WEBVTT 1 00:00:10.519 --> 00:00:22.079 And this is show right, everybody, welcome to your On 2 00:00:22.199 --> 00:00:29.719 Brooks Show on this Tuesday, August sixth, uh fifth, not 3 00:00:29.839 --> 00:00:33.799 August sixth yet stole August fifth, fifth fifth little jet 4 00:00:33.880 --> 00:00:37.960 lag yea, hopefully everything everybody's having a good start to 5 00:00:37.960 --> 00:00:38.479 you a week. 6 00:00:38.960 --> 00:00:40.520 As you can see, I'm not at home. 7 00:00:41.399 --> 00:00:44.880 Uh, this is uh, this is I am in Lisabon, Portugal. 8 00:00:44.920 --> 00:00:47.880 This is an office I rended in Lisbon. So, uh, 9 00:00:48.799 --> 00:00:52.600 you're stuck with this background for the next We are 10 00:00:52.640 --> 00:00:56.880 stuck with this background for the next three weeks, so 11 00:00:57.200 --> 00:01:00.399 almost three weeks that I am going to be in 12 00:01:00.399 --> 00:01:05.640 in Lisbon. So I will be, you know, trying to 13 00:01:06.040 --> 00:01:09.120 keep you guys up to date on my travels as 14 00:01:09.120 --> 00:01:10.920 we go along, telling you a little bit about what's 15 00:01:10.959 --> 00:01:16.480 going on over here, just impressions of the different different places, 16 00:01:17.840 --> 00:01:23.599 but and also covering the usual, the news and everything else, 17 00:01:23.640 --> 00:01:28.040 so you guys stay up to date. All right, Let's see, 18 00:01:28.159 --> 00:01:30.959 I just need to get Yeah, the setup here is 19 00:01:30.959 --> 00:01:34.159 a little different, so I'm just trying to get everything 20 00:01:34.280 --> 00:01:39.159 up to speed. There we go. We've got people on 21 00:01:39.239 --> 00:01:44.599 the chat, We've got people watching all right the time. 22 00:01:44.840 --> 00:01:46.719 The schedule for this week is going to be a 23 00:01:46.760 --> 00:01:49.560 little in and out. We'll see. I'm hoping to do 24 00:01:49.599 --> 00:01:53.920 a show tomorrow at twelve pm East Coast time, and 25 00:01:53.959 --> 00:02:01.159 then the show on let's see Thursday and Friday, we'll see, 26 00:02:01.200 --> 00:02:02.959 and then I'm not sure I'll be able to do 27 00:02:03.000 --> 00:02:07.200 a show on Saturday and on Sunday. 28 00:02:07.840 --> 00:02:08.520 I think I'm. 29 00:02:08.319 --> 00:02:12.520 Going out with a bunch of The objective is here 30 00:02:12.560 --> 00:02:15.800 in Portugal. Our fans are here in Portugal, to dinners 31 00:02:15.840 --> 00:02:19.400 are probably not. Time difference is about five hours, is 32 00:02:19.439 --> 00:02:22.400 exactly five hours to the East coast. I'll be in 33 00:02:22.439 --> 00:02:27.120 Italy later in actually in September, and then it'll be 34 00:02:27.159 --> 00:02:30.719 six hours. So again we'll have to shift the schedule 35 00:02:30.800 --> 00:02:35.280 and it become even more complicated. I don't know. You 36 00:02:35.280 --> 00:02:37.800 guys like the stripes, don't Oh, Silvanus is here. Oh, 37 00:02:37.840 --> 00:02:40.240 I haven't seen Silvanas in a while. Hey, Savanas, thank you, 38 00:02:40.360 --> 00:02:42.639 and thank you for the fifty dollars. That is very 39 00:02:42.719 --> 00:02:44.319 very generous. Really appreciate that. 40 00:02:45.560 --> 00:02:50.360 All right, let's just jump in, we'll jump into the news. 41 00:02:50.599 --> 00:02:55.240 I'll just say I don't know first impressions of Lisbon. 42 00:02:56.759 --> 00:02:59.479 You know, I like Lisbon. I've been here several times. 43 00:02:59.680 --> 00:03:05.479 We've had a great little airbnb apartment here, and I think, what, 44 00:03:05.479 --> 00:03:12.280 what is a very nice and philly central area. Uh yeah, 45 00:03:12.319 --> 00:03:16.560 it's it's it's not as walkable as Barcelona was from 46 00:03:16.639 --> 00:03:23.319 last year, partially because uh streets and narrow. Uh these 47 00:03:23.400 --> 00:03:26.159 little stones, the streets are, the pavements are all these 48 00:03:26.199 --> 00:03:29.000 little stones, which is kind of pretty, but it's very 49 00:03:29.039 --> 00:03:34.639 slippery to really be careful, very hilly. A Barcelona is flat, 50 00:03:35.159 --> 00:03:39.759 lots of trees, white boulevards, easy, easy, easy to walk through, 51 00:03:39.759 --> 00:03:43.680 shade everywhere. Easy. Here it's a little different. Everything's narrow, 52 00:03:44.039 --> 00:03:51.319 smaller cobblestones. Yeah, But other than that, it's it's it's 53 00:03:51.319 --> 00:03:55.719 a cool place to be. We were so far day one, 54 00:03:56.199 --> 00:03:57.840 having a good time, all right, And we got this 55 00:03:57.919 --> 00:03:59.759 office and it's all set up, and we got the 56 00:03:59.759 --> 00:04:03.039 cam and sound and everything's working, and we got a 57 00:04:03.199 --> 00:04:07.599 great internet set up, so we should have no problems 58 00:04:07.879 --> 00:04:12.719 as as we move. As we move forward, how's the picture, 59 00:04:12.759 --> 00:04:15.520 you guys? Okay with the picture lighting all of that. 60 00:04:15.759 --> 00:04:20.560 Just let us know. Savannas's excuse is he was on vacation. 