November 1, 2025 • 32 mins
1. Arctic Frost Investigation and Alleged Political Targeting
- Senator Chuck Grassley released 197 subpoenas issued by the FBI and DOJ under the Biden administration, tied to the Arctic Frost investigation led by Special Counsel Jack Smith.
- These subpoenas allegedly targeted 430 Republican individuals and organizations, including members of Congress, conservative groups, and media outlets.
- Grassley and Senator Ron Johnson describe this as a “Biden administration enemies list”, likening it to a modern-day Watergate.
- Allegations include surveillance of Senator Ted Cruz’s office phone and cell phone records, with Judge James Boasberg issuing secretive orders to prevent disclosure of the subpoenas.
2. Whistleblower Disclosures
- Much of the information was obtained through whistleblowers, not official agency releases.
- Grassley and Johnson call for more whistleblowers to come forward to expose what they describe as weaponization of federal agencies.
3. Government Shutdown
- The podcast discusses a government shutdown that began on October 1st and has lasted over a month.
- The shutdown is described as being intentionally prolonged by Democrats, allegedly to hurt small businesses and pressure Republicans.
- Democrats are accused of blocking efforts to reopen the government, including rejecting a clean continuing resolution (CR).
4. CNN Polling Data
- Surprisingly, CNN polling shows that Republicans have gained popularity during the shutdown:
- +5 points in net approval for Republicans in Congress.
- +12 points among Republican base.
- +8 points among independents.
- Democrats’ lead in the generic congressional ballot has shrunk to +3 points, the weakest position in 20 years during a Republican presidency.
5. Economic Impact and Small Business
- Kelly Loeffler, former Senator and business leader, argues that the shutdown is harming small businesses, which had previously shown high confidence under Trump’s economic policies.
- The shutdown is portrayed as a deliberate strategy by Democrats to damage Main Street and force political concessions.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Senaer Chuck Grassley, the Republican from Iowa, has now released
one hundred and ninety seven subpoenas that the Biden administration's
FBI used to seek testimony and documents related to hundreds
of Republicans and GOP entities as part of the bureau's
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Arctic Frost probe. The prosecutor to former Special Council Jack
Smith's election investigation, which now is in essence a hit list,
a target list, a black book of influential conservatives and
members of Congress who they wanted to target. Arctic Frost
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was the vehicle by which partisan FBI agents, Chuck Grassley said,
and DOJ prosecutors could improperly investigate the entire Republican political apparatus.
I want you to hear Execs exactly what Chuck Grause
had to say at.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
This press conference.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
It is shocking, and now we know just how corrupt
the Democratic Party was under the Biden administration.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
A little bit of history before I get to what
we're releasing today. I started the investigation into Arctic Frost
July twenty twenty two based.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
On whistleblower disclosures.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Based on these disclosures, we know that weaponized taxpayer funded
agents and prosecutors advanced the investigation. As Arctic Frost advanced,
ninety two Republican organizations or individuals were targeted, not just Trump,
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and they were added to its scope. And author of
that targeting list was Special Agent wash and Walter Jaredino.
He's the same weaponized agent who was involved in other
cases against Republicans, including Peter Navarro. We've learned Jack Smith
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secretly obtained phone record data from at least eight senators
and one Congressman. I've recently been informed by Verizon that
at least eleven members with Verizon accounts were affected. That
includes a hardline for Senator Cruz's office and a staffer
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sell phone for former Senator Leffler At and T inform me.
They challenged the legal basis for Jack Smith's efforts and
Smith back down. So today we're making public new records
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that I've attained through legally protected whistleblower disclosures. One hundred
and ninety seven subpoenas were issued by Jack Smith and
his team. These subpoenas were issued to thirty four individuals
and one hundred and sixty three businesses, including financial institutions
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and One of the points of contact on many of
these subpoenas was that person I previously named Special Agent
Walter Geardino. The subpoena requested records and communications related to
over four hundred and thirty individual and organizations, all of
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them appear to be aimed at Republicans. A subpoena to
Event Strategies requested records relating to Turning Point USA and
the Republican Attorney General's Association. One subpoena to Apple sought
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records relating to Trump and the January sixth prison choir.
Earlier this year, I obtained emails between and among JP Cooney,
one of Jack Smith's prosecutors. That email exchange was March
twenty twenty three about a partisan news article on January
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six and this is what Cooney said in the email.
Can we do some work to nail down Trump's role
in this, perhaps with the same process on Ed Henry's LLCT.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
You look at what Chuck Grassley is talking about here,
and it's truly incredible. What he's describing is the Democratic
Party saying we are going to use our DOJ, the FBI,
thisa whoever, we need to open up investigations and then
go out and attack our political enemies. Now, this is
a direct contradictory statement of facts to what Smith had
(05:23):
said publicly. This was clearly a phishing expedition. Grassley went
on to say, standing alongside Grassley center Ron Johnson, he
called the subpoenas nothing short of a Biden administration enemies list.
Take a listen to Johnson in his own.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
Words, I think it's important to note that the records
that we are now making public in the personal Transparency
were not obtained from the agency. They were obtained through
a whistleblower. So our first point is we need more whistleblowers.
We need people men and women inside these agencies who
(06:03):
have integrity, who want to see the integrity incredibility of
the Department Justice of the FBI restored. Come forward because
right now I think cash for tail Pam BONDI are
overwhelmed by all the messages they're trying to clean up.
The agencies have been lost a lot of personnel. People
simply couldn't serve the Trump administration. It's hard to hire
(06:25):
people because of all the lawfare, and they're still partisan
actors burrowed in trying to sabotage their efforts.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
So we need whistleblowers.
