12-20-25 The Weekend Hour 3: Hilarious: NYTimes: The DNC Is Scrapping Its Report on What Went Wrong in 2024

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
To night.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
Michael Brown joins me here, the former FEMA director of
talk show host Michael Brown.

Speaker 3 (00:04):
Brownie, no, Brownie, You're doing a heck of a job
the Weekend with Michael Brown.

Speaker 4 (00:09):
Merry Christmas, everyone, and welcome to the Weekend with Michael Brown.
Glad to have you with me. Hope everybody's planning for
a joyous and happy holiday period. Hope you get some
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you do. I certainly intend to do so. I'll be
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(00:31):
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When I was the under Secretary of Homeland Security, we
always no matter how large or small the incident, the disaster,
whatever it might be. I mean everything from nine to eleven.

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You know, after action reports on nine to eleven, what
mistakes did we make? What can we do better? And
then I went to a organization, the Corporation, which is
a quasi private government organization in d C, and helped them,
or ask them to help me create a system by
which we could measure the metrics of our after action reports.

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So that I could follow through and see if we
had you know, if we had made a mistake or
something didn't work out quite right. Did it require you know,
a statutory change or regulatory change, a policy change, did
it require personnel change, whatever, whatever the changes were, we
put those into a system of metrics so that I

(01:38):
could track those changes being made. And that it had
never been done before, and I said, we wanted to
do it. Having come from the private sector, I wanted
to know that, you know, if if we if we
screwed something up, how do we avoid that again? And
because the government again is so large, you have to

(01:58):
track every little thing like it's If it's a regulation,
you can't just change that overnight. That takes a period
of time. If it's a policy, yes I could change
the policy on the fly, but making sure that that
policy got down through the bureaucracy, I had to track that.
So the RAND Corporation helped me set up this system

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for doing so. Most private organizations will do the same thing.
They'll track needed changes and how we go about implementing
those changes. Well, the Democrat Party is up in arms
because of a New York Times story that appeared. Let
me see if I got the date in the story here,

(02:41):
The date on the story was the eighteenth, So yeah,
it was on Thursday that I first read this. They're
up in arms because the Democrat National Committee is going
to scrap its report on what went wrong in twenty
twenty four.

Speaker 5 (03:00):
They did an.

Speaker 4 (03:01):
After action report, what did we mess up? And now
here's what The New York Time says. Ken Martin, the
chair of the DNC, sat on Thursday he had decided
not to publish a report that he ordered months ago
into what went wrong for the Democrat Party last year.
Mister Martin will instead keep the findings under seal oh

(03:24):
psycho grand jury testimony. He believes that looking back so
publicly and painfully at the past would prove counterproductive for
the party as it tries next year to take power
back in Congress. According to a DNC spokesperson who spoke
on the condition of anonymity to share the thinking behind
his decision, The New York Times reports that mister Martin said,

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in a statement, here's our north star. Does this help
us win? If the answer is no, then it's a
distraction from the core mission. Close quote. New York Times
says the parties brand still appears deeply damaged in the
eyes of many voters. A national poll from Quinnipiac University
this week found that only eighteen percent of voters approved

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of how Democrats and Congress were during their job doing
their jobs. That is a record low, The Times concludes.
Since the day of the election in February, mister Martin
had promised an audit of twenty twenty four's mistakes and
a roadmap for the future. He was adamant that it
not be called an autopsy because he said the party

(04:35):
was quote not dead. He preferred the.

Speaker 5 (04:37):
More anodyne label after action review.

Speaker 4 (04:43):
Well, when he announced after The New York Times reported, oh,
they're going to bury the report, They're going to seal it,
They're going to bury it in the vault inside the
Democrat National Committee headquarters, well it was met with scorn
from the Democrats' leader, media figures and supporter. I'll give
you a couple of examples. Liz Smith, I suspect the

(05:05):
reasons why this isn't being released are precisely the reason
why it should be released. You know, Liz Smith is
probably right, Dan Pfeiffer, this is a very bad decision.
The reaks of the caution and complacency that brought us
to this moment. John folvro unreal the DNC's actual positions
that if the public knew more about what Democrats got

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wrong in the last election, it would hurt the party's chances.

Speaker 5 (05:31):
In the next election.

