WEBVTT 1 00:00:24.719 --> 00:00:28.480 And Hi, how are you welcome to the Big Podcast. 2 00:00:28.519 --> 00:00:33.240 It's Wednesday. Today is the eighth day of October, year 3 00:00:33.280 --> 00:00:36.320 of Our Lord twenty twenty five. My name is Tom Sullivan. 4 00:00:36.920 --> 00:00:41.600 And another busy day, no question about it. We've got 5 00:00:41.640 --> 00:00:44.119 the Well we we'll update you a little bit on 6 00:00:44.520 --> 00:00:47.799 the shutdown. Yeah, they're still shutdown, but some of the 7 00:00:47.840 --> 00:00:50.399 things that are going on behind the scenes are interesting. 8 00:00:51.280 --> 00:00:54.079 Oh and you might want to know that the President 9 00:00:54.159 --> 00:01:00.399 today said that he was ordering the Internal Revenue SIRERVIS 10 00:01:01.079 --> 00:01:06.519 the group we love the IRS, to furlough thirty seven 11 00:01:06.760 --> 00:01:13.920 thousand people. So I looked it up. That's about fifty percent. 12 00:01:14.000 --> 00:01:17.920 That will lead the IRS with thirty nine thousand, but 13 00:01:18.040 --> 00:01:22.159 thirty seven thousand are being furloughed, and furloughed means they're 14 00:01:22.680 --> 00:01:26.680 basically sent home because apparently the IRS was one of 15 00:01:26.719 --> 00:01:33.359 those essential government agencies and they're not that essential apparently, 16 00:01:33.359 --> 00:01:36.599 because he said basically telling half of them to go home. 17 00:01:36.879 --> 00:01:39.000 So if you're trying to do business with the IRS 18 00:01:39.319 --> 00:01:43.000 right now in any way, shape or form, don't count 19 00:01:43.040 --> 00:01:46.120 on a fast response. But about half of so, I 20 00:01:46.159 --> 00:01:49.359 don't know what you know the innu window was, Was 21 00:01:49.400 --> 00:01:53.560 that a bunch of them would be fired, but today 22 00:01:53.640 --> 00:01:57.599 that did not happen. He furloughed thirty seven thousand, leaving 23 00:01:57.680 --> 00:02:03.599 thirty nine thousand. There, we've got Katie Porter story. She's 24 00:02:03.680 --> 00:02:06.760 running for governor of California. She was a congresswoman from 25 00:02:07.760 --> 00:02:13.000 Orange County, California, and she's just I don't like her, 26 00:02:13.120 --> 00:02:14.840 but I'll share with you the fact that a bunch 27 00:02:14.879 --> 00:02:18.599 of Democrats are also and she's a Democrat, that she. 28 00:02:20.599 --> 00:02:21.120 Arrogant. 29 00:02:21.280 --> 00:02:24.800 We'll play. We'll give you an example. James Comey was 30 00:02:24.960 --> 00:02:31.800 indicted today in federal court and in Alexandria, Virginia, across 31 00:02:31.840 --> 00:02:34.599 the river from the Capitol. So we'll get into the 32 00:02:34.680 --> 00:02:41.800 lawyers talking about that and the LA fire, the Palisades 33 00:02:41.840 --> 00:02:46.240 fire that was back in January. They have made an arrest, 34 00:02:46.319 --> 00:02:49.800 and it fascinates me that they can find through all 35 00:02:49.879 --> 00:02:52.960 that rubble and all that ash, how they can go 36 00:02:53.039 --> 00:02:57.479 back and figure out who was the person responsible for 37 00:02:57.520 --> 00:03:01.719 that fire. But let's start with the shut down, because 38 00:03:02.520 --> 00:03:08.120 Chuck Schumer was talking about it today and so was 39 00:03:08.159 --> 00:03:12.240 Senator Kennedy. But the airline part of it, I don't 40 00:03:12.240 --> 00:03:15.120 know whether you have travel if you're on traveling our 41 00:03:15.159 --> 00:03:19.840 business or you're on vacation, but the airlines are a mess. 42 00:03:19.840 --> 00:03:24.360 Pete Mundine, who covers aviation it was talking giving a 43 00:03:24.400 --> 00:03:25.879 report on it earlier today. 44 00:03:25.919 --> 00:03:28.400 Listening well, it's important to note that the Newark Approach 45 00:03:28.400 --> 00:03:31.560 Control facility, which is actually in Philadelphia, has been plagued 46 00:03:31.560 --> 00:03:35.159 by staffing shortages for months, although it is rare that 47 00:03:35.199 --> 00:03:38.680 we see it make the list published by the FAA 48 00:03:39.080 --> 00:03:41.240 during the morning shift. You know we are not out 49 00:03:41.280 --> 00:03:44.719 of the woods yet when it comes to controllers calling 50 00:03:44.759 --> 00:03:48.599 out sick. During this government shutdown, and just yesterday we 51 00:03:48.680 --> 00:03:53.039 saw a huge list from the FAA of staffing shortages 52 00:03:53.039 --> 00:03:59.879 and places where we normally don't see staffing shortages Houston, Dallas, Indianapolis, Philadelphia, Boston, Atlanta. 