Guy Goes Off on Left Wing Racists

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It is Friday, February the 6th, 2026. Happy Friday, everyone. I'm Guy Benson. Welcome to Guy Benson. We are here with you for the next three hours, as we are every weekday, between 3 and 6 p.m. Eastern. And then the show becomes a free podcast. The entire thing start to finish. It's on demand. It is no charge, totally free. Guy Benson.com, Fox Newspodcast.com, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm a Fox News political analyst. I will be co-hosting The Big Weekend Show. Tomorrow night and Sunday night, 5 to 8 p.m., three hours each night. That's Eastern Time on Fox News Channel. Hope to see you there. Maybe set your DVR. There might be one or two other things going on on Sunday night in particular. Maybe we'll talk about that toward the end of the show today, as a matter of fact. Just wanted to put that out there. Also, as always, please read my work as a senior columnist at the Washington Examiner. Here on the show today, the lineup is as follows. We start with Professor Jonathan Turley. Have a few issues to talk to him about. He's out with a new book as well. He will join us later this hour. Paul Morrow, who I see on the news channel right now, as a matter of fact, he's all over this really terrible story in Tucson, Arizona involving the Guthrie family, the mother of Savannah Guthrie of NBC News, Nancy, still a mystery. shrouding her whereabouts and her status. We are praying for that family. And there have been a few developments since we checked in with Paul just yesterday. We will get those from him live at the top of the next hour as he's on the ground covering the story. Then we will also welcome to the program a Virginia state senator, a Republican who is caught in this maelstrom of left-wing aggression. in Richmond, Virginia, where the Democrats have taken over, they campaigned on affordability, and boy, they are going all out to basically try to change the state permanently if they can. And... We will talk to him about what they are doing, the rules that they're breaking, allegedly the laws that they're breaking, certainly precedents thrown out the window, all of that coming up in that conversation. Then we will broaden things out nationally and take a look at the 2026 midterm picture, focusing specifically, I think, today on the U.S. Senate with Josh Krasauer. Fox News, radio political analysts. He'll be joining us just after 5 p.m. in our final hour. Again, that would be Eastern time.

Now, as we start the show today, I was thinking about something earlier because I was watching a whole series of videos emerge on social media of absolutely despicable, racist behavior by left-wing agitators in Minneapolis. This anti-ice brigade, these paramilitary Antifa-style thugs, they are just... dirtbags. They are part of the dirtbag coalition. In fact, like the professional dirtbag shock troops of left-wing politics in America. And they crop up and pop up all across the country. Whenever there's some sort of hot spot politically, they flood the zone to cause mayhem and chaos. To try to manipulate. public opinion, but also, because they do things that are so awful, maybe they're not always thinking too much about public opinion or they're counting on their supporters in the so-called news media to kind of airbrush what they're doing or ignore it altogether. Like we saw, for example, in the revolting church storming incident in Minneapolis, they certainly show up to intimidate, to intimidate and to bully and to menace. They do this a lot. And by the way, speaking of bullying and intimidation and menacing, there was another apparent assassination plot against a top Trump official that was just thwarted. We learned about this last night. Jonathan Turley knows the would-be victim. So we'll talk to him about that coming up in the broader theme of left-wing violence and hatred in this country, which is really becoming a very serious problem. But back to the racism. Let's set aside their violence and let's talk about their racism. Because they call everyone else racist all the time. Everything's racist always. Voter ID, they say. It's, of course, Jim Crow. I saw some Democrats now arguing, oh, it's also going to not allow women to vote. I mean, do they really think so little? of people of color and women that they can't figure out how to get an identification for themselves, which everyone has to do any number of things in our society all the time. But apparently it's impossible to get one only when it comes to voting and verifying that you're a U.S. citizen before you register to vote and vote. Then all of a sudden, oh, yeah, it's Jim Crow and it's misogyny or whatever. It's just embarrassing. They really have no good argument on this, so they resort to this kind of thing. But they love to point the finger. Racist, racist, racist, racist, racist. And I think some of this would be projection. Maybe they're looking at a mirror. Because their shock troops, these Antifa militia people with their guerrilla tactics, it looks like there's some extremely ugly racism in their hearts, right? They project that onto others and their political enemies, but it is evidently living in their hearts, not all of them, but certainly some of them because these things are happening now pretty routinely. And the people who are bearing the brunt of it,

are federal law enforcement officers of color. Right? So the leftists talk about black and brown bodies all the time. It's a very creepy way that these professional leftists speak, but that's how they view a lot of people of color, black and brown bodies. But the second they see one in an ice uniform, it's like the permission structure instantly, like the scaffolding. for racism flies up around this person and they climb on eagerly. Like, oh, you would never dream of saying the N-word, but when you see an ice officer who's black, well, look what word comes flying out of your mouth. And let me give you some of the examples. You might say, well, these are just cherry-picked a small handful of people. That's not fair. I will address that point as well. But let's start. With cut two. You're black. What? You're next. You're next. You're next. The two. What's your fucking out. I don't want to watch. These people are absolutely insane. They are angry. There is some hole in their soul that they are trying to fill with whatever this is. But here's. a screeching white lady yelling at a black officer, you're black, what the bleep, you're next, you're next, and then we got the N-word. Hard N, hard R. How progressive. Here's another one. Cut three. Look at me. Look, oh, good job, dude. Real tuned in here, you're brown. You're not white, you're brown. You know that, right? You look in the marriage you, white person. You're brown. F you, you're brown, says the white guy. One of these horrible human beings. This is a Latino agent. You're brown. F you. Do you look in the mirror and see a white person?

You talk about white privilege being one of these flaming a-holes and thinking that you can talk like this to anyone, let alone black and brown bodies that apparently don't count anymore because you don't like what they're doing, namely. Enforcing immigration laws that are on the books in this country as duly sworn federal officers. Your brown, F you, do you look in the mirror and see a white person? It is so disgusting and gross. How about one more N-word while we're at it, unfortunately? Cut four. Like we should rip people apart from their family. Are you a man? Wow, is that a question? Wow. Okay. Do you feel about lifting people from their phone? Does that feel good? How are you here? Sir, I need to do you. Sir, I need to be a, okay, okay. Why are you calling a woman a man? I understand. I mean, what kind of the guy does that? So, the officer asks, are you a man? Maybe it's kind of hard to tell. You'd never want to misgender someone because that's a real crime. And then these progressives get so angry that the question was asked if this person was a man that they go straight to the F bombs and calling him, we bleeped it twice, a house, N word, hard R. Straight up undiluted racism. Now, you might say, as I alluded to a moment ago, well, that's just one example. Okay, maybe two. Okay, maybe three. These are people screaming racial slurs knowing that they're on camera, thinking that they're the good guys berating people of color as part of their harassment of federal law enforcement as they try to interfere in the exercise of their duties under the law. These are contemptible people who are also racists. You say, well, it's unfair perhaps to tar this entire movement that way. Now, I'm not saying every single one of them would use the N-word, although apparently some of their ringleaders and their hotheads will go straight to that. I've never even had the impulse to scream the N-word in anger, but we've now heard it multiple times from these people in Minneapolis. It just comes spilling out, spewing out of these people. And I didn't see any, wow, correction. You better not say that. You know what? Back off, you shouldn't use those words. They're too busy screaming at the officers and blowing their stupid whistles. This is part of that culture. It is ugly and disgusting. That being said, if you think it's unfair to cherry pick a handful of these examples, I saw another white woman slap a coffee out of the hand of an officer of color. He had just gotten himself a coffee and she just knocked it to the ground, screaming at him.

Some of the worst abuse is of the black and brown bodies that they pretend to care about, understand they care about radical ideology and communism. This is who we're dealing with. This is who these officers are dealing with every single day. Psychos. But I remember, I'm so old that I remember the Obamacare debate. I was thinking about 2010 and the Tea Party movement. And one of the big things that we heard from Democrats and the media, but I repeat myself, was that the Tea Party movement was racist. They were motivated by racist aggression because they were angry that a black guy was president. And so all of this stuff, you know, they're wrapping themselves in the flag and limited government, but it's really just racist dog whistles about Barack Obama. And you might remember right before the lead up to the vote on Obamacare, where the Democrats promised all these things and lied through their teeth about all of it. And now we see the disaster that Obamacare has been, just as an aside, we were right about everything. Just for the record, parenthetically, we were right about everything. They lied about everything on Obamacare. But the Democrats had that big parade, that big march to go vote and jam through Obamacare on a party line vote. And you had some black Democrats in the House, including, I think if I recall correctly, one of the civil rights. leaders and icons from the 1960s and that whole movement. They claimed that on their march into the Capitol, they were accosted by Tea Party rallyers who were screaming the N-word at them. That's what they said. They said that on multiple occasions, I think 15 times they said, they were called the N-word. And then a bunch of concern that said, that's a lie. If anyone did do that, let's identify them and throw them out of the movement. They're not welcome in the Tea Party. But there were cameras everywhere. Can we find one example of an N-word being thrown? Just one. Andrew Breitbart, rest his soul, if I'm not mistaken, he offered a reward. If you can prove that this was said, we'll donate money, I think, to black charities. I think it might have been to... historically black colleges and universities or some sort of related charity he would make a donation there was never one shred of evidence to back up the claim from john lewis he was definitely one of them and a few others not with all ubiquitous cameras no evidence ever but the media ran with it they were called the n-word we were told no evidence here with cameras rolling we got lots of evidence The allegation of N-words was used and weaponized, a lie, at least an unverified claim by the Democrats and by the news media to smear an entire Tea Party movement, which they did all the time. Should that standard not apply to the left-wing Antifa shock troops shouting the N-word at the top of their lungs in Minnesota? These are, after all, your rules, leftists, or do they only apply in one direction?

