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November 19, 2025 45 mins

There is a whole lot going on right now in America. Jesse Kelly begins by discussing Operation Charlotte's Web in North Carolina. He then speaks with Pod Force One's Miranda Devine regarding a massive FBI and Secret Service cover-up. After that, Jesse chats with Lydia Moynihan of the New York Post about the economy and Mamdani. Plus, a report on Democrat Dark Money from Ashley Brasfield.

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
We're gonna talk about immigration, We're gonna talk about the
assassination attempt on Donald Trump. Why do we still not
know things? Lydia moynihan is going to join us. All
that and more coming up on our right. Okay, so

(00:23):
this is gonna be kind of a two part little
talk we have here before we get into the Butler
assassination in a few minutes. And there's just so much
more we have to get to on the show Dark Money,
all kinds of things. I want to talk about immigration
and the liberal white woman. Let's first address this part
of it. We're gonna go to the very beginning of this.

(00:45):
This is a concept that is as old as time
itself and something we've talked about before. Tyrants, evil men
who are in positions of power in any country. They
want foreigners to come in as fast as human the pposible.
It's always been this way. I think it was freaking
Plato was talking about this. It's a very simple concept

(01:05):
to understand. If I'm an evil person in charge and
I want to burn down America, I only have to
concern myself with people who love America. Americans who love America,
people who have a loyalty to it. They're my only threat.
If I can bring in people who don't have that
same affinity for America or for whatever country i'm in

(01:26):
charge in, well then I'm on a gravy train with
biscuit wheels. I'll promise to give them a little bit
of cheddar cheese as I'm looting the country, and nobody's
going to stop me. It's been done a million times before,
It'll be done a million more times throughout history. The
mass importation of disloyal foreigners is not one issue. It's

(01:46):
not a side issue. For the globalist communists trying to
destroy Western civilization. It is everything. It is the foundation.
It is the concrete, It is the rebar, it is
the central pillar. With it, they cannot fall without it.
They cannot succeed without the mass importation of foreigners. Communists

(02:07):
cannot succeed in destroying America. So the Trump administration, for
all the crap they're getting, and some of it's deserve.
The way they've fumbled the Epstein stuff, and they we've
already talked about that. For all the crap they're getting,
let's acknowledge something. They are going after illegals. Is it
as fast as it has to be. No, not yet,
but it takes time to build the machine. They're going

(02:28):
after illegals, they're going after them hard. We're already over
two million year one. Let's hope that number increases year
after year. They're doing it. And the communists inside the
United States of America, you know what they're watching. They're
not just watching illegals be deported. They're watching their power evaporate.
That's what they're actually watching. They're watching their power slowly

(02:52):
fade away. Every time it illegal gets deported from the country,
a communist who hates the country loses power. And that's
why they're out there warning you about masked men.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
And also at the same time, in our states and
many others are sending masked armed individuals to snatch law
abiding residents off the streets as their own children's scream
in terror.

Speaker 3 (03:15):
And these ice agents running around our communities like masked
bank robbers, terrorizing women.

Speaker 4 (03:24):
This is not what we want in our country.

Speaker 5 (03:26):
This is not what we voted for.

Speaker 4 (03:27):
Maybe in Chile under the dictatorship, maybe in other dictatorships
like North Korea and China and around, but in this country,
we don't have masked armed agents ripping civilians out of
their cars.

Speaker 6 (03:38):
We have witnessed masked gunmen kidnapping our neighbors off the streets,
and my understanding as they're outside waiting to do it again.

Speaker 3 (03:47):
Are Republicans really that stupid to think that you can
have masked men going around the country beating up brown
people and throwing them unmarked cars.

Speaker 1 (04:04):
Now you know why they speak that way, Well, they
want the mass importation of foreigners. But there's another there's
another aspect to it. You have to sell that. You
have to sell the mass importation of foreigners because Americans
are going to obviously push back on such a concept.
In order to sell that, you need to find someone

(04:25):
to sell it to. Who are the people in America
who are so stupid, brainwashed and naive they will accept
that you should bring in a bunch of gang rapists
from Guatemala. Well, they're known as liberal white women. They
just busted up a child trafficking ring in Charlotte. It's

(04:46):
freaking orbit. It's like the worst thing you've ever seen.
But that may have made you happy, It may have
made me happy, but not the liberal white woman.

