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defenders were reminding us last night that, hey, she's not so bad she voted against the Iraq War. It's like, well, good for her. That's huge. But what has she done since then? And also, let me just make one quick point. That was an easy vote. Like for a Democrat in a deep blue seat as a house member, it was actually easy to vote against the Iraq work. Do not rewrite this. Was it the AMF that she voted against? She voted against. Yeah, basically the whatever the 2002 vote was to authorize the invasion of Iraq.

And something like a third of Democrats did vote with Bush and give him a support. But that was, these was a lot of swing district Democrats. Hillary Clinton. There were marches, Hillary Clinton, there were marches across the world at the time. across the United States, it was obvious voting against the Iraq war was the right thing to do for a Democrat. Why are we wasting time talking about this? Malak Heroes, despite millions of dollars spent in the last couple of weeks to support to get. And that tells you kind of what her record, what her real record was in Congress.

It's like, yes, she's in the Congressional Progressive Caucus. She's a good liberal. She voted the right way on the Iraq war. But if APAC and corporate interests come in at the end of your race with millions of dollars to defend you, that tells you everything about where they think your position is in the political ecosystem. And it is an ally of theirs. That viral video of Diana to get from several months ago was absolutely brutal. Right, where she was, she's asked about the black, the back, the block the bombs act. Yeah.

And she's saying that she doesn't like the legislation and eventually gets really upset. Chase is the activist. Yeah. If that's the only thing you care about, then don't vote for me. And the woman's like, I don't know, walks away to get like chases her through the coffee shop or whatever. It's desperate, yeah. It's very, very strange. And she ended up getting beaten by more than 10 points.

All the votes aren't counted yet. But it's not even going to be close in the end. Milot is going to wind up with more than 50% of the vote. And that Diana DeGette's going to be down around in the last. low 40s. Let's roll A to B. Here's Malak Heroes from her victory party. I want to tell you something about why this campaign matters because it matters for what comes next. When I wrote a letter defending students' rights to protest the genocide in Gaza, my law firm, my law firm told me, take it down or you're fired. I didn't flinch. I didn't flinch because I stood by,

every word and I always will. But I know. I know that will not be the only moment where those in power will tell me to change my tune, to not rock the boat. That seems to happen a lot in Congress. But here in Denver, we stand by our values and we stand with our community.

We will not wait to take the fight to Donald Trump and the oligarchy. We will not wait! We will not wait to abolish ICE and pass Medicare girls!

We will now wait to put an end to the politics of the past, to get big money out of our politics and to reject corporate tax and A-PACs. And no, we will not wait to end the genocide in Palestine. First of all, why do we not have one of those horns here on this show? We're a morning show. The Vizela? Without the Voozella. Without the horn.

We come on. We got to have it. I don't know. You're right. We need one of those. We don't do enough Kathy Lee and Hoda just to begin with. That's like the energy we need to be bringing more. We need more of that.

Yeah. So this was another W for the. political powerhouse, you can put up A3, Ms. Rachel, who had endorsed Maylott. It's also a win for Justice Democrats, which has been on its biggest winning streak, the biggest romp, since its founding. Like this is, they're blowing away their transformational year of 2018, what they're able to do now. Maylott also had the support of Denver DSA and the national DSA and also Hasan Piker

there's a cool video that's that from the stream that from Hassan stream that we'll play for you in a second you're going to see in it Chris Rab who was the DSA-backed Justice Democrats backed candidate in Philadelphia who traveled to Denver to

try to recruit voters for Malat you've got Hasan Piker and then we've got Linda Sarser the New York activist and they talk a voter into getting to the polls and actually getting three of her family to the polls over data centers let's roll a to c you guys look so amazing what do you guys think about the data center that just popped up over here yeah yeah right all right all right all right all right all right all right

all right all right all right all right so found to get this represented this district for 30 years in congress is saying nothing about the data centers because she's in the pocket of big corporations maylock kuros on the other hand is going to fight back on the data center more term she got endorsed by Bernie Sanders too. They want to put a stop to these data centers being propped up left and right. You guys are stuck between a factory, pureina factory and a data center in between. And that's not good for these little guys back there. It's literally poor. This district's poison. But you only have till 7 o'clock to vote. So if you don't have, do you have a ballot in your house currently? Yes. Yeah, you have three. You got to put it in a drop

off. Oh, you got three voters in your house. Yeah. Oh, that. Drop them off. Hell he is. He's got to Congress in Philly. We just love him all the way out because you have the opportunity to. Are you from New York? Huh? He's from Philly.

