Matt Gaetz Show - Rep. Tim Burchett, Liz Yore, Royce White, Brian Harrison, Priya Patel, Wade Searle

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
President Trump is vowing to clean up Washington, d C
with force if necessary. Representative Tim Burchett. We'll react to
this and news of the upcoming summit between President Trump
and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska. The new Pope
has some big challenges. A whistleblower is alleging he was
accused of dealing with a spy in the ranks. That

(00:21):
spy is saying there were crooks at the Vatican. We'll
get into all of it and see who is telling
the truth. Plus we'll check in on the runaway Texas
legislature and Trump may have given us a big hint
today regarding upcoming changes to marijuana policy. You know we'll
be covering that. It's all next to the Matt Gates Show.
Let's do this. We're shaking up Washington, d C. We're

(00:41):
breaking the fever.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
Do you haven't watched this guy in television.

Speaker 3 (00:45):
It's like a machine.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
He's great, Matt Gates.

Speaker 1 (00:52):
President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin are scheduled
to meet Friday in Alaska, marking the first US Russian
summit held in America since nineteen eighty eight. Trump described
the meeting as a negotiation to end the war in Ukraine,
possibly involving territorial swaps of land.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
I'm going in to speak to Vladimir Putin and I'm
going to be telling him you gotta end this war,
you got to end it, and he wasn't going to
mess with me. This war would have never happened. And
at the end of that meeting, probably in the first
two minutes, I'll know exactly whether or not a deal
can be read to.

Speaker 4 (01:29):
Because that's what I do.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
I make deals.

Speaker 1 (01:32):
Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelinsky has firmly rejected any deal requiring
Ukraine to see territory, citing constitutional restrictions, which is just
so cute that he cares about the constitution now Ever,
after having canceled presidential elections in Ukraine, he banned opposition
political parties and media and they're conscripting men from the streets.

(01:53):
But constitutional integrity absolutely critical. European leaders stress any peace
deal must include Ukraine directly and not alter borders by force.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
We're going to see what the parameters are and then
going to call up President Zelinski and the European leaders
right after the meeting. Yeah, and I'm going to tell
him what kind of a deal. I'm not going to
make a deal. It's not up to me to make
a deal. I think a deal should be made for
both I'd.

Speaker 5 (02:18):
Like to see us he's fire.

Speaker 2 (02:20):
I'd like to see the best deal that could be
made for both parties. You know it takes two to tango.

Speaker 1 (02:27):
President Trump is the greatest force for peace in the world.
He wants the killing to stop. Also, today, President Trump
made it clear that he is prioritizing cleaning up streets
on our nation's capital. He invoked Section seven forty of
the Home Rule Act to put the DC Metropolitan Police
Department under direct federal control and the National Guard could

(02:47):
assist in the crackdown.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
Our capital city has been overtaken by violent gangs and
bloodthirsty criminals, roving mobs of wild youth, drugged out maniacs,
and homeless people. And when I let it happen anymore,
We're not gonna take it. This is Liberation Day in DC,
and we're going to take our capital back.

Speaker 5 (03:07):
We're taking it back.

Speaker 1 (03:08):
Mobilize the DC National Guard. It'll be operationalized by the
Secretary of the Army, Dan Driscoll through the DC Guard.
You will see them flowing into the streets of Washington
in the coming week, and when you.

Speaker 6 (03:18):
Have the DOJ and Presidents Trump driving behind this mission,
we are going to clean up Washington d C. I
see too much violent crime being committed by young punks
who think that they can get together in gangs and
crews and beat the hell out of you or anyone else.
They know that we can't touch them. Why because the

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laws are weak. They go to family court and they
get to do yoga.

Speaker 3 (03:45):
And arts and crafts. Enough it changes today.

Speaker 2 (03:50):
It's becoming a situation of complete and total lawlessness. And
we getting rid of the slums too. We have slums here.

Speaker 1 (03:57):
We getting rid of them.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
Do they fight back until you knock the hell out
of them because it's the only language they understand. They
love to spit in the face of the police as
the police are standing up there, and they said, you
tell them you spit and we hit, and they can
hit real hard.

Speaker 1 (04:14):
Joining us now a key member of the House Foreign
Affairs Committee, Tennessee Congressman Tim Burchett and Congressman I want
to get to this big meeting we're all anticipating at
the end of the week with President Trump and Vladimir Putin.
But let's start a little closer to home. Today. You
saw President Trump US attorney Jeanine Piro really say that
they want to take command of the streets in Washington,

(04:35):
d C. You spend a lot of time in Washington.
Still your reaction, I think it's long overdue. Matt.

Speaker 7 (04:42):
We were I can always remember the oversight committee where
we had the Washington elites come in and tell us
how safe Washington was. And during that mating broad daylight,
if you remember, a young kid was car It was
car Jack and his g in broad daylight in one
of the so called nicer areas, and they had I

(05:04):
think it was six or eight white men explaining to
us all the crime. And they had all the black
folks behind them that lived in the community. And I said,
what's the dad gun deal with y'all? I said, you
got you're primarily a black community and you've got a
bunch of white men up here. And I said, this
isn't speaking. And you could see all the heads bobbing.

(05:26):
I thought, all those activists one time in their life
they agree with Tim Burchant. I walked off and my
friend Quasi Mafumi, who we don't agree on anything, but
I find me to be a very principled fair man.

Speaker 8 (05:36):
And you know him.

Speaker 7 (05:37):
I walked off and I was out in the hall,
and he thanked me for what I said. He thanked
me for what I said because it needed to be said.
They are so out of touch, Matt. They don't know
what's going on. This thing is going on too long.
There's a new sheriff in town. His name is Donald J. Trump,
and he's sitting in Pennsylvania Avenue that gum. It's long overdue.
And I just I always stated, just light it up

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and give it to the stites and just allow the
federal government just to control the capital and the few
of the monuments around there, and that'd be about end.
I just think it's gone way out of control.

