1 00:00:17,039 --> 00:00:20,160 We're back with another edition of the Federalist Radio Hour. I'm only Kishinski, 2 00:00:20,239 --> 00:00:22,719 culture editor here at the Federalist. As always, you can email the show 3 00:00:22,719 --> 00:00:25,960 at radio at the Federalist dot com, follow us on exit fdr LST. 4 00:00:26,120 --> 00:00:28,879 Make sure to subscribe wherever you download your podcasts, and of course to the 5 00:00:28,879 --> 00:00:32,640 premium version of our website as well. I'm joined today once again by the 6 00:00:32,640 --> 00:00:37,759 Blazes Christopher Bedford, whose newsletter has been doing well. I really liked the 7 00:00:37,759 --> 00:00:40,119 idea of doing it twice a week, Chris. I think that was really 8 00:00:40,119 --> 00:00:46,159 smart on your wife's behalf. Thank you. I feel like I ought to 9 00:00:46,159 --> 00:00:48,719 be writing more, and I look forward to writing more since you finished this 10 00:00:48,799 --> 00:00:52,000 move but twice a week. It's actually pretty newsletter. It takes more than 11 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:55,039 I expected. You have to read things well. What I like about it 12 00:00:55,079 --> 00:00:58,679 is that you're doing what basically nobody else on the right does, which is 13 00:00:58,719 --> 00:01:06,280 the kind of belt Way newsletter writing from the perspective of a totally anti establishment 14 00:01:06,480 --> 00:01:10,200 populist conservative. It's cool, thanks, that's the goal. There's a you 15 00:01:10,280 --> 00:01:14,359 got punch bowl, and you got playbook, you got axios, and they're 16 00:01:14,400 --> 00:01:18,799 either putting out democratic talking points that they're putting out leadership talking points brought to 17 00:01:18,799 --> 00:01:21,959 you by Pfizer. Yeah. Yeah, so we wanted to I wanted to 18 00:01:21,959 --> 00:01:27,840 put somebody together that showed what we think. It's the craziest thing. And 19 00:01:27,879 --> 00:01:30,359 where can you get People can subscribe over at the Blaze. Yeah, they 20 00:01:30,359 --> 00:01:34,879 can sign up over at the Blaze. Great. I wish I probably memorized 21 00:01:34,920 --> 00:01:37,439 that year or l Yes, yes you should. But I have something to 22 00:01:37,480 --> 00:01:42,120 ask you about. Oh, cannibal sandwich. Yeah. Yeah. Every once 23 00:01:42,159 --> 00:01:46,879 in a while I get a weird like meme DMed to me from Chris, 24 00:01:46,920 --> 00:01:52,879 And this was indeed a meme about a Wisconsin specialty called the cannibal sandwich. 25 00:01:52,920 --> 00:01:56,040 And Chris just DMed it to me and said, is this real? It's 26 00:01:56,120 --> 00:01:59,200 ah, yes, I if you explained it as a person, Wisconson is 27 00:01:59,239 --> 00:02:00,680 up to what I said, did not look great? No, it looks 28 00:02:00,719 --> 00:02:06,519 absolutely discussing. It's raw hamburger on a piece of toast with like onion and 29 00:02:06,599 --> 00:02:08,120 I want to say, like horse radish or something. I've never had it. 30 00:02:08,120 --> 00:02:13,879 It is though in one of my grandmother's recipe books. It is a 31 00:02:13,879 --> 00:02:15,919 thing. Have you ever had it? I have seen it served in the 32 00:02:15,919 --> 00:02:21,639 wild I've seen it served, I've never had it. So like hamburger meat, 33 00:02:22,360 --> 00:02:27,080 I love steak tartar. I could eat a steak pretty rare. I 34 00:02:27,120 --> 00:02:30,439 can eat a steak rare. I don't like steak tartar, though. The 35 00:02:30,439 --> 00:02:34,840 thing about hamburger meat is it's got so much surface area because it's been ground, 36 00:02:34,919 --> 00:02:37,080 and like a steak, because only I got so much surface area, 37 00:02:37,080 --> 00:02:39,439 you can you can basically cook a steak with good enough quality meat with lemon, 38 00:02:39,560 --> 00:02:45,319 just like acid. Yeah, because there's so much surface area on ground 39 00:02:45,360 --> 00:02:51,840 beef that it's really considered one of the least safe products seats eat raw. 40 00:02:53,080 --> 00:02:57,400 So you do you grind it fresh to make this sandwich or you just like 41 00:02:58,120 --> 00:03:02,199 buy a discount piece of beef at Walmart and throat on toasts. You are 42 00:03:02,240 --> 00:03:06,879 asking a wrong person. I truly have no idea. I'm sure some listeners 43 00:03:06,919 --> 00:03:10,280 are now going to email radio at the Federals dot com either criticizing you for 44 00:03:10,680 --> 00:03:15,680 judging or criticizing me. Um. Yeah, well I think it's fair. 45 00:03:15,719 --> 00:03:21,039 It's pretty disgusting. I like it's pretty tar on toasts. I think that 46 00:03:21,120 --> 00:03:23,159 onions and pickles and stuff like horsepads is like a great pairing for that. 47 00:03:23,360 --> 00:03:28,199 I like a pretty rare hamburger too, mistake. I rarely grind it though, 48 00:03:28,400 --> 00:03:30,280 I almost always slice it like thin cubes. And then you have to 49 00:03:30,280 --> 00:03:32,280 add something to add a little bit of crunch to it, like get add 50 00:03:32,360 --> 00:03:37,120 some egg, some lemon, chives, and I've got a good trick I 51 00:03:37,199 --> 00:03:42,439 learned from a friend's sister who's a who's a chef over for the Italian ski 52 00:03:42,479 --> 00:03:46,560 Resort, is to add potato chips, like cape cord potato chips, to 53 00:03:46,560 --> 00:03:49,840 give it a crisp to kind of push back against that texture you probably don't 54 00:03:49,879 --> 00:03:53,479 like. You have a friend who's a chef, Danza's sister, there's a 55 00:03:53,560 --> 00:03:59,120 chef over there. Okay, all right, sounds sounds reasonable to me. 56 00:04:00,039 --> 00:04:02,159 Do you like chips on a sandwich? Though? That was well, I 57 00:04:02,159 --> 00:04:06,120 won't get into it. We don't. We don't swich Yeah, of course, 58 00:04:06,240 --> 00:04:10,520 like a plane of courtato, of course. Yeah, it's good. 59 00:04:10,879 --> 00:04:13,800 I think one of the best, one of the best meals in the world 60 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:16,199 is just a regular sandwich, whether it's a peanut butter and jelly