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my friends, I hope that I don't get too far
down into the weeds the political I said that to
to Jonas right before the show, state said, wait, what
are you smoking weed? No, I'm not smoking weed. I
haven't smoked weed since I was a young thing. And
when I did smoke, I inhaled unlike billy blue dress.
But that has been decades and decades and decades and
even more decades ago. What about edibles, don't do it.
That's your generation. And no vaping of that stuff either,
that's your generation, my friend. But I hope I don't
get too fear in weeeze because some things have happened
overnight that I think I would like to try to
put in a context, namely, what is going on with
the Senate parliamentarian and how that's affecting the big beautiful
bill and all of that stuff. I will say that
for the next two days you can expect ladies and gentlemen,
that the courts are going to dominate political headlines. I
know what happened in New York is still a big deal,
and yes, it is going to continue to be a
big deal. There are stories about the panic that some
national Democrats find themselves in right now. In fact, I
hope I can get to this story today. If not,
I'll hold it till tomorrow. This woman, this freshman Senator
Slotkin out of Michigan, is now presenting herself as a
centrist and she's come up with a centrist plan. She
made a big speech today and why how Democrats can
reclaim the political censors. They're not going to listen to her,
but it's still fun to see, including in her things,
stop vilifying the rich, things like that. So you know
automatically that they will never stop. They will never listen
to her. But she's actually seeing some points that the
Democrats are hurting themselves. This guy that they have in
New York is not going to help them, and he
may end up being the mayor, which would be a
scary thing. But we had a ruling this morning from
the Supreme Court about planned parenthood, which I totally celebrated.
The ruling sixty three ruling the three liberal ladies on
the Supreme Court. I have to watch myself not to
say certain things that might sound disrespectful. The three liberal
justice ses As ladies held firm, so to speak, and
they were outvoted by six sixty three decision. South Carolina.
South Carolina wanted to say that South Carolina basically wanted
to defund the Planned Parenthood and the Supreme Court pretty
much went along with it. Of course, liberals are having
a conniption fit about that Planned Parenthood, you see, draws
more than a third of the revenue that they get
from God grants, contracts and Medicaid reimbursements for quote unquote
non abortion care. But South Carolina said, listen, we are
going to pretty much disallow Planned Parenthood from collecting medicaid.
And the Supreme Court went along with it. So big
deal there. That was a big case. There are six
other cases that are left and tomorrow is it tomorrow,
Supreme unless they do last year, they went to the
end and then they decided the case in July, early July.
That almost never happens. Usually the end of the June
is it for the Supreme Court. There we're out of
here with Glenna vacation. See you leda alligator, don't smile crocodiles,
We're out. So, if the pattern holds true the usual pattern,
Tomorrow will be the last day of this session of
the Supreme Court. In the final days, the biggest decision
that is going to be made in this term will
be the birthright citizenship case. And that not only because
it is the birthright citizen case, but because the issue
involves whether these local judges, these district judges can issue
nationwide injunctions that is at the heart of this birthright case.
And so the Supreme Court can actually and this is
I think what people are expecting, the Supreme Court can
finally clamp down on this over judicious use of injunctions.
Court observers also believe that the Court is likely to
side with Maryland parents in a religious rights case over
some of these lgbt Q plus whatever whatever books that
are in school. Some of them are nothing more. And
I'm not saying all of them. I have not read
all of them. I haven't read any of them. Frankly,
it's not wane of interest there in terms of books.
And I don't have to read to the younguines I
have youngins their parents read to them, And in fact,
my nephew was reading one of these books to his
son and they had to stop reading it midway and
start trying to make up a story, because all of
a sudden it turned in for what was supposed to
be a very benign kind of book started turning into
a story about two little boys. What about what did
luxurious hair a boy wanting long, luxurious girly hair, all right,
excuse me, same difference anyway, and a purple wig a
boy wanted. Yeah, so, same difference in doctrination anyway. The
case in Maryland County, and of course it comes from
Montgomery County, which is the most liberal I have talked
about this before. Montgomery County might as well be in California, Kate.
It is the same kind of mentality there that you
get in liberal infested California, and that liberals have overrun.
