1 00:00:15,919 --> 00:00:18,920 Welcome back, everyone to a new episode of You Were Wrong with Molly Hemingway 2 00:00:18,920 --> 00:00:22,039 and David Harsani. Just a reminder, if you'd like to email the show, 3 00:00:22,120 --> 00:00:26,480 please do so at radio at the Federalist dot com. We love to 4 00:00:26,559 --> 00:00:30,120 hear from you. Molly. I want to start today's show with a quote 5 00:00:31,039 --> 00:00:36,280 from Donald Trump, president, former President of the United States, presidential candidate 6 00:00:36,359 --> 00:00:42,320 for the presidency g OP. Molly Hemingway is a very smart woman exclamation point. 7 00:00:42,359 --> 00:00:45,719 I can't really do any impressions of him. This is a show trial. 8 00:00:46,240 --> 00:00:51,920 There is no actual crime or evidence. Molly Hemingway respected by everyone. 9 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:57,039 By the way, it's so weird to read it because without his like intonation, 10 00:00:58,880 --> 00:01:02,679 right, smart women. Yeah, by the way, that was the 11 00:01:02,679 --> 00:01:06,760 President of the United States outside of his trial, quoting from a column I 12 00:01:06,760 --> 00:01:08,280 believe you wrote, or maybe it was a Fox appearance. I don't know 13 00:01:08,319 --> 00:01:12,120 what he was quoting. Actually, yeah, I actually don't know either because 14 00:01:12,120 --> 00:01:15,640 I've kind of talked about this show trial so much, but I assume it 15 00:01:15,719 --> 00:01:23,079 was from Outnumbered. That day I was on Outnumbered up in New York talking 16 00:01:23,120 --> 00:01:29,079 about it, because that was the day that Michael Cohen like admitted that he 17 00:01:29,120 --> 00:01:32,599 had stolen all this money from Trump, and then they brought him back for 18 00:01:32,719 --> 00:01:37,680 redirect and he explained that yes, he had stolen the money, but only 19 00:01:37,760 --> 00:01:42,560 because he hated Donald Trump. And it was like the worst redirect I've ever 20 00:01:42,599 --> 00:01:46,200 heard, and you know I've heard of. Are you surprised that crazy? 21 00:01:46,560 --> 00:01:49,120 Yeah? That's what congratulations? I mean, Lesson, that's a president of 22 00:01:49,120 --> 00:01:53,319 the informer president talking about you. That was just did you ever dream as 23 00:01:53,319 --> 00:01:56,920 a young child that the president would be quoting you to make his case? 24 00:01:57,680 --> 00:02:00,239 Well, I don't have to dream it, David, because he did it 25 00:02:00,920 --> 00:02:05,879 as president sometimes. And one thing that I did that I think is really 26 00:02:05,920 --> 00:02:07,639 funny. I don't remember who I mean when you were younger, are not 27 00:02:07,800 --> 00:02:14,400 now? Go On? Oh yeah, no, that's very it's very odd. 28 00:02:14,400 --> 00:02:15,639 But I actually that sounded weird the way I said it. But I 29 00:02:15,639 --> 00:02:20,719 was just going to say when he used to tweet, and I do miss 30 00:02:20,759 --> 00:02:23,919 those days. You know how every sane human being says, thank god Donald 31 00:02:23,960 --> 00:02:29,159 Trump's not tweeting anymore. I actually missed the tweets. That's how weird I 32 00:02:29,199 --> 00:02:32,719 am. But they just repeat all his tweets from truth social on Twitter, 33 00:02:32,840 --> 00:02:37,800 so we do get a taste. It's different. I don't know, but 34 00:02:38,120 --> 00:02:43,159 actually I'm pretty sure Sean Davis taught me this. Yes, you take the 35 00:02:43,199 --> 00:02:46,080 tweets where he mentions you, and you frame them in cheap gold frames. 36 00:02:46,719 --> 00:02:51,919 And so I have a bathroom in my house that has tweets from Donald Trump 37 00:02:52,120 --> 00:02:55,520 framed in gaudy gold frames. And my favorite version of this is one time 38 00:02:55,560 --> 00:03:00,719 he insulted Brett Baer somehow he or he complimented him, but like not really. 39 00:03:00,759 --> 00:03:02,960 I don't remember exactly what it was, but I framed it in a 40 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:07,680 cheap gold frame and gave it to Brett Baer. He thankfully has a very 41 00:03:07,680 --> 00:03:09,000 good sense of humor about it. I remember, I think it was twenty 42 00:03:09,080 --> 00:03:13,479 sixteen or twenty seventeen, and I was like bashing him all the time, 43 00:03:13,520 --> 00:03:16,159 but I wrote a column defending him. People find that weird that you would 44 00:03:16,199 --> 00:03:20,240 do that, but I try to do that anyway. He retweeted it, 45 00:03:20,280 --> 00:03:23,240 and I think it got like a million hits, Like it was just incredible 46 00:03:23,280 --> 00:03:28,919 his Twitter, like not just his followers, but the activity his tweets would 47 00:03:28,960 --> 00:03:34,560 produce as far as like mentioning you would be huge. Anyway, I think 48 00:03:34,560 --> 00:03:38,840 it's awesome and it's funny, and it just must be so surreal because it's 49 00:03:38,879 --> 00:03:42,759 Donald Trump, Like, it's just so weird. Anyway, he was at 50 00:03:42,759 --> 00:03:45,439 the Michael Cohen he was at the trial. Oh wait, can I say 51 00:03:45,439 --> 00:03:49,479 what? Yeah? Yeah, I did find it interesting because sometimes I don't 52 00:03:49,520 --> 00:03:53,960 watch TV news so much. I get my news by reading that. Immediately, 53 00:03:54,159 --> 00:03:58,759 my phone just completely lit up, and I didn't understand what was happening 54 00:03:58,840 --> 00:04:02,120 at first because it was just all these people with OMG or oh wow, 55 00:04:02,560 --> 00:04:06,240 this is insane, and I'm like, what is going on because I'd just 56 00:04:06,240 --> 00:04:10,719 gotten off a train and was headed to a dinner. But then my mom 57 00:04:10,800 --> 00:04:14,879 called me and she explained it. I jumped into action and insulted your movie 58 00:04:14,960 --> 00:04:19,439 pics. Thank you. Yes. So my sister, my older sister, 59 00:04:19,759 --> 00:04:24,680 is the best sister in the whole world, and we have a very good 60 00:04:24,720 --> 00:04:28,720 relationship. But one time she told me that she at her place of work 61 00:04:28,920 --> 00:04:32,839 encountered someone who figured out that I was her sister and complimented me and said 62 00:04:32,839 --> 00:04:36,639 that I was just so thoughtful, and she just when I talk, she 63 00:04:38,759 --> 00:04:45,600 stops and listens. And my sister said, that's not my experience. So 64 00:04:45,639 --> 00:04:47,800 when you ripped on me on Twitter, I was like, oh, David 65 00:04:47,839 --> 00:04:50,720 and my sister the only ones you know keeping eye. I believe your sister 66 00:04:50,839 --> 00:04:54,560 from what And this is not to brag. I believe as a fan of 67 00:04:54,600 --> 00:05:00,240 mine. Oh huge, Yeah, so she knows what she's doing. Can 68 00:05:00,240 --> 00:05:04,600 I talk about the trial lately? Lately? Whenever I started talking, You're 69 00:05:04,639 --> 00:05:09,000 like, one more things. I just want to make sure clear the decks. 70 00:05:09,759 --> 00:05:14,240 So the trial, Alvin Bragg's trial, which is just such a debacle, 71 00:05:14,720 --> 00:05:18,199 continues to go on. And we learned this week on Cross right on 72 00:05:18,279 --> 00:05:23,480 Cross, that Michael Cohen had stolen I keep I see varying reports as at 73 00:05:23,480 --> 00:05:27,000 thirty thousand or sixty thousand dollars from the Trump worked out to be sixty k. 74 00:05:27,120 --> 00:05:29,839 But I don't know exactly how it worked out to be sixty k. 75 00:05:30,079 --> 00:05:32,079 Now for what I got to thirty k. Yeah, from what I gather, 76 00:05:32,160 --> 00:05:36,519 he sort of bragged about it. Right. The crime of stealing sixty 77 00:05:36,759 --> 00:05:43,120 embezzling sixty thousand dollars from your employer is, in my book, a worse 78 00:05:43,240 --> 00:05:46,759 crime than putting your name on the even if Donald Trump was guilty of putting 79 00:05:47,120 --> 00:05:53,920 your name or aang for something, an NDA or whatever, you know, 80 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:57,959 with the wrong pot of money, which is money's fungible anyway, So the 81 00:05:57,959 --> 00:06:01,639 whole thing's ridiculous even if it were true. And yet, do you think 82 00:06:01,720 --> 00:06:08,040 now that Alvin Bragg is going to press charges against against Michael Cohen and put 83 00:06:08,120 --> 00:06:12,800 him on trial. I shouldn't he made it under oath? I don't know. 84 00:06:12,879 --> 00:06:15,959 I don't even know if it would be under the statute of limitations. 85 00:06:15,079 --> 00:06:19,000 I don't think he would press charges even if it were. And you might 86 00:06:19,040 --> 00:06:24,720 remember that to get around the fact that the non crime that Donald Trump is 87 00:06:25,040 --> 00:06:29,000 as alleged to have committed, in order to charge it, they charged it 88 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:31,279 in a different way to get around to statute of limitations issue there too. 89 00:06:31,639 --> 00:06:36,160 But yeah, embezzling money from your boss is far, far, far, 90 00:06:36,360 --> 00:06:46,800 far worse crime than supposedly not marking where an NDA arrangement was itemized in your 91 00:06:46,959 --> 00:06:49,800 business documents, Like, it's not even close. And so the idea that 92 00:06:50,639 --> 00:06:57,399 he can come in there and just admit to embezzling money and that's their star 93 00:06:57,480 --> 00:07:02,079 witness, the only witness they have to corroborate whatever they're trying to claim. 