July 24, 2025 • 43 mins
This week on Power Hour, Left media continues to weep over Colbert axing, Joy Reid’s anti-Trump rant slammed, DOJ deputy to meet Ghislaine Maxwell, US Olympic Committee bans trans athletes, and Harry & Meghan’s Netflix deal declared “dead".
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
This Zie's Power Hour with Gabriella Power. Hello and welcome
to Power Hour. I'm Gabriella Power. Thank you for joining us.
Coming up on the show today, we'll speak to the
man behind the Young Maga movement who made the Republican
Party cool again, the leftist media meltdowns over Stephen Colbert's
(00:22):
acxing is getting even crazier, and the future of the
Democrats well. Tim Waltz insists that he won't run in
twenty twenty eight, but there are calls to make Hunter
Biden the face of the party.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
I'm not even kidding. Let's get straight into it.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Joining us now is CJ Pearson, RNC Youth Advisory Council
Co Chair c J.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Pearson.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
It is great to speak with you. You've been involved
with the Republican Party for some time now, and during
the election you advise the Trump campaign on its social
media strategy, which was incredible. Earlier this month he landed
in Times list of most influential online creators.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
And I'm interested to.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Hear your thoughts because in the election we saw this
significant shift to the right among gen Z voters.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
What do you put it down to? Why did this happen?
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Well, thank you so much for having me first and foremost.
But I got to tell you, I think we just
had an incredible product to sell. You know, President Trump
ran on an incredible platform of America First policies that
connected with America's young people in a way in which
we've never seen before. This past election, we saw a
twenty point swing among voters from eighteen to twenty nine,
and it was a direct result of the President's campaign
strategy of reaching young people where they are. While Kamala
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Harris basement and shied away from long form interviews, President
Trump went on Joe Rogan, he went on THEO Vaughn.
He talked to everyone and anyone who would listen to him,
and that is exactly why we won and why young
people left the Democrat Party in droves continue.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
To do so.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Yeah, I absolutely agree, an incredible product to sell. Are
we going to say that happen again in the midterms though,
because there is polling that suggests that we won't see it.
A recent poll found that thirty five five percent of
voters eight between eighteen to twenty nine said the vote
for the Republican candidate, which is down from thirty nine
percent in their poll in May. What do you make
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of that, because we've also seen polling and just how
wrong the polsters get it. Because throughout twenty twenty four,
we were told that Kamala Harris was ahead, and then
it was neck and neck, and then of course Donald
Trump won all swing states and the popular vote.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
You know, you're exactly right, you know, November fifth, twenty
twenty four taught me you only poll to believe is
the one on election day. And so I think that's
the strategy we're going to be taking here. But we're
not going to rest in our laurels. You know, We're
not just going to rest on the fact that we
were able to achieve that monumental feet with young voters
in twenty twenty four and just think it's going to
automatically happen in twenty twenty six. The strategy remains the same.
We're going to go to where America's young people are.
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We're going to take our message of absolutely of hope, opportunity,
and all those things that excited young people and brought
them to our side to begin with, because we realized that,
unlike Democrats, we don't take these votes for granted. We
don't believe that young people should just vote for us
because of so called vibes. They should vote us because of.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Policy cjps And it's funny six months on leftist media
still cannot cope that Donald Trump won And if you
watch outlets like MSNBC, this is their suggestion to the
Democrat Party over how to win over rather young voters.
Speaker 5 (03:16):
You're advising a Democratic politician on how to how to
speak to young people and how to get them more
engaged in democratic politics. Do you say they've got to
run on tax takes? Is it a Bernie Sanders style
campaign where you say I'm going to tax the billionaires.
There shouldn't be a billionaire class. It should there should
be more equity. Is it a democratic socialist campaign? Is
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it what's or on mom Danni is doing.
Speaker 6 (03:40):
I think those messages are on the right track.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
I mean, when someone as radical as around man Dani
is a new face of the Democrats, I think they
are in trouble. But before I get your thoughts on
what the Democrats should do, what's your assessment of the
mainstream media over in.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
The US and the role it played in the election?
Speaker 1 (04:00):
We saw scene in describe Donald Trump's assassination attempt. As
a full MSNBC kept calling Donald Trump Hitler on repeat.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
I mean, what's going on with the media in the US.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
These people just don't get it, you know, And I
think they just seem so committed to acting like clowns.
It almost makes you want to go to every newsroom
in America and just hand them a bunch of balloons.
It's getting absolutely ludicrous. But you know, I'm okay with
the media not getting it, because every single time they
show that they don't get it. The American people were
the same way in which they did in November. They
resigndingly come out and support President Trump when they spread
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all these ridiculous, baseless conspiracy theories about the president. The
American people rejected it. Why because no one trusts people anymore,
because all they know how to do is lie.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Well, someone else who still doesn't get it is acts
to MSNBC host Joy Reid. She's now launched a YouTube
channel where she invites guests on to discuss the dangers
of the mega movement.
Speaker 7 (04:54):
Look at this some of the other but other like
pundit or podcasts, people starting to shift will say this
is good about Magarinott and I'm like, you're being so shortsighted.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
This is not a good movement to be attached to.
Speaker 7 (05:07):
Now, this is not I can tell, and I'm telling
it because I'm a Democrat and a liberal.
Speaker 6 (05:11):
Note I'm saying it.
Speaker 7 (05:12):
Is a toxic, dangerous, anti American, anti democratic.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Well, yeah, I don't think they're convincing anyone. But Joy
Raid also went on Piers Morgan Uncensored recently, where if she,
of course had to claim that Donald Trump ran a
racial identity campaign and the iced deportations that are being
carried out and not about removing people who are in
the country illegally, but it is all about race.
Speaker 8 (05:36):
Masked federal agents sweeping up cooks, abuelas, people who work
on farms, picking up dishwashers, any brown person, and Tom
Holman said, based on one criteria being their appearance, it's
overwhelmingly brown and some black people. We're not seeing them
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sweeping up white folks on the street. Donald Trump and
racial identity campaign, and yeah, this is America that is
appealing to unfortunately a lot of Americans.
Speaker 9 (06:07):
Well, actually it turned out to be very appealing to
Latino Americans, who voted for him in record numbers. More
Latinos voted for him than voted for Kamala Harris, the
non white candidate. More Black Americans African Americans voted for
Trump this time round than first time round.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
So truly it was the same.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
The same number of black.
Speaker 9 (06:30):
Black Americans voted for Trump at this time of last name.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Piers Morgan is correct.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
There more Black Americans voted for Trump last year than
in twenty twenty. So Joy BRAI just doesn't want to
accept the truth. Why are we still hearing this fake
narrative from people like her?
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Yea, Joy read is an absolute denial and it's probably
why she's unemployed. To be quite frank with you, but
I'll tell you what I actually saw here in the States.
I saw black and brown Americans with the Democrat Party
and a way in which we've never seen before. When
I went to black barber shouts, I went to black churches,
I would often ask the question, what has the Democrats
done for you lately? And every time I asked that question,
they would scratch their head and say, you may have
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a point there. And so I think that these people
are in denial because they're just so scared of what
the reality of this actually means if they lose their
grip in the black community, their grip on power absolutely
fades away. But another thing that actually drives me crazy
is that Donald Trump is doing exactly what he said
he would do. I know, it's kind of a crazy
thing for a politician to actually deliver on their promises,
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but Donald Trump said he was going to secure the
southern Southern border and deport a legal aliens. Black people
support it. Latinas supported Why because we're American citizens, period.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Yeah, and he has a mandate to do it. He's
delivering on his promises. This week, we heard from Joe
Biden's son Hunter. He sat down with YouTube personality Andrew
Callahan where he unleashed on the Democrats that take Let's
just take a look.
Speaker 10 (07:53):
David Axelrod, who had one success in his political life,
and that was Barack Obama. And that was because of
Barack Obama, not because of David Axelrod and David pluff In,
all of these guys in the Podsave America, guys who
were junior speech writers in you know, on Barack Obama's
Senate staff, who've been dining out on the relationship with
him for years, making millions of dollars, the Anita Dunns
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of the world, who's made forty fifty million dollars off
the Democratic Party. They're all going to insert their judgment
over a man who has figured out, unlike anybody else,
how to get elected to the United States Senate over
seven times, how to pass more legislation than any president
in history.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Oh, he is unbearable, but he has seemed to have
offended the pod Save America guys. They've responded to Hunt,
to Biden, reminding him that he's a liability and should
be a shamed Listen to this, you know what I mean.
Speaker 6 (08:45):
It's just this tensive entitlement that like from Biden, from
his family, from the inner circle that he was like
owed the presidency, owed a second term, and it's.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Just very rating.
Speaker 6 (08:57):
But one thing we know is that Hunter Biden, throughout
Joe Biden's presidency, was a terrible liability for him, and
put the addiction aside. It is because he was on Barisma,
because he became an artist, because he was part of
a kind of like sleazy Washington that, as Tommy said,
people hated. You were a liability. You should be ashamed
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of the ways in which you made your father's political
life worse, and like the idea that we're going to
listen to you now, like give me a breace, ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
But in a sign of just how desperate the Democrats are,
the Atlantic has put out a pace claiming that Hunt
of Biden's recent interview unveiled a straightforward, humbling aggression that
the Democrat party has been missing. So the Democrats actually
considering making.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Hunt of Biden the face of the party.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
These people need help, These people need help. I don't
even know where to start with unpacking this. Right, you
have Hunter Biden bring off, you know, on the pots
of America, bros. Who now are starting to sound like
they're auditioning for a primetime sot on Fox News. Where
was that energy being critical of Hunter Biden during the election,
when we were saying that he was a liability, when
we were saying that engage in a pay for play
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scheme and use his last name to unduly benefit from
the role and office of his father. Where was that
energy then? But now when Hunter Biden comes for them,
they have, you know, all the bad things in the
world to say about him, but also too, I welcome
that Atlantic peace, Thank God for it. Actually, because if
the Democrats are this dumb that they think that making
Hunter Biden the face of their party is going to
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lead to electoral success, then they still haven't learned their lesson.
And if the best that they have on their bench
is Jasmine Crockett and Hunter Biden, then Republicans are going
to probably run this country for the next several decades.