or like 61 00:04:16,279 --> 00:04:20,000 turkey with cheese and potato chips on the side, with a pickle and maybe 62 00:04:20,040 --> 00:04:23,959 a soda like, that's a great meal. I eat cold cut roll ups 63 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:29,319 for lunch often. Now I'm not that's not my thing, but God bless 64 00:04:29,360 --> 00:04:32,160 you. And it's like do I have time? Am I going to cook 65 00:04:32,160 --> 00:04:34,600 and prepare something? Or am I going to eat the food that I bought 66 00:04:34,639 --> 00:04:39,319 for Christopher? Yeah, little Christopher. He's not talking about himself, and 67 00:04:42,120 --> 00:04:45,199 so you know, I mean, I know you don't want to talk about 68 00:04:45,240 --> 00:04:50,800 Christine say anything at all. Well, I was going to make a joke 69 00:04:50,800 --> 00:04:55,319 about you were talking about how you grind the meat, and I just say, 70 00:04:55,360 --> 00:04:57,759 you know, you just you go to the gravel pit. That's where 71 00:04:57,800 --> 00:05:00,319 you get the the cannicleal sandwich from. But anyway, we'll just move right 72 00:05:00,360 --> 00:05:08,920 along in conversation, like along in the gravel pit, talking to people, 73 00:05:10,040 --> 00:05:13,759 keeping up all shading in the gravel pit. You know, it wasn't just 74 00:05:13,800 --> 00:05:16,600 the dog, it was also the goat. So it's poor one not for 75 00:05:16,600 --> 00:05:19,480 them today, keep them in your mind. Chris doesn't want to talk about 76 00:05:19,480 --> 00:05:23,920 it, but I'll just briefly say I've never seen anyone bought a book roll 77 00:05:23,959 --> 00:05:26,759 out like that, and I've seen a lot of botched book rollouts. But 78 00:05:26,920 --> 00:05:31,000 moving right along as Chris sits here just march right for incredible. See, 79 00:05:31,040 --> 00:05:34,439 I can't help myself not allowed to talk about it. Yeah, well you 80 00:05:34,480 --> 00:05:38,959 don't want end up in the gravel pit. But that being said, Chris, 81 00:05:39,319 --> 00:05:45,240 your newsletter this week touched on basically Actually Margine Tayler Green just last night 82 00:05:45,480 --> 00:05:47,720 this is getting like basically no coverage. But she actually went forward with the 83 00:05:47,720 --> 00:05:53,480 motion of ak last night against Mike Johnson. Meanwhile, and this is a 84 00:05:53,519 --> 00:05:58,560 real thing that was reported in Wired Leary Jenkins did. But meanwhile, this 85 00:05:58,600 --> 00:06:01,279 is a real thing reboarded in Wired my magazine. Jim Himes and who's the 86 00:06:01,319 --> 00:06:04,720 other like Mike Turner, I forget what it was. Their staffers were hosting 87 00:06:04,720 --> 00:06:11,800 a piza fest, a pia fest to celebrate the reauthorization of Section seven oh 88 00:06:11,839 --> 00:06:15,439 two. Just yeah, great, great stuff. Well I learned about it 89 00:06:15,439 --> 00:06:19,279 from whoever wrote that and Wired, because the Wired story was about how senior 90 00:06:19,279 --> 00:06:24,720 people at the FBI were actually encouraging people at the FBI on predictably, I 91 00:06:24,759 --> 00:06:29,920 should say, unsurprisingly to use seven oh two to go after I think they 92 00:06:29,920 --> 00:06:31,120 were saying, like us queries, so that would mean, you know, 93 00:06:31,160 --> 00:06:33,959 they were like, let's do this but make sure you're doing it lawfully. 94 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:38,519 But now that it's been reauthorized, like, make sure you're using the tool 95 00:06:38,680 --> 00:06:44,040 and using it correctly with all of the benefits of the new guidelines and reauthorization. 96 00:06:44,240 --> 00:06:46,319 It just such a giant middle finger, and Chris, it made me 97 00:06:46,399 --> 00:06:51,000 realize that to some extent, I really think the We've talked about this a 98 00:06:51,040 --> 00:06:58,000 lot, but the McCarthy ouster was such a waste of the emotion of a 99 00:06:58,079 --> 00:07:01,160 kap because man, what would McCarthy probably would have rolled right in all of 100 00:07:01,160 --> 00:07:04,040 this too. I don't know how you would have avoided it, and this 101 00:07:04,079 --> 00:07:11,240 would have been a much more fun fight. I was talking to a longtime 102 00:07:11,319 --> 00:07:15,240 AID senior aide this week who and we were just laughing about the fact that 103 00:07:15,839 --> 00:07:20,519 the Freedom Caucus kind of crafted this motion of v K tool as something to 104 00:07:20,639 --> 00:07:24,680 hold leadership to account. Right. It hadn't been used that way before Metals 105 00:07:24,759 --> 00:07:28,399 and Jordan did it to Banner. Yeah, and they had the one vote 106 00:07:28,519 --> 00:07:31,519 threshold, and this was this was like a weapon that they crafted for when 107 00:07:31,560 --> 00:07:34,360 they needed it, and they put it on the table in case for like 108 00:07:34,360 --> 00:07:38,480 as part of the negotiations, and no one from the Freedom Caucus has used 109 00:07:38,519 --> 00:07:41,879 it yet because they can kind of forget. It's like you really ought not 110 00:07:42,160 --> 00:07:50,000 to count on the restraint and longsightedness of the entire House representatives populist. It's 111 00:07:50,079 --> 00:07:56,759 like there's a lot of great folks in the House, but there also a 112 00:07:56,800 --> 00:08:00,720 couple of wild men, wild women, and the people who've used it so 113 00:08:00,759 --> 00:08:03,319 far, we're not the folks who designed the weapon. And it's and the 114 00:08:03,360 --> 00:08:09,920 whole idea is like the minority conservative caucus within the GOP does not actually have 115 00:08:11,600 --> 00:08:13,360 they need to keep in order to keep people honest, they need to actually 116 00:08:13,439 --> 00:08:16,480 have the threat of consequences. But it's not something to just pick up and 117 00:08:16,519 --> 00:08:18,920 fire under the crowd every time you get ticked off. You need to have 118 00:08:18,959 --> 00:08:22,920 some kind of game plan, and there hasn't been. I mean the Marjorie 119 00:08:22,920 --> 00:08:26,920 Taylor Marjori Taylor