1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:03,200 Speaker 1: Hi everybody, and welcome to the Kylie Cast. I'm Kylie Griswold, 2 00:00:03,319 --> 00:00:06,799 Managing editor at The Federalist. Please like and subscribe wherever 3 00:00:06,839 --> 00:00:09,359 you get your podcasts. In fact, we have a new 4 00:00:09,480 --> 00:00:13,720 channel on Spotify and Apple Podcasts specifically for the Kylie Cast. 5 00:00:13,800 --> 00:00:16,839 So if you're only subscribed to The Federalist Radio Hour, 6 00:00:17,239 --> 00:00:20,239 or you're wrong with Molly Hemingway and David Harsani, two 7 00:00:20,239 --> 00:00:23,519 of our other great Federalist podcasts, be sure to also 8 00:00:23,719 --> 00:00:26,359 like and subscribe to the Kylie Cast as well, so 9 00:00:26,440 --> 00:00:29,120 you never miss an episode, and then also leave us 10 00:00:29,120 --> 00:00:30,640 a five star review. That is one of the best 11 00:00:30,640 --> 00:00:33,240 and easiest ways you can help the show out. And 12 00:00:33,320 --> 00:00:35,399 even better yet, if you're just listening to the show, 13 00:00:35,560 --> 00:00:37,600 be sure to go check out the full video version 14 00:00:37,640 --> 00:00:41,679 on my personal YouTube channel or the Federalist channel on Rumble, 15 00:00:41,759 --> 00:00:44,359 and then of course like and subscribe there too. If 16 00:00:44,359 --> 00:00:45,920 you'd like to email the show, you can do so 17 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:48,840 at radio at the Federalist dot com. I would love 18 00:00:48,960 --> 00:00:50,960 to hear from you today. We have a little bit 19 00:00:50,960 --> 00:00:53,280 of a different episode for you. I'm joined today by 20 00:00:53,320 --> 00:00:56,159 our editor in chief at The Federalist, Molly Hemingway, as 21 00:00:56,200 --> 00:00:59,719 well as our Chief Development Officer, Sarah Prinsy. We not 22 00:00:59,799 --> 00:01:01,759 only do a twenty twenty five recap of some of 23 00:01:01,799 --> 00:01:04,040 the biggest stories we covered this year, as well as 24 00:01:04,079 --> 00:01:06,760 a twenty twenty six preview of what the year ahead 25 00:01:06,840 --> 00:01:09,239 is going to hold, but we also talk about how you, 26 00:01:09,400 --> 00:01:13,599 the Federalist fans, listeners, followers, how you can get involved 27 00:01:13,640 --> 00:01:16,680 and help support our work in this important fight for 28 00:01:16,799 --> 00:01:19,439 truth in a landscape that doesn't really seem to always 29 00:01:19,439 --> 00:01:21,640 care all that much about it. We also preview our 30 00:01:21,680 --> 00:01:24,159 new Federalist store and how you can find some awesome 31 00:01:24,200 --> 00:01:26,959 merch there. So, without further ado, please welcome Molly and 32 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:42,319 Sarah to the Kylie Cast. I am here today with 33 00:01:42,560 --> 00:01:46,480 Sarah Prinsy, the Federalists Chief Development Officer, and Molly Hemingway, 34 00:01:46,599 --> 00:01:48,879 editor in chief at The Federalist. It is so cool 35 00:01:48,920 --> 00:01:50,319 to be sitting here, even if we're not in the 36 00:01:50,359 --> 00:01:52,840 same room in a virtual room with you two, because 37 00:01:53,200 --> 00:01:55,200 I never get to see you, so welcome to you both. 38 00:01:56,040 --> 00:01:59,159 Speaker 2: It's great to be here. Thank you, so great to 39 00:01:59,200 --> 00:01:59,480 have you. 40 00:02:00,280 --> 00:02:02,439 Speaker 1: Let's start with you, Sarah, because Molly is a familiar 41 00:02:02,480 --> 00:02:05,480 face to the millions of moms in America who watch 42 00:02:05,480 --> 00:02:08,159 your on Fox News. But Sarah, you are a relatively 43 00:02:08,199 --> 00:02:10,120 recent addition to the Federalist, So why don't you kick 44 00:02:10,199 --> 00:02:12,360 us off by just telling us how you got here? 45 00:02:12,400 --> 00:02:15,240 Why did you choose the Federalist crazy team that you're 46 00:02:15,280 --> 00:02:16,599 now a part of? 47 00:02:16,599 --> 00:02:19,319 Speaker 3: Of course, of course it was a very easy choice 48 00:02:19,400 --> 00:02:24,360 actually seeing the work the Federalist does and the truth 49 00:02:24,439 --> 00:02:27,199 that they put out into the world, I knew I 50 00:02:27,240 --> 00:02:30,719 wanted to take my talents and my time here. I 51 00:02:30,840 --> 00:02:35,240 truly believe that we are saving this country one article 52 00:02:35,240 --> 00:02:37,879 at a time by actually telling the truth and giving 53 00:02:37,919 --> 00:02:39,360 people the information they need. 54 00:02:39,759 --> 00:02:41,000 Speaker 2: And I wanted to be a part of. 55 00:02:40,960 --> 00:02:43,639 Speaker 3: This so badly to help get this out, to make 56 00:02:43,639 --> 00:02:46,680 sure everybody knows about it, and just to help tell 57 00:02:46,719 --> 00:02:49,759 these stories that are so important. I have two daughters, 58 00:02:49,960 --> 00:02:52,479 I have a grand baby, and I want this country 59 00:02:52,520 --> 00:02:53,199 saved for them. 60 00:02:53,360 --> 00:02:55,960 Speaker 2: Yeah, retweet, couldn't have said that better. Mollie. 61 00:02:56,280 --> 00:03:00,000 Speaker 1: You've worked in media for a long time conservative and second, 62 00:03:00,360 --> 00:03:03,280 I think as well our non conservative media. What sets 63 00:03:03,280 --> 00:03:07,039 the Federalist apart from all of these other media organizations 64 00:03:07,039 --> 00:03:07,479 in your mind? 65 00:03:08,360 --> 00:03:13,560 Speaker 4: Yeah, we're in an information warfare environment. We have a 66 00:03:13,599 --> 00:03:16,759 lot of different media companies that think their job is 67 00:03:16,840 --> 00:03:20,960 to push propaganda, to push narrative. They want to advance 68 00:03:21,039 --> 00:03:23,599 the ball politically, and so we see that with so 69 00:03:23,840 --> 00:03:28,159 much major left wing corporate media, Washington Post, New York Times. 70 00:03:28,439 --> 00:03:32,240 You know, they're constantly running big stories designed to help 71 00:03:32,360 --> 00:03:37,400 political allies and to hurt political opponents. And we are 72 00:03:37,400 --> 00:03:40,759 different than that because we do not subscribe to their 73 00:03:40,840 --> 00:03:44,120 left wing political view. You know, whatever the issue is 74 00:03:44,159 --> 00:03:47,000 that they want to be pushing, whether it's like putting 75 00:03:47,039 --> 00:03:52,639 books encouraging trans operations in children's libraries, or pushing lawfare 76 00:03:52,759 --> 00:03:57,120 against conservatives, or pushing COVID hysteria or whatever the thing is, 77 00:03:57,479 --> 00:04:01,800 we just don't share their view of you know, what 78 00:04:01,919 --> 00:04:03,360 is good for a media outlet to do. 79 00:04:04,840 --> 00:04:05,039 Speaker 2: Yeah. 80 00:04:05,080 --> 00:04:08,759 Speaker 1: I think another thing too, even among conservative media, that 81 00:04:08,800 --> 00:04:10,680 sets us apart. I mean as people who are watching 82 00:04:10,719 --> 00:04:12,919 the show, not just listening, can see, which this is 83 00:04:12,919 --> 00:04:14,800 a reminder that if you are just listening to the show, 84 00:04:14,800 --> 00:04:16,600 you could be watching it. So go check out the 85 00:04:16,639 --> 00:04:20,000 full video version on YouTube or rumble. But it's that 86 00:04:20,040 --> 00:04:21,959 we're not in the same room. We don't all live 87 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:27,279 in DC. A lot of media conservative and otherwise, you know, 88 00:04:27,360 --> 00:04:29,560 they have a home base they exist in one place, 89 00:04:29,680 --> 00:04:32,279 people move there and you start to think the same 90 00:04:32,360 --> 00:04:35,120 and talk the same. And specifically for DC outlets, you know, 91 00:04:35,279 --> 00:04:37,000 you have people from all over the country who have 92 00:04:37,040 --> 00:04:39,240 all of these diverse viewpoints, and they come to. 93 00:04:39,160 --> 00:04:42,759 Speaker 2: The Beltway and they hear the DC speak. 