94 00:07:02,360 --> 00:07:05,720 What a disastrous witness I mean, And I don't think that that should surprise 95 00:07:05,800 --> 00:07:12,000 anyone, and you know, the guy like reeks of Shyster, you know, 96 00:07:12,279 --> 00:07:16,879 and to make him your lead witness seems problematic. Though. Let's be 97 00:07:16,959 --> 00:07:21,439 honest, this jury is probably going to convict anyway. But I used to 98 00:07:21,519 --> 00:07:25,120 think that it was like maybe five percent, you know, there was a 99 00:07:25,120 --> 00:07:28,160 five percent chance they wouldn't convict. I think I'm putting it up now to 100 00:07:28,240 --> 00:07:32,160 like fifteen or twenty percent chance that they will not convict Donald Trump. So 101 00:07:32,240 --> 00:07:39,560 I assume that the entire show trial is about answering the question do you hate 102 00:07:39,600 --> 00:07:43,040 Donald Trump? And I think the people who went in there hated him, 103 00:07:43,120 --> 00:07:48,040 and they're coming out of there hating him. I do wonder if engaging in 104 00:07:48,079 --> 00:07:50,959 a show trial and sort of being a willing participant in that, even with 105 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:56,959 this horribly corrupt judge. And I'll just point out he just gave jury instructions 106 00:07:57,000 --> 00:08:01,720 that were designed to secure a quick and easy convictions, soh uh. You 107 00:08:01,759 --> 00:08:03,600 know, it makes it even harder to imagine what I'm about to say. 108 00:08:03,600 --> 00:08:07,040 But like maybe someone there says, I just don't feel good about myself by 109 00:08:07,079 --> 00:08:11,000 being part of this show trial, and I'm not gonna go along with it. 110 00:08:11,279 --> 00:08:16,240 But would that person be willing to withstand all the pressure from fellow New 111 00:08:16,319 --> 00:08:20,600 Yorkers. You just want to see a conviction. It's for me, it's 112 00:08:20,639 --> 00:08:24,800 the dream. I would love to be on that jury. It would be 113 00:08:24,800 --> 00:08:28,680 the dream to be the one of twelve saying no. I mean that used 114 00:08:28,720 --> 00:08:31,879 to be the American dream. That's the why there were movies and plays and 115 00:08:31,959 --> 00:08:35,919 books written about that one juror who's like no, who turns everyone around. 116 00:08:35,919 --> 00:08:39,480 So for me, it would be the dream. But I don't think it's 117 00:08:39,519 --> 00:08:43,120 going to happen. No. Yeah, and I assume in fact, my 118 00:08:43,240 --> 00:08:50,159 question to you would be how long will they take before they return the guilty? 119 00:08:50,159 --> 00:08:54,879 Pretty quick? Pretty quick? Pretty quick? I mean, I just 120 00:08:54,919 --> 00:08:56,360 don't know what the what is though? Is there a punishment phase in this 121 00:08:56,480 --> 00:09:03,080 trial or something like encin phase. I don't know what is the I know 122 00:09:03,080 --> 00:09:05,559 they just want to say he's a convicted criminal. Right. This will be 123 00:09:05,720 --> 00:09:09,919 two reasons or three reasons to do this. One is just that law fair. 124 00:09:11,440 --> 00:09:15,799 Regardless of the quality of what you're going with, it just takes time 125 00:09:15,960 --> 00:09:20,960 and money, and time and money when you're running for president are incredibly important 126 00:09:20,960 --> 00:09:24,799 things. And just keeping him in a courtroom and keeping and making all of 127 00:09:24,840 --> 00:09:28,559 his funds have to go to like a defense on this insane show trial thing. 128 00:09:30,080 --> 00:09:33,360 That's one reason. Two is so that they could bring out all the 129 00:09:33,480 --> 00:09:39,919 lurid details of the alleged like activity that led to this. And I'll just 130 00:09:39,919 --> 00:09:46,200 point out the judge said Smoky Daniels could come out and talk at length about 131 00:09:46,279 --> 00:09:52,039 every little thing about this supposed encounter, and even though that encounter has literally 132 00:09:52,080 --> 00:09:56,600 nothing to do with the charges that haven't even been really identified. But when 133 00:09:56,679 --> 00:10:01,879 Bradley Smith, former FEC chairman, was wanting to come in to talk about 134 00:10:01,919 --> 00:10:07,120 election law, which does relate to this trial, the judge said it wasn't 135 00:10:07,159 --> 00:10:11,320 relevant and he couldn't come in and talk about any of that all the Then 136 00:10:11,559 --> 00:10:16,320 the third thing, though, is so that they can say he's a convicted 137 00:10:18,480 --> 00:10:22,720 criminal. I just want to quickly see if you'll be overturned on appeal. 138 00:10:22,919 --> 00:10:26,759 They'll be able to say that soon for sure. For sure, I just 139 00:10:26,759 --> 00:10:33,919 won't quickly say on the sexual stuff that Smoking Daniels was talking about, it 140 00:10:33,080 --> 00:10:39,720 was just completely meant to try to embarrass Don Trump. I mean, that's 141 00:10:39,759 --> 00:10:43,879 all that was about. There is no imagine this, imagine the reverse imagine 142 00:10:43,879 --> 00:10:48,919 a man going up there and talking about a sexual relationship he had with unco 143 00:10:48,320 --> 00:10:52,960 cooperated right, we don't know if even if it's true. Just talking about 144 00:10:52,960 --> 00:10:56,960 all the specifics, you know, it's just lurid on purpose and meant to 145 00:10:56,000 --> 00:11:01,840 embarrass the former president. I read your quick headline from MSNBC. Did you 146 00:11:01,840 --> 00:11:05,799 see this one? No, it's how Michael Cohen's past lies make him a 147 00:11:05,799 --> 00:11:11,919 more credible witness. I like it by Hayes Brown. Yeah, yeah, 148 00:11:13,519 --> 00:11:18,000 something. Although I saw something like that from another media outlet. It might 149 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:22,840 have been The New York Times. And again, am I naive? Like? 150 00:11:24,720 --> 00:11:28,360 I totally get that there are different feelings about Donald Trump, there are 151 00:11:28,360 --> 00:11:35,279 different feelings about politics, and that they're legitimate and deeply held. But how 152 00:11:35,279 --> 00:11:39,840 could you write something like that and feel and like look yourself in the mirror. 153 00:11:41,559 --> 00:11:43,320 I got to be honest with you. I don't know how people write 154 00:11:43,320 --> 00:11:46,639 a lot of things they write today and look themselves in the mirror. But 155 00:11:46,679 --> 00:11:50,080 I will say this, the left has convinced themselves that Donald Trump is hitler. 156 00:11:50,279 --> 00:11:54,799 So anything you need to do to stop Hitler now has moral standing. 157 00:11:54,879 --> 00:11:58,639 You know, in your mind, you've convinced yourself that you can do this, 158 00:11:58,279 --> 00:12:01,639 and that's why you say columns like this, That's what I think. 159 00:12:01,799 --> 00:12:05,200 Why do you not see more people coming out and doing the are we the 160 00:12:05,279 --> 00:12:09,480 baddies? Thing? You know? From that mitchellin web Look, I actually 161 00:12:09,799 --> 00:12:16,000 yeah, I actually explained that that the the There are these Nazis and they're 162 00:12:16,080 --> 00:12:20,080 talking about how they're firing on someone, and then one of the Nazis is 163 00:12:20,120 --> 00:12:24,360 like, wait a minute, are we the baddies? And he starts thinking 164 00:12:24,399 --> 00:12:28,080 through like what they're doing, and he's like, are we the ones who're 165 00:12:28,080 --> 00:12:33,360 bad? It'll give you two examples actually of this that happened that I saw 166 00:12:33,399 --> 00:12:39,480 this week. One is Joy Behar of the view being challenged by Bill Maher 167 00:12:39,600 --> 00:12:43,600 on how even when she believes that Bien is doing something wrong, she will 168 00:12:43,639 --> 00:12:48,639 not criticize him because she's nervous that that might convince one of her viewers to 169 00:12:48,919 --> 00:12:54,320 vote for Donald Trump. So giving an inch now on Donald Trump is impossible 170 00:12:54,399 --> 00:12:58,799 for people who are so wrapped up in whatever, you know, his success 171 00:12:58,879 --> 00:13:05,080 or failure that they cannot they just simply cannot give an inch, no matter 172 00:13:05,120 --> 00:13:09,879 what the other was, Bill Crystal, I forget what the issue was. 173 00:13:09,559 --> 00:13:13,200 Oh it was about the Supreme Court Court and Clarence Thomas, and he, 174 00:13:13,399 --> 00:13:15,840 you know, someone pointed out that he was once a big fan not long 175 00:13:15,879 --> 00:13:18,960 ago, and he says I was wrong. Now, the problem here is 176 00:13:18,120 --> 00:13:24,159 with him is that if every single thing you believed in the past changes to 177 00:13:24,360 --> 00:13:30,320 comport and align with everything Democrats are now saying, you know, just because 178 00:13:30,360 --> 00:13:33,399 of Donald Trump. I think that's like the perfect kind of exemplar of how 179 00:13:33,559 --> 00:13:39,639 not exemplar, but the perfect example of how Donald Trump can can corrode your 180 00:13:39,919 --> 00:13:43,399 principles and everything. Don't get me wrong, I think he can work both 181 00:13:43,440 --> 00:13:48,639 ways, but you know, the Bill Crystals of the world think it only 182 00:13:48,679 --> 00:13:52,279 works one way when he is the perfect example of how it can just destroy 183 00:13:52,399 --> 00:13:58,759 you. So this is a minor thing, but I'd seen that some left 184 00:13:58,759 --> 00:14:05,039 wing reporter had deferred to my comments on the show trial as a defense of 185 00:14:05,080 --> 00:14:09,519 Donald Trump. And I have no problem defending Donald Trump, obviously, I've 186 00:14:09,519 --> 00:14:15,080 spent years doing it when it's called for. But in my view, defending 187 00:14:15,159 --> 00:14:20,320 rule of law is so much more important than defending Donald Trump. 