AM Show Hr 1 | Ballrooms, Ballots, and Bias

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show is on the air. The country's most famous address, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, is set for a major renovation. The White House unveiling President Trump's latest project, a plan to replace the East Wing traditionally used for the First Lady's offices, with a 90,000 square foot ballroom. It'll be a grand entertaining space the president's long wanted to build. They've wanted a ballroom at the White House for more than 150 years, but there's never been a president that was good at ballrooms. I'm really good. With construction set to begin this September, the president estimates the price tag at $200 million, a cost he says he'll cover along with private donors, describing it to NBC News as, quote, his gift to the country. For years, special events like state dinners have often been hosted under a giant tent on the South lawn to accommodate the large number of guests. The president has complained, wet grass, is unbecoming of White House affairs. Oh, yeah.

Democratic critics quick to pounce. Listen, I'm happy to eat my cheeseburger at my desk. I don't need a $200 million ballroom to eat it in. Are you kidding me? This guy wants to create a ballroom for his rich friends while completely turning a blind eye to the fact that babies are going to starve when the snap benefits end in just hours from now? Come on. So what, I'm not going to be distracted by, oh, does the guy have a big hammer? What about those babies? Oh, yeah, let's drink. We absolutely believe that there is no better example of why this ballroom is necessary. Aside from all the very positive things the Baldwin will bring to this country into Washington, D.C., then what happened on Saturday night. It's going to make this country look great every time it's used. It's also a meaningful safety issue. Oh, yes.

Have you ever had escargo, come on, snails? Have you ever noticed that you only get snails in high-end restaurants? You know why? Because their patrons don't like fast food. I tell chemistry jokes periodically. Try that again. Are you on the phone? What are you doing? Why are we getting a call? Why are we getting a call two minutes into the show? That's crazy. Oh, stuttering Kevin called in early to give himself time. Okay, I can understand that. The Supreme Court has overturned a lower court ruling clearing the newly redrawn congressional maps in Texas. A little flashback. Some of you will remember this. After the maps in Texas were redrawn by Republicans and all Republican bench struck it down. Well, 2-1 struck it down. Long time, very respected federal judge Jerry Smith. Been around a long, long, long time. I was in law school when people would talk about Judge Jerry Smith. He ripped into his two fellow judges, Jeff Brown and David Guadorama. The odd part about this for me is I've known Jeff Brown for 30 years. We used to be good friends. But boy, was he ever wrong on this? And I know why he was wrong. It's not good. You remember federal judge Jerry Smith ripped into judges Jeff Brown and David Guadorama when they struck down the new congressional maps. And he wrote in his dissent his need to, quote, highlight the pernicious judicial behavior of U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Vincent Brown. He's going after a fellow conservative jurist very harshly. And for good reason, by the way. In my 37 years on the federal bench, this is the most outrageous conduct by a judge that I have ever encountered in a case in which I have been involved. He calls him out by his full name and says, in my 37 years on the federal bench, this is the most outrageous conduct by a judge that I have ever encountered in a case in which I have been involved. adding, I have served on hundreds of three judge panels. This is the most blatant exercise of judicial activism that I have ever witnessed. I am embarrassed of and for Jeff Brown for this. This is a guy who ran as Mr. Conservative, Mr. Republican when he was running for office, and he got up there and they John Robertsed him. The Trump hating folks, the never-Trumpers, John Robertsed him. This is John Roberts making Obamacare constitutional by calling it a tax, which they didn't even argue for.

