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The American people, if we don't have good and independent inspector generals, are going to see the swamp refill. They're going to see rampant waste fraud. They're going to see corruption.
Morning Wire
Confirmation Hearings Continue & Israel-Hamas Deal Reached | 1.16.25
We're also worried about Liz Cheney, Senator. You know what we should be worried about? Ms. Bondi, please answer my questions.
Morning Wire
Confirmation Hearings Continue & Israel-Hamas Deal Reached | 1.16.25
That's what I want to be focused on, Senator, if I'm confirmed as Attorney General.
REAL AF with Andy Frisella
843. Andy, Becky Weiss & DJ CTI: Kash Patel Confirmed As FBI Director, Zelensky Cancels Saudi Arabia Trip & RFK Jr. First Move As Health Secretary
Our Republican colleagues, intimidated by this president and threats of primary challenges from MAGA world, may vote to confirm him. But as my colleagues have said, they will have to live with that vote, be accountable for that vote, and be accountable for all the destruction that Patel does to this premier law enforcement agency.
REAL AF with Andy Frisella
843. Andy, Becky Weiss & DJ CTI: Kash Patel Confirmed As FBI Director, Zelensky Cancels Saudi Arabia Trip & RFK Jr. First Move As Health Secretary
We stand, we, us Democratic members of this Judiciary Committee, stand shoulder to shoulder with the professionals in the FBI, with law enforcement everywhere, and we wish our colleagues would do the same. And with that, let me...
REAL AF with Andy Frisella
843. Andy, Becky Weiss & DJ CTI: Kash Patel Confirmed As FBI Director, Zelensky Cancels Saudi Arabia Trip & RFK Jr. First Move As Health Secretary
This is someone we cannot trust. This is someone who lacks the character to do this job, someone who lacks the integrity to do this job. We know that. Our Republican colleagues know that.
REAL AF with Andy Frisella
843. Andy, Becky Weiss & DJ CTI: Kash Patel Confirmed As FBI Director, Zelensky Cancels Saudi Arabia Trip & RFK Jr. First Move As Health Secretary
The only qualification Kash Patel has to be FBI director is that when everyone else in the first Trump administration said, no, I won't do that, that crosses moral, ethical, and legal lines, Kash Patel said, sign me up. In the first Trump administration, as we are seeing in the second, you rise to the level of your sycophancy, and no one is a bigger or more dangerous sycophant than Kash Patel.
REAL AF with Andy Frisella
843. Andy, Becky Weiss & DJ CTI: Kash Patel Confirmed As FBI Director, Zelensky Cancels Saudi Arabia Trip & RFK Jr. First Move As Health Secretary
This political hack does not deserve to be in this building. He can't do the job. He won't protect the public. He will misuse the resources of the bureau. He will weaponize it against the president's political opponents rather than the protecting the safety, the public safety of the American people. We will vote no.
Real Coffee with Scott Adams
Episode 2770 CWSA 03/06/25
Oh, Adam Schiff. Oh, everything that happens is bad if Trump does it.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2171 - Who Shot JFK?
I thank you for being here. Senator Booker, I always knew you were a towering intellect and a phenomenal and passionate speaker and advocate, but I did not know your stamina until today.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2131 - Trump and Musk Bring The CHAINSAW
Uh, it's charred on the ground. Uh, I lived in Malibu. I fled, uh, evacuated. Um, I cannot go back. Uh, my place made it. Most of the places around me did not make it. Um, all the way down PCH, which is weird for people who don't know the topography.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2131 - Trump and Musk Bring The CHAINSAW
You see people up on the hill burn like a brush fire, but you've never heard of an ocean fire, because they don't have them on the other side of Pacific Coast Highway, but it's very rare. Well, I'll tell you how rare it is. Many of those buildings weren't from the 50s, some from the 40s, the structures on the ocean side of PCH, and they're all gone. And most the places up on the Hill are gone.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2131 - Trump and Musk Bring The CHAINSAW
I somehow got spared, but I can't go back because there's no power and no electricity. Sorry, no, no plumbing and no gas, nothing, no utility.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2131 - Trump and Musk Bring The CHAINSAW
I think there has been, and I think you can chart it all through Bill Maher. So the reason I'll say Bill Maher is not exactly for the reasons you're thinking, but obviously he's come over to our side incrementally over the past maybe five years, eight years. He's been sort of moving. He seems to move further toward a conservative point of view in like the last three years, even more so.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2131 - Trump and Musk Bring The CHAINSAW
So I used to be a contractor, I used to be a builder, and I had to deal with the city, and I had to pull permits, and I had to deal with that bureaucracy, plan check, regulation, my whole life, because that was my job before I got into show business. I would say to everyone all the time, you don't get who these people are. And everyone would go, oh, who cares?