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And the thing Democrats are 213 00:16:08,840 --> 00:16:12,879 doing with this law fair is a joke across the board, even the one 214 00:16:12,960 --> 00:16:15,840 trial where there might be a crime. In my opinion, the classified document 215 00:16:15,879 --> 00:16:21,120 case has been proven a joke right now, not just because they won't prosecute 216 00:16:21,120 --> 00:16:25,440 Biden for the same thing, but now we're hearing about how you know the 217 00:16:25,519 --> 00:16:29,840 CIA perhaps helped set him up. I mean, there's no way around that. 218 00:16:29,879 --> 00:16:34,039 I sound like a conspiracy theorist but that is what happened. So I 219 00:16:34,039 --> 00:16:37,399 think anyone who cares about the rule of law and process and norms and all 220 00:16:37,440 --> 00:16:44,159 that knows this is nonsense. Which brings me if we're ready to the next 221 00:16:44,159 --> 00:16:48,080 topic, sure, which is similar in my opinion in many ways. I 222 00:16:48,080 --> 00:16:53,200 wonder if you'll agree, is the campaign of the left, from the media 223 00:16:53,320 --> 00:16:59,879 to politicians to institutions to delegitimize and destroy the Supreme Court because they don't like 224 00:17:00,039 --> 00:17:03,960 some of the decisions that are coming out there. And now, obviously they 225 00:17:03,000 --> 00:17:07,359 have focused mostly on Clarence Thomas in this effort. They've smeared him in every 226 00:17:07,359 --> 00:17:11,920 way. They've called him corrupt, even though the guy does never deviates from 227 00:17:11,920 --> 00:17:15,839 his judicial philosophy to help anyone, much less himself or anyone else on you 228 00:17:15,880 --> 00:17:22,240 know. But now it's Alito. So there were two stories that came out 229 00:17:22,319 --> 00:17:26,240 last week smearing Alito. One was incredibly stupid. The other one was, 230 00:17:27,079 --> 00:17:30,480 I don't even know what to call it, one of the dumbest things I've 231 00:17:30,519 --> 00:17:36,039 ever seen. So the first one was about the upside down flag that flew 232 00:17:37,160 --> 00:17:40,640 in front of the Alito household. I think, briefly, I don't know 233 00:17:40,680 --> 00:17:47,000 how briefly it was hard for me to figure that out, which they say. 234 00:17:47,039 --> 00:17:48,440 The New York Times says, oh, here's the headline from New York 235 00:17:48,480 --> 00:17:53,960 Times hip piece at Justice Alito's house, a stop to Steal symbol on display. 236 00:17:55,240 --> 00:17:59,119 We learned that that stopped to steal steel symbol was a revert like an 237 00:17:59,160 --> 00:18:03,160 upside down flag, which is actually used by left and right. It just 238 00:18:03,240 --> 00:18:07,759 means distress, right, countries in distress something. I forget the exact wording 239 00:18:07,839 --> 00:18:10,799 they use, but I think I have that right right. So, there 240 00:18:10,799 --> 00:18:15,599 are multiple problems with this New York Times hit piece by Jodi Kant. So 241 00:18:15,720 --> 00:18:19,319 the first one was that she invented something that's not true, which is to 242 00:18:19,400 --> 00:18:25,000 claim that the upside had flag was a symbol of stop the steal. And 243 00:18:25,160 --> 00:18:30,119 I would highly recommend people read Margo Cleveland's piece at the Federalist. She was 244 00:18:30,319 --> 00:18:33,680 a permanent law clerk for a federal judge and one of her jobs for like 245 00:18:33,759 --> 00:18:38,119 six or eight years was about the judicial code of conduct. So she's an 246 00:18:38,160 --> 00:18:42,519 expert on judicial code of conduct. So she wrote a piece about that experience 247 00:18:42,559 --> 00:18:47,519 and how in analyzing this story. But the first point she makes there is 248 00:18:47,559 --> 00:18:52,119 that at the time you had a bunch of left wing media outlets talking not 249 00:18:52,400 --> 00:18:59,400 just about stop the steal symbols, but stop the steel flags, and CNN 250 00:18:59,400 --> 00:19:03,759 did a storyline hear all those stop the steel flags. At no point did 251 00:19:03,759 --> 00:19:07,920 they mention an upside down American flag, which is traditionally flown as a sign 252 00:19:07,960 --> 00:19:12,119 of distress. I learned this actually after the twenty sixteen election, when a 253 00:19:12,160 --> 00:19:17,079 bunch of my neighbors in my neighborhood started flying the flag upside down as a 254 00:19:17,119 --> 00:19:22,599 sign of distress. By the way, I do not love that. This 255 00:19:22,640 --> 00:19:25,359 is gonna sound so simple, but like if you're if you see that, 256 00:19:25,359 --> 00:19:30,000 that's supposed to be a signal like that person needs help. And so you 257 00:19:30,039 --> 00:19:33,240 don't want to like tell your neighbors like we need help in this house, 258 00:19:33,640 --> 00:19:40,200 if that's not actually what you're trying to say. But so the whole like 259 00:19:40,240 --> 00:19:42,440 sort of like exciting headline of the piece was false. It was a lie. 260 00:19:42,559 --> 00:19:47,039 It was made up by Jodi Cantor and her editors. But the second 261 00:19:47,119 --> 00:19:52,119 issue is that they said the fact they actually like downplayed what actually happened here. 262 00:19:52,319 --> 00:19:56,920 If you know Justice Alito, or know anything about him, you know 263 00:19:56,039 --> 00:20:03,880 he's like the most sober minded individual you may ever encounter the you know, 264 00:20:03,920 --> 00:20:07,839 he had nothing to do with this. He's married to a really like, 265 00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:15,519 super smart and interesting woman who who's you know, got a fiery personality. 266 00:20:15,759 --> 00:20:19,119 And she had a negative encounter with one of her neighbors who called her the 267 00:20:19,160 --> 00:20:22,799 C word and other things and was just being very very political and charged, 268 00:20:23,240 --> 00:20:27,039 and she responded at some point by flying the flag upside down. Nobody dies, 269 00:20:27,200 --> 00:20:30,480 I just interject quickly. And there was a big supposedly sign that said 270 00:20:30,599 --> 00:20:33,960 f Trump, like right there in front of where kids went to school and 271 00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:40,559 so forth right, absolutely so, So nobody disputes this, except that, 272 00:20:40,640 --> 00:20:42,880 like the New York Times kind of downplayed it to make it seem like just 273 00:20:42,960 --> 00:20:48,880 as Samuel Alito, and I cannot convey to you how out of character this 274 00:20:48,920 --> 00:20:52,640 would be, was like wasting himself up the flagpole to like fly the flag 275 00:20:52,720 --> 00:20:59,680 upside It was for a few hours because when it was discovered that she had 276 00:20:59,720 --> 00:21:03,160 done this, she was encouraged to not do that anymore. It was like, 277 00:21:03,200 --> 00:21:06,960 I would say, it's imprudent for her to do that, right, 278 00:21:07,079 --> 00:21:12,599 absolutely, yeah, yeah, but it is not a violation of the judicial 279 00:21:12,720 --> 00:21:18,240 code of conduct for your spouse to do something that you shouldn't do. You 280 00:21:18,279 --> 00:21:22,960 can ask your spouse not to do something, but they don't have to comply 281 00:21:22,079 --> 00:21:26,440 because they are their own person. So the idea that he would have to 282 00:21:26,519 --> 00:21:30,799 recuse based on the behavior of his wife is insane. But if if we're 283 00:21:32,079 --> 00:21:34,680 going to hold to that standard, that would be very good for conservatives, 284 00:21:34,680 --> 00:21:40,319 of course, because there are all sorts of left wing spouses of federal judges 285 00:21:40,599 --> 00:21:45,640 who are engaged in like crazy activity and crazy activity that even comes before the 286 00:21:45,680 --> 00:21:48,920 court. And then there are also all sorts of like crazy left wing judges 287 00:21:48,920 --> 00:21:52,799 in this country period. Like if you want to talk about judicial code of 288 00:21:52,839 --> 00:21:56,759 conduct, let's talk about march On up in New York, who's just making 289 00:21:56,759 --> 00:22:00,480 a travesty and like potentially destroying the entire country and nobody's really saying or doing 290 00:22:00,519 --> 00:22:03,519 anything. May may I just say a few things here though the wife. 291 00:22:04,480 --> 00:22:07,839 Let's just assume it's true that the wife did it. There are many justices 292 00:22:07,880 --> 00:22:12,519 and judges in the past and now who have siblings, siblings who have a 293 00:22:12,599 --> 00:22:18,039 husband or a wife who are actually involved in politics, work for political organizations, 294 00:22:18,799 --> 00:22:22,599 raise money for opposing candidate, stuff like that. So but more than 295 00:22:22,599 --> 00:22:26,039 that, even if Aledo did this himself, I actually don't think he should 296 00:22:26,079 --> 00:22:33,319 have would have had to have accused himself. Anyway, this was after Donald 297 00:22:33,359 --> 00:22:38,200 Trump had already stepped aside. I think he did it on January seventh, 298 00:22:38,319 --> 00:22:41,519 right, This was like this stuff happened like at the end of January I 299 00:22:41,519 --> 00:22:45,440 believe, like seventeenth to the twenty first. He happened, yes, shortly 300 00:22:45,480 --> 00:22:48,279 before the inauguration, so he didn't have to. But more than that, 301 00:22:49,079 --> 00:22:53,759 it's not just spouses who do this thing. These kinds of things are Ruth 302 00:22:53,759 --> 00:22:57,200 Bader Ginsburg said that if Donald Trump was present, the country was going to 303 00:22:57,200 --> 00:23:00,759 go to hell or something like that. She is just recuse. She never 304 00:23:00,799 --> 00:23:06,359 accused from a single case and that was she herself saying correct and not a 305 00:23:06,400 --> 00:23:12,160 single editorial board or pundit said that she should, And honestly, I don't 306 00:23:12,200 --> 00:23:17,000 think she should have to. The justices are allowed to have political opinions. 