Here is Fox News with the story. We're going to have our redistricting maps. That's the takeaway here. Here's Fox News with the story. The High Court clearing the way for Texas's new congressional map that really could help the Republicans with perhaps as many as five more seats in the House come to midterm elections in 2026. Now the high court's unsigned order actually follows Texas's emergency request for the justices to pause a three judge panel's ruling which previously tried to block the states. recently redrawn map. Now, in its decision to side with Texas, the High Court said that that panel failed to honor the presumption of legislative good faith by construing ambiguous, direct, and circumstantial evidence against the legislature. The High Court also found that given the release of the panel's ruling, right smack dab in the middle. of Texas's candidate filing period, the lower court had improperly inserted itself into an active primary campaign causing much confusion and upsetting the very delicate federal state balance in elections. Bottom line, Sean, it's a win for the separation of powers. It's a win for the great state of Texas, and it ultimately could be a very, and I mean very big win for the GOP come to midterm elections in 2020. Right, all right. Say it again. That's why it happens to all my guitars. Probably out of tune now. You might have to edit that. This is Mark Chestnut. Enjoy the Tsar of Talk Radio. One of these seats, Texas is poised to pick up and flip Democrat to Republican is Congressional District 9. That is the seat that spans from East Harris County down through Liberty. Al Green lost his seat, and then you've got Minifie picking that seat up, which is the 18th Congressional District, which started with Barbara Jim Jordan, and then Mickey Leland, and then briefly Craig Washington, and then for 30 years, Sheila Jackson Lee. Minifie was the county attorney who went on to beat Al Green in the primary. Well, I guess they're in a runoff now, aren't they? I need to check that. I think maybe they're in a runoff, him and Al Green. But in any case, Menophe's expected to win that seat. Al Green loses his seat, so he calls it a retirement, but his seat went away. Republicans pick up a seat, which is reliably read, which has voted traditionally reliably read as individual voters, and that's the seat that Alex Miller leads Briscoe Kane. The last poll I saw was, well, I don't want to exaggerate. She leads big in that race. And with President Trump's endorsement, she's doing very well in Liberty County, East Harris County. She's actually doing very well in every part of that district. So I would expect her to win that and a Republican win there. Florida under the new redistricting plan of Governor Ron DeSantis could give the GOP four more seats in Congress. Clip number 11, Ron DeSantis talking about that. What do you say, Governor, too, even some Republicans say, well, you know, everyone, Texas shouldn't have started this. Now it's just going to, it's spirals, snowballs, and this is just going to be a complete mess. What do you say to them?

Well, look, that's a separate question, I think, than Florida, because this has been a longstanding issue that we've had since I've been governor. I vetoed the legislature's maps in 2022. We ended up doing a compromise map, got rid of a racially gerrymandered district in North Florida, but we still had one in southern Florida, which I don't think is constitutional. This map removes that racial gerrymander. We are also in a situation in Florida. We've had a massive population boom. So we have congressional districts. We had District 14, for example, had about 100,000 votes less than District 12, right next to it, because we've had growth in certain parts of the state. So I've always wanted to do this. I think the numbers justify it. But that's really independent of Virginia or any of these other things. It's the right thing to do for Florida. You look at Trump nominated Judge Jeff Brown in Texas. You look at the unwillingness to pass the Save Act to preserve our elections by John Cornyn. And you realize Republicans can win every seat and still not accomplish anything. Why? A couple of reasons. Many Republicans in elected office don't actually believe what they campaign on, what they commit to. They say what they need to say in order to get elected. And that sounds like something you would just say about politicians, right? But these are people who in no way believe what they're campaigning on. They just look at, hey, I can't win as a Democrat. If I'm going to be a Republican, these issues are important. And so I guess this is what I'll say I'm going to do. And so there you have it. But then when they get in and they're told by the folks that have the influence once you get into office, they say that would not be a good idea. That would actually be bad. That would be a thing that is not positive. That's not something you don't want your name on. Those people are unrealistic. The base is crazy. They'll have you doing things you don't want to do. And so we don't get things done. We have the House, the White House, and the Supreme Court right now. I saw a meme the other day that said, how corrupt is Congress? You can get 70 senators to approve sending American taxpayer money to Ukraine to be stolen, but you can't get 51 senators to approve passing election integrity laws for America. It is sickening. I see pictures of John Cornyn and Mitch McConnell and Lindsey Graham all cozyed up to Volodymyr Zelensky. And I think how many billion dollars of your tax dollars? They sent over there to be squandered. I think of all the heavy lifting they were willing to do for Volodymyr Zelensky, but we can't get the Save Act passed. It's not the Democrats standing in our way. That's just it. Republicans don't like to govern. I told you there were two reasons. One is a lot of them don't actually believe what they said. And number two.

