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Now in, let's say, October when a lot of the voting at least starts. But it's important for conservatives to see things clearly and not just wishcast. And I think part of that involves telling the truth. in a way that could potentially, A, motivate conservative voters to get more involved because they're getting their rear ends kicked in some ways. Or the flip side of the same coin is it could just depress people further saying, oh, well, it's just a midterm and we're never going to do well, so it doesn't look good, so might as well just stay home. That would be disastrous. Not just, I think, for the midterm elections, but potentially for multiple cycles in a row if Republicans and their voters decide to dig themselves a significant enough hole. Now, what I try to do on this show is not think too much about how information might psychologically impact an audience. I just think we have to talk about what is actually happening. And just do reality checks. And the reality check is if the elections were held tomorrow, in my opinion, which is based with a lot of fact and experience and polling data, et cetera, in my opinion, the House would be absolutely gone for the Republicans and the Senate would be in danger as well. Not. out of reach for the Republicans to retain the Senate by any stretch. It's a fairly forgiving map in a number of ways. But in a bad enough wave year, dominoes often tend to fall in the same direction. Not always, right? 2018, blue wave year in a lot of ways, but the dominoes were positioned and fell the opposite way in the U.S. Senate, which ended up being extremely significant. because there was then a Supreme Court vacancy right before the 2020 election and right before the presidency exchanged hands, where Ruth Bader Ginsburg passed away and was replaced by Amy Coney Barrett. And if it had been a worse cycle for Republicans in 2018 in the U.S. Senate, they probably would not have had the votes to confirm Amy Coney Barrett. to replace a very left-wing judge with a much, much more conservative justice. So these things do matter a lot. You know that I focus on the Senate here a fair amount. So if we zoom out, the reality is, and I wrote about this at the Washington Examiner, a column called Blue Wave, Red Flags. Just historically, and the president has also cited this a number of times, the deck is stacked against the Republicans under these circumstances, right? Whenever a president wins, generally two years later, there have been just a handful of exceptions in recent memory going back many decades. The next midterm election is usually a good one for the opposition party.

Because, for lack of a better term, their people, their voters, their base, collectively, they're more pissed off, more motivated, more fired up to get out there and they're worried, right? They're like, oh gosh, we just lost this big national election. This person that we oppose is now president. We've got to do something. And that's something is often really showing up in droves in off-year elections and special elections and then the midterms. So that's just history. History generally is against the Republicans in 2026. I think that's especially true because you don't just have President Trump in the Oval. You also have Republican majorities in both houses of Congress. Now, very slim majorities, right? They have almost no breathing room in either chamber, especially in the lower chamber. But still, when you have that unified control of Washington, then you really get this backlash from the other side. And often even swing or independent voters, they don't like the idea of one party being in charge of everything for too long. They like checks and balances. They are swing voters for a reason. So you often see those people going in the other direction. Then if you layer on top of that general dissatisfaction with the president and or the direction of the country. then you've got the ingredients for not just a bit of a wave back in the other direction, but perhaps a major wave. And I think if the current trajectory continues as it is, there could be some triage happening in the months to come for Republicans, and things could start to look pretty challenging. Now, if the economy picks up, and we keep hearing from Republicans, it's going to all these pro-growth policies, regulation, the working families tax cut, for example, people getting a lot more money to keep for themselves during this tax season. If we get better data and people feel it in the spring, in the summer going into the fall, that would definitely be helpful for Trump and the Republican Party. where they could say, look, we were left a mess, but look what we've done, and now you're feeling it. Here's the good news. Let us keep going. We don't want these people who cause the problem, the Democrats, to get back in power and obstruct everything. But in order for that to be remotely successful as an argument, people need to really experience economic improvement. And I think at best right now, it's been this mixed bag where you'll get one or two really good pieces of information and then a jobs report like the one we got in February, which was a stinker, to put it mildly. And if you generally get the sense as an electorate here in this country that the economy is stalling or maybe just treading water, not really getting better, I mean, you're getting close to that. perfect storm scenario where the Democrats would be poised to have a very good night in November. So the Republicans have a lot writing on a number of policies and how they turn out, including, I think, by the way, Iran and some other foreign policy gambits, but especially the economy, which is the big one. Now, there's a new poll that came out over the weekend that I've delved into in this column at the examiner.

And it's an NBC news poll. And the reason that I decide to write about it, because I'll write about and talk about polls from time to time. And we're still months and months away from the election. So this is just sort of like a level-setting monologue here, just so we're kind of on the same page. And no one's either diluting themselves that things are in decent shape for the Republicans that they aren't. Or I don't want people getting too despairing and ringing their hands like, oh, all is lost. But this NBC News poll was interesting because the partisan sample, often people complain about it. Oh, it's too heavy, too many Ds or not enough R's in the sample. This one between Democrat and Republican leaners, it was exactly tied. 42 to 42. That's pretty fair, I would say. President Trump, there's a little bit of good news for Republicans in the poll. President Trump's approval rating ticked up a little bit by two net points. He's underwater by 10 points, but not terrible. His approval rating is 44% in this poll, which is not bad if you look at some recent presidencies at this point in a second term in particular. And Republicans in this poll still have a double-digit lead over the Democrats on a bunch of issues, including border security and crime and immigration. However, on the all-important question of who would better handle the economy, it is now exactly tied. Both parties are tied. And you look back to the last midterm cycle, 2022, which the Republicans won, although it was not a great midterm for them. I think the Democrats had a false sense of security in 2022, which cost them then in 2024. But still, in 2022, in the teeth of Biden inflation, coming off that embarrassment and national humiliation in Afghanistan, in that environment, the Republicans had a 19-point lead on the economy right now. four years ago, that is now tied. The economic advantage for the Republicans, at least in this poll, has completely vaporized. It's gone. Which is why I keep saying they need to build back that advantage or really face trouble in the fall. And while Republicans have the lead on a number of these issues, certainly on the immigration stuff, And border security, voters aren't as focused on that anymore, especially at the southern border because the problem's been fixed. Right? So people say, okay, great, thanks, I guess, but moving on to the next thing. On inflation, on the cost of living, this is largely what I think drove Trump's victory in 2024. Trump's approval rating is now in the mid-30s on that. That really needs to come up. if Republicans are going to be more competitive in November. And here's the thing that I want to make sure that I'm sort of blowing the whistle on when it comes to engagement. When NBC asked Democrats and Republicans, self-identified, are you highly interested in the upcoming midterms? 74%, so three out of four, the Democrats said yes.

just 61% of Republicans, that is an intensity gap that benefits the Democrats, right? That is what you often see in these elections where the opposition party's base is going to crawl over broken glass to get to the voting booth. And if you get enough of the swing voters saying, yeah, let's swing back in the other direction, course correction, we want some checks and balances here. That is typically the dynamic that leads to at least something of a wave. In this poll, the Democrats have a six-point lead on the so-called generic congressional ballot, which, if that were true, right, and again, it's very, very early, but six points, that would lead to a bad night for Team Red, I would say. Now, a couple things that I want to add to this. I think the Democrats are making a mistake that both parties seem to be making, sort of pinging back and forth after these elections swing wildly, right? The public is just constantly dissatisfied and going from one party or the other, and then back and then back. There's not a lot of stability. There's a lot of frustration and anger and volatility. And because President Trump's approval rating is not great, and because his approval has gone down on some key issues, and Democrats now have this lead that they've built on the congressional ballot, Democrats are kind of feeling themselves. They're thumping their chest. Look at what we did in Virginia and New Jersey, although, boy, Virginia, they are screwing things up fast. Look at the communists we elected in New York City. The people are with us. We are on the march. And, you know, that might turn out that way in the midterm elections, but this same poll shows that the Democrats are still much less popular than President Trump. They are also less popular than the Republican Party. They've spent the last month or two relentlessly demonizing ICE. The Democratic Party is less popular than ICE. One of the only entities polled by NBC News that is less popular than the Democratic Party is the Iranian regime. So I guess they've got that going for them. People like change. People get frustrated if things aren't improving in their lives. But that frustration with Trump and the Republicans, I think, should not be misconstrued as some sort of new love affair with the Democrats. That is absolutely not panning out, if you look at the data. And Democrats, I think, would delude themselves again, potentially imperiling their future electoral chances by saying, oh, look, all that self-reflection, that didn't need to happen. Let's go hard left again, and we'll be fine. I think that would be a very stupid... lesson to try to learn out of where things stand right now. But that is, broadly speaking, where they do stand right now. And I just wanted to occasionally check in and say, hey, this is how I see things with a high-stakes election, especially in the Senate, coming up in a matter of months.