307 00:23:17,039 --> 00:23:19,559 They should not the Code of Ethics, if you read it, they're allowed 308 00:23:19,599 --> 00:23:26,680 to engage in non legal activity like justice. Scalia used to talk about his 309 00:23:26,759 --> 00:23:30,519 Catholicism, used to talk about, you know, the importance of free markets 310 00:23:30,519 --> 00:23:33,880 and things like that. He's allowed to talk about what's going on in the 311 00:23:33,880 --> 00:23:37,240 world. He's just not supposed to talk about cases. Now what I prefer 312 00:23:37,319 --> 00:23:40,559 they didn't do that, Yeah, of course, But I don't think there's 313 00:23:40,799 --> 00:23:44,839 any standard that a leader should have to recuse himself here, not in the 314 00:23:44,920 --> 00:23:48,480 New Code of Conduct. Having said that, the real issue here isn't the 315 00:23:48,519 --> 00:23:52,160 fact that The New York Times was posting pictures of the Alito's house a short 316 00:23:52,240 --> 00:23:59,440 period of time after Supreme Court justices have faced assassination attempts in their own homes. 317 00:24:00,319 --> 00:24:03,160 That's not even well, actually, that is the issue, right like 318 00:24:03,200 --> 00:24:07,799 the issue is the left is going to war against the one institution we have 319 00:24:07,920 --> 00:24:11,799 that works right now. Listen, I think if there's a legitimate story and 320 00:24:11,839 --> 00:24:15,039 the New York Times wants to follow it, even if there are assassination attempts, 321 00:24:15,039 --> 00:24:17,480 even if there are, you know, they should follow that story if 322 00:24:17,519 --> 00:24:19,839 it's real. But Jodie Canter is just an anti court activist. She was 323 00:24:19,880 --> 00:24:23,160 at Slay or where that, you know, wherever she was. This is 324 00:24:23,160 --> 00:24:27,880 not This is a it's not it's not a real news story. And that, 325 00:24:29,240 --> 00:24:33,359 to me, that's the real problem with it. It's just it's I 326 00:24:33,640 --> 00:24:37,680 feel like they just kind of there's a stream of stories against the justices, 327 00:24:38,440 --> 00:24:44,640 you know, the originalist justices that compound and create the perception among people who 328 00:24:44,680 --> 00:24:48,039 aren't paying attention that much that there's something wrong, you know, there's something 329 00:24:48,119 --> 00:24:52,759 corrupt going on, that there's something well funded and coordinated campaign to destroy the 330 00:24:52,799 --> 00:24:56,720 Supreme Court. Yes, right, from the left. So even if you're 331 00:24:56,759 --> 00:24:59,839 not paying it, regardless of how that's going to affect the country. Again, 332 00:25:00,119 --> 00:25:03,240 right's the worst thing going in my opinion, and it's even worse maybe 333 00:25:03,240 --> 00:25:07,279 than the lawfair I'm serious. They want to destroy the judicial branch of this 334 00:25:07,359 --> 00:25:11,519 country so that President Biden can do whatever he wants without any kind of President 335 00:25:11,519 --> 00:25:15,440 Biden. I mean, it's a long term strategy so that the left in 336 00:25:15,519 --> 00:25:18,400 general can control everything, all the agencies, all that. You know, 337 00:25:18,440 --> 00:25:23,359 they just want power and this has just been terrible. But anyway, what 338 00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:26,079 I mean though, is that it's not people think like, oh, we 339 00:25:26,480 --> 00:25:30,640 debunked this one, it's fine, but no, their whole point of this 340 00:25:30,880 --> 00:25:33,160 is to just continue to pile on the stories. With a crush of stories, 341 00:25:33,160 --> 00:25:38,119 you create perceptions, and you can see the Supreme Court's standing among Americans 342 00:25:38,119 --> 00:25:41,480 this has fallen, so it's working, so you know. But anyway, 343 00:25:41,519 --> 00:25:48,160 there was another story. I forgot the guy. I think it's Chris Grinder 344 00:25:48,359 --> 00:25:52,000 Grider who used to be a BuzzFeed He has a blog or something, and 345 00:25:52,039 --> 00:25:56,559 everyone picked it up. The ethical the problem was that there was an ethical 346 00:25:56,599 --> 00:26:04,559 standard or scandal with a leado because he sold an iSER Busch stock in August 347 00:26:06,359 --> 00:26:11,440 of twenty twenty three in the midst and the height of the bud Light boycott 348 00:26:11,519 --> 00:26:17,880 over Peasant's name. Does this person have like a sixth grade education? Like 349 00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:21,759 what is what is the claim? I don't even understand the claim. So 350 00:26:21,799 --> 00:26:30,079 the claim is participating. He's shown that he's anti transgender person because he's participating 351 00:26:30,200 --> 00:26:33,960 in the selling of stock and then on the same day buying another stock, 352 00:26:33,200 --> 00:26:37,720 which proves that it was political. Well, I did do a little dive 353 00:26:37,759 --> 00:26:42,640 into this, and August fourteenth is when he sold between one thousand and fifteen 354 00:26:42,680 --> 00:26:47,000 thousand dollars worth of the stock. So that is not the height of the 355 00:26:47,039 --> 00:26:49,440 boycott. In fact, that was the low. Alito held onto the stock 356 00:26:49,759 --> 00:26:55,000 way too long. He should have sold it way earlier. It was already. 357 00:26:55,519 --> 00:26:59,720 Yeah, that's the scandal. He's already rebounding here the boycott again in 358 00:26:59,799 --> 00:27:03,240 eight role August. By August it was petering out more than that. I 359 00:27:03,240 --> 00:27:07,480 don't know why he maybe he bought he bought what was the stockyboard, Corse 360 00:27:07,519 --> 00:27:11,000 stock, because he thought that their prospects were better because they didn't you know, 361 00:27:11,039 --> 00:27:15,400 they weren't upsetting half the country or whatever. But the idea that you 362 00:27:15,440 --> 00:27:18,920 can't sell there is literally nothing in the ethics Code that says you're not allowed. 363 00:27:19,119 --> 00:27:22,200 First of all, if Aldo came out tomorrow and said, yep, 364 00:27:22,359 --> 00:27:26,079 I sold that stock because I didn't like who they were employing, that's a 365 00:27:26,119 --> 00:27:30,119 completely normal ethical thing for him to do. There's no, he's not. 366 00:27:30,279 --> 00:27:33,799 There's there's no bud light case in front of the Supreme Court. By the 367 00:27:33,839 --> 00:27:38,119 way, you have left wing justices getting four or five six million dollars in 368 00:27:38,200 --> 00:27:44,240 book deals and then overseeing cases that include you know that that have to do 369 00:27:44,319 --> 00:27:48,400 with companies that were involved in giving them that money, and yet no one 370 00:27:48,960 --> 00:27:53,480 asks them to accuse. So I don't know. I so just you know, 371 00:27:53,559 --> 00:27:59,200 though, when you do old stock, buy stock, sales stock, 372 00:27:59,680 --> 00:28:03,519 as a Supreme Court justice, you do, that can cause recusal issues. 373 00:28:03,799 --> 00:28:11,319 So if Anheuser Bush were to come before you and you held stock on it, 374 00:28:11,720 --> 00:28:14,160 you know, you have to you have to make a decision about whether 375 00:28:14,200 --> 00:28:18,480 that affects whether you can hear the case or not. Yeah. But if 376 00:28:18,480 --> 00:28:21,640 you're holding a ton of stock for an oil company and that oil companies for 377 00:28:21,759 --> 00:28:23,079 the Supreme Court, yeah, that might be a need you might need to 378 00:28:23,119 --> 00:28:26,920 refuse yourself for sure. One of things that's challenging about this again, though, 379 00:28:27,200 --> 00:28:33,960 is that in some of these federal judge families, you have a wife 380 00:28:33,960 --> 00:28:37,039 who owns stock and you own stock, and you file taxes together separately or 381 00:28:37,079 --> 00:28:45,200 whatever it is. But like it still can cause issues and it's a challenging 382 00:28:45,279 --> 00:28:51,359 situation. I'll give you an issue. Elena Kagan, who helped craft Obamacare 383 00:28:51,440 --> 00:28:55,680 policy and the defense of Obamacare policy being put on the court and then hear 384 00:28:55,759 --> 00:28:59,480 in cases about Obamacare just to recuse herself. I mean, she might have 385 00:28:59,480 --> 00:29:04,720 recused hersel from one specific case where she was actually had like so obviously participated. 