Speaker 7 (04:55):
I'm a member of several groups here in Charlotte that
are working behind the scenes to make sure that our
migrant community, immigrant communities are safe while conditions arets icy.
So I'm here along with.

Speaker 8 (05:12):
Regress of other concerned people to make sure that families
feel safe, that children get home safe, and that families
know that they don't have to come out and put
themselves at risk.

Speaker 2 (05:29):
While this is happening.

Speaker 1 (05:32):
Very coordinated that what do you think about that that's
effort to do this.

Speaker 8 (05:38):
I think that it's a warrant that we have to
do it.

Speaker 7 (05:44):
But the response has been incredible in the community, and
I'm so glad that people are stepping up and putting
themselves out there to protect our neighbors and our friends
and community happers.

Speaker 5 (05:58):
Anything else you'd like to say of Trump?

Speaker 7 (06:00):
Can I say that.

Speaker 1 (06:05):
If you're an evil tyrant in America anywhere around the world,
you have to find someone to sell your evil, demonic
ways too. And fortunately for you, there are millions and
millions of American liberal women who are so dumb, manipulated,

(06:25):
easily manipulated, that you can sell them filling up their
own community with gang rapists and they will buy it. Truly,
just broken, and that's what we're up against We have
a huge show for you. Maybe you remember that little
day where someone shot Donald Trump in the head. Morna

(06:47):
Divine has sources on some well some disturbing things we're
hearing about the FBI, the current FBI. Before we get
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(08:01):
Remember when someone tried to blow Donald Trump's head off,
and Butler Pennsylvania that was kind of a big deal.
Shot him in the air, did most definitely killed Corey comparator,
and then Joe Biden came out and pretty much said,
everything's fine. We're gonna work it out, but everything's fine.
I wonder how fine everything is? Joining me now, Miranda Divine,
host of the pod Force one podcast, Hey, Miranda, is

(08:23):
everything fine?

Speaker 5 (08:25):
Hi?

Speaker 9 (08:25):
Jesse, Well, I don't think so. I think that if
you look at people like Ron Johnson, whose job it
is as a senator to do oversight of the FBI,
why has he had to wait now it's sixteen months
to get information that he requested on that assassination attempt,

(08:48):
things like camera footage and forensics and other documents, and
you know, to the point where even under Donald Trump's FBI,
Senator Johnson had to suppae Cash Bettel, the new director,
for that information on the twelfth month anniversary of Butler
in July. I just do not understand why Senator Johnson

(09:11):
says he's being stonewalled. Why I've been stonewalled? I asked,
when this source gave me this information, this digital footprint
with a lot of disturbing information in it. I asked
the FBI if they had had any contact with any
interaction at all, any big body complain about him or

(09:36):
inform about him to the FBI. All I got the
answer back was no comment. Christopher Rae and his deputy
Paula Bank told Congress that they'd had well. They said
they searched the database and found nothing on which is
kind of a weasly way of very finely passing that information.

(09:59):
FBI people have told me, given the violent nature of
his online statements over a long period, it is inconceivable.
I'm told that the FBI would not have had him
on their radar and paid him a visit at the least.

Speaker 1 (10:15):
Okay, as best you can, understanding that this is a
PG show, what kind of violent statements are we talking
about here, most of us are just criminally unfamiliar with
this online world of chat rooms and dark crap these
people get into.

Speaker 9 (10:33):
Well, look, my source found about seventeen online platforms that
had a presence on had an account, and YouTube had
the most number of comments are about seven hundred. And
this is where interacts with other users. They chat about things.
Sometimes there's frequent connections with certain people. They have this

(10:57):
little community of chatting. And so he would say comment
on a YouTube video of Jonathan Turley talking about the
impeachment of Donald Trump, and this was in his anti
Trump phase towards the end of his digital footprint that
we see before he went dark, and he's saying, well,
you know, Trump was stupid. That's one of his comments

(11:21):
earlier when my sources first started to pick up his
online activity. This very pro Trump, says is the epitome
of patriotism, very anti Democrat. In one of his statements,
he says, in all caps, murder the Democrats. He's very
antagonistic to ilhan Omar and the squad. And then he

(11:44):
flips in January of twenty twenty. You know, in December
of twenty nineteen, he's pro Trump, anti Democrat. In January
of twenty twenty, he's just done a one point eighty.
Suddenly he's anti Trump. He's calling Trump a racist, he's
calling Trump's orders sheep and in a cult. And then

(12:04):
he progressively gets more and more sort of violent until
you know, rhetoric violent until August twenty twenty, which is
probably his most disturbing statements, where he talks about the
assassination of political leaders and military leaders, after which he
just disappears. He becomes a ghost on all these platforms,

(12:26):
according to my source.