Conservatives don't even they don't stand a chance in Montgomery County.
Some of the most ridiculous things that come out of
the East Coast come out of Montgomery County. Maryland. Prince
and Knight and Uncle Bobby's wedding, Uh, introduce those storybooks
and there. You know, parents should want to be able
to opt out, and Maryland Montgomery County says, no, you
cannot as a parent your kid out of this of
these subject materials. No, we're going to force you and
force your kid to have to participate in this. Oh,
that's a the Supreme Court. Hopefully by the end of
tomorrow parents will be able to object to some of
the things that the liberals in Montgomery County want to
shove down kid's throats. Also, a three year battle goes
on in over borders in Louisiana. It's more election stuff.
And there's a Texas law that's got up from the
Supreme Court and the blocking kids from seeing online pornography.
Do you honestly think that, yes, there are forces in
America that want to be able to preserve the right
of kids to view online pornography. Now, yeah, more court stuff.
This I love. I will stand up and cheer. Oh,
I'm gonna get to the Senate stuff, folks. This Sendate
stuff gets in the weeds because in order to really
understand what's going on in the Senate, and I don't
know how much in the weeds I can get in
this stuff. To Dad, I'd love to do the whole thing,
but I could do two shows on it because it
takes you back to the reconciliation bills which were put
in place to reduce the deficit. They have done nothing
but expand the deficit. But the reconciliing Aation bill process
nineteen seventy four is where all this stuff started. Then
it gets into the bird rule, and the bird rule
gets into why now you have this pulitarian Ms McDonald
who is saying no, yet, you can't do that, and
only and people Republicans have ticked off. They're saying, fire
this woman. Some of them fire her. So I did
some research. When has a Senate parliamentarian been fired? It
has happened, and I was shocked. And who did it?
Trent Lot fired the Senate parliamentarian back in the day,
Harry Reid. Harry Reid who said that Obama was good,
Obama was Let me see how he said. He speaks
the Negro dialect and he's articulate. Yes, that's Senate Democrat,
former Democrat deceased now Senate Majority leader Harry Reid. Harry
Reid appointed this parliamentarian. But it gets a little complex. Meanwhile,
let me just get to this. Since we were on Maryland,
Hollan Lujah Justice Department, Pam Bondi's Justice Department is now
suing fifteen federal district court judges in Maryland. The entire
Maryland bunch is now under a lawsuit. Legal experts describe
this as an unprecedented quote unquote attack on judicial independence.
It is nothing. It is actually a defense of executive power,
is what it is not an attack on the judiciary.
Longtime court watch, you say, they could not recall another
instance in which the Justice Department, which usually represents members
of the judicial branch in court, sue the entire roster
of judges in a district. Well, there are good reasons,
and you have this guy who's a Trump hater, This
j Michael Luddig used to be on the Court of
Appeals from on the Fourth Circuit. He says, it's reckless
and irresponsible and yet another direct frontal assault on the
federal courts of this country. The federal courts have been
doing nothing but frontal and backwards and sideways attacked on
Donald Trump. And right now, enough is enough. Now it
may interest you to learn a little bit about this district.
The Governor Maryland Westmore. He's upset after blatantly violating judicial
orders and directing personal attack on individual judges. The White
House is turning our constitution on its head by suing
the judges themselves. There is no constitutional prohibition against the
executive branch suing the judicial members of the judiciary for overreach.
I don't know what he's talking about, but here's the thing,
when you really come down to what's going on with
these Maryland judges, check this out as reported. I think
was it wa pos? Yeah, yeah, this is the Washington
Post story. Unlike other judicial districts with a mix of
Democratic and Republican nominee serving on the bench, thirteen of
the fifteen federal judges sitting in Maryland were nominated by
Presidents Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, or Joe Biden, all Democrats.
Two judges were nominated by Republicans, one Trump, the other
Bush forty three. They're all Democrats, and they're all partisan hacks,
and so not all of them. I should take that.
