WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.320 --> 00:00:04.719 Live from the heart of the nation's capital. This is 2 00:00:04.719 --> 00:00:10.919 a Jim Acosta Show special report. All right, welcome to 3 00:00:10.960 --> 00:00:13.480 the Jim Acosta Show. And it's another day that ends. 4 00:00:13.519 --> 00:00:17.120 And why with Donald Trump obsessing over his vanity projects 5 00:00:17.160 --> 00:00:21.320 as US service members are suffering overseas, let's talk about 6 00:00:21.320 --> 00:00:23.280 all of this with our friend Joe Walsh. Joe, great 7 00:00:23.280 --> 00:00:24.079 to see you, man. 8 00:00:24.519 --> 00:00:27.839 Jim Acosta. It's always intrigued to be with you, brother. 9 00:00:27.960 --> 00:00:28.359 Thank you. 10 00:00:28.960 --> 00:00:31.199 Always good to be with you as well. And you know, 11 00:00:31.879 --> 00:00:34.960 a lot happened this week, and you know, we thought, 12 00:00:35.079 --> 00:00:37.359 we thought the biggest thing that was happening this week 13 00:00:37.479 --> 00:00:40.960 was you know, Trump being exposed as is kind of 14 00:00:41.000 --> 00:00:43.960 a chicken, you know, shuttling from one plane to the next, 15 00:00:44.000 --> 00:00:47.119 and the whole Air Force One fiasco. But you know, 16 00:00:47.159 --> 00:00:49.840 I kind of feel like that was you know, it's 17 00:00:49.880 --> 00:00:53.960 an interesting story. It's obviously a very alarming and so on, 18 00:00:54.200 --> 00:00:57.119 but you know, I can't get over the fact that 19 00:00:57.159 --> 00:01:01.039 our service members are being put through the ringer on 20 00:01:01.159 --> 00:01:05.120 places like the USS Abraham Lincoln and the USS Tripoli. 21 00:01:05.319 --> 00:01:07.799 You know, I've reported on this myself, and others have 22 00:01:07.879 --> 00:01:10.920 reported on this, and you know, and meanwhile, he's obsessing 23 00:01:10.959 --> 00:01:13.359 over you know, his vanity projects. They're trying to put 24 00:01:13.359 --> 00:01:15.519 his name back on the Kennedy Center. He's going to 25 00:01:15.560 --> 00:01:19.239 the Supreme Court now to green light his white House ballroom. 26 00:01:19.280 --> 00:01:21.560 That's the you know, the latest from the New York Times. 27 00:01:22.159 --> 00:01:24.000 You know, he's got to go to his Maga Supreme 28 00:01:24.040 --> 00:01:28.040 Court for permission to demolish the nation's capital. But Joe, 29 00:01:28.079 --> 00:01:30.599 your thoughts on all of this, I mean, a lot 30 00:01:30.599 --> 00:01:33.879 to digest this week, But to me it speaks to 31 00:01:34.280 --> 00:01:37.280 we kind of have an absentee landlord as president of 32 00:01:37.319 --> 00:01:38.439 the United States right now. 33 00:01:39.040 --> 00:01:43.599 Hey, Jim, you covered him better than damn near anybody 34 00:01:43.719 --> 00:01:45.040 in his first term. 35 00:01:45.480 --> 00:01:45.879 Thank you. 36 00:01:46.359 --> 00:01:49.840 And and he's you and I have talked about this before. 37 00:01:49.920 --> 00:01:53.640 He's obviously older and different and messed up in the head, 38 00:01:54.359 --> 00:01:58.480 but like he's like he like openly doesn't give a 39 00:01:58.519 --> 00:02:02.680 fly and fuck about anybody or anything but himself. He's 40 00:02:02.719 --> 00:02:05.120 always been that way. But Jim, even like in the 41 00:02:05.159 --> 00:02:08.560 first term of back in twenty sixteen, after he got elected, 42 00:02:08.599 --> 00:02:13.000 when you covered him, he seemed to be more cognizant 43 00:02:13.080 --> 00:02:17.080 and aware of things going on around him, and even 44 00:02:17.280 --> 00:02:21.719 just politically, he'd show he cares that seems to be 45 00:02:21.879 --> 00:02:27.599 utterly gone now, and I mean react to that because 46 00:02:29.159 --> 00:02:32.520 I'm always stunned by that difference. He's always been a 47 00:02:32.560 --> 00:02:36.639 horrible human being. He's always been a sociopath, but he 48 00:02:36.680 --> 00:02:40.639 gave the appearance in his first term that politically he 49 00:02:40.680 --> 00:02:43.240 at least cared about stuff. He doesn't do that now. 50 00:02:44.039 --> 00:02:47.199 Yeah, No, it's very good. It's interesting that you raise 51 00:02:47.280 --> 00:02:49.520 that point. I mean, I've talked about this. I don't 52 00:02:49.560 --> 00:02:52.199 remember him ever falling asleep when I covered him during 53 00:02:52.199 --> 00:02:54.800 the first term. I certainly don't remember him falling asleep 54 00:02:54.800 --> 00:02:57.240 in the Oval office with people standing over him talking. 