in in the last couple of months in the Senate than I've seen in a very long time. I mean, it's a positive sign..
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"steve krakauer" Discussed on The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
"Now, congresswoman hinson, it was a three hour hearing, which is okay for an opening hearing. And it was bipartisan in the extreme. I don't recall a hearing, actually. That bipartisan you've been there a few years. What do you think? Is that a high water mark for getting along with the other side and advancement of a common goal? I believe so. I think this is a committee that's not operating as Republicans or Democrats, but truly as Americans. And I think it was very clear last night with the witness testimony and with what our members were asking on both sides of the aisle, people are serious about solving these challenges that we have with China. It's very clear that the CCP's ultimate goal is to realize that Chinese dream by 2049, that's not lost on our committee that that's the 100th anniversary, obviously, big deal for China. And we need to make sure that we're fighting for the American Dream, not the Chinese dream. The Chinese dream is an American nightmare. So we are focused on working together to achieve those policy solutions and I have no doubt we'll have our differences and we'll have some of those fights in our committee, but I think what you'll see come out of our committee are legitimate policy ideas for our authorizing committees that they can pass and that we can actually implement things to make sure we are decoupling in the right way. Things to make sure we're funding our military and our defense as HR McMaster talked a lot about last night. Things to make sure we're empowering the American workforce as Scott Paul talked about last night. So we have a lot of work to do going ahead. I think that was, again, just the start of some of the interesting fact finding that we are going to do as a committee over the next few months. Let's hone in on the ag land issue, congresswoman, because it's so near and dear to an iowan like yourself. I don't think a lot of Americans understand what the CCP is doing with agricultural land. Will you enlighten them? Sure. Well, it's plain and simple. They're being aggressive and have really ramped up their purchases of American farmland. And I think it's twofold. It's number one, they want to, I believe, ultimately undermine our food security. And number two, they want to buy these pieces of land, in strategic locations around the country. We saw the path set the spy balloons took as they floated across our country over our strategic sites. They are doing the exact same thing with these purchases of farmland. For instance, when I was down at the border, probably almost two years ago now, laughlin Air Force Base, not too far away there, and we had a chance to stop in. And the Chinese have bought a huge plot of land, not far from there, where we train our air force pilots. That to me seems like blatant espionage. And I think that's exactly the intent of the party. At this point, they are not even hiding some of their aggressions and their brazen provocations toward the United States. You know, congresswoman, it's very hard to get people to follow a storyline as complicated as this, but it's a many tentacled monster we're dealing with here. The Chinese Communist Party was running a pseudo police station in Manhattan. And congressman Gallagher and congressman Tories went up there and did that. But I didn't know that. And I'm supposed to follow this stuff pretty closely, and I know patents are a friend and I didn't know that they did that. Well, and that's where Hugh I'm hopeful that everyone's watching this, right? And I think the Chinese spy balloon really elevated the conversation for Americans about the risk that the CCP does pose to us economically and in terms of our military as well. And I think those obviously stories were told last night in a very compelling way, not only with those videos, which I think used she's own words about his intentions, but also just showcasing the human rights abuses and, you know, you talk about the domination. They called it, you know, basically a digital prison that these Chinese people are in. The ultimate victims here, if not Americans, for the price we've paid, are the Chinese people from the oppression that their government continues to pour down on them every single day..
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"steve krakauer" Discussed on The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
"All of those, I thought were very good contribution. So this is important for the audience to understand. This is not a Republican Democrat deal. And I can't stress enough. It's like the Catholic committee on organized crime. You didn't know the Republicans where you didn't know the Democrats already didn't care. They focused on the threat. So the more that you talk up Democrats, I know that Republicans don't like that sometime, but we have one adversary, not two, right? We're not fighting the Democrats in the context of this hearing. We're trying to alert the American people. And how do you feel that is going? Last night I thought it went great. I think if you're the CCP watching, you're probably scared because you see that level of agreement among Democrats and Republicans in terms of recognizing that the TCP is our foremost threat. There are meaningful differences between the parties. I'm not trying to walk over that and we're going to have debates and some heated debates at times, but we just want to make sure that we're bringing the whole country along when it comes to standing up for our sovereignty. Excellent start last night, chairman Gallagher, technologically challenged on your own, but nevertheless a great guest. Thank you for joining me this morning. Hey everybody, it's Twain Patterson, the Hugh Hewitt show. The last time we talked, I was about three weeks into a 50 pound weight loss project with my PhD weight loss dot com. I had lost 16 pounds after three weeks. Today, I've lost 50 pounds in just 12 weeks and have been able to keep it off for the last two months, and you can too. My PhD weight loss dot com has all the information or 8 6 four 6 four four 1900. Welcome back, America, Iowa has a great young congresswoman in Ashley hinson. We overlook the fact that she's a UFC Trojan. Last night, she was on the select committee on China Communist Party chaired by congressman Gallagher. She joins me now. Good morning, congresswoman. How are you? Good morning to you. It's great to be with you and doing great. Caffeinated. You know, I have not had a chance yet to thank UFC for knocking themselves out of the final four and allowing the Ohio State buckeyes to go. So I was very pleased. I'm glad to see you and you recovered from that shock, but now you've got your hopes up again, right? Yeah, well, we lost to Utah twice. We're not going to let that happen again. All right. I think we're definitely looking forward to next year. Congresswoman, tell us about last night. Why you wanted to be on the select committee on the Chinese Communist Party and your points last night about ag land. Yeah, well, I think when you look at Iowa's relevance in this conversation, Iowa has had its intellectual property stolen. Our workers have suffered as a result of these aggressions and this long appeasement with the Communist Party of China. It's high time we stop appeasing China and high time we start competing with China. And that's why I wanted to be on this committee. And I think what folks saw last night on that hearing was that we have an ideological a technological and economic and a military competition with China. I think our witnesses did a great job of telling that story last night and our committee laid out this truly extensive threat that the CCP really poses to Americans. And then we showed, again, why are previous policy towards China has failed explored how we got to this point, but also I think started touching on the tip of the iceberg were how we're going to present some policy solutions that blueprint for how we move our country forward..