Speaker 4 (05:33):
How does this rebuild trust between the party insiders and
grassroots activists and organizers. Why does the party only trust
people with the truth who are part of their insular club,
And why on earth would the DNC think that sweep
that keeping their promise to release the report would create
more of a backlash than announcing that they're going to

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keep it secret. And of course, my favorite David Hogg, Yes,
the goober from the Goober last night correct, the loser
from Parkland and loser from Harvard University tweet it out.
I ran for DNC vice chair after massive losses in

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twenty twenty four because I believe we needed to change
our party leadership disagreed with my work to the primary
a sleep at the wheel incumbents and challenge the status quo.
Now they're spiking an autopsy of the election that gave
us Trump two point zero. If party leaders won't take
the steps required to build ourselves into a winning coalition.

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We will take it into our own hands. That's why
Leaders we Deserve is working to elect young progressive candidates.
Well seems that mister Martin's decision pleases nobody who might
be important to the Democrat Party's future. But to be
fair to the hapless DNC chair, he had little choice.

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But despite the report, conservative comic and social commentator Steven
Miller hit the nail on the head with an expost
of his own, and it's just simply a.

Speaker 5 (07:14):
It's a picture of.

Speaker 4 (07:15):
Kamala Harris sitting in a chair waiting to do a
press conference. She's looking at an iPad and she's got
that cackle look on her face as if she's about
the cackle. I think that's perfect. The truth is, Ken
Martin can't release his autopsy report because of what I

(07:39):
believe are probably two inevitable main findings. The party's fealty
to the trans insanity. The transgender insanity is a killer
of an issue. And I think the second one, Kamala
Harris was just a well, I can't say it on
the air. Let's just say crappy that Kamala Harris was

(08:01):
just a crappy candidate period, and any admission by the
DNC of that first finding would do it incredible harm
with the woke segment of the Democrat base, which seems
to be growing every day. And any emission of the
second obvious finding about Kamala Harris being a crappy candidate
would do the party great harm with black women voters.

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They just happen to be the most loyal and enduring
voter segment. So an autopsy, yeah, it's going to get buried,
absolutely buried, which I find hilarious for these reasons. I'll
be right back back real quickly to the DNC report.

(08:49):
I just find itous. I find it so typical Democrat,
which is why I find it hilarious that they have
a really bad election. And yes, I think it was
their their truncated process. It was they had a really
bad candidate. She's still a bad candidate. Every time she appears,

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I think it's just reminding people about how bad she was,
and the reality is she should move on, go run
for Senate again, go run for governor, or go do something.
But you're not going to be president. She's just not
going to be president. But I think any admission of
how bad she was would hurt the black women voters,

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and any autopsy that they might want to, you know,
reveal that doesn't recognize the truth that those two factors
spelled certain doom with the polls last November probably isn't
worth publishing in any event, since it's probably a work
of fiction. What it all adds up to, though, is
that the Democrats haven't learned anything and won't learn anything

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about what really caused their disaster last November, which completely
explains why we have seen such a sudden uptick and
Democrat media focus on the trans issue in recent days.
Nothing these people do happens organically. If you follow me
on the podcast, I went through how those talking points

(10:25):
get spread.

Speaker 5 (10:26):
I went through that earlier in the week.

Speaker 4 (10:28):
You should go listen to that particular episode, because, as
I say, these things, what's said and what's done does
not happen organically, and once you realize that, then everything
they do and say will make perfect sense to you.
Otherwise it won't. I'd encourage you to go listen to
that episode. But something else happened this week. A raggedy

(10:54):
looking Jack Smith, that's the special prosecutor appointed by Merrick Garland,
the attorney General under Joe Biden, to pursue the document's
case against Donald Trump down in Florida in the mar
Alago Documents case, and to pursue the January sixth case
for inciting an insurrection against Donald Trump in the DC courts. Well,

(11:20):
he showed up looking pretty ragged alongside a pack of
reporters and onlookers as he made his way to a
Congressional hearing room this past Wednesday. He was supposed to
testify about his role as special counsel under the Biden regime.
He had responded to a subpoena issued earlier this month

(11:40):
by the House Judiciary Committee, but he refused to answer
questions shadowed by the reporters. I get that I probably
I wouldn't have done it either, But.