55 00:02:58.840 --> 00:03:00.800 I don't have the video set up. Everybody's seeing the 56 00:03:00.840 --> 00:03:03.759 video of the young lady touching her stomach and then 57 00:03:03.800 --> 00:03:06.000 he like wakes up all of a sudden. I've been 58 00:03:06.039 --> 00:03:09.159 calling it the Knapper and the ZAPFR. But you know, 59 00:03:09.319 --> 00:03:13.319 he and but the obsession over the vanity projects, and 60 00:03:13.639 --> 00:03:17.039 you know, if the Supreme Court says yes it's okay 61 00:03:17.560 --> 00:03:19.800 Donald Trump to knock down part of the White House, 62 00:03:20.520 --> 00:03:22.800 that is going to be maybe not the height of 63 00:03:23.680 --> 00:03:26.319 just rolling over and playing dead for a wanna be dictator. 64 00:03:26.360 --> 00:03:28.639 I mean, they did that with the immunity decision. Yeah, 65 00:03:28.879 --> 00:03:31.759 but you know, letting him just go full blown, you know, 66 00:03:31.800 --> 00:03:36.400 Saddam Hussein uh Liberachi with the with the White House, 67 00:03:36.520 --> 00:03:38.199 which is supposed to be the People's House, to me, 68 00:03:38.240 --> 00:03:40.159 would kind of typify things, right. 69 00:03:40.319 --> 00:03:45.520 Yeah, And he doesn't, he doesn't have the authority to 70 00:03:45.639 --> 00:03:48.840 do it. And here we are again. So if the 71 00:03:48.879 --> 00:03:52.319 Supreme Court, as you said, allows him to go ahead 72 00:03:52.319 --> 00:03:54.039 and do whatever he wants on the grounds of the 73 00:03:54.080 --> 00:03:57.879 People's House, I think you're gonna see a real uproar, 74 00:03:58.000 --> 00:04:03.000 a revolutionary uproar in this cunt. But Jim, you nailed 75 00:04:03.039 --> 00:04:08.120 it at the top. It's August fourteenth, twenty twenty six, 76 00:04:08.879 --> 00:04:14.800 and we have American sailors who are literally jumping overboard 77 00:04:15.080 --> 00:04:22.519 into the sea because they're living on ship in horrific conditions. 78 00:04:22.839 --> 00:04:23.839 Yes, I mean to. 79 00:04:23.839 --> 00:04:27.199 Me, that's it's always hard to say this. That's the 80 00:04:27.240 --> 00:04:30.199 biggest headline of the week. And that guy in the 81 00:04:30.240 --> 00:04:34.839 White House, because of his stupid illegal war, he didn't 82 00:04:34.839 --> 00:04:38.040 give a fuck about this. He doesn't care about these sailors. 83 00:04:38.319 --> 00:04:41.279 No, he definitely doesn't. And it seems Pete Hegseth doesn't 84 00:04:41.279 --> 00:04:43.000 care about them either. We can play some of what 85 00:04:43.000 --> 00:04:45.160 Pete Hegsath has been saying, you know, some of this 86 00:04:45.199 --> 00:04:47.439 happened on the USS Abraham Lincoln, but it's been happening 87 00:04:47.480 --> 00:04:50.399 on other ships. If we have that Pete Hegseth bite, 88 00:04:50.480 --> 00:04:52.439 let's play it. Listen. 89 00:04:52.480 --> 00:04:57.240 We make sure at every ship, every crew, every captain 90 00:04:57.600 --> 00:04:59.959 has everything we can provide them at every single month. 91 00:05:00.560 --> 00:05:02.319 Some deployments are longer than others. 92 00:05:02.079 --> 00:05:06.839 And I have more respect and gratitude for those sailors 93 00:05:08.079 --> 00:05:11.160 than anybody. What they do in those high seas and 94 00:05:11.199 --> 00:05:13.519 those usterier conditions with less port calls. 95 00:05:13.920 --> 00:05:14.680 It's incredible. 96 00:05:15.199 --> 00:05:17.360 Americans don't understand what it's like to do that. 97 00:05:17.480 --> 00:05:21.600 So as someone who's been not been on a ship 98 00:05:21.680 --> 00:05:23.959 like that, but been on long deployments, I feel it. 99 00:05:24.399 --> 00:05:25.240 I want them home. 100 00:05:25.079 --> 00:05:27.439 As soon as everybody else do. I want folks rotating 101 00:05:27.480 --> 00:05:29.639 as quick as as possible. I want the best for them. 102 00:05:30.040 --> 00:05:33.600 My commanders know that, our service secretaries know that the 103 00:05:33.639 --> 00:05:36.680 President expects that, and so to that crew and to 104 00:05:36.720 --> 00:05:38.920 all those crews, we're going to do everything we can 105 00:05:39.040 --> 00:05:42.279 for you. And we are so grateful for their dedication 106 00:05:42.519 --> 00:05:43.600 of that crew and others. 