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"steve krakauer" Discussed on The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
"Case. And that was one of the messages we tried to convey in the hearing last night. No, I did notice a packed room. I believe she spanned carried it. There were good kleps kudos to your comms team, by the way, because they put out exactly what you need to do, which is to put out clips that people can play. Where is hearing two going to be? And what do you do differently to keep up interest in outlining the threat that the Chinese communist posed to the United States? Well, I think we don't just do hearings. Actually, I thought the event we did in New York in Manhattan in front of this illicit GCP police station on Saturday was exactly the type of thing you can do beyond the traditional congressional hearing. It was carried live in some cases on Fox and other networks. So we're trying to think through, can you do stuff outside of the halls of Congress that's unique that's interesting that really drives attention to the CCP threat. So it may be the case that our next major event is not even a congressional hearing. We're experimenting with the format. I think you saw, we tried to incorporate video last night that was interesting. We had members that used audiovisual aids in their questioning. So when we do hearings, we're going to do more of that. Perhaps we try and condense the time a little bit from three hours to an hour and a half. Not quite sure how we accomplished that. But we're going to try to get creative because we really do want to engage the American people in a discussion about why this matters and the standard sort of international hearing is not going to get that job done. The threat analysis about TikTok was very riveting. I am curious if you're ever going to do a first strike threat hearing because I don't act mister Rana Swami this week about the triad. He's your age, you didn't know what it was. And that's okay. You can learn. You can still run for president. But he's a half billionaire and he's a very successful entrepreneur and he graduated from Harvard like you got out of Princeton and you would expect people to know the nuclear triad, but I'm beginning to think that an entire generation of Americans have no strategic reserve when it comes to mutual assured destruction in the triad stuff. And that you'll never get people to believe that China's other than an economic actor. Do you think you can? I think we can. I think genomic master talked about the military threat in the context of a confrontation over Taiwan. Last night, we really want to hone in on those military threats. And one of the messages I have for my colleagues and one of my biggest takeaways for my recent trip to Taiwan is that in any confrontation over Taiwan, even if it were a lower level blockade scenario. The American homeland would be a target. You have to assume that our critical infrastructure is nothing else will be targeted with cyber weapons. If we got into a larger war, obviously they would try and attack our aerial and seaports of debarkation. So this would not be confined to the Taiwan strait. This would quickly escalate and we need to harden our defenses at home. So we do want to hone in on that. We want to also own in on the fact that the economic and financial aspects of a conflict over Taiwan are never incorporated into our workings. And as you see in Ukraine, you can't just be making up a sanctions regime on the fly. It doesn't work, it creates chaos and it doesn't have the punitive effect that sanctions are intended to have against an adversary..
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"steve krakauer" Discussed on The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
"This is why I need staff, apparently. If I had a producer, we could fix this, but I don't. So we're going to struggle through, I'm going to tell you is to talk slowly. I like the pottinger testimony a lot. Did your Democrat Friends pay attention to him on TikTok? I hope so. That's why I asked him in my first question about TikTok. And he really hammer on what I think is most important. We're not talking about TikTok ability to buy on you or exfiltrate data. The real threat is allowing ByteDance by Chinese Communist Party to control flows of information into the United States into the United States. If we allow them to be dominant, then we will have seated the information domain. I fear that the 5 eyes countries are closest this allies are very close to a point of maximum danger here. A point of no return, we simply can't allow the CCP Herman newsweek it. If they had that power, they'll have the ability to influence elections, have the ability to commit controllers of national identity, about pottinger on point in how we talked about that. And the first time it was strong testimony, but your connection isn't. So we're going to call you on your cell phone and talk to you as an old school, your technology failure is kind of like the packers. You're like, about as old and as decrepit as Aaron Rodgers is right now, falling apart, but your phone should be ringing. Every week. Yeah, you're fun should be ringing, and we're going to turn off, we're going to cut you off and put you on radio only. Look at him running. I mean, we had that on video. I hope we didn't wake up team Gallagher. I'll be in so much trouble if I woke up team Gallagher. But last night was a pretty remarkable. Now there you are. You're back. Now tell us what you meant by an existential crisis last night. And this is our partners testimony, I think, was particularly valuable. If you ignore the charm offensive, ignore their messaging to global elites in Davos and focus instead on what the CCP says to itself and to the Chinese people, it's clear that they have designs on world domination and want to render us the humiliated and wholly irrelevant on the world stage. And that is why I think the stakes are existential because they're not just trying to perfect their model of orwellian techno totalitarian control within their borders, increasingly they're trying to export that model around the world. And look, we had an event before the hearing with a bunch of Hong Kong activists. These are friends of people that two years ago, 47 people were jailed in Hong Kong for having the temerity to organize an unofficial election. Hong Kong eviscerated the idea of one country two systems. And when I was in Taiwan, they were pointing to Hong Kong as evidence that this threat from the CGP is spreading beyond Beijing's border. So we have to wake up to the fact that this is threatening our own sovereignty here at home. The Chinese spy balloon is perfect evidence as to why that's the.