You can read some of the details. I make a few more points in my column at the Washington Examiner, Blue Wave, Red Flags. It's Guy Benson. We are just underway on this Tuesday. Please stay tuned. Miss a minute. Miss a lot. Guy Benson. Cheers to America's 250th birthday. Get 20% off your first purchase at Fox Newswineshop.com with code FN Radio 20. 20% discount excludes wine club offers and cannot be combined with any other promotion. Expires July 31st, 2026. Must be 21 older to order. Please drink responsibly. Back here on Guy Benson. I want to talk just briefly about public opinion and the military campaign against the Iranian regime, which, again, militarily, has been an extraordinary resounding success so far. There are voices on social media, certain influencers who are going out of their way to oppose this and talk about how this is very anti-Maga. It's not America first at all. A, I think that's wrong. I think this is, whatever you think of Trump, very much America first for all sorts of reasons that we've laid out. Also, those voices are not representative of Trump supporters at all. Among Republicans broadly, there is overwhelming lopsided support in favor of this operation, like... 89% approve, 85% approve, very, very high. Among self-identified MAGA supporters, this is a new U-Gov poll, 91% approve of what the president has decided vis-a-vis Iran, 6% disapproval. So I think that there's a lot more work to be done to convince Americans in the middle. of what we're doing and why, but 91 to 6 is not a MAGA split or schism. That is a big consensus that I happen to agree with. Then there's this as well, cut nine from CNN. Take a look at this Fox News poll that came out during the past week. Net approval rating of the current U.S. military action against Iran. Look at that. Overall, Fox News shows a dead even split. But look at those who served in the military. significantly higher support for the U.S. military action currently going on in Iran, it plus 20 points. That should not be so much of a surprise because take a look at how they view Trump's foreign policy overall. Again, look at those who served in the U.S. military versus overall. If you look at Trump's foreign policy overall, the net approval rating on that per Fox News, those who served in the military, they like what's going on average. Look at that. The net approval rating plus eight points for Trump's foreign policy. But look at those overall. Way, way down there at minus 20 points. We're talking about a nearly 30-point gap between those who served in the military and overall. Talking about the issues you care about, Guy Benson. We're back here on Guy Benson. Thanks for listening. Guy Benson.com podcast always free.

Please welcome back to the airwaves, Mary Catherine Ham. Fox News contributor, writer, podcaster, co-author of our book, end of discussion, at M.K. Hammer on social. Hey, Mary Catherine. Hello, how are going? Well, it's going well. I'm glad I didn't write the following tweet for CNN. This is how that network. framed the terrorist attack attempt in New York City over the weekend, people dunking all over this on social media, deservedly so. This is from the CNN official X account. Two Pennsylvania teenagers crossed into New York City Saturday morning for what could have been a normal day enjoying the city during abnormally warm weather. But in less than an hour, their lives would be drastically changed as the pair would be arrested. for throwing homemade bombs at anti-Muslim protesters outside of Mayor Zohran Mamdani's home. Here's what we know so far. So just a day in the city, a warm day in the city, went weirdly south when all of a sudden they found themselves arrested. Why? Well, for throwing some bombs. The network has since deleted that post saying that it did not reflect the gravity of the incident and therefore breached the editorial standards at CNN, therefore the post has been deleted. But that was also the lead of the story, which they then stealth edited as well. Here's the thing. Mary Catherine, I know people are, I think, picking on the journalists who wrote the story for a good reason. I think it's a gender studies major from some left-wing college who has now joined CNN and is writing headlines in leads like that. It is beyond parity, literally, and people are doing what they're doing, doing what the Internet does. And feel free to weigh in on that. I just think the bigger issue here beyond just that tweet from CNN is ever since some jihadists screamed Alahu Akbar and tried to blow up a bunch of peaceful protesters in New York City a few days ago, there has been almost a full court press. among many in the so-called news media, to go out of their way to like alchemize headlines, to make it as difficult as possible for a casual news consumer to have any idea what happened in the incident, and quite possibly to think that Zohran Mamdani was the target of the attack, which he most certainly was not. You can't have that many mistakes. or coincidences all going in the same direction, in my opinion. I think these journals see a set of facts that are bad for their team, and they don't like them. It's just sort of icky and gross, and gosh, we don't like this. And so they figure out how can we obscure reality as much as possible in headlines and leads, which I call anti-journalism, actually. Mary Catherine, the floor is yours. Yeah, I mean, this is a tour to force.

of anti-journalism from NBC, from New York Times, from Zohran Mamdani himself, who of course is a politician, but it's interesting that his first statement is aligned completely with the efforts of NBC, New York Times, and now CNN, which is to confuse you about who the perpetrator is, about who the target is, about the ideology of the perpetrator, about the ideology of the target. And if you figure any of that out, they also... And it turns into a bad story for them. They also passive voice all of this so that if you find out that in fact these were homegrown jihadists who wanted to go after the people actually doing the protected speech, which was a protest, then... You're going to find out that, oh, the bombs just sort of happened into their lovely day. They were just trying to catch a show in New York and looking here. We ended up trying to kill fellow Americans with homemade bombs. I mean, it is ludicrous the extent, the links they'll go to when they don't like a story to tell you. the opposite of what happened. I mean, Zohran Mamdani's statement and the other framings of this put before anything about the bombers, you have to know the ideology of the people who were protesting. Yes. No, it was an anti-Islam protest, right? It was a weak-wing protest. It's very important to them that we know that information very clearly. That's the first thing you know. Because to leftists, Zohran Mamdani and the whole press corps pretty much, the speech of... the anti-Islam folks, which is protected, is the problem. Secondary is the fact that fellow Americans were throwing bombs at them to stop it. Screaming Allahou Akbar. And by the way, if you mention the Allahou Akbar and the ISIS component of this, a little too much, if that's what you focus on, they'll call you Islamophobic. Yeah, I don't think that's Islamophobic. Nope. No, no. That video, I'm sure you've seen it of like the left-wing protester with the bullhorn saying everyone is welcome in the city and then literally the jihadist jumps over him and throws a bomb yelling al-Ahu Akbar. And everyone just sort of freezes like, oh, what just happened? And that guy, the protester, the left-winger, he's the one who posted the video. And said, I meant every word of it. Like there was not even like, gosh, maybe there are some people that we shouldn't want in our communities. Right. He was like, no, no, this guy yelled al-Ahu Akbar and threw a bomb to kill people. And you know what? I'm going to double down on my truth. Yeah. Even worse, by the way, he not only doesn't take a second to think, he mocks anyone else who's concerned about an IED. He takes a picture of this device. He says, I cannot stress this enough. He's like a comedian who goes out and interviews people at protest. We just stood there laughing. We didn't think it was real. Okay, well, you're an idiot.

because your risk analysis should tell you to go away from a thing that is smoking in the street that a man yelling Al-Ahu Akbar just threw. Okay, number one. Two, people aren't wusses for making a better calculation than you are. And by the way, I did look it up. The same guy in August of 2021 was telling us that we needed mask mandates. So, like, you know, maybe he's not such a tough guy after all. Okay. Yeah, that all checks out, doesn't it? It does indeed. I just think. We're not really, I think, grappling with this reality, Mary Catherine. For the second time in 10 days, in two very different parts of the country. jihadist-inspired terrorists either murdered or tried to murder multiple Americans in mass casualty events. One guy was able to kill several Americans before he got taken out in Austin, Texas. This bomb didn't explode, but apparently it was a very serious explosive device with some very destructive ingredients. This has happened twice in the span of 10 days. Our Homeland Security apparatus and agency is currently in shutdown because of what the Democrats are doing on messaging against, you know, enforcing immigration laws. And I would be willing to bet, especially because a lot of the news, quote-unquote, media covered this the way that they have, I'd be willing to bet that probably a substantial majority of Americans have absolutely no idea that this happened in New York. No idea. Yeah, and if they do, they heard it in passing and think that some crazy right-winger attacks Zohran Mamdani. Yeah. That's the plan. That's what they're looking for. You know, I try not to be surprised by the press, and yet every time we get to political violence specifically, they amaze me because they will excuse it every time. Again, because I think they truly believe that speech that they don't like. is worse than violence. They flip them in their head. Violence is a totally fine reaction to understandable provocations of speech. Like, that's what they believe and practice on college campuses, in protests, on the streets of Minneapolis. That's just their philosophy. And in this case, it's very clear that the protected speech, anyone who's attacking it like this can be given a pass. Or valorized. I mean, we might have Luigi the musical this summer and then maybe another musical next summer. Well, Mahmoud Khalil was just an honored guest for Ramadan at Zohran Mamdani's house. And you see Zeran's wife smiling there having liked all those social media posts about mass murder and rape of Jews. This guy, Mahmood Khalil, has engaged in illegal behavior. His organization calls for the destruction of Western civilization. And he is like... treated as this martyr victim, and he is being, you know, feated in the home of the mayor of New York City.