94 00:04:42,480 --> 00:04:44,639 Speaker 1: And they view it as their job to speak DC 95 00:04:44,800 --> 00:04:46,839 to the rest of the country, Whereas at the Federalist, 96 00:04:47,199 --> 00:04:50,439 not only our vast roster of contributors but also even 97 00:04:50,439 --> 00:04:53,639 our staff are all over the country I mean coast 98 00:04:53,720 --> 00:04:56,199 to coast everywhere in between. And it's so cool that 99 00:04:56,240 --> 00:04:58,879 we just have such diverse viewpoints, which becomes very apparent 100 00:04:58,879 --> 00:05:01,120 in the chat when we have all kinds little squabbles there. 101 00:05:01,560 --> 00:05:03,800 But it's also just so great because you never get 102 00:05:03,839 --> 00:05:06,319 one viewpoint. You really get a lot of diverse viewpoints, 103 00:05:06,360 --> 00:05:09,000 even on one side of the aisle, which is super cool. 104 00:05:09,439 --> 00:05:12,480 Speaker 4: And just like put a fine point on that that 105 00:05:12,600 --> 00:05:15,399 is so well stated. So much of corporate media and 106 00:05:15,480 --> 00:05:18,800 just media in general are based in Washington, DC or 107 00:05:18,879 --> 00:05:21,680 New York. They exist to tell the rest of the 108 00:05:21,720 --> 00:05:25,040 country what the powerful people in DC and New York 109 00:05:25,160 --> 00:05:27,720 want them to know. And when we started the Federalists, 110 00:05:27,759 --> 00:05:30,240 we were like, well, what if a publication existed to 111 00:05:30,279 --> 00:05:33,680 tell the people in d C what real people think 112 00:05:33,839 --> 00:05:36,519 about what they're doing and about what their concerns are. 113 00:05:36,720 --> 00:05:36,920 Speaker 3: You know. 114 00:05:37,040 --> 00:05:41,199 Speaker 4: Like, so we every day make sure that we are 115 00:05:41,399 --> 00:05:44,759 putting forth a perspective that is almost completely absent from 116 00:05:44,839 --> 00:05:48,800 most corporate media, which is, you know, the American perspective 117 00:05:49,079 --> 00:05:52,079 on how things should be. You know, what are the 118 00:05:52,120 --> 00:05:56,319 concerns of normal people and how frustrated they are with 119 00:05:56,920 --> 00:05:58,319 the people who are in power. 120 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:02,959 Speaker 1: They're A great thing is there are a lot of outlets, 121 00:06:03,040 --> 00:06:07,439 even among conservatives, that specialize in one thing and they 122 00:06:07,439 --> 00:06:09,879 do it super well. And maybe it's a culture publication 123 00:06:10,079 --> 00:06:13,000 or maybe it's a specifically religious publication, and they run 124 00:06:13,040 --> 00:06:14,959 like a lot of really good Catholic stuff or a 125 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:17,959 lot of really good Protestant stuff, and they fellow those 126 00:06:18,079 --> 00:06:20,000 niches really well. But one thing that I love about 127 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:23,319 the Federalist is we cover politics, religion, and culture, and 128 00:06:23,439 --> 00:06:26,120 often those things intersect. You know, something is not strictly 129 00:06:26,160 --> 00:06:29,079 a political issue, it's also touches on religious liberty issues 130 00:06:29,120 --> 00:06:31,040 and things, and so that just really helps us to 131 00:06:31,079 --> 00:06:33,800 cover this broad array of topics that matters so much 132 00:06:33,800 --> 00:06:36,079 to Americans and to cover them all really well. So 133 00:06:36,199 --> 00:06:39,040 I love, specifically as a Christian Conservative, being able to 134 00:06:39,480 --> 00:06:42,839 really let that inform my writing and the podcast and 135 00:06:42,879 --> 00:06:47,079 everything else, which is which is unique to us. I think, Molly, 136 00:06:47,199 --> 00:06:50,920 let's talk quickly about the biggest stories of the year. 137 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:52,639 What are the things that stand out to you? And 138 00:06:52,680 --> 00:06:54,920 our coverage at the Federalists from twenty twenty five is 139 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:57,519 like our not only our bombshell pieces, but just the 140 00:06:57,519 --> 00:07:00,560 things that were unique or yeah, what's stood out to you? 141 00:07:00,800 --> 00:07:02,839 Speaker 4: Yeah, every year at the Federalist is different, and this 142 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:06,040 year was really marked by, of course, the Trump administration. 143 00:07:06,519 --> 00:07:10,160 So last year we were covering so much about elections, 144 00:07:10,199 --> 00:07:13,480 election integrity, looking at how elections were being run in 145 00:07:13,560 --> 00:07:17,279 every state, anticipating problems before they became. Some of the 146 00:07:17,279 --> 00:07:20,399 horrific problems that we saw in twenty twenty, reporting on 147 00:07:20,439 --> 00:07:22,600 them so that people could deal with them at a 148 00:07:22,639 --> 00:07:26,839 time that was helpful. And so Trump wins the twenty 149 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:31,000 twenty four election, Republicans take the House and the Senate, 150 00:07:31,279 --> 00:07:33,160 and so it's this really interesting time that I think 151 00:07:33,279 --> 00:07:36,519 nobody would have predicted four years prior. Trump hits the 152 00:07:36,519 --> 00:07:38,839 ground running. You know, it was one of these things 153 00:07:38,839 --> 00:07:42,079 where he clearly had an agenda to push right away 154 00:07:42,120 --> 00:07:44,199 when he came into office, and so a lot of 155 00:07:44,240 --> 00:07:46,199 people talk about like the first hundred days of a 156 00:07:46,240 --> 00:07:49,279 presidency being a really big thing. In Trump's case, it 157 00:07:49,319 --> 00:07:53,120 was more like the first two hundred days, We're just 158 00:07:53,120 --> 00:07:54,959 just every day. It was like waking up to ten 159 00:07:55,040 --> 00:07:58,120 major stories. And so part of it is about communicating 160 00:07:58,360 --> 00:08:02,680 what is being done. It is about how left wing institutions, 161 00:08:02,680 --> 00:08:05,879 such as the media and other institutions, what they were 162 00:08:05,879 --> 00:08:10,680 doing to thwart what the Trump administration was doing. Looking 163 00:08:10,759 --> 00:08:15,199 at whether Congress, how Congress was responding to Trump in 164 00:08:15,279 --> 00:08:19,680 terms of, you know, he would have different cabinet nominations, 165 00:08:19,720 --> 00:08:22,639 and frequently some of the most paciferous opposition would come 166 00:08:22,680 --> 00:08:25,839 from fellow Republicans. We were on top of that story 167 00:08:25,920 --> 00:08:29,560 like few other publications were, in part because we understood 168 00:08:29,720 --> 00:08:33,320 how frustrated average Americans who had voted for Trump were 169 00:08:33,480 --> 00:08:36,919 with the typical DC political games that are going on, 170 00:08:37,240 --> 00:08:40,519 and we were able to weigh in heavily with coverage 171 00:08:40,559 --> 00:08:44,000 of how different nominations were going, who was attempting to 172 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:46,279 stop them, and why. I think that was some of 173 00:08:46,320 --> 00:08:51,000 our really important early coverage. We also saw major law 174 00:08:51,080 --> 00:08:55,399 fair against the Trump administration. So