Fauci's Notes Reveal Shocking Truth About COVID's Origin

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I believe this is before any American even had the virus, caught the virus, certainly before anyone here in America had died from the virus. But they knew that it was growing and spreading in China. They knew that it started growing and spreading in Italy. And it started growing and spreading in Italy because China allowed infected Chinese workers to fly to Italy to work in some factories where they did some labor there in Italy. That's how it spread. to America because people flew from Italy to New York. And then it spread on the West Coast because people flew from China to Seattle. Remember the very first cases were at a nursing home in the Washington area. January of 2020, he knew that it was not the wet market, that it originated in the lab. The wet market was merely where it spread. In February, February 1st, 2020, This is, as Senator Paul puts it, the call that produced proximal origin, 12 scientists, only two concluded it was natural per Anthony Fauci's own notes. The rest felt that deliberate insertion was possible. So they had 12 scientists talking about how the virus leaked and how it spread. Twelve scientists. Only two thought that it spread naturally. According to Anthony Fauci's own notes in his own diary, the rest felt the deliberate insertion was possible. I'm sorry, I thought that we were always supposed to follow scientific consensus. Ten out of twelve sounds like consensus, doesn't it? On February 3rd, 2020, Anthony Fauci calls George Gao, head of China's CDC. This is his Chinese counterpart. Gao confirms asymptomatic people transmit the virus. Remember when you were told that you would only transmit the virus if you have symptoms? Remember? Oh, yeah, you got to sneeze in somebody's face. Otherwise, you're fine. You can test positive for the virus, but unless you have symptoms, nothing's going to happen and you're not going to be able to spread it. February 3rd, 2020, Gao, Anthony Fauci's counterpart in China, confirms asymptomatic people transmit. Anthony Fauci writes that Wuhan health officials did not tell him this, and he thus gave out false information, a lapse that likely allowed the outbreak to take hold. February 12th, 2020, however, remember when CPAC was held? In 2020, I want to say it was maybe the last week of February, maybe first week of March. And we had some spread here in America already at that time. The president was speaking at CPAC. All eyes were on CPAC. And, of course, somebody ended up testing positive. And it turned into some sort of, you know, big scandal and fopon. Of course, they tried to attack conservatives, attack Trump, attack Republicans. That was a full month after what I'm telling you here. It was a full month after Anthony Fauci.

knew what he knew. Remember how scandals always grow when you say what did they know and when did they know it? Here's your answer on this scandal. This is what Anthony Fauci knew and this is when he knew it. February 12th, Anthony Fauci briefs four congressional delegations in one day. Then he runs into Larry Cudlow. Larry Cudlow at the time, by the way, was an economic advisor to the president. He worked for the Trump administration. Cudlow asked when COVID was going to crash the economy. Anthony Fauci's note, quoting him now, I told him that we were okay for now. Now, that was nine days after Mr. Gao in China had informed him that the virus could spread asymptomatically. In other words, everyone could spread this virus without even knowing they had the virus. You didn't know you had it and you had no way of knowing that the person across from you had it. You know, it's one thing when you're in a meeting and somebody sneezes or coughs. You know that guy who coughs? You're sitting on a plane or in a movie theater and there's someone who has a hacking cough right next to you. Or you've got a coworker who tries to be the hero and he comes into work even though he's got a cold and a fever and he looks like hell and he's coughing and sneezing. It's like, dude, stay home. Don't be coming here and spreading your virus. See, those people are easy to figure out. Anthony Fauci knew on February 12th. He had known for nine days from his counterpart in China that this thing was going to spread silently. It was going to spread from people who don't have symptoms. So no one would know who had it and no one would know who was dangerous, who they should stay away from, and no one knew if they had it that they should stay home. And when Larry Cudlow said, so is this going to affect our economy? Anthony Fauci said, no, we're good. everything's fine what did fouchy know and when did he know it more on tony's diary coming up in a moment this is o'connor and company For nearly 3,000 years, Homer's The Odyssey has shaped Western imagination. It tells the story of Odysseus as he faces monsters, shipwrecks, false comforts, and impossible choices on his long journey home. As one of the foundational works of Western literature, Homer's epic is more than a mythology, it explores permanent questions about courage, duty, loyalty, family, leadership, temptation, and the search for home. In one of the epic's defining moments, Odysseus rejects the offer of immortality from the goddess Calypso, choosing instead the long and difficult journey home. His decision reveals one of the central themes of the Odyssey that a life of duty, family, and home is greater than a life devoted to comfort or glory. Achilles chose glory. Odysseus chose home. That's why Hillsdale College has released its newest free online course, The Odyssey, taught by Professor Benedict Wayland. The course reveals why Homer's masterpiece remains one of the greatest works of Western literature. Find this free course at Charlie for Hillsdale.com. That's Charlie for Hillsdale.com. Read the classics, study the West. The Odyssey from Hillsdale College. Go to Charlie for Hillsdale.com.

This is critically important that we don't let COVID-19 die in Anthony Fauci's culpability. And now I guess we all understand why he got that pardon he got from Joe Biden for any crimes he may have committed. Pretty remarkable. I understand him doing that for his son. We clearly saw crimes that he had committed and others. But I know, I know the thought process was that you want to. preempt Trump from sicking the Justice Department or FBI on some innocent person and making their life a living hell by punishing them politically by using the law and FBI and lawyers to harm them. But, you know, by saying that that can be done, you're sort of conceding the fact. that it's been done in the past. In fact, you're conceding the fact that it was done specifically to Trump and the Trump administration. I know people who went in the debt by over half a million dollars because they had to lawyer up over January 6th, even though they literally did nothing. If you worked in the Trump administration in the final days leading up to January 6th, you had to spend upwards to half a million dollars to defend yourself. against the Justice Department, against Jack Smith, against the kangaroo court led by Liz Cheney on Capitol Hill. That's what they did. And so that's why they gave so many pardons to people like Anthony Fauci because they knew what could be done because they had just done it. The difference here, of course, is you have devastating, devastating, at the very least, mismanagement or deceit and cover up. I would go so far as to say this should, if it does not, rise to the level of crime, federal crime, at the hands of Anthony Fauci and people who empowered him and enabled him. How many times do we have to show him saying one thing to Congress under oath and another thing now reflected in his notes? For instance, for instance, he briefed Congress and told Congress that COVID will have 10 times the mortality rate of the flu. Now, this was weeks after his own diary said that the fatality rate would be about 0.2 to 0.3%. Now, 0.2 to 0.3% is actually eerily similar to what the seasonal flu mortality rate is. It fluctuates each year. It averages out between 0.1% and 0.2%. That's one death per thousand. Here, he's saying that it's going to be 10 times worse than the flu. He says on March 10th to Sean Hannity, the mortality rate for this is about 2 to 2.5%. Maybe lower than that closer to 1%. But if it's 1%, that's 10 times more lethal than the seasonal flu. But in his own notes, he told himself it would be 0.2 to 0.3%. That's a lie.

On March 11th, under oath, the stated fatality rate of this overall is about 3%. If you count all the cases in asymptomatic infection, that probably brings the mortality rate down to about 1%, which is, say it with me, 10 times more deadly than the seasonal flu. This was in March. This is before the lockdown. This is before 15 days to slow the spread. It was stuff like this. from the saintly and trusted Anthony Fauci that motivated people to say, oh, we got to do something about this. If the mortality rate is 10 times worse than the flu, this is serious. But in his notes to himself, not under oath, not in front of Congress, not in front of the warm glow of television lights, he was saying it would be about 0.2%. That's what he said in his journal. But over and over again, he overstated that. under oath. And that's why we have a lockdown. Also, noteworthy, I want to revisit the fact that he paneled 12 scientists on February 1st. This is the call that created the myth that this thing spread nationally, or naturally, at the wet market. But he knew already that it didn't. Right? And then they wanted to know, well, where did the virus originate in the first place? Like, like, why are we seeing this really weird version of COVID-19? Only two thought that this occurred naturally because of people eating bats or because of animals, you know, mixing their blood or other fluids or what have you. The other 10 scientists on February 1st said that it was a deliberate insertion. In other words, it was part of the. experimentation they were doing on this virus at the Wuhan lab. But eight days later, Anthony Fauci went on Newt Gingrich's podcast, and he said, I've heard these conspiracy theories, and like all conspiracy theories, they're just conspiracy theories. But the vast majority of his scientists said that it was probably inserted specifically at the lab. But if you said something like that. For the next couple of years, you were banned on social media or maybe even investigated by the federal government. We'll keep focusing on this and hopefully find out what can be done about Anthony Fauci as this story develops. Whether you're preparing for exams, juggling family and career, or you're just looking to stay sharp as you age, think factor is what you need. It'll help. Think factor is created by the same company that makes relief factor. Think factors support sharper focus, stronger recall, and clearer thinking. It's a natural way to give your brain the daily nutrients it needs for memory, attention, and even vibrant vision. I take... Think Factor every day, and I've noticed the difference. I want you to stay focused during demanding tasks and keep your memories strong, and I want you to maintain mental energy for whatever's ahead. That's why Think Factor is for you. Call 804 Relief or visit ReliefFactor.com to order ThinkFactor. 804 relief or go to ReliefFactor.com. Your first bottle? Just $19.95. Think Factor. Think clearer. Perform better daily.