Meanwhile, you know, I think it was our friend Bethany Mandel who made the point. You've seen, I'm sure, that amazing photograph of the New York City cop jumping over the barricade to go try to take down one of the terrorists over the weekend. It's an incredible striking image. In some sane environment, that cop would be the one invited over to the mayor's house for dinner, not the pro-hamas agitator who has referred to. a U.S. designated terrorist organization as we. And yet, that is today's reality in New York City. The opposite. No, it's upside, it's upside down world, and his wife has given a pass for liking all these tweets. They say she's a private person, of course, when she goes up to New York Fashion Week, and they do great photoshoots of her and a friendly profile, then she's not a private person. Not so private, no. And you put, by the way, if you're Mrs. Samuel Alito and you put like the George Washington flag on your house, that becomes a Washington Post front page story about, you know, disturbing, disturbing political extremism or something of the private spouse of a Supreme Court justice. But if you're liking posts about, you know, rape denialism when it comes to the slaughter and massacre of Jews on October 7th, then it's like, oh, won't you just leave the mayor's wife in peace? That's irrelevant in a weird witch hunt, the enthusiastic witch hunters say. By the way, I want to say a quick word about the cops, both in Austin and in New York. You can see in the New York tape everybody just leaping immediately into danger. They have no idea if these things are going to go off. If they do go off, they're going to do catastrophic damage. We know that now. And without thinking, they go into action. Chief Aaron Edwards, who's the guy jumping over the barricade. It's fairly high-ranking. He's not necessarily a perp chaser at this point in his career, but he's out there getting it done. In Austin, the cops that responded within 57 seconds of getting... a call and they immediately honed in on the shooter and they took care of him. And so there's just like not a moment of hesitation to step into the line of duty here and to put your body at risk for other people. And I do wish that those types of folks were having dinner at. a mayor's house or a governor's house. I actually read Mary Catherine that because it's Austin, Texas, because it was a police involved shooting resulting in a death, they've actually been automatically under policy referred to a grand jury investigation. Yes, I've heard that. I can't believe that that is happening. I can't. It's all on tape, and this is what liberal communities do to cops. Welcome. Yep, that is true. I want to turn to this because you and I talk. pretty frequently just, you know, off the air about America 250 and where we are as a country. There's a poll that just came out from Signal. It's a national poll. And the question that was asked to a cross-section of Americans is after 250 years as a nation, do you believe the United States of America continues to be a force for good in the world? So it's like looking back at low this quarter millennium.

Are we a force for good or not in the world? And a majority of Americans say yes, but a sizable minority, 39% say no. And when you go into the cross tabs and who's saying what, it is young women who are most likely to say no. Black people, who I can at least say, given some of the worst episodes in our history and worse institutions, like you can understand some of the jaundiced view of our history among black members of our country and community. And then in terms of a partisan breakdown, independents are kind of split on whether or not we're a force for good or not. Republicans plus 84, an 84 percentage point margin saying, yes, we are a force for good. The United States has been for 250 years. Among Democrats, it is underwater by 43 points. Just an absolute blowout in favor of we are not a force for good in the world over the last 250 years. Mary Catherine, number one, the fact that young people are more likely to say no, the fact that independence aren't sure about this, I'll note that Hispanics, by the way, are plus nine on this question. There are a number of things that I think we really have to do to reinvigorate a sense of earned, thriving patriotism in this country. But I also just have to look at a political party, and this is not true of all Democrats, but when you have an overwhelming, lopsided view in your party that this is a rotten country that overall in our history has not been a force for good. I mean, that is a very big concern to me. And you and I have been, you know, out here in the commentary space now for years. How many times have leftists indignantly demanded that no one should ever be able to question their love of country or patriotism? That was like, how dare you question my patriotism? I'm sorry, I feel like if your party overwhelmingly thinks that the country isn't good. Isn't that just an admission that the patriotism should not be questioned? In fact, it's quite clear what your position is on the country. Right. I think a leftist answer to you would be the most patriotic thing you can do is hate your country. That's kind of their philosophy. So they don't, but you're right. Like the majority of them just don't particularly like America, much less love it as a force on the world stage. And I think a lot of this is just as we talked about the anti-journalism. This is anti-education. People have been taught not to weigh in the balance that America has its faults, but it has done this incredible good in the world.

Same with capitalism, same with, I don't know, energy, which fuels our entire lives, but everyone just takes it for granted and is like, ew, it makes greenhouse gases, right? People do not have a proper understanding of how important the miracle of America is to their daily existence. It is a birthright. It's something that they were born into, that they do not understand the sacrifices that made it possible, the absolute genius of the founders that created this possibility, and they haven't. lived all over the world to see what the options are in some cases. This is ignorance and intentional misinformation when it comes to public education in particular in this country, not learning the amazing opportunity that they have been given and that this country has given the rest of the world with its prosperity and freedom. That's right. It's insane. It is ignorance and negativity that has not happened organically. It has been inculcated deliberately. by bad actors and we are dealing with that. And by the way, if you think that this is a rotten place and that America sucks and so does capitalism, I would just say you would really, really miss it when it's gone. Either one, certainly both. And I think a lot of us say over our dead bodies. Mary Catherine Hamm, Fox News contributor, you can read her stuff, check out her podcast. You can also read our book and a discussion at M.K. Hammer. Thank you so much. Thank you. We'll be right back after this. New talk for a new generation, Guy Benson. Back here on Guy Benson. We'll talk to a state senator from Virginia coming up. Anslot of what the Democrats are trying to do in that state with national implications. Marsha Blackburn also joining us next hour. Shannon Breen out with a new book today. Looking forward to that conversation in our final hour. Interesting here. Oil prices down pretty substantially today. I know a lot of people were just wringing their hands about how... Oil is going to go through the roof because of Iran. Trump's suggesting that the war is going to end very soon. I know today was an intense day of bombing targets of the regime, but Strait of Hermuz is being accessed, U.S. military and Navy. protecting vessels, it seems, and maybe some of that doom and gloom saying not actually borne out right now in reality. We hope that continues to be the case. Also, some pretty good numbers in February on existing home sales, better than expected. So again, the mixed bag economically continues, as does Guy Benson with a brand new hour. Coming up after this, keep it here.

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The reality guy is very simple. Hakeem Jeffries and the National Democrats have, we think, the latest figure is about $22 million, dumped it into the Virginia to try to win those four extra seats. I think we've raised about $265,000 along with this coalition led by Governor Allen, former Governor Allen and McDonald and some of the other senior leadership that we have left that's still in the state. And, you know, you are absolutely right. Hit the nail on the head. The actual Constitution language that they'll be voting on are voting on right now, very misleading. No, it's awful. We tried. Well, we tried to do amendments on the floor and everything else, but the bottom line is we're down by one vote, and we couldn't stop anything. And so we have gotten... And by the way, let me just jump in here. Yeah. Yeah. You just said that in the Virginia State Senate, you guys are down by one vote. So it's a very, very closely divided chamber. The Democrats are doing all of this with a one vote majority. Is that right? Yes, sir. That is absolutely correct. And we've gotten injunctions, and the Supreme Court is failing to pick them up and decide. I don't think they've. interjected in an election since 1912, and I think they're going to hold to that our Supreme Court. And so they're allowing this to go forward. Yes, sir. Yeah, they said they might throw it out after it happens, which is a little bit. hard to imagine um well i i agree i don't think they will i think it's if it if it doesn't pass then they don't have to do anything um i think they should still take it up so they can prove where the democrats violated the constitution they're going back to 1971 trying to reverse the constitution from them and cover up their tracks and everything else and And, you know, then they're even lying by saying, oh, it's only temporary. The only temporary part is, yeah, they're putting it in right now. And in five years from now, when we get the census again, it'll change. That's the lie, you know, that and that it's making it fair. Fair for who? Fair for all the Democrats to take control for the next 20 years? No, it is profoundly unfair. They're acting as if Texas and then California haven't happened. Like those? States cancel each other out. This is an escalation. They're saying it's about fairness and all that. You look at these districts. It's laughable. It's a joke. It's completely unfair. The wording of the thing is fraudulent. The way they've gotten it on the ballot is illegal. I mean, every step of this is corrupt and outrageous. And I at least so far have not seen any ads in the other direction. I'm glad you've seen some that they exist somewhere. I think it's actually winnable, but they are absolutely. crushing the no side with their propaganda and their spending. And the Democrats are playing extreme hardball here in a way that often you just don't see Republicans play hardball, ever. Well, Guy, the latest polling, and they've got access to the same polling we have, is that 52% of Virginians don't want it.

