August 12, 2025 • 52 mins
This week on Power Hour, Trump nominated again for Nobel Peace Prize, MSNBC melts down over Trump’s DC crime crackdown, JD Vance’s plea to Elon Musk, bombshell new book exposes Prince Andrew, and Harry & Meghan hit with humiliating new blow.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
It was its Power Hour with Gabriella Power.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Hello and welcome to Power Hour. I'm Gabriella Power. Thank
you for joining us. Well, it wasn't all that long
ago that these were the people running America. Now. I
have to warn you this photograph is from four years
ago and it kind of gives you a jump scare
just looking at it. You can see Joe Biden and
Kamala Harris and Biden's cabinet at the White House all
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wearing masks during an era that was absolutely insane, a
time where some federal workers were fired if they didn't
want to get the COVID jab While President Trump is
making moves to reverse Biden's excessive pandemic policies, He's ordered
all federal agencies to delete any records related to workers
COVID vaccination status, including any records of non compliance or exemptions.
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And that is about time. Office of Personal Management Director
Scott Copore says that things got out of hand during
the Power Yes they did, and federal workers were fired, punished,
or sidelined for simply making a personal medical decision that
should never have happened. Thanks to President Trump's leadership, we're
making sure that the excess of that era did not
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have lingering effects on federal workers. Now that is a win.
No one should have ever lost their jobs during that time,
and no one should ever have their personal medical choices
held against them. Now, former House Speaker Nanci Pelosi is
feeling the heat of insider trading accusations against her and
her husband. The President has lashed out at the former
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House speaker over the weekend, posting on truth Social crooked.
Nancy Pelosi and her very interesting husband beat every hedge
fund in twenty twenty four. In other words, these two
very average minds beat all of the super geniuses on
Wall Street, thousands of them. It's all inside information. Now,
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Nancy Pelosi is on a salary of around a high
hundred and eighty thousand dollars a year, and the Pelosis
are worth around four hundred and thirteen million dollars. According
to some reports, plenty of pool Pelosi's trades on the
stock market have raised eyebrows. Many of them have been
timed extraordinarily well. The New York Post reports that in January,
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Pool Pelosi invested in tempes Ai when it was worth
around thirty one dollars a share, but then the firm
card a two hundred million dollar deal with Astroseneka. It's
now worth around sixty dollars a share, almost double the price.
He's also made well time trades in Nvidia, Palo Alto Networks,
and dump two point two million dollars worth of shares
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of Microsoft stock just a few months before the FTC
launched an antitrust investigation into the company. Now, Nancy Pelosi
denies all accusations and has been dodging questions about this
for years.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Over the course of your career, has your husband ever
made a stock purchase of SALB on.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Information you've received from you?
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Now?
Speaker 5 (02:59):
Absolutely not.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
She just walks off, And her recent appearance on CNN
was just as awkward. She almost pleads with Jake Tapper
not to ask her about it.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
She Nancy Pelosi became rich.
Speaker 6 (03:14):
I might you have to read that we're here to
talk about the sixtieth anniversary of Medicaid.
Speaker 7 (03:18):
That's what I.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
Agreed to come to talk.
Speaker 7 (03:20):
Yeah, but I wanted it.
Speaker 6 (03:21):
That means in the election, I wanted.
Speaker 7 (03:23):
To give you a chances to respond.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
He accused you of insider trading.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
What's your response to that?
Speaker 8 (03:28):
That's very ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Joining us now is former R and C national spokeswoman
Elizabeth Pipco. Elizabeth, thank you for joining us. Can I
get your reaction to the spotlight that's being placed on
Nancy Pelosi at the moment and the President just continues
to accuse her of insider training.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
I mean, it's comical because this has been going on
for so long, right, if anyone's kind of in tune
with that internet culture, people have been accusing her of
this for quite some time. They've been following the star
sorry for quite some time, and she's been dodging it
for quite some time. So I think it's comical that
it's still coming up. Comical that she hasn't found a
way to respond to it either. It shows how not
relatable she truly is, and how I think most of
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us could realize when it's time to kind of bow
out of whatever we're doing. She is the definition of
why we need term limits, and I think even she
might agree with that because she seems to not really
belong anywhere anymore, and I think she knows that that
even people at her own party kind of want her
to step aside because it's not working for them.
Speaker 7 (04:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
I enjoy watching her dodge those questions every time. She
doesn't get any better at it. Now. Over the weekend,
US President Donald Trump broke it another historic peace deal,
this time between Armenia and Azerbaijan. After nearly four decades
of conflicts between the two countries. It was resolved with
a peace declaration at the White House. He's the president,
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maybe maybe.
Speaker 9 (04:59):
Stea more than thirty five years Armenia and Azerbaijan. I
fought a bitter conflict that resulted in tremendous suffering for
both nations. They suffered gravely for so many years. Many
tried to find a resolution, including the European Union. The
Russians worked very hard on it never happened. Sleepy Joe
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Biden tried, but you know what happened there. He tried
for probably twelve minutes and didn't work out. And many
other countries tried and they were unsuccessful. But with this accord,
we've finally succeeded in making peace.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
I love how he notes that it didn't work out
when Sleepy Joe Biden tried. But Elizabeth Trump has ended
conflicts now between Thailand and Cambodia, Israel and Iran, India
and Pakistan, and there are calls for him to win
the Nobel Peace Prize.
Speaker 5 (05:52):
Look, I think again, it's a strange time that we're
living in it, right, And I think even a lot
of people that don't support, didn't support, didn't vote for
and Trump would admit that they kind of root against
him every single day. I think it's sad how politicized
things have become, but it's true. And the fact of
the matter is if this was any other president, they
would have been nominated for that prize a long time ago,
by the way, probably in his first term for the
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Abraham Accords. But what struck me with this is this
is my job, right, I have to follow politics for
a living. And I even found out about this peace
deal later than it actually happened, and the average person
that I spoke to had no idea because the media
didn't want to cover it because it looks like another
win for President Trump and for the world. And it's
sad that we've become so politicized we can't even share
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in these victories. And the fact that these two nations,
like you said, it's been going on for so long
and now there's going to be peace. People are celebrating it.
And we can't in America because that would be a
win for President.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Trump, well said. Now, Donald Trump has announced a sweeping,
sweeping rabbit crime crackdown in DAYCA, placing the city's police
department under federal control and deploying the National God to
patrol the straits. Now, Trump says he's going to clean
it up real quick, like we did on the southern
border with illegal immigration. And the homicide rate in DC
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is among the highest in major US cities. But of
course the Democrats and the mainstream media are in meltdown
over Trump's move. Today, Hillary Clinton claimed that it was unhinged,
and this is the coverage on MSNBC.
Speaker 10 (07:20):
Chris, to be honest with you, I'm trying to hold
my temper. I think that's an ongoing argument that he's
having in his head with Black Lives Matter. There's an
ongoing argument that he's having with the questions around criminal
justice reform and police reform. It's interesting that he really
doesn't really care about what's actually happening in DC on
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a certain level, because he's not trying to get that
to underlying root causes. He's not looking at examples of
how to address carising crime rates that doesn't require a
form of policing that leads to increase incarcealty and the like.
Let's look at what's going on in Baltimore. Let's look
at what's happening actually in places like Baltimore in Chicago. Right,
So part of what.
Speaker 7 (08:03):
We had to do is to understand and Alkman.
Speaker 10 (08:06):
We have to understand this, Chris, within the context of
Donald Trump's racial politics and within the context of his
effort to get Epstein off the front pages.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Elizabeth, I want to get your thoughts on Trump's decision
and also that analysis on MSNBC that this is actually
part of Trump's racial politics.
Speaker 5 (08:28):
I mean, look the mental gymnastics that it takes right
to convince yourself that President Trump trying to make a
city that he's obviously personally impacted by, to make a
city safer and cleaner and better for the people that
he works with every single day, for many that he
personally knows that have been impacted by that rise in crime.
The fact that that could be turned into something bad
and twisted in that way just proves how much people
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hate him more than they love our country. It's a
sad reality. And I also don't understand the innuendo that
he's being racist. I think it's actually kind of the
other way. They're being racist. By now, when he says
he wants to fix violent crime, that means something against
any other race. All it means is that crime is
out of control, and if parents are scared to walk
with their children in the streets, something has to be done.
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And who is better to fix something in the president
of the United States?
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Absolutely right. US Senator Bernie Sanders is on his fighting
oligarchy tour across American states. He believes that people are
frustrated with the current political system. And let's just look
at some of his best moments.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
How could I get buy on one house? I need
five houses, my own three residences, Yeah I do. I
need jet planes to take me all over the world.
Think I'm going to be sitting on a waiting line
at United and that's the only way you can get around.
No apologies for that. Sorry the American people. We've got
the money, We've got the power. Guess what, I'm the
United States senator.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Earlier in the year, it was revealed he spent more
than two hundred thousand dollars on private jets during the
first quarter of twenty twenty five. Let's take a look.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
You know Alyssa Slockin, Senator from Michigan, and she said
you shouldn't be using an oligarchy. It's over people's head.
You've gotten criticized from other people. Free Beacon says Bernie
Sanders spent two hundred twenty one thousand on private jets
fighting the oligarchy tour paid for by friends of Bernie Sanders.
That you've spent millions of dollars in campaign funds on
private jet travel over the years. How do you push
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back on both of those.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Things when the last time you saw Donald Trump during
a campaign mode at National Airport.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
No, no, no, it doesn't. But he's also not fighting the aligarchy.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
No. And you run a campaign and you do three
or four or five rallies in a week. The only
way you can get around to talk to thirty thousand people.
I think I'm going to be sitting on a waiting
line at United waiting. You know what, thirty thousand people
are waiting. That's the only way you can get around.
No apologies for that. That's what campaign travel is about.
We've done it in the past. We're going to do
it in the future.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
His tour is about fighting allarchy, but of course scoffs
at the idea of not flying private. But it's interesting.
Bernie Sanders called out former Vice president and Kamala Harris
and slammed her failed election campaign, saying that she had
too many billionaires telling her not to speak up for
the working class. Look at this.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
One of the reasons, in my view that Kamala Harris
lost this election is she had too many billionaires telling
God not to speak up for the working class.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
Of this country.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
He then doubled down on this claim during the interview
on Scene Inn And before I get to more of
seen ends coverage on this, Elizabeth, can I get your
reaction to Bernie Sanders fighting for oligarchy tour and of
course his criticism of Kamala Harris.
Speaker 5 (11:36):
Yeah, so a few things. First of all, I think
it's laughable he's criticizing Kamala Harris and her campaign, which yes,
was a joke. But I believe Bernie Sanders also ran
for president a few times and didn't end up doing
too well, So I don't know if he has any
right to criticize anyone else, especially in his failing party.
That wants to point the finger at everyone but themselves.
Now on the plane thing, I'm actually personally offended. I
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was on the campaign trail last year. We weren't always
on President Trump's plane, which, by the way, on like Bernie,
he bought himself. Everyone should be aware of that. But
we weren't always on his plane. We were very often
on commercial flights, very often more than two or three
in one day. Nobody was sleeping the last I think
few months of the campaign, I was in a different
state every day. And I've seen people that I campaigned with,
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people like Laura Trump, by the way, who everyone can
talk about as much as they want, But I have
seen Laura Trump, that woman my friend, who was on
a Delta flight, a United flight, a Spirit flight in
a middle seat, very often trying to hit every single
state that she could during the last few months of
the campaign. So there's absolutely no excuse for anything that
he's claiming, and no excuse for his behavior, by the way,
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which is so not relatable, especially for the message that
he claims to believe.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Him absolutely Well, let's look at how sin N covered
this tour scene. N's Dana Bash sat down with Bernie
Sanders for any interview where she complimented him so much
he was almost blushing and he was giggling, and she
compared him to the part.