And thank god.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Yeah, well, look either hunted Biden or zarround Mamdney, which
was suggested on MSNBC. Do you have some free advice
for the Democrats because it seems as though their party
and its brand is just going from bad to worse.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
I think so absolutely. My advice with him would be
simple is actually go on to real America, you know,
leave your cozy apartment in New York City, you know,
leave LA and actually go to Alabama, go to Georgia,
go to Ohio, go to all these swing seats at
President Trump wont resoundingly, and go talk to real people
and ask them what they think of Jasmine Crockett and
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Hunter Biden. And I think they'll tell you exactly what
they think, and it might just be a little different
than what they actually believe. C. J.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Pearson RNC Youth Advisory Council co chair, Thank you so
much for joining us on Power Hour.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Brilliant to speak with.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
You, Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
It's time for media meltdowns, and right now the leftist
media is not coping with the cancelation of Stephen Colbert's show,
a program which, as we discussed earlier this week, was
tanking in the ratings and losing tens of millions of.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Dollars a year. But the hosts of the view believe.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
That this really means the Constitution is being dismantled.
Speaker 11 (11:58):
But my concern is if it is political, then everyone
should be concerned. People on the right should be concerned,
people on the left should be concerned, because it's very
clear that if it is political, this is the dismantling
of our democracy.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
This is the dismantling of our constitution.
Speaker 11 (12:16):
Right, and so the first Amendment is the first Amendment
for a reason, and that is freedom of the press,
freedom of speech, freedom to speak truth to power. If
that is taken away, if the comedians are being attacked,
then that means our constitution is being dismantled. That means
the very rubric of our democracy is being dismantled. And
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I think every single person should be really really concerned
about it.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
And according to MSNBCA, it's very scary.
Speaker 9 (12:46):
Approval from the Trump ministration.
Speaker 12 (12:47):
So you wrote about this and you say, coulders cancelation
simply not funny?
Speaker 6 (12:51):
Yes, this is.
Speaker 12 (12:52):
Simply not funny but also really scary.
Speaker 13 (12:55):
Right and even if.
Speaker 12 (12:57):
It's not qut pro quo the idea of self censorship.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
And I talk about my grandfather, Howard.
Speaker 13 (13:02):
Fast, who was.
Speaker 12 (13:05):
Who was jailed by McCarthy during the House on an
American Activities, that our government has done this before, that
history is very much filled with moments like this.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
But how is Stephen Cobet taking the news?
Speaker 14 (13:22):
Donald Trump posted I absolutely love that Colbert got fired.
His talent was even less than his ratings.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
How dare you, sir, would an untalented man be able
to compose the following satirical witticism yourself? He sounds a
bit like Hunter Biden.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Well, luckily there are other Conadians in America that could
come up with some original material to make that point
that they don't see the show go.
Speaker 7 (14:02):
But you're afraid and you protect your bottom.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Line one little fraid.
Speaker 8 (14:17):
It out.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Well, that's got to take from a much more talented comedian,
the host of Blaze TV's Primetime with Alex Stein.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Alex, it's great to see you.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Are you sad to see Stephen Colbert show go?
Speaker 2 (14:34):
And what do you make of.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
This over the top insane reaction we've been saying from
the leftist media.
Speaker 15 (14:41):
I mean, it's like Jon Stewart and Colbert for the
last few years.
Speaker 13 (14:44):
It was just so lazy.
Speaker 15 (14:45):
I mean, to use a four letter word that you
just you know, connected the dots to Hunter Biden. I mean,
where are these guys getting their vocabulary from. I mean,
like the New York subway. It's pathetic. So I thought
that he would be a little more poignant with his
message to Donald Trump. But this is a Donald Trump's fault. Yes,
Donald Trump doesn't like you, but your audience is sixty
eight years old on average, and you know that's my
father's age, and I'm sure that audience is good. But
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he's just not hip anymore. I mean, he's just that's
not what sells, you know, advertising, and his advertising numbers
are horrible and his shows losing, you know, reportedly forty
million dollars. So at this point, it's just more cost
efficient for them. To say goodbye to Stephen Colbert, and
you know, it's just it's just the sad reality is
that he's not as good as David Letter, but he's
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not as good as Jay Leto, and he became some
sort of political political propaganda machine and did not try
to be a comedian anymore. And that's where he lost
his fastball because of Colbert Report. Stephen Colbert, one point
was a great comedian The Daily Show, even with John Stewart,
both were great. But now that they're just such political
phonies when it comes to just not even giving Donald
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Trump a chance, you know, it just shows you their
true character. I'm happy to see Stephen Colbert go because
once again I don't need to see any more vaccine
needles dancing on my screen, encouraging people all to get,
you know, a vaccine, give me a break, yeh in
comedy a lecture.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Such a weird dance performance as well. Let's talk about
Russia Gate.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Donald Trump has called for criminal charges against Barack Obama
for allegedly ordering an assessment that Russia meddled to help
Trump win the twenty sixteen election. This is what the
president said.
Speaker 14 (16:21):
Obama's been caught directly so people say, oh, you know
a group. It's not a group, it's Obama. His orders
are on the paper, the papers are signed, the papers
came right out of their office. They send everything to
be highly classified. Well the highly classified it has been released,
and what they did in twenty sixteen and in twenty twenty.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
Is very criminal.
Speaker 14 (16:43):
It's criminal at the highest level. So that's really the
things you should be talking about.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Barack Obama's office said that this was outrageous, but Director
of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has doubled down at a
White House press briefing today, alleging that the Obama administrator
and promoted a contrived narrative that Rassia interfeed in the
twenty sixteen election.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
This is what she said.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Any of this new information implicates former President Obama in
criminal behavior.
Speaker 16 (17:12):
We have referred and will continue to refer all of
these documents to the Department of Justice and the FBI
to investigate the criminal implications of.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
This For even the evidence Obama correct.
Speaker 16 (17:23):
The evidence that we have found and that we have
released directly point to President Obama leading the manufacturing of
this intelligence assessment. There are multiple pieces of evidence and
intelligence that confirm that fact.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Alex, just how significant is this.
Speaker 15 (17:44):
Well, it's very significant, But at the same time, it's
not going to be significant at all unless we actually
see some arrests. And I do believe that President Obama,
if he committed these crimes, he does have some sort
of presidential immunity, So I mean, I'm really not going
to hold my breath for the per block of Barack Obama.
But I think there's no doubt that they obviously meddled
in this election. I mean, Russia Gate was propagated by
CNN and every you know, mainstream media outlet, So when
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you know that they're in coordination like that, it was
done on the media scale, it was done internally, So
I think it's obvious that they tried to sabotage Donald Trump.
Speaker 13 (18:16):
They basically tried to do a coup.
Speaker 15 (18:17):
But unless I see a rest, I'm not going to
be satisfied because there's so much government corruption for them
to say, oh, look there's more officials being corrupt but
they don't do anything about it, then once again, for me,
it's just going to be another incident where I, you know,
start to lose faith in our government. So I want
to see Donald Trump actually go after these people. And
I don't even think, you know, this is what he
campaigned on. So if people are going to blame him
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and say, oh, this is all about revenge, I don't
even think that's the case. I do think that the
American people voted for him to expose Barack Obama and
the you know, the left wing that is just so corrupt.
So we need to see arrest, though no satisfactory or
no satisfaction until we see some people.
Speaker 13 (18:53):
Go to jail.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Alex Are also claims today that Russia had huge amounts
of potential anti Clinton that it sat on in the
final days of the twenty sixteen campaign, including that Hillary
Clinton was taking heavy tranquilizers that Obama and others found alarming.
Summer concluding that if Russia was of course all in
on supporting Donald Trump and hurting Clinton, it would have
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leaked this information.
Speaker 15 (19:18):
Well, yeah, you're exactly right. I mean, Russia obviously knew
what everybody else knew. I mean there's videos leaked of
Hillary basically being thrown into a van like a rag doll.
I think it was obviously she did have health issues,
and let's be honest, it is a very difficult thing
to go on a campaign trail and live out of
a bus, even if you're staying in five star hotels,
constantly going and doing these speeches. It's not easy, and
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I don't think that she had the wherewithal to do it.
They lied about that, and it was even James Comy
that brought up her emails, and James Comy is a
deep state agent in my personal opinion, So the fact
that he was kind of one of the main catalysts
that exposed Hillary Clinton, maybe he did that on accident,
or maybe he did it because he didn't think Donald
Trump had a chance and hell to win. So really,
at the end of the day, it's not as that
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Hillary Clinton was incapable of actually being the president because
she had health issues and was on all kinds of
prescription medication. And it's not a surprise that Barack Obama
would do anything to stop Donald Trump from becoming president
and potentially exposing some of the criminal acts that he
might have done during his presidency.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Donald Trump today has signed a trio of executive orders,
one of which directly targets ideological bias in government's use
of AI. So, according to White House staff, one of
the measures will prohibit federal agencies from purchasing or promoting
AI systems that embrace wokism. Trump says, the American people
do not want woke Marxist lunacy in the AI models,
(20:40):
and he's absolutely right about that.
Speaker 13 (20:42):
Alex Well, he is right.
Speaker 15 (20:45):
But if you saw Groq recently, obviously on x went
viral because it started to say some anti Semitic stuff.
So now that they've kind of had to reel in
Grok a little bit. So listen, I agree, I don't
want any work nonsense with this AI. But I think
that this AI can you know, spiral out of control
very quickly, and I don't know how much the government
can really control it. I mean, they're obviously going to
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put in guardrails, but at the end of the day,
it's like, is AI a threat to you and me?
I don't, I hope not. I do think it's a
possibility that a lot of people are going to lose
their jobs and people are gonna be dumber because they're
going to rely on AI inst doing the work. You know,
they even that's true though they actually they've done studies.
They say the more you rely on AI, the less
it works. You're a migdalah the part of the brand
that you need for memory, and that more likely you're
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going to forget stuff and have to mention older age.
And I'm not a doctor. I'm just saying, once you
rely on this so much. There's Uber drivers and they've
actually done a study on this. There's Uber drivers that
have driven for over ten years in the same city,
but because they've relied on their GPS so much, they
can't even tell you what street is which.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
So that's an example guilty.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
I'm not a neighbor driver, but driving around the areas
which I should.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Know by now, but I'm so reliant on my GPS.
Speaker 13 (21:52):
Exactly right.
Speaker 15 (21:52):
And that's the same for every other application when it
comes to using AI.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Okay, let's talk about the Epstein Falls look wave. Previously
to scussed how Pambondi just absolutely botched the handling of it.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Now there's been a few developments.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche says that he intends to
meet with Gallaine Maxwell in the coming days. He released
a statement and part of it says this Department of
Justice does not shy away from uncomfortable truths, nor from
the responsibility to pursue justice wherever.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
The facts may lead.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
If Gallaine Maxwell has information about anyone who has committed
crimes against victims, the FBI and the DOJ will hear
what she has to say. Until now, no administration on
behalf of the department had inquired about her willingness to
meet with the government. That changes now and today House
Republicans abpoened Maxwell for a deposition to address Congress next month. Alex,
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are you feeling more confident that we are going to
learn more, potentially see more evidence.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
What are your thoughts?