Speaker 5 (06:34):
The reason they come forward to Chairman Grassley is because
he's been such a champion of whistleblowers, So again I
thank him for that. What is revealed in those seventeen
hundred pages of documents, in those one hundred and ninety
seven subpoenas, is nothing short of a Biden administration enemies list.
You know, I'm old enough to understand how toxic a
(06:55):
term that was under Richard Nixon. This is far worse,
far worse orders the magnitude worse. People need to understand
how politicized the Biden ministration turned all these agencies. And again,
the best way to describe President Biden's attitude his exact quotes.
He thought, basically half America were domestic terrorists. In September
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twenty twenty two, in front of Indpenn's Hall, he said
Donald Trump and the Magan Republicans represent an extremism that
threatens the very foundation of our republic. A year later,
in New York City, Donald Trump is mega Republicans are
determined to destroy American democracy. Now, nothing could be further
from the truth. That is a level of paranoia that's
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actually astonishing, but the fact that thirty eight Wisconsinites are
on that enemy's list.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
I know most of those individuals.
Speaker 5 (07:52):
They are god fearing, country loving law law, law enforcement
supporting people who want to see America succeed. The fact
that they are on a Biden administration enemies list, we're
targeted by that administration is outrageous. It should shock every
American and so I am calling on and I appreciate
(08:16):
all the members of the Jitiary Committee. We need to
get to the bottom of this.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
We need to do everything we can.
Speaker 5 (08:21):
To assist Director Patel and ag Bondi in making sure
that they have the staff to take control of these agencies,
that they're the heads of them. I don't think they
have the control. I think they're being sabotaged within. But
the American people need to understand exactly what happened. And
(08:41):
again I'm calling on members of the Juiciary Committee to
help send a grass in myself get to the bottom
of this, so we can expose this so this doesn't
happen again in America.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
This has to end.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
You can hear Johnson there obviously very angry about what
he has witnessed and now the data that he has uncovered.
This is a massive abuse of power by the Biden administration,
and it attacked anyone they thought was their political enemy.
He's not the only one that's frustrated. Senator Cruz talked
about his phone being tapped.
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There's also other members of Congress who were spied upon
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sitting members of Congress. One of them was Senator Ted Cruz.
And I want you to hear what Senator Cruz said
after he found out that his office phone in his
actual office in the United States Senate building was tapped.
Why because he was a Conservative? That was the crime.
(12:01):
Take a listen.
Speaker 6 (12:03):
Arctic Frost is Joe Biden's Watergate Merrick Garland was a
fundamentally corrupt Attorney General. Jack Smith was a fundamentally corrupt prosecutor.
This was a political enemies list from the beginning, one
hundred and ninety seven subpoenas for four hundred and thirty
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Republican entities and individuals. That is an absolute and egregious
abuse of power. The Biden Justice Department signed off on
issuing subpoenas for the phone records of at least nine
US senators, twenty percent of the Republicans in the United
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States Senate where the target of this fishing expedition. They
did so in complete prevention of the Constitution of separation
of powers of the speech and debate clause of free
speech of basic rights of privacy. This is an executive
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who believes it is justified spying on their opponents in
the legislature because they convinced themselves the ends justify the means.
I want to talk to you about one of those subpoenas.
One of those subpoenas went from Jack Smith to AT
and T seeking my cell phone communications. It went to
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AT and T, and I actually want to commend AT
and T for doing the right thing.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
AT and T is based in Texas.
Speaker 6 (13:41):
AT and T looked at that subpoena, and they went
to their legal council and they said, what should we
do with that subpoena? And their legal council said, you
cannot comply because this is protected by the speech and
debate clause of the US Constitution. And so AT and
T declined to comply. Did not hand over my cell
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phone records. Now, one might ask, ordinarily a phone company
being asked to hand over the phone records of a
sitting senator would notify that senator. Well, there was a
reason AT and T did not do so. Accompanying the
subpoena was an order which I have in my hand
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right here. An order that was signed by Judge James E.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
Bosberg. Now, who is Boseburg.
Speaker 6 (14:35):
Boseburg is that radical leftist judge who is out of control,
who has been issuing nationwide injunctions one after the other,
trying to stop President Trump from carrying out his mandate
from the voters. Judge Bosburg issued an order to the
US to AT and T and sign that order prohibiting
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AT and T from informing me of this subpoena for
at least one year. And Judge Bosburg gave the basis
for that order. And I'm going to quote from the
order Judge Boseburg signed. The Court finds reasonable grounds to
believe that such disclosure will result in destruction of or
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tampering with evidence, intimidation of potential witnesses, and serious jeopardy
to the investigation.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
That's an order a judge sign.
Speaker 6 (15:29):
Now, I can tell you right now there is precisely
zero evidence to conclude that I am likely to destroy
or tamper with evidence, or to intimidate potential witnesses, zero
evidentiary basis for that. This order is an abusive power.
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This order is a weaponized legal system. My assumption we
don't have the subpoenas that were issued for the other senators.
But my assumption is Judge Boseburg printed these things out
like the placemats at Denny's, one after the other. We
don't know that for a fact, but I feel confident
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that he concluded it's likely that Lindsey Graham would destroy evidence,
and Marsha Blackburn would destroy evidence, and Eric Schmidt would
destroy evidence, and Chuck Grassley would destroy evidence. If a
litigant makes a claim for which there is no factual basis,
that litigant is subject to sanctions in federal court. And
if a judge signs an order reaching a factual conclusion
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for which there is zero evidence whatsoever, that judge is
abusing his power. I am right now calling on the
House of Representatives to impeach Judge Boseburg. Judge Boseburg put
his robe down, stood up, and said, sign me up
to be part of the partisan vendetta against twenty percent
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of the Republicans in the Senate. That is a dereliction
of duty and a vibe of the judicial oath.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
And I want to.