Speaker 1 (06:10):
Whatever we do control should at least be presentable. It
should at least be classy. You are known to invite
people from your district to Washington, and I remember being
embarrassed when people from my district, maybe on their first
trip to our nation's capital, expected splendor and beauty, and
there was a homeless encampment and some guy peeing on

(06:31):
the Smithsonian Museum. And that's not even hyperbole. I saw that,
and so, like you know, there will be some who
will say this is some great violation of home rule,
that for those of us who always want to push
local control, that this is hypocrisy. But I don't know, Tim.
I think there's something different about the capital. I think
that it's okay for every American to have a vested

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interest in their capital city being safe and beautiful and
a positive representation of the country. But will we hear
the home rule concerns?

Speaker 8 (07:01):
I think you will.

Speaker 7 (07:02):
But it's what Reagan caught her, that bright, shining city
on a hill, and it is a dull hell hole.
I mean, it smells like human ways. It's just a
you come off the interstate the first I hadn't been there,
I think since maybe I was in the in the
safety patrols in the seventies and it was pretty pretty
cool back then. You know, I'd turn you loose a

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group of kids, five kids, and say walk around the city.

Speaker 1 (07:27):
It was before crack, before terrific.

Speaker 8 (07:31):
It was great.

Speaker 7 (07:32):
But you get off the interstate, what's the first thing
you see? A bunch of tints. I mean, who are
these people camping? That's a bunch of homeless people. And
then you see a shopping cart off the side, you
see some guy throwing up, you see some guy going
to the bathroom off the curb. You see those crazy
scooters crashed and trashed out everywhere, and the crime is ridiculous.
I remember walking out one night and I about got

(07:54):
ambushed by a rat. I thought it was a buffalo,
but I remember hearing something and somebody said, is that
tire works? And now I don't believe that was fireworks.
There was gunfire. I mean within a block of the
Capitol were at. We were at baseball practice a couple
of months ago, and and everybody was like, oh, that's fireworks.
And our catcher, who happened to be a Navy seal,

(08:15):
he walked off the field and he said, walk over here, Tim.
He said that was gunfire. And I said, I think
I'll trust a Navy seal over some day, sy bureaucrat
over here telling us it was okay. It is awful.
I do not recommend people coming up there. I definitely
don't recommend them coming up at night. Trump is right,
it should be set aside. It should be once again beautiful,

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and it should be respected.

Speaker 1 (08:36):
And if anyone can do it. It's President Trump, it's
Pam Bondi, it's Janine Piro. He's got some of his
best team members on this all important project. We are
looking with great anticipation to this meeting at the end
of the week in Alaska between Trump and Putin. You're
a key member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. If
you were thinking about a discussion we would be having
at the conclusion of that summit, like what would we

(08:58):
be talking about as key wins that President Trump needs
to get out of this meeting.

Speaker 7 (09:05):
There's one thing that Matt Gates told me about Donald Trump,
you know him better than anybody, is that he doesn't
do anything by accident, and everything's calculated.

Speaker 8 (09:13):
I mean the way the.

Speaker 7 (09:14):
Seats are where people are sitting. I was in a
meeting in the in the White House the other day
and I was two seats away from the President Trump,
and I thought that, Gum. I wish Matt Gates could
see me sitting here. He would tell me why I'm
sitting this close to the president. But he has this
thing figured out. I think, honestly, Matt, I think part
of it is he's playing chess. He's playing long, long,

(09:34):
long past chess. Right here, because the energy element of
this country. He's putting us back on track to export energy.
And that's the one thing, that's the one thing Putin's
got to have, is that all and dad dummit, And
he can't sell it and he won't be able to
buy when Trump floods the market. And I think people
are saying, oh, he's just going up there kind of
feel out Putin. He's got Putin's number, And there's a

(09:57):
reason he's doing this thing. And goes back to my
really original premise about what you said one time too.
There's a reason he's doing it. In Alaska, some of
the largest oil reserves in the world. They sold it
to us for a song. Trump knows his history. Hootin
knows the history, and he knows who he's dealing with.
And I think I think we're going to be well served.
I think we're gonna we're gonna see some wars in

(10:19):
very soon if we don't, you know, I worry about
the war pimps and their investments, which is all they're
worried about. They don't care about kids dying on either side,
or even Americans going over here.

Speaker 1 (10:29):
You're talking about you as Congressman, Yes.

Speaker 7 (10:33):
Who were invested in the in the UH when when
when Biden gave him our missile defense system, we had
to automatically reprint plenish our missile defense system and who
owned stock in it? Members of Congress from.

Speaker 8 (10:47):
Both sides of the isle.

Speaker 7 (10:48):
And that's why why Luna and I are pushing that
bill to get individuals get to stop trading out.

Speaker 1 (10:53):
No, that is critically important legislation. We support you on that.
Before I let you go, Congressman, you are one of
the leading advocates fortuneansparency around unidentified aerial phenomenon and unnatural phenomenon.
We have had some commentators talking about this three I
at liss that could be within the within Earth's orbit.

(11:13):
I guess by December, what are you tracking with this
and what should people know about it?

Speaker 7 (11:18):
I think people should be awfully concerned about it. I think,
first of all, though if they had the intelligence to
travel light years, they could have turned us into a
charcobri ut a long time ago. I'm not really worried
about about that, but I am worried about a government
that does.

Speaker 8 (11:32):
Not trust us.

Speaker 7 (11:33):
You and I traveled down to the base, and I
honestly I was a little out of my league dealing
with the so called military intelligence, but your questioning got
them in line pretty dad gum quick, and I learned
pretty quick what's going on with these folks.

Speaker 8 (11:49):
I don't think.

Speaker 7 (11:50):
I don't think the military intelligence to me is like
congressional ethics. I don't really think it exists too much,
at least in this life form. But I think that
we will.

Speaker 8 (11:59):
We need to. We need to get titled to sclouture.

Speaker 7 (12:01):
That's the bottom line. If we don't have title the
scloture in this thing, don't trust the government, doesn't trust
its people. They're covering this thing up. Every njor department
in Washington day state has a department that's studying this.
If it doesn't exist, why are we spending millions of.