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He's a constitutional law professor at George Washington University in D.C. He's a Fox News contributor. And he's author of a brand new book, Rage and the Republic, The Unfinished Story of the American Revolution. Professor, great to have you here. Thank you, guys. Great to be with you again. All right. Let's talk about Rage in the Republic and why you wrote the book and why you think looking back to our founding is relevant as we look in the kind of just the windshield moving forward as a country. We might have some technological revolutions, political revolutions ahead, and you feel like there are some lessons here to tie back. Well, I did want to take in the first half of the book, another look at what events and personalities came together that create this unique republic. And to do that, I do much of it following the steps of Thomas Payne, who is one of two figures who played a role in both the American and French Revolution, the other being Lafayette. And in examining how, one, the American Revolution would become the oldest and most stable democracy in history, and the other would become the reign of terror. And the answer is that we had unique elements within our system created by particularly James Madison to control the impulse. that comes with democracy. That the framers didn't want what they called a mobocracy. They didn't want the Athenian democracy, which was an utter failure and led to tyranny. So they created limitations on this sort of impulse, what was called democratic despotism. They didn't have those in France. And what happened is it turned into a bloodletting where tens of thousands were killed. So I take that and look at this and ask, can that unique republic survive the 21st century? And I look at issues that I think are going to present really unprecedented challenges like robotics and AI, global governance systems like the EU, and the rise of what I've called the new Jacobin, many of the same voices we hear today we heard back then, people who want. direct democracy, who want to take out of our system the things that actually got us here. You have the dean of Berkeley saying that the Constitution's a failure. You have law professors saying that we should start over. And it's a very dangerous thing. But this crisis of faith is occurring at a very dangerous time. I think about the stunning arrogance and ingratitude it would take. To be someone like the dean at a prestigious law school in the wealthiest and most successful country in the history of the world to look at the system, the bedrock of all of this and say, it's a failure, get rid of it. I cannot fathom having that level of privilege that you don't understand and have no gratitude for.

No, it is breathtaking, but he's not alone. One of my colleagues has criticized the cult of the Constitution. This is a very common view among many law professors. I call it the radical shit. You know, this is what many students are hearing. And that's one of the reasons why we see this polling of people embracing socialism and communism. These are, if I talk about enraged in the Republic, these are young people that never... saw experience the collapse of socialist systems in the 20th century. And they're buying the same empty slogans. As I talked about in the book, when Mithrault came to control France under a socialist government, he promised that there be so much leisure from socialism. He appointed a minister of leisure to help citizens figure out what they would do with all their time. Of course, the economy collapsed. But it's the same type of empty mantras that we hear from like Zohran Mamdani, saying, I'm going to introduce you to the warmth of collectivism. And that's what the book tries to address as to the real dangers we're facing if we allow these people to take out of our system the very elements that got us here. And by the way, I follow Thomas Payne because he... He was not in favor of a lot of those precautions. He didn't agree with Madison. And it came down near to killing him. He came within 24 hours of being guillotined in France. And he saw what happens when you allow the direct democracy to overwhelm and devour a democracy. Let's talk about the Jacobins, and we were just playing some sound from some of them earlier in the show, as a matter of fact, the way that you see some of these left-wing gorilla types actually, like guerrilla tactics, almost paramilitary agitators, screaming at law enforcement, interfering, using racial slurs, getting violent in some cases and breaking the law. Another... splinter of that same problem, the splinter element of it, is explicit violence and this move toward assassination attempts. We saw two against President Trump. We saw one against Brett Kavanaugh as well. You can go down the list. We can now, sadly, add another one, a very chilling story. Out of the D.C. area, a young man who reportedly was motivated by fighting fascism. It's the rhetoric that we've heard a lot from the left recently, showed up at the home of President Trump's budget director, Russ Vought, with a plan to kill. the budget director and he was apparently in a mask and wearing gloves like plastic gloves as he showed up to to kill this high-ranking government official fortunately this was foiled it did not happen but

We're seeing these attempts and plots fairly regularly. There was another one, by the way, the Pennsylvania governor had his house burned down by a free Palestine person. I believe that was last year or the year before. You know Russ a little bit, don't you? Yes, he's my former student. And, you know, as you say, what's terrible about this, it sort of reminds me when I was speaking in Prague about this book. And in my earlier book on The Age of Rage is when Charlie Kirk was assassinated. I was about to go on stage to talk about the age of rage. And they told me that Charlie, who all of us knew to some degree and that he had been killed. And I said at the time, what's really saddest is that this is not at all surprising. And the same is true with Russ. Although just to jump in, the one thing that to me, and obviously it hits very close to home given what I do for a living, but we had seen assassination plots against people in public life who were government officials with actual power and authority, which is not an excuse at all. Obviously, this is horrendous and heinous and completely unacceptable. To see it then bleed over into... public figures in the media space and the advocacy space as well was it seemed like a new layer to this that was even more disturbing no i think that's true and you you know it this is part of what we see historically that You know, Rager in the Republic talks about what we're seeing today as so similar to what we saw at the beginning of the Republic. Part of the tactic used by Jacobins was to dehumanize their opponents to allow people to feel that they had the license, the liberty, to kill them, to do things that they would not ordinarily contemplate. You have to dehumanize people to do that. You have these Democratic leaders calling Republicans and law enforcement officers, Nazis, Gestapo, fascism, saying that democracy is about to die. And then it triggers people like this latest guy who, when he's arrested, actually mouths what these people have been saying and says, well, of course I did it because I was trying to stop fascism. And advance the danger. Taking these partisan slogans to heart, some of these people take it very seriously. And they say, okay, well, if these are Nazis stealing our democracy and advancing fascism, I better go do some murdering. And it's now several major high-profile examples quite recently. That's right. And that's what is part of the challenge here, is that we've always had rage. Look, this country, you know, my book is about revolutions, our own and revolutions that followed it. We are the product of revolution, like most countries. And revolution requires rage. But as I note in the book, it's a lot easier to start a revolution than end one.

And that's what's dangerous about what we're hearing today. When you look at the faces of people of Minneapolis and Portland, it's a strange thing about rage, is that it's addictive and it's contagious. And the one thing people won't do is they won't admit that they like it. That if you look at their faces, they really like it, that it's a drug. And it can cause... a rupture in society, but only if we allow some of these leaders to succeed in changing our political system, to remove those precautions that protect us during these ages of bridge. I want to ask you about the Washington Post, another institution with which you are quite familiar. There was a huge... pile of layoffs that were announced yesterday and you see people posting on social media that they lost their jobs and I never like to celebrate with very few exceptions people losing their jobs and it's tough to see some of them are are seeming to go out of their way to be as unsympathetic as possible some of them going right into full activist mode it's like they just left the Washington Post and went out on the streets and they've got, you know, they're chanting and their bonga drums or whatever. But again, you don't generally revel in people losing their jobs. At the same time, I know a lot of people are trying to blame Jeff Bezos. He took over a failing newspaper in terms of cash flow, right? Just hemorrhaging cash. He gave it for years, kind of a blank check to try to. keep this thing going and it just simply isn't working. I know that there's a lot of credibility problems from the post. Their own sort of left wing base of the post has gotten very angry because the post has tried to change an editorial direction in a more sensible direction, at least in my mind. So you had a ton of people on the left canceling their subscriptions. People on the right haven't trusted them for years. I think a lot of their Israel reporting has been. atrocious, as has some of their reporting on domestic issues as well. I saw among those laid off a professor were the vast majority of their 19 climate change reporters devoted just to that issue. So I think some. People on the right are kind of celebrating this, saying this is what happens. The Post had this coming a long time and they deserve it. Other people are sort of in mourning. As you watch all those deep, deep cuts at the Post, what do you see? How do you feel? You know, I agree with your analysis. And I wrote regularly from the Post years ago. And I've lamented. It's declined. But it followed this advocacy journalism model. Many J schools or journalism schools are openly saying you cannot have objectivity or neutrality in journalism. And so as they embraced this, the public walked away. And I've been a columnist for over 30 years.