You know, in 2020, we voted over 66% of Virginia voted to say, we don't want gerrymandering anymore. And that's why we had the commission draw these lines. And that's why you saw the Senate fairly close. That's why you see our congressional districts off by, you know, one. Senate's off by one. And the House used to be until this last election and they got wiped. They were fairly close to it. I think they were down by, the Republicans were down by two or three. So how do you say, you know, that's pretty fair when you look at the, look at Trump's vote in this last election. I think we had 46, 47% of the vote. So, you know, it's equally based. But, you know, what they're doing now is just, as you said in your opening dialogue, they're stealing the election. And they're going to make it happen. And, you know, our challenge is in the courts. You know, it's sad that we have to be here, but, you know, I, I just, all we can do is all we can do. And when people come up and they complain to me, Guy, I just ask them, first thing I asked them, did you vote in the last election? And if they tell me, no, I won't even talk to them. I'm just sorry. You got to vote now, right? Because early voting's underway. I think this is beatable. And especially if you just get some good ads on the air being like, hey, this is a partisan gerrymandering thing that we all rejected a few years ago. Say no again. That would, I think, go a long way. A majority polling shows a majority do not want this. You need people to know that there's an election happening. It's like a middle of the spring, like off-year snap election to change the Constitution. It's wild. And that's why we're going to keep talking about it here. Before I let you go, we have about a minute and a half left. The Democrats have now passed a bill, not introduced, passed a bill that does the cash bail thing, eliminating cash bail for a lot of repeat offenders without a secured bond, including people who are very dangerous. They've passed an assault weapons ban, quote, unquote. They know nothing about assault weapons. As they've admitted, they don't know how these things work. They are going just, they're going for it on everything, 100 miles an hour, 30 seconds, Senator. Let me give a warning to the rest of my colleagues in the other states that are Republican states. This plan is coming to you like Blitzkrieg when the Nazis invaded Europe, and they are making it run. And if you're not awake and pay attention, you're going to lose your state as we have lost Virginia for right now and we are fighting for our lives. That being said, as we fight for our lives, if your listeners care to help us in the Great Commonwealth of Virginia, we would love to hear from them. And our party is accepting donations to help fight this because if we lose Virginia, I'm afraid so goes the nation. And we can't afford that right now. State Senator Bryce Reeves fighting this thing in Richmond and people need to vote and get involved very soon. Senator, thank you very much for your time. Guy, thank you for being a great American and a great patriot. Thank you so much. You're listening to a new generation of talk, Guy Benson. Traditional home security only alerts you after a break-in, and that's too late. SimplySafe is changing that. Stop. This is SimplySafe. Police are on the way. We don't just alert. We stop crime before it starts. SimplySafe, plan starting around a dollar a day. Save 50% on your new system with professional monitoring at Simplysafe.com slash Spotify or with promo code Spotify. Outdoor deterrence requires a simply safe active guard outdoor protection plan starting at 4999 a month. Visit Simplysave.com slash licenses for alarm license information, Tennessee 2012.

I'm Guy Benson. We are back. Staying on the theme of Virginia politics as we continue to cover this particular story, a factor follow-up involving the terrible murder in Fairfax County, enabled by the county DA, the prosecutor who doesn't like to prosecute, the pro-criminal Soros-funded prosecutor. whose soft-on-crime policies, coupled with sanctuary policies, protected a man who was charged with dozens of crimes through the years in the country illegally. The crimes included violent crimes, like rape. And now he is charged with stabbing a woman to death at a bus stop. Steve Descano is the left-wing prosecutor who allowed this guy to be back out on the street. One of the only reporters, I sometimes call him the only reporter in Virginia, Nick Minnock of ABC 7 in D.C. actually was able to catch up with members of the deceased victim's family, Stephanie Minter. Minding her own business, a Virginia citizen stabbed in the neck, bled out, died, murdered because of this man with 40 prior charges. He was out on the street walking free because of left-wing policies, both on immigration and on crime. And this woman's dad, and as we've talked about previously, the Democrats have an absolutely insulting, disgusting spin on whose fault this is. They are blaming ICE somehow. They are blaming the federal law enforcement agency that... Fairfax County and now all of Virginia refuses to cooperate with. Right. Abigail Spanberger, the left-wing, not moderate Democrat, who's now in charge of the state and an even more left-wing legislature, they are virulently anti-ice. On day one of her governorship, she took sanctuary policies in northern Virginia. and expanded them statewide and reversed Glenn Youngkin's common sense policy on enforcing the law. She did a 180. She embraced this sanctuary madness. Still is saying, according to her office, she does not support honoring ICE detainers for someone like this, a murderer and rapist. And the Democrats responsible for these policies say, oh, well, ICE should have gotten him anyway, so it's ICE's fault. They were distracted murdering people in Minnesota, so they didn't do their job. That is totally crazy. ICE has been active in Virginia over the obstruction of local governments and now the statewide government. They are doing their best without the cooperation of state and local officials who are banned from helping them because of these people's sanctuary policies, which go hand and glove with their soft on crime, pro-criminal policies, and now they have the gall with the body count rising because of these terrible, dangerous policies. They have the gall to blame the people trying to do their jobs that they are actively obstructing.

Shameless does not begin to cover this spin, and you're getting it from state senators, including the leader of the state Senate. Other Democrats simply look at their feet and refuse to talk about it. This is the compassion that they pretend to have. Their true passion and compassion is for criminals and illegal immigrants. And when they get caught and a woman is dead for absolutely no reason, when they bring about a crime this horrific, why not just triple down on shamelessness and say, you know what, let's blame the people we already hate even though we are responsible for the policy scenario, the policy constellation that led to this. Absolutely stomach turning. So Nick Minnock. The one reporter in Virginia who seems to give a damn about anything like this, he caught up with the family, the actual victim. And here's what he said in filing his report, cut 21. Right now I'm in Fredericksburg. I just spoke to the family of Stephanie Mentor. That is the Fredericksburg woman who was killed in Fairfax County allegedly by an illegal immigrant who has a lengthy violent criminal. history. You can imagine Stephanie's family is heartbroken. I spoke with her mother and two of her brothers. They showed us pictures of Stephanie, the pictures that were at her funeral service over the weekend. They show her as a child, show her growing up, and who she was as a mother. Her smile, her positivity. Always, we'll get through it no matter what. We'll get through it, no matter what. Bible verses she would pull from. It was like she memorized half the Bible. She could always pull them out of thin air along with the chapter and the verse and all of it. She always amazed me with that. This is a mother. This is a daughter. This is a sister. Stolen from all of those people. Sounds like a woman of faith as well. because a repeat violent predator in the country illegally was protected by the politicians in charge of Northern Virginia, who take absolutely no ownership or responsibility whatsoever for the consequences of their actions. Some of them I wonder, it's like, oh, well, she had a lot of Bible verses memorized. Maybe she was one of the bad ones anyway. Am I feeling a little cynical today because of this? Yeah, in case you couldn't tell. My estimation of these people could not be lower. It is disgusting. Minach continued reporting about his conversation with the family. And by the way, this is a family that should be all over the news. This story should be everywhere. It's not just a local D.C. or Virginia story. It should be a national story. The media also doesn't want to cover it because it makes their fellow ideologues and partisans look bad, especially as they're gearing up for a giant power grab. With the gerrymandering, they don't want any dead women complicating the march for power on the left. And so it's basically a non-story outside of this one guy and right-leaning media. Democrats don't want to talk about it. And journalists don't want to ask about it. And so there's like one reporter bothering to interview the family of this slain woman. Cut 22.

I asked Stephanie's mother, did Fairfax County Commonwealth's attorney Steve Descano fail her daughter and her opinion? She said yes. She said other people failed her too. Her brothers also blame Descano for dropping charge after charge, even when he was warned by police about how dangerous Abdul Jalo was. Now, something else we also recently reported on this show. There were emails. emails obtained by Nick Minnock that showed, and by the way clearly leaked by law enforcement, they want to do their job. Law enforcement officers want to protect and serve. They want to help, in many cases, federal law enforcement get really dangerous people out. of their jurisdictions and communities. They are banned from doing so because of these sanctuary policies. And you have prosecutors who actively don't like to prosecute, don't want to prosecute, the criminals put back out on the street over and over again, including after very serious violent charges, including with the knowledge that these people are here illegally. So you had a law enforcement officer, at least one, leak. emails that were sent basically begging these prosecutors do not let this person go it's a matter of time before he strikes again and it's going to be violent and they ignored that counsel and now stephanie minter is dead of course her family blames the people in charge of this and the people in charge of this blame ice truly unbelievable We'll take a break. We'll come back with more on Guy Benson.

Guy Benson, sponsored by Previgin. Previgin, made for your brain. Halfway through Guy Benson. It's our Tuesday edition. Thank you for tuning in. Guy Benson.com is our website where the podcast is free every single day on demand. With us now, U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn, Republican of Tennessee. She is seeking the governorship in that state. Senator, good to have you back on the show. It is so good to join you. Thank you so much. I want to talk about this partial government shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security. It's been underway for weeks. I think many Americans have not been aware of that reality, but more of them are learning about it because of chaos in our airports. A few reports here that I want to play for the audience. One out of Phoenix from Fox 10 in Cut 19 sounds like this. We're fed up. We had enough. That's... This is the third shutdown in a matter of six months. Jovan Petkovich has been with TSA for 10 plus years and is based out of Phoenix. He calls the shutdown a huge economic roller coaster. Houston, Atlanta, passengers, how many delays is it? How many flight attendants are being impacted by this because of their flights either being delayed or being canceled out? That means they're not getting paid. If you're not sitting behind the controls as a pilot, you're not getting the paycheck. Now, he mentioned Houston in that conversation. That was out of Phoenix, but let's talk about Houston. Fox 26 there recording and the camera's rolling as long lines just dragged on and on. Passengers stranded, frustrated, cut 20. So TSA wait times here at Hobby Airport, still sitting at about three hours this morning. You guys, just take a look at the line. It has looked like this basically all morning, and it is stretching from here where we are past the ticketing area, downstairs to the baggage claim, and literally out the door of the airport. And it seems like this line just seems to be getting longer as the morning goes on. So all of this comes after the partial government shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security as it continues. high demand and fewer open checkpoints because of TSA staffing shortages are what's causing these massive wait times. We did speak to one woman who was traveling with a group of kids to D.C. She says that she checked in with Southwest around 3.30 this morning, but now she's worried that they won't even make their flight. How many of you guys are traveling together? We have about 94 kids and 14 adults. And can you tell us what time you got here and how long you've been waiting in line? I arrived around 320 and we've been in line since then. We're supposed to catch a light at 745, we hope. And what words do you have to describe this line and what you guys are waiting in? Crazy. It's really crazy. Crazy also strikes me as the appropriate word, Senator, to describe this partial government shutdown of DHS that Democrats have pioneered. This is what they've done. They are 100% responsible for this shutdown, just like they were last year for the longest government shutdown in history. Is there any sign that they are looking to come to their senses and reopen the Homeland Security Agency?