Speaker 6 (17:02):
Thank Chairman Grassley and Chairman Johnson for pursuing this tenaciously like.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
A dog on a bone.
Speaker 6 (17:09):
We are going to get the answers of every person
who signed off on this abuse of power, and mark
my words, there will be accountability for these zelots who
wanted to corrupt the Department of Justice and corrupt the
judiciary in order to try to attack their enemy's list.
That is unconstitutional, it is ibmoral, and it is wrong.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
This is Biden's Watergate. I could not agree more with
Senator Cruz when he said that earlier. I couldn't agree
more with Senator Ron Johnson when he called the subpoenas
nothing short of Biden's administration's enemies list. These subpoenas were
non public for a reason. These subpoenas were confidential grand
jury material the Grassy said he obtained through whistleblower disclosures.
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They were trying to hide this from the current administration.
The subpoena sought certain communications with media companies as well.
We've now learned that those media companies included Fox News Channel, CBS, Sinclair, Newsmax,
and with members of aids in Congress also being put
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under the well phishing expedition, we also know they sought
sweeping financial information from conservative entities as well. Those conservative entities.
They wanted to use the federal governments to silence them,
to shut them down. This was literally an enemy's list,
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and it was all disguised by the Democratic Party in quiet,
privately to make sure that you and I never found it.
It was also designed to make sure that people like
Senator Cruz could not stop it when it was happening.
And why did they not want them to know about it?
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Why did they lie and say that, well, these senators
who they were spying on could not be trusted, that
they might try to intimidate witnesses with no evidence to
back that up. Because they knew if these senators found
out about this, they would have the legal grounds to
stop the Biden administration immediately. And that is exactly why
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they said, Okay, we are done. We will do it
in silence, we will do it quietly. And they were
betting on winning the next election so they'd never be
held accountable for what they just did. And the massive
abuse of power that they were in charge of. This
was not legal in any way. This was corruption in
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every way, and now Donald Trump's administration has exposed it
because of great men and women who have risked their
careers as whistle blowers trusting the system. One of the
things you heard there at the very beginning was Senator
Grassley and Johnson talking about we need more whistleblowers to
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come forward, and whistleblowers that are witnessing now the protections
they're receiving from the Trump administration are probably a thousand
times more likely to come forward than they would have
during the Biden era when they could clearly see just
how corrupt they were as a administration. One final thing
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about this, I expect there is going to be even
more bombshells to come forward, more corruption that will be unearthed.
And as all of this corruption continues to be exposed,
the question now is who will be held accountable for it.
Will keep you updated on that, I can promise you.
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I want to get you an update on the government's
shutdown because it's important. This shutdown that began at twelve
oh one eight on October the first, is now over
a month long. And there were different moments where there
were well saying people that thought the shutdown would end.
There were many that believe Democrats are holding out until
last week's No King's rally to then open the government.
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Their psychological behavior is well unhinged, and no one really
knows what's going to happen moving forward, even in the
Democratic Party. But we are now on track to become
the longest government shutdown in US history if it continues
pass November fourth. Now, the Senate has voted to reopen
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the government and Democrats continue to block them. According to reporting,
the Senate has rejected a bill to reopen the government,
a stop gap continuing resolution, a clean cr that has
now happened yet again, the procedural vote failing fifty one
to forty five to advance the bill, which needs sixty votes.
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That means Democrats have to come along to overcome the filibuster.
We have also seen Democrats now celebrating an essence Americans hurting.
There have even been some Democrats and Republicans that have
agreed on allowing for snap benefits to continue. Yet Democrats
want this to be painful. Why because they're hoping the
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majority of Americans will be ignorant and just blame Donald
Trump for everything.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Well, that brings us to the data.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
CNN's data guru, a guy by the name of Harry Hitten,
was caught off guard to find what he described as
a rare bright spot for Republicans during the government's shutdown.
In fact, the polling numbers have improved for Donald Trump
because the American people are not as stupid as the
Democrats were hoping. Take a listen to what they had
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to say with their new poll that has come out
and the shock that actually Trump's numbers have improved and
not gone down during the shutdown.
Speaker 7 (23:05):
One thing that might end a shutdown is political pain,
if parties start to feel that it's hurting them. So
let's talk about that. Starting with Republicans. How is the
shutdown seem to have affected their political standing?
Speaker 8 (23:17):
Yeah, you might think, given that the Republicans are in
charge of both the House and the Senate, that a
government shutdown might actually hurt the Republican brand, but.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
In fact it hasn't.
Speaker 8 (23:26):
If anything, it's been helped a little bit. Take a
look here the shift in net popularity versus pre shutdown
among the g When we're looking at the Republican Party overall,
that brand actually up two points. That's within the margin verraa.
But clearly it hasn't dropped. Come over this side of
the screen. Look at the net approval ratings for Republicans
in Congress it's actually up five.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
Points since pre shutdown. So what we're seeing.
Speaker 8 (23:46):
Here is the Republican brand in Congress has actually improved
somewhat compared to where we were pre shutdown, despite the
fact the Republicans control. And that's the mat that John
Thune and Mike Johnson are looking at, is Hey, why
should we give an electorally speaking when our brand has
actually improved a little bit?
Speaker 7 (24:02):
Now we say their position is getting better with whom.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Yeah, okay, with whom?
Speaker 8 (24:06):
So I think it's two groups that it's so important
to keep them an eye out on. All right, change
in the Republican Congresses and net approval rating versus pre shutdown.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
It's rallying the base for sure.