with how broken everything 175 00:08:55,600 --> 00:08:59,039 is in Washington, d C. The Trump administration has taken 176 00:08:59,240 --> 00:09:02,440 what has become like a popular thing for presidents to 177 00:09:02,480 --> 00:09:05,320 do and really turned it up, which is governing by 178 00:09:05,360 --> 00:09:09,440 executive authority executive order and then seeing and then what 179 00:09:09,519 --> 00:09:12,240 happened with a lot of his opposition on the left 180 00:09:12,399 --> 00:09:15,200 was that they just immediately would file for injunctions to 181 00:09:15,240 --> 00:09:18,480 stop whatever was going on. This is something where it's 182 00:09:18,600 --> 00:09:20,240 kind of our bread and butter to look at what's 183 00:09:20,240 --> 00:09:23,600 happening in the courts. Frequently when the courts have, you know, 184 00:09:23,799 --> 00:09:26,559 have a decision, things are working their way through a 185 00:09:26,559 --> 00:09:30,600 court system. It's very complicated. It's very difficult to understand, 186 00:09:30,679 --> 00:09:33,039 you know for a normal layperson, like what did that 187 00:09:33,159 --> 00:09:34,840 order just mean and what does that mean for the 188 00:09:34,879 --> 00:09:38,200 progress of something? And meanwhile, left wing media is just 189 00:09:38,320 --> 00:09:41,679 doing everything in their power to join with left wing 190 00:09:41,720 --> 00:09:45,240 other left wing institutions to thwart anything from happening during 191 00:09:45,240 --> 00:09:47,559 the administration. So we covered that a lot, and then 192 00:09:47,559 --> 00:09:52,399 we also had some really exciting stuff for another issue 193 00:09:52,440 --> 00:09:54,759 that we've covered for a long time, which is the 194 00:09:54,759 --> 00:09:58,519 fallout of the Russia collusion hoax and other information operations 195 00:09:58,600 --> 00:10:01,480 that were run against the first Trump administration. We did 196 00:10:01,480 --> 00:10:04,480 some of the best reporting on that during the first 197 00:10:04,559 --> 00:10:07,320 Trump administration and it really helped us as all of 198 00:10:07,360 --> 00:10:10,200 a sudden in the second Trump administration, some of his 199 00:10:10,279 --> 00:10:14,279 cabinet secretaries and other officials are declassifying information, and it's 200 00:10:14,320 --> 00:10:17,720 just like a deluge of information coming out. And because 201 00:10:17,759 --> 00:10:19,960 we had done such good reporting on that over the years, 202 00:10:20,120 --> 00:10:22,919 we were able to kind of quickly explain, here's what's new, 203 00:10:22,960 --> 00:10:26,639 here's what's not new, here's what can happen going forward, 204 00:10:26,720 --> 00:10:30,039 and so all of those stories were important. Also covering 205 00:10:30,960 --> 00:10:34,600 what's happening with cultural issues. You know, we previously talked 206 00:10:34,639 --> 00:10:37,519 about some of the trans insanity that's going on, and 207 00:10:37,639 --> 00:10:39,559 just being on top of that and covering that, also 208 00:10:39,639 --> 00:10:43,840 what's happening for pro lifers and their political voice in 209 00:10:43,919 --> 00:10:46,559 this administration, some of which hasn't been a very good 210 00:10:46,639 --> 00:10:51,519 story for them, and explaining what their desires are and 211 00:10:51,600 --> 00:10:53,759 how they're trying to push things forward. And so we 212 00:10:53,919 --> 00:10:56,039 just had like, really, there's so much stuff I could 213 00:10:56,080 --> 00:10:58,000 get into, but I don't want to just ramble on 214 00:10:58,039 --> 00:11:00,159 another thing. I just want to say really quickly. We 215 00:11:00,159 --> 00:11:03,639 were covering because so much was being done on the border, 216 00:11:04,600 --> 00:11:09,840 looking at things like how border enforcement affects, you know, 217 00:11:09,960 --> 00:11:15,320 public goods such as healthcare, education, all of our emergency services, 218 00:11:15,600 --> 00:11:19,200 and drilling down into that and seeing how what this 219 00:11:19,279 --> 00:11:22,080 means for local communities across the country. As you noted, 220 00:11:22,279 --> 00:11:25,759 we're not primarily based in DC or New York. I'm 221 00:11:25,799 --> 00:11:28,879 in DC, but almost all of our reporters and editors 222 00:11:28,919 --> 00:11:31,159 are spread throughout the country, so that we can have 223 00:11:31,480 --> 00:11:33,879 a really good sense of the pulse of the American 224 00:11:33,919 --> 00:11:35,320 people everywhere else. 225 00:11:36,159 --> 00:11:36,960 Speaker 2: Such good stuff. 226 00:11:37,440 --> 00:11:39,799 Speaker 1: And we will get back to the Russia hoax reporting 227 00:11:39,840 --> 00:11:42,399 because that was huge this year, so we'll dive into 228 00:11:42,480 --> 00:11:44,240 that in a little while here. I was also laughing 229 00:11:44,279 --> 00:11:45,879 to myself as you were saying the first two hundred 230 00:11:45,919 --> 00:11:48,240 days of the Trump administration and how much there was 231 00:11:48,240 --> 00:11:52,120 to cover. And I remember when I joined sixsh years ago, 232 00:11:52,159 --> 00:11:56,039 I think I would always think, like, oh, once we 233 00:11:56,159 --> 00:11:58,759 get to the end of the Supreme Court confirmation, like 234 00:11:58,799 --> 00:12:00,519 things will slow down a little bit, like oh, we'll 235 00:12:00,519 --> 00:12:02,320 be able to catch our breath after the election. And 236 00:12:02,360 --> 00:12:05,600 that's just a lie. Every single time, there was no 237 00:12:05,600 --> 00:12:08,399 no breath catching. After the twenty twenty four election, it's 238 00:12:08,440 --> 00:12:11,000 just been like NonStop and the best way. But it's 239 00:12:11,120 --> 00:12:13,919 just it's always something and the Trump administration is no exception. 240 00:12:14,639 --> 00:12:17,559 Speaker 4: I have to tease about this because you know, Sean Davis, 241 00:12:17,600 --> 00:12:20,320 our CEO, who's great, and I you know, we're pretty 242 00:12:20,360 --> 00:12:22,960 plugged in every day of the year. And I tried 243 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:26,879 to take a single day off in August of twenty 244 00:12:27,080 --> 00:12:29,720 twenty three. I guess it was that when they rated 245 00:12:29,720 --> 00:12:31,720 mar A Lago or was that twenty two I can't 246 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:34,679 twenty three, I think, And it was the day they 247 00:12:34,720 --> 00:12:37,960 rated mar Alago and Sean Davis was like, we're literally 248 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:40,639 never allowed to take another day off ever again. 249 00:12:40,840 --> 00:12:40,919 Speaker 5: Like. 250 00:12:42,960 --> 00:12:45,919 Speaker 1: Okay, yep, yep, And that's why they write it that day. 251 00:12:45,919 --> 00:12:47,759 You have to know that, Molly, that they were waiting 252 00:12:47,799 --> 00:12:51,000 for your schedule, Yeah, for your day off. So oh 253 00:12:51,039 --> 00:12:54,480 my word. Anyway, such good coverage this past year. 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So Sarah, thank you for that one of 304 00:15:34,600 --> 00:15:37,559 the biggest Federalists highlights this year, which Molly already previewed, 305 00:15:37,879 --> 00:15:39,279 was winning the Dow Prize. 306 00:15:39,320 --> 00:15:42,120 Speaker 2: That was a really big deal and I would love. 307 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:43,799 Speaker 1: Molly if you can just share with our listeners the 308 00:15:43,919 --> 00:15:47,960 awesome Russia hoax reporting that contributed to that honor for 309 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:48,600 the Federalists. 