The Biggest Fraud in D.C. (Ep. 2485)

All America, all the time. Sit down, buckle up, and get ready for the Dan Bongino Show. That's like a little secret between Guy and I. Guy loves to do this. I was doing a radio interview. I'm not gonna say which radio station. When I first took over the, you know, limbaugh hours after we lost Rush way too soon. I was doing an interview on a radio station. I was gonna pick us up and they're getting ready to, you know, intro me and the lady's like, hey, you know, don't be nervous. And I kind of laugh. I was like, oh, okay, thanks. Like, have you ever seen me nervous, honey? And I told Guy, he brings that up all the time. He comes out of the, he pops out of this door right over here to my right every time for the, hey, don't be nervous. Let me take a little joke between me and Guy. Don't be nervous. I look like the nervous type. We have a very special guest for you today on the show coming up in a little over an hour, Ed Galrin, running in Kentucky district four against Tom Massey. So I've got a little bit on that today too, because you know, listen folks, I'm gonna, I want you to run a little test, okay? To show you like who has an authentic following and who's all bullshit and bots, okay? I'm talking about nationally, okay? Do this little test, go on your X feed and just, I just watched post like, I love Tom Massey. And then later on, give it a little time, go post Tom Massey's a fraud or whatever. Watch what happens. You just test that out and you tell me who's got a bot army and who doesn't, which is weird because they just did another podcast ranker that just came out. Remember, Podtrak came out a couple of weeks ago and had us at number nine in the country podcast wise. I'm just telling you, because other people out there, oh my gosh, it's, it, it, it, it, he doesn't really, no one's listening. Nobody's listening. I'm not really sure you can read data. They were like, well, Podtrak is all fake. Well, then Triton came out yesterday, top podcast by weekly downloads. You see for the month of February to March. And we were number three. So we were, I'm not saying, I'm just saying. Somebody's got an audience globally and somebody doesn't. I'm really sorry that I do your crying, your peeing in your diapers. I get it. You got the bot army. We hate the Jews. I get it. I understand. I understand. I know that bothers you, but there's nothing you can do. How does that make you feel? You zeros. There's nothing you can do. You just have to sit back and realize that you're losers. How does that feel? How does that feel? You absolute life losers. That we have a real army of supporters because this show is the real deal and you've got a bunch of clown bots. Do my little test. You'll see what I mean. But seriously, thank you. Number three on Triton. I'm sure the people who hate the show will have some other reason why nobody's listening or whatever. Okay, sure, whatever. All right, I got a lot to get to today, including I'm gonna open up the show. The Daily Mail is doubling down. And what I would argue is one of the best Trump soundbites I've seen, and there's a lot of them in a really long time, and it proves my point that this is asymmetric information warfare. The media people questioning Donald Trump don't know what Donald Trump knows. So when Donald Trump calls him out on it, you gotta watch Jeff Mason, this reporter, he doesn't know what to do. He's like, oh yeah, okay, I guess I gotta concede that point. This is a great clip. Got that coming up in a second. I'll get right to it. Hey, this last year, your eyes may have been open to a lot of things. But there was one thing that many found particularly disturbing. That's a lot of this stuff going on in the party. It's infighting. We all agree on a lot of stuff. Folks, freedom of speech, the right to life, the second amendment, and we support our military and first responders. 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Let's thank them by making the switch today. Check them out. Patriot Mobile.com slash Dan, that's Patriot Mobile.com slash Dan. All right, fellas, let's go. I wanna start with a banger today. If Trump had the greatest hits, this is easily a top 10 for me and that's a lot. He's been doing this for a long time between his business life and his political life. Here he is yesterday. He's asked a question by Jeff Mason and I kept it playing a little bit at the end because another reporter chimes in and he wrecks hurt too. Jeff Mason's like, hey, the Iranians are, you know, threatening us with all this stuff and why it just sounds really terrible. I mean, again, this is the doomers, the doomers in the media and Trump's like threatening us with what? Because he knows exactly what's going on behind the scenes. Watch this clip. It's fantastic. Check this out. The Iranian government threatened a bunch of US companies today in the region including Google, Apple with what? What did they threaten them with? P.B. Guns? They don't have much left to threaten. My question for you is are you... I don't know. I mean, what are they, you made a second, what are they threatening them with? I don't know. Tell me, how did they threaten them? Well, all I know is that they threatened them, sir. What does that mean? Fair enough. He said something nasty. He used the government to touch with these companies. You help them to backstop them. You don't even know what the threat was. What was the threat? I haven't heard it. What was the threat? Did they say they're gonna blow them up? They're gonna hit them. You know what they're not gonna do? They're not gonna hit them with a nuclear weapon. So there's something you're concerned about, sir? No. Iran's RGC issues in the morning that they'll target 18 US technology companies if the US continues target assassinations of Iranian leaders beginning on April 1st. Those companies, the video, Apple, Apple... Most of those people are dead already. Most of those people are already dead. Guys, listen. I understand the politics of war are always going to be difficult. I get it. I get it. And they should be. Come back to me, head on. There you go, something. They should be. It is the most grave, serious decision a commander in chief can make. Period. However, there is no question that as a tactical action, but as a tactical exercise in military might, this has been an unbelievable success that's probably gonna serve as a warning to China and Russia. Don't eff around because you don't wanna find out like the Iranian Molotheocracy did. The point playing that piece was, you know, listen, open up the show with a little bit of a laugh how Trump just constantly owns these guys who want you to paint him as a buffoon. They're these intellectuals and this Trump is just this New York moron. And he just constantly beats their asses. The point is that there's an asymmetry here. I love freedom of the press. I will defend it to the end, even for the morons in the press. But what the press people don't acknowledge, which is stunning, is they are not aware of what they speak. Yeah, Iranian's been threatening us. Trump's like, okay, with what? He doesn't know because he's not written on the program like Trump. All I'm telling you is I posted yesterday, it was meant to be obviously satirical and funny, but about how 90% of what you read in the media is 50% false and the other 10% is 99% false. It's just bullshit because they don't know. They take someone in the press commenting on a flux capacitor they've never seen before and challenging the inventor of the flux capacitor on a machine, they don't know how it works. They can do it and it should be protected. It doesn't mean they actually know anything. Couple more things we have to hit right away in the beginning of the show. Speaking of people, media people, who are just absolutely full of shit. Yesterday's show did big numbers and I think it did big numbers because people are really tired of the bullshit, folks. The Daily Mail, of course, put out that piece yesterday about how the bullet did not match. That is not what the report said at all. The report was pretty clear that due to the fragmentation of the bullet, it was gonna be difficult to identify some of the markings. Now, what did they do yesterday? Or today they doubled down again. Ballistics experts reveal real reason bullet used to kill Charlie Greer did not conclusively match rifle allegedly used by suspect Tyler Robinson. You see what they're doing here? Again, this is an ongoing criminal case. Mr. Robinson is entitled to a presumption of innocence and a trial by his peers. And if he is convicted, it has to be beyond a reasonable doubt. That's it. However, the Daily Mail is full of shit. The Daily Mail either can't read or is now trying to backtrack on the ridiculous headline yesterday where they were widely mocked. Folks, people are tired of this. That's why they're coming to shows like this. They're coming to shows like this because they want the truth. And we gave you the truth. This man is entitled to due process like everyone else. But so is the state of Utah that is prosecuting this case. They are entitled to a jury free of tampering. And this is getting ridiculous. That is not what the story said yesterday. And I'm noticing severe backlash now, thankfully, online from people who are getting tired of this. People are getting tired of the fraudsters