And I cannot believe what I've seen. I mean, these people actually are fighting efforts to make them profitable. They'd rather give up their jobs than their bias. And it is a funny thing about billionaires like Jeff Bezos. They tend to want to make money. And so when he brought in these new editors, one of them, Lewis, really dropped a truth bomb in the middle of the newsroom. And he said, and this is almost a direct quote, nobody's reading your stuff. We have lost $70 million and half of our readership. And he basically said, what are you going to do about that? Well, the response from some of the reporters was to try to get him fired. So he's actually saying, we cannot survive. This paper can't survive. So their response. is the ultimate entitlement, right? They expect a sugar daddy to just keep on subsidizing them. Who they hate, by the way, right? They're trashing him, hating him, and then finally economic reality sets in, and they're like, well, why won't this billionaire that we demonize and hate come and save us again? It's really an interesting approach. No, it is. And now they're saying we want a different billionaire who's just going to take a loss and let us to continue to write for ourselves and each other. Yeah, well, again, that's one of the things that just is playing out this week and watching the reaction on social media. The regard that journalists have for journalists. especially people who seem to have no problem watching anyone else lose their jobs or agitate for such things. I mean, there's definitely some Shaden Freud afoot. I'm trying not to indulge in that too much because I think it's unfair to do so. There are some good people who lost their jobs, but still, yeah, the overall model broke in the mentality in so many cases broken as well. Jonathan Turley, law professor at GW. University, Fox News contributor, his brand new book, again, Rage and the Republic, The Unfinished Story of the American Revolution. at Jonathan Turley on social. Professor, thanks so much for your time. Thanks so much, Guy. Good talking to you. When we come back, how about some woke tales? That's next. Not the same talking points here, Guy Benson. This is summer at its peak. Whole Foods Market's Summer Fruit Fest is your invitation to eat the season. Fresh, organic, and bursting with flavor. Start your day with peaches and organic blueberries and yogurt. Build a grazing board with fresh fruit, prosciutto, and artisanal cheese. Then fire up the grill with no antibiotics ever proteins and fresh produce. Savor the season. Shop Summer Fruit Fest at Whole Foods Market. We're back. Excellent bumper music. Is that a passion pit maybe? It's a jam. I love it. But I love this even more. It's time for woke tales. So you have the hardcore like thugs in the streets in Minneapolis. Then you have their allies.

The yoga ladies of Minneapolis, this is wild. A group of them confronted just a worker like an hourly employee probably at their yoga studio, core power, because the parent company had not denounced ICE, so they decided this was their social justice moment. This feels like being transported right back to 2020 and 2021, cut one. Delaney, let's hear a g-a-hap answer. And the silence is dead. So I think I'm just taking a pause. No, don't take a pause. Come on, you came here to silence teachers to make sure everything was got. I've never seen your fucking face in 10 years of practicing and bang my money at the studio. Don't take a pause. Be loud with core power corporate dancers. Let's go. What are you got to say? Okay, I'm just sure. Louder, Delaney, for the son in the back. Let's go. What is it? Why? Why are you having one of our best teachers quit? Because you can't stand behind her. Answer that. Person with the glasses. Do you have good answer? Delaney can't seem to cough it out. Sorry, I mean, we're being berated right now. And so we're not being berated. You're being asked hard questions that you should have done been answered. You hear the snaps? They did some round of snaps. Because I think clapping, that clapping's a little too triggering. So it snaps and loud F bombs. So I guess one of the instructors... was like involved in the whole anti-ice movement, it seems, and they're mad. That core power. Corporate isn't standing behind that person and they want answers and they want a denunciation of ice and what ice is up to in the streets of Minneapolis and they're like yelling at these people. A struggle session, someone like put on the spot, you better bend to our will. louder for the people in the back. It's just so obnoxious. The self-righteousness on behalf of a bad ideology, by the way. Oh, it just like makes my skin crawl this kind of person. See, you have like the screaming N-word out there, like knocking heads, agitators in the streets. And then you got these people, the wine mom slash power yoga chicks doing this nonsense as well. And core power kind of caved a little bit and said, no, we don't endorse what's happening with ice. You cannot reason with these people. Don't do it. Another hour of Guy Benson. Upcoming. A new generation of conservative talk. Right here, right now. Fair, fun, and backed by the trusted voices and reporting resources of Fox News. Fox News. You're listening to Guy Benson. And now, here's your host, Guy Benson.

hour upon us here on Guy Benson, our middle hour of three on this Friday. Thanks for tuning in. Guy Benson.com, podcast free every day on demand when the show's over, plus bonus Guy Benson on the weekends. Speaking of the weekends, I'm co-hosting the Big Weekend Show tomorrow and Sunday, 5 to 8 Eastern PM. That's on the Fox News channel. Hope you will tune in for those programs. Fox News Alert. The Dow, listen to this. Listen to this. The Dow was down pretty substantially yesterday. Talk about a rebound today. Finishing up in the green 1,206 points closing the day north of 50,000. Dow 50,000 today. To be precise, 50, 115 at the closing bell. Okay. With that being said, let's move to a very difficult story that we covered here yesterday with this same guest who's all over this out in Tucson, Arizona. The disappearance, it would seem abduction. Perhaps violent abduction of Savannah Guthrie's mother. Savannah Guthrie of NBC News and the Today Show, her mother, Nancy, has not been seen in days. The country, collectively, watching this story closely and very, very concerned. And we've been praying for this family. They're just, you can tell, stricken with worry. They are heart sick. Family put out another. video asking for contact from anyone who might be holding their mother. And with us now is our colleague Paul Mora, who's on the ground there in Arizona. He's a Fox News contributor, an attorney retired NYPD inspector, and he is live for us. Paul, welcome back to the show. Thank you for having me, Guy. All right. Yesterday we talked about this ransom note, and we were talking about the authenticity of it or not. Now, I guess there are multiple potential ransom notes because I saw that they made an arrest of someone responsible for a hoax, which is a pretty evil thing to do. But there might be another one that's more credible. It's kind of difficult to follow these twists and turns. What's the ransom note situation? Okay, so according to what the police department has put out, initially, the one that we all have been discussing about whether or not it's authentic went to TMZ and two local media stations here, TV stations, in the Tucson area. That is one and the same note that went to three outlets. Then somebody in California... who was following the story, decided to pile on and see if he could get some crypto out of the family, I guess. They're a very ham-handed scheme to write another one. That's the one that the FBI quickly broke and affected a serious felony arrest. So take that one off the table. We know that was bogus. The guy admitted it. We got one note that went to three outlets. And that one is still potentially credible and real.

Correct. There was already a deadline, but then there was a secondary deadline for Monday. What do we know? Because I've seen some reporting out there and some commentary from TMZ, frankly, from some of the folks who've actually seen this letter, saying that, I think it's Harvey Levin, who runs a show over there, saying... Some of the information was extremely detailed because you were talking yesterday, Paul, about how some of it or maybe all of it seemed publicly available. So was this something that was a sophisticated hoax or was this someone sharing details that only a hostage taker or kidnapper could possibly have known? Do we have any new insight or light shed on this? We really don't. Mr. Levin seems to be fairly convinced of its legitimacy, and he has seen it. And he's not a dumb guy, so, you know, I have to give him some credibility on that point. I have not seen the actual verbiage of the note. I always, you know, the reporting is very vague about a couple of details. The only thing that's kind of new is we had heard that the note referenced a broken floodlight. And in fact, there is now we can confirm a broken floodlight on the house. Here's the problem. The broken floodlight could have A, been there a long time because there's no clear answer as to when it was broken. But B, there was video shot by the media during the search warrants of the house after it became clear there was an abduction. And a lot of imagery of the house went out to hundreds of media outlets. There's also this stuff about the watch. And again, there are photos online of Nancy with Savannah, multiple photos, where it's clear she has a watch. Those are the two sort of metrics that keep getting pointed to from the note as proof of authenticity. Now, Levin seems to be saying that there is something more detailed about the watch, about where it was placed inside the house. My question is, was it just that it was, let's say, on a charging cradle? Because to me, that isn't a very dispositive fact. Or is it placed in a specific... area on a specific desk on a chair next to the coffee maker, whatever. They'd have to have knowledge of the house to know. Exactly. And that would be, to my mind, a lot more credible, but there was a lot of reporting that went out farm-wide about the watch. And so if I'm sitting with the task forces, I get some people putting together a very detailed timeline as to what they can find, went out, and when before the note came in. The family making another appeal, and this has to just be hell on earth for them. And as my heart leads for these people who seem lovely, the Guthrie's, and I just can't imagine, really. They've made another appeal. What's the gist? So my read here is as follows, because they have gotten no communication from the abductors, singular or plural.

They had no choice but to make those videos because whoever did this is not doing the normal thing, which is providing a means of communication with them so as to, if nothing else, even if the Guthrie family were to agree to the amount. And I don't want to say the amount, the amount because I don't know definitively. I've heard a number. People are saying millions, that's accurate. But even if they were to agree, and to me it seems like they're signaling that they'll pay. You can't pay and you can't set that up without talking to them, even with the crypto wallet, because you don't know you're going to get her back. You need to talk to them to get some assurances. You're talking to the right person and that you're going to get her back. Whatever the promise is, some proof of life, so that you know who you're dealing with. And they won't do that. So you got the first video, which made this appeal to them and very clearly made that attempt to humanize Nancy. to the perpetrators. And then after the deadline, the brother Cameron made a follow-on video that pretty much did the same thing. He made that video, I think, because, and he did it right at the 5 o'clock deadline. It came out right around then because he realized, okay, according to the notes. We are going past the deadline, and now the consequences are going to be, quote, unquote, more serious. So the media is framing it, and you can use your imagination what they're threatening. And so I think he felt compelled to make another video at that point, again, just to plead with them, get in touch. Paul, we have a minute left here. Do you have any sense or any sources talking about any leads? I mean, because there's the mystery and the ransom. Are there any leads into tracking down who did this? I got to go back to the question I asked at the press conference, which is the DNA. I think that their initial first blush at the DNA did not work because I think that obviously if we had a hit, we'd know they'd have an arrest. So they didn't get any outlier DNA. But if they did, it takes some time to do that genetic genealogy to see if it comes back to even a second cousin or something, you'll get a group of people, and then you've got to do traditional detective work on those 20, 30 people, whatever it is, to see who you're likely is. Just as we had in Brian Coburger, that's what broke that case in many ways. They got to the father off of the DNA. It wasn't a direct hit. If this thing goes on a long time, that kind of minuscule analysis, I think, is what could get us there. But as I said, it takes time. Yeah, and then you've got this deadline two looming on Monday, and it's just absolutely a nightmare. Paul, watching this story and covering it on the ground live in Tucson, Arizona. Paul Morrow, thank you very much. Let's step aside and come right back. It's Guy Benson. You're listening to a new generation of talk, Guy Benson.

