1 00:00:16,679 --> 00:00:19,800 Speaker 1: And we are back with another edition of the Federalist 2 00:00:19,879 --> 00:00:23,600 Radio Hour. I'm Att Kittle, senior Elections correspondent at the Federalist, 3 00:00:24,039 --> 00:00:28,839 and your experienced Shirpa on today's quest for knowledge. As always, 4 00:00:28,839 --> 00:00:31,399 you can email the show at radio at the Federalist 5 00:00:31,440 --> 00:00:35,679 dot com, follow us on x at FDR LST, make 6 00:00:35,719 --> 00:00:38,479 sure to subscribe wherever you download your podcast, and of 7 00:00:38,520 --> 00:00:41,520 course to the premium version of our website as well. 8 00:00:42,159 --> 00:00:47,679 Our guests today, multiple guests today are the most esteemed 9 00:00:47,719 --> 00:00:50,799 group of reprobates. I'm proud to work with and know. 10 00:00:51,759 --> 00:00:54,880 Many of the reporters and editors you read and follow 11 00:00:54,920 --> 00:00:59,240 every day, assembled in one pod for our very special 12 00:00:59,399 --> 00:01:05,680 Federalist Hour Radio Hour Federalist style year in Review. Their 13 00:01:05,719 --> 00:01:12,200 senior correspondent, John Daniel Davidson, Election editor l Pernow, Elections 14 00:01:12,239 --> 00:01:16,599 Team reporters Beth Brellia, and if we have time, we'll 15 00:01:16,599 --> 00:01:19,000 get to a couple of others on that front, including 16 00:01:19,040 --> 00:01:23,959 Sean Fleetwood and Rihanna Lyman. They are busily working to 17 00:01:24,120 --> 00:01:26,640 bring you the news that you need right now while 18 00:01:26,640 --> 00:01:31,200 the others slack off. I guess and enjoy our Christmas 19 00:01:31,200 --> 00:01:34,480 party and year end party here on the Federalist Radio 20 00:01:34,519 --> 00:01:38,680 Hour there of course if we can, and we're hoping 21 00:01:38,879 --> 00:01:40,920 that this is the case to be joined by the 22 00:01:40,959 --> 00:01:46,079 inimitable Eddie Scarry, and we have the exceptional Jordan Boyd 23 00:01:46,480 --> 00:01:50,760 and the most healthy man in America, Tristan Justice. We're 24 00:01:50,799 --> 00:01:56,680 talking about the biggest stories of twenty twenty four, the 25 00:01:56,719 --> 00:02:01,480 best stories of twenty twenty four, and our favorite stories 26 00:02:01,480 --> 00:02:06,000 of twenty twenty four. Let me begin here, and Jordan, 27 00:02:06,079 --> 00:02:09,960 I'll start with you. It has been an incredible year, 28 00:02:10,159 --> 00:02:13,960 a historic year, unprecedented, you put all the superlatives you 29 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:18,639 want in there, but it has been an absolutely amazing year. 30 00:02:19,400 --> 00:02:22,680 And at the end of it all, it seems to 31 00:02:22,719 --> 00:02:27,639 me not only did the Republic win, but the Boyd 32 00:02:27,680 --> 00:02:32,759 family has won as well, expanded its ranks by one. 33 00:02:33,639 --> 00:02:34,719 Speaker 2: That's very true. 34 00:02:34,759 --> 00:02:37,240 Speaker 3: I feel like we needed a good year after four 35 00:02:37,319 --> 00:02:41,520 years of crises and disasters and so seeing you know, 36 00:02:41,560 --> 00:02:44,120 like you said, the Republic on the line, we needed 37 00:02:44,120 --> 00:02:47,080 some happiness. And then yes, of course, our personal happiness. 38 00:02:47,080 --> 00:02:49,439 Our little blessing who came to us just a couple 39 00:02:49,560 --> 00:02:51,599 months ago, has been really great. 40 00:02:52,479 --> 00:02:55,319 Speaker 1: Who is that little guy introduced us because he's on 41 00:02:55,360 --> 00:02:57,960 the podcast right now. This is a family affair here 42 00:02:57,960 --> 00:02:59,199 at the Federalist Radio Hour. 43 00:03:00,240 --> 00:03:04,000 Speaker 3: He sure is our son, Rory here he's trying to 44 00:03:04,039 --> 00:03:08,159 take an app but he joins me every day as 45 00:03:08,199 --> 00:03:11,000 I write, and you know, as we do our good 46 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:14,000 work with the Federalist. So it's been great and been 47 00:03:14,039 --> 00:03:17,800 a blessing. And of course we've just enjoyed celebrating him, 48 00:03:17,960 --> 00:03:20,960 celebrating wins for the United States. It's just been a 49 00:03:20,960 --> 00:03:22,360 good end of the year all around. 50 00:03:23,159 --> 00:03:26,400 Speaker 1: Well, Rory is a precious little guy. He really is 51 00:03:26,599 --> 00:03:29,479 a blessing. We've seen the photos and we can't get enough. 52 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:36,120 And so there's the start of something new and exciting, 53 00:03:37,159 --> 00:03:41,000 just like a redo, if you will, Jordan for the 54 00:03:41,120 --> 00:03:46,080 United States of America, a chance to start well, if 55 00:03:46,120 --> 00:03:49,960 not fresh, a chance for a do over. I think 56 00:03:50,080 --> 00:03:52,039 one of the biggest stories, and I won't step on 57 00:03:52,120 --> 00:03:55,439 your biggest story of the year, but I think that 58 00:03:55,479 --> 00:03:58,520 the stories that will come out have much to do 59 00:03:58,680 --> 00:04:05,560 with the history election of twenty twenty four. Ultimately, with 60 00:04:06,039 --> 00:04:09,199 the election behind us, we'll talk about where we go 61 00:04:09,280 --> 00:04:13,439 from here. But what do you think surrounding this election 62 00:04:14,159 --> 00:04:18,519 was the biggest or most intriguing story out of many. 63 00:04:20,040 --> 00:04:22,800 Speaker 3: Well, I'm biased towards my beat. I think this was 64 00:04:22,839 --> 00:04:26,120 a really big year for the abortion and IBF conversation. 65 00:04:27,120 --> 00:04:31,680 Kicked off with the Alabama Supreme Court ruling which actually 66 00:04:31,879 --> 00:04:37,000 favored IVF parents. It said that anyone who destroys their 67 00:04:37,120 --> 00:04:40,600 harms and rios is responsible for those legally, and it's 68 00:04:40,680 --> 00:04:43,720 considered not just the end of property, but the end 69 00:04:43,759 --> 00:04:45,920 of human lives, and so that was really important. It 70 00:04:45,959 --> 00:04:48,879 kicked off this national conversation, but it also kicked off 71 00:04:48,879 --> 00:04:52,600 a lot of disinformation, deliberate disinformation by the corporate media 72 00:04:52,600 --> 00:04:55,040 and Democrats, and they tried to use that to their 73 00:04:55,079 --> 00:04:57,800 advantage in the election. They really tried to make twenty 74 00:04:57,839 --> 00:05:01,000 twenty four about abortion and about I and about this 75 00:05:01,879 --> 00:05:05,120 right to choose whether a child lives or dies, and 76 00:05:05,720 --> 00:05:10,800 they failed, ultimately failed and extremely failed to make that happen. 77 00:05:10,879 --> 00:05:14,240 And that's partially because of the great work that for 78 00:05:14,399 --> 00:05:17,279 lifers do, but it's also because of just how radical 79 00:05:17,639 --> 00:05:20,079 their positions on all of that has become. 80 00:05:21,279 --> 00:05:24,680 Speaker 1: Yeah, to me, Jordan, it was surprising because look what 81 00:05:24,720 --> 00:05:28,959 we experienced in twenty twenty two. The left, the Democrat Party, 82 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:32,319 made it all about abortion, and they were very successful. 83 00:05:32,399 --> 00:05:36,480 Right after the Dobs decision. Are you surprised that they 84 00:05:36,519 --> 00:05:40,000 were not? I mean, the red wave finally arrived, it 85 00:05:40,120 --> 00:05:45,000 rolled over the left in their abortion argument. Are you surprised, I. 86 00:05:44,959 --> 00:05:51,040 Speaker 3: Think I'm I'm optimistically surprised. Don't get me wrong. Democrats 87 00:05:51,120 --> 00:05:56,560 still do abortion messaging that somehow reaches voters and convinces them. 88 00:05:56,920 --> 00:05:59,439 So the work is certainly not done. But I do 89 00:05:59,480 --> 00:06:03,879 think that four there were way way more important issues 90 00:06:03,879 --> 00:06:06,879 on people's minds, like the economy, like the border invasion, 91 00:06:07,439 --> 00:06:11,000 and those things just take precedent over killing babies. They 92 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:13,879 really do. When it comes down to it, whether or 93 00:06:13,879 --> 00:06:16,160 not you can feed the children you already have is 94 00:06:16,199 --> 00:06:20,720 more important than you know, abortion pill quote access in 95 00:06:20,920 --> 00:06:23,519 states where pro life laws are protecting women and children. 