Speaker 8 (24:15):
Look at this, the net approval rating up twelve points
versus pre shutdown. But it's not just with the base,
it's also with the middle of the electorate. Look at
this among independents it's up eight points as well. So
we've got a situation here where Republicans with this shutdown
are actually rallying their base. But it's also something that's
not hurting them with the folks in the middle of anything.
It's helping them with folks in the mill And this
is the type of math that if you're Republicans you
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like to see, right, because something could rally the base
but alienate those in the middle, or something could rally
those in the middle but alienate the base.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
But the truth is we're not seeing that.
Speaker 8 (24:45):
What we're seeing is the Republican brand has actually gotten
better among independents, and it's also gotten better among Republicans
as well, that Republican brand when it comes to those
in Congress. So again, what's the electoral reason that Republicans
were given at this point in Democrats?
Speaker 7 (24:59):
Of course, they have their eyes on the midterm elections. Yeah,
we have elections one week from today, but what Democrats
in Congress are mostly focused on or one year in
one week from today from the midterms. So how do
Democrats how are they positioned right now?
Speaker 3 (25:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (25:12):
So, I mean, look the general congressional ballot, which traditionally
Democrats have done really well on. And if you look
at this point back when Trump was present the first
time around, Democrats are up eleven points.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
Look at where it is now.
Speaker 8 (25:21):
Democrats are head but they're actually only up three points.
This is, in fact, the worst position Democrats have been
on in a generic ballot at this point in midterm
when there was a Republican president in the last twenty years,
And this is no different from pre shutdown. So Republicans
aren't losing on this metric either. They become more popular
and they're actually in a pretty good position for them
historically when it comes to the generic congressional ballot.
Speaker 7 (25:41):
This is a concerning number for Democrats, if you're saying, this.
Speaker 8 (25:43):
Is a concerning number for Democrats because it's considerably worse
than they traditionally do in midterm elections when there's a
Republican president.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Now, if Democrats were sane, they would hear these numbers
from CNN and say, Okay, it's time to end the shutdown.
It's not going in our face. But you have to
understand that they want this shutdown to hurt They want
small businesses to be destroyed. In fact, Small Business Administrator
Kelly Lefler just said this on Fox Business with Larry
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Kavlow about what the intended effects of the government shutdown
for the Democrats may actually be, and it's to put
you out of business.
Speaker 9 (26:21):
Straight, you're here to tell me, I think that the
shutdowns killing small business. But Pardoner, this whole show is
very bullished. The stock market is booming, the economy is
growing close to four percent. How bad can it be
for small business? I mean the shutdown thing, you know whatever,
We should be pulling the trigger on those two point
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zero and reduced spending. But really, you intind small business
is really hurting now.
Speaker 10 (26:47):
Well, look, Larry, prior to this shutdown. As of September,
small business confidence hit a seven year high. Not since
President Trump's first term had small business felt so confident
in the economy. And that's all things to President Trump's
economic agenda, which by the way, is a supply side
agenda that I know you support. It's free and fair trade,
it's low taxes, it's deregulation, it's access to capital. And
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because of their confidence in twenty twenty five, the fiscal
year we just wrapped up twenty seven days ago, the
SBA broke through a seventy two year lending record, surpassing
forty five billion to eighty five thousand small businesses across
this country because they believe in President Trump's economic agenda
of drill baby drill, making sure that we have the
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supply chains we need in restoring American manufacturing they were
quite bullish heading into this shutdown. But look, this shutdown
is having the intended effect by the Democrats. They want
to hurt Main Street and that's what they're trying to
do right now.
Speaker 9 (27:43):
Well, you make a the National Federation of the Independent
Business Survey, that may be what you're talking about. It
did drop. I mean it was one hundred point eight
in August. The last reading is ninety eight point eight
in September. Year ago was only ninety one point five.
But really, I mean with all the things in the
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one big beautiful bill, and you're seeing a fabulous stock market.
Now these are small businesses, they're not necessarily publicly owned businesses,
but I you know, I think the future is very,
very bright. You have tremendous tax incentives in that bill.
Kelly Leffler, I mean, I want to shut down the
end two and I think the Democrats are all wrong,
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and we're going to make fun of it in the
next segment. But the fact of the matter is the
ecomomy's booming and the stock market is telling us that,
and I you know, I want you to You've been
growing at four percent, three point nine percent in the
second and third quarters of going into the Atlanta FED.
That's pretty good, don't you think.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
You listen to Kudler there and what he's saying, as
the government shut down drags into a month and it
could go to the longest shutdown in history, and yes,
the government shutdown is having the intended effects by Democrats.
They want to shut down and hurt small business owners.
They want you to not be able to pay for
food if you're on food stamps.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
They want you to suffer.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
So that then maybe you'll decide that somehow this shutdown,
which is clearly the Democrat's fault and their plan, will
then somehow turn to you blaming the Republicans for it.
That is the key here for them. This is what
they want to happen. They want you to just get
so angry that you finally just say to Republicans, all right,
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screw it. Give the hostages the Democratic Party what they
demand so that I get whatever relief I want right now.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
Now.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
One other thing about this government shutdown that I also
think is an important point to make. The Republicans seem
to be doing a much better job of explaining this shutdown,
why it's happening, and who's behind it than they have
done in the past. They seem to be much more
focused on explaining it, and the Erican people seem to
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understand it now better than they ever have before. A
lot of this goes back to what's happening this country.