Speaker 11 (13:00):
This something that I'm sure you have seen a gallup pole?
Did you see this gallupolee? And what the gallupole found
was that you are one of the most widely admired Americans,
and I believe you're only second to the pope.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
You want me to declare my candidacy.
Speaker 11 (13:20):
For pope, I don't think. I don't think that you're
eligible for a lot of reasons. I watched you tonight,
I've watched you for a very very long time. You're
obviously still full of a bigger and intensity for the
things that you're passionate about and have been for decades.
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Is there another presidential run in you?
Speaker 10 (13:43):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (13:43):
God, let's not worry about that. I am going to
be eighty four years of age next month. As a
matter of fact.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Oh, it's just embarrassing, Elizabeth. What do you make of this?
Speaker 5 (13:55):
I mean, it's classic Democrat behavior. Right one has Donald
Trump ever sat and been fond over like this? Not
to mention, I've seen a lot of polling showing Donald
Trump being extremely extremely popular. Nobody ever talks about it
like this. In fact, they actually laugh at it and
try to mark his supporters, which is the reason they
continue to lose. But again, Bernie Sanders grand for president
and it didn't work. So it's obviously not that popular
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with the people of this country, and that's I think
what should matter to him.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Jadie Vance has declared that a lot of people are
about to get indicted over Russia Gate. He believes that
the recent disclosures from the Director of National Intelligence Toulci
Gabbard is evidence of a gross violation of the law. This,
of course comes after Tulsi Gabbard alleged that documents show
the Obama administration promoted a contrived narrative that Russia interfered
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in the twenty sixteen election.
Speaker 12 (14:45):
He is jad Events, you don't just indict people to
indict people. You indict people because they.
Speaker 7 (14:50):
Broke the law.
Speaker 12 (14:51):
But if you look at what Tulsi and Cash Betel
have revealed in the last couple of weeks, I don't
know how anybody can look at that and say that
there wasn't a agressive violations of the law.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
The Vice President was pretty clear there. What can we expect.
Speaker 5 (15:07):
Well, look, I'm hopeful that we see some kind of
movement on this. I think too many times people get
excited about something and that it doesn't happen because the
government can always deliver for the American people that we
wanted to. At the same time, I think Jade Vance
is right. He's the Vice president of the United States.
He's seeing this evidence in front of him of what
went on that should never have happened, that should never
be allowed to happen the United States of America, and
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he's saying, we have to do something about it so
that it never happens again. The fact is he's not wrong.
A lot of people have questions about what happened in
twenty sixteen, and it's actually not just people who voted
for Donald Trump. It's not just us that think that
Barack Obama Hillary Clinton actually did conspire to hurt him
and make sure that the American people were hurt as well.
It's actually folks that voted against him, that believed that
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Russia hoax, that have no idea why millions of United
States tax dollars were spent. And it turned out, obviously
the Donald Trump did not collude with Russia. It turned
out they spent every single I guess you could say weapon,
unfortunately at their disposal, to try to turn this country
upside down ruin four years of Donald Trump's term, and
obviously use only the American tax dollar and the energy
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of the American people to do so. It's actually shameful,
whether you're talking about those who are Republican or a Democrat,
because they what they did impacted every single person in
this country in a negative way. So I'm hoping we
see something come out of this investigation because we deserve answers,
and people deserve to know what was done by their
own elected officials against this country.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Absolutely. Finally, Ditty Vance also appears to have extended an
olive france to Aylon Musk Scolpt, revealing that he didn't
think that the TESLA'SAO would take his cool. Diety event
said that he does want Aylon to come back to
the MAGA movement by the midterms.
Speaker 12 (16:47):
My argument to Elon is like, you're not going to
be on the left right even if you wanted to be,
and he doesn't, they're.
Speaker 13 (16:55):
Not going to have you back.
Speaker 12 (16:56):
That should be sailed, and so I I really think
it's a mistake for him to try to break from
the president. So my hope is that by the time
of the midterms he's kind of come back into the bowl.
But yeah, I don't know that he would take my
call right now about anything. Really, I'm sure, I kid,
I'm sure he would take my call. But obviously the
drama around him and the him in the White House
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over the last couple of months. Again, my hope is
that just kind of cools down a little bit because
he did help us a lot in the election. The
President even says all this frustration. Elon was a very
very critical part of the teams last election, And so
my hope is by the midterms things are kind of
back to normal, right, Yeah, we'll see, we'll see.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
I was gonna Elizabeth, is this a good idea or
do you think there's potentially too much chaos around Alon?
Speaker 5 (17:44):
You know, I think when your country is at stake,
all that chaos kind of goes out the window. The
fact that Elon Musk was not a Republican. I think
he was a strong Democrat for quite some time, and
he only threw his support behind President Trump in the
summer before the election, right a few months out after
President Trump was unfortunately shot at It took something as
chaotic as that for him to say, Hey, at this
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point in time, we have one choice to make. We
have Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, and this is my pick.
And I think when the midterms roll around, it's going
to be the exact same thing. The fact is he's
not going to have a new party that's going to,
you know, make some kind of groundbreaking movement in these midterms.
He's going to have a choice to make, and that's
Democrat or Republican. And I believe, regardless of what chaos
Elon Musk, Donald Trump Jady Vans have between them, when
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you think about the country, you make the right choice.
And I believe Elon Musk is going to go out
and make the same choice that he made in twenty
twenty four in that presidential election, because it's not about
personal relationships for him. He's too successful to think that way.
It's about the future of this country.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Elizabeth Piccot, thanks so much for your time. Great to
talk to you. Thank you. It's time for media meltdowns
and talk show hosts Jimmy Kimmel maybe joining Rosie O'Donnell,
Ellen DeGeneres and other Hollywood celebrities who vowed to flamir
because of Donald Trump. The late night host appeared on
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the Sarah Silverman podcast, where he revealed he has his
Italian citizenship ready to escape Trump's unbelievably bad America.
Speaker 14 (19:14):
They know we're thinking about where they can get.
Speaker 7 (19:18):
Citizenship.
Speaker 14 (19:20):
I do have Italian I did get Italian citizens You.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Do, Oh, that's amazing.
Speaker 7 (19:25):
I do have that.
Speaker 14 (19:26):
And what's going on is uh is as bad as
you thought it was going to be, way worse. It's
so much worse. It's just unbelievable. Like I feel like
it's probably even worse than he would like it to be.
Speaker 15 (19:41):
Probably.
Speaker 14 (19:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Joining us now is political commentator Briylan hollyhand Brilan. Great
to see you, Thanks for joining us here on Power Hour.
So Jimmy Kimmel has floated the idea of fleeing to
Europe while ranting about how horrible America really is. What's
your reaction to all this?
Speaker 8 (20:00):
Nobody stopping him from going. I will pack his backs
for him tonight and encourage him to lee.
Speaker 7 (20:04):
We would love that. Jimmy Kemmel at best is.
Speaker 8 (20:06):
A third rate comedian and genuinely right now, if you
turn on a show tonight, and not a lot of
people are as we're seeing the ratings continue to drop
for him. He is an he's a activist and comedian's clothing,
and that's why his show is failing, and that's why
he'll soon be in the trashy for history in next
to Space, Stephen Colbert. So I encourage them both to
buy joint condos in Italy and go use that passport
of first.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Now, in America, we're saying younger voters, particularly younger men, shift.
Speaker 8 (20:31):
To the right.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
We saw that in the US election result were around
forty six percent of those aged between eighteen to twenty
nine voted for Donald Trump last November, which was a
ten point increase from twenty twenty. But the media says
there's no gen Z red wave at all. The Atlantic
consists that this is in fact a big myth. The
Atlantic has this piece titled the Myth of the gen
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Z Red Wave, and it says that the best available
evidence suggests that the youth vote shift in twenty two
was more of a one off event than an ideological realignment.
I mean, you're a gen Z voter, what's really going
on here?
Speaker 8 (21:09):
The left would love to call this a myth, but
I've got to tell you the truth. This is actual reality.
I seen on my college campus. I was a first
time voter. I've spoke on over twenty two other college campuses.
Gen Z is this is a fluke. This was an
anomaly last November. This was a generational shift to the
right by a population of Americans that were overlooked by
the Democrat Party that for far too long, we're told
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that we were the enemy right here in our own country.
I know this will surprise you, but actually calling us
nazis Hitler's and garbage is not a way to win
over gen Z. They told us for decades our MASKUW.
Lindy was toxic and then came and begged for a
vote in an election time, and gen Z had enough
of that. We were fed up and this wasn't a
one time thing. Now we actually have a guy in
the of Ale office who is working to perform CPR
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on the American Dream and Gend's going to vote for
that in the midterm. So the Democrats better get used
to being on the losing end of gen Z because that's.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
Going to continue.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Well, let's talk about the Democrats and their rising star
Jasmine Crockett, I wanna get your thoughts on you if
she's doing the Democrats any favors here. She is just
earlier in the month labeling the President Timu Hitler.
Speaker 16 (22:12):
Parts of standing for what democracy is and making sure
that it does not fall by the wayside. They understand
that we have a timUL Hitler and the White House
right now that thinks that he is going to become
the dictator of the United States. Well, I got another
thing to tell you, sir. The Democrats. No, whether we're
talking about these Texas House Democrats, or whether we're talking
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about the governor from Illinois, the governor from California, or
whether we're talking about New York or I can go
through the states and it's not just the governors. It
is the state houses, it is the state senators. It
is those congressional delegations that are saying, do what you
gotta do, and I will fight and I will win,
and I will earn my seat back to the People's
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House in DC. I am here to tell you the
time is up for plan in our faces now.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
President Trump has slammed Jasmine Crockett, and he didn't hold back,
you know, just saying that she was kind of in
the mold of AOC and suggested that she needs to
take a cognitive exam, calling her a very low IQ person.
But what hope do the Democrats really have with people
like Jasmine Crockett saying that Trump is a team of Hitler.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
No hope, no hope at all.
Speaker 8 (23:23):
I'll tell the Democrats that every single day that the
Democrat Party opens her mouth is a good day for
the Republican Party. Jasmine Crockett is a walking talking billboard
for us as we get ready for our midterm attacks,
and every single time that she opens her mouth and
uses that fake accent, where we can use that as
billboard coverage as we get ready to win over more
gen Z voters in the midterms. If Kamala Harrish and
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Jasmine Crockett are the best that the Democrat Party can
put out there, listen, I'll hope they're Washington Program tonight,
and I would highly encourage them to please nominate those
two ladies with fake accent to where idiotic and couldn't
pass the cognitive test to be the future.
Speaker 7 (23:57):
Leaders with their party.
Speaker 8 (23:58):
If they think we steamrolled them last, remember just wait
until how many of my peers flee their party and drove.
So they continue to put people like Jasmoncrokin on the pedestal.
But they are and I don't want to get into
business and given Democrats free advice, but you would think
after a cycle where they went too far to the
left with the Kamala Harris nomination, they would go a
little bit more centrist this go around, but they haven't.
They're putting people like Jasmin Krok and they have soon
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a pedestal and Mom, Donna and New York so please,
Their party is a sinking ship. What'll be this Titanic
come twenty twenty six?
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Well, let's talk about Zarund, ma'am Dannie and now the
Radical Democrat and they are right now seriously serious concerns
around what would happen to New York City if he
does become mayor. The ex New York Police Department commissioner
Ray Kelly has warned that it would be a tragedy
if voters elect ma'am Donny, and he's particularly worried that
he'll get the Police department. This is what he said
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on radio.