96 00:06:23,680 --> 00:06:26,879 So really, I think we need to be on guard, 97 00:06:27,079 --> 00:06:29,800 but we can certainly learn some lessons and take away 98 00:06:29,800 --> 00:06:31,879 from the victories that we did get this year. 99 00:06:32,439 --> 00:06:36,600 Speaker 1: Good point, Saul. I'll turn to our elections editor who 100 00:06:36,680 --> 00:06:41,319 worked over time and then this year to say it 101 00:06:41,360 --> 00:06:44,480 was a busy year for L. Parnell and the elections 102 00:06:44,519 --> 00:06:47,079 team and the rest of the team really at the 103 00:06:47,120 --> 00:06:50,120 Federalist I mean, it was wall to wall and there 104 00:06:50,160 --> 00:06:53,120 is no rest for the weary post election, because well, 105 00:06:54,120 --> 00:06:56,600 as we always like to say around here, there's a 106 00:06:56,680 --> 00:06:59,720 republic to save. But al let me ask you, as 107 00:06:59,839 --> 00:07:03,959 you were assigning stories, as you were tracking stories throughout 108 00:07:04,079 --> 00:07:07,639 this election year, the biggest story for you on the 109 00:07:07,680 --> 00:07:10,000 election front tour in. 110 00:07:09,920 --> 00:07:14,079 Speaker 2: General, I guess, yeah, Well, there's plenty to choose from. 111 00:07:14,519 --> 00:07:17,160 I think what I've found to be kind of the 112 00:07:17,199 --> 00:07:20,639 most important story of the cycle. And I wouldn't have 113 00:07:21,360 --> 00:07:24,240 been perceptive enough to have this answer before the election, 114 00:07:24,319 --> 00:07:27,040 but really, coming out of the election, I think the 115 00:07:28,120 --> 00:07:32,399 answer that we all came away with was the chinks 116 00:07:32,439 --> 00:07:36,959 in the armor of the corporate press. We just saw 117 00:07:37,399 --> 00:07:42,800 so much corruption, so much interference from them. The probably 118 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:50,279 most infamous example of this election cycle was CBS editing 119 00:07:50,680 --> 00:07:56,879 their interview with Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris, selectively refusing 120 00:07:57,160 --> 00:08:00,600 to release the actual transcript of how the interview went, 121 00:08:01,480 --> 00:08:04,920 but for anyone who needs a refresher, they released a 122 00:08:04,959 --> 00:08:08,079 clip of the of the interview with where she gave 123 00:08:08,120 --> 00:08:11,879 one answer to a particular question. It was mocked online, 124 00:08:12,560 --> 00:08:17,319 deservedly so, and then when they released the full the 125 00:08:17,360 --> 00:08:21,480 full interview, they had dropped in a completely different answer 126 00:08:21,480 --> 00:08:25,839 from her to that same question, which raised questions among 127 00:08:25,959 --> 00:08:29,879 listeners of what else CBS was editing in that interview 128 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:32,879 to make her look and sound better than she does 129 00:08:32,919 --> 00:08:36,360 in real life. So I think coming out of the 130 00:08:36,399 --> 00:08:39,759 election too, we've really seen you had in that final 131 00:08:39,759 --> 00:08:44,519 stretch of the campaign, all of the importance of Trump 132 00:08:44,759 --> 00:08:48,600 and vance going on Joe Rogan's podcast, and these alternative 133 00:08:48,639 --> 00:08:53,360 media outfits like The Federalist really stepping into a role 134 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:57,559 as the corporate media receives in trust and popularity among 135 00:08:57,600 --> 00:08:58,440 American voters. 136 00:08:58,679 --> 00:09:02,720 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's amazing that particular story you mentioned with CBS, 137 00:09:03,399 --> 00:09:07,639 that battle goes on. As we've reported, there are complaints 138 00:09:07,679 --> 00:09:11,000 with the Federal Communications Commission and the Federal Election Commission 139 00:09:12,360 --> 00:09:18,799 saying that CBS in sixty minutes violated Federal Election Commission 140 00:09:19,279 --> 00:09:25,000 and FCC laws. I know the Washington Post is struggling 141 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:30,679 with those complaints now as well. And NBC Saturday Night 142 00:09:30,799 --> 00:09:35,000 Live interestingly enough to have Vice President Kamala Harris on 143 00:09:35,080 --> 00:09:39,879 to open the show right before the election and basically 144 00:09:39,919 --> 00:09:45,639 giving her a free campaign ad to potentially millions of 145 00:09:45,639 --> 00:09:48,039 young voters. I don't know who still watches that show. 146 00:09:48,120 --> 00:09:53,799 So I would imagine that any court or body would say, 147 00:09:54,480 --> 00:09:57,559 what is the ultimate impact of this lousy show anyway? 148 00:09:57,679 --> 00:10:02,759 But the point still stay hands. There's a real trust 149 00:10:02,799 --> 00:10:07,080 deficit in America and how do you see that playing 150 00:10:07,120 --> 00:10:11,639 out in corporate media moving forward? Because it seems to 151 00:10:11,679 --> 00:10:16,279 me Elle that Americans got the lesson over the last 152 00:10:16,279 --> 00:10:20,879 four years. Americans got it that the accomplice media was 153 00:10:21,120 --> 00:10:25,720 exactly that the accomplice media. But they've learned nothing. They 154 00:10:25,759 --> 00:10:28,360 are not chastened, it seems to me at all, based 155 00:10:28,399 --> 00:10:30,519 on what we're seeing so far post election. 156 00:10:31,639 --> 00:10:34,639 Speaker 2: Well, I think there's kind of been an interesting see change. 157 00:10:34,799 --> 00:10:39,919 I mean, these outlets have lied repeatedly with impunity for years. 158 00:10:41,279 --> 00:10:45,360 Nobody got you know, there was no punishment going around 159 00:10:45,399 --> 00:10:48,480 for spreading the Russia collusion hopes. For example, in twenty sixteen, 160 00:10:48,759 --> 00:10:54,480 there were Pulitzers being handed out instead. It's interesting. So, 161 00:10:54,559 --> 00:10:57,600 I mean, this past week was at Saturday, Matt, you 162 00:10:57,639 --> 00:11:00,840 were the one who wrote it for us ABC News 163 00:11:00,960 --> 00:11:03,639 having a settlement to pay fifteen million dollars to the 164 00:11:03,679 --> 00:11:07,720 Trump Presidential Library for lying about one of the many 165 00:11:07,799 --> 00:11:12,519 lawfair cases that Democrats brought against Trump. And they ABC 166 00:11:12,679 --> 00:11:17,039 News certainly were not the only ones spreading that lie. 167 00:11:17,279 --> 00:11:19,840 So I think it was The New York Times yesterday. 168 00:11:19,879 --> 00:11:22,600 Maybe they had this article that was like, oh no, 169 00:11:23,120 --> 00:11:27,440 what if Trump starts suing other media outlets for our lives? 170 00:11:27,759 --> 00:11:32,159 And that would be so horrible. So I think they're 171 00:11:32,240 --> 00:11:35,960 kind of scared, and like the complaints that you mentioned, 172 00:11:36,159 --> 00:11:40,279 I think we're starting to see some creativity in holding 173 00:11:40,320 --> 00:11:43,000 these outlets accountable for the lives that they've spread, in 174 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:44,440 the damage those lives have done. 175 00:11:45,120 --> 00:11:47,879 Speaker 1: Lots of accountability. There needs to be lots of accountability 176 00:11:47,919 --> 00:11:52,360 for so many different areas. John Davidson, you have been 177 00:11:52,600 --> 00:11:57,000 writing about and pushing for accountability in this government for 178 00:11:57,039 --> 00:12:01,080 a long time. You've dealt with domes stick and foreign 179 00:12:01,159 --> 00:12:04,840 policy expertly as always. What do you see as the 180 00:12:04,879 --> 00:12:08,080 biggest story of this twenty twenty four election year? 181 00:12:09,679 --> 00:12:13,159 Speaker 4: Thanks, Matt. I think it's hard to really pick out 182 00:12:13,320 --> 00:12:17,080 the biggest story because twenty twenty four itself was such 183 00:12:17,120 --> 00:12:22,840 an insanely huge story everything that's happened. I think you 184 00:12:22,879 --> 00:12:25,399 know one thing that stands out to me, though, is 185 00:12:26,080 --> 00:12:32,639 the total collapse of the Democrat establishment, the abdication of 186 00:12:32,720 --> 00:12:38,919 Joe Biden, his resignation from his reelection, campaign, and the 187 00:12:38,960 --> 00:12:43,080 tacit admission in that that we essentially don't have a president. 188 00:12:43,200 --> 00:12:47,519 He's not fit to serve. Other people are in charge. 189 00:12:48,039 --> 00:12:53,080 He's a total figurehead. The consequences of that, I think 190 00:12:53,120 --> 00:12:57,440 we are still going to discover in the year to come, 191 00:12:57,559 --> 00:13:01,720 in the years to come, the damage that has done, 192 00:13:01,919 --> 00:13:05,639 the chaos at his sown in the world. You know, 193 00:13:06,159 --> 00:13:08,720 the world is a very unsteady place right now. We 194 00:13:08,799 --> 00:13:13,039 have wars and rumors of wars breaking out all over 195 00:13:13,080 --> 00:13:17,519 the place under the watch of Joe Biden, who was 196 00:13:17,559 --> 00:13:21,039 never really there, right And we were saying this back 197 00:13:21,399 --> 00:13:25,279 in twenty twenty to a lot of derision and mocking, 198 00:13:25,320 --> 00:13:29,000 I should say, but those of us who were saying 199 00:13:29,600 --> 00:13:33,240 during the last presidential cycle that Joe Biden wasn't fit 200 00:13:33,360 --> 00:13:38,159 to serve have been vindicated. And I didn't see it coming. 