Speaker 5 (12:29):
Randa.

Speaker 1 (12:30):
So before we move on and touched on a couple
other parts of this, you've combed through these things, you're
the one with the sores. It's one thing to post
some ugly things online. Honestly, most ninety nine young men
today will say something stupid online. That's just kind of
the way it's going to work. It's another thing, entirely
to grab a weapon, go dark on the internet, which

(12:52):
is difficult enough for most people, and then go to
actually try to kill him. Did you pick up on
anyone he's interacting with possibly pushing him in this direction,
because that's the only thing that makes sense to me.

Speaker 9 (13:08):
Yeah, remembering that anyone who was grooming him or radicalizing
him or pushing him in a direction wouldn't necessarily be
visible online or in the material that my source found,
which is incomplete. But there is one interesting interaction, and

(13:28):
it was during his anti Trump phase. He was communicating
with a Norwegian neo Nazi called who used the name
Willie Tepes. T Epes, I believe that's not his real name,
but he was associated with a Norwegian terrorist group. It's
been designated a terrorist group by the State Department, in

(13:51):
fact designated last June, one month before Butler. I mean,
that was probably just a coincidence, but it's a terrorist group.
And so this Willi Teppers would use the sort of
violence rhetoric talking, you know, maoist phrases like you can
only change things with the muzzle of a gun, and

(14:14):
this was something that was embraced and repeated that statement,
and his language became more violent as time went on
during that Willy Teppas interaction period. So and my sources
found Willi Teppas on other platforms post Butler, so the
most recently October twenty twenty five, when Tempes says to

(14:38):
another user that he had been contacted by Russian and
American intelligence. I don't know if that's true, don't know
anything other than that's what he says, So what to
make of it, I don't know.

Speaker 5 (14:52):
I do know.

Speaker 9 (14:53):
I have been told by intelligent sources that if this
terrorist organization designated foreign terror organization designated by the State Department,
the CIA would be aware of this and aware of
any interactions with American citizens alike and would refer the

(15:13):
investigation of this American citizen to the FBI. So again,
all fingers and roads point to the FBI having an
interaction with before Butler, and I just don't know why
we're not told whether that's so. Certainly, Christopher Ray said

(15:34):
that they hadn't, but he passed his language very carefully.
And when I asked the FBI last week when I
was doing this story a number of questions, including did
they have any connection with or interaction or any communication
about Before Butler, I got the answer back, no.

Speaker 1 (15:53):
Comment, Marianda. Finally, as we wrap this up here, I
was hopeful that we would have some improvements at the FBI.
Certainly some bad actors seem to have been let go.
But have your interactions with the FBI improved in any
dramatic fashion over the check that we had under Joe Biden.

Speaker 9 (16:17):
No, not at all. In fact, active hostility in some quarters.
Because I was advocating for to FBI whistleblowers Steve Friend
and Garrett O'Boyle who were so badly mistreated under the
Biden administration, and expected that as soon as Trump came

(16:37):
in and Cash Battel and Dan Bongino took over that
their circumstances would immediately improve, and they hadn't. They since
have been reinstated, but I mean they still haven't got
their back pay and Steve friends still sitting at home,
so I you know, have been critical of their treatment

(16:57):
and said they were betrayed because they had many interactions
with Cash Mittel and Dan Bongino before they took these
lofty positions at the FBI and after that were ghosted.
I understand they've got busy jobs, but Scott Besson, Treasury Secretary,
also has a busy job, and he managed to find
the time and the heart to reinstate the two IRS

(17:20):
whistleblowers who put their reputations their careers on the line,
and they are now have got promotions and are working
for Treasury Secretary Scott Besson in reforming the IRS and
ensuring that what happened to them and the railroading of
that Hunter Biden investigation never happens again. Steve Freend and
garrett O Boyle are honorable people and were whistleblowers and

(17:43):
forced to do that, and they are patriots and they
could be very helpful with reforming the FBI, but they
were just ignored and cast aside, and so when I
pointed this out, I got a very hostile reaction. So
it does it doesn't bode well?

