We're back with another edition of the Federalist Radio Hour. I'm Emily Dishinski,
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by Christopher Bedford, Executive editor over at the Common Sense Society. Who I
think Chris, we pre taped an interview with an author of a great new
book last week. Hasn't aired yet, but I think this is the first
time we've done a Sir Christian Emily Thursday podcast since we did the airing of
the Grievances. Absence did not make the heart profonder, it's fair enough.
Well, I'm just kidding. I missed you all right, well, but
mainly adoring fans. Yes, your adoring fans have been clamoring. You would
be shocked. It's the phones are all ringing off the hook. My inbox
is overflowing with demands for Christopher Pdford and I have returned, and yes,
so you were both are traveling a lot, but you. In particular,
you had one spell. I think they call it hitting for the cycle you
did. It was like day period seven and a half days where I hit
JFK, Newark, LaGuardia, Penn Station and Moynihan train Hall. Well,
that's Men station. They're across the street. One's nice ones not. Well,
it's the same complex. You could avoid it. It's the same complex.
How do you find the new Moan concourse? It's nice, right,
it is nice. I like it that they've removed all chairs. Well,
unless you have an A cell ticket, you can sit down if you have
an as cell ticket. I actually really don't understand this law. You can't
any vix like noticeably insane vagrants who have no business from public spaces. Why
not? That's just like, I mean, listen, society needs to be
caring, right, But I mean what happened to the days of like,
hey, you actually can't push your shopping cart filled with garbage around half naked
in the town square. Gonna I'm gonna make you leave if you The rule
is, if you have a shopping cart, you also have to be clothed.
You can be half naked without a sharping shopping cart, but not with
the shopping cart. That's where it's the combination. So I usually get pizza
next door to that station and a swring over in a morning. Had maybe
get a martini. I don't know, maybe, but I tell you what,
it sounds like a soft Maybe the other airports have gotten better. I
ended up at Newark Airport because I got to my train home and there was
a signal delay. And there's just like there's this life hack that's essential called
the Redcap Service. I never want to hear you use the words life hack
again. It's just a f and sim like it's like you've been reading a
lot of BuzzFeed in twenty twelve. Okay, life hack the Red Caps.
You take ten dollars, You walk over to the Red Caps and you tell
them you train, and you board ten minutes before anyone else does. They
just take you down in the secret elevator and like it it's for old and
handicapping. Say that doesn't sound like it's for you, man, it's for
whoever tip some ten bucks and they like, they like, you help your
bags. I'm like nope, and we just walk down and like which cars
you like? I'm like, right next to the cafe, not quiet.
I sit there and I got my own seat, sit my eat my lunch,
and then all the all the unwashed masses just kind of start to fill
in. But this red cap told me, He's like, yeah, there's
a signal problem. We're expecting substantial delay. So I'm like, what is
this one? Two three hours? And they said, oh no, it's
all day yep. And that's how I ended up at Newark Airport that day,
and every single I was in I ran out to the cab, and
every cab behind us followed me into Newark Airport like everyone had the same idea.
I just got the shut on instead. But uh La, Guardia was
nice. You sound like such a jerk, but Guardi is nice. Well,
like usually get my I have to switch voices. I just did the
nerd voice, but I actually have to do the pretentious voice. I've never
actually ordered. The march usually had one hand station. You know when I
drink a morning hand station, Tall Boys, Yeah, I drink Tall Boys.
Bud Light. Yeah, don't I never drink bud Light anymore? They
have ip A Tall Boys there. Yeah. You put them in like harpoon.
Yeah, you just pull it out of the freezer. So I buy
the IPA is because they're still good like two and a half hours into the
train ride, whereas like a pills there is not going to be good two
and a half unless you got a refrigerator with you, which I don't travel
with. But Morning Hands Station, they Laguardio, they've like re done.
There's an apper Teeth bar. This has like a fountain. I don't know
if the fountain's always been there, but yeah, it was a COVID remodel
situation. That's great. It was like, yes, I'll have on tomorrow
and a cup of coffee at ten in the morning, and you really air
posted your arm. Yeah. JFK Airport has the Palm Steakhouse. Can you
believe that? Out of absolutely nowhere. I ran into Chris one morning at
Minneapolis Airport and he's like, oh, hey, I was just heading over
to the bar. I want a beer. I was like, bro,
it's nine thirty by the time you've gotten a Minneapolis airport even up a lifetime,
that's fair. And as I recall, you drank that beer I partook
you were and the same thing on the M track when you're like, oh,
I have to be on Kennedy in twelve hours, and it's like,
I'm just offering you a morning beer. I think you tell too many travel
stories. I think they used to come to peer pressure. Now all of
us succumb to peer pressure. No, except for Donald J. Trump.