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"And I think that continues to this day unfortunately. This is a great place to end. Selena is my weekly guest. My first guest of the week on every Monday. Because she comes from Pittsburgh and we have fun with the injured report and all that, but she's also outside of the beltway outside of this ecosystem that impacts Selena was banished. There are two kinds of Republicans who show up on television, missionaries and refugees. We're down to the refugees. They're no longer in the Republican Party. They've been forced out. They're on the sidelines or on MSNBC. They're banning from CNN and Mary Catherine Hammond is another example. I think lick may change that, but Selena zito is the perfect case study. As is your colleague Megan. We don't see Megan. And she's clearly one of the most important commentators on the current scene. What is happened there? What is wrong with our editorial product? Well, I mean, Megan, it's a choice. You know, she's very happy to be on the outside now. We're doing, you know, we love the audience that we've built as an independent outlet and through serious exam. So that's that answer. But no, I agree with you. Chris select, I think the mandate there to insert news back in, even despite ratings at ratings shouldn't be the driving factor. We need to establish the trust. I think you need to get to back to the place where someone says, I want to turn on the news and they turn on CNN. That completely lost the ability for CNN to be associated that way during the Zucker era sadly because it was so polarized and so partisan and so ideological. So I don't see that happening, but I do think that what Selena gets and what I hope I get at also is it's not ideological. There is a real, it doesn't matter. There are people throughout this country who lean left or Democrats who are independents who don't trust the media who are not swayed because they don't buy into the nonsense of the yelling at each other, the cable news, punditry, and they don't believe that there is this existential threat happening. They don't believe that. They don't believe that we're even as a divided as being portrayed in the corporate media and the acela corridor. So I don't think that you get to a better place as a corporate press unless you can get you can get the individuals back into the country to understand the mood and what's actually happening in the average person, ideological ideology aside. It doesn't matter what matters is about getting to the truth and getting to treating people with respect from both parties. Get out of the bubble. If there's anything that Steve Crocker has done and uncovered and he's done a lot of good stuff and uncovered, it's get out of the bubble and I am very appreciative of your work here, Steve. I'm sure it's going to be a New York Times Best Seller continued, come back, keep talking to us and when they offer you that CNN contract, don't say no. Thanks so much. I love to talk anytime. Thank you, Steve. Welcome back, America two Q at last night. The most significant congressional hearing in probably decades was held in the House of Representatives chairman Mike Gallagher is chairman of the select committee on engagement with the Chinese Communist Party. He joins me this way. I'm not even going to be a hard time because I want to focus on the hearing chairman. That went very well. I played some clips. What did you think of it? I thought it was a great effort. We had a lot of room was packed and our members were there and I think on both sides, very serious questions the whole time and you know, obviously this just happened to hours ago. So the dust is still settling, but I wonder if when the dust setting, the big takeaway will be that fourth hour you had the Democrats and Republicans just talking and unseen terms about that pose as by the Chinese Communist Party and just how this threat right here at home to our own sovereignty. I also think there's a lot of ideas that kiss that came out in a question and answer with the witness that I think we can build upon in terms of a policy and legislative agenda going forward. I also thought that miss Tong yeast testimony in particular were powerful just because she was there. And chairman, you are getting a blowback from your computer. You know, I've left it up to you to organize your technology this morning from Washington D.C. and you clearly have failed that test. So obviously your staff was on top of it last night because it was beautifully produced and it was wonderfully argued in the articulate quotes that got posted I were able to play, but now you're just a mask because you did it yourself, right? I'm alone here. I'm a luddite. I don't know if I fixed it by turning down the volume at all. As you can still have, I have yet to work out this morning, do so..
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"steve krakauer" Discussed on The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
"Steve kroc, because uncovered doesn't leave me very optimistic. No, and I do try in the last chapter to lay out some potential solutions. The union comment is really about the idea that the general staffer in these newsrooms is not going to listen to their bosses. That ship has sailed. Will they listen to their colleagues potentially? And that's one avenue of doing it. I don't have high hopes. You know, frankly, I think the corporate press along with really the elite establishment in this country today is it has so much disdain for the average American and just wants to divide us in sort of warring tribes. They kind of benefit by that and from a media perspective, they benefit from that because that's where their viewers are. That's where the lowest hanging fruit is. Just grab onto the ones that you know are the closest to you because the business model is changing. Just try to just grasp on as we hold on for dear life. That's a problem. And that doesn't inspire a lot of confidence. I think that what we need is a country that is united in a way that doesn't need the establishment geek keepers. And I do hope that by laying all the cards on the table by saying, here's the truth about these stories that we saw, a hundred Biden Jeffrey Epstein lab Lee, COVID, all of these stories over the last few years. Let's get on the same page together because then we really don't need that. We can go to independent press. We can go to places that we trust. Let me go to the ESPN discussion you had with bob Lee. Because it's just, you know, I used to watch SportsCenter and then I just got tired of politics. I'm a sports guy. I want to read about the browns, the tribe, the guardians. I want to read about the Cavaliers and the Ohio State buckeyes. I do not need politics on ESPN. Bob way, longtime ESPN contributor. You interviewed him. He did his own deep dive into individual contributions made by ESPN staff members, 82%, not of the total money, but of the number of contributions, 82% went to Democrats 18% went to Republicans. That would be it's higher in regular newsrooms, by the way, if there are allowed to contribute. When did sports journalism become political? And that's what's so interesting about it. And I do really appreciate bob. You know, who's a sports journalist Hall of Famer and outside the lines host, really speaking so candidly about this, giving what happened internally at these meetings during his last few years there over the last couple of years. I think that the truth is that the general person who goes to ESPN probably just like the rest of the media who ends up in the northeast and D.C. in New York and in ESPN's case in Connecticut, leans left and largely will contribute to Democrats. But then the guardrails came off after Donald Trump got elected. Then all of a sudden, it was okay to speak freely and the bosses that would hold strong, suspend people for tweeting their political perspective or to weighing in completely non sports ways in total ideological ways, they would clamp down on that. Well, suddenly they didn't anymore. Why? Because of the cultural incentives changed because the business model was slipping. And there's real fear. There was panic and in that panic, in that void, all of these bad mistakes get made. And all of these bad decisions get made. And it starts going down the line of alienating large portions of your base. So yeah, I spent a lot of time in chapter 9 on ESPN because yes, I think it's sort of a little bit outside of the more corporate media structure, but it is really telling. It's just another one, another case study like The New York Times or CNN and others where we've seen this slip and trying to document why this happened, how this happened is really important for the audience to understand what we're facing. I would be wrong if I got out of this without talking about the Trump addiction. Because you detail what happened when Jeff Zucker. And I like Jeff. And I like everyone at CNN and Chris is going to do a good job turning it around and bringing it back to the center. But everybody got addicted to Trump. And I still say it's the best interview in America because people listen and he always makes news because he says whatever is top of mind..