310 00:15:49,279 --> 00:15:52,879 Speaker 4: Yeah, the Dow Journalism Awards are given to people who 311 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:57,519 do good investigative journalism, and we won this year the 312 00:15:57,679 --> 00:16:02,279 Grand Prize for our coverage of the Russia collusion hoax 313 00:16:02,639 --> 00:16:05,559 just in the past year. And so, as I mentioned, 314 00:16:05,600 --> 00:16:07,360 this is a story that we've been working on since 315 00:16:07,440 --> 00:16:10,879 the very beginning, and it was very lonely at the beginning. 316 00:16:10,919 --> 00:16:13,559 My first story on the Russia collusion hoax is actually 317 00:16:13,600 --> 00:16:18,039 October twenty sixteen, so before most people even knew there 318 00:16:18,120 --> 00:16:21,120 was a hoax, we were covering this looking we'd kind 319 00:16:21,120 --> 00:16:24,000 of recognized that an info op was being laid out, 320 00:16:24,080 --> 00:16:26,879 and so you know, covering that and what that meant 321 00:16:26,919 --> 00:16:31,039 and why people shouldn't fall for it. By January of 322 00:16:31,200 --> 00:16:34,120 twenty seventeen, the whole country was like up in arms 323 00:16:34,120 --> 00:16:36,879 about the Russia collusion hoax. I think a lot of 324 00:16:37,080 --> 00:16:40,399 normal people looked at it and said this is ridiculous, like, 325 00:16:40,519 --> 00:16:43,440 obviously this isn't true. Donald Trump did not steal the 326 00:16:43,440 --> 00:16:46,159 twenty sixteen election by colluding with Russia. 327 00:16:46,200 --> 00:16:48,480 Speaker 2: And that's great. But in Washington, d C. 328 00:16:48,720 --> 00:16:51,279 Speaker 4: Everyone either believed it or pretended to believe it. And 329 00:16:51,320 --> 00:16:55,759 so we worked so hard with very limited information. You know, 330 00:16:56,840 --> 00:17:00,320 the whole story was being done in conjunction with very 331 00:17:00,360 --> 00:17:04,519 powerful left wing media CNN, The Washington Post, the New 332 00:17:04,599 --> 00:17:07,720 York Times. They were working hand in glove with Obama's 333 00:17:07,799 --> 00:17:11,359 top spy chiefs and their friends who remained in these 334 00:17:12,119 --> 00:17:15,519 three letter agencies during the Trump administration to paint a 335 00:17:15,559 --> 00:17:18,079 false picture that Trump had colluded with Russia to steal 336 00:17:18,119 --> 00:17:21,880 the election. All of those media outlets won major awards 337 00:17:22,119 --> 00:17:25,440 for their full participation in it. So we covered everything, 338 00:17:25,599 --> 00:17:28,200 you know, using the information that they would publish and 339 00:17:28,279 --> 00:17:32,319 our own sources, our own access, our own shoe leather reporting, 340 00:17:32,599 --> 00:17:35,160 would you know, figured out what was going on and 341 00:17:35,240 --> 00:17:37,799 uncovered it well. Just in the last year we had 342 00:17:37,920 --> 00:17:42,759 more exclusive stories, including stories showing how there were which 343 00:17:42,759 --> 00:17:47,440 were exclusive to us completely, you know, completely, our own 344 00:17:47,599 --> 00:17:52,759 reporting showing that people in the CIA and the ODN I, 345 00:17:52,880 --> 00:17:56,640 the Director of National Intelligence offices had actually tried to 346 00:17:56,759 --> 00:17:59,759 stop the Russia collusion hoax, and what happened to them 347 00:17:59,759 --> 00:18:02,759 when they tried to stop it. They had their jobs threatened, 348 00:18:02,920 --> 00:18:06,440 They were isolated from knowing enough information to know how 349 00:18:06,440 --> 00:18:11,160 to pursue their suspicions that things weren't right. They were bullied, 350 00:18:11,440 --> 00:18:15,640 they were disparaged, and so we broke those stories and 351 00:18:15,839 --> 00:18:20,319 we won this award for those stories and others about 352 00:18:20,759 --> 00:18:24,599 that unveiling of the Russia collusion hoax, And just to 353 00:18:24,640 --> 00:18:27,240 add to it, in the early years, we were mostly 354 00:18:27,279 --> 00:18:31,000 focused on the FBI. What was James Comey doing, what 355 00:18:31,039 --> 00:18:34,559 was Andrew McCabe doing, What was the Department of Justice doing? 356 00:18:35,200 --> 00:18:37,200 We really knew there were problems there, and that's where 357 00:18:37,200 --> 00:18:40,680 almost everybody was paying attention. What we broke this year, 358 00:18:40,720 --> 00:18:42,759 and what we learned this year was how the other 359 00:18:43,039 --> 00:18:46,319 spy agencies were also involved and the key role that 360 00:18:46,359 --> 00:18:50,599 they played in operationalizing this hoax and information. 361 00:18:51,880 --> 00:18:53,400 Speaker 2: Up against the American people. 362 00:18:53,759 --> 00:18:57,599 Speaker 4: And so we are thrilled that we won this massive 363 00:18:57,960 --> 00:19:03,960 prize from thewjournalism people, and we are so thankful to 364 00:19:03,960 --> 00:19:06,759 have our work appreciated because it was so lonely to 365 00:19:06,799 --> 00:19:10,240 do it for so long. I mean what we went through, 366 00:19:10,720 --> 00:19:14,480 the bullying that we received from certain very high level people, 367 00:19:14,559 --> 00:19:18,200 including United States senators and other people who were really 368 00:19:18,200 --> 00:19:21,319 trying to threaten us away from reporting this story. It's 369 00:19:21,359 --> 00:19:23,640 now kind of popular to understand that it was a hoax, 370 00:19:23,720 --> 00:19:25,799 but that was, you know, first of all, thanks to 371 00:19:25,920 --> 00:19:29,880 our amazing reporters and also very difficult to do at 372 00:19:29,880 --> 00:19:30,799 the outset. 373 00:19:37,240 --> 00:19:40,319 Speaker 5: Pay it off, Pay it off now the watchdout on 374 00:19:40,440 --> 00:19:43,559 Wall Street podcast with Chris Markowski. Every day Chris helps 375 00:19:43,599 --> 00:19:46,200 unpack the connection between politics and the economy and how 376 00:19:46,240 --> 00:19:48,759 it affects your wallet. 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Be informed. 382 00:20:01,920 --> 00:20:02,359 Speaker 2: Check out the. 383 00:20:02,319 --> 00:20:05,599 Speaker 5: Watchdot on Wall Street podcast with Chris Markowski on Apple, Spotify, 384 00:20:05,680 --> 00:20:07,000 or wherever you get your podcasts. 385 00:20:12,799 --> 00:20:15,319 Speaker 1: Well, this gets to something that the Federalist is really 386 00:20:15,359 --> 00:20:18,200 good at, and that is identifying info ops and hoaxes 387 00:20:18,640 --> 00:20:21,519 as they're getting started and then being able to kind 388 00:20:21,519 --> 00:20:23,440 of cut it off at the source. So, I mean, 389 00:20:23,480 --> 00:20:25,559 we've done this with so many things. I mean great 390 00:20:25,599 --> 00:20:29,279 Russia Russia collusion, hoax reporting, with the Kavanaugh rape hox, 391 00:20:29,559 --> 00:20:33,759 with the Jesse small Lette hoax, with twenty twenty election propaganda, 392 00:20:33,920 --> 00:20:35,839 the Suckers and Losers hoax. I mean, we could sit 393 00:20:35,880 --> 00:20:38,200 here and list hoaxes and infoops that we've kind of 394 00:20:38,200 --> 00:20:41,720 been right at the start, going no for probably twenty minutes. 395 00:20:41,880 --> 00:20:46,599 But Molly, how why are we so good at recognizing infoops? 