Donald trump press conference & related news 📰🗞️ 8/10/2026

[1:11] testing testing testing guys so check it out it's august 10th 2026 it's hot as fuck out here in los [2:25] angeles it's about 2 20 p.m pacific standard time where i'm at so i'm gonna be posted inside for the [2:32] next hour or two so just got off work so might as well kick back and relax and hang out with [2:38] youtube hill and see what's cracking with today's current events as far as uh the political world [2:44] goes so let's kick it off with this donald trump press conference he had earlier today all right [2:51] what up everyone hope you're having a good monday out there please uh like and subscribe and uh [2:57] feel free to share whatever's on your mind all right here we go so this is a donald trump press [3:03] conference he had from earlier today at the oval office of the white house thank you very much [3:23] something very important for all of us and it's a vaccine eo i'm delighted to be here in the oval [3:34] office as our administration takes another historic step in our mission to make america healthy [3:41] again today we're proud to officially announce the united states of america's gold standard [3:47] childhood vaccination recommendations and that has to do with many subjects but including autism [3:54] in particular i want to thank the man who has done more than perhaps anyone else to think about this [4:01] real revolution secretary of health and human services robert f kennedy jr my friend and [4:07] he's doing fantastic calvin you can't forget what a bird purple hand he is it's a long guy by the way [4:13] thanks as well to the director of the nih jay vateria deputy assistant to the president of domestic [4:22] policy dr heidi overton our baja moms including jamie franklin who's with us today a very special [4:31] person and also the medical experts and professionals who've worked very hard on getting [4:38] this vaccine this day to come for long far too long long period of time americans recommended more [4:46] childhood vaccines than any clear nation and even twice as many doses as some european countries and [4:53] even more than that in many cases we're requiring 72 jams for a beautiful healthy lovely delicate little [5:02] children including giving the hepatitis b shot to infants and newborns on top of many other [5:09] vaccinations the hepatitis b shouldn't be given until they're 14 or 15 years old they were given [5:16] their own effective immediately my administration is recognizing gold standard shots and vaccine [5:22] recommendations for only 11 more vaccination hey what up the homie morts what's up morts how's it [5:30] going buddy happy monday against the most serious and dangerous diseases along with the mmr which hopefully [5:38] will be split up we have the mmr we wanted in three separate vaccinations given at separate times [5:45] together there could be a possibility they're quite lethal and separately uh it looks like they are not at [5:53] all lethal but just very effective so the mmr we want to have separate separate visits separate times [5:59] the vaccine being broken into three separate single doses and vaccines being administered in separate [6:05] visits for example at one year you should have five separate visits for vaccines rather than getting [6:12] them all in the same day and i saw this early on and i've seen proof of it where they have a vaccination [6:19] it looks like the size of a bottle of soda poured into a little child's body and bad things happen in many [6:29] cases too many cases because this is an explosion this is an epidemic so at year one you should have [6:35] five separate visits for vaccines rather than giving them all in the same day very importantly vaccinations [6:42] to hepatitis b covet 19 and influencer among others are no longer recommended for all children in addition [6:50] this executive order directs attorney general to advance legal challenges against states that violate [6:56] children's rights to religious or medical vaccination uh exemptions exemptions exemptions other countries [7:04] with high vaccination rates without mandates for school what we do is uh you know public other countries [7:12] have very high vaccination rates and they uh have not added they don't have it without mandates for school [7:20] parents can still choose to give their children all of the vaccinations if they wish uh it's up to the [7:27] parents but making recommendations that are strong but it's up to the parents if they wish that they will [7:32] be covered by insurance however this updated recommendation finally aligns the united states [7:37] with other advanced and developed nations around the world more importantly aligns us with common sense [7:43] and knowledge decades ago children received only a small fraction of the vaccines required today at those times [7:51] people were much healthier and of course the high rates of autism now observe did not exist so there's a [7:59] reason for such epidemic rates of autism and we're going to bring it back too much closer to where it was [8:09] well we did not know exactly what the cause is with respect to autism it is essential to the research [8:15] efforts that we have the very best vaccine recommendations in the entire world so we're reducing them we're changing [8:22] into visits over a period of a year a year and a half uh so they get uh 20 percent of what they would [8:28] have gotten in one big shot a big shot like the size of a large class or something this announces a major [8:35] victory for parents rights religious and constitutional rights and for the gold standard science and we will [8:42] continue to do the research hey what's up jay foo man this guy's just taught rambling on about a bunch of [8:48] mumbo jumbo this guy's out of his mind i can't wait till i think like 85 more days until midterms when [8:56] he's impeached removed and in prison but this guy just said something about a shot like it's filled [9:01] with something this guy doesn't even know what he's talking about update the recommendations as we [9:07] reform and i think you're going to see some amazing results breaking it up it's not only that you're doing [9:14] fewer vaccines or jabs and they said we're doing them in a series of visits to the doctor much smaller [9:24] amounts to ensure americans benefit from these recommendations my administration is fully [9:29] committed to using every tool at our disposal including a review of potential funding and [9:35] finding frankly we're doing funding and we're doing findings and the findings will be announced almost [9:40] immediately as we gain some strong purity so now i'd like to have bobby say a few words followed by [9:48] jay and heidi and jay being there hey what's up everybody hope you're all doing well what's up [9:57] andrew what's up john uh what's up moritz how you guys all doing today oh yeah iran doesn't even [10:11] want to deal with this orange shirt anymore i don't blame them executive order which i'm very excited [10:18] about because i came in and i said i want to find what's going on with autism it's many [10:24] many times what it used to be years ago and it gets progressively worse than we had progressively [10:30] more and more vaccines so in a nutshell and you can see it through this we're breaking up the vaccines [10:38] and we're breaking them up in two time periods okay not so complicated and we think we're gonna have a [10:46] tremendous result from doing that very simply large amounts of vaccine large amounts of like vats [10:56] a vaccine are currently pumped into your child's body and we're doing 20 percent of happy monday [11:04] everyone each visit and the time elapsed between visits so the body can handle this massive amount [11:12] of fluid being popped in i think it's going to make a big difference you know there are some groups that [11:18] have virtually no problem with autism and they have you know i have to say they're saying they're uh [11:27] aren't big into the world of vaccines so there's something wrong but we see record numbers all the [11:33] time every year for years and years every year gets higher higher higher autism and we think we have a [11:41] very good recommendation and a lot of good things are happening we're going to be releasing some [11:47] very very detailed paper just another one european countries versus the united states these are high [11:57] level very magically uh powerful european countries you see the top that little chart says a lot but [12:08] that's the difference so uh with that i'd like to have bobby say a few words please and then we'll go to the others [12:14] and i'll just give an example in 1970 the biggest epidemiological study at that time an issue was [12:34] and the university scientists from across this country looked at all the eight-year-olds in wisconsin [12:40] about 900 000 children and they were looking for autism they knew what was it came back with an [12:49] incident rate of 0.8 per 10 000 so last minute the cdc today in this country is one in every 30 in [13:04] california is one in every 19 children and every 12.5 boys well there has been a dramatic increase one of [13:11] the things that the industry likes to say what they're talking about which the press wants to parrot is oh we're [13:19] just noticing it's absurdity and this is an assertion that has been debunked again and again and again [13:27] by peer-reviewed literature but it's also debunked by common sense because we were just noticing it [13:34] or we would notice it in older groups we're only noticing it in kids 98 and older generations cannot [13:47] see them so something happened that changed our children it has to be an environmental explosion [13:59] is because genes don't cause epidemic they can provide a vulnerability you need an environmental [14:06] toxic but the president has charged us with is finding which one of those exposures or which [14:14] collection of exposures causing this epidemic for decades i fought for a simple principle when it [14:23] comes to the health for children government has obligations follow the evidence wherever it leads [14:30] tell the american people the truth and comparison information they need to make informed decisions [14:36] for their families mr president you gave us a mandate to do just that you directed hhs to examine [14:44] america's childhood vaccine recommendations against the best available science and the practices of [14:50] other populations we did that work on january 5th hhs and cdc overhaul the childhood immunization [14:59] schedule reducing the number of diseases universally recommended for vaccines from 17 to 11 and [15:07] establishing the state categories recommendations based upon the signs of the evidence our assessment [15:13] found that the united states recommended more childhood vaccines than any other peer nation as a [15:21] drunk edit mentioned the number that 72 jabs before 18 actually could be up to 94 jabs and nobody else [15:29] says anything like that and then many other countries or most other countries achieve high [15:35] vaccination rates education informed consent and public trust rather than mandates today with this [15:43] executive order building on that work and acting on that will preserve access to vaccines strength and [15:50] safety monitor and expand research give doctors and parents better information and restore informed [15:58] consent consent and parental choice to the right and place in american medicine hhs we're already [16:05] located across multiple agencies fda cdc and nih arpa h mtv the national toxicity program and other parts of the [16:15] part we have already launched unprecedented research efforts examining vaccine safety and long-term health [16:24] outcomes in american children we are bringing some of the largest health data sets in the country to work including [16:30] cdc's vaccine safety data link fda's best systems and other major federal and private health data sources [16:38] we're pursuing dozens of studies and announcements we are comparing health outcomes and vaccinated versus [16:45] unvaccinated children we're examining aluminum timing of hepatitis b vaccine administered during vaccines [16:54] administered during pregnancy and outcomes ranging from allergies to autoimmune disease to autism and other [17:01] neurodevelopmental disorders at NIH the national institute of allergy infections diseases [17:07] national institute of environmental health sciences protein which toxicity program has a review of [17:16] vaccine agents on the ingredients that are added to vaccines that amplify the body's response they will [17:25] determine what the existing science establishes and where uncertainty remains and where we need additional [17:31] research bringing that same determination to arts NIH has launched the autism data science initiative with [17:40] 13 research awards examining autism prevalence causes treatments and services five of these will include [17:49] vaccines among the potential factors that they examine but a chart will discuss that work in greater detail [17:56] next month our page is preparing a major new initiative focus on foundational causes biology of autism and [18:04] on better diagnostics treatments technologies and tools for people with autism and their families [18:10] we'll examine every biological plausible hypothesis and leave no legitimate scientific question i explored [18:19] mr president you have told us me my answers so do i we have just over two years to finish the work and i know you're [18:28] you're a patient and we're moving with emergency and that that deadline demands the findings as soon as they are ready [18:38] we will cut away to the 90 day period and within 90 days as you've directed we will deliver the full response required by this [18:47] executive order our task force on safer childhood vaccines was established by congress in 1986 but went dormant in 1998 [18:58] last year after nearly three decades last year after nearly three decades this administration reinstated [19:03] it's required by the statute and it was discontinued and it was and you restored that congressional mandate [19:11] and the task force is already working to expand vaccine options examine the timing and sequencing of [19:19] childhood vaccines strength and safety monitoring the vast research into the alternative [19:24] evidence that continuously evaluate risk and benefits using american and international evidence taken together [19:33] isn't what gold standard science means no different answers no institutional taboos [19:40] no sacred cows no hiding uncertainty test the hypothesis examine the data replicate the results tell the [19:49] public what we find and be honest this is the standard you've discussed in this administration [19:55] is the standard i intend to enforce at hhs mr president you asked us to get this done and we are getting it done [20:03] and we will keep working with urgency until american parents have confidence in the medical advice that [20:09] their government gives them is worthy of their trust thank you very much thank you very much thank you [20:15] buddy and jay please today's a historic day for public health in this country uh the executive order recognizes [20:25] the plight of millions of parents across the country with autistic children autism is a very complicated [20:31] condition uh with very heterogeneous ranging from your relatively mild symptoms where kids are you know so [20:40] full functioning to a devastating condition that fundamentally alters their lives and life in the lives of their [20:47] families you've heard from secretary kennedy and from the president their passion for the plight of these [20:54] families to see how we can help them understand the condition to help prevent those conditions from [21:00] happening in the first place and what this executive order does is it orders us uh at hhs to take this [21:07] extremely seriously as we have been for the last year and a half uh and then more of the presidency um at the [21:13] nih uh the the what we've done is we have established a on the autism data science initiative which started [21:20] uh almost a year more than a year ago uh where we funded a dozen more uh major research teams to answer [21:29] the question of what is the cause of autism uh it's a complicated biological phenomenon it's not going [21:34] to be a simple answer i will have as the secretary said potential genetic predisposition but that cannot [21:41] possibly explain why we've seen such a large run there must be some other environmental factors involved [21:47] and that's the basis for thinking uh that's driving these dozen and more uh research teams that are [21:53] looking at this um the science takes time is very frustrating and i know i've felt that frustration [21:59] myself as a scientist you don't get the answers immediately but the teams have been working [22:05] assiduously for a year and the main you know and uh the main thing i want to emphasize that we've [22:09] already published in that year is we've changed how people and the scientific community thinks about [22:14] uh you've given them permission to ask the question that would otherwise have been difficult to answer [22:20] on where you know it's it's if you come to an answer that links autism to some other uh politically [22:27] correct things and you all of a sudden have this link your site as a scientist you fear the period [22:32] will be over we've done in this administration we've given permission to scientists to honestly answer [22:37] this question to find the link for the first time uh and with this the change in the vaccine uh [22:42] recommendations that the president has signed um which you have given his parents a choice autonomy [22:48] a decision making over how they want the vaccines given to their kids i mean i believe fundamentally [22:55] that many vaccines are important but send measles for instance the measles vaccine is important if [22:59] you want to take control of the measles out of the same time we shouldn't be keeping kids out of [23:04] school because they have made different decisions than other parents uh our european colleagues don't do [23:10] that a lot of the collapse and trust in public uh in public health has come because of these mandates [23:16] that we've seen uh imposed uh during the the administration on the covid vaccine and so many [23:21] other things uh what this does is it restores the autonomy of families and parents to make good [23:27] decisions for their kids uh it allows and continues to emphasize the importance of science in [23:33] recommendations about vaccines and fun and on restores a sort of healthy relationship between public health [23:38] and parents uh more in line with what happens in european countries in the united states uh where [23:44] their child outcomes are often much better than we see here but it's a big first step that we were [23:48] uh and that builds on what we've been working on the last year and a half uh toward uh a more sane [23:55] public health system that uh sees healthy kids grow up uh with that with with that pressure without a new [24:01] uh undue influence uh to make uh to make good decisions for their families and for the kids [24:08] thank you mr president because of your courage and leadership mr president millions of parents [24:15] all over america today are breathing an enormous sigh of relief i say this as the parent of young [24:21] children themselves millions and millions of parents feel they've been pressured and their children are just [24:28] weeks out of the hospital to take five shots six shots seven shots all at once they're told to be [24:34] normal your kid will have a fever of 103 for three or four days your kid will stop eating for a week [24:40] your kid's going to change all their sleep don't worry it's totally fine it's totally normal nobody has [24:44] studied it nobody's looked at it nobody's thought about the pressure from the pharmaceutical industry and [24:50] from aspects of the medical industry to pump your kids full of shots days after birth with no [24:57] understanding long-term consequences has been a medical travesty this is an issue mr president [25:03] that you have been leading on for years and of course the man to your left has been leading on [25:07] this issue for years as well too it's a really incredible moment to stand here today and finally [25:12] see the concerns of parents around this country to trust there's been so much heartache where parents [25:16] have had healthy children with no issues they know they've been pressured for doing things that they [25:21] didn't want to do and medical science has told them for years that their concerns are not valid [25:26] disorder there's two fundamental incredibly important things first is we get off of this [25:32] ridiculous path of having our children get 70 to 90 shots that is wantonly excessive however each and [25:40] every one of these shots produces a profound immunological response so across any large population [25:47] if you give a kid shot after shot after shot you're going to have vaccine injuries you're going to have [25:52] immunological issues you're going to have potentially neurological issues secondly and so important to [25:58] you mr president is the unbundling of the shot why do you want terrorists in dc there was a [26:14] drinks in this town body after body after body after body oh