Guy, they have had opportunities all 41 days of this shutdown. They have never set down with the Republican side to say, this is what we want. We hear them go to the floor and talk about things, and they keep moving the goalpost. But as far as sitting down with John Thune, Chair Susan Collins, the White House, who have all said come sit down and talk with us. Not one time have they come to the table with this is what we want. The reason is the Democrats have long had two things as their goal. They want to abolish ICE and they want to defund law enforcement. They think they will be able to do this by holding up the funding for DHS. Now, what they're not thinking about is. is FEMA and the storms that are there, TSA, and the long wait lines, HSI, which is Homeland Security Investigations. And at a time when we have had an attack in Austin, we have had an attack in New York City, even today in Canada, at the U.S. Embassy, Israeli Embassy, they're beefing up security because of a shooting. We know there are 18,000 known terrorists in the U.S. that came across under the Biden years. 18,000. They've apprehended about 4,000 of these. There are terrorist cells here. We need our law enforcement, federal law enforcement, fully focused on protecting the homeland, on rooting out these terrorist cells. on apprehending, detaining, prosecuting, and deporting these people that want to kill us all. Here's the thing. The soundbites from those local news reports are showcasing great inconvenience and disruption to a lot of Americans, not just travelers, but the workers who aren't getting paid. And these are federal workers. Usually the people, you know, Democrats will put signs out in front of their homes in the D.C. area. We stand with federal workers. And then they'll do these shutdowns that prevent those people from getting paid. They'll try to blame everyone else, including President Trump. I saw Hakeem Jeffries was trying to blame Trump for the DHS shutdown. It's the Democrats who are filibustering this bipartisan bill. It is squarely on the Democrats. It's a choice they're making, Senator, and they're doing it. because they want to signal to their electoral base that they share their fury about ICE and federal law enforcement on the immigration front. They can't defund ICE. They wish they could, but they can't. ICE is funded for years. And so I guess in their mind the next best thing is to take DHS and just squeeze them so there's no money flowing. And I guess consequences. Be damned because this is a political show to prove that they're big, big mad about ICE and deportations. That's it. I mean, that's not even an opinion statement. That is a statement of fact.

You're correct about that. They are going to stand with illegal aliens coming into the country before they're going to stand for law and order. As I said, defunding federal law enforcement has been a goal. And this is a way they think they can show their base that they are going to reach that goal. And all the while, you've got teachers that are trying to get groups into D.C. for their eighth grade trip, their 11th grade trip. And I met with a lot of them earlier today. And yet they're not able to do this because you have the TSA lines so long that people can't be processed and not everybody is going to make the flight. Then they have to decide if they take part of the group or none of the group or if they go charter or bus and try to drive it. You know, Senator, I'm actually reminded of a moment that we highlighted and flagged here on the show. I know you remember it as well. At the state of the union, President Trump challenged the Congress. He said, if you agree with this, stand up and show your support. The function of the federal government is to protect our citizens over illegal immigrants. And the Republicans jumped up and cheered almost every single Democrat sat there in silence. They're now proving his point, again, not just in the theater of the State of the Union address, in terms of policy. They have shut down the Homeland Security Department during a military conflict with a heightened terrorism threat, and they are doing it because they want to show their solidarity against enforcing federal immigration law. They aren't just sitting there with their arms crossed when Trump challenges them. They are actually... carrying out the policies that prove that he was correct in that indictment. You're correct about that also because they tried to shut the government down the first time over health care. Now, they have shut it down over DHS three times. This is three times they have defunded DHS and they will not go talk to anybody. So they're not interested in funding this. They're interested in defunding federal law enforcement and abolishing ice. And the American people are figuring this out. If you are, you know, think about the people in Michigan that were hit by a tornado. Nobody expected. They don't have many tornadoes, and they certainly don't have them this early in the year. And you look at the devastation there. FEMA is not funded. FEMA is 35%. of the budget for DHS. You look at what happened in Tennessee with the ice storm. We're still in recovery from that. You look at the snowstorm of the East Coast. We're in recovery. But at the same time, FEMA is not funded, so therefore FEMA cannot meet those obligations. You look at the fact that these TSA workers, not once, not twice, but three times, the Democrats have said, you're not going to get a paycheck.

If you show up for work, you're not going to get a paycheck. So what are these people doing, guide? They are going out and finding other jobs. We should hope they come back. But what if they don't? Then what if this is something that's going to have a very long-term effect on the number of people? Right. They'll just not show up for days at a time because they're saying you're not going to pay me. All right, fine. I'm not going to turn up for work on a regular basis. And then the lines get longer. and people get angrier. And the inconvenience and the disruptions to people's lives, very significant. I'm even more worried about the fact that we now have had two jihadist attacks on our soil in the last 10 days, one in Austin, Texas, one in New York City. And we are currently waging a major military campaign against what is known to be a factual statement again, the world's number one exporter of terrorism. That is who we're up against. They are a desperate regime. And we have our Homeland Security Agency closed or at least partially shut down now. It'd be crazy enough if it was just travel delays. But it's not just travel delays. And my worry is that more people might get killed in terrorist events. And again, maybe I'm being. unfair or two fired up today, but God forbid we have another deadly terrorist attack with this shutdown. Will the Democrats just say, oh, well, Trump's in charge, so it's his fault. It seems like that's the game plan here, or just hope nothing happens because they've got a political show to put on. And do people attack you guys when you're at your strongest or when you're at your most vulnerable?

And closing DHS shows a vulnerability. Yeah, the enemy does that. That's right. That is right. And what we need to do is say, no, the Democrats are trying to make this argument about ICE. ICE is funded through 2029. You can go rave on all day long about ICE. It is not going to affect one penny that goes to ice. The Democrats have picked the wrong fight. And they're obviously aware of that because they won't go talk to anybody about how they get out of this. They're just like the kid, the bully in the sandbox, that says, I'm keeping all the toys and everybody else can sit there and cry. So you're right about the attacks and the concern over those attacks. and the need to investigate this, the need for HSI to continue to investigate these drug traffickers, these sex traffickers, these human traffickers, but they're willing to shut that down because they made a promise that they would find a way to abolish ICE and to defund law enforcement. And this is all part of that. And the fallout. is something they see as the price of getting to the end result. And the end result for them is to just open up our borders, let anybody walk across. I do not talk to a single person that has said they think we should open the borders back up. I hear from people, thank goodness Donald Trump has closed the borders. I don't talk to people that are saying, I think we need less law enforcement. I'm talking to people that are saying we need to abide by the rule of law and the federal government needs to do its job. Whether it is HSI, whether it is Secret Service, both of which come under Social Security about TSA. And they're screening to keep the flying public safe. They, you know, we have to have all of these components in order to make certain that our citizens are safe. And I would highly encourage, highly encourage our Democratic colleagues to come to the table, fund DHS. And then get back into regular order. And if they want to fight about this that or the other, have at it. But you cannot leave the nation vulnerable. Oh, and that's what they've done. They've done it by choice. They can't touch ICE because of the funding mechanism that you mentioned. And so this is quite literally, the shutdown of the Homeland Security Agency is quite literally resistance theater by Senate Democrats right now. And they think.

You have Senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee on Guy Benson. Senator, thank you for your time. Good to join you. Thank you. Final hour of Guy Benson coming up next. When we come back, Shannon Breen is here. Big Day for her. We'll explain next. Raise your glass to Guy Benson Happy Hour. Brought to you by the Finnish Long Drink. Finland's most popular alcoholic beverage is taking America by storm. Visit the longdrink.com. And now, here's Guy Benson. Happy hour time on Guy Benson. It's our third hour of three on this Tuesday. Very, very happy and grateful that you're listening. Guy Benson.com is our online home. The podcast is free every day on demand at that website, Guy Benson.com or Fox News Podcast.com or wherever you get your podcast. Email the show, GBS at Fox.com. Follow us at Guy Benson on social. I'm Guy Benson on social media. And this radio hour is sponsored by our good friends at the finished long drink. It is a great product, very, very delicious. Also alcoholics, so please drink responsibly, 21 plus only, thelongdrink.com. But with us now is our friend and colleague, the lovely and talented Shannon Bream, chief legal correspondent here at Fox News. Anchor of Fox News Sunday, check your local listings. She's got the Live in the Bream podcast. She's a multi-time best-selling author, and she's got a brand new book out. Today, nothing is impossible with God. Eleven heroes, one God, endless lessons in overcoming. Shannon, welcome back. Congratulations on the book. Guy, thank you so much. Always a treat to be with you. Please tell us all about nothing is impossible with God. Well, listen, it's this collection of people from the Bible. I've always kind of had them grouped together in my brain. They all have this threat of overcoming something that really seemed overwhelming. And I thought, I really want to put them together in a book at some point. So I'm super grateful and blessed that, you know, Foxes put this together and allowed me to share this collection of stories. And I'm just a messenger. But, you know, sometimes it was big stuff. I mean, literally walking into battle into war, other times it was fighting yourself, your own self-doubt. or your own failures. I mean, we see this through the stories of Moses and Peter and so many others. And so I want people to be encouraged, whatever you're walking through, whatever you're facing, that God will walk you through that. May not change your circumstances, but he's going to be with you. But I want people to be equipped, too. So there's some practical stuff that when you find yourself in these places, you can apply, and hopefully that will bring you comfort.