107 00:05:44.079 --> 00:05:47.120 They've held the line for the country. Yeah, he's so 108 00:05:47.199 --> 00:05:48.959 full of shit. His eyes are brown. But you know, 109 00:05:49.319 --> 00:05:51.560 and the other thing, Joe is, I was getting texts 110 00:05:51.560 --> 00:05:54.040 from the mother of a sailor who was on board 111 00:05:54.079 --> 00:05:56.480 the USS Tripoli, and I was showing some of these 112 00:05:56.480 --> 00:05:59.959 texts earlier. This is what this mother says. He lost 113 00:06:00.040 --> 00:06:01.920 talking about her son, he lost over thirty pounds in 114 00:06:02.000 --> 00:06:05.720 four months. He's afraid to reveal the exact number because 115 00:06:05.839 --> 00:06:09.279 he doesn't want to worry everybody. She says they were 116 00:06:09.319 --> 00:06:12.399 one hundred percent silenced. They weren't allowed to speak negatively 117 00:06:12.439 --> 00:06:14.519 about these ships or the leadership command, which I think 118 00:06:14.560 --> 00:06:18.199 is part of being in the service. But that included 119 00:06:18.360 --> 00:06:21.319 low food and hygiene supplies. And she says, my son 120 00:06:21.360 --> 00:06:23.319 did have to talk someone on his ship and talk 121 00:06:23.360 --> 00:06:27.279 them out of suicide. And the Navy Times was reporting 122 00:06:27.319 --> 00:06:30.199 that there are people jumping overboard at least one sailor 123 00:06:30.279 --> 00:06:34.759 jumping overboard the USS Abraham Lincoln. And you know, it 124 00:06:34.879 --> 00:06:37.839 just speaks to you know, Pete hexseth Is. To say 125 00:06:37.879 --> 00:06:40.040 he's in over his head is sort of like saying 126 00:06:40.079 --> 00:06:42.279 the pope is Catholic. It's you know, or bear shits 127 00:06:42.279 --> 00:06:45.839 in the woods. It's obvious. But he is so not 128 00:06:46.240 --> 00:06:49.800 up to the challenge here, and it's astonishing to me 129 00:06:49.879 --> 00:06:50.920 that he's still in this job. 130 00:06:51.279 --> 00:06:54.040 He's a tool. He's Trump's tool, that's all he is. 131 00:06:54.120 --> 00:06:54.399 Jim. 132 00:06:54.519 --> 00:06:58.959 Last week, I think it was two hundred families of 133 00:06:59.000 --> 00:07:04.279 these sailors sat down with Navy officials in leaded with 134 00:07:04.360 --> 00:07:09.160 them and they basically got no response. I mean, again, 135 00:07:09.240 --> 00:07:12.519 this is the commander in chief. The overall context here 136 00:07:12.639 --> 00:07:17.399 is this was a stupid illegal war. Trump has messed 137 00:07:17.439 --> 00:07:21.000 it up every step along the way. That's why we're 138 00:07:21.079 --> 00:07:24.439 still here. That's why those sailors are still on that ship. 139 00:07:24.759 --> 00:07:28.600 And Jim Trump does not know how to end it. 140 00:07:28.839 --> 00:07:31.319 He doesn't know how to get out of it, and 141 00:07:31.399 --> 00:07:33.240 our men and women are paying a price for that. 142 00:07:33.759 --> 00:07:35.600 He has no idea how to end this show. And 143 00:07:35.680 --> 00:07:37.680 he's painted himself into a corner. And I know when 144 00:07:37.680 --> 00:07:40.199 you were in Congress there, you better dan believe there 145 00:07:40.240 --> 00:07:43.879 would have been oversight hearings if Barack Obama were the president, 146 00:07:44.120 --> 00:07:46.480 Joe Biden was the president, and you had a service 147 00:07:46.560 --> 00:07:50.240 you had service members jumping overboard and sending over photos 148 00:07:50.279 --> 00:07:53.560 to the press of like shitty food and poor conditions 149 00:07:53.600 --> 00:07:57.120 on these ships. Republicans on Capitol Hill their heads would 150 00:07:57.160 --> 00:07:59.279 have popped off. They would have been losing their minds, 151 00:07:59.360 --> 00:08:03.920 and rightly so. And you know it, just the stunning 152 00:08:04.079 --> 00:08:08.040 silence that we're seeing right now from the GEO. I 153 00:08:08.040 --> 00:08:10.120 know I shouldn't get depressed about this shit, but man, 154 00:08:10.240 --> 00:08:13.439 it is so depressing now at the state of affairs 155 00:08:13.519 --> 00:08:16.120 right now that there's just no oversight. Trump could do 156 00:08:16.120 --> 00:08:16.879 whatever he wants. 