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She said, you're being a hypocrite when you're talking about anti-Semitism. No, he's not. And it sounds like he's being confronted by an anti-Semite right here. She said, people like you should not be able to be spoken. Speaking here at all, shame on you, free Palestine. That is the level of intellectual discourse that I've come to know and despise from these people. A giant lie, a rude showboat interruption. nothing of value to say. She didn't wait for Q&A to ask some sort of incisive question. It was just emotive raging. And she's saying that this guy shouldn't be given a platform. This is the U.S. envoy on anti-Semitism. And she doesn't want him to be allowed to speak, which is very on brand, actually. They want to de-platform people. It's like Hudson can't have him. He shouldn't be allowed to be listened to by other people. And then it devolves into shame on you, free Palestine. So then he promises a story. Let's play that story in Cut 11. But I'll share with you a story and, you know, in the business that I had in my business where I was creating drinking water from air. We actually had an agreement between Israel and Egypt to provide water to Gaza. The people who said no was UNRah and Hamas, because water machines were going to be placed on the Egyptian side of the border, put through in a clear pipe so there could be no misunderstandings about what was going through that pipe. There would be about 100 to 150,000 gallons of water a day. The people who said no were, Hamas, and UNRah. Ironic, isn't it? So when someone's talking about Gaza, hunger, and, you know, what we do and what we don't do, I think there's a tremendous misconception, and that, again, boils back to what you said before. Perception is reality. So this, these views of people pushing narratives that are totally not true, but are out there, allow people like that to have their ignorance. come for you know full full full center oh we got another one so here's shrieking hysteric number two cut 12 let's see do we have any more any more of you you want to raise your hand if you're we'll get it all over at once no no okay So it's par for the course and it comes with the territory. I apologize. I'm sorry we didn't read that. No, no. You know what? The beauty of this country is you can hate me, but you have to protect me. So they can say what they want to say. Again, it's ignorance and lack of facts. You know, and by the way, the question that I asked a gentleman from the U.N. was I did not. see the UN in the role that they have, they didn't bring food to any hostage, nor did they give medical attention to any hostage. So part of the role was the UN, and they talk about how they want to be relevant. Relevant means doing the roles that you're given to do. The role that I have is to provide the president and the Secretary of State what is going on globally to protect the Jewish nation. That's the role that the Jewish people around the globe in every country that they're in.

So do you notice there was, again, not even an effort at substance. It sounded like the exact same script. Almost sounded like the same woman. It wasn't. It was her little hench lady who decided to start carrying on. Oh, it's you and you're doing all the hate. That was her choice to pipe up right then after he had just told the story about how his water company had struck a deal to provide. 100 plus thousand gallons of fresh water to Gaza per day. And that deal was scuttled and rejected by Hamas and the United Nations, UNRWA, who work hand in glove. Hamas and UNRWA peas in a pod. And they did not want this transparent, safe. beneficial water deal to go through because it did not enrich or benefit them and did not assist the terrorism of Hamas. They wanted pipes, physical pipes, for other reasons, to build weapons. So clear pipes with fresh water flowing to Palestinians who might be thirsty, that did not serve the interests of the terrorists of Hamas and their handmaidens at UNRWA. So they killed the deal. This guy brings up the example. And you would think, you know, would this potentially penetrate the thick skull of one of the pro-Palestine agitators sitting there saying, oh, that's interesting information that I never knew. Nope. It's like she had her little memorized script of yelling. You do the hate, shame, how dare you? Over and over again. Hamas started the war. The war is over. There's a ceasefire. If Hamas abides by the terms that it agreed to, the killing will stop permanently. There was no genocide. That is a lie. If you're concerned about suffering in Gaza, your number one goal should be the destruction of Hamas. It's not for reasons that speak for themselves or in this case shriek for themselves. More of Guy Benson coming up after this break. Cheers to America's 250th birthday. Get 20% off your first purchase at Fox Newswinshop.com with code FNRadio 20. 20% discount excludes wine club offers and cannot be combined with any other promotion. Expires July 31st, 2026. Must be 21 order to order. Please drink responsibly. Guy Benson, sponsored by Previgin. Previgin, made for your brain. Half time on Guy Benson. Happy Friday. Glad you're here, Guy Benson.com podcast, always free. Well, we've been talking quite a bit about what the Democrats are up to in Virginia. This is a purple state. Used to be purple red. Now it's more purple blue. But it was 51-47 in the 2024 election. And now the Democrats had their blue wave in the off-year election in 2025. They've taken over everything. And despite having campaigned on affordability and at least a pretense of moderation, focused on bringing down the cost of living for Virginians, all of that, they have hit the ground sprinting toward a California model that many Virginians want no part of. A little bait and switch action going on on steroids, I would say.

And we've referenced bits and pieces of it here on the show. Joining us now is Bryce Reeves, who is a Republican state senator in Virginia, who's watching all of this happen in real time as they are very busy down in Richmond. Senator, good to have you on the show. Guy, it's great to be on your show. And thank you for bringing an awareness to Virginia to the rest of the country because it's coming to a state near you. Yeah, if this is allowed to stand and if people are going to keep getting swindled and bamboozled by supposed moderate Democrats, the governor, Abigail Spanberger, was supposed to be one of them, the great moderate hope for the party. It's not Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. It's a different kind of Democrat. This is basically Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Fast-tracked. That is what they are up to already in just the opening weeks of these big majorities that they have with the governor. And she's reversed herself already on a number of major things in the direction of the hard left. Before we even get to the redistricting power grab, which is breathtaking, let's talk about some of the bills. that they have introduced and have already advanced and moved forward. It seems to me, in fact, I just saw this from a Steve Gast who is a Republican strategist and has a lot of knowledge about Virginia specifically. He tweeted yesterday, for those keeping score at home, the first bills going to Governor Abigail Spanberger include bills to allow felons and mentally incompetent people to vote. A gay marriage bill, which is, again, odd to me because it's been settled not just by SCOTUS, but by Congress as well, but all right, gay marriage. Abortion all the way up to the moment of birth, which is ghastly, and funding for this gerrymandering program. Her whole touchstone of her campaign supposedly was affordability. What does any of this have to do with that? Zero. Guy, you are on point. I saw the governor last night, and she ambushed me from behind. I was at a military event and had a very blunt conversation because I've been an outspoken opponent of some of the things she's been touting and calling her on the carpet about. She wasn't happy about a Washington Times. report I did and I recently wrote an op-ed on it. But more importantly, Democrats sprang Senate Bill 29 on the Senate Finance Committee, and there's five of us. I'm one of five that are on that. They didn't hold an open hearing like they would in the committee room. They did it on the floor of the Senate without any citizen input or citizen testimony or open transparency. And they just passed through Senate Bill 29, which would put... About a $5 million tag, if you want to call it that, or a tax on Virginia citizens to fund their gerrymandering efforts, of which the governor has already signed a few of those. Now, what you're referencing, Guy, is the four constitutional amendments that the Democrats are going to push forward. We tried to amend some of the bills to keep babies from being born and not taking care of.

You know, as part of the Born Alive amendment on that, they refuse that. They refuse to allow parental consent or notification on the abortion bill as well. When it comes down to allowing felons, they're going to give them their full rights, but they won't give them their rights back for guns. So I just want to make that note. And, you know, it's, it boggles the mind, but she's anything but a conservative or even moderate, leaning moderate Democrat. And I told her last night, I gave a fair warning, quite frankly, that, well, the proofs in the pudding you can't hide in Congress behind your desk anymore. It's going to end up on your desk. And what you do with those bills, people are going to, you're going to reveal your character. So that's what we're dealing with. It's a mess down here. We actually passed on the floor of the Senate today. I tweeted or exed about it, an 11% tax on handguns and ammunition, which is not making life more affordable. For some of the folks in my district, a very rural district, they actually hunt to the only meet they get in their freezers possibly throughout the years through deer or game that they hunt. So it's messy down here. Yeah. And I'll just point out the Democrats campaign on affordability, also on abortion by saying the scary Republicans are very extreme on abortion. Don't let them come in. and do anything to take away abortion. Now, I'm pro-life, and I would love to see common sense restrictions that are supported, by the way, by most Americans. But the Democrats, having fearmongered about what Republicans might try to do with no actual evidence that there would ever be a real push to do it, they then turn around and instantly prioritize. expanding abortion extremism in the state, no restrictions all the way to birth and even potentially beyond birth because they killed that amendment you were talking about. It is just gruesome. It hurts my heart to think about. This is what they literally are doing at the very beginning of this majority that they're that they've won and that they are apparently determined to exploit. to make permanent their power in the Commonwealth of Virginia. And I'm going to, again, come back to the redistricting in a second. But first, another thing about affordability. We have seen the raft of tax increases that have been proposed by Democrats in Richmond. It's unclear what will pass and what won't. It's unclear if the governor will want to veto much of anything and stand up to her party. Seems like the extremists are leading and running the show right now and she's going along with it. But it almost feels like, because I've read the reports and I've seen some of the bills. I don't see nearly anything that the Democrats don't want to tax. It is extraordinary what they've already proposed in terms of tax increases, which obviously would be the opposite of affordability. Guy, you are on the tip of the spear with everything you said is the truth. And for listeners who don't think Guy is telling the truth, look it up for yourselves, be a learned individual. They're all filed. They are all passing.