Speaker 15 (24:48):
It's a tragedy of major proportions if the NANI is
elected mayor of the greatest city in the world. New
York is the capitol of capit and to have someone
who is so totally unqualified and you know who says
he's going to qualified the New York Times believe it
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or not. You know, there's three hundred thousand employees in
New York City. This man has basically not had a job. No,
I'm very concerned, the concerned about the cutesy of New York.
If he gets elected, he has a whole list of
wacky things that he wants to do. My biggest concern
is in a police department and what he would do
(25:29):
to the department. There's no question about it that he
would have to reduce the size of the police department.
But right now which reducing itself. People are leaving at
the highest rate ever.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
And if you look at Zoran Madanni's track record, he's
previously called to defund the police. It's no wonder we're
hearing serious warnings like this.
Speaker 8 (25:54):
No, it's not at all, And I think our tragedy
is putting it lightly. I'll say to my peers who
are in New York City, of fellow gen Z voters
who think that socialism is just a TikTok trends. It's
not I was in New York City last week. It's
a beautiful place with a lot of potential and can
really be in a worst off position with this, and
that's no secret to anybody. I mean, I just challenge
my fellow gen Z voters out there who are going
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to get off the sidelines to vote in this election,
hopefully not for the socialist candidate who's actually you know,
it's really easy for Republicans for the labels on Candada's socialists.
He's like a proud socialis. It's a crazy concept. Find
me one person who fled a socialist country and is
wanting to come find another socialist country. I mean, people
build rafts out of garbage to vote away from countries
to socialism, to come to America to get away from that.
(26:37):
And we're going to be stupid enough to elect a
guy who can sell good on TikTok to literally defeat
our shining city on a hills Reagan put it. Gen
Z has to understand the repercussions of this. This is
not something to just test out an experimental lab and
just see how socialism works. It's really easy for them
to dangle these free things in motions in front of
our face. But gen Z has to wake up. They
have to go off the sidelines. They have to reject socialism.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Political commentator Brian only Hann, thanks so much for your
time and speaking to us here on Power.
Speaker 4 (27:02):
Houra, thanks for having me.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Let's turn into the situation in the Middle East, And
just a few days ago, US Secretary of State Marco
Rubio declared that recognizing Palestinian statehood has encouraged Hamas to
abandon ceasefire talks with Israel.
Speaker 17 (27:23):
Well, if you noticed that the talks with Hamas fell
apart on the day Macrone made the unilateral decision that
he's going to recognize the Palestinian state, and then you
have other people come forward, other countries say, well, there's
not a ceasefire by September, we're going to recognize the
Palestin state. Well, if I'm Hamas, I basically conclude, let's
not do a ceasefire, right because we can be rewarded
and we can claim it as a victory. So those messages,
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while largely symbolic in their minds, actually have made it
harder to get peace and harder to achieve a deal.
With hamas they feel embolden.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
Now, Australia's Prime Minister, Anthony Albernizi, has confirmed that Australia
will recognize Palestinian statehood at the UN General Assembly next month.
Speaker 18 (28:00):
Australia will recognize the state of Palestine. Australia will recognize
the ride of the Palestinian people to a state of
their own, predicated on the commitments Australia has received from
the Palestinian authority.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Joining us now is Joel Bernie, executive manager at AJAC Australia,
Israel and Jewish Affairs Council. Joel, thanks for your time.
Can I get your reaction to the Prime Minister's announcement?
Speaker 19 (28:29):
Thanks thanks for having me, Gabrielle Well, I think the
Secretary Rubio said all that needs to be said. Secretary
Rubio clearly ar particulated as a party to the ceasefie
negotiations with Kamas, Israel, the Katteries and the Egyptians. He
made it abundantly clear that Kamas is watching what the
world is doing, specifically Western countries, including our own, in
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terms of their posture of a potential recognition of a
Palestinian state. So, with this decision, by the Prime Minister.
Speaker 13 (28:59):
Yes, we've seen the public statements made by Kamas leaders
welcoming it, even though the Prime Minister on his media
hastings this morning was super clear to say that this
is against Kramas policy. Kramas doesn't like this, even though
Kamas has stated publicly that it supports it. Now, the
reason why Kamas supports it so clearly is because this
is so little about the plight of the Palestinian people
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and so much more about anger, frustration and antagonism towards Israel.
So Kramas sees is exactly what it is, and this
is a punishment towards Israel as opposed to pursuing of
peace between Israel and the Palestinians. It's a cynical mistake,
it's misguided, it's miscalculated, and as I noted yesterday, I mean,
I'm very concerned about the unintended consequences that are going
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to come from such a decision.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
Me too. Look, what does it say that Anthony Aberenezi
is negotiating with Palestinian leader Mamod a Bus before he's
even met with the President of the United States.
Speaker 13 (29:59):
Well, I think the the remarks of the Prime Minister
last week when he was asked about whether or not
he was going to consult with the President of the
United States, not only was a puzzling but I think
it's very troubling and I think it highlights the key
issue here, Gabriella. Now, look, there's a lot of politicking
around here, there's a lot of is this symbolic? Is
this going to help the Palestinians? The decision, was this
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about votes, was this about the left flank? All of
that is really not as important as the deterioration in
the relationship between the United States, our key and most
important strategic partner. So the tone of the Prime minister's
response as to well, I'm not going to consult with
the president because we have our own sovereign foreign policy.
(30:42):
But he was just on the call with Starma, multiple times,
with Macron, with President of Bus, with other leaders, including
Luxton of New Zealand. So the Prime Minister was very
proactive in making phone calls to certain leaders and unwilling
to make phone calls to others. I think this is
a very very troubling development. And the decision yesterday to
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announce Australia's upcoming recognition of Palestine is clearly at odds
with the position of the Trump administration and with other
key aspects of that alliance being discussed right now, such
as the Orchestra review by the Pentagon, and also continuing
economic and trade issues with tariffs and whatnot. Also last night,
(31:25):
with Chris Yulman's new show, you had a lot of
Australian military and defense experts warning of the potential of
war to come to our shores. I think the Australian
public Gabrilla needs to wake up and see that this
type of foolish pursuit by the Prime Minister is hampering
and deteriorating very important relationships with other partners.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
The Prime Minister was doing the breakfast TV rounds this
morning and he didn't seem that prepared.
Speaker 6 (31:50):
Take a look, Hermas don't support two states. They support
one state. In their own words, from the river to
the sea, from the Jordan River to the ocean, to.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
The ocean, I mean it's the Mediterranean Sea. And he
sounds like protesters at college campuses that we saw going
viral on the internet that had no idea what river,
what sea?
Speaker 10 (32:15):
Look.
Speaker 13 (32:15):
I think your viewers can make their own judgments and
determinations on that little slip from Breakfast TV this morning.
But what I will underline is is that this is
an incredibly historic and complex conflict. It is not something
that leaders can just fly in and fly out and
think they can wave a magic wand and rid the
world of a conflict that has been going on for
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longer than send seven decades. This is not something that
the symbolic gestures of Western leaders or the pronouncements of
a premature recognition of a state that doesn't exist, is
somehow going to end the war and the conflict and
we're all going to live a happy day. It's completely
devoid of any type of appreciation to what is important
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in the region and the complexities of the problem. And
I'll sum it up like this, Gabriella, not one Palestinian
life was impacted this morning when they woke up to
the decision of Prime Minister Albanesi's announcement. When Australia ultimately
recognizes in September, the lives of Palestinians will not change
one iota, which means that all the political capital that's expended,
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all the potential deteriorations of the strategic relationships, especially with
the United States will all be ultimately for nothing, for
a foolish pursuit on something that is not going to
actually make any material or benefit to the people in
the Middle East. What needs to happen is very simple.
The world needs to exert pressure on Hamas to lay
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down their arms, release the hostages, and end this war
once and for all. If Hamas is to do that
right now and write this second Gabriella, the war is over.
We all live to fight another day, and then we
can talk about the pursuit of the two state solutions.
Then now it is pre and Unfortunately, even if there
are virtuous intentions and good intentions behind this bursituit, and
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even if the Prime Minister and Foreign Minister think in
their hearts of hearts that they, as self professed non
players in the region, are going to usher in an
era of peace in the Middle East, unfortunately they are mistaken,
and putting all your eggs in the Palestinian authority basket
historically shows you that it is going to end in tears.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
Joe Bernie, Executive manager at AJAC Australia, Israel and Jewish
Affairs Council, thank you so much for your time.
Speaker 13 (34:34):
Thanks Gabrielle.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
Shocking new revelations about Prince Andrew have been making headlines
around the world ahead of the release of Andrew Loney's
new book entitled The Rise and Fall of the House
of York, which dives into Prince Andrew's relationship with women,
his mysterious finances, and his relationship with convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
Author Andrew Lownie joins us now, Andrew, thank you for
(35:01):
your time. This is the first in depth look at
Andrew and Fergie's unusual relationship. You've spoken to hundreds of people,
including friends, former staff members, former colleagues of Prince Andrew,
and many people have never spoken before. But you also
had some freedom of information requests denied by the British
(35:21):
government That must have made things challenging for you.
Speaker 4 (35:26):
Yes, and I think there have been a lot of offscourses,
but placed in front of me of the York family
refused to cooperate with me. They actually told people not
to talk to me. The British Foreign Office tall dimbasas
not to talk to me. And we found, as I say,
with my research that literally hundreds of FOI requests for
(35:47):
the papers relating to Andrew's time as a special Trade
envoy between two thousand and one and twenty eleven, when
you was paid for by the taxpayer, are still closed
and these papers should actually be within the National Archives anyway.
So yes, and there's been some pushback from establishment figures
(36:07):
here in Britain against the book, but I stand by it.
It's four years research. As you say, several hundred people
who've never spoken before talking, and I think they're talking
these senior diplomats and for example, naval officers because they
were shot by the brazenness of the way this couple
have leveraged their royal position in order for their own
(36:29):
personal financial gain, and also have not told the truth
about the extent of their relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. Both
of them had close relationships. Were eighteen phone numbers for
Sarah Ferguson sixteen for Andrew in Epstein's Black Book, and
their relationship began about a decade before they claimed it did,
(36:52):
and it continued long after they claimed to have cut
off all ties. So yes, it's an extraordinary, extraordinary revelations
in the book.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
And I absolutely want to dive into their relationship with
Jeffrey Epstein. But how do you describe a prince Andrew
and Fergie's relationship. It's quite unusual that they live together
despite divorcing decades ago.
Speaker 4 (37:16):
Yes, I mean people are surprised by it. Via the relationship.
They describe themselves as the happiest divorced couple in the world.
They're married in eighty six, separated in ninety two, and
divorced in ninety six. But actually what they have had
I think is an open relationship that you're right. They
do live together in a thirty room mansion, so they
don't have to sort of tipto past each other too much,
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but they have stuck together. He supported her when she
went through all sorts of scandals of her own, and
now she's supporting him. But really she sticks in there
because her whole Rezondette is to be part of the
royal family, so she has to be there. And I
think he feels guilty for the way he treated her,
(38:00):
or at least she makes him feel guilty, and so
he sticks in there for her now. But you know,
his mother paid a lot of her debts, and those debts,
of course were taken over by Epstein, who paid many
more of them.
Speaker 2 (38:13):
Well, let's talk about those finances, because the book dives
into Prince Andrew's finances and allegations of corruption. Can you
talk to us about what you discovered?