Speaker 8 (12:16):
Dollars on it?

Speaker 7 (12:16):
And why won't they tell the American people about it?

Speaker 1 (12:19):
Very good questions. Tennessee Congressman Tim Burchett, thanks as always
for coming on the program and sharing your expertise.

Speaker 8 (12:24):
Thank you, Matt.

Speaker 1 (12:25):
And coming up big news at the Vatican where there
are allegations of money laundering and phantom accounts and people
taking the donations people intended for the work of Christ
and using it for their own benefit. We've got all
the latest with lizyr after quick breaking.

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Speaker 1 (15:00):
So apparently the Vatican is suddenly being accused of operating
a financial skeleton key. Not for unlocking doors to Salvation,
mind you, but for bypassing international anti money laundering rules
and retroactively editing disappearing bank account details the Vatican. I think,
like the offshore gambling apparatus that I used in law

(15:23):
school was more reputable than what we're hearing from these allegations. Allegedly,
the Vatican is being run like a Keinsionniera shop in
the South Side of Chicago. There's the books people get
to see, and then there's the real ledger. Now there's
concern over self dealing. The whistleblower, Libero Maloney, this was
Pope Francis's handpicked financial fixer. Ironically, he was groomed to

(15:46):
clean up the Holy Ses books. He was accused of
being a spy to the church in this like thriller
fashion and was kicked out in twenty seventeen.

Speaker 5 (15:56):
Isn't that funny?

Speaker 1 (15:58):
Some guy comes in and catches a whiff of corruption
and they immediately excommunicate him and call him a spy.
Who would possibly be suspicious of that? Now? Maloney claims
he's sitting on it. Damning documents proving the Vatican's payroll
arm played fast and loosed with the swift system, effectively
laundering money, and these allegations are very specific. Some power

(16:19):
players in the church saw major funds go to the
charities of their choice in their home countries to provide
them personal emoluments. Money could have enriched the lives of
the people who were preaching piety talk about the need
for confession. The Vatican's response picture the most pious shrug
in history, completely unfounded, said their spokesperson. They also waved

(16:41):
around audits from watchdog Asif and Price Waterhouse Cooper. So yes,
holy water might be clean, but the Vatican books allegedly
sketchier than a preacher with offshore accounts. All while Pope
Leo tries to restore credibility with a budget hole looming
very large, there are growing whispers that the faith are
wondering if their Sunday donations are ending up in Saintly

(17:04):
coffers or someone's secret disappearing Ledger. So is the new
Pope able to pull the church out of this financial
and ethical quagmire or is he bringing in members of
the team that are part of the problem joining us now.
Attorney and child advocate, Liz, you're Liz, Thanks for coming
back on the program. I greatly enjoyed our discussion when

(17:25):
Pope Leo was assuming his role and you talked about
the challenges that we're facing the church. Now we've got
this story of a whistleblower alleging financial malfeasance. What's going
on with the Vatican?

Speaker 10 (17:37):
Matt This sounds like a cross between Dan Brown novel
and The Godfather, Only this is not fiction. It's a
real life international financial scam involving the Pope and the cardinals.

Speaker 3 (17:51):
At the heart of this explosive.

Speaker 10 (17:53):
Charge is the man named Libuo Maloney, one of the
most respected international auditors in the world. He was the
former CEO of Deloitte Touche in Europe. So when his
announcement was made in twenty fifteen by Pope Francis, he
was hired to clean up the bank, get to the

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bottom of all the corruption in the bank. The financial
world applauded. It thought we're finally going to get to
the bottom of the Vatican finances. And immediately Liberal Maloney
found all sorts of financial mismanagement.

Speaker 3 (18:30):
He found hundreds of thousands.

Speaker 10 (18:33):
Of euros that were supposed to be placed in departments
of the Vatican, yet they were placed in personal accounts
of cardinals.

Speaker 3 (18:41):
Now this did not.

Speaker 10 (18:42):
Make him any friends because he immediately required those cardinals
to reimburse the bank, and Pope Francis gave him carte blanche,
saying he could he had the run of the place,
He had total autonomy, and his term was for five years. Well,
Maloney could continued to dig and find more and more irregularities,

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all based on basic accounting practices. Suddenly, suddenly Pope Francis
refused to meet with him. After meeting with him every month.
All of a sudden, the cardinals refused to start providing documentation,
and so on June eighteenth, twenty seventeen, the Vatican Police

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raided Maloney's office and they subjected him to twelve hours
of questioning, trying to force him to resign. They took
all of his documents. They said, you have to confess.
He said, I haven't done anything wrong, and then the
Vatican Police informed him that if he did not resign

(19:49):
that his family would come into harm. So he read
the handwriting on the wall and this, I know, it
sounds like the Godfather, doesn't it. But he ruffled a
lot of others, But this is a man with outstanding
credentials and.

Speaker 1 (20:03):
Called him a spy, which I just found like, what
what some foreign country is going to send in a
spy to go expose the corruption of the Vatican. It
was sort of a fantastical charge. But I really wanted
your perspective on what you make of that allegation and
maybe what it reveals about the people making it.

Speaker 10 (20:22):
Well, I think it's a It's again, it's almost Vatican Gate,
is what you know?

Speaker 3 (20:27):
This is this is lawfare that.

Speaker 10 (20:29):
We've seen right in the United States and is being
practiced by the Vatican, and Francis did not have his back.
Maloney immediately filed a lawsuit. He tried desperately to meet
with Francis. Francis refused to meet him. He has been
going through the Vatican courts. It's been an absolute kangaroo court.