I don't even travel anymore, So now what's exciting when I do? I
have stories? Well, so this was going to be my bridge from your
super relevant travel anecdote to the border bill. Because you know, we've missed
a lot of stupid in the last couple of weeks, Chris, our opportunity
to weigh in. Has anything happened a couple of things? Has DC done
anything? Dumb? Trump is my my block and my bridge. It turns
out that Donald J. Trump may have stopped a disaster, although it wouldn't
do that so Trump obviously, actually Trump could have come out way harder,
way earlier against the bill. But yeah, he was like, well,
I think you also wanted to see what was in it. I think,
but he's not Donald Trump is not the president, so he's not the key
character in this. But I also think on the Senate side, it was
fairly obvious that there was never going to be a good deal. I mean,
it was just it's It's always been clear and that's why. So when
Trumped waited into it, it was like, oh, you know, he's
does he is he saying it's just for election purposes or if he's saying it's
just for political purposes versus it's substantive. Even at that point, it was
a couple of weeks ago, it was obvious that the substance was going to
suck based on the leaks that Republican leadership was putting out. So let's start
from the beginning. I think one of the things we talked about before we
hit record on this podcast was the media coverage, because it's been really telling.
And again we're in the middle of an election year, but the media
coverage of what's been happening with border Ukraine is real funding is just incredible,
and I think it actually speaks to why the substance of that bill that,
at least as we're recording, dead on arrival, they're trying to revive it
in different forms because they know they have to pass some type of bill to
fund the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East. But man, I'll give
you the floor first, just the coverage itself, or do you not agree
with me. Is what I'm trying to say, has been telling and has
affected the substance of the legislation. The coverage has been kind of stupid.
It seems they've really missed the mark on a lot of stuff. There's been
an incredible number of unforced errors from the GOP and the Democrats alike Langfurt's'completely
unforced error of getting involved in this deal a nice statesman. So I've been
asking a lot of people who've been around to DC for decades, why would
they do this? Like I could, so I could totally totally understand why
a group of Republicans would wander to this trap in two thousand and seven because
they hadn't like really done it before. And it's like, oh, say,
at least it had been so FRONTALDS. Reagan as president, since I
had really been given a shot, and I could even see somewhat the Gang
of eight guys being like it was shot. But by the time twenty sixteen
rolled around and Donald Trump was president and like and Culter and Mickey Kush were
victorious as profits on the mountain side, and like literal profits, like Mickey
Cows I don't know if you know him, like haggard and definitely a loner,
bellowing into the wind. You should know better. But so I've been
asking a lot of old hands around town, why would Langfort, who's not
a dummy, and he's fairly well liked by his conference, wander into this.
And the best idea I can come with I've been hearing back is you
know, these senators do come here. Some of them do want to solve
problems. All of them have massive egos. They really do think, like,
all right, if me and Cinema and Murphy we get together because we're
smart, just put us in the rooms, put us just put us in
a rown. That's what I came here. Diet Coke, Yeah, we're
going to solve this problem. We got trust. But they don't. They
never do. And McConnell, I mean I was talking to a well known
democratic, long time, well known Democratic commentator yesterday who said, man,
we used to fear McConnell like he was Darth Vader, but now I mean
he bungled this. He's got no he doesn't seem to know what's going on.
That's incisive because it's one of the few things McConnell doesn't want to stop.
So if Mitch McConnell wanted to stop a bad border deal in recognition that
his voters, by the way, he represents one of the poorest states in
the country. But the Republican voter, the average Republican voter would revolt and
be furious and take this out on Senate Republicans electorally. If Mitch McConnell was
smart enough to understand that he would stop a package like this, But he
doesn't because he was so desperate for Ukraine funding, and he said as much,
basically desperate for Ukraine funding one and two just losing his grip. Yes,
I mean, if we're fortunate, then the effects of age will hit
us pretty hard too someday, or if you live that long, but you
just don't lose your ability to rule. I mean, there's no comparison.
