August 18, 2025 • 36 mins
President Trump takes over the nation's capital, Democrats melt down over Texas redistricting, and Tulsi Gabbard says the truth is out there.... Its also in this week's "did they really just say that" clips.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
President Trump takes over the nation's capital, Democrats melt down
over Texas redistricting, and Telsey Gabbard says the truth is
out there. It's also in this week's Did they really
just say that? Clips? I'm Nancy Shack, I'm Ben Parker.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
This is Newspie.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
We don't await the punch thrown by these would be
fascist to land. We punch first, and we punch harder.
There are no reps in this game, the rules. We
are going to win whatever it so.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Do you believe that they could be aliens?
Speaker 4 (01:03):
I honestly like my personal belief I have my own
views and opinions. In this role, I gotta be careful
with what I share.
Speaker 5 (01:16):
I believe there's aliens.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
I'm suspicious that Tulsi Gabbard thinks the same that you
do that with you who did not recognize her voice?
That was NSA National security advisor or former Hawaii Congresswoman
Telsa Gabbard By.
Speaker 5 (01:31):
The way, I don't know. I don't think there's aliens here, although.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Sometimes she's not saying they're here either.
Speaker 5 (01:37):
Yeah, sometimes you know, when you look at Congress, sometimes
you think they're here. But no, I mean it's a
big universe. There's got to be something out there.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Well, you know. In this particular case, this was during
a podcast and she was asked if she believes in
aliens and if she can reveal anything, and she says nothing.
She wants to talk about today Cut twenty eight.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Thing that I'm prepared to talk about today.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
So watch this space? Say what, watch this space?
Speaker 4 (02:09):
We are continued. I'm just going to say this. Yeah,
we're continuing to look for the truth and share that
truth with the American people.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Okay, But meanwhile, the interviewer there on the podcast, obviously Australian,
pushed all a little bit harder. Cut twenty nine. So
do you believe that they could be.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
I honestly like my personal belief I have my own
views and opinions. In this role, I gotta be careful
with what I share. Very interesting, and I laughed. My
husband's laughing in the corner because we have these same conversations.
And obviously I don't share any classified information outside of
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my building with those who have clearances. But it's it's
this is this is fun that he's here to watch this.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Or I guess he's that's the same question. This all
arises in case people have not been cognizant of a
story that's that's been out there in the major newspapers.
By the way, this is not this is not fringe
element stuff. There is an object coming toward the planet Earth.
And everybody's saying, oh, it's a meteor or an asteroid
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or a meteorite or a comet something. They don't think
it's a comic because there's no tail. But it has
changed course, it has made turns, which makes some people,
including scientists at Harvard University, say it looks like it's
under power, that something is guiding it as opposed to
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just going through space. So that has of course percolated
the question again, are we alone? And is something coming
toward us?
Speaker 5 (03:56):
By the way, now, of course there are plenty of
podcast out there that do talk about stuff like this,
but this would almost be an entire show for us
if we wanted to delve into are we alone?
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Yeah, you know, as I said, I believe, and we
used that, I don't think we're alone in creation, but
I don't if.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
They're here either, So yeah, and I don't even know
if they've visited here. Look, I don't there's a lot
of things. I don't know. Ask anyone, they'll tell you.
Speaker 6 (04:21):
But I do.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
I believe that somewhere, somewhere, out there, somewhere out there,
in that big, vast universe of ours, there's life, Yes
I do. I mean it probably doesn't look like us,
thank god, But I think there's life somewhere. I mean,
life can't just evolve one place in such a huge
fricking place over billions of years. I don't think.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
No, I agree with that. I don't think we're alone either,
But you know, do I think that what's coming at
us is a spaceship or something under control by something else.
I don't know. I'll be honest with you, because the
thing that's got everybody in a tither about it is
that it has made course corrections, and that doesn't usually
happen in nature. So that's that's what the what, That's
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what the big that's what the big deal is. But
we will all find out eventually by the way it
gets near here.
Speaker 5 (05:07):
By the way, if it is an alien craft, uh,
and it's making course corrections, it's probably because it noticed
what's on this planet and they want to get away
from it.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Unfortunately, it's still coming, in coming toward us towards you know,
I don't know. We'll find out when they get there.
It makes me suspicious. Do you ever see the the
Twilight Zone To Serve Man?
Speaker 5 (05:28):
I've seen the Twilight Zone. I've seen a lot of episodes.
I don't know if I talked that one.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
There's a stars an actor by the name of Lloyd
Backner and it and these I think they're called Catamites.
I think that's the name. They come down and they're
big critters, big creatures. Uh. And they they get rid
of famine, and they get rid of illness on the
on the planet, and they have a book with them
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and the title of the book is to Serve Man
and so and then they bring people back with them
to their planet, which is a paradise, and they're all excited.
And Lloyd Backner is one of the lead scientists, code breakers,
and he gets he's going for his ride to do
the planet when somebody, one of his people from his office,
she breaks through the crowd and goes, don't get on
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the ship. He's like, why, to Serve Man is a cookbook.
So it's like, okay, well there you go dinner, Yes, indeed,
and not that I'm intimitting that whatever's out there is
coming to hurt us. I have no idea. My guess
is it's a meteor, but you don't know. But talking
about course corrections, Texas says it's congressional representation is skewed
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and to not represent the voting public or not represent
the citizenship, and they want to fix it. So they
have proposed redistricting. Actually, at this point in time, they
have voted for redistricting. I mean they're going to redraw
the congressional district lines to more accurately reflect the voters
are this ship. That's that's the legislature's story, and they're
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sticking to it. Meanwhile, the Democratic members of the legislature
are extremely upset by this because in this redistricting, the
Democrat Party loses five five representatives. It will look right theoretically,
that's exactly right.
Speaker 5 (07:17):
I still stand by Hey, the people still vote.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
With exactly right, so we'll see. So that's that's the deal.
So the Democrats ran away, the Democrat members of the
or the crazy Democrats and the legislature ran away, and
they they were paid. Here here's the thing. Beata O'Rourke,
who is a failed Senate candidate. He tried to oust
Ted Cruz, and he's a bit of a you know,
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loudmouth to be brutally honest with you, and he's kind
of reminds me of Stacy Abrams and that he is
a failed politician but crazed the limelight and the money
that comes in with a live light. And so he
has a pack, and that pack actually paid the costs
for these Democrats to run away away from their statutory obligation,
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their Texas constitutional obligation to stay and vote on the redistricting.
And they're now considering criminal charges because that would be
bribery against better Arouric. And so he's out there just
pontificating and screaming and shouting and trying to be as
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loud as he possibly can as to why he did
this cut number fourteen.
Speaker 5 (08:32):
They're not going to.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Let him stop us. Are you with me on that handle.
It also means, as Mark was saying earlier, we don't
await the punch throne by these would be fascist to land.
We punch first, and we punch harder. We want California
in New Jersey and Illinois and Maryland and every other
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state where the Democrats hold the governor's mansion and the
state Senate to redraw their congressional districts. Now not wait
for Texas to move first to maximize Democratic party advantage. Listen,
you may say to yourself, well, those aren't the rules.
There are no refs in this game.
Speaker 5 (09:15):
The rules.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
We are gonna win whatever it takes. We're gonna take
this to them in every way that we can.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
You know, here's the thing. There are rules, and they're
called state laws, and he broke them, and so they
are now contemplating criminal charges. Somebody wants to bring criminal
charges in regard to a political fight, But when you
break the law, that's kind of what happens. And not
only that he is putting out there, what would happen
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if he got his way cut number fifteen.