She's from New York. Yeah, yeah. You know, East Coast. He's called. Well, you have the opportunity to bring someone to Congress who's actually going to change things and not, you know, not be with the corporations, but be with the people. But only if you come out. So if you got three ballots at home, drop it in by seven o'clock. They then talk about like where her ballot drop-off location is.

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Oh, yeah. You put up A7 because this win was not just limited to Maylott. Julie Gonzalez lost her race. We'll talk about that in a second to John Hickenlooper, who was the incumbent senator. She was kind of running as a ticket with Maylott. It's very difficult to win statewide in a Senate race. But in the state Senate race to replace Julie Gonzalez, the progressive populists won that one. There are two House races where the progressive.

movement was challenging incumbents. Those are now too close to call. So they may end up knocking those folks off. Then we put up A6. Phil Weiser is a, oh wait, this is Bashar al-Assad. So let me just tell you. So Phil Weiser is the Attorney General running against Michael Bennett, who is the incumbent senator, who's actually still in office through 2028, corporate kind of centrist Democratic senator, a popular, you know, well-known figure for many years in Colorado, and he was far and away the favorite. In the last couple weeks, he had to lend his campaign something like a million dollars, which is its own little corrupt act, which if you remember, Ted Cruz kind of legalized this chicanery where you lend yourself money and then you can raise money as a senator

directly to you to pay yourself back. It creates this situation where it's legal for then a rich person to just hand money directly to a person rather than kind of having to go through the whole, oh, this is just a campaign contribution. No, that's going in your pocket at this point. So Bennett did that and then ended up getting beaten by Phil Weiser, who, a friend of David Serotis. So that gives you some indication of, I think, where he sits politically.

Ran as an kind of anti-corruption crusader, somebody who is kind of in the anti-monopoly wing, wants to get big money out of politics, and has ideas for how without a constitutional amendment you can restrict big money. So as the same, you know, just as we're getting like the world's first trillionaire, and wealth is increasingly being concentrated, we're seeing some level of pushback against that. I don't know if it'll be too late if they've locked everything down, but at least there's kind of a rearguard action against these trillionaires. And I was reading this morning,

so with Milak Keros in Congress, that would bring DSA affiliates to seven, right? In Congress, is that where the count is right now? I mean, that's just a gargantuan number compared to, to nothing. Yeah, that's pretty crazy. And if we actually put the Daniel post up on the screen one more time, this is A7, you just want to dwell on this for a moment because we, of course, covered the like Dem Tea Party here before I feel like a lot of the corporate press did. And we would joke about it a bit, but then it became pretty obvious. It was very serious. This is the DemT Party. If you're looking at this post from Daniel right now, three Congress members, well, basically

it says he's counting 15 Dem incumbents who have lost to a challenger to their last. left. So three congress members, four state senators, eight state house members, that's the Democrat Tea Party. That's all. Yes. And we had a stunted Tea Party basically in 2017, 2018, when you got the first squad wave. The problem then was that there was not really, what the Republican Tea Party had in 09 and 10 was conservative media. Once Eric Cantor got beaten, by Bratt in Virginia. And once you started to see all of these people coming out to these protests around Tax Day and around,

and then in the summer of 2009, Fox News flipped completely. They're like, all right, this Republican establishment world is done. Like, we are throwing our weight in with the Tea Party. And that just shifted the entire balance of power. In 2017 and 18, when the Democrats came with their own version of a Tea Party, you had Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the others, the New York Times, CNN and MSNBC

stayed very firmly with the Democratic Party establishment and said, no, no, no, that way lies ruined. Democratic establishment is the way to resist Trump. Right. And they elevated resisting Trump and said the way we're going to do, we need Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi

in these tested fighters. Although they put Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in magazine covers and that sort of thing. Yes, but she got way, way, there was a period. They weren't doing that for Dave Brown. Right, and there was a period in, right, but you know, Dave Bratz. It's not a O.C.

There was a period in 2019 where her name, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's name recognition was like triple what it, triple among conservatives what it was among liberals. Yep. Because Fox was covering her every single day and you rarely see her mentioned on MSNBC. Like, they just weren't interested in it. And so after the party of Stalmers was given its shot, they got Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Now that there's this energy again, you're getting more attention paid in the traditional kind of democratic press, CNN, MSNBC, New York Times, to this insurgent wing. But more importantly, there's a media apparatus, like places like this, and the podcast world and Midas Touch and like just all of these different, all of these ways for these candidates to reach voters that just didn't exist. Even in 2017, 2018.