Speaker 4 (38:24):
Yes, I mean he was given this trade role on
behalf of the British government to promote British trade, and what
seems to be happening was that he used it to
promote his own business activities or those of his friends.
So for example, he would shoehorn meetings for company people
like Epstein or his business partners David and Jonathan Rowland,
(38:47):
for them to do business. He was, for example, promoting
a Greek water firm in Kazakhstan which had nothing to
do with British interests, and creaming off a commission of
three point eighty five million pounds. There have been several
court cases which revealed that he was paid huge sums
of money which he's not able to explain, and money
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also that was paid to his wife and to one
of his daughters. So this seems to be a family
business and there was no proper scrutiny of him he
was meant to. No one quite knew what he was doing.
The Foreign Office has sent in places, but the diplomats
found that actually he was counter productive. He actually antagonized
people rather than actually helping support trade. And then after
(39:32):
he was basically sacked, he carried on with what was
ostensibly a charity pitch at the palace, but in which
he set up a side company where he was taking
a two percent commission on all the investment that was
put into this charity. So I think there are a
lot of questions for him to answer. MPs twenty years
ago were asking our National Crime Agency to investigate him.
(39:55):
Nothing was done, and I think there is a case
for them to look at his situation again.
Speaker 2 (40:02):
On Jeffrey Epstein, there are suggestions in the book that
Epstein played Prince Andrew, that the Prince was a useful
idiot who gave him access to political leaders and business opportunities.
Can you expand on that for us?
Speaker 4 (40:16):
Yes, I mean Andrew was a very useful piece of
respectability for Epstein. He gave him status, and he gave
him quite useful contacts, clearly through his role as a
trade envoy, and he entertained Epstein for example at Sandringham,
at Balmoral, at Windsor Castle, Buckingham Palace. I mean there's
(40:37):
a big party where he invited Epstein and Harvey Weinstein
as well, and for Andrew, Epstein provided again some useful
contacts of someone who was busy paying off debts for
the couple, and of course who also provided women for Andrew.
We have the famous case of Virginia Jeffrey, but there
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were other women who was a place to Andrew.
Speaker 2 (41:02):
And the book also details other relationships that Prince Andrew
had with women. There are suggestions that Prince Andrew put
himself in compromising situations. You know, his reputation couldn't get
much worse. But how damaging do you think some of
these details that you've written about what will actually be
to him?
Speaker 4 (41:22):
I think very damaging and very damaging to the family
and indeed to the monarchy, because the monarchy was aware
of what was going on, and in fact, I would
argue colluded with him. His mother protected him the queen
he was. When there were complaints from Buckhing Palace, sorry
to Buckingham Palace, from diplomats, they were ignored. She sort
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of entertained a lot of these dictators from Central Asia
that he was doing business with, who were despots, I mean,
who didn't believe in human rights. And so I think
you know, it is damaging and it shows that there's
not sufficient transparency about royal finances and actually about royal
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royal activity full stop. I mean, we're prepared to support
our royal family, but not if they're on the take
for themselves. So I think they need to look very
carefully cut him, cut him loose, but also look very
carefully at, for example, how they shape the narrative, because
what was clear is they were trying to shut down
this story. There's a famous episode with the journalists from
(42:27):
ABC Television in the States who had the Jeffrey and
Andrew's story years ago, and the Palace threatened to cut
off all contact with ABC, not allow the many interviews
if they pursued this investigation, and you know that can't
be right. You know, nobody is above the law, including
the members of the royal family.
Speaker 2 (42:48):
They are also bullying claims against Prince Andrew and also
Meghan Markel. I have to ask you about her. What
did you discover about Meghan?
Speaker 4 (42:56):
Well, I mean, Meghan isn't really part of the book,
but certainly there is an episodisode where Andrew got into
a fight with Harry saying that Meghan was not a
suitable bride. This is in twenty seventeen, and Harry got
very upset by that. But other members of the family.
We know that Williams showed concern about Meghan and said
(43:17):
he should go through due diligence. And I was researching
another of my books in twenty seventeen and talking to
members of the Row household and there were deep concerns
at that stage about his involvement with Meghan Markle, so
they saw her coming. So yes, Harry has denied that
he got into a fight, but as we all know.
Speaker 2 (43:37):
Recollections Vary Andrew Loney, author of the new book entitled
The Rise and Fall of the House of York, thank
you so much for your time. I really appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (43:47):
Pleasure.
Speaker 2 (43:51):
Prince Harry is considering launching a new African charity following
his dramatic exit from Center Ballet earlier this year. Joining
us for more on this is doctor Carrol Libman, psychiatrist
and author, doctor Carol Leibman. Thank you so much for
your time. So Prince Harry and his co founder quit
their roles as patrons of Center Ballet in March after
their relationship with the charity's chair, Doctor Sophie chan Dorka
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broke down beyond repair, and we later heard that doctor
chan Dorca claimed that she'd been subjected to bullying and harassment.
And now we're hearing reports that Prince Harry is considering
launching a new charity. What's your assessment of this, how's
this really going to go for Prince Harry.
Speaker 20 (44:34):
Well, I think this doctor Chandka is you know, is
in the wrong, and that she either was two thin skinned,
you know, that she misinterpreted things that were happening. There
were a number of people who quit, you know, it
wasn't just about Harry, and that perhaps she thought she
(44:56):
would get some money to if she.
Speaker 7 (44:58):
You know, sued them or something.
Speaker 20 (44:59):
I don't know what her motive was, but I know
that I know that the charity is really important to him.
He founded it in connection to in deference in honor
of his mother, and he really felt strongly he wanted
to help these kids. So I think it's very unfortunate
(45:22):
that doctor Shandaka decided to kind of make a mess
of things.
Speaker 2 (45:27):
Well, it's interesting. New polling has revealed which member of
the royal family is the most popular in Britain and
Prince William has surpassed his wife Princess Catherine for the
top spot. According to the Yugov poll, seventy four percent
of people have a positive opinion of the first in
line to the throne, Seventy one percent have a positive
view of Princess Catherine, seventy percent have a favorable view
(45:49):
of Princess Ann. But it is a different story for
Harry and Meghan, and of course Prince Andrew. Only twenty
eight percent have a positive opinion of Prince Harry and
twenty percent say the same about Meghan. What do you
put this down to, Well, it's.
Speaker 20 (46:04):
Very interesting, you know that that William and Cater at
the top and Harry and Meghan are at the bottom.
I mean, the only person worse that got a worse
approval rate than Megan was Prince Andrew.
Speaker 7 (46:19):
And we know, you know how he is not looked
upon well, so so it's you know.
Speaker 20 (46:28):
It's it's what's so interesting though, is that even when
these polls come out, and I mean for Megan, it's
like as long as you spell my name right, you know,
the saying I don't care what you say about me,
you know, I want publicity, just as long as you
spell my name right.
Speaker 7 (46:44):
So there are things every day.
Speaker 20 (46:46):
I mean I read, amongst other things, I read the
Daily Mail every day, and there are tons of stories
about her, and I'm not just in that paper, but
and and some of them are good, you know, favorable
towards her, and some of them are negative.
Speaker 7 (47:00):
And yet she does not seem to care.
Speaker 20 (47:04):
She has this smile, a frozen smile that she keeps
on regardless of what is happening. And quite frankly, you know,
between between this poll and then, you're probably going to
want to talk about Netflix.
Speaker 7 (47:19):
You know, I think that that.
Speaker 20 (47:21):
Things aren't going very well for her, and that's touch
just my opinion, but in general, and yet she somehow
manages to sort of hold her head high and pretend
that she's not bothered by it.
Speaker 2 (47:33):
Well, let's talk about that next Netflix deal rather. Prince
Harry and Meghan mark Will have extended the Netflix partnership,
signing a deal reportedly much less than their previous one
hundred million dollars one according to paid six. So we've
already had with love Megan. What else can we expect
from this?
Speaker 20 (47:51):
Well, you know, Netflix is in a very strange position.
Actually what they did, you know, with this first look deal.
First look deal is where all that means. It doesn't
mean that they are going to do anything that they're
going to put on any show where they would be
paying Harry and Megan money. I mean they have promised
to do with Love Megan or you know, also for
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Christmas Christmas Special. But other than that, a first look
deal just means that they have to show Netflix the first.
They have to show Netflix first any project that they
want to do. So if Netflix wants to buy it,
you know and do it, then fine, but if they don't,
they can pass on it. So it's really nothing. I
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mean there's really no money. I mean they may have
given them money. Sometimes you do get money for a
first look deal, but it doesn't commit to actually producing
anything with them other than the two you know what
I mentioned before for her, but so and you know,
basically it is a way to save face for Netflix.
Speaker 7 (48:57):
To save face.
Speaker 20 (48:58):
I mean Netflix made a ton of money in the
first project that they did, you know, when they revealed
all the secrets, the Royal family secrets. They made a
ton of money. There were a ton of viewers. It
was one of the top, if not the top show
at Netflix, and so they sort of have this feeling
that they don't want to let them go all together.
(49:19):
Like in other words, if they would reveal some more secrets,
they could have another top show. Of course, the Royal
family is you know, is concerned about that because, you know,
spilling more secrets. So it's kind of they're sort of
on life support when it comes to Netflix.
Speaker 2 (49:39):
Well, they've spilled plenty of secrets. Who notes if there
are any more to come. But I want to ask
you about something that Bill Maher has said. He said
that the US presidential election show that left wing censorship
is dead now. Who was speaking with actress three Barrymore
and he was speaking about the truth and speaking freely,
and he said that it's slightly less dangerous than it
was two years ago because we did have a vibe
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change and because the Democrats lost so badly in twenty
twenty four. Now, since Trump has returned to office, Bill
Maher has been slamming the wok left. He correctly labeled
will Be Goldberg stupid for saying being black was the
same as being a woman in Iran. He blasted the
lunatics going crazy over the Sydney Sweeny American Eagle ad
(50:23):
But what's your assessment about Bill Maher's comments here. Has
there been this significant vibe shift since the election?
Speaker 20 (50:31):
Well, I do think there has been a significant vibe shift,
you know, in that people are realizing that maybe they
are on the wrong side.
Speaker 3 (50:40):
You know.
Speaker 20 (50:41):
Maybe this isn't to say that Walkism has gone away
completely by any means, but there is a change. And
I think because people are beginning to see that Trump
isn't all that bad, at least not as bad as
you know, what they had said beforehand. He isn't hitler
as the Democrats.
Speaker 7 (50:59):
Were trying to say.
Speaker 20 (51:00):
I'm still saying, well this, yeah, some of them are
still saying That's why I say it hasn't totally made
a difference, But there isn't a vibe change. And you know,
there's a kind of sense like I think he's perhaps
thinking that it's well, he's been sort of in the middle.
I mean, he's kind of varied his stances depends on
(51:21):
the topic or the policy. But but I think he's
kind of realizing that it's not good to be totally
on the left, you know, so so fully on the
left like that, like the people on the view for example,
he talked like you know you said with the Goldbert
and the other people on the view and that show
(51:41):
as another example of the vibe change there. There is
talk that that show might be canceled because it really
became all I mean, it started to be it was
a fairly good show at the beginning, but it started
to be all about bashing Trump and that kind of
kind of got bored showing to some degree it got
really obnoxious at times. It was really on the edge
(52:05):
and not in a good way. And so there's even
talks some people are thinking that they might get canceled.
Speaker 2 (52:11):
Well, I think there's a lot of hope for that
for sure, Doctor Carol Leebman, we have to leave it there.