too. And folks, is it difficult conversation for me because I really believed in this guy? I did. I supported him for a while, even when, you know, him and President Trump butted heads. Been good on some issues. But I'm gonna tell you something. I have never been as disappointed in a human being in politics as I am in Tom Massie. I largely stayed out of that race and make too many comments on it. Because the people of Kentucky would choose who they want. If they want Tom Massie, I'm not a resident of that district. I live in Florida. You pick who you want. Got his opponent coming on in just a little bit, about an hour. We'll ask some questions about some issues that matter to you, constitutional carry, Iran, NATO. However, when I got up there in that position, I could not believe what a fraud this guy was. I mean like an epic level fraud. Whatever you think of this guy, I'm telling you, I have no dog in the fight. I supported him. He is an absolute fraud. Fraud. He decided to do some money bomb thing and just completely BSing people about my record there. Just lying to your face. I tried multiple times to get this guy to come over, to give him a briefing on a case he kept loviating about on Twitter, causing a serious problem by the way. And I thought he believed in due process. Supposedly a libertarian. What's a triad case on X? And he didn't do it. I was there for March until January of this year. You know how many times he came over to visit and asked about these cases despite multiple offers, cases he kept loviating about? Well, we could have actually told him. Zero. And there's nothing he's going to tell you. All of his BS responses, his fake community notes, it's all a distraction from the fact that he doesn't want to admit that he was offered a detailed briefing within certain parameters. On these matters, he's loviating about on X in order to attack President Trump and others and due process, could have cleared it up for him right away and he just didn't want to do it because he preferred to be stupid. Nothing will change that. He'll try to distract you with his razzle-dazzle, his bot army, like we haven't been through this before. You think you're the first time that we've entered into a primary and supported a candidate and had other people come in with the bots and the bullshit? What do you think? We're like newbies at this? I promise, I'll far outlast you. I promise. I've heard it all before. The guy is a fraud. Anyone telling you otherwise, including him, is lying. He did not want to know. He preferred to be dumb so he could plead ignorance on X and attack President Trump in his agenda. You believe in due process or not? Whether it's the Daily Mail piece on Tyler Robinson or the Pipe Bomb case, which I've not commented on, because I actually believe in due process. His subjects in these cases are entitled to a free and fair trial by a jury of their peers. Some people believe that, some people don't. Folks, Kentucky, you pick who you want. I'm just telling you, that dude's a fraud. I've never seen anything like it in my life. And I get it, your little botsters, I've seen it. I've seen it all before, you waste in your time. I can do this all day. And I will. And there's nothing you can do about it, like zero, less than zero, like the Robert Downey Jr. movie. We got a lot of things to talk about, President Trump said to Supreme Court now, or over there, they're talking about birthright citizenship. I'm gonna get to that later, but a lot of big news happened yesterday. I don't want to miss either. There is just a huge body of material. This is probably one of the biggest news days of the year. Birthright citizenship, we had a case break yesterday, 8-1 at the Supreme Court on conversion therapy. A lot of stuff to talk about, so let's get right to it. First, regarding the straight yesterday, President Trump is going to brief the nation tonight. He's gonna brief at, I believe, 9 p.m. Eastern time tonight, whether it's from the Oval or not, I don't know, be from the White House. He's going to talk about the status of the war. I only bring this up and put up that Wall Street Journal article because one of the constant criticisms you see with President Trump and the war effort is that this is a forever war. It is not, in fact, forever, it's been barely a month. Now President Trump, as you see in this Wall Street Journal piece, which is really no friend to him, by the way, President Trump tells AIDS he's willing to end the war without reopening our moose. Now, unbelievably, the same people, here's the hypocrisy here. The same exact people who are complaining about President Trump dragging us into a forever war are now complaining because President Trump is considering not engaging in a forever war. They're just, am I, Justin, am I wrong? I know I'm not wrong. They're the same people. I can't believe this guy, this guy's dragging us into this forever war. Now they're like, I can't believe he's pulling us out of what I thought was a forever war. Well, which one is it, guys? I'm just asking because any criticism I would have of the effort is going to be based on a principle. I don't want a forever war either without a strong exit plan. Remember when a Fox Connors rules a war, never go to war for long. Meet your objectives and get out. The Strait is of far more interest to European allies and China, not an ally, because that's where a good chunk of the royal has to bypass, the Straits of Hormuz. If they're not interested in opening it up, it affects them far worse than it affects us. I thought you were our allies. I asked Ed about this later, our NATO, because President Trump brought up again, like what is the purpose of a NATO alliance if the alliance only works when you need us? What about when we need you? That sounds like an asymmetric alliance to me. You're not meeting your military requirements. He's going to address this tonight, but please get your story straight on the attacks on the president. We have troops in a combat zone, in a limited engagement. He's already set a timeline. Forever war is just a bullshit criticism. Now you're bitching about the other thing. By the way, these are your opponents on this. If you're one of the doomers in here, who's already declared the war over a month in, you have no idea what the strategic long-term ramifications that this could be, none at all. We're not even in the midterm yet. Midterm of the war and at the election. Here are some of the people on the other side of this argument you're lying with. You see this guy, he goes to a rally and asks about not the Straits of Hormuz, but the Gays of Hormuz. Watch the answer, Trekkie. Isn't it a little bit homophobic that we're so focused on the Straits of Hormuz and not the Gays of Hormuz? I agree, yes, for sure. Yeah. Why do you think they're willing to leave the Gays of Hormuz behind? I think it's just history, historically. Gays have always been very discriminated against, which is wrong on so many levels. Yeah, even in war. And it just takes, I think, more reform in government, obviously, and then also educating society. I just feel like if we're going to go and sell, we can't leave the Gays. I don't think we should go and sell at all, but if we're going to, the Gays of Hormuz, we could turn it into Fire Island. For sure, for sure. People, you're a line of Gays' favorite video of the day. I happen to agree. This may be one of the first times we agree on video of the day. These are some of the imbeciles on the other side of this space. Folks, I will say it again. Political arguments to be made for the war in Iran are valid on both sides, valid in that we need to discuss this stuff publicly. When we are talking about US troops in a war zone, potentially coming back in body bags, this is the most grave decision we have to make. But the criticisms of it should be valid. This is a forever, four weeks in. I cannot believe how many people pretending to be on our side and ex already ready to declare the war law. It's over. It's over, man. You're like one round into a 12-round boxing match. You're like 10 seconds into a UFC five-round championship fight with five-minute rounds. Folks, if this blows up in our face long-term, and God forbid, knock on what it does, and something awful happens, you have my word. You have my absolute word. We will discuss it openly and honestly. I'm interested in cheerleading for anything that turns out to be a bad policy. Again, I ran for office. I ran against what I thought was a really bad idea and a prolonged presence in Iraq. Here's another one. Starting to start you out with all this absurdity and ridiculosity today. However, here's Sonny Hostin from The View. Donald Trump is building a White House ballroom. And because the left, of course, I guess wants the government to pay for it because he's raising private funds. I don't know. I don't understand. This guy's raising private funds to enhance the White House and make it more secure. Folks, without disclosing any classified information at all, I worked there for close to five years. The place needs an upgrade. There's only so many security enhancements you can do on an old building that was not built for this, for drones, EMPs, and modern threats, okay? That President Trump is willing to fund this by raising private donations. The left is furious. They just don't want, here's the