Well, and arguably... The intercept is only reaching so many people. Right. Well, yeah. And this has always been part of my theory is that, like, the... Having some built-in sympathy from corporate media, even though, yes, it's true. Corporate media is generally more pro-war than the public and more pro-like tax cuts for the rich than the public.

There's, like, a cultural alignment between a lot of the corporate press and more progressive and center Democrats. Again, this is just unculturally. I'm not talking about anything else, but that often hurts Democrats because it makes you think, for example, that you can get away with running Joe Biden again until he crashes out in a debate,

or it makes you think that you can run, let's say, in 20, you can get away with putting Hillary in front of Bernie and the chicanry involved in that. There won't be any mass fallout over the next decade that it's worth it to just, like, jam Clinton through and make it really hard for other people to even try to compete with her and people won't get pissed off about it

because we are in control and it does end up, I think, backfiring and part of what we're seeing is that. Yeah, I think there's something to that for sure. And the cultural break you're seeing between this Malak Heroes wing of the party and the kind of mainstream MSNBC CNN's is really around Israel,

that they are unable to metabolize the criticism of Israel, as really anything other than just anti-Semitism and derangement. Yeah. Whereas normal voters can't understand kind of CNN in the New York Times defense of Israel as anything other than corruption. So it is a very stark divide. And just like with Espeyat last week and Renoso also,

that their unwillingness to voice real criticism of Israel it became a proxy for weakness and corruption. Which is, yes, I think that's right. That's how Abdul El-Sayed has been framing it. And that's what I think a lot of people have missed. Finally, just want to point out that viral posts of Scott Weiner, the videos of Scott Weiner being shouted out of pride. That is actually interesting from the perspective

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the Supreme Court ruling, which was paired with a very bizarre story. You can walk us through this. Nina Totenberg, who was the kind of legendary Supreme Court reporter for my entire lifetime. Best day of Ruth Bernard Ginsburg. And so she reports that Samuel Alito is retiring, which would be tactical and smart of Samuel Alito at this point. Because if Democrats take the Senate, then they are going to follow the Mitch McConnell precedent. and they're not going to confirm a Trump justice. But as you'll see on the image here, editors note, oops.

This is enormous. This is not good. The decisions that were handed down yesterday were enormous as well, obviously, upheld birthright citizenship, upheld state's abilities to ban boys from girls' sports. So West Virginia and Idaho's laws were upheld by the Supreme Court yesterday. A few pretty significant big decisions, but potentially overshadowed by the story from and PR where Nina Totenberg reported that Samuel Alito, who right now, I mean, he wrote the Dobbs decision. Samuel Alito is seen as like the conservative leader of the court. Obviously Clarence Thomas is there as well,

but in recent years Samuel Alito has been seen as the kind of champion where people are nervous about Gorsuch sometimes or Brett Kavanaugh sometimes and certainly now Amy Coney Barrett many times. He was seen as like the stalwart who was writing these brilliant conservative opinions and the strategy. of him retiring now makes sense. It's been a rumor for a long time, but Totenberg posted a story to NPR that got taken down pretty quickly. And yet, interestingly enough, it said in the post, people caught this in the Wayback Machine, that on Friday, Samuel Alito announced his retirement. So what that means is possibly it was under- And yesterday was not Friday, just to be clear. Yes, yesterday, yeah, thank you, yesterday was Tuesday. So it sounds like possibly she had some that was under an embargo where she knew because she has very deep relationships on the court

that something was coming down and had a pre-write ready to go. She says, let's just walk through this so that you can make your own decision about whether or not we have a Supreme Court vacancy coming up, which would be massively significant, obviously. So I'm going to read from Brian Stelter's rundown. NPR's eminent Supreme Court correspondent Nina Totenberg says she made a rookie mistake on Tuesday morning, and that's why she reported that Samuel Alito Lidover was retired. hiring. Totenberg's story sent other newsrooms scrambling to confirm, leading a court spokesperson to deny the reporting. Totenberg discussed the matter on all things considered Tuesday afternoon and read the text of the apologies he sent to Samuel Alito. The apology didn't fully

explain why NPR published the report without additional confirmation. However, the embarrassing episode, Stelter said amplified questions about whether Samuel Alito was contemplating retirement. Totenberg said, quote, I scared everybody half to death for about five minutes. It's entirely on me. It's not anybody else's fault. So she read her apology to Samuel Alito, which was, Dear Samuel Alito, there are no words to adequately apologize for today's error in reporting your retirement. It was entirely my fault. Now, here's where she explains what happened.