my god this guy stephen miller is such a [26:28] pathetic loser good lord his mama should have swallowed let's see what else we got here all right here we go [26:44] these shots bundled into these packages why can't you split it into five visits and give this young [27:20] body if a parent wants to do a vaccine one shot at a time why is it that in japan you can get a [27:25] separate measles shot a separate bump shot a separate rubella shot but in america it has to all be packaged [27:31] together this is a courageous action mr president this is an action that ensures the dignity of patients [27:37] the dignity of parents it restores choice it says we're going to let the parent and the doctor make a [27:42] sound medical decision and i'll just say one more time the fact that you had the courage to push this [27:48] forward knowing the unfair criticisms from some in the establishment and to give the chance for bobby [27:55] who spent decades representing parents to stand here today it's such a profound moment such a beautiful [28:00] moment and it's going to lead to such incredible advances in our understanding of children's health [28:06] and making sure that yes we can be a country that has safety and security for our families and our [28:12] children while at the same time protecting patient choice you can have both these things this order [28:17] accomplishes it i'm so glad you're standing here today mr president thank you very much thank you [28:23] thank you mr president it's an honor to be here today it is a historic day and historic action many [28:28] people have asked the difference between this executive order and what you signed in december and the [28:32] president's memorandum and what you signed later on in may just want to quickly answer that question in [28:37] december the president directed hhf to produce the scientific assessment that they did and then they [28:43] overhauled the vaccine schedule those actions have since been held up in court and so right now americans [28:49] don't have access to that information and you were correcting that wrong today and saying i am giving [28:53] americans this information directly so that they know what hhf found in the scientific assessment themselves [29:00] but most importantly states are actually the place where school vaccination requirements are [29:05] implemented state laws and regulations and cdc would advise the states on those policies since january [29:13] 2026 28 states have agreed with the cdc and they represent their own policies a lot of those states are [29:20] moved states and they're working with outside entities like the american academy of pediatrics that [29:25] still rely on recommendations that are replacing 2024 with the 72 injections by ajt so you are saying [29:33] especially to states that are willing take a look at this scientific assessment these are the gold [29:38] standard childhood vaccine recommendations and you should put this into your state law so that when [29:43] parents go to enroll their kids in school they look at trump he was sleeping he's been taking naps [29:51] he's like dozing on and off meet some of the requirements for the vaccines that are no longer [29:57] recommended for all children that brings us in mind with the european nations and importantly those nations do [30:03] not have vaccine mandates for school a lot of those nations maintain vaccination rates for measles above [30:09] 90 percent denmark ireland spain portugal all have vaccination rates for measles above 90 percent without [30:16] mandates for school and so they do that through increased public trust and education and letting [30:21] parents be informed and make those decisions we are encouraging to adopt those decisions here today [30:28] we do still recommend the measles vaccine for all children but we want parents to be informed [30:32] about the timing to have the option to separate them out so it's present this is a historic action we [30:36] are going to be working directly with states so we're not reliant on um the court case to resolve [30:43] we are doing it right away so that parents get the benefit from from state laws changing thank you [30:48] very much when you hear that number where it was one in ten thousand twenty years ago now it's one in [30:57] thirty or california one in eighteen it's something something happened in the meantime something happened [31:04] environmentally or otherwise but uh it's not just happenstance something something went wrong some bad [31:14] things were recommended and think of it so you have one in ten thousand and now it's one in thirty [31:23] california one in eighteen and we got to get to the bottom of it please thank you so much for having me i'm a [31:31] mom first and foremost i have a three and a half year old and i have another one on the way and mr [31:36] president we are so thankful for all the work we've done in this country with the vaccines the food systems [31:43] um i believe health is the number one issue in this country if you don't have health and we don't have a healthy country we [31:48] don't have anything at all and no parent should feel the pressure of immediately their child is born and a bunch of vaccines are pressured and pushed it on them this [31:57] is about freedom at the end of the day this is what this country was built on freedom for parents to make [32:01] the decisions that best suit their kid and i'm not anti-vaccine at all i'm pro-vaccine but we want to be [32:07] able to have the freedom to space it out and choose which one works for our child we don't believe that there's [32:12] a one-size-fits-all solution for every child so we're so thankful for everything that you're doing mr [32:17] president it's just extraordinary like the polio vaccine it's amazing other vaccines amazing but [32:25] some there's questions about we're gonna figure it out and i think we'll uh you know the expression is [32:32] we have really no choice and uh nothing bad can happen from what we're doing nothing bad can happen [32:41] it's possible it doesn't work i don't think that's much of a possibility frankly we don't learn a lot [32:47] and we could get if we could go back 20 years 25 years something happened in between that would [32:54] lead us to the kind of numbers that we're seeing so uh could i have that i'll sign it yes sir very [33:00] happy to sign it this is your executive order on establishing both standard vaccine recommendations [33:05] sir as previous speakers have indicated this is going to establish essentially a new vaccine schedule [33:11] that is fully informed by the research and data that we have from hhs and nih and other aspects [33:17] of the government uh it also takes a very hard line on some of the more paternalistic issues that [33:23] we've been talking about here sir in terms of uh infringing on parents religious liberty or really just [33:29] parents ability uh to make decisions uh for their children uh so as heidi said this is a very big deal [33:35] uh we're not waiting for anyone else to take action as you do so often sir uh we're just going [33:40] ahead and doing the right thing based on all of the best available research uh to ensure that america's [33:46] parents and children are being as best protected by the federal government as they can be that's [34:06] any questions for us president in addition to this big announcement we've also been posting about [34:21] ron today opposing their latest demands you said this last round of talks was ron's last chance [34:27] before decapitation so what now what comes next are you still about the massive escalation is that [34:34] still on the table we have that certainly in that ability we want to do that yeah you said you're low [34:39] opinion you're semi-fugee what is that they asked for they asked for reparations you might say they [34:48] asked for money for the damage that we've done i said that's a good idea but we're going to ask for [34:54] money for the damage in the number of 50 years period whether you go ss coal or whether you go off with [35:00] people who were so badly hurt so badly wounded or killed many thousands of people and maybe damages for [35:07] the 52 000 protesters over the last four months and we killed in iran we think they their families [35:14] should get damages for killing their person or their child or mother father that we're protesting it's [35:20] at least it was 52 000 a month and a half ago so now what is it so uh if there's damages to be paid i [35:27] think a lot should pay those averages well i think they should pass a voter id and they should pass [35:41] a proof of citizenship basically save america you know save america act i think that should be [35:47] something that we should absolutely get you mr president mr president you would have vaccinated [35:55] more children differently based on recommendations i didn't i took my children for five different [36:01] vaccinations so those are broken up the one visit where they just pump uh you know what seemingly [36:08] no wonder his kids are so whacked out when they popped so much in i took which all of my children [36:15] from damon i believed in this a long time a long time ago i took them with my what i took them through [36:24] five different uh visits actually they get 20 each and i had no problem so it's five stops but it's uh [36:39] something that i think will have a huge impact on autism [36:42] yeah [36:51] well that would be up to 10 million tubes [36:55] who will be i think a greater 32. yeah please thank you mr president why does the establishment [37:00] community so often seem to be against even asking questions about vaccines it's amazing when you come [37:06] up with a recommendation of a vaccine it could be the medical groups the pharmaceutical groups [37:12] are you know but uh it is amazing there's nothing that we lose with this and the worst thing that [37:20] would happen would be nothing happens is we're not going to lose anything at the same time we could [37:28] gain tremendously to save hundreds of thousands of lives millions of lives and i wish we could have [37:34] done it a long time ago you know we got stopped by court we had a court i guess in massachusetts [37:39] and stopped us and very early on i believed in this for a long time so now we're getting it done [37:46] and i think you're going to see tremendous protection tremendous results yeah dan [37:50] uh a topic on manufacturing i met a hero that's put out some information last week saying that he was [37:57] going to talk about the american manufacturing so we're doing record increases in the united states [38:20] in manufacturing a lot of that has to do with the tariffs because companies are coming in they're not [38:26] able to sell their product unless they come in because they have no tariff if they build their product [38:30] whether it's a car or something else if they make it in the united states there is no time so they're [38:35] coming in we have a record number of factories under construction factors plants things as such [38:43] toyota just announced they're building the largest the largest car plant they make cars plant [38:51] in the world anywhere in the world they are leaving mexico they're coming to the united states many many [38:58] car plants ai other you know they're they're opening i will say that they're leaving canada they're [39:04] leaving mexico they're leaving germany they're leaving japan they're giving south korea they're [39:09] coming into the united states because they don't want to pay a 45 percent tariff on a car and they [39:14] don't have to pay a tariff until they make it here so we have the largest number of plants [39:18] ever being built in the united states right now hard to believe right because if you listen to some of [39:24] our past projects would never be a manufacturing country again and these plans are going to be [39:29] start opening up in about six months and i can only say that the the next president uh will get a lot [39:36] of credit for what i've done he said please remember it was me not that is there any evidence that no [39:49] what i heard is that there are there's some people that say it is that way and i say well let's say [39:57] there's a five percent chance of it let's split it up let's split it up because they do say that given [40:04] individual mmo that given individual there is no impact in fact they've said how safe it seems to be [40:12] but i've heard when you put them together they can't be explosive [40:15] i have not spoken [40:22] president senators rand paul and ron johnson released some text messages from anthony calvin [40:28] and appears as early as january 2021 they knew that there would possibly be complications with [40:34] pregnant women and mr just tied to the code guys and yet the biden administration called officials [40:39] it didn't change their rhetoric reaction well the biden administration was a disaster in every way [40:45] that would be just one way but they've been a disaster in every single way it's unimaginable [40:51] what they did and then forget about weaponization forget even about you know support is what you're [40:56] saying and so many of the open borders the men and women sports and they're just a it's just been [41:03] a horrendous disaster the highest inflation in history uh and we're doing a great job [41:09] uh what's your recommendation for families that can't afford to keep paying for those visits [41:20] well we're going to be working with them we're going to work with the families and we're going [41:24] to make sure everything works that cost wise everybody yeah please uh what recommendations do you [41:31] after a result within you know they need some insurance right now and our democrats with the [41:34] candidates they're putting forward making life easier well the one thing is we have jihadists being [41:39] elected all over the place we have this whether it's communism jihadism it's about a friend of [41:46] my call that we said you know really you should use the word jihadist because that's what's happening [41:51] and i'm not sure that anybody could take a look at what happens in other countries i think that's not [41:57] can be necessarily the way we want to live but uh when you look at the radicalism the craziness of [42:03] the candidates and the stupidity of what they're suggesting let's get rid of the supreme court let's [42:08] get rid of the presidency let's get rid of the senate they want to get sometimes i'd like to get rid of [42:13] the senate too but uh i don't say it and i wouldn't do it but you know they want to get rid of the senate [42:20] they want to get rid of uh ideally the house but they're thinking about maybe keeping the house you [42:25] know isn't that nice these are people that have been not successful they're people that have been [42:32] in many cases bad years they come from other failed countries and they come here and they tell us [42:36] how to run our country they come from uh places like i won't mention because i don't want to get [42:43] myself into a controversy but they come from countries that are not great they come from let's say as an [42:50] example somalia they come in and then they tell us how to how our constitution how our declaration [42:57] of independence how it works uh it doesn't work that way and they're not smart they have no aptitude [43:06] they have nothing going and they're telling us how to run our country and i just don't think it's [43:11] going to happen i think that they start off that maybe wrong you know they start off with a big [43:16] disadvantage people don't want to have radical lunatics involved in running our country and that's [43:21] what we have we have people that are saying things that are so great now they're denying it [43:25] where they say well i've changed my mind they wanted to fund our police they want to terminate [43:30] our military no military we don't want any military in our country we don't want our police [43:35] to be paid anymore they want our police down to oh like almost nothing it's like doesn't make sense [43:50] well it's open now we're taking a lot of it's open now look the only one that has control of the [43:56] state of the moves right now is the united states navy we have a blockade that's been infallible it's a [44:02] steel wall and we let people in that we want to let in and those people come in they've been coming [44:08] in and they're going out so it's actually open now we do not let them go into iran and not admitted [44:15] into the district to go to iran but it's open for others uh now a little bit uh because they will [44:24] on occasion drop a line we find them on general we might listen to this guy just stumble this guy's so [44:31] full of crap right here nothing but a liar yeah anytime this guy's lips are movies telling nothing [44:38] but lies guys hey what up everybody happy monday to everyone out there thanks for everyone that's [44:43] hanging out what's up madame release the files how you doing what's up everyone shout out to all this [44:49] to all the to all the people that never have and never will drink the kool-aid uh shout out to the [44:55] reformed bag is out there for all you maggots that are still suffering from the being in donald trump's uh [45:01] orange turd cult uh there's hope you know all you guys got to do is just take the first step and [45:07] admit that the you guys are lied to and you're suffering from stockholm syndrome it's okay to [45:13] to realize that you're wrong you know we're here for you guys the entire straight as you probably [45:21] maybe heard maybe you didn't hear but uh but uh we control the straight 100 now can they make trouble [45:30] yeah they could become but they're broke they have no money you know around is broke totally [45:35] broke and uh they're not paying their soldiers and they have inflation of 300 percent as if last night [45:43] i had 300 390 so we'll see what happens but uh they've been bad for it they say 47 it's actually 15 [45:53] 47 they've been saving for three years but for 50 years they've been the bully of the middle east what [45:58] they've done is stable they've killed hundreds of thousands of people they've killed people they've [46:04] wounded and named people with the legs the arms you know with the the roadside bomb is their bomb [46:09] they're very proud and uh now they've paid a price thank you very much yeah look at this what a coward [46:19] this guy is probably pooped his diaper that explosive diarrhea is spreading spreading around no actually the [46:34] wall street general had a long story they said he said i spoke with bill i have tremendous respect [46:39] for kevin walsh i've only spoken on one time briefly uh a few days ago just a conversation look he's [46:47] going to do it he's going to run it i know what he'd like to do but he has to run it he's got a board [46:52] it's not only him it was up to him it would be different but he's got to work but i've only you know [46:56] they said i speak trouble all the time i've spoken of one time since his assumption since he took over and [47:04] uh great conversation but just he's a great guy and i'm going with him 100 but they made it sound [47:14] like guys if i live and breathe you know i speak to kevin all the time every time i spoke to him one [47:19] time okay thank you very much thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you [47:24] what a loser all right let's go check out uh midas touches breakdown of this uh this disaster [47:49] disastrous press conference another disastrous press conference from the orange turd all right let's go [47:57] check this out this midas touch with the with the breakdown of what we just watched a very very [48:07] sickly looking donald trump just held a disastrous press conference in the oval office he was repeatedly [48:14] falling asleep deeply unwell he has these bruises all over his hands and arms that he's covering up it [48:22] was a strange sight to behold you can see some photos right here and then he started going on about [48:29] beautiful healthy lovely delicate little children he says they're getting soda cans filled with vaccines [48:39] jabbed in them repeatedly 72 jabs of vats and soda can vaccines and i need to looks like we need to do happy [48:50] vaccines at 14 and 15 just because what's the worst that's going to happen he says so donald trump [48:57] had this disastrous and dangerous press conference with rfk jr and others who are supposed to be part [49:03] of his health department but they are literally killing people with their dangerous statements here [49:10] their conspiracies all the doctors i'm speaking to and what they said right here is so incredibly [49:17] dangerous but then when donald trump was not being incredibly creepy odd falling asleep he was then [49:24] talking about iran and saying get control of the straight and foreign moves it is a perfect blockade [49:31] we're the ones in control right now and you'll see what happens we may decide to decapitate them [49:37] soon and we are demanding reparations from iran it's very deranged behavior so you see the photos of [49:44] donald trump trying to stay awake and then he just falls asleep collapsing his hands around his head [49:51] like it's a real struggle for him to even be alert and alive at this point or to look alive at this [49:58] oppressor and i'll show you what happened as you have one of the health department leaders