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He can't get justice. He wants, he wants his good
name back. But this week it this was a bombshell.
Maloney revealed in a press conference what he found during
the Vatican auditing, and he has never disclosed this before.
He alleges that the Vatican uses what they call a

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skeleton key for money laundering by illegally manipulating bank transfers.
You know, man, the Vatican Bank has been accused of
being money laundering for the CIA, for the mafia. And
now there are so many protections built into the financial

(21:31):
system that it was shocking to see that the Vatican,
according to Maloney, has overridden all these protections, these encrypted
keys that are you know that no banks can can override. Well,
he's alleging that. And what this does is a skeleton
key provides and hides the name and identification of incoming

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money and outgoing money.

Speaker 3 (21:59):
To the Vatican.

Speaker 10 (21:59):
Well, it's you know, it's the international financial platform for
child trafficking, financial money laundering, and overriding this Swift system,
which is the international system that protects these financial institutions
and has been relied on by over two hundred countries.

(22:20):
The fact that the Vatican, according to Maloney, has been
able to mask the identity of all the recipients and
senders is absolutely shocking.

Speaker 1 (22:32):
Well, listen, here's what I need to know. How close
does this get to Pope Leo? Because in a world
in which what is being alleged is true, and there's
this big money laundering operation and people are self dealing
and have money in all their private accounts, there's no
way that did not overlay substantially on the selection of

(22:52):
the new pope. Right.

Speaker 10 (22:54):
Well, absolutely, And the new Pope was working in the
Vatican for the last two years.

Speaker 3 (22:59):
He knew about this scandal.

Speaker 10 (23:01):
He clearly knew, and he was brought in Matt He
was going to be the American who is going to
open up the wallets of all the rich Americans who
had been criticizing Francis. Well, let me tell you, if
they don't get to the bottom of this immediately. The
Vatican Bank is going to be blacklisted, which means that
the international community will not allow them to do anything

(23:25):
but run cash in and out of the Vatican ATMs.

Speaker 3 (23:30):
That's it. This is a scandal. This is a scandal.

Speaker 10 (23:33):
Really, you know, you remember Operation Gladio and the Bank
of Bronziano scandal, and this is laid at Leo's feet.

Speaker 3 (23:44):
He should have dealt with it within the first week.

Speaker 10 (23:46):
In my opinion, knowing that you know, this has been
on the front page of.

Speaker 3 (23:50):
The Italian papers.

Speaker 10 (23:52):
Maloney is respected by the financial community. His statement holds
a great deal of weight. This is a bombshell and
the Vatican said it's not true.

Speaker 3 (24:04):
We could never do this. But we'll see.

Speaker 1 (24:06):
Yeah, I've got a feeling that with the allegations made,
there's gonna be a release of the receipts and there's
gonna be a ledger that is going to be able
to be produced. We're going to stay on the story.
You have really brought us up to speed. Thank you
so much, attorney and child advocate Liz. You're for coming
on and explaining this very I would call it a
major developing scandal. We appreciate you.

Speaker 3 (24:28):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (24:28):
And coming up. President Trump made an announcement today regarding
the potential rescheduling of marijuana.

Speaker 5 (24:34):
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On the campaign trail, We've got a frontline Republican candidate
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Is going to reclassify marijuana.

Speaker 9 (27:00):
With that send mixed messages that marijuana is okay drugs.

Speaker 1 (27:03):
Some drugs are okay, but we're trying to clean up crime.

Speaker 11 (27:05):
How do they go hand in hand?

Speaker 4 (27:06):
We're only looking at that. That's early, but you know,
somebody reported it, which is fine. We're looking at it.
Some people like it, some people hate it. Some people
hate the whole concept of marijuana. Because if it does
bad for the children, it does bad for people that
are older than children. But we're looking at reclassification and
we'll make a determination over the next i would say,
over the next few weeks.

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And that determination hopefully will.

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Be the right.

Speaker 4 (27:28):
One very complicated subject is, you know, the subject of marijuana.
I've heard great things having to do with medical, and
I've had bad things having to do with just about
everything else but medical, And you know, for pain and
various things, I've heard some pretty good things.

Speaker 1 (27:43):
House President Trump, responding to a Wall Street Journal report
that the administration is considering rescheduling marijuana to allow more
permissive adult use. Finally, if there's one thing Americans love
more than low gas prices and a secure border, it's
making sure our laws at least make actual sense in
the decade in which we live. Right now, marijuana is

(28:04):
categorized to Schedule one. Some of you don't follow federal
drug laws like boomers follow the grateful dead. So I'll
explain it's the most dangerous category for substances that kill people.
That's right. The federal government believes weed is just as
bad as heroin and somehow worse than fentanyl. Fentanyl killing
almost two hundred thousand people a year now, weed kills

(28:25):
like I don't know the motivation of a pizza delivery guy. Maybe,
but that's about it. Rescheduling is the government saying, Okay,
maybe this isn't the same as crack cocaine, and maybe
doctors should be allowed to prescribe it without acting like
they're handing out plutonium. And here's the kicker. We already
have half the country allowed to use cannabis under the

(28:46):
color of state law. States like Florida, California, Colorado, so
many others, even red states. They've got dispensaries that look
like apple stores. You walk in and it's like a
genius bar for thhc. People are paying taxes on it.
Lords are getting profitable tenants, jobs are being created, And
what's Uncle Sam doing pretending it's still a cartel product

(29:07):
smuggled into the country in a hollowed out coconut. Rescheduling
would mean more research, safer products, less of this mystery
gummy from Chad's backpack situation. It would also mean banks
can actually touch cannabis money without feeling like they're laundering
cartel cash. Right now, these businesses are paying employees and
envelopes of cash like they're extras and goodfellas. And if

(29:30):
President Trump does this, the game is over for Democrats.
At the ballot box. We could be the party that
allows people to safely use marijuana without pretending it's for
your glucoma ridden cat. Its populism meets practicality. Suddenly Maga
hats in line at the dispensary, Patriots buying pre rolls
called seventeen seventy six freedom cush beautiful. Now, don't get

(29:53):
me wrong, there are still people clutching their pearls saying
buying marijuana is a gateway drug. Yeah, so is drinking
and do if you consume enough of it. In reality,
marijuana is more like a gateway to eating three sleeves
of oreos and having deep thoughts about how ceiling fans work.
If someone's moving onto the hard stuff, it's not because
they started with weed. It's because our mental health system

(30:15):
is a dumpster fire and fentanyl is cheaper than tailenol
in some places. Rescheduling also has a law and order
angle that nobody talks about. You clear the nonsense marijuana
charges out of the system, and you free up the courts,
the police, and prisons to deal with actual criminals. I'd
rather have the cops chasing 's thirteen than some guy
in a fish t shirt growing three plants in his garage.