On another issue, law and order, the Republican Party has
an incredible job explaining why law and order is important,
why we should make sure that the men and women
who are in this country illegally should be found and deported,
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and how many criminal aliens there are. This subject right
now is literally no different than that. This subject is
the same thing. You have a Democratic party that is
holding Americans hostage because they lost their power, and when
they lost their power, they decided this was the game
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plan it is to hurt Americans and try to make
you just beg for some sort of relief, even if
that means a terrible deal overall for the future of
this country and the American people, Which bring us to
looking forward, how long will the shutdown last? Honestly, when
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you're dealing with these types of people that are holding
you hostage, there's no way to tell, there's no way
to know, there's no way to know what they're going
to do next. And if they're going to listen to you.
The one thing I can tell you is it's time
to start getting on the phone, calling your congressman, calling
your senators and explaining to them, if they're Republicans, you
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stand with them, and if they're Democrats voting against reopening
the government, that you're going to hold them accountable in
the future. I do think the American people are understanding
one thing right now. The Democratic Party is not listening
to the American voters at all, and when they don't
get their way, their goal and objective is to go
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rogue because they don't respect the laws or the will
of the American people.
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Senaer Chuck Grassley, the Republican from Iowa, has now released
one hundred and ninety seven subpoenas that the Biden administration's
FBI used to seek testimony and documents related to hundreds
of Republicans and GOP entities as part of the bureau's
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Arctic Frost probe. The prosecutor to former Special Council Jack
Smith's election investigation, which now is in essence a hit list,
a target list, a black book of influential conservatives and
members of Congress who they wanted to target. Arctic Frost
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was the vehicle by which partisan FBI agents, Chuck Grassley said,
and DOJ prosecutors could improperly investigate the entire Republican political apparatus.
I want you to hear Execs exactly what Chuck Grause
had to say at.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
This press conference.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
It is shocking, and now we know just how corrupt
the Democratic Party was under the Biden administration.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
A little bit of history before I get to what
we're releasing today. I started the investigation into Arctic Frost
July twenty twenty two based.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
On whistleblower disclosures.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Based on these disclosures, we know that weaponized taxpayer funded
agents and prosecutors advanced the investigation. As Arctic Frost advanced,
ninety two Republican organizations or individuals were targeted, not just Trump,
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and they were added to its scope. And author of
that targeting list was Special Agent wash and Walter Jaredino.
He's the same weaponized agent who was involved in other
cases against Republicans, including Peter Navarro. We've learned Jack Smith
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secretly obtained phone record data from at least eight senators
and one Congressman. I've recently been informed by Verizon that
at least eleven members with Verizon accounts were affected. That
includes a hardline for Senator Cruz's office and a staffer
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sell phone for former Senator Leffler At and T inform me.
They challenged the legal basis for Jack Smith's efforts and
Smith back down. So today we're making public new records
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that I've attained through legally protected whistleblower disclosures. One hundred
and ninety seven subpoenas were issued by Jack Smith and
his team. These subpoenas were issued to thirty four individuals
and one hundred and sixty three businesses, including financial institutions
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and One of the points of contact on many of
these subpoenas was that person I previously named Special Agent
Walter Geardino. The subpoena requested records and communications related to
over four hundred and thirty individual and organizations, all of
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them appear to be aimed at Republicans. A subpoena to
Event Strategies requested records relating to Turning Point USA and
the Republican Attorney General's Association. One subpoena to Apple sought
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records relating to Trump and the January sixth prison choir.
Earlier this year, I obtained emails between and among JP Cooney,
one of Jack Smith's prosecutors. That email exchange was March
twenty twenty three about a partisan news article on January
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six and this is what Cooney said in the email.
Can we do some work to nail down Trump's role
in this, perhaps with the same process on Ed Henry's LLCT.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
You look at what Chuck Grassley is talking about here,
and it's truly incredible. What he's describing is the Democratic
Party saying we are going to use our DOJ, the FBI,
thisa whoever, we need to open up investigations and then
go out and attack our political enemies. Now, this is
a direct contradictory statement of facts to what Smith had
(05:23):
said publicly. This was clearly a phishing expedition. Grassley went
on to say, standing alongside Grassley center Ron Johnson, he
called the subpoenas nothing short of a Biden administration enemies list.
Take a listen to Johnson in his own.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
Words, I think it's important to note that the records
that we are now making public in the personal Transparency
were not obtained from the agency. They were obtained through
a whistleblower. So our first point is we need more whistleblowers.
We need people men and women inside these agencies who
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have integrity, who want to see the integrity incredibility of
the Department Justice of the FBI restored. Come forward because
right now I think cash for tail Pam BONDI are
overwhelmed by all the messages they're trying to clean up.
The agencies have been lost a lot of personnel. People
simply couldn't serve the Trump administration. It's hard to hire
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people because of all the lawfare, and they're still partisan
actors burrowed in trying to sabotage their efforts.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
So we need whistleblowers.
Speaker 5 (06:34):
The reason they come forward to Chairman Grassley is because
he's been such a champion of whistleblowers, So again I
thank him for that. What is revealed in those seventeen
hundred pages of documents, in those one hundred and ninety
seven subpoenas, is nothing short of a Biden administration enemies list.
You know, I'm old enough to understand how toxic a
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term that was under Richard Nixon. This is far worse,
far worse orders the magnitude worse. People need to understand
how politicized the Biden ministration turned all these agencies. And again,
the best way to describe President Biden's attitude his exact quotes.
He thought, basically half America were domestic terrorists. In September
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twenty twenty two, in front of Indpenn's Hall, he said
Donald Trump and the Magan Republicans represent an extremism that
threatens the very foundation of our republic. A year later,
in New York City, Donald Trump is mega Republicans are
determined to destroy American democracy. Now, nothing could be further
from the truth. That is a level of paranoia that's
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actually astonishing, but the fact that thirty eight Wisconsinites are
on that enemy's list.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
I know most of those individuals.