Speaker 5 (09:47):
Check this out.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
You know, Democrats present company excluded, have talked an awful
good game on immigration for as long as I have
been listening. You know, if you just keep voting for
us once we get in power intensive immigration reform. Well,
we won power in two thousand and eight, the White House,
the House, and the Senate. We won power in twenty
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twenty the White House, the House, and the Senate. The
American people were watching because we had promised them what
we would do with that power, and we absolutely failed
to live up to the expectation that we set. So
next time we win power, we're gonna drive that car
like we stole it. We're gonna legalize every Dreamer, every
dreamer's parents, every hard working American doing backbreaking work that
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makes this country so goddamn great in the first place,
even greater as US citizens.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Can I point out by the way that every American
those people are already citizens. But in any event, this
is the kind of rabble rousing. You know, the laws
doesn't apply to me, they applied to other people. And
since you admit that you were in power in two
thousand and eight, completely had across the board in twenty
twenty and you didn't do anything, what makes anybody think
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you're gonna do something now? And maybe this promulgation that
you put out there that you know you're going to
drive the legislature or the Congress like it's a stolen
car doesn't appeal to most Americans, which is why you're
no longer in power. Just going to put that out there.
Speaker 5 (11:17):
By the way, I mean what Betos said, it is
true that they promised things they didn't do them. We
know that, right, I mean, we've seen that movie several times.
You know, here's what he does. Perhaps he doesn't get
that the American people, the voting public, say what you
will about them. Uh, it is kind of a fool
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me one, shame on you, fool me twice and three
times and four times, and then shame on me. Looks, listen,
they've seen this movie. They know how it ends. They've
stopped going to this movie, which is the movie of
voting for the Democrats in power. Look, it probably will
swing again some way, somehow, somewhere some why. But yeah,
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while I don't think right, so they the head scratcher
for the Democrats is well, why don't they like us? Well,
because that's.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Why you just heard it, right, you just heard why
they don't like him, because because you continue.
Speaker 5 (12:11):
First of all, this is the thing too, It's not
that they the Democrats, are just shooting themselves in the foot,
like you could say, oh, they shot themselves in the foot.
They're they're literally, all right, figuratively shooting America in the foot.
They're not just shooting themselves in the foot. And they
don't get that they don't understand why a lot of
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the American people are are are ticked off. And by
the way, the fact that they don't like the Democrats
is one thing. It's not like the whole country is
gaga over the Republicans either. They just don't like them
as little as they like you.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
And theyke them a little bit more than the Dems, right, And.
Speaker 5 (12:53):
The Democrats don't know how to fix themselves because they
don't have a mirror.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
No exact, that's that's a good way to put it.
They don't have a mirror, and they've gone freaking crazy. Literally,
I can see people's eyes spinning around. It's kind of
like or or they're rolling around the room like the
Tasmanian Devil. It's amazing here we have Texas deciding on
what Texans are going to do and elected representatives of Texans.
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Yet yet we have blue state governors, democratic governors trying
to get involved in telling Texas what to do and
are fit to be tied. And in this particular case,
here's some other examples. We have Governor Gavin Newsom. He
is at a presser, he's bull bleep that Texas wants
to redistrict. So he says, well, we'll show you we're
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going to nullify that because we're going to do the
same thing cut ten.
Speaker 6 (13:42):
We are moving forward. Make no mistake, California's moving forward
is a state that's larger than twenty one state populations
come by. We are not a small, isolated state state
larger than twenty one populations combined. We tried to play
by a higher set of standards and rules with our
independent redistrict team, and we believe in that. And we
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are not talking about eliminating that commission. We are talking
about emergency measures to respond to what's happening in Texas,
and we will nullify what happens in Texas. We will
pick up five seats with the consent of the people.
And that's the difference between the approach we're taking and
the approach they're taking. We're doing it in a temporary basis,
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we're doing it in a fully transparent way, and we're
doing it by asking the people of the state of
California for their consent and support.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
So, by the way, did Texas Texas asked for the
for the permission of the and they got it. And
knowing that, can you call this anything but transparent? In Texas.
We all know about it. Everybody knows about it, so
it's not exift like it's a midnight you know, vote
somewhere and nobody knows what's going on. Everything that Governor
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Gavin Newsom said he was going to do, the Texans
have done. They did exactly that, except that Newsom is
saying he's going to violate the commission that he put
into place to stop Jerrymander.
Speaker 5 (15:08):
And then he's supposedly back down a little bit on
this with a letter to well, well we'll see. I mean,
time will tell, but he isn't the only one. By
the way. Here's the other thing. And I'm no expert
on congressional districts across the United States. However, if you
just look at how some of these districts are set up,
and you look how they're shaped, I mean, shape doesn't
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always tell the history. But I's got this weird horseshoe
shaped one.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Illinois has one that's shaped like a squid. So it's like,
I mean, so Illinois, who and Governor Pritzker is one
of those people out there going you can get redistrict.
It has the most gerrymandered state in the Union. Basically
on top of it. We haven't even gotten to Kathy Hokel,
Governor Hochel of New York, who calls this the hypocrisy
of the Republicans cut thirteen.
Speaker 7 (15:51):
You know obviously that those maps they came about the
last time for redistricting were caught up in a lot
of court battles there in New York. Here's how National
Reviews summarized it. They it was only three years ago
that New York's Democratic legislature drew up the map so
brazenly contemptuous of basic rules the govern a district's contiguousness
that the state's Democrat dominated Court of Appeals threw it out.
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The New York Times at the time called those maps
comically contorted.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
That's their quote.
Speaker 7 (16:16):
So your state's highest court at the time, all the
judges appointed by democratic governors, they threw the maps out.
So fair to say Democrats have done what they're now
accusing Republicans of doing.
Speaker 8 (16:27):
No, we followed the rules. We do it every ten years.
We based it on said you didn't follow the rules. Well,
we did follow the rules. So the court was wrong,
but we followed the rules. And I want to call
out the hypocrisy of the Republicans who are now whining
about the fact that we're doing something in New York.
Where was the outrage when Donald Trump told Texas to
just go find just go find five seats for him.
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Come on, people aren't.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Going to buy this. Please, she can't. So the Court's
why she won't answer it. Why because the court wasn't
wrong New York Jerry marn did in the middle of
an election in the last election. They just I didn't
wait ten years, they didn't follow the rules. And she
is the nerve to call Republicans hif a critical I mean,
this is what they've been doing. And then if none
of that works for you, if the Democrats say, if
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you don't believe you know, any of their other lion
statements that they've made. Here's here's the last thing. You
know what it is. It's racist. Redistricting is racist. Here
is Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett of Texas cut twenty five.
Speaker 6 (17:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (17:26):
So here's my attitude. We may lose the battle, but
we will absolutely win this war. That is what I'm
saying right now. When it comes to our base, they
want to see a fight, they don't want to see
us just lay down and say, okay, well, the Republicans
want to do whatever they want to do. They want
to minimize voices, they want to systemically get rid of
those black electors. Because when I look at the numbers,
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and to be clear, Florida is already in this thing.
We know that Texas is in this thing. We know
that they're putting pressure on Indiana as well as Missouri.
So here's the deal. They have already decided that the
only way that they can win because they have failed policies,
is by making sure that they can cheat their way.
And while they're cheating their way, the only way that
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they can do that is while they also at the
same time violate the Constitution as well as the Voting
Rights Act and make sure that it's people of color.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
There you go, There you go. Racism by the way,
I don't like it, so it's gonna be racism.
Speaker 5 (18:25):
Okay, there is racism period, but but but.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Not in this This is not racist.
Speaker 5 (18:29):
Right. What I'm saying is there's racism. But you can't
just always throw that card down because it fits some
weird narrative you picked.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Well, you know why she's passed because with the Texas redistricting,
she loses her seat. But you know, none of this
is a violation of a constitution. None is a violation
of anything. The Dems just don't like it again because
they have done it and skewed the skewed the districts
in their favor, and they're really upset that they're getting
skewed back again to.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
Maybe she loses her seat. And I'm gonna say maybe,
because again there's been no vote.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
Yet it has and it passed.