Thank you so much for speaking to us and joining
us here on Power. Our great to talk to you,
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It was its Power Hour with Gabriella Power.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Hello and welcome to Power Hour. I'm Gabriella Power. Thank
you for joining us. Well, it wasn't all that long
ago that these were the people running America. Now. I
have to warn you this photograph is from four years
ago and it kind of gives you a jump scare
just looking at it. You can see Joe Biden and
Kamala Harris and Biden's cabinet at the White House all
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wearing masks during an era that was absolutely insane, a
time where some federal workers were fired if they didn't
want to get the COVID jab While President Trump is
making moves to reverse Biden's excessive pandemic policies, He's ordered
all federal agencies to delete any records related to workers
COVID vaccination status, including any records of non compliance or exemptions.
(00:53):
And that is about time. Office of Personal Management Director
Scott Copore says that things got out of hand during
the Power Yes they did, and federal workers were fired, punished,
or sidelined for simply making a personal medical decision that
should never have happened. Thanks to President Trump's leadership, we're
making sure that the excess of that era did not
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have lingering effects on federal workers. Now that is a win.
No one should have ever lost their jobs during that time,
and no one should ever have their personal medical choices
held against them. Now, former House Speaker Nanci Pelosi is
feeling the heat of insider trading accusations against her and
her husband. The President has lashed out at the former
(01:37):
House speaker over the weekend, posting on truth Social crooked.
Nancy Pelosi and her very interesting husband beat every hedge
fund in twenty twenty four. In other words, these two
very average minds beat all of the super geniuses on
Wall Street, thousands of them. It's all inside information. Now,
(01:57):
Nancy Pelosi is on a salary of around a high
hundred and eighty thousand dollars a year, and the Pelosis
are worth around four hundred and thirteen million dollars. According
to some reports, plenty of pool Pelosi's trades on the
stock market have raised eyebrows. Many of them have been
timed extraordinarily well. The New York Post reports that in January,
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Pool Pelosi invested in tempes Ai when it was worth
around thirty one dollars a share, but then the firm
card a two hundred million dollar deal with Astroseneka. It's
now worth around sixty dollars a share, almost double the price.
He's also made well time trades in Nvidia, Palo Alto Networks,
and dump two point two million dollars worth of shares
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of Microsoft stock just a few months before the FTC
launched an antitrust investigation into the company. Now, Nancy Pelosi
denies all accusations and has been dodging questions about this
for years.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Over the course of your career, has your husband ever
made a stock purchase of SALB on.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Information you've received from you?
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Now?
Speaker 5 (02:59):
Absolutely not.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
She just walks off, And her recent appearance on CNN
was just as awkward. She almost pleads with Jake Tapper
not to ask her about it.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
She Nancy Pelosi became rich.
Speaker 6 (03:14):
I might you have to read that we're here to
talk about the sixtieth anniversary of Medicaid.
Speaker 7 (03:18):
That's what I.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
Agreed to come to talk.
Speaker 7 (03:20):
Yeah, but I wanted it.
Speaker 6 (03:21):
That means in the election, I wanted.
Speaker 7 (03:23):
To give you a chances to respond.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
He accused you of insider trading.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
What's your response to that?
Speaker 8 (03:28):
That's very ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Joining us now is former R and C national spokeswoman
Elizabeth Pipco. Elizabeth, thank you for joining us. Can I
get your reaction to the spotlight that's being placed on
Nancy Pelosi at the moment and the President just continues
to accuse her of insider training.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
I mean, it's comical because this has been going on
for so long, right, if anyone's kind of in tune
with that internet culture, people have been accusing her of
this for quite some time. They've been following the star
sorry for quite some time, and she's been dodging it
for quite some time. So I think it's comical that
it's still coming up. Comical that she hasn't found a
way to respond to it either. It shows how not
relatable she truly is, and how I think most of
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us could realize when it's time to kind of bow
out of whatever we're doing. She is the definition of
why we need term limits, and I think even she
might agree with that because she seems to not really
belong anywhere anymore, and I think she knows that that
even people at her own party kind of want her
to step aside because it's not working for them.
Speaker 7 (04:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
I enjoy watching her dodge those questions every time. She
doesn't get any better at it. Now. Over the weekend,
US President Donald Trump broke it another historic peace deal,
this time between Armenia and Azerbaijan. After nearly four decades
of conflicts between the two countries. It was resolved with
a peace declaration at the White House. He's the president,
(04:58):
maybe maybe.
Speaker 9 (04:59):
Stea more than thirty five years Armenia and Azerbaijan. I
fought a bitter conflict that resulted in tremendous suffering for
both nations. They suffered gravely for so many years. Many
tried to find a resolution, including the European Union. The
Russians worked very hard on it never happened. Sleepy Joe
(05:21):
Biden tried, but you know what happened there. He tried
for probably twelve minutes and didn't work out. And many
other countries tried and they were unsuccessful. But with this accord,
we've finally succeeded in making peace.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
I love how he notes that it didn't work out
when Sleepy Joe Biden tried. But Elizabeth Trump has ended
conflicts now between Thailand and Cambodia, Israel and Iran, India
and Pakistan, and there are calls for him to win
the Nobel Peace Prize.
Speaker 5 (05:52):
Look, I think again, it's a strange time that we're
living in it, right, And I think even a lot
of people that don't support, didn't support, didn't vote for
and Trump would admit that they kind of root against
him every single day. I think it's sad how politicized
things have become, but it's true. And the fact of
the matter is if this was any other president, they
would have been nominated for that prize a long time ago,
by the way, probably in his first term for the
(06:15):
Abraham Accords. But what struck me with this is this
is my job, right, I have to follow politics for
a living. And I even found out about this peace
deal later than it actually happened, and the average person
that I spoke to had no idea because the media
didn't want to cover it because it looks like another
win for President Trump and for the world. And it's
sad that we've become so politicized we can't even share
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in these victories. And the fact that these two nations,
like you said, it's been going on for so long
and now there's going to be peace. People are celebrating it.
And we can't in America because that would be a
win for President.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Trump, well said. Now, Donald Trump has announced a sweeping,
sweeping rabbit crime crackdown in DAYCA, placing the city's police
department under federal control and deploying the National God to
patrol the straits. Now, Trump says he's going to clean
it up real quick, like we did on the southern
border with illegal immigration. And the homicide rate in DC
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is among the highest in major US cities. But of
course the Democrats and the mainstream media are in meltdown
over Trump's move. Today, Hillary Clinton claimed that it was unhinged,
and this is the coverage on MSNBC.
Speaker 10 (07:20):
Chris, to be honest with you, I'm trying to hold
my temper. I think that's an ongoing argument that he's
having in his head with Black Lives Matter. There's an
ongoing argument that he's having with the questions around criminal
justice reform and police reform. It's interesting that he really
doesn't really care about what's actually happening in DC on
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a certain level, because he's not trying to get that
to underlying root causes. He's not looking at examples of
how to address carising crime rates that doesn't require a
form of policing that leads to increase incarcealty and the like.
Let's look at what's going on in Baltimore. Let's look
at what's happening actually in places like Baltimore in Chicago. Right,
So part of what.
Speaker 7 (08:03):
We had to do is to understand and Alkman.
Speaker 10 (08:06):
We have to understand this, Chris, within the context of
Donald Trump's racial politics and within the context of his
effort to get Epstein off the front pages.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Elizabeth, I want to get your thoughts on Trump's decision
and also that analysis on MSNBC that this is actually
part of Trump's racial politics.
Speaker 5 (08:28):
I mean, look the mental gymnastics that it takes right
to convince yourself that President Trump trying to make a
city that he's obviously personally impacted by, to make a
city safer and cleaner and better for the people that
he works with every single day, for many that he
personally knows that have been impacted by that rise in crime.
The fact that that could be turned into something bad
and twisted in that way just proves how much people
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hate him more than they love our country. It's a
sad reality. And I also don't understand the innuendo that
he's being racist. I think it's actually kind of the
other way. They're being racist. By now, when he says
he wants to fix violent crime, that means something against
any other race. All it means is that crime is
out of control, and if parents are scared to walk
with their children in the streets, something has to be done.
(09:10):
And who is better to fix something in the president
of the United States?
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Absolutely right. US Senator Bernie Sanders is on his fighting
oligarchy tour across American states. He believes that people are
frustrated with the current political system. And let's just look
at some of his best moments.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
How could I get buy on one house? I need
five houses, my own three residences, Yeah I do. I
need jet planes to take me all over the world.
Think I'm going to be sitting on a waiting line
at United and that's the only way you can get around.
No apologies for that. Sorry the American people. We've got
the money, We've got the power. Guess what, I'm the
United States senator.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Earlier in the year, it was revealed he spent more
than two hundred thousand dollars on private jets during the
first quarter of twenty twenty five. Let's take a look.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
You know Alyssa Slockin, Senator from Michigan, and she said
you shouldn't be using an oligarchy. It's over people's head.
You've gotten criticized from other people. Free Beacon says Bernie
Sanders spent two hundred twenty one thousand on private jets
fighting the oligarchy tour paid for by friends of Bernie Sanders.
That you've spent millions of dollars in campaign funds on
private jet travel over the years. How do you push
(10:20):
back on both of those.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Things when the last time you saw Donald Trump during
a campaign mode at National Airport.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
No, no, no, it doesn't. But he's also not fighting the aligarchy.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
No. And you run a campaign and you do three
or four or five rallies in a week. The only
way you can get around to talk to thirty thousand people.
I think I'm going to be sitting on a waiting
line at United waiting. You know what, thirty thousand people
are waiting. That's the only way you can get around.
No apologies for that. That's what campaign travel is about.
We've done it in the past. We're going to do
it in the future.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
His tour is about fighting allarchy, but of course scoffs
at the idea of not flying private. But it's interesting.
Bernie Sanders called out former Vice president and Kamala Harris
and slammed her failed election campaign, saying that she had
too many billionaires telling her not to speak up for
the working class. Look at this.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
One of the reasons, in my view that Kamala Harris
lost this election is she had too many billionaires telling
God not to speak up for the working class.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
Of this country.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
He then doubled down on this claim during the interview
on Scene Inn And before I get to more of
seen ends coverage on this, Elizabeth, can I get your
reaction to Bernie Sanders fighting for oligarchy tour and of
course his criticism of Kamala Harris.
Speaker 5 (11:36):
Yeah, so a few things. First of all, I think
it's laughable he's criticizing Kamala Harris and her campaign, which yes,
was a joke. But I believe Bernie Sanders also ran
for president a few times and didn't end up doing
too well, So I don't know if he has any
right to criticize anyone else, especially in his failing party.
That wants to point the finger at everyone but themselves.
Now on the plane thing, I'm actually personally offended. I
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was on the campaign trail last year. We weren't always
on President Trump's plane, which, by the way, on like Bernie,
he bought himself. Everyone should be aware of that. But
we weren't always on his plane. We were very often
on commercial flights, very often more than two or three
in one day. Nobody was sleeping the last I think
few months of the campaign, I was in a different
state every day. And I've seen people that I campaigned with,
(12:19):
people like Laura Trump, by the way, who everyone can
talk about as much as they want, But I have
seen Laura Trump, that woman my friend, who was on
a Delta flight, a United flight, a Spirit flight in
a middle seat, very often trying to hit every single
state that she could during the last few months of
the campaign. So there's absolutely no excuse for anything that
he's claiming, and no excuse for his behavior, by the way,
(12:40):
which is so not relatable, especially for the message that
he claims to believe.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Him absolutely Well, let's look at how sin N covered
this tour scene. N's Dana Bash sat down with Bernie
Sanders for any interview where she complimented him so much
he was almost blushing and he was giggling, and she
compared him to the part.
Speaker 11 (13:00):
This something that I'm sure you have seen a gallup pole?