201 00:13:38,200 --> 00:13:41,919 I didn't see a lot of things coming. But you know, 202 00:13:41,919 --> 00:13:45,159 I remember thinking, and I remember conversations that we had 203 00:13:45,200 --> 00:13:48,080 at the Federalist earlier in the year talking about all 204 00:13:48,120 --> 00:13:51,200 of these court cases against Trump and what the Democratic 205 00:13:51,320 --> 00:13:54,440 establishment would be willing to do to stop him, how 206 00:13:54,480 --> 00:13:57,679 they were likely to sentence him and try to jail 207 00:13:57,720 --> 00:14:01,919 him before the election, and then a series of amazing, 208 00:14:02,600 --> 00:14:08,799 unbelievable things happened with the assassination attempt, the debate which 209 00:14:08,879 --> 00:14:11,519 the president just sort of glitched out in front of 210 00:14:11,799 --> 00:14:16,480 the world stage and then resigned, you know, ended his 211 00:14:16,519 --> 00:14:21,639 re election bid, throwing the Democrats into into chaos. It's 212 00:14:21,679 --> 00:14:26,200 an astounding, you know, an astounding political story, the likes 213 00:14:26,200 --> 00:14:30,000 of which maybe you get once in your lifetime. And 214 00:14:30,080 --> 00:14:33,679 I think that, as I said, the consequences and the 215 00:14:34,600 --> 00:14:38,200 fallout from all of that is a story that's still 216 00:14:38,240 --> 00:14:38,759 being written. 217 00:14:39,960 --> 00:14:43,039 Speaker 1: And you've written a lot about this. You alluded to 218 00:14:43,080 --> 00:14:45,879 it before. Do we have a president of the United 219 00:14:45,919 --> 00:14:48,759 States at all? Now? I know that. You know, we 220 00:14:48,799 --> 00:14:52,200 did a lot of reporting when Kamala Harris stepped over 221 00:14:52,360 --> 00:14:59,600 the moribun political corpse of Joe Biden back in July, 222 00:15:00,480 --> 00:15:05,279 because George Clooney and Barack Obama wanted that to be 223 00:15:06,679 --> 00:15:12,200 But this guy, and you know, other than issuing massive 224 00:15:12,279 --> 00:15:15,360 amounts of pardons at the end of the year, historic 225 00:15:15,480 --> 00:15:21,360 numbers of pardons, including his ne'er Dowell's son with a 226 00:15:21,840 --> 00:15:25,480 historic pardon, to say the least on that front, a 227 00:15:25,519 --> 00:15:29,679 wide ranging pardon, is this guy. This is the question 228 00:15:29,840 --> 00:15:32,120 of course Americans have been asking for a long time, 229 00:15:32,240 --> 00:15:33,320 is this guy there? 230 00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:38,600 Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean obviously not. He's obviously not there, which 231 00:15:38,759 --> 00:15:43,240 highlights the other the other kind of major story I 232 00:15:43,240 --> 00:15:45,360 think not just a twenty twenty four but will be 233 00:15:45,440 --> 00:15:49,080 the major story moving into the Trump administration. The second 234 00:15:49,120 --> 00:15:55,519 Trump term is that the executive branch is not controlled 235 00:15:55,519 --> 00:15:57,879 by the president. It hasn't been for the past four 236 00:15:57,960 --> 00:16:00,720 years because we have we've had a president who is 237 00:16:00,799 --> 00:16:07,600 unfit for office, who is suffering from in advancing, you know, dementia, 238 00:16:08,679 --> 00:16:12,200 and the administrative bureaucracy, that is to say, the deep 239 00:16:12,240 --> 00:16:17,240 state is and has been in charge. And the ways 240 00:16:17,240 --> 00:16:20,799 that we have sort of seen that expose the deep 241 00:16:20,840 --> 00:16:24,519 state exposed itself, the way we've seen it rear itself 242 00:16:24,600 --> 00:16:31,960 up in its own defense have been illuminating basically, you know, 243 00:16:32,320 --> 00:16:37,240 going back to twenty sixteen to now. You know, once 244 00:16:37,679 --> 00:16:41,759 you begin to see this stuff unveiled, you can't unsee it. 245 00:16:42,679 --> 00:16:45,960 And so I think, you know, the flip side of 246 00:16:46,840 --> 00:16:51,759 the collapse of Joe Biden's presidency and the collapse of 247 00:16:51,799 --> 00:16:56,799 his reelection bid is the revelation that we don't really 248 00:16:56,799 --> 00:16:59,000 have a president and we haven't had a president for 249 00:16:59,120 --> 00:17:02,000 years now, and that the deep State has been running 250 00:17:02,039 --> 00:17:06,559 the federal government and they've been doing so over and 251 00:17:06,599 --> 00:17:09,440 against the interests and the desires of the American people. 252 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:11,680 And that I think was the big story of twenty 253 00:17:11,680 --> 00:17:14,400 twenty four. So why people finally got fed up with 254 00:17:15,319 --> 00:17:18,039 Biden and the Democrats and the deep State and went 255 00:17:18,200 --> 00:17:20,319 all in for Trump, And that was the source of 256 00:17:20,359 --> 00:17:23,680 that red wave he talks about earlier, is that people 257 00:17:23,759 --> 00:17:31,920 are tired of being governed by an amorphous, nameless, unaccountable 258 00:17:32,119 --> 00:17:36,480 entity that not only doesn't have their best interests at heart, 259 00:17:36,640 --> 00:17:38,880 but sees them as a tax farm for a global 260 00:17:38,920 --> 00:17:42,160 empire and moneyed special interests. People are sick of it, 261 00:17:42,440 --> 00:17:47,160 and they see it now. And the fact that so 262 00:17:47,200 --> 00:17:49,359 many people saw it, and the fact that Trump was 263 00:17:49,400 --> 00:17:52,440 able to win in a landslide, I think may itself 264 00:17:52,599 --> 00:17:54,839 have at least saved our republic for now. 265 00:17:55,480 --> 00:17:57,920 Speaker 1: Well, you said it. There are so many things in 266 00:17:57,960 --> 00:18:02,519 twenty twenty for that were remarkable to see, and so 267 00:18:02,599 --> 00:18:07,000 many things that you absolutely cannot unsee. And of course 268 00:18:07,079 --> 00:18:10,880 I'm looking at you, Katanji Brown Jackson and your performance 269 00:18:10,920 --> 00:18:17,880 on Broadway of Life. There's just not enough counseling psychiatrics 270 00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:20,680 in the world to deal with that image. Lots of 271 00:18:20,799 --> 00:18:24,599 those those images, and a lot of them involved Vice 272 00:18:24,640 --> 00:18:29,079 President Kamala Harris and the word salad. So perhaps we 273 00:18:29,119 --> 00:18:31,079 can talk a little bit more about that later. 274 00:18:35,680 --> 00:18:38,000 Speaker 5: The Left love saying they want the rich to pay 275 00:18:38,039 --> 00:18:40,519 their fair share, but they already do. The Watched Out 276 00:18:40,599 --> 00:18:43,519 on Wall Street podcast with Chris Markowski. Every day Chris 277 00:18:43,559 --> 00:18:46,359 helps unpack the connection between politics and the economy and 278 00:18:46,359 --> 00:18:48,559 how it affects your wallet. In two thousand and three, 279 00:18:48,640 --> 00:18:51,279 the top ten percent of earners paid fifty nine percent 280 00:18:51,359 --> 00:18:54,480 of the entire tax bill. Today it's seventy two percent. 281 00:18:54,599 --> 00:18:57,440 The top one percent pay over forty percent of our bill. 282 00:18:57,519 --> 00:18:59,519 Whether it's happening in DC or down on Wall Street, 283 00:18:59,519 --> 00:19:02,279 it'fect and you financially be informed. Check out the Watchdotal 284 00:19:02,279 --> 00:19:05,119 on Wall Street podcast with Chris Markowski on Apple, Spotify, 285 00:19:05,200 --> 00:19:06,599 or wherever you get your podcasts. 286 00:19:11,160 --> 00:19:15,160 Speaker 1: Beth Brilliant, who has done excellent reporting in the elections team, 287 00:19:15,559 --> 00:19:21,559 particularly in Pennsylvania, you had to cover the follow follow 288 00:19:21,680 --> 00:19:26,119 up in the fall out of what I believe, if 289 00:19:26,160 --> 00:19:33,759 not the biggest story of this century, it certainly was 290 00:19:33,960 --> 00:19:39,160 the most meaningful in terms of the events that it spawned, 291 00:19:39,920 --> 00:19:43,759 and that was in a field in Pennsylvania, the near 292 00:19:43,799 --> 00:19:48,720 assassination of the GOP's presidential nominee or soon to be 293 00:19:48,759 --> 00:19:53,440 presidential nominee, Beth You covered a lot of that story, 294 00:19:54,559 --> 00:19:59,880 but you know how how did that shape and in 295 00:20:00,119 --> 00:20:04,279 form the election of twenty twenty four. 296 00:20:04,839 --> 00:20:10,839 Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, this was much like the debate between 297 00:20:11,400 --> 00:20:16,519 Biden and Trump, where everybody was kind of reeling afterwards, 298 00:20:16,519 --> 00:20:19,880 saying we can't go forward this way, and that was 299 00:20:19,920 --> 00:20:23,880 like an abrupt change of direction. Of course, there's a 300 00:20:23,920 --> 00:20:30,799 lot behind it. The first assassination attempt, which by the way, 301 00:20:30,880 --> 00:20:36,359 got swept under the rug media wise so quickly, was 302 00:20:36,759 --> 00:20:40,039 a huge turning point in the hearts of voters. This 303 00:20:40,200 --> 00:20:44,519 was you know, many people who were not Trump supporters 304 00:20:44,519 --> 00:20:48,279 were able to say, I don't like the guy, but 305 00:20:48,319 --> 00:20:50,160 I don't want to see him get killed, you know, 306 00:20:50,640 --> 00:20:53,720 and that was a step in the direction of you know, 307 00:20:54,559 --> 00:21:00,759 support some people. I do believe he gained voters in 308 00:21:00,839 --> 00:21:05,200 that terrible incident. And you know, we always talk about 309 00:21:05,200 --> 00:21:07,359 this assassination attempted a lot of times. 