Green is an interesting case. She's super popular with the base. 120 00:08:26,959 --> 00:08:30,399 She basically has a direct line to them. A lot of folks really 121 00:08:30,439 --> 00:08:35,519 like her, except in Washington, where her personality and her staff have really 122 00:08:35,519 --> 00:08:41,720 not done a lot of favors. The folks who know are She ticked off 123 00:08:41,720 --> 00:08:43,879 a lot of liberal Republicans, which she came to town with her conservative viewpoints, 124 00:08:45,200 --> 00:08:48,440 and then she ticked off a lot of conservative Republicans by coosing up to 125 00:08:48,519 --> 00:08:50,320 Kevin McCarthy. Well, you said conservativeview points, but I would say, 126 00:08:50,360 --> 00:08:54,840 even like, I think it's probably better described as populist viewpoints because it's a 127 00:08:54,840 --> 00:09:01,840 matter of tone, and also sometimes you know, the conservatives wouldn't consider certain 128 00:09:01,879 --> 00:09:05,799 things that she supports conservative, like the gatekeepers. If that makes sense. 129 00:09:05,960 --> 00:09:07,240 Yeah, I guess it's more populous. But she ticked off the people who 130 00:09:07,240 --> 00:09:11,480 would be her allies against a lot of those more liberal Republicans with her closeness 131 00:09:11,480 --> 00:09:16,919 with McCarthy and her willingness to lash out of folks. And then then McCarthy 132 00:09:16,960 --> 00:09:22,440 was gone, and she was really leaning heavily on her closeness with Donald Trump. 133 00:09:22,840 --> 00:09:26,480 But then this motion of vacate kind of burned some more bridges. She's 134 00:09:28,960 --> 00:09:31,399 a lot of folks are like people are given crap to Ted Cruz for saying 135 00:09:31,639 --> 00:09:35,039 that this motion of vacate was stupid, and it was a stupid thing for 136 00:09:35,080 --> 00:09:37,480 tick crews to say. There's like no reason to go out there and say 137 00:09:37,480 --> 00:09:41,200 it unless Here's the thing about Ted Cruz, he doesn't say anything off the 138 00:09:41,240 --> 00:09:46,200 cuff, even when he's like incredibly wrong, like the voat your conscience or 139 00:09:46,200 --> 00:09:50,919 going out there to yell at the persecuted Christians of the Middle East for not 140 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:54,360 standing with Israel. Like enough. Even when he does something that's insane, 141 00:09:54,440 --> 00:09:58,399 it's very intentional with an impact that he expects it to have because he's he 142 00:09:58,480 --> 00:10:01,679 is not an off the cuff dude. He does talk a lot in publicly. 143 00:10:01,720 --> 00:10:05,000 He has a podcast, so of course I think it would have been 144 00:10:05,039 --> 00:10:07,320 inevitable that he would comment on the motion of a Kate. I just think 145 00:10:07,360 --> 00:10:11,759 that there's enough of his allies and donors and other people who really don't like 146 00:10:11,759 --> 00:10:15,440 Marjorie Taylor Green, and that was a message to them because it's obviously against 147 00:10:15,440 --> 00:10:16,480 the base. Well, no, I see, I disagree with this. 148 00:10:16,519 --> 00:10:20,600 I actually think this is an interesting This is an important moment for sort of 149 00:10:20,639 --> 00:10:26,159 anti establishment conservatives along the lines of who Ted Cruz was when he came to 150 00:10:26,240 --> 00:10:28,879 the Senate initially, and he's some of that has been tempered. I don't 151 00:10:28,879 --> 00:10:31,279 know that you would say the policy has been tempered, but the tone has 152 00:10:31,279 --> 00:10:35,440 been tempered to some extent, not fully obviously, But I think it's kind 153 00:10:35,480 --> 00:10:41,000 of an important question to ask because in the Bayner years. Arguably Jordan and 154 00:10:41,080 --> 00:10:46,840 Meadows, you can now look back on and say they were successful at having 155 00:10:46,840 --> 00:10:52,639 that shot across the bow of the establishment Republican Party sort of like DC GOP 156 00:10:52,600 --> 00:10:58,200 entrenched class if you look back. I mean, yes, Mike Johnson just 157 00:10:58,279 --> 00:11:00,720 rammed through the bill, but at the same time time like it was, 158 00:11:00,799 --> 00:11:03,279 he had to do it against the base. But they've been growing. Like 159 00:11:03,320 --> 00:11:05,320 you said, I mean, you should just be one or two. He's 160 00:11:05,320 --> 00:11:07,320 feel like a Ron Paul and a couple of people, yeah, and setting 161 00:11:07,440 --> 00:11:11,559 a mint over in Helms before him, and then it was the wacko birds. 162 00:11:11,559 --> 00:11:16,440 And now there's like eleven twelve solid conservative Republican senators you can count on 163 00:11:16,480 --> 00:11:20,519 to be a block. Didn't twenty vote against the terrible bill? Yeah, 164 00:11:18,919 --> 00:11:22,919 and the House representatives that numbers continue to grow. MTG is not part of 165 00:11:22,919 --> 00:11:26,600 it. She's she's her own she's everyone's like kind of afraid to say anything 166 00:11:26,639 --> 00:11:30,919 mean about her because she's so well connected to the base. But she's not 167 00:11:30,960 --> 00:11:33,679 going to come to your support when you're in trouble, and people are just 168 00:11:33,759 --> 00:11:35,360 kind of as one person said, you don't have to like her, just 169 00:11:35,360 --> 00:11:37,840 don't oppose her. So but this is like, actually, this is where 170 00:11:37,879 --> 00:11:41,840 I think this is important because this is a serious question about tactics, and 171 00:11:41,879 --> 00:11:46,480 if you look at the Squad's relationship with Nancy Pelosi, it's instructive and he's 172 00:11:46,480 --> 00:11:50,000 supposed to know haw Keem Jeffreys. It's instructive in to some extent just contrasting 173 00:11:50,039 --> 00:11:56,399 and seeing what lessons can be learned from how that's been handled differently. Whereas, 174 00:11:56,440 --> 00:11:58,840 like on the DEM side, because the media tends to be much more 175 00:12:00,240 --> 00:12:03,480 sympathetic to the cultural aims of the Squad and sort of the I don't know 176 00:12:03,519 --> 