Did you see this gallupolee? And what the gallupole found
was that you are one of the most widely admired Americans,
and I believe you're only second to the pope.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
You want me to declare my candidacy.
Speaker 11 (13:20):
For pope, I don't think. I don't think that you're
eligible for a lot of reasons. I watched you tonight,
I've watched you for a very very long time. You're
obviously still full of a bigger and intensity for the
things that you're passionate about and have been for decades.
(13:41):
Is there another presidential run in you?
Speaker 10 (13:43):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (13:43):
God, let's not worry about that. I am going to
be eighty four years of age next month. As a
matter of fact.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Oh, it's just embarrassing, Elizabeth. What do you make of this?
Speaker 5 (13:55):
I mean, it's classic Democrat behavior. Right one has Donald
Trump ever sat and been fond over like this? Not
to mention, I've seen a lot of polling showing Donald
Trump being extremely extremely popular. Nobody ever talks about it
like this. In fact, they actually laugh at it and
try to mark his supporters, which is the reason they
continue to lose. But again, Bernie Sanders grand for president
and it didn't work. So it's obviously not that popular
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with the people of this country, and that's I think
what should matter to him.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Jadie Vance has declared that a lot of people are
about to get indicted over Russia Gate. He believes that
the recent disclosures from the Director of National Intelligence Toulci
Gabbard is evidence of a gross violation of the law. This,
of course comes after Tulsi Gabbard alleged that documents show
the Obama administration promoted a contrived narrative that Russia interfered
(14:43):
in the twenty sixteen election.
Speaker 12 (14:45):
He is jad Events, you don't just indict people to
indict people. You indict people because they.
Speaker 7 (14:50):
Broke the law.
Speaker 12 (14:51):
But if you look at what Tulsi and Cash Betel
have revealed in the last couple of weeks, I don't
know how anybody can look at that and say that
there wasn't a agressive violations of the law.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
The Vice President was pretty clear there. What can we expect.
Speaker 5 (15:07):
Well, look, I'm hopeful that we see some kind of
movement on this. I think too many times people get
excited about something and that it doesn't happen because the
government can always deliver for the American people that we
wanted to. At the same time, I think Jade Vance
is right. He's the Vice president of the United States.
He's seeing this evidence in front of him of what
went on that should never have happened, that should never
be allowed to happen the United States of America, and
(15:29):
he's saying, we have to do something about it so
that it never happens again. The fact is he's not wrong.
A lot of people have questions about what happened in
twenty sixteen, and it's actually not just people who voted
for Donald Trump. It's not just us that think that
Barack Obama Hillary Clinton actually did conspire to hurt him
and make sure that the American people were hurt as well.
It's actually folks that voted against him, that believed that
(15:50):
Russia hoax, that have no idea why millions of United
States tax dollars were spent. And it turned out, obviously
the Donald Trump did not collude with Russia. It turned
out they spent every single I guess you could say weapon,
unfortunately at their disposal, to try to turn this country
upside down ruin four years of Donald Trump's term, and
obviously use only the American tax dollar and the energy
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of the American people to do so. It's actually shameful,
whether you're talking about those who are Republican or a Democrat,
because they what they did impacted every single person in
this country in a negative way. So I'm hoping we
see something come out of this investigation because we deserve answers,
and people deserve to know what was done by their
own elected officials against this country.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Absolutely. Finally, Ditty Vance also appears to have extended an
olive france to Aylon Musk Scolpt, revealing that he didn't
think that the TESLA'SAO would take his cool. Diety event
said that he does want Aylon to come back to
the MAGA movement by the midterms.
Speaker 12 (16:47):
My argument to Elon is like, you're not going to
be on the left right even if you wanted to be,
and he doesn't, they're.
Speaker 13 (16:55):
Not going to have you back.
Speaker 12 (16:56):
That should be sailed, and so I I really think
it's a mistake for him to try to break from
the president. So my hope is that by the time
of the midterms he's kind of come back into the bowl.
But yeah, I don't know that he would take my
call right now about anything. Really, I'm sure, I kid,
I'm sure he would take my call. But obviously the
drama around him and the him in the White House
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over the last couple of months. Again, my hope is
that just kind of cools down a little bit because
he did help us a lot in the election. The
President even says all this frustration. Elon was a very
very critical part of the teams last election, And so
my hope is by the midterms things are kind of
back to normal, right, Yeah, we'll see, we'll see.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
I was gonna Elizabeth, is this a good idea or
do you think there's potentially too much chaos around Alon?
Speaker 5 (17:44):
You know, I think when your country is at stake,
all that chaos kind of goes out the window. The
fact that Elon Musk was not a Republican. I think
he was a strong Democrat for quite some time, and
he only threw his support behind President Trump in the
summer before the election, right a few months out after
President Trump was unfortunately shot at It took something as
chaotic as that for him to say, Hey, at this
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point in time, we have one choice to make. We
have Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, and this is my pick.
And I think when the midterms roll around, it's going
to be the exact same thing. The fact is he's
not going to have a new party that's going to,
you know, make some kind of groundbreaking movement in these midterms.
He's going to have a choice to make, and that's
Democrat or Republican. And I believe, regardless of what chaos
Elon Musk, Donald Trump Jady Vans have between them, when
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you think about the country, you make the right choice.
And I believe Elon Musk is going to go out
and make the same choice that he made in twenty
twenty four in that presidential election, because it's not about
personal relationships for him. He's too successful to think that way.
It's about the future of this country.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Elizabeth Piccot, thanks so much for your time. Great to
talk to you. Thank you. It's time for media meltdowns
and talk show hosts Jimmy Kimmel maybe joining Rosie O'Donnell,
Ellen DeGeneres and other Hollywood celebrities who vowed to flamir
because of Donald Trump. The late night host appeared on
(19:03):
the Sarah Silverman podcast, where he revealed he has his
Italian citizenship ready to escape Trump's unbelievably bad America.
Speaker 14 (19:14):
They know we're thinking about where they can get.
Speaker 7 (19:18):
Citizenship.
Speaker 14 (19:20):
I do have Italian I did get Italian citizens You.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Do, Oh, that's amazing.
Speaker 7 (19:25):
I do have that.
Speaker 14 (19:26):
And what's going on is uh is as bad as
you thought it was going to be, way worse. It's
so much worse. It's just unbelievable. Like I feel like
it's probably even worse than he would like it to be.
Speaker 15 (19:41):
Probably.
Speaker 14 (19:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Joining us now is political commentator Briylan hollyhand Brilan. Great
to see you, Thanks for joining us here on Power Hour.
So Jimmy Kimmel has floated the idea of fleeing to
Europe while ranting about how horrible America really is. What's
your reaction to all this?
Speaker 8 (20:00):
Nobody stopping him from going. I will pack his backs
for him tonight and encourage him to lee.
Speaker 7 (20:04):
We would love that. Jimmy Kemmel at best is.
Speaker 8 (20:06):
A third rate comedian and genuinely right now, if you
turn on a show tonight, and not a lot of
people are as we're seeing the ratings continue to drop
for him. He is an he's a activist and comedian's clothing,
and that's why his show is failing, and that's why
he'll soon be in the trashy for history in next
to Space, Stephen Colbert. So I encourage them both to
buy joint condos in Italy and go use that passport
of first.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Now, in America, we're saying younger voters, particularly younger men, shift.
Speaker 8 (20:31):
To the right.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
We saw that in the US election result were around
forty six percent of those aged between eighteen to twenty
nine voted for Donald Trump last November, which was a
ten point increase from twenty twenty. But the media says
there's no gen Z red wave at all. The Atlantic
consists that this is in fact a big myth. The
Atlantic has this piece titled the Myth of the gen
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Z Red Wave, and it says that the best available
evidence suggests that the youth vote shift in twenty two
was more of a one off event than an ideological realignment.
I mean, you're a gen Z voter, what's really going
on here?
Speaker 8 (21:09):
The left would love to call this a myth, but
I've got to tell you the truth. This is actual reality.
I seen on my college campus. I was a first
time voter. I've spoke on over twenty two other college campuses.
Gen Z is this is a fluke. This was an
anomaly last November. This was a generational shift to the
right by a population of Americans that were overlooked by
the Democrat Party that for far too long, we're told
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that we were the enemy right here in our own country.
I know this will surprise you, but actually calling us
nazis Hitler's and garbage is not a way to win
over gen Z. They told us for decades our MASKUW.
Lindy was toxic and then came and begged for a
vote in an election time, and gen Z had enough
of that. We were fed up and this wasn't a
one time thing. Now we actually have a guy in
the of Ale office who is working to perform CPR
(21:51):
on the American Dream and Gend's going to vote for
that in the midterm. So the Democrats better get used
to being on the losing end of gen Z because that's.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
Going to continue.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Well, let's talk about the Democrats and their rising star
Jasmine Crockett, I wanna get your thoughts on you if
she's doing the Democrats any favors here. She is just
earlier in the month labeling the President Timu Hitler.
Speaker 16 (22:12):
Parts of standing for what democracy is and making sure
that it does not fall by the wayside. They understand
that we have a timUL Hitler and the White House
right now that thinks that he is going to become
the dictator of the United States. Well, I got another
thing to tell you, sir. The Democrats. No, whether we're
talking about these Texas House Democrats, or whether we're talking
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about the governor from Illinois, the governor from California, or
whether we're talking about New York or I can go
through the states and it's not just the governors. It
is the state houses, it is the state senators. It
is those congressional delegations that are saying, do what you
gotta do, and I will fight and I will win,
and I will earn my seat back to the People's
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House in DC. I am here to tell you the
time is up for plan in our faces now.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
President Trump has slammed Jasmine Crockett, and he didn't hold back,
you know, just saying that she was kind of in
the mold of AOC and suggested that she needs to
take a cognitive exam, calling her a very low IQ person.
But what hope do the Democrats really have with people
like Jasmine Crockett saying that Trump is a team of Hitler.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
No hope, no hope at all.
Speaker 8 (23:23):
I'll tell the Democrats that every single day that the
Democrat Party opens her mouth is a good day for
the Republican Party. Jasmine Crockett is a walking talking billboard
for us as we get ready for our midterm attacks,
and every single time that she opens her mouth and
uses that fake accent, where we can use that as
billboard coverage as we get ready to win over more
gen Z voters in the midterms. If Kamala Harrish and
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Jasmine Crockett are the best that the Democrat Party can
put out there, listen, I'll hope they're Washington Program tonight,
and I would highly encourage them to please nominate those
two ladies with fake accent to where idiotic and couldn't
pass the cognitive test to be the future.
Speaker 7 (23:57):
Leaders with their party.
Speaker 8 (23:58):
If they think we steamrolled them last, remember just wait
until how many of my peers flee their party and drove.
So they continue to put people like Jasmoncrokin on the pedestal.
But they are and I don't want to get into
business and given Democrats free advice, but you would think
after a cycle where they went too far to the
left with the Kamala Harris nomination, they would go a
little bit more centrist this go around, but they haven't.
They're putting people like Jasmin Krok and they have soon
(24:19):
a pedestal and Mom, Donna and New York so please,
Their party is a sinking ship. What'll be this Titanic
come twenty twenty six?
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Well, let's talk about Zarund, ma'am Dannie and now the
Radical Democrat and they are right now seriously serious concerns
around what would happen to New York City if he
does become mayor. The ex New York Police Department commissioner
Ray Kelly has warned that it would be a tragedy
if voters elect ma'am Donny, and he's particularly worried that
he'll get the Police department. This is what he said
(24:46):
on radio.
