We're back with another edition of the Federalist Radio Hour. I'm only Kishinski,
culture editor here at the Federalist. As always, you can email the show
at radio at the Federalist dot com, follow us on exit fdr LST.
Make sure to subscribe wherever you download your podcasts, and of course to the
premium version of our website as well. I'm joined today once again by the
Blazes Christopher Bedford, whose newsletter has been doing well. I really liked the
idea of doing it twice a week, Chris. I think that was really
smart on your wife's behalf. Thank you. I feel like I ought to
be writing more, and I look forward to writing more since you finished this
move but twice a week. It's actually pretty newsletter. It takes more than
I expected. You have to read things well. What I like about it
is that you're doing what basically nobody else on the right does, which is
the kind of belt Way newsletter writing from the perspective of a totally anti establishment
populist conservative. It's cool, thanks, that's the goal. There's a you
got punch bowl, and you got playbook, you got axios, and they're
either putting out democratic talking points that they're putting out leadership talking points brought to
you by Pfizer. Yeah. Yeah, so we wanted to I wanted to
put somebody together that showed what we think. It's the craziest thing. And
where can you get People can subscribe over at the Blaze. Yeah, they
can sign up over at the Blaze. Great. I wish I probably memorized
that year or l Yes, yes you should. But I have something to
ask you about. Oh, cannibal sandwich. Yeah. Yeah. Every once
in a while I get a weird like meme DMed to me from Chris,
And this was indeed a meme about a Wisconsin specialty called the cannibal sandwich.
And Chris just DMed it to me and said, is this real? It's
ah, yes, I if you explained it as a person, Wisconson is
up to what I said, did not look great? No, it looks
absolutely discussing. It's raw hamburger on a piece of toast with like onion and
I want to say, like horse radish or something. I've never had it.
It is though in one of my grandmother's recipe books. It is a
thing. Have you ever had it? I have seen it served in the
wild I've seen it served, I've never had it. So like hamburger meat,
I love steak tartar. I could eat a steak pretty rare. I
can eat a steak rare. I don't like steak tartar, though. The
thing about hamburger meat is it's got so much surface area because it's been ground,
and like a steak, because only I got so much surface area,
you can you can basically cook a steak with good enough quality meat with lemon,
just like acid. Yeah, because there's so much surface area on ground
beef that it's really considered one of the least safe products seats eat raw.
So you do you grind it fresh to make this sandwich or you just like
buy a discount piece of beef at Walmart and throat on toasts. You are
asking a wrong person. I truly have no idea. I'm sure some listeners
are now going to email radio at the Federals dot com either criticizing you for
judging or criticizing me. Um. Yeah, well I think it's fair.
It's pretty disgusting. I like it's pretty tar on toasts. I think that
onions and pickles and stuff like horsepads is like a great pairing for that.
I like a pretty rare hamburger too, mistake. I rarely grind it though,
I almost always slice it like thin cubes. And then you have to
add something to add a little bit of crunch to it, like get add
some egg, some lemon, chives, and I've got a good trick I
learned from a friend's sister who's a who's a chef over for the Italian ski
Resort, is to add potato chips, like cape cord potato chips, to
give it a crisp to kind of push back against that texture you probably don't
like. You have a friend who's a chef, Danza's sister, there's a
chef over there. Okay, all right, sounds sounds reasonable to me.
Do you like chips on a sandwich? Though? That was well, I
won't get into it. We don't. We don't swich Yeah, of course,
like a plane of courtato, of course. Yeah, it's good.