Speaker 15 (22:51):
I must say my confidence level is very low. You know,
they didn't even get to vote on this before they
went on a five week vacation and through the month
of August and ay listen, the summer. I'm not going
to fault them for want to take a vacation, but
they could have voted on this or could have done
this is something that is a priority. It's all anything
has ever talked about in the media or in everybody's
personal lives basically for the past two weeks.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
Whether you like.
Speaker 15 (23:11):
Politics or not, so this Jeffrey Epstein information for me.
What I truly think and why my confidence is so
low is that I believe that he was connected to
people within the CIA and probably you know, intelligence agencies
for other countries, and that if we actually know the truth,
that it will just unravel the fabric of society and
it'll just you know, everybody will lose faith in our
government and multi other governments, you know, not just our
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government will be affected. And these are people that are
high powerful people that we don't even know about, you know,
people that are in the banking industry, people that are
in all sorts of industries that we don't even understand,
the military industry. You know, we do not know how
deep the rabbit hole goes. And that is why I
don't believe that they're ever going to give us actual transparency.
They're just going to blame it on Jeffrey Epstein and
not you know, the other people that probably should get
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some sort of scrutiny for actually being associated with them.
But at the same time, I do not believe that
it's Donald Trump stopping it because he's on that list.
That's a narrative that a lot of people have been saying.
And maybe he was. He was friends with Jeffrey Epstein,
took pictures of Jeffrey Epstein, but at the same time
he did kick him out of Mara Lagos. So what
it all boils down to is are we allowed to
see it? There's levels of classified information that you and
(24:17):
I will never be privy to.
Speaker 13 (24:18):
And at the end of the day, if.
Speaker 15 (24:20):
They can have federal judges like the one Judge Rosenberg
that just denied it, they're going to continue to do
whatever they can to stop the American people and the
world from seeing the truth.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Alex.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Just finally, before I let you go, we know that
Donald Trump vowed to make sports safe for women again,
and now the US Olympic and Paralympic Committee has updated
its policies to suggest that it will comply with Donald
Trump's keeping men out of women's sports executive Order.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
I mean, this is obviously such.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Good news for girls, for women at the highest levels.
What's the reaction to this being over in the US.
Speaker 15 (24:54):
Well, A lot of people are happy, but I am
not happy because this is why I'm frustrated. I actually
like change under athletes and women's sports because I'm a
gambler and I like to gamble on them because they
have an advantage. So I want a bunch of money
on a main Khalif you know, the general neutral boss
or so. Personally, I like the transgenders and women's sports
because it gives me a gambling age. But everybody else
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and all the women that are affected by this, I'm
sure they're all happy, but sadly it doesn't look like
I'll be going to Las Vegas much in twenty twenty
five and twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Alex Stein, thank you so much for joining us on Power.
Our great to talk to you.
Speaker 15 (25:27):
Thank you, talk to you again soon.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Jenning us Now is former Victorian Liberal Party president and
Skinny's contributor. Michael Kroger, Michael, thank you for joining us.
The Jalvianese government has lifted the biosecurity restrictions on US beef,
which could see the full resumption of exports into Australia.
Speaker 13 (25:48):
The government, of.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Course, is dismissing speculation that the timing is politically motivated
amid ongoing efforts to secure a tariff exemption from Trump.
And there are right now concerns around how this could
impact Australian funas and our beef industry.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Why have we seen the backflip.
Speaker 17 (26:05):
Well, because we're a free trading nation and you'd have
to think that the two are linked. Despite what the
government says, I don't think there's actually been a ban.
What there's been a concerned about here in Australia is
clarity on where the beef comes from. So the Australian governments,
successfully since two nineteen, have wanted clarification that the beef
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was born in America, the captitle born in America, not
born in Canada or Mexico, and that's been very gray.
Now it appears that the Australian governments agreed to allow
beef imports, including from Mexico and Canada. There was always
biosecurity concerns because of mad cow disease etc. So it's
been a change of policy here. But is it going
to affect the market in Australia that greatly, I don't
(26:47):
think so.
Speaker 4 (26:48):
We've got the best beef in the world here.
Speaker 17 (26:49):
We're very happy to have beef from America or wherever,
but it won't compete gave with the quality of Australian beef,
which we export a lot and export a lot to America.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
Of course.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
It's interesting though seeing this move by the Labor government.
But Anthony Albanezi is still yet to secure a face
to face.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Meeting with Donald Trump. When's that going to happen?
Speaker 17 (27:09):
Well, it'd be very wise to avoid a White House
meeting with Trump, because Albanizi has been a personal critic
of Trump, as has a number of his ministers, and
as has our ambassador in Washington, Kevin Rada, who's sort
of an embarrassment to our country. And so Albertis he
can't risk going into the White House, into the Oval
Office sitting there at a meeting with Donald Trump, with JD.
(27:30):
Vance sitting there and our ambassador there who called basically
called Trump a threat to democracy, a crazy man village yet, etcetera.
Speaker 4 (27:39):
All those things.
Speaker 17 (27:39):
So Alberis he can't risk a meeting in the Oval Office.
So what will happen is he'll meet Trump on the
sidelines of some of these international four of the G eight,
et cetera, and he'll say I've had a meeting, and
there'll be a picture opportunity. But he'll avoid a meeting
with jade Van sitting there because Vance is likely to
launch into him and will ever forget the Zelensky White
(28:02):
House meeting, and Alberti can't afford a repeat of that.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Now it's been revealed that more than fifty percent of
voters rely on the government for their main income. The
AFR is reporting that the federal and state government spending
SPLURD has hit the highest level since the end of
World War Two, and the NDAs is a chief culprit,
accounting for fifty two.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
Billion dollars in costs.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
So more than half of voters rely on governments for
most of their income through public sector wages, welfare benefits
or subsidies, according to a new report by the Center
for Independent Studies, I mean, Michael, that is an alarming
statistic and not sustainable.
Speaker 4 (28:42):
Well, so Mick Romney moment, isn't it.
Speaker 17 (28:44):
Romney warned about how his chances are winning were defiled
because too ma new people relied on government. Look, the
problem in Australia is the problem in Western off which
is around the world, which is unsustainable government spending and
unsustainable debt.
Speaker 4 (28:57):
And the American debt's going from thirty six to thirty
on trillion.
Speaker 17 (29:00):
Here in Australia we've got a much smaller economy obviously,
but our national debt is going to one point two
trillion in growth terms in about three years time. Most
of the growth and employment in this country has come
from public sector jobs, wage increases coming from the government sector.
I mean, it's just unsustainable. And you get to a
(29:22):
point where, sooner or later someone in Australia, some governments
in the western world will say, we have enough debt.
We can't keep going on. The cost of servicing debt
is beyond normal limits. These are record debts and deficits
and you know, in Australia it is completely unsustainable. And
the government here got re elected basically because it offered
(29:44):
to spend a lot more money than the opposition that
was central towards free election campaign, which is very popular
with the electorate. But it's not possible to keep going
this way, and sooner or later there's going to have
to be an opposition or a government that says we
have to draw the line under this, because in a
rich country like Australia, a first world country, one of
the richest, healthiest nations in the world, half the country
(30:05):
are on government benefits.
Speaker 4 (30:07):
That's not sustainable.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
No, not at all. Let's talk about net zero.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Susan Lee is facing pressure over the coalition's growing concerns
for the net zero policy. According to The Australian, the
Western Australian Liberal State Council is reportedly joining forces with
the Northern Territory in South Australia to abandon net zero.
We know that Shadow Home Affairs Minister Andrew Hasty initiated
a motion to the Liberal State Executive for the Federal
(30:33):
Party to ditch the policy.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Michael, where's this going to go?
Speaker 17 (30:38):
Well, it's going to increase pressure in Australia to drop
the net zero committity. It does look as if it's
fantasy land. You know, we'd all like to get to
net zero. Everyone agrees with that, but the cost of it,
the possibility of it. It relies on huge amounts of
renewable energy, which is great in theory, but country people
have to put up with the the wind towers all
(31:01):
over rural Australia, thousands of them, which they don't want,
obviously pinging upon their land. We've seen a lot of
projects in Australia for offshore wind collapse because it's just
not economically sustainable. And Australia is now starting to understand well,
look at China, India to the biggest eminians in the
world and not committed in net zero. Why are we
(31:23):
one of the few countries in this region committed to
net zero, it's doing great economic arm to the country
and so the debate in Australia is going to get
loud and allowed to drop net zero. You'd like to keep,
but the government's got to show how we're going to
get there, and I just.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
Don't think it looks no I agree with you. Look
a couple of global stories. Let's turn to the UK,
where more protests are expected to follow those in Epping
after protests broke out in the Essex town after a
migrant was charged with sexual assault, and there of course
growing concerns mass migration is threatening community cohesion. Can I
get your reaction to what's been happening over there?
Speaker 17 (32:00):
This is a problem a lot of western countries around
the world are facing. You know, why wouldn't you if
you were an impoverished person from a third world country
want to get to Britain, want to get to America,
want to get to France.
Speaker 4 (32:12):
Of course you would.
Speaker 17 (32:12):
You'd want to take your family for a better life.
But it's just not possible. There are tens of millions
of economic migrants who would like to live in Western countries.
It's just not sustainable, and so The problem in Britain
is a bit like in America, a weakness of government,
a failure of government to put in place ways of
stopping illegal immigration. You know, you have sympathy for people,
(32:35):
but it's just not possible for countries like Britain to
have thousands and thousands of people arriving every week undocumented
economic migrants. Now in Australia, as we know, we stopped
the boat people coming. We turned around boats. Controversial policy,
but we turned around boats basically from Indonesia where it
was safe to do so. And of course the British government,
(32:56):
conservative and labor have been hopeless. They have no idea
what they're doing and no wonder Nagil Farage is ahead
of the head in the polls because successive conservative labor
governments have just been hopeless. The French have been hopeless,
the Bridge have been hopeless. The answer in Britain is said,
what we did here to turn around boats back to
France where it is safe and legal, safe and legal
(33:16):
to do so, and if you have to transfer them
to other boats to make sure they get back safely,
that's what needs to be done. I mean, these poor people.
And also you have to smash the people smuggling model,
which was one of the reasons the illegal trade stopped
in Australia was.