Speaker 15 (24:48):
It's a tragedy of major proportions if the NANI is
elected mayor of the greatest city in the world. New
York is the capitol of capit and to have someone
who is so totally unqualified and you know who says
he's going to qualified the New York Times believe it
(25:08):
or not. You know, there's three hundred thousand employees in
New York City. This man has basically not had a job. No,
I'm very concerned, the concerned about the cutesy of New York.
If he gets elected, he has a whole list of
wacky things that he wants to do. My biggest concern
is in a police department and what he would do
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to the department. There's no question about it that he
would have to reduce the size of the police department.
But right now which reducing itself. People are leaving at
the highest rate ever.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
And if you look at Zoran Madanni's track record, he's
previously called to defund the police. It's no wonder we're
hearing serious warnings like this.
Speaker 8 (25:54):
No, it's not at all, And I think our tragedy
is putting it lightly. I'll say to my peers who
are in New York City, of fellow gen Z voters
who think that socialism is just a TikTok trends. It's
not I was in New York City last week. It's
a beautiful place with a lot of potential and can
really be in a worst off position with this, and
that's no secret to anybody. I mean, I just challenge
my fellow gen Z voters out there who are going
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to get off the sidelines to vote in this election,
hopefully not for the socialist candidate who's actually you know,
it's really easy for Republicans for the labels on Candada's socialists.
He's like a proud socialis. It's a crazy concept. Find
me one person who fled a socialist country and is
wanting to come find another socialist country. I mean, people
build rafts out of garbage to vote away from countries
to socialism, to come to America to get away from that.
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And we're going to be stupid enough to elect a
guy who can sell good on TikTok to literally defeat
our shining city on a hills Reagan put it. Gen
Z has to understand the repercussions of this. This is
not something to just test out an experimental lab and
just see how socialism works. It's really easy for them
to dangle these free things in motions in front of
our face. But gen Z has to wake up. They
have to go off the sidelines. They have to reject socialism.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Political commentator Brian only Hann, thanks so much for your
time and speaking to us here on Power.
Speaker 4 (27:02):
Houra, thanks for having me.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Let's turn into the situation in the Middle East, And
just a few days ago, US Secretary of State Marco
Rubio declared that recognizing Palestinian statehood has encouraged Hamas to
abandon ceasefire talks with Israel.
Speaker 17 (27:23):
Well, if you noticed that the talks with Hamas fell
apart on the day Macrone made the unilateral decision that
he's going to recognize the Palestinian state, and then you
have other people come forward, other countries say, well, there's
not a ceasefire by September, we're going to recognize the
Palestin state. Well, if I'm Hamas, I basically conclude, let's
not do a ceasefire, right because we can be rewarded
and we can claim it as a victory. So those messages,
(27:43):
while largely symbolic in their minds, actually have made it
harder to get peace and harder to achieve a deal.
With hamas they feel embolden.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
Now, Australia's Prime Minister, Anthony Albernizi, has confirmed that Australia
will recognize Palestinian statehood at the UN General Assembly next month.
Speaker 18 (28:00):
Australia will recognize the state of Palestine. Australia will recognize
the ride of the Palestinian people to a state of
their own, predicated on the commitments Australia has received from
the Palestinian authority.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Joining us now is Joel Bernie, executive manager at AJAC Australia,
Israel and Jewish Affairs Council. Joel, thanks for your time.
Can I get your reaction to the Prime Minister's announcement?
Speaker 19 (28:29):
Thanks thanks for having me, Gabrielle Well, I think the
Secretary Rubio said all that needs to be said. Secretary
Rubio clearly ar particulated as a party to the ceasefie
negotiations with Kamas, Israel, the Katteries and the Egyptians. He
made it abundantly clear that Kamas is watching what the
world is doing, specifically Western countries, including our own, in
(28:51):
terms of their posture of a potential recognition of a
Palestinian state. So, with this decision, by the Prime Minister.
Speaker 13 (28:59):
Yes, we've seen the public statements made by Kamas leaders
welcoming it, even though the Prime Minister on his media
hastings this morning was super clear to say that this
is against Kramas policy. Kramas doesn't like this, even though
Kamas has stated publicly that it supports it. Now, the
reason why Kamas supports it so clearly is because this
is so little about the plight of the Palestinian people
(29:23):
and so much more about anger, frustration and antagonism towards Israel.
So Kramas sees is exactly what it is, and this
is a punishment towards Israel as opposed to pursuing of
peace between Israel and the Palestinians. It's a cynical mistake,
it's misguided, it's miscalculated, and as I noted yesterday, I mean,
I'm very concerned about the unintended consequences that are going
(29:46):
to come from such a decision.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
Me too. Look, what does it say that Anthony Aberenezi
is negotiating with Palestinian leader Mamod a Bus before he's
even met with the President of the United States.
Speaker 13 (29:59):
Well, I think the the remarks of the Prime Minister
last week when he was asked about whether or not
he was going to consult with the President of the
United States, not only was a puzzling but I think
it's very troubling and I think it highlights the key
issue here, Gabriella. Now, look, there's a lot of politicking
around here, there's a lot of is this symbolic? Is
this going to help the Palestinians? The decision, was this
(30:19):
about votes, was this about the left flank? All of
that is really not as important as the deterioration in
the relationship between the United States, our key and most
important strategic partner. So the tone of the Prime minister's
response as to well, I'm not going to consult with
the president because we have our own sovereign foreign policy.
(30:42):
But he was just on the call with Starma, multiple times,
with Macron, with President of Bus, with other leaders, including
Luxton of New Zealand. So the Prime Minister was very
proactive in making phone calls to certain leaders and unwilling
to make phone calls to others. I think this is
a very very troubling development. And the decision yesterday to
(31:04):
announce Australia's upcoming recognition of Palestine is clearly at odds
with the position of the Trump administration and with other
key aspects of that alliance being discussed right now, such
as the Orchestra review by the Pentagon, and also continuing
economic and trade issues with tariffs and whatnot. Also last night,
(31:25):
with Chris Yulman's new show, you had a lot of
Australian military and defense experts warning of the potential of
war to come to our shores. I think the Australian
public Gabrilla needs to wake up and see that this
type of foolish pursuit by the Prime Minister is hampering
and deteriorating very important relationships with other partners.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
The Prime Minister was doing the breakfast TV rounds this
morning and he didn't seem that prepared.
Speaker 6 (31:50):
Take a look, Hermas don't support two states. They support
one state. In their own words, from the river to
the sea, from the Jordan River to the ocean, to.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
The ocean, I mean it's the Mediterranean Sea. And he
sounds like protesters at college campuses that we saw going
viral on the internet that had no idea what river,
what sea?
Speaker 10 (32:15):
Look.
Speaker 13 (32:15):
I think your viewers can make their own judgments and
determinations on that little slip from Breakfast TV this morning.
But what I will underline is is that this is
an incredibly historic and complex conflict. It is not something
that leaders can just fly in and fly out and
think they can wave a magic wand and rid the
world of a conflict that has been going on for
(32:36):
longer than send seven decades. This is not something that
the symbolic gestures of Western leaders or the pronouncements of
a premature recognition of a state that doesn't exist, is
somehow going to end the war and the conflict and
we're all going to live a happy day. It's completely
devoid of any type of appreciation to what is important
(32:59):
in the region and the complexities of the problem. And
I'll sum it up like this, Gabriella, not one Palestinian
life was impacted this morning when they woke up to
the decision of Prime Minister Albanesi's announcement. When Australia ultimately
recognizes in September, the lives of Palestinians will not change
one iota, which means that all the political capital that's expended,
(33:22):
all the potential deteriorations of the strategic relationships, especially with
the United States will all be ultimately for nothing, for
a foolish pursuit on something that is not going to
actually make any material or benefit to the people in
the Middle East. What needs to happen is very simple.
The world needs to exert pressure on Hamas to lay
(33:43):
down their arms, release the hostages, and end this war
once and for all. If Hamas is to do that
right now and write this second Gabriella, the war is over.
We all live to fight another day, and then we
can talk about the pursuit of the two state solutions.
Then now it is pre and Unfortunately, even if there
are virtuous intentions and good intentions behind this bursituit, and
(34:07):
even if the Prime Minister and Foreign Minister think in
their hearts of hearts that they, as self professed non
players in the region, are going to usher in an
era of peace in the Middle East, unfortunately they are mistaken,
and putting all your eggs in the Palestinian authority basket
historically shows you that it is going to end in tears.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
Joe Bernie, Executive manager at AJAC Australia, Israel and Jewish
Affairs Council, thank you so much for your time.
Speaker 13 (34:34):
Thanks Gabrielle.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
Shocking new revelations about Prince Andrew have been making headlines
around the world ahead of the release of Andrew Loney's
new book entitled The Rise and Fall of the House
of York, which dives into Prince Andrew's relationship with women,
his mysterious finances, and his relationship with convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
Author Andrew Lownie joins us now, Andrew, thank you for
(35:01):
your time. This is the first in depth look at
Andrew and Fergie's unusual relationship. You've spoken to hundreds of people,
including friends, former staff members, former colleagues of Prince Andrew,
and many people have never spoken before. But you also
had some freedom of information requests denied by the British
(35:21):
government That must have made things challenging for you.
Speaker 4 (35:26):
Yes, and I think there have been a lot of offscourses,
but placed in front of me of the York family
refused to cooperate with me. They actually told people not
to talk to me. The British Foreign Office tall dimbasas
not to talk to me. And we found, as I say,
with my research that literally hundreds of FOI requests for
(35:47):
the papers relating to Andrew's time as a special Trade
envoy between two thousand and one and twenty eleven, when
you was paid for by the taxpayer, are still closed
and these papers should actually be within the National Archives anyway.
So yes, and there's been some pushback from establishment figures
(36:07):
here in Britain against the book, but I stand by it.
It's four years research. As you say, several hundred people
who've never spoken before talking, and I think they're talking
these senior diplomats and for example, naval officers because they
were shot by the brazenness of the way this couple
have leveraged their royal position in order for their own
(36:29):
personal financial gain, and also have not told the truth
about the extent of their relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. Both
of them had close relationships. Were eighteen phone numbers for
Sarah Ferguson sixteen for Andrew in Epstein's Black Book, and
their relationship began about a decade before they claimed it did,
(36:52):
and it continued long after they claimed to have cut
off all ties. So yes, it's an extraordinary, extraordinary revelations
in the book.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
And I absolutely want to dive into their relationship with
Jeffrey Epstein. But how do you describe a prince Andrew
and Fergie's relationship. It's quite unusual that they live together
despite divorcing decades ago.
Speaker 4 (37:16):
Yes, I mean people are surprised by it. Via the relationship.
They describe themselves as the happiest divorced couple in the world.
They're married in eighty six, separated in ninety two, and
divorced in ninety six. But actually what they have had
I think is an open relationship that you're right. They
do live together in a thirty room mansion, so they
don't have to sort of tipto past each other too much,
(37:40):
but they have stuck together. He supported her when she
went through all sorts of scandals of her own, and
now she's supporting him. But really she sticks in there
because her whole Rezondette is to be part of the
royal family, so she has to be there. And I
think he feels guilty for the way he treated her,
(38:00):
or at least she makes him feel guilty, and so
he sticks in there for her now. But you know,
his mother paid a lot of her debts, and those debts,
of course were taken over by Epstein, who paid many
more of them.
Speaker 2 (38:13):
Well, let's talk about those finances, because the book dives
into Prince Andrew's finances and allegations of corruption. Can you
talk to us about what you discovered?
Speaker 4 (38:24):
Yes, I mean he was given this trade role on
behalf of the British government to promote British trade, and what
seems to be happening was that he used it to
promote his own business activities or those of his friends.