I think one of the best, one of the best meals in the world
is just a regular sandwich, whether it's a peanut butter and jelly or like
turkey with cheese and potato chips on the side, with a pickle and maybe
a soda like, that's a great meal. I eat cold cut roll ups
for lunch often. Now I'm not that's not my thing, but God bless
you. And it's like do I have time? Am I going to cook
and prepare something? Or am I going to eat the food that I bought
for Christopher? Yeah, little Christopher. He's not talking about himself, and
so you know, I mean, I know you don't want to talk about
Christine say anything at all. Well, I was going to make a joke
about you were talking about how you grind the meat, and I just say,
you know, you just you go to the gravel pit. That's where
you get the the cannicleal sandwich from. But anyway, we'll just move right
along in conversation, like along in the gravel pit, talking to people,
keeping up all shading in the gravel pit. You know, it wasn't just
the dog, it was also the goat. So it's poor one not for
them today, keep them in your mind. Chris doesn't want to talk about
it, but I'll just briefly say I've never seen anyone bought a book roll
out like that, and I've seen a lot of botched book rollouts. But
moving right along as Chris sits here just march right for incredible. See,
I can't help myself not allowed to talk about it. Yeah, well you
don't want end up in the gravel pit. But that being said, Chris,
your newsletter this week touched on basically Actually Margine Tayler Green just last night
this is getting like basically no coverage. But she actually went forward with the
motion of ak last night against Mike Johnson. Meanwhile, and this is a
real thing that was reported in Wired Leary Jenkins did. But meanwhile, this
is a real thing reboarded in Wired my magazine. Jim Himes and who's the
other like Mike Turner, I forget what it was. Their staffers were hosting
a piza fest, a pia fest to celebrate the reauthorization of Section seven oh
two. Just yeah, great, great stuff. Well I learned about it
from whoever wrote that and Wired, because the Wired story was about how senior
people at the FBI were actually encouraging people at the FBI on predictably, I
should say, unsurprisingly to use seven oh two to go after I think they
were saying, like us queries, so that would mean, you know,
they were like, let's do this but make sure you're doing it lawfully.
But now that it's been reauthorized, like, make sure you're using the tool
and using it correctly with all of the benefits of the new guidelines and reauthorization.
It just such a giant middle finger, and Chris, it made me
realize that to some extent, I really think the We've talked about this a
lot, but the McCarthy ouster was such a waste of the emotion of a
kap because man, what would McCarthy probably would have rolled right in all of
this too. I don't know how you would have avoided it, and this
would have been a much more fun fight. I was talking to a longtime
AID senior aide this week who and we were just laughing about the fact that
the Freedom Caucus kind of crafted this motion of v K tool as something to
hold leadership to account. Right. It hadn't been used that way before Metals
and Jordan did it to Banner. Yeah, and they had the one vote
threshold, and this was this was like a weapon that they crafted for when
they needed it, and they put it on the table in case for like
as part of the negotiations, and no one from the Freedom Caucus has used
it yet because they can kind of forget. It's like you really ought not
to count on the restraint and longsightedness of the entire House representatives populist. It's
like there's a lot of great folks in the House, but there also a
couple of wild men, wild women, and the people who've used it so
far, we're not the folks who designed the weapon. And it's and the
whole idea is like the minority conservative caucus within the GOP does not actually have
they need to keep in order to keep people honest, they need to actually
have the threat of consequences. But it's not something to just pick up and
fire under the crowd every time you get ticked off. You need to have
some kind of game plan, and there hasn't been. I mean the Marjorie
Taylor Marjori Taylor Green is an interesting case. She's super popular with the base.
She basically has a direct line to them. A lot of folks really
like her, except in Washington, where her personality and her staff have really
not done a lot of favors. The folks who know are She ticked off
a lot of liberal Republicans, which she came to town with her conservative viewpoints,
and then she ticked off a lot of conservative Republicans by coosing up to
Kevin McCarthy. Well, you said conservativeview points, but I would say,
even like, I think it's probably better described as populist viewpoints because it's a
matter of tone, and also sometimes you know, the conservatives wouldn't consider certain
things that she supports conservative, like the gatekeepers. If that makes sense.
Yeah, I guess it's more populous. But she ticked off the people who
would be her allies against a lot of those more liberal Republicans with her closeness
with McCarthy and her willingness to lash out of folks. And then then McCarthy
was gone, and she was really leaning heavily on her closeness with Donald Trump.
But then this motion of vacate kind of burned some more bridges. She's
a lot of folks are like people are given crap to Ted Cruz for saying
that this motion of vacate was stupid, and it was a stupid thing for
tick crews to say. There's like no reason to go out there and say
it unless Here's the thing about Ted Cruz, he doesn't say anything off the
cuff, even when he's like incredibly wrong, like the voat your conscience or
going out there to yell at the persecuted Christians of the Middle East for not
standing with Israel. Like enough. Even when he does something that's insane,
it's very intentional with an impact that he expects it to have because he's he
is not an off the cuff dude. He does talk a lot in publicly.