Speaker 5 (19:06):
No, no, no, no. What I'm saying is she can
run for office, she can run for Congress. If she's
worried about losing her seat, maybe she should worry more
about serving all of the people of Texas so they
vote for her instead of this little sliver that that
she's been able to get into. So that's my point.
It's not that, look, will she lose her seat, maybe, probably, whatever,
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But look, if you're a good politician, and by the way,
we have seen over the years, well, people on the
blue win a red area. People in the red win
a blue area because because they're good, or they're effective,
or there's nobody running against them, whatever the case may be.
So if Jasmine Crockett's worried about not being a congress
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person because of any redistrict thing or whatever. That be
a better congress person and everybody will want you to
be their congress person. I don't know, it almost seems
like that makes sense, and maybe that's the wrong approach,
you know.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
I find it very reasonable, rationalbal well thought out, and
so therefore my guess is it's not going to fly,
because that's, you know, the rational way to look at it.
But she's she's going to now in her district if
she were to run again. The problem is she's not
going to have a district to run in that is
one hundred percent Democrat, which is what she was looking for,
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because you know, the Conservatives and Texas are going, what
the hell and are not going to elect her. So
my guess is that's what she's afraid of. But that's me. No,
I don't know, maybe maybe not. Meanwhile, you know, while
the while the Democrat Texan Democrats went home and then
got their leep, you know, their asses collective asses kicked
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and by the legislature, who then voted to pass the redistricting. Meanwhile,
back at the ranch otherwise known as Washington, d C,
the US capital, this was happening cut one bee.
Speaker 10 (20:58):
We're here for a very serious purpose, very serious purpose.
Something's out of control, but we're going to put it
in control very quickly, like we did on the southern border.
I'm announcing a historic action to rescue our nation's capital
from crime, bloodshed, bedlam, and squalor and worse. This is
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Liberation Day in DC, and we're going to take our
capital back. We're taking it back under the authorities vested
in me as the President of the United States. I'm
officially invoking Section seventy forty of the District of Columbia
Home Rule Act, you know what that is, and placing
the DC Metropolitan Police Department under direct federal control. And
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you'll be meeting the people that will be directly involved
with that.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
So President Trump has basically federalized law enforcement in Washington,
d C. And you must ask yourselves, I think really
that bad in DC? Well, DCUs attorney former judge Janine
Piro says, you bet. Cut fifteen B.
Speaker 11 (22:04):
I see too much violent crime being committed by young
punks who think that they can get together in gangs
and crews and beat the hell out of you or
anyone else. They don't care where they are they can
be in DuPont circle, but they know that we can't
touch them. Why because the laws are weak. I can't
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touch you. If you're fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen years old
and you have a gun. I convict someone of shooting
another person with an illegal gun on a public bus
in the chest, intent to kill. I convict him, and
you know what, the judge gives him probation, says you
should go to college.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Yeah, that's pretty disgusting. And here's the thing that Judge
Janine says, it's not just the gangs, it's actually the
DC Council as well. Cut fifteen A.
Speaker 11 (22:57):
We need to go after the DC Council and their
absurd laws. We need to get rid of this concept
of you know, a no cash fail. We need to
recognize that the people who matter are the law abiding citizens.
And it starts today.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
So here's the thing. The Democrat's response to law and
order in DC is what crime are you talking about?
This is Washington, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser seventeen A.
Speaker 12 (23:26):
My message to residents is this, we know that access
to our democracy is tenuous. That is why you have
heard me and many many Washingtonians before me, advocate for
full statehood for the District of Columbia. And while this
action today is unsettlingly and unprecedented, I can't say that
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given some of the rhetoric of the past that were
totally surprised.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Yeah, so she's saying, no, no, crime is down, don't
worry about it. But is crime down? Is that just
bull bleep? Here is Kira Phillips. She is in fact
an ABC anchor, and she's pushing back on this mantra
that the Dems are saying there's no crime in DC.
And she, by the way, works for ABC, which is
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a very liberal network, very supportive of the Democratic Party.
And listen to what she had to say cut twenty
two A.
Speaker 13 (24:24):
We've been talking so much about the numbers, and yeah,
usually that's how you play Devil's advocate as you talk about, oh, well,
stat's say crime is down. However, I can tell you
firsthand here in downtown d C where we work, right
here around our.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
Bureau, just in the past six.
Speaker 13 (24:39):
Months, you know, there were two people shot. One person
died literally two blocks down here from the bureau. It
was within the last two years that I actually was
jumped walking just two blocks down from here, and then
just this morning, one of my co workers said her
car was stolen a block away from the bureau. So
we can talk about the numbers going down, but crime
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is happening every single day because we're all experiencing it
firsthand while working and living down here.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Now, here's the thing. The statistics that Muriel Bowser put
out there, and one of the things that Kyra Phillips
there was calling into questioner are they true? Here's the
dirty secret that's happening down there. And by the way,
I want to point out that the chief of police,
not the current one, but the one before the Commissioner
of Police has been was suspended for fudging on crime statistics.
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Here's the thing about what's happening down there on and
this comes directly from officers who are on the scenes
of crimes. They go down, there's a felony been committed.
Within minutes, somebody from the main precinct comes back down
and says, I downgrade it when you charge it, So
that they are literally deliberately downgrading the charges outside of felonies.
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Why because the felonies, the stuff that's below felony are
not reported. It's only the felonies that are reported. That
is how they make the statistics look like they're going
down when they're not.
Speaker 5 (26:04):
So if you're standing on the street corner and you're
in a gang, let's say, and you one of your opponents,
one of your ambis, comes by and you shoot them.
Instead of charging you with the shooting, they charge you
with loitering, or they.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Charge you with with something like manslaughter something that's not
you know, or the or you know what that would be.
That would probably be unintended discharge of or discharge of
a firearm in public.
Speaker 5 (26:28):
That what that would disturbing the piece.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Yeah, so, I mean that's what they're doing. So now
you have these these numb nuts protesters who are like, no, no,
DC is safe. DC is safe, and they're out there
singing cut seventeen b.
Speaker 4 (26:49):
D in time.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Okay, so DC is our home. You can't have a trump,
so get out. So that this was being done just
so that you know, beautiful bright summer August afternoon. Beautiful.
Do you know what happened two blocks from there when
during this protest, during this protest, the guy was shot
and killed on the street two blocks from there.
Speaker 5 (27:25):
I thought had a picnic.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Yeah, two blocks from there two blocks to me, and
if the crime doesn't, if you, if you, if you
don't feel that the that the incipient crime is enough
to have the law enforcement federalized in d C. James
Clyburn has another reason why you can't have the DC
police take over in the National Guard deployment. And can
you guess what it is? Can you guess what his
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argument is? I can guess, Yeah, it's yes, you you
all could guess it. It's racist. Cut nineteen A.
Speaker 9 (27:56):
As a student of history, as someone who is living
this right now, draw a line for us between what
we are.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Watching happening in Washington, d C.
Speaker 7 (28:05):
With the President of the United States, and what we
are watching unfold in South Carolina, in Missouri, in Texas.
Speaker 14 (28:11):
You may recall at the Democratic Invention, I spoke one
evening and I said, the Project twenty twenty five is
Jim Crow two point zero. Now, Jim Crow one point
oh came out of a thesis written by a Confederate General.
Speaker 5 (28:28):
Martin Garrett.
Speaker 14 (28:29):
If you look at my project twenty twenty five, look
at that eighteen seventy six document, you will see why
I said what I did at the Democratic Invention, Because
whoever wrote Project twenty twenty five. They used those eatings
out of eighteen seventy six. I can tell you right
now exactly what is going to happen in so many
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of these instances, because it's.