over here [50:05] you know speaking to donald trump again has just fallen asleep as they're like well we don't know why [50:10] there's a lot more autism but we're just gonna based on our guests say it's vaccines and again [50:17] just everything they're saying is medical disinformation here play this clip so genetic [50:22] predisposition but that cannot possibly explain why this is such a large one uh there must be some [50:27] other environmental factors and that's the basis for thinking uh that's driving these dozen more [50:33] then you have rfk junior with his hands profusely shaking his voice shaking as well and again looking [50:41] deeply unwell himself saying all of these medical lies by the way and he's not a doctor he's not [50:48] he's he's a liar he's a conspiracy theorist then donald trump falling asleep let's play this clip [50:54] recommendations against the best available science and practices of other nations we did that work [51:03] on january 5th hhs cbc overhaul the childhood immunization schedule reducing covered diseases [51:11] university recommended for vaccines from 17 to 11. then donald trump starts to just talk about [51:19] children and it's very disgusting the way he refers to children beautiful healthy lovely delicate little [51:26] children the hell here play this clip many cases we are 72 jabs for a beautiful healthy lovely delicate [51:38] little children and then he goes on and says you know we're going to have to space out the visits [51:44] when children go to the doctors we're going to space out these visits so it's multiple visits over [51:50] time he says because these kids they're getting vaccines the size of soda bottles no one's getting [51:57] vaccines the size of soda bottles what the hell are you saying and when you space out the vaccine visits [52:03] it's a greater chance of someone missing an appointment and not getting the vaccines so this [52:09] is incredibly dangerous and it's just based on all lies there's no scientific evidence that if you get [52:14] multiple shots at one time with the type of shots that children are getting that that's going to cause [52:20] them autism and that's not a thing that's not a thing that's happening listen to what he says play this [52:25] clip i saw this early on i've seen proof of it where they have a vaccination that looks like the size of [52:30] a bottle of soda poured into a little child's body and things happen in many cases too many cases this [52:41] is an explosion this is an epidemic so in year one you should have five separate visits for vaccines [52:47] rather than giving them all in the same day very importantly vaccination then he just holds up a piece [52:53] of paper and he's like look at this piece of paper everybody this proves what i'm saying you know how [52:59] he i always like to hold fake binders that are filled with 10 pieces of paper go this is my health [53:05] care plan everybody just watch what he does here play this clip just the evangelists look at that [53:11] these are high level very actually uh european come you see the top little charts there's a lot [53:23] but that's the difference then he's asked about the straight of Hormuz can you give us a timeline [53:30] when the straight of Hormuz will be open and trump's like it's open what are you talking about [53:34] it's open we control it haram can't do anything we're crushing them you're playing this clip [53:44] it's open now look the only one that has control of the straight of Hormuz right now is the united [53:49] states maybe we have a blockade that's been infall it's a steel wall and we let people in that we [53:56] want to let in and those people come in they've been coming in and they're going out so it's actually [54:02] open now we do not let them go into Iran they're not admitted into the street to go to Iran but it's [54:09] open for others uh now a little bit uh complex because they will on occasion drop a line we find [54:17] the money you know we've mind swept the entire straight which probably maybe maybe but we control [54:27] the straight percent now can they make trouble yeah they can make trouble but they're broke they have no [54:34] money you know Iran is broke they're not paying their soldiers and they have inflation of 300 percent [54:43] as of less than 300 300 so we'll see what happens but uh they've been bad for it they say 47 was [54:52] actually 50 now 47 they've been saying for three years but for 50 years they've been the bully of the [54:59] middle east would think that is terrible they've killed so then a reporter says i think i heard you say [55:04] earlier in this press event that the mmr vaccine and that these vaccines are lethal and he's like [55:12] can you explain where did you hear this and trump's like i've heard some people say that i've heard when [55:18] you put them together they are explosive what are you even saying soda can bats of vaccines that are [55:26] explosive what are you doing you idiot i mean again this is so dangerous but we just kind of call them [55:33] what is this is a dangerous psychotic idiotic lunatic in the oval office how is going on here here play this [55:40] split i think i heard you say that the mmr vaccine is there any evidence of that what i've heard is [55:51] that there there's some people that say it is that way i say well let's say there's a five percent chance [55:59] of it let's split it up let's split it up because they do say that given individual mmr that given [56:08] individual there is no effect in fact they've said how safety seems to me whatever you're together they [56:15] can't be expressed then he's like uh nothing bad can happen from what i'm saying right just trust me [56:26] what's what's the worst that can happen what's the worst that could happen i don't know the worst [56:31] that can happen is you can kill people like you did during coping with your eyes give people the [56:36] accurate information that's the worst that can happen is death and i know for you when you kill [56:41] millions of people with your mishandling of covid or when you kill people abroad kill and slaughter [56:47] little girls in monopolies what's the worst that could happen killing lots of freaking people [56:54] which you've already done you war criminal play this clip but some this question is we'll figure it [57:00] out and i think we'll uh you know the the expression is we have really no choice and uh nothing bad can [57:10] happen from what we do nothing bad can happen to what doesn't work i don't think that's much of a [57:16] possibility and we can get go back 20 years 25 years something happened in between that would [57:26] lead us to the kind of numbers that we see more from donald trump on hepatitis b shot uh we're not [57:33] going to give it to them until they're 14 or 15. why it's actually recommended that it happens very early [57:40] on in order to build up the defenses and immunities that are necessary why 14 or just because you're saying [57:47] 14 14 or 15. the hell are you talking about here play this book cases would require 72 jams of [57:54] beautiful healthy lovely delicate little children including giving the hepatitis b shot to infants [58:03] and newborns on top of many other vaccinations the hepatitis b shouldn't be given until they're 14 [58:10] 15 or 15 years old it will give them your own effect then donald trump uh asks has asked more [58:17] questions about iran and then donald and the reporter says so you said last time that you would decapitate [58:23] iran if they didn't make a deal with you well iran's saying they don't even want to talk to you [58:28] let alone make a deal they have no interest they don't even want to do they know you're incapable of [58:33] making a deal with because you're a freaking fraud and everything that you do and you're psychotic [58:38] like they can't literally no one can literally do deals with a cycle so once you're are you going to [58:43] decapitate them listen to what the Donald trump says here play this book you said this last round [58:48] of talks was around last chance before decapitation so what is that right so our massive escalation [58:56] is that still on the table you said you're low with that so you're semi-negotiating what exactly does [59:05] that mean they ask for operations you might say they ask for money for [59:14] the damage that we've done i said that's a good idea but we're going to ask somebody for the [59:18] damage you know whether you go this is cold or with you go or the people who were so badly hurt so [59:25] badly wounded or killed many thousands of people and maybe damages for the 52 000 protesters over [59:32] the last four months killed and their family should get damages for killing that person or their child [59:40] or mother father warren donald trump talking about being that's filled with vaccines again lies complete [59:47] and that are lies here this is from the president of the united states this is so shameful and so [59:52] damn embarrassing to our country let's play because i came in and i said i want to find what's going [59:57] on with autism it's many many times what it used to be years ago and it gets progressively worse [1:00:04] and we get progressively more and more vaccines so in a nutshell you can see it through this we're [1:00:11] breaking up vaccines and we're breaking them up in two times that's so complicated result from doing [1:00:24] that very simply vaccine large amounts of like vats of vaccine are currently pumped into your child's [1:00:36] body then donald trump says that people like abdul el-sayed and others who are running are jihadists [1:00:44] he goes the democrats they have jihadists who are running i mean let's be very clear trump is a racist piece of [1:00:50] shit like he is a racist awfully excuse my language but this is you want to actually talk about communism [1:00:59] look at trump's behavior taking control over companies uh oh you want to see what his regime [1:01:05] is doing today his whole cabinet they're posting images of a bronze statue that they guilted gold with [1:01:13] our taxpayer dollars and say that's the golden age while they do social welfare for their billionaire [1:01:20] friends and by the way you heard what the nevada governor said he was like we need to bail out [1:01:26] the billionaires because they are desperate to create jobs so we have to help them first what the hell is [1:01:32] really going on you want to talk about who behaves the most like stalin it's trump in my opinion here play [1:01:37] this is what president um uh what recommendations do you have for republicans you don't have to [1:01:43] intend our democrats but you can't even say great for making life easier well the one thing is we have [1:01:48] jihadists being elected all over the place whether it's communism gi-ism it's about a friend of my [1:01:56] blog that we said you know really we should use the word jihadist because that's what's happening i'm not [1:02:02] sure that anybody can take a look at what happens in the countries i think that's not going to be [1:02:07] necessarily the way we want to live but uh when you look at the radicalism and the craziness of [1:02:13] the candidates and the stupidity around there suggesting let's get rid of the supreme court [1:02:18] let's get rid of the presidency let's get rid of the senate you know sometimes i like to get rid of [1:02:24] the senate too but uh i would say and i wouldn't do it but you know they want to get rid of the senate [1:02:30] they want to get rid of uh ideally the house but they're thinking about maybe keeping the house you [1:02:36] know isn't that nice these are people that have been not successful they're people that have been [1:02:42] in many cases spanish they come from other failed countries and they come here and they tell us [1:02:47] what are our country they come from places like i won't mention because i don't want to get myself [1:02:54] into a controversy but they come from countries that are not great they come from let's say as an [1:03:00] example somalia they come in and then they tell us how our constitution our declaration of independence [1:03:08] how it works uh doesn't work that way and they're not smart they have no aptitude they have nothing [1:03:17] going in the total center i just don't think it's going to happen i think that they start off that [1:03:24] may be wrong they start off with a big disadvantage people don't want to have radical lunatics involved in [1:03:31] living our country and that's what we have we have people that are saying more over here from [1:03:35] donald trump's disastrous press conference he's asked is the anti-weaponization fund still alive and he's like [1:03:42] well you're just gonna have to ask todd blanchard you're just gonna have to ask so great work to [1:03:47] all those republican senators who are like we're gonna hold him accountable we're good todd blanch gave [1:03:53] us his word you can't do deals with bad people you he is a liar this is a regime of liars and killers [1:04:02] and scumbags that is who they are who behave like actual authoritarian communists that's what this actually [1:04:10] is call it out what it is play this clip oh my god so donald trump's just such a piece of [1:04:35] shit he's a real dumb motherfucker all right what up everyone hope you're all having a good money out [1:04:42] there let's go check out a real politician now let's go check out uh abdul el saeed i will uh take my [1:04:51] seat as a member of the senate majority this uh this is abdul el saeed administration as you know [1:05:00] is trying to paint a rosy picture of the economy you and others are pointing to the affordability [1:05:05] crisis affecting people in michigan and elsewhere democratic voters are frustrated as i don't need [1:05:10] to tell you they don't think that your party's doing enough to fight donald trump on these issues [1:05:16] especially about affordability if you're elected as a democratic senator with a republican president in [1:05:21] november what can you actually do about that well look let me just tell you the picture from my [1:05:28] state we've been up and down the state now i've been at this for 15 months been to 110 cities over [1:05:34] 500 public events i go people say the same thing it just shouldn't be this hard it shouldn't be as hard [1:05:39] to afford your groceries or fill up your tank or worry about getting sick without having to worry about [1:05:46] losing everything too and we ran this campaign to do three things get money out of politics put money in [1:05:51] your pocket pass the medicare for all when i'm elected the u.s senate the first thing we need to [1:05:55] do is start holding the trump administration accountable you know when we win god willing i [1:05:59] will uh take my seat as a member of a senate majority that gives us supreme power to be able [1:06:03] to investigate all of the ways that this administration has used their power for their [1:06:08] gain and enrichment and against ours and i think that means hauling them up to really understand [1:06:14] all the conversations that were had about who got to get refunds after this terrible tariff policy [1:06:19] who got to get excluded from those refunds it means hauling up people like rfk jr and holding them [1:06:24] accountable for the doging of our public health apparatus for which we now need to be dodging [1:06:28] lettuce across the state of michigan for fear of getting explosive diarrhea which nobody ever thought [1:06:33] would be a consequence of electing donald trump but here we are so it's those powers and then the ability [1:06:38] to set up to build the runway for a president in 2028 who can come in and start doing the things to [1:06:45] hold big corporations accountable to start enforcing uh antitrust policy uh to start rethinking our tax [1:06:52] system so it's less burdensome on everyday people and we're taxing billionaires their wealth and to [1:06:57] stand up for unions who have been critical to winning fair wages one of your main campaign issues as you [1:07:02] noted is medicare for all senator bernie sanders proposal right now only has 17 co-sponsors in the [1:07:08] senate even if democrats do take back the senate november it doesn't look as of now like you and senator [1:07:15] sanders would have the votes to pass it are there more immediate things that democrats in the senate [1:07:20] can do to lower the cost of health care right now or do you view any of these more minor ideas as weak [1:07:28] we can walk and chew gum at the same time and we need relief there's a lot that's about to hit [1:07:35] hasn't even hit yet when it comes to cutting aca subsidies when it comes to cutting medicaid for [1:07:40] people who desperately need health care i think we need to start with making those full i also think [1:07:44] we need to ban some of the middlemen in our health care system like pharmacy benefit managers an [1:07:49] organization or certain organizations that most people haven't heard of but they're a big reason [1:07:53] why you pay more prescription drugs i also think we can start enforcing antitrust policy when it comes [1:07:57] to big health care uh partnering with with my friend uh senator elizabeth warren uh on um on taking on [1:08:04] the the consolidation in the health care system of medicare for all hey what up what up everyone just [1:08:09] hanging out on this uh fine monday afternoon over here just got off work not too long ago so it's [1:08:15] posted up because it's hot as over here in los angeles but uh i read up on my uh i read up i got a [1:08:24] i got a new batch they got i got 12 grams for 40 bucks on my local dispensary about to about to smoke [1:08:33] up a storm right now hey you know what the strain was called this is the this is the obama that's the obama [1:08:43] og blaze it up homies we need to go and my hope is both coming out of the 2026 midterms and then [1:08:53] out of 2028 that we're going to be on our way to a senate majority to be able to get this done [1:08:59] i've also been clear i think the filibuster is anti-democratic on its own terms and so i do hope [1:09:04] that the senate is willing to actually deal with the fact that we cannot allow the entire senate to [1:09:08] hide behind the filibuster of one senator and we need to actually have democracy in the u.s senate again [1:09:13] so yes medicare for all where we need to go in the interim everything we can to start lowering [1:09:17] prescription drug prices and health insurance premiums and prices uh but we need to get to [1:09:22] medicare for all and guarantee every single person health care that they need and deserve [1:09:25] in your vision of medicare for all would that be the end of private i mean the best medicine [1:09:31] is prevention so so you know try your hardest every day guys i try my hardest every day you know eat [1:09:39] right and exercise not necessarily i travel the state i talk to union members all the time who say [1:09:48] look we gave up increases in wages to be able to win good health care and we're worried about what [1:09:53] that might mean to me medicare for all is not about what it takes away it's about what it offers [1:09:57] guaranteed health insurance from cradle to grave that you don't lose by turning 26 or turning 65 or [1:10:03] getting married getting divorced getting a job losing a job it's there for you as you need it uh and it [1:10:09] will be good wherever you need to get your health care it's not about taking anything away it's about [1:10:13] adding the guarantee the security of having health insurance in your life uh in the way that seniors [1:10:19] across this country have been able to benefit from and it would make this more sustainable for seniors as [1:10:23] well the best single thing you can do to make medicare more sustainable for our seniors is to make [1:10:27] sure young people who tend to pay more into the system than they take out are in that system instead [1:10:32] of paying money into the pockets of health insurance your victory on tuesday was big and you beat the [1:10:38] democratic establishment no question i'm not trying to take away from it but you want a plurality [1:10:42] not a majority and more than 700 000 democrats michigan voted for your opponent and now mike rogers uh [1:10:49] your republican opponent is trying to talk to those voters what what kind of work do you have to do to [1:10:55] unify democrats behind you in michigan it was a highly contested primary and we aired our differences [1:11:03] but in the end the voters in the democratic party in the state of michigan voted and uh they [1:11:08] pick the future where we get money out of politics but money in your pocket past medicare for all [1:11:13] but the differences that we hashed out are so much smaller than the similarities that we share [1:11:18] a responsibility to stand up to donald trump in the ways that he's used his power for his own game for [1:11:23] his family's finances rather than to improve your family's finances the recognition that mike rogers is [1:11:29] nothing more than a corporate shillies never seen a corporate pack check he didn't want helped to [1:11:33] architect the opioid epidemic back when i was in high school voted 19 times to raise prescription drug [1:11:39] prices moved to florida make 14 million dollars he doesn't really want to explain so this is a guy who [1:11:44] has no business in the u.s senate and all of