Speaker 1: So I think it's fair to say that criticism, well,
it comes with the job of being president. Well, unless,
of course, you're Donald Trump, who actually treats it like
it's a personal attack. And once again, the ripple effect
of Trump's fragility. It showed up last night on Late
night TV. Think about this. Stephen Colbert set to talk
to host, for example, Texas State Representative James Talerico about
his Senate run, but at the very last minute, like
literally the last minute, CBS stepped in and they shut
it down citing FCC rules. Now let me be clear
about this. On paper, yes it is a technicality, but
in reality we know what it is. It looks a
lot like another preemptive act of censorship that's designed to
avoid I don't know, upsetting the president. Seriously, I mean
this is nuts. Here's Cobert explaining the network's decision play
the clip.
Speaker 2: You know, you know who is not one of my
guests tonight. That's Texas State Representative James Tallerico. He was
supposed to be here, but we were told in no
uncertain terms by our network's lawyers, who called us directly,
that we could not have him on the broadcast. Then
then I was told, in some uncertain terms that not
only could I not have him on, I could not mention.
Speaker 3: Me not having him on.
Speaker 2: And because my network clearly doesn't want us to talk
about this, let's talk about this. You've probably heard, you
might have heard of this thing called the equal time rule.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 2: It's an old FCC rule that applies only to radio
and broadcast television, not cable or streaming, that says, if
a show has a candidate on during an election, they
have to have all that candidate's opponents on as well.
It's the FCC's most time honored rule, right after no
nipples at the Super Bowl. There's long been an exception
for this rule, an exception for news interviews and talk
show interviews with politicians. Now that's crucial. How else were
voters supposed to know? Back in ninety two, the Bill
Clinton sucked at Saxophone. But on January twenty first of
this year, a letter was released by FCC chairman and
smug bowling pin Brendan Carr. In this letter, Carr said
he was thinking about dropping the exception for talk shows
because he said some of them were motivated by partisan purposes. Well, sir,
you're chairman of the FCC SO FCCU.
Speaker 1: I'm sure you'd rather watch Colbert than me, but unfortunately,
here we are back so as explained. The interview was
later aired on YouTube, and Tallarico explained that he thinks
that they were censored because Trump is afraid that Texas
is actually going to turn blue. Play the clip.
Speaker 3: Representative James tall Rico, there you go.
Speaker 4: Thank you.
Speaker 3: Now here's the thing.
Speaker 2: I don't usually say this to a guest, but if
people are watching this right now, it's because they found
us online on YouTube.
Speaker 3: I did an act of the show that's.
Speaker 2: On tonight explaining why it's not the first time you've
caused some drama. FCC opening probe into the view after
appearance by tall Rico, do you mean to cause trumble?
Speaker 4: I think that Donald Trump is worried that we're about
to flip Texas and Stephen this this is the party
that ran against cancel culture, and now they're trying to
control what we watch, what we say, what we read.
And this is the most dangerous kind of cancel culture,
the kind that comes from the top. They they went
after the View because I went on there. They went
after Jimmy Kimmel, for telling a joke they didn't like.
They went after you for telling the truth about paramounts
bribe to Donald Trump. Corporate corporate, corporate media executives are
selling out the First Amendment to curry favor with corrupt politicians.
And a threat to any of our First Amendment rights
is a threat to all of our First Amendment rights.
Speaker 1: Well, it was James when they were reminding me back
to Otisville because he refused wa, yeah, my First Amendment
constitutional right. Let me be crystal clear. He's spot on.
It's absolutely wrong. It's ridiculous that they did it. You know,
it's funny. They would not be doing the same thing
if it was a Republican that was going on the show.
And yes, they are concerned despite the Jerryman during they
are concerned that Texas is going to turn blue. Now
Texas Governor John Cornyn, he's actually running for re election
in Texas. And Trump, well, he was asked last night
if he's actually going to endorse it. Play the clip.
Speaker 5: A lot of Republicans in DC are asking you to
endorse John Cornyan, but you haven't yet.
Speaker 3: Is there a chance you would endorse Papson?
Speaker 5: And why haven't you endorsed corn In.
Speaker 6: I just haven't made a decision to that race yet,
just got a ways to go, and I haven't. He's
a good man, John is a good I like all
three of them. Actually, I like all three. Those are
the doctors races. They've all supported me. They're all good
and you're supposed to pick one. So we'll see what happens.
Speaker 1: But I support of maybe what they should do is,
I don't know, maybe go back in Jerry Mander, Texas
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I always say Trump's like Trump truly does. Like the
adage of it only matters who counts the votes. You've
heard me say it many times. Doesn't matter who you
vote for. All that matters is who counts the vote.
And has states like Texas and Florida right now threatened
to flip. He's actually getting pretty worried about these upcoming midterms.
Voter ID and the Save Act, they're his latest efforts.
It's the entire administrations now concentration to figure out how
to control this election. Play the clip.
Speaker 7: They want voter ID. The population ninety eight percent want
voter ID. They don't want voter ID because they want
a chietter in elections. They also want other things. They
don't want mail in ballots. They want to end mail
in ballots, which is corrupt. And one other thing that
they're insisting on this proof of citizenship. And the Democrats
don't want to give proof of citizenship. They don't want
to give voter ID. Think of it, who would want
proof of citizenship?
Speaker 6: I ask you, Stan, who.
Speaker 7: Would want voter ID? And why would you want mail
in ballots? If you know it's corrupt?