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All right, back to Shannon Bream, who hosts Fox News Sunday. This is the co-chair of the Democrat Socialists of America, DSA. They're the party, and it is a political party, who has decided that instead of actually going through the tough work of creating a campaign infrastructure and a funding infrastructure and having to, you know, work on getting your party. eligible and and approved with signatures and all that stuff that's required to get a political party to be viable in this country uh basically they have decided to become a parasite on the democratic party and the democrats have welcomed them in it's one of those things just like oh yeah parasite come out in hop on board everybody Tim Kaine, the senator from Virginia over the weekend, when confronted with some of the odious, un-American, unconstitutional, anti-constitutional, anti-American positions that the DSA stands for, Tim Kaine said, absolutely, we're a big tent party. And I understand big tent parties, I do. It's a thing. You want to be a big tent party. Republicans are a big tent party. But it's a funny thing. We don't invite people into our tent who are on the record saying that they want to burn down the tent. We kind of draw the line there. Oh, and it was remarkable to hear Tim Kaine talk about how all views are welcome in his party. Try being a pro-life Democrat. The tent is big enough for the radical Marxists, but if you think that life begins at conception and that baby has a right to life and shouldn't be killed before it's born, you're not welcome. Your views are not welcome in that big tent. If you think that immigration laws should be enforced, if you don't think that the enforcement agency should be abolished, I'm pretty sure you're not welcome either. But Tim Kaine should know better. Because Tim Kaine, when he started his political career in Virginia, many decades ago, he called himself a pro-life Democrat. Yeah, check the record. Then by the time he was Hillary Clinton's running mate, he was in favor not just of legalized abortion across the board right up until birth, but he was advocating that you pay for it with your tax dollars, even if you're morally and ethically opposed to abortion. It's quite a journey Tim Kaine was on, but I guess that's what that big tent does. So here is Megan Romer. Bang and Romer is the co-chairman of the Democrat Socialists of America. Democrat Socialists of America. They put Democrat in their name to fool people. Oh, they're just Democrats. They're just a little more left than Democrats. No, no. No, no. They are their own political party. And we've been talking about this for weeks because they're on record with their platform about what they stand for and what they intend to do eventually when they get into power. So here she is with Shannon Bream. And God bless Shannon Bream for doing this because she made it very clear to everyone exactly who these people are. Go ahead and take a listen. So we're going to put up on the screen a few of the things that are part of your platform. And I want to ask you, just give me sort of a true or false on these. Abolish the Senate. True. Okay. Replace the presidency and Supreme Court as we now know them. Yep. Abolish ICE.

Absolutely. Abolish borders and give amnesty to anyone currently in the U.S. illegally. As a long-term plan, yep. Defund the Pentagon. Absolutely. Abolish prisons, at least in large part. Yeah, again, as part of a long-term program, yeah. Overeducated white woman, by the way, in case you needed to know if you didn't see the video, advanced degrees, I'm sure. That's Megan. She's excited about it. She's enthusiastic about it. Abolish the Senate, abolish the Pentagon, abolish the presidency, abolish prisons. As one political observer noted, this isn't a big tent, it's anarchy. Why can't Democrats call out the DSA? By the way, that political observer is Democrat Senator John Fetterman. He gets it. He's the only one so far that actually holds an office who is bold enough to say, what the hell are we doing here, guys? This is not a, and anybody who, you know, everyone made a big deal about Rahm Emanuel. Rahm Emanuel wrote a op-ed in the Wall Street Journal. that everyone is saying, oh, look, he's calling out the DSA. He's calling up Bernie Sanders. Read the article. He does call out DSA, but not because of the positions they hold. He's not saying, wait, this isn't the Democratic Party. We celebrate capitalism. We celebrate the free market. We're not totalitarian. We're not Marxists. We don't want to upend the Constitution. No, Rahm Emanuel doesn't say anything like that in his op-ed. His complaint is that these people, because they're saying all this out loud, These people are going to keep them from winning. His big gripe is that it's keeping them from winning the elections and gaining power. He would rather they... pretend. They would, he would rather, they act like his old friend and boss, Barack Obama. There's a lot of viral clips going around with Barack Obama talking about how we have to enforce our borders. We have to deport illegal immigrants. You know, and all of a sudden, people are looking at it. This is when he was a senator in 2010. And people are saying, look at Barack Obama. He was right wing. These are, no, no, no. Don't fall into that trap. Barack Obama didn't believe what he was saying. He was lying. He was lying. When he ran for president in 2008, excuse me, did I say it was 2010 when he was a senator? I meant 2006. When he was running for president in 2008, he claimed that he believed marriage was between a man and a woman. And that there shouldn't be any same-sex marriage. Within four years, he had completely reversed that position, acted like he'd always believed it. And if you believe what he claimed he believed four years ago, you were a hateful bigot. Do we really think he changed his position or, as he put it, evolved on same-sex marriage? Of course he didn't. He lied. And that's what Rahm Emanuel is suggesting these socialists do. Listen, we know who you are. We know what you stand for. Keep it under your hat.

We don't need you saying all this stuff out loud. You're going to mess things up for all of us. And boy, Lord, howdy, I sure hope. They mess it up for everyone. Here's Tim Kaine, as I mentioned. Tim Kaine was asked about all of those policies. Tim Kaine, I was told he's one of the moderate ones. Like I said, when he ran for governor of Virginia all those many years ago, he claimed he was still pro-life. Here's Tim Kaine today. The Atlantic, though, has this headline saying the DSA is a parasite. They add, if the Democrats want to root out the party within their party, they will need to stop indulging the DSA's constant passive aggressive attempts to undermine them. This would require prohibiting DSA members from joining their party and throwing out the DSA members already honeycombed within it. Do you think they have a space within your party? I do think the Democratic Party has always been known, and mostly this is good. Sometimes it's not as a big tent. And so I don't think that somebody says I'm a DSA candidate. I don't think you should use that to throw them out. Why would you do that? candidates have to rise and fall on their own merits. And so, you know, whether you're a DSA member or a third way Democrat or, you know, I just call myself a small D Democrat, people have to put their platform before voters and try to be responsive to voters and voters get to judge them. But to have a litmus test that if somebody says, hey, I'm a DSA member, you know, they can't be part of the party. I strongly disagree with that. But they're clearly not a part of the Democratic Party. In fact, they run against Democrats. They defeat Democrats. And mostly they defeat Democrats who are longtime incumbents. See, they're doing this very surgically and very strategically. They're not winning in swing districts. They're not winning in districts where Republicans sometimes win it, you know, the purple districts, the districts where you need. to actually have good candidates if you're going to take over the majority in the House. See, if Democrats win the majority in the House from Republicans, they're going to have to do it by defeating Republicans, obviously, and they need to do it in districts that have historically elected Republicans. The socialists are staying away from those districts. The main victims... of the socialists right now are longtime multi-term democrats. Andrew Cuomo was patient X against Zohran Mamdani. He got defeated in his own party's primary, remember? So they're winning in districts that are deep, deep blue that have longtime incumbent Democrats. They're defeating them so far seven have advanced to the general election. There's 11 more vying in primaries still to be had.

Oh, and up in Maine, they got rid of Graham Platner and elected Troy Jackson over the weekend, not that the people of Maine had anything to say about it. And Troy Jackson is running in the same way. He's Graham Platner without the tattoo and, sadly, for Democrats, without the charm. Also, Francesca Hong is leading in the polls in Wisconsin to be the governor. Wisconsin. Wisconsin is a swinging swing state. And she's about to ascend to represent the Democrats. And the Democrats are whistling past the graveyard. They're fine with it because they just want to win. I've got more on this. Bernie Sanders under fire as well and a little bit that you need to know about where this election is headed in just a second. But first, I do want to tell you about my friends over at Relief Factor because Relief Factor has been a godsend for me. I told you I woke up in May inexplicably, and I don't even know what brought it on, but I had excruciating sciatica from my lower back all the way down to my right foot. At one point, I couldn't even get up and walk around. It was so bad. So I... started taking relief factor and even upped my doses i took more than i should have every day but thank god i did because it helped it helped get me back to where i am right now which is training for a marathon now i'm not alone we hear these stories all the time whether it's everyday aches and pains soreness uh cramps in your hands or in your joints or whether it's something drastic like i had relief factor can help and your first three weeks Just $17.76. Go to 800 for relief or relieffactor.com. Your education is more than a path to a degree. At Regent University, it's an important step in God's plan for your career. It's where you'll be equipped to lead and serve with purpose. It's where 40,000 graduates have prepared to fulfill their callings, and so can you. Choose a top-ranked program from over 150 areas of study on campus or online and watch what God will do. Learn more at regent.edu. That's regent.edu. Yeah, here it is. Clip four here. Barack Obama, 2006, when he was Senator Obama. This clip has made the rounds over the weekend because people are looking at it and say, look how conservative. Even Barack Obama had this to say about immigration. You can take a listen. We're not going to play the whole thing. Go ahead. The American people are a welcoming and generous people. Those who enter our country legally and those who employ them disrespect.

the rule of law. And because we live in an age where terrorists are challenging our borders, we cannot allow people to pour into the U.S. undetected. undocumented, and unchecked. Yeah, he goes on to talk about robust border security and dealing with those who are in the country illegally, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. And people would be mistaken to say, look, look, you see how they've changed? No, they didn't. Let's just be clear. And I said this before. Even, sadly, some Republicans who said that back in the day were saying it just to sort of check a box on a form when they run for higher office. But they never intended that the laws be enforced. Otherwise, why are they screaming right now that those laws that they claim they supported are now suddenly being enforced? No, he didn't actually believe that. He was lying. That's what the socialists and the Marxists who got into the tent before in the good old days. That's what they would do. They would lie. And then once they got into office, they did everything they possibly could do. Now, to be fair, I don't know if Obama wants to do away with the Senate, but he has said that he wants to do away with the electoral college, I believe. He is called it unconstitutional, not unconstitutional, but undemocratic and a vestige of slavery, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. He lied. And that's, I think, what Rahm Emanuel and other Democrats would rather these Marxists do. But they feel empowered now. Here's Bernie Sanders, their leader, asked about this on Face the Nation yesterday. There is, as you know, though, concern within Democratic circles that these inner party primary fights are draining resources and sort of, you know, pulling away from what should be a unified message. Rahm Emanuel wrote in the Wall Street Journal, the Bernie Rose could spoil Democrats midterms. He said the DSA and others are saddling the party with nominees who, as he put it, wildly in popular positions will protect Republicans. from having to pay the price of Donald Trump's corruption. He said it was the socialist who led the charge to defund the police, open borders, abolished prisons. He's saying those are losing messages that are going to hurt the party overall. Yeah, let me pause for a second. Do you heard that? That's the admission right there. Oh, see, Rahm Emanuel thinks that it's bad and wrong to defund the police and et cetera, et cetera. No, no, no. You just heard Margaret Brennan repeat it. He says that's a losing message. He's not criticizing the message other than it's going to keep us from winning the election.