Speaker 4 (33:34):
Because we let everyone know.
Speaker 17 (33:36):
We let the potential migrants know that if you come
to Australia you won't be able to stay here. We
engineered offshore processing for people, so to break the people
smuggle and mild that is critical to the whole resolution
of this problem. And the Starmer government and the previous
Conservative governments appear to be hopeless of dealing with this issue.
Speaker 4 (33:56):
And no wonder Farage is living in the poles.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Finally, to the US, I want to get your thoughts
on the Democrats because Tim Walter has announced that he's
not running in twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
Let's look at this.
Speaker 9 (34:08):
Last two quick quick questions.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
First question that people would kill me about in ass
you think about running in twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 6 (34:13):
I am not and my job and I say that
I am doing all I can to help build a
party and make sure whoever that person is win, So
we appreciate.
Speaker 4 (34:21):
I think we need to flood this is on with people.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
Oh no, Michael, what are the Democrats going to do now?
Speaker 17 (34:27):
Well, there will be an outbreak of mass depression in
America today. Knowing Jim Waltz is not going to run
for the nomination in twenty eight, I don't know how
people will be able to get bed in America today.
Performance was the performance of a clown. Quite frankly is
the running mate of Kamala Harris.
Speaker 4 (34:45):
He's not a serious person, this bloke.
Speaker 17 (34:46):
I mean, he got up at that rally one day
and Say's major objection to the Republicans was that they'd
taken the Jewey out of politics, not will poverty, not crime,
not illegal border crossings, not wars in the Middle East
and in the Ukraine. Joey was his main complaint, this blake.
Thank goodness he's not running. He wasn't going to win anyway.
(35:07):
He had a much chance of winning the presence as
I have. And I'm not an American citizen, So I
think the likely candidate will become Ala Harris. Why wouldn't
she run again? What she got to lose, she can
lose again, but blug a win. So to me, she
looks like the candidate for the Democratic Party, as bizarre
as that sounds. She's only got Gavin Newsom to beat.
(35:27):
He's got a shocking record in California, and I think,
you know, people are going to say to her, why
don't you run again? She'd probably get the nomination because
the left control of the Democratic Convention. So come on,
we'll have to find a new running mate, and sadly
it ain't going to be Tim Wells.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
Michael Kroger, thank you so much for joining us Unpower Hour.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
Great to talk to.
Speaker 4 (35:47):
You, pleasure.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
New detailed have emerged about rocker Ozzie Osborne's final days
following his death at age seventy six. Is a lifestyle
reporter here at sky News dot com dot au and
he's always across the latest celebrity headlines.
Speaker 2 (36:05):
Riley, great to see you, Great to be back. So
Ozzy Osborne's.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
Wife Sharon and their family have opened up about Ozzie
Osbourne's passing.
Speaker 18 (36:13):
What's been said, Yeah, you know, such sad news, the
death of Ozzy Osbourne, legendary rocker, Black Sabbath frontman. As
you said, you know, he just performed for the final
time weeks ago. He had a farewell conceert that was
supported by a Metallica and Guns n' Roses and all
these other set of legends. And I think it was
really a send off that he wanted. I think I
(36:35):
kind of think about, you know what Frank Snachi used
to say, my way.
Speaker 13 (36:38):
I think Ozzi Osbourne lived his life his way. You know.
It was it was a hard life at times.
Speaker 18 (36:43):
You know, he came from very humble beginnings, very hard
rock and roll lifestyle, you know, problems with drugs, and
then later in his life, I think he really found happiness,
you know, for his wife Sharon and their three children
at absolute tragedy. The family's said in a statement that
he was surrounded by love that he died definitely, you know,
surrounded with their support, and I think it's sad, you know,
(37:05):
especially I think of his wife Sharon, you know, their
Showby's marriage, I think in Hollywood and in entertainment, one
of the longest running marriages that they were married in
the early eighties, married until his death. Very very sad news,
but you know, I think it was a very touching
sort of symbol to know that he was able to
have a farewell and he was able to perform one
(37:26):
final time, perhaps knowing. It's interesting to point out that
the family hasn't disclosed a cause of death. I think
it is a public knowledge that he was suffering with
Parkinson's and he had other health problems, But in terms
of a cause of death, nothing has been revealed. But
definitely seems like there was a sign or there was
perhaps final months and weeks, and definitely he did it
(37:48):
on his terms.
Speaker 1 (37:49):
Okay, Well, an insider at streaming giant Netflix has claimed
that the Sussex is one hundred million dollar contract partnership
or content partnership, I should say, is on the chopping blog.
Do you think could be a sign or the end
of haring Meghan's relationship with Netflix?
Speaker 13 (38:04):
Right?
Speaker 18 (38:04):
I think we can quite confidently say at this point
the deal's over us.
Speaker 13 (38:07):
So that initial five year.
Speaker 18 (38:09):
Contract, the one hundred million dollar legendary partnership is all
bit done. That is expiring within the next few months,
and it's understood that Netflix will not be renewing, that
they will be transitioning the Sussexes onto a new type
of partnership.
Speaker 13 (38:24):
Called a first look deal.
Speaker 18 (38:25):
A first look deal is essentially it's very popular in
the entertainment industry. It basically says, all right, if you've
got a project in the works, or a TV show
or something you want to make into a movie, we
get first we get first sort of run at it,
and that means that Netflix can pass on it. If
they're interested in it, they could say, all right, you
have to s of take it to us first. I
think that this is a sign that they don't really
(38:46):
see too much value in the Sussexes.
Speaker 13 (38:49):
You know, the numbers have been dismal.
Speaker 18 (38:50):
Of course, with Love Meghan is coming back, but there
was some streaming data that came out recently that revealed
that that show was barely in the top four hundred
shows on Netflix. And actually this was quite a set
of poetic sign Meghan's set of former show Suits reruns
of Suits are actually more popular on Netflix than her own.
Speaker 2 (39:11):
Show, as that does not surprise me.
Speaker 18 (39:13):
Right, So there's a set of there's a lot of
I don't want to say Shorten Freud, but definitely I
think the ego would be a bit bruised.
Speaker 13 (39:21):
The other one, of course, was Polo. Remember that flop
Harry put out Polo.
Speaker 18 (39:25):
I mean that show just disappeared without a trace, didn't, right,
you know So I think from Netflix's point of view, look,
they got they got the big thing. They got the
docu series that came out a couple of years ago
that had a lot of revelations, did a lot of
damage and was very popular. So I think that from
their point of view, they can say, look, we got
the big scoop. But I mean in twenty twenty five,
I think we're done with the Sussex.
Speaker 2 (39:46):
Yeah, I think we are.
Speaker 1 (39:48):
Look and the Sussex insider has claimed that Prince Harry
is prepared to reconcile with King Charles even without the
support of Megan mark Also, what's the latest on this
propos peace summit?
Speaker 13 (40:01):
Right?
Speaker 18 (40:02):
I think this is a really crucial detail that's come
out this week. An insider has said that Harry is
sort of continuing negotiations and discussions and that they don't
necessarily include his wife. That's not too sort of spark
any speculation about their marriage. I think their marriage is strong,
but I think that Harry has understood that his family
may never accept Meghan Markle. I think that, you know,
(40:24):
just the timeline of events has just been so catastrophic
in terms of the institution, but also on a personal level.
Things that have been said, especially by Meghan but also
by Harry have done great personal and reputational damage to Charles,
also to William and Kate and I think from their
point of view, they're always going to be on guard.
I think any type of peace summit, if it ever
(40:45):
does happen, I don't think it would be They.
Speaker 13 (40:48):
Could never really let him back in. How could you
you know? This is the person, you know.
Speaker 18 (40:52):
Just as a reminder in these interviews, you know, there
were allegations of racism by an unnamed royal. It was
later alleged that the unnamed royal were Kate and excuse me,
Kate and Charles. You know that was never confirmed. The
Sussex has denied that, but it was in that Omen
scobi book.
Speaker 13 (41:07):
Yeah, you know.
Speaker 18 (41:08):
Those are absolutely you know, very very defamatory reputation instead
of decimating kind of allegations, and of course after something
like that, you know, how could you trust them again?
I don't think they'll ever trust Harry and Meghan again.
But I do think that Harry could you know, sort
of have at heart to heart with his father. I
do believe that that is a possibility. But in terms
(41:28):
of you know, Meghan coming back in, I think she's
happy where she is. I think that she from her
point of view, I don't think she's interested in reconciling
with them either. So it sounds like everything set of
moving along as it should. Harry is open to it
from a family point of view. It is his father,
but Meghan is happy to just sort of let him
go off and do that.
Speaker 2 (41:47):
Yeah, she's fine. She's got an Instagram back up and running, and.
Speaker 13 (41:50):
She's her own thing doing wines. Now.
Speaker 2 (41:52):
Goodness.
Speaker 1 (41:53):
Now, the speculation that Princess Beatrice could become a working
royal that has gone into overdrive after the role well,
it took on a new role once filled by her grandfather,
Prince Philip. What do we know about this about Beatrice's
new gig and is this a sign that should be
taking on more duties?
Speaker 18 (42:09):
Well, I reckon, I think that this is another sort
of significant sign. You know, this was a patronage she's
taken on that was once Prince Philip's.
Speaker 13 (42:17):
Of course, Prince.
Speaker 18 (42:18):
Philip was working royal as the wife of the late
Great Queen Elizabeth, And this is I do think it's
a sign. I think that they are slowly giving Beatrice
more responsibilities. She does have limited responsibilities. She is a
Counselor of State for Charles. She's never actually been forced
to step in for that role, but in theory on paper,
if there was ever an emergency and the monarch was
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incapacitated or everyone down the line, she would be called upon.
So I think she's always been on standby. Another detail
that's come out recently which I've found really telling, was
her husband Eduardo. He did an interview and revealed that
they are largely leaving at Saint James's Palace. So we
know that Beatrice does have a Grace in Favor home
that King Charles, her uncle pays for inside Saint James's
(43:03):
Palace in central London, and it's now been revealed that
they do live there. You know, there was sort of
reports that they were living more in the cottsworlds and
that they weren't that much in the sort of the
center of.
Speaker 13 (43:15):
Royal life in the palace.
Speaker 18 (43:16):
But I think the revelation that she's taking on more
duties and that she's also living back at Saint James
nearly full time, I do think it's a sign that
she could become a working royal.
Speaker 2 (43:26):
Riley Sullivan, thank you so much for joining us on
Power Hour.