53 00:04:00.719 --> 00:04:04.479 The problems were so bad at some major airports like 54 00:04:04.560 --> 00:04:09.800 Chicago O'Hare and Nashville that the FAA actually had delay 55 00:04:09.919 --> 00:04:13.400 flights going into those airports. There was a ground stop 56 00:04:13.560 --> 00:04:17.000 in place for Nashville, about a quarter of all flights 57 00:04:17.040 --> 00:04:21.040 delayed at Chicago O'Hare, not near as dramatic as what 58 00:04:21.079 --> 00:04:24.800 we saw on Monday. The control tower at Hollywood Burbank 59 00:04:25.000 --> 00:04:29.040 International Airport had to go completely dark because of short 60 00:04:29.040 --> 00:04:30.639 staffing in the control tower. 61 00:04:30.680 --> 00:04:32.920 They are a condition known as ATC zero. 62 00:04:33.000 --> 00:04:36.959 Remember, controllers are working without pay during this government shutdown, 63 00:04:37.000 --> 00:04:39.040 and I want you to listen to their union chief 64 00:04:39.120 --> 00:04:42.000 Nick Daniels, who says this is not part of some 65 00:04:42.160 --> 00:04:46.639 coordinated sickout effort that actually would be illegal. He says 66 00:04:46.879 --> 00:04:50.439 that controllers are trying to simply get the job done, 67 00:04:50.600 --> 00:04:53.720 and there is a nationwide shortage of controllers. The margins 68 00:04:53.720 --> 00:04:55.720 are so thin that when a couple call outs sick, 69 00:04:56.000 --> 00:04:57.639 it leads to these delays. 70 00:04:57.720 --> 00:04:59.680 Listen, well, the bills don't stop. 71 00:05:00.040 --> 00:05:01.839 Just because we're going to get paid a bit back 72 00:05:01.839 --> 00:05:05.720 eventually doesn't mean that it makes it easier on them. 73 00:05:05.800 --> 00:05:08.560 So air traffic controllers are going to go to their 74 00:05:08.560 --> 00:05:10.639 primary job, but then they'll start having to take up 75 00:05:10.680 --> 00:05:12.759 a second job to making sure they have a steady 76 00:05:12.759 --> 00:05:15.680 streaming income. And we know the American people don't want 77 00:05:15.680 --> 00:05:17.439 to see that, and that's why the shutdown has to 78 00:05:17.519 --> 00:05:19.600 end to day before it becomes to measures. 79 00:05:19.839 --> 00:05:22.439 Just like that, Daniel's paints it is pretty dire, and 80 00:05:22.439 --> 00:05:26.040 Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says this is not political, although 81 00:05:26.040 --> 00:05:28.920 he does underscore in a statement and at a press 82 00:05:28.959 --> 00:05:31.600 conference on Monday that he says, Chuck Schumer can end 83 00:05:31.680 --> 00:05:35.240 this shutdown. The big thing here is the controllers are 84 00:05:35.439 --> 00:05:41.399 getting one more paycheck, a partial paycheck, next tuesday for 85 00:05:41.519 --> 00:05:46.199 work they have already done before the government shutdown. We 86 00:05:46.240 --> 00:05:48.959 will see if things get deeper as time goes on. 87 00:05:48.959 --> 00:05:51.800 Only eight days in and it was thirty five days 88 00:05:51.839 --> 00:05:54.759 another government shutdown that some controllers calling out sick and 89 00:05:54.800 --> 00:05:57.079 some major areas led to the end of that shutdown 90 00:05:57.240 --> 00:05:58.040 in twenty nineteen. 91 00:05:58.360 --> 00:06:01.680 So there you go. The it's spreading. There's a number 92 00:06:01.720 --> 00:06:04.160 of controllers that are calling in sick, and like you said, 93 00:06:04.199 --> 00:06:06.879 next week they're getting I think it's Tuesday. They get 94 00:06:07.120 --> 00:06:08.839 their check for the first couple of days of the 95 00:06:08.839 --> 00:06:12.240 month of October, and then after that they just got 96 00:06:12.240 --> 00:06:18.480 to wait with everybody else. The union guy said that, well, 97 00:06:18.519 --> 00:06:22.240 they're going to get paid later. But here's President Trump 98 00:06:22.319 --> 00:06:24.800 talking about whether or not the people that are laid 99 00:06:24.800 --> 00:06:25.959 off are going to get their pay. 100 00:06:26.519 --> 00:06:29.079 It really depends on who you're talking about. But for 101 00:06:29.120 --> 00:06:31.079 the most part, we're going to take care of our people. 