Speaker 5 (28:55):
All read there.
Speaker 14 (28:56):
If you look in the history books, you see it.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Jim Crow, Jim Crow two point zero.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Basically is what are you saying?
Speaker 5 (29:04):
I mean, there's no question that there are a lot
of African Americans, colored people of the blacks in Washington,
d C.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
And they're getting killed too, and.
Speaker 5 (29:11):
They're getting killed, and there's a lot of crime in Washington,
d C. Which is look crime should be and justice
is supposed to be blind, right, it shouldn't matter. Look,
if it's black people, white people shooting white people, black people,
green people, orange people, the ones who are coming in
from out of space, whatever, it's all wrong. So it
just so happened. If it just so happens that you've
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got black people shooting black people, that's bad. If it's
black people shooting white people or white people shooting black
the color shouldn't matter. Why do we have to do
because we.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
Have no other argument against this, So that's why we
leave there. But you know what President Trump's responds to
all of these people who are screaming racism and fascism,
and there is no crime. Cut number one A.
Speaker 10 (29:54):
In addition, I'm deploying the National Guard to help re
establish law order a public safety in Washington, d C.
And they're going to be allowed to do their job properly.
And you people are victims of it too. You know
your reporters, and I understand a lot of you tend
to be on the liberal side, but you don't want
to get You don't want to get mugged and raped
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and shot and killed. And you all know people and
friends of yours that happened, and so you can be
any anything you want, but you want to have safety
in the streets. You want to be able to leave
your apartment or your house where you live and feel
safe and go into a store to buy a newspaper
or buy something.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
And you don't have that now you don't. But here's
what really is freaking people out, because when he's through
with DC, he may not stop there cut for.
Speaker 10 (30:46):
A But then I'm going to look at New York
in a little while. Let's do this, Let's do this together.
Let's see it's going to go pretty quickly, and if
we need to, we're going to do the same thing
in Chicago, which is a disaster. We have a mayor
there who's totally incompetent. He's an incompetent man, and we
have an incompetent governor there. Pritzkers an incompetent. His family
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threw him out of the business and he ran for governor.
And now I understand he wants to be president, but
I noticed he lost a little Wait, so maybe he
has a chance. You know, you never know what happens.
But Pritsker is a gross incompetent guy, thrown out of
the family business. But when I look at Chicago and
(31:29):
I look at La, if we didn't go to La
three months ago, La would be burning like the part
that didn't burn.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Yeah, yeah, basically. So I think that's what really has
him scared, is this could be coming to a city
near you. I you know, I'm doing a talk show
this morning asking people if they would like the National
Guard to come to a sitting near them. A lot
of them wouldn't mind it, especially those who lived in Illinois.
Speaker 5 (31:53):
Well, I'll add to both ways. I wouldn't mind it
if obviously, if it was needed, But I would prefer
that my city was nice enough that we didn't have
to have the National Guard come. So yes, I would
like them to come, but not just like.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
Not a phrase we're nice, but aren't anymore because democratic
policies like the no cash bail and so forth have
in fact caused a degrading of basically standard of living.
Speaker 5 (32:20):
By the way, given the way some of these cities
and states and areas are going, we're going to need
a heavy recruit for National Guard members because we're not
gonna have enough Guard members to guard the forrtually.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Fortunately, ben recruitment is at an all time high for
the military and the National Guard, So that's that's the
bright side.
Speaker 5 (32:39):
For maybe maybe maybe maybe we're doing it wrong. Maybe
instead of instead of putting a fence up at the
southern border, we should just put a fence around all
these cities. Oh boy, people are going to be mad
about that. But seriously, I mean, there are some places
where you're like, listen.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
You want to cross a border to get to work
every day, because that's what you're talking about.
Speaker 5 (32:56):
We don't want to know the Berlin well didn't work.
I listen. Here's the thing. It's some of these places,
and I don't want to pick up. And sometimes it's
not the whole city, it's just a part of the
city or a neighborhood or whatever it is, right, But
you don't want to go in because it's dangerous, and
you don't want the people in there coming out because
they're dangerous. And this is a problem. But this is
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first of all, we need police and obviously the National
Garden whoever's taking care of that stuff. But for God's sake,
let uncle Ben here talk to you for a second.
It's individual responsibility. People in this country, the criminals especially obviously,
have to take responsibility for themselves. You don't get carte
blanche to just walk down the street and shoot people,
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rob stores, steal crap, run away with somebody else's car.
This is a responsibility and a good person thing, and
unfortunately we don't have enough good people. We need more
people to be good. This would all be solved if
all the bad people said, you know what, I'm gonna
act like an actual human being that's kind and gentle
and nice and whatever. And you don't have to be
nice to everybody. Some people deserve to be yelled at,
(34:00):
but it's personal responsibility. We've let everybody be like, oh,
Bobby wants to rob a store, Go ahead, Bobby, good
for you. At least you have some ambition. And then
he robs the store and they go, let's not put
him in jail because he won't learn anything doing that.
Put it back on the street. This is the problem
is we have too many people in this country who
are ass hats.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
Okay, I think that's an accurate description in the country. Yeah,
I like that.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
I like that a lot.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
We end every week with a truth or troll. This
week is no different. And as you know, ninety percent
of our truth or troll are the troller in chief,
Donald Trump, and this week is no different. In this
particular case, President Trump is in the Oval Office, and
if you haven't heard, he's building a big, beautiful ballroom
for the White House so they can stop putting tents
(34:46):
out on the lawn even in the winter when they
want to throw a big party. So I think that's
and he's paying for it, so I God bless him.
But the press had a question for him, cut number nine.
Speaker 5 (34:58):
Please, you're building betiful ballroom?
Speaker 14 (35:01):
Could we build a big, beautiful briefing room.
Speaker 5 (35:06):
I don't want to do. I don't want you to
be comfortable.
Speaker 10 (35:15):
Now, I don't want to make I don't want to
make life comfortable.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
Okay, I was gonna say, telling the truth or is
he just poking the press. I think you're absolutely right.
I think in this case, he really doesn't want them
to be comfortable. He wants he wants to make them
as uncomfortable as possible, because, let's face it, they have
made him pretty uncomfortable in the past four years.
Speaker 5 (35:33):
And by the way, as a as a member of
the press and one who has covered events not with
the president but with governors and other soul people. Look,
a lot of these briefing rooms sometimes are just a
haphazard places. You're a presser, right.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
So you're lucky to be out of the rain.
Speaker 5 (35:48):
Look, yeah, if you make it comfortable for for us reporters,
we're going to settle in and hang in there for hours.
If it's uncomfortable, we ask our questions, we get the
hell out because it's more comfortable in our car or
wherever the hell we're going. So I think it's truth,
first of all, because of his relationship with the press,
but also because he made very well know, Hey, if
(36:09):
I make it too comfortable for them. You're never going
to leave. So let's make as a matter of fact,
we're gonna make it worse. We're taking out all the
chairs and you have to stand on a cement on
one foot with all Yeah, so exactly, all.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
Press briefings will now be in alligator alcoatraz Yes see
that's that's you know. I can, I can understand it.
Don't want to do it, but I can completely and utterly.
Speaker 5 (36:30):
And so absolute truth.
Speaker 1 (36:32):
So let us know if you think he's telling the
truth or just just trolling the press. You can contact
Ben and I at on x at news Bye three
or on Facebook at news Bite. We upload a new
episode every single Monday, so please check back next week
and see what new offerings we have. Meanwhile, have a
great week. I'm Nancy Shack.
Speaker 5 (36:50):
Have any kind of week you one. I'm Ben Parker.