310 00:21:07,400 --> 00:21:09,160 Speaker 7: We talk about, you know. 311 00:21:09,039 --> 00:21:11,920 Speaker 6: It's just a bullet that greazed his ear. But let's 312 00:21:11,920 --> 00:21:16,319 not forget that a man died in the crowd just 313 00:21:16,400 --> 00:21:21,119 for attending that Trump rally. You know, I attended Trump 314 00:21:21,240 --> 00:21:24,519 rallies after that, and I remember I've always been very 315 00:21:24,559 --> 00:21:28,359 security conscious in those big crowds, you know. But but 316 00:21:28,480 --> 00:21:30,640 after that you always think, well, this is this is 317 00:21:31,039 --> 00:21:36,160 a man who has targeted. This is a group of 318 00:21:36,200 --> 00:21:39,799 people who are targeted because Biden has. 319 00:21:39,680 --> 00:21:42,039 Speaker 7: Said, you know, mega bad, right. 320 00:21:43,640 --> 00:21:49,400 Speaker 6: So it was. It was definitely a turning point in 321 00:21:50,480 --> 00:21:55,440 the election and miraculous that he turned his head at 322 00:21:55,559 --> 00:21:59,519 just the right moment. One of the weird little things 323 00:21:59,519 --> 00:22:05,440 that I out of that was I was able to 324 00:22:05,519 --> 00:22:10,200 get video from some people who had heat exhaustion that 325 00:22:10,319 --> 00:22:14,359 day and left the rally before it ever got started, 326 00:22:14,359 --> 00:22:17,519 and they were in the waiting room of the local er, 327 00:22:18,400 --> 00:22:21,640 and all of a sudden they started hearing the news 328 00:22:21,680 --> 00:22:24,799 that he had been shot. So they were shooting video 329 00:22:25,119 --> 00:22:30,000 of the reaction in the emergency room, and then they 330 00:22:30,079 --> 00:22:34,039 realized that injured Trump was being rolled up to the 331 00:22:34,039 --> 00:22:39,319 emergency room and Secret Service, you know, opened up the doors. 332 00:22:39,359 --> 00:22:42,200 It's just a little slice of that day. You don't 333 00:22:42,200 --> 00:22:44,799 hear as much about, but you know. 334 00:22:45,759 --> 00:22:46,640 Speaker 7: Before. 335 00:22:48,200 --> 00:22:52,200 Speaker 6: Before a president goes anywhere, or a presidential candidate. At 336 00:22:52,240 --> 00:22:55,079 this point in the game, the Secret Service does go 337 00:22:55,200 --> 00:22:59,279 through the town and make all kinds of contingency plans, 338 00:22:59,319 --> 00:23:03,799 and part of that is the hospital. But it seems 339 00:23:03,839 --> 00:23:06,279 that that plan of what they were going to do 340 00:23:06,279 --> 00:23:08,440 at the hospital if it would be needed, you know, 341 00:23:08,480 --> 00:23:12,839 who would ever think it would be needed, wasn't really 342 00:23:12,920 --> 00:23:16,640 solid because there's video where you can see him and 343 00:23:16,680 --> 00:23:21,079 all the patients there saw him walking in with surrounded 344 00:23:21,079 --> 00:23:23,799 by Secret Service. But I mean, if somebody wanted to, 345 00:23:24,559 --> 00:23:27,240 they could have been staged in the er waiting. 346 00:23:26,960 --> 00:23:29,119 Speaker 7: Room and got into him that way. 347 00:23:29,200 --> 00:23:31,400 Speaker 6: So it was not really a secure situation. 348 00:23:31,759 --> 00:23:34,640 Speaker 1: Well that's it. I mean, it's not was not really 349 00:23:34,680 --> 00:23:37,640 a secure situation, and that was some of the fallout 350 00:23:37,680 --> 00:23:42,000 as well. You know, I think ultimately you're absolutely right. 351 00:23:42,200 --> 00:23:45,400 I think even the likes of Mark Zuckerberg looked at 352 00:23:45,400 --> 00:23:48,640 that moment and said, Wow, that guy is bad ass. 353 00:23:48,799 --> 00:23:51,640 As he put it, you know, this is a tough guy. 354 00:23:52,119 --> 00:23:57,279 This isn't this isn't the weak you know, acting president 355 00:23:57,440 --> 00:24:00,559 so to speak. And Joe Biden, you know, the the 356 00:24:00,599 --> 00:24:08,640 octagenarian who really has the cognition equivalent of Kentucky fried chicken, 357 00:24:08,680 --> 00:24:12,960 mashed potatoes and gravy. You know, this guy is standing 358 00:24:13,039 --> 00:24:16,759 up and saying fight, fight, fight. But boyd, did we 359 00:24:18,039 --> 00:24:21,640 see a really frightening thing that's not been talked about 360 00:24:21,640 --> 00:24:25,880 here certainly in recent weeks. And that is the absolute 361 00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:31,720 failure of the Secret Service. And you covered that story 362 00:24:31,759 --> 00:24:32,200 as well. 363 00:24:33,160 --> 00:24:37,799 Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, there's been the task force that was 364 00:24:37,839 --> 00:24:40,240 looking into it just wrapped up a report and they 365 00:24:40,319 --> 00:24:46,000 just detailed so many shocking failures of the Secret Service. 366 00:24:46,039 --> 00:24:52,240 And part of it was, you know, this background. If 367 00:24:52,279 --> 00:24:56,119 you want fuel for conspiracy theories, all you need is 368 00:24:56,240 --> 00:25:01,519 right here, because here we had Jill Biden not far 369 00:25:01,559 --> 00:25:07,599 away at another event inside invitation only, and they peeled 370 00:25:07,640 --> 00:25:14,079 off staff members from covering Trump in a outside much more, 371 00:25:15,960 --> 00:25:21,279 much bigger personality, much bigger draw of the public. So 372 00:25:21,279 --> 00:25:24,640 they took Secret Service staff from this event and sent 373 00:25:24,680 --> 00:25:29,160 it over to Jill Biden. And then they had like 374 00:25:29,240 --> 00:25:33,039 some people that were not Secret Service that they pulled 375 00:25:33,079 --> 00:25:36,440 from other agencies, and they did not work well with 376 00:25:36,599 --> 00:25:41,039 the They did not communicate with the local police. Is 377 00:25:41,079 --> 00:25:45,799 actually some of the local and state police that were 378 00:25:46,119 --> 00:25:52,039 first to be in contact with the alleged shooter, who 379 00:25:52,240 --> 00:25:54,599 was of course gone down on top of the roof. 380 00:25:56,000 --> 00:25:57,440 Speaker 7: And you know, it's. 381 00:25:57,279 --> 00:26:01,960 Speaker 6: Really weird that the guy who shot Trump that day, 382 00:26:04,240 --> 00:26:06,960 it had no at his age, he's twenty years old, 383 00:26:07,599 --> 00:26:10,599 had no social media footprint. I mean, who gets out 384 00:26:10,599 --> 00:26:13,880 of high school today without having at least an Instagram 385 00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:18,200 or something, right, and this guy has nothing. And just 386 00:26:18,920 --> 00:26:26,799 within the last week, the shooters transcripts educational transcripts came out. 387 00:26:27,119 --> 00:26:30,680 You know, he was switching schools and he got very 388 00:26:30,720 --> 00:26:35,559 good grades in high school, had very high GPA, and 389 00:26:35,599 --> 00:26:42,119 he was studying like electronics and this kind of thing, 390 00:26:42,440 --> 00:26:45,880 and he was just going to switch colleges because and 391 00:26:46,240 --> 00:26:50,000 they were trying to figure out, well, the classes you're 392 00:26:50,039 --> 00:26:53,440 taking right now, you need to do different things with 393 00:26:53,440 --> 00:26:56,759 their credits to make the transfer really work. That sounds 394 00:26:56,759 --> 00:26:59,119 to me like a person with ambition. So it's just 395 00:26:59,359 --> 00:27:03,400 really weird that this happened this way, right, It's. 396 00:27:03,319 --> 00:27:05,640 Speaker 1: All very weird. And I think that there are a 397 00:27:05,680 --> 00:27:09,440 lot of questions, of course, that need to be asked 398 00:27:09,640 --> 00:27:13,559 continue to be asked, and I think Americans should expect 399 00:27:13,640 --> 00:27:17,359 accountability on that front. Ultimately, I think there are a 400 00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:21,799 lot of Americans who at the very least wonder how 401 00:27:21,880 --> 00:27:26,240 all of this could have happened. A perfect storm of failure, 402 00:27:26,839 --> 00:27:30,000 and it was only that we know of the first 403 00:27:30,160 --> 00:27:34,079 attempt on the life of the president elect. Later on 404 00:27:34,240 --> 00:27:41,599 at his golf club in Florida, we had another attempt, 405 00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:46,200 that one not nearly as successful, so to speak, but 406 00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:49,240 frightening nonetheless, but. 407 00:27:49,200 --> 00:27:53,440 Speaker 6: That one also disappeared from the media very quickly. 