36 Burst results for "Two Terms"
AP News Radio
US Rep. Santos files paperwork for possible reelection bid
"New York representative George Santos, who faces calls to resign an ongoing investigations as indicated his attempt to run again. I Norman hall. Representative George Santos has filed papers with the federal election commission indicating he'll seek reelection, the FEC filing does not necessarily mean that Santos will seek a second term, but it does clear the way for him to continue raising money that could be used for future legal bills. He faces ethics and criminal investigations, donated funds could also be used to repay more than $700,000 that the Republican lawmaker claims to have loaned his campaign despite financial problems. Santos has admitted to lying about having Jewish ancestry, a Wall Street background, college degrees, and a history is a star volleyball player, Norman hall, Washington
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Fresh update on "two terms" discussed on America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
"These four horrible radical left Democrat investigations of your all time favorite president, me. Is just a continuation of the most disgusting witch hunt in the history of our country. It's gone on forever with Russia, Russia, Russia, and Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine, and the Mueller hoax. It's an absolute disgrace what's going on. They even spied on my campaign and remember this with all of the work that they did on Mueller, no collusion. That's what the answer was was all no collusion. Whether it's the Mar-a-Lago raid or the unselect committee hoax, the perfect Georgia phone call who was absolutely perfect. Or the stormy horse faced Daniels, extortion plot, they're all sick and it's fake news. Our enemies are desperate to stop us because they know that we are the only ones who can stop them and they know it very strongly and they're looking at the polls where not me, but we are up by so much. They can't even believe it. We won twice and now we've got to win a third time. They know that we can defeat them. They know that we will defeat them, but they're not coming after me. They're coming after you. I'm just standing in their way, and I always will stand in their way. Thank you very much. He's absolutely right. The news may be about him. But really it's about you. Greetings, they're Friends. I'm Sebastian gorka and this is America first. It seems perhaps to you. As it does to me, that we are living in an alternate universe. We're a man who received 74 million votes. In the most powerful nation in the world that was founded on the principle of individual liberty based upon the fact we are made in the image of our creator. That that man, two years after receiving 74 million votes. Will be arrested and cuffed. And fingerprinted. By a local prosecutor, by an individual, who has given a $1 million by a philanthropist to broke the bank of England. Who has recently stated how much he personally hates president Trump. That Soros prosecutor using a civil agreement from 2016, and the testimony of a convicted felon, Michael Cohen. Is trying to generate to create a fake felony charge. With one purpose and one purpose alone. To negate that man's campaign to run again for the presidency. If this were not America, you would say that it's just been under republic. It's par for the course its police state tactics. Why? Because individual in question isn't merely a former president. We change the U.S. Constitution after World War II to make it so that anybody who rises to the chief executive can only serve two terms in office. Two, four year terms. President Trump, apparently, lost his reelection bid. Apparently, a corrupt senile old man who could not physically campaign across the nation received more votes than president Trump who received more votes than any incumbent president in U.S. history. We are supposed to believe that Joe Biden, a man who has been in politics at that time for 47 years, received more votes than the first black president. As a result of that, putative result that a ledged victory on behalf of Biden, president Trump has only served one term in office. According to the U.S. Constitution, he can run again, and is running again, and may serve a second non consecutive term. As such, to use verbiage that we don't usually use in the American system, but is used elsewhere, the current judicial system, law enforcement in America, is being used to politically neutralize the leader of the opposition. Because that's what president Trump is. It is a strange set of affairs. I give it to you. That he is the Republican leader of the opposition, despite the fact that the Republican party or at least the establishment machinery of the Republican Party still detests him and doesn't want to see him back in office. From rona Romney mcdaniel to Mitch McConnell and on down. This is not to cast aspersions on the America first wing of the party, which is stronger, which is in ascendance, and which apparently has managed to bring Kevin McCarthy over to their side. The Republican Party isn't for Donald Trump, the America first element is, but nevertheless, he is the former president and he has declared a campaign. As such, every single poll of any merit indicates he is the FrontRunner by up to 40 percentage points against the next person in line who is Ron DeSantis. That makes him the titular leader of the opposition who is running to be president again..
AP News Radio
China's Xi gains unprecedented third term as president - CNBC
"China's Xi Jinping has been given another term as president. I'm Ben Thomas with the latest, the ceremonial national People's Congress awarded Xi, his third 5 year term with a vote of 2952 to zero. The outcome was a foregone conclusion for a leader who has sidelined potential challengers and filled the top ranks of the Communist Party with his supporters since taking power in 2012. In October, she broke with tradition and had himself named to a third 5 year term as party leader, the presidency had a two term limit, but that was deleted from the Chinese constitution earlier. All of it, seen as an indication Xi Jinping plans to stay in power for life. I'm
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
Nikki Haley Answers the "Roger Mudd" Question
"The first question is the roger roger muds famous question. Why do you want to be president? I don't want to wait on anyone else to say that. I look at where we are in the country and I see that we're $31 trillion in debt and we are spending like drunken sailors and we need to put Washington, D.C. on a diet. I see our kids have fallen so far back in education. We don't know how we're going to catch them back up and we've got to focus on that next generation. I see the fact that we've got crime in our streets. We've got open borders that our minds are being closed from woke ideology and I see a foreign policy that's in shambles. And, you know, I was a two term governor who took a failed double unemployment double digit unemployment state and I turned it into an economic powerhouse and I was an ambassador at the UN that didn't deal with one country. I dealt with a 192, and I took the kick me sign off of our backs. And I want to get America to a place where she's strong and proud again. And I want to do that for our kids.
AP News Radio
Chicago Mayor Lightfoot ousted; Vallas, Johnson in runoff
"Chicago voters of ousted mayor Lori Lightfoot after one term. I Norman hall. Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot says being elected was the honor of a lifetime, but she's been denied a second term by voters, lightfoot, the first black woman and first openly gay person to lead the city, won her first term in 2019 after promising to end decades of corruption and backroom dealing at city hall, but upon its blame lightfoot for an increase in crime and criticize her as being a divisive, overly contentious leader. Paul valles and Brandon Johnson will meet in the April 4th runoff, valles is a former school CEO and is backed by the police union. Johnson is a Cook County commissioner endorsed by the Chicago teachers union. I Norman hall
AP News Radio
How Chicago elects a mayor, and why a winner may take weeks
"Chicago was holding an election today for mayor, but it will likely take weeks and a runoff election before a winner is declared. 9 candidates are competing for a chance to be Chicago's next mayor. That includes current mayor Lori Lightfoot seeking her second term to win the office outright a candidate needs to receive more than 50% of the vote. That's unlikely with such a large field, so the race is expected to go to an April 4th runoff between the top two vote getters. The election is officially nonpartisan and has not considered or called a primary, though all the candidates call themselves Democrats. In addition to lightfoot candidates are U.S. rep Jesus Chewy Garcia, former school CEO Paul valles, Cook County commissioner Brandon Johnson, businessman Willie Wilson, state rep cam Buckner, activist Jamal Greene and city council members Sophia king and roderick Sawyer. I'm Julie Walker
AP News Radio
Jill Biden gives the clearest indication yet that her husband will likely run again
"First Lady Jill Biden says her husband is ready to run for a second term. While there hasn't been an official announcement First Lady Jill Biden tells the AP, it's Joe Biden's intention to seek reelection. He says he's not done. He's not finished what he started. And that's what's important. The First Lady who took time out of her visit to Africa says all that's left is a time and a place for the announcement. Pretty much. 8 President Biden have said an announcement is likely to come in April after
AP News Radio
Doctor says Biden's 'vigorous' as he readies for 2024 run
"Biden's doctor says he's vigorous as he readies for a 2024 presidential run. I'm Lisa dwyer. Despite testing positive twice last year for coronavirus, president Joe Biden has no long-term symptoms and has been declared healthy, vigorous, and fit to handle his White House responsibilities. That's according to his routine medical checkup. The results are being keenly watched as the oldest president in U.S. history makes plans for an expected reelection campaign. Many people, including Democrats, have expressed reservations about Biden seeking a second term in 2024, citing his age as a big concern. I'm Lisa dwyer
ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
Biden's State of the Union Address Sounded Like a Re-Election Campaign
"Lot to unravel. I will tell you that was not a State of the Union address. That was a reelection campaign. That's what that was last night. So a pretty clear to me that Biden is going to run for a second term whether or not the Democrats want him to. That's not the issue anymore. This is whether or not the First Lady misses doctor First Lady Joe Biden wants her husband to run again because she still wants to be the First Lady of these great United States. So that's what we saw laid out there. Kamala Harris looked like she was in a hostage video. Sitting behind Joe Biden and at times her eyes bugging out by some of the things coming out of that man's mouth. And word around Washington is the sign language interpreter threw in the towel about a minute into the address. They're like, I'm done here. I don't know what to do. This is it. We're done here. I don't know what the guy's saying. I don't think anybody did.