Speaker 5 (07:52):
They are god fearing, country loving law law, law enforcement
supporting people who want to see America succeed. The fact
that they are on a Biden administration enemies list, we're
targeted by that administration is outrageous. It should shock every
American and so I am calling on and I appreciate
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all the members of the Jitiary Committee. We need to
get to the bottom of this.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
We need to do everything we can.
Speaker 5 (08:21):
To assist Director Patel and ag Bondi in making sure
that they have the staff to take control of these agencies,
that they're the heads of them. I don't think they
have the control. I think they're being sabotaged within. But
the American people need to understand exactly what happened. And
(08:41):
again I'm calling on members of the Juiciary Committee to
help send a grass in myself get to the bottom
of this, so we can expose this so this doesn't
happen again in America.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
This has to end.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
You can hear Johnson there obviously very angry about what
he has witnessed and now the data that he has uncovered.
This is a massive abuse of power by the Biden administration,
and it attacked anyone they thought was their political enemy.
He's not the only one that's frustrated. Senator Cruz talked
about his phone being tapped.
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only one that is furious about what they are uncovering.
There's also other members of Congress who were spied upon
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sitting members of Congress. One of them was Senator Ted Cruz.
And I want you to hear what Senator Cruz said
after he found out that his office phone in his
actual office in the United States Senate building was tapped.
Why because he was a Conservative? That was the crime.
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Take a listen.
Speaker 6 (12:03):
Arctic Frost is Joe Biden's Watergate Merrick Garland was a
fundamentally corrupt Attorney General. Jack Smith was a fundamentally corrupt prosecutor.
This was a political enemies list from the beginning, one
hundred and ninety seven subpoenas for four hundred and thirty
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Republican entities and individuals. That is an absolute and egregious
abuse of power. The Biden Justice Department signed off on
issuing subpoenas for the phone records of at least nine
US senators, twenty percent of the Republicans in the United
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States Senate where the target of this fishing expedition. They
did so in complete prevention of the Constitution of separation
of powers of the speech and debate clause of free
speech of basic rights of privacy. This is an executive
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who believes it is justified spying on their opponents in
the legislature because they convinced themselves the ends justify the means.
I want to talk to you about one of those subpoenas.
One of those subpoenas went from Jack Smith to AT
and T seeking my cell phone communications. It went to
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AT and T, and I actually want to commend AT
and T for doing the right thing.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
AT and T is based in Texas.
Speaker 6 (13:41):
AT and T looked at that subpoena, and they went
to their legal council and they said, what should we
do with that subpoena? And their legal council said, you
cannot comply because this is protected by the speech and
debate clause of the US Constitution. And so AT and
T declined to comply. Did not hand over my cell
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phone records. Now, one might ask, ordinarily a phone company
being asked to hand over the phone records of a
sitting senator would notify that senator. Well, there was a
reason AT and T did not do so. Accompanying the
subpoena was an order which I have in my hand
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right here. An order that was signed by Judge James E.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
Bosberg. Now, who is Boseburg.
Speaker 6 (14:35):
Boseburg is that radical leftist judge who is out of control,
who has been issuing nationwide injunctions one after the other,
trying to stop President Trump from carrying out his mandate
from the voters. Judge Bosburg issued an order to the
US to AT and T and sign that order prohibiting
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AT and T from informing me of this subpoena for
at least one year. And Judge Bosburg gave the basis
for that order. And I'm going to quote from the
order Judge Boseburg signed. The Court finds reasonable grounds to
believe that such disclosure will result in destruction of or
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tampering with evidence, intimidation of potential witnesses, and serious jeopardy
to the investigation.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
That's an order a judge sign.
Speaker 6 (15:29):
Now, I can tell you right now there is precisely
zero evidence to conclude that I am likely to destroy
or tamper with evidence, or to intimidate potential witnesses, zero
evidentiary basis for that. This order is an abusive power.
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This order is a weaponized legal system. My assumption we
don't have the subpoenas that were issued for the other senators.
But my assumption is Judge Boseburg printed these things out
like the placemats at Denny's, one after the other. We
don't know that for a fact, but I feel confident
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that he concluded it's likely that Lindsey Graham would destroy evidence,
and Marsha Blackburn would destroy evidence, and Eric Schmidt would
destroy evidence, and Chuck Grassley would destroy evidence. If a
litigant makes a claim for which there is no factual basis,
that litigant is subject to sanctions in federal court. And
if a judge signs an order reaching a factual conclusion
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for which there is zero evidence whatsoever, that judge is
abusing his power. I am right now calling on the
House of Representatives to impeach Judge Boseburg. Judge Boseburg put
his robe down, stood up, and said, sign me up
to be part of the partisan vendetta against twenty percent
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of the Republicans in the Senate. That is a dereliction
of duty and a vibe of the judicial oath.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
And I want to.
Speaker 6 (17:02):
Thank Chairman Grassley and Chairman Johnson for pursuing this tenaciously like.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
A dog on a bone.
Speaker 6 (17:09):
We are going to get the answers of every person
who signed off on this abuse of power, and mark
my words, there will be accountability for these zelots who
wanted to corrupt the Department of Justice and corrupt the
judiciary in order to try to attack their enemy's list.
That is unconstitutional, it is ibmoral, and it is wrong.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
This is Biden's Watergate. I could not agree more with
Senator Cruz when he said that earlier. I couldn't agree
more with Senator Ron Johnson when he called the subpoenas
nothing short of Biden's administration's enemies list. These subpoenas were
non public for a reason. These subpoenas were confidential grand
jury material the Grassy said he obtained through whistleblower disclosures.