386 00:29:06,279 --> 00:29:07,920 But I mean this is just a new That's the thing all of this, 387 00:29:08,160 --> 00:29:11,640 all of this stuff, including the trial Alvin Bragg trial, is that 388 00:29:11,680 --> 00:29:17,519 the left just creates new standards for conservatives that have never existed and definitely will 389 00:29:17,559 --> 00:29:22,720 never exist for the left. So they just hold people to standards don't exist, 390 00:29:22,720 --> 00:29:26,400 that are completely made up, right, And you know, it's like 391 00:29:26,440 --> 00:29:30,960 how they It always reminds you of how they call everything. If there's something 392 00:29:30,960 --> 00:29:33,759 they don't like and there's no law to stop, but they call it a 393 00:29:33,799 --> 00:29:37,119 loophole. It just becomes a loophole, not an existing, normal legal thing, 394 00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:41,519 your ocasional loophole. So this is just the same sort of thing, 395 00:29:41,559 --> 00:29:44,640 but more and more dangerous. I think they're going to succeed. It's really 396 00:29:44,640 --> 00:29:45,519 a downer. I mean, I think they're going to destroy the Court, 397 00:29:45,559 --> 00:29:49,000 which, as you mentioned, is the only properly functioning institution in America right 398 00:29:49,039 --> 00:29:55,839 now, and that is going to be disastrous because then there will be no 399 00:29:55,880 --> 00:29:59,119 limiting principle on governance in the United States anymore. It's going to be it. 400 00:30:02,240 --> 00:30:06,119 Don't let these people think you're a moron. The Watchdout on Wall Street 401 00:30:06,119 --> 00:30:10,480 podcast with Chris Markowski. Every day, Chris helps unpack the connection between politics 402 00:30:10,519 --> 00:30:14,119 and the economy and how it affects your wallet. Biden claims he brought inflation 403 00:30:14,279 --> 00:30:18,559 down from nine to one percent, blaming corporate greed and stringflation. He says 404 00:30:18,599 --> 00:30:23,000 that people like you actually have money that they don't want to spend. Whether 405 00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:26,039 it's happening in DC or down on Wall Street, it's affecting you financially. 406 00:30:26,119 --> 00:30:30,519 Be informed. Check out the Watchdot on Wall Street podcast with Chris Markowski on 407 00:30:30,559 --> 00:30:36,759 Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. I read your tweet, 408 00:30:36,759 --> 00:30:41,599 Molly from Bette Midler, singer and actress. Yeah, can you imagine 409 00:30:41,839 --> 00:30:48,400 what would have happened if Hillary Clinton had claimed the election was stolen? Oh? 410 00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:52,240 I saw that tweet and I was like assuming that it had to be 411 00:30:52,400 --> 00:30:56,000 fake. You know, sometimes people pretend to be celebrities on social media and 412 00:30:56,039 --> 00:30:59,400 it was a way of making her seem really really stupid, And then I 413 00:30:59,559 --> 00:31:04,440 realized it was one hundred percent real. She really tweeted that, Like, 414 00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:11,680 we don't have to imagine bet because we lived through it and it was really 415 00:31:11,759 --> 00:31:15,200 damaging and really awful. And it does also show like, wow, these 416 00:31:15,200 --> 00:31:21,880 people are in echo chambers, media echo chambers that I mean, I've unfortunately 417 00:31:21,960 --> 00:31:26,160 run across her tweets before. She's not very bright, but as I know, 418 00:31:27,359 --> 00:31:30,920 there are a number of times, a number of times where Hillary Clinton 419 00:31:30,960 --> 00:31:34,960 claimed that the twenty sixteen election was not on the level that it was putin 420 00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:38,839 had won it, that we still don't know what happened. And you know, 421 00:31:40,279 --> 00:31:44,960 that makes sense since she literally came up with the whole Russia coclusion oaks 422 00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:47,880 herself, I mean, not by herself, but she was behind it. 423 00:31:48,400 --> 00:31:52,440 So she was just spreading the conspiracy that she Yeah, yeah, she and 424 00:31:52,519 --> 00:31:56,759 the Democratic National Committee. Oh. I was actually thinking about this relating to 425 00:31:56,359 --> 00:32:01,319 the Alvin braggtrial, because the Hillary Clinton campaign was actually in New York, 426 00:32:01,440 --> 00:32:06,400 wasn't it, like famously headquartered out of Brooklyn, Brooklyn, And one of 427 00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:10,000 the things they did is that they to orchestrate the Russia collusion scam. They 428 00:32:10,079 --> 00:32:15,279 funneled money through their law firm. They claimed that it was legal expenses. 429 00:32:15,599 --> 00:32:20,720 Then Perkins Cooey, their law firm, hired the Fabulousts who fabricated the Russia 430 00:32:20,759 --> 00:32:24,119 colusion scam. And they didn't just fabricate it, they fabricated and spread it. 431 00:32:24,240 --> 00:32:28,359 So these were people who like went to the media and tried to get 432 00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:32,799 everybody to write about how Donald Trump was secretly a Russian spy. And at 433 00:32:32,839 --> 00:32:37,920 no time did Alvin Bragg bring charges. And you even had there that the 434 00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:45,839 FEC did find Hillary Clinton for that lying about what she was doing with the 435 00:32:45,880 --> 00:32:49,640 legal expenses. I think she was fined like one hundred k. But anyway, 436 00:32:49,799 --> 00:32:55,359 the Russia collusion scam, paying one hundred k is a bargain for being 437 00:32:55,400 --> 00:32:59,200 able to run a soft coup against the guy who beat you, by the 438 00:32:59,240 --> 00:33:04,960 way, like anyone would pay that at that level. But I was noticing 439 00:33:05,039 --> 00:33:09,319 also that they're running the Russia collusions scam again, and it's, you know, 440 00:33:09,480 --> 00:33:15,119 so exhausting to like look at it. But last week Joe Scarborough and 441 00:33:15,160 --> 00:33:21,440 his Morning Joe show spent like a half hour on Russia collusion and they're claiming 442 00:33:21,440 --> 00:33:27,480 now that his Republicans in Congress who are coordinating with Russia to hurt Joe Biden. 443 00:33:28,160 --> 00:33:32,279 And the entire basis of their claim was this story from the New York 444 00:33:32,319 --> 00:33:40,839 Times, sourced completely to anonymous current and former CIA officials about how Russia is 445 00:33:40,920 --> 00:33:45,160 running these like high level scams, and they had one example of it. 446 00:33:45,240 --> 00:33:49,680 They had no evidence to support that this example even existed, by the way, 447 00:33:49,720 --> 00:33:52,799 but I will just grant that this one example may exist, and it 448 00:33:53,000 --> 00:34:00,960 was featuring a woman who claimed she was in Kiev, say that they used 449 00:34:00,960 --> 00:34:07,319 to run Russian or they used to run troll operations against Russia. But then 450 00:34:07,640 --> 00:34:12,880 people came they were probably with the CIA, she says, and they asked 451 00:34:13,079 --> 00:34:17,760 the Russian or they asked the Ukrainian troll farm to start sending out messages against 452 00:34:19,239 --> 00:34:23,000 Trump to help Biden, and they were like, and none of that is 453 00:34:23,119 --> 00:34:27,960 true. Now, first off, I think we all know that our own 454 00:34:28,039 --> 00:34:32,440 military and other agencies are involved in like high level propaganda in the Ukraine War, 455 00:34:32,519 --> 00:34:36,639 and we, by the way, are completely winning the propaganda war. 456 00:34:37,079 --> 00:34:40,719 They're not winning the physical war maybe, but we're winning the propaganda war. 457 00:34:42,440 --> 00:34:46,840 So it's not like even completely insane to talk about how that propaganda war works. 458 00:34:46,880 --> 00:34:52,880 But so this isn't true, and so therefore we need to ramp up 459 00:34:52,960 --> 00:34:59,840 efforts to fight disinformation suppressing American speech and debate. Because this Russian woman was 460 00:35:00,039 --> 00:35:05,280 claiming to be a woman from Kiev and then claiming that people probably with the 461 00:35:05,320 --> 00:35:08,280 CIA, again, very convincing stuff here in this video that may or may 462 00:35:08,280 --> 00:35:14,480 not exist, told her to go after Trump. It's like the threat posed 463 00:35:14,599 --> 00:35:21,440 by the censorship complex is a gazillion times worse than the threat posed by even 464 00:35:22,119 --> 00:35:24,360 like if this type of stuff is true, which is a huge if there's 465 00:35:24,400 --> 00:35:29,800 like not even much supporting for it. And and I sort of remind people 466 00:35:29,840 --> 00:35:32,000 like in twenty sixteen, we were told that we had to destroy the country 467 00:35:32,360 --> 00:35:37,079 over one hundred thousand dollars spend in Facebook ads from Russians. But what was 468 00:35:37,159 --> 00:35:40,440 left unsaid was like how much of that spend had nothing to do with the 469 00:35:40,480 --> 00:35:44,840 election, Like the vast majority had nothing to do with candidates issues or election 470 00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:47,320 or anything. A lot of it was happening in twenty fifteen when it was 471 00:35:47,360 --> 00:35:52,360 geographically targeted. It was like in Texas and places that didn't matter, you 472 00:35:52,360 --> 00:35:55,000 know. And they called it a digital pearl harbor and that we had to 473 00:35:55,000 --> 00:36:00,159 set up this disinformation complex censorship complex to fight it. And it was really 474 00:36:00,440 --> 00:36:06,280 not a big deal. But the boys at Joe Scarborough's Morning Joe's show were 475 00:36:06,400 --> 00:36:12,400 just like going off like crazy, and they brought on Jennifer Palmiery, who 476 00:36:12,559 --> 00:36:16,079 was Hillary Clinton's communications director. Did not talk about how she set up the 477 00:36:16,159 --> 00:36:21,440 Russia collusion scam. They had her talk about how frustrating it was that when 478 00:36:21,480 --> 00:36:24,679 they did the scam, people didn't always believe that Russia was like the super 479 00:36:24,719 --> 00:36:30,920 bad entity. Oh my gosh, I have five things I wanted to ask 480 00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:34,920 you talk about now it's fine. One is the most important question. Are 481 00:36:34,960 --> 00:36:37,360 we supposed to say Kiev? Now? I thought it was Kiev? Am 482 00:36:37,400 --> 00:36:39,599 I wrong? Is a Keiv? Is that the way Ukrainians say it? 483 00:36:42,239 --> 00:36:47,320 Ukrainians say Kiev, Russians say Kiev. Oh so if I say Kiev, 484 00:36:47,360 --> 00:36:52,199 I'm on the wrong side of history. And it kind of annoys me because, 485 00:36:52,239 --> 00:36:57,519 for you know, many hundreds of years we've said Kiev like chicken Kiev, 486 00:36:58,039 --> 00:37:00,280 and now we're supposed to change it. But it's policy at one of 487 00:37:00,280 --> 00:37:04,079 the places I work at. So I just, oh, interesting, I'm 488 00:37:04,079 --> 00:37:09,119 going to continue to say Kiev and Qatar instead of cutter. That's my policy. 