Despite all the cheerleading from Politico and all the girl boss stuff between Nancy Pelosi's
last run a Speaker of the House and her first run of Speaker of the
House, she was devastating in her first round of Speaker of the House to
Republicans and the next one. I mean, she spent most of it fighting
with the squad or whatever they call themselves, but she papered over those differences
and got them in line. And Republicans have learned a lesson that I think
the squad has not quite learned, even though the establishment Republicans say, you
know, be more like the squad. Look at how much legislation they passed
under Pelosi. Well, look at how much enthusiasm has waned for for Biden
and for Democrats in general, especially in some key issues. And what Republicans
have realized is if they acquiesce with the party establishment, they will not get
anything that they want. And this border deal is the perfect example of that.
They will not get anything they want and their voters will be pissed about
it. And with the border deal, you got exactly that. They did
not get anything that they want. They had funding sort of thrown at them.
But it's it's an open borders deal. That's the best way to describe
it. Wall Street Journal deal, the Wall Street Journal. Do you know
what's funny story about the Wall Street Journal? They endorsed the bill. Yes,
before anyone knew anything about the bill. Yes, they endorsed the secret
bill. And they said, this is my favorite part about that journal op
ed. They endorsed the bill because they said the opposition to it is preemptive.
The opposition doesn't even know it's in the bill, so it's ridiculous not
to endorse it. And the was Rey Journal is like, therefore, we
endorse it. And then when Senator Mike Lee wrote a letter saying this is
awful and this bill is going to be awful, the Rosco Journal said,
well, we can't run that criticism. After accepting it, they said they
cannot run that criticism because they don't know what's in it yet, but they
endorsed it. Endorsed it. By the way, when it actually did come
out, what was in it, it was everything that Mike Ley said,
this is what I was going to talk about, but with the media coverage,
this is what I wanted to talk about. For the last couple of
weeks, the media was running with the Republican establishment's line over and over again
from Langford and McConnell because those are their sources who they trust and again like,
this is very obvious, trust, but verify. So they were running
with this narrative that nobody really knows what's in this bill, that conservatives don't
have the full scoop and are jumping to conclusions, and then when the bill
was released it turned out to be exactly what everyone was say was going to
have in it. And then the new line became from Cinema and Lankford.
Oh, you just don't understand the five thousand people a day thing is what
I read a PolitiFact, your favorite outlet, Chris, I know you read
them every morning. There was a piece from a twenty twenty graduate who is
there, like border reporter over at PolitiFact, they're little gestapo's over there in
fact checking a claim from it was Steve scale saying that this bill would allow
five thousand immigrants to cross a day and said, no, no, no,
it allows for five thousand encounters, which okay, is true. Sorry
that Steve Scaley's conflated encounters and people, which is what the media does all
of the time. So if you want to just fact check him on that
point, fine, although you guys do that all the time too. But
it's perfect because it's like, it only allows for five thousand people, if
if are five thousand encounters, if those if it's not at that threshold,
right, like so four nine hundred and ninety nine, right, that's the
one of the most controversial parts of this bill, and Langford and PolitiFact have
repeatedly said, well, no, you don't understand. It's like, why
did you choose five thousand, why not one thousand. It's like, I'm
sorry, I thought you couldn't close the border. I thought you could not
close the border. But somehow you're saying, oh, you can close the
border if we get to four thousand, nine ninety nine. Yeah. Jay
Johnson under Obama said one thousand as a crisis, do you watch for them
to handle, which obviously it is because that's seven thousand encounters a week,
so five thousand individual people, six thousand individuals somewhere around there that you have
to detain. By law, you have to detain while you process their asylum.
It claims you have to process their asylum claims if they come to you
with a credible fear, you have to process those asylum claims. And you
know what, Chris, I think that's a good law. I think we
should have some system where you have to give asylum Cuban refugees, who are
some of the best Americans. You have to give them an asylum hearing,
but you also have to detain them. And that is entirely possible if you
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get your podcasts. I think our legal immigration laws are a mess as well
as are yeah, as our enforcement of the legal immigration And you know,
I like that you're still simping for Ema Lazara over there, But I'm in
no mood for seen any of it, and neither of the voters. And
it's kind of but we don't have to discuss it. That's the point We
like, best case scenario, we can pass legislation. Sure, but do
you think the Biden trick is going to win that Republicans have rejected this deal.
They're just playing politics with the border. Yes, because of the media.
Because the even, I mean, the thing about Donald Trump's presidency is
it exposed DC's lie. DC always basically acted like the border was an insolvable
problem, and with a series of executive orders, he was able to slow
immigraty lego immigration to a trickle of what it is right now. Yeah,
So I kind of hope that that pushes through the because, I mean,
most people in this country, the vast, vast, vast majority, don't
live on the border, don't know anything about really what the border is.