Is part of the concept here in terms of the message that you're trying to convey to the reader, to the audience, Shannon, that I think sometimes when you're sitting in church and you're hearing a sermon about biblical figures, including towering biblical figures, you kind of think, oh, those are larger than life. almost characters and that's not me right i'm just a normal person and you're trying to make the case actually know every single person was just a person in the bible with the exception of course of jesus christ but these really important biblical figures were all just people many of them had a lot of hardships maybe not exactly the same as ours today but a lot of them would be relatable it's like hey you don't get let off the hook just because you're an average person a lot of these people would have thought of themselves the same way Yeah, and many of them thought of themselves as below average. And we see God showing up and giving them an assignment in them, like arguing with the creator of the universe. Like, no, no, you got the wrong person. I'm not your guy. We see that with Gideon. We see that with Moses. We see him when Jonah, when he's running away in the opposite direction of what God asked him to do. And the good thing is he can work through all of us. He meets us in the mundane. I mean, just the everyday things in our life that we're doing. And it's so often that he uses people that are flawed, that are average, or consider themselves even less than that. Because he sees us for the potential of what we could be. I mean, the first story that I cover is Gideon. And when God shows up to see him, he refers to him as a mighty warrior. And Gideon says, pardon me. I mean, that's literally a bit of translation like, pardon me. You got the wrong guy. You know, he said, I'm the least guy in my family. My family's the least in my clan. The clan's the least in the tribe. The tribe's the least in the whole nation. He was really trying to argue his way out of it. God meets us in our imperfection, and what a relief that should be to all of us. Let's pick one other example. You just mentioned Gideon. What about, let's just say Peter. You mentioned him before. What's the upshot of the Peter chapter? Well, you know, if you know his story, gosh, he was so passionate and fiery. He's the one. He was always defending Jesus and saying, you know, he spoke in very definitive language. I will always do this. I would never do that. I mean, when Jesus said to him, you're going to betray me, he was like, never, my Lord, never would I do that? And it was only a matter of hours later when Jesus needed him most, his closest friends. including Peter. I mean, Peter's the one who stood there and repeatedly denied that he knew him or was connected to him and his movement in any way and how crushing and heartbreaking it was for Peter to then watch Christ be crucified and thinking, man, I really failed in the moment when it mattered. And he called it. He called it and then I did exactly what I said. I never would. And we've all had moments like that where we fail in our faith journey. But God doesn't ever sideline him and say, like, yep, you're totally disqualified. I mean, after his resurrection, Jesus goes to Peter and meets him in that place where he was so broken. And not only does he redeem Peter and say, you know, I love you. That's never going to change. He uses him as the rock to build the early church. And Peter ends up, you know, fully embracing that, building the church and becoming a martyr himself. So you're never disqualified. I mean, that's the lesson I take from Peter.

In terms of some of the practical advice that you impart to readers after going through these 11 stories of these heroes of the Bible, just give us a gist of how you try to translate that now to people in present day. Yeah, you know what? One of the stories, I think, is the best example of Moses, and, you know, he was so halting and trying to talk God out of sending him to go, you know, combat Faber, the most powerful man in the world then, to lead millions of Israelites who were captive away from Egypt. And it was a bruising, bloody, deadly fight that these guys got into. But when Israel leaves, they're heading to what is going to take them to the edge of the Red Sea, and they look back, and Pharaoh's changed his mind. He sent the army after them. He's coming to get them. They're completely freaking out. But by this time we see such a maturity in Moses that he had a couple of verses in Exodus that to me just feel like a mini sermon that we can apply to ourselves today. He says to them, don't be afraid. Stand firm. See the deliverance God will provide to you. Be still. He will fight for you. And I think, gosh, he encapsulates so much in just those two verses. And those are all things that we can apply to whatever it is we're facing today. Nothing is impossible with God, a brand new book out today by Shannon, our friend here at Fox News. I mentioned in the intro, Shannon, part of your title here, Chief Legal Correspondent. There was an interesting little forum. I won't call it a dust up. But you had two sitting Supreme Court justices discussing how the court handles emergency cases in the Trump era. And a lot of this was about what's called the shadow docket. So before we get to what justices Brett Kavanaugh and Jackson had to say and how things, at least according to some. reporting got a little tense. What is the shadow docket? What were they discussing in layman's terms? Yeah, well, they can't even agree on what to call it because the shadow docket is where they handle these emergency matters that come in. They don't have a full briefing. They don't have oral arguments. It's just a temporary decision in the case while it plays out on the merits. But it can feel like it is getting to the merits in some ways because Listen, the justices have to handle what comes to them on an emergency basis. Now, the liberal wing of the court right now doesn't like that. They don't like the conservatives weighing in on things that haven't been fully adjudicated and briefed and argued in all those kinds of things. But what the conservatives who happen to be in the majority right now will say is, listen, things show up to us on an emergency basis. We're called in to make a decision that may impact something that's an ongoing issue. We make a temporary decision, either we block a law, we allow it to proceed forward, we block an election, and we allow it to proceed forward while the case ultimately will come back to us on the merits. So pejoratively, for those who don't like it, they call it the shadow docket. And that's something that even, you know, Brett Kavanaugh and Jackson have had some good natured ribbing about what to actually call it.

It could be maybe the emergency docket. And it's not like the justices necessarily sign up for this, right? It's what is thrown at them over the course of a term. Is it unusual? Because I don't follow these things as closely as you do. Is it unusual to have two sitting justices out, not necessarily like in a debate setting, but hashing some of this out in public? in a way that is not done, first of all, with the other seven justices, is not done behind closed doors? Is there a precedent for this, or is this surprising to you in some way? You know what they occasionally do these, and I think they're really good. I think it's great to see two justices who probably fall on opposite sides on many things ideologically and their philosophy for the way that they decide cases to go out and have these public conversations. And I applaud both of them for doing that because I think it's very helpful. Most of the time we see justices go out, they do a solo event, but we do see these pairings sometimes, and I think it's good for the court. I think it's good for the public to get a look at them and hear from them with a little bit of transparency. The president gave them a bit of a rhetorical beating after the tariffs decision, six to three, against that particular way that he was employing tariffs. As the chief executive, they said, nope, can't do it. That was the three progressive justices and then three of the right-leaning justices as well. Trump then also repeatedly at the state of the union address called it an unfortunate decision. He kind of dialed back the rhetoric a little bit in that setting. So obviously displeased with that outcome. I personally think it was the right outcome, legally speaking. But I know there's a lot of big ones still to come. That was a major anticipated case for obvious reasons. What are we still waiting on? I know that we are months, months away from the close of the term. Just a reminder, a refresher, Shannon, on some of those bubbling issues out there. Yeah, I think the next big one on the list we're waiting for is this redistricting decision out of Louisiana. Can you use race in creating congressional districts? Is that itself unconstitutional? And, you know, there could potentially be sweeping changes to the way that the Voting Rights Act is applied. And if it comes early enough, it could actually impact some of the seats for this fall of interim election. So that's a big one. We have a lot of, you know, cases pending that people would say kind of fall into the culture wars. These states that have said if you're born biologically male, you can't participate in female sports. That's a big one. We also have a couple that look to executive power. Can the president fire a sitting number of the Fed, Board of Governors? I mean, there are all kinds of things that are bubbling out there in a lot of different places. And some big cases still to be argued, I mean, birthright citizenship, which I frankly was surprised the justices took up. It is going to be argued April 1st, which I find kind of ironic, but it's actually happening, and that's going to be a good one. Finally, Shannon, for Sunday's show, Fox News Sunday, I know these things can change a thousand times. It's only Tuesday, right? So I'd imagine you don't really start finalizing rundowns and that sort of thing until later in the week. But so much is percolating. We've got the situation in Iran and beyond. As you start to think ahead to the weekend and you look back on what your coverage was on Sunday, what's sort of the early forecast?