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2131 - Trump and Musk Bring The CHAINSAW
And I would say, you live in a rent control apartment in Santa Monica and you don't care. But wait till you buy property and try to build something and then you have to deal with the city and the bureaucracy. You will start thinking like me. And Bill Maher tried to put solar up at his place about three or four years ago. and ran headlong right into the bureaucracy.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2131 - Trump and Musk Bring The CHAINSAW
And he started looking around going, why is it taking two years to get a permit for a solar shack? And a guy had to come out and inspect my garage door. What do I need an inspection for in my garage? And He tried to pull a permit, he saw firsthand, and now he knows. And that's what turned Bill Maher. That's why he started coming our direction.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2131 - Trump and Musk Bring The CHAINSAW
And what the fire is gonna do is turn a bunch of people into Bill Maher. So these are Malibu, progressive blue leftist, Palisades, progressive blue left, Santa Monica. Santa Monica, this is some of the bluest cities in America. And they're going to start going with me and Bill now because they're going to start dealing with the bureaucracy and the bureaucracy that got their house burnt down.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2131 - Trump and Musk Bring The CHAINSAW
That's one mismanagement. Gavin Newsom, Karen Bass. The house is down because of the bureaucracy and mismanagement. But now they're trying to pull a permit to rebuild and they're going to run right into it.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2131 - Trump and Musk Bring The CHAINSAW
Yeah, well, all right, a bunch of thoughts. One is, yeah, they did, well, that's what happened with COVID. It's like people just didn't want to get into trouble. And the day Gavin Newsom shut the beach, we all should have rushed the beach that day. But instead, we went one at a time and got picked off. So we all should have rushed the guard tower at once.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2131 - Trump and Musk Bring The CHAINSAW
Some are going to get hit by the machine gun bullets, but we'll get out. You know what I mean? So, yes, people are complacent. Newsom and Karen Bass, it's always funny when they go, we cut all the red tape. We're going to cut all the red tapes. And I'm like, who put all the red tape? Why is there so much red tape?
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2131 - Trump and Musk Bring The CHAINSAW
And so if there wasn't a fire and we're just individually trying to put a deck on your house in the Palisades, let's just say no fire. then you got to deal with the red tape. Or you wanted to do something in Malibu, then you have to deal with the red tape. It's a lot. I'll tell you what it is when you go, they sound like Republicans. By the way, they sound like Republicans.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2131 - Trump and Musk Bring The CHAINSAW
That's like dressing up as a Republican for Halloween for them. They're coming right back to their Birkenstocks the next day. Believe me, they're kicking off the wingtips and putting on the Birkenstocks the following morning. But here's what it is. It's like They had a lot of productions flee Los Angeles, right? So Hollywood, Los Angeles, production capital of the world, right?
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2131 - Trump and Musk Bring The CHAINSAW
Then they start with the red tape. Then they start with the money. Then they start with the taxes. Then they start with all what they do, right? And so what happens? All the productions, Canada, Atlanta, Prague, gone, right? They all leave. And then at some point, the people in power noticed that there's nothing coming in because they chased off all the productions, runaway production.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2131 - Trump and Musk Bring The CHAINSAW
So what do they do? Then they make an announcement. Hey fellas, guess what? We decided to make a few alterations on some of our big ass, lower it down, sound like a Republican and see if we can get you guys to come on back and do a little work here in town. And it's the same thing with the building and the rebuilding. It's like, Oh, Oh, Maybe a little too much red tape.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2131 - Trump and Musk Bring The CHAINSAW
We're going to sound a little like this and see if we can't lure you back.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2131 - Trump and Musk Bring The CHAINSAW
Yeah, well, they don't have clear answers on that. The power is not back up yet. Utilities need to come back on. And then the question of the bureaucracy, because is a site contaminated? Is it a hazmat? You know. You set a futon on fire, it's going to leave behind some sort of chemical footprint. And everything, turns out, causes cancer in California. So there's a sticker on every gas pump.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2131 - Trump and Musk Bring The CHAINSAW
There's a sticker on every window of every liquor store. You enter this 7-Eleven, you will get cancer. Now everyone ignores it because you have to pump your own gas, and so what? But... technically there's some benzene in the soil.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2131 - Trump and Musk Bring The CHAINSAW
You know, they will find one part per billion benzene particles in the soil and then they'll say you need to have a hazmat team and remediation team and blah, blah, blah. So that's how they do it. They could tie everybody up and say you can't just get a bobcat in here and start scooping this stuff into a dumpster and truck it off to a landfill because there's dangerous levels of benzene. Well,
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2131 - Trump and Musk Bring The CHAINSAW
They decide what the dangerous levels of benzene are. They're always dangerous levels. They're always going to be higher than what's acceptable to the Coastal Commission. And so they could tie this stuff up for years if they wanted, you know, a small thing that like people don't think about. But as a builder, I was like, oh, yeah, all everything's on septic in Malibu.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2131 - Trump and Musk Bring The CHAINSAW
And all the places along the ocean are on septic. Now these are $20 million homes and maybe 12 million on the low end and maybe 80 on the high that are gone. But a lot of these places are from the 60s, 50s, 70s. They're on an old septic system. The city's not going to let them just rebuild and use the old septic system. They need a new septic system. And their septic system was from 1963.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2131 - Trump and Musk Bring The CHAINSAW