I rushed out of the courtroom after the opinion announcements, and when I realized that the usual rush of folks after a few minutes had not happened, I asked somebody what's going on inside to which the answer was retirement announcements. I didn't hear the S on announcements, and I assumed something no reporter should ever do, that you were retiring. So just to be clear, she says this was the worst professional mistake of my more than 50 years in journalism. I don't know, I could go on, but I don't know what else to say that I am, except that I am so, so sorry. It was a classy apology, I suppose.

But just to be clear, what she's, right, it looks to me trying not to do is reveal the source here. Because she's saying, I heard announcements and I heard announcement instead of announcements, which I think the implication of that is she knew. that an announcement announcement was coming. Right, exactly. And she took that as license to then phone up NPR, say run the pre-write,

which they didn't change to Friday when they just ran it. So NPR then didn't do the due diligence of saying, okay, we need to even get behind this. They were just rushing, which is odd because NPR doesn't really even need to do that. They're not competing with like the wires for the most part. So they really wanted to have that story first and it

ended up going out. I've never seen anything like that. It's the stuff of nightmares for a reporter who's you know, driven by these scoops. But yes, clearly it seems like what she's trying to say is that she knew or she, somebody told her. Yeah. An announcement. Maybe Samuel Alito.

Probably not Samuel Alito. Maybe. He sort of famously doesn't talk to anybody. Not even Nina Totenberg? Definitely not Nina Totenberg. Somebody told her that, hey, Samuel Alito is retired. This is my guess.

That Samuel Alito's retiring. Yep. She then hears, oh, announcement. Retirement announcement. Yep. She's like, oh, shoot. Like, run my story. quick without checking like what announcement now in her defense is like she thought retirement announcement

there's only nine justices right like what are the chances it's somebody else retiring but what was it a secretary or something without her knowing yeah yeah um and so they run the story and so yes so the substantial point here would be it's likely that he is yes retiring yes but now does he stay on another Honestly, does he stay on another year? It'd be amazing if he stays on another year just to spite Nina Totenberg and then Democrats win the Senate. Well, what he would do is retire the day after the election. Yeah. And then they would use the lame duck in one week and just ram somebody through.

Yeah. So we'll see what happens. But it looks like we're about to have a Supreme Court vacancy in another fight over that. Now, conservatives are, we covered this a bit yesterday, but that was before the birthright citizenship opinion came out. conservatives were already frustrated with Amy Coney Barrett's mail-in ballot decision in the Mississippi case. But yesterday there were actually calls after the birthright citizenship case went 5-4 with Connie Amy Coney Barrett, siding with Ketanji Brown Jackson, John Roberts, and Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan. There were calls for her to just resign. Here is B3, Mike Davis of the Article 3 Project.

There he says, Amy Coney Barrett lied during her confirmation hearing and he's demanding this is Benny had Mike on his show that she resigned. I think it was the biggest mistake imaginable supporting Amy Coney Barrett. She is a disaster for the Supreme Court. She is a rattled law professor with her head up her ass and thinks she is the smartest person in the room. She's not. She is a junior varsity justice. She auditioned as a constitutional conservative.

She has a fraud. She lied. She should resign. She is not up to the job. That just honestly gives you a little flavor of what seems like we're poised for with a Supreme Court vacancy coming up because Trump famously won the conservative coalition over by agreeing to choose in 2016 from the Federalist Society, Leonard Leo, handpicked list of potential Supreme Court justices, which included Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett. And now, yes, there have been contentious back and force over Gorsuch, some over Brett Kavanaugh,

but she has just become the source of the ire. And that's going to upend the process for Donald Trump actually picking a Supreme Court justice. You could see, honestly, to go to a Mike Lee or somebody that's totally left field, because he's so exhausted with the Federal Society, kind of Khan Inc. conservative establishment. Meanwhile, you have- Mike Davis, by the way, the guy

who's client ticket master, who- Yes, yep. He worked for ticket master and persuaded the Trump administration to give them a completely corrupt settlement. Almost single-handedly. So, Sparrest, Mike Davis. Almost single-handedly, yes.