I don't know all of them. Haven't read every ruling,
but the ones that have been coming out appear to
be partisan in nature. Self corrected and the DOJ has
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The Justice Department just said, hey, you know what this
guy uh, but I got to see it. We are
going to deport him, not to not back to El Salvado,
we listen to him to a third country. And now
Democrat judges the scheming that's going on to protect this
immigrant in Nashville. The judge down there said, okay, you
can release, but then she's keeping him in custody a
few more days so that ICE can't get him. She's
afraid ICE is going to deport him anyway. That's not
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Speaker 1: Birthday to Day from Mick Jones, guitarist and singer with
the class Yes, of course, is there a Big One?
Nineteen ninety one was first released in eighty two, went
to number one across the Pond in nineteen ninety one.
It's amazing. Yeah, the clash should I stay or should
I go? All right, now, let's get really quick. We
got so much audio and I want to get to
some of it because but I gotta just do a
little bit of this even if we don't get to
it all. Senate pulitarian Elizabeth McDonald has rejected key Medicaid
provisions in the Senate GOP Big Beautiful Bill, and she
did that on the grounds of course this, if this holds,
this is going to be huge because the bill has
to go back for recons aciliation with the House, and
she shot down a provision in it that proposes to
cap state's use of health care provider taxes to collect
more federal medicaid funding, a provision that is championed by
the Conservatives, and that would generate billions of dollars in
savings in medicaid. Of course, that comes at the same
time as part of this bill where there are tax cuts.
Now she is one of six, this woman. There were
instantly calls for her to be fired. She was appointed
Senate parliamentarian in twenty twelve, first woman, but only the
sixth parliamentarian. Ever, so how did we get to here?
How do we get to wear a woman? This woman?
And it doesn't matter that she's a woman, but this person,
who is not elected by anybody, by anybody, has so
much power. Well, the first thing, obviously, and many of
you know this, the Senate doesn't have to listen to her.
The parliamentarian is an advisory role. It has been in
place since nineteen thirty five. But it's strictly an advisory role.
They advise. Not only do they advise on things like this,
but when you see, for instance, if you ever watch
c Span two and you watch the Senate and you
see whoever's doing the pro tempt work that day, some
of them don't know exactly what they're doing, and they
always lean over and a person's talking to them. That's
the parliamentarian letting them know what the Senate rules are
on certain things, what the process is. Now, this woman
was a lawyer. Her job there is to interpret Senate
rules and procedures. She's also known as that person advising
on the process for counting the Electoral College certificates and
most of her rulings like most of these, and this
is when the parliamentarian comes up. It's always nine times
out of ten when they make the news it's about
the bird rule. Well, what is the bird rule? If
I would have explained the bird rule in death, we'd
be here to in depth. We would be here until tomorrow.
The bird rule is a process that happens during reconciliation.
Reconciliation is a procedure under the Congressional Budget Act of
nineteen seventy four. None of this exist the way it
is now nineteen seventy four. Nineteen seventy four, which deals
with mainly spending and revenue bills, and believe it or not,
the Reconciliation Bill rules were put in place so that
we could get to smaller deficits trillions and trillions of
dollars of more deficit spending later were still not there.
But that's where these rules come in. And the skinny
of it is that in this reconciliation process, what happened
was that senators were throwing in all kinds of things
in these beautiful bills, like ear marks, like other things
that had really nothing to do with deficit reduction or
any So Senator Bird and a few of his cronies
got together and they made a rule. They defined six
different provisions of what constitutes eraneous matter, and that stuff
means if you have stuff that wasn't germane to the bill,
then it could be excluded the person that And there's
a long complicated which we could get into, but I won't.
There's a complicated process to bring the point of order
so that then you can say, okay, is this a
Bird rule situation. That process was going through and it
was determined that yes, this medicate spinning was a parliamentary issue.
That's why the parliamentary made the decision that she made.
But this Bird rule, by the way, was about it
didn't state as a permanent rule until the nineties. Had
been a lot of tweaks on it, but it began
in nineteen eighty five, and the purpose of the amendment
was to protect the effectiveness of the reconciliation process by
avoiding and getting rid of things that weren't germane to
what was needed for reconciliation, which was supposed to be
how do you cut the deficit according to the deficit
the Reconciliation Bill of nineteen seventy four. So he says,
I said, this stuff gets into weeds. But anyway, long
story short, people are demanding fire her, fire her, fire her.