us agree so you're seeing folks come together and say [1:11:48] listen despite the fact that we hashed out our differences in that uh long hard-fought primary [1:11:53] this is the opportunity we get these maggots over here all brainwashed and indoctrinated thinking [1:11:58] there's going to be like a civil war that's what the orange shirt wants you guys all to think you [1:12:03] idiots while donald trump's over there running in the bank you know we're all paying higher gas prices [1:12:10] and grocery prices all these maggots are too dumb to realize it though probably because they're just [1:12:15] racist and bigots to unite around what needs to be done and that's holding the trump administration [1:12:20] accountable rather than uh sending a guy who's going to be a rubber stamp on everything that trump wants [1:12:25] to continue to do that's making life less affordable for michiganders and life harder for the rest of [1:12:30] for all of us one of your former democratic opponents state legislator mallory moro supports [1:12:36] you endorsed right out of the gate but she said she told you that in her view you need to improve [1:12:42] on being able to recognize that there are good people who just have a slightly different world [1:12:46] view it's not turning everybody into an enemy unquote it was a stellar criticism to what we heard [1:12:51] uh from new york times columnist michelle goldberg who wrote that you have quote a blind spot [1:12:56] one in devon who is an inability to grasp how and one people of good faith might see the world [1:13:01] differently i'm pretty respond to this here's here's maggot right here oh there's maggot i understand [1:13:07] we might see a world differently but we also recognize this is a maggot cult member's uh [1:13:13] reasoning here and also grateful for the conversation i got to share with uh the new york [1:13:18] times columnist we have an opportunity right now to recognize that is that you maggot cult member [1:13:24] less to do with a a moral bankruptcy and a lot more to do with uh differences in perspective [1:13:31] check it out it's a it's a maggot cult member in real time coping and crying because they're snowflakes [1:13:39] and indoctrinated fools this what noil trump is doing when you look at what mike rogers wants to do [1:13:46] and has done when he was in congress there are big wars should you be enriching yourself and your [1:13:53] family in tune of 2.2 billion dollars via the presidency should you be uh using corporations as [1:14:00] as pawns in this game to enrich yourself nah the maggot cult members are so stupid they don't realize [1:14:08] they're getting fleeced at the gas station in the grocery store because they don't care because they're [1:14:13] racist and bigots like they'd rather pay their king orange shirt a lot more you know give them their life [1:14:20] savings in order to keep their racism and bigotry going because they're low iq uh and uh giving them [1:14:29] favor so that they can raise rates uh and prices on all of us should you be in a scenario where you're [1:14:34] questioning the outcomes of democratic elections and i question the moral bankruptcy at the heart of [1:14:40] that now look i've had a lot of different disagreements with some of my democratic colleagues [1:14:45] um and those are disagreements built on good faith differences when it comes to policy [1:14:49] but this is the time for us to come together now to take on the moral rock at the core of the trump [1:14:54] administration and the moral rock at the core of the corporatism that drives a guy like mike rogers [1:14:58] i'm looking forward to locking arms that he does speaking of president trump last night he posted on [1:15:03] social media a photograph of him and first lady melania trump in formal attire next to a photograph [1:15:10] uh of you and your and your wife who appear to be in a restaurant booth or something your wife [1:15:15] is a psychiatrist she's wearing a hijab the caption was two very different americas what was your [1:15:22] response when you saw that yeah he's right one in which uh your overlords are two people who don't [1:15:29] like each other but joined in the interest of making oh hey abdul breaks it down right here he [1:15:36] clowns trump in the restaurant blues or something your wife and those are disagreements built on good [1:15:44] faith differences when it comes to policy but this is the time for us to come together now to take on [1:15:49] the moral rock at the core of the trump administration and the moral rock at the core [1:15:53] of the corporatism that drives a guy like mike rogers i'm looking forward to locking arms that [1:15:57] do that speaking of president trump last night he posted on social media a photograph of him and [1:16:03] first lady melania trump in formal attire next to a photograph of you and your and your wife you [1:16:09] appear to be in a restaurant booth or something your wife is a psychiatrist she's wearing a hijab the [1:16:15] caption was two very different americas what was your response when you saw that yeah he's right in [1:16:24] which uh your overlords are two people who don't like each other but joins in the interest of making [1:16:30] billions of dollars off of you two people who genuinely like love each other enjoyed some pancakes [1:16:35] together uh want to come together to build the kind of america where they can raise a family [1:16:40] and know that that family is going to have the good thing so yes you've got two different visions [1:16:43] of america donald trump's vision is the one you're living in right now can you afford your gas can you [1:16:47] afford your groceries do you believe when you look your kids in the eye that they're going to [1:16:51] have a better future than you do and sarah and i are running because when we look our daughters in [1:16:55] the eye of any singing we want them to believe that they're every bit as able to have a better future [1:17:02] than the one uh that uh that that they could have had under the trump administration that they [1:17:07] could live together with their sisters uh and their brothers in america in a way where they lock [1:17:12] arms to build the good things that they deserve together where they know they'll have the health care [1:17:16] that they need and good jobs and that they don't have to go 15 minutes and know that there are kids [1:17:20] who live 15 minutes away whose lives are very very different than theirs because we've been for far [1:17:25] too long okay with the level of inequality in this country i want them to live in america where they [1:17:30] can breathe clean air and drink clean water and actually sarah and i like each other i don't know [1:17:34] about the first lady and the president but from what i've heard it's a bit of a rocky road breaking this [1:17:39] morning is the news that you spoke with president obama is he going to campaign with you tell us about the [1:17:43] conversation i like to keep private conversations private but it was a really really warm conversation [1:17:49] i was really grateful for his advice and uh you know we've got a long road to go here but we're [1:17:55] perfectly unified in the need to win michigan take back the senate and hold donald trump accountable [1:18:00] and i was just really really appreciative of him his advice me this is a guy uh who i watched um come [1:18:06] up i never saw myself in politics until i saw him give that 2004 uh speech on the dnc floor it's the first [1:18:12] time i ever saw myself reflecting in politics at all so it was just really an honor to get to share [1:18:16] a conversation to hear his advice on the campaign uh and i'm looking forward to uh to to move it [1:18:20] forward here uh in this campaign with that advice to think through uh how we build the kind of uh a [1:18:26] political movement um that gets money out of politics but money in your pocket and pass the medicare [1:18:31] for all he won michigan twice as i'm sure i don't need to tell you do you expect that he will come [1:18:35] and campaign for you i hope so but uh obviously we've got a lot more to do here uh but it was a really [1:18:42] really warm conversation and i was really really grateful uh for his advice and his mentorship group [1:18:47] chat is back i want to show this headline from vox don't call this man the next obama all right so [1:18:54] that was it's very that was abdul el saeed the homie the homie abdul the blue wave tsunami guys [1:19:03] there ain't no stopping it guys it's coming these maggots are all getting voted out maggot movement's [1:19:09] already dead it's over all right let's go see what else we got in the queue here we've got quite a few [1:19:14] things here we've got to catch up on let's check out uh kyle kolinsky circular secular top mainstream [1:19:27] media shows and they start hitting out of the park you have an outside navigate this disgusting world [1:19:41] and snakes and backstabbers and all sorts of atrocious vile people so he goes on nbc news meet [1:19:50] the press and um i mean this just speaks for itself it's an absolute master class let's watch it [1:19:56] and we'll break it down as we go thank you so much for being here congratulations let's talk about [1:20:00] your victory this week you narrowly defeated congresswoman hailey stevens and we actually add [1:20:05] up all the votes and vote voters that went to stevens and mallory mcmorrow and the majority of voters [1:20:11] actually ended up voting for candidates who are more moderate than you so how do you win over those [1:20:16] voters to vote for someone else i already hate this question i already hate it because donald trump [1:20:24] some election victories and then immediately the media was like mandate mandate maybe the republicans [1:20:29] like it's a mandate it's a mandate it's a mandate and like two motherfucking votes they're like you [1:20:36] get card watch you get who you want it that's the way your wins it's like sure you know you you're in [1:20:44] terms of turnout and you won the election but i have to find some way of discrediting that and [1:20:49] undermining it and saying like you have to change if hailey stevens won and abul el-sayed lost [1:20:54] would they say you need to mend fences and try to get the left flank of your party on board don't [1:21:00] you realize that they would say this is a mandate for centrism but when somebody who's left leading [1:21:07] wins it's all of a sudden well how are you gonna please these other people who you need to bring [1:21:12] it's just it's so the the deck is stacked bro the game is rigged you can see it right in front of your [1:21:16] eyes well thank you chris nye really actually you know what we'll check that out later see what else we [1:21:23] got here let's see let's go back to the beginning man danny did a press press conference let's go [1:22:01] check out uh gavin newsom see what's up with this dude he did like an interview so this guy's the guy [1:22:12] when trump did his january 6 insurrection where he tried to overthrow the government because he was all [1:22:17] butter because he lost the election well this is the cop that he tried to murder so now he's doing an [1:22:23] interview with gavin newsom so let's check it out joe rogan it's laughing like i said i will never [1:22:29] understand this mentality people ask me all the time why you trump guys it's like you i use the [1:22:40] language that i know resonates there's so much conversation around tom blanche nomination which [1:22:46] seems now inevitable with tillis and corny clipping their support for time but it was all predicated [1:22:53] on this weaponization for the 1.8 billion dollars and set aside for the january 6th so much conversation [1:23:02] about that but not enough conversation about what led it to the final word six and i thought it would be [1:23:12] really interesting that's a new first of the gravity of what occurred this is gavin newsom and this is [1:23:26] microphone by the way where are you where are you in manassas virginia like the butthole of virginia [1:23:42] like 35 minutes dc but i don't know if the state of california is looking but i can't spit without [1:23:55] hitting fucking 12 data centers and like we use pounds of water they're not it's not it's not a good thing [1:24:06] you know it's interesting i was reading the other day i mean a jaw-dropping percent it's 25 of the [1:24:14] electricity consumption the entire consumption of the state is just that's where you are which is [1:24:19] insane yeah i hope that when did that start happening did it just sneak up on everybody or [1:24:24] was it an intentional policy in the last governor or it's a gorgeous i mean they started under the [1:24:32] previous governor um and they just it was like they were building 12 at a time i mean it wasn't i [1:24:41] mean i literally like i'm exaggerating and surrounded on four sides by um it's like all over like i mean [1:24:53] they're pushing them further and further west and like ironically like you know the rural communities [1:25:00] which went heavy for trump and and um always go republican are like up in arms about it i'm like [1:25:07] well you know yep and you've i mean legitimately i don't want to go down this rabbit hole but it's such [1:25:14] a timely topic obviously you john here we're sort of you know talk about the innovation in that space but [1:25:20] we haven't had the massive hyperscale data centers ironically in california they're just we have a [1:25:25] lot of smaller ones we've got hundreds of smaller ones over the course of decades and they've been [1:25:30] kind of they haven't gotten a lot of attention we have a few large ones that are now being promoted [1:25:35] along the lines of what we've seen all across the country but it's interesting you're a case study [1:25:39] you're in the center of it but was there any i mean legitimately any public input was there any [1:25:45] would anyone reach out say what the hell you think when these things were being said in his own yeah [1:25:50] i mean i know there was like some um there were some angry town hall meetings with like republican [1:25:58] members of congress that just you know stopped having call meetings or state you know state representatives [1:26:07] that just stopped having town hall meetings around them uh and they always you know they always push it [1:26:12] as like job builders or like job and creators but uh i know guys that you know they work in the trades [1:26:20] that literally build these things and they're like you know there's there's really not a lot of uh [1:26:26] that not going you know going into it and then like once we're done building it the maintenance and and [1:26:33] the um you know actual employees and jobs it creates are relatively minimal yeah no it's i mean it's a [1:26:41] a dog and a robot the robot's there to feed the dog yeah exactly after these things are done [1:26:48] you know it's interesting just you know for you there's been a hell of a journey it goes back to the [1:26:53] book called the line which you wrote a couple years back i think too um and you know your own history [1:26:59] your own life i mean the idea that you know not just we we know this podcast you're doing your own [1:27:04] show on youtube now which started last year i mean in a million years i i i imagine just from where [1:27:11] you're where you're sitting last thing you thought you'd be doing is the kind of stuff you're doing [1:27:15] today did you expect us to you know keep out of it for 30 years not just 20 years as a cop what would [1:27:22] you think your design what was your life looking like you expect to be when i thought i was gonna die [1:27:29] i thought that i would spend 35 40 years as a dc cop uh because i love the job i love the people that i [1:27:40] worked with um but that that's just like i mean that's how i didn't identify myself like that's [1:27:47] who i was so i felt like you know i was just gonna be one of those guys that worked forever and um and [1:27:55] i was fine with them like i looked forward to every day that uh that i showed up you know until the last [1:28:04] step so michael you were legit i mean it was i mean 9 11 was the inspiration that was sort of the trigger [1:28:12] that you said now i need to serve i need to do something 100 i mean i remember exactly where i [1:28:17] was i was at 13th and g street northwest uh i was uh working construction at the time i was [1:28:24] in the trades i was a carpenter with the united brotherhood of companies and joiners [1:28:28] and uh we were self-service level at the time and we came up for our nine uh nine a.m smoke break [1:28:36] and uh one of my buddies was an electrician and he was uh he had one of those old like motorola brick [1:28:44] phones he was playing this like grainy voicemail message from um from his girlfriend it was like [1:28:50] her screaming on the phone that planes and hit the towers and uh i remember he he made this like [1:28:57] off-color comment about you know his girlfriend probably shouldn't be drinking that early in the [1:29:02] morning and um it turned out that it was very real we started hearing air you know the air sirens and [1:29:11] air horns coming through the city police officers driving everywhere and my dad at the time was an [1:29:16] attorney um working for a law firm in in dc and his office space was right across the street and so the [1:29:23] first place i went when they shut down the job site i walked right across and um took the elevator up to [1:29:30] his office everybody was gathered inside of one of the conference rooms and they were watching it on [1:29:36] television and it was just completely surreal he had this room full of you know 150 attorneys and [1:29:44] paralegals uh that were you know dumpster uh and uh it was not even a month two months later that um i got [1:29:56] hired with u.s capital police and it was on my way yeah for um for those fires that happened in uh [1:30:04] january of 2025 over here in california i mean i i'm not very far from the altadena fire and palisades [1:30:13] fire too but it was real windy that was just an act of god right there like regardless of who was [1:30:21] you know a politician republican or democrat that shit was just bound to happen i mean if anything [1:30:28] you know definitely was like a lack of planning uh gavin gavin i mean uh karen bass yeah she failed [1:30:36] hopefully she gets voted out and we get nydia romans to replace her but i'm glad spencer pratt [1:30:41] kicked rocks because that guy's another trump clown but uh but yeah it was windy af oh man i've been [1:30:48] in los angeles like all my life never experienced any winds like that should have felt like a tornado [1:30:56] georgia uh for training with the federal at the federal law enforcement training center and that [1:31:03] was i mean some of the the conflation with you is a lot of people they think about human relationships [1:31:09] of january 6th they a lot of people assume you were a police officer still at the capitol when you [1:31:15] were actually doing the dc metro work you were doing with narcotics undercover work uh what were you [1:31:21] doing at the exact time yeah so i spent a year in fact a year to the day um at u.s capitol police [1:31:28] and i i figured out pretty quickly that uh i love the career of law enforcement i did not like working at uh [1:31:35] at the capitol and i gotta be honest with you like no offense to politicians out there but you know [1:31:41] obviously one of our big uh responsibilities as a u.s capitol police officer is you gotta be willing [1:31:47] to like trade your life for and for the for the altadena fire that one um they found it was like an [1:31:55] it was edison edison was at fault for that one they weren't maintaining like their electrical tower right [1:32:02] there you know for the people that work in that space you weren't that impressed with everybody [1:32:07] no not at all um so my disdain for for politics and politicians started at an early age and uh yeah [1:32:18] i got to see a lot of behind the scenes and it ain't pretty uh people just treating you like just treating [1:32:25] you like like shit yeah absolutely um and so i got out there i joined uh the metropolitan police [1:32:35] department uh dc police um which is the more traditional law enforcement agency in washington dc [1:32:42] essentially if you call 9-1-1 in dc we're the ones that show up that being said um i did like a very [1:32:50] short state in control in uniform and uh and found that you know as a 22 year old 23 year old uh who was [1:32:59] very much an adrenaline junkie narcotics was like right up my alley and uh and i loved i loved every [1:33:05] thing about it and um you know as my uh my buddy who joined who came from capital police and joined [1:33:12] npd with me and i later would serve alongside of inside the uh lower west terrace tunnel on january [1:33:18] 6th for amy kyle uh we used to joke all the time with each other we would do this job for free [1:33:24] and you loved it that way you did what 20 20 years years right 20 years yep amazing and mostly [1:33:30] undercover obviously some criminal work but you you talk about your own journey in the book and [1:33:35] obviously you've been an internal and junkie and hey you know but but also you know empathy that you [1:33:41] develop over time you actually have some wonderful stories and some of