Like the CNN and the New York Times and the Washington Posts paint a rosy
picture of like immigrants coming to America Godfather too style thing of those guys dectually
turned out to the criminals. I hope that's not their example, although they
would be dumb enough. It actually looked more like scarface and the intro scarface.
But they paint this rosy picture of it and most people don't actually see
it. But after Trump was able to slow it to a trickle. They
can't just go back. I mean, it's so without a bill. By
the way, it's so cynical to say these six or so things that Tristan
documented that the Babama Biden White House is done to reverse security at the border
that have caused this. And now how he comes and says this is Trump's
fault. I mean, it reminds me of like of the time the Democrats
went with Republicans defunded the police work. That one didn't work. That one
didn't work. I'm wondering if this one will work. Let me explain why.
I think because the media keeps on blaming Trump. Well that and because
Todd Ben's been reported in the Washington Post he has a source that shared confidential
numbers with him, and this has been confirmed by other outlets since that.
And we had we did a whole podcast with Todd not that long ago week
about this that Biden has struck an agreement with AMLO so that's President of Mexico,
to have him start doing border enforcement in Mexico within Mexico, so at
Mexico southern border, and then they shut down Labisia that trained and a lot
of migrants were just hitching their not their wagons, but like literally jumping on
the train and riding up north on And that AMLO took all of these different
steps, and so immigration slowed significantly still to a relative like kind of crisis
level by Jay Johnson's standards, but had slowed from this absolute deluge to a
relative trickle, even though that level of trickle is still very serious, because
it's a serious trickle. Because Biden had struck an agreement around Christmas time,
likely with AMLO, because why well, the page of the calendar had turned
to an election year, and there are so many things at the Biden administration's
disposal that they can now do to say, Joe Biden stepped up, Joe
Biden the diplomat has has struck an agreement with Amlow. Joe Biden has done
X, Y and Z, and you know, well in Congress and actually,
in fact, yesterday NBC News reported there's an Alley Vitally report that because
the Biden administration is expecting these numbers with AMLOW can't be maintained. They because
they're expecting that they are looking at executive authorities that Biden can take. Basically,
this wasn't in the NBC report, but reading between the lines to make
him look like the quote unquote adult in the room. After Republicans torpedoed the
bill over electoral concerns, and when Donald Trump was alleged to have stepped in,
which I think you and I both have heard since is real, he
did say something to the senators that they can't pass an immigration deal during an
election year. That's the line the media ran with, even though from all
accounts what he said was you can't pass a deal in an election year.
That's this bad right, and the media just ran with it so cynically.
And so if the numbers start to drop and Biden takes executive action and the
media does that, that's a really powerful combination in what will be a very
close election year. So will a lot of Americans might not buy it,
it probably will be powerful with a slice of the electorate that's sort of independent
voters or their dams. College educated women, well there's that too, although
I don't know that they're voting on immigration at all. They're just voting wrong.
They're voting on vibes, they're voting on that. I say that as
a college educated woman, you know vot on vibes vibes alone, you are
the worst vibes alone. Wherever the wide es infidel takes me on November sixth,
the night before whenever that is a friend of mine, is a campaign
consultant across the country, send me a message earlier today that he was in
a group of they were doing a lot of pulling against generic rs, and
generic R was winning. And basically every single grouping is that the one college
educated women. Yeah, twenty five points. It's just like, nope,
vibes are bad. The vibes are bad. Yeah, not great. Even
though, even though, and this will come as no surprise to you,
as the author of the Art of the Donald. Foreign President Donald J.
Trump bears a striking resemblance to Elvis, as he illustrated brilliantly on his Instagram
this week. Don't see incredible Instagram post, just boomer posting like championship level
gold medal Boomer posts where Donald Trump put you know he had dance giving it.
He's like, Dan, get that picture of Elvis that it looks like
me. Put its side by side. You have to post this on the
Instagram And it said for so many years people have said that I look like
Elvis. What do you think? It's just the caption. You ever read
the Art of the Deal, Dan, There's there's numerous parts for you kind
of he talks about how handsome he is in a very unironic fashion. I
don't know, I never looked at Donald Tchoumpo like that that there's a handsome
man. Who have you looked at? And so that Tucker No, like
the Marlboro Cowboy. Yeah, Samuel Elliott, that's a handsome man. That's
your type. Plenty Eastwood. Yeah, oh okay, not saying hot,
I'm saying handsome. It's right different, It's very different. But Donald Trump's
like, yeah, they didn't want to let me into their club because I
knew that I was such a handsome guy. And he just puts that down
in his book. You know, I met a fan of the art of
that. You laugh. I met a fan of the art of the Donald
this morning. This morning my book, yeah said they found it illuminating.