102 00:06:31.360 --> 00:06:33.600 There are some people that really don't deserve to be 103 00:06:33.680 --> 00:06:35.439 taken care of, and we'll take care of them. 104 00:06:35.480 --> 00:06:39.319 In a different way, So not everybody's going to be 105 00:06:39.319 --> 00:06:41.839 treated the same. It's what he's saying, and we don't 106 00:06:41.879 --> 00:06:47.079 know who he's exactly talking about. Chuck Schumer, of course, 107 00:06:47.800 --> 00:06:51.199 thinks that it's all the Republicans' fault. But a reporter 108 00:06:51.519 --> 00:06:55.600 asked him, Hey, are you being stubborn because of the 109 00:06:55.639 --> 00:06:58.800 fact that you're worried about losing your Senate seat from 110 00:06:58.839 --> 00:06:59.279 New York? 111 00:07:00.079 --> 00:07:02.040 Are you worried about the pressure that you're getting from 112 00:07:02.040 --> 00:07:03.680 your left flank? And is that part of the reason 113 00:07:03.680 --> 00:07:04.399 that you even get know. 114 00:07:05.240 --> 00:07:08.160 The bottom line is very simple. We're fighting for the 115 00:07:08.199 --> 00:07:11.680 American people, and it's not just one small group of 116 00:07:11.759 --> 00:07:14.959 American people that want this. Hits across the board. Fifty 117 00:07:15.000 --> 00:07:18.800 five percent of Trump voters, hardly a flank in our 118 00:07:18.839 --> 00:07:20.240 party want this. 119 00:07:20.600 --> 00:07:23.040 That's why we're doing it. We believe that's our job. 120 00:07:23.600 --> 00:07:26.560 Just remember, I've given this tip before if you are 121 00:07:26.720 --> 00:07:30.040 ever running for political office, just remember to say many 122 00:07:30.120 --> 00:07:33.480 times over that you're doing it for the American people. 123 00:07:34.079 --> 00:07:36.600 I thought it was interesting that one of the reporters 124 00:07:36.639 --> 00:07:40.480 in a gaggle there actually brought at upicenter basically, are 125 00:07:40.480 --> 00:07:43.279 you worried about AOC? Are you worried about the far 126 00:07:43.399 --> 00:07:46.319 left side of the party because they turned on you 127 00:07:46.439 --> 00:07:49.759 last time you cooperated on a debt limit or something 128 00:07:49.879 --> 00:07:54.040 like that, and so he's afraid that they're going to 129 00:07:54.079 --> 00:07:57.040 push him out of his cushy office as a senator 130 00:07:57.199 --> 00:08:03.439 with AOC running against him. Senator John Kennedy always has 131 00:08:04.199 --> 00:08:08.120 interesting observations about all of this. Well, I listened to 132 00:08:08.839 --> 00:08:15.560 the clip of Senator Schumer. His his relationship with the 133 00:08:15.639 --> 00:08:20.279 truth is very casual. The truth is that this is 134 00:08:20.319 --> 00:08:26.399 a political shutdown. Senator Schumer is uh, he's nervous as 135 00:08:26.439 --> 00:08:31.680 a pregnant nun about losing his reelection to to the 136 00:08:32.120 --> 00:08:36.320 to the socialist wing of his party, led by Congresswoman 137 00:08:36.399 --> 00:08:39.039 ocasial Court is which is in control. 138 00:08:40.200 --> 00:08:43.879 Now. We will eventually come out of this this shutdown. 139 00:08:44.000 --> 00:08:47.879 Here's how I think it will happen, Uh, Chuck. Senator 140 00:08:47.919 --> 00:08:52.519 Schumer is a is a smart man. He's been around 141 00:08:52.639 --> 00:08:58.120 a long time. His his uh, his first car was 142 00:08:58.159 --> 00:09:03.519 a chariot. Washington is all he's ever known his entire life. 143 00:09:04.200 --> 00:09:08.000 He knows he's on shaky ground here in terms of policy. 144 00:09:08.159 --> 00:09:10.960 So here's how I think it'll end. Schimber will go 145 00:09:11.039 --> 00:09:15.240 to six or eight of his colleagues and say Democrats, 146 00:09:15.279 --> 00:09:18.759 of course, and say I want you to vote to 147 00:09:19.440 --> 00:09:24.080 lift the shutdown. Now he'll say, I can't vote with you. 148 00:09:24.200 --> 00:09:26.840 I've got to appear to be tough. I may even 149 00:09:26.919 --> 00:09:31.960 have to criticize you. But wink, wink, nod, nod. I'm 150 00:09:31.960 --> 00:09:34.840 trying to make the loon wing of the party and 151 00:09:34.879 --> 00:09:38.039 love me, but you bail me out here. But he's 152 00:09:38.080 --> 00:09:41.000 got to be careful with that because he doesn't want 153 00:09:41.039 --> 00:09:43.799 it to look like a mutiny, because then he looks 154 00:09:43.799 --> 00:09:44.519 even weaker. 