(30:38):
And let's not forget the War on drugs has been
a lot. Like many of the wars America has fought
in my lifetime. We have battled for decades in the
costliest and deadliest of ways, and the drugs have won.
In the war on drugs, drugs won. We've spent billions
of dollars locking up nonviolent offenders for possession, while ignoring

(30:58):
the fact that the fentanyl crisis is pouring over the
southern border like it's a Costco free sample day. If
Trump reschedules marijuana, he can finally say we're focusing on
the real killers now, and I fixed this ridiculous policy
the swamp ignored for half a century plus. Imagine the
trolling value every Blue state governor who's been preaching legalization

(31:21):
for years but never actually fixing anything. Trump can suddenly
get it done. CNN's heads will explode. Rachel Maddow will
be so triggered not even the stickiest Indica could calm her.
The New York Times will run an op ed title,
Is Trump doing this just to win? And the answer
will of course be yes, and because it is the
right thing to do. Here's the reality. America in twenty

(31:43):
twenty five is not America in nineteen seventy. Back then
we was tied up with cancel culture protests and the
smell of woodstock. Now it's tied up with cancer treatment,
PTSD relief for veterans, seizure control for kids, and yes,
the guy who occasionally insists he can totally focus better
after a hit. If rescheduling means more doctors can explore

(32:04):
medical uses without jumping through twelve hoops and four DEA inspections,
then why wouldn't we do that? The only real argument
against it is, well, we've always done it this way,
and if we stuck to that logic, we'd still be
using rotary phones and thinking that margarine is health food.
So here's my pitch, President Trump, reschedule marijuana. Do it big,

(32:25):
do it loud, Sign the order with a gold sharpie,
hold it up to the cameras, and say this plant
was treated more unfairly than I was. And that's saying something.
It's good politics, it's good economics, and it's about time
the federal government stopped pretending that Snoop Dogg and El
Choppo are in the same business. And if anyone is
still clutching their pearls, hand them a CBD gummy and

(32:46):
tell them to take a walk. Here with this now
Republican candidate for US Senate in Minnesota, Royce White. So, Royce,
you have bet at all on this theory that you
can get a whole lot of voters in Minnesota to
think differently about the report Republican Party than they've ever
thought in the past. President Trump today talked about rescheduling marijuana.
Would that help you in your effort?

Speaker 8 (33:09):
Absolutely?

Speaker 12 (33:09):
I mean, the Marijuana Party is a big political constituency
here in the state of Minnesota. I think they were
probably the third, if not fourth, biggest voter block in
the twenty twenty four cycle. And you know, for me personally,
I don't use marijuana. My first and only time using
marijuana cause a big, big panic attack, So I don't
use it, and I don't recommend that people use it

(33:30):
for medicinal purposes. You know, the lord they're dealing with
anxiety depression PTSD. I think there are other better natural
ways to deal with things. But you know, just as
a as a political issue, it's it's far less dangerous
than alcohol. It's exponentially less dangerous than benzo dazepine, xanax
and adavant and valume in those type of drugs. So

(33:52):
I think overall, in the in the in the war
against let's call it the medical industrial complex, right, whether
you're talk talking about food or other medicines, vaccines, whatever
the case may be, marijuana has been a mcguffin.

Speaker 8 (34:06):
You know, It's like the Maltese falcon.

Speaker 12 (34:08):
It's it's meant to drive the narrative along, but it's
not the real issue.

Speaker 1 (34:12):
How do you think about the war on drugs? Like
who's winning it? In your mind?

Speaker 8 (34:17):
Well, that's an easy one.

Speaker 12 (34:19):
Big Farmers winning it hand over fist, you know, and
all the other multinational corporations that fund a big pharma
and shill form you know, have sold us out to them.
The politicians as well, you know some of them by
first name. Obviously there's more other ones winning them.

Speaker 1 (34:35):
I mean, there's lobbyists for Big Farmer. For every member
of Congress, there's only more than one person to serve
you as a lobbyist, to raise money for you. To
deal with all of your goals, you know, and and
that's how they get their hooks in the system.

Speaker 12 (34:52):
Well yeah, and you know Tina Smith who's now resigned,
she's not going to return, and I'm running for her
seat and here in twenty twenty six. But Amy Klobashar
as well, back twenty four. I mean, it's Angie Craig,
you know, she's gonna be probably the Democrat nominee against
you know, facing off against me here in twenty six.
So it's all of them, though, I mean there's only
a handful of them that aren't bought and sold by

(35:12):
Big Farmer, which which says enough in and of itself.
But again it helps me greatly because again, the narrative
around marijuana was this is what's causing crime, and it's
a gateway to young black men becoming criminals in the
inner city. No, America's black communities are riddled with communists
and Marxist education, which could be a more nationalist, patriotic

(35:32):
American education that really taught kids how to have, you know,
value of citizenship, you know, value their national identity and
their culture and try and give to their society versus
take from it.

Speaker 1 (35:43):
How is President Trump doing right now with the black community,
with black men, And if you could give him advice
about how to make sure that his connection with these
communities is durable for the rest of the Republican Party,
what would it be.

Speaker 8 (35:57):
Well, I think he's doing a great job.