AP News Radio
Biden 2024? Most Democrats say no thank you: AP-NORC poll
"A new poll finds many Democrats are saying no thank you to another four years of President Biden, a majority of Democrats now think one term is plenty for Joe Biden, despite his insistence that he plans to seek reelection in 2024. That's according to a new poll from The Associated Press, norc center for public affairs research. It shows just 37% of Democrats say they want Biden to seek a second term. Down from 52% in the weeks before the midterm elections, follow up interviews with poll respondents suggest the 80 year old's age is an issue. Biden is already the oldest president in U.S. history at the State of the Union address on Tuesday, Biden has an opportunity to confront doubts about his competence to govern. Jennifer King, Washington
The Dan Bongino Show
Susie Moore: More Questions Than Answers in the Biden Administration
"I think this speaks to sort of the larger theme of today's whole broadcast as I've been talking on this show one of the things I've been saying is look around you Do things feel like they're okay Do they feel like they're right No everything feels like it's in chaos And we know this just from working in a business together When you have solid leadership everything is top down so then people are more stable the conversations are more stable the flow is more organic It's just an easier work environment when you have solid leadership at the top not necessarily that that person is like micromanaging but there is a sense of comfort that good leadership gives you And right now to me it's very obvious that we don't have any leadership actually in this country and that the government seems split that one hand doesn't always know what the other hand is doing and it's creating this sort of chaos that is manifesting itself throughout every other aspect of society whether you're talking about at the ballot box or at the grocery store I think you're exactly right You want to know who's scaring the ship and you want to know that whoever it is has competence and knows what they're doing And we don't have we have more questions than answers on both counts there It's certainly very difficult to buy into and assume that Joe Biden himself is very much of any of this Just based on his current status in the kind of ongoing issues that he seems to be having And then you know you don't know who all is pulling the strings behind the scenes And we know we've known for a long time that there was bad stuff involving the bidens and certainly have in some respects kind of lost hope that there would be any accounting of that in any accountability for it But now there does seem to be a shift and to me just reads like okay the people that don't want Biden to try and run for a second term are putting screws to everything
The Dan Bongino Show
Susie Moore: The Media Agenda Behind Biden Classified Documents
"And that's interesting I mean we're not in the business of totally connecting the dots for you There are some liability issues but it is interesting to consider that there are some foreign issues that the Biden administration or before that he became the Biden administration the bidens wanted to keep I'll say safe And so took them But that whole the whole idea of what's going on right now sissy with this being compared to what they did to Trump suddenly the media is really interested in classified documents for the first day that this story broke There were all kinds of excuses flying across the media right The talking points had gone out It was like oh this is not the same as the Trump thing But now the media narrative and the media mood seems to have shifted a little bit I played a clip from Ed O'Keefe from CBS sort of having a contentious exchange with KJ P over this and the media now seems to be looking to hold Biden accountable for these documents and I'm not I'm not exactly convinced that it's an honest situation that's going on here What's your opinion about the media point of view of this situation Yeah I think I share your instincts on this The first thing that I asked as soon as this story broke early in the week was okay why is this coming out now Somebody has an agenda here Somebody decided made a determination that it was beneficial to get this information in this story out there It didn't just happen Is it people that are opposed to Biden running for a second term putting that agenda into play or is this something where it's being orchestrated by the Biden White House to try and get ahead of it And sort of mute the impact of it that I don't know But there's no question in my mind that there is some as you put it a river like an undercurrent here This isn't just fact finding and journalism It's something there's something else going on here
The Dan Bongino Show
Amber Athey: The Benefits of Having a Dynamic Political Party
"After Ronald Reagan won two terms and George H. W. Bush won the presidency there was a major schism in the Democrat party about pulling the Democrats back from the center and away from the left which of course pissed off progressives which resulted in the squad who took years to wrench the party back from the centrists and over to the left My point in this whole thing is he schisms are natural They happen in both parties and we shouldn't brace them if we're moving in a better direction And I found it weird because baker acknowledges in the piece that the rules changes are probably a pretty good thing but he objects to the schism acting like this is like sui generis to Republicans and it's not Both parties go through this I think that's exactly right I mean it requires a short memory to say that I think recently the Democrats have been very unified and they've managed to do so by painting every political enemy of theirs as someone who was a unique threat to democracy or some of these other hyperboles that they said they throw out But I would much rather have the alternative of a party that is dynamic that is having these important political and ideological debates to make sure that they're on the right side of things And considering how much Trump himself injected into the debate over the future of the Republican Party in 2016 And his supporters and voters and what they stood for this debate has to happen And I'm somewhat regret that it has to be done publicly but if the case is that Kevin McCarthy is thinking he's going to coast into the speaker position and the freedom caucus is going to be on board and they couldn't get whatever concessions they wanted behind closed doors and putting pressure on publicly and getting the support of their constituents Against McCarthy unless he gives them this list of really great concessions in my opinion Then that's what had to be done And the outcome really speaks for itself
Mark Levin
Ro Khanna: Could Republicans Vote for Hakeem Jeffries?
"This is my great concern I'm not saying it's going to happen but if you go down this road you can't be sure what will happen Here's ro Khanna He's a Democrat from Silicon Valley And he was on CNN yesterday Cut to go Well we are going forward There wasn't a single defection in the vote for Hakeem Jeffries Of course a historic vote The plan and an answer 'cause you're good stalinists Let's be honest about that That's why there's never a defection Can't have a defection But anyway go ahead The lead a party in the House of Representatives And we're very optimistic about our leadership Here's the sense if there are 5 6 Republicans want to come across the vote Hakeem speaker we'd be thrilled People have floated this idea well what about a moderate Republican There have to be in my view at least two conditions that are met First they can't hold this country hostage with the debt ceiling or government shutdowns And second they can't have subpoena power to do frivolous investigations against the president Unless they agree to those two terms I don't think a single Democrat is going to vote for any Republican And yet there are Republicans who might agree to that
AP News Radio
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis sworn in for second term
"Ron DeSantis was sworn into a second term as governor of Florida. Desantis sounded like a 2024 presidential candidate talking about the Biden administration's immigration policy. It has recklessly facilitated open borders. On the economy. Federal government has gone on an inflationary spending binge that has left our nation weaker and our citizens poor. Desantis has built a national image as a conservative, blasting woke ideology. We will not allow reality facts and truth to become optional. We will never surrender to the woke mob Florida is where wow goes to die. Democratic House leader fentress Driscoll says this is probably the first Florida governor to give an inaugural speech not speaking to the people of Florida, adding any time to Santos wants to distract from his own failed record, he creates a new fake woke boogeyman to battle. I'm Ed Donahue
TheNewsCrypto
Former Russian President Backs Digital Fiat Currencies Over Fiat
"For p.m. Sunday January 1st, 2023. Former Russian president Bax digital Fiat currencies over Fiat. Russia's interim leader between Vladimir Putin's two terms as president Dmitry Medvedev claims that the bretton Woods monetary system will.
ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
Monica Crowley: God Revealed to Me 50 Years of Deep State Tyranny
"It means we're no longer in a representative republic. We're in a tyranny. You know, one day toward the end of the summer, Todd, I had this like lightning bolt that just came into my brain and it was definitely a hand of God kind of thing. And it just dawned on me that I've been blessed to work for two American presidents. President Nixon, during the last years of his life, and president Trump at the Treasury Department during his administration. And what God revealed to me, which I hadn't thought of or put together before, is that this has been a 50 year arc of deep state tyranny and undermining of the constitution and the will of the people. So the deep state had a direct hand in removing Richard Nixon. Why? Because Nixon was an existential threat to their absolute grip on power. In Nixon's second term, he was going to do what Donald Trump began to do, which is drain the swamp and reform the executive branch, which includes the DoJ and the FBI and IRS, et cetera. So we had to be removed fast forward 50 years, Donald Trump, same thing because he poses the same threat. And in fact, over the last week or so, you can bring the timeline even further back to 1963 because we're getting these documents now that showed that the CIA had a hand in the assassination of JFK. So we are now in this position in this country where we are beginning to realize that, you know, we're out here voting and doing our civic duty and none of it matters because the real powers with the deep state and that is a terrifying proposition to a lot of Americans, but as long past time that we understand the reality of what we're dealing with so we can counter it and fight back.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Martha MacCallum: DOJ Charges Could Motivate the Trump Base
"Martha yesterday on Fox News. For a democratic run Department of Justice to prevent a former Republican president from trying to run for a second term, would really be political dynamite and something that president Trump could exploit all the while. He is running for president again. I'm on his truth social. He hasn't talked about this just yet. But just speak to that real quick before we leave you. Yeah. It's democratic White House. Yeah, democratic White House preventing a former Republican president from running for office. I mean, think about the quote about the Hunter Biden investigation, right? Where there's an FBI agent who says, oh, we don't want to get involved in another election, right? So you've got these conversations happening in spades. All across the backdrop of this, but I think you touched on something important there, John, which is that it also could have the opposite impact for the former president. And that is to fire up his supporters, which are in the range of 35, 37, 36% somewhere, depending on which poll you look at of Republican voters out there, and that could have the absolute opposite effect of what the DoJ or Benny Thompson would like to see here.
Mark Levin
Andrew Breitbart: The Democrat-Media Complex
"An original so many original statements and sayings can be attributed to my dearly departed friend Andrew breitbart who was my mentor and brought me into this crazy world For my second career Andrew breitbart coined the phrase that Democrat media complex It was of course a twist on the phrase military industrial complex where captains of industry and corporations In manufacturing would be in bed with The Pentagon in the military they would spend their money to ensure that politicians were put in place to give big defense contracts and keep a military build up going and then that money would then funnel back to those very same corporations that made the donations for those politicians that they could get rich off of the military build up And of course there's some truth to it It was really coined I think by president Eisenhower If anybody knew anything about the military industrial complex it would have been 5 star general leader of the allied forces in World War II and the president for two terms Dwight Eisenhower And you would hear from the left all the time military industrial complex Oh it's the military and the military industrial complex And so Andrew had such a great way with words and a great way of framing stories for the media and busting narratives in creating his own narratives that he coined the phrase the Democrat media complex And the Democrat media complex basically take the military industrial complex and take it out of the realm of manufacturing and corporate big manufacturing corporations And Republican politicians and The Pentagon and military spending remove that aspect of it but put it instead over into the media information entertainment culture the music industry academia
ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
"two terms" Discussed on ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
"Congressman, I want to get your take on what happened last Tuesday, how could Republicans have changed the outcome? Well, we could have nominated better candidates. We could have done better strategy and most certainly we could have governed a whole lot better than we've been governing. The Republican Party leadership in particular, but to a certain degree our rank and file elected officials have failed miserably on border security on repeal of ObamaCare on deficit and debt, financial responsibility. We're looking in the crosshairs at a $31 trillion debt as you well know. And a lot of conservative voters are getting frustrated that we elect these Republicans who claim they're going to do something and then don't. And that's affecting us. And a lot of our conservative voters are either staying at home or they are voting libertarian or voting in some other manner than we Republicans would prefer. But if we would simply keep our campaign promises, then things would be a whole lot better. Be like Ronald Reagan, he made his commitment and he fulfilled them as best he could under the circumstances he paid. But we've got a lot of Republicans nowadays, particularly in the House and the Senate who portray themselves as one thing to get our conservative votes in a Republican primary. And then once they get into office, it turns out that they represent special interest, not the public interest. The breaking news, Kevin McCarthy wins the GOP nomination to be House speaker, does he deserve that and what about Mitch McConnell does he deserve to be the minority leader for Republicans in the Senate? Well, I know that Kevin McCarthy may have won the Republican nomination. But that's a far cry from being the Speaker of the House. To win the Republican nomination, you need a majority of the vote of Republicans who are voting in the conference meeting to be Speaker of the House, you need 218 and when I hear that 30 some odd Republicans voted against him in the Republican conference, well, he can't afford to lose 30 something people in the House floor. He can lose maybe three, four or 5, depending on whether we end up with two 22 21, two 22, because again, you have to have 218 affirmative votes on the House floor. So usually those disaffected in the GOP conference vote turn around and vote for the Republican nominee on the House floor, but that does not always happen. So we'll have to see how big of a buffer he's got based on the final outcome of all these elections that are still undecided. And Andy Biggs officially threw his name in the hat today as well, so a member of the House freedom caucus. Well, I don't know if he threw his name in the head just in the Republican conference or for the vote on the House floor. If he throws his name into consideration on the House floor, well then it will take multiple votes for Kevin McCarthy to be elected Speaker of the House. If he's going to be, because Andy Biggs has enough sway with enough congressman to siphon off 5, ten, 15, 20 votes, and if Kevin McCarthy loses that many, then he can not get to that magic number of two 18..
ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
"two terms" Discussed on ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
"Let's go to the phones here. Jim and Georgia and what's on your mind, Jim? Hey, Todd. Listen, about these exit polls. I've never been approached. The message has never been approached and I don't see any pictures from any news organization of exit pollers talking to folks leaving the polls. I mean, people want to just get the heck out of it and go about the rest of their lives. So when you talk about and I'm not picking on you, you know, if you talk about the evangelical vote or the Gen Z gen X and you then vote, I can imagine from the actual ballots how they could do some age things and see which way they voted. But I don't even know if that they're supposed to do it that way. So can you explain to me, please? And I'd like to stay online because my radio reception is crappy. While you explain to me where do they get these numbers? Well, these exit moments. Yeah, so there's a group called Edison research. They're based out of New Jersey, and they conduct exit polls for a consortium. So this is not something that's mandated by law. It's just something that all the big networks, I think The Associated Press on, I believe Fox News is a part of this, and they've been doing it since 2003. And it's all random. So again, to your point, there's really they say there's some science here, but I don't think there is because Jim, I don't think I've ever been stopped, but it does give them some indication of what was on the minds of voters when they went to the polls. So I don't see go ahead. Who do they talk to? Well, they talk to voters. What's the mechanism? I've never seen them. I've never seen video. I've never heard of nobody I know has ever said they were exit polls. Sometimes they will do phone surveys. But no, I've never been approached by one either. Well, there you go. But again, I've never been called by a pollster leading up to an election, so maybe I'm not the right type of person they're looking for. And Jim, this is why we try to preach this a lot of this program, you can't buy into the polling data. You just can't do it. But what you can do is if you've got a group like, for example, I'll just use Ralph Reed as an example, and Ralph Reed says Todd. Our analysis that we did and how shows that evangelicals didn't show up, I'm believing that, because they've got, they've got skin in the game. All right, well, I'll get to them, Gen Z, or how did they know about them? Well, because they're asking questions and Jim, you can see the numbers. I mean, the numbers don't lie. You've got gen z'ers coming out and those numbers, and they're able to tell. You know, and look at Arizona state university, only 4%. You just heard the caller from Clark county, Georgia, about UGA. I mean, the numbers don't lie there. Well, we hope not. All right, Jim got to run here. Thanks for the call. This is the Todd stern show. Peloton's best offer of the season is here. Get up to $300 off accessories when you purchase a peloton bike, bike plus or tread. Choose from a variety of accessories, like our cycling shoes, a heart rate monitor, non slip grip dumbbells, and more. If you've been looking for a sign to join peloton, this offer gives you everything you need to get going. This limited time offer ends November 28th. Visit one peloton dot com to learn more. All access membership separate offer starts November 14th and ends November 28th, can not be combined with other offers. The additional terms at one peloton dot com. All right, this breaking news. Kevin McCarthy wins the GOP nomination for speaker in a 188 to 31 vote. That information just being posted on social media about Kyle Becker, former college over at Fox News. Let's go to the patriot mobile newsmaker line honor to have with us from the great state of Alabama, congressman mo Brooks, congressman, I hope you're doing well today. Doing very well. Been serving in Washington, then my tour duty for 12 years. Retiring, headed back home to Huntsville, Alabama, can't wait. Well, it's a great part of the, it's a great part of the state and I've been through north Alabama, a time or two, and I know that you worked your butt off for the good people of Alabama..
ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
"two terms" Discussed on ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
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ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
"two terms" Discussed on ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
"As a matter of fact, according to The New York Times. Out today, the FBI had as many as 8 informants inside the far right Proud Boys. In the months leading up to the storming of the capital, one of those FBI informants was a vice president of the Proud Boys. So I just, I want to step back and ask a question here. So you're the FBI. And you've got, you've got Intel that a bunch of Muslims are going to fly jetliners into the buildings on September 11th. What would you do? What would your FBI informant do at that point? Would the informant allow the attack to happen or would they contact headquarters and say, hey, heads up everybody, they're about to fly some jetliners into the buildings. I would like to think the FBI informant would actually call headquarters and do just that. To try and stop the attack. Isn't that the whole point of infiltrating some of these radical groups? Is that not the point? So if let's just take this at face value here. Let's just say that all this information is correct coming from The New York Times that there were as many as 8, I suspect there were more, and we know from photographs there were a whole lot of FBI agents disguised as Trump supporters in the crowd that day. So if, in fact, the FBI had a vice president of the Proud Boys as one of their informants, why would they have not intervened and stopped the attack from happening. But let's go a step further. The FBI knew the attack was happening because they had informants up to 8 at least, so why at that point did no one pick up the telephone and called Nancy Pelosi or Chucky Schumer or turtle turtle McConnell and say, hey, hey, guys, heads up. We've got word. There's going to be attack on the capitol. You see, I suspect they all knew it. And I suspect that Nancy Pelosi and all the other remember Nancy Pelosi just happened to have a video crew with her on that day, filming the documentary. Is it possible remotely possible ladies and gentlemen? That all of this was a great big setup. Knowing they could pin something very heinous on Donald Trump's shoulders. Is that even remotely possible? And if it's not remotely possible, could someone explain to me? Why the FBI? Knew there was an attack. On the capitol building, and they stood down. And they did nothing. They've got a lot of answering to do here, folks. None of this adds up. And going back to the theory that I posited in the last break, if J 6 didn't happen, if the Russia collusion attacks didn't happen, you've got a very successful president who was incredibly wrong. So when you're thinking about who you're going to support, you need to understand that the image of president Trump. That the mainstream media has been putting forward. May not be accurate. And I suspect it's not accurate. All right, look, we've got to take a break here. We're going back to the phone's 8 four four 747 88 68. That's 8 four four 747. 88 68 weird stuff, ladies and gentlemen..
ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
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"I want you to think back now, I want you to think back. To the early days of 2016, the presidential Republican primary. And during that primary, the all the attacks started and they were focused on Donald Trump. Well, not initially, but as soon as he started gaining ground, and they've really never let up. But I want you to just think about this for a moment. Go back to every single one of the allegations they've made against president Trump. I mean, they've accused him of everything. Do you realize that nothing, nothing ever turned out to be accurate? So all of this anxiety that many people are suffering and I hear it from our callers. I hear it from you guys. You're tired of the constant bickering and you're tired of the name calling and you're tired of the scandals. Well, what if in fact that is the scandal? That there never was anything there and that the mainstream media is trying to hype something and has been hyping something that never was there. What if what if that in and of itself is the true scandal here? I mean, just think about this. You take away all of the Russia collusion stuff, you have no impeachments. You've got no scandals. You have no allegations. You have no investigations. What do you have? You have a very successful four year president. That's what you got. So is it possible that the Democrats have figured out the winning formula is just to wear you down? And they use the mainstream media to beat you over the head with a hammer. Just want to throw that out there because again, there's nothing there. I mean, remember what was it? A couple of months back. We have a matter of national security, the president has the nuclear codes at Mar-a-Lago. He could launch a war. That was months ago. Months ago, whatever became of that. I'd say you're going to have a better shot of seeing the body cam footage from Paul Pelosi than you are an indictment of Donald John Trump. Just say it. All right, let's get to the phones here. 8 four four 747 88 68. Let's go to Luke and Lula Georgia. Luke what's on your mind? Hi. Yes, sir. I was wondering about Mike Pence had that talk with Debbie mirrored other night. And he made a comment that he was break the law if he didn't send all those elections back. So to me, that means that Kelly luck for fear of Georgia, shoulders concerned our election back. And all these other guys, you know, that will break into law. Okay. Which we know that they weren't. All right. And so when I was thinking of, it sure is funny that Mike Pence just all of a sudden just lay down and wouldn't do it. All right, one of he's going to run for president. Now, what if he becomes our nominee? That tells me that something happened there because these Democrats were trying to stop January 6th from Hampton, you know, those guys were sending back to the states. Because we could have found out that they cheated in obtaining the election. So if it becomes a nominee, we know that these machines are rigged. Okay. So I got Luke appreciate the call. He mentioned January the 6th, and that brings that brings me back to some audio. This is a conversation that happened just mere moments ago, up on Capitol Hill. You have FBI director Chris ray and congressman clay Higgins from Louisiana, you folks listening to us on krf, you know that name. The congressman asked a very important question. Take a listen. Does the FBI have confidential human sources? Did the FBI have confidential human sources embedded within the January 6th protesters? On January 6th, 2021. Well, congressman, as I'm sure you can appreciate, I have to be very careful about what I can say about women. 'cause that's what you told us. About when we do and do not and where we have and have not used confidential human sources. But to the extent that there's a suggestion, for example, that the FBI's confidential human sources or FBI employees in some way instigated or orchestrated January 6th, that's categorically false. Did you have confidential human sources dressed as Trump supporters inside the capitol on January 6th prior to the doors being open? Again, I had to be very careful. It should be a no, can you not tell the American people? No. We did not have confidential human sources dressed as Trump supporters, positioned inside the capitol. Gentlemen. You should not read anything into my decisions. Not to share information. It's almost time has expired. Let me answer the FBI director. The answer is yes. Yes, they did..
ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
"two terms" Discussed on ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
"We don't. We don't have it at all. So what happened? Let's have a good post mortem on this. Let's find out, was this an issue of we didn't do a good job of messaging? Did we miss it in terms of outreach? We certainly need to know. I don't want to, you know, and again, this is if you want to take a pass on this one, take a pass, gov, but when I saw Lindsey Graham come out and for really no good reason politically, I say that he was introducing the legislation for the federal abortion ban, which is a great thing. We all want that, but then was not the time he knew it wasn't going to go anywhere. What did that do at mobilized all these voters to get out? These Democrats, these Gen Z voters, and we know that they came out in large numbers. It's almost as if the Republicans you had Mitch McConnell yanking money from this candidate and that candidate. You had Kevin McCarthy according to The Washington Post trying to undermine house freedom caucus candidates. You'll wonder if they knew that if this election taint that Trump would get the blame and it would look better for them. You know, I can't imagine that they would be so ridiculous as to think that there's any advantage in Republicans losing. Take Trump out of the equation, put him in. It's still better for us if we hold the Senate. We have the house. It's just better. If we don't have it, we're going to get run over for the next two years. And Biden will be able to appoint any judge he wants. He can appoint Supreme Court Justices if he gets the option. There's just nothing good to come out of Republicans losing, except if you're a Democrat. So I can not believe that that would be anybody's motivation if it is. You know, they need to go join Liz Cheney and sit on her point porch with her and have some hot coffee and call it a day. Well, and she may not be calling it a day, there's some concern out there. You could have a couple of renegade rogue establishment congressmen actually joined Democrats and put Cheney up as a House speaker candidate. This is a concern among the Kevin McCarthy supporters. Well, I can't imagine that there's enough Republicans in the house still there that would be so ridiculously stupid as to listen to Liz Cheney on anything. And if they do, let's get their names and make sure they don't ever come back to the House of Representatives again. I just can't imagine that that would be the case. Liz has burned her bridge. She couldn't even break 30% of the vote in her own home state as an incumbent congressman. So I can not imagine that's the case. I'm curious, what do you think we're going to hear from the president tonight? What would you like to hear from the president? What I'd love to hear is that he's going to suspend any talk of his own race until we win this Georgia race and that he's going to be in Georgia starting tomorrow and until the runoff is over. Helping Herschel Walker get elected. That's what I'd love to hear. You think we're going to hear that? No. I love the president. You know, I've already been asked, will I support him? And I'm my answer is, you know, look, I will support his policies. But I'm not even going to even venture into it until this runoff in Georgia is over. I'm not going to make an endorsement. I'm not going to take a side. Because there's only one race that every Republican ought to be focused on and it's the 2022 Senate race, not the 2024 presidential race. I think, you know, I think you're right there, governor. There is, you know, there's a lot at stake here. And with that, if the Democrats win, we're not going back. Democrats are going to be able to pretty much do whatever they want to do. And we're not going to be able to rely on Joe Manchin or Christian cinema at that point. So it's a fair point. What a mess governor, what a mess. It is indeed, and all I can do is hope that there is going to be some sane Republicans that will take control. I think it's time for Mitch to step aside. I've never said that before, but I'm saying it now. He went in and tried to upend some of the candidates we had. It's not his job to pick the nominees for a state. It's the voters and he could have helped when he heard it. And I think it's time to clean house, start over and let's figure out how to win and how to save the country. I think we have to take a look at what happened in Florida. What happened in Tennessee? What happened in Arkansas where you had Republicans with massive victories? I mean, the red tsunami hit those states. We need to figure out what happened there and emulate that on the national level. Absolutely. Well, let's hope we do. Yeah. All right, governor, what's coming up on the big show Saturday? We're still working on some of our guests because we're waiting to see how these elections turn out. But as always, it's going to be worth watching. That's all I can tell you this early in the week. It's always a good show. All right, governor Mike hot could be ladies and gentlemen, governor appreciate it. Thank you, sir. All right. Wow. So governor Huckabee breaking some news on this program joining the chorus of people calling for Mitch McConnell to step down. And we will see how that goes. Republican governors, by the way, meeting this right now, actually underway in Orlando, Florida for their big meetings..
ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
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"The additional terms at one peloton dot com. Live from the liberty university studio in Memphis, Tennessee. It's common sense conservative commentary from Todd starnes. That's right I love this American ride and hello America welcome to the Todd stern's radio program so happy to have you with us today. A lot going on. We still don't know who controls. The House of Representatives should know that information sometime today, but who knows? Anyway, a welcome 8 four four 747 88 68. That's the line to get on the air. The lines are open now. I want to go to the patriot mobile newsmaker line, though, and welcome our next guest, a great American patriot, governor Mike cocker, governor, hope you're doing good today. Yeah, you know what? I opened my cereal box this morning to get some breakfast and I looked down in there. There was a bunch of votes from Arizona in the cereal box. So you just never know what you're going to find. Never know. Isn't that the craziest thing that Katie Hobbs did not campaign did not debate was, I mean, roundly criticized by her own party and yet she turns out the winner of the election 7 days later. 7 days later. Yeah, how many votes do we need? Okay, let's go get them folks. Look, this is maybe the way the Democrats are going to campaign from now on. It works for Biden. It works for fetterman. It seems like it's working for Katie Hobbs. Maybe what Donald Trump is going to announce tonight is that he's going to sit down at Mar-a-Lago, get a really good tan, play a lot of golf. He will be running, but he will not be seen for the next two years. Maybe that's the strategy that every Republican ought to start using. It seems to be working for the Democrats pretty well. Without a doubt, and it's troubling to me that these elections are taking so long to count. I saw somebody post something on social media. They said that during American Idol, a 180 million votes can be counted in less than an hour. Surely America can do better. You know, it does kind of point out something is wrong in these states. And the people of Arizona, they ought to be angry. Whether they voted for Kerry like or not. And I wish that in greater numbers they did, but they ought to be angry that their state looks like a bunch of incompetent nincompoops unable to count to ten. There are so many different factors at play here, and we've been going through them really since last Wednesday. But when you look at the state of the current Republican Party, you have to, I think there's going to have to be a coming together, maybe I come to Jesus moment where you have party elders say we've got to put aside these differences and we've got to come together for the common good, is that going to be possible, I don't know. I mean, I'm really at a loss because I guessed it all wrong. I said we would have a huge red way..
ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
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"Good to have you with us, by the way, we're efforting some audio. Ron DeSantis is speaking out. He was asked about Trump's Trump's attack the other day. Here's what he had to say. We would like to know what you think about Trump's big announcement and some of the less than flattering comments he has made about you. Well, you know, one of the things I've learned in this job is when you're leading when you're getting things done, yeah, you take incoming fire. That's just the nature of it. I roll out of bed in the morning. I've got corporate media outlets that have a spasm, just the fact that I'm getting up in the morning. And it's constantly attacking. And this is just what's happened. I don't think any governor got attacked more, particularly by corporate media than me over my four year term. And yet, I think what you learn is all that's just noise. And really what matters is, are you leading? Are you getting in front of issues? Are you delivering results for people? And are you standing up for folks? And if you do that, then none of that stuff matters. And that's what we've done. We focused on results and leadership and at the end of the day, I would just tell people to go check out the scoreboard from last Tuesday night. The fact of the matter is. The fact of the matter is it was the greatest Republican victory in the history of the state of Florida. Well, there you go. Ron DeSantis finally reacting to all of the attacks coming out of team Trump there. Let's get to the phones, Anna and Georgia, WTU and our great affiliate there. Hey Anna, what's up? What's on your mind? Hey, John. Last week I called her the week before the Tuesday lunch today and I voiced some concerns and they came true, but the thing is, here's the thing. Desantis is at a living doll. He really is, I'm an older guy. I like your minds be a lot of the way Kennedy was with Jackie. It really does. He and his wife. But the thing is, if Trump runs the president, I'm going to go for it. That's just the way it is. Now, Santos is on that same either on the same ticket or if he's on it. I'll probably going to vote for the Senate. But the Republicans have to rethink their strategy. What are you going to do when it's time for you to act? Yet on with it, never mind all this whining and DF just get on with it. I like the way desantis responded, though, he's a smart guy. And he's not going to get led down the path to hell. He's just not going to do it. So, you know, I'm hoping that former president. You know, I love Trump. I don't know if I would be surprised. I don't know if I'd be his friend. But I like that he's a businessman. And I like that he's the only one that actually did something about the borders. He did a lot of good work. I don't care about his personality and as much as it does affect some good stuff, but you know, he did it. I mean, he did it. So. I just, I hope it's not both of them. I hope they're not running against each other. That's all we're going to say. Well, let's see what happens, Anna. We've got, we've got plenty of time. And we'll see what the president has to say tonight. And I appreciate the call. Thank you for listening. And bear with me. I'm going through some throat issues. I think it's the allergies and the change of seasons, so am I apologies if the throat is a little quirky over the next little while. So look, let me explain the lay of the land. We're going to be taking a break. We're going to get to all of your calls. Also, our good friend Mike Huckabee is on his way. We have some new developments coming out of Capitol Hill about what really went down on January the 6th and the FBI's involvement. This is breaking news. We're going to bring that information to you. Yesterday, we told you about a scandal that's brewing with a cryptocurrency a fund called FTX. Now the understanding here is basically the Biden administration was funneling money to Ukraine, the Ukrainians were investing tens of millions of dollars into FTX and they in turn were using that money to donate to the Democrat party. They were the number two donor to the Democrat party in the midterm elections. Now comes word from the Financial Times. That FTX actually had a statement on their balance sheet called Trump lose. Folks, this is, this is a developing scandal and we're going to get it a more of that. Right after the top of the hour to use, your calls as.
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"Let's just get it done. Get it over with. And I'm tired of the excuses. Dora appreciate the call. This item for you to consider, a ladies and gentlemen. Turns out that several of the Maricopa County election officials responsible for counting the vote and remember more than 25% of the vote tabulation machines broke down a Maricopa County, which is also a Republican stronghold, several of the people in charge of the elections office actually launched a PAC in 2021 to stop maga candidates. Anybody want to tell me why these people are still on the job? Can we not say conflict of interest here? But again, and I mentioned this to you, the day after the election, and I cautioned you about the vote numbers coming out of Arizona that they were troubling. Here we have a woman, Katie Hobbs, who did not campaign when she held a rally. I mean, just a handful of people turned out thousands coming out for Carrie Lake. You don't want to use social media as an indicator here, but you don't get Carrie Lake, for example, and she's gotten what more than 700,000 followers compared to Katie Hobbs, who doesn't even have 200,000 followers. And I know that's not a fair, that's not a fair arbiter here, but just to give you some idea of what we're talking about. Even our own party was criticizing her campaign, say, why aren't you debating? Why aren't you out there campaigning? What's wrong with you? CNN the most profane name in news for crying out loud. Ryan Negro network. Thanks judge Joe Brown. Even CNN was going out there saying, what's wrong with you? And yet this woman, at the end of the day, without campaigning without debating, she was double digits behind in the polls and somehow miraculously they want us to believe that, wow, everybody came out and had a change of heart on election day and voted for Katie hopps. Do you believe that? Are you suspicious? I know I am. Any time the vote count takes more than one day, I get suspicious. 8 four four 747 88 68. Let's go to Memphis, Tennessee, Tyreke on the line listening to us on kwa, our flagship station. Tariq, what say you? Well, you know, I think that the citizens of this country and I'm talking about the truth, the two American citizens that they are being schooled over man. And I think that they are being played by people who are serverless country up to Washington, D.C., who are not who they make themselves out to be. And I think that people like Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi and Merrick Garland and Joe Biden, all these people are have some type of connection with the mob. And I'll ask them to hand it back and I also think that this outcome of this election has fraud written all over it. And I do believe that in the weeks prior to this election, you know, who's to say that those voting machines weren't tampered with. Who's to say that, you know, who's to say that because nobody has any idea why those voting machines were positioned. And you know, and I'll go even swallow the by saying that as we all know, there are a lot of people who are legally living in the United States. All right, now who's to say that some type of provision wasn't made for these people to have voted in that election. If they're being allowed to live in this country, who's to say that they weren't allowed to vote in that election..
ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
"two terms" Discussed on ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
"That's what I'm talking about here. All right, we got to take a break. What do you want to hear from president Trump tonight? Do you want him to run? Do you want him to apologize to Ron DeSantis and Glenn youngkin 8 four four 747 88 68. We'll be right back. You guys have helped build MyPillow into an incredible company it is today. Now Michael and del the inventor and CEO of MyPillow wants to give back to my listeners. Right now, my pillow is offering exclusive offers on their bed sheets. Their 6 piece towel set, and even offering an extended 60 day money back guarantee. Orders placed now through December 25th will now have an extended money back guarantee through March 1st. The bed sheets are marked down as low as 29 98 and believe me when I say you will get a great night's sleep in these. Their 6 piece towel set made with USA cotton comes with two bath towels, two hand towels and two washcloths typically retailed at 89 98 now just 39 98 with my promo code. There is a limited supply so be sure to order now call one 808 three 9 85 O 6 and use the promo code stars, or go to MyPillow dot com slash. That's my pillow dot com slash darns and use the promo code starnes. All right, people welcome back to the touchstone radio show. Happy to have you with us today. Man is there a lot of stuff to talk about? I'm going to get to Mike Pence in just a moment..
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"You know, I'd like to see a little bit of return on my investment. I don't know about you. All right, we got to take a break here, 8 four four 747 88 68. Toll free telephone number that's 8 four four, 747 88 68. This is the Todd stern show. There's no question, folks. America is hurting crime and inflation are out of control. It can be so discouraging, but there is hope if you're a senior, you remember better than anyone, how strong America can be when we work together. And that's why I urge you to join forces with a Mac. The association of mature American citizens. Amac exists to enrich the lives of seniors and uphold freedom for all Americans by fighting for conservative causes. Membership comes with discounts on hotels, restaurants, cell phone service, and much more. And my friends at amac offer advisory services on things like Medicare, financial planning and social security, becoming a member of amac is easy and it only costs $16 a year. Go to amac dot U.S. slash storage to sign up today. I'm a proud member of amac and you should be too. Go to amac dot U.S. slash storage now. Join millions of other amac members receiving unparalleled benefits while we work together to get America back on track. Join amac today at amac dot U.S. slash darns. That's a Mac U.S. slash. All right, folks, welcome back to the Todd star in radio program, so happy to have you with us today..
ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
"two terms" Discussed on ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
"All they want is chaos and they're getting that right now. Last night, of course, a word came down from Arizona. That Katie Hobbs is the declared winner, whether or not she is the legitimate winner remains to be seen. But Carrie Lake has been unusually quiet over the past several hours, and a lot of people are in the conservative world are suggesting that she go quietly into the good night. If it were me, I'd be demanding a recount and I sure wouldn't be conceding the election right now. I'm not sure every legitimate vote has actually been counted in Arizona. But it's a mess, folks. It is a great big mess and the reality is. At the end of the day, you could end up having a Democrat in the governor's office in Arizona. We're going to be getting into all of that in today's program, also tonight, president Trump expected to make whatever announcement he is going to make. What do you hope the president does tonight? Now there are a lot of people out there who say that he has a right to run, but should he run for a second term in office, or now is the moment for the president to say, you know what? We've been there. We've done that. It's been good. I'm happy and content building my library and going into the good night. What do you want to hear from the president tonight? He's going to be speaking and if you are listening to us on a news talk radio station more than likely your station will carry the president's remarks live, you can listen to them on the radio..
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"We look at participation of women in the economy. Your party might not always be in charge congresswoman. I don't know what might happen if without a filibuster, we could be sitting here a year from now. And you might have a look on your face like, oh my God, what are these people going to do with only a simple majority? You've thought about that, right? Are you sure we want to go there based on? I thought about that. And here's the thing. We already do it for taxes. So it's already a simple majority for reconciliation. It's $1 trillion tax bill. So why can't we do it with the investments we need? So that people can have better opportunity. All right, congresswoman, if it's good having it, as we said again on squawk box this morning, thanks for your time. Thanks for having me on. Next, on squawk pod, we're headed to China, CNBC's Eunice Yun on the ground there where COVID cases are rising in the port city of tangent. An authorities want to curb them. This a zero tolerance approach is going to be in place for quite some time, not only are they looking ahead at the Olympics, but even before that the lunar new year holiday is coming up and already authorities have been urging residents just to stay put. Get in early. Join the CNBC investing club of Jim Cramer, be among the first. Get tips straight from Kramer, the only club with exclusive trading leads for early access symmetry email at CNBC dot com slash investing club. Stand Andrew. You're listening to squawk pod. Up in Andrew, Q good morning and welcome back to squawk box right here on CNBC Sam Andrew, Sorkin, along with Becky quick and Joe kernan. At least three cities in China are now facing lockdowns to try and combat combat COVID outbreaks, which is complicating an already strained supply chain. Yunus Yun joins us right now with more. And you and this is a pretty big deal if you start thinking about the millions of people who are now in lockdown at this point. Yeah, that's right. It's actually more like tens of millions that are in lockdown or in partial lockdown. The a lot of people now have several restrictions imposed on them, including here in Beijing, the COVID center that's behind you said that they're seeing a 25% surge in demand for tests because employers as well as officials are demanding these tests for their daily work. Now, all Macron has been confirmed now in a third Chinese city, the port city of dalyan. The state media, quite late today, reported that dalyan has two confirmed omicron cases, both of those are traced back to Tianjin, where amaran was first detected, a tangent also confirmed another 93 cases and ordered businesses to close for a half day so that the city can conduct another mass round of testing of the 14 million people there. Which is a city in an electronics manufacturing area, also reported 65 new cases. Now industrial zones near a tangent port said on their social media account that their operations as well as the operations of the port are operating normally, though the extent of the potential impact there as well as in other parts of the global supply chain are still a big question mark Toyota said that its production in Tianjin has been halted, as for dalian, this is a port that's quite important to American companies that specializes in imported food, such as U.S. soybeans, also Intel, Coca-Cola, Goodyear, all have factories in dalian. And then in case there's any question mark as to how a seriously the Chinese government takes their zero COVID approach Dahlia and court today sentenced three port workers to up to 5 years in jail for breaching COVID protocols, such as wearing a mask or protective gear. Guys, you know, some obviously you've got the Olympics coming up in quick order. We're talking about three weeks till the start of the Olympics there. The zero tolerance policy is something that the Chinese have kept since the very beginning going back to 2019, 2020 when this was first starting. Is it something that at this point they are going to continue with that policy because they want to make sure the Olympics can still go off? Or is this something that is expected to continue indefinitely and even beyond the Olympics in terms of how they try and protect and stop COVID from spreading when the rest of the world seems to have moved on to reopening and kind of trying to deal the best they can? Yeah, well that's the big question, but I think as you're illustrating the main point is that this zero tolerance approach is going to be in place for quite some time. Not only are they looking ahead at the Olympics, but even before that, the lunar new year holiday is coming up. And already authorities not only here in Beijing, but all across the country have been urging residents just to stay put. As you well know, the lunar new year is a major holiday in China. It's like the biggest human migration on the planet. People go home for the holidays. It's like Christmas and Thanksgiving and new year's. I'll wrap into one. So it's an important holiday, but people are not probably going to be able to go home for a second year running because of all these concerns about the spread, especially with a highly contagious. Yeah, it's so highly contagious that it's hard to believe the incredibly low numbers. If you have a handful of cases, it's hard to assume that you can nip it in the bud, even if you are taking extreme measures and testing pretty frequently. Yeah, that's right. And also, there still hasn't been any confirmation on the exact source and also how much it's really spread in the community. And I think that's what is worrying the government here just because you are hearing about all of these different cases and as you said, you know, it is quite highly contagious and even though the 85% of the population has been vaccinated, we still don't really know exactly how effective China's vaccines, which are the only ones that you could get here are against am a crime. You said that there was demand from workers, not just from the companies themselves, but from workers wanting access to tests, is testing difficult to come by there as it has been here. No, actually, it is quite easy to get tests here. And they're actually not as expensive. I think that in the U.S., there's been a debate about how expensive they've been. But the COVID test can be as little as about a dollar ten cents. Here, sometimes they can be expensive and expensive is considered maybe about $43, but the government, one of the great things I would say about in the strong points of the Chinese government is that when they put in place a logistical system where they really want to rule things out quickly, they can. So when it comes to the COVID testing protocols, they're very, very solid. All the video that we've been watching shows people getting swabbed in their throats instead of nasally. Is that how it's been throughout? Or is that a new development as we learned that aron tends to.