Speaker 13 (43:28):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (43:32):
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Make sure you subscribe to sky News Australia on YouTube,
This Zie's Power Hour with Gabriella Power. Hello and welcome
to Power Hour. I'm Gabriella Power. Thank you for joining us.
Coming up on the show today, we'll speak to the
man behind the Young Maga movement who made the Republican
Party cool again, the leftist media meltdowns over Stephen Colbert's
(00:22):
acxing is getting even crazier, and the future of the
Democrats well. Tim Waltz insists that he won't run in
twenty twenty eight, but there are calls to make Hunter
Biden the face of the party.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
I'm not even kidding. Let's get straight into it.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Joining us now is CJ Pearson, RNC Youth Advisory Council
Co Chair c J.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Pearson.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
It is great to speak with you. You've been involved
with the Republican Party for some time now, and during
the election you advise the Trump campaign on its social
media strategy, which was incredible. Earlier this month he landed
in Times list of most influential online creators.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
And I'm interested to.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Hear your thoughts because in the election we saw this
significant shift to the right among gen Z voters.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
What do you put it down to? Why did this happen?
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Well, thank you so much for having me first and foremost.
But I got to tell you, I think we just
had an incredible product to sell. You know, President Trump
ran on an incredible platform of America First policies that
connected with America's young people in a way in which
we've never seen before. This past election, we saw a
twenty point swing among voters from eighteen to twenty nine,
and it was a direct result of the President's campaign
strategy of reaching young people where they are. While Kamala
(01:35):
Harris basement and shied away from long form interviews, President
Trump went on Joe Rogan, he went on THEO Vaughn.
He talked to everyone and anyone who would listen to him,
and that is exactly why we won and why young
people left the Democrat Party in droves continue.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
To do so.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Yeah, I absolutely agree, an incredible product to sell. Are
we going to say that happen again in the midterms though,
because there is polling that suggests that we won't see it.
A recent poll found that thirty five five percent of
voters eight between eighteen to twenty nine said the vote
for the Republican candidate, which is down from thirty nine
percent in their poll in May. What do you make
(02:09):
of that, because we've also seen polling and just how
wrong the polsters get it. Because throughout twenty twenty four,
we were told that Kamala Harris was ahead, and then
it was neck and neck, and then of course Donald
Trump won all swing states and the popular vote.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
You know, you're exactly right, you know, November fifth, twenty
twenty four taught me you only poll to believe is
the one on election day. And so I think that's
the strategy we're going to be taking here. But we're
not going to rest in our laurels. You know, We're
not just going to rest on the fact that we
were able to achieve that monumental feet with young voters
in twenty twenty four and just think it's going to
automatically happen in twenty twenty six. The strategy remains the same.
We're going to go to where America's young people are.
(02:44):
We're going to take our message of absolutely of hope, opportunity,
and all those things that excited young people and brought
them to our side to begin with, because we realized that,
unlike Democrats, we don't take these votes for granted. We
don't believe that young people should just vote for us
because of so called vibes. They should vote us because of.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Policy cjps And it's funny six months on leftist media
still cannot cope that Donald Trump won And if you
watch outlets like MSNBC, this is their suggestion to the
Democrat Party over how to win over rather young voters.
Speaker 5 (03:16):
You're advising a Democratic politician on how to how to
speak to young people and how to get them more
engaged in democratic politics. Do you say they've got to
run on tax takes? Is it a Bernie Sanders style
campaign where you say I'm going to tax the billionaires.
There shouldn't be a billionaire class. It should there should
be more equity. Is it a democratic socialist campaign? Is
(03:38):
it what's or on mom Danni is doing.
Speaker 6 (03:40):
I think those messages are on the right track.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
I mean, when someone as radical as around man Dani
is a new face of the Democrats, I think they
are in trouble. But before I get your thoughts on
what the Democrats should do, what's your assessment of the
mainstream media over in.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
The US and the role it played in the election?
Speaker 1 (04:00):
We saw scene in describe Donald Trump's assassination attempt. As
a full MSNBC kept calling Donald Trump Hitler on repeat.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
I mean, what's going on with the media in the US.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
These people just don't get it, you know, And I
think they just seem so committed to acting like clowns.
It almost makes you want to go to every newsroom
in America and just hand them a bunch of balloons.
It's getting absolutely ludicrous. But you know, I'm okay with
the media not getting it, because every single time they
show that they don't get it. The American people were
the same way in which they did in November. They
resigndingly come out and support President Trump when they spread
(04:33):
all these ridiculous, baseless conspiracy theories about the president. The
American people rejected it. Why because no one trusts people anymore,
because all they know how to do is lie.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Well, someone else who still doesn't get it is acts
to MSNBC host Joy Reid. She's now launched a YouTube
channel where she invites guests on to discuss the dangers
of the mega movement.
Speaker 7 (04:54):
Look at this some of the other but other like
pundit or podcasts, people starting to shift will say this
is good about Magarinott and I'm like, you're being so shortsighted.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
This is not a good movement to be attached to.
Speaker 7 (05:07):
Now, this is not I can tell, and I'm telling
it because I'm a Democrat and a liberal.
Speaker 6 (05:11):
Note I'm saying it.
Speaker 7 (05:12):
Is a toxic, dangerous, anti American, anti democratic.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Well, yeah, I don't think they're convincing anyone. But Joy
Raid also went on Piers Morgan Uncensored recently, where if she,
of course had to claim that Donald Trump ran a
racial identity campaign and the iced deportations that are being
carried out and not about removing people who are in
the country illegally, but it is all about race.
Speaker 8 (05:36):
Masked federal agents sweeping up cooks, abuelas, people who work
on farms, picking up dishwashers, any brown person, and Tom
Holman said, based on one criteria being their appearance, it's
overwhelmingly brown and some black people. We're not seeing them
(05:57):
sweeping up white folks on the street. Donald Trump and
racial identity campaign, and yeah, this is America that is
appealing to unfortunately a lot of Americans.
Speaker 9 (06:07):
Well, actually it turned out to be very appealing to
Latino Americans, who voted for him in record numbers. More
Latinos voted for him than voted for Kamala Harris, the
non white candidate. More Black Americans African Americans voted for
Trump this time round than first time round.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
So truly it was the same.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
The same number of black.
Speaker 9 (06:30):
Black Americans voted for Trump at this time of last name.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Piers Morgan is correct.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
There more Black Americans voted for Trump last year than
in twenty twenty. So Joy BRAI just doesn't want to
accept the truth. Why are we still hearing this fake
narrative from people like her?
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Yea, Joy read is an absolute denial and it's probably
why she's unemployed. To be quite frank with you, but
I'll tell you what I actually saw here in the States.
I saw black and brown Americans with the Democrat Party
and a way in which we've never seen before. When
I went to black barber shouts, I went to black churches,
I would often ask the question, what has the Democrats
done for you lately? And every time I asked that question,
they would scratch their head and say, you may have
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a point there. And so I think that these people
are in denial because they're just so scared of what
the reality of this actually means if they lose their
grip in the black community, their grip on power absolutely
fades away. But another thing that actually drives me crazy
is that Donald Trump is doing exactly what he said
he would do. I know, it's kind of a crazy
thing for a politician to actually deliver on their promises,
(07:28):
but Donald Trump said he was going to secure the
southern Southern border and deport a legal aliens. Black people
support it. Latinas supported Why because we're American citizens, period.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Yeah, and he has a mandate to do it. He's
delivering on his promises. This week, we heard from Joe
Biden's son Hunter. He sat down with YouTube personality Andrew
Callahan where he unleashed on the Democrats that take Let's
just take a look.
Speaker 10 (07:53):
David Axelrod, who had one success in his political life,
and that was Barack Obama. And that was because of
Barack Obama, not because of David Axelrod and David pluff In,
all of these guys in the Podsave America, guys who
were junior speech writers in you know, on Barack Obama's
Senate staff, who've been dining out on the relationship with
him for years, making millions of dollars, the Anita Dunns
(08:16):
of the world, who's made forty fifty million dollars off
the Democratic Party. They're all going to insert their judgment
over a man who has figured out, unlike anybody else,
how to get elected to the United States Senate over
seven times, how to pass more legislation than any president
in history.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Oh, he is unbearable, but he has seemed to have
offended the pod Save America guys. They've responded to Hunt,
to Biden, reminding him that he's a liability and should
be a shamed Listen to this, you know what I mean.
Speaker 6 (08:45):
It's just this tensive entitlement that like from Biden, from
his family, from the inner circle that he was like
owed the presidency, owed a second term, and it's.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Just very rating.
Speaker 6 (08:57):
But one thing we know is that Hunter Biden, throughout
Joe Biden's presidency, was a terrible liability for him, and
put the addiction aside. It is because he was on Barisma,
because he became an artist, because he was part of
a kind of like sleazy Washington that, as Tommy said,
people hated. You were a liability. You should be ashamed
(09:18):
of the ways in which you made your father's political
life worse, and like the idea that we're going to
listen to you now, like give me a breace, ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
But in a sign of just how desperate the Democrats are,
the Atlantic has put out a pace claiming that Hunt
of Biden's recent interview unveiled a straightforward, humbling aggression that
the Democrat party has been missing. So the Democrats actually
considering making.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Hunt of Biden the face of the party.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
These people need help, These people need help. I don't
even know where to start with unpacking this. Right, you
have Hunter Biden bring off, you know, on the pots
of America, bros. Who now are starting to sound like
they're auditioning for a primetime sot on Fox News. Where
was that energy being critical of Hunter Biden during the election,
when we were saying that he was a liability, when
we were saying that engage in a pay for play
(10:06):
scheme and use his last name to unduly benefit from
the role and office of his father. Where was that
energy then? But now when Hunter Biden comes for them,
they have, you know, all the bad things in the
world to say about him, but also too, I welcome
that Atlantic peace, Thank God for it. Actually, because if
the Democrats are this dumb that they think that making
Hunter Biden the face of their party is going to
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lead to electoral success, then they still haven't learned their lesson.
And if the best that they have on their bench
is Jasmine Crockett and Hunter Biden, then Republicans are going
to probably run this country for the next several decades.