155 00:09:45.080 --> 00:09:47.679 Yeah, Senator Kennedy's making the rounds because he's got a 156 00:09:47.720 --> 00:09:51.240 new book out about how to test positive for stupid 157 00:09:52.159 --> 00:09:55.440 or something lonely and how Washington never will. So it's 158 00:09:57.480 --> 00:10:00.720 he thinks that it's just yet everybody in the other things. 159 00:10:00.799 --> 00:10:04.279 This is all about Chuck Schumer trying to protect his 160 00:10:04.639 --> 00:10:08.080 hide and not to lose his gushy job as the 161 00:10:08.120 --> 00:10:11.440 senior senator from the state of New York. However, there 162 00:10:11.600 --> 00:10:19.000 is a Republican who is not with the crowd of Republicans. 163 00:10:19.000 --> 00:10:22.879 She's going against them. Marjorie Taylor Green. This is her 164 00:10:23.200 --> 00:10:24.360 position on all of this. 165 00:10:25.080 --> 00:10:27.639 How are we supposed to say it's a Democrat's fault 166 00:10:27.639 --> 00:10:29.600 when we're in charge of the White House, the House, 167 00:10:29.639 --> 00:10:32.320 and the Senate. People don't buy that. I know people 168 00:10:32.360 --> 00:10:36.039 back at home absolutely are calling basically bs on it. 169 00:10:36.759 --> 00:10:38.919 Maybe I'll send her that book that Kennedy wrote about 170 00:10:38.919 --> 00:10:42.879 how not to test positive for stupid. So, yes, the 171 00:10:42.919 --> 00:10:45.679 Republicans have the House, to Senate and the White House. 172 00:10:46.000 --> 00:10:49.000 The problem is is that in the Senate you need 173 00:10:49.200 --> 00:10:52.840 sixty vote in order to put the government back in business. 174 00:10:53.240 --> 00:10:57.360 The Republicans have fifty three. They got three Democrats to 175 00:10:57.440 --> 00:11:00.519 vote with them a couple of days ago, brings us 176 00:11:00.519 --> 00:11:03.559 to fifty six. Come on, Marjorie, you know, darn well 177 00:11:03.639 --> 00:11:07.919 the math isn't there. You don't have sixty votes in 178 00:11:07.960 --> 00:11:10.600 the Senate. But that was her show. She's bucking the 179 00:11:10.639 --> 00:11:15.759 party a little bit. She's been doing that lately. This 180 00:11:16.000 --> 00:11:21.120 lady that I want to talk about next is Katie Porter. 181 00:11:21.840 --> 00:11:26.480 And Katie Porter, I don't know why she irritates me 182 00:11:26.559 --> 00:11:32.039 so much, but she just does. She is from southern California, 183 00:11:32.080 --> 00:11:35.600 Orange County, just south of LA and it used to 184 00:11:35.600 --> 00:11:38.879 be a big Republican area, but it's not so much anymore. 185 00:11:39.080 --> 00:11:42.720 In any case, she was elected to Congress from Orange County. 186 00:11:43.159 --> 00:11:46.639 She I did one or two terms and then she 187 00:11:46.840 --> 00:11:52.559 decided to run for Senate from California and she lost 188 00:11:52.600 --> 00:11:56.360 big time. It's not even close. But now she's running 189 00:11:56.360 --> 00:12:00.840 for governor of California and the polls show it's pretty tight. 190 00:12:01.360 --> 00:12:04.519 But she's right up there along with one or two 191 00:12:04.559 --> 00:12:07.919 others that are in the catbird seat. So she's looking 192 00:12:07.960 --> 00:12:10.759 pretty good for the governor's race. So she did an interview. 193 00:12:11.840 --> 00:12:15.039 She's going around the state of California doing interviews with 194 00:12:15.200 --> 00:12:21.159 the California media and a lady from CBS thirteen in 195 00:12:21.279 --> 00:12:29.399 Sacramento was interviewing her, and Katie Porter was upset because 196 00:12:29.440 --> 00:12:32.360 of the fact that this woman was asking her questions 197 00:12:32.360 --> 00:12:35.279 that she did not want to answer. Here's a clip 198 00:12:35.279 --> 00:12:36.440 of that interview. 