157 00:08:17.680 --> 00:08:21.680 Jim Acosta, whenever I'm with you, you're generally more optimistic than 158 00:08:21.720 --> 00:08:25.480 I am. Don't you get like me. Look, we do 159 00:08:25.560 --> 00:08:28.879 not have a Congress. We have not had a Congress 160 00:08:28.920 --> 00:08:32.720 for eighteen months. It's part of why Trump. It's a 161 00:08:32.720 --> 00:08:34.679 big part of why Trump can do what he wants. 162 00:08:34.960 --> 00:08:38.080 It's why he can be openly corrupt and stuff his 163 00:08:38.279 --> 00:08:42.480 pockets with billions because he knows Congress doesn't exist and 164 00:08:42.559 --> 00:08:47.120 won't do anything about it. But look, again, you're so right. 165 00:08:47.879 --> 00:08:50.080 There's not a week that goes by where I don't 166 00:08:50.120 --> 00:08:53.919 ask myself that or bring up that point. Oh my god, 167 00:08:53.960 --> 00:08:57.799 if Barack Obama had done this, my former Republican colleagues, 168 00:08:58.120 --> 00:09:03.200 I mean this past you'll just last month, interest on 169 00:09:03.399 --> 00:09:06.519 the debt for the first time in the month of 170 00:09:06.600 --> 00:09:13.039 July exceeded what we paid in total in US military 171 00:09:13.080 --> 00:09:17.759 dollars and what we paid healthcare for seniors. And again, 172 00:09:17.799 --> 00:09:20.480 if this were Obama doing what he's doing, doing what 173 00:09:20.519 --> 00:09:23.919 Trump's doing to the debt, Republicans would be knocking down 174 00:09:23.960 --> 00:09:24.679 the walls. 175 00:09:25.000 --> 00:09:27.919 Yeah, and that is a ticking fiscal time bomb, there's 176 00:09:27.919 --> 00:09:30.679 no question about it. And Trump has been running up 177 00:09:30.720 --> 00:09:32.360 the debt. You know, some of this got run up 178 00:09:32.399 --> 00:09:35.399 during COVID. But you know, when we're not we don't 179 00:09:35.480 --> 00:09:39.519 tax the billionaires or the trillionaires for that matter. I 180 00:09:39.559 --> 00:09:41.840 guess maybe Elon Musk is not a trillionaire anymore. But 181 00:09:42.240 --> 00:09:44.600 you mentioned the corruption, and I think that is going 182 00:09:44.679 --> 00:09:47.519 to be a massively sailing an issue heading into the 183 00:09:47.559 --> 00:09:50.519 fall campaign. I think people are pissed that Donald Trump 184 00:09:50.559 --> 00:09:53.120 has enriched himself and his family off of the White 185 00:09:53.159 --> 00:09:56.200 House this time around with the crypto and the stock trades, 186 00:09:56.240 --> 00:10:00.679 and apparently Elizabeth Warren and Robert Garcias enter a letter 187 00:10:00.720 --> 00:10:02.559 saying we want to know more about the stock trads. Yes, 188 00:10:02.600 --> 00:10:04.519 we need to know more about the stock trades, but 189 00:10:04.559 --> 00:10:06.440 you know what, you know, it's you know, the tea, 190 00:10:06.559 --> 00:10:09.600 the kettle is starting to boil on the stove when 191 00:10:09.679 --> 00:10:13.159 Joe Rogan is paying attention. Apparently, Joe Rogan, we can 192 00:10:13.200 --> 00:10:16.960 play this. Jo's like, Wow, what the fuck? What's going 193 00:10:16.960 --> 00:10:18.639 on here with the crypto? Can we play this? 194 00:10:18.759 --> 00:10:21.279 No government has ever done before, and one of them 195 00:10:21.360 --> 00:10:22.320 is the crypto stuff. 196 00:10:22.320 --> 00:10:23.399 The crypto stuff's nuts. 197 00:10:23.639 --> 00:10:29.279 It's like Trump has made billions in crypto and then 198 00:10:29.320 --> 00:10:31.720 you got his sons, and his sons are involved in 199 00:10:31.759 --> 00:10:34.960 all these weird business deals where the business deals have 200 00:10:35.039 --> 00:10:36.559 to do with some things that Trump put and then 201 00:10:36.600 --> 00:10:38.919 the sons are involved in these businesses, and like there's 202 00:10:38.960 --> 00:10:42.559 a lot of money flowing around that you could dig 203 00:10:42.639 --> 00:10:44.559 in and start arresting. 