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They were trying to hide this from the current administration.
The subpoena sought certain communications with media companies as well.
We've now learned that those media companies included Fox News Channel, CBS, Sinclair, Newsmax,
and with members of aids in Congress also being put
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under the well phishing expedition, we also know they sought
sweeping financial information from conservative entities as well. Those conservative entities.
They wanted to use the federal governments to silence them,
to shut them down. This was literally an enemy's list,
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and it was all disguised by the Democratic Party in quiet,
privately to make sure that you and I never found it.
It was also designed to make sure that people like
Senator Cruz could not stop it when it was happening.
And why did they not want them to know about it?
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Why did they lie and say that, well, these senators
who they were spying on could not be trusted, that
they might try to intimidate witnesses with no evidence to
back that up. Because they knew if these senators found
out about this, they would have the legal grounds to
stop the Biden administration immediately. And that is exactly why
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they said, Okay, we are done. We will do it
in silence, we will do it quietly. And they were
betting on winning the next election so they'd never be
held accountable for what they just did. And the massive
abuse of power that they were in charge of. This
was not legal in any way. This was corruption in
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every way, and now Donald Trump's administration has exposed it
because of great men and women who have risked their
careers as whistle blowers trusting the system. One of the
things you heard there at the very beginning was Senator
Grassley and Johnson talking about we need more whistleblowers to
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come forward, and whistleblowers that are witnessing now the protections
they're receiving from the Trump administration are probably a thousand
times more likely to come forward than they would have
during the Biden era when they could clearly see just
how corrupt they were as a administration. One final thing
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about this, I expect there is going to be even
more bombshells to come forward, more corruption that will be unearthed.
And as all of this corruption continues to be exposed,
the question now is who will be held accountable for it.
Will keep you updated on that, I can promise you.
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I want to get you an update on the government's
shutdown because it's important. This shutdown that began at twelve
oh one eight on October the first, is now over
a month long. And there were different moments where there
were well saying people that thought the shutdown would end.
There were many that believe Democrats are holding out until
last week's No King's rally to then open the government.
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Their psychological behavior is well unhinged, and no one really
knows what's going to happen moving forward, even in the
Democratic Party. But we are now on track to become
the longest government shutdown in US history if it continues
pass November fourth. Now, the Senate has voted to reopen
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the government and Democrats continue to block them. According to reporting,
the Senate has rejected a bill to reopen the government,
a stop gap continuing resolution, a clean cr that has
now happened yet again, the procedural vote failing fifty one
to forty five to advance the bill, which needs sixty votes.
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That means Democrats have to come along to overcome the filibuster.
We have also seen Democrats now celebrating an essence Americans hurting.
There have even been some Democrats and Republicans that have
agreed on allowing for snap benefits to continue. Yet Democrats
want this to be painful. Why because they're hoping the
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majority of Americans will be ignorant and just blame Donald
Trump for everything.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Well, that brings us to the data.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
CNN's data guru, a guy by the name of Harry Hitten,
was caught off guard to find what he described as
a rare bright spot for Republicans during the government's shutdown.
In fact, the polling numbers have improved for Donald Trump
because the American people are not as stupid as the
Democrats were hoping. Take a listen to what they had
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to say with their new poll that has come out
and the shock that actually Trump's numbers have improved and
not gone down during the shutdown.
Speaker 7 (23:05):
One thing that might end a shutdown is political pain,
if parties start to feel that it's hurting them. So
let's talk about that. Starting with Republicans. How is the
shutdown seem to have affected their political standing?
Speaker 8 (23:17):
Yeah, you might think, given that the Republicans are in
charge of both the House and the Senate, that a
government shutdown might actually hurt the Republican brand, but.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
In fact it hasn't.
Speaker 8 (23:26):
If anything, it's been helped a little bit. Take a
look here the shift in net popularity versus pre shutdown
among the g When we're looking at the Republican Party overall,
that brand actually up two points. That's within the margin verraa.
But clearly it hasn't dropped. Come over this side of
the screen. Look at the net approval ratings for Republicans
in Congress it's actually up five.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
Points since pre shutdown. So what we're seeing.
Speaker 8 (23:46):
Here is the Republican brand in Congress has actually improved
somewhat compared to where we were pre shutdown, despite the
fact the Republicans control. And that's the mat that John
Thune and Mike Johnson are looking at, is Hey, why
should we give an electorally speaking when our brand has
actually improved a little bit?
Speaker 7 (24:02):
Now we say their position is getting better with whom.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Yeah, okay, with whom?
Speaker 8 (24:06):
So I think it's two groups that it's so important
to keep them an eye out on. All right, change
in the Republican Congresses and net approval rating versus pre shutdown.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
It's rallying the base for sure.
Speaker 8 (24:15):
Look at this, the net approval rating up twelve points
versus pre shutdown. But it's not just with the base,
it's also with the middle of the electorate. Look at
this among independents it's up eight points as well. So
we've got a situation here where Republicans with this shutdown
are actually rallying their base. But it's also something that's
not hurting them with the folks in the middle of anything.
It's helping them with folks in the mill And this
is the type of math that if you're Republicans you
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like to see, right, because something could rally the base
but alienate those in the middle, or something could rally
those in the middle but alienate the base.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
But the truth is we're not seeing that.
Speaker 8 (24:45):
What we're seeing is the Republican brand has actually gotten
better among independents, and it's also gotten better among Republicans
as well, that Republican brand when it comes to those
in Congress. So again, what's the electoral reason that Republicans
were given at this point in Democrats?