the folks that you got to know [1:33:46] out there in four minutes and their own journeys and uh and the notion of you know of de-escalation [1:33:53] in the context of you know more of a dominance mindset yeah everything i learned about being a cop did not [1:34:01] come from the academy or any of my instructors uh everything i learned about being a cop came from [1:34:07] mentors and colleagues but i think more importantly it came from like early on i think joe donald who [1:34:17] to me was like the big roof and uh joe told me that you know as an archivist officer you're only as good [1:34:27] as your informants and you got to treat these people like you know gold um and so i developed an informant [1:34:37] pretty early on my name is leslie perkins i talked about her a lot in the book um but she was my you [1:34:46] know biggest teacher uh yama from the suburbs who's now policing inner city washington dc which obviously [1:34:57] everyone knows is predominantly uh you know black and brown communities i knew nothing about the culture [1:35:05] but more importantly i knew nothing about what it's like to be poor like really funny was a huge [1:35:17] motivating factor for the vast majority of uh of people that i interacted with and so like going from [1:35:25] this mentality that like criminals are inherently bad people to recognizing the fact that like most of [1:35:33] these people are just trying to survive uh and you know listen i encountered my fair share of like evil [1:35:40] motherfuckers but uh you know most of these guys and gals that were out there were just just trying [1:35:47] to feed themselves feed their families and you know and you know in narcotics you learn they're addictions [1:35:55] and so that that was important um because like you said it it taught you know a 22 year old kid [1:36:02] compassion and empathy for the people that uh that i was interacting with on a daily basis and it made me [1:36:08] be uh an effective cop um and and a successful police officer a few decades of doing that and [1:36:17] politics for you i mean you're right a little bit about it i mean you weren't it wasn't what you [1:36:21] weren't on your your sleeves i mean obviously i imagine the bias you can fast forward it supported trump [1:36:29] in 2016 but was were you politically uh you know motivated or were you just was that was that a big part [1:36:36] of the job politics that can get away at things i mean obviously playing you know you have sort of a [1:36:43] neutral understanding or appreciation of political representation yes but so that's more just a [1:36:49] today political what was your bias so this is a pretty good uh interview this just came out yesterday [1:36:59] between uh gavin newsom and michael fanwan from uh the cop from donald trump's uh insurrection but yeah [1:37:11] guys appreciate it everyone that's here hanging out sharing your opinions yeah this is my first [1:37:17] time watching this so there's it's quite long too it's like an hour i'm just gonna watch the whole [1:37:22] thing right now we're 13 minutes into this hour and 20 minute long videos so we still got like a little [1:37:28] over an hour to go i don't remember having a single solitary politically uh motivated or involved [1:37:39] conversation with any one of my colleagues prior to 2015 2016 election summer that was i mean i grew [1:37:49] up in a very uh democratic household um you know one of the things that i think i love the most about [1:37:56] my father is despite his success he never lost sight of uh of his you know his roots and his upbringing [1:38:04] which you know his his father immigrated here from italy uh my grandmother also immigrated from italy [1:38:11] um you know during world war ii to flee fascism and uh and nazi occupation um they came here they [1:38:20] ended up in just outside of pittsburgh by way of ellis island and you know my grandfather worked in [1:38:28] the steel mills uh in sharon pennsylvania for 43 years raised a family uh helped put my father [1:38:36] through school my father worked in the steel mills as well uh to put himself through undergraduate and [1:38:42] then uh graduate or law school uh became a successful attorney but always voted democrat um and so [1:38:52] democratic politics were a part of the household but then you know i i dropped out of high school [1:38:58] when i was almost 17 and lived on my own and so i don't like again i voted um in presidential elections [1:39:12] never voted in you know any other elections um and that was you know that that there was no political [1:39:21] bias like i just didn't um wasn't really politically engaged no i mean but but but in 2016 i mean it's [1:39:30] an important part of the narrative because i'm gonna you know eventually what people did and how [1:39:35] you took it on the chin literally figuratively and you stood up that you know people always [1:39:41] well yeah no like a lot of uh specifically being you had all these polarizing incidents that were [1:40:02] occurring across the country that were garnering national attention and rightfully so involving law [1:40:09] law enforcement officers and communities of color specifically um the killing of members of you know [1:40:17] of these communities and it brought about this national conversation and i thought that politicians [1:40:26] had a responsibility to uh facilitate these conversations in a transparent and a productive way [1:40:34] and what i saw at least from my perspective and this was skewed i think to an extent by like fox news and [1:40:42] and some of these other right-leaning media organizations i saw democrats using that to score [1:40:48] political points rather than to uh to try to have real conversations and obviously my perception and [1:40:56] perspective has changed dramatically but that's how i saw things at the time and it was like one political [1:41:02] party was attacking us the other political party uh was validating and embracing us and so i obviously [1:41:10] you know i went to uh to the republican party and supported not so much trump but i supported the [1:41:19] republican party and obviously voted for trump uh i i quickly learned my lesson i mean it wasn't uh it didn't [1:41:28] take long for me to for me to see that error in my ways yeah we'll get to that in a moment so look fast [1:41:36] forward and again i think the origin story is important because uh you know again people just [1:41:41] assuming you were a capital police officer at the time of january 6 you did spend a little bit of time [1:41:46] there but you were spending again we just had more time obviously over 20 years plus or minus uh as dc officer but [1:41:54] you were there on on january 6th on your own meaning you were not assigned to be uh there you went up to [1:42:03] the capital uh what were you doing that day you were in a long time tell us a little bit about what happened [1:42:09] that day why the hell did you get up there well i'll start with physically where i was i was living with my [1:42:15] mother at the time uh going through like a pretty nasty breakup maybe six months earlier and um i just wasn't [1:42:27] in a financial position to get mine in place at the time and so i ended up moving with him with my [1:42:32] mom which was probably the best thing that could have happened given the fact that you know everything [1:42:36] that happened on january 6th and actually having somebody there to support me um was uh was tremendous [1:42:45] uh that being said uh i was working for the dc police i was assigned to a uh a narcotics unit we call [1:42:55] the crime suppression team each district uh has their own i was assigned to the first district [1:43:01] that's where i spent my entire career uh working out of the first district and we were involved our [1:43:08] office was involved in a narcotics investigation and that was what was you know on the driver race [1:43:14] board for the day so to speak like we were going to be doing a drug buy i was going to be working with [1:43:19] you know my long time informant leslie perkins um and we were going to be buying heroin together [1:43:26] out of a house in uh in southeast or southwest washington dc um obviously things didn't turn [1:43:34] out that way um and yeah i uh i made the decision you know when i heard the calls the distress calls [1:43:44] coming out from the capital from officers that they were being overrun that they were being assaulted [1:43:50] and i made the decision to put a uniform on and uh in response to the capital so you were undercover [1:43:56] you were in your undercover guard so to speak what was this a couple hours after an hour [1:44:03] hour here from the stress calls what was it you started hearing things were starting to get out of [1:44:09] control so it was after the initial range was like 1 p.m so and my shift started at 3 so i actually got [1:44:17] in the car at like 1 p.m shortly before that and started heading uh it was when i was getting calls [1:44:25] from uh from other officers namely my partner um jimmy who was telling me that you know he was hearing [1:44:32] these reports that uh a large you know contingent of the uh stop the steal rally had broken off [1:44:40] and about 10 000 15 000 people were marching down tennessee avenue towards the capital that's what i was [1:44:46] like all right this is something you know this is not normal uh we don't see this we see first [1:44:52] amendment assembly is processed every single day in washington dc we don't see something like this [1:44:57] and i i too did like i knew what the rhetoric that was being used at that rally i heard the president [1:45:03] say you know fight like hell or you're not gonna have a country anymore i heard you know giuliani and [1:45:09] all the others you know um so i knew what you know the condition that that crowd was most likely in [1:45:17] and uh and i knew people that um you know that had that mentality you know i i'm sure that uh that i knew [1:45:25] some of the folks that were that were at that rally and and um and so i i understood the you know mental [1:45:32] state so to speak uh that they were in that they really believed that this election had been stolen and [1:45:39] they believed that their actions were uh you know not just validated but um but that they were [1:45:46] actually receiving orders from their commander in chief uh and so i knew how dangerous that [1:45:53] accommodation could be and um yeah is that right david well guess what gavin newsom never went to epstein [1:46:02] island like that orange turd and his buddy coward nutlik there to be useful and and i ultimately responded [1:46:14] it because i wanted um you know as a cop it's like the most fundamental principle of that when [1:46:26] another cop is in in distress you drop everything and you go and so that's you know that was so ingrained [1:46:35] in me and i think it's just part of the um the character of of a police officer um and so that that's [1:46:45] what i did and then i i'm not like the only hundreds of self-deployed to the cabinet yeah i don't think [1:46:53] people fully appreciate i mean how many folks came up there and a very a very mutual aid very much [1:46:59] were you guys getting briefed the week you know leading up to this i mean you had bannon out there [1:47:04] promoting the hell out of this you started seeing i mean obviously online you started to see this thing [1:47:09] getting dialed up and you you mentioned that you obviously were paying attention but was it was it [1:47:15] deeply briefed you know morning meetings uh with the dc uh folks i mean were you were you guys on sort [1:47:22] of soft you know deployment status or or was it you know just status quo empty you're about to do your [1:47:28] day job undercover uh you didn't necessarily think you've been pulled into this i mean listen like we [1:47:34] had uh so the way the staffing works for these types of events is that uh that we had what's called [1:47:40] civil service units cdu squads and we have permanent cdu squads i'm sure you guys have permanent uh cdu [1:47:48] units at the uh california state police we had the same thing in the city but then we have large scale [1:47:55] events like this we'll pull from patrol we'll pull from other assignments so we had guys that were in my [1:48:01] office that had already been retasked that day and assigned to district cdu units and so they were [1:48:09] you know deployed throughout the city our focus that day as the metropolitan police department [1:48:16] was on potential unrest between cowboys and keepers you know these right-wing uh violent extremist groups [1:48:25] and counter protesters and so we we had assumed i think as a department that we would see that type of [1:48:33] violence at places like um black lives matter park um and so we had units that were deployed there but [1:48:42] they were deployed throughout the city um we aren't responsible for the capital um you asked about [1:48:50] intelligence i received my briefing ironically from steve bannon and all the crazy ass posting put out and um [1:48:59] um the shipping was writing on breitbart um like that's where i learned that that this was even going [1:49:06] to be a thing uh you know we i don't know you know like i'm sure you've seen some of the briefings for [1:49:12] law enforcement i'm sure you've seen probably thousands of them with the governor of california [1:49:16] they're always very sterile and there's there you know and so it was like today there will be a protest [1:49:24] held at the ellipse um and there wasn't i don't even think they made the protests and so you know [1:49:32] that that was the information that was disseminated to uh to the metropolitan police department not that [1:49:38] it's really that necessary to know you know the the political makeup of a potential rally but there was [1:49:44] no like do we anticipate acts of violence uh that was incorporated into that um into that brief it was [1:49:53] more just like this is what's happening this is the times that it's happening and as a narcotics [1:49:59] officer that was like that uh she went right in the file 13 in the trash basket the moment i received it [1:50:07] so it was like last thing that i was thinking about that day so you get up there that day and just you [1:50:15] know you just want you you pull up you're walking around just trying to be useful or you get pulled [1:50:20] right in by the way and what was you know set the scene when you arrived i mean people should watch [1:50:27] my uh my bodywork camera it's all over the internet but uh me and my partner jimmy are like walking [1:50:32] around just kind of like two idiots uh touring the capital and then uh we made our way to we kind of [1:50:39] got there every place we got to until we made our way to the lower west harris tunnel we like missed all [1:50:46] the action by like 30 seconds uh and so you know we made our way through the south the south entrance [1:50:53] to the capital we walked through uh i forget the name of the hallway there's like a bunch of statues [1:50:59] of old white motherfuckers in there uh and we made our way to uh the the crypt which is um in the rotunda [1:51:08] it's beneath statuary hall and we were just kind of like milling about aimlessly and uh and i heard a [1:51:16] distress call come over the radio um we used 10 codes and our distress calls 1033 there was a 1033 [1:51:23] that came out from the lower west harris tunnel and i literally looked at jimmy and was like uh [1:51:29] which way is west and uh and so he's like figures that out and then we asked the capital police officer [1:51:36] where the tunnel entrance is he points us in that direction and uh and we made our way down there and [1:51:42] that's when things went from relatively uh i hate to say comical but i mean it was kind of like [1:51:51] just buffoonery to like serious violence um i remember walking down the steps to the lower west [1:52:01] harris tunnel and um i uh i could see in front of me there was a set of double doors and there was [1:52:09] pane glass of the double doors and you could see through the glass the uh the lingering cs gas [1:52:17] that was still just residual kind of floating in the air and i could tell like you know this is uh [1:52:24] like it's time to get serious about what's going on and uh and when when we went through there on the [1:52:36] bricks in front of me was maybe 50 uniformed police officers mostly dc cops but there was a handful of [1:52:48] u.s capital police as well and uh and my old buddy uh randy kyle he at that time was a commander who also [1:52:57] self-deployed um he was uh one of the first um you know highest ranking officers on the scene of the [1:53:05] capitol and uh and he was commanding this ragtag bunch of uh of cops that had been assembled from [1:53:13] you know units that uh that had either fallen back from their original positions [1:53:19] uh self-deployed like myself and were defending this entranceway to the capitol against you know [1:53:28] what turned out to be thousands tens of thousands of uh of violent riders [1:53:34] and uh your first i mean you describe it so vividly and we've obviously watched you describe it you [1:53:42] write about it as well and you know how you're bad and storing body camera obviously the the the [1:53:49] the physical impacts we'll get to you know the mental side of this a little later but what what [1:53:58] what could you sort of fast forward i mean was it a blur just to be out of nowhere just went from [1:54:04] that scene you just described to total care oh yeah hey what's up my down yeah every once in a while [1:54:10] i'll take out i'll take out the trash you know sometimes sometimes i if i notice the the chat's [1:54:17] getting low iq with some maggots i'll send some back to jonestown give them a little five minute [1:54:22] timeout so maybe they can learn from their mistakes i mean hopefully they just don't come back but if [1:54:27] they do hopefully they they'll behave themselves otherwise i'll send them back i'll at the end i'll [1:54:33] do a 10 minute timeout but for the most part now i usually i usually don't don't really trip but [1:54:41] sometimes if i look at the chat it's nothing but maggots so i'm like all right it's time to deport [1:54:45] some of these fools sort of waking up from a dream i mean how would you describe just in that [1:54:52] time from that that moment you walk down in the tunnel to you know when you like after that the [1:54:59] everything to a point is incredibly vivid i mean uh when i sit here and i recount it it's like i'm [1:55:06] actually there and i can see everything i can smell the smells i mean i remember um i remember standing [1:55:16] in the back of all these officers and thinking to myself like these guys have been here at that point i [1:55:21] think it was around 3 p.m they had been there fighting for two hours uh non-stop with no relief [1:55:28] uh and i was like well i just got here i'm gonna get to the front and uh and i remember turning to [1:55:38] jimmy and telling him like we need to get to the front we just got and then we make our way into the [1:55:42] front and while we're making our way through this you know uh active officers we're uh we were calling out [1:55:53] like if anybody needs help i just remember like looking and you know just kind of coming face to [1:55:59] face with some of the cops and looking through their little plexiglass face shield and you could [1:56:04] see them bleeding some of the guys were you know couldn't breathe um not everybody had gas masks i [1:56:11] didn't um it issued one but vanity prevented me from uh from bringing it with me because i thought it [1:56:18] looked stupid um that's a true story but uh so yeah it was really difficult to breathe i mean these [1:56:35] guys just look like they've been getting their asses kicked for and a lot of them had and i think you [1:56:41] know one of the things that's missed is uh you can't see it on my body more camera but when you're [1:56:46] walking down through that tunnel uh there are uh adjacent tunnels uh leading off of that and they were [1:56:54] littered with injured police officers that were exchanging equipment with other police officers [1:57:02] who had either had their equipment taken from them or weren't equipped with you know with riot here [1:57:08] and uh and that's something that you know i'll never uh never forget uh that that scene because you [1:57:14] know in a normal quote-unquote law enforcement scenario these guys would be transported away from the scene [1:57:22] in an ambulance um but this was like a bat it was much more in line with what i would describe as a [1:57:31] military engagement not a law enforcement situation because we couldn't get uh medical assistance into [1:57:40] the facility because the scene wasn't secure for hours six hours um and so i made my way to the front of [1:57:49] the stack um i remember coming face to face with uh you know with the insurrectionists the the fighters [1:57:58] and uh all of a sudden i remember saying we've got injured officers here we need to shut these doors [1:58:08] which there were there were two doors that had been uh pulled open and all hell broke loose and it was [1:58:16] uh you know i can't really use the word fighting because i mean i i couldn't even there wasn't even enough room [1:58:26] to uh to pull and throw a punch like it was just body against body you know like i described