So for example, he would shoehorn meetings for company people
like Epstein or his business partners David and Jonathan Rowland,
(38:47):
for them to do business. He was, for example, promoting
a Greek water firm in Kazakhstan which had nothing to
do with British interests, and creaming off a commission of
three point eighty five million pounds. There have been several
court cases which revealed that he was paid huge sums
of money which he's not able to explain, and money
(39:08):
also that was paid to his wife and to one
of his daughters. So this seems to be a family
business and there was no proper scrutiny of him he
was meant to. No one quite knew what he was doing.
The Foreign Office has sent in places, but the diplomats
found that actually he was counter productive. He actually antagonized
people rather than actually helping support trade. And then after
(39:32):
he was basically sacked, he carried on with what was
ostensibly a charity pitch at the palace, but in which
he set up a side company where he was taking
a two percent commission on all the investment that was
put into this charity. So I think there are a
lot of questions for him to answer. MPs twenty years
ago were asking our National Crime Agency to investigate him.
(39:55):
Nothing was done, and I think there is a case
for them to look at his situation again.
Speaker 2 (40:02):
On Jeffrey Epstein, there are suggestions in the book that
Epstein played Prince Andrew, that the Prince was a useful
idiot who gave him access to political leaders and business opportunities.
Can you expand on that for us?
Speaker 4 (40:16):
Yes, I mean Andrew was a very useful piece of
respectability for Epstein. He gave him status, and he gave
him quite useful contacts, clearly through his role as a
trade envoy, and he entertained Epstein for example at Sandringham,
at Balmoral, at Windsor Castle, Buckingham Palace. I mean there's
(40:37):
a big party where he invited Epstein and Harvey Weinstein
as well, and for Andrew, Epstein provided again some useful
contacts of someone who was busy paying off debts for
the couple, and of course who also provided women for Andrew.
We have the famous case of Virginia Jeffrey, but there
(40:58):
were other women who was a place to Andrew.
Speaker 2 (41:02):
And the book also details other relationships that Prince Andrew
had with women. There are suggestions that Prince Andrew put
himself in compromising situations. You know, his reputation couldn't get
much worse. But how damaging do you think some of
these details that you've written about what will actually be
to him?
Speaker 4 (41:22):
I think very damaging and very damaging to the family
and indeed to the monarchy, because the monarchy was aware
of what was going on, and in fact, I would
argue colluded with him. His mother protected him the queen
he was. When there were complaints from Buckhing Palace, sorry
to Buckingham Palace, from diplomats, they were ignored. She sort
(41:45):
of entertained a lot of these dictators from Central Asia
that he was doing business with, who were despots, I mean,
who didn't believe in human rights. And so I think
you know, it is damaging and it shows that there's
not sufficient transparency about royal finances and actually about royal
(42:05):
royal activity full stop. I mean, we're prepared to support
our royal family, but not if they're on the take
for themselves. So I think they need to look very
carefully cut him, cut him loose, but also look very
carefully at, for example, how they shape the narrative, because
what was clear is they were trying to shut down
this story. There's a famous episode with the journalists from
(42:27):
ABC Television in the States who had the Jeffrey and
Andrew's story years ago, and the Palace threatened to cut
off all contact with ABC, not allow the many interviews
if they pursued this investigation, and you know that can't
be right. You know, nobody is above the law, including
the members of the royal family.
Speaker 2 (42:48):
They are also bullying claims against Prince Andrew and also
Meghan Markel. I have to ask you about her. What
did you discover about Meghan?
Speaker 4 (42:56):
Well, I mean, Meghan isn't really part of the book,
but certainly there is an episodisode where Andrew got into
a fight with Harry saying that Meghan was not a
suitable bride. This is in twenty seventeen, and Harry got
very upset by that. But other members of the family.
We know that Williams showed concern about Meghan and said
(43:17):
he should go through due diligence. And I was researching
another of my books in twenty seventeen and talking to
members of the Row household and there were deep concerns
at that stage about his involvement with Meghan Markle, so
they saw her coming. So yes, Harry has denied that
he got into a fight, but as we all know.
Speaker 2 (43:37):
Recollections Vary Andrew Loney, author of the new book entitled
The Rise and Fall of the House of York, thank
you so much for your time. I really appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (43:47):
Pleasure.
Speaker 2 (43:51):
Prince Harry is considering launching a new African charity following
his dramatic exit from Center Ballet earlier this year. Joining
us for more on this is doctor Carrol Libman, psychiatrist
and author, doctor Carol Leibman. Thank you so much for
your time. So Prince Harry and his co founder quit
their roles as patrons of Center Ballet in March after
their relationship with the charity's chair, Doctor Sophie chan Dorka
(44:16):
broke down beyond repair, and we later heard that doctor
chan Dorca claimed that she'd been subjected to bullying and harassment.
And now we're hearing reports that Prince Harry is considering
launching a new charity. What's your assessment of this, how's
this really going to go for Prince Harry.
Speaker 20 (44:34):
Well, I think this doctor Chandka is you know, is
in the wrong, and that she either was two thin skinned,
you know, that she misinterpreted things that were happening. There
were a number of people who quit, you know, it
wasn't just about Harry, and that perhaps she thought she
(44:56):
would get some money to if she.
Speaker 7 (44:58):
You know, sued them or something.
Speaker 20 (44:59):
I don't know what her motive was, but I know
that I know that the charity is really important to him.
He founded it in connection to in deference in honor
of his mother, and he really felt strongly he wanted
to help these kids. So I think it's very unfortunate
(45:22):
that doctor Shandaka decided to kind of make a mess
of things.
Speaker 2 (45:27):
Well, it's interesting. New polling has revealed which member of
the royal family is the most popular in Britain and
Prince William has surpassed his wife Princess Catherine for the
top spot. According to the Yugov poll, seventy four percent
of people have a positive opinion of the first in
line to the throne, Seventy one percent have a positive
view of Princess Catherine, seventy percent have a favorable view
(45:49):
of Princess Ann. But it is a different story for
Harry and Meghan, and of course Prince Andrew. Only twenty
eight percent have a positive opinion of Prince Harry and
twenty percent say the same about Meghan. What do you
put this down to, Well, it's.
Speaker 20 (46:04):
Very interesting, you know that that William and Cater at
the top and Harry and Meghan are at the bottom.
I mean, the only person worse that got a worse
approval rate than Megan was Prince Andrew.
Speaker 7 (46:19):
And we know, you know how he is not looked
upon well, so so it's you know.
Speaker 20 (46:28):
It's it's what's so interesting though, is that even when
these polls come out, and I mean for Megan, it's
like as long as you spell my name right, you know,
the saying I don't care what you say about me,
you know, I want publicity, just as long as you
spell my name right.
Speaker 7 (46:44):
So there are things every day.
Speaker 20 (46:46):
I mean I read, amongst other things, I read the
Daily Mail every day, and there are tons of stories
about her, and I'm not just in that paper, but
and and some of them are good, you know, favorable
towards her, and some of them are negative.
Speaker 7 (47:00):
And yet she does not seem to care.
Speaker 20 (47:04):
She has this smile, a frozen smile that she keeps
on regardless of what is happening. And quite frankly, you know,
between between this poll and then, you're probably going to
want to talk about Netflix.
Speaker 7 (47:19):
You know, I think that that.
Speaker 20 (47:21):
Things aren't going very well for her, and that's touch
just my opinion, but in general, and yet she somehow
manages to sort of hold her head high and pretend
that she's not bothered by it.
Speaker 2 (47:33):
Well, let's talk about that next Netflix deal rather. Prince
Harry and Meghan mark Will have extended the Netflix partnership,
signing a deal reportedly much less than their previous one
hundred million dollars one according to paid six. So we've
already had with love Megan. What else can we expect
from this?
Speaker 20 (47:51):
Well, you know, Netflix is in a very strange position.
Actually what they did, you know, with this first look deal.
First look deal is where all that means. It doesn't
mean that they are going to do anything that they're
going to put on any show where they would be
paying Harry and Megan money. I mean they have promised
to do with Love Megan or you know, also for
(48:14):
Christmas Christmas Special. But other than that, a first look
deal just means that they have to show Netflix the first.
They have to show Netflix first any project that they
want to do. So if Netflix wants to buy it,
you know and do it, then fine, but if they don't,
they can pass on it. So it's really nothing. I
(48:36):
mean there's really no money. I mean they may have
given them money. Sometimes you do get money for a
first look deal, but it doesn't commit to actually producing
anything with them other than the two you know what
I mentioned before for her, but so and you know,
basically it is a way to save face for Netflix.
Speaker 7 (48:57):
To save face.
Speaker 20 (48:58):
I mean Netflix made a ton of money in the
first project that they did, you know, when they revealed
all the secrets, the Royal family secrets. They made a
ton of money. There were a ton of viewers. It
was one of the top, if not the top show
at Netflix, and so they sort of have this feeling
that they don't want to let them go all together.
(49:19):
Like in other words, if they would reveal some more secrets,
they could have another top show. Of course, the Royal
family is you know, is concerned about that because, you know,
spilling more secrets. So it's kind of they're sort of
on life support when it comes to Netflix.
Speaker 2 (49:39):
Well, they've spilled plenty of secrets. Who notes if there
are any more to come. But I want to ask
you about something that Bill Maher has said. He said
that the US presidential election show that left wing censorship
is dead now. Who was speaking with actress three Barrymore
and he was speaking about the truth and speaking freely,
and he said that it's slightly less dangerous than it
was two years ago because we did have a vibe
(50:02):
change and because the Democrats lost so badly in twenty
twenty four. Now, since Trump has returned to office, Bill
Maher has been slamming the wok left. He correctly labeled
will Be Goldberg stupid for saying being black was the
same as being a woman in Iran. He blasted the
lunatics going crazy over the Sydney Sweeny American Eagle ad
(50:23):
But what's your assessment about Bill Maher's comments here. Has
there been this significant vibe shift since the election?
Speaker 20 (50:31):
Well, I do think there has been a significant vibe shift,
you know, in that people are realizing that maybe they
are on the wrong side.
Speaker 3 (50:40):
You know.
Speaker 20 (50:41):
Maybe this isn't to say that Walkism has gone away
completely by any means, but there is a change. And
I think because people are beginning to see that Trump
isn't all that bad, at least not as bad as
you know, what they had said beforehand. He isn't hitler
as the Democrats.
Speaker 7 (50:59):
Were trying to say.
Speaker 20 (51:00):
I'm still saying, well this, yeah, some of them are
still saying That's why I say it hasn't totally made
a difference, But there isn't a vibe change. And you know,
there's a kind of sense like I think he's perhaps
thinking that it's well, he's been sort of in the middle.
I mean, he's kind of varied his stances depends on
(51:21):
the topic or the policy. But but I think he's
kind of realizing that it's not good to be totally
on the left, you know, so so fully on the
left like that, like the people on the view for example,
he talked like you know you said with the Goldbert
and the other people on the view and that show
(51:41):
as another example of the vibe change there. There is
talk that that show might be canceled because it really
became all I mean, it started to be it was
a fairly good show at the beginning, but it started
to be all about bashing Trump and that kind of
kind of got bored showing to some degree it got
really obnoxious at times. It was really on the edge
(52:05):
and not in a good way. And so there's even
talks some people are thinking that they might get canceled.
Speaker 2 (52:11):
Well, I think there's a lot of hope for that
for sure, Doctor Carol Leebman, we have to leave it there.
Thank you so much for speaking to us and joining
us here on Power. Our great to talk to you,
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