00:12:07,559 the moral standing of the Squad than they ever would be to people in the 177 00:12:07,559 --> 00:12:13,320 Freedom Caucus. Because of that, I just think the DEM leadership is much 178 00:12:13,320 --> 00:12:16,879 more sympathetic to the Squad is basically adopted a bunch of their policy ideas, 179 00:12:16,919 --> 00:12:20,480 even if not fully. You know, they haven't gone full Bernie, but 180 00:12:20,519 --> 00:12:22,360 they've gotten close to full basically like, hey, guys, get rid of 181 00:12:22,360 --> 00:12:26,720 the anti semitism or at least be more quiet about it, and then we 182 00:12:26,720 --> 00:12:30,639 can work together on all your crazy things. Because I meant a lot of 183 00:12:30,639 --> 00:12:35,080 the stuff that they fight over is just degree and it's not They're not I 184 00:12:35,080 --> 00:12:41,879 mean, whereas most Republicans came to DC to cut taxes and increase military spending, 185 00:12:43,200 --> 00:12:46,440 maybe like support of war. The freedom Cocass guys are like, what 186 00:12:46,519 --> 00:12:54,600 about building a wall and stopping at lego immigration and any abortion and butank too 187 00:12:54,679 --> 00:12:58,120 much for them. So in this moment, then Mitch McConnell and James Lankford 188 00:12:58,480 --> 00:13:03,799 crafted the dumbest immigration bill even though the entire base has been pushed to one 189 00:13:03,840 --> 00:13:07,480 side, not pushed. I shouldn't say it's because that makes it sound forced, 190 00:13:07,480 --> 00:13:11,080 like the entire base has I guess been forced by horrible Democratic policies, 191 00:13:11,120 --> 00:13:15,120 but has been has gone on one side of that issue and on the in 192 00:13:15,159 --> 00:13:18,000 the GOP. You can still even that, you know, the Senate Minority 193 00:13:18,080 --> 00:13:22,519 leader represents one of the redest states. You can still get that garbage bill 194 00:13:22,679 --> 00:13:28,159 with an Oklahoma Republican that nobody wanted and they were outright lying about. You 195 00:13:28,159 --> 00:13:31,120 can still get that out of Republican leadership. And that's where I think Ted 196 00:13:31,200 --> 00:13:37,159 Cruz's comments are. I feel like, maybe you're not given enough credit not 197 00:13:37,200 --> 00:13:41,559 to say that Ted Cruz is the most important part of this conversation, but 198 00:13:41,600 --> 00:13:46,000 I do think there's to have that from a fire breather, right, like 199 00:13:46,080 --> 00:13:48,679 Ted Kruz, somebody who did the filibuster and all of that, and he's 200 00:13:48,720 --> 00:13:54,320 obviously different now. But to have that conversation about tactics, I actually genuinely 201 00:13:54,360 --> 00:14:01,360 think is worthwhile because it is abundantly clear that the McCarthy ouster was dumb at 202 00:14:01,360 --> 00:14:05,759 this point. And that's not to say it was dumb in the moments, 203 00:14:05,799 --> 00:14:07,080 not to say it was a big deal. Seemed dumb in the moment, 204 00:14:09,240 --> 00:14:11,960 I agree, but I didn't like both of us were just like it's fine, 205 00:14:11,080 --> 00:14:16,679 like, you know, nobody's spilling, nobody's crying for Kevin McCarthy, 206 00:14:16,879 --> 00:14:22,799 about Johnson's in the shaden freuda for we love watching a Republican. I like 207 00:14:22,879 --> 00:14:26,039 watching any politician basically get uh the screws put to them, you know, 208 00:14:26,320 --> 00:14:30,360 watching them, you know, face tough scrutiny. I think that's great. 209 00:14:30,879 --> 00:14:33,080 I don't really have a dog in any of these fights. But from the 210 00:14:33,120 --> 00:14:37,000 tactical perspective, from the substantive perspective, they would have gotten more out of 211 00:14:37,039 --> 00:14:39,399 all of these negotiations with Kevin McCarthy. They would have gotten more from it. 212 00:14:39,960 --> 00:14:43,360 And so I think Ted Cruz coming out and criticizing it, criticizing the 213 00:14:43,399 --> 00:14:48,039 Marjorie Tayler green thing. I actually think more conservatives should openly be having that 214 00:14:48,080 --> 00:14:52,639 discussion about how these blocks should wield their power. I just don't think she's 215 00:14:52,679 --> 00:14:56,320 going to listen and you're going to take off the base. No, I 216 00:14:56,360 --> 00:15:01,519 agree with that, but the like, I think there are people in the 217 00:15:01,559 --> 00:15:05,360 base that aren't like, oh yeah, Marjorie, let's go all in now 218 00:15:05,399 --> 00:15:11,000 again, Let's do another nineteen round vote again. I think I don't care 219 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:18,240 about that. Yeah, I think you lose some I don't want to say 220 00:15:18,240 --> 00:15:24,320 credibility, but you lose some power. I think. 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Like people loved him, and he would buck left and 245 00:17:15,480 --> 00:17:18,400 right, he would throw sharp elbows. He was brutal to work with. 246 00:17:18,519 --> 00:17:22,799 During the Romney campaign, he had no problem telling people Republicans or whoever, 247 00:17:22,960 --> 00:17:29,720 to get bent all the time. And when he fell, which he did 248 00:17:29,799 --> 00:17:33,640 eventually fall, no one reached out a hand to help him because he had 249 00:17:33,640 --> 00:17:37,400 no more friends left. And it's dangerous to act like that. It's like, 250 00:17:38,240 --> 00:17:44,319 it's good to be principal, but it's not great to be antisocial and 251 00:17:44,359 --> 00:17:48,319 to not have allies. And Mike Johnson, by the way, who's like, 252 00:17:48,680 --> 00:17:51,279 somehow he's more popular than Marjori Tayler Green, but he still has no 253 00:17:51,359 --> 00:17:56,000 friends. He's got no out his I mean really no dead man walking. 