199 00:12:37.000 --> 00:12:39.879 And what I'm saying to you is that, well, to 200 00:12:40.000 --> 00:12:42.159 those voters, okay, so you I don't want to keep 201 00:12:42.159 --> 00:12:46.480 doing this, I'm gonna call it. Oh thank you. You're 202 00:12:46.480 --> 00:12:48.279 not gonna do the interview with them? 203 00:12:48.320 --> 00:12:48.919 No, not like this. 204 00:12:49.000 --> 00:12:50.840 I'm not not with seven follow ups to every single 205 00:12:50.960 --> 00:12:54.559 question you ask every other candidate has. I don't care less. 206 00:12:54.679 --> 00:12:55.200 I don't care. 207 00:12:55.720 --> 00:12:58.600 She was mad because the reporter was asking follow up 208 00:12:58.679 --> 00:13:01.960 questions to what she said. I guess she's used to 209 00:13:02.120 --> 00:13:06.639 reporters having a scripted list of questions and to hand 210 00:13:06.679 --> 00:13:10.360 it to her so she will know what the questions 211 00:13:10.360 --> 00:13:12.600 are going to be. But this reporter was doing a 212 00:13:12.639 --> 00:13:16.240 good job of Katie Porter said something. She did a 213 00:13:16.279 --> 00:13:18.919 follow up question, and Katie Porter just got mad about 214 00:13:18.960 --> 00:13:21.159 it and said, I'm not going to do it. I 215 00:13:21.200 --> 00:13:25.759 don't care. Well, listen to Si Cup and Ssie. I've 216 00:13:25.799 --> 00:13:29.480 known SD for a long time. She leans to the left. 217 00:13:29.559 --> 00:13:32.320 She tries to pretend she's on the right. She's not. 218 00:13:32.399 --> 00:13:37.919 She's a moderate lefty. But she was even taken back 219 00:13:38.000 --> 00:13:39.159 by Katie Porter. 220 00:13:39.399 --> 00:13:40.840 That we didn't hear was really important. 221 00:13:40.960 --> 00:13:43.639 The question being what are you going to do to 222 00:13:43.720 --> 00:13:48.399 win voters who did not vote for Democrats, who voted 223 00:13:48.399 --> 00:13:52.279 for Donald Trump of California's electorate. And she said I 224 00:13:52.320 --> 00:13:55.480 don't need them, which is saying the quiet part out loud. 225 00:13:55.639 --> 00:13:58.120 Maybe you don't need them, but the message should, of 226 00:13:58.159 --> 00:14:01.879 course not be one of entitlement and indignance. But I'm 227 00:14:01.879 --> 00:14:03.960 going to reach out to every voter in my state. 228 00:14:04.559 --> 00:14:07.600 I want to reach out to everyone because I'm running 229 00:14:07.600 --> 00:14:07.840 to be. 230 00:14:07.840 --> 00:14:09.720 Governor for every Californian. 231 00:14:10.039 --> 00:14:12.240 She said, I don't need them, and then got very 232 00:14:12.279 --> 00:14:16.600 annoyed that this great reporter was pushing back on what 233 00:14:17.080 --> 00:14:18.279 do you mean you don't need them? You're going to 234 00:14:18.320 --> 00:14:21.200 get every Democratic voter. Forty percent does not a small 235 00:14:21.279 --> 00:14:24.320 number of voters. That's a giant voting block, and you 236 00:14:24.320 --> 00:14:26.600 would need all the Democrats to come out and support you, 237 00:14:26.639 --> 00:14:28.320 and I don't know that she has that support. 238 00:14:28.399 --> 00:14:32.519 So this was a terrible, terrible interview. 239 00:14:32.919 --> 00:14:36.120 And it kind of goes to the entitlement that people 240 00:14:36.159 --> 00:14:39.679 see Democrats having. They saw democrats having it in twenty 241 00:14:39.720 --> 00:14:42.320 twenty four. I think a lot of people rejected that. 242 00:14:42.879 --> 00:14:45.200 And this is why you're seeing so many young upstarts 243 00:14:45.240 --> 00:14:49.320 like Zoran mom Donnie, like o Graham Plattner in Maine, 244 00:14:49.320 --> 00:14:54.440 like Omerfetta in Minneapolis running against longtime Democratic incumbents who 245 00:14:54.440 --> 00:14:56.600 are saying I'm not going anywhere. I don't care that 246 00:14:56.639 --> 00:14:59.200 I'm eighty, this is my job. You'd come take it 247 00:14:59.200 --> 00:15:01.159 from me messaging. 