So let's put up actually, Graham Platner. This is a taste of what you might see from the new Democratic Senate if they take the upper chamber. Graham Platner says not a single Democrat or self-proclaimed moderate should vote to confirm anybody of the Supreme Court over the next two years. And if you have a problem with that, blame Mitch McConnell, famous callback to the one and only Merrick Garland. Now, Stephen Miller said this was, quote, one of the most destructive and outrageous decisions in the long history of the Supreme Court. American citizenship is not the birthright of the world. It belongs only and solely to Americans. No provision.

the Constitution can be read to require our national self-obliteration. Donald Trump, we can move on to his reaction. This was a truth social B6. The Supreme Court upheld birthright citizenship, which is too bad for our country, but we can easily make it up in Congress through legislation with the support of the president that has now been determined during this process. No long and wieldy constitutional amendment is necessary. Congress should start today to work on ending expensive and unfair to our country,

And she co-signed the opinion that it's a right, not just that it's upheld, but that it's actually a constitutional right because of the amendment. Now, what they could do, and I've seen them start. to float this, maybe you can have some more details on this, is try to tighten visa restrictions. Like, I don't even know if you can say, like, hey, if you're like demonstrably pregnant or something, then you can't have a visa to come here or something like that. Because they're, what's interesting to me, though, is that how they're, Stephen Miller saying, we're just going to lose our country and people cite that there is this,

like Chinese tourism where you like somebody will come here the new yorker just had a great article right but but think about what we're concerned about if that's the case so we're worried that somebody a mom from china will fly to the united states have a baby the baby's an american citizen they will fly back to china they clearly have decent amount of resources to be able to pull all of this off and to think about it even um they will then raise their kid in china getting a very good socialist education. They will obviously teach them English because they care a lot about the United States.

China will spend an enormous amount of money educating and training this kid. The kid will be bathed in the American hegemonic cultural stuff. He'll, he or she will know our hip-hop artists, know our movies. And then the fear is that when this person turns 18, they will then go to college in the United States and then after that maybe start a company or go work for an American company

as an American citizen and that that is going to destroy our country. I just don't see that. Like in a world of absolutely plummeting birth rates, the country that can attract that driven person who obviously likes the United States because they want to be there and will speak English, they'll do all these things.

Like, we win there. Also, the hardest thing about a training of labor force is the parenting and the immense cost that goes into raising a baby from zero to 18, zero to 22. I actually think that's probably, if Stephen Miller were here, I think that would probably be his rebuttal to you that the bigger problem is not like Chinese birth tourism, but the bigger problem is that when you have people who are, for example, given

asylum or if you have Democrats with laxer border policies that look more like the Biden administrations and they are not in detention while they wait asylum hearings or make different claims, then they have children here. Because some of those like TPS claims are like two years. The court date would be two years in the future. They have American kids. And that basically makes it impossible unless you're the Trump administration to deport people who came here, then had kids.

And it's like the quote unquote anchor baby theory. I think that's probably what he would say is the bigger concern when he says it's going to destroy the country. Like a Honduran mom? Yeah. Or, okay, well, I don't know. But the, yeah, the Chinese birth tourism stuff is wild, but I agree. I mean, it's not on like a massive scale. Like, it's not at all on a massive scale.

Yeah, and if you're born here, like, this is, I was kind of surprised at the outrage from conservatives because, like, you're raised in the U.S. being taught if you're born. here, you're American. It's a fundamental thing. And you saw in, I think it was Samuel Alito's descent, saying other Western societies don't do that. It's like, yeah, like the whole, I keep being told that we're exceptional, that we're special. Like American exceptionalism, like we're the greatest country in the world. And then you get somebody like Samuel Alito saying, well, Europe does it differently. Like, that's the whole point. Isn't it? Like, are we exceptional or not? Or are we just another Denmark or something? What are we here? I was always told if you're Born in America, you're American.

And that's what makes us great. And there's been a lot of backlash to that sentiment in the sort of like intellectual right over the last 10 years. So that's probably what you saw flaring. It's un-American. Those are un-American weirdos. Here's Matt Walsh calling Amy Coney Barrett a DEI hire B-9. He says it turns out that Amy Coney Barrett is a DEI hire, a little better than Ketanji Brown Jackson-Jack's terrible pick. When's the last time we had a Republican president who didn't put a liberal justice on the court?

So I actually taking it out on Trump a bit there. He did get, I guess, a win, or the administration got a win in the form of B7. So this was a decision rendered yesterday that upheld state laws in Idaho and West Virginia, banning boys from competing on girls' sports teams. But that also didn't go as far as some conservatives would have liked. They would have liked actually the court to have overturned any state that is allowing it to happen on a, like, federalist. basis, but the court didn't. The court upheld just the ability of the states to make their own laws on this, which means that the blue states that have their own laws on this are safe

going forward. Democrats might have preferred that too. Yeah, yeah. And then they'd be like, well, we'd love to keep fighting on this 90-10 issue. Hands are tied. But hands are tied, Supreme Court says we can't. Right, right. It's sort of like Republicans after Obergefell. Now, let's put up this other major decision. This is B-8. The Supreme Court, as this political headline, Politico headline says, Lucent's campaign finance laws opening up a flood of midterm cash. So this was actually with the, it was a case involving the National Republican Senatorial Committee, the NRC.