Speaker 2 (36:52):
This is news Bite
President Trump takes over the nation's capital, Democrats melt down
over Texas redistricting, and Telsey Gabbard says the truth is
out there. It's also in this week's Did they really
just say that? Clips? I'm Nancy Shack, I'm Ben Parker.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
This is Newspie.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
We don't await the punch thrown by these would be
fascist to land. We punch first, and we punch harder.
There are no reps in this game, the rules. We
are going to win whatever it so.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Do you believe that they could be aliens?
Speaker 4 (01:03):
I honestly like my personal belief I have my own
views and opinions. In this role, I gotta be careful
with what I share.
Speaker 5 (01:16):
I believe there's aliens.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
I'm suspicious that Tulsi Gabbard thinks the same that you
do that with you who did not recognize her voice?
That was NSA National security advisor or former Hawaii Congresswoman
Telsa Gabbard By.
Speaker 5 (01:31):
The way, I don't know. I don't think there's aliens here, although.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Sometimes she's not saying they're here either.
Speaker 5 (01:37):
Yeah, sometimes you know, when you look at Congress, sometimes
you think they're here. But no, I mean it's a
big universe. There's got to be something out there.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Well, you know. In this particular case, this was during
a podcast and she was asked if she believes in
aliens and if she can reveal anything, and she says nothing.
She wants to talk about today Cut twenty eight.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Thing that I'm prepared to talk about today.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
So watch this space? Say what, watch this space?
Speaker 4 (02:09):
We are continued. I'm just going to say this. Yeah,
we're continuing to look for the truth and share that
truth with the American people.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Okay, But meanwhile, the interviewer there on the podcast, obviously Australian,
pushed all a little bit harder. Cut twenty nine. So
do you believe that they could be.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
I honestly like my personal belief I have my own
views and opinions. In this role, I gotta be careful
with what I share. Very interesting, and I laughed. My
husband's laughing in the corner because we have these same conversations.
And obviously I don't share any classified information outside of
(02:57):
my building with those who have clearances. But it's it's
this is this is fun that he's here to watch this.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Or I guess he's that's the same question. This all
arises in case people have not been cognizant of a
story that's that's been out there in the major newspapers.
By the way, this is not this is not fringe
element stuff. There is an object coming toward the planet Earth.
And everybody's saying, oh, it's a meteor or an asteroid
(03:24):
or a meteorite or a comet something. They don't think
it's a comic because there's no tail. But it has
changed course, it has made turns, which makes some people,
including scientists at Harvard University, say it looks like it's
under power, that something is guiding it as opposed to
(03:45):
just going through space. So that has of course percolated
the question again, are we alone? And is something coming
toward us?
Speaker 5 (03:56):
By the way, now, of course there are plenty of
podcast out there that do talk about stuff like this,
but this would almost be an entire show for us
if we wanted to delve into are we alone?
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Yeah, you know, as I said, I believe, and we
used that, I don't think we're alone in creation, but
I don't if.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
They're here either, So yeah, and I don't even know
if they've visited here. Look, I don't there's a lot
of things. I don't know. Ask anyone, they'll tell you.
Speaker 6 (04:21):
But I do.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
I believe that somewhere, somewhere, out there, somewhere out there,
in that big, vast universe of ours, there's life, Yes
I do. I mean it probably doesn't look like us,
thank god, But I think there's life somewhere. I mean,
life can't just evolve one place in such a huge
fricking place over billions of years. I don't think.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
No, I agree with that. I don't think we're alone either,
But you know, do I think that what's coming at
us is a spaceship or something under control by something else.
I don't know. I'll be honest with you, because the
thing that's got everybody in a tither about it is
that it has made course corrections, and that doesn't usually
happen in nature. So that's that's what the what, That's
(05:03):
what the big that's what the big deal is. But
we will all find out eventually by the way it
gets near here.
Speaker 5 (05:07):
By the way, if it is an alien craft, uh,
and it's making course corrections, it's probably because it noticed
what's on this planet and they want to get away
from it.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Unfortunately, it's still coming, in coming toward us towards you know,
I don't know. We'll find out when they get there.
It makes me suspicious. Do you ever see the the
Twilight Zone To Serve Man?
Speaker 5 (05:28):
I've seen the Twilight Zone. I've seen a lot of episodes.
I don't know if I talked that one.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
There's a stars an actor by the name of Lloyd
Backner and it and these I think they're called Catamites.
I think that's the name. They come down and they're
big critters, big creatures. Uh. And they they get rid
of famine, and they get rid of illness on the
on the planet, and they have a book with them
(05:51):
and the title of the book is to Serve Man
and so and then they bring people back with them
to their planet, which is a paradise, and they're all excited.
And Lloyd Backner is one of the lead scientists, code breakers,
and he gets he's going for his ride to do
the planet when somebody, one of his people from his office,
she breaks through the crowd and goes, don't get on
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the ship. He's like, why, to Serve Man is a cookbook.
So it's like, okay, well there you go dinner, Yes, indeed,
and not that I'm intimitting that whatever's out there is
coming to hurt us. I have no idea. My guess
is it's a meteor, but you don't know. But talking
about course corrections, Texas says it's congressional representation is skewed
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and to not represent the voting public or not represent
the citizenship, and they want to fix it. So they
have proposed redistricting. Actually, at this point in time, they
have voted for redistricting. I mean they're going to redraw
the congressional district lines to more accurately reflect the voters
are this ship. That's that's the legislature's story, and they're
(07:03):
sticking to it. Meanwhile, the Democratic members of the legislature
are extremely upset by this because in this redistricting, the
Democrat Party loses five five representatives. It will look right theoretically,
that's exactly right.
Speaker 5 (07:17):
I still stand by Hey, the people still vote.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
With exactly right, so we'll see. So that's that's the deal.
So the Democrats ran away, the Democrat members of the
or the crazy Democrats and the legislature ran away, and
they they were paid. Here here's the thing. Beata O'Rourke,
who is a failed Senate candidate. He tried to oust
Ted Cruz, and he's a bit of a you know,
(07:41):
loudmouth to be brutally honest with you, and he's kind
of reminds me of Stacy Abrams and that he is
a failed politician but crazed the limelight and the money
that comes in with a live light. And so he
has a pack, and that pack actually paid the costs
for these Democrats to run away away from their statutory obligation,
(08:04):
their Texas constitutional obligation to stay and vote on the redistricting.
And they're now considering criminal charges because that would be
bribery against better Arouric. And so he's out there just
pontificating and screaming and shouting and trying to be as
(08:26):
loud as he possibly can as to why he did
this cut number fourteen.
Speaker 5 (08:32):
They're not going to.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Let him stop us. Are you with me on that handle.
It also means, as Mark was saying earlier, we don't
await the punch throne by these would be fascist to land.
We punch first, and we punch harder. We want California
in New Jersey and Illinois and Maryland and every other
(08:56):
state where the Democrats hold the governor's mansion and the
state Senate to redraw their congressional districts. Now not wait
for Texas to move first to maximize Democratic party advantage. Listen,
you may say to yourself, well, those aren't the rules.
There are no refs in this game.
Speaker 5 (09:15):
The rules.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
We are gonna win whatever it takes. We're gonna take
this to them in every way that we can.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
You know, here's the thing. There are rules, and they're
called state laws, and he broke them, and so they
are now contemplating criminal charges. Somebody wants to bring criminal
charges in regard to a political fight, But when you
break the law, that's kind of what happens. And not
only that he is putting out there, what would happen
(09:44):
if he got his way cut number fifteen.