248 00:15:01.120 --> 00:15:03.200 Yes, one hundred percent. And I will also go even 249 00:15:03.240 --> 00:15:06.639 further to say the Democrats have a massive, massive, massive 250 00:15:06.960 --> 00:15:09.200 crisis in terms of messaging. I've said that for years, 251 00:15:09.919 --> 00:15:12.120 you know, emulating Donald Trump, which is what she just did, 252 00:15:12.320 --> 00:15:14.480 effectively saying, you know what, I'm going to only speak 253 00:15:14.519 --> 00:15:16.200 to the base. I'm not going to speak to anybody else. 254 00:15:16.600 --> 00:15:18.480 That may work for Donald Trump with a maggot base, 255 00:15:18.559 --> 00:15:20.159 it does not work in the Democratic Party. 256 00:15:20.559 --> 00:15:21.440 As he's absolutely right. 257 00:15:21.600 --> 00:15:24.559 Democrats are looking for is authenticity, and they're looking for 258 00:15:24.600 --> 00:15:27.120 people who are building community, and that community has to 259 00:15:27.159 --> 00:15:30.039 transcend just our base and include everybody who's fed up 260 00:15:30.039 --> 00:15:31.120 with what's going on right now. 261 00:15:31.519 --> 00:15:34.120 So if you missed it, what the question was was basically, 262 00:15:34.200 --> 00:15:39.240 forty percent of Democrats in the state of California voted 263 00:15:39.240 --> 00:15:42.200 for Donald Trump, and what do you say to them? 264 00:15:42.399 --> 00:15:45.600 And she got mad about it and refused to continue 265 00:15:45.600 --> 00:15:51.240 the interview, and that she was mad that the reporter 266 00:15:51.720 --> 00:15:56.759 was asking follow up questions. That's what a good reporter does. 267 00:15:57.799 --> 00:16:00.000 They don't have a script that said I know that 268 00:16:00.200 --> 00:16:02.360 did for Joe Biden, but no, that's not the way 269 00:16:02.399 --> 00:16:08.879 it works. So this lady has been coddled by friendly journalists, 270 00:16:09.000 --> 00:16:12.200 not that I can't call them journalists, friendly people in 271 00:16:12.279 --> 00:16:16.559 the media who have not pushed her on anything like 272 00:16:16.639 --> 00:16:21.120 this lady did at the CBS station Mary Catherine Ham, 273 00:16:21.159 --> 00:16:24.840 who is on the right side of the aisle. She 274 00:16:25.000 --> 00:16:26.559 observed all of this as well. 275 00:16:27.639 --> 00:16:29.120 This is so embarrassing. 276 00:16:29.919 --> 00:16:32.679 It is the bare minimum in politics that you should 277 00:16:32.720 --> 00:16:35.639 be able to analyze your own race, and that you 278 00:16:35.639 --> 00:16:37.559 should be able to speak to the forty percent of 279 00:16:37.600 --> 00:16:40.080 voters who might not otherwise agree with you. Presumably she 280 00:16:40.120 --> 00:16:42.600 would like to be the governor for all Californians, which 281 00:16:42.600 --> 00:16:46.120 includes those forty percent. She can't even countenance a follow 282 00:16:46.200 --> 00:16:47.919 up question on that. And I think the most telling 283 00:16:48.000 --> 00:16:50.840 sentence and here is she says, I've never had to 284 00:16:50.960 --> 00:16:54.320 do this. Ever, What kind of bubble do you live 285 00:16:54.360 --> 00:16:57.399 in if you have not received a follow up question? 286 00:16:57.679 --> 00:17:01.159 How have you been isolating yourself from every single person 287 00:17:01.360 --> 00:17:04.279 who might ask you something tough when it is literally 288 00:17:04.359 --> 00:17:08.599 your job to answer to reporters and to constituents. I 289 00:17:08.599 --> 00:17:11.119 would encourage everyone to ask her more and more questions 290 00:17:11.160 --> 00:17:13.799 because she needs so much practice at this. 291 00:17:14.079 --> 00:17:16.000 Let's go back to the left side of the aisle. 292 00:17:16.119 --> 00:17:19.599 Patrick Murphy, he's a former congressman representing the eighth district 293 00:17:19.920 --> 00:17:26.200 in Pennsylvania. This is a Democrat. Listen to his reaction 294 00:17:26.559 --> 00:17:27.400 to Katie Porter. 295 00:17:29.000 --> 00:17:31.240 I would say, there's millions of Repubets in California that 296 00:17:31.279 --> 00:17:33.160 if you're blessed enough to be the next governor, you 297 00:17:33.240 --> 00:17:35.799 got to lead all of the people of California, not 298 00:17:35.799 --> 00:17:37.799 just the Democratic Party that might help you get elected. 299 00:17:38.000 --> 00:17:39.799 And I think that is the problem with not just 300 00:17:39.960 --> 00:17:42.920 this candidate, but people in Washingt d C. They are 301 00:17:42.960 --> 00:17:47.359 so fixated on supporting their political party that they're putting 302 00:17:47.400 --> 00:17:49.000 their party over our country. 