The president of a Catholic university. Oh no, yeah, I know.
Wow, it's great. This morning was a National Catholic Prayer breakfast. Oh
that's why you're dressed up in your embroidered duck pants. Well, I also
have work today. Yeah, But in all seriousness, back to the topic
at hands. I actually derailed that one with the Donald Trump Instagram post,
but the media took that narrative and ran with it because it was being spoon
fed to them. Do you think it was lackeys? What's annoying to me?
It works with like ten percent of the population, which is enough.
Yeah. What's the annoying to me is that Donald Trump didn't sink this deal.
This deal. They're all like this, this is a sign of the
amazing control he has. So the media hasn't given an ounce of attention to
how to understanding why people support Trump in the first place. Is a racist
and they haven't given any They're so unwilling to even accept that people would be
against amnesty that they say it must be because of the cult of Trump.
It's like, Yo, Trump reads the room, dude. You know how
Trump got so good at this? He watches a lot of TV, a
lot of TV, yep, and he goes out and he actually has much
more in touch with what people feel than Lankfort. It's like, I'm going
to solve this. Trump knows what makes him angry. Yep, I know
Trump. Trump's not like Enoch Powell, some statesman out there. If the
people were for immigration, Trump would be for immigration, I think. But
they're not and he's not. So he's Johnny come lately to this. I
mean, there are people out there like Mike Lee and others who have been
principally fighting this for a long time and we're never going to vote on it.
And hey, maybe if Donald Trump would come out and endorse this bill
and said you should pass that, yeah, Democrats probably could have passed it
with a bunch of a couple squishy Republicans who would have felt the cover.
Oh so, here's another thing that hasn't been talked about. I don't think
Chuck Schumer took this bill seriously for a damn second. I think he let
Kristen Cinema take it seriously. But I think Chuck Schumer knew that this bill
was absolutely never going to pass, which is why they allowed for some of
the funding to go into it and whatever, because the squad would have raised
holy hell about that bill, and some of their allies in the Senate would
have raised holy hell about that bill too. So I actually don't know,
like we've heard from Democratic leadership in cinema, but Donnick would Democrats have basically
had to say nothing about this bill other than serious like Chris Murphy and Kirsten
Cinema when they never actually had to be serious about this bill. They never
actually had a vote on it. And I think they knew they never had
to vote on it, because there's no way whereas I think Mitch McConnell was
caught off guard to your point. He literally said, the mood in the
country has changed, which is why he didn't think that they should take a
boat on the Bilt, like it's changed since like two thousand and seven,
maybe, but not since the last week. Buddy, Listen, people who
are in the room with McConnell, which I'm not, tell me that he
needs his age to keep up and understand conversations at this point. Yeah,
my neighbors saw him getting out of his car the other day. He needed
to be picked out. I mean, I've got no problem with that.
I helped my grandfather out of the car at end of the car. For
years, he wasn't running the Senate anymore. Your grandfather had no control over
the Senning. He was no longer running the Cenate used to be a rocket
scientist. They would not let him near rockets. By that point, you
know, this is agent feebles you. Eventually, old agent feebles you.
This is a lot of wisdom that comes with the experience. But people are
no longer afraid of McConnell. People are no longer afraid of Pelosi. She
actually stepped aside. I would have been afraid of Pelosi though. Anyway,
even at her worst, she was better than McConnell. Now, maybe McConnell's
mastery is has waned and it's you know what, it doesn't make sense.
I really don't understand his play to stake his reputation and the sake of his
legacy on Ukraine funding. Dems know more about the average Republican voter than Mitch
McConnell and Josh Holmes and the fellows over at Ruthless do. Because I don't
know if you saw Josh Holmes have an absolute meltdown and claim that Mike custs
a lot too. Everyone we used to curse our listeners, told to stop
like we have children about that, and you know do we always remember that?
But he flipped out and said that Mike Lee only cares about protecting hamas.
On an episode of Ruthless, I just went completely into melt down.