204 00:10:45.679 --> 00:10:49.000 I thank you, Joe Rogan, good night, everybody, We're done. 205 00:10:49.600 --> 00:10:53.440 Where the fuck you Ben Joe? Look, he's Jim He 206 00:10:53.879 --> 00:10:57.039 Rogan is so dishonest and so dangerous. There's no way 207 00:10:57.080 --> 00:11:00.240 on God's green earth he did not know that this 208 00:11:00.320 --> 00:11:03.360 is who Trump was, and he fully embraced him, fully 209 00:11:03.399 --> 00:11:05.600 endorsed him. Rogan was at the White House just two 210 00:11:05.679 --> 00:11:08.840 three months ago on another for another issue. I mean, 211 00:11:09.080 --> 00:11:12.039 he's playing both sides. He doesn't want to lose his audience, 212 00:11:12.120 --> 00:11:15.840 but Jim and he does such a disservice to his 213 00:11:15.879 --> 00:11:20.879 audience because he just pedals bullshit after bullshit. But it 214 00:11:21.000 --> 00:11:23.440 is Jim, You're right, it is the corruption. I mean, 215 00:11:24.559 --> 00:11:27.960 it should be a massive blue tsunami in November. He 216 00:11:28.360 --> 00:11:32.080 has been stuffing his pockets again, as you and I say, 217 00:11:32.159 --> 00:11:35.720 Jim out in the open, he doesn't care, and the 218 00:11:35.799 --> 00:11:40.559 American people are struggling. If Democrats can't win, just putting 219 00:11:40.559 --> 00:11:43.080 that in front of every voter, then Democrats can't win. 220 00:11:44.200 --> 00:11:47.759 Yeah, no, it's so true. And Joe Rogan, I mean, honestly, 221 00:11:47.960 --> 00:11:50.639 like you know, as you said, he is smarter than this. 222 00:11:50.799 --> 00:11:52.799 But I think his sidekick on the show is saying 223 00:11:52.799 --> 00:11:55.399 the government's so corrupt that you know what fuck that 224 00:11:56.080 --> 00:11:59.559 presidents have not been enriching themselves off of crypto and 225 00:11:59.679 --> 00:12:02.799 stop trades like this until Donald Trump came along. This 226 00:12:02.840 --> 00:12:06.600 is the most thoroughly corrupt presidency in American history. Get 227 00:12:06.639 --> 00:12:09.360 your shit straight, get your facts right. And they need 228 00:12:09.399 --> 00:12:11.759 to explain to the American people because he has a 229 00:12:11.759 --> 00:12:14.440 big audience in a big platform what a crook Donald 230 00:12:14.440 --> 00:12:17.879 Trump is. And you know, maybe they've got uh, you know, 231 00:12:18.039 --> 00:12:20.799 buyer's remorse. I mean, I don't think they're buyers. They're 232 00:12:20.919 --> 00:12:22.759 laughing all the way to the bank. But I mean, 233 00:12:22.799 --> 00:12:25.360 at least be straight up about this shit. Don't act like, oh, well, 234 00:12:25.399 --> 00:12:26.960 the government's it's him. 235 00:12:27.360 --> 00:12:31.360 It's him, Jim. That's it again. Look, Logan's got a 236 00:12:31.480 --> 00:12:34.759 huge audience. He's not honest with his audience. He also 237 00:12:34.879 --> 00:12:36.960 came out this week and said, oh my god, is 238 00:12:37.000 --> 00:12:40.799 this real? Like Trump's for one hundred grand a month, 239 00:12:40.960 --> 00:12:45.840 you can get early access, Like like Joe Rogan acted. 240 00:12:45.679 --> 00:12:47.120 Surprise, I saw that. 241 00:12:47.399 --> 00:12:49.360 I doubt about that. That's bullshit. 242 00:12:50.480 --> 00:12:54.559 It's it's it's flat it's flat out insider trading. Yeah, 243 00:12:54.639 --> 00:12:57.080 and it's you know, it's Joe. It's sort of like 244 00:12:57.120 --> 00:12:59.519 they're they're advertising that they're going to rob a bank. 245 00:13:00.200 --> 00:13:02.480 So Trump's gonna rob a bank, and he takes out 246 00:13:02.519 --> 00:13:04.200 an ad in the New York Times and says, I'm 247 00:13:04.200 --> 00:13:06.399 gonna rob a bank and it's going to happen at 248 00:13:06.559 --> 00:13:09.120 noon on Friday, and it's gonna be the first bank 249 00:13:09.120 --> 00:13:10.720 of America whatever the fuck you want to call it 250 00:13:10.759 --> 00:13:13.600 in Times Square, and I'm gonna get your cameras out. 251 00:13:14.120 --> 00:13:16.720 I'm gonna go rob this bank. That is what he's 252 00:13:16.720 --> 00:13:19.559 doing with this insider trading thing. On true Social He's 253 00:13:19.600 --> 00:13:22.440 announcing to everybody that he's going to do this, and 254 00:13:22.519 --> 00:13:23.799 if you want to in on the action, you can 255 00:13:23.840 --> 00:13:25.919 get in on the act, and that makes it legal somehow. 