Republicans have this horrible fatal flaw. They don't like to be criticized. They don't like to be called racist. They don't like to be called mean. They don't like it said that they exercise the power they hold. And they don't want that. They'd rather be nice. This is the Mike Pence Republican Party. This is the Mitt Romney Republican Party. This is the Republican Party that do nothing Republican Party that never accomplishes anything. They'd rather be in the minority. They like to speak about things that are ephemeral, that are not, that are not, that are abstract, that can't actually ever be accomplished. General things, patriotism. love of country, decency, honor and integrity. When you hear people talk about that in the Trump era, what they mean is not accomplishing anything. That's the same group of Republicans that were never going to seal the border. Trump said in his inaugural speech, which is one of the finest lines he ever uttered. He said, we didn't. We could secure the border. We didn't need to change the law. We just needed to change the president. And he did it. And we don't even talk about it. The border is secured. Do you remember we sat and watched as 10,000 strong, these armies of invaders would start marching up? And I said, we're coming. We're coming in, and you're not going to stop us. And, and they didn't. Trump closed all that down. Welcome to the lifestyles of the not so rich and famous. Or, as I call it, the Michael Bari Weiss show. A federal jury has awarded an ex-Rice football player. $1.3 million. This is an interesting fact pattern.

So the reason this is in the news is the jury awards a former football player at Rice University. $1.3 million. In a case being called an anti-male bias case, is there a bias against men? And if so, this is a case against that. They ruled that the school, Rice University, had discriminated against him. During disciplinary hearings over allegations that he failed to disclose an STD, namely herpes, to another student with whom he was in a relationship. The decision came nearly six years after the John Doe lawsuit was filed and nearly a decade after the quarterback was suspended from campus. The Houston Chronicle reports, quote, the player filed the lawsuit under the name John Doe because of the sensitive nature of the complaint. The female student, who tested positive for herpes, was only identified as Jane Roe. Doe's lawyer, remember he's John Doe. His lawyer, Susan Hutchison, said the jury agreed with his arguments that he was treated unfairly because he was a man. The two students were in a relationship in fall, 2017. They had consensual sex, according to the complaint. In December of that year, 2017, after the relationship ended, The female filed a police report with the Rice University Police and accused him of intentionally transmitting herpes to her. He, in the lawsuit, said that he had disclosed his herpes diagnosis to her and questioned whether she had ever been tested for the STD before their relationship. He said, or he was not charged with a crime. After the criminal case closed, She turned to the Rice Student Judicial Program, a university office that investigates student misconduct with her complaint. Soon after her complaint was filed, he was barred from campus, including from classes and athletics facilities. He was allowed back to classes in March months later. But by then, according to his lawyers, his grades had already suffered to the point where he was not eligible to play football. He lost his scholarship and he had to leave the school. His lawyers said that he had been stigmatized and traumatized. Rice's disciplinary office concluded in April of 2018. that he had violated the university's code of conduct by failing to adequately notify her. The lawsuit said the school ignored her admission that he had told herpes. The suit also claimed Rice did not follow up on another male student's claim that she had passed herpes on to him before John Doe was even on campus. My goodness.