489 00:37:08,800 --> 00:37:15,440 Okay, that's okay with the federalists. I don't care about any of 490 00:37:15,480 --> 00:37:17,800 that. By the way, even if it were true. Although there's always 491 00:37:17,840 --> 00:37:22,719 going to be Russian Russian medaling. There always has been some Russian meddling, 492 00:37:23,199 --> 00:37:27,840 And like you say, I used to care somewhat, but now I don't 493 00:37:27,840 --> 00:37:30,599 care because it's an excuse to censor Americans. Moreover, I want to meet 494 00:37:30,679 --> 00:37:37,159 the single voter first who has ever changed their mind on who they're going to 495 00:37:37,280 --> 00:37:44,320 vote for because of some Russian Facebook ad or video or tweet. That person 496 00:37:44,360 --> 00:37:51,840 does not exist. It is a completely concocted, you know, scare speaking 497 00:37:51,840 --> 00:37:55,039 of Qatar. They spent they drop like, and I'm not kidding, six 498 00:37:55,119 --> 00:38:00,920 hundred five hundred million on these universities where we create these cretans and these ignoramuses. 499 00:38:01,199 --> 00:38:06,480 They are a far bigger threat to American life, to speech, to 500 00:38:06,639 --> 00:38:10,719 everything than Russian interference. And no one cares because these people fund a lot 501 00:38:10,719 --> 00:38:16,000 of the institutions that the left, like the Brookings Institution, the you know, 502 00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:23,440 Harvard whatever. So that's and finally, Morning Joe is he's so hilarious. 503 00:38:23,519 --> 00:38:30,360 I mean, that guy, well, there is nothing you could say 504 00:38:30,360 --> 00:38:32,719 that will stop him from simply saying that the Russia colllusions hoax is true. 505 00:38:32,800 --> 00:38:36,639 So I don't think there's much credibility there, and I don't worry too much. 506 00:38:36,679 --> 00:38:38,760 It's kind of like just a real echo chamber there, right, I 507 00:38:38,760 --> 00:38:43,440 mean, MSNBC. No one's changing their mind there, it doesn't. I 508 00:38:43,440 --> 00:38:46,760 mean, it's fun to like bash him, but no, actually I would 509 00:38:46,840 --> 00:38:52,159 push back on that. So the New York Times piece ran like one morning 510 00:38:52,280 --> 00:38:58,000 last week and it happened to be And so it's this like CIA mouthpiece kind 511 00:38:58,000 --> 00:39:00,599 of piece. They ask this report, could you write up this thing about 512 00:39:00,599 --> 00:39:06,639 how there is all this Russia disinformation and make sure it comes out by this 513 00:39:06,719 --> 00:39:10,280 morning? Is kind of how I imagine it's going. Because Senator Mark Warner 514 00:39:10,559 --> 00:39:15,920 had a hearing that morning, where would you believe it he quoted from that 515 00:39:15,960 --> 00:39:19,199 piece that just happened to run in the New York Times that morning. It 516 00:39:19,280 --> 00:39:24,519 isn't that just amazing that a piece sourced exclusively to the CIA ran the morning 517 00:39:24,679 --> 00:39:29,639 of a hearing on the need to fight disinformation in the twenty twenty four election. 518 00:39:30,159 --> 00:39:36,400 So it's not just mourning Joe, it's like the regen And I also, 519 00:39:36,559 --> 00:39:38,000 I do want to say that this New York Times piece had the most 520 00:39:38,079 --> 00:39:44,039 hilarious quote ever. It was so everything's like anonymously sourced except for this quote 521 00:39:44,119 --> 00:39:49,280 from this CIA spokesperson who's denying that they were the people in this video that 522 00:39:49,320 --> 00:39:52,000 may or may not exist, going and telling this woman who's not from Kiev 523 00:39:52,039 --> 00:39:57,440 but claiming to be from Kiev to target Donald Trump. And he's like, 524 00:39:57,880 --> 00:40:04,760 this is an outlandish lie. Take very seriously, the laws restricting us from 525 00:40:04,800 --> 00:40:09,360 doing anything to involve ourselves in domestic political operations. And I literally laughed out 526 00:40:09,400 --> 00:40:14,159 loud when I read that, Like, do you remember people inside the CIA 527 00:40:14,480 --> 00:40:20,480 helped coordinate the former CIA officials all lying about how the Hunter Biden laptop was 528 00:40:20,559 --> 00:40:27,239 Russian disinformation which dramatically affected our elections and also affected like our relationship with Russia. 529 00:40:27,360 --> 00:40:30,800 Didn't someone it was CNN or MSNBC say you don't want to You don't 530 00:40:30,840 --> 00:40:34,079 want to upset the like Donald Trump's upsetting the CIA. You don't want to 531 00:40:34,119 --> 00:40:36,159 do that there. You don't want to get on their bet side, you 532 00:40:36,199 --> 00:40:40,880 know, And yeah, I don't. Here's the thing they're going to say. 533 00:40:42,280 --> 00:40:45,480 If Donald Trump wins there, it's going to be another like you say 534 00:40:45,519 --> 00:40:49,840 in your piece, there will for sure be another Russian hoax, Like I'm 535 00:40:49,880 --> 00:40:54,199 positive of it. It's it's saving democracy and Russia are the only two, 536 00:40:57,079 --> 00:41:00,880 you know, bullets they have right now, and because everything else is going 537 00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:05,079 very poorly for them, whenever, Joe, any poll will show you that 538 00:41:05,280 --> 00:41:08,320 people just do not trust bind on anything. So their only hope is basically 539 00:41:08,440 --> 00:41:14,360 to to you know, to tap into that anti Trump sentiment and you know, 540 00:41:14,840 --> 00:41:17,840 this is how they're going to do it. I don't know how effective 541 00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:25,079 it will be this time, but we're going to see for sure. Yeah. 542 00:41:25,280 --> 00:41:29,639 I just quickly, one last thing on this is that I used to 543 00:41:29,719 --> 00:41:32,840 constantly try to balance because I don't like that other countries get involved in our 544 00:41:32,880 --> 00:41:37,960 elections at all. But it's gotten to the point where I prefer that to 545 00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:43,559 anything that the censorship you know, what do you call it, the censorship 546 00:41:43,559 --> 00:41:46,480 industrial complex is doing to Americans, Like I would rather have Russian ads on 547 00:41:46,559 --> 00:41:52,280 billboards than have the United States government censoring an American from being able to say 548 00:41:52,320 --> 00:41:54,320 whatever he wants in an open forum. You know. Well, and as 549 00:41:54,360 --> 00:41:59,159 Matt Taby has shown in his reporting, so frequently, when they claim that 550 00:41:59,159 --> 00:42:02,840 it's Russian metal, it'll be like a farmer in Iowa who posts a tweet, 551 00:42:02,880 --> 00:42:06,840 you know, and they'll be like, this guy is tied to Russian 552 00:42:06,840 --> 00:42:09,400 military and it's not. You know, they just kind of make the claim. 553 00:42:09,440 --> 00:42:15,119 There's no no substantiation for the claim, and then the media run wild 554 00:42:15,199 --> 00:42:16,800 with it, and other Democrats run wild with it, and then next thing 555 00:42:16,840 --> 00:42:20,960 you know, we've got like massive censorship of the farmer in Iowa. And 556 00:42:21,000 --> 00:42:24,280 everybody who agrees with him, and the art, the media and a lot 557 00:42:24,360 --> 00:42:28,000 and the government has lied to us so many times that we have no real 558 00:42:28,039 --> 00:42:30,599 reason to trust them on this stuff right now. I mean, it's going 559 00:42:30,679 --> 00:42:38,519 to take decades to rebuild that trust. So Molly, I was reading that 560 00:42:38,679 --> 00:42:46,960 in Ukraine President Vladimir Vladimir Zelansky blew past an election again and just disholding power. 