Speaker 5 (09:47):
Check this out.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
You know, Democrats present company excluded, have talked an awful
good game on immigration for as long as I have
been listening. You know, if you just keep voting for
us once we get in power intensive immigration reform. Well,
we won power in two thousand and eight, the White House,
the House, and the Senate. We won power in twenty
(10:09):
twenty the White House, the House, and the Senate. The
American people were watching because we had promised them what
we would do with that power, and we absolutely failed
to live up to the expectation that we set. So
next time we win power, we're gonna drive that car
like we stole it. We're gonna legalize every Dreamer, every
dreamer's parents, every hard working American doing backbreaking work that
(10:32):
makes this country so goddamn great in the first place,
even greater as US citizens.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Can I point out by the way that every American
those people are already citizens. But in any event, this
is the kind of rabble rousing. You know, the laws
doesn't apply to me, they applied to other people. And
since you admit that you were in power in two
thousand and eight, completely had across the board in twenty
twenty and you didn't do anything, what makes anybody think
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you're gonna do something now? And maybe this promulgation that
you put out there that you know you're going to
drive the legislature or the Congress like it's a stolen
car doesn't appeal to most Americans, which is why you're
no longer in power. Just going to put that out there.
Speaker 5 (11:17):
By the way, I mean what Betos said, it is
true that they promised things they didn't do them. We
know that, right, I mean, we've seen that movie several times.
You know, here's what he does. Perhaps he doesn't get
that the American people, the voting public, say what you
will about them. Uh, it is kind of a fool
(11:38):
me one, shame on you, fool me twice and three
times and four times, and then shame on me. Looks, listen,
they've seen this movie. They know how it ends. They've
stopped going to this movie, which is the movie of
voting for the Democrats in power. Look, it probably will
swing again some way, somehow, somewhere some why. But yeah,
(12:00):
while I don't think right, so they the head scratcher
for the Democrats is well, why don't they like us? Well,
because that's.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Why you just heard it, right, you just heard why
they don't like him, because because you continue.
Speaker 5 (12:11):
First of all, this is the thing too, It's not
that they the Democrats, are just shooting themselves in the foot,
like you could say, oh, they shot themselves in the foot.
They're they're literally, all right, figuratively shooting America in the foot.
They're not just shooting themselves in the foot. And they
don't get that they don't understand why a lot of
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the American people are are are ticked off. And by
the way, the fact that they don't like the Democrats
is one thing. It's not like the whole country is
gaga over the Republicans either. They just don't like them
as little as they like you.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
And theyke them a little bit more than the Dems, right, And.
Speaker 5 (12:53):
The Democrats don't know how to fix themselves because they
don't have a mirror.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
No exact, that's that's a good way to put it.
They don't have a mirror, and they've gone freaking crazy. Literally,
I can see people's eyes spinning around. It's kind of
like or or they're rolling around the room like the
Tasmanian Devil. It's amazing here we have Texas deciding on
what Texans are going to do and elected representatives of Texans.
(13:17):
Yet yet we have blue state governors, democratic governors trying
to get involved in telling Texas what to do and
are fit to be tied. And in this particular case,
here's some other examples. We have Governor Gavin Newsom. He
is at a presser, he's bull bleep that Texas wants
to redistrict. So he says, well, we'll show you we're
(13:38):
going to nullify that because we're going to do the
same thing cut ten.
Speaker 6 (13:42):
We are moving forward. Make no mistake, California's moving forward
is a state that's larger than twenty one state populations
come by. We are not a small, isolated state state
larger than twenty one populations combined. We tried to play
by a higher set of standards and rules with our
independent redistrict team, and we believe in that. And we
(14:05):
are not talking about eliminating that commission. We are talking
about emergency measures to respond to what's happening in Texas,
and we will nullify what happens in Texas. We will
pick up five seats with the consent of the people.
And that's the difference between the approach we're taking and
the approach they're taking. We're doing it in a temporary basis,
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we're doing it in a fully transparent way, and we're
doing it by asking the people of the state of
California for their consent and support.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
So, by the way, did Texas Texas asked for the
for the permission of the and they got it. And
knowing that, can you call this anything but transparent? In Texas.
We all know about it. Everybody knows about it, so
it's not exift like it's a midnight you know, vote
somewhere and nobody knows what's going on. Everything that Governor
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Gavin Newsom said he was going to do, the Texans
have done. They did exactly that, except that Newsom is
saying he's going to violate the commission that he put
into place to stop Jerrymander.
Speaker 5 (15:08):
And then he's supposedly back down a little bit on
this with a letter to well, well we'll see. I mean,
time will tell, but he isn't the only one. By
the way. Here's the other thing. And I'm no expert
on congressional districts across the United States. However, if you
just look at how some of these districts are set up,
and you look how they're shaped, I mean, shape doesn't
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always tell the history. But I's got this weird horseshoe
shaped one.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Illinois has one that's shaped like a squid. So it's like,
I mean, so Illinois, who and Governor Pritzker is one
of those people out there going you can get redistrict.
It has the most gerrymandered state in the Union. Basically
on top of it. We haven't even gotten to Kathy Hokel,
Governor Hochel of New York, who calls this the hypocrisy
of the Republicans cut thirteen.
Speaker 7 (15:51):
You know obviously that those maps they came about the
last time for redistricting were caught up in a lot
of court battles there in New York. Here's how National
Reviews summarized it. They it was only three years ago
that New York's Democratic legislature drew up the map so
brazenly contemptuous of basic rules the govern a district's contiguousness
that the state's Democrat dominated Court of Appeals threw it out.
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The New York Times at the time called those maps
comically contorted.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
That's their quote.
Speaker 7 (16:16):
So your state's highest court at the time, all the
judges appointed by democratic governors, they threw the maps out.
So fair to say Democrats have done what they're now
accusing Republicans of doing.
Speaker 8 (16:27):
No, we followed the rules. We do it every ten years.
We based it on said you didn't follow the rules. Well,
we did follow the rules. So the court was wrong,
but we followed the rules. And I want to call
out the hypocrisy of the Republicans who are now whining
about the fact that we're doing something in New York.
Where was the outrage when Donald Trump told Texas to
just go find just go find five seats for him.
(16:49):
Come on, people aren't.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Going to buy this. Please, she can't. So the Court's
why she won't answer it. Why because the court wasn't
wrong New York Jerry marn did in the middle of
an election in the last election. They just I didn't
wait ten years, they didn't follow the rules. And she
is the nerve to call Republicans hif a critical I mean,
this is what they've been doing. And then if none
of that works for you, if the Democrats say, if
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you don't believe you know, any of their other lion
statements that they've made. Here's here's the last thing. You
know what it is. It's racist. Redistricting is racist. Here
is Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett of Texas cut twenty five.
Speaker 6 (17:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (17:26):
So here's my attitude. We may lose the battle, but
we will absolutely win this war. That is what I'm
saying right now. When it comes to our base, they
want to see a fight, they don't want to see
us just lay down and say, okay, well, the Republicans
want to do whatever they want to do. They want
to minimize voices, they want to systemically get rid of
those black electors. Because when I look at the numbers,
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and to be clear, Florida is already in this thing.
We know that Texas is in this thing. We know
that they're putting pressure on Indiana as well as Missouri.
So here's the deal. They have already decided that the
only way that they can win because they have failed policies,
is by making sure that they can cheat their way.
And while they're cheating their way, the only way that
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they can do that is while they also at the
same time violate the Constitution as well as the Voting
Rights Act and make sure that it's people of color.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
There you go, There you go. Racism by the way,
I don't like it, so it's gonna be racism.
Speaker 5 (18:25):
Okay, there is racism period, but but but.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Not in this This is not racist.
Speaker 5 (18:29):
Right. What I'm saying is there's racism. But you can't
just always throw that card down because it fits some
weird narrative you picked.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Well, you know why she's passed because with the Texas redistricting,
she loses her seat. But you know, none of this
is a violation of a constitution. None is a violation
of anything. The Dems just don't like it again because
they have done it and skewed the skewed the districts
in their favor, and they're really upset that they're getting
skewed back again to.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
Maybe she loses her seat. And I'm gonna say maybe,
because again there's been no vote.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
Yet it has and it passed.