Speaker 5 (11:51):
It's who always.

Speaker 4 (11:55):
Reporters always inexplicably treat Jack Smith like some sort of
rock store star rather than the perpetual legal loser that
he actually is. Virtually every single case that he has taken,
he has lost either a trial or he's been reversed
on appeal. It's just horrible, mister.

Speaker 6 (12:18):
Smith, do you have any regrets about the way your
prosecutions of the president were handled? What do you plan
to tell the committee today, sir mister Smith, do you
prefer a public setting for this hearing? Response, mister Smith,

(12:38):
you said you wanted a public hearing.

Speaker 2 (12:39):
What do you want the public to know?

Speaker 6 (12:41):
Sir Smith is going to be deposed behind closed doors
by the House Judiciary Committee that is chaired by Congressman
Jim Jordan. Smith was the special counsel who oversaw two
federal criminal cases against President Trump for alleged mishandling of
classified documents and alleged attempts to overturn the twenty twenty election.
Now you'll remember merce Smith dropped both of those cases

(13:02):
after Trump won the twenty twenty four elect Ye, mister Smith,
did you.

Speaker 5 (13:05):
Have any dropped the cases?

Speaker 2 (13:09):
So?

Speaker 4 (13:09):
I want to refer to him as Merrick Garland's fifty
million dollar man. He looks pretty glamys he makes his
way down the hallway, but apparently, according to reports, he
turned pretty feisty during the eight hour deposition behind closed doors.
Congressman Jamie Raskin, the Democrat from Maryland, emerged from the
deposition during the afternoon and claimed that Jack Smith was

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quote schooling the Judiciary Committee on the professional responsibilities of
a prosecutor and the ethical duties of a prosecutor, and
also that Jack Smith became emotional and choked up while
discussing the professional fate of corrupt FBI agent Walter Giordina,
who had been fired by FBI Director Cash Pattel for

(13:55):
his involvement in numerous lawfare pursuits of the president, include
the Arctic Frost investigation, shortly after that agent's wife had
died of cancer. Now, as Molly Hemingway appropriately noted, you know,
family concerns are not a reason to keep shockingly bad
FBI agents on a taxpayer funded salary. Life inside the

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BELTWAGH is pretty tough, and decisions have to be made
and are made irrespective of what's going on outside that
person's professional life. Now, in his opening statement that was
leaked in advance to some of his favorite reporters, Jack
Smith smugly defended the unprecedented criminal indictments that he had

(14:43):
brought back in twenty twenty three against the former president
and at the time, who was the leading presidential candidate.
Jack Smith insisted that his investigation into the events of
January sixth resulted in evidence that showed quote beyond reasonable doubt,
President Trump engaged in the criminal scheme to overturn the
results of the twenty twenty presidential election and to prevent

(15:06):
the unlawful transfer of power. And Jack Smith's team also
allegedly found powerful evidence, they say, to support the so
called classified document indictment down in Florida. Now Smith told
the committee, and as you heard in that report, James
Jordan of Ohio is the chair of the committee, quote,

(15:30):
the decision to bring charges against President Trump was mine.
But the basis for those charges rests entirely with President
Trump and his actions as alleged in the indictments returned
by grand juries in two different districts. Now, I find
that to be a dishonest framing of the grand jury

(15:50):
process on his watch. And that's just one of many
of the corrupt aspects of his work. Juriam Florida brought
the first indictment against the president in June twenty twenty three,
after the entire investigation, including grand jury testimony, was conducted

(16:11):
in the Trump loathing cesspool known as the DC Federal
Courthouse the Biden Department of Justice. Then Smith, following his
appointment in November twenty two, kept the investigation in Washington
because they wanted to make sure they could get a
favorable ruling by a grand jury made up of voters
in a Democrat district that is ninety nine point nine

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percent Democrat and was overseen by two Obama appointed Chief Judges,
Baryl Hall and James Boseburg. Yeah, that guy who rubber
stamped every single request made by the Department of Justice
relating to both sprawling investigations. Now, how does that square

(16:55):
with Jack Smith's testimony? Hang tight, I'll tell you that.