Speaker 6: It's a corrupt says.
Speaker 7: We're the only country in the world that has this
of mail in ballots.
Speaker 1: Think of it, the only country in the world.
Speaker 7: That has the system of mail in ballots because they cheat.
And the fact is they could never get elected if
they ever changed. They know if you had voter ID,
if you had proof of citizenship, they could never win
an election. And they know that, and they're fighting to
the hill. And I put this down with men playing
in women's sports. I put it down with transgender for everybody.
I put it down with their horrible open voter policy
as being ridiculous. They don't want voter ID, no voter ID.
And I put that down to the same category with
men playing in women's sports. I'm going to add a
fourth category, they don't want voter ID.
Speaker 1: Go ahead and some Yeah, there's only one problem with
that theory. You won the election in twenty twenty five, right,
let me be clear. So the Save Act it threatens
to make voting harder. Get a load of this for
Maria women or anyone who's gone through a name change.
In fact, let me be Crystal Cleabet something. I went
through a name change. You say, what, Yeah, believe it
or not. When I was trying to get back certain
documents post my release from incarceration. I ultimately learned that
they spelled my first name wrong. So I had to
go through an entire an entire name change in order
to change one letter that they had spelled my name
wrong on my birth certificate. Somewhere along the line I
managed to get drive his license, passports, my lawd degree.
But somewhere I don't know that mistake was picked up
in the Bureau of Prisons. The latest MAGA talking point
is that it's actually disrespectful to women to say that
they will be affected. Now Fox and Friends, of course
claimed that it was insulting.
Speaker 5: Clip there are already laws on the books. But let's
also look at what has also been determined. In twenty
four years, there have been seventy seven illegals who have
registered to vote. How many of those seventy seven have
voted one So when we look at if you're talking
about voter fraud, here's the other thing. If in fact
we do have voter ID, but not package this, but
integrity of election takes power from the straits. Like Senator mccowsky,
I would agree with her on that takes power from
the states and puts the federal government in play with elections.
One two. If you want to have an ID, make
it free, make it easily accessible, especially to veterans.
Speaker 8: That's a homeless it is not. It is insulting to people.
It's insulting to women. They're saying women aren't capable of
getting an ID. They're saying this man, a black man
who was you know, just reference, it is insulting to
him to suggest that he can't get a legitimate ID.
Speaker 3: I'm I'm a woman.
Speaker 5: No no, no, non, tell you that I can't get married
and have a different thing. You also have my FastPort
and my birth You also look at states.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, listen. The point about this convent sation
is something that I constantly say again and again and again.
There really does need to be a conversation across the
aisle because we clearly believe, and I think rightfully so,
that this concept of voter ID is ridiculous our elections
unless there's somebody trying to interfere free and fair. How
do you know, Well, because Trump won in twenty sixteen,
he lost in twenty twenty, he re won again in
twenty twenty five. So explain to me, how do you
go from a Republican Democrat to Republican that somebody seems
to be controlling this again. It just doesn't make any sense. Now,
Tom Emmer, he went on Fox, of course, and he
said that we shouldn't tell women that they are dumb.
Good thing, my wife is in here while we're filming
this play the clip.
Speaker 9: Let's not treat women. You worked with a lot of
these women in Congress. They are brilliant, they're smart. Why
do you suggest that they don't know how to prove
their citizenship by bringing a passport or a birth certificate
or a marriage certificate and or the new Social Security
card that gets issued right after they get married. This
is all nonsense. This is something that's common sense. Almost
all Americans agree with it. Its time has come. You
must prove that you're a citizen when you register to vote.
Makes sense. You've got plenty of time to get that done,
and you've got to show up with a photo ID
to prove that you are the person that is indeed
the citizen entitled to vote. It's an easy thing. It
should be done tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, just make it expeditious and make it free. Well,
we're going to now turn around and put another tax
onto it so that we could add more money to
I don't know whatever shelf it is that seems to
be holding all of the additional cash. Now, look, finally,
Chip Roy, yep, good old Chip. Try to explain why
the Save Act won't prevent women from voting. Play the clip.
Speaker 10: A lot of people are asking questions there, saying, well,
that's going to prevent women who've got complications with name changes.
Hold on, we actually allow a fail safe that you
go and you can sign an affidavit that says, this
is my driver's license, my name is Sarah Jones on
my driver's license. Here's my birth certificate, Sarah Smith. I
certify under penalty of perjury that I'm the same person.
And we allow that, and we allow states to make
other mechanisms under their laws to make sure that they
match it. So just regiring a process.
Speaker 11: That is all that would be required of a married woman,
because that is a major talking point coming from Democrats
and across the mainstream media, that you are disenfranchising some
sixty nine million married women.
Speaker 1: Of course it is it's coming from only the Democratic sidelist.
We only want on the day he let me speak
to you about this one chip. As a Democrat, we
too only want citizens to vote in our elections. So
therefore we have it. We are in absolute agreement. Now,
let's just figure out the process. Let's figure out a
process that doesn't make it more difficult for women who
change their name. Let's make it less difficult for people
who can't afford to pay. Nobody should have to pay
under this save Act. If that's the intent, let's just
figure out the process. I get it as a idea.
It's no different than saying America has an immigration problem. Look,
America has had an immigration problem for the last fifty years.
Let's fix it. Easy to isolate the issue. Now, let's
come up with the process and as always, thanks for listening.
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