303 00:17:49.119 --> 00:17:52.759 Back to the right side, Cassie Smedley, she's a spokeswoman 304 00:17:52.880 --> 00:17:54.519 for people on the right. 305 00:17:55.279 --> 00:17:58.160 More broadly, it shows her true colors that she's a 306 00:17:58.200 --> 00:18:01.119 weak candidate, and also that she's not fit to represent 307 00:18:01.160 --> 00:18:04.680 the entire state of California, which includes Republicans and Democrats. 308 00:18:04.680 --> 00:18:07.599 But also I would note Abigail Spamberger having the same 309 00:18:07.680 --> 00:18:10.480 issues on the campaign trail, with local reporters asking her 310 00:18:10.799 --> 00:18:13.359 about boys and girls bathrooms and in girls sports, and 311 00:18:13.400 --> 00:18:16.079 she had a horrible answer for it. Democrats are not 312 00:18:16.400 --> 00:18:20.319 used to being asked just perfectly fair, reasonable questions because 313 00:18:20.319 --> 00:18:22.640 they're used to being coddled by the press. We need 314 00:18:22.680 --> 00:18:24.559 to be holding their feet to the fire. I know 315 00:18:24.640 --> 00:18:27.200 your show does it beautifully, but I will give a 316 00:18:27.240 --> 00:18:30.240 hats off to these local reporters who are also finally 317 00:18:30.359 --> 00:18:32.319 asking these Democrats some real questions. 318 00:18:32.480 --> 00:18:35.400 Again, the question that she was asked was, well, what 319 00:18:35.440 --> 00:18:37.759 do you say to the forty percent of Democrats that 320 00:18:37.839 --> 00:18:41.759 voted for Donald Trump? That seems like a legitimate question 321 00:18:41.839 --> 00:18:44.880 to ask, but apparently for Katie Porter. I don't know 322 00:18:44.960 --> 00:18:47.359 why she irritates me so much, but this might be 323 00:18:47.759 --> 00:18:49.920 just the latest example of it. What she would do 324 00:18:49.960 --> 00:18:52.599 when she was in Congress, and again, the people in 325 00:18:52.640 --> 00:18:57.240 her congressional district did not vote. Well, she's dropped out 326 00:18:57.279 --> 00:19:01.079 of that rais and ran for a senator from California, 327 00:19:01.200 --> 00:19:04.279 so she had a first statewide race and they did 328 00:19:04.319 --> 00:19:07.839 not vote for her at all. So we'll see if 329 00:19:07.839 --> 00:19:11.440 this has any impact. But what she would do, she 330 00:19:11.599 --> 00:19:15.440 was on various committees, and she was pretty clever about 331 00:19:15.599 --> 00:19:20.039 getting a bunch of gotcha questions lined up, and she 332 00:19:20.119 --> 00:19:24.920 would act so smug over whoever it was that she 333 00:19:25.079 --> 00:19:27.680 was asking questions because she had a gotcha questions that 334 00:19:28.960 --> 00:19:31.640 nobody would know the answer to, and she just thought 335 00:19:31.680 --> 00:19:35.039 that was so special. So, I mean, I'll go back 336 00:19:35.079 --> 00:19:38.880 to one of the comments about the Oh, it was 337 00:19:39.039 --> 00:19:42.519 Essie Cupp talking about the fact that Katie Porter acts 338 00:19:42.920 --> 00:19:50.480 entitled like she deserves. She's the governor that she's indignant 339 00:19:50.559 --> 00:19:53.119 that somebody would dare ask her to follow up question. 340 00:19:53.279 --> 00:19:55.960 So we'll keep an eye on Katie Porter and see 341 00:19:56.000 --> 00:20:02.920 how she does, hopefully not well. James Comy, former FBI director, 342 00:20:03.359 --> 00:20:10.440 indicted today federal court in Alexandria, Virginia. Elliott Williams, who 343 00:20:10.640 --> 00:20:16.279 is a lawyer at this observation about the case against 344 00:20:16.319 --> 00:20:17.000 James Comy. 345 00:20:17.079 --> 00:20:18.920 Yeah, even if the motions aren't filed, and we may 346 00:20:18.960 --> 00:20:21.400 get a sense as to what motions Comy is thinking 347 00:20:21.440 --> 00:20:24.400 about filing, the first one would be one to dismiss 348 00:20:24.440 --> 00:20:28.319 the indictment for in effect singling Jim Comy out. And 349 00:20:28.640 --> 00:20:31.400 the biggest evidence they will point to are probably the 350 00:20:31.400 --> 00:20:34.640 president's own statements himself. The President has made any number 351 00:20:34.680 --> 00:20:38.519 of statements on social media calling Jim Comey a crooked cop. 352 00:20:39.039 --> 00:20:41.599 There's the social media post we talked about on air 353 00:20:41.680 --> 00:20:45.240 several times, directing or at least mentioning Pam Vondi, the 354 00:20:45.240 --> 00:20:48.720 Attorney General by name, saying that we have to act 355 00:20:48.759 --> 00:20:51.720 now to bring prosecutions like those against Jim Comey to happen. 