61 00:04:21.319 --> 00:04:23.839 So I take it that you don't watch your on 62 00:04:23.920 --> 00:04:25.959 book show live when you're on vacation. I mean, it's 63 00:04:25.959 --> 00:04:32.800 not your top priority when you're on vacation. I am kidding, kidding, 64 00:04:34.560 --> 00:04:42.800 all right, So let's start. I mean, the you know, 65 00:04:42.920 --> 00:04:47.199 the Congress is going to be incredibly competitive in the 66 00:04:47.240 --> 00:04:51.319 election next year and in twenty six, and Republicans are 67 00:04:51.399 --> 00:04:55.000 very worried because there's a good chance the Republicans are 68 00:04:55.000 --> 00:05:00.879 going to lose the House. The election, the mid term 69 00:05:00.920 --> 00:05:04.879 election is usually one in which the incumbent political party loses, 70 00:05:05.560 --> 00:05:08.240 and right now the Republicans have what a three vote 71 00:05:08.279 --> 00:05:09.759 majority in the House of Representative. 72 00:05:10.519 --> 00:05:11.720 It's very likely. 73 00:05:11.959 --> 00:05:13.439 You know, if you had to put odds on it, 74 00:05:13.600 --> 00:05:16.560 just put aside all the politics and what's going on 75 00:05:16.600 --> 00:05:25.199 in the world, just straight straight precedent, you'd have to 76 00:05:25.279 --> 00:05:30.319 argue that it's incredibly likely that Republicans lose the House 77 00:05:30.360 --> 00:05:33.319 of Representatives. I don't know if they lose the Senate, 78 00:05:33.319 --> 00:05:36.879 that's going to be a lot closer. They probably don't 79 00:05:36.879 --> 00:05:39.600 gain in the Senate, but I don't think Republicans lose 80 00:05:39.639 --> 00:05:44.040 the Senate either, So it'll be interesting to see. It'll 81 00:05:44.040 --> 00:05:49.480 be interesting to see what happens, But houses good chance 82 00:05:50.160 --> 00:05:52.319 that they that they lose it, and they could lose 83 00:05:52.360 --> 00:05:56.439 big given how unpopular. Trump is the only thing saving 84 00:05:56.519 --> 00:06:00.720 Republicans right now from completely being slaught in the medium 85 00:06:00.759 --> 00:06:05.800 election is the fact that there's only one thing more 86 00:06:05.920 --> 00:06:10.160 unpopular than Trump. And the thing that is more unpopular 87 00:06:10.240 --> 00:06:15.199 than Trump is other Democrats, so less popular than Trump. 88 00:06:16.279 --> 00:06:20.720 But Trump is very unpopular. The tariffs are very unpopular. 89 00:06:20.800 --> 00:06:25.040 I think by next year people will feel the tariffs. 90 00:06:25.040 --> 00:06:28.199 They'll pay the cost of the tarists. We'll talk about 91 00:06:28.199 --> 00:06:30.839 taffs in a minute. But people have said, oh, you 92 00:06:30.879 --> 00:06:33.279 can avoid the trouts by just not buying stuff that's 93 00:06:33.279 --> 00:06:39.480 made in outside the United States. It's easier said than done. 94 00:06:40.879 --> 00:06:44.000 Like what smartphone would you buy now? Right now? 95 00:06:44.319 --> 00:06:50.079 There's an exception for smartphones, right, but if the tarts 96 00:06:50.120 --> 00:06:54.079 go on smartphones, what smartphone would you buy? But put 97 00:06:54.079 --> 00:06:57.720 that aside. A lot of the things you buy that 98 00:06:58.439 --> 00:07:03.040 are labeled made in the United States States have components 99 00:07:03.079 --> 00:07:05.759 that are not made in the United States, so you're 100 00:07:05.800 --> 00:07:09.839 paying a TA one way or the other. What about clothes, 101 00:07:09.879 --> 00:07:12.600 Any of you buy clothes, how many you only buy 102 00:07:12.639 --> 00:07:17.399 clothes made in America? Like, do you have anything to wear? 103 00:07:18.600 --> 00:07:24.920 There's almost no clothes made in America. So you can 104 00:07:24.959 --> 00:07:29.920 try to go out there and buy buy America and 105 00:07:31.639 --> 00:07:35.240 you know, avoid paying the tariff that way. But the 106 00:07:35.360 --> 00:07:38.480 chance that you can actually be successful is very, very 107 00:07:38.959 --> 00:07:45.160 very low. It's just not doable. It's just not practical. Anyway. 