Speaker 1 (18:01):
I think, Oh, it certainly doesn't, does it. Marianna, thank
you for all your work. I appreciate you. All right,
So let's talk about the economy. The refocus on the
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Speaker 10 (19:21):
The Biden administration started the affordability crisis, and my administration
is ending it.

Speaker 5 (19:28):
I'm ending it.

Speaker 10 (19:28):
Prices the way down. Our energy price is the way down.
And you know, despite Hamburger's being a big business, energy
is one business that's bigger. When you get energy down,
everything else is affected. If you start bringing the price again,
that's like a massive tax gun. Prices that McDonald's are
coming downing, it's moving down. Unfortunately, they were so high

(19:49):
in the last administration that people aren't that happy because
it was so high. So even though it's coming down
and coming down a lot, they want to see where
it was like when I was president. And we'll be
getting it very close to that number, maybe even better
depending on what we do with energy. But the energy's
coming way down.

Speaker 1 (20:09):
Okay, joining me now, moynihan, New York Post Financial correspondent. Okay,
Lydia Donald Trumps certainly no more on. He's the man
who understands that people want prices down, and really that's
the big reason he's in the White House. As much
as I love other things about him, and you probably
do as well. He's in the White House because things

(20:29):
got too expensive and people can't go out to red Lobster.

Speaker 11 (20:31):
Now, yeah, exactly, it's not the Epstein files. That's not
why he got elected. It is because the economy was
tanking under Joe Biden. For the average American, I mean,
inflation hurts working class people more than anybody else because
it's basically eating your wage, is much less purchasing power.
So look, I think the Trump administration is doing, to

(20:54):
the most part everything they possibly can. I think they're deregulating,
which is helpful for the economy. They're making sure that
we can drill and get access to energy. That's taking
prices down as well, and we'll have sort of a
spillover effect. But it does take time for these things
to happen. And the other thing is that inflation is
almost impossible to reverse. Right, if you're speeding down the

(21:17):
highway at let's say an inflation rate of ten miles
per hour that was basically what inflation is at under Biden,
and you slow down, you're going nine miles an hour.
You're still moving, right, You're just not moving quite as quickly.
But to actually go back and reverse prices to what
it was before the pandemic isn't really feasible unfortunately, And

(21:38):
so again, I think we're going to be in much
better shape than if Biden or Kamala Harris was running
the country. But I don't think that we're going to
get back to pre COVID levels anytime soon. And I
also think it takes more than nine months to see
the impact of these policies.

Speaker 1 (21:55):
So Lydia does that put us in kind of an
economic slash political game of chicken, if you will, where
voters are still mad that they can afford what they
could afford five years ago. That's why they tossed Democrats out.
But we have midterms coming up next year, as you
well know, we have twenty twenty eight election. That's not
that far away, as you know. Are they now going

(22:16):
to look at those same prices and say, hey, you
Republicans are sitting in office and you didn't get me
back to red lobster, it's your fault now or are
they just going to start getting.

Speaker 5 (22:24):
Used to it?

Speaker 11 (22:26):
Well, first, I reject the notion that it's red lobster.
I think they also want to go back to olive Garden. No,
but look, look, yeah, the rent still too damn high
here and a lot is the affordability issue that has
become the buzzword since Zoron Mumdani made it the buzzword
here in New York City where everything is really expensive.

(22:47):
And I think conservatives and Republicans have a tendency to
basically say, well, we also want to subsidize things. We
also want to make sure that the government gets involved
to help you. And I think what Republicans need to
do is take a step back and point to the facts.
And the facts are that anytime government gets involved in
any industry, whether it is healthcare, whether it's subsidizing childcare,

(23:09):
whether it's food stamps, whether it's housing. Education is another
huge example. As soon as the government gets involved and
tries to start subsidizing that for people, the prices go up.
So if you look at over the last thirty or
so years, the prices of everything that government gets involved with,
those are skyrocketing. Meanwhile, the prices of things like technology