Always remember that. Abigail Spanberger, the so-called moderate governor of Virginia. She got a lot of attention and she got to wear this, you know, pretend costume that she's a moderate because after one of the midterm elections where they didn't do as well as they wanted, she criticized the AOCs and the squad by talking about defunding the police and all the Marxist garbage that they're doing. But not because she's against those ideas. Not because, hey, we're Democrats. We're not Marxists. Hey, we're Democrats. We believe in the free market. Hey, we're, you know, we want Nancy Pelosi to be able to make millions on the stock market. What are you doing here? No, no, no. The criticism is always this is going to hurt our election prospects. This is not a winning message, which is very different. than saying this is fundamentally wrong and un-American. Okay, but here's Bernie Sanders' response to Rahm Emanuel. And it really does tell you exactly where the Democrats are. Everyone's telling me how the Democrats are going to have a blue wave. The Democrats are going to roll. Democrats are poised. They're in perfect position. No, the Democrats are in disarray right now. Hakeem Jeffries is trying desperately to keep them all together. But they're already feuding within themselves. Here's Bernie Sanders. You tell me if this sounds like a party that's in a winning position. Go ahead. That is what Rahm Emanuel is saying, who no doubt has the support of millions of working class people. Look, this is an argument. There's no... debate. There is a strong division within the Democratic Party. You have an establishment like Rahm Emanuel, who are dependent on billionaire campaign contributors and want to maintain the status quo. Then you have a progressive movement, which, by the way, what is getting these guys there says we are winning all over this country. It's not only Zohran Mamdani in New York City. It's in New Jersey. It's in Ohio. It's in Colorado. People are sick and tired of the Rama manuals. and the democratic establishment and the republican establishment they are asking simple questions margaret why in god's name that's right and then he goes on dispute is marxism but see the the anger and the ire and the victories right now are coming at the expense of democrats not republicans We'll see what happens in November. By the way, the establishment is also quietly low-key fighting back against the radicals. They announced their primary schedule for the 28 presidential cycle. And for the first time ever, the number one state is South Carolina. Now, a lot of people are looking at this through a racial lens saying, oh, that's going to boost the black vote. And by the way, I told you last week, the black vote has come out against Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan. There is a divide between black voters in the Democrat Party and these Marxists. We'll get into that a little later, too, because there's a remarkable statement from a longtime black Democrat in the suburbs of Detroit. But yes, so it is sort of a boost to Jim Clyburn and the South Carolina predominantly black Democrat.

voting base there. But it's also a smackdown to the socialists. Second place is Nevada. Third place is New Hampshire. That's going to be the schedule. Well, Nevada and New Hampshire are interesting because they're both states that Bernie Sanders won. And those parties have been dominated by the Bernie Sanders wing. This is the establishment fighting back. It's amazing. And this is our flagship station, WMAL, in Washington, D.C. Heard coast to coast now, O'Connor and Company, also streamed live video stream. Anywhere you get your video streaming. Roku, Samsung TV, Amazon Fire, Amazon Prime, get the Salem News channel. You can watch the show. You can see. How handsome Hans von Spikoski is, who joins us in just 30 seconds. Also, we get an update on the conflict in Iran with Jim Hansen coming up in 30 minutes. And in the next hour, we'll get the latest out of the Data Center wars happening in northern Virginia with Nick Minnock of WJLA, ABC 7. That and a whole lot more coming up. But as I mentioned, Hans von Sikovsky's Senior Legal Fellow at Advancing American Freedom. He's a... veteran of the Justice Department Civil Rights Division, specifically the voting rights division. He's an election law expert, and he's the perfect man to have right now on this program today. Hans, good morning. Thanks for joining us. Well, sure. Thanks for having me on. I thought of you immediately when I heard this story coming out in New Jersey because it's got Hans von Spigowski written all over it. First of all, the word from the governor is that people were registered to vote when they went to the Motor Vehicles Agency in New Jersey, and 6,500 of them were told at least. affirmed that they were not citizens, but also said they wanted to register to vote. And then the governor says that a software error didn't catch that and allowed all of those people to be registered, even if they said they weren't citizens. Now, I know what a fan you are of motor voter and the DMV being involved in this process anyway. But why don't you dissect what the governor said here and what sticks out to you? Well, let's mention that she had to admit 400 people, 400 of those people voted, although she tried to downplay that as if it wasn't any big deal. I could tell you that I was in a meeting with state legislators last week down in Florida, including folks from New Jersey, and they were saying they have local elections there decided by a handful of votes all the time. But look, the software company. who's been doing this work for New Jersey for decades, said this was not a software problem. This was a problem inside the New Jersey DMV. And the key thing here is, if anybody thinks this is the extent of the problem, look, these are people who admit, said, I'm not a U.S. citizen. How many aliens lied on the form and said, I am a U.S. citizen?

and are still registered to vote and voting energy. We don't know the answer to that question. Yep. And simply asking someone to prove that they're a citizen when they check that box would alleviate this problem. That's what the SAVE Act would do or the provisions that are currently sitting at the Senate. Hans, I made the comparison last week, but you tell me if I'm wrong, if I file my taxes using, you know, TurboTax or any other software that's out there, and there's some error or mistake in my tax return. When the IRS comes knocking, they're not going to buy the software glitch argument. I can say, listen, TurboTex did this. They screwed up. IRS isn't going to care. So even if you take their argument that this is a software glitch, which it's not, doesn't somebody have to be responsible for this? Somewhere along the line, laws were broken. Oh, no, there's no question of that. And, you know, typical of New Jersey and, frankly, the governor, you know, she was talking all about transparency at her news conference where she had to admit all this happened, but now she's refusing to actually provide any information to the Department of Justice about this. And I would remind folks that not only is the Department of Justice charged under federal law. with enforcing the list maintenance provisions of federal law, which require clean, accurate voter rolls. But it's a federal vote if you're an alien. So DOD. All right, we're having some trouble with Hans. His audio is dropping. So if we can reset that connection, that would be fantastic. And once we reset, we'll follow up with him because I think what he's saying there is it's illegal for non-citizens to vote. I believe it's also illegal for non-citizens to register to vote. So these people should go to jail. They should face consequences. And if they're in the country legally... And they registered to vote, even registered to vote. They should face deportation. And Hans is right. New Jersey shouldn't get any kind of credit for being transparent or open and forthcoming and putting this out there. If they then refuse to hand over the evidence. to the federal authorities who can then prosecute these people for breaking our laws. Democrats are always grandstanding saying, oh, we don't need the Save Act and we don't need voter ID and we don't need to go through our voter rolls to see if non-citizens are registered because it's already against the law. We don't need any new laws. We've already got the laws. But here we know 6,600 people have violated that law and they're trying to protect them.

You know, you can't stand there and tell me we don't need any new laws to protect non-citizens from registering to vote. And then at the same time, not help in participating, convicting those people who just broke that law that you're hanging your hat on. Hans is back with us. If they register to vote, these people broke the law. They should be able to, they should face criminal charges, right? Well, I agree. But look, the other big problem here is New Jersey is one of the blue states that refuses to actually verify citizenship. They have the ability now to access the Department of Homeland Security's database. It's called the Save System. And a lot of red states are actually checking that system, Florida, for example. New Jersey refuses to do that. So again, if an alien... basically lies on the forum and says, yes, I am a U.S. citizen, they'll register them to vote. And anybody thinks that kind of things not happening? I'd remind them of the illegal alien who ended up being a school superintendent in Iowa. Right. Who was registered to vote in Maryland because he said, I'm a U.S. citizen. Yeah. And that, the only way you can go back and check that, because none of these databases, you would think you could take the voter role database and cross-check it against DHS, immigration, naturalization. No, none of those systems overlap. None of them talk to each other. The only way to really prevent this from happening is to do exactly what SAVE suggests, which is prove citizenship when you register, right? Yeah. Right. That's right. Anybody. Go ahead. Well, I was just going to say, anybody who thinks, oh, that's just too much to ask, you should ask them, do you have a job? Because if you do, when your employer hired you, you had to prove your citizenship. That's federal law right now. That's right. That's the I-9 form, and it's been in place since the late 80s, early 90s. The other interesting thing here is that we're looking at a showdown in the Senate. Two of the provisions of the Save America Act have now been embedded into the reconciliation package. It's tied to funding for the states to implement any procedures that might be needed for the voter ID and the photo ID provision as well as the citizenship provision. What do you make of how this is going to... work its way through the Senate. Mike Lee and Rick Scott have already said that they don't give consent for a recess until this is done on a roll call basis. John Thune seems to be sort of stuck between a rock and a hard place on this. Does he have a way out? Well, they need to convince Lisa Murkowski to change her mind. You know, she had an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal trying to excuse her defiance on this issue and her saying she's not going to vote for this statement. Almost all the claims that she made.