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Go to the Places You Trust
"Do you see it changing? Steve kroc, because uncovered doesn't leave me very optimistic. No, and I do try in the last chapter to lay out some potential solutions. The union comment is really about the idea that the general staffer in these newsrooms is not going to listen to their bosses. That ship has sailed. Will they listen to their colleagues potentially? And that's one avenue of doing it. I don't have high hopes. You know, frankly, I think the corporate press along with really the elite establishment in this country today is it has so much disdain for the average American and just wants to divide us in sort of warring tribes. They kind of benefit by that and from a media perspective, they benefit from that because that's where their viewers are. That's where the lowest hanging fruit is. Just grab onto the ones that you know are the closest to you because the business model is changing. Just try to just grasp on as we hold on for dear life. That's a problem. And that doesn't inspire a lot of confidence. I think that what we need is a country that is united in a way that doesn't need the establishment geek keepers. And I do hope that by laying all the cards on the table by saying, here's the truth about these stories that we saw, a hundred Biden Jeffrey Epstein lab Lee, COVID, all of these stories over the last few years. Let's get on the same page together because then we really don't need that. We can go to independent press. We can go to places that we trust.
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The Media and Confirmation Bias
"You cite a lot of problems. Geographic bias, you talk about lack of introspection, coaching us with power. My favorite part is the laziness and incompetence versus conspiracy theory. And I want to illustrate it this way. How many interviews have you done thus far about uncovered? Probably 20, 25 or so. Of the 20 to 25, how many people have read the book? There have been definitely a couple. I will say, it's very clear there's been a couple. But no, certainly not a very large portion, I would say. I put this down to laziness and why have an author on unless you're willing to read the book and engage with the text and come prepared to ask questions and to read about Eric wemple talking about this thing or the darkness and in the guilt and the purges. I just don't think news people are very curious anymore. They've lost that I'm not going to go talk to Steve Crocker unless I've read uncovered because that will be a terrible conversation. Don't you find that frustrating? I do. And I have to say, I really do appreciate you tweeting out your live tweeting your reading of it over the weekend and this week I really do appreciate that. No, I think it's great. The lack of curiosity. I'm going to talk about incompetence and laziness. Those are bad, but journalists of all occupations should be the most curious people. And I would actually go a step further. I think they should be nosy. I think you should be almost disliked. You should be like a Nat. You should be annoying to the people in power. And yet so often now it's the opposite. And for a lot of factors, I think Twitter is one of them. The incentive structure of Twitter is you want to be like, do you want to get more followers and more likes? And that can lead to contracts and book deals. And so I get that there's this push pull right now. But the job of a journalist is to be curious. The job of a journalist is to be the most curious person in the room and want to find out every secret and every detail to the detriment of your own sort of personal standing. Your social standing. The cozier with power that journalists get that live in New York and D.C. almost entirely when it comes to these corporate media jobs. That's a real problem. And it honestly took me moving to Dallas and moving outside of it, and frankly, you know, stepping back over these last couple of years and writing this to kind of try to see the big picture and say, you know, what really went wrong because something serious went wrong over the last few years. That was not there, even though there was valid criticism of the press from for decades, something major changed in the last few years.
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"steve krakauer" Discussed on The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
"Uncovered covers new ground. And it does so. There's only one anonymous source that I would call from the book, Steve, which is the NBC News executive who wants to blast Fox and go on the record with you to do so. I think you only quoted one anonymous source. I've got to tell you getting bob ley to talk to you this way. Getting all these people to talk to Tucker, it's not going to help them in the dominion news case. I was talking with Chris Christie earlier today about the dominion news case. You obviously went to press before that happened. Does it change your opinion of anything since those text messages came out? No, not necessarily. I mean, I think that there is it's an interesting story. I think anytime you can read the text messages of people in power, it gets juicy. And so I think what's interesting about the dominion case is that frankly, in the original filing, 400 pages by dominion, 200 or so pages where Lou Dobbs, tweets, and Instagram posts at Facebook posts, Lou Dobbs, more than perhaps anyone was the driving force of the dominion lawsuit and of the kraken from Sidney Powell and Lou Dobbs was the guy who was fired immediately after the lawsuit was put out. So I think that's an interesting note. But I think it does also reveal that it was a really perilous time in November 2020. And I don't get too much into that in the book, but I do think that there was a real moment. I wrote about in my newsletter that I kind of described this blood in the water where Trump is spinning these lies and we see in the text messages, people like Tucker talking about the fact that Trump is spewing this and is hurting the people that are both fans of Trump and fans of Fox News
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What We Learned From the Latest Fox News-Dominion Case Filing