And thank god.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Yeah, well, look either hunted Biden or zarround Mamdney, which
was suggested on MSNBC. Do you have some free advice
for the Democrats because it seems as though their party
and its brand is just going from bad to worse.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
I think so absolutely. My advice with him would be
simple is actually go on to real America, you know,
leave your cozy apartment in New York City, you know,
leave LA and actually go to Alabama, go to Georgia,
go to Ohio, go to all these swing seats at
President Trump wont resoundingly, and go talk to real people
and ask them what they think of Jasmine Crockett and
(11:19):
Hunter Biden. And I think they'll tell you exactly what
they think, and it might just be a little different
than what they actually believe. C. J.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Pearson RNC Youth Advisory Council co chair, Thank you so
much for joining us on Power Hour.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Brilliant to speak with.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
You, Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
It's time for media meltdowns, and right now the leftist
media is not coping with the cancelation of Stephen Colbert's show,
a program which, as we discussed earlier this week, was
tanking in the ratings and losing tens of millions of.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Dollars a year. But the hosts of the view believe.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
That this really means the Constitution is being dismantled.
Speaker 11 (11:58):
But my concern is if it is political, then everyone
should be concerned. People on the right should be concerned,
people on the left should be concerned, because it's very
clear that if it is political, this is the dismantling
of our democracy.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
This is the dismantling of our constitution.
Speaker 11 (12:16):
Right, and so the first Amendment is the first Amendment
for a reason, and that is freedom of the press,
freedom of speech, freedom to speak truth to power. If
that is taken away, if the comedians are being attacked,
then that means our constitution is being dismantled. That means
the very rubric of our democracy is being dismantled. And
(12:37):
I think every single person should be really really concerned
about it.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
And according to MSNBCA, it's very scary.
Speaker 9 (12:46):
Approval from the Trump ministration.
Speaker 12 (12:47):
So you wrote about this and you say, coulders cancelation
simply not funny?
Speaker 6 (12:51):
Yes, this is.
Speaker 12 (12:52):
Simply not funny but also really scary.
Speaker 13 (12:55):
Right and even if.
Speaker 12 (12:57):
It's not qut pro quo the idea of self censorship.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
And I talk about my grandfather, Howard.
Speaker 13 (13:02):
Fast, who was.
Speaker 12 (13:05):
Who was jailed by McCarthy during the House on an
American Activities, that our government has done this before, that
history is very much filled with moments like this.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
But how is Stephen Cobet taking the news?
Speaker 14 (13:22):
Donald Trump posted I absolutely love that Colbert got fired.
His talent was even less than his ratings.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
How dare you, sir, would an untalented man be able
to compose the following satirical witticism yourself? He sounds a
bit like Hunter Biden.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Well, luckily there are other Conadians in America that could
come up with some original material to make that point
that they don't see the show go.
Speaker 7 (14:02):
But you're afraid and you protect your bottom.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Line one little fraid.
Speaker 8 (14:17):
It out.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Well, that's got to take from a much more talented comedian,
the host of Blaze TV's Primetime with Alex Stein.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Alex, it's great to see you.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Are you sad to see Stephen Colbert show go?
Speaker 2 (14:34):
And what do you make of.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
This over the top insane reaction we've been saying from
the leftist media.
Speaker 15 (14:41):
I mean, it's like Jon Stewart and Colbert for the
last few years.
Speaker 13 (14:44):
It was just so lazy.
Speaker 15 (14:45):
I mean, to use a four letter word that you
just you know, connected the dots to Hunter Biden. I mean,
where are these guys getting their vocabulary from. I mean,
like the New York subway. It's pathetic. So I thought
that he would be a little more poignant with his
message to Donald Trump. But this is a Donald Trump's fault. Yes,
Donald Trump doesn't like you, but your audience is sixty
eight years old on average, and you know that's my
father's age, and I'm sure that audience is good. But
(15:07):
he's just not hip anymore. I mean, he's just that's
not what sells, you know, advertising, and his advertising numbers
are horrible and his shows losing, you know, reportedly forty
million dollars. So at this point, it's just more cost
efficient for them. To say goodbye to Stephen Colbert, and
you know, it's just it's just the sad reality is
that he's not as good as David Letter, but he's
(15:28):
not as good as Jay Leto, and he became some
sort of political political propaganda machine and did not try
to be a comedian anymore. And that's where he lost
his fastball because of Colbert Report. Stephen Colbert, one point
was a great comedian The Daily Show, even with John Stewart,
both were great. But now that they're just such political
phonies when it comes to just not even giving Donald
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Trump a chance, you know, it just shows you their
true character. I'm happy to see Stephen Colbert go because
once again I don't need to see any more vaccine
needles dancing on my screen, encouraging people all to get,
you know, a vaccine, give me a break, yeh in
comedy a lecture.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Such a weird dance performance as well. Let's talk about
Russia Gate.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Donald Trump has called for criminal charges against Barack Obama
for allegedly ordering an assessment that Russia meddled to help
Trump win the twenty sixteen election. This is what the
president said.
Speaker 14 (16:21):
Obama's been caught directly so people say, oh, you know
a group. It's not a group, it's Obama. His orders
are on the paper, the papers are signed, the papers
came right out of their office. They send everything to
be highly classified. Well the highly classified it has been released,
and what they did in twenty sixteen and in twenty twenty.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
Is very criminal.
Speaker 14 (16:43):
It's criminal at the highest level. So that's really the
things you should be talking about.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Barack Obama's office said that this was outrageous, but Director
of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has doubled down at a
White House press briefing today, alleging that the Obama administrator
and promoted a contrived narrative that Rassia interfeed in the
twenty sixteen election.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
This is what she said.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Any of this new information implicates former President Obama in
criminal behavior.
Speaker 16 (17:12):
We have referred and will continue to refer all of
these documents to the Department of Justice and the FBI
to investigate the criminal implications of.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
This For even the evidence Obama correct.
Speaker 16 (17:23):
The evidence that we have found and that we have
released directly point to President Obama leading the manufacturing of
this intelligence assessment. There are multiple pieces of evidence and
intelligence that confirm that fact.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Alex, just how significant is this.
Speaker 15 (17:44):
Well, it's very significant, But at the same time, it's
not going to be significant at all unless we actually
see some arrests. And I do believe that President Obama,
if he committed these crimes, he does have some sort
of presidential immunity, So I mean, I'm really not going
to hold my breath for the per block of Barack Obama.
But I think there's no doubt that they obviously meddled
in this election. I mean, Russia Gate was propagated by
CNN and every you know, mainstream media outlet, So when
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you know that they're in coordination like that, it was
done on the media scale, it was done internally, So
I think it's obvious that they tried to sabotage Donald Trump.
Speaker 13 (18:16):
They basically tried to do a coup.
Speaker 15 (18:17):
But unless I see a rest, I'm not going to
be satisfied because there's so much government corruption for them
to say, oh, look there's more officials being corrupt but
they don't do anything about it, then once again, for me,
it's just going to be another incident where I, you know,
start to lose faith in our government. So I want
to see Donald Trump actually go after these people. And
I don't even think, you know, this is what he
campaigned on. So if people are going to blame him
(18:39):
and say, oh, this is all about revenge, I don't
even think that's the case. I do think that the
American people voted for him to expose Barack Obama and
the you know, the left wing that is just so corrupt.
So we need to see arrest, though no satisfactory or
no satisfaction until we see some people.
Speaker 13 (18:53):
Go to jail.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Alex Are also claims today that Russia had huge amounts
of potential anti Clinton that it sat on in the
final days of the twenty sixteen campaign, including that Hillary
Clinton was taking heavy tranquilizers that Obama and others found alarming.
Summer concluding that if Russia was of course all in
on supporting Donald Trump and hurting Clinton, it would have
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leaked this information.
Speaker 15 (19:18):
Well, yeah, you're exactly right. I mean, Russia obviously knew
what everybody else knew. I mean there's videos leaked of
Hillary basically being thrown into a van like a rag doll.
I think it was obviously she did have health issues,
and let's be honest, it is a very difficult thing
to go on a campaign trail and live out of
a bus, even if you're staying in five star hotels,
constantly going and doing these speeches. It's not easy, and
(19:38):
I don't think that she had the wherewithal to do it.
They lied about that, and it was even James Comy
that brought up her emails, and James Comy is a
deep state agent in my personal opinion, So the fact
that he was kind of one of the main catalysts
that exposed Hillary Clinton, maybe he did that on accident,
or maybe he did it because he didn't think Donald
Trump had a chance and hell to win. So really,
at the end of the day, it's not as that
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Hillary Clinton was incapable of actually being the president because
she had health issues and was on all kinds of
prescription medication. And it's not a surprise that Barack Obama
would do anything to stop Donald Trump from becoming president
and potentially exposing some of the criminal acts that he
might have done during his presidency.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Donald Trump today has signed a trio of executive orders,
one of which directly targets ideological bias in government's use
of AI. So, according to White House staff, one of
the measures will prohibit federal agencies from purchasing or promoting
AI systems that embrace wokism. Trump says, the American people
do not want woke Marxist lunacy in the AI models,
(20:40):
and he's absolutely right about that.
Speaker 13 (20:42):
Alex Well, he is right.
Speaker 15 (20:45):
But if you saw Groq recently, obviously on x went
viral because it started to say some anti Semitic stuff.
So now that they've kind of had to reel in
Grok a little bit. So listen, I agree, I don't
want any work nonsense with this AI. But I think
that this AI can you know, spiral out of control
very quickly, and I don't know how much the government
can really control it. I mean, they're obviously going to
(21:06):
put in guardrails, but at the end of the day,
it's like, is AI a threat to you and me?
I don't, I hope not. I do think it's a
possibility that a lot of people are going to lose
their jobs and people are gonna be dumber because they're
going to rely on AI inst doing the work. You know,
they even that's true though they actually they've done studies.
They say the more you rely on AI, the less
it works. You're a migdalah the part of the brand
that you need for memory, and that more likely you're
(21:27):
going to forget stuff and have to mention older age.
And I'm not a doctor. I'm just saying, once you
rely on this so much. There's Uber drivers and they've
actually done a study on this. There's Uber drivers that
have driven for over ten years in the same city,
but because they've relied on their GPS so much, they
can't even tell you what street is which.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
So that's an example guilty.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
I'm not a neighbor driver, but driving around the areas
which I should.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Know by now, but I'm so reliant on my GPS.
Speaker 13 (21:52):
Exactly right.
Speaker 15 (21:52):
And that's the same for every other application when it
comes to using AI.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Okay, let's talk about the Epstein Falls look wave. Previously
to scussed how Pambondi just absolutely botched the handling of it.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Now there's been a few developments.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche says that he intends to
meet with Gallaine Maxwell in the coming days. He released
a statement and part of it says this Department of
Justice does not shy away from uncomfortable truths, nor from
the responsibility to pursue justice wherever.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
The facts may lead.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
If Gallaine Maxwell has information about anyone who has committed
crimes against victims, the FBI and the DOJ will hear
what she has to say. Until now, no administration on
behalf of the department had inquired about her willingness to
meet with the government. That changes now and today House
Republicans abpoened Maxwell for a deposition to address Congress next month. Alex,
(22:43):
are you feeling more confident that we are going to
learn more, potentially see more evidence.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
What are your thoughts?