I don't worry. Funny it was funny from our vantage point because he sounded
like a seventh grade girl. It was genuinely hilarious. But because I said
lots of crazy things in this podcast, it could be isolated. Was it
like that somebody should start that would be fun for everyone? But it was.
No. It was a genuine sort of fit of hysteria. Again,
like it was it was sort of middle school, seventh grade girl in the
locker room realizing she forgot Well, this was a moment of I would say,
unreasonable conduct. We all have them, yes, And he was very
very upset at Mike Lee and said that Mike Lee only cares about protecting hamas,
which is just an amazing if you are the reason that church it's one
of their top hamas hysteria. I think is relevant here because it was I
think telling that they were surprised by how other Republican senators reacted to the bill.
And that's and I don't think Chuck Schumer was surprised. I think Chuck
Schumer knew that this bill was going to be dead on arrival, and meanwhile
McConnell Lackey's had a total meltdown because they really thought that they really thought that
Lankford had it. They thought he had it in the bag. I was
on ingram an old angle a few times when she was explicitly saying to Langford,
you're going to regret this. Do not do this, do not do
this. You're going to regret it. They're going to trick you. It
just surprised me that he took the bait. I can see what the McConnell
people are melting down. I mean, their access to a lot of financial
success and impact and influence in this country and then mostly in here in Rome
is based entirely on now at this point, just propping up Mitch McConnell in
the car and driving around the city. And they're still in charge so they
can keep cashing checks. Yeah, I mean yeah, but maybe the next
the next minority leader or majority leader will be a fan ally and they'llsoll have
sway. But I mean McConnell being able to push employers around and push other
people around for them, and them having access to him, that's that's key.
I mean, I think Baraco state. Was really interesting because so you
had cornn signaling that he was pretty milk toast on this bill. So you
have the Johns, you have just putting milk toasts on something, I mean,
not doing it. He seemed like he was signaling that it should be
a no from Republican senators and putting milk toast. I don't know, but
don't question me in the middle of a set. I've never heard that expression
that he was. Yeah, he was. He was warm on the bill.
He was like, I'm not look that up, cool on the bill.
Whatever you want me to say. He wasn't. He was lukewarm on
the bill. It's probably a better way to say it if we're doing this
by the scale of water temperature. But that was interesting because these are the
guys that are in line to replace McConnell, Cornyn, Barrasso, Tom Taillis.
Maybe, but Barrasso and Cornyn were both like eh. And Barrasso put
out a statement blaming Biden for failing Langford, which I thought was funny.
But also again to your point about the McConnell guys, you're supposed to be
the chosen one. Yeah, yeah, So maybe the mcconaugh guys do have
access to b Aso and Cornyn and moverere else, but that moment, their
ability to read the tea leaves and to get paid for reading the tea leaves
as soon as people realize that, you know, they were dumb enough to
put their hope in a bill like this and then dumb enough to publicly claim
that Mike Lee only didn't support it because he wants to protect a moss.
I mean, that's a that's a new level of stupid. And so their
ability to make money off of this stuff. I don't know, maybe that's
what's really going on here. Yeah, that's the meltdown. I mean you
see it anytime a political leader goes down there or are always enourages around that
person whose power is completely derived from that person. I mean, we're fortunate
to me in an industry that's different from that where you know, when Molly
is ninety years old and no longer making strong calculations and crushing people on the
hill, it's not like you're you don't have to drive her around town propping
her up. I would do it that mark the vineyard after after her testimony
yesterday. It was amazing. I would physically carry Molly anywhere. It was
I had so many people said, ninety year old, nine year old Molly,
I will drag her up the mountaintop when I am seventy. She might
love it. Take I missed that. I was. I was texting with
her yesterday and I never said like good luck or great job. I was
like, oh, I guess Molly was busy today while I was texting her
about whatever. Texting her important Netflix. Listen. I need to maintain my
access to power, power to cash us chet. That's what this is about.
And you know what, I'll say it, Mark Hemingway only cares about
protecting hamas. That's true. You know we're kidding, We're kidding. I'm
just going to not tell anybody that I just said Mark and cares about protecting
Hamas. And see if they listen to the podcast we get a response to
that, because we will. Surely we will. With Christopher Bedford, I
think is just about lunchtime. Let's do it all right. Well, you've
been listening to another edition of The Federalist or radio hour. I me Emily
Dashinski called for editor here at The Federalist. We'll be back soon with more.
Until then, be lovers of freedom and anxious for the fright