"Uncovered covers new ground. And it does so. There's only one anonymous source that I would call from the book, Steve, which is the NBC News executive who wants to blast Fox and go on the record with you to do so. I think you only quoted one anonymous source. I've got to tell you getting bob ley to talk to you this way. Getting all these people to talk to Tucker, it's not going to help them in the dominion news case. I was talking with Chris Christie earlier today about the dominion news case. You obviously went to press before that happened. Does it change your opinion of anything since those text messages came out? No, not necessarily. I mean, I think that there is it's an interesting story. I think anytime you can read the text messages of people in power, it gets juicy. And so I think what's interesting about the dominion case is that frankly, in the original filing, 400 pages by dominion, 200 or so pages where Lou Dobbs, tweets, and Instagram posts at Facebook posts, Lou Dobbs, more than perhaps anyone was the driving force of the dominion lawsuit and of the kraken from Sidney Powell and Lou Dobbs was the guy who was fired immediately after the lawsuit was put out. So I think that's an interesting note. But I think it does also reveal that it was a really perilous time in November 2020. And I don't get too much into that in the book, but I do think that there was a real moment. I wrote about in my newsletter that I kind of described this blood in the water where Trump is spinning these lies and we see in the text messages, people like Tucker talking about the fact that Trump is spewing this and is hurting the people that are both fans of Trump and fans of Fox News
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"The share it with a friend, deal. Even if that friend is yourself. Your McDonald's your rules. Live your best morning with Bo breakfast sandwiches only on the McDonald's app. Now by one bacon egg and cheese mcgriddles or sausage egg and cheese mcgriddles and get a second one free. Ballot for item of equal or lesser value limited time only at participating McDonald's, ballad one per day excludes one two $3 menu, visit McDonald's app for details download and registration required. Welcome back, America, who Hewitt from studio west this morning. Longtime journalist Steve krakauer is right now the executive producer of the wonderful megyn Kelly show, but he is also the author of a brand new bestseller uncovered, which I have here in my hand, how the media got cozy with power, abandoned the principles and lost the people. Steve, welcome to the U.S. show. It's great to have you on. Great to speak with you. Thanks for watching. I just tweeted out the link and I've been tweeting out various excerpts of the book as I read it. And I find it's really different from the usual standard beat up on the media stuff that we get from the conservative media. And I written one of those books myself like 20 years ago. And it's an old tune unless you play some new notes and you play some new notes by doing these deep dive interviews that are largely reproduced intact. How is the reaction to the book among your media colleagues, Steve? I've been pleasantly surprised. I have to say, I think, yes, as you mentioned, and when I set out to write this book, and I've been covering the media off and on really for a dozen or so years, I started as a media reporter. But more recently, I've been very critical of the press through a newsletter that I write called fourth watch. But when I set to do the book, I wanted to really do a deep dive, as you mentioned. And I'm always critical of the press. People who write books or people who just write articles and everyone is behind the anonymous veil, right? And everyone is just a TV insider, dishing dirt on someone. So every person I talk to and it did take a lot of convincing 26 people on the record, people from Fox News, people from The New York Times, MSNBC, and beyond who really put their own self on the line. I mean, today is day and age, it does take a level of bravery to put your name to things, especially when you're being critical of your own colleagues in the press. So I'm glad to see that the reaction has been good as well. I think that I'm hoping it starts a conversation. I don't have all the answers. But I do think we need to press to get better. We need a strong press. But at the same time, if the press doesn't listen, if the rest doesn't adjust to some of the ideas that I have, I'd rather the public understand what happened. The truth about what really happened over these last 5 to 7 years. So it very least we could all get on the same page together as a country. Uncovered covers new ground. And it does so. There's only one anonymous source that I would call from the book, Steve, which is the NBC News executive who wants to blast Fox and go on the record with you to do so. I think you only quoted one anonymous source. I've got to tell you getting bob ley to talk to you this.
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Steve Krakauer Has the Receipts on All That Ails the “Acela Media”
"The link and I've been tweeting out various excerpts of the book as I read it. And I find it's really different from the usual standard beat up on the media stuff that we get from the conservative media. And I written one of those books myself like 20 years ago. And it's an old tune unless you play some new notes and you play some new notes by doing these deep dive interviews that are largely reproduced intact. How is the reaction to the book among your media colleagues, Steve? I've been pleasantly surprised. I have to say, I think, yes, as you mentioned, and when I set out to write this book, and I've been covering the media off and on really for a dozen or so years, I started as a media reporter. But more recently, I've been very critical of the press through a newsletter that I write called fourth watch. But when I set to do the book, I wanted to really do a deep dive, as you mentioned. And I'm always critical of the press. People who write books or people who just write articles and everyone is behind the anonymous veil, right? And everyone is just a TV insider, dishing dirt on someone. So every person I talk to and it did take a lot of convincing 26 people on the record, people from Fox News, people from The New York Times, MSNBC, and beyond who really put their own self on the line. I mean, today is day and age, it does take a level of bravery to put your name to things, especially when you're being critical of your own colleagues in the press. So I'm glad to see that the reaction has been good as well. I think that I'm hoping it starts a conversation. I don't have all the answers. But I do think we need to press to get better. We need a strong press. But at the same time, if the press doesn't listen, if the rest doesn't adjust to some of the ideas that I have, I'd rather the public understand what happened. The truth about what really happened over these last 5 to 7 years. So it very least we could all get on the same page together as a country. Uncovered