(23:30):
or clothing, anything that the private sector does, those prices
go down. So I think we need to have a
bit of a framework, sort of adjustment, if you will,
because I think Republicans are too quick. They want to
make voters happy, and they're too quick to say, oh, yeah,
let's make sure that you have enough food stamps or
this or that. And I think we need to take

(23:51):
a step back and message the fact that, as Reagan said,
government is not the solution to the problem. Government is
the problem. And I think that's going to be so
much more is you know you have here in New
York so on Mom, Donnie, who's basically saying, oh, there's
no problem too big or too small that government can't solve.
That is a terrifying statement, right, And so I think

(24:12):
Republicans really need to message government is the problem. We
want to get out of your way. And I think
the good thing actually, Trump is not an idelogue. He
just likes to find solutions that works, and so I
think right now he is proposing all kinds of solutions.
The fifty year mortgage was not well received, I think

(24:32):
for good reason. But I think it's not a bad idea.
Throw it out. If somebody wants a fifty year mortgage
and that's going to make them happy, it's a free country,
let them do it. But to your point, I mean,
the issue is that any of these economic policies, especially
when it comes to deregulating, it takes a long time
to see the impact, right, And so it's easy to

(24:52):
sell socialism. It's free, free, free. You know, you get
a car, and you get a car, and it's a
little bit harder to sell. No, in the long run,
you're going to end up like Venezuela if that's what
you do. And one other thing that I've been thinking
about as well, I've been seeing some conservatives, for instance,
kind of go after so black Rock has been buying

(25:12):
up a lot of single family homes all across the country,
and people are pointing to that as one example of
corporations basically making life more expensive for everyone. But this
is the issue, and this is again what conservatives need
to debunk. It's sort of the stage one thinking Thomas
Old talked about. You basically think corporations buying something bad

(25:33):
or government helping good. You just think about the first
stage and you don't think about the long term repercussions.
And if you think about it, actually the fact that
you know you have these companies now looking to buy
companies that has spurred development. One of the big issues
is over the last couple decades we haven't had a
tremendous amount of new homes built. So now you actually

(25:54):
are seeing a lot of development happening because those people know, well,
you know what, there is going to be a buyer.
I can make this bet because somebody's going to swoop
in and get this, and so that's actually spurring development.
I've heard some conservatives say they want to ban that.
I think that would be a bad idea, right, and
so again I think we just need to message the
free market is always the best and the cheapest and

(26:16):
the most affordable solution when you have government that makes
it complicated. Right in New York, there was a great
piece in the Free Press just fifty thousand apartments that
are just sitting vacant because of government regulation. Government here
in New York basically pass some thing saying you can't
raise rents a certain amount. And there's all of these

(26:36):
landlords who now are like, well, why would I rent
this out? I can't afford to renovate it to rent
it out at that price. The numbers aren't going to work.
So I'm just going to sit here and keep the
apartment and not let it rent. And that's of course
another example of government interfering and raising prices.

Speaker 1 (26:54):
Yeah, take it from an old guy who's bought and
sold several homes. Please don't take out a fifteen new
year mortgage. If you're watching this, please please do the
math on what you would actually pay for that. I'm
begging you. Don't take out a fifty year mortgage. I
just my blood pressure can't handle the idea of that.
But I do want to talk to you about, Oh gosh,
I know, I do want to talk to you about

(27:16):
New York City, a place I dearly love. In fact,
I'm willing to be there in two weeks, and I'm
concerned that this is going to be my last visit
Lydia because it was already it's given filthy. The whole
place smells like pee weed, and you have to hear
it's awful. Last time I was there, a homeless guy
dropped his pants to his angles, imped in front of
me in the sidewalk, and it was noon, in the
middle of the day, and it's just freaking awful. How

(27:40):
much how much worse, oh gosh, I'm sorry. How much
worse is it going to get?