396 00:20:46,640 --> 00:20:49,880 And how can our listeners make themselves immune to falling 397 00:20:49,920 --> 00:20:51,680 for these kinds of hoaxes and ops? 398 00:20:52,319 --> 00:20:52,559 Speaker 2: Oh? 399 00:20:52,640 --> 00:20:55,759 Speaker 4: I mean, it's like a really good question, and it's 400 00:20:55,799 --> 00:20:58,240 been a lifetime of work for many of us to 401 00:20:58,359 --> 00:21:00,799 kind of get to the point where you can recognize them. 402 00:21:00,799 --> 00:21:04,599 I'm thinking right now about the first time I recognized 403 00:21:04,799 --> 00:21:07,599 like a large scale information up, which was I think 404 00:21:07,720 --> 00:21:09,720 maybe like twenty I camera was like somewhere in the 405 00:21:09,759 --> 00:21:13,680 twenty ten to twenty fourteen phase, there was a hearing 406 00:21:13,960 --> 00:21:17,160 that was held on religious liberty and problems with the 407 00:21:17,200 --> 00:21:21,480 Obamacare and how it restricted different church bodies religious liberty, 408 00:21:22,319 --> 00:21:25,119 and so there was I can't remember which committee it was, 409 00:21:25,160 --> 00:21:27,640 but they had a variety of different leaders of different 410 00:21:27,720 --> 00:21:31,880 church bodies talking about it. And then the Democrats put 411 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:34,920 up a witness who was a woman named Sandra Fluck 412 00:21:35,200 --> 00:21:37,759 I think her name was. She was a Georgetown law 413 00:21:37,799 --> 00:21:42,200 student who wanted to take a bortifacians as birth control 414 00:21:42,319 --> 00:21:46,960 or something like that, and so as she testified, it 415 00:21:47,359 --> 00:21:52,079 suddenly became the biggest news in the world somehow, you know, 416 00:21:52,160 --> 00:21:55,640 all these different media outlets had gazy, beautiful photos of 417 00:21:55,680 --> 00:21:57,599 her ready to go about her plight. 418 00:21:58,480 --> 00:21:59,599 Speaker 2: It was evening news. 419 00:21:59,680 --> 00:22:04,000 Speaker 4: It was like, you know, coordinated messaging was pretty easy 420 00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:06,680 to pick out from it because the purpose of the 421 00:22:06,720 --> 00:22:09,960 hearing was to talk about religious liberty concerns, and within 422 00:22:10,079 --> 00:22:12,200 twenty four hours, all of a sudden, it was about 423 00:22:12,279 --> 00:22:16,880 how religious people want to keep poor law students at 424 00:22:16,960 --> 00:22:19,920 Georgetown from being able to take a bordiphaciance or something. 425 00:22:20,640 --> 00:22:22,599 And so when I saw that, I was like, oh, 426 00:22:22,799 --> 00:22:25,759 that was well coordinated. That was smart. Like I didn't 427 00:22:26,240 --> 00:22:28,160 love it because I care about religious liberty, but it 428 00:22:28,200 --> 00:22:30,599 was a very smart operation. And it turned out that 429 00:22:30,640 --> 00:22:34,160 Sandra Fluck was repped by a major PR firm, I 430 00:22:34,200 --> 00:22:39,079 think Anita Dunn was involved in her storytelling and how 431 00:22:39,079 --> 00:22:41,160 they got that out. So once you see it, it's 432 00:22:41,240 --> 00:22:44,119 kind of easy to see it. Anytime a thing just 433 00:22:44,160 --> 00:22:47,119 starts rolling out. With the Russia collusion hoax, I'll just 434 00:22:47,160 --> 00:22:49,920 say the thing that keyed it for me was that 435 00:22:50,039 --> 00:22:53,920 Hillary Clinton tweeted out a story from I think The 436 00:22:53,960 --> 00:22:56,599 Atlantic or something like that saying, oh, it looks like 437 00:22:57,359 --> 00:23:00,279 Russia's colluding with Trump to steal the election. And then 438 00:23:00,319 --> 00:23:02,640 there were three other stories that kind of came out 439 00:23:02,640 --> 00:23:05,200 at the same same day, and I think it was 440 00:23:05,240 --> 00:23:07,480 like the day of the last debate, so you could 441 00:23:07,480 --> 00:23:10,440 tell like these all came out because Hillary Clinton wanted 442 00:23:10,480 --> 00:23:13,839 them out that day, and she's highlighting them, and it's 443 00:23:13,880 --> 00:23:17,279 all like it didn't It also helped that it didn't 444 00:23:17,319 --> 00:23:19,359 just seem true to me, Like I was like, I 445 00:23:19,480 --> 00:23:22,640 don't think Donald Trump is a Russian agent, you know, 446 00:23:23,400 --> 00:23:25,319 so you're already kind of sniffing it out. 447 00:23:25,960 --> 00:23:27,720 Speaker 2: The Kavanaugh rape. 448 00:23:27,400 --> 00:23:31,720 Speaker 4: Hoax, I think is like an IQ test for whether 449 00:23:31,799 --> 00:23:35,640 you can figure this out or not. So if we 450 00:23:35,680 --> 00:23:38,279 can go back to twenty eighteen, I think that was 451 00:23:38,279 --> 00:23:41,640 the year that he was nominated, it was interesting, you know, 452 00:23:42,039 --> 00:23:45,640 Justice Kennedy steps down there is a short list of 453 00:23:45,720 --> 00:23:48,000 potential candidates, so we kind of get familiar with who 454 00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:51,400 the different candidates are. Kavanaugh is announced as the nominee. 455 00:23:51,640 --> 00:23:54,720 He's widely characterized as being sort of like the most moderate, 456 00:23:54,839 --> 00:23:58,680 most acceptable to some of the weaker Republicans who will 457 00:23:58,680 --> 00:24:03,079 have to vote on his nomination. Immediately, things get crazy. 458 00:24:03,160 --> 00:24:07,920 You've got organized protests at the Supreme Court immediately, and 459 00:24:08,039 --> 00:24:10,960 they had pre made signs for each of the nominees 460 00:24:11,640 --> 00:24:14,240 or each of the potential nominees with like the worst 461 00:24:14,279 --> 00:24:16,960 person in the world would be Hardaman, the worst person 462 00:24:16,960 --> 00:24:18,920 in the world would be kavanat like they already were 463 00:24:18,960 --> 00:24:22,759 ready to go. And so they're doing that, and you've 464 00:24:22,759 --> 00:24:26,519 got massive protests on Capitol Hill, but they're not really 465 00:24:26,559 --> 00:24:32,400 breaking through because the guy is so he doesn't elicit 466 00:24:32,440 --> 00:24:34,480 a lot of excitement from a lot of people. So 467 00:24:34,480 --> 00:24:36,880 it's just like not breaking through, and it's all about 468 00:24:36,920 --> 00:24:40,440 paperwork and stuff like that. And then one day the 469 00:24:40,559 --> 00:24:45,079 Washington Post announces that this guy who's been a federal 470 00:24:45,160 --> 00:24:47,759 judge for twelve years and has gone through like a 471 00:24:47,799 --> 00:24:51,640 ton of background checks, well there's like an interesting story 472 00:24:51,720 --> 00:24:54,599 of a woman alleging some kind of wrongdoing. And it's 473 00:24:54,599 --> 00:24:58,960 like a very long story that clearly is trying to 474 00:24:59,039 --> 00:25:01,720 make a lot out of an allegation, but it doesn't 475 00:25:01,759 --> 00:25:05,079 seem like it's like a very difficult story to rebut 476 00:25:05,079 --> 00:25:07,359 because it's based on the memories of a single person 477 00:25:09,240 --> 00:25:13,039 and what happened when that dropped. I'm on some of 478 00:25:13,079 --> 00:25:17,880 these chats with reporters and other journalists and you know, 479 00:25:17,960 --> 00:25:23,680 even ostensibly conservative journalist. Then moment that story drops, they're like, oh, 480 00:25:23,759 --> 00:25:28,279 this looks bad. They should probably find another nominee. And 481 00:25:28,359 --> 00:25:32,000 I'm thinking, well, I lived through the Clarence Thomas hearings. 