It's 2025 now. That is a different septic system. They have to build a seawall so that the water won't, you know, the ocean won't erode the septic. But you could be millions of dollars into the septic system. before you pull out your first two-by-four and start framing.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2131 - Trump and Musk Bring The CHAINSAW
Well, you know, Suzanne Summers and Alan Hamill, you know, a famous couple of 50 years or so. Suzanne is a friend. Alan's still a friend. Susan passed recently. They would come back to Malibu all the time from Palm Springs. And we'd go out to dinner with them. And they'd go, oh, man, we love Malibu. We used to live in Malibu. We love Malibu so much. But now they live in Palm Desert, you know.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2131 - Trump and Musk Bring The CHAINSAW
And I'd go, well, why did you ever leave Malibu if you love it so much? And Alan... And Susan would say to me, oh, we had this beautiful spread, like three acre, three lots wide, right down on the ocean. And it burnt to the ground. Oh, yeah. And said after about year seven of dealing with the Coastal Commission, he said, screw it. We're too old.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2131 - Trump and Musk Bring The CHAINSAW
We packed it up and we just moved, moved to Palm Springs. And there's going to be. like life is too short. A lot of people like, you know, a lot of these people, first off, these are 22 year old new couples that are living on PCH in Malibu in a $17 million house. This is some of these people are old and it's old money. And you know, when you're 71 years old, do you have
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2131 - Trump and Musk Bring The CHAINSAW
11 years to rebuild your house or do you just move to Nashville?
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2131 - Trump and Musk Bring The CHAINSAW
uh i don't know i i think um obviously karen bass has to has to go because i you know she's just there we do like ceremonial mayors but we don't do actual people who do stuff we just go we like the idea of a black woman in this position it's like we cast them like they cast a judge in a crime show you know what i mean like the judge should be a black woman why eh, it's just better.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2131 - Trump and Musk Bring The CHAINSAW
Does she know anything about law? It's just a show. She doesn't need to know anything about law. Just make sure she gets the gown right.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2131 - Trump and Musk Bring The CHAINSAW
Yes, we're doing a lot of just casting and movies now. You know, Rick Caruso is a developer, is a commercial. I mean, Rick Caruso is basically Trump in that developers, especially big project commercial developers, and that's Trump, And I know it because it used to be my business. These guys are always in a hurry. They're like, why is it taking so long? What's going on?
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2131 - Trump and Musk Bring The CHAINSAW
And then they're going, well, we got to get the guys come in and form and pour the concrete slabs. Like, why is it taking so long? Well, because in their world, the foundation has to be poured and then the framers can come in and start framing. And when the framers are done, then the drywallers can come in. When the drywallers are done, the roofers can come in.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2131 - Trump and Musk Bring The CHAINSAW
And so everything's like, what's taking so long? You know, like they're in a hurry. And you saw in that press conference, like Mayor Bass is like,
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2131 - Trump and Musk Bring The CHAINSAW
you know we want to rebuild but say we want to do it safely so when you hear safely it's that just means more paperwork yeah we wanted to go through covid but safely that's why they locked the schools down for a year and a half that's why they locked the beaches why they shut down outdoor dining that's why you got screwed in the workplace because say when you hear safety
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2131 - Trump and Musk Bring The CHAINSAW
That means you're about to get screwed hard for a long time. But it sounds good, right? Like safety. Oh, yeah. Who's not? So she's sitting there going, we got to rebuild. but we got to do it safely. And he's like, two days is too long. Get it going. I know guys who'll be up there with a flathead shovel right now, scooping ash into a can right now. And so Trump's like, hurry, hurry, hurry.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2131 - Trump and Musk Bring The CHAINSAW
And she's like, slower down, slower down. So if we could get a Rick Caruso who has the commercial building and developing behind him, all those guys are just going to be like, You know, our problem is, is we take people who've never been in business and we put them in charge of policy. And they're career bureaucrats and they don't have a metronome that's like, come on, let's go.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2131 - Trump and Musk Bring The CHAINSAW
And there's no precision. You know, like you need a background of like commercial airline pilot or developer or engineer. Like guys like that are like, let's go, let's do it. We take a bunch of people. You know, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Karen Bass, Gavin Newsom, just pie in the sky idiots who sit around and pontificate. But nothing comes out the other end.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2131 - Trump and Musk Bring The CHAINSAW
I think between you and Dave Rubin's shame, that'll expedite my process of leaving California. because I get a lot of it from both of you. Yeah, and as well you should. Well, good to see you.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2115 - The Right Should DUMP Andrew Tate
Thank you, Ben. Thank you for having me. It's a great honor to be speaking with you.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2115 - The Right Should DUMP Andrew Tate
It started when Aiden was two years old, is when I first received a picture of Aiden in a dress. And I sent out some text messages basically saying he's a boy, not a girl. And I had thought it had stopped at that point. And on Aiden's third birthday, we were potty training Aiden at the time. And he asked if he could go use the restroom. I said, absolutely, buddy. Do you need help?