108 00:07:45.480 --> 00:07:48.160 The consequence of the fact that Republicans are probably going 109 00:07:48.199 --> 00:07:51.360 to lose the House is a is a little bit 110 00:07:51.360 --> 00:07:53.560 of panic in the Republican Party, and the consequence of 111 00:07:53.560 --> 00:07:55.839 the panic is to try to figure out how to 112 00:07:55.879 --> 00:07:59.360 minimize the losses or to reverse them. And one way 113 00:07:59.360 --> 00:08:02.199 to do that is what's called to gerry manda. 114 00:08:03.319 --> 00:08:09.319 That is to re redo the borders of the districts 115 00:08:09.319 --> 00:08:13.720 to elect elect members to the House of Representatives in 116 00:08:13.800 --> 00:08:19.240 order to maximize the number of Republicans that get elected. 117 00:08:20.800 --> 00:08:24.160 So the state doing that right now that has already 118 00:08:24.199 --> 00:08:28.360 proposed a map that they believe would increase the number 119 00:08:28.560 --> 00:08:33.919 of Republicans in the House of Representative by five is Texas. 120 00:08:34.399 --> 00:08:38.720 And what they basically do, what we jurymandering, what redistricting 121 00:08:39.000 --> 00:08:45.200 basically comprises up, is drawing the lines to the districts 122 00:08:45.240 --> 00:08:50.080 in ways that in a sense, concentrate all the Democrats 123 00:08:50.240 --> 00:08:53.840 in a few districts which you're going to lose and 124 00:08:53.919 --> 00:08:57.200 diluting their presence and all the other districts, including districts 125 00:08:57.240 --> 00:08:59.840 maybe they used to have a majority. Now you split 126 00:08:59.840 --> 00:09:03.600 that district up in a way that puts all that 127 00:09:04.240 --> 00:09:08.320 splits the Democrats with the Republicans in a way that 128 00:09:08.399 --> 00:09:12.639 Republicans have a majority in each one of those. This 129 00:09:12.720 --> 00:09:19.240 is being done almost since the founding, and it was 130 00:09:19.279 --> 00:09:24.559 a it was a major it's a major way in 131 00:09:24.559 --> 00:09:26.519 which the parties reach. 132 00:09:26.320 --> 00:09:27.360 Again, now they do it. 133 00:09:27.840 --> 00:09:31.240 They have to do it every ten years after the census, 134 00:09:31.879 --> 00:09:34.480 because that's the time in which you get actual population 135 00:09:34.559 --> 00:09:38.840 numbers and you know who's living where, and it's a 136 00:09:38.879 --> 00:09:46.320 time to kind of redo redo the districts, the congressional districts. 137 00:09:47.440 --> 00:09:50.919 But what Texas is doing is what is a twenty 138 00:09:50.960 --> 00:09:55.279 twenty five, So we're not anywherey of a census. They're 139 00:09:55.320 --> 00:09:57.679 doing it in the middle between two censuses, which is 140 00:09:58.759 --> 00:09:59.360 not usual. 141 00:09:59.559 --> 00:10:01.200 It's not something usually done. 142 00:10:01.240 --> 00:10:05.919 It's it's an exception. But it's legal. There's no there's 143 00:10:05.960 --> 00:10:18.320 no case to be made that it is illegal. It's illegal, 144 00:10:19.000 --> 00:10:23.440 and there's no case to be made. This can't go 145 00:10:23.519 --> 00:10:27.879 to the courts. There's arguably the courts will intervene and 146 00:10:28.120 --> 00:10:31.720 if the gerrymandering is done along racial grounds, that is, 147 00:10:31.759 --> 00:10:35.799 to to basically make sure that blacks don't get any 148 00:10:35.879 --> 00:10:40.720 representatives out of places where there were a lot of blacks, 149 00:10:41.399 --> 00:10:44.679 as I think the state of Alabama's been trying to do, 150 00:10:45.799 --> 00:10:48.759 and the Supreme Court has denied them and kept keep 151 00:10:48.840 --> 00:10:53.759 sending it back to redo, so they don't want to do. 152 00:10:54.759 --> 00:10:58.159 You know, the courts generally will not review cases where 153 00:10:58.159 --> 00:11:02.879 it's just political. So, I mean, so before we get 154 00:11:02.919 --> 00:11:07.000 the Texas case. Just to give you some history, the 155 00:11:07.120 --> 00:11:11.000 term jury mandering. Jury mandering goes back to eighteen