So John Doe sued, claiming the school had come to the wrong outcome, was selectively enforcing its rules and was holding him to archaic assumptions on sexual decisions that it did not hold her to. A Houston-based judge dismissed the lawsuit in 2021, but it was revived by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in 2023 when a panel of judges said a jury could decide if there had been anti-male bias. In its reversal. The judges pointed out that Rice had no rules regarding informing partners about STDs. The judges also said Rice might have acted hypocritically. In his appeal to the Fifth Circuit, he pointed to an email written by the female that implied she did not intend to inform her future partners of her infection. Quote, Doe was kicked off campus on 24 hours notice because of the risk that he might have sex with other students and infect them with herpes, the judge wrote. Yet when he offered the university evidence that she was doing precisely the same thing, the university did nothing. The trial began on April 7th. A jury reached a decision on April 14th and awarded him more than $1.3 million. Most of the money represented lost earnings. After Doe left Rice, he enrolled in a couple of community colleges before enrolling in another university. He also briefly played in an arena league, said his lawyer. So I don't mind offending people. I am not a shock jock. I don't say things for the purpose of offending people. I state my opinion. Be that what it may. But for some reason, it's important for me to say when I say things like I'm about to say that are in some way bombastic, that I understand there are people who won't like it. I understand that those people will think I'm a savage or an ingrate or a misogynist or whatever terms they want to use. You can throw terms at anyone. But truth in and of itself stands alone. Unafraid. North Star is still the North Star. So with that being said and understanding, this is not what you say in the current classroom or wherever else. I'm going to say it. There has been a feminization of the American educational process. That is... that women wants the feminist movement and natural development of women into administrative positions and the type of women who teach, because the educational system is primarily women. But as women began entering into administrator positions, which was not the case, when I was growing up, you had women and men teachers, but all men administrators. That has cycled into women administrators. And it has absolutely changed everything. It has changed the nature of student relations. It has tipped the balance the other direction. It has made being particularly a straight white male into some sort of punching bag. And I've seen it in a number of different ways.

It has created an environment of fear, an environment of accusations, an environment of division. You know, sort of why women don't get along as well as men do. Leave five women to themselves. Send five women on a hunting trip or a fishing trip. It's different. We're wired differently. They can spend the afternoon together, but that's about it. Men are built differently than women. Men view conflict, for instance, differently. We need both of the sexes. But there is no doubt in my mind that they change in administration from men to almost exclusively women. And women with an agenda, these are Hillary Clinton type women. These are women who feel that women were being wronged. And you know what? In some cases were. And they're going to flip that script. And they're going to flip that balance. We've seen it in elementary, middle, high school, colleges, corporate America, and every man has experienced it.

To the phone lines we go, I didn't realize we had folks waiting. I'll move faster than we normally do. Let's start with Joyce, the Sage of Sunnyside. You're up, sweetheart. Go ahead. Yes. I want to talk about the dinner on Saturday night. You know, I observe something, and it goes back to me always harping on get rid of hate. I saw, I'm thinking about how this says, get rid of the police, defund or abolish, you know, get a caseworker or psychiatrist or whatever. And I was thinking, Michael, if caseworkers or psychiatrists were there Saturday night, they were under the table too. And that group that you do not want, they were, while you were under the table, they were running to water smoke. That tells me something that it's really something wrong in this nation. And I get so tired of every time someone does something outrageous that they are mentally ill. And believe me, there are mentally ill people out there. But every time somebody does something outrageous, he's not crazy. I look at this young man with so much going for him. And he would go to a no king's rally. I wouldn't go to one if they paid me. And he's sitting in and he's looking all this hatred, hatred of Trump, kill him. You know, that's been said. I've heard it. You know, he shouldn't be alive. And a young reporter asked Trump, why do they always do this to you? I sure would have liked to have answered that reporter. I would have said, dogs do not bark at parked cars. They are after him because he's making an impact. He's bringing jobs that left America. He's bringing them back. He closed the border. He didn't have to go to Congress. He closed it in day one. He makes no tax for senior social security, no tax on tips. And I'm not a cultist that believe everything he said is just 100%. Because sometimes I'm listening. I say, oh, why did he have to say that? Why did he have to say it like that? But I will accept. that he does more good for this nation than that. And I just don't understand how we could live with this much hate. And I said for years, we hear more hate than we hear love. How often do you hear on the TV or the elected officials talking about loving one another, getting, that being divisive? They said, how many times do you hear that? You don't hear that. And you know, Michael, I've been sharing in my meetings with the love that I received from a birthday, and they just don't understand. They said, how do you get all that? I said to myself, But here, senior citizens are just sitting here with so much hate to the Trump. I hear it in a senior citizen meeting. And that saddens me more of Michael than hearing it out there somewhere. But these people, we are better than that. And they're just as, they'd sit there and they just hate Trump.