Thune has said today he's not going to do that. Now.
The parlitarians are the parliamentarians are supposed to be nonpartisan.
Has Elizabeth McDonald McDonald ruled in a nonpartisan way? One
could make the argument that she has. She has hurt
Democrat ideologues too with some of her rulings, including one
you might remember where the Democrats wanted to force through
this phony immigration reform under budget reconciliation, some of the
provisions and she just said, nope, nope, nope, not allowed,
birdru doesn't allow. Democrats were furious, furious with her, the
same way Republicans today are furious with her. Republicans have
the right, if they so choose and by the way,
in researching this, I went through all the history of
how minority leaders and when minority leaders and majority leaders
came through. You know that stuff didn't start till the
nineteen twenties. The country operated fine without. All of this
current structure that you would see in the Senate has
been layered on from the last hundred years or so,
a lot of it. But there is a double edged
sword in firing a parliamentarian that does rule against both sides.
One day your side's going to be out of power too.
I'm not saying what they should do. I'm saying that
there are arguments two and for. But Republicans do have
the power to get rid of to ask their Senate
majority leader to get rid of this woman. And I
have not had time to do enough research to go
through yet. I am looking at it all of the
rulings that she's made to see whether there is a
bias that is clear present and showing. So that's the
long and short version of in the Weeds. But one day,
if I had time where I really want to pour
through this whole reconciliation process, I'm gonna tell you something, folks.
Everything that is set up now in Congress is set
up to do things the easy way. I keep saying,
and I have been saying, Congress needs a return to
regular order. We had thirteen different appropriations bills that used
to get handled one at a time. A lot of
this stuff would be avoided if there was a serious
return to regular order, bills passed, individuals signed and not
shoved into these big omnibus packages that require under the
rule reconciliation. So, okay, there's it in the weeds today.
Let's leave the weeds. Let's get on with Pete. Pete
haiksssescorts the media. Boy, my phone was like breaking this morning.
Princess Died was texting me. It was like, this is
this press is fantastic. At the time I was occupied,
it was like, what's going on? What's going on? I
had to look and see what's going on? Well, this
is what was going on this morning.
Speaker 7: Because you, and I mean specifically you, the press, specifically
you the press court, because you cheer against Trump so hard.
It's like in your DNA and in your blood, cheer
against Trump because you want him not to be successful
so bad. You have to cheer against the efficacy of
these strikes.
Speaker 3: You have to hope.
Speaker 7: Maybe they weren't effective, Maybe the way the Trump administration
is representative isn't true. So let's take half truths, spun information,
leaked information, and then spin it, spin it in every
way we can to try to cause doubt and manipulate
the public mind over whether or not our brave pilots
were successful.
Speaker 5: How many stories have.
Speaker 7: Been written about how hard it is to, I don't know,
fly a plane for thirty six hours?
Speaker 5: Has MSNBC done that story? As Fox?
Speaker 7: Have we done the story how hard that is? Have
we done it two or three times? So that American
people understand? How about how difficult it is to shoot
a drone from an F fifteen or sixteen, or F
twenty two or F thirty five, or what it's like
to man a Patriot battery, or how hard it is
to refuel mid air, giving the American people an understanding
of how complex and.
Speaker 5: Sophisticated this mission really was.
Speaker 7: There are so many aspects of what our brave men
and women did that because.
Speaker 5: Of the hatred of this press.
Speaker 7: Corps are undermined because your people are trying to leak
and spin that it wasn't successful.
Speaker 5: It's irresponsible.
Speaker 7: And folks in this room are privy to that information
because of the proximity here in the Pentagon. It's an
important response ability, and time and time again, classified information
is leaked or pedaled for political purposes to try to
make the president look bad. And what's really happening is
you're undermining the success of incredible B two pilots and
incredible F thirty five pilots, and incredible refuelers and incredible
air defenders who accomplish their mission set back a nuclear
program in.
Speaker 5: Ways that other presidents would have dreamed. How about we
celebrate that.
Speaker 7: How about we talk about how special America is that
we only we have these capabilities.