Speaker 5 (19:06):
No, no, no, no. What I'm saying is she can
run for office, she can run for Congress. If she's
worried about losing her seat, maybe she should worry more
about serving all of the people of Texas so they
vote for her instead of this little sliver that that
she's been able to get into. So that's my point.
It's not that, look, will she lose her seat, maybe, probably, whatever,
(19:27):
But look, if you're a good politician, and by the way,
we have seen over the years, well, people on the
blue win a red area. People in the red win
a blue area because because they're good, or they're effective,
or there's nobody running against them, whatever the case may be.
So if Jasmine Crockett's worried about not being a congress
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person because of any redistrict thing or whatever. That be
a better congress person and everybody will want you to
be their congress person. I don't know, it almost seems
like that makes sense, and maybe that's the wrong approach,
you know.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
I find it very reasonable, rationalbal well thought out, and
so therefore my guess is it's not going to fly,
because that's, you know, the rational way to look at it.
But she's she's going to now in her district if
she were to run again. The problem is she's not
going to have a district to run in that is
one hundred percent Democrat, which is what she was looking for,
(20:25):
because you know, the Conservatives and Texas are going, what
the hell and are not going to elect her. So
my guess is that's what she's afraid of. But that's me. No,
I don't know, maybe maybe not. Meanwhile, you know, while
the while the Democrat Texan Democrats went home and then
got their leep, you know, their asses collective asses kicked
(20:46):
and by the legislature, who then voted to pass the redistricting. Meanwhile,
back at the ranch otherwise known as Washington, d C,
the US capital, this was happening cut one bee.
Speaker 10 (20:58):
We're here for a very serious purpose, very serious purpose.
Something's out of control, but we're going to put it
in control very quickly, like we did on the southern border.
I'm announcing a historic action to rescue our nation's capital
from crime, bloodshed, bedlam, and squalor and worse. This is
(21:19):
Liberation Day in DC, and we're going to take our
capital back. We're taking it back under the authorities vested
in me as the President of the United States. I'm
officially invoking Section seventy forty of the District of Columbia
Home Rule Act, you know what that is, and placing
the DC Metropolitan Police Department under direct federal control. And
(21:43):
you'll be meeting the people that will be directly involved
with that.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
So President Trump has basically federalized law enforcement in Washington,
d C. And you must ask yourselves, I think really
that bad in DC? Well, DCUs attorney former judge Janine
Piro says, you bet. Cut fifteen B.
Speaker 11 (22:04):
I see too much violent crime being committed by young
punks who think that they can get together in gangs
and crews and beat the hell out of you or
anyone else. They don't care where they are they can
be in DuPont circle, but they know that we can't
touch them. Why because the laws are weak. I can't
(22:25):
touch you. If you're fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen years old
and you have a gun. I convict someone of shooting
another person with an illegal gun on a public bus
in the chest, intent to kill. I convict him, and
you know what, the judge gives him probation, says you
should go to college.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Yeah, that's pretty disgusting. And here's the thing that Judge
Janine says, it's not just the gangs, it's actually the
DC Council as well. Cut fifteen A.
Speaker 11 (22:57):
We need to go after the DC Council and their
absurd laws. We need to get rid of this concept
of you know, a no cash fail. We need to
recognize that the people who matter are the law abiding citizens.
And it starts today.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
So here's the thing. The Democrat's response to law and
order in DC is what crime are you talking about?
This is Washington, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser seventeen A.
Speaker 12 (23:26):
My message to residents is this, we know that access
to our democracy is tenuous. That is why you have
heard me and many many Washingtonians before me, advocate for
full statehood for the District of Columbia. And while this
action today is unsettlingly and unprecedented, I can't say that
(23:51):
given some of the rhetoric of the past that were
totally surprised.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Yeah, so she's saying, no, no, crime is down, don't
worry about it. But is crime down? Is that just
bull bleep? Here is Kira Phillips. She is in fact
an ABC anchor, and she's pushing back on this mantra
that the Dems are saying there's no crime in DC.
And she, by the way, works for ABC, which is
(24:18):
a very liberal network, very supportive of the Democratic Party.
And listen to what she had to say cut twenty
two A.
Speaker 13 (24:24):
We've been talking so much about the numbers, and yeah,
usually that's how you play Devil's advocate as you talk about, oh, well,
stat's say crime is down. However, I can tell you
firsthand here in downtown d C where we work, right
here around our.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
Bureau, just in the past six.
Speaker 13 (24:39):
Months, you know, there were two people shot. One person
died literally two blocks down here from the bureau. It
was within the last two years that I actually was
jumped walking just two blocks down from here, and then
just this morning, one of my co workers said her
car was stolen a block away from the bureau. So
we can talk about the numbers going down, but crime
(25:03):
is happening every single day because we're all experiencing it
firsthand while working and living down here.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Now, here's the thing. The statistics that Muriel Bowser put
out there, and one of the things that Kyra Phillips
there was calling into questioner are they true? Here's the
dirty secret that's happening down there. And by the way,
I want to point out that the chief of police,
not the current one, but the one before the Commissioner
of Police has been was suspended for fudging on crime statistics.
(25:31):
Here's the thing about what's happening down there on and
this comes directly from officers who are on the scenes
of crimes. They go down, there's a felony been committed.
Within minutes, somebody from the main precinct comes back down
and says, I downgrade it when you charge it, So
that they are literally deliberately downgrading the charges outside of felonies.
(25:52):
Why because the felonies, the stuff that's below felony are
not reported. It's only the felonies that are reported. That
is how they make the statistics look like they're going
down when they're not.
Speaker 5 (26:04):
So if you're standing on the street corner and you're
in a gang, let's say, and you one of your opponents,
one of your ambis, comes by and you shoot them.
Instead of charging you with the shooting, they charge you
with loitering, or they.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Charge you with with something like manslaughter something that's not
you know, or the or you know what that would be.
That would probably be unintended discharge of or discharge of
a firearm in public.
Speaker 5 (26:28):
That what that would disturbing the piece.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Yeah, so, I mean that's what they're doing. So now
you have these these numb nuts protesters who are like, no, no,
DC is safe. DC is safe, and they're out there
singing cut seventeen b.
Speaker 4 (26:49):
D in time.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Okay, so DC is our home. You can't have a trump,
so get out. So that this was being done just
so that you know, beautiful bright summer August afternoon. Beautiful.
Do you know what happened two blocks from there when
during this protest, during this protest, the guy was shot
and killed on the street two blocks from there.
Speaker 5 (27:25):
I thought had a picnic.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Yeah, two blocks from there two blocks to me, and
if the crime doesn't, if you, if you, if you
don't feel that the that the incipient crime is enough
to have the law enforcement federalized in d C. James
Clyburn has another reason why you can't have the DC
police take over in the National Guard deployment. And can
you guess what it is? Can you guess what his
(27:49):
argument is? I can guess, Yeah, it's yes, you you
all could guess it. It's racist. Cut nineteen A.
Speaker 9 (27:56):
As a student of history, as someone who is living
this right now, draw a line for us between what
we are.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Watching happening in Washington, d C.
Speaker 7 (28:05):
With the President of the United States, and what we
are watching unfold in South Carolina, in Missouri, in Texas.
Speaker 14 (28:11):
You may recall at the Democratic Invention, I spoke one
evening and I said, the Project twenty twenty five is
Jim Crow two point zero. Now, Jim Crow one point
oh came out of a thesis written by a Confederate General.
Speaker 5 (28:28):
Martin Garrett.
Speaker 14 (28:29):
If you look at my project twenty twenty five, look
at that eighteen seventy six document, you will see why
I said what I did at the Democratic Invention, Because
whoever wrote Project twenty twenty five. They used those eatings
out of eighteen seventy six. I can tell you right
now exactly what is going to happen in so many
(28:52):
of these instances, because it's.