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2115 - The Right Should DUMP Andrew Tate
Or do you want to do it by yourself? He says, I want to do it by myself. He went by himself. He came back out to me and he said, he said, daddy, mommy bought me a pink dress. And the way I tell you and everybody else, I got down on one knee. I looked him in the eyes that he, buddy, you're a boy, not a girl and boys don't wear dresses. And he said, okay, daddy.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2115 - The Right Should DUMP Andrew Tate
And, and, and at that point I sent out another group of text messages and that in those groups of text message, none of them were threatening of violence or anything like that to her or him. But they were able to get a temporary restraining order put on me.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2115 - The Right Should DUMP Andrew Tate
So I've technically been on a temporary restraining order for almost five years for no violence, no neglect to either my son's mother or to her. The judges in California ordered a gender assessment to be done on my son, which I have never... Mr. Shapiro, this whole thing has been extremely one-sided.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2115 - The Right Should DUMP Andrew Tate
Not at one time has the court system, the attorneys ever took the father into consideration into this situation. They've always took her side. So I wanted to sit in on the gender assessment at Children's Hospital of Los Angeles, and they denied me that. I hired my own therapist to sit in on the assessment and they denied me that, denied me that.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2115 - The Right Should DUMP Andrew Tate
And I wanted to have a phone call with the doctor and they denied me a phone call. So the doctor has never called the father to ask his side of what he thinks is going on with his son.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2115 - The Right Should DUMP Andrew Tate
No, sir. I asked Aiden's grandparents every single day, did I miss something in Aiden? Was there an inkling that he wanted to be a girl? And there was never any inkling that my son Aiden wanted to be a girl. He was just your normal, typical little boy. Wanted to play with trucks, play in the dirt, your normal little boy thing. So there was never anything that he wanted to be this way.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2115 - The Right Should DUMP Andrew Tate
I think she started wanting to get back at me because we were no longer together at this point. But I truly believe that the judges, her attorney, the therapists, the children's hospitals, doctors, I really truly believe that they brainwashed my son's mother to be 100% on board with this whole transition.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2115 - The Right Should DUMP Andrew Tate
It wasn't just up until recently in court where she actually started referring to Aiden as a her, referring to him as Luna. Aiden now has she, her pronouns. I received an email from a parent from school that she sent the school saying that Aiden is now full transgender at four years old. He goes by she, her pronouns. He goes by the name of Violet. Two years ago, it was Violet. Now it's Luna.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2115 - The Right Should DUMP Andrew Tate
So as we all know, there's a transgender book out there for kids that the main character's name is Luna. And a lot of these kids are taking that name up because they're referencing that book to what's going on with them. So my son goes by Luna as of right now.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2115 - The Right Should DUMP Andrew Tate
The current legal status, I'm in the appeals process right now, waiting to get an appeals hearing. But if this goes all the way through to the end, I'll be on an eight-year restraining order for no physical violence. And in the state of California, the only way a child can be removed from a parent or parents if there's abuse or neglect.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2115 - The Right Should DUMP Andrew Tate
And in this case, there was never any abuse or neglect with my son.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2115 - The Right Should DUMP Andrew Tate
Thank you, Mr. Chair. I appreciate that.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2115 - The Right Should DUMP Andrew Tate
It's gaslighting. Please stop. He's a boy, not a girl. How could she do this to my son?
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2143 - The True Faces Of Evil
He can't do the job. He won't protect the public. He will misuse the resources of the bureau. He will weaponize it against the president's political opponents. rather than the protecting the safety, the public safety of the American people.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2143 - The True Faces Of Evil
How do you both feel about your mom opening up in a kennel?