real fight. They don't want Donald Trump to leave his mark on history by constructing a wing of the White House and people will remember him for that. They don't want it. They don't want it. They cannot have this guy's legacy outlast his presidency. That is the only reason they're fighting this. Mark it, flag it in the chat. It has nothing to do with anything else. Here's Sonny Hostin on the view. This is how stupid his opponents are. Again, sorry to bombard you with stupidity, but it's important to contrast and highlight the other side. Suggesting that the bunker being built underneath, that just came out publicly just in the last few days, is if, flags in the chat, is gonna be like a hideaway for celebrities and stuff. Yeah, yeah, that's totally, but apparently they have no idea how the system actually works. I do, check this out. What is shocking to me is the fact that underneath this, this, Bunker. No, underneath the ballroom is the military bunker. Yes, that's what I'm talking about. And that part is really disconcerting because Trump says stuff like, I can't believe that people know about the bunker now because of a stupid lawsuit. Why is there a bunker? And are all the billionaires now, if something bad happens, is the plan that all of them are going under? Is it like paradise? It's out here, it's just like paradise. It's just like paradise. Folks, the Democrats are totally crashing out, okay, right now. They are desperate for us to lose this war in Iran because they know if we, if more stable country results, and we can get control of basically the largest terror proxy in the region, or at least mow the lawn, that he is gonna have an enormous military victory along with Venezuela, where we took, we rested Maduro. They can't have it happen. So they're totally crashing out now on everything. They are in a full court press, like they're bulging all their people in this one spot to hit him on the most ridiculous of things. Why do we need a bunker underneath the White House? Gee, I don't know. Is it only the most threatened man on earth? What are you, an imbecile? Yes, Donald Trump's building it for Bill Gates. It's gonna be like a summer home for all the celebrities in the event of nuclear annihilation. That makes sense to you. The audience, like a bunch of barking seals, like, yeah man, good job, sonny. I used to sit with her in green rooms on CNN, and I gotta tell you, she was never this crazy. This is all like rage bait, click bait nonsense. The same thing Massey does. The guy like wants to live on, what is he doing for you in Kentucky? Except rage baiting, I got a bunch of bots to ratio, ah, good job, buddy, well done. Yeah, well done. That's excellent. Clown. We got other things going on. How about like actually support some of the president's more conservative efforts than grandstanding all the time? Folks, one of the things I learned in politics early too, is that our political opponents will only change their behavior when this stuff results in a personal cost to them. Michael Anton's written about this over and over again. It has to be in a personal cost. Prestige, money, business opportunities, they will not change their behavior. Summed up neatly, communists will not stop being communists until communists kicks them square in the balls. That's it. There is no other circumstance by which it'll change. I saw it in New York City when I grew up. New York City when I grew up in the 80s was a raging crime cesspool. Folks, you could not even park your car on the street without putting, remember the club? And then they had the cap on the club. It was a steering wheel immobilization device because everyone's car got stolen, everyone. You couldn't swing a dead cat without hitting someone who didn't get their car stolen in New York. Everybody would get beat up at bus stops and bad areas and mugged all the time. We got mugged so much in New York that people would just steal your stuff. Then no one even reported to the police. I told you about that story coming back from school on the bus. This gang of zeros came up and I had a tropical fantasy drink. You know, it was that drink, it was like cheap soda is all we could afford. And they would steal it, take your money. No one rep, I don't even think I told my mother. That was just New York. But why did New York change and vote for Rudy Giuliani? Because so many freaking people saw what was happening when people were being killed in their own neighborhoods in Democrat areas, they were like, man, this is enough. I don't want to lose my kid too. Now that's a dramatic example, but I want to show you why the left-wing media that we know hates us, hates Donald Trump, hates Liberty and Freedom is all of a sudden now asking tough questions about the TSA lines at the airports and the DHS shutdown. They're only asking tough questions because of this Anton rule. It's starting to cost them personally as they sit in the same lines too. I'm going to take a quick break. I'm going to show you what I mean. This is not principle. 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If you run, if you support a candidate, if you knock on doors, you make donations, whatever you do, you support a cause, a candidate, a person, a party, whatever it is, don't ever forget this rule. People will not change their political behavior and who they vote for, even the most diehard communists, until something personally impacts them. Business opportunities, prestige, money is lost, they won't. I know it's hard to believe you, like we can reason our way out of it, we can't. That is why Democrat policies are so destructive, because eventually, if you implement them in mass, just like Lomdonis see now, they start to kick people in the balls in mass. It may take a while, but they get there. Here's Margaret Brennan asking hard questions about this liberal BS over TSA lines, which they cause. Check this out. Practically speaking, ICE is already funded. In fact, it's one of the few DHS entities where people are getting paid because they had so much funding from the president's last bill. And now their portfolio is expanding because they're in American airports across the country. So what did Democrats get out of this standoff? Yeah, well, Margaret, the standoff is not done yet, right? The president is illegally paying, apparently, TSA agents. Of course, that's rep Heinz, Democrat zero. He's just glossing over the fact that ICE is already paid to 2029. The left is trying to tell you that they're stopping DHS funding and making you wait in line at the airport because TSA is a component of that because they're stopping ICE funding from these dreaded ICE people actually enforcing the law against the legal aliens. It's bullshit. And Margaret Brennan's only saying that. Remember J.D. Vance and Margaret Brennan? Margaret Brennan's only saying that because this is starting to kick them in the nads. These media people travel a lot. A lot of them don't even live near the studios. That's the only reason. This may seem like a simple point, but I wanted to give you some hope. We used to have that shirt, is it bad enough yet? I love that shirt. We should bring that one back. Is it bad enough yet? I wear it sometimes to work out. It was before Trump got elected. It was meant to make a point that when you hit maximum political depression at the bottom of that valley, when you think everything is terrible, is ironically when it's the most likely to turn around. Folks, I lived it. I promise you, I saw it in New York and I saw it in Maryland. Things got so bad in New York with 2000 plus homicides a year in the five boroughs. 2000 plus homicides in one city alone. People's cars getting stolen, their kids getting kidnapped and assaulted and mugged that when it got so bad, that's when the turnaround happened. I saw it in Maryland too. Maryland, another deep blue state. They started taxing the rain, the freaking rain. Go look it up. Maryland rain tax, you think I'm making this up. If you had a, it was based on impervious services, bottom line, if you had a business with a flat roof, you got this enormous tax bill. All of a sudden these Democrat lawmakers were like, man, this is a great idea, this rain tax. Democrats who actually lived in Maryland were like, well, that's kind of bullshit. I ain't paying a tax on the rain. And what happened? They got a two-term Republican governor. They'd not have been the best Republican ever. He's better than a Democrats. Folks, just when you think this stuff is hitting the bottom of the valley, don't give up. Don't give up. I promise you, people in the end understand that they're getting kicked in the nads by bad policy. Sometimes it just takes a while. I mean, think about this. What does it take? You know, I'm a contributor over at Fox, had a show there, been on and off there for the last 10 years. I love being there. The people there are great. One of the nicest people at Fox, everyone will tell you this, you put a beer in anyone at Fox, I'll tell you the same thing, is Dana Perino. You can't get under Dana Perino's skin. She's always smiling. She's exactly like she is off the air, on the air. She's just the most pleasant person to be around. Do you know what it takes to get Dana Perino pissed off on the five? Here is Dana and Jessica Tarlov. Dana's like, Jessica, come on. You really try and blame this TSA, DHS shutdown on