254 00:17:56,160 --> 00:17:59,279 Yeah, I mean right now. He was saved during this vote by what 255 00:17:59,359 --> 00:18:03,440 I predicted in the letter process vote. So the thirty or forty Republicans voted 256 00:18:03,480 --> 00:18:07,119 against him didn't actually vote against him. They de voted to have a debate, 257 00:18:07,519 --> 00:18:11,400 and the Democrats who came aboard didn't actually vote for Johnson. They devoted 258 00:18:11,599 --> 00:18:14,799 to not have a debate. It was a table that they tabled the most, 259 00:18:15,119 --> 00:18:18,359 like no one had to get their hands dirty, and he got to 260 00:18:18,400 --> 00:18:21,240 scribe. But he's dead man walking. I wonder if he actually thinks he's 261 00:18:21,240 --> 00:18:23,839 going to the way he's been talking to donors and stuff. Actually we speaker 262 00:18:25,000 --> 00:18:30,400 because these defense hawks and appropriators who he's made common cause with aren't hit pals, 263 00:18:32,279 --> 00:18:37,559 and they're not gonna if he adds five ten to the Republican majority, 264 00:18:37,000 --> 00:18:41,039 it's not enough. He's not going to be speaker. Well, there's some 265 00:18:41,079 --> 00:18:42,319 big stuff coming down the pipeline for the rest of the year, right, 266 00:18:42,400 --> 00:18:48,039 Like they passed this big they passed this big spending just in the last month, 267 00:18:48,160 --> 00:18:51,799 but they still do they not still have to do a farm bill, 268 00:18:51,920 --> 00:18:53,440 an FAA, Like, there's a lot of stuff. It sounds like they're 269 00:18:53,440 --> 00:18:56,200 going to kick that can unless they can. I think that the deadlines may 270 00:18:56,200 --> 00:19:00,039 tenth, say May ninth, Ok, today's May ninth. Yeah, but 271 00:19:00,599 --> 00:19:02,920 they can still kick the can. But I'm guessing they would do that until 272 00:19:02,960 --> 00:19:07,680 like September recess. Yeah, that's heavy stuff what conservatives need, and this 273 00:19:07,720 --> 00:19:11,440 would almost be worth like a deal to keep Johnson and a speaker or something. 274 00:19:11,480 --> 00:19:15,759 What conservatives need, what Donald Trump needs if he's to win, or 275 00:19:15,839 --> 00:19:18,480 if he's able to do anything with this win. If he is to win, 276 00:19:19,319 --> 00:19:23,079 Donald Trump needs, if he has to win, a continuing resolution, 277 00:19:23,640 --> 00:19:29,400 a CR that just stop gap budget that just kicks it into January or February 278 00:19:29,519 --> 00:19:32,720 or March. Yeah, not January, which is pathetic by the way, 279 00:19:32,720 --> 00:19:33,839 with a ma georgan. I mean, it's just pathetic all around. Well, 280 00:19:34,039 --> 00:19:37,880 we don't con doesn't really pass budgets anymore, but this time they want 281 00:19:37,920 --> 00:19:41,400 to. The Democrats and the warhawks and everyone's going to want to pass the 282 00:19:41,400 --> 00:19:47,440 massive omnibust. They want more Ukraine money. Yeah, uh, what's that 283 00:19:47,720 --> 00:19:53,359 punch full fruit bowl? I was reading that, like, well, Marjorie 284 00:19:53,359 --> 00:19:56,279 Taylor Green wants Johnson to agree on to do Ukraine funding. And that's not 285 00:19:56,279 --> 00:19:59,680 even in this You're not going to come up again. No one's gonna one's 286 00:19:59,680 --> 00:20:02,839 talking That'm like, yeah, they are. They're gonna put billions of dollars 287 00:20:02,839 --> 00:20:04,640 more to Ukraine than they already talking about it in the omnibus, and then 288 00:20:04,640 --> 00:20:10,519 they put it in Politico as soon as that literally as the Omnibus was passing, 289 00:20:10,839 --> 00:20:14,359 they but maybe bunch of ball. They don't read Politico because you know, 290 00:20:14,400 --> 00:20:18,240 of course that's their rival. They're all they're all alone, are they. 291 00:20:18,359 --> 00:20:23,039 Yeah, But the Defense Hawks and the appropriators and the Democrats all want 292 00:20:23,160 --> 00:20:29,400 a massive omnibus past that they can send money to Ukraine for the defense hawks. 293 00:20:29,640 --> 00:20:32,519 You can send money everywhere you go, and you can hamstring the Trump 294 00:20:32,680 --> 00:20:37,079 potential Trump administration with the budgets already allocated for when they come in. So 295 00:20:37,480 --> 00:20:41,279 that's not Conservatives ought to be. That's a big battle of this coming in. 296 00:20:41,759 --> 00:20:44,920 Maybe we'll write about for Monday, because I think it's alrighting soon. 297 00:20:44,960 --> 00:20:47,960 We have a bat First communion this weekend. Oh that's a busy weekend. 298 00:20:48,079 --> 00:20:52,240 But think about that. They're also pushing for this big chaotic fight potentially over 299 00:20:52,279 --> 00:20:57,559 the speaker again in what September. I mean, right on the doorstep of 300 00:20:57,599 --> 00:21:03,720 the November election, and Republicans are then going to be potentially thrust into this 301 00:21:03,799 --> 00:21:07,920 internet a speaker fight. He'll be speaker until sure January. Sure, okay, 302 00:21:07,920 --> 00:21:12,640 but Chip Roy's constituents and Marjorie Tayler Green's constituents are going to want that 303 00:21:12,720 --> 00:21:18,319 to be handled in some way or another, right I'm not saying she was 304 00:21:18,359 --> 00:21:21,720 going to want the cr but he didn't even join the last speaker fight. 305 00:21:22,440 --> 00:21:25,039 He was on TV a lot talking about what people wanted. This is what 306 00:21:25,039 --> 00:21:30,119 I'm saying. Mike Johnson has been substantially worse than Kevin McCarthy because he flip 307 00:21:30,119 --> 00:21:33,440 flopped, you know what, Like that's that is so much more offensive than 308 00:21:33,480 --> 00:21:37,480 being an establishment guy who's sort of giving, sort of pushing and pulling. 309 00:21:37,839 --> 00:21:40,079 Mike Johnson said he was going to do X, Y and Z no more 310 00:21:40,160 --> 00:21:44,400 Ukraine money seven o two is so dangerous. He wanted Glen Green and everything. 