The Dan Bongino Show
The Golden Age Of Republican Politics (Ep. 2428)
It is up to us today to say no. No to this nomination. No to Pam Bondi. RFK is not the best or the brightest. He will not bring back Camelot or make America healthy again. Tulsi Gabbard is a walking five alarm fire and must be rejected. Must be. No one is a bigger or more dangerous sycophant than Kash Patel. This political hack does not deserve to be in this building.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
WOW! Dems Take SHOCK LEAD in Races NO ONE EXPECTED
Adam secured millions to crack down on gangs, sex traffickers, and dangerous drug dealers.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
WOW! Dems Take SHOCK LEAD in Races NO ONE EXPECTED
He is a man of integrity and that's what we really need in Washington.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
WOW! Dems Take SHOCK LEAD in Races NO ONE EXPECTED
And so am I. But I'm for Adam Gray because he gets it. I'm Adam Gray and I approve this message.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
WOW! Dems Take SHOCK LEAD in Races NO ONE EXPECTED
I think it's insulting to every voter in this district that John wants to portray himself as pro-choice, but yet won't commit to codifying Roe v. Wade. You know, John, pro-choice means a woman gets to choose her own reproductive health care, regardless of what state she lives in or where she is, when she might have a miscarriage or a medical emergency. And it's just dishonest.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
WOW! Dems Take SHOCK LEAD in Races NO ONE EXPECTED
And it's dishonest because it's a say anything to get elected in a district that doesn't agree with me. Folks here want to see change on this issue. And if I'm elected to the United States Congress, I will vote to codify Roe v. Wade.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
WOW! Dems Take SHOCK LEAD in Races NO ONE EXPECTED
And because of President Trump at the top of the ticket, creating division, insulting immigrants and scaring people, calling them rapists and criminals. That opportunity for progress got blown up. And so we need to send people to Congress that are actually going to work together with both parties to tackle this.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
WOW! Dems Take SHOCK LEAD in Races NO ONE EXPECTED
We need the carpenters, the plumbers, the electricians. We need the job training program to actually get the workforce to have a major renaissance and explosion of building.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
WOW! Dems Take SHOCK LEAD in Races NO ONE EXPECTED
Again, doctor and a woman will make the reproductive health care choices that are medically appropriate, and that's where we need to leave it.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
GOP SHOCKED as Dem House Win BECOMES OFFICIAL
Game, set, match, that's a ball game, folks. Democratic candidate from California's 13th congressional district, Adam Gray, is officially declaring victory in his race against the MAGA Republican incumbent, John Duarte. California's 13th congressional district is in the Inland Empire in California. This means it is official. California has flipped three MAGA Republican seats to Democrats.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
GOP SHOCKED as Dem House Win BECOMES OFFICIAL
So he wants to find a way to try to blame people for something. So he doesn't care that it's chaotic. But I won't go down that rabbit hole. I think for now, it's important to note that these were three big flips and now it is official. As our friend Lakshya Jain from Split Ticket says, this brings an end to the 2024 cycle for now.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
GOP SHOCKED as Dem House Win BECOMES OFFICIAL
Unless a recount reveals an error in the tabulation, we don't expect there to be an error in the tabulation from the recount. As the final component to our coverage of the cycle, we'll have our split-ticket model post-mortem released this week with statistical evaluations of performance now that it's done. Adam Gray put out the following statement.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
GOP SHOCKED as Dem House Win BECOMES OFFICIAL
I'm honored to become the congressman-elect for California's 13th congressional district. Let's go. The final results confirm this district is ready for independent and accountable leadership that always puts the valley's people ahead of partisan politics. But the work has just begun. In Washington, I'll work every day to deliver the resources that the valley needs, clean water,
The MeidasTouch Podcast
GOP SHOCKED as Dem House Win BECOMES OFFICIAL
better educational opportunities, stronger infrastructure, and more good paying jobs. And you can count on me to build bipartisan relationships to accomplish these goals. I am deeply grateful to all those who volunteered their time, chipped in to help our campaign, or took a moment out of their busy day to learn about our race.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
GOP SHOCKED as Dem House Win BECOMES OFFICIAL
And I am especially thankful for my campaign team, my friends, and my family. Now let's get to work. Folks, we're talking about a lead in votes of about 187 votes. It's why all votes matter. It's why we always tell people here, get out and vote. 187 votes separated the winner here from the loser. And by the way,
The MeidasTouch Podcast
GOP SHOCKED as Dem House Win BECOMES OFFICIAL
As I read that statement from Adam Gray, could you ever imagine a MAGA Republican putting together a statement like that that talks about these things? Clean water. Have you ever heard a MAGA Republican talk about clean water? better educational opportunities.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
GOP SHOCKED as Dem House Win BECOMES OFFICIAL
All I hear about them is the MAGA Republicans wanting to burn books, stronger infrastructure, yeah, the Infrastructure Act by President Biden, and more good paying jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs. Macro-Republican statements are always like, we're going after the deep state and Donald Trump's the greatest and just like their cult worship of Donald Trump.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
GOP SHOCKED as Dem House Win BECOMES OFFICIAL
We need to get back to talking about, and I know Democrats are doing it, but they got to just message this consistently, hit it over and over and over again, jobs, jobs, jobs. infrastructure, infrastructure, infrastructure, healthcare, healthcare, healthcare. Get the message out. Speak plainly and directly to the American people. And I wrote an article about this on MidasPlus.com.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
GOP SHOCKED as Dem House Win BECOMES OFFICIAL
You can check it out. M-E-I-D-A-S-P-L-U-S.com. MidasPlus.com. Stop letting MAGAs. take credit for your accomplishments. It's baffling to me. The Infrastructure Act that President Biden got through, the Inflation Reduction Act, the PACT Act, the CHIPS Act. President Biden delivered these things for the people who ended up not voting for Democrats.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
GOP SHOCKED as Dem House Win BECOMES OFFICIAL
But Biden, I think, recognized that this group of people felt screwed because they are getting screwed. But we're not getting screwed by the Democrats. They're getting screwed by the MAGA Republicans and the billionaire oligarchy, starting with the Reagan policies. That's who's screwing these people when all of this wealth is amassed by the 0.01%. How do you think you're getting screwed?