it as [1:58:34] like a medieval medicine i mean you were just you were using your body weight to try to repel these [1:58:40] people from the tunnel uh and it was then versus us in this kind of heave-ho exchange that seemed to last [1:58:48] forever um and somehow you know the 50 some odd of us managed to uh to gain ground and push these guys [1:58:57] out of uh out of the tunnel unfortunately being in front of that you know that train didn't exactly [1:59:03] stop on the don and i ended up getting pushed out through the mouth of the tunnel and at one point [1:59:09] there was a guy albuquerque cost per head from tennessee um he was one of the riders who put me in a [1:59:17] headlock and pulled me off the police line out into the crowd and he's the guy that uh if you guys [1:59:24] watch you can hear him on the uh body cam yell out i've got one i've got one and uh that that was [1:59:33] like a very surreal ocean where it seemed like time stood still uh i remember his face vividly um i could [1:59:45] smell the uh men's skull on his breath that's how close we were and um and that was uh you know at [1:59:58] that point i was pulled out i was restrained i was beaten um i had one individual kyle young tried to [2:00:09] remove my my firearm from his holster another individual from the great state of california [2:00:17] daniel rodriguez used a stun gun um and uh applied it to my neck multiple times um and uh yeah that's [2:00:31] kind of um at one point i do remember yelling uh that i have kids and i think that was me trying to [2:00:45] survive um you know obviously i do have kids i have four daughters i probably would have said it [2:00:53] if i was uh if i had none um but uh you know it worked uh it did appeal to uh to some of them [2:01:03] uh but it you know i people need to understand like in that in those moments some of these guys were [2:01:11] trying to you know prevent people from assaulting me while others were still trying to assault me and [2:01:18] that continued all the way up until i was returned to the police line which i like at that point you know [2:01:26] i don't remember very much of anything uh the next thing yeah i'm gonna pause this real quick to [2:01:33] share this let's rewind to the beginning where are they now january 6 edition can read the caption [2:02:10] right there let me see if i can play it on this one that's weird let's see so they're all donald trump's [2:02:34] rioters right here where are they now is walking back to uh to my police cruiser with my partner jimmy and [2:03:06] him projectile vomiting all over the sidewalk in front of the longworth house office building [2:03:12] and after that he drove me to washington hospital center and told emergency room that uh that i had [2:04:12] suffered a heart attack the crony levels had spiked significantly i had a cardiac event and i was [2:04:21] admitted to the hospital i was later diagnosed with a train my god i appreciate you for counting [2:04:31] for the 88 time this but i mean so the reason in forgiving it the reason i think it's important [2:04:38] is people have forgotten man i mean they just have forgotten it or they don't want to talk about it [2:04:45] they don't want to relive it in any way shape or form um or they never you know took the time to [2:04:51] to hear your story and more personally it became so political including by the way today you know i can't [2:04:57] even conceive i think it was what yesterday judge metta was the one who originally sentenced uh you [2:05:04] talk about proud boys oath keepers i think it was an 18 year sentence a jury finding these guys guilty [2:05:11] stuart and these guys uh but officially said this book chapter of this book is over yesterday as it [2:05:19] relates to this seditious conspiracy uh because of the actions of president trump i think just you know how [2:05:26] do you this thing doesn't go away for you and yesterday i imagine it was just another you know [2:05:33] gut punch uh where this thing concluded in some sort yeah i was a cop for 20 years like uh being [2:05:41] disappointed in the criminal justice system is nothing new for me um that being said the most difficult [2:05:49] aspect to deal with is the politicization of of january 6th that there's one segment of the country that [2:06:00] either doesn't believe that it happened believes that it was you know a false flag operation or that [2:06:08] um you know which i think is probably the worst of the three that uh you know that these individuals [2:06:14] are heroes and patriots that's formed the capital and assaulted police officers myself included um all of [2:06:22] that because of one man donald trump um donald trump orchestrated the event he he influenced it [2:06:31] um and and then he's the one that is most responsible for for politicizing the event i mean [2:06:42] it's it's funny you know not to bring politics into the conversation too much but you hear all the time [2:06:49] like oh democrats want to talk about january 6th game democrats want to talk about january 6th we're [2:06:54] fucking like six years out and you know the only people that will really talk about january 6th [2:06:59] are donald trump republicans and you know his uh attorney general who's really his personal [2:07:08] attorney cosplaying as the attorney general todd lynch um and i mean obviously uh you know we should [2:07:15] talk about the weaponization fund uh and uh and how donald trump uh wanted to use 1.776 billion [2:07:27] dollars of taxpayer money to pay off uh violent criminals uh something i'm still obviously i'm not [2:07:35] convinced tom blanche consigned whatever letter he wants i don't believe for one second that those [2:07:41] individuals uh are not going to receive monetary compensation um one because there's already a [2:07:49] mechanism through the tort claims act which would allow each of them to apply individually this slush [2:07:57] fund essentially would just make it easier uh to process and so you know uh american taxpayers be warned [2:08:07] your hard earned money is going to go to uh to paying off violent criminals many of whom [2:08:12] have already found themselves back into uh you know into the criminal justice system for some pretty [2:08:18] heinous crimes uh upwards of a hundred i think just shy of a hundred child molestation reckless and all [2:08:27] kinds of uh horrific crimes every one out of every 16 of these guys are bashing these great people [2:08:34] yeah i do exactly it debunks the claim that uh you know that all along that these were great americans [2:08:40] that were simply inspired by you know what they saw as this uh horrendous uh you know corruption uh [2:08:48] and yeah they these were just criminals who were predisposed to committing acts of violence [2:08:55] who you know somebody said go be violent for me and and they went and uh you know were violent um [2:09:03] that's it it's as simple as that michael did you ever imagine i mean obviously when trump got back [2:09:08] into office he had you know he was saying a lot of stuff on the campaign trail he was talking about [2:09:14] potentially doing commutations pardons for a lot of these guys did you ever imagine it at the scale [2:09:21] that he would do it universally for every damn one of these guys uh and do it so quickly in the term [2:09:27] or were you absolutely convinced that so i remember another uh vivid memory of mine is uh is watching [2:09:35] donald trump announce his uh his candidacy for his second term uh from waco texas uh which for those [2:09:44] of you who don't remember is the uh the scene of um a violent confrontation between uh fringe extremists [2:09:53] armed extremists and american law enforcement officers which cost the lives of quite a few of my former [2:10:01] colleagues and so he promised then that he was going to pardon the patriots from january 6th and i [2:10:09] remember my mom looking at me and saying like he came i was like oh he can and he will and i knew when [2:10:17] he announced his candidacy after four years of uh you know the biden presidency justin not that i was [2:10:25] disappointed with by this president other than his selection of merrick garland for attorney general [2:10:31] um but i knew just from you know talking to people and continuing conversations and even [2:10:38] speaking to former colleagues of mine who after enduring january 6 still voted for god trump again [2:10:47] which is that to me is like the eighth wonder of the world like i will understand uh you know that [2:10:56] whatever that is but uh they did it and it was yeah i mean um i knew right then and there like that uh [2:11:04] he was going to get elected and that he was going to pardon everybody um you know from uh from [2:11:10] january 6. he did a hell of a thing he reminded us i mean he very intentionally picked wake up as a [2:11:17] and then of course he had the j6 national anthem as well throughout the campaign i mean that how did that [2:11:24] how did that lend to you for you like i mean there's a it's just probably going to end up being one of the [2:11:36] most used words uh besides the f word in this podcast but surreal like it just it's like you [2:11:46] can't it was like um i don't know like a like an snl skit look check out check out my new uh check out [2:12:22] my new gavin truck what do you guys think you guys like my new truck not too shabby huh let's go ahead and [2:12:36] save that but it was horrifying because it was you knew that it was uh reality um hey what's up what's [2:12:49] up steve-o just hanging out man hey i was watching your stream last night that was awesome thanks for [2:12:55] showing us los angeles that night say if anybody uh out there is interested in some good los angeles [2:13:01] live streams check out uh steve-o steve-o news hey what up steve-o hope you're having a good day out [2:13:08] there man how's the how's how's the weather man when's this heat wave gonna end man i'm posted up [2:13:14] with the ac on not looking forward to the electric bill but it is what it is just hot am i mean what [2:13:22] is that uh idiocracy yeah remember that like you know that idiocracy was uh was a doctrine uh about [2:13:33] maga and the trump administration um and then it was it's like that but if imagine if that was [2:13:38] reality how horrifying that is yeah i mean it was just it was absurd and terrifying all at the same [2:13:45] time and then oh yeah i think uh yeah i fell asleep uh at some point i had you on the tv though but i [2:13:54] fell asleep so what happened you get some good footage you know and not to jump around but in the timeline [2:14:01] here but fast forward to when he actually to january 20th uh when 2025 when he actually pardoned these [2:14:10] individuals um like that to me was not so much the pardons was scary but the idea that as somebody [2:14:22] who had been a law enforcement officer for 20 years like this was the first moment in which uh i knew [2:14:31] that the criminal justice system that i had served that i was now a target of that criminal justice system [2:14:39] um you know i remember oh yeah for sure steve yeah usually i like to just have it in the background [2:14:45] because i like to mostly play music sometimes sometimes that you know can only watch so much [2:14:51] politics so i like to like watch uh music and i like having like uh los angeles live streams like on [2:14:57] the background so yeah i put your link in there so in case anyone you know wants to go check you out [2:15:01] and subscribe you know so yeah hey good good work man that uh you know what do i what can i do to [2:15:12] protect not just myself but my family at that point we had endured you know almost countless death [2:15:19] threats my mother had been physically confronted uh on multiple occasions she actually had to sell [2:15:25] her home and move because of you know the amount of threats and and oh okay oh that's what's up nice [2:15:36] going up to her house so i went to get restraining orders against uh the individuals who had [2:15:47] pled guilty to violently assaulted me and um you know i remember contacting the department of justice [2:15:54] by victim advocate and saying you know hey listen i need to get their uh home addresses because they [2:16:00] have to be served that's part of the process and they were like no um you're not entitled to that [2:16:06] anymore because as far as we're concerned those cases don't exist you're not a victim so you know [2:16:15] you know the i mean so just the indignity over and over and over again it continues to your point [2:16:22] to this day because as you say trump continues to bring up january 6 uh and republican party continues [2:16:28] to bring it up and whitewash this and you know you had some more interesting uh in colorful interactions [2:16:35] recently as at least some of some of this uh that continues i'm a colorful guy uh no i didn't see [2:16:47] that what happened there hey what's up dorian you're entitled to your opinion just uh i don't know i think [2:16:57] you might i think you might have started going haywire with your spamming but uh you know feel free to [2:17:03] like you know share your opinion but not like every second but thanks for hanging out regardless but [2:17:09] what up everyone hope you're all having a good uh monday out there watching this gavin newsom um [2:17:14] what's this guy's name michael fanlon or something yeah michael fanoni i think that's like an italian [2:17:22] last name but i you know the issue of the the fund the the fund it's just you know it's your point [2:17:33] it was 1776 i mean this idea that's another just everything about this is an sns good everything about [2:17:39] all right then dorian yeah you're all good you must have just got you must you must have just got [2:17:44] caught up in the in the wrath well you're all good it's just it's just uh you know anyway that's [2:17:53] you know i we can excuse it quote-unquote trump being trump but uh but in from your prison from [2:17:59] your perspective and as a guy who loves our country our collective perspective this is serious [2:18:03] shit um in fact you mentioned rodriguez guy we felt a little proud of us here in california at least i [2:18:09] was able to move it was nice to be able to do it we got it done in a week uh but if anyone does get [2:18:15] any settlements in california residents and we know there are a lot of those 1600 or so folks [2:18:21] that were convicted and as you said most like guilty and many that had juries of their peers that [2:18:30] convicted them that if they do receive any compensation they'll be taxed at 100 percent [2:18:34] uh it relates to the state uh taxes uh that should be done by every single uh democrat governor across [2:18:43] it if you're watching um you know you can take a lesson from this guy right here i mean that should [2:18:50] have been done immediately the moment that they announced that they were going to have this one [2:18:54] because it's whether the fund is created or not money already exists and it's through the court claims [2:19:02] act to the department of justice and you know under todd blanche you really think they're going to put [2:19:10] up any level of resistance no of course not they're just going to pay the mat um and so you know if you [2:19:18] want to support law enforcement and protect cops uh that should be you know that should be something [2:19:26] that's happening across the world amen yeah um but let's go back to blanche i mean you saw this last [2:19:33] week i mean you saw tillis gordon that just flipped i mean come on i mean what a joke uh because he wrote [2:19:40] some you know he writes a letter to your point i mean it's just all bullshit and they can get complete [2:19:47] bullshit so they were looking for an excuse so i guess a lot of some career outside politics but they [2:19:52] were humiliated by this guy trump and then they just humiliated themselves again in order to get [2:19:57] blanched out oh uh steve-o steve-o steve-o's uh was talking about uh he's a he's a los angeles live [2:20:05] live streamer like a news gatherer he was talking about a news story that happened over the weekend [2:20:11] that is petty process what was your sense of what they did in particular uh and then of course the the [2:20:20] profile and courage of susan collins uh that will uh will go out on a limb now and vote against [2:20:28] listen i'm you know like i'm trying to purport myself as like some man's man like um you know [2:20:37] but i will never understand like this cuck mentality uh watching you know even just in the 2016 election [2:20:48] like watching donald trump tear through ted cruz and uh but who's the the tim bush jet bush the [2:20:58] little mark of little mark of all these guys and then they just came back for seconds um you know [2:21:08] not even like personal attacks on them but their wives those are fighting words to me like i'm not [2:21:13] going to get in the same room with you after you've just disparaged my wife or my mother uh and and [2:21:19] you know like secret services could be busy that day so i you know it's like how is that and then [2:21:26] you just watch it unfold during this and watching these guys be todd blanch like set aside you know [2:21:33] the epstein files and the way that he's treated these victims i mean to me there's almost there really [2:21:41] is no worse crime than uh sexual assault and sex trafficking hey yo yo what up a lot kitty yeah [2:21:49] just posted up watching this uh pretty interesting gavin newsome interview i got the ac on so we're [2:21:55] inside staying cool is it hot up in your neck of the woods we got we got carlo the husky posted up [2:22:02] next to his bed he's on the nice cool tile floor right here hey what up dan fries hey good to see you [2:22:10] pal hey man you back from your vacation how was how was it how was your vacation it's awesome man [2:22:20] good to hear from you not so bad it's 80. all right cool yeah nice yeah over here it's like uh [2:22:34] feels like like 100 degrees in la but it won't start to cool down not until like 6 or 7 pm all right so [2:22:46] this is uh gavin newsome and uh and the victim of donald trump's insurrection just isn't it's a life [2:22:57] sentence to these victims um you know in my mind all you know murder is almost a better [2:23:04] fucking outcome than than having to endure that for the rest of your life and then to have it [2:23:09] politicized fuck january 6th i can't even imagine what it's like to have been sexually assaulted [2:23:15] by donald trump's friends and then because donald trump's president you get no justice and you you [2:23:23] have to be disparaged and then you have to sit through it uh you know a meeting with todd blanch [2:23:29] just to make senator tillis feel better and and be insulted and demeaned it's just like it's [2:23:36] victimization over and over and over again but this is a guy todd blanch who when he was nominated [2:23:42] said he loved donald trump i love him i mean listen i'm not above telling another man i love him but [2:23:55] what is it it just blows my fucking mind and then you know it's it just um the way that he has uh [2:24:07] destroyed the credibility from the justice just i mean just completely destroyed like i i hate to [2:24:13] break it to you guys any of you holdouts at the doj my former colleagues because they were the [2:24:18] local prosecutors for washington dc america fucking hates you you're the enemy uh the best thing that [2:24:27] you could do is quit job i mean you you keep referring that i mean all of us are trying to [2:24:34] understand and i mean is is it just the association with power is it uh it's just the privilege of being [2:24:40] proximate to power is it just a personality uh that is you know that is so dominant uh that there's you [2:24:50] know i mean you even think about lindsey graham looking for a father figure what what i mean [2:24:56] you talk about the eighth one in the world seriously i mean you've had it you've spent years i mean years [2:25:00] and years uh trying to figure this out you've got friends as you say that you know in your own [2:25:07] department that voted for him again uh well yeah we got the we got the crew in the house what up homies [2:25:13] what's up uh daddy daddy dog thunder bog what up aloha kitty what's happening dad price jfo what up [2:25:21] got the we got the um the non-cooled drinking crew pardon all these damn people that attack police [2:25:33] officers but what do you how do you unpack that what do you see what is the the core here the essence of [2:25:40] why i mean i'm not medical but uh i mean i look at it like i think with todd lands with some of these [2:25:51] people um they you know they hitch their cart to donald trump and now they are so criminally culpable [2:26:03] and invested in in this administration that they have no choice but to go you know uh balls deep [2:26:10] into um into this behavior because you know what what's the alternative um you know i think a lot [2:26:17] of these guys are just like riding it out hoping that they get a presidential pardon before trump kicks [2:26:23] the bucket um but i i think there's like some true believers in there but i think the vast majority of [2:26:30] these people that he surrounded himself are just uh brifters you know like you said people that that [2:26:35] enjoy um celebrity um you know whatever you know i guess yeah we have we