in that op-ed were wrong. She made all kinds of claims that it would keep people from voting in Alaska that just aren't correct. And clearly, she's misreading the statute. So part of the issue here is convincing her that she's wrong on this issue and getting her to vote the right way. What's the next shoot-a-drop, though, in this New Jersey story? You suspect other – I mean, I'd love California to show up because if 6,600 in New Jersey, and I think it's bigger than that, it's got to be in the six figures, if not more, in California, I would think. Don't they do automatic voter registration there? They do. They do automatic voter registration, and they expect the voter after they've become registered to contact officials and say, oh, you shouldn't have registered me because I'm not eligible. But not only do they do automatic voter registration for driver's licenses, but keep in mind, they provide driver's licenses to aliens who are in the country illegally. So I have no doubt the numbers, as you say in California, are huge of aliens, both legal and illegal, who are registered to vote. Real fast here, Hans, there's this, what they're calling a rogue Clinton judge, Patty Saris, who is defying the Supreme Court. Supreme Court said the president can lift temporary protective status for those in the country legally. And now this judge is stepping in the way. That's pretty unorthodox. Can the Supreme Court punish her? Well, what they ought to do is immediately overrule her. And quite frankly, they need to refer her for, I think, disciplinary proceedings in her circuit court of appeals. It's just open defiance of a Supreme Court decision. It's like it's upending Marbury v. Madison, basically. Yeah, it is, but she's not the only one. We have all these judges across the country, mostly Biden appointees, some Obama and others, who've been defying the Supreme Court for the past year and a half on all kinds of issues. Hans, always great to talk to you. Thanks for bringing in the heat. Always appreciate it. Have a good one. Thanks for having me. That's Hans von Spikoski, boys and girls, and he knows his election law. He, of course, the senior legal fellow at advancing American freedom. And a little bit more on the SAVE Act and an extraordinary claim that it is partisan coming up in a moment. Yeah, and here's what I don't understand. about the Save America Act. You know, when they were grandstanding a couple of months ago, when John Thune was out there saying, I support the Save America Act, John Cornyn, John Cornyn desperately trying to keep his seat in the Senate, fighting off the opposition of Ken Paxton. He had like $100 million that he spent trying to keep his seat.

He's still lost in the runoff. But you'll remember, he said, oh, I'm all in for the Save Act. I'm all in for the Save America Act. He wrote an op-ed in the New York Post. He said he didn't actually use his influence to actually push it through and get it done. But he said he was in support of it. Well, I looked and I saw that the Save America Act proposed by Senator Mike Lee had 49 co-sponsors. That plus Senator Lee brings it to 50. That's 50 Republicans in the Senate a couple of months ago who said that they would support this. So 50 is all you need with a reconciliation bill because the vice president then breaks the tie. So they have the votes, or at least they. had the votes. I mean, maybe they had some of these Republicans who said they would co-sponsor the bill, knowing that it wouldn't reach the 60 vote threshold for a filibuster. So it was, you know, it was a no-brainer for them to say they sponsored it. but knowing that it wasn't going to go anywhere. So they get credit for being in favor of it, but then they go back to their state and say, well, I did what I could, but we've got that darn filibuster. Well, they don't have that excuse this time. They don't have that excuse this time. And so I'm very confused as to why this wouldn't go through. Mitch McConnell, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, those were the three Republicans who did not co-sponsor this bill. But the rest of them are all on board. That gets them 50. So what's the problem? Good question. So here's one of those co-sponsors, John Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who, by the way, has been very defensive of John Thune. He's friends with John Thune. They're all friends with John Thune. But funny thing about a friendship, you know. A friend who doesn't actually do what you need him to do when you really need him. It's not really a friend. He's sort of exploiting your friendship. And it looks like some Republicans' patience is wearing thin. Now, John Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a gentleman, a southern gentleman at that from Louisiana. So he's not going to be too abrasive in his criticism of his friend. But here, take a listen. First, take note of Margaret Brennan's Face the Nation question, which is just a hoot. We'll comment on the question first, and then you'll hear John Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s answer. Go ahead. You wanted to move forward on what the House just started the process on. That would be a party line. That would be a party line vote. That would be Republicans jamming this thing through. And the SAVE Act, as you know, or even some version of it, is highly partisan, highly controversial. Bigger picture.

Isn't it going to hurt faith in our election process if a Republican-only policy to change how elections are run is rammed through 100 days? Oh, my gosh. I got to pause there. First of all, oh, it's highly partisan, highly partisan, because only Republicans have voted for it. Well, 80% of the American people support this. 75% of Democrats support this. So it's only elected officials who call themselves Democrats who are opposing this thing, number one. But number two, I'm trying to remember, wasn't there a law passed that only had Democrat votes that completely upended critical systems in this country? Oh, yeah, your health insurance. The Affordable Care Act got, how did Margaret Brennan put it, rammed through? By only Democrat votes, that was celebrated as groundbreaking and historic. And I believe Joe Biden called it a BF and deal. And it completely ruined our health care delivery systems in this country, everyone who's now screaming and complaining. Every Democrat, like Bernie Sanders, who's screaming about how we're the richest country in the world and people are dying and can't get health insurance. Thank Obama, thank Democrats, thank the Affordable Care Act. But of course, that was always the plan. They wanted to destroy what was left so that they could then build and replace a national health care system like Canada and England. But that was rammed through Margaret Brennan. And it wasn't nearly as unpopular or popular, excuse me, as citizenship requirements and a photo ID. But here's John Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s answer. It's very instructive. Take a listen. Out from the election? No. In my opinion, for both sides to have credibility in the elections, in our elections, we need to do two things and only two things. Number one, you have to prove you are who you say you were in order to register to vote and to vote. And number two, however you decide to vote, that's up to the states. We need to go back to having an election day, not an election month. We've got to know the results of election that night or shortly thereafter if it's close. And Robert F. Kennedy Jr. went on to say that he thinks they have the votes and his good friend John Thune should get it done. Watch that space this week. It's going to be really good. John Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is always on the top of his game, though. You know why? I suspect he might be taking think factor. You can tell who's taking think factor and who isn't because as fast as life moves, you want to stay sharp, focused, and clear-headed. And it's not always easy. And that's why the same company that brings your relief factor is developed, think factor. It's made to help you think clearer, perform better daily. And it's a powerful blend of nutrients that unlock mental clarity and precision, nurture your memory, and boost your attention. You know, I lost my father last year, and he suffered from dementia for the last five or more years of his life, actually. So I've been keenly looking at wanting to stay sharp and keep my memory supercharged. I love Think Factor. That's what it does for me, and it'll do the same for you. Your first bottle, 1995. Just call 8004 relief or go to Relieffactor.com.

There's always something in the news to talk to Jim Hansen about. And today, more than ever, that box is checked because we're learning that the president was talked out of expanding a wider military strike against Iran over the weekend. A lot of conflicting stories out there about concern over the replenishment of our armaments and our supplies. The president still continues to believe, as he put it a couple of weeks ago, that there isn't the stomach. with the American people to support a protracted conflict with Iran, certainly not in occupation force. So where do things stand now? Oil prices have begun to fall over the weekend. They had gone up to, I believe, $90 or so dollars per barrel, nowhere near what we were told was going to happen, which was $200 a barrel when the... War began. I think the highest it got was 120. And should we even be concerned about the wider economic factors when you're dealing with an existential threat like the Iranian regime? There are those who would say that the president should just declare victory now. We've set them back decades. And let's just get back to the business of the United States of America. All right. So let's make sense of it all. Jim Hansen, President of Security Studies Group and, of course, a veteran of the United States Army Special Forces. Good morning, Jim. Always good to talk to you, my friend. Good to be with you, Larry. So am I missing anything here? That's sort of where we stand right now, and you saw the stories. How real do you think it is that part of the reason why the president didn't expand our military strikes against Iran was because we didn't have the capability of replenishing our own supplies and our armaments? I think there is a very small piece of it that is related to that. But overall, if we wanted to take them on, we could take them on in a way that made that irrelevant. So that's not the big reason. I think what's going on, and you see a little bit of this in something that I don't think got enough attention was the deal with the Saudis about giving them nukes. President Trump started his administration by going to Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar. And he went there because he wanted them on board in case something had to happen with Iran. He also went to talk with them about Gaza and the Israelis. And he's got a larger plan, a grand strategy for the region that involves a rapprochement between the Gulf states and Israel, more of the Abraham Accords, and then also them policing their own neighborhood. And I think that is a bigger piece of this than anybody notices. Iran's biggest mistake was attacking all the Gulf states in this and solidifying them against him and their alliance with us. That's where this is going. And I think you're seeing that in action. Let's talk about that Saudi nuke deal then. It was announced that we would be aiding them in a development of a civilian nuclear program for nuclear energy that rather than them refine their own uranium and develop the program, they would work with us and with our experts here in the United States and that it would not in any way be able to be developed into a weapons program. Do you trust that process? And for that matter, do we trust the Saudis?