The Breakdown with NLW
"two terms" Discussed on The Breakdown with NLW
"In tone. The transitory talk that is characterized so much of this year's discourse around inflation is all gone. Indeed, inflation features prominently at the centerpiece of the conversation now. Biden says that the nominees have the skills and tools to get it under control, and they are, quote, in a position to attack inflation from a position of strength, not weakness. To me, it seems pretty clear that the fed is using this nomination process 100% to pivot to a new narrative of anti inflation. The Bloomberg headline says as much, fed's Powell and brainerd stress U.S. inflation battle is priority. In his remarks, Powell said we know that high inflation takes a toll on families, especially those less able to meet the higher cost of essentials like food housing and transportation. We will use our tools both to support the economy and a strong labor market and to prevent higher inflation from becoming entrenched. Stress the same thing, saying I'm committed to putting working Americans at the center of my work at the Federal Reserve. This means getting inflation down at a time when people are focused on their jobs and how far their paychecks will go. Like I said, a clear shift in narrative tone. But now to reactions on Wall Street Bloomberg rights Wall Street will head into the Thanksgiving holiday with one less worry. After president Joe Biden decided to nominate Jerome Powell for a second four year term as Federal Reserve chair. Ryan detrick, the chief marketing strategist for LPL financial said, although this decision likely wasn't an easy one for the president, this should be greeted positively for markets. We know what we will get from mister Powell. And this is one less worry now. Mark lassie, who's a billionaire hedge funder said, of course, everybody was relieved. The markets believe that he will do what is necessary to keep the markets calm and have them move forward. Keep in mind, that probably means being pretty dovish when it comes to interest rates. Still not all the signals from the markets are super clear. Alex Kruger writes yesterday, yields up Kerr flattening, inflation expectations, sharply down today, tips taking a big hit, financial strong, tech taking hit, heavy dispersion across stocks. Powell nomination reduces uncertainty which is bullish while the market is pricing in a more hawkish fed. When Kruger was asked if this was bullish or bearish, she said both, wrote ahead will be bumpy. Shallower upward slope and a bumpy ride. Nighting sponsors this podcast and they're helping banks, corporate treasuries and fintechs integrate Bitcoin into their products and balance sheets. See why Bitcoin means business at night dot com slash MLW. That's NY DIG dot com slash MLW..
WSJ What's News
"two terms" Discussed on WSJ What's News
"Speaking after President Biden announced his nomination today, Powell said the fed will use the tools at its disposal to support the recovery. Inside the Federal Reserve, we understand that our decisions matter for American families and communities. I strongly share that sense of mission and I'm committed to making those decisions with objectivity and with integrity based on the best available evidence in the long-standing tradition of monetary policy independence. Powell has bipartisan support and is likely to be confirmed by the Senate. But he wasn't a shoo in. There had been opposition to his nomination on Capitol Hill, and he's facing more challenges ahead, first and foremost inflation, which is raising consumer costs on many goods and services. Joining me now with more is Wall Street Journal, chief economic correspondent Greg yp. Hi Greg, thanks for being here. Thanks for having me. So Greg in the weeks leading up to this announcement there had been some uncertainty over whether President Biden would nominate Powell for a second term. What's behind his decision here? I think that President Biden had several reasons for nominating Jerome Powell. First of all, there's bipartisan agreement and agreement by most independent experts that Powell has done a really good job. He responded forcefully to the economic slump caused by the pandemic and the financial turmoil. He's reoriented the entire approach of the fed towards emphasizing full employment and understanding that the world at least of the previous ten years had been one where inflation had just historically been quite low, and it was necessary to sort of rethink your priorities given that. And Powell had also done a very good job of cultivating support on both sides of the aisle. So given that Democrats have barely got control of the Senate, it was important to choose somebody who is not going to face a lot of opposition in his confirmation hearings. And what about the choice of la brainer as vice chair sort of splitting the difference here she had been under consideration for the chair role? What can you tell us about her and her approach to monetary policy? So there were some Democrats who objected to giving mister Powell a second term. They would have preferred governor lael brainard. She is currently a governor on the 7 member board of governors of the Federal Reserve, and the only Democrat on the board I might add. I think that, in the end, what President Biden has done here is sort of split the difference. He gets the chairman with the bipartisan credibility in the proven track record. That's Jerome Powell. But with lael brainard, he also puts in a very senior position, somebody who shares mister Powell's monitoring clinicians. She's actually in some ways that perhaps a bit more dovish. More inclined to emphasize employment over inflation risks right now. And we'll also be in a position to steer the fed in a more activist direction on some of those things that progressive Democrats care about the most. So Greg, as you said, Powell is expected to be confirmed by the Senate, but he also has his critics as you mentioned, of course, senator Elizabeth Warren, as well as progressives, what's their key opposition to him? Some progressive Democrats have already come out and said that they're going to vote against another term for chair Powell. Those include Jeff merkley from Oregon and Elizabeth Warren from Massachusetts. And their objections are mostly that they feel that chair Powell has overseen a loosening of regulations covering banks. In concert with financial regulators who have been appointed by the previous Trump administration, they also think climate change is really, really important. And there's a movement around the world to really emphasize taking steps to limit fossil fuel emissions. And reinforce the economy against extreme weather. In the financial system. And the view of these progressive Democrats is that chair Powell had dragged his feet on making climate a priority for the fed. By contrast, governor, lael brainard, had been fairly emphatic about making climate change fairly important. Now, it's not all, you know, smooth sailing on the Republican side of the aisle either. There are Republicans who are unhappy with the support that chair Powell gave to increase stimulus, which was seen as favoring democratic priorities. Out there in the public as well. There's a lot of concern about inflation right now. It's around 6% the highest in 30 years. Since the Federal Reserve is ultimately the institution responsible for inflation, some Republicans and possibly a few Democrats like Joe Manchin and West Virginia will be asking if this is the right person to get inflation back to a more acceptable level. So I think that there are few risks for share Powell on both sides of the aisle. Let's talk about the challenges Powell would face in a second term, including inflation. Consumers are facing higher prices for just about everything. How important is it for the fed to bring inflation under control quickly? It's pretty important for the fed to bring inflation under control. I don't think that it's necessary to do so quickly because frankly, some of the forces that are pushing prices up are simply things over which the fed has no control in the near term. I think the real challenge for the fed is that the world in the next few years looks very different from the world that they prepared for over the last four years. Before the pandemic, the world was one of just perpetually low inflation that just the fed could not seem to get back to its 2% target of a world where the traditional tradeoff between unemployment inflation didn't seem to exist any longer. You could get extremely low unemployment and bring into the labor force. A lot of people who had been left out, especially from minority groups, and other disadvantaged groups. Without paying a price in terms of higher inflation. I think there's a lot of evidence that the world is very different today. We are in fact seeing inflation well above the feds 2% target. And while I think most people expected to come back down to the next year or two, it's not a sure thing that it will come back to 2%..