Speaker 5: I think it's too much to ask.
Speaker 7: Unfortunately for the fake news, so we're used to that,
but we also have an opportunity to stand at the
podium and read the truth of what's really happening.
Speaker 5: And the reality is.
Speaker 7: You want to call it destroyed, you want to call
it defeated, you want to call it obliterated.
Speaker 5: Choose your word. This was an historically successful attack and
we should celebrate it as Americans, and it gives us
a chance to have peace, chance to have a deal,
and an opportunity to prevent a nuclear Iran, which is
something President Trump talked about for twenty years.
Speaker 1: That was just the start of it. I have more.
I just don't have time to play it today, So
I'm going to hold the rest until tomorrow. If I
have to choose one other thing to play, very briefly today,
I want to play Chris Cuomo going off on the
Democrat Party cut six Chris Cuomo today.
Speaker 8: How do you keep them from having the new impeach
Trump is the opposite of having a better idea. You're
killing your party. You're killing your party. And look, I
hope it works out for you. I hope you guys
splinter off and become, you know, whatever you really are
because you're not a capitalist and you're not a Democrat,
and you know you can say, well, what do you know?
I was raised by a real one. I was raised
by a real one. Go ahead and criticize Mario Cuomo.
What's going to be your biggest insult? They spawned me
and Andrew? Is that going to be the best you have?
Because you ain't compared to him, not in terms of intelligence,
not in terms of success, not in terms of pedigree,
not in terms of philosophy, not in terms of mission,
not in terms of eloquence, not in terms of charisma,
not in terms of anything, certainly not electability. You are
killing your party because you are not a real one,
because you're doing what's good for you in a vacuum
with your little social media following. You no different than
a pod bro, and you're killing your party. And Democrats
better wake the up and realize that you're better than
this b with the eighty not the twenty.
Speaker 1: Okay, yes, Chris a little Hot Birthday to Day also
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Speaker 9: So I didn't vote for Trump, but I'm beginning to
wish I did, because in the last five or so
days he bombed Aran, destroyed the nuclear capabilities, broken or
peace deal, and said on CNN.
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Billy Davis Junior and his wife Marilyn McCoo, we're both
members of the Fifth Dimension. After the Fifth Dimension Days,
they went on to do several records as the duo
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You don't have to be a star Wars there, Big One.
I hope we get to love and time. But I'll
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they're quite the couple. Happy birthday, Billy Davis Jr. James
gon Is thirty. Before we get out of here, let
me just play you one other thing. This is out
of LA. There's the La Tenant Union. Here's a CBS
report on what they're up to.
Speaker 10: Its continue. The LA Tenants Union is calling for an
eviction moratorium. They say thousands of immigrants will be unable
to pay their bills come July first because avoiding detainment
is taking priority over going to work.
Speaker 11: This militarization of our community, this occupation of our community,
this terrorizing of our communities have closed down, businesses, have
taken away, street vendors, have separated families, and then people
cannot pay their rent. They have barely the minimum to survive.
We need the city to put a rent frees. We
need the city to protect tenants that are going to
be suffering this first of July one, they're going to
be receiving three day notice this because they cannot pay
the rent.
Speaker 10: The union is also calling for a citywide day of
action and organization on July the first.
Speaker 1: So now, in addition to everything else, that legal residents
of not just LA but the country, but specifically LA.
Now legal residents of LA should pay, because that's who pay.
They say, this city should, the city should. The city
does with taxpayer money. The city doesn't print their own
dollar bills. City takes dollar bills from people who pay
the taxes. So now the people that actually are in
Los Angeles, legal citizens of the United States of America
should now be forced to pay the rent because it's
not just like, okay, there's a rent moraitory. And we
saw this during COVID days. As much as they would
like to tell the landlords to shove it where the
sun doesn't shine. They can't. They have to try to
come up with some way to offer some compensation. And
what is who pays for that? You do, the taxpayers.
So now on top of everything else, it's your fault.
You are terrorizing people that break the law, and now
you should pay their rint. We gotta go. May God,
let's protect each and every single one of you. Your family's,
your loved one. God's willing. We're back here tomorrow. Bye.
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