256 00:13:26.279 --> 00:13:29.960 Well, and Jim, I love that because that's the analogy 257 00:13:30.000 --> 00:13:33.399 I've used without Trunk is gonna fuck with the midterms. 258 00:13:34.000 --> 00:13:37.039 He's I mean, the other big takeaway this week was 259 00:13:37.440 --> 00:13:43.240 he basically kind of said, Okay, I'll declare a national 260 00:13:43.320 --> 00:13:49.039 security emergency. Stranger things have happened. He's your bank heist analogy. 261 00:13:49.440 --> 00:13:53.639 He's telling people he's gonna mess with the midterms. He's 262 00:13:53.639 --> 00:13:57.759 gonna screw with the midterms. I just I don't know 263 00:13:57.799 --> 00:14:03.000 why Democrats, why we don't pre empt him. It's a crime. 264 00:14:03.159 --> 00:14:07.519 It's a crime, Jim, as you said, to plot robbing 265 00:14:07.559 --> 00:14:10.879 a bank, just the plotting of it is a crime. 266 00:14:11.320 --> 00:14:15.639 Donald Trump right now is plotting to either cancel, screw with, 267 00:14:15.879 --> 00:14:20.080 or mess with, or delegitimize the elections in November. And 268 00:14:20.480 --> 00:14:23.080 I just don't see people paying enough attention to that. 269 00:14:23.559 --> 00:14:23.639 No. 270 00:14:23.759 --> 00:14:25.720 I agree with you one hundred percent. And I think 271 00:14:25.799 --> 00:14:27.639 that they're going to try. They're going to try to 272 00:14:27.679 --> 00:14:31.840 do something. They're already sending DOJ officials to polling locations 273 00:14:31.879 --> 00:14:35.000 to see if they can see brown skinned people going 274 00:14:35.039 --> 00:14:40.000 into vote and so on, and it's completely racist, awful garbage, 275 00:14:40.519 --> 00:14:43.000 but he's going to try. And my concern is is 276 00:14:43.039 --> 00:14:45.320 that you know, right now, they may be sending out 277 00:14:45.639 --> 00:14:48.559 the ones who are perhaps the most responsible of the 278 00:14:48.639 --> 00:14:50.960 crooks that they have working for them, and the flunkies 279 00:14:50.960 --> 00:14:53.720 and lackeys and so on. But there'll be some goofballs 280 00:14:53.720 --> 00:14:56.200 that they'll send out this fall. And if they put 281 00:14:56.240 --> 00:14:58.840 Ice out there, and Ice, they're all a bunch of 282 00:14:58.879 --> 00:15:01.279 douchebags and Ice. I'm sorry if I'm going off. It's 283 00:15:01.320 --> 00:15:03.120 the end of the week. Maybe I'm a little tired. 284 00:15:03.240 --> 00:15:05.679 I love it, Jim go, but I mean, but Joe, 285 00:15:05.759 --> 00:15:07.720 I mean, I'm looking at some of these recent ICE 286 00:15:07.799 --> 00:15:09.759 videos and I know you've been going off on this 287 00:15:09.919 --> 00:15:13.639 too on your socials. It is absolutely I don't I know, 288 00:15:13.759 --> 00:15:15.480 people are numb to all of this, and it's been 289 00:15:15.759 --> 00:15:17.879 you know, I you know, I used to say Trump 290 00:15:18.799 --> 00:15:20.639 one point, I was a fire hose of lies. Now 291 00:15:20.639 --> 00:15:24.279 it's a fire hose of corruption and craziness. But but 292 00:15:24.720 --> 00:15:30.039 ICE is behaving like a secret police force in this country. Uh, 293 00:15:30.039 --> 00:15:32.679 this is not the United States of America. That you 294 00:15:32.720 --> 00:15:35.960 and I grew up in Joe, where masked federal officers 295 00:15:36.000 --> 00:15:38.399 just show up and point guns at people all over 296 00:15:38.440 --> 00:15:42.240 the fucking place. And I'm sorry, at the end of 297 00:15:42.240 --> 00:15:44.240 all of this, somebody needs to go to jail. This 298 00:15:44.360 --> 00:15:48.240 is absolutely outlaw criminal behavior on the part of the government, 299 00:15:48.919 --> 00:15:51.720 and we're gonna need documents to be searched through to 300 00:15:51.759 --> 00:15:54.480 see who is sending out the orders. And Tom Holm 301 00:15:54.519 --> 00:15:56.679 and you better get ready, Pal, you better lawyer up 302 00:15:56.720 --> 00:15:59.360 because you know some of this stuff is coming your way. 303 00:16:00.039 --> 00:16:01.600 But I mean your thoughts on all of this, Joe, 304 00:16:01.679 --> 00:16:04.919 because it is it's they're cranking up ice I think, 305 00:16:05.120 --> 00:16:07.320 right in time for the midterms to put fear in 306 00:16:07.360 --> 00:16:09.559 the water, and it's scary. 