twelve 156 00:11:11.840 --> 00:11:19.639 when Massachusetts Governor Eldbridge Jerry signed a bill redrawing state 157 00:11:19.799 --> 00:11:26.159 Senate districts to benefit the Democratic Republican Party I guess 158 00:11:26.159 --> 00:11:30.320 against whom, I'm not sure, against the Whigs. So some thought, 159 00:11:31.360 --> 00:11:34.559 you know, that the districts were very odd shaped, that 160 00:11:34.639 --> 00:11:39.320 they looked one of them looked like a salamander. A 161 00:11:39.360 --> 00:11:46.840 newspaper illustration dubbed it jerry manda, and the term has 162 00:11:47.120 --> 00:11:53.600 now come down to describe any district drawn for political advantage, 163 00:11:53.720 --> 00:11:57.120 drawn in order to maximize a particular party's presence in 164 00:11:57.159 --> 00:12:03.000 a particular district or to minimize so uh jerry mandering. 165 00:12:07.159 --> 00:12:10.759 Uh I I Elbridge. Jerry. By the way, UH lost 166 00:12:10.759 --> 00:12:15.000 a reelection campaign to be governor of Massachusetts in eighteen twelve, 167 00:12:15.559 --> 00:12:18.480 but he won election that same year as vice president 168 00:12:19.159 --> 00:12:22.600 with UH president UH James Madison, so he was James 169 00:12:22.679 --> 00:12:31.559 Madison Vice president again. According to the US Constitution, political 170 00:12:31.639 --> 00:12:36.279 gerrymandering is not illegal. In a twenty nineteen case it 171 00:12:36.399 --> 00:12:39.559 came out of North Carolina, the Supreme Court ruled the 172 00:12:39.600 --> 00:12:42.960 federal courts have no authority to decide where the partisan 173 00:12:43.039 --> 00:12:49.320 jerry mandering goes too far. UH Chief Justice Justice Roberts wrote, quote, 174 00:12:49.360 --> 00:12:53.360 the Constitution supplies no objective measure for assessing whether a 175 00:12:53.399 --> 00:12:57.720 district map treats a political party fairly. So Supreme Court's 176 00:12:57.799 --> 00:13:01.519 not gonna save the Democrats from losing the fight vote 177 00:13:01.559 --> 00:13:08.399 seats in Texas. Now, the dream, the plan, the redistricting plan, 178 00:13:08.480 --> 00:13:13.200 has to pass the House and the Senate. It has 179 00:13:13.240 --> 00:13:15.519 to be and then signed by the governor of the state. 180 00:13:16.799 --> 00:13:20.600 Texas was going to vote on this this week or 181 00:13:20.679 --> 00:13:26.080 last week, and the Democratic Democratic politicians just left the state. 182 00:13:27.360 --> 00:13:30.200 They left the state to deny the Republicans in a 183 00:13:30.240 --> 00:13:34.200 sense of qualum which would allow for vote. So this 184 00:13:34.320 --> 00:13:37.440 is the delay tactic. They can't stop it. If they 185 00:13:37.600 --> 00:13:41.120 stayed in Texas, state marshals would have showed up and 186 00:13:41.240 --> 00:13:44.879 forced them to go to the state house. As it is, 187 00:13:44.879 --> 00:13:49.279 they're being fined five hundred dollars a day, and Texas 188 00:13:49.320 --> 00:13:52.360 will now sue the Democrats for dereliction of duty in 189 00:13:52.360 --> 00:14:00.759 a sense or vacating their post. And so you know, 190 00:14:00.799 --> 00:14:06.559 this is where we are again. It's legal, it's not right, 191 00:14:06.759 --> 00:14:09.279 it's not good, it's not just. I mean, it would 192 00:14:09.320 --> 00:14:11.759 be good if I don't know, Congress could pass a 193 00:14:11.840 --> 00:14:14.720 law saying you can only change the districts after a 194 00:14:14.840 --> 00:14:18.240 census once. So once every ten years you get a change. 195 00:14:18.879 --> 00:14:22.200 You get to change the districts based on census information. 196 00:14:21.840 --> 00:14:22.639 Which makes sense. 197 00:14:23.600 --> 00:14:27.480 But the reality is that right now Congress cannot They 198 00:14:27.559 --> 00:14:30.840 cannot get a bill passed if there's any opposition, if 199 00:14:30.840 --> 00:14:33.159 the Republicans oppose it, I don't think there'll be enough 200 00:14:33.200 --> 00:14:38.200 Republicans supporting this. The only thing that could cause Republicans 201 00:14:38.200 --> 00:14:41.279 to maybe support something like that is if Democrats do 202 00:14:41.320 --> 00:14:45.000 the same thing in other states. So Illinois has threatened 203 00:14:45.000 --> 00:14:48.360 to do it. Now Illinois only has three Republican districts. 