have some other of the mod [2:26:43] homies uh earlier in the chat but it's nice when uh when a lot of mods are in the chat at the same [2:26:50] time because i already know everyone all you guys are all cool you know so either way i appreciate [2:26:57] everybody that's hanging out yeah ascribe to the belief that uh any publicity is good publicity i don't know [2:27:07] i mean you also look at the podcast because this cabinet lives on a military base because they're [2:27:13] afraid to interact with the general public because they know that people hate um and so i like i i [2:27:19] can't even like i can't begin to like to understand what what's going on inside their uh their minds and [2:27:29] then the other thing too is like you know how trump treats his friends once you're no longer useful [2:27:35] he throws you to the wolves yeah so i you know like over and then that that itself was uh was [2:27:48] insane i mean as somebody who tried to push good felony case work through you know the dc criminal [2:27:54] justice system for 20 years well yeah that's just crazy so donald trump tried to throw someone in [2:28:00] federal prison for 20 years for a crime and he knew you know an innocent person that's insane to cover up [2:28:09] his crime that shoot felony charges against the guy that like dipped his hand in the um reflecting [2:28:18] pool and pulled out a piece of you know paint that had peeled off because you know they were pouring uh [2:28:25] you know all these chemicals in there to try to like clear out the algae it just like how is it as a [2:28:33] i mean to me that's that's a crime as a prosecutor you have committed a crime in bringing those charges [2:28:40] against this individual it's beyond derelation of of duty and a violation of your oath you're a [2:28:47] criminal janine pierre is a criminal um and she still got tossed aside by trump so yeah well we'll [2:28:55] see you at the end hey what's up jeff i'd like to see john ossoff for 2028 this is there a side or [2:29:04] she just you know dials it back up for um which is exactly why i guess bonding wasn't good enough [2:29:09] uh for trump and so we got blanched personal defense attorney criminal attorney today today i [2:29:16] think you texted something tweeted something out about the tate brothers and um you know goes to [2:29:21] this issue of masculinity i think look one of the things that's really interesting about you just [2:29:27] i mean every observer will make a point i mean you're right out of central casting man i mean right [2:29:31] out of central casting and that's why you were such you were so i mean you're the worst goddamn thing [2:29:37] that happened on january 6th to trump and they're frank because they didn't have the ability to look [2:29:42] at you with your history your background the fact that you can vote for this time yeah i mean i don't [2:29:48] think an ossoff newsome ticket would work they're kind of like different maybe like uh jamie raskin or [2:29:58] sheldon whitehouse mark kelly that booty egg guy nice and your ability to articulate what happened [2:30:07] in a sober and thoughtful way i could see i could see aoc or i can see like newsome aoc in your [2:30:17] tenacity and your commitment to this large cause you didn't go away you didn't back down um this notion [2:30:23] of you know the democratic party and what's happening in my party in the relationship to [2:30:27] you know why trump got back in what we need to be doing better is issues around masculinity [2:30:33] you brought up the take brothers today context of you know oh yeah exactly yeah vote out we gotta vote [2:30:38] out every single one of these all these uh republican cuts out of office all these trump loyalists [2:30:46] and it's happening too they're all getting voted out it's a blue wave tsunami guys surfs up grab your [2:30:52] surfboards it seems republicans are walking away on those guys what do you make of where we are in the [2:31:02] relationship tone and and and what is is there what's in the stew at all is masculinity a part of this [2:31:09] is it time you know i remember what do you make adult um some of the attraction to things like uh [2:31:24] like trump like early on circa like 2015 2016 like some of the stuff that he did and said was um i you [2:31:36] know the braggadociousness really it was just the disdain for politicians i think it resonated with [2:31:42] like a lot of americans because you know politicians it's there's i say all the time like there's nothing [2:31:48] more american than talking about politicians um that being said like i don't i don't i don't understand [2:31:58] like i don't understand the fascination with the team i don't understand the fascination with nick [2:32:04] fluentes i don't understand the fashion the you know the fascination with these characters or [2:32:10] caricatures like officer tatum or even fucking charlie kirk like i just don't i don't get it [2:32:18] exactly yeah i never listened to any of those cooks never listened to kirk or not even oh what's [2:32:25] that other nick uh fuentes or none of those clouds i never listened to once in my life i'm proud to say [2:32:32] that too um you know to me no joe rogan screw joe rogan who's the other guy you mentioned i don't [2:32:43] understand the fascination with nick fluentes i don't understand the fashion the you know the [2:32:49] fascination with these characters or caricatures with like a lot of americans because you know [2:32:57] politicians i mean it's there's i say all the time there's nothing more american than talking about [2:33:03] politicians um that being said like i don't i don't i don't understand like i don't understand the [2:33:12] fascination with the tape brothers i don't understand the fascination with nick fluentes [2:33:17] oh yeah the the tape brothers to this day i honestly like i've seen them make like national [2:33:23] news i never heard of them before nor do i care and honestly i never even bothered to look into them [2:33:29] like i can honestly say i don't know about the tape brothers and i'm gonna keep it that way [2:33:34] understand the fashion the you know the fascination with these characters or caricatures like officer [2:33:41] tatum or even fucking charlie kirk like i just don't i don't get um you know to me like strong [2:33:56] like male role models were also that's the i think most significant in my life like besides my grandfather [2:34:06] were uh it came later in life they came after january 6th um and the vast majority of them came from [2:34:15] uh military backgrounds because they were people who like me had dealt with uh violence as trauma [2:34:23] and and taught me that it was okay to uh you know to be emotional to cry to uh to have those [2:34:30] types of feelings and to express those types of feelings and they you know there was also [2:34:39] they taught me that it was important to um you know to receive treatment and one of the things [2:34:45] i'm most proud of is that i took full uh full advantage of the uh you know the psychological [2:34:53] treatment that i received after january 6th and i mean that you know saved my life many times over [2:35:00] and so like but then also protecting women um you know not as like a women are subservient to me [2:35:10] but just as the idea that um like women are the most important um like of our lives like everybody's [2:35:21] got a fucking mother that's a fact and um you know like i i just don't understand like with the team [2:35:28] brothers the relationship you know with women and you know i didn't really know very much about them [2:35:33] until they got rearrested recently and you've seen all the uh the connections between baron trump and the [2:35:38] team brothers and uh the trump administration and it's like these guys were they had an online [2:35:44] university that taught you basically how to uh objectify uh women and and then get them to uh [2:35:54] basically work for you as like sex slaves or cam you know i mean it just is this incredibly dark uh [2:36:04] fucking world and and it i mean it terrifies me like i'm 45 so i'm not connected to you know the the [2:36:11] uh whatever generation we're in now of youth but uh like that i don't i just think it doesn't it [2:36:18] doesn't make any sense like how that is considered um masculine but at the same time it also doesn't [2:36:25] make any sense to me to your point earlier like how is it that the democratic party hasn't figured out [2:36:30] a way to combat us to come up with like an alternative um if you don't need the joe rogan [2:36:36] that's left fuck joe rogan that guy's an asshole he's a complete and utter clown oh yeah and you [2:36:45] know it's like i love it like i've never really watched my cast i've watched enough of it to see [2:36:54] it's like watching the biggest dumb ass [2:36:57] questions and problems like in real time with other weird fucking dumbasses and um but somehow [2:37:08] that the mechanics of that resonates with uh with people it's like oh my god what what happened uh [2:37:17] but yeah i mean democrats need to like like i i'll be honest with you like to fucking you know blow [2:37:22] smoke up your ass but i like the i love the the fucking images that you put out about fucking trump [2:37:30] because it's like i look at it like people ask me all the time why do you stay motherfucker and why [2:37:37] do you call trump guys cucks and cocksuckers and all that shit it's like dude i use the language that [2:37:43] i know resonates with them like i could go on a whole diatribe what is wrong with aga what is wrong with [2:37:52] trump uh and i could do it in an intellectual name well i could but other people uh but that doesn't [2:37:59] resonate with that you're a libertad look at your liberal intellectual speed but i could also say [2:38:06] you're a fucking bitch and that's like that's gonna uh resonate that's gonna hurt um and so i use the [2:38:15] language that um that i'm familiar with and that i also know as somebody who you know has spent a lot [2:38:22] of time in these circles i know that that you know that's going to garner a reaction so you don't [2:38:29] subscribe to the you know to beat them you kind of have to join them you have to speak their language [2:38:34] you don't want to when they go low we go high i mean you really we got to just fight fire with fire [2:38:40] so i'm saying when they go low we go like in the gutter like we go subterranean like that that's how [2:38:52] that's what i ascribe to uh but i mean listen like i'm not running for public office uh and i [2:38:59] and i should be anywhere near the levels of the country i'm too angry and holding too much of a [2:39:07] grudge um but like that's i think that's there's you know my old boss gg deal used to tell me all the [2:39:17] time in the police department different strokes for different folks um and that's to me that's what you [2:39:23] know if we were to unify a democratic party you've got different strokes for different folks you've got [2:39:30] politicians who need to present with a much more polished um you know image uh because like i i [2:39:36] don't want to vote for like i wouldn't support me for any office for all the reasons that i just told [2:39:42] you uh in addition to the fact that like you know i say some of the things that i said um that being said [2:39:49] like i i think i'm valuable to uh you know to those that are fighting to preserve democracy uh and you [2:39:59] know because of my experiences and because i i don't give a shit what people think do you think [2:40:07] we're gonna have a free and fair election this november we've written a lot about ice and talked [2:40:11] to a lot about ice in your show you know obviously we both share the position uh that has become a [2:40:17] private police force extension arm of don trump administration directly um obvious concerns there [2:40:24] you know we're representing a b and c out here in california where so much of this has happened [2:40:28] first uh you know fast forward with all that expertise you're all understanding fair free election [2:40:34] 2026. uh i think that it's it's not a black and white response i think that this administration is [2:40:45] going to throw a lot of different obstacles in people's way to try to determine or prevent them from [2:40:52] voting um i mean we already saw with the recession of the you know vote rights act um you know the [2:40:59] deployment of ice and cdp to uh to city streets um i think that they are going to use intimidation [2:41:08] tactics uh i think that they are going to try to pervert uh the law in states that they can i think they're [2:41:16] going to use um the federal government um you know federal law enforcement agencies like we saw in georgia [2:41:24] try to seize ballots or seize ballots i think they're going to do absolutely everything that they [2:41:29] can which is why we need to do everything that we can um starting like desperate uh to to prepare for [2:41:39] that to make sure that the legal apparatus is in place so that you know the lawsuits can be filed [2:41:45] make sure that you know community organizers are you know getting people registered to vote and getting [2:41:50] people um you know preparing uh to you know to get people to the polls um in a safe safe manner um [2:42:00] despite whatever the administration does so you know my hope is that so many people are [2:42:06] adversely impacted by this administration that uh that people are engaged and they're engaged now [2:42:13] and uh and they recognize what's at stake because it's not the most significant election of our lifetimes i think [2:42:21] it's the most significant election of this republic uh that's about to uh to take place and and [2:42:29] what's at stake is is accountability um you know i get it like i i'm a uh you know a father and i'm trying [2:42:38] to put kids through school and food on the table and kitchen table issues are very real and uh and i get that [2:42:45] but if we don't have accountability for the crimes that this administration has committed uh against [2:42:51] we the people um then you can kiss democracy and our republic goodbye do you think uh i mean you [2:43:00] you referenced it a moment ago about living long enough i think was the word phrase you said we're [2:43:07] living long enough to make sure trump pardons them i mean do you see just this ubiquitous surround [2:43:14] i mean most of the cabinet colleagues family members you see them pardoning everybody this [2:43:21] is to be honest to you like this is what i foresee i foresee because trump if anything is like it's [2:43:26] extremely like excessively lazy person um i think he'll just be like i pardon everyone like everyone [2:43:35] that was in any way uh like he'll he'll try to find some legal speak that incorporates like everyone [2:43:41] that worked for the federal government or is in any way engaged with his administration uh because [2:43:47] that's easier to do than you know to try to cycle out single out individuals and then let you know let [2:43:54] the courts deal with it do you see that happening um after the midterms do you see that happening before [2:44:02] he leaves in 2028 so i think it will happen whenever he thinks that it's uh prudent for him because i i [2:44:10] i guarantee you he's going to he's going to include himself in that uh vast uh vast part and then you [2:44:19] know it's going to be up to uh to the courts and and uh and everyone else to see if um you know if [2:44:28] that's going to hold up what does oversight look like for you with uh assuming speaker jeffrey's what's [2:44:34] what's real oversight is it it's subpoenas it's hearings there's beyond that uh it's all of the [2:44:41] above i mean it's it's subpoenas it's enforcing subpoenas it's you know establishing i mean if you [2:44:48] want if i if i'm applying for a job in this uh i volunteer to either be the head of the u.s marshals [2:44:56] or you can put me in charge of uh the uh what is it uh the house or senate uh sergeant at arms [2:45:05] uh i i have no problems putting handcuffs on members of congress and i've got no problems [2:45:10] enforcing subpoenas uh and dragging those motherfuckers before the court and so um that [2:45:17] there's a role that i can play but i um yeah i mean i think you know the sometimes like the reality [2:45:23] is that the investigations themselves can be incredibly uh detrimental and damaging to an [2:45:30] individual and you know i you could say that it's weaponizing law enforcement but i i call it [2:45:38] enforcing the law and so you know if if the you know byproduct of that is that the guy goes broke [2:45:45] or the gal goes broke because they you know betrayed their oath to the constitution and you know [2:45:51] essentially were a traitor of this country then so be it that's one form of uh of accountability if [2:45:57] they're uh if they're going to elude or escape criminal culpability uh but i don't think that um [2:46:03] that any of these people should be able to show face in this country uh after this administration [2:46:10] is gone but yeah i mean it's going to take uh a you know presidential level uh you know investigation [2:46:20] into um you know all of the you know i mean like it's going to make the january 6 investigation look like [2:46:32] um you know a uh an arrest for petty theft um i i think it's going to take massive resources [2:46:41] uh but it needs to be done past you and that's on the basis of all the grift and the corruption the [2:46:48] self-dealing the crony capitalism the rake lawlessness across the spectrum what was it just i mean taken [2:46:59] from you know ripped from the headlines like was it donald trump was suing capital one and then [2:47:05] capital one shut down hundreds of his bank accounts because of the red flags that came up from him i [2:47:13] mean i saw one of them he was like money one he was selling condos to russian oligarchs i mean it's [2:47:24] you know like it was one of the things that everyone needs to be reminded of and you understand [2:47:30] it's when they despite what blanche allegedly did not allegedly did what he did that may not have [2:47:36] the form and substance of fog because it's irrelevant uh with the letter on the weaponization fund it [2:47:42] still allows uh donald trump to escape any audits the ira which maybe the core of what was about i [2:47:52] i mean it's just um you know i don't know how it is not just uh completely up in arms about you know [2:48:04] the level of corruption that were you know i guess we're just we're all distracted by or distracted [2:48:09] by the shitty economy that trump has uh put it you know gotten us into so everybody's too worried [2:48:16] about how they're going to make it until tomorrow um which was probably part of you know part of the [2:48:23] plan what's your plans michael five years from now what is what are you what are you doing you got a new [2:48:30] show on cnn what do you got what are you doing i don't think that was the last human being left [2:48:41] on i think cnn you lasted there a little bit right where you were working for them right i made it like [2:48:50] well i my two-year meeting like i lasted like 14 months before uh i think i said something like they [2:49:03] asked me what i thought an appropriate punishment for trump was this was back you know at the end of the [2:49:09] first administration for january 6th and i said i hope he gets life in prison uh i hope he has a [2:49:16] stroke and then who's and lives forever did you actually say that that was your last appearance [2:49:26] that was my last appearance you're like the independent media is more your style [2:49:34] i'll be totally honest with you i hate to talk like what's you just i mean you do it [2:49:43] i'm there obviously talking about your kids take care of your kids and there's not that reason but [2:49:48] because i couldn't get a job nobody left cnn i almost applied to like i mean literally like 500 [2:49:58] fucking jobs and um of you know everything from like loss prevention at walmart to you know private [2:50:06] sector security firms um and nobody would hire me and the few that you know had the uh capacity or [2:50:16] you know was out of respect just said like you're just too polarized you know we're afraid that you [2:50:24] would be a workplace distraction we're afraid that you know the employees that work for us um that [2:50:31] support trump that it would become problematic or we're just afraid to hire you um because we we [2:50:39] don't want to target on and um and so you know it was really it was interesting like i i didn't even [2:50:49] get into the space potentially um i did a jim acosta show but he transitioned from cnn to uh to substack [2:50:57] and uh in order to do a substack if you've ever done one you have to like sign up and like get an [2:51:04] account and so i like logged in and uh after my appearance it was like uh you have 10 paid subscribers [2:51:12] and i was like for what you just did you know tv appearance and then you know then he was like oh yeah [2:51:21] you should like write stuff for uh for substack and so i started doing that and then um you know [2:51:29] it did relatively well and uh i mean i'm paying the bills but i i don't like i just don't like being in [2:51:38] this uh space i don't like i uh i it's just got too much skin in the game like i i said that i would [2:51:50] stick it out through the