CNN Political Briefing
"two terms" Discussed on CNN Political Briefing
"Here's what you need to know in politics for Monday, November 22nd. Stability over shake up. Joe Biden nominates Jerome Powell for another term as chair of the Federal Reserve. It was the last big decision sitting on Joe Biden's desk in the Oval Office before the Thanksgiving break and the president made it clear today that he is intending to renominate Jay Powell, the head of the Federal Reserve to serve for another four years. Now this comes as the president also made clear, he is going to nominate fed governor Lyle brainard to serve as vice chair. Now she was a top contender basically the only other contender other than renominating Powell for the top job at the fed. And it's an important insight into Joe Biden's thinking about the economy right now, because J Powell, who Donald Trump nominated as chair of the Federal Reserve back in 2018, is a Republican, and what you see in Biden's thinking here is twofold. One, it's an endorsement, obviously of the job Powell's been doing. Steering the country through a massive economic downturn due to the pandemic. So it is a boost of confidence from Biden in Powell's leadership at the fed, but it is also telling that Biden thinks Powell is the right person to continue to steer the economy forward because the economic challenges that the country's facing now are actually quite different from what they were when the pandemic hit. I mean, Powell was sort of dovish in his approach and made sure that interest rates remained low. That is a very different economic scenario than the issue of inflation that the country is facing now, that requires perhaps a different approach from the fed chair and so Biden renominating him indicates that he thinks Powell is not just a one trick pony, but that he is up for varying challenges in the economy. When Biden made his announcement today at The White House, he stressed the notion of how important it is for a president's pick of fed chair to get broad bipartisan support in the Senate. And that is why he said picking a Republican. He believes is the right move. At this moment, both of both enormous potential and enormous uncertainty for our economy, we need stability and independence at the Federal Reserve. Jay is proven the independence that I value in the fed chair. I believe having fed leadership with a broad bipartisan support is important. Especially now in such a politically divided nation. For Powell's part, when he spoke today at the event of The White House, he made clear to the American people he understands the pain that inflation causes in daily life. The unprecedented reopening of the economy, along with the continuing effects of the pandemic led to supply and demand imbalances, bottlenecks and a burst of inflation. We know that high inflation takes a toll on families, especially those less able to meet the higher costs of essentials, like food, housing and transportation. It will use our tools both to support the economy and a strong labor market and to prevent higher inflation from becoming entrenched. And of course, politics is involved in everything and there are two political notes here about Biden's renomination of Powell that are worth including here. One, Biden's also drawing a sharp contrast with Trump because Trump did not renominate Janet Yellen, who was appointed by Obama. And president Trump sort of discontinued that tradition of looking for a bipartisan kind of solution to the fed chair. In fact, Janet Yellen, who now serves as treasury secretary, was Powell's immediate predecessor, she weighed in on Biden's decision on CNBC earlier today. I'm very pleased with this choice. And they are consummate professionals, support and independent fed are completely committed to the feds through a mandate of maximum employment and price stability and I believe they'll have broad support among Congress in the public. And the other political note worth mentioning here is Biden's willingness to pick a fight with his more liberal base. This is a pick that is not at all popular in sort of the left wing of the Democratic Party, Elizabeth Warren immediately came out with a statement in opposition to Powell, she does support brainerd as the vice chair and said she will vote to confirm her into that role as a part of Powell's team, but will oppose Powell's renomination. We also know that Sheldon whitehouse and Jeff merkley two other democratic senators already on the record saying they're going to vote against Powell, but here's the key. He's getting accolades and support from some key Democrats, sherrod Brown, Democrat of Ohio, chair of the banking committee on board and says he will vote to confirm. So it is not a widespread sentiment in the Democratic Party to oppose Powell, but it is a popular position to be against him in sort of the Elizabeth Warren, AOC wing of the party, and Joe Biden was willing to fight that fight by announcing his decision to renominate him today. There is no issue that is going to be more significant to Democrats chances at the ballot box next November and in 2024 when Joe Biden's up for reelection, then the economic recovery post COVID. And so this was an enormous decision on the president's part because it puts somebody in the driver's seat here on that very issue, and now Joe Biden's got a hope. It was the right call. That's it for today's political briefing..
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
"two terms" Discussed on America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
"So much to ask you that I'm getting text from my producer for my team. Ask him about this. Okay, so I'm going to put my things into a second. Ask Mark Meadows about Fauci not mentioning for months that NIH NIH was funding the Wuhan lab. Yeah, so Fauci literally when we were in The White House, you know, he was there on a regular basis, much to many people's chagrin. My wife said, if you put Doctor Fauci on the TV one more time, I am not do not come home for dinner. You know, so it was literally that strong, but here's the problem is daily contact with Doctor Fauci. Emails that in early February would suggest that there was at least this issue of gain of function that was raised. Where if he didn't read the email he should have, but in that, where it's raised, but NIH, we're helping with the funding. And so in the book, we talk about this in the book. One night, I find out that we're funding this lab where the virus started. Where it actually leaked from, and we're as federal taxpayers funding it. I said that the president's going to go. He's going to go nuts with this. So I make a call to Alex azar. And I said, Alex. Secretary of health is secretary and thank you. We talk in these two code. D.C. code two familiar. Your secretary of HHO asks and responsible for the funding and NIH. I said, cut it off. Just cut it off. Well, you know, Mark, we can't really. I said, cut it off and make sure it's cut off tomorrow. And so this was late in the night. The president calls him shortly after that. Having seen the same report that we're funding it and said, Alex, cut it off. And he says, well, the chiefs are a called me. And he goes, what do you mean, the chiefs call you? And he says, well, the chief has already already called me about that. We're cutting it off in the morning. So the president and his normal style calls me and says, Mark, is it done? No, no, he says, Mark, he says, I just talked to Alex. He said, he said, you cut off funding to the Wuhan lab? He said, I didn't tell you to do that. All right. And I go, no sir, but you would have. And he started laughing. He said, find me a chief of staff. And he said, good night. But here's the other thing. Doctor Fauci had knowledge had knowledge when he testified had knowledge when we cut off that funding and then still had the audacity to make appeals to secretary azar to restart the funding. And I mean, I don't know how sick you can be when you look at holding China accountable. They weren't even letting us in to have real data and we were supposed to send them money. So for me, when I arrived in The White House, I refused to use the phrase deep state until about two weeks later. And then I realized it's real. Yeah, it really. I mean, at all efforts. For me, it's not just malefactors like CIA director Brennan who voted for the Communist Party in the 80s. It's not just people like mccabe who lied to his own FBI. It's people like Fauci. For me, the deep state encompasses bureaucrats who think by dint of being in D.C. for 2030 years, I'm more important than the elected president. Without a doubt, in that case, that's part of it. Oh, that came across. And here's the second part of that. I'll give you a corollary corollary to that. Here's what happens. Not only do they think their opinion is more important, they'll go into the president and suggest that they're all with him while at the same time going back to their agency and saying the guy is not accurate on this. We're going to do it my way. I saw people come out of the Oval Office when I was in Congress. The president looks across as Mark, we're going to do X, I walk out of the Oval Office and they said, we're not going to do it. Okay, so I'm going to say it now. I don't care if the Democrats know, because this is what I'm going to tell the president. I told my boss, so I worked with Steve. Steve was the API was a dad. Right. And then there was the president. I told him. This administration because of the deep state. Needs a dozen or 2000 hard bastards who work in teams of two, and every Monday go to a different department. Agree. And they say, mister secretary, what have you done in the last 7 days to affect the president's agenda? Right. And when they report back to The White House and it's not happening, there are ramifications, because you have active subversion of the agenda of those who elected the president. Right. That idea was deemed Steve liked it, others said, are you going to rock the boat? You can't do that D.C. doesn't work out. I don't think I want him to come back. I know he's going to run. I think if we can stop vote of fraud on a mass scale, he wins in a landslide, given the last ten months of just, of course. Yeah. Beyond Carter esque disaster. Right. But if we don't have that mechanism in place to rein in seditious elements who think, well, I'm a bureaucrat therefore or say yes to the president and then do the reverse when they get back to their departments. It's all for nought. So am I being an extremist? No, actually, if anything, you're implementing a plan that should have been implemented early on in the first term. I can tell you Johnny mcatee, you mentioned him earlier. And I actually had this whole Orchard of every single agency and where it was and what it was and who's going to go in and as we started to look at that. Had the plans for after November fully expecting that we were going to actually send a lot of people home. Well, let me phrase it this way. Ask them to use their talents elsewhere. And but we're going to have to be aggressive with it. The current laws make it very hard to fire federal employees. But you can move a department. Exactly. So having that exactly done is something that must be done in the next administration. As far as I'm concerned, look, everybody has their issues. The right to life, First Amendment, the border, national security. I'm very clear on this. I don't care what you think is the most important issue. If we don't seriously deal with the question of a subversive permanent bureaucracy,.