Republicans? Nobody actually believes that. That's how bad this argument is. Dana's like, come on, man, really check this out. Crets are playing a very dangerous game. But Jessica thinks that everyone believes that this is the Republicans fault. Why didn't Mike Johnson just bring the bill back into the floor? There can be politics, but everybody knows. And especially, that's actually pretty disingenuous to suggest that it's the Republicans fault. The Democrats are the ones who wanted this in the first place, Jessica. They wanted to change everything. Vote at 11 times. And they got the changes that they asked for. The secretary of Homeland Security got fired. They put Tom Homan in. They was like, okay, you know what? We'll do this. We'll take this. We'll put the numbers on the badge. We'll do anything. We'll, oh, and everybody's got- Party cameras. Yes, we'll do that too. We'll do all of these things. So that there's an intramural squabble about how you ultimately get it done. We all know the reason that it actually happened, is because Chuck Schumer does not want to be primary. Okay. This is really important this segment. I know I say that a lot. Stop what you're doing and listen to this. I'm going to tie all this together now about the Save America Act and the filibuster. What does that have to do with any of this? Folks, I just told you that I have lived through this twice in my, I've only been alive 51 years, okay? I'm not that old, old enough, but not that old. I have lived through this twice. This meaning political revolutions from blue states that elect Republicans. I've lived through it twice. Giuliani and Governor George Pataki, Republicans in New York, Larry Hogan in Maryland. I have seen it twice where Democrats eventually get so tired of Democrat policies because their wallet shrink, their kids get mugged, that they throw their own Democrats out and vote for Republicans. I have seen this twice. How does that tie into the Save America Act and the filibuster? Folks, the arguments against scrapping the filibuster now are, listen, the Senate's the cooling chamber, the Democrats are better at big government. I understand all those arguments. However, the Save America Act, which would implement voter integrity nationwide, will only pass if we either scrap the filibuster or if we implement the talking filibuster, where they actually have to talk through it and can't just cast a vote. The Democrats have already hoisted upon our back the anchor of big government, folks. The Republican establishment that is against scrapping the filibuster is making this argument like, well, Democrats are better at big government as if we've been in any way successful at stopping them. Outside of the BCA and the Tea Party Revolution, the Budget Control Act, the sequester, in the Obama years, we've had almost no successes at all. We've had a lot of tax successes, the Reagan tax cuts, even Clinton cuts some taxes. But we have had almost zero success outside of President Trump and Doge and the shrinking of the federal workforce. Pre-Trump, we've had almost zero success fighting them. My point is this, if there is gonna be a revolt against Democrat politics eventually, because it always kicks people in the balls because Democrat politics have a 100% success rate of failing every time. They won't work because they can't work, stealing people's money, running their healthcare, telling people to go to shitty schools. People hate this stuff. Why not just expedite the process? Why not just expedite the process? Hear me out. At least we can paint a contrast. Between the two parties. We can't do that now. What happens now? We have the White House, we have the House of Representatives, and we have majorities in the Senate. That's what a lot of people in the public hear. Why aren't you Republicans doing anything? Because majorities don't win in the Senate. You need to get over the 60 vote threshold. Not just, it's 100 members. Majorities 51 or 50 plus the vice president. Why not dump the filibuster, let the majority rule, and let when the Democrats win, they're gonna scrap it anyway, let them do their thing, let them show America how bad it sucks, and then we can come in, and at least now lawmakers' votes will count where we can actually enact like a 12 point or 20 point plan and actually do it. Folks, I promised I'm not some extremist on this. The Democrats are going to scrap this thing anyway. They've already told us that, and when they do it, you'll remember this conversation. We might as well get as much done beforehand so that they can see the result of successful Republican politics when we have a majority, and we don't need the filibuster, and then see the Democrats dismantle it all so they can see what A versus B looks like in a simple statistical analysis, A, B analysis. This is why I support Mike Lee on this from Utah, Senator from Utah. Here he is laying out on Fox News with the Save America Act, which would save our elections and America by implementing basic voter ID rules, basic voter ID rules. He says we have a few pass on this with regards to the filibuster. Check this out. We have exactly two options. We can either, one, start enforcing our rules as they're written and require filibustering senators to speak and exhaust them and stay on a bill that is critical to our agenda until it passes, or if we're not willing to do that because that involves hard work, we have to nuke the filibuster. Now I would strongly prefer the first. I think it's better to do it with the rules that we've got because the rules that we've got actually ensure and protect robust debate. But what we can't have is this hybrid. We can't try to walk a middle ground between those two, saying, yeah, we're gonna stick with the filibuster, with the 60 vote cloture standard, and then not do the work to get to cloture. That is a problem. So we've got a choice to make. If we don't make one of those two choices, use the talking filibuster or nuke the filibuster, we're gonna be in big trouble in November. Listen, can I tell you something on a personal note? I've known Senator Lee for a very long time. There's no one up on the hill I have more respect for. There was a hit piece out on him about a week ago, something suggesting like this is some grandstanding thing. That's some serious bullshit. This guy has never, ever been a grandstander, ever, ever. He is a principled constitutional conservative which I align with and the issues he takes to stand on strongly. And what he said there is valid. The talking filibuster, there's no rule change needed. You wanna clog up this legislation in the Senate to save America from voter fraud? Then go defend it on the floor and talk about it. Guys, we need to create this contrast. The problem is there's way too much gray on the margins now. A Democrat gets in, you've got a Democrat house and a Democrat majority in the Senate but not enough to overcome the filibuster. The media blames Republicans and go, look, Republicans are blocking things in the Senate. And then we lose the other way. Republican in the White House, Republican Senate, Republican House but not enough to overcome the filibuster. Then the media says, well, the Republicans are in charge are not doing anything. They make the exact opposite argument. What victories have we had? Outside of Trump's first, excuse me, first year. Outside of that, tell me what victories, the GOP, the party in general, tell me what victories we've had. We lost healthcare, we're still stuck with Obamacare, sunk by McCain of all people. Government spending is still out of control. Thank God the federal workforce is shrinking. But again, forget the Trump first term, his first year. What victories have we had? Explain to me using reason and logic, how the filibuster, not stop specific legislation is stop the United States from this bankruptcy trajectory, from individual control of healthcare, from a bankruptcy of social security, Medicare, Medicaid. I just make the case. Folks, I'm at the point now where if large spots of America wanna vote for this big government garbage and wanna see how it affects their lives and there's nothing we're gonna do to stop it, let them feel it, let them see their wallet shrink. Maybe we'll see what we saw in New York City with Rudy Giuliani and a Republican governor where people just got tired of it and New York underwent a renaissance. Yeah, it backtracked, but we bought time. That's what a lot of this is about. Folks, you got guys like Bernie Sanders out there now, like a devout communist talking about a wealth tax. I brought this up yesterday, a wealth tax? Do you understand what a wealth tax is? Did listen to how he talks about this, or everybody talks about it here in this street, Bernie Sanders, this is like economic ignorance on testosterone. He was, let me clear things up for you in his Bernie Sanders way. Let me clear things up for you. If my 5% wealth tax on billionaires was enacted, you'd owe 135 million more in taxes and a family of four making 150,000 or less would receive a $12,000 payment. Oh, and you'd still be worth more than 2.5 billion, seems pretty fair to me. Split screen, now, can you put that up on a split screen for me? Now, if you read that and you're economically illiterate, you say to yourself, well, that sounds fair. Who's your sponsor, Jamie Diamond? We'll take a lot of this