Speaker 15 (22:51):
I must say my confidence level is very low. You know,
they didn't even get to vote on this before they
went on a five week vacation and through the month
of August and ay listen, the summer. I'm not going
to fault them for want to take a vacation, but
they could have voted on this or could have done
this is something that is a priority. It's all anything
has ever talked about in the media or in everybody's
personal lives basically for the past two weeks.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
Whether you like.
Speaker 15 (23:11):
Politics or not, so this Jeffrey Epstein information for me.
What I truly think and why my confidence is so
low is that I believe that he was connected to
people within the CIA and probably you know, intelligence agencies
for other countries, and that if we actually know the truth,
that it will just unravel the fabric of society and
it'll just you know, everybody will lose faith in our
government and multi other governments, you know, not just our
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government will be affected. And these are people that are
high powerful people that we don't even know about, you know,
people that are in the banking industry, people that are
in all sorts of industries that we don't even understand,
the military industry. You know, we do not know how
deep the rabbit hole goes. And that is why I
don't believe that they're ever going to give us actual transparency.
They're just going to blame it on Jeffrey Epstein and
not you know, the other people that probably should get
(23:55):
some sort of scrutiny for actually being associated with them.
But at the same time, I do not believe that
it's Donald Trump stopping it because he's on that list.
That's a narrative that a lot of people have been saying.
And maybe he was. He was friends with Jeffrey Epstein,
took pictures of Jeffrey Epstein, but at the same time
he did kick him out of Mara Lagos. So what
it all boils down to is are we allowed to
see it? There's levels of classified information that you and
(24:17):
I will never be privy to.
Speaker 13 (24:18):
And at the end of the day, if.
Speaker 15 (24:20):
They can have federal judges like the one Judge Rosenberg
that just denied it, they're going to continue to do
whatever they can to stop the American people and the
world from seeing the truth.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Alex.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Just finally, before I let you go, we know that
Donald Trump vowed to make sports safe for women again,
and now the US Olympic and Paralympic Committee has updated
its policies to suggest that it will comply with Donald
Trump's keeping men out of women's sports executive Order.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
I mean, this is obviously such.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Good news for girls, for women at the highest levels.
What's the reaction to this being over in the US.
Speaker 15 (24:54):
Well, A lot of people are happy, but I am
not happy because this is why I'm frustrated. I actually
like change under athletes and women's sports because I'm a
gambler and I like to gamble on them because they
have an advantage. So I want a bunch of money
on a main Khalif you know, the general neutral boss
or so. Personally, I like the transgenders and women's sports
because it gives me a gambling age. But everybody else
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and all the women that are affected by this, I'm
sure they're all happy, but sadly it doesn't look like
I'll be going to Las Vegas much in twenty twenty
five and twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Alex Stein, thank you so much for joining us on Power.
Our great to talk to you.
Speaker 15 (25:27):
Thank you, talk to you again soon.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Jenning us Now is former Victorian Liberal Party president and
Skinny's contributor. Michael Kroger, Michael, thank you for joining us.
The Jalvianese government has lifted the biosecurity restrictions on US beef,
which could see the full resumption of exports into Australia.
Speaker 13 (25:48):
The government, of.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Course, is dismissing speculation that the timing is politically motivated
amid ongoing efforts to secure a tariff exemption from Trump.
And there are right now concerns around how this could
impact Australian funas and our beef industry.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Why have we seen the backflip.
Speaker 17 (26:05):
Well, because we're a free trading nation and you'd have
to think that the two are linked. Despite what the
government says, I don't think there's actually been a ban.
What there's been a concerned about here in Australia is
clarity on where the beef comes from. So the Australian governments,
successfully since two nineteen, have wanted clarification that the beef
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was born in America, the captitle born in America, not
born in Canada or Mexico, and that's been very gray.
Now it appears that the Australian governments agreed to allow
beef imports, including from Mexico and Canada. There was always
biosecurity concerns because of mad cow disease etc. So it's
been a change of policy here. But is it going
to affect the market in Australia that greatly, I don't
(26:47):
think so.
Speaker 4 (26:48):
We've got the best beef in the world here.
Speaker 17 (26:49):
We're very happy to have beef from America or wherever,
but it won't compete gave with the quality of Australian beef,
which we export a lot and export a lot to America.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
Of course.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
It's interesting though seeing this move by the Labor government.
But Anthony Albanezi is still yet to secure a face
to face.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Meeting with Donald Trump. When's that going to happen?
Speaker 17 (27:09):
Well, it'd be very wise to avoid a White House
meeting with Trump, because Albanizi has been a personal critic
of Trump, as has a number of his ministers, and
as has our ambassador in Washington, Kevin Rada, who's sort
of an embarrassment to our country. And so Albertis he
can't risk going into the White House, into the Oval
Office sitting there at a meeting with Donald Trump, with JD.
(27:30):
Vance sitting there and our ambassador there who called basically
called Trump a threat to democracy, a crazy man village yet, etcetera.
Speaker 4 (27:39):
All those things.
Speaker 17 (27:39):
So Alberis he can't risk a meeting in the Oval Office.
So what will happen is he'll meet Trump on the
sidelines of some of these international four of the G eight,
et cetera, and he'll say I've had a meeting, and
there'll be a picture opportunity. But he'll avoid a meeting
with jade Van sitting there because Vance is likely to
launch into him and will ever forget the Zelensky White
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House meeting, and Alberti can't afford a repeat of that.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Now it's been revealed that more than fifty percent of
voters rely on the government for their main income. The
AFR is reporting that the federal and state government spending
SPLURD has hit the highest level since the end of
World War Two, and the NDAs is a chief culprit,
accounting for fifty two.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
Billion dollars in costs.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
So more than half of voters rely on governments for
most of their income through public sector wages, welfare benefits
or subsidies, according to a new report by the Center
for Independent Studies, I mean, Michael, that is an alarming
statistic and not sustainable.
Speaker 4 (28:42):
Well, so Mick Romney moment, isn't it.
Speaker 17 (28:44):
Romney warned about how his chances are winning were defiled
because too ma new people relied on government. Look, the
problem in Australia is the problem in Western off which
is around the world, which is unsustainable government spending and
unsustainable debt.
Speaker 4 (28:57):
And the American debt's going from thirty six to thirty
on trillion.
Speaker 17 (29:00):
Here in Australia we've got a much smaller economy obviously,
but our national debt is going to one point two
trillion in growth terms in about three years time. Most
of the growth and employment in this country has come
from public sector jobs, wage increases coming from the government sector.
I mean, it's just unsustainable. And you get to a
(29:22):
point where, sooner or later someone in Australia, some governments
in the western world will say, we have enough debt.
We can't keep going on. The cost of servicing debt
is beyond normal limits. These are record debts and deficits
and you know, in Australia it is completely unsustainable. And
the government here got re elected basically because it offered
(29:44):
to spend a lot more money than the opposition that
was central towards free election campaign, which is very popular
with the electorate. But it's not possible to keep going
this way, and sooner or later there's going to have
to be an opposition or a government that says we
have to draw the line under this, because in a
rich country like Australia, a first world country, one of
the richest, healthiest nations in the world, half the country
(30:05):
are on government benefits.
Speaker 4 (30:07):
That's not sustainable.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
No, not at all. Let's talk about net zero.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Susan Lee is facing pressure over the coalition's growing concerns
for the net zero policy. According to The Australian, the
Western Australian Liberal State Council is reportedly joining forces with
the Northern Territory in South Australia to abandon net zero.
We know that Shadow Home Affairs Minister Andrew Hasty initiated
a motion to the Liberal State Executive for the Federal
(30:33):
Party to ditch the policy.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Michael, where's this going to go?
Speaker 17 (30:38):
Well, it's going to increase pressure in Australia to drop
the net zero committity. It does look as if it's
fantasy land. You know, we'd all like to get to
net zero. Everyone agrees with that, but the cost of it,
the possibility of it. It relies on huge amounts of
renewable energy, which is great in theory, but country people
have to put up with the the wind towers all
(31:01):
over rural Australia, thousands of them, which they don't want,
obviously pinging upon their land. We've seen a lot of
projects in Australia for offshore wind collapse because it's just
not economically sustainable. And Australia is now starting to understand well,
look at China, India to the biggest eminians in the
world and not committed in net zero. Why are we
(31:23):
one of the few countries in this region committed to
net zero, it's doing great economic arm to the country
and so the debate in Australia is going to get
loud and allowed to drop net zero. You'd like to keep,
but the government's got to show how we're going to
get there, and I just.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
Don't think it looks no I agree with you. Look
a couple of global stories. Let's turn to the UK,
where more protests are expected to follow those in Epping
after protests broke out in the Essex town after a
migrant was charged with sexual assault, and there of course
growing concerns mass migration is threatening community cohesion. Can I
get your reaction to what's been happening over there?
Speaker 17 (32:00):
This is a problem a lot of western countries around
the world are facing. You know, why wouldn't you if
you were an impoverished person from a third world country
want to get to Britain, want to get to America,
want to get to France.
Speaker 4 (32:12):
Of course you would.
Speaker 17 (32:12):
You'd want to take your family for a better life.
But it's just not possible. There are tens of millions
of economic migrants who would like to live in Western countries.
It's just not sustainable, and so The problem in Britain
is a bit like in America, a weakness of government,
a failure of government to put in place ways of
stopping illegal immigration. You know, you have sympathy for people,
(32:35):
but it's just not possible for countries like Britain to
have thousands and thousands of people arriving every week undocumented
economic migrants. Now in Australia, as we know, we stopped
the boat people coming. We turned around boats. Controversial policy,
but we turned around boats basically from Indonesia where it
was safe to do so. And of course the British government,
(32:56):
conservative and labor have been hopeless. They have no idea
what they're doing and no wonder Nagil Farage is ahead
of the head in the polls because successive conservative labor
governments have just been hopeless. The French have been hopeless,
the Bridge have been hopeless. The answer in Britain is said,
what we did here to turn around boats back to
France where it is safe and legal, safe and legal
(33:16):
to do so, and if you have to transfer them
to other boats to make sure they get back safely,
that's what needs to be done. I mean, these poor people.
And also you have to smash the people smuggling model,
which was one of the reasons the illegal trade stopped
in Australia was.