Speaker 11 (27:47):
I think a lot worse? Not to be glum here
about Eric Adams kind of feckless, kind of corrupt, but
at least she wasn't embracing and pushing for defund the
police and all of these crazy ideas that z around.
Mumdani clearly believes he's like kind of walked them back

(28:07):
in the last couple months. But there's literally five years
of him tweeting defund the police, the police are anti
you know, queer and racist, and there's dozens and dozens
and dozens of times that he said that, So I
think we could be pretty clear that, you know, what
he was tweeting for five years is probably what he's
going to do, more than what he said in the
last two months right before the election. But yeah, I'm

(28:30):
really concerned. And it's it's interesting because we saw sort
of one group of Republicans say, you know, oh, this
is going to be great. Republicans can run on Mumdannie
and win the midterms, and isn't that going to be fabulous?
New York is going to be a disaster, and we
can point to that is how socialism fails. And I
think Trump actually now is also saying he wants to

(28:52):
work with Mdannie and he was very clear during the
primary that no, we want to save New York. New
York should be like a crown jewel of the United States,
and that's what we want. So look, I don't know
what's going to happen, but I guess so my hope is.
And if you look at who voted for Mom Donnie,
a lot of it is foreigners. In fact, if it

(29:14):
had just been native born Americans voting in the selection,
Cuomo would have won. If it had just been working
class people, Cuomo would have won. It was a lot
of foreign born people who, for whatever reason, maybe felt
that Zora and Mumdannie reminded them of where they came from.
I don't know, but there was a lot of sort
of Champagne socialists as well. And I read this story

(29:38):
this week about how the mayoral victor in Seattle running
on a socialist platform pretty similar to Mom Donnie, how
her parents still give her money. And I have a
very still giving their kids money is the root cause
of most of the bad policy. And I say this

(30:00):
because I have a lot of friends here. Again, parents
subsidize their life, and what that is created is an
entire class of voters who is completely untothered from any
economic reality. They don't understand, Oh, I don't want taxes
to be raised because that would mean I would keep
less of my money. There's no sort of critical thinking
skills if you don't actually have to live with the

(30:24):
consequences of your decision. Right, if your parents are giving
you money and you have a driver or you can
afford to uber everywhere, you're never gonna have to face
the fact that defund the police means you're not gonna
want to take the subway because it's spooky and people
are gonna show you parts of their body and do
all these crazy things that you don't want to see. Right,

(30:44):
So people need to live in the real world. And
this is such a this is such a prevalent thing
here in Manhattan. You know, middle class or upper middle
class kids from all over the country move here and
their parents help them out, and then they just think
it's chic to be a socialist because Emily rode Jakowski
and the cool influencers are all talking about how you know,

(31:07):
hot girls are for zoron, and they are completely removed
from any reality of their decision. And that's another thing
actually is it's a lot of transplants, people who moved
here in the last five years who voted overwhelmingly for
Mum Donnie. It was not lifelong New Yorkers. So pretty
interesting kind of as we've see that breakout of who

(31:27):
and where and why and what not how Mumdannie came
to power. But yeah, don't don't give gyar kids money
when they're at thirty. Like, it's just not a good idea.

Speaker 1 (31:36):
Okay, Lydia. You know what else is in a good idea?
Taking the subway as a young woman. Why are you
taking the subway? Get a freaking uber or something? What's
wrong with you?

Speaker 11 (31:46):
I mean, it's it's extensive that that is the issue.
You know what I have gotten pepper spray, which of
course is all something technically illegal in New York City.
You can't get it because why should you be able
to protect yourself in a disgusting city that our horrible
blue state leaders have created. So I do have that.

(32:08):
But yeah, I also city bike a lot, which it's funny,
probably is more dangerous, but it feels a lot safer.
No one sort of, I guess, glimmer of hope. I
don't want to be one of those people who comes
on and talks about how this guy is falling and
how horrible things are because we still obviously are super privileged.
If I could live any time or place, it would

(32:30):
be still right about now. But at least Staphotic who
has been such a voice of reason. She was the one,
of course, who was grilling all of the university presidents
about anti semitism on campus. She has announced her candidacy
for governor here in New York, and the polling again,
a year's a long time, as we know, anything happens.

(32:51):
Everyone thought Cuomo was going to win a year ago,
but Stephonic's polling is very impressive and people don't like
So I am very confident actually that she stands a
very good chance of winning. Lee Zelden, who I didn't
think would get very far, he actually almost. He came

(33:13):
in very close to Hokel in the last election. So
my hope would be that people in New York kind
of start to wake up and literally look around like, like,
are people just I don't know, blindfolded, Like do they
have their blinders on? I don't understand how somebody could
walk through New York City and think like, hmm, I
think we need a social worker, like, how could you

(33:35):
reach the conclusion that mamdannie is going to solve these problems.
I'm honestly baffled by it, but I think hopefully that
I'll give a moment of waking up and unfortunately, I
think there's gonna be some cladal damage in the interim.
But I think the least demonic stands a very good
chance of winning. And ultimately the governor does have a
lot more power over the purse, the MTA, a lot

(33:58):
of those things that we have to deal with the
New York City then the mayor does.