311 00:21:44,440 --> 00:21:47,200 That's the thing. He promises things he can't deliver. I've heard repeatedly 312 00:21:47,240 --> 00:21:51,440 from folks dealing with him. I mean, I I just like the title 313 00:21:51,440 --> 00:21:55,720 of my piece. I don't remember what the title the Bible, Oh yeah 314 00:21:55,759 --> 00:22:00,200 yeah yeah yeah, Well that was a quill, wasn't it. I didn't 315 00:22:00,640 --> 00:22:03,480 I was talking to a source who said that, and I was like, 316 00:22:03,480 --> 00:22:07,400 can I steal that? Oh? I see, okay, that's funny because 317 00:22:07,400 --> 00:22:15,400 the source told me that that was that was from that Yeah. Yeah, 318 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:23,200 But Chris, there's a something in there that you just mentioned about how people 319 00:22:23,880 --> 00:22:30,440 liked Chris Christie, and it reminds me. You know, Congress, the 320 00:22:30,440 --> 00:22:36,440 House of Representatives is supposed to be a place where, you know, what 321 00:22:36,559 --> 00:22:38,839 is the It's supposed to be raucous. It's supposed to be have that sort 322 00:22:38,839 --> 00:22:45,000 of Madisonian uh, you know, balance with the Senate obviously, but also 323 00:22:45,039 --> 00:22:47,920 you have people, I don't know if I mentioned this to you before, 324 00:22:48,079 --> 00:22:53,720 a lobbying firm did a fascinating study that found UH members from the poorest districts 325 00:22:55,319 --> 00:23:00,240 UH disproportionately were represented by the populist caucuses. So that would be us to 326 00:23:00,319 --> 00:23:04,640 Democrats, the Squad and the Freedom Caucus. And you then have to kind 327 00:23:04,640 --> 00:23:07,920 of if you're if you're Mike Johnson, you then have to kind of say, 328 00:23:08,200 --> 00:23:11,599 all right, so we have they have this power that's been built into 329 00:23:11,640 --> 00:23:15,960 the parliamentary procedure via the motion and vacate via all these other you know, 330 00:23:17,480 --> 00:23:21,480 different things, and obviously Kevin McCarthy installed them in the Rules Committee and all 331 00:23:21,519 --> 00:23:25,000 that good stuff. And you're looking at this and you're, okay, so 332 00:23:25,039 --> 00:23:27,160 we have to get something done. We have to pass budgets, and we 333 00:23:27,240 --> 00:23:33,960 also have to know you don't want to pass budgets just to know that's true. 334 00:23:33,119 --> 00:23:36,839 Nobody wants to pass an actual budget. We're just gonna do it this 335 00:23:36,920 --> 00:23:41,680 time. Democrats do, they don't really want to. They want a tasty 336 00:23:41,680 --> 00:23:47,000 CR. They'll get exactly what they want out of a continuing resolution. Yeah, 337 00:23:47,039 --> 00:23:49,000 I guess you need to strip down CR. It says the basics, 338 00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:52,720 but the one is going to want that. But this is the fundamental question 339 00:23:52,799 --> 00:23:56,240 that both Republicans and Democrats are balancing. Uh in the House, but also 340 00:23:56,279 --> 00:23:57,640 in the twenty twenty four election. It's like, you have to appeal to 341 00:23:57,720 --> 00:24:03,240 normal people. Normal people want common stability, but they also hate the political 342 00:24:03,319 --> 00:24:08,079 establishment. So it's not an easy This is all I'm saying is like, 343 00:24:08,200 --> 00:24:11,440 it's not an easy thing for Mike Johnson to do, especially with the thin 344 00:24:11,559 --> 00:24:15,559 majority. It's not an easy thing for Donald Trumper Joe Biden to have to 345 00:24:15,599 --> 00:24:19,319 do. But the very least that someone like by Johnson could do is actually 346 00:24:19,319 --> 00:24:26,119 represent the district that he represents nominally. Mike Johnson always complains about the size 347 00:24:26,119 --> 00:24:29,640 of his majority. Well, the Democrats govern with the minority. It's really 348 00:24:29,720 --> 00:24:36,160 pathetic. Thank you for that observation. He's always whining about it. New 349 00:24:36,200 --> 00:24:38,160 thing is talking about how a little sleep, he gets shut up, stop 350 00:24:38,200 --> 00:24:41,480 wayning. You're an adult. No, what did his parents not tell him 351 00:24:41,480 --> 00:24:45,920 that? Any single time the boy even begins to strike a wine tone, 352 00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:49,240 I'm like, stop that. I don't care if he's like my hand got 353 00:24:49,240 --> 00:24:56,200 cut off, My hand got cut off, Okay, go to urgent care 354 00:24:56,720 --> 00:25:02,240 with it that way? Is there anything you wanted to add on your reporting 355 00:25:02,279 --> 00:25:04,759 on all of this that's swirling right now? You mentioned, of course, 356 00:25:04,799 --> 00:25:10,559 that they tabled the motion, which means that you know, even if she 357 00:25:11,119 --> 00:25:14,880 was it's called the privileging the motion and vacate. Even though she did that 358 00:25:15,440 --> 00:25:18,400 still got tabled, so never ended up. I still as a procedural hurdle 359 00:25:19,200 --> 00:25:22,160 where the majority sim of the majority, can you say we don't want to 360 00:25:22,160 --> 00:25:26,960 talk about it. You know. One of the wild things is I always 361 00:25:29,440 --> 00:25:32,759 doing this newsletter. I had a bunch of questions, right, I would 362 00:25:32,759 --> 00:25:33,960 like start it off with all right, I have a really dumb question, 363 00:25:36,160 --> 00:25:37,359 and I would talk to people who know a lot of things, who actually 364 00:25:37,400 --> 00:25:41,240 didn't know the answer to it, and making me realize just how dense so 365 00:25:41,319 --> 00:25:42,960 much of this stuff is. How many people you have to call to even 366 00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:49,200 figure out, for example, reporting on the fa bill. Yeah, and 367 00:25:49,559 --> 00:25:53,200 I asked. I saw a friend of ours who'd written a story for a 368 00:25:53,279 --> 00:25:56,279 DC publication on it, and I texted him and said, why do we 369 00:25:56,319 --> 00:26:02,440 need to reauthorize the FAA was like this, it can no longer command with 370 00:26:02,440 --> 00:26:07,799 the skies on May eleventh, plan is going to start falling. He had 371 00:26:07,799 --> 00:26:11,720 no idea. So I had to don't worry about one person in the hill, 372 00:26:11,759 --> 00:26:15,279 and I had to call a second person before I got the answer, 373 00:26:15,319 --> 00:26:18,839 which is, well, they