Well, I think we're definitely going to still be in that conversation. And so we're talking with potential guests and trying to decide and maneuver who would be best suited if things do shift. But lawmakers in the middle of this who have taken votes now in the War Powers Resolution and a lot of tough talk that's been very partisan on this. Although, you know, there are plenty of folks on the right who say, listen, I'm going to get the president a little bit of leeway here. He campaigned on not doing this, at least in a protracted quagmire kind of way. So, you know, they're trying to negotiate that. So we'll definitely be covering whatever's going on with Iran. We're still in that partial government shutdown. It's starting to really impact people who are missing paychecks that ripples through to airports. And the frustrations there with TSA. We have to remember, you know, most Americans live paycheck to paycheck. So this is a serious problem for tens of thousands of federal employees. So we'll hit on those and see what else bubbles up during the week. Fox News Sunday. Check your local listings. It always replays later in the day on the Fox News channel as well. That's days from now. Today is the big day, though, for Shannon Bream. Her brand new book is out. Today, nothing is impossible with God. 11 heroes, one God, endless lessons in overcoming. Your latest surefire bestseller, Shannon Bream. So excited for you. Thank you for joining us on launch day. Guy, thank you so much. Always for your kind support. Where can people get the book real quick? Anywhere that you like to get a book, it is officially out there. That's easy. Anywhere. If there are books, they have it. Go order. Nothing is impossible with God. It's actually very much not impossible to get your hands on a copy, it sounds like. Shannon, again, thank you so much. Thanks, Guy. It's the happy hour. It's Guy Benson. We'll be right back. In the Swamp, not of the Swamp. Guy Benson.

It's Guy Benson. It's the happy hour, which brings us to some less than happy updates for the state of California, which is the golden state of progress, allegedly. According to progressives, the Democrats want to expand the California model to the whole country. A lot of their big national political heroes are Californians. And we keep pointing out that where California goes, the country should not follow. in so many different ways. Two examples that I want to bring to your attention, and it's just an endless parade of these. We call them progress reports, right? Like kind of like a report card. Progress in quotes because they call themselves progressives, but they are running this place into the ground in so many ways. And they are blessed with so many resources and advantages. It takes effort to screw some of this up. And yet you're seeing it because of ideology, because of their partisan agenda. The California Globe reporting that a couple major oil companies are warning Governor Gavin Newsom of widespread looming refinery shutdowns and then fuel shortages and economic damage. Gavin Newsom, the story says, is presiding over perhaps the largest collapse of the oil industry and refinery operations and gasoline production in U.S. history. With Marathon Petroleum sending a blistering warning to Governor Gavin Newsom and top state officials in a letter declaring that proposed amendments to the California Air Resources Board cap and invest program would destroy what is left of California's oil refineries. That makes three severe warnings now by the state's remaining petroleum companies. Last month, PBF Energy warned that if these amendments were enacted, as written, they will, quote, inevitably drive in-state refining capacity to zero. Last week, Chevron called the amendments, quote, a death knell for remaining facilities, forecasting gasoline prices rising by more than $1 per gallon by 2030 and threatening to shutter its refineries in Richmond and El Segundo. So a lot of these companies have just gotten out, right? They've been beaten into submission. It's very clear that they're not welcome there. The super majority Democrat left-wing ideology that dominates the state has declared them basically public enemy number one, among others. They've got a lot of public enemies to just try to drum these people in these companies and this capital right out of California. And then you also see, no coincidence, the highest gas prices almost anywhere in the country consistently, not because of any sort of flare up in Venezuela or the Middle East. It is a policy choice to impose these high fuel costs on the people of California because environment, because, let's face it, a political agenda where the government picks winners and losers, and the losers are motorists in California.

a regressive form of taxation, and you've got the hangers on, the last few clinging on in California saying, if you keep doing this to us, we are going to lose our refining capacity, and everything's going to get worse, will be gone, and things will get more expensive again. Meanwhile, in our progress report, here's a story from the New York Post. After nearly 50 years in Orange County, Yamaha Motor Corporation, USA, is packing up its headquarters, trading Cyprus, California for Kennesaw, Georgia in a sweeping corporate shift that will impact about 250 workers. The relocation won't happen overnight. The exit begins late this year, transition into 2028 as well. So a three-year relocation, bye-bye, California. Hello, Georgia. We just saw this recently of a major company fleeing Illinois, coming to Virginia, seeing the new management of Virginia with the Democrats saying, you know what, forget it. We're heading back to Missouri, actually. Never mind. A company spokesman for Yamaha said that consolidating operations in Georgia simply makes business sense. In terms of efficiency, to have us all together in Georgia, all the functions of the business, it makes a lot of sense. The departure marks another corporate blow for California. And Cyprus specifically back in 2019, Mitsubishi Motors North America ditched a longtime headquarters in that same city after 31 years and moved to the, da-da, Franklin, Tennessee, to cut costs. When you raise the cost of doing business and demonized success in business, businesses tend to notice and many of them leave. Progress, they call it out in California, and they want that everywhere in this country. No thank you. We'll be right back.

Talking about the issues you care about, Guy Benson. Best friend of the program, Mary Catherine Ham, joined us in our first hour today, wide-ranging conversation with MKH, as usual. Here's part of it if you missed it. I just think the bigger issue here beyond just that tweet from CNN is ever since some jihadists screamed Alahu Akbar and tried to blow up a bunch of peaceful protesters in New York City a few days ago. There has been almost a full court press. Among many in the so-called news media to go out of their way to like alchemize headlines to make it as difficult as possible for a casual news consumer to have any idea what happened in the incident and quite possibly to think that Zohran Mamdani was the target of the attack, which he most certainly was not. You can't have that many mistakes. or coincidences all going in the same direction, in my opinion. I think these journals see a set of facts that are bad for their team, and they don't like them. It's just sort of icky and gross, and gosh, we don't like this. And so they figure out how can we obscure reality as much as possible in headlines and leads, which I call anti-journalism, actually. Mary, Catherine, the floor is yours. Yeah, I mean, this is a tour-to-force of anti-journalism from NBC, from New York Times, from Zohran Mamdani himself, who of course is a politician, but it's interesting that his first statement is aligned completely with the efforts of NBC, New York Times, and now CNN, which is to confuse you about... who the perpetrator is, about who the target is, about the ideology of the perpetrator, about the ideology of the target. And if you figure any of that out, they also, and it turns into a bad story for them, they also passive voice all of this so that if you find out that in fact these were homegrown jihadists who wanted to go after the people actually doing the protected speech, which was a protest, then... you're going to find out that, oh, the bombs just sort of happened into their lovely day. They were just trying to catch a show in New York and looking here. We ended up trying to kill fellow Americans with homemade bombs. I mean, it is ludicrous the extent, the links they'll go to when they don't like a story to tell you. the opposite of what happened. I mean, Zohran Mamdani's statement and the other framings of this put before anything about the bombers, you have to know the ideology of the people who were protesting. Yes. No, it was an anti-Islam protest, right? It was a re-wing protest. It's very important to them that we know that information very clearly. That's the first thing you know. Because to leftists, Zohran Mamdani and the whole press corps pretty much, the speech of...

the anti-Islam folks, which is protected, is the problem. Secondary is the fact that fellow Americans were throwing bombs at them to stop it. Screaming Allahou Akbar. And by the way, if you mentioned the Allahou Akbar and the ISIS component of this, a little too much, if that's what you focus on, they'll call you Islamophobic. Yeah, I don't think that's Islamophobic. Nope. No, no. That video, I'm sure you've seen it of like the left-wing protester with the bullhorn saying everyone is welcome in the city and then literally the jihadist jumps over him and throws a bomb yelling al-Ahu Akbar. And everyone just sort of freezes like, oh, what just happened? And that guy, the protester, the left-winger, he's the one who posted the video. And said, I meant every word of it. Like there was not even like, gosh, maybe there are some people that we shouldn't want in our communities. Right. He was like, no, no, this guy yelled aloh Akbar and threw a bomb to kill people. And you know what? I'm going to double down on my truth. Yeah. Even worse, by the way, he not only doesn't take a second to think, he mocks anyone else who's concerned about an IED. He takes a picture of this device. He says, I cannot stress this enough. He's like a comedian who goes out and interviews people at protest. We just stood there laughing. We didn't think it was real. Okay, well, you're an idiot. because your risk analysis should tell you to go away from a thing that is smoking in the street that a man yelling Al-Ahu Akbar just threw. Okay, number one. Two, people aren't wusses for making a better calculation than you are. And by the way, I did look it up. The same guy in August of 2021 was telling us that we needed mask mandates. So, like, you know, maybe he's not such a tough guy after all. Okay. Yeah, that all checks out, doesn't it? It does indeed. I just think. We're not really, I think, grappling with this reality, Mary Catherine. That full discussion with Mary Catherine Ham, Fox News contributor, available online at Guy Benson.com. It's part of the free podcast. It's every day. It's on demand. No charge at all. Guy Benson's show.com, Fox Newspodcast.com, or wherever you get your podcasts. When we come back to the home stretch, Cookie had quite a Friday night. I don't know if she remembers much of it, but we'll see next. A fresh perspective on the topics of the day. It's Guy Benson.