482 00:25:32,240 --> 00:25:37,880 I remember that they went exactly this way, exactly down 483 00:25:37,960 --> 00:25:42,359 to a last minute media drop of a vague claim 484 00:25:42,440 --> 00:25:46,599 that's very difficult to rebut laundered through like the finest 485 00:25:46,720 --> 00:25:51,000 journalism outlets. And I'm thinking, it's possible that Brett Kavanaugh, 486 00:25:51,240 --> 00:25:53,640 this person that everyone in DC kind of knows and 487 00:25:53,720 --> 00:25:57,480 has found to be a very very polite person, is 488 00:25:57,519 --> 00:26:01,039 also a serial gang rapist. That's certainly possible, but it's 489 00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:04,119 highly unlikely. And I'll be damned if I believe the 490 00:26:04,200 --> 00:26:07,079 Washington Post about this without much better evidence. Right, And 491 00:26:07,119 --> 00:26:10,400 so it's not just about recognizing the information AP but 492 00:26:10,480 --> 00:26:13,480 like being willing to fight the information OP as well. 493 00:26:14,200 --> 00:26:17,240 You know, anytime you see coordination of a similar message, 494 00:26:17,279 --> 00:26:19,799 you know, I think quite clearly the there's a lot 495 00:26:19,799 --> 00:26:23,079 of coordination going on right now with a message trying 496 00:26:23,119 --> 00:26:27,680 to get American troops to not follow orders of their superiors. 497 00:26:27,720 --> 00:26:30,720 This is actually very damaging to military cohesion. You can 498 00:26:30,759 --> 00:26:32,839 see it's an OP because everyone keeps on trying to 499 00:26:32,920 --> 00:26:35,839 drop stories that support it. But you need to not 500 00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:38,720 just recognize what's happening, but also fight it. 501 00:26:38,960 --> 00:26:41,359 Speaker 1: Yes, yes, And you make such a good point too 502 00:26:41,440 --> 00:26:45,640 about the Clarence Thomas thing, because these ops they just 503 00:26:45,720 --> 00:26:48,319 go round and around the same cul de sac, like 504 00:26:48,359 --> 00:26:51,000 we keep doing the same thing over and over, and 505 00:26:51,079 --> 00:26:53,119 so that's another way you can recognize them is that 506 00:26:53,440 --> 00:26:55,279 there's nothing new under the sun, and the same ops 507 00:26:55,319 --> 00:26:56,799 will recycle themselves eventually. 508 00:26:56,880 --> 00:27:01,079 Speaker 3: So I'm I think I'm probably like a lot of 509 00:27:01,319 --> 00:27:04,680 other people out there. Before I found The Federalist several 510 00:27:04,759 --> 00:27:08,400 years ago, I would scroll on socials and then you know, 511 00:27:08,480 --> 00:27:10,880 see a story and like is that true? And then 512 00:27:10,960 --> 00:27:13,960 have to go down this whole entire rabbit hole of 513 00:27:14,519 --> 00:27:16,799 trying to figure out what I just writ is it true, 514 00:27:16,880 --> 00:27:20,680 spending time I should not have spent on that when 515 00:27:20,680 --> 00:27:24,000 now I usually just go to our website, the Federalist 516 00:27:24,039 --> 00:27:25,880 dot Com and I just read and I'm like, yeah, 517 00:27:25,920 --> 00:27:27,720 that's all I have to do when I see anything 518 00:27:27,759 --> 00:27:29,680 silly is go see what the actual truth is on 519 00:27:29,720 --> 00:27:32,799 our website. It saves me hours a day just to 520 00:27:32,839 --> 00:27:34,200 go there now, which is great. 521 00:27:35,160 --> 00:27:37,519 Speaker 4: I love hearing it, And that's like what we're doing, 522 00:27:37,559 --> 00:27:39,359 you know, we invest a lot of time and not 523 00:27:39,519 --> 00:27:42,559 just having like a sense that maybe they're not telling 524 00:27:42,599 --> 00:27:46,000 the truth, but explaining why, having the facts that you 525 00:27:46,039 --> 00:27:49,839 could share with friends and family about why you believe 526 00:27:49,920 --> 00:27:53,440 the thing you believe. We've already done the work of 527 00:27:53,519 --> 00:27:56,640 explaining things and assessing things, and we're willing to you know, 528 00:27:56,640 --> 00:27:57,319 We're willing. 529 00:27:57,079 --> 00:27:58,559 Speaker 2: To say things that are difficult to say. 530 00:27:58,599 --> 00:28:00,839 Speaker 4: And I think that is inspired a lot of confidence 531 00:28:01,160 --> 00:28:04,720 in our reporting. It's not you know, opinion, it's reporting 532 00:28:04,839 --> 00:28:07,319 based on real things that it's you know, very hard 533 00:28:07,359 --> 00:28:09,359 to get done, but we're very proud to do it. 534 00:28:09,839 --> 00:28:12,039 Speaker 1: Yes, I think COVID is a really good example of 535 00:28:12,079 --> 00:28:13,720 this too, because I know there. 536 00:28:13,559 --> 00:28:15,960 Speaker 2: Was really a crisis of credibility. 537 00:28:15,359 --> 00:28:18,559 Speaker 1: That happened in that whole era where there were many 538 00:28:18,599 --> 00:28:22,279 Americans that's you know, the corporate media are lying to us, 539 00:28:22,279 --> 00:28:24,160 which yes, that is true, and that you know, that 540 00:28:24,279 --> 00:28:26,880 was the time that it was recognized the medical establishment 541 00:28:26,960 --> 00:28:29,759 is lying to us. You know, the public schools are 542 00:28:29,799 --> 00:28:32,240 lying to us. Everybody's lying to us. And so much 543 00:28:32,319 --> 00:28:34,839 was exposed during that era where people really just stopped, 544 00:28:35,119 --> 00:28:39,359 stopped inherently trusting institutions that they thought were inherently trustworthy 545 00:28:39,359 --> 00:28:42,440 because we realized actually they're not. But I think in 546 00:28:42,480 --> 00:28:44,519 the past few years we've seen this kind of like 547 00:28:45,119 --> 00:28:46,680 crisis where it's like, okay, well. 548 00:28:46,519 --> 00:28:47,839 Speaker 2: Then who do you believe? 549 00:28:47,920 --> 00:28:50,680 Speaker 1: And the thing is that, like not every single thing 550 00:28:50,799 --> 00:28:52,400 is a conspiracy theory, Like. 551 00:28:52,400 --> 00:28:54,359 Speaker 2: There actually is real truth. 552 00:28:54,839 --> 00:28:56,759 Speaker 1: And that's one thing that I love about the Federalist 553 00:28:56,839 --> 00:29:00,000 is that we don't just stop at distrusting the institute 554 00:29:00,599 --> 00:29:05,839 and asking good questions, but it's that there actually are 555 00:29:06,079 --> 00:29:08,279 facts that we can know and we can find out 556 00:29:08,319 --> 00:29:10,240 and those are the things that we deal in, is 557 00:29:10,279 --> 00:29:12,160 the facts and the truth. And that there's so much 558 00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:15,160 power in that because it gives people something to grab onto, 559 00:29:15,400 --> 00:29:19,559 not just to let go of. So that's really important Sarah. 560 00:29:19,640 --> 00:29:22,599 I keep hearing people talk about the Legacy Society at 561 00:29:22,640 --> 00:29:24,240 the Federalist but I don't know what that is. So 562 00:29:24,279 --> 00:29:27,039 can you share with our listeners what is the legacy society? 563 00:29:27,799 --> 00:29:28,119 Speaker 2: Her? 564 00:29:28,160 --> 00:29:31,759 Speaker 3: Of course, everyone that is a donor should be part 565 00:29:31,759 --> 00:29:35,000 of Legacy Society because if you're a donor, you believe 566 00:29:35,039 --> 00:29:35,559 in what. 567 00:29:35,400 --> 00:29:36,039 Speaker 4: We are doing. 568 00:29:36,160 --> 00:29:39,960 Speaker 3: And what that means is you've decided that you're going 569 00:29:40,039 --> 00:29:43,640 to leave a percentage of your estate to the Federalists. 