billionaire's money. He's no worse for the wear, and a family of four would get a $12,000 payment from Jamie's wallet. And you think to yourself, come on, tell me even conservatives, as you're reading this, you go, oh, that doesn't sound so bad. What are you laughing at? Oh, you like that? I mean, me direct. Split screen, V.O., switch cameras, go to cameras. I know, I just let these guys do their work. Thank you, thank you. When you start asking even basic questions about Bernie Sanders is what he puts forth here. Like, how is Jamie going to get the 135 million? The whole thing falls apart. You guys see where we go with this? Jamie likely doesn't have his money in a passbook bank account at the Ridgewood Savings Bank. That's where I grew up in Glendale Ridgewood. They had the Ridgewood Savings Bank. My brother had a passbook. You go in, you put $25, and I stay up at $25. How is Jamie going to get the money? Anyone in the chat? Let's take his 135 million. He's going to have to sell stock because they don't keep this stuff in a freaking bank account, Bernie Sanders, you moron. Well, if you instituted a wealth tax guys across the entire country, and everybody had to liquidate their stock in order to pay someone not to work and give them a quote, $12,000 payment, what do you, and you guys have any idea what would happen to the stock market if everybody liquidated the same thing? Oh, they don't, they don't, they don't go down. But go down like a lot. Like the late 1920s, but worse. But you're like, well, that's my 401k and my retirement fund. My annuity's invested in an ETF. You're telling me the whole thing would crash and the $12,000 payment I got from raiding Jamie's wallet. Actually, I'd probably lose twice as much on my stock holdings and my retirement. That's exactly what I'm telling you. How much does, that's if you even use, how much is your salary? That's if you keep your job as these companies, the public companies start to collapse and start to fire people to preserve market cap. That's assuming, by the way, they don't leave the country. That's assuming they don't, if you do it in the States, leave the States. That's assuming they don't liquidate their assets before it passes and put it in some trust fund. These are the morons you're dealing with. The gaze of Hormuz, a wealth tax. How are you gonna get the money? Ah, we're just gonna liquidate the stock market. I'm gonna liquidate the stock market for a $12,000 check as a middle-class American and I'm gonna lose like 30,000 out of my retirement. How the, is that work for me? Do you see how stupid these people are? Folks, but did I mention, by the way, the tweet about the midterms, the polls, and it says don't give up on the midterms? Did I mention that in the, we did the rundown? I may have skipped that one. Don't give up on the midterms. There was a tweet I saw yesterday, I sent it, but I forgot to bring it up with the guy's pre-show. Don't give up on the midterms. Listen, it's gonna be tough, okay? I'm not gonna gaslight you on that. It's gonna be tough. The media pressure, Trump's had to make some really hard decisions in Iran and elsewhere that understandably, a lot of people have a sincere political disagreement with, I get it. The midterms are gonna be tough and a challenge. But these people, Bernie Sanders and the gaze of Hormuz lady and others, are so ridiculous that even Democrats fear other Democrats. Saying Democrats. There was a poll that popped, I saw it on Twitter yesterday, that even though the GOP may not be the most popular party right now, that Democrats are afraid of other Democrats too. Do not be a doomer on this front. Don't give up. I mean, let's not be, you know, red wave stuff and all that crap. We gotta get out and do the hard work. If the Democrats had anything to run on folks, they would have already done it. Trump, by the way, is racking up wins, not just on the EO front from our military, but he's also racking up some wins at the Supreme Court. I'm gonna get to in a second what's going on right now. The case on birthright citizenship comes down to one thing, don't let the left fool you. However, there was another big win at the Supreme Court yesterday on conversion therapy and on question attack on the First Amendment rights of people who wanna render mental health care to people who may be struggling with gender issues or so, there's zero question about it, so much so. It was an eight one ruling in the Supreme Court. Listen to Kerry Airbanu's excellent talk about this on Fox. This is a really, really big victory. Check this out. This is Jackson's dissent. And she said, to do anything else opens up a dangerous can of worms. It threatens to impair states' ability to regulate the provision of medical care in any respect. It extends the constitution into uncharted territory in an utterly irrational fashion, and it ultimately risks grave harm to Americans' health and well-being. And she read that from the bench, and I think that sort of signals that she was really, really intent on what she was trying to say. Yeah, she feels very strongly about it. That's what justice is dear when they feel strongly and passionately about something. They read their dissent from the bench, but, you know, again, this was an eight one decision. So not only is she out of step with the rest of her colleagues, I would argue she's out of step with the country and really the world at this point. Eight one, and who's the only zero who disagrees? Kentonji Brown Jackson, who by the way doesn't even know what a woman is. She does, she has said in her confirmation hearing, she doesn't know what a woman is. So how can she object to conversion therapy? People trying to convert from men to women and mental health professionals trying to discuss these gender issues. If she doesn't even know what a woman is, has anyone asked her this question, guys? Anyone? She doesn't know what a woman is. There's nothing to convert to, she doesn't know. Eight one, put up that tweet on this, Scotus Wire. This was another huge win. The doom and gloom class is just, I mean, every single day, the war is lost, the economy is collapsing, we just had retail sales, by the way, come back, pretty great numbers. Everything is doom and gloom all the time. Here's the good news. I like to break up the show a little bit. I think that turning point is coming. I do, I really do. I think the culture will forget about the politics for a minute and the Giuliani, Maryland argument I made. I think the cultural turning point on a lot of this identity politics, DEI, BS, you see, this detachment from faith, this idea the left is jammed down our throat, that you should have faith in government institutions, forget your church and your community. I think that's changing. Okay, bring some receipts. Okay, I will. Washington Examiner piece. Folks, a lot of this, a significant number of our younger generation kids are tired of the emptiness, the social media and the bullshit. I'm not trying to be freaking Plato here, a wax poetic. It's empty. Selena Zito, great article in the Washington Examiner, faith among young people surges, providing a missing anchor. Folks, I'm not your preacher, but can you imagine how empty your life is if you believe this rock we call earth is it? And your life is social media and Instagram reels all day. How many likes you got? Who you ratioed with your pod army? Do you imagine how devoid of a soul you have to be? That's your entire life? How about time with your kids, time in church? We were in church this weekend, it was great. We had a blast. But you heard I left early. Yeah, I had to. Yeah, this is, no, yeah. It's just, I saw Justin, no, I just want to know Justin walked in late. You're gonna call me out, you walked in late. Don't say you didn't. He walked in late, I'm just saying folks, he's five minutes late, I saw him right there. And by the way, Justin's like seven feet tall. Everybody, yes, Andrew's like, did he make a scene? Here's the thing about Justin too, because he's, what are you, six, four? He's really tall, six, three? Well, he's tall, like really tall. He doesn't even wait for people to stand up. They're all sitting down and he walks in late, so like every one can see him. All right, that's big news, that's big news. Even Father Marty noticed, I saw him. I saw him look at you. You got called out. It happened. All right, put up that tweet with the sadness. Let's get back to this. I want to make the point here too, that this big government model will always fail. Create a contrast, dump the filibuster, let the American people see the contrast between big government liberal Bernie Sanders bullshit and small limited government Tea Party constitutional conservative. And I promise you, they'll make the right choice. The Santas put this tweet up about bureaucracies run amok. I've tried to make this point over and over again, and in this tweet thread, you'll see it from Governor DeSantis down here in Florida. Do any of you find it odd at all to the liberals in the audience listening? Do any of you find it odd at all that the two spaces liberals constantly complain about, costs getting out of control? Are both spaces largely controlled by the US government? Does that bother you at all? Healthcare and education. The government has a massive footprint, correct? They don't have a massive footprint in TV monitors like we