He has a podcast, so of course I think it would have been
inevitable that he would comment on the motion of a Kate. I just think
that there's enough of his allies and donors and other people who really don't like
Marjorie Taylor Green, and that was a message to them because it's obviously against
the base. Well, no, I see, I disagree with this.
I actually think this is an interesting This is an important moment for sort of
anti establishment conservatives along the lines of who Ted Cruz was when he came to
the Senate initially, and he's some of that has been tempered. I don't
know that you would say the policy has been tempered, but the tone has
been tempered to some extent, not fully obviously, But I think it's kind
of an important question to ask because in the Bayner years. Arguably Jordan and
Meadows, you can now look back on and say they were successful at having
that shot across the bow of the establishment Republican Party sort of like DC GOP
entrenched class if you look back. I mean, yes, Mike Johnson just
rammed through the bill, but at the same time time like it was,
he had to do it against the base. But they've been growing. Like
you said, I mean, you should just be one or two. He's
feel like a Ron Paul and a couple of people, yeah, and setting
a mint over in Helms before him, and then it was the wacko birds.
And now there's like eleven twelve solid conservative Republican senators you can count on
to be a block. Didn't twenty vote against the terrible bill? Yeah,
and the House representatives that numbers continue to grow. MTG is not part of
it. She's she's her own she's everyone's like kind of afraid to say anything
mean about her because she's so well connected to the base. But she's not
going to come to your support when you're in trouble, and people are just
kind of as one person said, you don't have to like her, just
don't oppose her. So but this is like, actually, this is where
I think this is important because this is a serious question about tactics, and
if you look at the Squad's relationship with Nancy Pelosi, it's instructive and he's
supposed to know haw Keem Jeffreys. It's instructive in to some extent just contrasting
and seeing what lessons can be learned from how that's been handled differently. Whereas,
like on the DEM side, because the media tends to be much more
sympathetic to the cultural aims of the Squad and sort of the I don't know
the moral standing of the Squad than they ever would be to people in the
Freedom Caucus. Because of that, I just think the DEM leadership is much
more sympathetic to the Squad is basically adopted a bunch of their policy ideas,
even if not fully. You know, they haven't gone full Bernie, but
they've gotten close to full basically like, hey, guys, get rid of
the anti semitism or at least be more quiet about it, and then we
can work together on all your crazy things. Because I meant a lot of
the stuff that they fight over is just degree and it's not They're not I
mean, whereas most Republicans came to DC to cut taxes and increase military spending,
maybe like support of war. The freedom Cocass guys are like, what
about building a wall and stopping at lego immigration and any abortion and butank too
much for them. So in this moment, then Mitch McConnell and James Lankford
crafted the dumbest immigration bill even though the entire base has been pushed to one
side, not pushed. I shouldn't say it's because that makes it sound forced,
like the entire base has I guess been forced by horrible Democratic policies,
but has been has gone on one side of that issue and on the in
the GOP. You can still even that, you know, the Senate Minority
leader represents one of the redest states. You can still get that garbage bill
with an Oklahoma Republican that nobody wanted and they were outright lying about. You
can still get that out of Republican leadership. And that's where I think Ted
Cruz's comments are. I feel like, maybe you're not given enough credit not
to say that Ted Cruz is the most important part of this conversation, but
I do think there's to have that from a fire breather, right, like
Ted Kruz, somebody who did the filibuster and all of that, and he's
obviously different now. But to have that conversation about tactics, I actually genuinely
think is worthwhile because it is abundantly clear that the McCarthy ouster was dumb at
this point. And that's not to say it was dumb in the moments,
not to say it was a big deal. Seemed dumb in the moment,
I agree, but I didn't like both of us were just like it's fine,
like, you know, nobody's spilling, nobody's crying for Kevin McCarthy,
about Johnson's in the shaden freuda for we love watching a Republican. I like
watching any politician basically get uh the screws put to them, you know,
watching them, you know, face tough scrutiny. I think that's great.