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"Just looking at him. I don't see why he couldn't. The guy looks phenomenal. This is perfect cast hater. Do you have a clip of him. Hating on the podcast. No but i've been trying to get a hold of him now. Did forget about it now. It's now gone to his head interview. He says i. I hate all podcasts. I will never do podcast. That's what is manager said nelson. You never told me that. Yeah i'd probably didn't but as irksome enough that i'm telling you now all right well and and that was it. Three by three. By three by three outstanding report outstanding report so mice avert. Oh kit arrived. A lot of people are really worried about that about the whole process from zeverta. Kits dot com. Which was super sketchy to know. Which was super sketchy to review avert. Oh kit dot com you. Can you can order them per per two or four and what they are. Okay is avert okay. It is the Popularized in india. And probably because it saves people's lives is a bubble liens bubble pack and it has everything you need the minute you get the couve and it even has day by day. Fourteen days there's Fourteen days of zinc there. There's three days of ivermectin. And there's i think six days of doc cicilline and you know this is my stepdaughter. Got covert after after being vaccinated center. The past two days later he's up and walking around of course so we ordered twenty now the way it works on this website is really sketchy which is of course. Because you're sending contraband so that the minute you complete your order then it says oh. Hold on a second. We'll give you a pay pal to us. And i got one in the mail and it popped up and it has instructions very explicit. Hey you know you're asking for base. I'm paraphrasing here. We're going to be sending you stuff. That may have some issues if you put medication anywhere in the pay pal note. Don't don't do that say it's a garments and You know there's a million things you could say why they are bae suggested garments. Which i think is dom because there's definitely taxation import duties on garments but okay but i didn't put anything in the message and it was even even crazier it was pay pal dot. Nfl which you know so. They're running it through the netherlands. I think it was two hundred dollars for or hundred ninety dollars for twenty whatever. It was too expensive. But that's what it is. And and i didn't know what happened and other people like hey man. This thing's real sketchy i don't trust it. Of course you don't trust. But two days ago i had to sign for from india. Was of course. Means they drops it directly from their came in a nice little little cuba a cardboard box. Complete that had to get the Thermal lance to open it completely tied up like no one would even want to look at it and had him in there so it perfect and they look legit so that worked in now giving away to friends wherever we can give different. Who need them brand a brand. No no i don't have that twenty dollars less far less than that. And you're off the list so you know it's really it's hard. It's hard to give them away to to your got to so i got to cut short. I'm megan kelly. Yeah what did you think. Well i didn't like the way i saw it. Well let me let me tell you how it went. And then then we can get to that too. I have to say off the bat. This megan kelly production is just like the tonight show. Not that i've ever been on tonight. Show but that level of call sheets and producers and questions and topics and missing the point and an well. it's no longer podcast. That's why and an entire setup of how to make your camera look good and have the right lighting and and please dial in at twelve thirty used half hour before supposed to go on. Yeah okay so. I'll do it. And and i mean and twelve thirty so sharon osbourne's only been talking for an hour for half an hour in the booker. She knowing the breakout lounge. It's very sophisticated. This the zoom stuff. They can put you in the green room and breakout lounge all kinds of different switching capabilities. And she says. I'm really sorry. I said i really. You're going to bump me for sharon osborne. She says no. No no no but what we have to long whether they had. I not just massive course would it be and so i I was was kind of cool. I just gave me the feed. So i could see the feed Even when she went to commercial break and she only lets you know how people are on camera and then when the camera goes off their facial expression changes the muscles. Relax let's say a different person very slight with her almost nothing. She's it's her on camera off. Camera appear to be almost naked or big megan. Megan megan because megan would do Do a host read of some. You sell commercial which you could just see. He's looking right in the coun- like you hate this don't you. And then she's complaining about okay. Sharon we'll be right back you know. We have a hard break. And i know people are saying why do you have heartbreaks. Serious and bart spray. Yeah and that and that really ruins it really ruins the whole flow the whole vibe. Just this too bad. But i know how it goes. I know exactly how this went this a very expensive production There must be ten people on it so you know and that's the daily show. It's a lot of work and sirius. Xm pays well if they really want something. Because i remember do you remember. We had the podcasting radio show on sirius. Xm did i know you. I remember. I think we would say you guys bailed from just about the time i got there right so. Pw fenton. there's a name for you. He he would He would put all these different pieces of podcast together. Guy was working for days and days just to get these things done and the night track them and voice overs it was. I think it was a three hour show or something way long. It was bits of podcast with me doing wrap arounds. But at the time i didn't take money personally because it went into the company but i think it was three hundred and fifty thousand dollars for a for a year. And that's just me playing some damn snippets of podcasts reasonable. So you know if they if they want megan kelly. I'm got to think they're in insects. Six figures hope. Yeah otherwise you can't pull it off. So i understand i understand but So i decided right had topics like that they sent me. Oh talk about. Mtv your life and your career what do you think of matthew mcconaughey. Hey what do you think a bitcoin. All these different things. I put in there I think the executive producer listens to the show. I have a feeling steve cow or whatever. His name is. Thanks steve krakauer. He's he has his own podcast. And so i figured him. There's no way in because they said well you got twenty twenty five minutes which is kinda true. What had true to about. I'm not gonna go twenty five minutes. We can do no agenda value for value. I could talk twice as long for that. So i decided just.