The Saudis are more of an ally than not. And I think we don't trust anybody at this point. I think there's no trust but verify. There's absolutely don't trust and verify everything. So the point of having them work with us to do it is if you have our companies building it, our people inside the operation, then you don't have the option like we do in Iran of them doing malign activities in the middle of what could potentially be. claimed to be a civilian program. So that's a piece of it. And you look at that, and you've got the Houthis acting up, which is the Saudi's biggest problem. If they close the straight on the other side, of the Arabian Peninsula, we got a big problem. And so right now, both of them are slightly degraded. President Trump doesn't want to have to fight a major war to do that, but his long-term plan is to degrade the Iranian regime to the point where it's not relevant as a major threat. And I think at this point, everybody's looking at it and saying the world and especially the region would be a better place without the Islamic Republic of Iran. Yeah, but how do you achieve that? Well, more than $64 million question. We're talking billions on that one. This week, so I'm leading to a big question for you, Jim Hansen, and you're the man who can answer the big questions. This week, it's announced that the UK and the United States will be sitting for a strategy session on the Gulf of the Strait of Hormuz specifically. Basically, this is meant to... project that we plan on being there and we plan on keeping the Strait of Hormuz open. It is international waters, by the way. Iran has absolutely no business controlling it, policing it, and certainly not charging tolls. So what do you think is on the table here with our Navy and the United Kingdom's Navy in terms of short-term or even long-term presence there in the strait? I think, you know, I'm not going to downgrade the UK to unimportant in the military perspective, but they're a much bigger... force as far as an ally saying, we agree with the United States that Iran has none of the rights you just mentioned. They don't get to do anything in the Strait of Hormuz other than get out of the way. And I think once you get the Brits on board, you've got a better chance of the rest of the Euros coming along. And they're the ones who need the oil more than we do. We're not taking that oil to our refineries at this point, although some of it went when it was closed. We want them and the people who live there. to be the ones dealing with this. They want the oil, they want the trade, they want the things going on, take some responsibility for it. And I think that falls along with the president's attitude toward NATO. You know, NATO should be taking care of Europe. The United States is not in Europe. So we're not in the Gulf. The Gulf states and Turkey and other people who have power in the region should be using that.

to keep it safe, keep it secure, and keep it prosperous with trade flowing. And I think all of those, that's what President Trump's endgame is, is he wants the region to take care of itself and trade and all those things to flow. All right, Jim Hansen, this leads us to the big question, and then we'll move on to some other issues facing our military. It seems like the president has sort of three schools of thought that are advising him right now, and I want you to insert yourself into this process and advise the president. One school of thought is increase the military strikes, finish the job, and just pummel them, even if that means use of ground forces in certain special operations like Carg Island, et cetera, et cetera. That's number one. Stick it to them and increase the military strikes and go all out. Number two, as I mentioned, is declare victory. You've done enough. You've already hammered them. You've taken down multiple layers of their leadership. You've taken out their Navy. You've taken out their Air Force. You've taken out a huge part of their missile manufacturing. It's going to take them decades to get back. You're fine. Declare victory. Bring them all back home. And number three is sort of a stalemate. It's sort of a trench warfare, but instead of a trench, it's a straight where we're going to keep our presence there. We're going to be there to smack them if necessary, and we're going to make sure the straight stays open. Where do you, and please, if I'm missing anything, tell me what option four is. But what do you think the president should do? Option one, smashing them, you know, crushing everything they have, turning into smoldering rubble and then making the rubble bounce is an option, but what comes after that is the problem. You know, we don't have a plan to, and we don't want to be involved in a regime change. We force and then installing a new government. On the second option, I would call it Joe Kent. Jim, there are people who are going to talk back to their radio right now who hear you say that and say, we don't care. That's not our problem. They deserve to get hammered. They deserve to be destroyed. And it's up to them to figure out what gets built after that. Yeah, that doesn't help with the millions of people and all the munitions and things that will still be there and the insurgency and the fact that those people will cause trouble for the strait of Hormuz and everything else. So it doesn't actually solve the problem and it does nothing about the nukes. Number two, kind of the Joe Kent solution is declare victory and leave. That does nothing either. You know, that doesn't, we don't have a long-term solution. President Trump has made the point that Iran cannot have nuclear weapons. We need a definitive answer to that. So you get to option three, where we stay there long enough to hit them to the point that either this regime makes a deal that we can enforce, you know, that we're comfortable with being able to enforce. or we start a longer-term program to degrade it and to create a situation inside the country where the people of Iran can make a choice to have a new government. You know, and whether we aid that...

covertly, whether we aid it overtly by saying things. We're not going to go in and de-topple the regime and install a puppet. That would be the worst-case scenario. But we can say we think the Islamic Republic has reached its expiration date and maybe they should hold a national referendum and get the Euros and the UN and the rest of these transnational organizations to agree that nothing good will happen while the Islamic regime is still in power. Jim Hansen is our guest. Jim, while we've got you, take a look at this video, or take a listen to it. This is a senior director at the Pentagon who thought he was on a date with James O'Keefe, didn't recognize that it was James O'Keefe. The next time I see James, I'm going to tell him how well he plays as a gay man. I'm sure he's very proud of that. Here's the video. Take a listen to what happened. A Pentagon Director of Business Operations admits to me, while disguised with nothing but a mustache, that he is sticking around to, quote, undo Trump administration policies after Trump leaves office. I mean, there's a lot of things that they tried to do at the very beginning. They've still not rolled out because you have certain folks in certain positions who can slow roll things. There's a lot of times where it challenges my moral. What are some things that you've done? I would not have fair service. No fair service. I don't think there should be once just for the service. I was converted to schedule policy. Hopefully that's the first thing that gets that done because I don't like it because I'm negatively impacted by it. That's the Director of Business Operations for the Navy. Acting Secretary of the Navy, Hong Kong has suspended this person and now is announced that he's no longer employed by the Department of the Navy. But I guess when we see this, Jim, the question is how many of this guy is there? How much of this is going on right now at the Pentagon and how much of what the President and the Secretary of we're trying to do is being stopped by bureaucrats like this? A lot of it. I mean, the problem with it is whether you call it the deep state or the permanent bureaucracy, every government agency below the political level, which is the top several layers, the people actually move the levers of power in those organizations is dominated by Democrats. And then even more so, there are a lot of leftist activists who especially over the past 10 years or so have done that. You know, what I don't understand is if you are a gay man at a government agency, did you not get the memo that the guy with the mustache asking you out on a date in Grindr is not one of the Beastie Boys from the sabotage video? It's James O'Keefe. Pay attention, fellas. It's embarrassing. Listen, it's funny, but it also, I mean, you're raising the fact that, I mean, you think that smart people with some self-awareness. and some common sense are actually running things and in charge of something as important as the Department of War. But then you find out that these mid-level bureaucrats could be deep state, could just be dumb state. But either way, I mean, they're kind of in mission-critical jobs here, Jim, and they're acting against us and acting foolishly. That's a problem.

Oh, it's a huge problem and it has been. You know, I mean, aside from the, like he said, the friction and the active opposition to what's going on, just the pure incompetence of the bureaucracy who are rarely held to account. I will say one thing. Let's not forget the incompetence. We got to leave it there. Jim Hansen. Security Studies Group, you're the best. Talk to you later, ready. In a moment, a wrap up of the White House correspondence dinner that took place on Friday without much fanfare. This, of course, after the assassination attempt against the president the last time everybody got together in May, we'll show you a little bit of the humor and the jokes, which fell flat, not because the jokes weren't funny. I mean, I think they were pretty good from the president, but you also have to understand the audience that you're telling jokes, too, and that audience was not going to laugh. And some of the jokes that he put forward. We'll show you a little bit of that. But even more so, the offensive, absolutely unbearable awards they gave themselves. to openly insult the president. That was the real scandal at the White House correspondence dinner. We'll get to that coming up in just 60 seconds, but I do want to give you a quick update on the final few days of the Food for the Poor campaign. I want to share the good news that hundreds of men and women across the country have already donated to our effort, and that means thousands of starving kids throughout the Caribbean and Latin America will get two nutritious meals a day for the next year. That's what $80 does. as well as giving villages access to clean drinking water. Take a listen to Sarah, 16 years old, who tells you exactly what this means to her and how she's doing her part. I just wanted to say I really admire your work with food for the poor each year. And I'm 16 years old. I live at home, so I don't really make a whole lot of money. But I have an envelope that I keep on my nightstand. And each time I do get some money, I put a little bit away throughout the year, maybe like a dollar or two. And it's for food for the poor. And so this year I saved up $80 to give. And I'm not saying any of this to brag. I just wanted to encourage your listeners who probably make more. money than I do. And so if you can just spare a little bit, that would be good. Bye. That's right. It's, I bless you, Sarah, and thank you for that. She put away about a buck 50 a week, and that got her to $80, and that's two meals for two starving children for an entire year. Maybe this is something you can do with your children, your grandchildren, your godchildren. It's a wonderful way to teach them about charity, the charity that we're called to participate in for those who are the least of ours. Let's get together and finish strong this final week. Go to larryosho.com, Larryosho.com and click on the banner at the top of the page. It's larryosho.com and do what you can to help food for the poor. Thank you for that.

All right, on Friday, they had the White House correspondence dinner. This was, of course, to replace the event that they were supposed to have in May that got disrupted by an assassination attempt. They have the dinner at the Waldorf Astoria Story, which is the former Trump Hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue. It's just about two blocks from the White House. And, well, there were some jokes, some better than others. I mean, even the president during the monologue sort of made a joke about how he was bombing. And the reason that he was bombing was because, as funny as the jokes are, if you're telling jokes to an audience that isn't going to be receptive to your humor, especially your, well, your style of humor, they're not going to laugh. He did a great job for a roast. He really did. But these people are humorless, and they're in no mood to be roasted. The only people that they will laugh at... as the butt of any jokes, or not themselves or their friends. No, they'll only laugh at you and me. They'll laugh at Trump. They'll laugh at Republicans. They'll laugh at conservatives. I remember Wanda Sykes when Barack Obama was president. Wanda Sykes was the comedian, and she made a joke about Rush Limbaugh. She said, Rush Limbaugh hopes the country fails under Obama. Well, I hope his kidneys fail. And Barack Obama laughed. See, that was a comedian, quote unquote, joking that she wanted Rush Limbaugh to die. And that was funny. People say that the president was in poor taste when he jokingly said Kaitlan Collins looked like Dylan Mulvaney, the famous trans lunatic who endorsed Bud Light. It probably was in poor taste. And generally speaking, I try not to make fun of women's. appearance, try. But on the upside, Donald Trump didn't wish Kaitlan Collins would die in excruciating death at the hands of liver failure. There is that. Meanwhile, the really offensive developments at the White House Correspondents dinner, actually it was the awards they gave out. Think about this. The president is sitting right there as your honored guest, and they gave award after award after award to reporters who were reporting fake stories about the president. Tyler Pager of the New York Times won the Integrity and News Reporting Award. This was because of the Trump Volodymyr Zelensky Oval Office meeting that took place. Trump's demand for $230 million from his own Justice Department, a reportedly contentious phone call with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, final negotiations with Venezuelan leader Nicholas Maduro before his capture. This apparently all focused on Trump controversies in this presidency. Also awarded Andrew Harnick, Getty Images, a photo of President Trump standing while nearby an attendee from the pharmaceutical industry had collapsed. You know, that fake story where it looked like Trump didn't care about the person who had collapsed in the Oval Office. Of course, the picture was deceptive.