Speaker 2 (16:59):
Next to night, Michael Brown joins me here, the former
FEMA director of talk show host Michael Brown.

Speaker 3 (17:12):
Brownie, No, Brownie, You're doing a heck of a job
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Speaker 4 (17:17):
Merry Christmas, and welcome back to the Weekend with Michael Brown.
Glad to have you with me. Appreciate you tuning in.
Text line of course has always opened three three one
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at Michael Brown USA. So we're talking about this testimony
by Jack Smith, this special counsel that went after Trump
on the January sixth case in the document's case, and
he testified before the House Judiciary Committee in a closed

(17:40):
door deposition, and of course Jamie Raskin and some of
the Democrats want to come out and spend it as
quickly as they can. And they talked about how Jack
Smith testified that you know, the grand Jury brought these indictments.

Speaker 5 (17:57):
Well, turns out that is true, except.

Speaker 4 (18:04):
Those indictments were originally handed down in d C by
two judges appointed by Obama, Beryl Howe, and of course
Jeff Boseburg. Boseburg has been the one that has been
supporting all of the nationwide injunctions and going after contempt

(18:24):
charges against the Department of Justice simply for oh, the
flight taking those Trendo Arragua gangsters back to Guatemala wherever
they were headed to. Those flights were already in international
airspace when the judge just said from the bench, dinition
in order until later, but just said from the bench,

(18:45):
make the planes turn around. He has no authority of
those planes. Those planes are already outside US territory. But
does anybody believe the federal Florida judge, particularly Judge alling
Aileen Cannon in the Southern District of Florida, would has
cited the crime fraud exception in authorizing the disclosure of

(19:11):
highly privileged attorney client correspondence between Trump and his lawyer,
as Hal did back in Martia twenty twenty three. Smith's
use of a DC based grand jury until the very
end of the investigation. The New York Times suggested that
the pre indictment switched from Washington to Florida, which is

(19:33):
the appropriate jurisdiction, since the alleged crimes supposed he took
place at mar A Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, involved
quote prosecutors simply having to read the early grand jury
transcripts to the new grand jury or having federal agents
offer them a summary of the most important points. That

(19:55):
was regularly questioned by Judge Cannon Down in Florida during
the court proceedings. There was even at one point that
she suggested Trump's lawyers should pursue an abuse of grand
jury investigations. So then after she the federal judge in
Florida busted the Special Council's Office for operating two grand

(20:16):
juries in the case, one in Washington won in Florida.
Smith shut down the DC based one in August to
twenty twenty three. Then the Biden Department of Justice and
Judge Boseburg repeatedly refused to turn over grand jury materials
to a fellow judge, Judge Eileen Cannon down in Florida,

(20:38):
as late as one year into that case. Monkey business,
funny business, absolutely, And while Smith Jack Smith continues to
defend the legitimacy of the document's case, the Special Council
I think was lucky that Judge Eileen Cannon down in
Florida dismissed the indictment in July twenty twenty four, after

(21:02):
determining that Jack Smith's appointment violated the constitution. Not only
was the case falling apart amid credible allegations related to
prosecutorial misconduct, doctored and missing evidence, remember the photos, an
unsubstantiated basis for obstruction of the obstruction counts and damning

(21:26):
details of the FBI's armed raid of Marlogo and August
twenty twenty two. What was Judge Eileen Cannon actually doing?
She was blowing the lid off the Department of Justice
collaboration with the National Archives and the Biden White House
to concoct that document's case. As I've tried to explain

(21:50):
to my local audience numerous times, what was happening So
Trump leaves office, and when a president it leaves office,
it's total chaos. It's truly, it's organized chaos, but it's chaos.
Boxes are put together, bankers boxes are filled like they'll
go to the Oval office. Just start filling bankers boxes

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and ship them to wherever the president's moving to in
this case mar A Lago. Then the president, his lawyers,
his staff start negotiations with the National Archives, who is
the holder of these presidential documents, trying to determine what

(22:35):
ones he can keep, which ones can he not keep.
Those were ongoing negotiations when Jack Smith intervened and brought
the document's case and said he was illegally holding those documents,
including some allegedly classified documents. Hmmm, why wouldn't you let