The MeidasTouch Podcast
GOP SHOCKED as Dem House Win BECOMES OFFICIAL
What this means, folks, is that the final House composition is going to be 220 Republicans to 215 Democrats. But because of all of Donald Trump's cabinet picks, including those accused of child sex trafficking. And I'm talking about Matt Gaetz. By the way, can we release that ethics report? As soon as this new Congress begins, it will actually only be about 217 to 215, maybe even 216.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
GOP SHOCKED as Dem House Win BECOMES OFFICIAL
They're getting screwed because of them. And they get corporate welfare. They get all the handouts in the world. And then every time we hear about raising the minimum wage to a living wage, we're told, that's horrible for business. Businesses are going to crash. OK, I understand.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
GOP SHOCKED as Dem House Win BECOMES OFFICIAL
I could have a reasonable debate and discussion with you, but you never hear the concomitant argument about when the CEO's pay package goes to 30 million, 50 million, 100 million, a billion dollars. No one's like, oh my God, that's gonna screw up the way the business. Never done that way at all.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
GOP SHOCKED as Dem House Win BECOMES OFFICIAL
Robert Garcia, friend at the Midas Touch Network, Congressmember Garcia goes, congrats to Congressman Adam Gray. That's three California flips and one battleground. Hold. Well done. And we need people who talk about those issues. Unlike MAGA Mike Johnson, who's he's up there with. Sorry for the demonstration.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
GOP SHOCKED as Dem House Win BECOMES OFFICIAL
He's up there with the with the with the mirror looking up at people in the bathroom stalls saying we're just making sure there are no weirdos in the women's bathrooms. They're focusing on genitals and penises images. China's all, what are they doing, these MAGA Republicans? What are they doing? I said there were three flips, the other big flip.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
GOP SHOCKED as Dem House Win BECOMES OFFICIAL
Democrat Derek Tran declaring victory in California's 45th U.S. House District three weeks after the election. I reported on that last week. He beat the MAGA Republican incumbent, Representative Michelle Steele. Again, that vote, that race was decided in the hundreds of votes as well. And then our friend George Whiteside, a NASA executive, flipped California's 27th congressional district.
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GOP SHOCKED as Dem House Win BECOMES OFFICIAL
from another MAGA Mike, MAGA Mike Garcia, a MAGA extremist here in Los Angeles. Trump is gonna now take office with a razor-thin House GOP majority. And look, folks, I wanna be very clear what these MAGAs are after, what they're doing, what are the things that they are talking about. Let's be very clear. For example, you've got MAGA Republican Josh Shriver posting Make gay marriage illegal again.
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GOP SHOCKED as Dem House Win BECOMES OFFICIAL
This is not remotely controversial nor extreme. That's what MAGA Republicans think. Pure hate over and over again. Or how about this? MAGA Republican Representative Richard McCormick. They're saying the quiet part out loud because they always were saying it out loud. We just got to listen to it.
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GOP SHOCKED as Dem House Win BECOMES OFFICIAL
Here's Representative Richard McCormick saying, we got hard decisions to make when it comes to Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare. Those are, we got to take those challenges head on. He's calling your social, this is what Republicans are calling your Social Security, your Medicaid, your Medicare challenges we need to take head on. And MAGA's talking about cutting veterans benefits.
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GOP SHOCKED as Dem House Win BECOMES OFFICIAL
to 215, meaning that MAGA Mike Johnson is going to have a lot of trouble getting rules passed, getting legislation through, or getting anything done at all. Remember how chaotic it previously was when MAGA Mike Johnson had a small but significantly bigger advantage in the House of Representatives. And folks, this comes as a big shock for MAGA Mike Johnson.
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GOP SHOCKED as Dem House Win BECOMES OFFICIAL
I did a whole story on this yesterday morning where they're like, all of these lavish perks that our veterans are getting and attacking it like that. Democrats, you just need to speak to the American people directly. Look him in the eye and tell him what's going on. Show him videos like this of MAGA Republican Representative Rich McCormick. Here, play this clip.