408 00:27:53,960 --> 00:27:55,200 Speaker 7: I do think I just want to. 409 00:27:55,160 --> 00:28:02,359 Speaker 6: Mention the iconic fight Fight Fight and his bloody ear 410 00:28:03,960 --> 00:28:07,480 that has become you know, it's that photograph that was 411 00:28:07,880 --> 00:28:11,319 is famous now has been printed on T shirts. There's 412 00:28:11,400 --> 00:28:15,480 a bloody ear Trump Fight Fight Fight bobblehead. And now 413 00:28:15,519 --> 00:28:18,200 I just recently saw there's a Christmas ornament you can 414 00:28:18,240 --> 00:28:20,920 hang on your tree for years to come to remember 415 00:28:20,960 --> 00:28:21,440 that day. 416 00:28:21,599 --> 00:28:25,599 Speaker 1: We are nothing if not a consumer ocracy at the 417 00:28:25,720 --> 00:28:30,359 end of the day. Christan Justice has had some very 418 00:28:30,359 --> 00:28:36,359 interesting stories over the years. One of my favorites perhaps 419 00:28:38,720 --> 00:28:43,519 one that we're getting some more information about, but it 420 00:28:43,599 --> 00:28:48,000 relates to illegal immigration, which was obviously a top issue 421 00:28:48,119 --> 00:28:51,000 in the selection, and what we have seen by the 422 00:28:51,039 --> 00:28:56,599 open border policies. Generously, they're policies at all, they're really 423 00:28:56,680 --> 00:29:00,519 meant to keep that border open for the day Democrats 424 00:29:00,519 --> 00:29:05,200 in their next generation of voter by the Biden Harris administration. Tristan, 425 00:29:05,240 --> 00:29:08,799 you were on the ground reporting in Ohio one of 426 00:29:08,839 --> 00:29:12,880 the big stories, and we've had many of these with 427 00:29:13,279 --> 00:29:19,319 refugees and you know, illegal immigrants coming into places and 428 00:29:19,440 --> 00:29:25,039 absolutely turning the community upside down. The Great Goose Chase, 429 00:29:25,359 --> 00:29:28,559 if you will, of twenty twenty four, if you could explain, 430 00:29:28,599 --> 00:29:29,119 my friend. 431 00:29:30,799 --> 00:29:34,319 Speaker 8: Yeah, I have twenty thousand new neighbors in Columbus, Ohio 432 00:29:34,839 --> 00:29:36,599 from the Great Caribbean nation of. 433 00:29:39,279 --> 00:29:41,960 Speaker 9: No So I drove out to Springfield. 434 00:29:43,119 --> 00:29:45,359 Speaker 8: I became based in Columbus starting in August, and I 435 00:29:45,400 --> 00:29:47,400 drove out to Springfield. As soon as your stories started 436 00:29:47,440 --> 00:29:49,960 to take off. You had these residents who were giving 437 00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:53,720 testimonies at town hall meetings about just the different issues 438 00:29:53,759 --> 00:29:56,839 that arose with twenty thousand new arrivals who don't speak 439 00:29:56,839 --> 00:30:00,759 the language, don't experience, don't practice the same customs, aren't 440 00:30:00,960 --> 00:30:05,839 integrated into the culture of everyday American life, and are 441 00:30:05,880 --> 00:30:10,000 having struggle assimilating to that culture. And so I went 442 00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:13,319 out to Springfield to kind of take a look for myself. 443 00:30:13,799 --> 00:30:16,519 It also happens to be where my mom and her 444 00:30:16,559 --> 00:30:18,839 family are from so it was quite an experience to 445 00:30:19,519 --> 00:30:22,799 kind of go and see how things have changed since 446 00:30:22,880 --> 00:30:27,519 nineteen eighty. Springfield has a very familiar story to a 447 00:30:27,559 --> 00:30:30,839 lot of towns across the russ Belt Midwest, and that 448 00:30:30,920 --> 00:30:33,880 story was really told through the twenty sixteen election of 449 00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:37,119 these towns that were having kind of a renaissance in 450 00:30:37,160 --> 00:30:41,000 the eighties and began to really tumble in the nineties. 451 00:30:42,440 --> 00:30:47,200 That story for Springfield has not gotten better. I drove 452 00:30:47,200 --> 00:30:52,599 around a town that was dilapidated, struggling, they were Homelessness 453 00:30:52,759 --> 00:30:58,000 was seemed pretty rampant. But I also saw about third 454 00:30:58,000 --> 00:31:01,799 of the population was Haitian and it was interesting to 455 00:31:01,839 --> 00:31:04,200 kind of talk to people on the ground there about 456 00:31:04,200 --> 00:31:10,039 their experiences in how public safety has fallen even more 457 00:31:10,559 --> 00:31:12,599 because they just don't have the same. 458 00:31:14,559 --> 00:31:18,359 Speaker 9: Customs as we have in blue collar America. 459 00:31:19,079 --> 00:31:21,079 Speaker 8: And one of those stories talk about, you know, the 460 00:31:21,079 --> 00:31:24,200 big stories of the year was, of course, the Haitian 461 00:31:24,440 --> 00:31:26,720 cat dogs storry. You got Donald Trump go on the 462 00:31:26,720 --> 00:31:28,920 debate stage and talk about how they're eating the dogs 463 00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:31,240 or eating the casts, and it became this kind of 464 00:31:31,279 --> 00:31:35,039 focal point in the election. I don't think that's entirely 465 00:31:35,599 --> 00:31:38,880 false based on the people I spoke to. Obviously, no 466 00:31:38,920 --> 00:31:41,240 one wanted to share their names in such a hostile 467 00:31:41,359 --> 00:31:44,799 media environment. Did I see Haitians eating cats of dogs? 468 00:31:44,960 --> 00:31:45,000 Speaker 2: No? 469 00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:47,200 Speaker 9: Did I talk to people. 470 00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:50,079 Speaker 8: Who said they are no longer seeing straight casts in 471 00:31:50,119 --> 00:31:54,240 the street. Absolutely, that was not That was not an 472 00:31:54,319 --> 00:31:58,559 unfamiliar thing that people would tell me. People were saying 473 00:31:58,559 --> 00:32:01,160 they were seeing less geese in the park. We have 474 00:32:01,319 --> 00:32:05,440 multiple calls to emergency services now on the record of 475 00:32:05,920 --> 00:32:10,599 people reporting Haitians in the creeks killing geese. I spoke 476 00:32:10,680 --> 00:32:13,839 to residents who said they had seen Haitians carrying dead 477 00:32:13,880 --> 00:32:17,519 geese from the parks. So a lot of the circumstantial 478 00:32:17,559 --> 00:32:20,160 evidence seems to suggest that Donald Trump was actually right 479 00:32:20,519 --> 00:32:21,039 when he went on. 480 00:32:21,039 --> 00:32:22,200 Speaker 9: The debase age and said that. 481 00:32:22,920 --> 00:32:28,240 Speaker 8: Obviously, it's a claim that can't necessarily be a proven lie. 482 00:32:30,079 --> 00:32:33,640 So it's interesting to see that PolitiFact today put out 483 00:32:33,640 --> 00:32:37,119 their Live of the Year being that Donald Trump said 484 00:32:37,119 --> 00:32:40,480 they eating the cats and dogs. But when PolitiFact is 485 00:32:40,559 --> 00:32:44,000 understood as a political operation of the Democrats to assert 486 00:32:44,039 --> 00:32:47,920 a false claim over a monopoly untruth, a fact checking 487 00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:50,839 organizations quote Lie of the Year being awarded to something 488 00:32:50,880 --> 00:32:52,759 that can't actually be proven as a lie. 489 00:32:52,960 --> 00:32:53,799 Speaker 9: Makes total sense. 490 00:32:55,240 --> 00:33:00,640 Speaker 1: But Tristan, Tristan, you know, we how could you possibly 491 00:33:00,759 --> 00:33:07,000 ever think that this esteemed corporate media of ours would 492 00:33:07,039 --> 00:33:10,880 ever lie to the American people. Just give me one 493 00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:16,039 example of the corporate media not earning the trust that 494 00:33:16,160 --> 00:33:20,079 it so deserves in America today. I mean, oh, yeah, 495 00:33:20,119 --> 00:33:24,079 there's the lying about the cognition of the President of 496 00:33:24,119 --> 00:33:29,000 the United States. There's Russian collusion, there's censorship. Yeah, the 497 00:33:29,039 --> 00:33:31,799 list goes on and on. So again, back to what 498 00:33:31,839 --> 00:33:36,240 we were talking with l about, can anybody trust a 499 00:33:36,279 --> 00:33:41,240 PolitiFact or corporate media anymore going forward to be the 500 00:33:41,359 --> 00:33:42,319 arbiter of truth. 501 00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:47,279 Speaker 8: Well, I think something that was said earlier on the podcast, 502 00:33:47,279 --> 00:33:49,400 I think is John who said it, talked about how. 503 00:33:49,400 --> 00:33:51,559 Speaker 9: The big story of this year that's still. 504 00:33:51,319 --> 00:33:54,160 Speaker 8: Being written is to complete collapse of the democratic machine. 505 00:33:55,039 --> 00:33:58,359 No small part of that machine has been legacy media. 