99.9% of those heinous bills are passing with a full-throated Democrat majority with Republicans voting no. And so they're going to come all on her desk. And that's going to be the point at which she's going to have to make those decisions. They're coming through as fast as possible. We have one more week before we hit crossover. That's when Senate bills that have passed go to the House of delegates and House bills come to us. We'll have to... hear about twice as many House bills as they'll hear of Senate bills, but a lot of these have joint patrons from each side of the chambers, and they're going through. So over 50 plus taxes from everything from haircuts to airblowers to dog walkers, exercise tax? Yeah, you get it. Short of breathing and rain tax, which I'm sure one of those idiots will. will come up and probably put in at some point. But the word is getting out. They ran on affordability. People are shocked. And I tell them, don't be shocked. Abigail Spanberger is probably one of the best CIA agents they ever had. That's their job is to tell you what you want to hear, suck you in, make you like them, make you believe them, and then take advantage of those exploitation. So that's clearly what's happened. I hate to use this phrase, but I've been using it now and now it's in my brain and it sticks. Californication of Virginia. And we are getting screwed literally every day that a bill goes by. All right. Then there's redistricting where they want to take a six to five map, six Democrats, five Republicans in the House of Representatives federally, and turn that to a 10 to one blue to red map. Now, that's outrageous on its face. I talked about how close the election was in Virginia, five or six points in the presidential race. Kamala Harris had 51, 52 percent of the vote, something like that. Six to five sounds about right given the representation and the breakdown in that state. And this comes on the heels of just several years ago, the people of Virginia being asked, should there be this independent commission bipartisan that draws the lines? And a two-thirds super majority of Virginians said, yes, that's the way to do it. That's our new policy in Virginia. And a bunch of these Democrats, including Abigail Spanberger, We're in favor of that. She called gerrymandering bad for democracy. Here she is, by the way, and cut 16 little flashback from now Governor Abigail Spanberger. This was before she was governor. Listen. Because Republicans have to depend on redistricting and stealing votes and taking seats like they did in North Carolina in order to actually be able to win elections. Stealing votes, taking seats. What she's referencing in North Carolina does not hold a candle to what the Democrats are trying here in Virginia. We saw what Texas did. That's their excuse. But Texas.

You can agree or disagree with the Texas move. I've talked about the context of that with the census in 2020 being screwed up. California has already retaliated against that. This is yet another escalation by the Democrats. Republicans in Indiana, Ohio, they offered de-escalation. And this is the response from Virginia Democrats, a 10-1 map. My understanding, Senator, is if this map that they put out is adopted. There would be five congressional districts that run through Fairfax County alone. That is crazy. Well, you are 100% correct, and that's what I was referencing. We literally just got through doing off the floor of the Senate. They pushed Senate Bill 29 as introduced. And I'm looking at page 19 of it, and it's unboldened, and it says they're pushing it through. And not only that, they want to go back and retroactively get rid of part of the bill language on the Constitution from 1971. Because here in Virginia, Republicans, our caucus filed a lawsuit. Our leader filed the lawsuit, and we won an injunction. The judge in this case so far. has said, hey, you got to stop everything all together. You violated the law. You violated the Constitution. Well, they're trying to unwind that. And my thing is with the actions that they did actually today, guy, by pulling a bill out of the normal process, putting it on the floor, not giving members of the finance committee, myself and my four other colleagues, the opportunity to even read the bill. We had less than five minutes from when it hit our desk today. We're starting to argue on the bill. to brief it, to look at it, to find areas where we're jamming this thing through, and they jammed it through. And all the Republicans voted against it, and all the Democrats voted it through. They didn't want to have hearings. They didn't want people to speak. You know, it wasn't in, the only thing different was it wasn't in the cover of darkness. Yeah. But other than that, on a Friday afternoon at the General Assembly, they shoved this thing through just just. less than an hour ago. And it's a huge partisan power grab. It is unbelievably aggressive. It is completely shameless. And a judge has already ruled that it's illegal. And they're like, we don't care. We're going to keep going even harder. And there are appeals underway. Maybe they will lose. Maybe they will fail in court. But maybe not. And then this will go to the voters of Virginia and you know they're going to spend a ton of money to try to tell people that this is really important for democracy. And we'll see. I mean, the elector will have to make a choice. If it's the same composition of the electorate that decided that Jay Jones, who wanted to kill Republicans and their children could become attorney general, they might succeed at this and fundamentally change Virginia forever. And so that is something that number one. Virginia voters need to pay very close attention to. Number two, voters all across the country recognize that what the hardball looks like from Democrats can come to them if they are not careful. And if Republicans who have the trifecta like Democrats do in Virginia in other places see what's happening if they want to respond.

I think unfortunately it's time to get serious because the only thing that these people understand is power, winning and losing. And if this is their insistence after Republicans offered again these off ramps in Indiana and Ohio and then Virginia and Maryland move forward with this anyway saying screw that, we're going to do it anyway, then I think Republicans elsewhere have to get serious and ruthless because you can't unilaterally disarm against extremists like this. And it's just very sad to see how. happening in a place like Virginia that has often prided itself as sort of center left to center right, caring about institutions, caring about precedents, kind of a centrist, sensible place, and that is being lit on fire right now by the Democrats in Richmond. Senator, we appreciate your update on all of this. Please keep fighting against this using the tools that you have. Bryce Reeves representing District 28 in the Old Dominion. Senator Reeves again, thank you so much. I thank you. And may God bless you in your program and your listeners. And we could use all the help we get. And thank you for allowing us to lay out our case. And if the president happens to be listening to this or Susie Wiles or Pam Bondi, please, please come down and help us. We need some help. And we need it quickly. Really appreciate that. We'll take a quick break. We'll come right back. It's Guy Benson. In the swamp, not of the swamp. Guy Benson.

Back on Guy Benson, well, President Trump on his truth social account did something that I think was awful. He posted a video, reposted a video that someone else had created that was about like election conspiracies and I hate when he does that anyway. But he does it. So that was not exactly a surprise. But at the tail end, the very end of that video. It looked like there was an auto play, because this was a screen captured, an auto play of the next video that, like, kind of came after the video he intended to share. He, I would guess, inadvertently shared this part of it that had been, again, screen captured. And this was an auto play at the beginning of another video that portrayed Barack and Michelle Obama as monkeys or gorillas. Portraying black people as monkeys is one of the worst racist stereotypes that we have. It is straight racism. And some of the people denying that or spinning, get out of here. You know what this is and so do I. Now, what do I think happened here? I think Trump, who was on a truth social bender doing one of these sprees, dozens of posts, I think he saw some of the video, like that it was this content about the 2020 election or whatever and decided to amplify it and share it. I would not advise that to put it mildly, but again, par for the course with him. I don't think he watched all the way to the end in the final two seconds and the start of that new video role with this racist imagery. I feel pretty confident that the president did not watch that whole video, see the Barack and Michelle Obama thing, and decide to share it anyway. Certainly that is my hope. That is also my educated and I think reasonable guess. Now the problem is. They finally taken it down. It took them hours. They finally took it down from the truth social account. Karoline Leavitt came out and kind of defended it saying, oh, it was just a video that was showing Trump as king of the jungle and Democrats were just characters from the Lion King. So they were kind of justifying it when the obvious explanation is it was tacked on at the very end. He didn't see it. It's bad. That's a mistake. And it's down. We took it down. Apologies moving on. Instead, she kind of defended it and then they took it down. So a bit of a clown show there. I don't believe that Donald Trump shared on purpose a video that he saw portraying the former president and first lady. as monkeys or gorillas. I don't believe that. It is racist. I don't think he meant to share it. I think it was a mistake. The White House should just admit that. He didn't see it. It was shared inadvertently. We took it down. We're sorry. And by the way, maybe the president of the United States, he's not some random YouTube or Reddit commenter. He's the president. I know a lot of this is just who he is and what he does, but we should expect better.