collect the taxes and that needs to be authorized 374 00:26:18,880 --> 00:26:22,240 by the Congress. Back when Congress used to actually oversee the executive branch, 375 00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:26,240 they would do things where it's like, all right, you've got the authorisation 376 00:26:26,319 --> 00:26:27,599 to do this, but then in five years whatever, you come back to 377 00:26:27,680 --> 00:26:30,839 us three years, we look at what you've done, we see how we 378 00:26:30,880 --> 00:26:33,279 want to tweak it, and then we authorize it again. And that's why 379 00:26:33,279 --> 00:26:34,880 a lot of the smaller airports are funded. And this is when it turns 380 00:26:34,880 --> 00:26:40,279 out this is actually one where Congress actually does do its job and pays attention 381 00:26:40,400 --> 00:26:42,480 and it's a good thing. But that's just been a fun part. I 382 00:26:42,519 --> 00:26:45,000 mean, trying to figure out exactly, well, how does the speaker kick 383 00:26:45,039 --> 00:26:49,200 you off of a committee. What happens next? Does it make a difference 384 00:26:49,240 --> 00:26:52,720 if he does it at night or during the day, to make a difference 385 00:26:52,759 --> 00:26:55,359 if he does it over at Christmas break? Yes, the answer is yes, 386 00:26:56,920 --> 00:27:02,799 that actually happened. And where they need to vote? And how can 387 00:27:02,799 --> 00:27:04,559 they do the rules? And if they negotiate the rules in November, they 388 00:27:04,559 --> 00:27:07,599 can they renegotiate them. The answer to that is yes. So it's been 389 00:27:07,680 --> 00:27:11,400 really fun, but you have to have to keep calling people to get to 390 00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:15,359 find the BRAINI actus really know what's going on. This is what scares me 391 00:27:15,400 --> 00:27:21,920 about the media is that the slogan democracy but think like democracy dies in darkness 392 00:27:22,119 --> 00:27:27,039 is so true. It's what's like especially terrifying about the Washington Post thinking that 393 00:27:27,119 --> 00:27:34,119 it somehow exemplifies that motto, like how much is happening? That because conservative 394 00:27:34,119 --> 00:27:37,640 media is small and scrappy. I think consertive media does a fantastic job for 395 00:27:37,680 --> 00:27:41,599 what it is, which is small and scrappy. We do not have the 396 00:27:41,720 --> 00:27:47,920 billion dollars, decades long institutions, centuries long institutions in some cases that these 397 00:27:48,640 --> 00:27:55,279 media companies are overseeing and they're not like actually going towards the darkness whatsoever. 398 00:27:55,319 --> 00:27:57,160 They're shining light on the things that the Democrats are, you know, quote 399 00:27:57,200 --> 00:28:02,559 unquote shining light on times that's great reporting. Sometimes, for example they dood 400 00:28:02,640 --> 00:28:06,759 good reporting on big tech or good reporting on the Pentagon or something like that. 401 00:28:06,799 --> 00:28:12,960 But just imagine how much stuff goes undiscovered, not only because of how 402 00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:18,799 awful the media is, how relatively small conservative media is, but also because 403 00:28:18,799 --> 00:28:22,599 of how freaking big our government and our business sector have become and opaque. 404 00:28:23,240 --> 00:28:26,559 Yeah, it's just diffic about to figure out who's in charge and what. 405 00:28:26,279 --> 00:28:30,160 I was talking to somebody other day about Bane Capital. You know, there's 406 00:28:30,160 --> 00:28:33,559 no like president of bank. There's not like person it's in charge. It 407 00:28:33,720 --> 00:28:37,119 just it's in charge of itself. It's like a massive it's run by a 408 00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:42,160 massive committee where people rotate. I guess it's a couple of years. I 409 00:28:42,279 --> 00:28:45,240 spent a little while, but it just shocked me. I was like, 410 00:28:45,240 --> 00:28:48,720 well, who's in charge of Bane. It's like no one, No one's 411 00:28:48,720 --> 00:28:53,880 in chargean It's America's communist standard bearer. The people are in charge of Bane, 412 00:28:53,880 --> 00:28:56,119 one of the worst biggest companies. No, no one in charge of 413 00:28:56,160 --> 00:28:59,519 it. It's just like operating, no one at the wheel. It's the 414 00:28:59,599 --> 00:29:03,720 Titan and it just lumbering along through the Atlantic. Yeah. I mean when 415 00:29:03,720 --> 00:29:10,240 I talked to a sooka to some a disaffected Democrat in Philadelphia who was reporting 416 00:29:10,279 --> 00:29:14,119 on how they telling me after the twenty twenty elections, how they blend votes 417 00:29:14,160 --> 00:29:18,160 and stuff, and I called it a party machine. He just laughed. 418 00:29:18,200 --> 00:29:21,519 He said, there's no no levers. No one's like pushing buttons and pulling 419 00:29:21,559 --> 00:29:23,759 levers to make this thing go. It's more like a living organism that just 420 00:29:25,240 --> 00:29:29,279 like your brain isn't Your brain actually does, but your conscious brain doesn't say 421 00:29:29,519 --> 00:29:33,079 heart beat, mouth, open, finger on furl. It's like it just 422 00:29:33,160 --> 00:29:37,160 does it in the background. It just knows what to do. And he 423 00:29:37,200 --> 00:29:40,559 said, that's what that's how Philadelphia politics work. Everyone's kind of knows what 424 00:29:40,599 --> 00:29:44,400 to do. Yeah, I remember your guys is reporting on that. Actually, 425 00:29:44,480 --> 00:29:47,400 before we wrap, we randomly were joined in the office to by Sean 426 00:29:47,400 --> 00:29:49,440 Fleetwood. Sean, can you hear me? Okay, So this is not 427 00:29:49,480 --> 00:29:52,519 planned at all, but John had a big scoop yesterday. He confirmed with 428 00:29:52,559 --> 00:30:00,799 the FBI that they are they have resumed their conversations with these big tech companies. 