506 00:33:58,839 --> 00:34:03,960 And I think this election was possibly the election even 507 00:34:03,960 --> 00:34:08,920 more so than twenty sixteen, where that monopoly untruth finally broke. 508 00:34:10,199 --> 00:34:12,599 I think we saw how Donald Trump was able to 509 00:34:12,679 --> 00:34:15,880 leverage new media, an independent podcast, to really break through 510 00:34:16,440 --> 00:34:19,360 some of the different barriers that have been established by 511 00:34:19,480 --> 00:34:22,119 kind of the regime friendly media, and I think people 512 00:34:22,159 --> 00:34:26,039 broadly acknowledge that the New York Times, Washington Posts, all 513 00:34:26,079 --> 00:34:29,480 these other legacy outlets are speaking with a certain narrative 514 00:34:30,159 --> 00:34:34,119 objectivity and media. It was actually relatively new news norm. 515 00:34:34,320 --> 00:34:37,480 I mean, objectivity really only came about after kind of 516 00:34:37,480 --> 00:34:42,519 World War Two. You know, these journals from there's kind 517 00:34:42,519 --> 00:34:45,960 of these infamous journals in the eighteenth in nineteenth centuries 518 00:34:46,400 --> 00:34:51,360 just putting out right slander out there about these politicians. 519 00:34:51,840 --> 00:34:52,920 Speaker 9: We had a bias press. 520 00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:56,199 Speaker 8: Bias press was the norm until like nineteen fifty, and 521 00:34:56,239 --> 00:35:00,239 then people decided that they could report objectively. This The 522 00:35:00,280 --> 00:35:04,360 reality is every decision a journalist makes every day is biased, 523 00:35:05,159 --> 00:35:05,960 down to the word. 524 00:35:05,880 --> 00:35:08,119 Speaker 9: Choices they use, to the stories they pursue. 525 00:35:08,599 --> 00:35:14,599 Speaker 8: And so I think that idea of objectivity media is 526 00:35:14,639 --> 00:35:17,000 finally dead. And I think it's good because people can 527 00:35:17,039 --> 00:35:20,000 be kind of self aware about what they're reading, what 528 00:35:20,039 --> 00:35:21,840 they're watching, and what they're getting their information. 529 00:35:22,280 --> 00:35:26,719 Speaker 1: Yeah. I think the evidence that you talk about is 530 00:35:26,760 --> 00:35:30,840 in the names of some newspapers that still exist today. 531 00:35:30,960 --> 00:35:35,480 The Democrat, the Republican. You'll find those in small towns 532 00:35:35,519 --> 00:35:39,639 across America. They hold on to those names. Objectivity, as 533 00:35:39,840 --> 00:35:45,239 you noted, is well has it ever truly been in 534 00:35:45,280 --> 00:35:51,280 the American press? It certainly isn't today. Rihanna Lyman covered 535 00:35:51,599 --> 00:35:54,199 a lot of the election stories on the election team. 536 00:35:54,199 --> 00:35:57,079 When I say a lot, I mean a lot of 537 00:35:57,159 --> 00:36:01,000 election stories on the elections team. Talked about a busy 538 00:36:01,079 --> 00:36:06,760 year and the election really defined everything that was going on. 539 00:36:07,559 --> 00:36:10,960 What are some of the biggest stories that you followed 540 00:36:10,960 --> 00:36:13,679 for The Federalist and some of the biggest stories of 541 00:36:13,719 --> 00:36:17,079 the year from your perspective, Matt. 542 00:36:17,079 --> 00:36:18,800 Speaker 10: Great to be on here and to talk about this 543 00:36:18,880 --> 00:36:20,559 at the end of the year. I think some of 544 00:36:20,599 --> 00:36:24,159 the biggest angles that I followed throughout this election cycle 545 00:36:24,719 --> 00:36:27,920 was the extent to which the media was trying to 546 00:36:28,599 --> 00:36:31,400 redefine what election integrity meant. And you and I are 547 00:36:31,400 --> 00:36:34,679 both on the Election Integrity team covering elections, and we 548 00:36:34,719 --> 00:36:37,320 saw the links that outlets like The New York Times 549 00:36:37,320 --> 00:36:40,719 and Washington Posts and CNN were going through to try 550 00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:43,679 and change simple definitions of what it means to have 551 00:36:43,719 --> 00:36:46,280 a safe and secure election. And I think we really 552 00:36:46,400 --> 00:36:49,559 kind of saw this ramp up in September when Republicans 553 00:36:49,639 --> 00:36:53,480 introduced the Save Act, which is meant to require documentary 554 00:36:53,519 --> 00:36:56,000 proof of citizenship in order to register to vote. And 555 00:36:56,119 --> 00:36:58,559 of course we know why that's necessary, why that's a 556 00:36:58,639 --> 00:37:01,639 basic principle of a free for election. Except the media. 557 00:37:02,400 --> 00:37:04,000 I mean, they just had a field day with this. 558 00:37:04,119 --> 00:37:06,400 They tried to say that there's little to no evidence 559 00:37:06,480 --> 00:37:09,400 of non citizens voting, so why do we need to 560 00:37:09,480 --> 00:37:13,639 have this in place? And I think that really underscored 561 00:37:13,800 --> 00:37:16,960 just how desperate not only the Democrats had become, but 562 00:37:17,239 --> 00:37:20,599 just underscores that the media functions as a propaganda arm 563 00:37:20,599 --> 00:37:23,360 of the Democratic Party rather than a truth telling organization, 564 00:37:23,679 --> 00:37:26,360 because a truth telling organization would have highlighted the fact 565 00:37:26,400 --> 00:37:29,880 that we have plenty of examples of non citizens making 566 00:37:29,920 --> 00:37:32,280 it onto the voter roles and in some cases even voting. 567 00:37:32,360 --> 00:37:35,480 And you know, Logan Washburn recently reported staying on the 568 00:37:35,559 --> 00:37:38,559 voter rolls after they illegally voted because they're a non citizen. 569 00:37:38,960 --> 00:37:41,599 And so I think that kind of was one of 570 00:37:41,639 --> 00:37:43,960 the final nails in the coffin of making sure that 571 00:37:44,039 --> 00:37:48,519 the propaganda press was dead, so to speak, in the 572 00:37:48,599 --> 00:37:50,719 idea that they don't have as much weight as they 573 00:37:50,760 --> 00:37:52,199 do now or as they once did. 574 00:37:52,760 --> 00:37:57,360 Speaker 1: You said it. The term is election integrity and I 575 00:37:57,440 --> 00:38:03,840 read somewhere recently from somebody obviously ill informed that the 576 00:38:03,960 --> 00:38:09,039 term election integrity was created after the twenty twenty election. 577 00:38:09,719 --> 00:38:13,639 That simply is not true. Election integity is about the 578 00:38:13,679 --> 00:38:18,480 integrity of our elections, and that idea, that battle has 579 00:38:18,559 --> 00:38:21,760 been going on for a long time. The Federalist has 580 00:38:21,840 --> 00:38:25,440 invested a lot of time and resources in that area 581 00:38:25,559 --> 00:38:32,719 because it is the ultimate expression of our representative democracy. 582 00:38:32,800 --> 00:38:37,679 It is the key to this republic election integrity. How 583 00:38:37,760 --> 00:38:44,719 much from twenty twenty, however, Brianna, did we see Republicans 584 00:38:45,519 --> 00:38:50,719 wake up? Because after twenty twenty, we saw conservatives in 585 00:38:50,760 --> 00:38:56,239 this country being labeled as conspiracy theorist and election deniers 586 00:38:56,320 --> 00:39:00,239 by that same corporate media that we've been talking about 587 00:39:00,320 --> 00:39:05,559 where people have absolutely lost so much trust, and there 588 00:39:05,599 --> 00:39:12,400 were Republicans weak need that bowed to that kind of narrative. Unfortunately, 589 00:39:13,119 --> 00:39:18,000 but the Trump campaign, I think, and some very dedicated 590 00:39:18,199 --> 00:39:23,639 conservative organizations made election integrity a focal point, and we 591 00:39:23,679 --> 00:39:25,719 did see, and you've reported a lot on this, the 592 00:39:25,800 --> 00:39:30,000 Republican Party finally wised up and said we need to 593 00:39:30,039 --> 00:39:34,599 put resources into monitoring our elections. How important was that 594 00:39:34,800 --> 00:39:37,480 to the results of the twenty twenty four election. 