Speaker 12 (35:58):
I think he was the first person in politics in general,
let alone the Republican Party to even open up a
door that had for a long time been shut. And
a lot of that has to do with the Internet
as well. If I could give one piece of advice
is to not let the controlled opposition GOP, the old
Guard do what they've always done, and that's be the
controlled opposition Washington generals. And for example, here in Minnesota,

(36:21):
the Republican Party doesn't even have a plan of going
into CD four and CD five, which are the critical
massive population congressional districts you need to win any state
wide election, and they haven't been there in thirty years.
You know, Donald Trump opened up a doorway where black
people are interested in the Republican Party. They're going, man,
that Donald Trump guy. He says a lot of things
that resonate with me. Now, we need to double and

(36:43):
triple and even quadruple down and make sure that those
people don't get lost in a narrative perpetuated by Donald
Trump's enemies and enemies of the American people.

Speaker 1 (36:52):
You talk about that narrative in Central too. It has
been this notion that Trump is is somehow mean or racist,
and that has proved been so false in the way
he's approached his role as president of the United States.
But if you were to reschedule marijuana, does it show
on his part a grace, you know, an opportunity for
some reform where people who had been in prison for

(37:14):
some of these offenses would have the opportunity to be
more productive members of society.

Speaker 12 (37:19):
One thousand percent, one thousand percent. He should do it
for that, for that alone, for sure. And I think
there are a lot of young black men that did
fall victim to laws, and let's just be honest, the
same criminal justice system that eventually tried to take Donald
Trump out. You know, there are a lot of people
who fell victim and fell in the cracks of petty,

(37:39):
petty marijuana violations. And all in all, look, marijuana, like
I said, is one of the least dangerous drugs out there,
far less dangerous than alcohol.

Speaker 8 (37:48):
And I don't like scapegoats.

Speaker 12 (37:49):
I think marijuana has been a you know, a substance
controlled scapegoat where, you know, because prohibition happened and there's
no way to undo, you know, our thinking and culture
around alcohol, then we're going to put all of our
focus on marijuana. It's just guys, Alcohol kills way more people.
It's way more dangerous. Withdrawals from alcohol, kill your cold turkey,
af seizures. Marijuana has rarely killed anyone unless it's lace

(38:11):
with fit and all.

Speaker 1 (38:12):
Coming from the CCP, we are going to spend a
lot of time looking at the twenty twenty six map.
And the reason Royce White's campaign is so interesting to
us is because it is a campaign of expansion. There
is not just an effort to consolidate the MAGA vote.
There's really an effort to expand and extend the brand
that is the political bet that he's made. And we're
going to check back in with you on a variety

(38:33):
of subjects as you continue your effort into the United States.
Senate Royce White, thanks for joining us, my.

Speaker 8 (38:37):
Friend, Thank you, sir Gott speak to you.

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trying to find a sufficient number of Democrats to conduct business.
One of the Republican lawmakers who is manning his post
will be with us next.

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Speaker 13 (41:57):
This could literally last years because in Texas, I'm authorised
to call a special session every thirty days. It lasts
thirty days, and as soon as this one is over,
I'm going to call it another one, then another one,
then another one, then another one. If they show back
up in the state of Texas, they will be arrested
and taken to the capitol. If they want to evade
that arrest, they're going to just stay outside of the

(42:18):
state of Texas for literally years.

Speaker 1 (42:21):
As of this program, fifty four Texas Democrats still remain
at large, refusing to return to Texas to perform their
constitutional function of appearing to vote. They've left because they
don't want the Texas Legislature to have a sufficient quorum
to conduct business and pass maps the deal with redistricting.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton joined us exclusively to demand

(42:42):
the return or their seats would be deemed legally abandoned.

Speaker 11 (42:46):
We're going to follow this on Friday. We gave them
until Friday because that's when the Speaker put a deadline,
So we need you back by Friday or they're going
to be consequences. So if we do not see them
return on Friday, we are going to file some of
these quot warntal actions against some of the legislators to
try to remove front them from office since they are

(43:07):
not accomplishing the mission for which they were sent, which
is to show up and vote.

Speaker 1 (43:11):
Many are now in Chicago, New York, and Boston gathering
with Democrat leaders like Illinois governor and presidential aspirant JB. Pritzker.
A Jorney General Paxton said Pritzker could be investigated criminally.
Are you concerned that Governor Pritzker, who's somewhat boasted about
being the host for these folks in Chicago, may be
involved in that financing effort.

Speaker 11 (43:32):
You know what, We're going to ask all the questions
and find out who's involved. Whether it's Bello or roork
whose organization seems to be very involved, that's where who
we're asking. But if there are others involved, we're going
to find out, and if it's legal, we're going to
push them towards being held accountable.

Speaker 1 (43:47):
So where are Texas Democrats now and what is the
plan to get down to business in the lone star
Republic joining us now? Republican state Representative Brian Harrison. So
Representative Harrison, what's the state of play right now in Texas?

Speaker 14 (44:01):
A lot of embarrassment, a lot of hot air, and
a lot of empty words and strongly worded letters is
about what we're dealing with. I mean, there's two sides
to the story. Yes, there's the number one where the
national media is focused on the Democrats fleeing the state
to try and thwart our ability to redistrict down here
in the total hypocrisy of hiding behind people like Governor
Pritzker and Gavin Newsome. I mean, people who have jerrymandered
the hell out of their states for years. Quite frankly,

(44:24):
in a far more aggressive fashion that we're even contemplating
with our new maps down here in Texas. Mean, even
if we passed the new maps, California and Illinois will
still be far more radically jerrymandered than anything we're talking
about down here in Texas. But I think what's at
least as big of a story, maybe a bigger story,
maybe a bigger scandal, is the role of Texas Republicans
in this whole thing. I mean, the media is covering

(44:45):
this like it's a seven day quorum break, and.

Speaker 1 (44:47):
That's officially true.