Speaker 4 (33:34):
Because we let everyone know.
Speaker 17 (33:36):
We let the potential migrants know that if you come
to Australia you won't be able to stay here. We
engineered offshore processing for people, so to break the people
smuggle and mild that is critical to the whole resolution
of this problem. And the Starmer government and the previous
Conservative governments appear to be hopeless of dealing with this issue.
Speaker 4 (33:56):
And no wonder Farage is living in the poles.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Finally, to the US, I want to get your thoughts
on the Democrats because Tim Walter has announced that he's
not running in twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
Let's look at this.
Speaker 9 (34:08):
Last two quick quick questions.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
First question that people would kill me about in ass
you think about running in twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 6 (34:13):
I am not and my job and I say that
I am doing all I can to help build a
party and make sure whoever that person is win, So
we appreciate.
Speaker 4 (34:21):
I think we need to flood this is on with people.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
Oh no, Michael, what are the Democrats going to do now?
Speaker 17 (34:27):
Well, there will be an outbreak of mass depression in
America today. Knowing Jim Waltz is not going to run
for the nomination in twenty eight, I don't know how
people will be able to get bed in America today.
Performance was the performance of a clown. Quite frankly is
the running mate of Kamala Harris.
Speaker 4 (34:45):
He's not a serious person, this bloke.
Speaker 17 (34:46):
I mean, he got up at that rally one day
and Say's major objection to the Republicans was that they'd
taken the Jewey out of politics, not will poverty, not crime,
not illegal border crossings, not wars in the Middle East
and in the Ukraine. Joey was his main complaint, this blake.
Thank goodness he's not running. He wasn't going to win anyway.
(35:07):
He had a much chance of winning the presence as
I have. And I'm not an American citizen, So I
think the likely candidate will become Ala Harris. Why wouldn't
she run again? What she got to lose, she can
lose again, but blug a win. So to me, she
looks like the candidate for the Democratic Party, as bizarre
as that sounds. She's only got Gavin Newsom to beat.
(35:27):
He's got a shocking record in California, and I think,
you know, people are going to say to her, why
don't you run again? She'd probably get the nomination because
the left control of the Democratic Convention. So come on,
we'll have to find a new running mate, and sadly
it ain't going to be Tim Wells.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
Michael Kroger, thank you so much for joining us Unpower Hour.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
Great to talk to.
Speaker 4 (35:47):
You, pleasure.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
New detailed have emerged about rocker Ozzie Osborne's final days
following his death at age seventy six. Is a lifestyle
reporter here at sky News dot com dot au and
he's always across the latest celebrity headlines.
Speaker 2 (36:05):
Riley, great to see you, Great to be back. So
Ozzy Osborne's.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
Wife Sharon and their family have opened up about Ozzie
Osbourne's passing.
Speaker 18 (36:13):
What's been said, Yeah, you know, such sad news, the
death of Ozzy Osbourne, legendary rocker, Black Sabbath frontman. As
you said, you know, he just performed for the final
time weeks ago. He had a farewell conceert that was
supported by a Metallica and Guns n' Roses and all
these other set of legends. And I think it was
really a send off that he wanted. I think I
(36:35):
kind of think about, you know what Frank Snachi used
to say, my way.
Speaker 13 (36:38):
I think Ozzi Osbourne lived his life his way. You know.
It was it was a hard life at times.
Speaker 18 (36:43):
You know, he came from very humble beginnings, very hard
rock and roll lifestyle, you know, problems with drugs, and
then later in his life, I think he really found happiness,
you know, for his wife Sharon and their three children
at absolute tragedy. The family's said in a statement that
he was surrounded by love that he died definitely, you know,
surrounded with their support, and I think it's sad, you know,
(37:05):
especially I think of his wife Sharon, you know, their
Showby's marriage, I think in Hollywood and in entertainment, one
of the longest running marriages that they were married in
the early eighties, married until his death. Very very sad news,
but you know, I think it was a very touching
sort of symbol to know that he was able to
have a farewell and he was able to perform one
(37:26):
final time, perhaps knowing. It's interesting to point out that
the family hasn't disclosed a cause of death. I think
it is a public knowledge that he was suffering with
Parkinson's and he had other health problems, But in terms
of a cause of death, nothing has been revealed. But
definitely seems like there was a sign or there was
perhaps final months and weeks, and definitely he did it
(37:48):
on his terms.
Speaker 1 (37:49):
Okay, Well, an insider at streaming giant Netflix has claimed
that the Sussex is one hundred million dollar contract partnership
or content partnership, I should say, is on the chopping blog.
Do you think could be a sign or the end
of haring Meghan's relationship with Netflix?
Speaker 13 (38:04):
Right?
Speaker 18 (38:04):
I think we can quite confidently say at this point
the deal's over us.
Speaker 13 (38:07):
So that initial five year.
Speaker 18 (38:09):
Contract, the one hundred million dollar legendary partnership is all
bit done. That is expiring within the next few months,
and it's understood that Netflix will not be renewing, that
they will be transitioning the Sussexes onto a new type
of partnership.
Speaker 13 (38:24):
Called a first look deal.
Speaker 18 (38:25):
A first look deal is essentially it's very popular in
the entertainment industry. It basically says, all right, if you've
got a project in the works, or a TV show
or something you want to make into a movie, we
get first we get first sort of run at it,
and that means that Netflix can pass on it. If
they're interested in it, they could say, all right, you
have to s of take it to us first. I
think that this is a sign that they don't really
(38:46):
see too much value in the Sussexes.
Speaker 13 (38:49):
You know, the numbers have been dismal.
Speaker 18 (38:50):
Of course, with Love Meghan is coming back, but there
was some streaming data that came out recently that revealed
that that show was barely in the top four hundred
shows on Netflix. And actually this was quite a set
of poetic sign Meghan's set of former show Suits reruns
of Suits are actually more popular on Netflix than her own.
Speaker 2 (39:11):
Show, as that does not surprise me.
Speaker 18 (39:13):
Right, So there's a set of there's a lot of
I don't want to say Shorten Freud, but definitely I
think the ego would be a bit bruised.
Speaker 13 (39:21):
The other one, of course, was Polo. Remember that flop
Harry put out Polo.
Speaker 18 (39:25):
I mean that show just disappeared without a trace, didn't, right,
you know So I think from Netflix's point of view, look,
they got they got the big thing. They got the
docu series that came out a couple of years ago
that had a lot of revelations, did a lot of
damage and was very popular. So I think that from
their point of view, they can say, look, we got
the big scoop. But I mean in twenty twenty five,
I think we're done with the Sussex.
Speaker 2 (39:46):
Yeah, I think we are.
Speaker 1 (39:48):
Look and the Sussex insider has claimed that Prince Harry
is prepared to reconcile with King Charles even without the
support of Megan mark Also, what's the latest on this
propos peace summit?
Speaker 13 (40:01):
Right?
Speaker 18 (40:02):
I think this is a really crucial detail that's come
out this week. An insider has said that Harry is
sort of continuing negotiations and discussions and that they don't
necessarily include his wife. That's not too sort of spark
any speculation about their marriage. I think their marriage is strong,
but I think that Harry has understood that his family
may never accept Meghan Markle. I think that, you know,
(40:24):
just the timeline of events has just been so catastrophic
in terms of the institution, but also on a personal level.
Things that have been said, especially by Meghan but also
by Harry have done great personal and reputational damage to Charles,
also to William and Kate and I think from their
point of view, they're always going to be on guard.
I think any type of peace summit, if it ever
(40:45):
does happen, I don't think it would be They.
Speaker 13 (40:48):
Could never really let him back in. How could you
you know? This is the person, you know.
Speaker 18 (40:52):
Just as a reminder in these interviews, you know, there
were allegations of racism by an unnamed royal. It was
later alleged that the unnamed royal were Kate and excuse me,
Kate and Charles. You know that was never confirmed. The
Sussex has denied that, but it was in that Omen
scobi book.
Speaker 13 (41:07):
Yeah, you know.
Speaker 18 (41:08):
Those are absolutely you know, very very defamatory reputation instead
of decimating kind of allegations, and of course after something
like that, you know, how could you trust them again?
I don't think they'll ever trust Harry and Meghan again.
But I do think that Harry could you know, sort
of have at heart to heart with his father. I
do believe that that is a possibility. But in terms
(41:28):
of you know, Meghan coming back in, I think she's
happy where she is. I think that she from her
point of view, I don't think she's interested in reconciling
with them either. So it sounds like everything set of
moving along as it should. Harry is open to it
from a family point of view. It is his father,
but Meghan is happy to just sort of let him
go off and do that.
Speaker 2 (41:47):
Yeah, she's fine. She's got an Instagram back up and running, and.
Speaker 13 (41:50):
She's her own thing doing wines. Now.
Speaker 2 (41:52):
Goodness.
Speaker 1 (41:53):
Now, the speculation that Princess Beatrice could become a working
royal that has gone into overdrive after the role well,
it took on a new role once filled by her grandfather,
Prince Philip. What do we know about this about Beatrice's
new gig and is this a sign that should be
taking on more duties?
Speaker 18 (42:09):
Well, I reckon, I think that this is another sort
of significant sign. You know, this was a patronage she's
taken on that was once Prince Philip's.
Speaker 13 (42:17):
Of course, Prince.
Speaker 18 (42:18):
Philip was working royal as the wife of the late
Great Queen Elizabeth, And this is I do think it's
a sign. I think that they are slowly giving Beatrice
more responsibilities. She does have limited responsibilities. She is a
Counselor of State for Charles. She's never actually been forced
to step in for that role, but in theory on paper,
if there was ever an emergency and the monarch was
(42:40):
incapacitated or everyone down the line, she would be called upon.
So I think she's always been on standby. Another detail
that's come out recently which I've found really telling, was
her husband Eduardo. He did an interview and revealed that
they are largely leaving at Saint James's Palace. So we
know that Beatrice does have a Grace in Favor home
that King Charles, her uncle pays for inside Saint James's
(43:03):
Palace in central London, and it's now been revealed that
they do live there. You know, there was sort of
reports that they were living more in the cottsworlds and
that they weren't that much in the sort of the
center of.
Speaker 13 (43:15):
Royal life in the palace.
Speaker 18 (43:16):
But I think the revelation that she's taking on more
duties and that she's also living back at Saint James
nearly full time, I do think it's a sign that
she could become a working royal.
Speaker 2 (43:26):
Riley Sullivan, thank you so much for joining us on
Power Hour.
Speaker 13 (43:28):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (43:32):
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