Speaker 5 (28:55):
All read there.
Speaker 14 (28:56):
If you look in the history books, you see it.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Jim Crow, Jim Crow two point zero.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Basically is what are you saying?
Speaker 5 (29:04):
I mean, there's no question that there are a lot
of African Americans, colored people of the blacks in Washington,
d C.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
And they're getting killed too, and.
Speaker 5 (29:11):
They're getting killed, and there's a lot of crime in Washington,
d C. Which is look crime should be and justice
is supposed to be blind, right, it shouldn't matter. Look,
if it's black people, white people shooting white people, black people,
green people, orange people, the ones who are coming in
from out of space, whatever, it's all wrong. So it
just so happened. If it just so happens that you've
(29:32):
got black people shooting black people, that's bad. If it's
black people shooting white people or white people shooting black
the color shouldn't matter. Why do we have to do
because we.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
Have no other argument against this, So that's why we
leave there. But you know what President Trump's responds to
all of these people who are screaming racism and fascism,
and there is no crime. Cut number one A.
Speaker 10 (29:54):
In addition, I'm deploying the National Guard to help re
establish law order a public safety in Washington, d C.
And they're going to be allowed to do their job properly.
And you people are victims of it too. You know
your reporters, and I understand a lot of you tend
to be on the liberal side, but you don't want
to get You don't want to get mugged and raped
(30:15):
and shot and killed. And you all know people and
friends of yours that happened, and so you can be
any anything you want, but you want to have safety
in the streets. You want to be able to leave
your apartment or your house where you live and feel
safe and go into a store to buy a newspaper
or buy something.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
And you don't have that now you don't. But here's
what really is freaking people out, because when he's through
with DC, he may not stop there cut for.
Speaker 10 (30:46):
A But then I'm going to look at New York
in a little while. Let's do this, Let's do this together.
Let's see it's going to go pretty quickly, and if
we need to, we're going to do the same thing
in Chicago, which is a disaster. We have a mayor
there who's totally incompetent. He's an incompetent man, and we
have an incompetent governor there. Pritzkers an incompetent. His family
(31:09):
threw him out of the business and he ran for governor.
And now I understand he wants to be president, but
I noticed he lost a little Wait, so maybe he
has a chance. You know, you never know what happens.
But Pritsker is a gross incompetent guy, thrown out of
the family business. But when I look at Chicago and
(31:29):
I look at La, if we didn't go to La
three months ago, La would be burning like the part
that didn't burn.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Yeah, yeah, basically. So I think that's what really has
him scared, is this could be coming to a city
near you. I you know, I'm doing a talk show
this morning asking people if they would like the National
Guard to come to a sitting near them. A lot
of them wouldn't mind it, especially those who lived in Illinois.
Speaker 5 (31:53):
Well, I'll add to both ways. I wouldn't mind it
if obviously, if it was needed, But I would prefer
that my city was nice enough that we didn't have
to have the National Guard come. So yes, I would
like them to come, but not just like.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
Not a phrase we're nice, but aren't anymore because democratic
policies like the no cash bail and so forth have
in fact caused a degrading of basically standard of living.
Speaker 5 (32:20):
By the way, given the way some of these cities
and states and areas are going, we're going to need
a heavy recruit for National Guard members because we're not
gonna have enough Guard members to guard the forrtually.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Fortunately, ben recruitment is at an all time high for
the military and the National Guard, So that's that's the
bright side.
Speaker 5 (32:39):
For maybe maybe maybe maybe we're doing it wrong. Maybe
instead of instead of putting a fence up at the
southern border, we should just put a fence around all
these cities. Oh boy, people are going to be mad
about that. But seriously, I mean, there are some places
where you're like, listen.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
You want to cross a border to get to work
every day, because that's what you're talking about.
Speaker 5 (32:56):
We don't want to know the Berlin well didn't work.
I listen. Here's the thing. It's some of these places,
and I don't want to pick up. And sometimes it's
not the whole city, it's just a part of the
city or a neighborhood or whatever it is, right, But
you don't want to go in because it's dangerous, and
you don't want the people in there coming out because
they're dangerous. And this is a problem. But this is
(33:18):
first of all, we need police and obviously the National
Garden whoever's taking care of that stuff. But for God's sake,
let uncle Ben here talk to you for a second.
It's individual responsibility. People in this country, the criminals especially obviously,
have to take responsibility for themselves. You don't get carte
blanche to just walk down the street and shoot people,
(33:38):
rob stores, steal crap, run away with somebody else's car.
This is a responsibility and a good person thing, and
unfortunately we don't have enough good people. We need more
people to be good. This would all be solved if
all the bad people said, you know what, I'm gonna
act like an actual human being that's kind and gentle
and nice and whatever. And you don't have to be
nice to everybody. Some people deserve to be yelled at,
(34:00):
but it's personal responsibility. We've let everybody be like, oh,
Bobby wants to rob a store, Go ahead, Bobby, good
for you. At least you have some ambition. And then
he robs the store and they go, let's not put
him in jail because he won't learn anything doing that.
Put it back on the street. This is the problem
is we have too many people in this country who
are ass hats.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
Okay, I think that's an accurate description in the country. Yeah,
I like that.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
I like that a lot.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
We end every week with a truth or troll. This
week is no different. And as you know, ninety percent
of our truth or troll are the troller in chief,
Donald Trump, and this week is no different. In this
particular case, President Trump is in the Oval Office, and
if you haven't heard, he's building a big, beautiful ballroom
for the White House so they can stop putting tents
(34:46):
out on the lawn even in the winter when they
want to throw a big party. So I think that's
and he's paying for it, so I God bless him.
But the press had a question for him, cut number nine.
Speaker 5 (34:58):
Please, you're building betiful ballroom?
Speaker 14 (35:01):
Could we build a big, beautiful briefing room.
Speaker 5 (35:06):
I don't want to do. I don't want you to
be comfortable.
Speaker 10 (35:15):
Now, I don't want to make I don't want to
make life comfortable.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
Okay, I was gonna say, telling the truth or is
he just poking the press. I think you're absolutely right.
I think in this case, he really doesn't want them
to be comfortable. He wants he wants to make them
as uncomfortable as possible, because, let's face it, they have
made him pretty uncomfortable in the past four years.
Speaker 5 (35:33):
And by the way, as a as a member of
the press and one who has covered events not with
the president but with governors and other soul people. Look,
a lot of these briefing rooms sometimes are just a
haphazard places. You're a presser, right.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
So you're lucky to be out of the rain.
Speaker 5 (35:48):
Look, yeah, if you make it comfortable for for us reporters,
we're going to settle in and hang in there for hours.
If it's uncomfortable, we ask our questions, we get the
hell out because it's more comfortable in our car or
wherever the hell we're going. So I think it's truth,
first of all, because of his relationship with the press,
but also because he made very well know, Hey, if
(36:09):
I make it too comfortable for them. You're never going
to leave. So let's make as a matter of fact,
we're gonna make it worse. We're taking out all the
chairs and you have to stand on a cement on
one foot with all Yeah, so exactly, all.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
Press briefings will now be in alligator alcoatraz Yes see
that's that's you know. I can, I can understand it.
Don't want to do it, but I can completely and utterly.
Speaker 5 (36:30):
And so absolute truth.
Speaker 1 (36:32):
So let us know if you think he's telling the
truth or just just trolling the press. You can contact
Ben and I at on x at news Bye three
or on Facebook at news Bite. We upload a new
episode every single Monday, so please check back next week
and see what new offerings we have. Meanwhile, have a
great week. I'm Nancy Shack.
Speaker 5 (36:50):
Have any kind of week you one. I'm Ben Parker.
Speaker 2 (36:52):
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