Speaker 14 (44:48):
But the reality is the quorum break actually started ten
or eleven days ago last Wednesday, when we were on
the floor in Austin. The Democrats were here, we had
the maps filed in the system, we had a quorum,
but are so called republic plan speaker released, the Democrats
adjourned the whole body instead of forcing them to stay
so they could do what so they could go down
the hall in Austin to meet with Hakim Jeffreys who

(45:09):
had flown down here from DC to meet with the Democrats.
And so our Republican leadership in Texas actually assisted the
Democrats in their core and break and then the Texas
Republicans leadership's response down here in the state has been
nothing short of absolutely embarrassing. I mean, our speaker announced
a tip line. If you see something, you can say
something about these rogue Democrats, but absolutely nothing serious. They

(45:31):
still have their committee asignments, Matt. They still have committee chairmanship.
Sure viewers across the country might be shocked to learn.
I mean, imagine if Nancy Pelosi was given committee chairmanships
or AOC, if she was alowed to run Ways and
Means or Energy and commerce. That happens down here in Texas.
And we haven't done even the bare minimum of stripping
them of their committe assignments, stripping them of their seniority,
taking away their committee chairmanships. Hell, we haven't even taken

(45:52):
away their parking spots. So a lot of hot air,
a lot of smoke and mirrors, know what, no action
and Texans deserved better than this.

Speaker 1 (46:00):
You're absolutely right that the national media is lionizing the
Texas House speaker, But you're saying the people that won't
like you can disagree with people about how they're going
to vote on the maps, and if the Democrats want
to show up and vote against their maps. Fine, but
you're telling me that the Republican Speaker of the House
has part of the current absconded groups of Democrats in

(46:22):
the leadership in the Texas Yea.

Speaker 14 (46:26):
This is the biggest underreported scandal in America. Not only
are some of the Democrat caucus in leadership, Matt, sixty
percent of the House Democrat caucus were put in leadership,
being given co chairmanships, vice chairmanships, or actual chairmanships of
powerful House committees. And you say, well, how could that be?

(46:46):
Why is that the Democrats are who elected this Republican speaker.
I mean, you know a lot about dealing with speakers
and the speaker of politics. And imagine though, if Kevin
McCarthy had struck a deal with thirty or forty or
fifty members of the House Democrats to maintain and hold
onto the speakership up there. That's what happened down here,
even though we have a big majority, our current so

(47:06):
called Republican speaker was the choice of the Democrat caucus.

Speaker 1 (47:10):
Okay, you've convinced me nothing good is going to come
out of the speaker. So we have seen tough talk
out of Governor Abbott and out of A. G. Paxton.
Are you hopeful that they are pursuing sufficient remedies.

Speaker 14 (47:22):
Well, I think the Attorney General's Office has been about
as aggressive as they can be on the litigation front.
But as with everything that goes through litigation, the courts
could be tied up in the.

Speaker 1 (47:30):
Courts for a while.

Speaker 14 (47:31):
And our special session ends in like six five or
six days, so I mean we're we're just about out
of time in the court system. The governor, you know,
he promised one actually exactly one week ago today, three
pm last Monday, that any Democrats who didn't report for
work he would remove from their positions. And as we
speak today, zero Democrats have had their positions been vacated,

(47:54):
zero punishments of any kind.

Speaker 1 (47:56):
Unfortunately, and if these things happen and sufficient punishments were
doled out, they were stripped of their assignments, their seats
deemed vacant. I mean, you guys could still govern Texas right, Like,
it's not like Texas the state where things are going
in the wrong direction. More people are moving to Texas.
There's growth in Texas. Like you give us the Chamber

(48:16):
of Commerce, spin that like everything's going to be okay
in the lone Star Republic.

Speaker 14 (48:21):
Well, look, I think in the long term, I mean,
ultimately we will prevail. I mean, I don't think these
Democrats are going to spend the rest of their lives gone.
They may come back at the beginning of next session.
But here's just the reality of the situation. If the
elected Republican leadership in the state of Texas wanted to
end this, it could have been ended by now. If
we wanted to play hardball right now. I mean, look,
I work in President Trump's first administration. Ever since I
got elected four years ago, it's been painfully obvious that

(48:43):
there's only one political party in Texas playing hardball, and
it's not the Republican Party. If the Republican leadership of
Texas wanted to end this, they could do at number one,
the governor, Lieutenant governor Speaker. They could preemptively pledge to
kill any future bill written by these Democrats, automatic veto
never moves in the House or Senate that would get
them up. Also, number two, let's fight fire with fire.
For every week the Democrats are gone, let's say we're

(49:03):
gonna redraw the maps and add one more Republican seats.

Speaker 1 (49:06):
So you been gone one week.

Speaker 14 (49:08):
Instead of adding five new Republican seats, I think we
should add six if they're gone next week. Instead of
plus five, it's plus seven. You do those two things,
those Democrats will be on the next flight back to
Austin Bergstrom, I guarantee you. But instead we've gotten nothing.
But you know not you know, tip lines and promises
they'll be paid in full, but they've got to you know,
get a check in hard copy as opposed to direct deposit,

(49:28):
and they're not gonna be able to get their newsletters.

Speaker 8 (49:30):
I mean, this is just silly.

Speaker 14 (49:31):
Texans deserve better, and they voted for bold Republican leadership
and they deserve it.

Speaker 1 (49:35):
Republican Texas State Representative Brian Harrison is a man with
a plan. Thank you so much for coming back and
really peeling off the veil on what we've been watching.
We appreciate you, and I hope you'll rejoin the program.
You bet great to be with you coming up. Gen
Z says they want to bring their parents to work
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We'll break it down after quick break.

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Speaker 1 (52:04):
Ever, when I saw the results of a recent study
regarding gen Z and the workforce, my jaw almost hit
the floor. Resume Templates surveyed eight hundred and thirty one
gen zers who work full time. Keep in mind, that's

(52:25):
its own subset of people, gen zers who work full
time more and more getting gigwork. But the resume Templates
folks wanted to understand how involved parents were in the
jobs of people and the way that parents were involved
in the search for employment. For gen Z, and get this,
thirty one percent of gen zers had a parent write

(52:48):
their resume, seventy seven percent brought a parent to an interview,
fifty three percent had a parent speak with their hiring
manager on their behalf. Forty five percent regularly had a
parent talk to their manager, seventy three percent have their
parents helped complete their work assignments. Fifty seven percent have
brought a parent to their current workplace. After seeing this data,

(53:11):
I'm left wondering whether it will be the robots or
the Chinese who take over America first. Here to help
me better understand the rising generation and their bizarre employment habits,
we've got political commentator Priya Patel and media correspondent for
A Life Side News Wade Searle. He's also served as
digital director for Congressman Paul Gosar. They join us now,

(53:31):
So Priya, tell me, have you ever brought your parents
to a job interviews?