Speaker 1 (34:06):
Unfortunately, many of ma'm Donnie's voters come from a place
that's actually dirty in New York City, and that's half
the problem. Lydia, thank you so much. I appreciate it.
That sucks light in the mood.

Speaker 5 (34:19):
Next, we need to get dark money.

Speaker 3 (34:30):
That's that hidden funding behind too many campaigns contributions.

Speaker 5 (34:34):
We need to get it out of our poem.

Speaker 1 (34:38):
There are there's got to be a word. Irony doesn't
properly describe the word of a Democrat talking against dark money.
But what even is dark money? It sounds so cloak
and dagger joining me. Now, Ashley was gonna she's about
to explain it to us. Ashley Brassfield with The Daily Caller, Hey, Ashley,
dark money For those of us not aware of it,

(35:01):
the floor is yours. Will you kind of break this down?
What is dark money? Is it CIA agent slipping envelopes
of cash under the table? That's really cool?

Speaker 6 (35:08):
Actually, yeah, The way I describe it is just it's
very hard to track and it influences elections kind of
on the Daily I just did a story on this,
specifically on the Tennessee seventh District special election that's coming
up soon in December, replacing the Congressman Green of course,
who was one of the head chairmen in Congress. But
this is kind of just one of those things that
you know, you hear about the George Soros influence, the

(35:31):
Arabella Group that kind of funds a lot of these elections,
and in this case specifically, they were trying to fund
the independent candidate. They saw that the Democrat candidate wasn't
really winning out here in any way, and so they
decided to kind of switch their tactic and go to
the independent candidate in order to beat the Trump endorsed
Republican Matt Vanapps here. So this is kind of one.

Speaker 1 (35:50):
Of those things.

Speaker 6 (35:51):
It's very hard to track. You have to go through
a federal election Commission of Records to look at all
this open secrets many people know is kind of a
record to see where all these funds are coming from.
But it takes kind of you know, hard work and
some you know digging to find some of this stuff
a lot of the time. But I think you're right
about the cloak and dagger. That is kind of what

(36:11):
is the key with a lot of Democrats on trying to,
I guess, just hide a lot of these funds where
they're coming from, the certain agenda that they're trying to
push in these elections, and obviously, you know, not pushing
the Trump candidate specifically within Tennessee, which is a very
red state and many you know, I would say Democrats
moved to the state from places like California, which you hope,

(36:33):
of course don't vote Democrat after moving away from a
state like that into Tennessee. But it is a very
important seat in Tennessee, and I think they're working in
ways to try and to feed the Republican candidate as
really the best they can in any way.

Speaker 1 (36:47):
Ashley, can you lay out for me just pretend like
I'm a complete drooling idiot, which should not be very difficult.
Lay out for me why it can't be tracked. I
was told that all this money is public. I know
the fee as a website. Can I just pull up
the website and I can look at who donates to
Donald Trump or Ted Cruz or any Democrat? This is

(37:07):
public information. Why can't you track it? Are you just
being lazy?

Speaker 5 (37:11):
No?

Speaker 6 (37:12):
I think this particular pack is called your community that
was funding the Tennessee District election. And this is the
case for a lot of these scenarios with this dark
money is you can't. It goes back to an address
in Delaware, and so there's no name linked to the address.

Speaker 9 (37:25):
It's just a house address.

Speaker 6 (37:27):
But it's a lot of these that you know, these
nonprofits that are being funded to push the Democrat agenda,
but you can't find a certain name or person that
it's linked to. You can find these kind of groups
and the course Arabella is one of those that is
linked to George Soros, very well known dark money democrat.
You know, just activity that goes on within elections across
the country. But this one specifically is very interesting due

(37:49):
to it being a Tennessee election and then linking it
to a state like Delaware, which is extremely random.

Speaker 1 (37:56):
Yeah, that would be random. AOC said something extremely rand.