I don't really have a dog in any of these fights. But from the
tactical perspective, from the substantive perspective, they would have gotten more out of
all of these negotiations with Kevin McCarthy. They would have gotten more from it.
And so I think Ted Cruz coming out and criticizing it, criticizing the
Marjorie Tayler green thing. I actually think more conservatives should openly be having that
discussion about how these blocks should wield their power. I just don't think she's
going to listen and you're going to take off the base. No, I
agree with that, but the like, I think there are people in the
base that aren't like, oh yeah, Marjorie, let's go all in now
again, Let's do another nineteen round vote again. I think I don't care
about that. Yeah, I think you lose some I don't want to say
credibility, but you lose some power. I think. All right, today's
episode is brought to you by surf Shark. Surf Shark is a cyber security
tool that really improves your online privacy and also protects you from hackers. So
how does surf Shark do that. Well, their main product is a VPN,
so basically it acts as a protective shield and it hides your IP address
so that everything you're doing online stays private, whether that's just reading the news,
googling some dodgy info, which, let me tell you, as a
journalist, I have been there streaming some shows, listening to podcasts or anything
else. It stays private. Plus, if you use a VPN, you
can basically travel around the whole world from the comfort of your very own home,
and serf Shark gives you over one hundred countries to choose from. Once
you change your virtual location, you're actually able to bypass censorship and restrictions.
You can find your favorites on Netflix, on Hulu, Disney Plus, I
know plenty of people who love doing that or other streaming services. And then
you can even access new libraries that allow you to watch even more content.
Can't see a YouTube video because of your location, you can use the serf
Shark VPN. If you can't access maybe one website that lets you buy limited
edition sneakers, you can again use the surf Shark VPN. So try surf
Shark today totally risk free with a thirty day money back guarantee. Get surf
Shark VPN at surf shark dot deals slash Federalist, enter promo code Federalist for
three extra months for free. You hear me right, that's three extra months
for free. That's surf Shark dot deals slash Federalist. You see to keep
friends, I mean, remember one of the most It's hard to remember at
this point, but one of the most popular politicians in America was New Jersey
Governor Chris Christy. Like people loved him, and he would buck left and
right, he would throw sharp elbows. He was brutal to work with.
During the Romney campaign, he had no problem telling people Republicans or whoever,
to get bent all the time. And when he fell, which he did
eventually fall, no one reached out a hand to help him because he had
no more friends left. And it's dangerous to act like that. It's like,
it's good to be principal, but it's not great to be antisocial and
to not have allies. And Mike Johnson, by the way, who's like,
somehow he's more popular than Marjori Tayler Green, but he still has no
friends. He's got no out his I mean really no dead man walking.
Yeah, I mean right now. He was saved during this vote by what
I predicted in the letter process vote. So the thirty or forty Republicans voted
against him didn't actually vote against him. They de voted to have a debate,
and the Democrats who came aboard didn't actually vote for Johnson. They devoted
to not have a debate. It was a table that they tabled the most,
like no one had to get their hands dirty, and he got to
scribe. But he's dead man walking. I wonder if he actually thinks he's
going to the way he's been talking to donors and stuff. Actually we speaker
because these defense hawks and appropriators who he's made common cause with aren't hit pals,
and they're not gonna if he adds five ten to the Republican majority,
it's not enough. He's not going to be speaker. Well, there's some
big stuff coming down the pipeline for the rest of the year, right,
Like they passed this big they passed this big spending just in the last month,
but they still do they not still have to do a farm bill,
an FAA, Like, there's a lot of stuff. It sounds like they're
going to kick that can unless they can. I think that the deadlines may
tenth, say May ninth, Ok, today's May ninth. Yeah, but
they can still kick the can. But I'm guessing they would do that until
like September recess. Yeah, that's heavy stuff what conservatives need, and this
would almost be worth like a deal to keep Johnson and a speaker or something.