But he won an award for photojournalism. It goes on and on. The Catherine Graham Award for Courage and Accountability, eight Wall Street Journal reporters reporting on Jeffrey Epstein. And the story about that birthday letter that we're told Donald Trump drew freehand and put into a birthday book, the story was bogus and really didn't tell anything if you think about it, even if it was factual. They won an award. It goes on and on and on, and you wonder why Donald Trump. had some tough things to say about these people. The real solution here, stop participating in their love fest. They don't like you, and they never will. If you take supplements like I do, you want to make sure two things are at play here with those supplements. You want to make sure that it works, obviously, and you want to make sure you can trust it. And Relief Factor is right there on both of those conditions. Meredith is in charge of checking out all of these supplements that she has me take, and she looks at all of the active ingredients at Relief Factor and said, oh, yeah, this is some good stuff. She's not the only one. Doug took Relief Factor for nearly a year before convincing his wife, a special needs teacher, to try it. Now, she had been needing assistance to move through the long hallway at school. Now, not anymore. She's back on her feet every day. She never had to leave the job that she loves, and those special needs children are benefiting as well. I want you to try Relief Factor if you've got nagging, aches and pains, if you've got trouble getting around. Your first three-week quick start is just $17.76. Call 800 for relief or relief factor.com. We're plowing into our third hour here on WMALR flagship station in Washington, D.C. Good morning. It's O'Connor & Company. Great to talk with you coast to coast here on this Monday. In the Relief Factor Studio, coming up in 30 minutes, an interesting conversation with Matthew Taylor. There was a profile of him in the New York Times last week. He's an artist. He's a filmmaker. And he's now a senior advisor for the National Endowment for the Humanities. And according to the New York Times, he's helping Trump reshape Washington through art and through film. And we'll talk to him about that and what that really looks like. And whether the culture is hopping on board or other conservative artists and filmmakers are actually getting an opportunity to have an influence on our nation, on our political conversations, on our daily existence. Because culture and art kind of important. I would say. So that'll be fun. Matthew Taylor coming up in just 30 minutes. Also, we're going to tackle something that's been a problem in this town for quite some time. And it's really become an issue in the last couple of decades, specifically at the World War II Memorial. The proper etiquette on a hot summer day, when you go to a war memorial and your children want to go run and swim in the water, the reflecting pool, meant to allow you to reflect.

It's every year in issue here in Washington, and it's getting worse and worse. We're going to talk about that coming up in just a bit. But right now, we're joined by a friend of the program and one of our faves, Nick Minnock. He's an Emmy Award-winning reporter for ABC 7WJLA here in Washington, and you cover a lot of stories that matter to our listeners, Nick, including the data centers. And it sort of took a new level last week with the president chiming in. basically saying that local politicians need to get a lot better about selling the benefits of these data centers because the Chinese government, they're funding opposition to these projects. Thanks for joining us. Does your reporting back that up? Is there a concerted effort from China that is influencing the opposition of the data centers? Yes, so you ask, does my reporting back up the president's claim? And the answer is no. I've sat in a number of Virginia. residents' homes, their kitchens talking to them about data centers, the transmission lines that come with them. And they tell me they don't know anybody in China or a foreign government. They are local residents who genuinely do not want a local data center right next to their home and their county, their city, or a transmission line going through their backyard. Yeah. It is possible that they are experiencing their own discomfort and suspicion of these data centers. And then through social media, they're also being influenced or supported or amplified by propaganda efforts. Because I do see certain social media accounts that are really against these data centers. And they all seem to be on the same page. I always get suspicious when I see that when they're using the same language on Facebook or X, you know? Well, when it comes to social media, I see some of these groups, and they're run by local people, people who I know and have reported on who don't want these data centers. They go to the local board of supervisors meeting, not because they saw social media post, but because they're doing the research themselves. And so that indicates to me this is a grassroots local effort. You know, in Prince William County, I was chatting with someone who's been in the fight for over a decade. 12 years ago, she was telling me, look, like, no one was paying attention to the data center fight 12 years ago. And they were just a local group of people who were pushing back at the board of supervisors meeting. Fast forward to today, they've been able to scare away the largest data center development in the world because of their grassroots efforts. You know, they've been, you look at Gallup, they put out a poll recently this year that showed... seven and ten Americans oppose data centers in their local community. What I can speak for is who I chat with an interview in Virginia, which is, I would say, ground zero of this data center fight right now, this debate. And the locals just don't want them, not because they saw some social media posts that may or may not be funded by China, but because they're doing the research themselves. Yeah. They're also experiencing it. They don't need anyone from Beijing to tell them that they're getting really weird noises on an ongoing 24-7 basis from these data centers. I know you focused on one major center, like 18 acres worth in Sterling. And Sterling, just as everybody knows, is very suburban. It's not, you know, a lot of times you think of these data centers, and oftentimes you'd be right, thinking of it, you know, in a very rural area where, you know, homes and farms are spread out. That's not Sterling.

And you tell me residents that are living right near this data center, they're hearing a lot of sounds, including just sort of this low hum all the time. Did you pick up on that sound when you were out there reporting? I did. And it's known as one of the noisiest data center complexes in Loudoun County, which has more than 200 data centers right now, 100 more in the pipeline. And I did hear it. But what was interesting is the locals were telling me on the day that I visited, which was last week, last Thursday, it was the quietest it had ever been. Why? Well, it just so happened that Loudoun County Chair, Phyllis Randall, was going to be there that day. And... You know, touring it with residents. And so I don't know if the data center quiet it down on themselves or if the chair asked them to do so. I don't know that. But that's what local residents were saying. It's like, hmm, kind of interesting. It's been here for over a year. It's the most silent it's ever been, maybe because our county leader will be here. Who knows? But, yeah, there are concerns about noise. There are concerns about environmental impacts. There are major concerns about... Will this increase my electricity bill? Because we've reported a lot on the transmission lines that have to be built in order to power this data center surge because they consume so much power. Where do you think that infrastructure build out? How is that paid for? Oftentimes it is put on and directly on your electricity bill. So those are some of the concerns. Now, a lot of the locals I chat with... They aren't necessarily a hundred percent anti-datacenter, no data centers at all. They just want them to be put in a place that makes sense. Does it make sense to put it right next to a home? Yeah. Yeah, a lot of people will say this is a nimbie situation, not in my backyard. We love data centers. We just don't want in our backyard. But I think that's accurate. They literally don't want it in their backyard. They'd be fine with it in some other very remote area and try to come up with a solution there. And I feel like that's where there's an opportunity here for elected officials, as the president said, to make the case. Not just because this is important technologically and for our competitiveness with other countries who are leaping ahead in AI that is critically important for our national security, but also the revenue generated. And there is money that is connected. Some better than others in certain jurisdictions. But an elected official could find the sweet spot. They just need to do some extra effort and actually talk to these residents who are opposing them. Right. And look, I think the president's administration sees themselves as the, as pro-business, the biggest pro-business administration ever. And I think that's what was behind their announcement last week, is they want to be a leader in this industry, have the investment in the United States, not elsewhere. What was interesting about the president's announcement, too, is they want to open up.

federal land to facilitate the build out of transmission lines, right? And the infrastructure needed to support data centers, which might help in some situations, like in Loudoun County, there's a transmission line called Golden to Mars that Dominion Energy wants to build. And that is a transmission line that would literally go through Loudoun County residents' backyards. And it's a big one. It's the 500-kilovolt line. So... There's a proposal now on the table from Congressman Sue Haasurbanium to reroute that on federal land. And the congressman said that NOAA and federal agencies have been open to that probably because the president is saying, hey, let's open up federal land. Let's facilitate this. Let's lessen the impact on homeowners to facilitate this industry. But there might be some political risk, I think, for the president's party. with this big push for, you know, AI data centers because, like I said, Gallup polled American 7 out of 10 Americans opposed data centers, and could that have consequences for the president's party in the midterm, especially in places like Virginia or Georgia or Utah that are seen. And Iowa, Iowa, Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania. No, I 100% agree. It's one of the reasons why we focus on it because this has the feel to me like some of those Maha issues that, People didn't really see on the radar in the 2024 election, and it really made a difference in a lot of these swing areas. And this one is as well, I think. Nick Minnock, I always enjoy talking to real fast. You did mention Loudoun County and the chair, Phyllis Randall. There's more to that story there, it appears, based on your reporting, that there was some sort of coordination with data center proponents to help give her a little bit of political cover at a recent supervisor meeting. That's the kind of thing we're seeing all over the place with some of these politicians. Sure. So Phyllis Randall, the Loudoun County Chair, has been accused by homeowners of stacking her data center town hall in favor of the data center industry. When a lot of homeowners arrived and they arrived early, there were no seats inside the board meeting, none available. And they looked around the room and they saw data center proponents with their shirts on, front row. And... They apparently got there much earlier. So this wouldn't be the first time, if that's true, this wouldn't be the first time that Sheriff Lus Rattle has done something like that. Yeah. When we covered her taxpayer-funded lavish international travel to Ghana, Uruguay, other places. that upset a lot of people in the county. That's the oldest trick in the book. Nick, we saw it at the school board meetings, too. And when they couldn't control the school board meetings, then they just shut down public participation completely and turned off the cameras as well. Amazing. Loudoun County will keep you busy the rest of your career if you want, Nick. Always good to talk to you. Thank you, sir. This is O'Connor and Company Board a Cup. Coming up, you can't win the culture wars by surrendering, obviously, and we can't surrender in the culture wars. We can't walk away and say, oh, yeah, the left, they make movies, they do TV, they make music, they do everything in the pop culture. We're not going to play in that field anymore. We're just going to take our ball and run home and just watch movies and TV shows from the 50s. We can't do that. We just can't.