356 00:20:51.720 --> 00:20:54.200 Those are the kinds of things a defendant could easily 357 00:20:54.240 --> 00:20:56.039 point to as saying that he was singled out for 358 00:20:56.079 --> 00:20:59.720 prosecution in a way that was vindictive or malicious or 359 00:20:59.759 --> 00:21:01.039 out side the bounds of the law. 360 00:21:01.359 --> 00:21:02.400 Expect that right away. 361 00:21:02.440 --> 00:21:05.200 Now, Jim Coman can also just look at the substance 362 00:21:05.400 --> 00:21:07.880 of his indictment as well and say, look, this is 363 00:21:07.920 --> 00:21:09.880 just so thin, your honor, this ought to be thrown out. 364 00:21:09.920 --> 00:21:12.319 So he has a number of ways, and I think 365 00:21:12.720 --> 00:21:14.000 we can expect to will see them. 366 00:21:14.440 --> 00:21:17.559 This case is being filed in and will be heard 367 00:21:17.599 --> 00:21:21.240 in the Eastern District of Virginia, Alexandria, right across the 368 00:21:21.319 --> 00:21:26.359 river from the Capitol, and the prosecutor in this was 369 00:21:26.400 --> 00:21:29.920 the acting US Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, 370 00:21:30.759 --> 00:21:33.559 said you got a lot of pressure from the White 371 00:21:33.599 --> 00:21:37.319 House to prosecute James Comy, and he said, basically, I 372 00:21:37.319 --> 00:21:40.440 don't think we have a case. So he was being 373 00:21:40.519 --> 00:21:42.640 pressured to base he was going to be fired, so 374 00:21:42.799 --> 00:21:46.200 he resigned and Trump then said, well, I fired him. 375 00:21:46.480 --> 00:21:50.559 And he hired a lady who is one of his 376 00:21:51.559 --> 00:21:56.240 lawyers from some of his business dealings. Her specialty is 377 00:21:56.839 --> 00:22:02.160 insurance law, dealing with insurance companies. She's never prosecuted anybody, 378 00:22:02.680 --> 00:22:08.640 so this is brand new to her. Tom Dupree, former 379 00:22:08.759 --> 00:22:12.079 federal prosecutor, also takes a look at this case. 380 00:22:12.279 --> 00:22:14.680 One of the things that judges often do in these 381 00:22:14.759 --> 00:22:17.799 arraignements is basically set a trial scheduled up to and 382 00:22:17.839 --> 00:22:20.799 including an actual date that trial could begin, and look, 383 00:22:20.839 --> 00:22:23.160 I think this judge is fairly typical for the Eastern 384 00:22:23.200 --> 00:22:26.319 District of Virginia, which is a jurisdiction that is known 385 00:22:26.400 --> 00:22:29.799 for its rocket docket for moving cases along very quickly, 386 00:22:30.000 --> 00:22:33.880 very efficiently. This is not a particularly complex case, at 387 00:22:33.960 --> 00:22:37.079 least as far as criminal cases go, So wudn't surprise 388 00:22:37.160 --> 00:22:39.680 me at all to see the judge basically saying, look. 389 00:22:39.480 --> 00:22:42.160 Here we are, we're beginning today. Here's what the schedule 390 00:22:42.200 --> 00:22:42.799 is going to look like. 391 00:22:42.880 --> 00:22:43.359 Let's get it. 392 00:22:43.359 --> 00:22:46.519 On one more. Lawyer Andy McCarthy, who is a Fox 393 00:22:46.640 --> 00:22:49.960 News contributor on all things legal, he took a look 394 00:22:50.000 --> 00:22:51.960 at this case and he's not impressed. 395 00:22:52.359 --> 00:22:55.160 I don't believe they have a case based on what 396 00:22:55.200 --> 00:22:58.200 we've seen in the indictment and what we know from 397 00:22:58.279 --> 00:23:01.559 the public reporting. Now we're going to find out. You know, 398 00:23:01.640 --> 00:23:06.960 the arraignment was apparently unexceptional and unremarkable. That's usually the 399 00:23:07.000 --> 00:23:09.440 case the only thing that really happens is a plea 400 00:23:09.559 --> 00:23:12.960 get centered. But now the real work begins. The judge 401 00:23:13.000 --> 00:23:16.240