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GOP SHOCKED as Dem House Win BECOMES OFFICIAL
Well, we talk about this all the time. If you don't want to believe him, this is what MAGA Mike Johnson was saying during the campaign. He said they're going to get rid of the Affordable Care Act, which is Obamacare. Listen to MAGA Mike. Let's play it.
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GOP SHOCKED as Dem House Win BECOMES OFFICIAL
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GOP SHOCKED as Dem House Win BECOMES OFFICIAL
He was previously telling Donald Trump, stop appointing these House Republicans to the cabinet. You're killing me here, Donald, is what he was saying. One of my theories, although I don't want to get conspiratorial though, but I'll say this, is that Donald Trump realizes that if he doesn't have opposition in the House, then he's going to get blamed for all of the screw up.
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Trump Has Disaster Sunday as His Regime Scrambles
Unfortunately, he's wrecking our economy. I think people have seen their retirement savings on fire. And there he is out on the golf course. That may end up being the most enduring image of the Trump presidency. That is the president out on a golf cart while people's retirement is in flames. The Treasury Secretary saying that people aren't looking at where the retirement savings are.
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Trump Has Disaster Sunday as His Regime Scrambles
Maybe he doesn't have to. He's got the wealth. He doesn't have to. Maybe the president with his wealth doesn't have to, but... What I'm hearing from Californians is those that have just retired, those are on the eve of retiring. They're terrified of this. And I hope and pray we stay out of recession. But if we head into a recession, it will be the Trump recession. He will completely own it.
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Trump Has Disaster Sunday as His Regime Scrambles
This is a completely self-destructive economic act that he's engaged in.
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Kamala Makes POWERFUL MOVE at JAN 6 CERTIFICATION
So we have to try to find ways to work together to attack these structural problems of the economy.
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Kamala Makes POWERFUL MOVE at JAN 6 CERTIFICATION
Well, look, I think we hope for the best. We keep a focus on trying to get positive, affirmative things done for the country. But a lot will depend on how he chooses to govern. If he violates the law, if he violates the Constitution, if he abuses his office, we will vigorously push back, fight back, stand up to him, as we had to do during his first term in office.
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Kamala Makes POWERFUL MOVE at JAN 6 CERTIFICATION
But my priority is to try to get things done for my California constituents, realizing though they also expect me to stand up to him when he attacks the Constitution or their freedom.
Today, Explained
Democrats, where you at?
week two to week three, and even more unity in week four as we arrive at the most effective strategy.
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Democrats, where you at?
Well, at one level, the messaging is affected because he's very unpopular. But that's not enough. We're not very popular either.
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Democrats, where you at?
Yes. Now, typically, when you lose an election, you're not going to be very popular. And when the Republicans lost the last election, they were deeply unpopular. But part of it is... that we need to make sure that we're communicating with equal vigor our positive message about the economy.
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Democrats, where you at?
The fact that what we are focused on like a laser is making sure that if you're working hard, you can earn a good living in America. And I do think there's going to be a sharp contrast that is going to be even more apparent to people as we get into the tax debate about who's fighting for whom.
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Democrats, where you at?
And that reference you made about who's fighting for the billionaires and who's fighting for working families, that's going to become crystal clear as we get into the fight over this big Trump tax giveaway to corporations and wealthy people. And of course, by making Elon Musk their most visible candidate, I don't know how to describe him, alter ego president, they're helping us make the case.
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Democrats, where you at?
He is the symbol of the oligarchy, and he is sort of ransacking, vandalizing these agencies, enriching himself. There's all this corrupt self-dealing. going on in the administration, the president and his meme coin, the swamp is just overflowing.
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Democrats, where you at?
And so the case is going to be quite easy to make, but even as we make that case, we have to be articulating our own bold economic vision for the future, which needs to be simple and powerful, and we need to have the same brand and message discipline that we see from the other side.
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Democrats, where you at?
Absolutely. And I think the illustration you give about Roe v. Wade is a really important one because I think a big piece of what we need to do is take the long view, the way Republicans have. They worked on overturning Roe v. Wade for decades, and they succeeded. And part of, I think, the reason we were caught flat-footed is we were in some disbelief.
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Democrats, where you at?
On the one hand, we knew this is what their goal was, and they were trying to do it. On the other hand, it was like, Could they really do that? Could the Supreme Court really overturn these decades of law? Would they really go so far? And even while we knew the answer was yes, we still had a hard time believing they would actually do it, and they did. But here's the thing.
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Democrats, where you at?
We're going to need to reform that Supreme Court. In order to reform it, we're going to have to impose a code of ethics on the courts. We're going to have to impose term limits on the court. We're going to ultimately have to change the size of the court. We're going to need to start socializing these ideas now because they're going to take time.
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Democrats, where you at?