We can't. And coming up, a guest who understands that is part of the conversation about how we push back and how we actually have our voice in our culture. Matthew Taylor. The New York Times just called him the filmmaker helping Trump reshape Washington, and I would argue America. So that conversation coming up in a little bit. But I do want to focus on a story that's kind of evergreen here in Washington, sadly, because it comes up almost every summer. When we witness tourists, usually international tourists, who come and visit Washington, D.C. on a hot summer day in July, they see a reflecting pool that is part of a war memorial, specifically the big pool there at the World War II Memorial, and they decide they're going to treat it like a freaking swimming pool. It's disrespectful. And it caught the eye of this Instagram influencer, Angela Rose, put together this video that went a little viral. Here, take a listen and then we'll discuss it. So we have the specific there. So that woman's splashing her feet in the water. Well, everyone is. This is like disgraceful because it says honor our veterans, right? It says like, don't go in the water and that kid is literally going in the water. And you can see that like people are just walking in the pool. See all the water that kid just flew? Yeah. And then there's those ones over there chasing the ducks. Yeah. Like this should be at a place of like calmness, you know? Yep, it should, and she has a point, and it got a lot of attention and a lot of responses. Now, the rules at these reflecting pools are that you are allowed to take off your shoes and cool your feet in the fountains, which, by the way, I don't think we should let that happen either, to tell you the truth. I think it's disgusting, and I think that is disrespectful, too. I'm disrespectful as that, is to stick your feet in. But it specifically says on the signs, do not walk in the water, do not swim in the water, do not play in the water. And yet we see it all the time, all over the place. And specifically at war memorials like the World War II Memorial, it's incredibly disrespectful to those who served. I'll tell you, I do remember several years ago, I took phone calls on this issue, on this program, and one Korean War veteran. called in and respectfully obviously incredibly respectfully disagreed he said listen you know i fought in the war and when we're over there we're thinking you know we're fighting so kids can have a great time in the summer so that they can play so that they can enjoy themselves so they can love freedom in america so it's it's not disrespectful it's why we fought and and listen i take that to heart i take that to heart as a guy who was a veteran of a bloody war where we lost i think what 50 000 in the Korean War or over, and I'm sure he lost some of his friends there. And in his mind, if he thinks it's okay, that's okay. But here's my issue. If just one parent or wife or child of a veteran who lost their life in any of these wars find it offensive, they win. Okay? Sorry.

I think their wishes should be respected beyond anyone else's. And also, it's just decorum. It's just polite. It's hot summer day. There's loads of places in the greater Washington area where you can go to a water park. You can go back to your hotel. Most hotels in the greater Washington area have swimming pools. You need to show some discipline with your kids and tell them, no, we don't do that. And allow it to be a teachable moment. Why you don't do that, that's at the very least, a bare minimum. Also, these war memorials are supposed to be a relatively solemn and reflective atmosphere. You're supposed to soak in the fact that so many gave their lives for our country and for the freedom. Freedom of a lot of these countries that I see represented by these international tourists. There's one part of the World War II Memorial that has gold stars across a fountain. Each gold star, if I remember the numbers right, represents like 4,400 Americans who died, you know, representing gold star families. We couldn't have a gold star for everyone who lost their lives. If I remember right, that's the math, 4,400. I mean, it's incredible. And that's right there, right next to where these kids and adults are sticking their smelly, dirty feet. and jumping in, chasing ducks and splashing each other like they're at a Chucky cheese. It's wrong. And we got to do better. And it's something that we should police ourselves. In fact, we should be able to go up to people and say, stop doing that. Be better. We should. Whether we will or not, who knows? Life moves fast, staying sharp, focused, and clear-headed isn't always easy, and that's why the same company that brings a relief factor has developed something new. It's called Think Factor. Think Factor is made to help you think clearer, perform better daily. It's a powerful blend of nutrients that unlock mental clarity and precision, nurture your memory and boost your attention. With Think Factor, brain power and performance finally meet for lasting daily results. Supercharge your memory and mental sharpness. Your brain is your most valuable asset, powering your creativity, focus, and daily performance. And if you're feeling mentally foggy or not recalling things as quickly as you used to, think factor could be just what you need to reclaim your cognitive edge. My only complaint about Think Factor, and I've been taking it for almost two months now, it's right here at my desk. My only complaint is that I can no longer use my failing memory as an excuse for not doing what Meredith asked me to do around the house or pick up something at the store. I'm sorry, I forgot. He's like, no, you didn't. You take Think Factor now. Your first bottle is 1995. Call 8004 relief or go to Relieffactor.com. I think there's no doubt that President Trump is leaving his mark on Washington, D.C. in every possible way. And one way includes what the city looks like are monuments, the restoration of monuments that had been left in decline. for God knows what reason over the course of the many decades, but also a beautification project that erects new statues, new monuments, and, well, frankly, a new look for Washington, D.C., celebrating our heroic past, something that Washington had done for every decade since its existence. The capital city is supposed to be a monument to who we are as Americans.

who we have been, where we came from, and it's meant to inspire who we can be. And you do that through art. You do that through architecture. It's the best storytelling you'll ever see. And we've known this in Western civilization for millennia. So why did it stop in Washington? Or for that matter, why, if we did see a monument, was it, frankly, ugly and uninspiring? Well, all that has changed now, thanks to the president's vision and thanks to the team that he's put together to specifically focus on this. And I was really taken by an article in the New York Times about Matthew Taylor. The New York Times calls Matthew Taylor a filmmaker and artist helping Trump reshape Washington. And they're not wrong about that. He is a real artist and he's done great work his entire career now. As a senior advisor to the National Endowment for the Humanities, he's doing some incredible work for our country, a country that he loves dearly. And he joins us now, Matthew Taylor. It's great to talk with you. It's been a while. Yes, it has. Great to be here, Larry. Thank you. Appreciate it. So you must be, well, first of all, you must have been a little wary, suspicious, and frankly, reticent to know that the New York Times was going to profile you considering the source. But I think that you must be pretty pleased with a lot of what they got right here with regard to who you are and what your role is in this administration. Absolutely. I mean, anytime you get a text message from a New York Times reporter, you know, it sends a shiver up your spine. But honestly, I think the article is reflective of the work that the president is doing, especially as a local Washingtonian myself, you know, to beautify, to clean up, to make safer the city. And so it highlights, you know, the Freedom Plaza project that I had the great honor to work on. And I think, you know, whether it's put in a positive or a negative light, I'm glad it's put in the light at all. So, you know, my tip my hat to the New York Times for for amplifying that message of beautification and restoration of this beautiful city. What happened in Washington? You just said you basically are a local here. You've lived in the area for quite some time, and you've seen the decline too. Was it deliberate? Was it just priorities? Why did Washington go so far down the road of neglect with regard to the culture and the important monuments that make this city what it is? Well, I think, you know, this has been happening to our urban cores for decades. You know, obviously, I think the greatest turnaround story in... America is the saving of New York City. Not all cities got to go through that restoration, but it really shows that policies from the top and working with the different inner city agencies can make real change. If you think about how New York City was turned around, it was done a little under eight years. And so I think D.C. had just been in decline for so long. The state of the parks, they were dirty. The state of the city was just in disrepair.

we also had an insanely high crime rate for a city of only a couple hundred thousand people um and so i think under this this presidency there's been a real effort you know of course you know the president is a new yorker and went and lived through those eras and he's brought some of that that uh kind of uh aggression to getting rid of these these places. Even David Chappelle had to admit that the city looks nicer, you know. So I think that these policies have been fairly bad. And we've had a year and a half, almost two years of a complete turnaround. It can be done. It can be done fast. That's what's amazing about it. I feel like there might be another element here, if I can draw it out of you. You talked about the work that you did at Freedom Plaza, the 21 statues there telling the American story and celebrating heroes. My suspicion, especially having worked in the entertainment business and with artists, is that it's hard to find artists to tell a heroic story about America because, sadly, coming out of a lot of the institutions that nurture artists right now, there isn't a whole lot of celebration of America. I don't think that they really do love our story and our past the way that you do. Yeah, it's really disappointing. I mean, you know, you look at Hollywood, obviously, you know, you have a movie like Top Gun. It was so heroic. I mean, it exploded. You know, people are actually really want these things. They want hero stories. I mean, that is the American story. I mean, the great thing about our entertainment typically and historically, it's about good versus evil. And when the good guy wins, the bad guy gets us comeuppance, you know, that is that is like. America. And so I think that there is a deconstruction of what it means to be American. And you need to use the culture to do the deconstruction. You need to show America a bad light. You need to do it in the institutions. You need to do it in entertainment. You need to do it in social media. And yeah, the institutions, you know, I went to art school and I have a background in art history and art theory and sculpture. You know, but it was a different era in the end of the 90s. You know, when I was in school, 9-11 had happened and you saw real patriotism rise up in that era. We don't have that right now. And I think that, you know, it would be nice. It would be nice of our institutions would actually push for the good guys to win. You know, they question who are the good guys. I mean, you know, and so, but they turn up blind eye to death and destruction that comes about when you. institute some of these policies that we see in other places you know and so there's no there's if you don't have any good guys and there's no protection for the for people you know and so the people who protect the people are the good guys so yeah it's a deconstruction it's very sad and the deconstruction of monuments and the destruction of public spaces as part of that as part of how you take out dismantle america and dismantle our history How permanent is this direction that you've been able to work with the president on? I know that this is a priority for the president. He talks about it all the time. A lot of this is his vision. How permanent is it? Is there a concern that a new administration could come in and take these statues down and refocus the priorities for Washington, D.C. and telling America's story and celebrating our culture?