204 00:14:49.480 --> 00:14:51.519 Maybe they could get rid of those three, I don't 205 00:14:51.559 --> 00:14:58.120 know much more significant is New York is trying to 206 00:14:58.159 --> 00:15:02.720 do it, could try to do this, California could try 207 00:15:02.759 --> 00:15:07.720 to do this. Now in both places, it would require 208 00:15:07.840 --> 00:15:13.919 them to deal with different provisions in the state constitutions 209 00:15:14.000 --> 00:15:18.720 or in the legislation that have tried to control gerrymandering 210 00:15:18.720 --> 00:15:21.279 in the past, try to limit it and minimize it. 211 00:15:22.240 --> 00:15:23.879 But I think if the political will is there, and 212 00:15:23.879 --> 00:15:26.360 I think if Texas does this, the political will is 213 00:15:26.360 --> 00:15:29.320 there for them to gerrymander. And there might be other 214 00:15:29.879 --> 00:15:32.480 Democratic states in which they can squeeze out a few 215 00:15:32.559 --> 00:15:36.679 votes here and there, squeeze out a few Republicans here 216 00:15:36.720 --> 00:15:46.080 and there, but it is it's a pretty despicable game overall. Yeah, 217 00:15:46.120 --> 00:15:49.919 I mean, there are no objective standard by which you 218 00:15:49.960 --> 00:15:55.759 should draw districts, but it does make sense to make 219 00:15:55.799 --> 00:16:00.480 the districts, you know, geographically look reasonable rather than some 220 00:16:00.519 --> 00:16:04.519 of the absurdities that are being generated by by these maps. 221 00:16:05.240 --> 00:16:09.279 Jerry mandering, salamander, you know, these long, thin districts and 222 00:16:09.320 --> 00:16:14.720 stuff like that. Uh, all of this is really being 223 00:16:14.799 --> 00:16:21.240 done by the Democrats under the you know, under the 224 00:16:21.279 --> 00:16:26.759 influence of Trump. I mean, Trump has has told the 225 00:16:26.799 --> 00:16:29.000 Republicans that they need to do this. He put pressure 226 00:16:29.039 --> 00:16:32.720 on Texas to do this. And this is Trump's comment. 227 00:16:33.080 --> 00:16:40.320 You know it's it's perfectly trumpish to comment and probably 228 00:16:40.360 --> 00:16:45.240 trumpish and and you know you'll get it. Okay, here 229 00:16:45.279 --> 00:16:49.840 we go. Quote This is from Trump this morning. We 230 00:16:49.879 --> 00:16:53.000 have an opportunity in Texas to pick up five seats. 231 00:16:53.639 --> 00:16:56.039 We have a really good governor, and we have good 232 00:16:56.120 --> 00:16:59.240 people in Texas. And I won Texas. I got the 233 00:16:59.320 --> 00:17:04.440 highest vote in the history of Texas, as you probably know. 234 00:17:05.440 --> 00:17:11.480 And we are entitled the five more seats. Now. I 235 00:17:11.519 --> 00:17:13.240 have no idea if you got the most votes in 236 00:17:13.279 --> 00:17:17.400 the history of Texas. I'm skeptical, but it doesn't really 237 00:17:17.440 --> 00:17:21.759 matter what I find really that's part of the course 238 00:17:21.799 --> 00:17:25.480 for Trump. What I find really interesting is that we 239 00:17:25.519 --> 00:17:29.599 are entitled the five more seats. Now, who gets to 240 00:17:29.640 --> 00:17:34.960 decide who is entitled to how many seats? The President 241 00:17:35.000 --> 00:17:36.920 of the United States get to decide how many? I mean, 242 00:17:37.000 --> 00:17:39.920 maybe he should just we should skip the midium election 243 00:17:39.960 --> 00:17:43.240 completely and just have Donald Trump decide how many Sea 244 00:17:43.279 --> 00:17:46.119 seats entitled to, how many seats Republicans are entitled to, 245 00:17:46.680 --> 00:17:49.960 And that's what we should put in the House of Representatives. 246 00:17:50.039 --> 00:17:55.799 I mean, why bother with an election when we're entitled 247 00:17:55.799 --> 00:18:04.839 to some seats anyway, Again, this is a game the 248 00:18:04.920 --> 00:18:08.839 Republicans and Democrats have been playing since eighteen twelve, although 249 00:18:08.839 --> 00:18:11.359 they weren't Republicans Democrats in those days. But it's a 250 00:18:11.359 --> 00:18:14.000 game they've been playing since eighteen twelve. It's a game 251 00:18:14.000 --> 00:18:17.279 they'll continue to play. I this is particularly egregious, but 252 00:18:17.359 --> 00:18:20.960 not for the first time. They ben as egregious, if 253 00:18:21.000 --> 00:18:24.000 not I as egregious the cases in the past. Uh, 254 00:18:24.000 --> 00:18:26.519 