have up here. Maybe some regulation, but it's not a huge footprint. Healthcare between Medicare, Medicaid, public schools, state school funding, the government has an enormous footprint. So why is it if you look at this chart that those are the two areas that costs are out of control? It's precisely because the government's the third party payer. They're not the student, they're not the school. The government winds up paying. So the student doesn't care about the price, and the school doesn't care about charging you more either because they know you're not paying. Put up that chart. When I was running for office in Maryland, I'll never forget, I met with this guy, forget his name. It was a public meeting, but it was in Prince George's County, which is a, it's a really very significant, wealthy black county in Maryland. And I went down there and I was really interested in knocking on doors to see how black voters in Maryland felt about Republican candidates. See if we had a shot. We obviously didn't perform traditionally well there in Maryland, but I meet with this guy and he pointed out what's in this chart is absolutely true. He said, Dan, the reason liberals will never give up funding public schools is not because of anything to do with education. He said to me, I'll never forget it. He said, Dan, it's a jobs program. Public schools are a jobs program. Look at this. The growth in bureaucracy and administrative staff far exceeding money dedicated to students in education. It's a jobs program. So is the healthcare space for the government. I'm glad the governor DeSantis pointed this out. This is a huge scam. The liberal argument that government's the most efficient way to do business falls apart on its face when you point out that the biggest business they're in, healthcare and education, you freaking liberals are complaining all the time about it, how costs are out of control. As you finance an explosion in a government jobs program disguised as education and healthcare. It's a scam and you know it. It's always been a scam. Ask your liberal friends that. If government is so good at controlling costs and quality, how come where the government has the biggest footprint, healthcare and education, you're constantly bitching about cost and quality. I'm just asking questions. That's what we're doing now. We're told to ask questions, right guys? We're just asking questions, correct? All right, I gotta get this. I got Edgar Ryan coming up in just a little bit. Kentucky District Four candidate in the Republican primary. The birthright citizenship case is being heard before the Supreme Court right now. Ladies and gentlemen, this is an enormous case. The goal of this show from the beginning has always been to give you digestible nuggets. You all work for a living. You don't have time to be reading 30 page white papers and legal briefs. You're busy taking care of your kids and building this country. And thank you for doing it. The purpose of this show is to sum up issues quickly so you know the takeaway. The birthright citizenship debate and it is a debate. Don't listen to the liberals who tell you this was settled in the courts. It was not. That is bullshit. If it was settled in the courts, why is it in the Supreme Court right now? We have a very serious problem with this anchor baby problem. You have people entering the country illegally, not here legally, illegally, having children who get US citizenship. It is not only an issue for a magnet that creates an open border problem because it draws people here because then they're entitled to the full portfolio of citizenship benefits. It is also a national security issue as well. The second part. Because foreign enemies of the United States know this. They can fly people in and have a child here and all of a sudden people who are not our friends have a citizen in their family. This is common sense. Liberals want to tell you, oh, this has already been litigated. You're born here, you're automatically a citizen and it's a, well, that is the case now, but this has not fully been litigated. Wall Street Journal has a great piece about this. There is one line that this all comes down to. This is Randy Barnett, Trump is right on birthright citizenship. They know that the clause grants citizenship to persons who meet two conditions. Birth in the US and being subject to the jurisdiction of the US. The dispute is over the meaning of the latter term. Talking about the 14th Amendment. Subject to the jurisdiction thereof folks has never been fully litigated. This is not an overly wonky topic. There are two potential meanings to this in the legal space. Do they mean people born here who are subject to the political jurisdiction of the United States? Or is it simply a matter of territorial jurisdiction? Very simply stated, if you are an illegal invader from another country, here illegally and have children, it's all that matters is territorial jurisdiction. In other words, you're born in US soil, no questions asked. That's the leftist argument, territorial jurisdiction. You understand? Trump's argument is that's bullshit. That's not what it means. It meant subject to the political jurisdiction thereof. And those people are not subject to the political jurisdiction of the United States. They are citizens of another country. Donald Trump is right on this issue. And folks, I don't know what's gonna happen in the Supreme Court in the case. I'm not the stingy in witches. Give me the eye, I have no idea what's gonna happen. Supreme Court is hit or miss. Amy Coney Barrett has been totally unreliable on these things. But there is zero doubt that this has not fully been litigated. A lot of these cases they cite pre-existed, a lot of immigration laws that are even in question. How could they be talking about a law that didn't even exist yet? Trump's had another big victory yesterday too. We'll see what happens with this case. Again, I don't know. This is the toss up in the Supreme Court. However, there was another big victory yesterday. Did you see the Oval Office briefing with our Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick? Donald Trump put out an EO using existing law to tighten up vote by mail, which we know is a fraud problem. We put that New York Times article up from 2012, probably a hundred times error and fraud at issue as absentee voting rises. The New York Times wrote about the problem of fraud and rejection rates in mail and voting in 2012. For the liberals having a hard time with math that's over 10 years ago. The New York Times wrote this piece, double the rejection rate. Mail and voting has a problem. Donald Trump using existing law, put out an EO yesterday, Howard Lutnick describes it, how they're gonna tighten up the postal service system to make sure that people who request these mail and ballots actually get the mail and ballots and not 20 other different people having nothing to do with the person who actually registered. Check this out. States run these elections. They will, if they want to use the US mail, the US postal service, they're going to get a code, a bar code from the US postal service and they're gonna put that on the envelope and we will have one envelope per vote. None of this time where we have no idea, there's no observers to mail, there's no envelopes, there's no certainty. That's all gonna go away and what the president is doing today is he's going to make sure that mail and ballots are safe, secure and accurate and will have a clear distinction. If you voted by mail, you will have it on the envelope. Obviously not on the ballot, but on the envelope. So we will know a million mail and ballots. There'll be a million envelopes and you'll be able to know exactly, correctly that citizens voted. Now, proving to you what frauds Democrats are, the lawsuits are already piling up, of course, because the Democrats don't want strict custody in the mail system of votes. They want to ship out mail-in ballots to everyone in the state of California, whether you requested it or not. They want a ballot harvester to go get it and return it. Whether they fill it out or the person fills it out, the Democrats don't care as long as the box says Democrat. This sounds like a pretty common sense thing and the Democrats are all over X crashing out again over this. Everything President Trump does is this immediate like word vomit that comes out on the left. I'm gonna get to Ed Galerine running for Kentucky 4, coming up in just a few minutes, but I always like to leave you with some good news. Hold on, Brandon Gill, we gotta play this. I just saw this yesterday. So I know this is probably a little bit old from a few weeks ago, but speaking of candidates, Brandon Gill is running for reelection. He's a congressman, he's fantastic. He's been on the show. They had the NPR, liberal NPR CEO up on Capitol Hill. And folks, when you're up on Capitol Hill, like you just, you better be prepared, okay? I've been up there a couple of times. You better be prepared. This lady is totally unprepared as she's asked basic questions. This is NPR, taxpayer funded NPR, about even basic things. I play this because this guy has the just perfect temperament for a Republican member of Congress when questioning these liberal lunatics and all their nonsense. Check this out. Do you believe that America is addicted to white supremacy? I believe