570 00:29:43,799 --> 00:29:46,200 So when that time comes, you're going to make sure 571 00:29:46,319 --> 00:29:48,839 that we're going to be here for another one hundred 572 00:29:48,839 --> 00:29:52,079 and twenty years reporting this, that we are going to 573 00:29:52,119 --> 00:29:54,920 be a long standing entity, and you want to make 574 00:29:54,920 --> 00:29:57,440 sure that happens with part of your estate, with part 575 00:29:57,440 --> 00:30:00,799 of your trust. And it's very easy if you go 576 00:30:00,880 --> 00:30:03,200 to our website. We actually have a tool on there, 577 00:30:03,240 --> 00:30:05,480 so if you don't have your will done yet, there 578 00:30:05,640 --> 00:30:08,160 is a free tool and it helps you fill everything out. 579 00:30:08,440 --> 00:30:10,640 You get it done, you get it printed out, you 580 00:30:10,680 --> 00:30:13,000 send us a copy so we can recognize and thank you, 581 00:30:13,319 --> 00:30:15,759 and then you just go and have it signed by 582 00:30:15,799 --> 00:30:19,079 your attorney or any attorney and your will is done 583 00:30:19,119 --> 00:30:23,880 and then we're in it, and we very much appreciate that. 584 00:30:23,880 --> 00:30:26,599 Speaker 1: That's awesome. I didn't even know that was possible. So, yes, 585 00:30:26,680 --> 00:30:29,480 the Federalists will outlive a lot of the people listening 586 00:30:29,480 --> 00:30:34,640 to this. So that's that's great, Molly. So twenty twenty five, 587 00:30:34,799 --> 00:30:37,519 that's a wrap. We're now entering the new year. I'm 588 00:30:37,519 --> 00:30:40,880 curious what you think are the biggest stories our listeners 589 00:30:40,920 --> 00:30:44,000 can be watching for and the biggest things that the 590 00:30:44,039 --> 00:30:45,920 Federalist is going to have our finger on the pulse 591 00:30:45,960 --> 00:30:47,799 of Beside the midterms, which that's a big one that's 592 00:30:47,799 --> 00:30:48,799 coming up, but what else. 593 00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:52,279 Speaker 4: Well, I would actually say, if I can mention, midterms 594 00:30:52,279 --> 00:30:56,599 aren't a huge thing to cover, and next year is 595 00:30:56,680 --> 00:30:59,880 an election year. It's an important election year. I think 596 00:31:00,279 --> 00:31:02,720 there's a lot of prognosis that people have about what's 597 00:31:02,880 --> 00:31:06,319 likely to happen. Historically speaking, the party that is not 598 00:31:06,559 --> 00:31:11,039 in power would be expected to have huge gains. It's 599 00:31:11,079 --> 00:31:14,119 also true that the twenty twenty four election was a 600 00:31:14,160 --> 00:31:17,200 really important election for America. I think this is one 601 00:31:17,200 --> 00:31:19,680 of those things that we speak to at the Federalist. 602 00:31:20,480 --> 00:31:24,160 A lot of people who are in media are pretty 603 00:31:24,200 --> 00:31:27,480 comfortable with the status quo, and that's true, whether they 604 00:31:27,480 --> 00:31:31,720 are left wing corporate media or sometimes like establishment conservative media, 605 00:31:31,759 --> 00:31:34,440 they're actually just fine with the way things are going. 606 00:31:34,799 --> 00:31:36,599 But I think a lot of people in this country 607 00:31:36,640 --> 00:31:38,880 are very worried about the direction of the country. They 608 00:31:38,960 --> 00:31:41,839 really think that there have been some major problems that 609 00:31:41,880 --> 00:31:45,599 are putting the success of the republic in question. And 610 00:31:45,680 --> 00:31:50,519 so this isn't Every election is interesting in different ways. 611 00:31:50,599 --> 00:31:54,599 But I think that when people surprised so many people 612 00:31:54,640 --> 00:31:58,480 by re electing Donald Trump for this non consecutive second term, 613 00:31:58,759 --> 00:32:01,839 it was very much for a lot of people about 614 00:32:01,880 --> 00:32:06,200 a desire to make some important and radical change to 615 00:32:06,279 --> 00:32:08,880 some of the bad things that have been happening. And 616 00:32:08,960 --> 00:32:12,680 so House and Senate elections are very important for that because, 617 00:32:13,160 --> 00:32:17,319 you know, to be obvious about it, to have the 618 00:32:17,440 --> 00:32:19,880 change of the kind that a lot of people want. 619 00:32:21,839 --> 00:32:24,079 Who controls the House and who controls the Senate will 620 00:32:24,079 --> 00:32:26,440 have a lot to do with, you know, whether people 621 00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:29,279 are satisfied with the results, and so we will be 622 00:32:29,359 --> 00:32:32,839 investing a lot in covering the House and also just 623 00:32:33,079 --> 00:32:37,680 kind of helping people understand how normal people view these things, 624 00:32:37,720 --> 00:32:40,160 which is very different from how people in Washington, d c. 625 00:32:40,720 --> 00:32:44,119 Think about things. I just you know, prior to taping 626 00:32:44,160 --> 00:32:47,559 this was having a call with the very high elected 627 00:32:47,640 --> 00:32:51,240 person trying to convey what we hear from our readers 628 00:32:51,559 --> 00:32:54,519 and listeners on these topics. So that's one thing we 629 00:32:54,559 --> 00:32:58,680 will continue to be covering the law fare issues. It's 630 00:32:58,720 --> 00:33:00,960 actually like I wish we had had so many more 631 00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:03,680 reporters able to tackle this. I'm so thankful for the 632 00:33:03,720 --> 00:33:05,559 ones that we have and that we are able to 633 00:33:05,599 --> 00:33:09,359 have those reporters, but additional reporters mean you can do additional, 634 00:33:09,960 --> 00:33:13,440 much needed work on some of these, like very important 635 00:33:13,720 --> 00:33:17,920 issues related to these massive document releases that we're getting 636 00:33:18,359 --> 00:33:21,559 from out of the FBI and dj things that we 637 00:33:21,599 --> 00:33:23,640 have worked for for a long time through our own 638 00:33:23,759 --> 00:33:27,880 Foyer requests, our Freedom of Information Act requests where we're 639 00:33:27,920 --> 00:33:31,240 trying to get information from different agencies, and then also 640 00:33:31,599 --> 00:33:34,799 through our reporting with Congressional committees and other people, and 641 00:33:34,880 --> 00:33:39,079 so we will continue to show an ongoing issue, which 642 00:33:39,119 --> 00:33:41,519 is the corruption of the Department of Justice and FBI. 643 00:33:41,920 --> 00:33:44,960 What we've seen is that and what our reporting I 644 00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:47,039 anticipate will show in the coming year because we have 645 00:33:47,079 --> 00:33:50,839 so much that I'm working on with other reporters on this, 646 00:33:51,480 --> 00:33:53,759 is that the Department of Justice and the FBI they 647 00:33:53,759 --> 00:33:57,759 have wide discretion in how they go after targets of 648 00:33:57,799 --> 00:34:02,319 investigations or how they prosecute people, and that is appropriate. 649 00:34:02,400 --> 00:34:06,160 You want wide discretion, but you need people of good 650 00:34:06,240 --> 00:34:08,599 character to make sure that they are not biased in 651 00:34:08,639 --> 00:34:12,199 how they apply that discretion. And what we're seeing in 652 00:34:12,239 --> 00:34:14,039 our reporting, and we'll have more of this in the 653 00:34:14,079 --> 00:34:17,039 coming weeks and months, is that when it came to 654 00:34:17,199 --> 00:34:21,239 political allies of the FBI and Department of Justice, they 655 00:34:21,239 --> 00:34:25,480 did everything in their power to protect them, and when 656 00:34:25,519 --> 00:34:29,360 it came to their opponents, they did everything in their 657 00:34:29,480 --> 00:34:33,360 power to prosecute them, to investigate and prosecute them to 658 00:34:33,400 --> 00:34:36,360 the fullest extent of the law. That's an ongoing story. 659 00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:43,039 It's something that whether whether Republican wins after Trump leaves 660 00:34:43,039 --> 00:34:45,239 office or not, this is something that's going to require 661 00:34:45,840 --> 00:34:49,639 massive change if we want to have a healthy republic. 