561 00:42:47,000 --> 00:42:51,679 And I was just thinking, what would happen if Benjamin Natanaw was like, 562 00:42:51,679 --> 00:42:52,679 we're not going to have elections because we're in the middle of a war 563 00:42:52,760 --> 00:42:57,119 this time, Like, do you think the American government would react to that 564 00:42:57,199 --> 00:43:00,239 favorably? Do you think we would do nothing about it? How do you 565 00:43:00,239 --> 00:43:04,360 think the world would react to something like that? We kind of already know 566 00:43:04,440 --> 00:43:07,360 what's going on here with the US is pressuring Israel to hold elections, so 567 00:43:07,440 --> 00:43:13,039 talking about meddling in other countries elections, Joe Biden is like, I think 568 00:43:13,079 --> 00:43:16,440 that natna who should hold elections so that maybe he can be ousted. And 569 00:43:16,480 --> 00:43:21,639 they're in like the middle of eradicating Hamas right now, so it's not like 570 00:43:21,760 --> 00:43:24,960 the most perfect time to hold elections. I think probably Natanyahu will be done. 571 00:43:25,119 --> 00:43:29,480 You know when, Yeah, but if if the government fell apart, 572 00:43:29,519 --> 00:43:34,440 they would because they actually live in a real democratic system that would impel him 573 00:43:34,480 --> 00:43:37,800 to do it, which other places do not. Okay, but last week 574 00:43:37,920 --> 00:43:44,519 Anthony Blinken goes and visits Voldemir and has a press conference and he's like, 575 00:43:44,599 --> 00:43:49,440 yeah, by the way, we're not having elections here in Ukraine until every 576 00:43:49,480 --> 00:43:52,920 single person can vote. And what he meant by that was that until they 577 00:43:53,000 --> 00:44:00,000 eradicate Russia from these various territories, including Crimea, which is just like nobody 578 00:44:00,239 --> 00:44:04,199 articulated a plan whereby that will happen. And also, by the way, 579 00:44:04,280 --> 00:44:07,519 that was like, to me, really stupid, because Ukraine's problems have always 580 00:44:07,519 --> 00:44:09,800 been that they have these territories that are kind of Russia friendly, then they 581 00:44:09,800 --> 00:44:14,559 have territories that are more Western friendly, and so when they have elections sometimes 582 00:44:14,559 --> 00:44:19,960 the Russian friendly territories dominate. They should totally hold elections while those people can't 583 00:44:20,039 --> 00:44:23,039 vote if they want to shore up efforts against Russia. But anyway, he 584 00:44:23,280 --> 00:44:30,039 announces that there will be no elections held, and then like literally five minutes 585 00:44:30,119 --> 00:44:35,679 later, he's on stage playing with his guitar. Neil Young's rocket in the 586 00:44:35,679 --> 00:44:40,239 free world low point for Neil Young that song, but I also thought it 587 00:44:40,280 --> 00:44:45,400 was maybe not maybe it was totally appropriate because do you remember the context in 588 00:44:45,440 --> 00:44:50,119 which Neil Young wrote that. I assume it has something to do with the 589 00:44:50,119 --> 00:44:54,119 golfer or something, but I don't remember what do with what it was something 590 00:44:55,119 --> 00:44:59,599 of It was something very critical of George H. W. Bush. I 591 00:44:59,639 --> 00:45:02,280 don't rem were the exact context, but it was George HW. Bush, 592 00:45:02,599 --> 00:45:07,480 and George HW Bush and his team of foreign policy experts did a really good 593 00:45:07,559 --> 00:45:13,239 job of handling the dissolution of the Soviet Union. And when that happened, 594 00:45:13,239 --> 00:45:16,840 you had like all these republics that had been just sort of like vassals of 595 00:45:17,079 --> 00:45:22,559 Moscow who were having to get set up and be managed and be incorporated into 596 00:45:22,599 --> 00:45:27,159 the global environment. And I personally believe that George H. W. Bush 597 00:45:27,199 --> 00:45:30,639 and his army did a great job with that. And they warned that like 598 00:45:30,679 --> 00:45:35,480 the one area that hadn't gone as well, or that might be a problem 599 00:45:35,519 --> 00:45:38,360 if it weren't managed properly, was Ukraine. And they said, like, 600 00:45:38,800 --> 00:45:44,920 if you don't keep this as a neutral barrier between the West and Russia, 601 00:45:44,920 --> 00:45:46,719 if you try to take it over as a proxy to like poke the bear, 602 00:45:47,119 --> 00:45:52,239 then you might see Russia invading Ukraine. And so maybe it's a totally 603 00:45:52,239 --> 00:45:57,360 appropriate song for Anthony Blincoln to be playing because Neil Young hated George H. 604 00:45:57,440 --> 00:46:01,639 W. Bush hated his foreign policy, and Anthony Blincoln clearly did too, 605 00:46:01,880 --> 00:46:06,440 and all of his people. Not an expert, but I don't think there 606 00:46:06,880 --> 00:46:08,480 was any real good way to deal with that situation. In the end, 607 00:46:08,519 --> 00:46:15,960 there's just the going back in history. You know, the Russians that live 608 00:46:15,960 --> 00:46:19,199 in Ukraine. There's just a big problem there that I don't know any like, 609 00:46:19,239 --> 00:46:21,679 I don't know that you can hold keep that new traged going. But 610 00:46:21,719 --> 00:46:23,800 anyway, that's not the point here. The point for me is that you're 611 00:46:23,880 --> 00:46:28,920 right. I was going to mention that where Russians are those areas and have 612 00:46:29,000 --> 00:46:31,800 taken those areas are largely Russian ethnically Russian, or there was a big, 613 00:46:31,880 --> 00:46:36,239 you know, majority ethnic Russian population, So having elections and now would actually 614 00:46:36,280 --> 00:46:40,320 help him. But moreover, having an election during wartime is actually very important 615 00:46:40,320 --> 00:46:45,360 because you want to know if your policies are supported by the people. You're 616 00:46:45,400 --> 00:46:47,440 engaged in a war, maybe the people want someone who's more of a you 617 00:46:47,480 --> 00:46:51,679 know, Peacenik, you know who wants Maybe they want to make a deal 618 00:46:51,719 --> 00:46:52,760 with Russian, maybe they want to end the war. This is when you're 619 00:46:52,760 --> 00:46:57,679 supposed to have elections the Israelis. If that government falls apart, which it 620 00:46:57,719 --> 00:47:00,760 may in two weeks, they're going to have an election and they're going to 621 00:47:00,760 --> 00:47:01,880 see what the people really want, how they want to move forward. Do 622 00:47:01,920 --> 00:47:06,079 they want to eradicate Hamas, do they not want you know whatever? And 623 00:47:06,559 --> 00:47:08,840 you know, I just don't think that. Excuse flies, I don't know 624 00:47:08,880 --> 00:47:13,519 if you're totally right there. I mean, I do think it's a well, 625 00:47:13,559 --> 00:47:16,920 I think the real problem with holding elections in Ukraine right now is that 626 00:47:17,119 --> 00:47:22,920 Selensky would probably be ousted, or that they worry that the war is not 627 00:47:23,039 --> 00:47:29,159 as popular among the Ukrainians who are fighting and dying as the media are portraying 628 00:47:29,199 --> 00:47:31,880 it as well. That's what I'm saying. Yeah, I'm saying, but 629 00:47:32,159 --> 00:47:35,119 I just want to say, more than anything, it's just kind of offensive 630 00:47:35,159 --> 00:47:37,440 to be told that you have to do this proxy war with no strategy for 631 00:47:37,440 --> 00:47:44,280 success. Nobody's even like trying to articulate a strategy of success, that you 632 00:47:44,360 --> 00:47:47,920 have to do that in defensive democracy. While also saying we are not going 633 00:47:47,960 --> 00:47:54,440 to allow democratic elections in perpetuity. Basically, I just I'm sympathetic to the 634 00:47:54,559 --> 00:47:58,880 Ukrainian cause, but the problem for me is that we have a government right 635 00:47:58,920 --> 00:48:01,280 now in the United States who treats Israel with us, which I do care 636 00:48:01,280 --> 00:48:07,320 about more than Ukraine. Is what it is in ways that it does not 637 00:48:07,679 --> 00:48:09,760 the state that's supposed to be the bulwark of democracy in the world. And 638 00:48:09,800 --> 00:48:15,599 you know, I just I find the I find their arguments just really hollow 639 00:48:15,639 --> 00:48:24,719 and in destructive in many ways. So anyway, that's that's that's something we're 640 00:48:24,719 --> 00:48:30,920 gonna have to watch. Let's talk about culture. I don't have much this 641 00:48:31,000 --> 00:48:34,760 week, how about you. I don't either. I had to work up 642 00:48:34,880 --> 00:48:39,000 at Fox this weekend in New York, and then also work on stuff when 643 00:48:39,000 --> 00:48:42,280 I wasn't working there, so I didn't have much. But I do. 644 00:48:42,480 --> 00:48:45,920 I don't know if this counts as cultural, but you know, I'm Lutheran 645 00:48:45,159 --> 00:48:49,280 and I go to church every week and up in New York. I have 646 00:48:49,320 --> 00:48:52,519 been visiting New York frequently on weekends for like twenty five years, and it's 647 00:48:52,599 --> 00:48:55,400 just crazy how long I've been up there, and I have visited a ton 648 00:48:55,440 --> 00:49:00,239 of different churches up there, and even when I find one that it has 649 00:49:00,280 --> 00:49:04,880 a beautiful liturgy and good sermon and you know all that, it's like so 650 00:49:05,079 --> 00:49:09,039 hard to get to from from Midtown where I stay. And I was making 651 00:49:09,599 --> 00:49:15,480 preparations to go up to this great church in the Bronx Redeemer for Pentecost because 652 00:49:15,519 --> 00:49:17,599 Sunday was Pentecost. But it's just like the thought of spending an hour and 653 00:49:17,639 --> 00:49:21,880 a half getting up there and then an hour and a half getting back was 654 00:49:21,960 --> 00:49:25,599 just it was a little it was just hard, right. But there's this 655 00:49:25,719 --> 00:49:30,960 church that's kind of nearby that's a Chinese Lutheran