this will just lead the Democrats to do the same thing, 255 00:18:26.960 --> 00:18:30.720 whether now in the future. Uh, it's uh, you know, 256 00:18:30.759 --> 00:18:35.480 it's a it's a zero sum, silly a political game. 257 00:18:35.759 --> 00:18:38.079 But Republicans are desperate. Remember this is an act of 258 00:18:38.160 --> 00:18:43.839 desperation of Republicans. Uh are w really really really worried 259 00:18:43.839 --> 00:18:46.640 about the mentum election, really really worried about losing the House, 260 00:18:47.960 --> 00:18:53.640 and uh, they really don't want to lose the House? Yps, 261 00:18:54.319 --> 00:19:00.319 tryna make sure the plug stays plugnant Like all right, 262 00:19:00.359 --> 00:19:04.960 what did yes? So I'll keep you updated. Democrats will 263 00:19:05.079 --> 00:19:07.119 come back to the state of Texas at some point. 264 00:19:07.599 --> 00:19:10.720 Democratic donors will pay up they fine of five hundred 265 00:19:10.720 --> 00:19:15.519 dollars a day that they're away, and Texas will have 266 00:19:15.720 --> 00:19:19.200 new districts and they will have probably next election five 267 00:19:19.240 --> 00:19:25.519 new Republican congressman. Of course, there's always an opportunity that voters, Yeah, 268 00:19:25.599 --> 00:19:31.680 voters get so upset with the politicians and with the 269 00:19:31.720 --> 00:19:34.599 Republican Party and everything else that's going on that they 270 00:19:34.720 --> 00:19:36.160 just tell them to go to hell and vote for 271 00:19:36.160 --> 00:19:38.799 a Democrat. Now, it's unlikely that will happen in Texas, 272 00:19:39.400 --> 00:19:43.240 but one can always hope. Wouldn't be great if voters 273 00:19:43.279 --> 00:19:47.160 penalize their own party sometimes for their misbehavior, both Democrats 274 00:19:47.200 --> 00:19:51.480 and Republicans. Wouldn't that be cool if people actually weren't 275 00:19:51.519 --> 00:19:54.839 fixated on a tribal affiliation with their political party and 276 00:19:54.880 --> 00:19:59.880 actually voted what they thought in terms of whether the 277 00:20:00.079 --> 00:20:03.039 legal party was doing good or bad, rather than a 278 00:20:03.240 --> 00:20:14.440 tribal loyalty. So anyway, that's that's, uh, that's what we have. 279 00:20:14.839 --> 00:20:19.960 And of course, uh. Trump's agenda depends on him keeping 280 00:20:19.960 --> 00:20:21.599 the House and keeping the Senate the only way to 281 00:20:21.599 --> 00:20:24.680 get legislation passed. Although he doesn't see to care much 282 00:20:24.720 --> 00:20:29.319 about the legislation, he can always, he can always, you know, 283 00:20:29.440 --> 00:20:32.480 sign executive voters. There is an issue of things like 284 00:20:32.519 --> 00:20:36.920 impeachment and controlling the House just just is a lot easier, 285 00:20:37.000 --> 00:20:39.839 for a lot easier for Trump. It would be a 286 00:20:39.839 --> 00:20:43.359 lot easier if any president to control both chambers when 287 00:20:43.400 --> 00:20:45.440 when the other party has one of the chambers, they 288 00:20:45.440 --> 00:20:49.519 get a bully pulpit, they get media attention, they get coverage, 289 00:20:49.920 --> 00:20:53.039 but more importantly, they get to pass the legislation, and 290 00:20:53.440 --> 00:20:56.720 they get to ignore your agenda, and they get to 291 00:20:56.759 --> 00:21:02.359 potentially impeach you. So's it would be a lot easier. 292 00:21:03.880 --> 00:21:10.119 All right. The Epstein case again does not seem to 293 00:21:10.119 --> 00:21:14.839 go away. It keeps coming back, and the White House 294 00:21:15.839 --> 00:21:19.720 has not dealt with it particularly well. Uh, And over 295 00:21:19.720 --> 00:21:22.000 the last couple of weeks they've tried to be doing 296 00:21:22.400 --> 00:21:24.319 damage control and trying to figure out what the best 297 00:21:24.319 --> 00:21:28.400 strategy is on how to deal with this. Obviously, Donald 298 00:21:28.400 --> 00:21:33.039 Trump name appear in the Epstein file, I mean, that's 299 00:21:33.079 --> 00:21:37.440 pretty clear. Trump has launched a campaign to say that 300 00:21:37.640 --> 00:21:40.440 it was put there by Obama and Biden, that it's 301 00:21:40.559 --> 00:21:44.400 all them. Of course, if that was it, then Wyden, 302 00:21:45.640 --> 00:21:49.119 Obama and Biden use that in the elections. It would 303 00:21:49.119 --> 00:21:50.839 never