And people might say, okay, term limits on the court, which I think, frankly, is one of the most important reforms. Is that really possible? Is that really doable? And the answer is yes, it is. And the public would be hugely supportive of that.
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Democrats, where you at?
I don't think you can find probably many people out there who think it's a good idea that you'd be given that kind of power for life without any check on it. And we can impose term limits and do so in a constitutional way as long as we provide that after you serve, let's say, 18 years on the court, you're not removed completely from the court.
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Democrats, where you at?
You're just reassigned back to the court of appeals or to the district court. You remain a judge for life, but you don't have a lifetime guarantee of being on a particular court. That is constitutional. That would eliminate the kind of institution-destroying gamesmanship we saw when Merrick Garland couldn't even get a hearing.
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Democrats, where you at?
And over time, it would once again restore that court's balance and credibility, which has been so badly shaken, eroded, and destroyed. But we're going to need to socialize those ideas. We're going to need to make that case. We're going to have to be ready to make it for as long as it takes.
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Democrats, where you at?
We need to learn from what the Republicans did in tearing that institution down if we're going to be able to rebuild it.
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Democrats, where you at?
I did my job, which I'm proud of as a January 6th committee member. Look, what Biden did was a mistake. I urged him not to do it. I think in particular, the pardons of the family members set a precedent that will haunt us because what it means is Trump's kids are all going to get a pardon now. So going into this administration...
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Democrats, where you at?
You know, the Don Juniors and the Erics and all the rest of that group that are already looking for every way to enrich themselves now know they can cross any line they want because dad's going to give them a pardon on the way out the door. That's a terrible message to be sending a family that has, you know, ethical problems galore. So terrible precedent.
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Democrats, where you at?
I also thought the pardons of the January 6th committee, even though I was one of them, are a mistake. I don't want to see Administrations on the way out the door pardoning party members and political allies, etc. That's another precedent we don't want. But all of that, all of that is child's play compared to what Donald Trump has done. And let's just look at the big picture here.
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Democrats, where you at?
Donald Trump comes into office. He pardons 1,550 people. including people who violently attacked police in the service of an even bigger political crime of trying to overturn the election. He sends a message, if you use violence in my favor to perpetuate my power, I have your back.
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Democrats, where you at?
Then he goes beyond that to fire the prosecutors, the top prosecutors and the top FBI agents who worked on properly investigating and prosecuting these criminals. So he punishes law enforcement for doing their jobs. And he rewards criminals for beating police and trying to stop the transfer of power. It is breathtaking. And they're not done. They now want to purge countless people from the FBI.
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Democrats, where you at?
They want you to inform on your neighbor. They want to know anyone who ever worked on these cases. It is just... Dangerous and disgraceful and an attack on the rule of law and the justice system. So, yeah, I disagree with Joe Biden. It's not in the same league. And I think we really have to be aware of the magnitude of the harm that Trump is doing right now to our justice system.
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Democrats, where you at?
If we deport a large percentage of our farm workforce, farm labor is going to be scarce. isn't that inevitably going to push up food prices?
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Democrats, where you at?
My plan is to pick my fights, decide on the things that he's doing that are really destructive, that are harmful to the state and to the country. not chase every crazy squirrel that comes running out of Trump land, to look for areas where we might actually be able to work on things together, like bringing down the cost of living.
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Democrats, where you at?
Now, a lot of the things he's doing are going to have exactly the opposite effect. The tariffs, the mass deportations, all those things are going to drive up costs. But I'm not going to stop looking for things that I can work together on with the administration. I don't think we have four years to wait until this is over to get anything done.
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Democrats, where you at?
But judging from the first two weeks of this administration, every violation of law and constitution, every corrupt act he's going to expect and should expect, I'm going to vigorously go after him and push back. I think that's what my constituents are expecting of me.
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Democrats, where you at?
Well, I think in order for us to be effective, we're going to have to be united in the fights that we pick. So you can't have some members of the party say, I'm just going to oppose everything, and others have a different strategy. I don't think that's effective. So we have to find the common ground to unite in opposition.
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Democrats, where you at?
And to give you an illustration, I think when we all came together to fight this freeze on federal funding— It was very effective. We took to the floor. We held the floor. We organized our constituents back home. We highlighted cases of real harm that this freeze would do. And I think our unity helped with the clarity of message that we needed and helped beat that back, at least for a time.
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Democrats, where you at?
That's the kind of thing I think we need to do. If some folks, for example, are opposing all nominations and others opposing only some nominations, it's less clear where we unite
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Democrats, where you at?
on, for example, this guy, Russell Vogt, and make the case, this obscure head of OMB or desired head of the Office of Management and Budget, and we let the country know why this person is so dangerous, this architect of Project 2025, then the message breaks through. So I think our strength is our unity. We will find greater and greater unity as we go from, you know,