And as Politico says, it struck down limits on coordinated spending between candidates and political parties, a win for Republicans that will fundamentally change how tens of millions of dollars are spent in congressional elections. The decision Politico writes is a blow to Democrats who argued that eliminating the limit on coordination would put more power into the hands of large donors who can cut bigger checks to party committees than to candidates. Republicans tend to get more money from large donors, while Democrats have been more reliant on small dollar donors. And that is particularly in reference to these party committees. So as Politico says, the NRC brought this

case seeking to overturn the limits in 2022 alongside now VP JD Vance's Senate campaign, Trump's Justice Department declined to defend the law and court, will Democratic groups intervene to oppose the lawsuit. And while we're talking about this, let's put B-10 up on the screen. This is a new report from Public Citizen that found corporate political spending has surged to a record-shattering level. Corporations have spent $1.58 billion on federal elections since Citizens United in 2010. In the 26 election cycle alone, they have spent 517 million already.

have a billion dollars already and it is July Ryan. Yeah, it's absolute absolute flood of money. What this and what this ruling does is right now you're limited you can give $3,500 to a candidate for the general election, $3,500 for the primary. That's the maximum you're allowed to donate. What this would allow you to do is give $3,500 to the candidate and then give a million to the NRC or the D-GCC, the party itself. and basically tell them with a wink and a nod, spend it on my guy, which you currently can't do. So you can't coordinate now because they're trying to keep the limits on the spending. But the party committees have said, well, you have super PACs now that aren't exactly coordinating,

but they basically are coordinating, and you can give the Super PAC a million dollars to spend on this candidate. So that has empowered Super PACs and hurt parties. What they're going to do eventually is say that, you know what, actually, then it's not fair. So Super PACs can also coordinate with campaigns. And then you will have any limits totally in name only. And coordination will be legal. And then when they get angry at DropSight for naming who the donors are and the donors like get yelled at on social media, They'll say, well, that's not fair either.

And you really can't participate in the democratic process without anonymity. So let's let people give millions of dollars in secret directly to candidates. And that'll be fine. And the joke that's embedded in their ruling is they say, there are already prophylactic measures in place to prevent quid pro quo corruption. Huge. So they're like, we've already, they use the word prophylactic so far. So we're already, we've already taken care of corruption. There is no corruption. So we can let a little

extra money and coordination into the system. And the joke is the Supreme Court every time they get a corruption case, they overturn it. They overturn the conviction. The prophylactic. Yeah, they'll say, they'll say, oh, yes, okay, money exchanged hands for a public favor, but the money came after the favor. And so you really can't say that the favor was done for the money. Maybe it was, but maybe it wasn't. Maybe it's free speech. And yeah, so like they like, like Meda, it's Republicans like McDonald or Democrats like Menna's like they just keep eroding what counts as bribery down to you would need to be on video saying, I am giving you this cash for your personal use in exchange for you performing an official act. on my behalf today, like not tomorrow, because that would be okay, but I need it right now,

then maybe the Supreme Court would find that to be illegal. And they're all getting away with it anyway, so at this point it's just... That's the Supreme Court's argument. Yeah, well... They're like, eff it. My argument, too, but not for the particular decision, just in general. I think we all understand how pathetic it is and basically doing whatever they want, so that's exciting.

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I think two of the most important authors, honestly, in the history of American 20th century politics, books that have come out just in the last decade. I actually went back and checked. Kinzer's books have totally changed the way that we see our own government. And if you haven't read them, you're missing out on that. But they're fairly recent. His books have been, like, last 10, 15 years have totally changed the way. For example, he does have probably the most complete book on M.K. Ultra. Which I think it was 2019 or something.