662 00:34:49,880 --> 00:34:53,880 And the only way to provoke action or not, the 663 00:34:53,920 --> 00:34:55,840 only way, one of the ways to provoke action is 664 00:34:55,880 --> 00:34:58,800 to paint a picture of how bad the situation is. 665 00:34:58,880 --> 00:35:03,159 And so we're working on that law fair We're you know, 666 00:35:03,239 --> 00:35:06,719 continuing to cover other issues related to courts, such as 667 00:35:06,800 --> 00:35:08,440 what's happening at the Supreme Court, there are a lot 668 00:35:08,480 --> 00:35:13,079 of really important issues. And I have written co written 669 00:35:13,119 --> 00:35:16,000 a book on the Kavanaugh confirmation, and I have written 670 00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:18,000 a book that will be coming out in April on 671 00:35:18,639 --> 00:35:22,199 Justice Alito's life and jurisprudence. And what that means is 672 00:35:22,199 --> 00:35:23,800 I get to talk to a lot of people who 673 00:35:23,880 --> 00:35:26,320 are at the court, at the Supreme Court, and one 674 00:35:26,320 --> 00:35:29,800 of the things I've learned is that we are very 675 00:35:29,920 --> 00:35:32,199 well read by a lot of the clerks and other 676 00:35:32,280 --> 00:35:36,400 important people at the Court, and so, you know, continuing 677 00:35:36,440 --> 00:35:39,639 to cover those cases and provide arguments that can be 678 00:35:39,679 --> 00:35:43,239 cited in opinions and whatnot that like continues to be 679 00:35:43,360 --> 00:35:45,480 very important and will continue to do that as well. 680 00:35:46,679 --> 00:35:48,840 Speaker 1: If I can just add to the ongoing stories, I 681 00:35:48,840 --> 00:35:51,000 think immigration will continue to be a huge thing in 682 00:35:51,039 --> 00:35:54,199 twenty twenty six. And I know a lot Americans are 683 00:35:55,000 --> 00:35:57,199 happy about the deportations, but there's a lot more that 684 00:35:57,239 --> 00:36:00,480 can be done, and just what the future this country 685 00:36:00,480 --> 00:36:02,440 looks like as it relates to immigration, and just even 686 00:36:02,559 --> 00:36:07,159 how it's how it's manifesting across the country. I mean, 687 00:36:07,199 --> 00:36:09,719 the Somali fraud was a huge thing in Minnesota, but 688 00:36:09,760 --> 00:36:11,960 that's replicated across the country, and I think we're just 689 00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:14,400 going to continue to see more and more stories about that, 690 00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:17,079 and hopefully at the Federalists be able to continue to 691 00:36:17,119 --> 00:36:19,440 put more and more pressure on the administration and other 692 00:36:19,480 --> 00:36:21,599 people who have the power to do something about it, 693 00:36:22,079 --> 00:36:23,800 because it's important issue. 694 00:36:24,119 --> 00:36:24,679 Speaker 2: Yeah. 695 00:36:24,440 --> 00:36:28,400 Speaker 4: On that point, one of our great senior contributors, Benjamin Weingarten, 696 00:36:28,719 --> 00:36:31,679 wrote a book on ilan Omar and some of these 697 00:36:31,840 --> 00:36:34,199 issues that we were able to publish on, you know, 698 00:36:34,280 --> 00:36:38,519 years ago. It's great that people are starting to pay 699 00:36:38,559 --> 00:36:41,400 more attention to some of this stuff, and we are 700 00:36:41,920 --> 00:36:44,840 absolutely we've been at the cutting edge of looking at 701 00:36:45,159 --> 00:36:48,199 problems with the lack of border enforcement or with what 702 00:36:48,320 --> 00:36:50,239 needs to happen going forward as well. 703 00:36:51,199 --> 00:36:55,280 Speaker 1: Yeah, well, we're going to wrap up here pretty quick. 704 00:36:55,320 --> 00:36:58,679 But I do have to ask Sarah. I see that 705 00:36:58,719 --> 00:37:01,800 we have a new Federalist store. So, and I mostly 706 00:37:01,840 --> 00:37:05,239 see this because our colleague Sean Fleetwood, who is a 707 00:37:05,280 --> 00:37:07,960 super fan of Clarence Thomas, has pointed out over and 708 00:37:07,960 --> 00:37:10,000 over again that we have a Clarence Thomas T shirt 709 00:37:10,039 --> 00:37:13,079 in the store. But I see there is other merch too, 710 00:37:13,119 --> 00:37:15,199 So can you tell us about the store, what people 711 00:37:15,199 --> 00:37:16,800 can find in it and where they can find it? 712 00:37:17,639 --> 00:37:17,960 Speaker 2: Sure. 713 00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:20,480 Speaker 3: If you go to the Federalist dot com, it is 714 00:37:20,559 --> 00:37:24,119 on there. It says shop very proud of this. There 715 00:37:24,119 --> 00:37:28,239 are products for everyone on there. There's onesies for babies 716 00:37:28,599 --> 00:37:32,519 up to sweatshirts and T shirts. I will say that 717 00:37:32,920 --> 00:37:35,159 we did go out of the box because we kind 718 00:37:35,199 --> 00:37:37,880 of are out of the box in thinking that you know, 719 00:37:37,960 --> 00:37:40,920 some of them are conversation starters. I will tell you 720 00:37:41,039 --> 00:37:43,760 I am wearing one of them and when I wear 721 00:37:43,800 --> 00:37:47,840 those out, it starts conversations. Maybe I won't wear it 722 00:37:47,880 --> 00:37:51,159 to Target, but we'll see. But we have hats, we 723 00:37:51,280 --> 00:37:55,719 have everything there. There's bags, there's cups. One of my 724 00:37:55,840 --> 00:38:00,519 daughters has the little air pod earpod things the case. So, 725 00:38:00,639 --> 00:38:02,920 like I said, there's something for everybody there, and it 726 00:38:03,039 --> 00:38:06,119 just kind of shows that you support us, that you 727 00:38:06,199 --> 00:38:09,119 want to have those conversations. I mean, there's enough people 728 00:38:09,119 --> 00:38:10,880 out there that it's just our logo that they're not 729 00:38:10,880 --> 00:38:12,920 gonna they're not gonna yell at you unless you're wearing 730 00:38:12,960 --> 00:38:16,920 something a little bit more controversial like me. But it's 731 00:38:16,960 --> 00:38:21,400 all great quality. It is helping us in supporting us 732 00:38:21,440 --> 00:38:23,840 as well, and it's just another way to be vocal 733 00:38:23,920 --> 00:38:26,559 that you support the Federalist and that you are a 734 00:38:26,599 --> 00:38:27,239 lover of. 735 00:38:27,119 --> 00:38:28,719 Speaker 4: Freedom and you're anxious for the fray. 736 00:38:29,079 --> 00:38:31,840 Speaker 1: M hm, Sarah, I think Target is exactly where you 737 00:38:31,840 --> 00:38:36,719 should be wearing that yurt be my next stop. Everybody, 738 00:38:36,760 --> 00:38:39,400 go check out the Federalist Store. Definitely be repping the 739 00:38:39,400 --> 00:38:43,400 Federalist brand wherever you go Target and elsewhere. Go join 740 00:38:43,480 --> 00:38:45,760 the Federalist Foundation. See how you can support us in 741 00:38:45,800 --> 00:38:47,920 twenty twenty six, and keep looking for all of our 742 00:38:47,960 --> 00:38:50,000 great reporting in the new year. I'm so excited to 743 00:38:50,039 --> 00:38:52,360 see what stories we're gonna break this year. It's gonna 744 00:38:52,400 --> 00:38:54,960 it's gonna be a good one. Sarah Molly, thank you 745 00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:56,800 both so much for joining me today. It was truly 746 00:38:56,880 --> 00:38:58,920 a blast having you both here in the studio. 747 00:39:00,320 --> 00:39:01,039 Speaker 2: Loved being here. 748 00:39:01,440 --> 00:39:03,039 Speaker 3: Thank you, Kyle, I appreciate it. 749 00:39:07,880 --> 00:39:09,800 Speaker 1: Thank you so much for tuning in to this week's 750 00:39:09,840 --> 00:39:12,519 episode of The Kylie Cast. If you haven't done so yet, 751 00:39:12,599 --> 00:39:15,559 please like and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. 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