(22:57):
the negotiations continue? I think because they didn't care about
the negotiations. They wanted to go after Trump for holding
classified documents, irrespective of the fact that the National Archives,
which is the main repository of those documents, was in

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negotiations with Trump and his team. Jack Smith didn't care,
And even further, Jack Smith's team and Judge Cannon were
increasingly at odds with each other in the courtroom. One day,
after her court ordered docketing of the marlogul Raid documents.
Judge Cannon actually warned David Harbuck, one of Jack Smith's

(23:43):
lead attorneys in the case, to calm down during one
of his temper tantrums in May of twenty twenty four.
She said to him, I still have inherent authority to
oversee this proceeding and ensure that professionalism and is maintained.
And she had already warned Harbuck earlier that if he

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could not be respectful in court, she was going to
remove him.

Speaker 5 (24:08):
From his courtroom from her courtroom.

Speaker 4 (24:12):
Now, things weren't going much better for Smith at the time.
In the January sixth case in DC, the Supreme Court
remember they they dropped their immunity immunity decision on July one,
of four and that gutted a significant portion of Jack
Smith's for count indictment against the President, resulting in the

(24:34):
removal of nine pages and one unindicted co conspirator, a
former DOJ official, Jeffrey Clark. Now, although Smith's revised indictment
included the president's communications with then Vice President Mike Smith,
the Supreme Court indicated in the historic decision that those
interactions rightfully, so are covered by presidential immunity. Yeah, Jack

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Smith didn't care what the Supreme Court said. He continued
to push. So Smith, who resigned in January, is arrogantly
insisting that his case against the president. Oh, it's error
tight and it was scuttled only because Trump won the election.
A review of recent history in both matters proves otherwise.

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Now it's incumbent upon congressional Republicans to make sure that
Smith's unearned bravado crumbles under the harsh light of reality
as the investigation into his conduct continues.

Speaker 5 (25:38):
I would like to hear the truth.

Speaker 1 (25:43):
Gets hard and unlikely to interested in an outcome punishing someone.

Speaker 6 (25:48):
Hears and the.

Speaker 4 (25:51):
Stone gloss over that this is Senator to Kennedy from Louisiana.
I'd like for Jack Smith to start telling the truth.
And it's going to be hard for him to do
that because what he was doing, he was just indicting
somebody that he didn't like.

Speaker 1 (26:06):
You're interested in an outcome, punishing someone, and I think
he's going to be held.

Speaker 3 (26:13):
Account So we will see shortly how m I say
get out of this one search for answers on the
Hill a short time from now. Former Special Counsel Jacksmith
said to go behind closed doors and face House lawmakers
about his investigations into Donald Trump, and we'll see how
he answers that.

Speaker 4 (26:29):
And now we're starting to find out that the way
he's going to answer a lot of this is simply, oh,
I was right all along and there's nothing to see here.
Now I understand why the deposition was held behind closed
doors because you want no destructions. You don't want anybody
playing to the cameras. You just want to have and

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in the deposition it can at times become confrontational and
at times conversational, and you want to if you're the
lawyers representing either the Democrat members of the House or
the Republican members of the House, you want to be
able to ask any and all questions, just like you
can in a regular deposition, even though some of those

(27:11):
questions in a courtroom might be objected and never allowed
in in a deposition, you have to answer the questions.
Whether there's a legitimate objection or not, that's to be
determined later. So I'm glad that this was held, and
I hope at some point we get to see the
deposition because, just like with the NGOs. Just like with

(27:33):
the Epstein files, Just like with everything we've talked about
so far in this program, the truth slowly makes its
way out, and we see that there is such Trump
derangement syndrome among the Democrat Party, the ruling eleite Democrats,
the cabal in general, that they're never going to stop.

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And you and I know the reason why as much,
which is Trump may do some stuff that I find
offensive or not exactly presidential. The one thing, the one
singular thing that Donald Trump is doing that we all wanted,
was to change the direction of how things operate in DC.