that I tweeted that. And as I've said earlier, I believe much of my thinking has evolved over the last half decade. It has evolved. Why did you tweet that? I don't recall the exact context, sir. So I wouldn't be able to say. Okay. Do you believe that America believes in black plunder and white democracy? I don't believe that, sir. You tweeted that in reference to a book you were reading at the time, apparently, The Case for Reparations. I don't think I've ever read that book, sir. You tweeted about it. You said you took a day off to fully read The Case for Reparations. You put that on Twitter in January of 2020. You think the white people should pay reparations? I have never said that, sir. Yes, you did. You said it in January of 2020. You tweeted, yes, the North, yes, all of us, yes, America. Yes, our original collective sin and unpaid debt. Yes, reparations, yes, on this day. I don't believe that was a reference to fiscal reparations, sir. What kind of reparations? What's it a reference to? I think it was just a reference to the idea that we all owe much to the people who came before us. That's a bizarre way to frame what you tweeted. Okay, how many, how much reparations have you personally paid? Sir, I don't believe that I've ever paid reparations. Okay, just for everybody else. I'm not asking anyone to pay reparations. It seems to be what you're suggesting. I love this guy. Fantastic. Now, why am I putting that before the interview at Ed here? On the commentary segment. Because on a very serious note, I told you that it is time to create a contrast. The left will never change their behavior. Their communist, socialist aggregation of the means of production in government hands impulses until those policies kick them in the nuts. So let's go for it. You wanna see the country under leftist tyranny versus freedom and liberty? Maybe when you see the difference, you'll vote like the Cuban community doesn't flower that it's actually seen tyranny. You see the contrast, the other side, what we're dealing with, how we're gonna constantly have this bleed towards totalitarianism. If we don't have the ability to change things and change them quickly, these are the kind of people we're gonna be dealing with. Reparations, a wealth tax, open borders, theft in elections. Folks, it's gonna be over. They are gonna dump the filibuster. And these are the people you're gonna be dealing with on the other side. They've already said it. Just listen to their own words. All right, quick break and we'll get to our guests. You know that feeling when spring rolls in, you suddenly wanna fix everything in your house? I know the feeling, the spring cleaning. For me, it started with sleep. Fix it today. You don't get a good night's sleep, you feel terrible. You wake up physically exhausted, mentally exhausted, your emotional wreck. I've been waking up with this annoying lower back stiffness before. I had my shoulder problem until I switched to Helix Sleep mattresses. I love Helix Sleep to make a mattress customized to you. I upgraded to Helix mattress and it has helped with my back pain, my sleep tracker. Even showed my deep sleep time jump up. HRV was better, which honestly felt like I was winning the lottery for adults. A lot of us wear these sleep trackers now, kind of obsessed with it. And you'll see the difference. 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She is? She is? She is? She is? She is? nationwide. Ed Galrin running for Kentucky, running for District 4 in Kentucky. Ed, welcome to the show. It's really great to have you. Good morning, Agent Bongino. Good morning to the viewers. Thanks for having me on. Hey, it takes, you know, listen, it takes a lot of guts to run. So, you know, win or lose, I congratulate you. Putting your name on a ballot in such a public manner. You know, good for you. That's the process. So first, you know, who, motto of the 22 SAS, who dares wins. You got to take a chance. I mean, sitting in the side of the ring throwing popcorn at the two boxers is, you know, the kind of the cheap seed stuff. And I don't like that. Get into action or not. So, uh, uh, you're running for the seed. It's garnered national attention. You're running against Tom Massey, a multi-term congressman in a Republican primary. You know, why are you running? Tell us who you are, your experience and why the voters should pick you. Well, thank you for the question. It's really pretty simple. The president asked me to meet with him on 17 October, and he basically made a challenge to me to serve my nation again. When I signed up in 1983, when President Reagan was rebuilding our nation after the failed presidency of Jimmy Carter, these were the words in my head, faith, family, freedom, duty, honor, country. And Dan, I took a look at what's going on around the world and I evaluated what is the way I could have the most impact for our nation's national security. And it was to be a Navy SEAL officer. There were no books or movies. There was no going to join. I entered the officer candidate school into the leadership program, and I served at seven SEAL teams and units, including twice the SEAL team six for career spanning three decades. Now to turn the page, when the president met with me on 17 October, Dan, he had my record, TSSCI, and you understand that language. He knew where I'd been. He knew what I'd done. He knew my commitment. He knew my commitment to faith, family, freedom, and duty, honor, country. He asked me to go home, think about it, pray about it, talk to my family. And he said he was going to endorse me in life and whatever I did. And I declared four days later on the 21st of October to be a champion for my party, my nation, and my district. Thank you for the question, Dan. Yeah, listen, I want the voters to know who you are, not just what you stand for. And speaking of what you stand for, you know, Republicans generally agree on the big 10 issues, taxes, health care, school choice, we get it. So I've got 20 minutes with you. I want to get to the issues that typically people will vote on. And the Republican primary can kind of be a red line between candidate A or candidate B. How do you feel? I know you're a strong Second Amendment supporter. I've seen you campaign material. But how do you feel about constitutional carry? It's a big issue down here in Florida. Thankfully, we're, you know, it's spreading nationwide, just like it did down in the South. How do you feel about that? Well, as you look at that symbology behind me, it speaks for itself. I am 1000% behind it. I'm a lifetime member of the NRA. And I hear people talking about two gun shooter, three gun shooter, I was a 13 gun shooter, you know, when I was a SEAL Team 6, I lost track of how many weapons will sound to me. All that to say it is non-negotiable. So with respect to that, I'll be a champion for that. Lifetime member of the NRA, rifle, epistle instructor, but all that to say I will support and defend that. Now, well, good, because that's an enormous issue with me. I mean, the Second Amendment is pretty clear despite the less attempts to, you know, dissect punctuation and other things there. And it is a nationwide issue. I don't want you to assume because it exists or doesn't in your state that it's not a nationwide issue. You'll be a federal legislator if you win. So this is important for everyone listening. The second thing that's in the news today obviously is a Supreme Court case on birthright citizenship. Now, this is not a particularly complicated case. It basically comes down to two arguments, subject to the jurisdiction thereof. Meaning if you are a person in this country and have a child, are you subject to the jurisdiction thereof and therefore your child, if they are born here in the United States, would get citizenship. However, Donald Trump is making a very sound argument along with a lot of Supreme Court analysts and legal experts, that political jurisdiction and territorial jurisdiction are not the same thing. In other words, just because you're on our territory, potentially illegally and have a baby, that does not mean you are subject to the jurisdiction thereof. You're a citizen of another country here illegally. Where do you stand on this, the, which framed the anchor baby problem by many? If I could use a phrase we'd use here in Kentucky, that's just a no-brainer. It is clear that the intent was for those subject to the jurisdiction. We have to be very wary in this nation of the intentions of our adversaries. It's a disruption operation to bring folks in illegally and then to grow that population to diffuse our nation and basically undermine it. This is as plain as the nose under the face. Absolutely not. That anchor baby that the birthright with the citizen was never the intent of our founding fathers nor the legislation. Absolutely not. The president is on solid ground here in my prediction, although that's a hard thing to do as young and bare say, especially about the future, is this case will carry in his favor. And God bless him for advocating this on our behalf. We, the conservatives of this nation. Well, you know, I agree with you on a point you made here. This creates a really perilous national security problem too. You know, I think folks have to remember that global travel was not as easy when many of these civil rights amendments and some of these citizenship laws