Speaker 7 (24:59):
Of course, they have their eyes on the midterm elections. Yeah,
we have elections one week from today, but what Democrats
in Congress are mostly focused on or one year in
one week from today from the midterms. So how do
Democrats how are they positioned right now?
Speaker 3 (25:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (25:12):
So, I mean, look the general congressional ballot, which traditionally
Democrats have done really well on. And if you look
at this point back when Trump was present the first
time around, Democrats are up eleven points.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
Look at where it is now.
Speaker 8 (25:21):
Democrats are head but they're actually only up three points.
This is, in fact, the worst position Democrats have been
on in a generic ballot at this point in midterm
when there was a Republican president in the last twenty years,
And this is no different from pre shutdown. So Republicans
aren't losing on this metric either. They become more popular
and they're actually in a pretty good position for them
historically when it comes to the generic congressional ballot.
Speaker 7 (25:41):
This is a concerning number for Democrats, if you're saying, this.
Speaker 8 (25:43):
Is a concerning number for Democrats because it's considerably worse
than they traditionally do in midterm elections when there's a
Republican president.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Now, if Democrats were sane, they would hear these numbers
from CNN and say, Okay, it's time to end the shutdown.
It's not going in our face. But you have to
understand that they want this shutdown to hurt They want
small businesses to be destroyed. In fact, Small Business Administrator
Kelly Lefler just said this on Fox Business with Larry
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Kavlow about what the intended effects of the government shutdown
for the Democrats may actually be, and it's to put
you out of business.
Speaker 9 (26:21):
Straight, you're here to tell me, I think that the
shutdowns killing small business. But Pardoner, this whole show is
very bullished. The stock market is booming, the economy is
growing close to four percent. How bad can it be
for small business? I mean the shutdown thing, you know whatever,
We should be pulling the trigger on those two point
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zero and reduced spending. But really, you intind small business
is really hurting now.
Speaker 10 (26:47):
Well, look, Larry, prior to this shutdown. As of September,
small business confidence hit a seven year high. Not since
President Trump's first term had small business felt so confident
in the economy. And that's all things to President Trump's
economic agenda, which by the way, is a supply side
agenda that I know you support. It's free and fair trade,
it's low taxes, it's deregulation, it's access to capital. And
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because of their confidence in twenty twenty five, the fiscal
year we just wrapped up twenty seven days ago, the
SBA broke through a seventy two year lending record, surpassing
forty five billion to eighty five thousand small businesses across
this country because they believe in President Trump's economic agenda
of drill baby drill, making sure that we have the
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supply chains we need in restoring American manufacturing they were
quite bullish heading into this shutdown. But look, this shutdown
is having the intended effect by the Democrats. They want
to hurt Main Street and that's what they're trying to
do right now.
Speaker 9 (27:43):
Well, you make a the National Federation of the Independent
Business Survey, that may be what you're talking about. It
did drop. I mean it was one hundred point eight
in August. The last reading is ninety eight point eight
in September. Year ago was only ninety one point five.
But really, I mean with all the things in the
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one big beautiful bill, and you're seeing a fabulous stock market.
Now these are small businesses, they're not necessarily publicly owned businesses,
but I you know, I think the future is very,
very bright. You have tremendous tax incentives in that bill.
Kelly Leffler, I mean, I want to shut down the
end two and I think the Democrats are all wrong,
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and we're going to make fun of it in the
next segment. But the fact of the matter is the
ecomomy's booming and the stock market is telling us that,
and I you know, I want you to You've been
growing at four percent, three point nine percent in the
second and third quarters of going into the Atlanta FED.
That's pretty good, don't you think.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
You listen to Kudler there and what he's saying, as
the government shut down drags into a month and it
could go to the longest shutdown in history, and yes,
the government shutdown is having the intended effects by Democrats.
They want to shut down and hurt small business owners.
They want you to not be able to pay for
food if you're on food stamps.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
They want you to suffer.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
So that then maybe you'll decide that somehow this shutdown,
which is clearly the Democrat's fault and their plan, will
then somehow turn to you blaming the Republicans for it.
That is the key here for them. This is what
they want to happen. They want you to just get
so angry that you finally just say to Republicans, all right,
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screw it. Give the hostages the Democratic Party what they
demand so that I get whatever relief I want right now.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
Now.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
One other thing about this government shutdown that I also
think is an important point to make. The Republicans seem
to be doing a much better job of explaining this shutdown,
why it's happening, and who's behind it than they have
done in the past. They seem to be much more
focused on explaining it, and the Erican people seem to
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understand it now better than they ever have before. A
lot of this goes back to what's happening this country.
On another issue, law and order, the Republican Party has
an incredible job explaining why law and order is important,
why we should make sure that the men and women
who are in this country illegally should be found and deported,
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and how many criminal aliens there are. This subject right
now is literally no different than that. This subject is
the same thing. You have a Democratic party that is
holding Americans hostage because they lost their power, and when
they lost their power, they decided this was the game
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plan it is to hurt Americans and try to make
you just beg for some sort of relief, even if
that means a terrible deal overall for the future of
this country and the American people, Which bring us to
looking forward, how long will the shutdown last? Honestly, when
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you're dealing with these types of people that are holding
you hostage, there's no way to tell, there's no way
to know, there's no way to know what they're going
to do next. And if they're going to listen to you.
The one thing I can tell you is it's time
to start getting on the phone, calling your congressman, calling
your senators and explaining to them, if they're Republicans, you
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stand with them, and if they're Democrats voting against reopening
the government, that you're going to hold them accountable in
the future. I do think the American people are understanding
one thing right now. The Democratic Party is not listening
to the American voters at all, and when they don't
get their way, their goal and objective is to go
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rogue because they don't respect the laws or the will
of the American people.
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