From someone who is present in the United States to not do something like this by accident. Don't run your feed this way, Mr. President of the United States. I don't think it is trumped arrangement or unreasonable to make that request. And now I've said my piece and we will move on to our final hour of Guy Benson with our friend Josh Krasauer breaking down some hardcore politics with me straight ahead. 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 here on Guy Benson on this Friday. Happy Friday, everybody. Heading into the weekend, Super Bowl weekend. We'll talk more about that at the end of the hour during our home stretch. Guy Benson.com is our website. The podcast is free. It's every day on demand, no charge at all. This radio hour is sponsored by the finished long drink. Maybe enjoy that during your Super Bowl party. I would recommend that very much if you drink responsibly and if you are 21 years of age or older, the longdrink.com is the website there. Catch me on the big weekend show, Saturday, Sunday, 5 to 8 p.m. Eastern time on the Fox News channel. Hope to see you there. And with that, let's bring in Josh Krasauer, Fox News Radio Political Analyst and the editor-in-chief at Jewish Insider. Josh, good to have you here. Hey, Guy, good to be with you. Happy Friday. So I saw some reporting from Axios today that some Republicans on the Senate side of the world are starting to get antsy and nervous about November. The overall conventional wisdom has been the House will be really tough for the Republicans to hold because the majority is so slim. But the Senate, there's more padding. The map is more favorable. And the Republicans are likely going to hang on to that majority. That might be changing, at least in the mind of some of these strategists and others based on polling that they say that they're seeing in states like Alaska, Ohio, Iowa, others coming out and saying that's nonsense. The Senate still looks pretty good for us overall. These are Republicans refuting that report. What are you hearing and what do you think? Yeah, look, I think not a lot has changed in the last couple of weeks, but the biggest fundamental boost for the Democrats has been that they have four solid recruits. in four states that they need a sweep to have a good chance to win back, to have the chance to win back control of the Senate. So that's, you got Maine, you got the former governor who's in a primary of her own. You've got Roy Cooper, the former governor in North Carolina. And in Ohio, you got Jared Brown, the former senator. And in Alaska, red state, you've got a former at-large congresswoman who's just won an election in the state of Alaska. So they've got the horses. They got the recruits that they need to put that possibility in play. You also look at some of these local special elections. There was a race in Fort Worth, Texas, first, the state senate, where Republicans dramatically underperformed. Democrats, what a longtime Republican seat. And you can extrapolate the numbers. If you overperformed by the margin that Democrats did in that seat, you could actually see red states being more competitive than otherwise expected. Look, I think it's still going to be very tough for Democrats to win back the Senate because we are, after all, in a very partisan time.

party to win territory in red, for a Democrat to win territory in red states, a Republican to win territory in blue states. It's just not been the case in recent years. So I think it's a tough task for Democrats. That said, there is a pathway. And it's always been open for the last few weeks since Mary Peltola, like the former congresswoman, jumped in the Alaska Senate race. And look. You know, there's a social media snap food today. Things that are just, the White House shouldn't be, shouldn't be, should be basically preparing to help their candidates in the midterms and instead of been making some blunders that have improved the environment for Democrats. But do I think it's likely that Democrats take back to the Senate? No, I think the odds are probably, you know, 10. on it okay yeah because you know Susan Collins up in main who is a true moderate i mean it seems like moderate democrats are few and far between these days maybe John Fetterman a handful of others in the house but she is a really moderate republican to the point that it drives me crazy sometimes as more of a conservative person she's a good fit for the state I saw a few polls just earlier that has her, Susan Collins, the incumbent, leading either of the Democrats that might go up against her. And the only reason I bring that up is because you remember in 2020, she was left for dead. Not a single poll. Not a single public poll had her ahead. And then she won comfortably and avoided a runoff. She won by nine points. So I just wonder if her staying power in Maine and maybe 2020 is different than 2026. But if her staying power in Maine holds again and she hangs on to that seat, the math becomes pretty close to impossible, I think, nationwide for the Democrats to take the Senate. Yeah, that's very true. And you also have two seats that. Democrats are playing defense in, which is the Georgia Senate state, Jon Ossoff, looking for another term for re-election. I think he probably has a slight edge, given the field of Republicans right now, but that's not going to be an easy race for Democrats. You've got the Michigan Senate race where Republicans have their top recruit and Mike Rogers, who... and talented politician and doesn't have a primary to worry about it. And you have a very nasty primary dividing the moderate. And they're tearing each other apart on the left. So, so I mean, Democrats need to sweep those races and then win in states they haven't been competitive in quite some time. So if the environment nationally is brutal, if we're in like tsunami territory, that's what could lead Democrats to take back the Senate. But of the odds about, look, I think, I think frankly, the conventional wisdom and the Axiore story is a couple weeks behind. was able to land Sherrod Brown, was able to land Mary Peltola, and you have the Texas result from last week, you know, that's what's giving the Democrats a little bit of optimism. But there's a lot of time until November, and I would guess that even with the environment nationally that stands today, it would still be difficult for

The way that the Democrats would get a big wave is if all of their people turn out, which I think is likely, I think Democrat, they are the high propensity party now. So they're going to have a big turnout from their people, especially because they're angry at Trump and they've lost the big election in 2024. This is what happens, right? The pendulum swings. Those people are always the anti-income party. Their base is more fired up, more excited. If the independents also abandon the Republicans and droves. and Republican voters are ambivalent or kind of taking things for granted, feeling like not terribly enthused, and a lot of them are complacent or stay home or can't be bothered. That mix of factors could lead to the type of big, tall, blue wave where things get swept away and the Republicans could lose the Senate, that combination of factors. Candidate quality is going to matter, of course, as well, spending to some extent and how the economy looks over the summer and into the fall. That's a very, very big piece of it. Josh, I want to ask about New Jersey last night. There is a Democrat primary. This is not necessarily significant on a national level because this is trying to fill a seat that Mikie Sherrill, now the governor of New Jersey used to occupy. It's a blue seat. But watching the fight within the Democratic Party for who their nominee will be in this special election, they'll have to do it again, of course, at the end of the year. It's been kind of fascinating to watch, and it looks like once again the hardcore Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Zohran Mamdani left is winning. Yeah, I mean, this is a stunner because this is one of the wealthiest districts in the country. It's a swing seat that leans Democratic. Kamala Harris won it in 2024. It has probably one of the highest concentration of banks. Wall Street employees, financial analysts, hedge fund donors in the country. It's a really wealthy part of New Jersey, and it nominated a far-left socialist. Someone who is on the Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, wing of the party, who has said all kinds of extreme comments about the economy. Now, she won by a narrow, like a plurality. He's only got 29% I think of the vote, and it's still not official. She's still. America was very close. But this is like the core of their base, no matter where it is in Tony wealthy New Jersey suburbs or the heart of New York City, they like this. They want socialist, communist stuff. Well, the reality is you can almost get 30% of the party, which is a shocking number that is functionally socialist in any part of the country. You have this hardcore base. that, you know, if it was a one-on-one race, that's not the majority of the party, but 30% of the Democratic Party in a wealthy suburban district voting for a socialist, that should be a wake-up call. I mean, certainly it is a wake-up call. I've been talking to Democrats over the last 24 hours that are just stunned by the result, worried about the future of their own party, worried what could happen in the 2028 presidential election. I've heard a lot of Democrats thinking that, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, frankly, could be a front-runner, if not the front-runner, the way things are shaping up. I think she could be. And don't sleep on that. real. If it can happen in Montclair, New Jersey and Morris County, New Jersey, the most moderate. This is actually used to be the heart of the Republican Party he had many ways in New Jersey. It can happen anywhere. And by the way, Josh, as an addendum to that, because some conservatives might say, great, let these psychos nominate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and then Republicans will win. Maybe, I think if the environment in 2028 is sort of neutral-ish.

then an Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez left winger would lose nationally. But if, and we see this going back and forth like these wild spasms of the electorate, sort of like, you know, whiplash, if the country is in a dour, sour mood and they're mad at the party in power and, you know, President Trump, Vice President JD Vance and the whole administration, I think almost anyone with a dean next to their name could win nationally. I mean, and that, I mean, if the Senate, it gets close to go into a Democratic majority. Certainly, anyone, whether it's Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Gavin Newsom, or anyone, could be competitive and win the presidency. We extremes, beget extremes. And we saw this a little bit in 2018, where you had Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez get elected in a primary out of nowhere, and you had a few other members of the squad get elected in that election cycle. The more the middle isn't catered to, the more both parties get radical. And that's what we're seeing. And I think that the odds of having election is higher than it's ever been in our politics. Josh, finally, we had a state senator from Virginia on the program in the last hour. I know you follow Virginia politics very closely. So do I. I have a vested interest as a Virginia voter. And I see what the Democrats are doing in just the opening days of this power that they have gained through the last election. And I mean, they're governing like it's Washington state or Oregon or California. And it doesn't seem like... There's anyone tapping the brakes at all, at least yet. Yeah, it's interesting that Abigail Spanberger, for all the talk about the economy and affordability, her biggest. emphases have been on immigration, gerrymandering, and a very progressive set of referendum on socialists. Yeah, she did. She just, by the way, she just implemented this sanctuary on steroids order. She said they had to sever all ties with the feds on immigration cooperation. This is coming, as we've seen even in Minnesota, some of the accommodations coming together where they're starting to finally collaborate a little bit more because of the disaster that's played out. Even the Jacob Frey and, you know, Tim Walz of the world, Keith Ellison, they've seemed to have come together with Tom Homan to reach some kind of a compromise. Abigail Spanberger, Madam Moderate, with her affordability campaign slogan, has watched all of that and said, let's triple down on the situation that got Minnesota to that point. Yeah, it's only been a month, but she has shown no signs of governing as a Josh Shapiro-type moderate energy issues, too. She signed, we talked about this last week. this greenhouse compact, which will raise energy prices, basically attacks on energy production or energy usage in the state. So, you know, these are the issues that dominate the progressive priorities, and Schenberger seems to be on board. Redisricting is the most egregious, though. I mean, if you look at this is the map that that is going to be going to voters in the spring is about as ugly a gerrymander. I've seen it's like Illinois. It's like Maryland. It basically connects parts of Northern Virginia, which have had their own congressional districts, the Charlottesville and Colts. of rural Virginia that make no geographic sense. I actually wonder if, I mean, we're so partisan these days, but I, you know, for the good government types in Northern Virginia of the Democratic side, they claim that they're against gerrymander and they want electoral reform to have these ugly districts that connect Arlington to rural Roanoke. You know, I don't think that makes a lot of sense. I think it will put a test a lot of the principle that a lot of these folks have called for, but it's an ugly partisan gerrymander that, frankly, is going to.