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"steve krakauer" Discussed on No Agenda
"Just looking at him. I don't see why he couldn't. The guy looks phenomenal. This is perfect cast hater. Do you have a clip of him. Hating on the podcast. No but i've been trying to get a hold of him now. Did forget about it now. It's now gone to his head interview. He says i. I hate all podcasts. I will never do podcast. That's what is manager said nelson. You never told me that. Yeah i probably didn't. But as irksome enough that i'm telling you now all right well and that was it. Three by three by three by three outstanding report outstanding report So mice avert. Oh kit arrived. A lot of people are really worried about that about the whole process from zeverta. Kits dot com. Which was super sketchy. Which was super sketchy to review avert. Oh kit dot com you. Can you can order them per per two or four and what they are. Okay is avert okay. It is the Popularized in india. And probably because it saves people's lives is a bubble liens bubble pack and it has everything you need the minute you get the couve and it even has day by day. Fourteen days there's Fourteen days of zinc there. There's three days of ivermectin. And there's i think six days of doc cicilline and you know this is my stepdaughter. Got covert after after being vaccinated center. The past two days later he's up and walking around of course so we ordered twenty now the way it works on this website is really sketchy which is of course. Because you're sending contraband so that the minute you complete your order then it says oh. Hold on a second. We'll give you a pay pal to us. And i got one in the mail and it popped up and it has instructions very explicit. Hey you know you're asking for base. I'm paraphrasing here. We're going to be sending you stuff. That may have some issues if you put medication anywhere in the pay pal note. Don't don't do that say it's a garments and You know there's a million things you could say why they are bae suggested garments. Which i think is dom because there's definitely taxation import duties on garments but okay but i didn't put anything in the message and it was even even crazier it was pay pal dot. Nfl which you know so. They're running it through the netherlands. I think it was two hundred dollars for or one hundred ninety dollars for twenty whatever. It was too expensive. But that's what it is. And and i didn't know what happened and other people like hey man. This thing's real sketchy i don't trust it. Of course you don't trust. But two days ago i had to sign for from india. Was of course. Means they drops it directly from their came in a nice little little cuba a cardboard box. Complete that had to get the Thermal lance to open it completely tied up like no one would even want to look at it and had him in there so it was perfect and they look legit so that worked in now giving away to friends wherever we can give different. Who need them brand a brand. No no i don't have that twenty dollars less far less than that. And you're off the list so you know it's really it's hard. It's hard to give them away to frank to your got to so i got to cut short. I'm megan kelly. Yeah what did you think. Well i didn't like the way i saw it. Well let me let me tell you how it went. And then then we can get to that so i have to say off the bat. This megan kelly production is just like the tonight show. Not that i've ever been on tonight. Show but that level of call sheets and producers and questions and topics and missing the point and an well. it's no longer podcast. That's why and an entire setup of how to make your camera look good and have the right lighting and and please dial in at twelve thirty used half hour before supposed to go on. Yeah okay so. I'll do it. And and i mean and twelve thirty so sharon osbourne's only been talking for an hour for half an hour in the booker. She knowing the breakout lounge. It's very sophisticated. This the zoom stuff. They can put you in the green room and breakout lounge all kinds of different switching capabilities. And she says. I'm really sorry. I said i really. You're going to bump me for sharon. Osborne says no. No no no but what we have long whether they had. I not just massive course would it be and so i I was was kind of cool. I just gave me the feed. So i could see the feed Even when she went to commercial break and she only lets you know how people are on camera and then when the camera goes off their facial expression changes the muscles. Relax let's say a different person very slight with her almost nothing. She's it's her on camera off. Camera appear to be almost naked or big at megan. Megan megan because megan would do Do a host read of some. You sell commercial which you could just see. He's looking right in the coun- like you hate this don't you. And then she's complaining about okay. Sharon we'll be right back you know. We have a hard break. And i know people are saying why do you have heartbreaks. Serious and bart spray. Yeah and that and that really ruins it really ruins the whole flow the whole vibe. Just this too bad. But i know how it goes. I know exactly how this went this a very expensive production There must be ten people on it so you know and that's the daily show. It's a lot of work and sirius. Xm pays well. If they really want something is i remember. Do you remember. We had the podcasting radio show on sirius. Xm did i know you. I remember it's a little bit for your time. I think we would say you guys have bailed from just about the time i got there right so. Pw fenton. there's a name for you. He he would He would put all these different pieces of podcast together. Guy was working for days and days just to get these things done and the night track them and voice overs it was. I think it was a three hour show or something way long. It was bits of podcast with me doing wrap arounds. But at the time i didn't take money personally because it went into the company but i think it was three hundred and fifty thousand dollars for a for a year. And that's just me playing some damn snippets of podcasts reasonable. So you know if they if they want megan kelly. I'm got to think they're in insects. Six figures hope. Yeah otherwise you can't pull it off. So i understand i understand but So i decided right had topics like that they sent me. Oh talk about. Mtv your life and your career what do you think of matthew mcconaughey. Hey what do you think a bitcoin. All these different things. I put in there I think the executive producer listens to the show. I have a feeling steve cow or whatever. His name is. Thanks steve krakauer. He's he has his own podcast. And so i figured him. There's no way in because they said well you got twenty twenty five minutes which is kinda true. What had true to about. I'm not gonna go twenty five minutes. We can do no agenda value for value. I could talk twice as long for that. So i decided just.
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"Working pretty good. And what is your worst fear if he doesn't It's gonna get bad this summer. We're gonna find him dead around here instead of. Luckily I found those alive. The story the borders getting shockingly little coverage right? Does it fit together with it all? With the Israel getting shockingly little coverage? For instance, a Steve Krakauer who's been with Jesus internal, practically every media Organization. You can think of various times, but he tweeted out cable news primetime 8 to 11. Is the Marquis Time slot for news. The most important story in the world right now is what's happening in and around Israel. How many times did Israel get mentioned last night in prime time on Fox News? He got mentioned nine times on CNN zero. On MSNBC zero. Wow. Authentic, he says. Now, I don't know that I well, I'm pretty sure I don't agree that the Israelis stories the most important story in the world right now. It was when I was a kid. Also, why wouldn't it be now? Why is it not the most important when I was there as a kid that was on the news? Every dang night When my dad would turn on the news? There's always something about what's going on in Israel. You know what? Okay, let's talk about that. Then I want to circle back to the border. But I think part of it is that when we were younger, younger adults, younger kids, there was a belief that there could be peace brought to the Middle East. Yasser Arafat would sit down with Menachem Bagan, and they would actually come to a peace deal that would stick. Famously. Arafat rejected it at the last second with shock and horror of the negotiators, and I just don't think there's a perception that it's it's gonna be fixed. Yeah, I know people that were. I know A lot of people were legit, wanted that problem fixed But also, you know, unrest in the Middle East meant higher oil prices and higher gas prices. And that doesn't mean that anymore because we are self supporting in that way. That's an excellent palm and you know that's part of it. But are we just so inwardly focused on You know our domestic politics that the border and Israel stuff like that just doesn't just doesn't cut it anymore. I don't know what politics is about personalities now, not issues. I think that's also part of it. By the way I mentioned earlier. I think there's an unspoken truth behind the Israeli situation. At this point. You mentioned the settlements in the Reston and they're tough to take and seem like a bad move. If you're moving towards some sort of peace deal. I think the Israeli people are at least two large extent of politicians have decided there's never going to be a meaningful peace deal with these people. We're just going to grow. We're going to expand. We're going to swallow them. Expansion is their only option seems to be the case anyway. Meanwhile, back in the border Anybody got a nylon string guitar player, Little Mexican sounding refer anything. Meanwhile, back at the border Apprehensions in April, 178,622 in one month highest one month's total in two decades. Wow and disaster. Hardly any attention in the news. Armstrong and Getty Hey, parents. Have you ever wondered how to talk to your kids about the crazy.