were passed. You know, air travel was some cases non-existent, many cases non-existent. Air travel even later on was basically rudimentary compared to as it is now. You did not have the ability to go back and forth. The world, the global wasn't as mobile as it is now. You can come over here from a country that's an enemy of the United States as a covert agent, have a child and basically, you know, from the country infiltrate from the inside. I mean, this is a very real problem. And I think, I hope the Supreme Court takes that into consideration. Yes. And again, there are, the president is on more than solid ground on this. And it's in the interest of our nation. If you're going to have a nation, as I understand it, we're the only major power in the world that allows such. It is nonsensical and all that to say, the Supreme Court will find in his favor on solid ground. I hope so. I mean, this could be a real game changing moment. The Supreme Court, for all its faults and amongst some of the members has taken some bold stances on Chevron deference and others. So they have taken some pretty bold stances, especially on the second day and all the infiltration. We've got to give credit to the president who set the conditions for that in his first term. And so folks need to remember that. He played some amazing chess to get us where we are now to get back to constitutional rule, but he's still fighting that battle on our behalf. Yeah, no, he certainly is. Given your military experience, Ed, what is your stance on NATO right now? This has come up. It's in the news today. President Trump is, I think, understandably starting to question these global alliances that have stood for decades. I mean, many would argue it's the most successful military alliance in history. Fine. But there is simply no doubt, Ed, that some of the NATO allies, many of them as a matter of fact, maybe outside of Poland and Lithuania are not even attempting to meet their basic commitments to percentage GDP spent in your military. In other words, they're not funding their military and they're saying there are. They are. And they're waiting for the United States to come in and be basically the bouncer in the bar. This is really unfair to us. And I think it's the right time for a president of the United States, like President Trump, with the Gajones to do it, to say, hey, listen, if it's going to be an alliance, then, you know, meet your basic requirements for the freaking alliance. It's not hard. Yeah, you are spot on there. It is more than time to reevaluate that and reset, you know, the understanding. So they do abide by what their commitments are because they have been free riders. And what I'm going to use as my lens as a graduate of war college and also with my masters in operational intelligence, they have succumbed to what I would call nearly and a method to infiltrate them. And what we see is the social programs over there, the leaning towards liberalism, being soft on defense. And so they become free riders on our ability to potentially defend them. And they're not doing their part. It should certainly be reevaluated. And if it needs to be changed and adjusted, as was illuminated here recently, when we were denied the opportunity to use our basis for the operations that really helped them in the mid east versus Iran, one of the poor horsemen apocalypse, absolutely. It's time to revisit that and what the rules are of the road or what they have to do to be a part of that. Otherwise, they'll continue to be free riders and put us all at risk. The end, I want you to get out your website if people want to support you have another question for you. I'm not going anywhere. I just want to make sure you get that out. Ed Galeron running for Kentucky for what's the website? Ed Galeron.com. You'll see that I'm a fifth generation farmer. We've been farming in Kentucky for over 100 years. Greetings from the farm here where you're standing between me and farm work. I'll be getting after here a bit more today, but can't thank you enough for Ed Galeron.com. Ed Galeron.com. So final question. And again, given your extensive military background here, what does success look like right now in Iran? I was reading a fascinating article in the Wall Street Journal I had mentioned yesterday and given your experience in the war theater spaces. How combat for centuries, obviously millennia was from the outside inside. You wanted to siege a castle. You had to siege the castle from the outside and get in, whether it was a Trojan horse or whatever. You didn't just start on the inside. The point of the piece was that military technology, as you know, has evolved so much from precision targeting and stealth technology from the air that we can now hit targets from the inside out. And the piece was basically saying that if I'm China right now, I'm watching what we did in this decapitation exercise in Iran, and I'm not happy. I'm thinking to myself, you know what, these guys aren't f'ing around, pardon the language here, that if they wanted to hit us from Beijing out, they may very well be able to do that. So my simple question is what does success look like in Iran? Do we just at this point turn over some of the straight to international partners and say, hey, buck up fellas and let's go and then consider it a success, which I think it would be, or do we stay there long term? Well, again, look post-war war two just for an example of where we've been long term for peace and prosperity, which is paid dividends. All that to say, I would offer that the in state, the president's after his first of all, no nuclear weapon whatsoever, nor any capability to develop that by the Iranians. The second part is remove their strategic weapons program. I'd be now we're seeing that they actually had missiles that were far greater arranged than was previously known, and they were devising those clearly to be an aggressor as one of the full horsemen in the apocalypse right now, including China and North Korea and Russia. To your point about China, a key outcome of what's going on that you cannot ignore is the president and his leadership team have doubled the deterrence poker chips on the table with Beijing, Moscow and North Korea. Not only is the president unpredictable of what he's going to do when, but also we are fighting a 21st century war in the 21st century. And they are seeing that on full display to your point of the intricacies of what we're able to do on the battlefield. Now to turn the page of what it looks like they're going forward, I would argue success is going to look like peace and prosperity being brought back to the Middle East that those conditions require the elimination of an aggressive regime that's hostile to the world. There now ran, which was their full intent, which was funded by the Obama administration to the tune of $1.7 billion in unmarked currency. So the turn that country back over to the very folks that rose up a few weeks ago, we've got to set the conditions to get that narrow element out of there of extremists. Because as I said on the on media number of times, Ayatollah was a suicide bomber looking for a new full stop. And we see that on full display right now with the weaponry they have. The other good news here Dan is now no longer the Russian China have that endless supplies of those high tech, high quality drones where Iran has said their manufacturing crushed by the US strikes. So turn to the page, we'll see a new era with Iran coming back into the fold of the modern world with peace and prosperity trade, eliminate that threat. And that allows us to shift and continue to focus on China, Russia and North Korea and defeat them by deterrence as Reagan did not have to conduct combat operations. But if we have to fight, you can see that we will have gotten some training under our belt. And we know our capabilities and they're going to be dismayed as they watch this unfold further. And if you don't mind, I'm going to steal that the Ayatollah was a suicide bomber looking for a new was because he was he was we're down to Ayatollah number seven now as he wipes out the baseball cards each time. But I'll footnote it I promise it's that's very well summed up. And listen, thanks a lot for putting your name on a ballot. You know, I know it's tough. You know, I've been there myself, campaigns are ugly sometimes. You know, it's it's just the nature of politics. But putting your name on a ballot takes a lot of guts. Your website again is at galron.com. Check them out, folks, if you want to support Mr. Gal Ryan, runner for Congress in Kentucky for and thanks a lot for your time today. And best of luck. I really appreciate it. Okay, thank you, Dan. Thank you to the viewers. Folks, listen, it's up to you in Kentucky. You pick who you want. I'm getting this candidate out there. I ran myself a number of times. And it's it's a fascinating process. I actually strongly encourage you to do it at some point. You don't have to run for Congress or the Senate, maybe run for state rep, maybe run for city council. I really encourage you to do it. I've been encouraging some friends locally. I have a friend who ran in Maryland wound up running. He's a multi term delegate up there now. And then a Rundle County. It's definitely worth your time to see the process. So check that out. 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