governance in the state or nationally. Are you surprised that they're doing this because Josh Holmes from the ruthless podcast and from Mitch McConnell World for a long time, he's been tweeting, especially about Abigail Spanberger, there is no such thing as a moderate Democrat. And she's kind of the poster child for that. I wonder if that could be a salient message for the Republicans in 26 and 28. There's no such thing as a moderate Democrat. Well, in Virginia, I could say if Abigail Spanberger governs as a liberal and if say there's a Democrat in the White House. I could easily see the Virginia government going back to a more mainstream Republican, like a former Attorney General, Jason Mierrez would be, I think, a strong candidate. Like, I could easily see Virginia swinging back if there's overreach. Abigail Spanberger is, you know, she's sort of a cipher. She was voted as sort of a generic Democrat, and she's showing her again early on. But the gerrymandering, it's going to be interesting because you could be diluting northern, I mean, I guess in some ways you could argue that it dilutes northern. influence when you kind of split parts of Northern Virginia with unrelated parts of the state. And it's going to create a lot of unintended consequences. The Republicans are learning this a hard way in Texas. They're gerrymandered. I think less of an ugly gerrymander, what's been proposed. Oh, way less ugly. Like, you cannot like it, but it's nowhere close to what they're doing in Virginia. Yeah, I mean, the logic is the Texas map, actually, is that Hispanic voters are becoming more Republican, so they're trying to take advantage of that with this new map. The problem for Republicans is that actually the Hispanic vote has swung back. a little bit towards the Democrats. Immigration is a big part of that. And overreach on immigration, I should say. So that is actually threatening the backfire on the Republicans to the point where, you know, if they would get five seats, they might get two or three seats in Texas instead. Virginia is much more egregious. If you just look at the map, you can see it's an uglier, more partisan gerrymander. That makes less geographic sense. But, you know, you could, certainly Trump I think made a big mistake by trying to gain seats wherever he could. And Democrats responded, and now you have Virginia. Virginia is probably the most, of all the states that have done redraws, I think Virginia is probably the most egregious so far. Yeah, well, I think Republicans will have to respond and revisit Indiana and Ohio and maybe Florida and elsewhere because it's crazy. And by the way, Texas, Trump won Texas by more than double the margin that Kamala Harris won Virginia, just as one point of reference. And you're right, Abigail Spanberger kind of campaigned as generic Democrat. I think the argument would be this is what you get with generic Democrats, no such thing as a moderate Democrat, certainly with ambitions higher within the party nationally. Josh Krasauer, we always appreciate your time. We know today was a little bit of a last minute one for you, so we are very, very grateful to you. Have a great weekend. We'll talk soon. Thanks, Guy. Have a great weekend. More of Guy Benson. Happy hour coming up. Miss a minute. Miss a lot. Guy Benson.

We're back. It's Guy Benson. It's the happy hour. So apparently there's another controversy about a celebrity coming out of the Grammys. The recording artist Shaboozy, I guess, made some statement about how immigrants had built our country because this was all the rage at the Grammys for everyone to signal about immigration and ICE. That is their big issue, the thing that they wanted to signal they care about so much. And so that was his point. Immigrants built the country. And what's interesting is he then got massive backlash. From elements of the left, specifically black people who were like, actually no, because he's black. They're like, no, immigrants didn't build the country. We did. Slaves built the country. How dare you? Blah, blah, blah. Go back to where you came from. I mean, there was all sorts of stuff being thrown at him. from this food fight, an identity politics food fight, where he thought he was checking the box and being a very good progressive and saying the right thing. They're supposed to mouth these slogans. And then he hit a tripwire elsewhere in the identity politics morass. And then he was hearing it from them. So he was like putting out multiple statements and getting dragged. It's just so toxic and exhausting. the identity politics on the left, and people get ensnared by it, and it's kind of fun, honestly. It's like you deserve what is coming to you. Enjoy your so-called friends and your movement. I would once again, though, as a public service announcement, encourage celebrities to at least seriously consider the sagacious advice of won Ricky Jervais at the Golden Globes in 2020, cut 14. If you do win an award tonight, Don't use it as a platform to make a political speech, right? You're in no position to lecture the public about anything. You know nothing about the real world. Most of you spent less time in school than Greta Thunberg. So, if you win, right? Come up, accept your little award, thank your agent and your God, and fuck off. Okay? Got some applause. Apparently, a few people missed the memo, and maybe Shaboozy is thinking, gosh, I should have listened. More of Guy Benson. Happy Hour coming up after this break.

Talking about the issues you care about. Guy Benson. In our first hour today, Professor Jonathan Turley, constitutional law professor at George Washington, a Fox News contributor. He joined us to talk about his new book, Rage and the Republic, also some other burning items of the day. Here's part of my conversation with Jonathan Turley. All right, let's talk about rage in the republic and why you wrote the book and why you think looking back to our founding is relevant as we look in the kind of just the windshield moving forward as a country. We might have some technological revolutions, political revolutions ahead, and you feel like there are some lessons here to tie back. Well, I did want to take in the first half of the book another look at what events and personalities came together that create this unique republic. And to do that, I do much of it following the steps of Thomas Payne, who is one of two figures who played a role in both the American and French revolutions, the other being Lafayette. And in examining how one, the American Revolution, would become the oldest and most stable democracy in history, and the other would become the reign of terror. And the answer is that we had unique elements within our system created by, particularly James Madison, to control the impulse. that comes with democracy, that the framers didn't want what they called a mobocracy. They didn't want the Athenian democracy, which was an utter failure and led to tyranny. So they created limitations on this sort of impulse, what was called democratic despotism. They didn't have those in France. And what happened is it turned into a bloodletting, where tens of thousands were killed. So I take then look at this and ask, can that unique republic survive the 21st century? And I look at issues that I think are going to present really unprecedented challenges like robotics and AI, global governance systems like the EU, and the rise of what I've called the new Jacobins, many of the same voices we hear today we heard back then, people who want... direct democracy, who want to take out of our system the things that actually got us here. You have the dean of Berkeley saying that the constitution's a failure. You have law professors saying that we should start over. And that's a very dangerous thing. But this crisis of faith is occurring at a very dangerous time. I think about the stunning... arrogance and in gratitude it would take to be someone like the dean at a prestigious law school in the wealthiest and most successful country in the history of the world.

to look at the system, the bedrock of all of this and say, it's a failure, get rid of it. I cannot fathom having that level of privilege that you don't understand and have no gratitude for. You know, it is breathtaking, but he's not alone. One of my colleagues has criticized the cult of the Constitution. This is a very common view among many law professors. I call it the radical shit. You know, this is what many students are hearing. And that's one of the reasons why we see this polling of people embracing socialism and communism. These are, if I talk about enraged in the Republic, these are young people that never... saw experience the collapse of socialist systems in the 20th century. And they're buying the same empty slogans. As I talked about in the book, when Mithrault came to control France under a socialist government, he promised that there be so much leisure. from socialism, he appointed a minister of leisure to help citizens figure out what they would do with all their time. Of course, the economy collapsed. But it's the same type of empty mantras that we hear from, like, Zohran Mamdani, saying, I'm going to introduce you to the warmth of collectivism. And that's what the book tries to address as to the real dangers we're facing if we allow these people to take out of our system the very elements that got us here. And by the way, I follow Thomas Payne because he was not in favor of a lot of those precautions. He didn't agree with Madison. And it came damn near to killing him. He came within 24 hours. of being guillotined in France. And he saw what happens when you allow the direct democracy to overwhelm and devour a democracy. Let's talk about the Jacobins, and we were just playing some sound from some of them earlier in the show, as a matter of fact, the way that you see some of these left-wing gorilla types, actually, like, you know, guerrilla tactics, almost paramilitary agitators, screaming at law enforcement, interfering, using racial slurs, getting violent in some cases and breaking the law. Another... splinter of that same problem, a splinter element of it, is explicit violence and this move toward assassination attempts. We saw two against President Trump. We saw one against Brett Kavanaugh as well. You can go down the list. We can now, sadly, add another one, a very chilling story.