429 00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:04,160 And I think Mark Warner said something to that effect, but trying to 430 00:30:04,240 --> 00:30:07,640 actually reached out to the FBI and the FBI and a statement, We're like, 431 00:30:07,759 --> 00:30:10,559 yep, Fleetwood, you want to come over here and get on the 432 00:30:10,599 --> 00:30:14,039 mic and tell us a little bit about what happened. He's coming over and 433 00:30:14,119 --> 00:30:18,359 Chris is giving him some type of look to hear about it. Here, 434 00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:22,920 Fleetwood, tell us what you reported yesterday? All right, So basically, 435 00:30:22,960 --> 00:30:29,640 hello everyone. Basically, Senator Mark Order issued a statement to reporters on Monday 436 00:30:30,079 --> 00:30:37,319 basically telling them like, we've been in contact with SISSA, Cybersecurity and Security 437 00:30:37,319 --> 00:30:42,519 Infrastructure Agency terrible name, but SISSA and FBI, and basically they confirmed they 438 00:30:42,559 --> 00:30:51,759 had resumed communications with big tech companies to squash what they claimed to be disinformation. 439 00:30:52,839 --> 00:30:56,400 So I reached out to the FBI and SISSA and FBI basically gave like 440 00:30:56,440 --> 00:31:02,160 this milk toast statement confirming that in fact, they had resumed communications with social 441 00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:03,720 media And of course they're like, oh, but we leave that up to 442 00:31:04,319 --> 00:31:11,079 the companies to determine what's valid and what's not in terms of disinformation. And 443 00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:17,519 SISA just completely declined to comment. So that's the latest, So get ready 444 00:31:17,519 --> 00:31:21,480 for more censorship ahead of twenty twenty four. Awesome, I can't wait it's 445 00:31:21,480 --> 00:31:25,200 coming again. Right, We're gonna get a big tech crackdown the polls. 446 00:31:25,319 --> 00:31:27,839 They keep on I think Nelly Bowls over the Free Press said, they keep 447 00:31:27,839 --> 00:31:32,000 on trying to put in different inputs into the pulling machine, and they keep 448 00:31:32,039 --> 00:31:37,559 on getting the same results, just like everyone hates Joe Biden. So I 449 00:31:37,599 --> 00:31:41,200 expect it to get worse. I mean Google's already put out these policies. 450 00:31:41,240 --> 00:31:45,559 It says, well, we're going to stop people from profiting off of X, 451 00:31:45,759 --> 00:31:48,759 Y, and Z, and that's gonna common. I mean, who 452 00:31:48,839 --> 00:31:52,039 funds the Federals? I was also rich. This is what we've gone through. 453 00:31:52,039 --> 00:31:55,640 This one thing, Sean, I just wanted to ask you. Is 454 00:31:56,400 --> 00:31:59,119 this not part of the Murphy v. Missouri case? It has a different 455 00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:02,279 name now, but is in this like literally something that the government is currently 456 00:32:02,559 --> 00:32:08,519 in a legal battle over. Yeah. So the Murphy of you Missouri case, 457 00:32:08,720 --> 00:32:14,000 which has been going on for about to almost two years, I guess 458 00:32:14,240 --> 00:32:19,599 is when the lawsuit was originally filed by Louisiana, Missouri, originally the district 459 00:32:19,680 --> 00:32:22,640 court that had heard the case and the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals had ruled 460 00:32:22,640 --> 00:32:27,920 that basically put an injunction in place, saying, no, you can't communicate 461 00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:31,720 with these companies, you can't censor content, and they really seem to be 462 00:32:31,799 --> 00:32:37,480 in favor of Missouri and Louisiana, saying like the documents, the emails and 463 00:32:37,519 --> 00:32:43,400 stuff like that show that the government had really put a lot of pressure on 464 00:32:43,440 --> 00:32:47,240 these companies to censor content that they deemed to be untruthful, which was really 465 00:32:47,279 --> 00:32:52,880 just facts going against the Biden regimes narrative. But the Supreme Court, unfortunately 466 00:32:53,319 --> 00:33:00,400 last October or November basically lifted that in junction. So that's why the FBI 467 00:33:00,480 --> 00:33:06,960 and SESSA are able to work with these big tech companies to censor so called 468 00:33:06,960 --> 00:33:12,279 disinformation. So SCOTUS will decide that either later this month or next month. 469 00:33:13,079 --> 00:33:17,480 We will see what they say. But yeah, I did not listen to 470 00:33:17,559 --> 00:33:22,920 oral arguments, but from people who did listen in Margo Cleveland, our senior 471 00:33:23,039 --> 00:33:28,160 legal correspondent, she reported that it didn't really seem to go super well for 472 00:33:28,240 --> 00:33:32,640 the plaintiffs, which is unfortunate. Remember you mentioning Edie would Yeah, they 473 00:33:32,640 --> 00:33:37,079 were disastrously. We talked about it. Yeah, so I'm sure like not 474 00:33:37,119 --> 00:33:40,240 one for predictions, but I would imagine, like Clarence Thomas, Samuel Lito, 475 00:33:40,279 --> 00:33:44,839 they'll probably be more in favor of our corner Neil Gorsich. But of 476 00:33:44,880 --> 00:33:47,079 course the three that you have to watch is John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, 477 00:33:47,160 --> 00:33:52,480 and ACB. So we shall see. Sean Fleetwood, thank you so much 478 00:33:52,519 --> 00:33:59,039 for crouching by the microphone to give us this impromptu update. Amazing Sean Fleetwood, 479 00:33:59,079 --> 00:34:01,440 staff writer the Federalists. Go check out his story on the FBI. 480 00:34:01,720 --> 00:34:05,519 Chris, that worked out great. We were already talking about the FBI. 481 00:34:05,680 --> 00:34:08,079 Yeah. All right, Well, you've been listening to another edition of the 482 00:34:08,079 --> 00:34:13,239 Federalist Radio Hour. Emily Trishinski, joined today by Christopher Bedford of The Blaze. 483 00:34:13,320 --> 00:34:15,639 We will be back soon with more. Until then, the lovers of 484 00:34:15,719 --> 00:34:30,039 freedom and anxious for the Fray