Right, 2019. I went back and checked. That's why I was in the index, because Ryan has cited in the index. It was published in 2019. It's called Poisoner in Chief on Sydney Gottlieb. And so Anna Paulina Luna basically convened this hearing. And a lot of this is, you know, there's discussion about having a new church committee after the Republican Party became opposed to the deep state and got very skeptical of the CIA and FBI for a brief moment in time. and now there's like remnants of that still happening. But convene this hearing to put focus on MK Ultra. She's been doing other things as well along these lines. She's, for example, hired Jeff Morley to help her look into the JFK file releases,

which is also very interesting. But this was focused on MK Ultra, but also what happened in the past, what the CIA still hasn't told us about MK Ultra. Kinser got into that in particular. but whether or not mind control is happening right now. And Kinsner and O'Neill, both foremost experts on this, basically said they don't have evidence of it, but they would be shocked if it weren't continuing to happen today. There were questions specifically about Butler and the Charlie Kirk assassination, as people

can imagine. So why don't we go ahead and just run a couple of thoughts here? Almost 50 years ago, the last congressional hearings into M.K. Ultra took place, just a short walk from here in the Dirkskin Senate office building. At those hearings convened in August and September of 1977, representatives of the CIA told Congress and the American people that its 25-year effort to control human behavior had been a colossal failure. Because I believe Congress was never told the truth about what this program actually achieved.

In fact, I believe the agency misled Congress in 1977, when it characterized M.K. Ultra as a failure. Is it in your expert opinion that Jack Ruby and Manson were assets of the intelligence agencies specifically pertaining to MK. Ultra? Were they M.K. UltraVic? Yeah. theoretically, Manson, I've never been able to prove absolutely. Jack Ruby, I believe this is something else. The Warren Commission investigation on the Warren Commission was Alan Dulles,

the former CIA director, who authoritative. and ran M.K. Alter until he was fired by President Robert F. Kennedy Jr.. The liaison to the committee for the CIA, who handled the information coming from the CIA back and forth to the Warren Commission, was Richard Helms, who was a direct supervisor of Jolly West. They knew who West was. They knew what West was capable of and what they had paid him to do and what he had reported to them that he could do, including inducing mental disorders and people. that was never disclosed to the commission as far as anyone knows.

So I believe that West was put in there to keep Jack Ruby from telling his story. So is Tom O'Neill and Anna Paulina Luna, going back and forth on Manson and Jack Ruby, connections that are Jolly West Ryan, which are, I mean, damning in a million different ways. Chaos, as he just said, doesn't really ever, you're never able to really establish, and this is by design, of course, in the CIA, the definitive link, but you have everything you need to know basically. Also, whether or not it was intentional or not, what the CIA ended up doing was seeding an entire counterculture.

Yes. Ken Keezy famously participated in an MK Ultra kind of CIA-led acid experiment when he was in the Army or Google the exact details of that. and you know he you know he goes on to you know the merry pranksters and grateful dead and the like the the hell's angels get looped in with that and and and it produces the northern california kind of counterculture um as as a result of that like he's you know he's driving around the further buss around and that that then takes it there's a lot more to what kind of drove the left kind of away from class politics and into whatever it became, but that played a significant

and played a significant role in it, creating that detour. And so that's why you have some people saying, well, this was intentional on the part of the government to disrupt a class politics that was beginning to form in the 1950s between labor unions and civil rights groups and anti-war groups. The March on Washington by Martin Luther King was funded by the UAW. And that to, and black people who had moved from the South amid the Great Migration were increasingly moving into union jobs. And there was a real threat that this kind of New Deal coalition was adding this element to it that was then going to be hegemonic and then be a real challenge to

capital and that the counterculture kind of helped unravel that. So there's an argument that that was intentional.

I don't know. There's never been any memos or anything that have emerged. But systems are what they do and that's it is what actually

happened. So while they didn't get mind control, they did reshape the country. And you know there's a good point because this is where

Kinzer started saying basically like we don't know. They burned all of the files. Like the MK Ultra were like famously Richard Helms. Completely burned.

And they were talking at the time about not putting a lot of things in writing. Here's Kinzer. This is C2. There have been enormous advances in cyber technology in artificial intelligence and neuroscience.

Covert agencies may have access now to tools for mind control that Sidney Godley could not even have imagined. It may well have been true in 1963 that mind control is a myth. or whether it's still true is uncertain.

And that question of whether mind control might now be possible under our new circumstances is something that has presumably occurred to scientists who work for secret services, including our own. This task force has a chance to connect the past to the future, A renewed effort to find MK Ultra documents from the 1950s and to fill out the redactions of those that have been released might shed new light on how the CIA operated during that period. It could also inform a new inquiry into whether any mind control projects are now underway inside the U.S. security apparatus. That might help prevent the emergence of a 21st century M.K. Ultra that could be even more destructive than the original.