What conservatives need, what Donald Trump needs if he's to win, or
if he's able to do anything with this win. If he is to win,
Donald Trump needs, if he has to win, a continuing resolution,
a CR that just stop gap budget that just kicks it into January or February
or March. Yeah, not January, which is pathetic by the way,
with a ma georgan. I mean, it's just pathetic all around. Well,
we don't con doesn't really pass budgets anymore, but this time they want
to. The Democrats and the warhawks and everyone's going to want to pass the
massive omnibust. They want more Ukraine money. Yeah, uh, what's that
punch full fruit bowl? I was reading that, like, well, Marjorie
Taylor Green wants Johnson to agree on to do Ukraine funding. And that's not
even in this You're not going to come up again. No one's gonna one's
talking That'm like, yeah, they are. They're gonna put billions of dollars
more to Ukraine than they already talking about it in the omnibus, and then
they put it in Politico as soon as that literally as the Omnibus was passing,
they but maybe bunch of ball. They don't read Politico because you know,
of course that's their rival. They're all they're all alone, are they.
Yeah, But the Defense Hawks and the appropriators and the Democrats all want
a massive omnibus past that they can send money to Ukraine for the defense hawks.
You can send money everywhere you go, and you can hamstring the Trump
potential Trump administration with the budgets already allocated for when they come in. So
that's not Conservatives ought to be. That's a big battle of this coming in.
Maybe we'll write about for Monday, because I think it's alrighting soon.
We have a bat First communion this weekend. Oh that's a busy weekend.
But think about that. They're also pushing for this big chaotic fight potentially over
the speaker again in what September. I mean, right on the doorstep of
the November election, and Republicans are then going to be potentially thrust into this
internet a speaker fight. He'll be speaker until sure January. Sure, okay,
but Chip Roy's constituents and Marjorie Tayler Green's constituents are going to want that
to be handled in some way or another, right I'm not saying she was
going to want the cr but he didn't even join the last speaker fight.
He was on TV a lot talking about what people wanted. This is what
I'm saying. Mike Johnson has been substantially worse than Kevin McCarthy because he flip
flopped, you know what, Like that's that is so much more offensive than
being an establishment guy who's sort of giving, sort of pushing and pulling.
Mike Johnson said he was going to do X, Y and Z no more
Ukraine money seven o two is so dangerous. He wanted Glen Green and everything.
That's the thing. He promises things he can't deliver. I've heard repeatedly
from folks dealing with him. I mean, I I just like the title
of my piece. I don't remember what the title the Bible, Oh yeah
yeah yeah yeah, Well that was a quill, wasn't it. I didn't
I was talking to a source who said that, and I was like,
can I steal that? Oh? I see, okay, that's funny because
the source told me that that was that was from that Yeah. Yeah,
But Chris, there's a something in there that you just mentioned about how people
liked Chris Christie, and it reminds me. You know, Congress, the
House of Representatives is supposed to be a place where, you know, what
is the It's supposed to be raucous. It's supposed to be have that sort
of Madisonian uh, you know, balance with the Senate obviously, but also
you have people, I don't know if I mentioned this to you before,
a lobbying firm did a fascinating study that found UH members from the poorest districts
UH disproportionately were represented by the populist caucuses. So that would be us to
Democrats, the Squad and the Freedom Caucus. And you then have to kind
of if you're if you're Mike Johnson, you then have to kind of say,
all right, so we have they have this power that's been built into
the parliamentary procedure via the motion and vacate via all these other you know,
different things, and obviously Kevin McCarthy installed them in the Rules Committee and all
that good stuff. And you're looking at this and you're, okay, so
we have to get something done. We have to pass budgets, and we
also have to know you don't want to pass budgets just to know that's true.