595 00:39:38,440 --> 00:39:40,880 Speaker 10: I think it was fundamental for two reasons. Obviously, you 596 00:39:40,920 --> 00:39:43,079 know the RNC Team Trump, they had boots on the 597 00:39:43,079 --> 00:39:46,840 ground in you know, incomparable numbers to twenty twenty. You 598 00:39:46,880 --> 00:39:50,199 had lawyers, You had poll watchers, poll workers who were 599 00:39:50,199 --> 00:39:55,800 getting proper training, who actually caught instances in Detroit, in Pennsylvania, 600 00:39:55,920 --> 00:40:00,880 I believe in Wisconsin of Nol I'll use that word 601 00:40:00,920 --> 00:40:05,639 malpractice or just problems on election day that had they 602 00:40:05,679 --> 00:40:08,079 not gotten the proper training, they may not have caught 603 00:40:08,079 --> 00:40:10,280 those issues and maybe you know who knows that could 604 00:40:10,280 --> 00:40:13,079 have impacted the outcome. Right, those are just what if questions, 605 00:40:13,119 --> 00:40:15,880 But having boots on the ground really was impactful. It 606 00:40:15,920 --> 00:40:17,519 wasn't just r and C and team Trump. We know 607 00:40:17,559 --> 00:40:20,239 there are grassroots organizations who work day and night to 608 00:40:20,239 --> 00:40:23,199 make this happen. I also think that the rn C 609 00:40:23,599 --> 00:40:29,119 and Team Trump really confronting that election denier smear head 610 00:40:29,199 --> 00:40:31,840 on by focusing on election integrity and saying this is 611 00:40:31,880 --> 00:40:34,159 not something too shy away from or to be ashamed of. 612 00:40:34,440 --> 00:40:38,239 It is okay to question how an election administered by 613 00:40:38,280 --> 00:40:40,559 our government, which has been known to medle in foreign 614 00:40:40,599 --> 00:40:43,760 elections for years, is running our own elections. That doesn't 615 00:40:43,800 --> 00:40:46,519 make you a bad American or unpatriotic. It actually just 616 00:40:46,559 --> 00:40:48,880 makes you a concerned citizen. So confronting it head on 617 00:40:49,360 --> 00:40:52,920 was really important about changing that conversation, and I think 618 00:40:52,960 --> 00:40:56,880 the media really tried to hold their grip on this conversation. 619 00:40:56,960 --> 00:41:00,119 In particular, I think of Georgia, where I covered one 620 00:41:00,159 --> 00:41:03,480 of the biggest issues was do election officials have to 621 00:41:03,559 --> 00:41:06,880 rubber stamp election results right? Is it ministerial meaning they 622 00:41:06,920 --> 00:41:08,760 just have to do it even if the results are 623 00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:12,119 nonsensical or they don't add up. Or is it discretionary 624 00:41:12,159 --> 00:41:14,360 where they can say, you know what, the number of 625 00:41:14,360 --> 00:41:16,760 ballots we have on hand doesn't match the machine count total. 626 00:41:16,800 --> 00:41:19,119 I'm not certifying until we figure out what went wrong. 627 00:41:19,519 --> 00:41:22,280 And Democrats in the media really use this as an 628 00:41:22,280 --> 00:41:25,599 opportunity to say Republicans are election deniers. They don't want 629 00:41:25,599 --> 00:41:27,559 to certify the election, the election will be, you know, 630 00:41:27,679 --> 00:41:31,440 stolen by Republicans, and Republicans didn't shy away from saying 631 00:41:31,519 --> 00:41:33,800 that's not true. We just want to make sure things 632 00:41:33,840 --> 00:41:37,159 are accurate, right, basic reconciliation. And I think having this 633 00:41:37,239 --> 00:41:40,639 conversation was important, It was necessary, and it really helped 634 00:41:40,679 --> 00:41:43,519 open the eyes. I think of people who aren't so 635 00:41:43,559 --> 00:41:45,519 involved in the political world to see, you know what, 636 00:41:45,719 --> 00:41:49,760 like every lie they've thrown their Republicans, it's kind of bs. 637 00:41:49,840 --> 00:41:52,519 You know, basic reconciliation isn't something we should shy away from. 638 00:41:52,559 --> 00:41:54,679 I actually want that, and I think we've seen polls 639 00:41:54,679 --> 00:41:58,039 indicate that Americans want election integrity measures. They want to have, 640 00:41:58,440 --> 00:42:00,320 you know, voter idea. They want to have proof of 641 00:42:00,360 --> 00:42:02,519 citizenship to register to vote. They want to make sure 642 00:42:02,519 --> 00:42:06,159 the totals are accurate before certification. So I think if anything, 643 00:42:06,239 --> 00:42:09,360 the conversations Democrats thought would help them actually hurt them, 644 00:42:09,440 --> 00:42:10,679 and they only amplified them. 645 00:42:11,519 --> 00:42:14,880 Speaker 1: Yes, indeed, I'm working on a piece right now. A 646 00:42:14,960 --> 00:42:18,360 new Pew poll say that a few times fast, A 647 00:42:18,400 --> 00:42:22,360 new Pew poll that just came out within the last 648 00:42:22,679 --> 00:42:28,559 week or two, talking about how people have American voters 649 00:42:29,320 --> 00:42:37,320 have now rediscovered faith in elections, trust in elections. It's remarkable, folks, 650 00:42:37,360 --> 00:42:41,280 what can happen when you don't have the cover of 651 00:42:41,480 --> 00:42:47,039 COVID and you don't have a lot of radical leftist 652 00:42:47,119 --> 00:42:51,360 groups forced in and fused into elections. What we saw 653 00:42:51,400 --> 00:42:54,119 over the last four years set the pace for that, 654 00:42:54,280 --> 00:42:56,679 with the banning of zucker Bucks in a lot of 655 00:42:57,119 --> 00:43:02,559 places across this country, while there was something called Biden Bucks. 656 00:43:02,840 --> 00:43:05,239 We still need to figure out, and I think as 657 00:43:05,280 --> 00:43:09,000 we look forward, need to figure out just how expansive 658 00:43:09,079 --> 00:43:11,679 that was in turning over the federal government and all 659 00:43:11,719 --> 00:43:14,360 federal agencies to serve as a get out the vote 660 00:43:14,679 --> 00:43:20,400 weapon for the Democratic Party. Obviously that did not have 661 00:43:20,559 --> 00:43:23,199 the kind of impact that the Democrats had hoped for, 662 00:43:23,320 --> 00:43:25,440 but it's still something to watch as we move forward. 663 00:43:26,280 --> 00:43:28,920 Let's do a little lightning round. Now, let me ask 664 00:43:29,239 --> 00:43:33,360 our remaining panelist here on this look at twenty twenty 665 00:43:33,400 --> 00:43:36,840 four through the Federalist Prison. On this edition of the 666 00:43:36,840 --> 00:43:40,719 Federalist Radio Hour, let us ask our esteemed panelist their 667 00:43:40,840 --> 00:43:44,199 favorite stories of the year. Could be the strangest, could 668 00:43:44,239 --> 00:43:47,440 be the funniest, could be the most entertaining, could have 669 00:43:47,559 --> 00:43:51,800 nothing to do with politics and policy whatsoever. Jordan will 670 00:43:51,800 --> 00:43:54,079 begin with you on that. What was your favorite story 671 00:43:54,119 --> 00:43:55,440 of twenty twenty four? 672 00:43:57,039 --> 00:43:59,960 Speaker 3: I think this happened at the very beginning of the year, 673 00:44:01,280 --> 00:44:04,119 and it's a minuscule story, but it's still important, and 674 00:44:04,159 --> 00:44:08,800 it's that President Joe Biden's dog bit. So many Secret 675 00:44:08,840 --> 00:44:14,199 Service agents have got banished from the White House, that's. 676 00:44:14,119 --> 00:44:19,960 Speaker 1: Right, yes, And there was I believe thinking along those 677 00:44:20,000 --> 00:44:23,760 lines for the Democratic Party when they banished ultimately later 678 00:44:23,880 --> 00:44:27,480 Joe Biden from the nomination process. 679 00:44:28,599 --> 00:44:28,800 Speaker 2: Right. 680 00:44:28,920 --> 00:44:31,480 Speaker 3: I mean, you just wonder what was going through the 681 00:44:31,519 --> 00:44:34,679 dog's mind? And honestly, should we have paid attention to 682 00:44:34,719 --> 00:44:37,960 his distrust of secret service earlier because if we did, 683 00:44:38,360 --> 00:44:40,800 we might not have had the Trump assassination situation. 684 00:44:42,079 --> 00:44:45,119 Speaker 1: Indeed, good good to think about. And you know that 685 00:44:45,239 --> 00:44:49,159 poor dog has had to be around punter Biden for 686 00:44:49,719 --> 00:44:56,599 how long? The cato' kalin of a presidential politics Beth, 687 00:44:57,039 --> 00:44:59,440 let me ask you, what is your favorite story of 688 00:44:59,480 --> 00:45:00,760 two thousand in twenty four? 689 00:45:03,599 --> 00:45:06,039 Speaker 6: Well, I'm not sure if it's my favorite, but I 690 00:45:06,119 --> 00:45:11,239 just think it's amusing. How back in January of twenty 691 00:45:11,280 --> 00:45:15,800 twenty four, nobody was thinking about Kamala Harris, and in 692 00:45:15,960 --> 00:45:19,800 January of twenty twenty five, nobody's going to be thinking 693 00:45:19,840 --> 00:45:24,880 about Kamala Harris. And how you know that whole just 694 00:45:24,920 --> 00:45:31,000 that whole thing that happened, you know in twenty twenty. 695 00:45:31,039 --> 00:45:34,280 Of course, there were a lot of extenuating circumstances, but Trump, 696 00:45:35,760 --> 00:45:37,719 after that situation happened. 