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And that's what has Democrats and quite frankly, some Republicans
scared to death. I'll be right back, Welcome back to
the Weekend with Michael Brown as we close out this

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year together, because I am taking off next weekend and
I'll be back on my regular weekday program on January five,
and then that Saturday, i'll be back live again. So
as we close out this year together, I want to
take a moment to just step back from the politics,
all of the headlines, all of the noise, to say

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something pretty simple. Thank you, thank you. You listing right now,
whether you're in your car, in your kitchen, you're out
on the road somewhere across this great nation. You're listing
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(29:27):
or you're listening on a podcast. Wherever you are, however
you're listening, You're the reason I do the program. You
keep me honest, you challenge me on things occasionally on
the text line, and you remind me every weekend that
this country is still packed full of thoughtful, curious people

(29:50):
who truly care about what's happening around them in your neighborhood,
in your community, whether you live in or a rural area,
an urban area, Red state or blue state, all the
three hundred and fifty plus affiliates across the country, you
really do care about what's happening around you. When this

(30:11):
program airs every weekend on stations from coast to coast,
it's more than just a radio program, I hope. I
like to think of it as an opportunity to make
you think, the national conversation in which you think, and
you can respond through social media through the text line anyway.
But you wouldn't understand, or maybe don't. Maybe you do

(30:35):
understand that this program depends on voices like yours. So
when you write, when you weigh in online, when you
bring your perspective to my show, prep, that tells me
something important, and that is that you really do want
to hear maybe sometimes a different perspective, or you want

(30:59):
me to help put in words what you really believe,
or there's a topic that you don't fully understand, but
you come here and I hope that I help explain
it to you. That you want substance, not slogans, and
I think you prove that every time that you tune in.

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And now as we look ahead to another year, I
think we ought to be really honest about the challenges
that's facing information, it's facing politics. Frankly, I think it's
facing truth itself. The very idea of news and what
I thought of as news when I was growing up. Wow,

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it's changing faster than most of us can can keep
up with artificial intelligence AI. It's just not in the
background anymore. It's in the newsroom. It's an ad campaigns.
It's starting to shape the content that we see and
that we here. That can be exciting, but I also
find it very dangerous, particularly if we stop asking questions.

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And I know it's frustrating. You ought to do show prep,
you ought to try to prepare. You know, I prepare
for three hours every Monday through Friday, and then three
hours every Saturday. There's a lot of show prep, and
it frustrates me as I find something that I think at,

(32:31):
you know, on the top line, Oh that's pretty interesting,
that's fact or I'm curious about that. And as you know,
I've said it many times, I talk about things that
interest me because if I'm interested in it, then I
bring a different level of enthusiasm, a different level of
intensity to a topic than something that somebody might hand
me and say, please talk about this. Well, I'm not

(32:52):
interested in that. But as I go through and I
find things that pique my curiosity, it really is frustrating
to start to dig into it and to find out
that it's completely false. So it is exciting, but it's dangerous.
So you've got to, just like I do, to keep

(33:12):
asking questions, never stop questioning. I know you've seen because
I certainly have the AI creating fake images. They go
viral in just seconds, pictures that truly look perfectly real
but never happened. We've seen influencers. You've seen influencer stage

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events or twist clips to go viral, and they do
it for profit, or they do it for politics, or
they do it for both. And we've watched as the
cabal rushes to publish stories that are based on half
verified air quotes, here facts, because speed now matters more

(33:55):
than accuracy. Well, that's not journalism. That's just chaos dressed
up as headlines pretending to be journalism. So this is
my challenge to you as we cross into a new year.
Be as I've always said, a discerning consumer of news,
don't give up on staying informed, but don't take anything

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at face value. Look for primary sources, check more than
one outlet. Ask yourself whether the story even feels designed
to inform you or is it trying to manipulate you?
Because remember, the truth really does still matter, even when
the tools of deception get fancier, more difficult to analyze,

(34:44):
and more difficult to discern. Oh, is it fake or
is it real? Is it real or is it memoris
Now beyond the news, there's the political process itself, a
heartbeat of this republic. It doesn't run on autopilot. Democracy
and the democratic republic survives only when citizens step up, vote,

(35:05):
stay engaged, Stay engaged. I've spent years enough in government
to tell you this. When people tune out, the worst
voices take over. Decisions get made by those who show up,
not those who shrug. So in the year ahead, show up,
show up, get involved locally. Thanks for tuning in. I
hope you'll share this program with your friends and relatives. Everybody,

(35:26):
have a merry Christmas and a prosperous new Year. I'll
see you next year.