Nobody wants to pass an actual budget. We're just gonna do it this
time. Democrats do, they don't really want to. They want a tasty
CR. They'll get exactly what they want out of a continuing resolution. Yeah,
I guess you need to strip down CR. It says the basics,
but the one is going to want that. But this is the fundamental question
that both Republicans and Democrats are balancing. Uh in the House, but also
in the twenty twenty four election. It's like, you have to appeal to
normal people. Normal people want common stability, but they also hate the political
establishment. So it's not an easy This is all I'm saying is like,
it's not an easy thing for Mike Johnson to do, especially with the thin
majority. It's not an easy thing for Donald Trumper Joe Biden to have to
do. But the very least that someone like by Johnson could do is actually
represent the district that he represents nominally. Mike Johnson always complains about the size
of his majority. Well, the Democrats govern with the minority. It's really
pathetic. Thank you for that observation. He's always whining about it. New
thing is talking about how a little sleep, he gets shut up, stop
wayning. You're an adult. No, what did his parents not tell him
that? Any single time the boy even begins to strike a wine tone,
I'm like, stop that. I don't care if he's like my hand got
cut off, My hand got cut off, Okay, go to urgent care
with it that way? Is there anything you wanted to add on your reporting
on all of this that's swirling right now? You mentioned, of course,
that they tabled the motion, which means that you know, even if she
was it's called the privileging the motion and vacate. Even though she did that
still got tabled, so never ended up. I still as a procedural hurdle
where the majority sim of the majority, can you say we don't want to
talk about it. You know. One of the wild things is I always
doing this newsletter. I had a bunch of questions, right, I would
like start it off with all right, I have a really dumb question,
and I would talk to people who know a lot of things, who actually
didn't know the answer to it, and making me realize just how dense so
much of this stuff is. How many people you have to call to even
figure out, for example, reporting on the fa bill. Yeah, and
I asked. I saw a friend of ours who'd written a story for a
DC publication on it, and I texted him and said, why do we
need to reauthorize the FAA was like this, it can no longer command with
the skies on May eleventh, plan is going to start falling. He had
no idea. So I had to don't worry about one person in the hill,
and I had to call a second person before I got the answer,
which is, well, they collect the taxes and that needs to be authorized
by the Congress. Back when Congress used to actually oversee the executive branch,
they would do things where it's like, all right, you've got the authorisation
to do this, but then in five years whatever, you come back to
us three years, we look at what you've done, we see how we
want to tweak it, and then we authorize it again. And that's why
a lot of the smaller airports are funded. And this is when it turns
out this is actually one where Congress actually does do its job and pays attention
and it's a good thing. But that's just been a fun part. I
mean, trying to figure out exactly, well, how does the speaker kick
you off of a committee. What happens next? Does it make a difference
if he does it at night or during the day, to make a difference
if he does it over at Christmas break? Yes, the answer is yes,
that actually happened. And where they need to vote? And how can
they do the rules? And if they negotiate the rules in November, they
can they renegotiate them. The answer to that is yes. So it's been
really fun, but you have to have to keep calling people to get to
find the BRAINI actus really know what's going on. This is what scares me
about the media is that the slogan democracy but think like democracy dies in darkness
is so true. It's what's like especially terrifying about the Washington Post thinking that
it somehow exemplifies that motto, like how much is happening? That because conservative
media is small and scrappy. I think consertive media does a fantastic job for
what it is, which is small and scrappy. We do not have the
billion dollars, decades long institutions, centuries long institutions in some cases that these
media companies are overseeing and they're not like actually going towards the darkness whatsoever.
They're shining light on the things that the Democrats are, you know, quote
unquote shining light on times that's great reporting. Sometimes, for example they dood
good reporting on big tech or good reporting on the Pentagon or something like that.
But just imagine how much stuff goes undiscovered, not only because of how
awful the media is, how relatively small conservative media is, but also because
of how freaking big our government and our business sector have become and opaque.
Yeah, it's just diffic about to figure out who's in charge and what.
I was talking to somebody other day about Bane Capital. You know, there's
no like president of bank. There's not like person it's in charge. It
just it's in charge of itself. It's like a massive it's run by a
massive committee where people rotate. I guess it's a couple of years. I
spent a little while, but it just shocked me. I was like,
well, who's in charge of Bane. It's like no one, No one's
in chargean It's America's communist standard bearer. The people are in charge of Bane,
one of the worst biggest companies. No, no one in charge of
it. It's just like operating, no one at the wheel. It's the
Titan and it just lumbering along through the Atlantic. Yeah. I mean when
I talked to a sooka to some a disaffected Democrat in Philadelphia who was reporting
on how they telling me after the twenty twenty elections, how they blend votes
and stuff, and I called it a party machine. He just laughed.