Just like the other people. And that saddens me to the core. And we just need to get together. We need to stop all this hate. We need to tone down the rhetoric. I mean, just hate, hate every day. Sometimes I just turn off the TV. And America, let tone down the rhetoric, just be loving. And, you know. You know, you kiss more flies and honey. So let's be a loving generation. Thank you, sweetheart. Thank you. We always appreciate you. Stuttering, Kevin, you're up. Well, good morning. Hey. That on that ballroom that President Trump on his building at the White House makes a lot more sense, security-wise, especially with this third of ten behind his life. And that would benefit more for future presidents than the current one. That will benefit future president for things. rather than him because they would be completed right before, uh, right before the, uh, on 28, uh, 20th, uh, elections. Okay. I, uh, yeah. I mean, I, I guess so I just, Lee, you're on the Michael Bari Weiss show. Go ahead. Hey, Mike Lee Hubbard, I was wanting to get in touch with you, to get in touch with Brian Hubbard to see if I fall into any category where I can get the Ibogaine treatment. What category do you think you fall into? I don't know. Starting in 2017, I started having headaches. I've had migraines on my life. I started having headaches in 17, working in a chemical company, which I read also on Channel 2 yesterday, didn't have seen for releasing. That's what my wife thinks started this. But anyway, starting in 2007. I couldn't hear you. Say that again. You worked in a chemical plant and you think you were exposed to something? I don't know. I mean, we had leaks all the time. There's no other explanation why this started. It started out of the blue. But like I say, in 17, I started having headaches and they continually got worse. And then everybody was, I mean, I was eating, I and be an ibuprofen and everything. Everybody told me it's over-the-counter, over-medicated headaches. So since then, I've been on a journey. That following week, I went a week that I don't remember. I mean, I killed the biggest year of my life. I don't remember it. I soon after that started having blockout spells, when I came to, I would have a massive migraine. I've been lifelighted. I've been... I mean, you name it. I sent you an email with some pictures. I didn't know. Okay. Were you using drugs or anything, or this is just the headache that's causing this? No, this is just the headache. I mean, I'm not familiar with it. You said you chased the big scare. Do you mean you thought you died? I don't recall saying that. Or I didn't say that. Okay. I'm just trying to understand what you're saying. Okay, go ahead. And so.

Since 2018, I haven't driven a vehicle. I left work on November 5th and have not been back to work. I mean, I left a $200,000-plus dollar a year job, and now I find myself unemployed or on disability. And I was listening one day, and I heard the word Brian Hubbard. And matching last names, I was interested and started listening. Heard about abagana since done some research, and I have some friends that have done the ayahuasca. But me being on disability, I can't fly to Costa Rica and spend $8,000. And the reason I want to go at the abagana is because never in my life if I've done drugs. And my dearly manager told me, man, I had migraines until I started smoking dope, marijuana. and he gave me a gummy. I held that gummy in my pocket for two years knowing that if I started taking marijuana or anything like that, I couldn't go back to the plant because they test for everything. And finally after a bad spell, I took the gummy. And for the first time in like two years, I didn't have a headache. It was amazing. And so it went on and on. I mean, I'm a... practitioner of marijuana almost on a daily basis to regulate my headache. Okay. Are you thinking you need I have a game for the headache or for... I'm going to talk to you all fair. I'm going to talk to you all fair.

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