Out of the D.C. area, a young man who reportedly was motivated by fighting fascism. It's the rhetoric that we've heard a lot from the left recently, showed up at the home of President Trump's budget director, Russ Vought, with a plan to kill. the budget director, and he was apparently in a mask and wearing gloves, like plastic gloves, as he showed up to kill this high-ranking government official. Fortunately, this was foiled. It did not happen. That full interview with Professor Jonathan Turley, available online at Guy Benson.com. It's part of the free podcast, the whole show, every day, on demand, start to finish, absolutely no charge at all, including bonus Guy Benson on the weekends. So that'd be Guy Benson.com to get it, or Fox Newspodcast.com or wherever you get your podcast. When we come back, the home stretch, Super Bowl weekend ahead. We'll talk about it and break it down when we come back. A fresh perspective on the topics of the day. It's Guy Benson. And now 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 Guy Benson on this Friday. Super Bowl weekend coming up. We'll get to that in a moment. Guy Benson.com podcast always free when the show is over, which is just minutes from right now. I will be co-hosting the big weekend show tomorrow and Sunday 5 to 8 p.m. Eastern Fox News Channel. Does that coincide with the big game on Sunday? It does. Should you watch us? Yes, yes. I'm going to say yes. Or at least DVR and then watch later. That's the general plan. If you were listening on the broadcast or the live stream there, the bump in music was apparently Bad Bunny. Is that his most famous song, are we going to say? One of his famous songs, I am not terribly familiar with the work of Bad Bunny. I've seen him on SNL, like handsome guy. I get that he's famous, whatever, and he's got a big following. I know that. I did see a video. That went pretty viral of someone going around asking a bunch of NFL players, their favorite bad bunny song, and they were all drawing a blank. They were like, oh, I don't know, I don't listen to him. One or two of them called him her, didn't realize it's a man at all. So I'm not terribly stoked for the halftime show. I'm not doing the whole performative anger thing like, oh, it's only in Spanish and his politics are bad and his iced enunciation. I don't care. I don't care if I cared about these artists and their politics, half-baked views and beyond, I would probably not consume pop culture almost ever, right? So I just don't live my life that way. I'm just not excited for the halftime show because this is not a musical artist that I know very much about or really care about. But if it's a visual spectacle, you know, fine.

If I'm off air on Fox News by the time the halftime show occurs, I'll watch it. If we're still on air, I'll miss it and I probably won't go back to watch it, is kind of a plan. Christine, I know you are planning on trying to win some big money. I am, but do you know who's singing the national anthem? Who's that? Charlie Puth. Okay. I love him. I love his voice. I saw, yeah, he was giving an interview about how hard the star-spangled banner is to sing. It is a very wide range vocally required. It's hard. You have not done it. Sure. You've sung the anthem. Yeah. In what context? Shower. Shower. Okay. It's not easy. That poor shower. But at least it was a limited blast radius of that. No, it's really hard. One of my favorite renditions of the anthem, by the way, is at the New Jersey Devils hockey games. The team stinks. The team is just wretched this year. I was at the game last night with a buddy of mine who actually made me into a Devils fan 30 years ago. Hadn't seen him in 20 years. We went to the game. It was great. aside from, you know, the hockey part of it and the losing again. But they have the main anthem singer at the Rock at the arena. She's been doing it for years. Her name's Arlette. And she is accompanied by the organist. And the two of them together, it is one of my absolute favorite. anthems that you can possibly hear. It's paced properly, the organ music. Oh, it's so good. It's the highlight of the game, actually. I saw that last week. Yeah, when we went together. And you know, fun fact about this Super Bowl, it's at Levi Stadium. Why is that so special to me? That is the place that you feared for your life. Yes, so, Joelle, I have a fear of stadiums. I think I'm just going to fall. Fall and plummet to her death. Correct. Off of escalators, off of upper decks, that kind of thing. And you guys aren't punking me right now. This is legit. Oh, no, you're so new here. Oh, you sweet summer child. Oh, God. So sweet. Everything that we say about Cookie is real, including the fact that she murdered her pony as a kid. I mean, there's so many things you have to learn. But you and I went to that NFL game there a couple years ago when we were out at the Hoover Institution. My first NFL game ever. And only, right? Yes. Yeah, I think. You haven't been to a Jets game. Well, no. I keep offering to bring you to one if you win a bet and then you lose every bet. Well, that's the thing. I think you were supposed to if I had won the bet. Which you didn't, because we have to have Bobby on the show because I won the bet. Oh, are we still doing that? We are still doing that. In fact, Dylan, do it, Dylan. Let's book Bobby. Let's get Bobby booked this month. I'm saying February or March. I'll take care of it. No, I'm not leaving it up to you. I'll take care of it. Yeah, if she makes a note of it, it is going away forever.

And they were like, what about Bobby? Oh, yeah, a scrap of paper seven weeks ago. It's gone. In one ear out the other. And this one, she's motivated to not do. So this one is all on Dylan. One fast fact, yesterday, it was so embarrassing. The notes that you told me to take for today, I threw in the garbage. Straight in the garbage. So then I had to go into the garbage in front of Brian Kilmeade's producer. And he goes, what's what's you doing back there? I just had to go through every piece of paper. Just retrieving my show notes that I deposited in the trash can. Christine, you're trying to make money. Are you betting on this game? Sure am. Okay, is this your... Booky Bill? Cookie cookies, bookie bill? It's a different bookie, but yeah, there's a bookie. Okay, and it's probably not legal, by the way. Oh, no, it's just a friend doing a pool. Got it. Okay, so explain. It's one of those pools where... Points, it's like points and quarters. Yeah, so like the home, you know, like the side and I'm doing, this is radio. How do I explain it? You're just gesturing wildly. It would not help if there were cameras either, by the way. Dylan, can you explain the box pool? I've never done a box pool, so this is all on you. Great. You got this. Go forward. Didn't I pitch this? You did. And I could describe it. I'm just enjoying this. Okay, so there's numbers going across and then numbers going down. And then you get to pick a box. Right. And if the score reflects that box in the game and you have selected that box based on, you know, after the first quarter, the score adds up to X? Correct. You win the box. It's associated with money. What's the grand prize? 25,000. Ooh, that's a lot. So it's 500 a box. We went in. We went in. For one box or how many? We got one box. So we went with another couple. $500. So if first quarter is $5,000, they have a reverse on the first quarter, too, you get $1,000. Then halftime is $10,000, reverses $1,000. How many quarters are there? Three, third quarter is $500. The question answers itself, actually. Quarters. Oh. Can we start this over? No. This has been really bad. We cannot. We are doing radio right now. This is bad. I feel like I should just stop talking. And the grand finale total thing is 25,000. I'm done. Wish me luck. But you're probably not eligible to win the 25, right? Why? Because you only have one box and it's only, what, one quarter? Or could you win the whole thing? No, so, like, so our numbers are six and six. So if the first quarter, if the last two numbers of the score are six or whatever, what are you doing, Dylan, for the weekend? Doing great cooks. Doing great. I'm doing good week. I'm family coming over. So we're going to watch the game. I'm making some lemon pepper wings homemade. So it's going to be a great weekend. Really, really, really good.

Yeah, I'm debating whether to do one, not even a cheat day on the program that we're doing, the weight loss program with the food restrictions, which is going extremely well. It's worked unbelievably well. I am past my full goal. For the two months, I'm already past it. So I'm on my way to 20 pounds down, which is crazy. I'm thinking about doing Super Bowl dinner as a cheat meal where I can get. Pizza. I support that. I know you do. But I probably won't have alcohol. I think I'll probably rain it in. But I feel like a slice of pizza on Super Bowl Sunday is America. And I am nothing if not American. So maybe I will. It'll be a game time decision, I think. Maybe I'll consult with the doctor. I'll send a little text through the portal. What about this? And just see what is said. Could it really? Throw off the whole thing, derail the whole thing, one slice of pizza? Just a slice of pizza and a beer, you're good. Not doing the beer. Oh, we're not. You added that in. I noticed that's very subtle. It's added a little beer. You're like, how about one full pizza and a handle of vodka? Right, that's, don't give me that look. Now you're thinking about it. You're like, ooh, good idea. Like, I just gave you that permission. I did not let the record reflect. Do you have a rooting interest in this game? Seattle, right? Yes. Is it because we have such a large audience in Seattle Red? I mean, I'm just, yeah, that's the kind of girl I am. But we do have some audience in New England as well. We've got WLOB and Maine. We've got some other stations as well, but I think this is mostly about rooting against your husband's team. Yes, and don't for, oh, I'm sorry, Kathy. My mother and father will all listen to this segment every single day and they're from Massachusetts as well, and they're rooting for the Pats. Of course they are. Oh, Patriots. I, that's not. Oh, no. That's Midwestern. That was bad. Wow. I'm having a horrible day. Yikes. I am rooting for Seattle just because I can't root for New England sports teams generally. I think the Patriots are quite good, but I think they are fortunate to be in this game in general. I think Seattle's better. The Pats barely beat Denver. Yes, in all the snow and everything like that, but Denver didn't have their starting quarterback. So I could be wrong. You put two teams out there, their professionals, anything can happen, but I think Seattle's going to win. I slightly prefer that outcome, but I just don't really care about these teams or the halftime act. But it is an American institution. It is one of our last vestiges of shared culture as a country, which is something that I absolutely do value. So watch or DVR, the Big Weekend Show. Saturday and Sunday. And then there's that football game airing somewhere. I don't know. We've got to go. We've got to go. And we shall. And we will be back here on Monday with more of Guy Benson. Have a wonderful evening. We will talk to you then. I'm having a horrible day. Yikes.

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