the emergence of a 21st century MK. Ultra. That's what you just heard from perhaps the foremost expert on MK. Ultra in the world saying that there is a legitimate need to potentially prevent a 21st century MK. Ultra. Another little newsy bit out of this is Anna Paulina Luna was talking about Operation Paper Club. This is a wild hearing. I watched all of it. And saying actually she's going to the German parliament to start trying and finding, to try and find the victims of MK. Ultra buried in Germany. Kinzer's book does a lot on this, C-3. Kurt Bloma, who was the chief of biological weapons development for the Nazi government, came to work for the CIA. So did Walter Schreiber, who was the Surgeon General of the Nazi Army. I can just tell a brief story. When I was researching my book, I found what I think might be the first secret CIA prison

or black site. It's a nice chalet in Germany. And the guy who now owns it took me into the basement. He said these were the cells where the M.K. Ultra officers working side by side with Nazis carried out those gruesome experiments, which were actually just continuations of the experiments that those Nazis had been conducting just a few years earlier right down the road. Just for timeline and clarification, these experiments were happening after the Nuremberg trials. Correct. So the CIA would have known that these were crimes against humanity. I looked for an episode in which the Nuremberg doctrines were posted on the wall in some M.K. Ultra or CIA office, and I was never able to find any indication that those Nuremberg principles ever were even consulted, much less obeyed. Wren, I'm the last person that needs to explain this to you, but this has been the domain of the left for decades.

And instead of actually taking this hearing seriously, Democrats sent a former NIH director. to talk about Trump's politicization of science, not a non-issue, but still just... What does that have to do with... Nothing, literally nothing. What more politicization of science could there be than teaming up with Nazis to extend their human experimentation? Right. Which we did, to be clear. Right, and so let's roll the witness that Democrats choose to bring in for no reason.

Had absolutely no relationship to M.K. Ultra was like very much just. just making that clear, and it was an attempt to get soundbites into the hearing about Trump. So this is C3. And right now, we're seating our leadership in biomedical research to China. That's what's happening right now. What about covering up harmful side effects of vaccines and the role that the NIH has played in that? What do you have to say about that, ma'am? The U.S. history of human subject protection has evolved greatly.

numerous research improprieties from the 50s to the 70s in the United States, including the Tuskegee syphilis study, forced Congress to establish formally federal- mandated rules. You know what I'm asking you about. I'm asking you about how NIH handled COVID. Obviously, this is supposed to be a hearing about M.K. Ultra, but when you gave your opening statement, and I don't even know why you were called to this hearing, because you didn't offer anything about MK. Ultra.

But since you are here and you're going to defend it. to NIH, I'm going to call you out on it. Try not to sound naive, right? But, like, there's no reason for Democrats not to take an M.K. Ultra hearing seriously and to send somebody who's not just like an anti-Trump witness to divert the conversation and try to kind of troll. There was an opportunity, probably, to do something slightly more interesting. Right.

And the politicization of medicine and science may be the kind of worst argument to make in a hearing like this, when it is literally politically driven, medicine as being deployed on defenseless people that the CIA determined were expendable. They went around the world trying to find people that if they died in these experiments in which they were being tortured, that nobody would miss them.

It reminded me of Chernobyl's book, we've had him all a couple times. It's about the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, but the subtitle is corporate gangsters, multinationals, and rogue politicians. And there's a chapter in then that goes through the history of medical research in Africa, which was pioneered by Germans amid their genocide, which became the model for the genocide that they carried out later in Germany. And a lot of the kind of discoveries and people involved in this human research in the early 1900s in Afghanistan.

Africa on Africans evolved into the Nazi research, which then evolves into the American research with literally with the Nazis and also taking place heavily in Africa on subjects who had no idea what they were signing up for. And then when there's an Ebola outbreak, which is going on now, and you find people suspicious of Western interventions, we're like, oh, look at those, those, you know, dumb tribal people who don't understand the genius of modern medicine when a significant amount of their, the history of their interaction with Western medicine was them being the unwitting subjects of medical torture. O'Neill testified yesterday that USAID was, quote, very likely used as a front for M.K. Ultra.

And the breathless defenses that we've seen from Dems who are just trying to anti-Trump posture about USAID contrasts starkly with some anti-colonial activists in Africa who would tell you something very different about USAID. And I guess, just to round out this segment, I'm hopeful in some way that maybe the DSA-aligned candidates who come into Congress would be able to do a little bit of at least what Matt Bill Gates and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez did on some of these topics, like, for example, AUMF use in what Libya, I think they work together on. Maybe you would see something that isn't just such a dumb anti-touches. Trump stunt like that in the future. Yeah, let's get some of these new DSA people on those committees.

I think they'll have a much different understanding of the history. Yeah. Well, I would hope so, because DEMs should not be seeding these issues. They're right for the picking. Absolutely.

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