697 00:45:37,719 --> 00:45:40,760 Speaker 7: Trump didn't go away, and I also think the media 698 00:45:41,800 --> 00:45:42,559 didn't want. 699 00:45:42,440 --> 00:45:45,440 Speaker 6: Him to go away. They would have missed him. But 700 00:45:46,079 --> 00:45:48,920 I think they're really happy she's gone. They just don't 701 00:45:48,960 --> 00:45:52,239 want to talk about her anymore. So in some ways, 702 00:45:52,360 --> 00:45:54,480 nothing's changed in this time. 703 00:45:54,960 --> 00:45:55,280 Speaker 7: Yeah. 704 00:45:55,320 --> 00:45:59,039 Speaker 1: Well, as we've talked about many times at the Federalist, 705 00:45:59,119 --> 00:46:03,559 twenty twenty four was an election ultimately about competence, and 706 00:46:03,800 --> 00:46:07,800 so you had an incompetent stand in and Vice President 707 00:46:07,880 --> 00:46:12,360 Kamala Harris. The borders are and despite all of the 708 00:46:12,480 --> 00:46:17,599 vibes the good feelings American, the Americans didn't want to 709 00:46:17,639 --> 00:46:21,239 trust her with the keys to the car. Kristen, I 710 00:46:21,360 --> 00:46:23,719 bet one of the big stories for you would be 711 00:46:23,960 --> 00:46:30,719 America's sinking health personal health, mental health, physical health. And 712 00:46:30,800 --> 00:46:32,400 I do that by way of a plug for your 713 00:46:32,400 --> 00:46:37,440 fantastic new book which just rolled out, which talks about 714 00:46:37,519 --> 00:46:41,039 that very topic. You've covered extensively health, and I know 715 00:46:41,079 --> 00:46:44,400 you've covered extensively on that topic, the whole idea of 716 00:46:44,480 --> 00:46:50,000 make America healthy again with Robert Kennedy Junior. I won't 717 00:46:50,000 --> 00:46:52,920 put words in your mouth, but I would imagine America's 718 00:46:52,960 --> 00:46:56,519 health is on your mind, as some of the key 719 00:46:56,559 --> 00:46:58,800 stories of tw twenty four. 720 00:47:00,239 --> 00:47:03,360 Speaker 8: I will take the victory lap and at the risk 721 00:47:03,400 --> 00:47:06,480 of being self righteous, promote the book. Yes, I had 722 00:47:06,480 --> 00:47:08,719 a personal milestone this year and published my first book 723 00:47:08,760 --> 00:47:11,679 about a month ago now, fount and Unhappy, How body 724 00:47:11,719 --> 00:47:14,440 positivity is killing us and how to save yourself, on 725 00:47:14,480 --> 00:47:19,199 how the food and pharmaceutical industries are exploiting American ignorance 726 00:47:19,199 --> 00:47:22,760 and emotional turmoil that comes with these twin epidemics of 727 00:47:22,800 --> 00:47:26,039 obesity chronic disease. So that being said, one of my 728 00:47:26,079 --> 00:47:28,480 favorite stories this year was actually had nothing to do 729 00:47:28,519 --> 00:47:32,280 with politics, you know, make America healthy again aside, which 730 00:47:32,320 --> 00:47:35,840 is all great, and said, I actually thought one of 731 00:47:35,880 --> 00:47:38,599 the biggest stories this year was what SpaceX was able 732 00:47:38,599 --> 00:47:42,960 to accomplish with the landing of that reasonable rocket, Starship rocket, 733 00:47:43,000 --> 00:47:45,599 the most powerful rocket to ever launch on Earth, being 734 00:47:45,760 --> 00:47:48,239 captured and with such a novel catching method. 735 00:47:49,000 --> 00:47:50,880 Speaker 9: I think that's going to be really. 736 00:47:52,320 --> 00:47:55,039 Speaker 8: Changes the game in a lot of ways and kind 737 00:47:55,039 --> 00:47:57,880 of launching us into this twenty first century era of 738 00:47:57,960 --> 00:47:58,880 space expiration. 739 00:48:00,079 --> 00:48:04,000 Speaker 1: And out of the deal, of course, you get Elon Musk, 740 00:48:04,039 --> 00:48:09,280 who you know, has basically helped save the Republic by 741 00:48:09,320 --> 00:48:13,159 taking over Twitter turning it into X. I think that's 742 00:48:13,239 --> 00:48:17,960 been a big story building throughout twenty twenty four. And 743 00:48:18,440 --> 00:48:26,159 he also has control over the DOGE, the important agency 744 00:48:26,280 --> 00:48:28,400 that will have its work cut out for it in 745 00:48:28,719 --> 00:48:33,199 suggesting ways to take the bloat the fat if you will, 746 00:48:33,239 --> 00:48:37,239 in the parlance of health out of the US government. 747 00:48:37,760 --> 00:48:40,679 Brianna will close with your favorite story of the year, 748 00:48:40,719 --> 00:48:43,679 but you also serve double duty. What are the stories 749 00:48:43,920 --> 00:48:47,440 you'll be looking at the big stories of twenty twenty 750 00:48:47,519 --> 00:48:50,800 five that will shape the conversation ahead. 751 00:48:51,599 --> 00:48:54,360 Speaker 10: Well, I'd say my favorite story of twenty twenty four 752 00:48:54,679 --> 00:48:57,960 is Joe Biden insinuating his uncle may have been eaten 753 00:48:57,960 --> 00:49:00,920 by cannibals. And the reason I say uncle. 754 00:49:00,760 --> 00:49:07,280 Speaker 1: BOSEI I love Uncle Bosey. Yes, you know that was 755 00:49:07,320 --> 00:49:09,519 the gift that kept on giving, wasn't it? 756 00:49:09,519 --> 00:49:09,920 Speaker 6: It was? 757 00:49:10,000 --> 00:49:12,679 Speaker 10: And I think in part you know whether or not 758 00:49:12,719 --> 00:49:15,039 that had any any truth to it. I know a 759 00:49:15,079 --> 00:49:17,599 lot of people obviously said that that wasn't true, but 760 00:49:17,639 --> 00:49:20,280 I think it also highlighted just kind of the mental 761 00:49:20,320 --> 00:49:22,800 decline of President Biden that they were trying to hide 762 00:49:22,800 --> 00:49:25,840 so desperately, because I think if Biden was all there 763 00:49:25,960 --> 00:49:28,639 in his head, he probably wouldn't have made that insinuation, 764 00:49:29,679 --> 00:49:32,199 you know. I think it definitely was a tip of 765 00:49:32,239 --> 00:49:34,320 the iceberg for the larger problem we ended up seeing. 766 00:49:34,360 --> 00:49:37,000 I also think the Robert her story with the room 767 00:49:37,079 --> 00:49:39,559 Room and the transcript with Joe Biden was pretty funny 768 00:49:39,559 --> 00:49:42,559 but also sad for the fate of this republic. And 769 00:49:42,599 --> 00:49:44,280 then going to twenty twenty five, I got to tell you, 770 00:49:44,320 --> 00:49:47,159 the biggest story that I think will drive coverage and 771 00:49:47,280 --> 00:49:50,880 shape America is whether dojie is successful, whether Elon Musk 772 00:49:51,119 --> 00:49:54,320 and Vekramswami can actually get some serious cuts to our 773 00:49:54,360 --> 00:49:56,920 federal government, and that will dominate the news cycle. 774 00:49:58,199 --> 00:50:00,760 Speaker 1: I think you're right. I think that that will be 775 00:50:00,800 --> 00:50:03,400 a big story playing out in twenty twenty five. But 776 00:50:03,519 --> 00:50:07,360 all of this under of course, the resistance two point zero, 777 00:50:07,920 --> 00:50:10,320 and that's something we at the Federalist will be reporting 778 00:50:10,360 --> 00:50:13,119 on quite a bit. When I say by all of 779 00:50:13,159 --> 00:50:17,480 that is, I remember in late twenty sixteen, I was 780 00:50:17,639 --> 00:50:21,920 at an event that was honoring a whistleblower of mine 781 00:50:22,079 --> 00:50:24,960 for an investigative peace I did on the Social Security 782 00:50:25,559 --> 00:50:30,719 Administration at that time and some of the most egregious 783 00:50:30,719 --> 00:50:35,280 abuses that were going on inside that agency and I 784 00:50:35,360 --> 00:50:41,840 remember at this journalist gathering, you know, the usual smug 785 00:50:42,039 --> 00:50:46,440 suspects turning out in resistance shirts. They were claiming with 786 00:50:46,519 --> 00:50:49,920 those T shirts that they were going to be taking 787 00:50:49,960 --> 00:50:54,639 on this, you know, this new president and Donald Trump 788 00:50:54,639 --> 00:50:57,119 in twenty seventeen. They weren't going to let him get 789 00:50:57,119 --> 00:51:01,519 away with anything. Of course, what they ended up doing 790 00:51:02,000 --> 00:51:09,719 was pushing a narrative, ultimately a false narrative, and many 791 00:51:09,800 --> 00:51:14,320 aspects in beclowning themselves as journalists. So we will be 792 00:51:14,400 --> 00:51:18,519 covering the next move of corporate media, the deep state, 793 00:51:18,639 --> 00:51:22,639 the swamp, the Democrat Party to try to do whatever 794 00:51:22,679 --> 00:51:25,320 they can, and I don't know what they have left 795 00:51:25,360 --> 00:51:30,639 at this point to try to diminish the presidency of 796 00:51:30,679 --> 00:51:34,079 the forty seventh President of the United States. Very much 797 00:51:34,280 --> 00:51:38,719 enjoyed this conversation with some exceptional people. Our guest today 798 00:51:39,760 --> 00:51:42,960 on this edition of the Federalist Radio Hour, the most 799 00:51:43,159 --> 00:51:46,800 esteemed group of reprobates. I'm proud to work with and 800 00:51:47,079 --> 00:51:50,800 know many of the reporters and editors you read and 801 00:51:50,960 --> 00:51:55,800 follow every day. I appreciate their time joining us on 802 00:51:55,880 --> 00:52:01,920 this edition of the Federalist Radio Hour. I'm Matt Kittle. 803 00:52:02,119 --> 00:52:05,280 You've been listening to another edition of the Federalist Radio Hour. 804 00:52:07,079 --> 00:52:09,119 Let me take that again, Brienna. I just screwed that 805 00:52:09,199 --> 00:52:12,920 up and I'm sorry. I don't know that you will 806 00:52:12,960 --> 00:52:16,119 have to edit this. I'm sorry. Coming down in three 807 00:52:16,320 --> 00:52:19,960 two one, you've been listening to another edition of the 808 00:52:20,000 --> 00:52:23,920 Federalist Radio Hour. I'm Matt Kittle, senior correspondent at the Federalist. 809 00:52:24,119 --> 00:52:27,119 We'll be back soon with more. Until then, stay lovers 810 00:52:27,159 --> 00:52:49,000 of freedom and anxious for the fray