307 00:16:10.519 --> 00:16:13.799 They're going to do everything they can, Jim, to intimidate 308 00:16:13.960 --> 00:16:19.360 brown and black voters to not vote. The beauty of Trump, 309 00:16:19.480 --> 00:16:22.399 if you want to call it beauty is again he's 310 00:16:22.639 --> 00:16:26.600 forcing us, like right fucking now, to decide what kind 311 00:16:26.639 --> 00:16:30.080 of country we want to be. And the abject cruelty 312 00:16:30.279 --> 00:16:33.159 that were the fascism that we're seeing on our streets, 313 00:16:34.080 --> 00:16:36.559 to me makes it really easy for American voters. Is 314 00:16:36.600 --> 00:16:38.639 this what you want America to be? Do? You want 315 00:16:38.720 --> 00:16:41.840 mass feederal thugs doing this to immigrants and citizens on 316 00:16:41.879 --> 00:16:45.480 our streets. I mean Trump's doing it. He's forcing us 317 00:16:45.519 --> 00:16:48.919 to decide in November if this is the kind of 318 00:16:48.960 --> 00:16:50.080 country we want to be. 319 00:16:51.080 --> 00:16:54.679 Yeah, And I will say, you know, if one or 320 00:16:54.720 --> 00:16:57.080 both houses of Congress remain Republican, I think the House 321 00:16:57.080 --> 00:17:00.000 will flip to the Democrats. But if the Senate remained 322 00:17:00.200 --> 00:17:03.600 and Republican control, you're just gonna have divided, gridlock government 323 00:17:03.639 --> 00:17:06.559 for the next two years, which to me opens up 324 00:17:06.599 --> 00:17:10.839 the floodgates to Donald Trump and Todd Blanche and whoever 325 00:17:11.200 --> 00:17:14.400 whatever goofball they have in charge of DHS. Maybe he'll 326 00:17:14.400 --> 00:17:17.559 finally put Steven Miller in there as an acting DHS secretary, 327 00:17:17.839 --> 00:17:20.119 and they're just going to run wild in this country. 328 00:17:20.720 --> 00:17:22.839 And people need to understand it is going to be that. 329 00:17:23.079 --> 00:17:24.960 If you think the first two years were bad, the 330 00:17:25.039 --> 00:17:27.200 second two years, after he's gotten his ass kicked in 331 00:17:27.279 --> 00:17:30.400 the midterms, are going to be really bad. With Todd 332 00:17:30.440 --> 00:17:34.799 Blanche as the Attorney General and he's flirting with running again, 333 00:17:35.079 --> 00:17:37.920 or you know, national emergency shutting down elections and all 334 00:17:37.920 --> 00:17:39.680 that kind of thing. I think you know, we're this 335 00:17:39.759 --> 00:17:42.160 is these are some challenging times ahead. 336 00:17:43.200 --> 00:17:47.920 Uh, we cannot afford to have a failure of imagination. 337 00:17:48.200 --> 00:17:51.359 You nailed it, Jim. To imagine the absolute worst he'll do, 338 00:17:51.960 --> 00:17:56.079 you said, Todd Blanche. He has Trump now has utter 339 00:17:56.599 --> 00:18:02.599 loyalists in all of these key position since DHS, the FBI, 340 00:18:03.160 --> 00:18:09.119 the Justice Department, two week havoc the final two years 341 00:18:09.160 --> 00:18:12.799 of his term. People, Jim, that's it's a great point. 342 00:18:12.880 --> 00:18:16.079 People aren't talking about that enough. Even if Democrats take 343 00:18:16.119 --> 00:18:18.640 back the House. Yes, two years are going to be 344 00:18:18.640 --> 00:18:19.279 a nightmare. 345 00:18:20.000 --> 00:18:22.119 I agree with this, and this is what I've been 346 00:18:22.119 --> 00:18:24.279 talking about. I'm so glad that, you know, our friend 347 00:18:24.359 --> 00:18:27.720 Katie Fang has been, you know, on the forefront, you know, 348 00:18:27.839 --> 00:18:30.839 sort of leading the charge against Todd Blanche because I mean, 349 00:18:30.880 --> 00:18:34.119 he's already proven himself to be a rogue acting Attorney General, 350 00:18:34.119 --> 00:18:35.880 and he's gonna act this way as the permanent ag. 351 00:18:36.119 --> 00:18:38.480 You know, they put out this memo the other day 352 00:18:38.519 --> 00:18:41.960 that said