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"Right. Final thoughts. Steve Krakauer's with us and our friend Joe Contra with us. We're both friends. Um Joe will give you the 45 seconds for you. 45 4. Steve. Where does this end All of this? Cancel culture Silence. Destroy anybody that dares to disagree with you because it's getting worse than ever. It sure doesn't at this point because the Steve's point you actually have journalists who benefits the most from having free speech. And the First Amendment actually calling on individuals to be shut down, and even whole networks such as Fox News you have Margaret Sullivan Washington Post. She's a media columnist like me, literally sharing media matters, advertiser boycotts with her followers and saying, contact these companies and tell them to take Fox News off the air. That's not journalism anymore. That's activism and I'll leave it with this number. Axios to the poll last week. And this is stunning 56% of Americans, so it's not just through every publicans. Conservatives agree with the statement that quote journalists reporters are purposely trying to mislead people by saying they know are false or gross exaggerations. So in other words touches so we got it wrong. It's there purposely, and intentionally misleading their viewers in their readers in order to push an agenda, and that is dangerous, Shawn Final thought, Steve Yeah, if Juice glass half empty, Let me be glad Glass half full here. I think that they're two stories from the last week that give me a minor bit of encouragement. Lauren Wolfe and editor at The New York Times, is a freelance editor was fired because she tweeted that she got chills when she saw the Air Force or the other plane landing with Joe Klein and becoming president. Obviously, I'm very clear show of bias, but no different than a lot of other people have CNN or The New York Times do. She got essentially canceled because of that, And then we'll Wilkinson, a columnist, also from the left tweeted that he thought community could come by my hens getting lynched. He also got fired from his permanent job. Now these are bad things that I don't support. This is really what they say. And they're not clearly not objectivity that we're seeing there. But that is that is a show of the Thai turning, and it's the kind of people that have care about free speech that goes out and support them and their friends on the left. Who seemed to say, Oh, you know that this is not cancel culture. Well, now they've lost their jobs when they start to see who supports them. That's that's going to be how this thing changes that's going toe. Hopefully start to change the minds to say, Look, this is going too far. And we need to see a band together to stop this from the left and the right. Right. Thank you. Appreciate it. Steve Krakauer and Joe Contrail. When we come back, we're gonna hit the phones. Final half hour. Speaking of Josh Holly Hannity nine, Eastern tonight, Quick Break your calls next straight ahead. Afternoon. I'm Jim fairly new concerns about co bid and teachers details coming up first traffic and weather together. This report is sponsored by the Ad council. New Problem on the Interstate brake lights around the junction this afternoon because of a crash on 2059 South bound just before Arkadelphia Road traffic backed up to the junction as a result. 2059 no problems heading home when I have 65. It's a good ride on 4 59 to Lady as usual, crowded, heading down for how we won 19 a lot of extra traffic on Pencil Valley Parkway, but no rex or stalls your next reported 4 50. I'm Captain Carlin, the traffic center on NewsRadio. 1055. W E. R C. There's no guidebook to adopting a teen, but that's okay because you don't have to know it all to be a perfect parent. Go to adopt us.
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"Friend Joe Contra with us. We're both friends. Um Joe will give you the 45 seconds for you. 45 4. Steve. Where does this end All of this? Cancel culture Silence. Destroy anybody that dares to disagree with you because it's getting worse than ever Not sure does end at this point because the Steve's point you actually have journalists. Who benefits the most from having free speech and the First Amendment actually calling on individuals to be shut down, and even whole networks such as Fox News you have Margaret Sullivan Washington Post. She's a media columnist like me, literally sharing media matters, advertiser boycotts with her followers and saying, contact these companies and tell them to take Fox News off the air. That's not journalism anymore. That's activism, and I'll leave it with this number Axios to the poll last week, and this is stunning 56% of Americans, so it's not just through of Republicans. Relatives agree with the statement that quote journalists reporters are purposely trying to mislead people by saying they know are false or gross exaggerations. So in other words, not just what we got it wrong. It's the purposely and intentionally misleading their viewers in their readers in order to push an agenda, and that is dangerous, Shawn Little thought, Steve. Yeah, if Joe's Glass half empty let me be glad Glass half full here. I think that they're two stories from the last week that give me a minor bit of encouragement. Lauren Wolfe and editor of The New York Times, is a freelance editor was fired because she tweeted that she got chills when she saw the Air Force or the other plane landing with Joe Klein and becoming president obviously very clear show of bias, but no different than a lot of other people. Is CNN or The New York Times do. She got essentially canceled because of that? And then we'll Wilkinson, a columnist, also from the left tweeted that he thought community could come right, Mike Pence getting lynched. He also got fired from his permanent job. Now these air, bad things that I don't support. This is really what they say. And they're not clearly not objectivity that we're seeing there. But that is that that is a show of the Thai turning, and it's the kind of people that have care about free speech that goes out and support them and their friends on the left. Who seemed to say, Oh, you know that this is not cancel culture well, now they've lost their jobs when they start to see who supports them. That's that's going to be how this thing changes that's going toe, hopefully start to change the minds to say, Look, this is going too far and we need to see a band again. There to stop this from the left and the right. All right. Thank you. Appreciate it. Steve Krakauer and Joe Contra. When we come back, we're gonna hit the phones. Final half hour. Speaking of Josh Holly Hannity nine Eastern tonight, Quick break your calls next straight ahead. Taking a look at KSFO traffic Trouble in.