came up in the elections. So it's a little 304 00:21:50.920 --> 00:21:55.559 suspect my guess is his name is there, but so 305 00:21:55.680 --> 00:21:58.240 are the names of a bunch of a bunch of 306 00:21:58.240 --> 00:22:01.400 Democrats as well, And that's why Democrats didn't use it, 307 00:22:01.440 --> 00:22:05.640 because they didn't want to self incriminate some of the 308 00:22:05.759 --> 00:22:11.279 people within their own party. So the Republican base is 309 00:22:11.359 --> 00:22:20.680 the demanding that information be released about about the Epstein case, 310 00:22:20.720 --> 00:22:23.359 that the files be released, whatever the hell is in 311 00:22:23.640 --> 00:22:28.559 those files. They've been demanding, you know, they've been demanding action. 312 00:22:28.640 --> 00:22:32.000 They want action. They think there's one big conspiracy cover up, 313 00:22:32.920 --> 00:22:35.319 which it looks like it is to some extent, right 314 00:22:35.359 --> 00:22:37.920 it is a cover up anyway. 315 00:22:37.960 --> 00:22:43.960 To counter this, the Senate now is subpoening. 316 00:22:44.400 --> 00:22:47.359 So the Senate is not going to have hearings on 317 00:22:47.400 --> 00:22:50.480 the Epstein case, and as part of that, they are 318 00:22:50.519 --> 00:22:55.759 going to stay subpoenaed delivery of all Epstein related documents 319 00:22:55.799 --> 00:23:00.160 no later than August nineteenth to the Senate committee that 320 00:23:00.680 --> 00:23:04.640 is looking into this. Right, I don't, I mean, I'm 321 00:23:04.640 --> 00:23:08.799 assuming Trump is okay with us. It's hard to really 322 00:23:08.880 --> 00:23:13.359 know whether this is some Republicans who are feeling pressure 323 00:23:13.359 --> 00:23:16.599 from the MAGA base doing this in spite of the administration. 324 00:23:19.559 --> 00:23:20.559 They are. 325 00:23:20.599 --> 00:23:26.119 They're subpoenaing all the related documents. They also seeking communications 326 00:23:26.160 --> 00:23:33.640 about Epstein f between President Biden and his administration, anything 327 00:23:33.640 --> 00:23:37.319 that went back and forth. Then they're also requesting testimony 328 00:23:37.799 --> 00:23:42.240 from eight former senior law enforcement officials, including FBI Director 329 00:23:42.319 --> 00:23:46.599 James call Me, Attorney General William Barr, Mary Garland, and 330 00:23:46.680 --> 00:23:53.000 Jeff Sessions. Those you know, Bar and Sessions were attorney 331 00:23:53.079 --> 00:23:57.799 generals unto Trump in his first term. They also want 332 00:23:57.839 --> 00:24:02.079 a question and they're subpoenaed Bill Clinton as well as 333 00:24:02.119 --> 00:24:07.799 Hillary Clinton, which would be interesting. I mean, as we know, 334 00:24:07.839 --> 00:24:13.720 Bill Clinton socialized with Epstein, and he claims he kind 335 00:24:13.720 --> 00:24:16.720 off all relations in two thousand and nine and didn't 336 00:24:16.759 --> 00:24:23.039 know of any crimes. So we'll see who shows up, 337 00:24:24.039 --> 00:24:27.039 what happens when they show up, what they actually testify to, 338 00:24:27.559 --> 00:24:30.799 what they actually say, what questions are asked. It's going 339 00:24:30.880 --> 00:24:36.720 to be a zoo, an unbelievable zoo. In addition, as 340 00:24:36.720 --> 00:24:42.880 we know, the number two at the Justice Department last 341 00:24:42.960 --> 00:24:51.680 week held interviews which Gilaine Gilaine I was told to 342 00:24:51.720 --> 00:25:01.279 ask a silent Gilaine Maxwell held interviews with Maxwell, and 343 00:25:01.319 --> 00:25:04.359 I think he has what is it eight hours of 344 00:25:04.720 --> 00:25:07.119 recordings or something like that, or many hours of recordings. 345 00:25:07.160 --> 00:25:09.440 I don't not sure how much, but significant times of 346 00:25:09.480 --> 00:25:16.319 recordings a committee. The committee is going to roughly nine 347 00:25:16.319 --> 00:25:21.640 hours over two days. Okay, Now she's received conditional immunity 348 00:25:21.680 --> 00:25:25.359 to discuss the case, and she's start asking for pardon 349 00:25:25.400 --> 00:25:27.400 of course, and she's already been moved as we know, 350 00:25:27.839 --> 00:25:29.880 as I mentioned a previous show to a low security 351 00:25:29.880 --> 00:25:34.480 prison in Tallahousee, Florida. No, she's been moved from a 352 00:25:34.480 --> 00:25:37.480 low security to a minimum security, which is even lower 353 00:25:37.519 --> 00:25:42.960 security than the low security in a minimum security prison 354 00:25:43.079 --> 00:25:53.000 in Brian, Texas, even though typically sex offenders are required 355 00:25:53.000 --> 00:25:56.480 to be housed at least in at least a low 356 00:25:56.519 --> 00:26:01.160 security facility, so this is an exemption, right. Anyway, they 357 00:26:01.240 --> 00:26:04.680 plan to play some of the audio. Now what's interesting 358 00:26:04.720 --> 00:26:07.279 is if they don't play all the audio, people will complain. 