He said, there's no no levers. No one's like pushing buttons and pulling
levers to make this thing go. It's more like a living organism that just
like your brain isn't Your brain actually does, but your conscious brain doesn't say
heart beat, mouth, open, finger on furl. It's like it just
does it in the background. It just knows what to do. And he
said, that's what that's how Philadelphia politics work. Everyone's kind of knows what
to do. Yeah, I remember your guys is reporting on that. Actually,
before we wrap, we randomly were joined in the office to by Sean
Fleetwood. Sean, can you hear me? Okay, So this is not
planned at all, but John had a big scoop yesterday. He confirmed with
the FBI that they are they have resumed their conversations with these big tech companies.
And I think Mark Warner said something to that effect, but trying to
actually reached out to the FBI and the FBI and a statement, We're like,
yep, Fleetwood, you want to come over here and get on the
mic and tell us a little bit about what happened. He's coming over and
Chris is giving him some type of look to hear about it. Here,
Fleetwood, tell us what you reported yesterday? All right, So basically,
hello everyone. Basically, Senator Mark Order issued a statement to reporters on Monday
basically telling them like, we've been in contact with SISSA, Cybersecurity and Security
Infrastructure Agency terrible name, but SISSA and FBI, and basically they confirmed they
had resumed communications with big tech companies to squash what they claimed to be disinformation.
So I reached out to the FBI and SISSA and FBI basically gave like
this milk toast statement confirming that in fact, they had resumed communications with social
media And of course they're like, oh, but we leave that up to
the companies to determine what's valid and what's not in terms of disinformation. And
SISA just completely declined to comment. So that's the latest, So get ready
for more censorship ahead of twenty twenty four. Awesome, I can't wait it's
coming again. Right, We're gonna get a big tech crackdown the polls.
They keep on I think Nelly Bowls over the Free Press said, they keep
on trying to put in different inputs into the pulling machine, and they keep
on getting the same results, just like everyone hates Joe Biden. So I
expect it to get worse. I mean Google's already put out these policies.
It says, well, we're going to stop people from profiting off of X,
Y, and Z, and that's gonna common. I mean, who
funds the Federals? I was also rich. This is what we've gone through.
This one thing, Sean, I just wanted to ask you. Is
this not part of the Murphy v. Missouri case? It has a different
name now, but is in this like literally something that the government is currently
in a legal battle over. Yeah. So the Murphy of you Missouri case,
which has been going on for about to almost two years, I guess
is when the lawsuit was originally filed by Louisiana, Missouri, originally the district
court that had heard the case and the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals had ruled
that basically put an injunction in place, saying, no, you can't communicate
with these companies, you can't censor content, and they really seem to be
in favor of Missouri and Louisiana, saying like the documents, the emails and
stuff like that show that the government had really put a lot of pressure on
these companies to censor content that they deemed to be untruthful, which was really
just facts going against the Biden regimes narrative. But the Supreme Court, unfortunately
last October or November basically lifted that in junction. So that's why the FBI
and SESSA are able to work with these big tech companies to censor so called
disinformation. So SCOTUS will decide that either later this month or next month.
We will see what they say. But yeah, I did not listen to
oral arguments, but from people who did listen in Margo Cleveland, our senior
legal correspondent, she reported that it didn't really seem to go super well for
the plaintiffs, which is unfortunate. Remember you mentioning Edie would Yeah, they
were disastrously. We talked about it. Yeah, so I'm sure like not
one for predictions, but I would imagine, like Clarence Thomas, Samuel Lito,
they'll probably be more in favor of our corner Neil Gorsich. But of
course the three that you have to watch is John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh,
and ACB. So we shall see. Sean Fleetwood, thank you so much
for crouching by the microphone to give us this impromptu update. Amazing Sean Fleetwood,
staff writer the Federalists. Go check out his story on the FBI.
Chris, that worked out great. We were already talking about the FBI.
Yeah. All right, Well, you've been listening to another edition of the
Federalist Radio Hour. Emily Trishinski, joined today by Christopher Bedford of The Blaze.
We will be back soon with more. Until then, the lovers of
freedom and anxious for the Fray