next presidential election and then i just you know i don't know hopefully um i [2:51:57] i could just ride off into the sunset and things will return to normal we won't have like a [2:52:03] fucking jd vance as president and i have to flee the country um but i i'm in it until then then um i i [2:52:12] mean your guess is as good as mine like what is a you know former cop with a fucking gd do um i see [2:52:26] myself like uh owning a lot of uh port-a-johns and uh yeah that's probably that's probably where [2:52:34] i end up and like retiring it's a good bit like a trailer somewhere it's not a bad business don't [2:52:41] disparage it but no regrets man no regrets i mean you put yourself out there you were willing to take [2:52:47] the heat um you know your family suffered you talked about your mom having to move uh the death [2:52:53] threat i mean brother i can't even imagine what's what's come your way in that respect i mean the [2:52:58] fact that i could i totally get it i mean there's a lot of folks working with the bide administration [2:53:02] with none of your background uh that can't should you can't get hired they're getting kicked off boards [2:53:08] or not even getting an interview because they know trump's going to come after that company or blacklist [2:53:13] them so i totally i hear you but no regrets no no dear i would do absolutely everything that i did the [2:53:21] exact same way that i did it uh i um i mean it's just who i am i um i wish that you know the reaction [2:53:32] of uh my colleagues had been different i wish that uh you know i wish the reaction of this country [2:53:39] you know had been different i wish they would heeded would have heeded so many of our uh warnings [2:53:45] you know so many of us who put ourselves out there um and and warned america you know about a second [2:53:53] coming of trump and what that would look like and um you know i guess they had to learn the hard way [2:54:01] and your uh your daughters proud of you man i mean they it's they're they understand like they you [2:54:12] know we we don't give kids enough credit like they absorb quite a bit but uh a lot of it is still like [2:54:17] a novelty to them and to be honest with you like i'd rather just keep it that way like i'm a pretty um [2:54:23] like i'm a humble dude like i'm a self-dedigrator and uh and i like them to just you know like i [2:54:30] think a lot of this like the attention that i get is is ridiculous and i want them to see me as as [2:54:40] ridiculous and not take this uh you know like the the fight is is serious but their dad is just [2:54:48] some jackass that doesn't care about giving the middle finger to politicians or or telling them to go [2:54:55] themselves in a congressional hearing um this guy's hilarious [2:55:06] i told nancy pelosi if you ever make a statue of me um i wanted to reflect that moment uh where [2:55:14] you know i'm staring at uh was it troy nels yeah and i'm giving in the middle finger and his reaction [2:55:21] is just absolutely priceless you got to incorporate both of us into the statue it's got to be [2:55:26] his face looking at me while i'm going like that in the middle of a uh of a congressional hearing [2:55:38] well with that uh thanks for being on man and everybody all right so that was like a gavin [2:55:44] newsom interview he did with that dude gavin newsom also did a like a press conference or some kind [2:55:51] of speech today let's check this out let's see where's gavin at oh here he is because i have [2:56:17] because i have the races are and i know a thing or two about my party our party that hasn't focused [2:56:31] enough on state races you may be old enough to remember most folks may not have seen it but in [2:56:40] march of 2010 a guy by the name of carl robert and out in the wall street during 2010 said that his focus [2:56:56] was not on the presidential his focus was on state houses all across the united states in fact he created [2:57:02] a numeric he said if we can win 107 state legislative seats in just 16 states we can redistrict [2:57:12] over 190 congressional districts and dominates for the next decade people didn't pay attention they [2:57:24] should have they didn't win 170 they won 675 we got crushed over the course of the next few years [2:57:34] that next decade we lost over 1 000 state seats they get it and they got it done we were so consumed [2:57:44] don't grasp it we were talking earlier about it guy or down the white horse is going to come [2:57:50] saving it just falling in love meanwhile these guys were walking the line every day grinding working [2:57:58] bottom up not top down that's where democracy is formed bottom up not top down self-organizing [2:58:07] communities people like yourselves that haven't given it in cynicism haven't given it in the fear [2:58:11] that show up not just for yourselves but for each other for the community for your state [2:58:16] in our nation in the world we're trying to build so let me long-winded say thank you thank you for [2:58:22] not giving it to the citizens thank you for not giving it to the fear thank you i'm falling [2:58:27] afraid of the anxiety that so many people are feeling right now we're polarized traumatized by this [2:58:35] moment with this invasive species [2:58:44] but you're here not just for alex and sarah not just for the speaker and waiting but you're here for [2:58:53] each other and so i just want to thank you i'm here in that spirit as well we're all about [2:58:58] together i was just a church oh bound together by the way of mutuality many parts one body you matter [2:59:06] and we care all across this country people are waking up we're stepping up we're meeting the moment [2:59:15] we recognize we have agency we're not bystanders in the world we can shape the future the future [2:59:21] is not in front of us it's inside of us decisions conditions of the future people are waking up and let me [2:59:29] give you the scorecard just if you think i'm overstating you're exaggerating there have been [2:59:34] dozens and dozens of state legislative races all across the united states in the last 18 months [2:59:40] special elections and regular elections and here's the talent we have flipped democrats literally have [2:59:48] flipped 30 seats from pen to blue you have chosen license in front of you so thank you for [3:00:07] everything you've done but more importantly thank you for what you'll do over the course the next few [3:00:10] days because one thing we don't do we don't run the 90-yard gaps we can't take anything for granted [3:00:17] and this is the message i want to give you against is ruthlessness yeah i know a thing or two about [3:00:26] it i think they live in state in the country but i got some receipts last july i sat there i said [3:00:41] in the streets of los sanches was a premium of things to come don't forget i got a 19-minute phone call [3:00:48] from valentrump it'd be the ride next morning he nationalized that's national button first city to have [3:01:00] sent them to los sanches then took 700 active duty marines people forget this he did not send the [3:01:08] active duty marines overseas to the middle east he sent 700 active duty marines to the second largest [3:01:14] city in the united states of america we said at the time this was a preview of facebook fast forward a few [3:01:21] months later guy by the name of bovino great bovino looking as if it just came off a set in burbank [3:01:29] california from some 1930s movie sitting down by the police schools to tie down some things to come [3:01:49] meanwhile we all woke up blurry eye and we said no that didn't just happen you mean the rest of [3:01:57] the united states made a phone call in texas he told frank and he was going to go entitled to five [3:02:07] seats entitled to five seats for a mid-decade redistrict maybe we should just put out a tweet [3:02:17] and say this i said oh we already have one i said let's send it out let's change from the speaker [3:02:32] in texas legislator said you do something else they said oh no no we're already working on it i said [3:02:39] maybe we'll get it in the new york maybe go back a hundred people ready to do something more than [3:02:47] that i'm like what do you mean he goes well you know maybe you could consider this [3:02:54] it's been a decade i'm part of the democratic party a year ago we're so consumed about being [3:03:06] right in the argument meanwhile on the other side it's going around we're consolidating and we [3:03:16] recognized we needed to meet the moments and we stepped up and we stepped in and we moved forward [3:03:23] with our own redistricting in the state of college it has not gotten better i remember by the way [3:03:39] if you may have picked up the newspaper watch tv last november the morning of the election [3:03:50] this is a few months ago trump sent out vortex teams these are the water patrol tactical units [3:03:56] all dressed up you know actually helicopters sent about election day morning to dodgy stadium to [3:04:02] pre-position everybody before the polls open to send a message to our diverse communities [3:04:08] do not show up and vote that same morning he put out on true social the election was great two days [3:04:15] prior he sent out the department of justice to prove that the election a day after the election [3:04:23] he then walks to the supreme court to say he had evidence that the election was rigged these guys [3:04:29] are not screwing around that is a preview of things to come all across the united states the reason [3:04:36] donald trump called right at it is he knows he's going to lose the november election he knows that [3:04:44] he's doing everything to rig it and he's just winding up you see it on vote by that you see what he's [3:04:55] trying to get involved he trumped the ballots in fulton county trying to take the voting rolls with [3:05:04] jocelyn last night you understand this intimately your current secretary of state and that governor [3:05:09] in waiting and by the way how lucky are you to have a vote because you know her well you know her but [3:05:22] so i'm here in that spirit some humility also grace you know our founding father we're celebrating [3:05:33] the 250th anniversary of the best of the wrong republic the best best of greek democracy the code equal [3:05:39] branches and got very popular sovereignty the rule of law not the rule of god yeah so i hope it's [3:05:48] done and everybody wants to take how precious this all is our way back to majority 2026 i'm just here [3:05:57] in the house is through the fights and you guys are fighters okay so i want to just thank you [3:06:04] all the good work she's doing and continues to advocate for on housing what an extraordinary [3:06:18] contribution you have that someone with military experience someone kind of patriotism demonstrates [3:06:23] every single day and alex what a hot shot young speaker and waiting come on he's 45 years old [3:06:30] guys thank you for your state of mind your quality of imagination and again thank you for everything [3:06:41] you're doing for these two remarkable leaders over the course of the next few months thank you for [3:06:45] doing what you need to get done to make sure that we win the united states senate to make sure that they [3:06:50] win that governor's race to make sure that we celebrate the end of donald trump's presidency oh [3:07:09] yeah there's gavin newsom right there putting it into trump's uh to trump's crimes against humanity [3:07:15] all right let's move on let's see what else we got in the queue here let's see here we already [3:07:22] watched that check that out what's this let's check out this uh one-on-one interview one of the most [3:07:38] popular would-be candidates for president of the united states on the democratic side i got a chance [3:07:44] to talk one-on-one with california governor gavin newsom earlier today and you might be surprised [3:07:51] to learn that governor wanted to talk about our governor look actually you have a podcast i'm gonna [3:08:00] be with your governor in about an hour after this event doing a podcast we're gonna ask her what her [3:08:05] plans are what her great regrets are oh what she thinks is going to happen with jocelyn when she [3:08:11] takes over oh no any any i'm looking forward to exploiting all of these divisions any division i can [3:08:17] find are you going to ask our governor if you have a president i'm going to ask a question are you that's [3:08:22] going to be the first question tell me right now you can announce it on my podcast there you go [3:08:27] and she's been asking the same question i don't know it's my podcast i guess i don't know i'm asking [3:08:32] the questions yeah she's going to regret this do you do that into the podcast do you think gretchen [3:08:38] would be a good president i think she'd be great i mean you have to understand i i'm deeply biased [3:08:43] uh i've known her for years and years we we you know we've served this last eight years not been easy [3:08:49] social unrest supply chain issues wars obviously covet trump 1.0 trump 2.0 uh everywhere highs the [3:08:57] lows and so it's you know we share that in common but one thing we also share is a relationship to [3:09:02] the other governors and she's revered by the other governor she's deeply respected for a reason what [3:09:07] makes a good governor i think they're not good president you're a good president i think what makes [3:09:12] it a good human being is your open argument interested in evidence what makes a leader is someone with [3:09:18] conviction who's willing to lean and take risks without being reckless and uh and that's the [3:09:24] quality it's a quality of imagination it's a hard-headed pragmatism you've got to be not in the what [3:09:29] business you got to be in the how business people want people to deliver on their promises would you [3:09:34] be a good president we'll see i don't know that's a that's a difficult question to answer i mean it's [3:09:42] it's so i have no idea uh i would like to think i would be but uh that's for others to determine [3:09:48] by the way uh i think i was a pretty good mayor i think i pretty good but people have different [3:09:52] opinions so on that night let me ask you've been in michigan now a couple days what's the mood in [3:09:57] michigan what do you sense that's going on in michigan is there a division in the democratic [3:10:01] party maybe yeah i mean it'd be lying to suggest otherwise i mean it's the subtext of every conversation [3:10:06] but i think this last week there's been a lot of effort i mean we're in a church you know in the [3:10:10] spirit of isaiah to be repairs of the breach to address some of those divides and i think totally what's [3:10:16] happened the last four or five days from a democratic perspective been very very positive [3:10:21] and so i'm encouraged by that but yeah there's work to be done that's a tough that was a tough [3:10:25] primary obviously it was nationalized you lived and experienced it very differently here one point [3:10:30] margin so you've got to address that you've got to get the base you've got to motivate the base and [3:10:34] then you've got to focus on the target which is rogers uh and that's just an 80 some odd day [3:10:38] so do you think that the mainstream that you know because people are going to vote all democrat [3:10:42] all republic need that mainstream people to win an election probably can the mainstream vote for [3:10:48] a progressive candidate yeah i think they can because they recognize what's at stake what unites [3:10:52] the democratic party right now uh is our opposition to what someone describes as an invasive species [3:10:59] donald trump um who's now criticizing his own party saying no he's popular but somehow the republican [3:11:05] party's not so he'll lay anyone out um and everybody's enough some experience is that enough [3:11:11] to say we ain't trump no it's not a governing strategy um but it unites a framework it's a baseline [3:11:17] framework to which you then begin to knit back a coalition of opposition what do you share in common [3:11:23] not our interesting differences what are things that unite us together what are our foundational values [3:11:27] around solving for ignorance poverty and disease in terms of the progressive more conservative values i think [3:11:33] that's that's that's that's a side show the real story is concentration it's what's it's what's on [3:11:38] top it's concentrated wealth concentrated power it's the abuse of that power it's the grit it's [3:11:44] the corruption it's the mismanagement and that unites i think it's already as well i'm just [3:11:48] saying i'm trying to figure is there something that you like with dialed truth and what are tariffs [3:11:51] do tariffs help the auto industry even in california you know i mean i did it's cost the auto industry [3:11:56] hundreds of millions billions and billions of dollars i mean it's been a debacle it's a tax on the [3:12:00] middle class period full stop we're paying for it and there's not economists in the world that [3:12:04] suggests otherwise the ue w likes uh yeah within the margin of error but you know you could think [3:12:09] that tariffs can be used as a policy strategically but across the board tariffs on the basis of when [3:12:14] or on the basis of transaction we're lowering the tariffs by 26 percent in vietnam why did we lower [3:12:20] them a few months back because we got the golf course done the great grift taking care of the family [3:12:26] i mean that's what he's using for us is private leverage for private business dealings but [3:12:30] the bottom line is tariffs can be used effectively police administration used them effectively but [3:12:36] targeted terrorists not across the board tax increases on the middle class i gotta ask you [3:12:41] in your state wine is a big deal and why it's a big deal to you he can't sell he can't buy american [3:12:47] wine in napa valley in canada i was just watching the card to give a speech everyone was giving him a [3:12:51] standing ovation he was attacking california's wine industry and i used to like carving i got a phone to [3:12:57] pay with him i did a five million dollar marketing campaign this was a big mistake don't don't don't [3:13:02] listen to this guy from california i did a five million dollar marketing campaign basically saying [3:13:07] we're not washington dc we're not the trump administration we're the most un-trumped state [3:13:11] in america put the wine back on the shelves i got mocked and destroyed up there in canada i was trying [3:13:18] to make a case for the industry to make a case for my state tourism as well 1.7 million from canada [3:13:24] and we've seen that collapse so we got a lot of work to do to repair to literally no longer have [3:13:30] to build but to uh reinforce the new constructed bridge uh north into uh canada and south into this [3:13:38] great state you like traveling all around the country i love people so yeah by definition and [3:13:43] i'll tell you it's so familiar saying you know just you know and you know in the end of the day [3:13:49] one thing that's not a beat i know it sounds like it's going to sound political but everyone wants [3:13:53] to be respected connected protected their wants to love and be loved i don't begrudge other people's [3:13:59] success i don't begrudge them because they supported trump i don't talk try to talk down to people or past [3:14:04] people people are exhausted and that's universal people are exhausted by our politics and they just [3:14:11] want to take a deep breath and i and i think that that that's beautiful i hope they vote they're not [3:14:18] that exhausted i mean look at the end of the day you can lose this country tonight look i'm of this [3:14:23] strong opinion that we will lose this republic unless we're vigilant and i do believe this i just have [3:14:30] all the evidence happened in california first this guy is not screwing around in terms of trying to rate [3:14:37] the next election watch your back detroit michigan broadway but watch it he's saying it out loud he's [3:14:45] going to do everything in his power to raise this midterm election all right that was uh that was uh [3:14:53] governor newsome right there a little little newsome watch party we just did anyways guys it's been [3:14:59] stimulating folks but i'm out of here i'm gonna go walk my dog go walk around the neighborhood get some [3:15:04] exercise get some dinner hope you guys all have a good rest of your monday what's up carlo [3:15:09] ready to roll out hey ready to roll good boy it's carlo the husky this is the real orange king [3:15:16] right here sit boy there you go good boy all right youtubeville homies i'll catch you guys all later [3:15:26] later dan fries hey thanks for everyone that voted uh out of 484 votes 76 of you say that donald trump [3:15:35] does not care about your financial situation so there you have it folks the people have spoken it's a [3:15:44] good indicator of the blue wave tsunami that's about to hit in about 85 days hey what up ken all [3:15:55] right you guys say hello kitty catch you later thanks for hanging out shout out to all the mods [3:16:01] thanks for chilling but uh yeah what up everyone all right peace out folks ready to go carlo all [3:16:13] all right let's go on a walk let's go on a walk let's go on a walk stretch [3:16:22] you