359 00:26:07.440 --> 00:26:10.960 So ultimately, if they start playing audio, they're probably gonna 360 00:26:11.000 --> 00:26:11.640 have to play at all. 361 00:26:13.759 --> 00:26:15.640 Otherwise mago flip. 362 00:26:15.319 --> 00:26:20.319 Out, conspiracy, cover up all of that stuff. So anyway, 363 00:26:20.359 --> 00:26:24.279 that's where we are again. It's gonna be an unbelievable zoo. 364 00:26:26.119 --> 00:26:28.440 You know. I'm looking forward to seeing all these people 365 00:26:28.480 --> 00:26:31.759 squirming in the sea. It'll be particularly interesting to see 366 00:26:32.759 --> 00:26:39.039 the different justice Departments people and Hillary, Bill Clinton. I mean, 367 00:26:39.079 --> 00:26:41.240 who else are they going to subpoena Everybody we know 368 00:26:41.680 --> 00:26:45.759 had some kind of relationship with Maxwell. I mean, that's 369 00:26:45.799 --> 00:26:52.559 a long list of people. So we'll see, we'll see 370 00:26:53.519 --> 00:26:58.759 a lot of high profile people named in the air 371 00:26:58.759 --> 00:27:03.519 plane logs of and a lot of people associated with 372 00:27:03.599 --> 00:27:07.839 them in different contacts in different places. It'll be I mean, 373 00:27:07.960 --> 00:27:12.079 particularly interested to see William Barr, who was a huge 374 00:27:12.119 --> 00:27:14.759 favorite of Trump's until he refused to throw the election 375 00:27:15.200 --> 00:27:18.559 in twenty twenty and support Trump's allegations about the election 376 00:27:18.680 --> 00:27:21.880 being stolen, and they was kicked out. Jeff Sessions, who 377 00:27:21.920 --> 00:27:26.799 was probably the first Republican senator to support Trump and 378 00:27:27.079 --> 00:27:30.720 was kicked out by Trump very early on a justice 379 00:27:31.519 --> 00:27:36.119 as head of the Justice Department, as Attorney General because 380 00:27:36.240 --> 00:27:39.759 of disagreements between them, and then of course they have 381 00:27:39.759 --> 00:27:41.880 to be eye directors and all of that. It's going 382 00:27:41.920 --> 00:27:45.680 to be interesting. It's going to be interesting. And maybe 383 00:27:46.160 --> 00:27:50.559 this is all coordinated to basically say there there there's 384 00:27:50.599 --> 00:27:53.559 no case, and to try to prove the maga. There 385 00:27:53.599 --> 00:27:56.039 really isn't anything there. There's nothing there. There's nothing about Trump, 386 00:27:56.039 --> 00:27:59.799 there's nothing about anybody else. There really isn't. There wasn't 387 00:27:59.799 --> 00:28:03.319 a pedophile reighing that he wasn't. There's no list, there's 388 00:28:03.359 --> 00:28:07.119 no relations to the intelligence services all of that, but 389 00:28:07.680 --> 00:28:11.039 who knows. Look, I mean, Tulsi Gubbat just came out 390 00:28:11.079 --> 00:28:16.200 with a completely fabricated intelligence report about the all the 391 00:28:16.319 --> 00:28:21.920 Russia stuff, supposedly in twenty sixteen, supposedly Lincoln Obama to it. 392 00:28:22.839 --> 00:28:25.400 And I'm blaming Obama for everything when you read, when 393 00:28:25.440 --> 00:28:27.960 you read the actual details of it, it's just bizarre. 394 00:28:28.440 --> 00:28:30.799 But she's a nutcase, So this is a surprising, and 395 00:28:30.839 --> 00:28:35.519 she owes Trump everything. She was going nowhere, and he 396 00:28:35.599 --> 00:28:39.119 picked her up and brought her into the administration, and 397 00:28:39.839 --> 00:28:44.319 she just made up this file to feed because Trump 398 00:28:44.400 --> 00:28:49.200 demanded it, and to distract people from Epstein and other things, 399 00:28:49.880 --> 00:28:54.680 and to feed mega stuff. As long as the conspiracy 400 00:28:55.119 --> 00:29:01.599 intels Democrats, Trump's happy to, you know, put poor fuel 401 00:29:01.640 --> 00:29:10.400