Speaker 15 (53:36):
I have not, thankfully, and I find it really bizarre
that it is a common threat among this generation apparently
to do so.

Speaker 1 (53:44):
Yeah, it is. It is. What do you think it
tells us about the future of the workforce?

Speaker 16 (53:49):
Wade, Yeah, Well, I mean, look, Zoomers were leftists that
absolutely cooked workforce situation where not only is AI scanning
your resume for keywords, but in a lot of cases,
but it's becoming more popular, is AI is conducting the
interview itself. So I don't know if you can bring
your parents to an AI interview. I haven't tried it myself.

(54:10):
But the reality is that this situation is Zoomers were
growing up in an environment where the parents weren't even
really present in the home. Mothers have been taken out
of the home for generations now and put directly into
the workforce. And so what you have as kids grew
up in an environment where, except for maybe the weekends,
the dad's out of the homeworking and so is the mom,

(54:32):
and they're left to like cocoa melon, the public school system,
random babysitters or something like that. And then Zoomer's matured
a little bit and we're thrown right into COVID. So
their social interaction, the way they grew up is just
totally cooked. It's over for them. And I feel really
bad as Zoomer myself, because it's like, what are we

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supposed to do?

Speaker 1 (54:55):
Build things, go to work. If I would have called
my parents and ask them for help for my work homework,
I would have gotten laughter and refusal, not a willing
to participant. But over seventy percent of respondence in this
survey indicate that that's the case. So Prey, I've got
a little different take maybe than Wade, because I see

(55:15):
the Zoomer generation as being overindulged as a consequence of
COVID because parents were instead of being flung everywhere, parents
were working from home, Zoomers were there doing school work
at home, and it created this bizarre codependence. Where do
you fall Yeah.

Speaker 15 (55:30):
Actually, you know, I kind of fallow a little bit
along with your opinion, Matt. I really don't understand how
people haven't caught on to this culture of coddling this generation,
whether it be with parents, whether it be with a
school system, or whether it be with culture in general.
Gen z has really just had to navigate the workforce

(55:52):
after going through the conventional education system that has been
essentially dumbed down, and a lot of these kids are
going through college, getting gender studies degree and then being
thrown out into the workforce when they have no real
life experience, and the second that things get hard, they
call mommy or daddy to try and build them out
and help them when things get really difficult and they
have to do things by themselves, and it's just a

(56:14):
lack of problem solving, a lack of independence and unfortunately,
it's just a growing issue. I remember when this story
first broke, I think it was around this time last year,
and it was around twenty six percent of respondents that
were gen z that said that they had brought a
parent to a job interview. And it's just risen at
an exponential rate.

Speaker 1 (56:35):
Wade, you've obviously thought a lot about this. What do
you think it says for the future of economic production
in the workforce that zoomers are cooked as you describe it.

Speaker 16 (56:45):
Yeah, well, I don't think really that it is so
much gen Z's fault that they were wholly unprepared to
inherit the world from older generations.

Speaker 8 (56:55):
I think that's you.

Speaker 16 (56:56):
Know, And honestly, zoomers are going to especially white male zoomers,
are going to inherit an environment where they're already blamed
for every single problem. And now we enter one of
the worst environments to enter into the workforce ever, and
we're blamed for that too. We're called, you know, people
say like we're soft and we're coddled, as you put it,

(57:17):
And you know, I just don't I don't really see that.
I think I don't think it's really zoomer's fault that
the environment they grew up in was so bad, Like,
I don't think COVID could be blamed on them, that
was something that happened to them.

Speaker 1 (57:30):
Well well, sure, fine, fine, I could see that it's
not their fault. But I'm a millennial. I spent most
of my childhood having people tell me that the world
was going to end in the year two thousand, that
nuclear weapons were going to launch, and you know, somehow
we kind of, I guess, made it out of that.
Like do you do you think, Wade that it's sufficient

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to wallow and self pity.

Speaker 10 (57:54):
No.

Speaker 16 (57:54):
But I think what you're starting to see, particularly among
the men, is I think zoomers are starting to develop
their own backbone completely by themselves.

Speaker 8 (58:04):
As I'm sure.

Speaker 16 (58:05):
You've seen, gen Z males have shifted outrageously far to
the right in recent years, like forty four points or
something like that in the last few years, occurring to
recent Pew research numbers. So I think zoomers are starting
to sort of wake up, tough en up a little bit,
and they've been forced to because they're thrown out in

(58:25):
the world really like unprepared to deal with a lot
of common problems and they're dealing with it in the
best way they can.

Speaker 1 (58:32):
Priya, if you could say something to energize the generation
to max productivity, max self worth, max efficiency, what would
it be.

Speaker 15 (58:41):
Yeah, you know, I think especially for young men because
they've been just so villainized by the culture with feminism
and all this like new age talk. We really need
to have young men and young women devote themselves to
the church, devote themselves to finding a purpose in life,
you know, being able to provide for a family if

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you're a man, that should be your utmost priority. And
figure out how to be a productive member of society.
I know that that is incredibly hard nowadays, especially with
blue collar jobs being kind of villainized and looked down upon,
when in reality those are the jobs that are going
to flourish, especially with the rise of AI and a
lot of this new tech. I mean, just trying to

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find places where you're going to be of value in society,
no question about it.

Speaker 1 (59:28):
Priya Patel Wade Cyril, thank you so much for joining
us and sharing your perspective.

Speaker 4 (59:32):
Thank you.

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