It's time for your favorite segment of the day. Home Stretch. It's basically the only segment I'm on, so I've declared it the audience's favorite segment. Guy Benson. Home Stretch on this Tuesday on Guy Benson. Glad you're here. Thank you, Guy Benson.com. Podcast always free. So we teased this yesterday during the birthday-related home stretch. On Friday, we did the program from South Florida, really nice event, had a great time of the club for growth. And that evening, there was a cocktail hour, and then a nice dinner, and then another cocktail hour. And Christine was there for all of it at this very fancy resort with a lot of important and well-to-do people. And Christine, what were your overall impressions of the evening? What do you remember? I stopped that. I remember it all. I probably would say maybe that second cocktail hour I didn't need to go to. Probably could have skipped that. I probably should have took my to-go cup after dinner and just went back to the room. But I remember it all. And I was up in Adam Saturday morning. Breakfast by nine. Yeah, but you were sick, right? You've been sort of under the weather ever since. I just feel like I'm constantly always going to be sick lately. Yeah, I just feel like you... I was not sick the way... Oh, stop that. Don't put out false information. I mean, you had quite a few cocktails on Friday, and then Saturday you weren't feeling well, and you want me to not connect those dots. I did not drink on Saturday nor Sunday. I mean, that's usually a good plan when you're terribly hung over. But the thing is, the thing is, you mentioned the to-go cup? Yeah. That is a real thing. So there was a cocktail hour and you had a few drinks there. And then there was dinner. You had a few drinks there. I had to go get you a few times. Then there was the nightcap cocktail hour. And would you like to explain for the audience the meaning of the to-go cup? Well, yeah, and then we could talk about how a nightcap is probably one drink, right? Correct, instead of nightcaps. God. I just had a visual of something I did that night. I can't say it on air, but oh, my goodness. Okay. So we were wrapping up dinner, and you were talking to a few people. My mother and my husband were looking at the pictures I had posted, and they both said it looked like. I was just at a random party. Like an actual, like, you posted at Cookies Jarre in 1988 on Twitter. You were, you were really posting some photos. Yeah. I just went around that ballroom and I took selfies with a lot of people. A lot of people. And you disappeared during dinner for a while. Then finally I was like, I need to figure out where she went. And you were sitting with the keynote speaker. Yes. and taking selfies, it looked like you were seated almost on top of him. You were just, could not get enough of this person. Stop. And I had to basically drag you away because this person needed to eat his dinner, and also the entire head table was reserved, not for you.

and you had just, I guess, pulled up a chair or something. Yeah, I just sat. Sitting next to him, I'm like, we've got to get her out of there. She's not supposed to be there. Yeah, and then I, uh, poor, uh, Congressman Byron Donalds's, I like pulled him out of a chair. Mind you. This is probably going to be our next governor of Florida. And he's like, I don't think there's anybody around right now to take a picture. I'm like, it's okay. I'm like, we're just going to do a selfie. You did do a lot of four selfies with people. I mean, you kind of see. actually some fear in their eyes in these in these photographs there's no fear from you you're you're doing these mandatory selfies and they're all like oh make it stop so i finally had to bring you back to the table where you were supposed to be or at least allowed to be and then dinner ended yes and there was the nightcap portion of the evening which you took great advantage of but in order to get from dinner to the location for those cocktails it was probably a long, arduous one and a half minute walk. I mean, it was a far, far away. 90 seconds of walking. And so you decided you could not get from point A to point B without Mama's Juice. So what did you do? So I went in the back room where the staff was. Yes, you disappeared out of the ballroom into like the kitchen prep area. Yep. started talking with the staff. We were like just talking because I was like, how is it to live in Florida? You know, just chit-chatting away. And then I saw a bottle like on a tray and it looked like there was still wine in there. So I was like, do you think that I could pour a glass? And they're like, yeah, no problem. We'll go get you a glass. I'm like, you know what? Do you have anything that's like not glass that I could put? They're like a to go cup. And I said, yeah, with a straw if you had. They didn't have the straw. But yeah, they poured the rest of the wine in for me. It was a huge pour. A holiday pour, as you would call it. That's right. It was like, if you can picture, I don't know, like a plastic cup that you'd get soda out of. It was probably two thirds of the way full of red wine. Yeah, they were very generous and I appreciate everybody there. I didn't realize as I was walking back into the ballroom you were going to be standing there waiting for me and then you realized, oh my gosh, did you just go get a to go cup? And you said, cooks, we're going to another spot where there's drinks. And I go, I know. It wasn't like I just thought the night was over. And I was taking that back to my room. No, this was your tied me over, Mama's Juice from one drinking event to the next drinking event. Now, I lost track of you at the second drinking event. Yeah, quote unquote, lost track me. This happens often, Dylan. All of a sudden, he just like disappears for me. And I don't see him for the rest of the night. Oh, yeah. I'm sure. very much Irish goodbye cookie on Friday evening. And the next day, my birthday, you got up, went to the pool, you were feeling it, sunglasses, got up right out here, not feeling so great. But you enjoyed the pool and then got home. And that afternoon, I had another element of a speaking engagement at that event. And then there was a final evening.

dinner with cocktails before and after same deal and i had probably half a dozen people come up to me and say oh where's your producer she was really having a time last night and i just i didn't even ask for details you didn't nope i was just sort of like i know she left it's probably for the best and they sort of chuckled so i think you were You were being very friendly and meeting everyone in a state of multiple drinks in. So I showed Bobby, look like a collection, kind of like my, um, no, no, when we don't get, get your trophies, your trophies of all these people that you. So I woke up the next morning. And you would have thought, Dylan, I was like some single gal at a bar just getting numbers because in my bag had to have been at least 10 like business cards of people's numbers. And then I had pieces of paper with names and numbers. And then I looked at my phone and I had like, you know, so and so, hi. Like just to connect, I guess we got each other's numbers. Well, you kept telling you were going to meet all of these people. You were telling them, I'm going to meet you at the pool. We're going to hang out. Yes, and I think one of them got annoyed because one reached out to me in the afternoon and they're like, hey, did you want to meet at the pool? I'm like, already here. And I never heard from her. So you never actually met with all the people you were planning to me. Not one. You didn't have Bobby to hand out your business card that he hands out, which says, my wife has had too much to drink. She's making plans and won't remember it. This absolves you from any plans. You needed Bobby there to do that because all of these people who are. Significant people had their first cookie experience and thought that maybe they were going to hang out with you and then it was just cooks by her lonesome and then you took off. People didn't seem upset. They seemed... amused by whatever had happened the night before I there yeah there is some um older folks that just loved cookie and the stories and I got a lot of stories and I got a lot of oh my gosh yeah got a lot of comments from a lot of people I had myself a time. But that usually does happen the next day. If you were in Bobby's position, usually a lot of people are like, are we still going to Vegas in two weeks? Because that's what Cookie said. No. Your weekend was not the club for growth. It was the glug. for growth. Stop! Stop! That was your Friday evening, and you have all these new friends, and you don't actually remember who they are. That's the best part of it. You have scraps of paper with phone numbers. Scraps, like, it just looked ridiculous in my purse, and then started the text messages like, hey, it was so great to meet you. I'm like, gosh, what was your name? Yes, can you please remind me of your name and send a selfie? And I bet you, like, I was telling them we're going to be best friends. Bet you. Oh, I'm sure you were.

So that all happened. I'm going to get you on the show. Don't you worry about it. You needed Bobby there to hand out the warning cards to people, but he wasn't there. But that's something we might need to ask him about, Dylan. Coming up very soon, what can you tell us? Well, you know. Do it Dylan had to do it. I had to get it done because Cookie had not fulfilled her end of the bet, of course, that you and her made over the Jets season. And I, through my methods, found a contact for Bobby, Christine's husband, and he is now booked. to come on the show for the home stretch this Friday. Friday. He's coming. In the studio, and I'll be up there. In New York. For TV, and Bobby will be there as well. And we're going to have to actually, I'm realizing we're going to have to figure out a few things because of the Gutfeld taping situation. But I think we'll be able to make it work. And this is a long-awaited Bobby appearance on the home stretch because Christine lost a bet. And Christine, you thought we forgot about it, but we very much did not. Listen, your schedule comes first, okay? So let me just organize everything. Dylan's off for the next few days. I will take it over. I'm... But guys, I don't want to do this. Can I just please, can you just give me something else for the bet that I lost? I don't want to do this. No, it's done. It's done. And the good news is you don't have to experience it because you're not going to be there. What do you mean? Of course I'm going to be here. I work here. I'm your producer. Well, you can go. like wander off to one of the neighborhood bars and go call my friends from friday night yeah yeah call your palm beach friends and see who might meet you and then we'll do a segment with bobby during the home stretch on friday and then you can listen to it on the podcast or bonus medicine I don't like this at all. Oh, I like it. I like it so much. Listen, listen, we'll figure this all out. But like I said, your schedule is what matters most to me and to this program. You're really selling it. Dylan, well done on the booking and good resourcefulness. And you've learned from the best. in terms of booking. Brian Kilmeade's producer. That's right. And I'm just so proud to see how you've grown in this role. And we'll see what happens on Friday when we reconvene for the home stretch several days from right now. But for now, out of time, got to run. See you tomorrow on Guy Benson. Do you have anything that's like knock last? They're like a to-go cup. And I said, yeah, with a straw if you had. They didn't have the straw.

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