that, you know, executive privilege basically applies to 353 00:18:42.000 --> 00:18:45.119 everybody under the sun, which is insane, and that's going 354 00:18:45.200 --> 00:18:46.880 to have to get challenged in the courts. And so, 355 00:18:47.279 --> 00:18:49.839 you know, they have figured out how to play the 356 00:18:49.880 --> 00:18:52.799 constitution like a fiddle in this country and play the 357 00:18:52.839 --> 00:18:55.480 courts like a fiddle in this country. Trump mastered this 358 00:18:55.680 --> 00:18:58.759 during Joe Biden's presidency when his ass was in hot 359 00:18:58.799 --> 00:19:02.279 water and legal hot water over January sixth, and the 360 00:19:02.279 --> 00:19:05.839 classified documents. Just keep delaying things and filing filing bullshit 361 00:19:05.920 --> 00:19:07.640 things with the courts, and you can just stretch and 362 00:19:07.680 --> 00:19:09.960 drag things out and make everybody miserable. And he can 363 00:19:10.039 --> 00:19:12.319 just do that. Yet again, if people think, oh, he 364 00:19:12.359 --> 00:19:16.599 won't run for a third term because of the Constitution, Okay, no, 365 00:19:16.759 --> 00:19:19.079 and have a great time in fantasyland. Welcome. 366 00:19:20.400 --> 00:19:23.559 And by the way, Jim, people with large platforms like 367 00:19:23.640 --> 00:19:27.880 you and a smaller like me like I get. I 368 00:19:27.960 --> 00:19:32.240 get some listeners and followers who will say, we spend 369 00:19:32.279 --> 00:19:35.839 too much time talking about the crazy shit that Trump 370 00:19:36.039 --> 00:19:40.440 might do, and I get I still get Democrats who 371 00:19:40.440 --> 00:19:43.400 will roll their eyes at me when I say, what 372 00:19:43.440 --> 00:19:46.000 do you mean Trump won't run for a third term, Like, 373 00:19:46.160 --> 00:19:49.480 what do you mean Mike Johnson? If the Democrats win 374 00:19:49.559 --> 00:19:52.440 the House by two or three seats, that Mike Johnson 375 00:19:52.480 --> 00:19:55.799 will automatically seat that new Congress. What do you mean? 376 00:19:56.200 --> 00:19:58.720 And I still get people rolling their eyes at me. 377 00:19:58.880 --> 00:20:02.319 And this, this goes back to twenty twenty. The guy 378 00:20:02.400 --> 00:20:05.920 tried to overthrow an American election. He committed crimes. Don't 379 00:20:05.960 --> 00:20:10.960 you dare tell me that that he's not capable of 380 00:20:11.039 --> 00:20:14.559 doing anything this time around to hang on to power. 381 00:20:14.680 --> 00:20:15.319 Don't do that. 382 00:20:15.960 --> 00:20:18.359 No, it's so true, it's so right. And you know, 383 00:20:18.480 --> 00:20:23.720 you have kind of a shamelessness, you know, Olympics going on, 384 00:20:23.839 --> 00:20:28.119 and in Congress. You know, I saw your tweet about 385 00:20:28.119 --> 00:20:31.680 Ted Cruz pedaling vaccine lies, and I you know, I 386 00:20:32.160 --> 00:20:34.960 just I think to myself, you know, Ted Cruse, he's 387 00:20:34.960 --> 00:20:37.200 like Ivy League educated and all this stuff. It's your 388 00:20:37.240 --> 00:20:40.559 Corse shit. And then Bill Cassidy. But Bill Cassidy takes 389 00:20:40.559 --> 00:20:43.680 the cake because Bill Cassidy voted for RFK Junior, and 390 00:20:43.720 --> 00:20:45.720 Bill Cassidy the other day, of course, votes for Todd 391 00:20:45.720 --> 00:20:49.680 Blanche even though Trump is running his ass out of Washington, 392 00:20:49.759 --> 00:20:51.759 running his ass out of I don't know, maybe Bill 393 00:20:51.759 --> 00:20:53.680 Cassidy go work on K Street or something. And so 394 00:20:53.720 --> 00:20:55.799 he's like, hey, I got to make a buck. But 395 00:20:55.880 --> 00:20:59.720 I think we have Bill Cassidy being asked about all 396 00:20:59.720 --> 00:21:04.359 of the and just sounding really pathetic. Let me see 397 00:21:04.440 --> 00:21:09.720 we have this Ultimately voted to confirm RFK Junior as secretary, 398 00:21:09.799 --> 00:21:11.920 and then you also recently cleared the way for Erica 399 00:21:11.920 --> 00:21:16.000 Schwartz's confirmation as CDC director. Do you regret those decisions? 400 00:21:16.640 --> 00:21:20.200 Well, so, first, this is a presidential executive order. RFK 401 00:21:20.400 --> 00:21:23.119