church, and I was like 656 00:49:30,840 --> 00:49:36,960 realizing that they had an English speaking service. So I went and it was 657 00:49:37,440 --> 00:49:42,360 fantastic. It was awesome. It was a beautiful sermon, beautiful liturgy, 658 00:49:42,760 --> 00:49:45,239 wonderful congregation. I met all these nice people, like tons of people came 659 00:49:45,320 --> 00:49:51,039 up and made me feel welcome, and it was great. It was in 660 00:49:51,360 --> 00:49:54,599 China, Chinatown. Wow. I didn't I mean not that there shouldn't be, 661 00:49:54,679 --> 00:49:58,239 but I didn't realize there would be enough Lutheran, you know, Chinese 662 00:49:58,239 --> 00:50:04,000 Ethic Lutheran church. It's actually been a church there since nineteen thirty five or 663 00:50:04,000 --> 00:50:08,119 something. So they were very proud of their history too, and I'm just 664 00:50:08,159 --> 00:50:12,360 so happy to have found a place. It is amazing. Like I'm not 665 00:50:12,400 --> 00:50:15,840 a big guy on you know, everything needs to be diverse, but it 666 00:50:15,920 --> 00:50:19,159 is a lot of fun when you're in New York to see like there's a 667 00:50:19,239 --> 00:50:22,440 Lutheran Chinese church, like that's just really gives the flavor of like, you 668 00:50:22,440 --> 00:50:27,440 know, it's cross pollination of all American culture and stuff. You know. 669 00:50:28,360 --> 00:50:32,519 I love Chinatown too. And also it's actually like right across the street from 670 00:50:32,599 --> 00:50:37,480 where the Trump trial is, so there were all these barriers set up like 671 00:50:37,559 --> 00:50:39,480 right at the intersection of the church. I was like, what's going on 672 00:50:39,599 --> 00:50:43,000 here? And they were like, are you serious. I'm like, yeah, 673 00:50:43,000 --> 00:50:45,760 why are there all these barriers? And they were like, there's a 674 00:50:45,880 --> 00:50:49,480 very famous trial happening with former President Trump. And I was like, oh, 675 00:50:49,920 --> 00:50:53,079 oh okay, I'm going to let you use that as your cultural input 676 00:50:53,159 --> 00:51:02,239 there. It's close tona being cultural anything else. Listen, you don't have 677 00:51:02,320 --> 00:51:07,719 to we have no there's no pressure here. I feel like there's got to 678 00:51:07,760 --> 00:51:15,280 be something. I went to Friending Prizes last night. Oh that's a it's 679 00:51:15,280 --> 00:51:21,000 a conservative journalism award zone it's journalism. I was honored to receive at Bradley 680 00:51:21,039 --> 00:51:24,639 Prize. Oh, congratulations twenty year, twenty twenty one. And last night 681 00:51:24,679 --> 00:51:29,800 there were that you could just say last night I was congratulating on winning an 682 00:51:29,800 --> 00:51:32,760 award last night that you didn't win. No, no, And then but 683 00:51:32,880 --> 00:51:39,199 last night the three award winners were fantastic, and Jay Boticharia in particular, 684 00:51:39,440 --> 00:51:44,000 I really loved what he had to say. Uh, and he gave a 685 00:51:44,079 --> 00:51:50,320 very courageous speech against censorship, calling out Francis Collins in particular for his personal 686 00:51:50,480 --> 00:51:57,639 role in censoring and or in squashing the important stuff jay Botichario was saying, 687 00:51:57,639 --> 00:52:01,679 which was basically that the response to COVID should be focused on vulnerable populations as 688 00:52:01,679 --> 00:52:07,719 opposed to what we did do. That's not very cultural either. I'm sorry, 689 00:52:07,840 --> 00:52:09,719 that's pretty good. I tell you a short story about me And when 690 00:52:09,719 --> 00:52:14,360 I worked at a newspaper, we used to have awards, Like journalists live 691 00:52:14,480 --> 00:52:16,960 for awards. It's like basically the most important thing in their lives. So 692 00:52:17,000 --> 00:52:22,400 when the Colorado Like Press Association would never give me any awards, I think 693 00:52:22,440 --> 00:52:24,840 because I'm a conservative, camp couldn't be because I'm not talented. But when 694 00:52:24,880 --> 00:52:28,119 we used to send it out, like you used to farm it out to 695 00:52:28,159 --> 00:52:30,840 a different state to judge, and we would judge there. As I always 696 00:52:30,840 --> 00:52:34,880 want an award, I would always send I would always send non part like 697 00:52:35,000 --> 00:52:37,800 non political pieces that I wrote to see if I can like this writer is 698 00:52:37,840 --> 00:52:40,719 amazing. I don't know if they said that, but I did. I 699 00:52:40,800 --> 00:52:45,000 did. Okay, Sometimes that was not a humble brag. I don't think 700 00:52:45,000 --> 00:52:50,719 a journalistic awards mean very much at all. I watched there's a new John 701 00:52:50,760 --> 00:52:53,960 Mulaney show on Netflix. It's kind of like a weird, weird talk show 702 00:52:55,400 --> 00:53:00,920 called Everyone's In Everybody's In La. I think it had Jerry's ironfeld on and 703 00:53:00,000 --> 00:53:02,960 just this weird stuff I had to say. I just I didn't love it. 704 00:53:05,000 --> 00:53:06,880 Don't know why I bring up things that I didn't love. I just 705 00:53:06,880 --> 00:53:08,960 want to warn people. I didn't think it was that funny. I watched 706 00:53:09,000 --> 00:53:14,840 with my kid some of the Lord of the Rings extended versions. It's like 707 00:53:14,880 --> 00:53:20,599 an extra like hour and a half on them and one and they actually backfill 708 00:53:20,679 --> 00:53:23,400 some of the story lines that and it makes the movie make more sense. 709 00:53:23,440 --> 00:53:27,239 Obviously, it's a big commitment of time, like four hours long. But 710 00:53:27,519 --> 00:53:30,000 I enjoyed that. And of course, most importantly and lastly, I want 711 00:53:30,039 --> 00:53:34,440 to mention that my New York Rangers, my favorite sports team of all time, 712 00:53:35,039 --> 00:53:38,360 longtime fan, maybe thirty five years, are in the conference finals of 713 00:53:38,400 --> 00:53:44,039 the NHL one round away, hopefully not to chrinx them from the Stanley Cup 714 00:53:44,079 --> 00:53:47,159 finals. And that is a very exciting thing for me. Congratulations to you. 715 00:53:47,320 --> 00:53:51,320 That's great. Yeah, you're not a hockey fan, but I just 716 00:53:51,320 --> 00:53:53,519 want to say, sorry, there's something bothering me. I said, particularly 717 00:53:53,599 --> 00:53:57,639 Jay Boticharia. But I don't want to give short shrift to the other two 718 00:53:57,880 --> 00:54:00,920 award winners, who were Samuel Gregg and William barclay Allen, who also gave 719 00:54:01,519 --> 00:54:06,360 great speeches. And Samuel greg he's like the econ guy. I'm a big 720 00:54:06,360 --> 00:54:09,920 fan of his. Yeah, so it was great all around. And are 721 00:54:09,960 --> 00:54:15,559 you familiar with William barclay Allen? A lot of times I jo I'm not 722 00:54:15,599 --> 00:54:19,599 great with names. No, tell me a lot about I loved his speech. 723 00:54:19,639 --> 00:54:22,480 He's just a longtime academic. He was like born in the Deep South, 724 00:54:22,559 --> 00:54:27,800 one of twelve children, and his sounds like this when he talks. 725 00:54:27,920 --> 00:54:31,000 It is so delightful. I mean I could have just listened to him for 726 00:54:31,199 --> 00:54:36,239 hours. But he gave a speech on American character and how it's built on, 727 00:54:36,920 --> 00:54:38,920 like whether you come here as an immigrant or you're born here, you 728 00:54:39,079 --> 00:54:44,079 accept this idea that you are to be self governed and that that really is 729 00:54:44,960 --> 00:54:46,960 what American character is and should be encouraged. And I loved it. It 730 00:54:47,000 --> 00:54:50,599 was just great and he gave it. I mean, lots of evidence for 731 00:54:50,639 --> 00:54:53,320 that from the founders. I mean, I've really changed my mind about that, 732 00:54:53,360 --> 00:54:57,840 and I think immigration only works if people accept that idea, and we 733 00:54:58,119 --> 00:55:00,920 are school systems and everything else have of not taught that to immigrants, do 734 00:55:01,000 --> 00:55:04,719 not teach it to immigrants, and that's a major problem with them. You're 735 00:55:04,760 --> 00:55:08,400 right on the immigrant issue, but it's also not being taught to people who 736 00:55:08,400 --> 00:55:13,239 are born here. It's one thousand percent true. Yeah, there is no 737 00:55:13,280 --> 00:55:16,719 civics education in schools. In fact, there's like a contra civics education in 738 00:55:16,800 --> 00:55:22,639 school that demeans American life and American values. So one of the biggest problems 739 00:55:22,679 --> 00:55:27,880 are public schools, and it's a big difficult problem and the other institutions. 740 00:55:28,760 --> 00:55:34,039 So we have gotten some excellent questions from people for the podcasts will be taping 741 00:55:34,280 --> 00:55:38,000 where you can ask us anything, but definitely make sure you get your questions 742 00:55:38,039 --> 00:55:44,400 in before next Wednesday. I would say, uh, and we've we liked 743 00:55:44,400 --> 00:55:46,800 the ones we have, but like, if there are any others that you 744 00:55:46,960 --> 00:55:51,719 that are burning in your mind, make sure you get them in, So 745 00:55:51,800 --> 00:55:55,000 send an email right now to radio at the Federalist dot com and they'll be 746 00:55:55,079 --> 00:56:04,199 back next week. Until then, the levels from an anxious kid affront now 747 00:56:04,320 --> 00:56:07,480 abits are peace loving folks you know, were never in a hurried