Yes, look, it's like Ronald Reagan says. You're always one generation away from, you know, despotism, essentially. You know, and I think, I think that that. any that's why it's important for people to vote important for people to to acknowledge the presence of these things to visit them uh it becomes more difficult to deconstruct these things when the public is involved that's the beauty of a public space you know we obviously see people demonstrate and do things all the time for every all sorts of different causes across across both both parties but i think that you know people can rise up and they can they can visit these places they can they can write their congressman they can vote they can do these things uh to to protect theirs this is their spaces these are public spaces these are these are your space is public you know so so protect them and and engage with them and be vocal about them we're speaking with matthew taylor he's an artist a filmmaker and currently the senior advisor for the national endowment for the humanities and i was recently profiled on the new york times as sort of spearheading or being the point man in a lot of the president's beautification and renewal of washington dc uh you're going to be heading back to the private sector are you going to go back to the film business have you decided matthew uh what your next projects after you do your service for the federal government is going to be You know, I have a number of film ideas that I want to do and some new art projects. And, you know, I have an album coming out at some point in time. So I have a variety of art projects. You want your eGOT, don't you? Look at you. You're going for the EGOT. Yeah, I got to get all the... You know, some writing projects. I do a lot of different projects across the board. So, you know, I'm always working on things, you know, whether I'm doing this job or not, you know. I feel like, and you've been involved in some documentary projects as well, and I feel like when conservatives go into filmmaking, their instinct is documentary. And I get that. And I appreciate it, by the way, because I think we've made some great documentaries. Matt Walsh with what is a woman and some of these other ones. Storytelling is really still where it's at, isn't it? I mean, we need to have an impact in storytelling, in fiction, and being able to capture the imagination. You mentioned Top Gun and Top Gun Maverick. That's where we actually make a lasting difference. Do you see pathways and opportunities for young artists who don't hate America to be able to actually express themselves creatively and actually get projects off the ground? Oh, absolutely. I think that we've had a surge of new alternative views, which are actually just traditional views.

pop up in Hollywood. I mean, everything from Angel Pictures to the Wonder Project. I know a lot of these people who are making, obviously, young Washington, you know, outper, I think it's outperformed Star Wars. Yeah. And so, so, yeah, there's, there's a, there's absolutely a surge and they change. I'm a big fan of democratization of technology. That is how I got into filmmaking, you know, because Apple made. filmmaking affordable and Sony did. We're in a new era where this is, it's becoming more affordable, easier to get into. There's more platforms. There's more things to engage with. What we really need for, for the resurgence is we need new IP. I mean, that's really what Hollywood has. I mean, Hollywood has Spider-Man and has Star Wars. This is IP. We need to be creative and start building new IP. I think the last major, major IP that came new IP was like John Steve Witkoff, you know. So, so I would love to see creative young creative people who are heroic and love America start coming up with just new ideas and new characters and new things we don't we don't need to constantly do remakes and reboots and all these other things we need we need new IP and I encourage everybody watching this you know start coming up start drawing comic books do all these things be creative and there's a place for it now and that's really exciting for me Yeah, I would say Jack Carr with the Terminalist series actually might fall into that category. That's some new stuff. I'm trying to get Kurt Schlichter's stuff on film as well. I think it would help. Real fast, in our final moments, whenever I talk about this with Young America's Foundation or Turning Point in other groups, I always get high school and college kids coming up and saying, I want to be in the arts, but I want to be in entertainment. But my parents, they object to it. When you went to your dad and said, I want to be an artist. Did he try to do? Yeah, exactly. We all had that conversation. How did that go? And how important is it for parents? They got to stop complaining that it's only liberals in Hollywood if they're not letting their conservative kids get into the arts. 100% my mother was a fashion photographer my dad was a painter and they said go be a doctor don't be like us actually but i didn't listen to them because i'm an artist but yeah we should we should encourage our young people to be creative culture is critical you know movies are critical that's what people do that's what they do with their what they do with their free time is this they don't do politics they entertain themselves and we should be there uh in that in that in that you know messaging stream entertaining people and and you know celebrating things Matthew Taylor, great stuff. Congratulations on everything. And thank you for what you're doing to Washington, D.C. for Washington, D.C. I really appreciate it. Keep your eye on Matthew Taylor. There's more to come there. Thanks, brother. I appreciate it. All right. Coming up, we are going to give you a quick update on where things are 100 days out from the midterm elections. What is the state of this race? Where are the candidates? What are they saying? And how are Republicans poised to win those critical districts needed to keep the gavel in Mike Johnson's hands? It comes down to money.

And they're looking good right now if that's what this is all about. We'll get into it next. Coming up in about a minute, I'm going to give you the state of the midterm election race right now. Where do Republicans and Democrats stand as we head toward the last primaries, especially that critical Michigan Senate primary the Democrats are facing? Who gets to hit the buzzsaw that is Mike Rogers, the Republican nominee? We'll get into it coming up in just a minute. But I do want to say that this is now the final few days of my Food for the Pork campaign. I want to show the good news that hundreds of men and women, just like you, have already donated to our efforts that are going to provide thousands of starving kids throughout the Caribbean and Latin America with two nutritious meals a day for the next year and help give their villages access to clean drinking water. Take a listen to Sarah. She's just 16 years old, but she's an inspiration and how she donated to Food for the Poor. I just wanted to say, I really admire your work with food for the poor each year. years old. I live at home, so I don't really make a whole lot of money. But I have an envelope that I keep on my nightstand, and each time I do get some money, I put a little bit away throughout the year, maybe like a dollar or two, and it's for food for the poor. And so this year I saved up $80 to give, and I'm not saying any of this to brag. I just wanted to encourage your listeners to probably make more money than I do. And so if you can just spare a little bit. That would be good. Bye. Yeah, it's amazing. She set aside a little over $1.50 a week. That totaled $80 for the year, and that feeds two starving children, nutritious meals twice a day for an entire year. Maybe you can do this with your children or grandchildren, and it'll be an incredible lesson for them. All you have to do is go to Larry O'show.com. Click on the gift food banner. It's incredible where your donation goes and how good food for the poor is in making sure that the money goes straight to those who are most in need. If you can, you can also text my name, Larry, to 51, 555, and then you'll get a link to donate. Just a few days left on this campaign, and I really appreciate your generosity. All right, we're about 100 days out from the midterm elections. And I've been telling you all year long as you hear about a blue wave. It's not going to be a blue wave. In fact, I think Republicans not only can keep the gavel in Mike Johnson's hands, I think they can grow their majority in the House. But a few things have to happen here. I told you back in January when they were saying that Democrats were going to win by 25 seats in the House. I told you then. that there's a couple of missing factors here. First of all, y'all are looking at generic nationwide.

Democrat Republican preference polls. And that might tell you something, but it doesn't tell you how the actual race goes in the districts involved. Number one. Number two, you got to wait until you see who the Democrats are going to nominate because candidates matter. And I promise you, they're not nominating generic Democrats. They're nominating lunatics. In fact, even if they're not nominating a Marxist in the district that might be on the bubble. Well, Republicans can very easily tie the Democrat running in that district to the lunatic in Manhattan or San Francisco or Los Angeles and say, yeah, this person won't disavow the Marxists who want to undo this country. And I do mean undo this country. On Shannon Bream's Fox News Sunday, this is clip one. Take a listen to the co-chair of the Democrat Socialists. She affirms exactly what we've been telling you about what these radicals who are now calling themselves Democrats intend to do. So we're going to put up on the screen a few of the things that are part of your platform. And I want to ask you, just give me sort of a true or false on these. Abolish the Senate. True. Okay. Replace the presidency and Supreme Court as we now know them. Yep. Abolish ICE. Absolutely. Abolish borders and give amnesty to anyone currently in the U.S. illegally. As a long-term plan, yep. Defund the Pentagon. Absolutely. Abolish prisons, at least in large part. Yeah, again, as part of a long-term program, yeah. See, the moderate, reasonable Democrat running in a swing district right now is going to try to distance themselves from that agenda. But the fact of the matter is those Marxists who are running as Democrat socialists who get into the House of Representatives, they're the swing voters. They're the ones who will hold Hakeem Jeffries ransom. There are about 18 districts right now, according to Axios and the Cook Political Report, that are true toss-up races. And with leaners going Republican or Democrat way, Of those 18, Republicans need to win about five or six of them to retain the majority. That's doable, especially considering the fact that they are a wash with cash right now. Republicans are sitting on hundreds of millions of dollars in the coffers. Democrats... are nearly in the hole right now with regard to the soft money that they're holding on to. Certain candidates are doing okay, but not the parties themselves. In fact, the chairman of the Democratic Party, Ken Martin, is currently under fire a New York Times article just detailed about how broken the Democrats are. That's the New York Times description, including an HR complaint against him for slamming a phone on the desk of one of his employees. You want to know how bad things are? Look at Michigan, where Abdul El-Sayed, one of these radicals, is now losing in the primary to Haley Stevens, who he has said is propped up by APAC and corporations. We'll take a listen to this school board member in Farmington, Michigan. She speaks for most Democrats in the state right now. Oh, yeah. So we're here with Angie Smith.

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