Speaker 12 (38:01):
I want to say this right now. I fully welcome
Trump voters into our coalition. And I know that sounds
crazy to some people, but just hear me out. I
cannot tell you. It just happened to me, like two
weeks ago. I can't tell you how many times someone

(38:23):
has pulled me aside and said either I was once
a big Trump voter and a Trump supporter, and I
watched Fox News every day. But then I started to
kind of expand my world and where I got information,
and now I've learned, and now I've changed and I'm

(38:44):
with you, and I learned from you or people who
meet me who are really big Republicans now and they
are shocked when they meet me because they're like, you
are nothing like I was told you are, and that
you start to see the bogs turney.

Speaker 1 (39:04):
Yeah, I would like to say that's not happening. But
where are we at right now with the movement. I
know the honeymoon phase doesn't last forever with the new
White House, and there's always going to be problems. That's
the way it is. Are we solid have we lost
a lot, we lost a little. I don't think they're
all globbing onto AOC.

Speaker 6 (39:23):
Yeah, I mean, I don't think they're all clobbing onto AOC,
that's for sure. It's kind of more I would I
would say she's more progressive wing at the party if anything.
So it's hard for me to believe that a bunch
of you know, MAGA supporters would go and say, oh,
we you know, align with AOC. That's really hard for
me to believe to say, I think you're right about
the honeymoon phase, to say that we're not in a
place where there is some you know, contingency within the

(39:44):
party on certain issues. And the one that comes to mind,
of course is Israel currently. But I mean, I think
when you saw the last three elections that happen in
November with Virginia, New Jersey and of course New York
City mayoral race, where you have somebody that's very similar
to AOC z Ora Mom Donnie that race. It's a
lot of young voters and they're capturing the gen Z
demographics specifically and specifically, like I said, on the Israel issue,

(40:08):
and maybe that is where they're getting more of a
malleable base that they can get people to come over to.
I would say that the you know, standard magabase that's
been with Trump since twenty sixteen, they're never going to
align with AOC though, would be my thought process on it.
But you know, AOC, she's used to be the you know,
the squad member that was screaming, yelling. She's been quite quiet.

(40:31):
There is this battle that's still happening even within the
Democrat Party that's being overshadowed, and nobody wants to concentrate
on right now because of the in party fighting that's
currently happening. But you know, the progressive wing fighting with
the establishment. You're seeing this in places like Main with
Graham Plattner, who we call Maine Mom Donnie actually, and
you saw this in the New York City mayor oral
race where Schumri never endorsed Mom Donnie. And a lot

(40:54):
of these elections. It is this kind of different characters
of Democrats, the establishment, moderate, low key tie, I would say,
And then you have the loud voices like the aocs,
like the Mom Donnie's, but Schumer doesn't want to, you know,
acknowledge them. And they're battling back and forth with each other,
and I think the DNC is eventually going to have
to make a decision on who they kind of want
to go with here and what's going to work on

(41:15):
a national level.

Speaker 1 (41:17):
Isn't Time working against the moderates though, Ashley, The truth
is Schumer is probably retiring, reportedly retiring in twenty twenty
h O Mansions gone, Nancy Pelosi's retiring to drink vodka
for the rest of her life. The younger, more radical
communists all look like you and not Chuck Schumer. So
doesn't Time say they're taking over no matter what it's.

Speaker 6 (41:41):
Looking like that I don't know necessarily in places like
New York City specifically where you have a bunch of
you know, higher educated females and males under the age
of forty that can't get jobs and they feel like
the capitalism system isn't working. From them, they're capturing that
dynamic with the guys of socialism, which we all know
if you educated on it hasn't worked anywhere else. But

(42:02):
that's the issue. The education system has not taught people
under the age of forty about socialism in any way,
you know, communist China where there it be the USSR
in Russia, and it's been years since we've seen the
system fail. So I think that's what New York is
the experiment currently in New York City under a socialist
you know, executive in this case. So I think this

(42:23):
is going to be a real test. And I think
it's a failure within the education system to have people
like this being you know, propped up in power like
AOCU and systems that don't work, where their policies continue
to fail. But you know, they're willing to do it
because none of them have had jobs and them have
had success after getting college degrees at a higher education level.
So you know, I think we have to have a

(42:44):
selling point, and Republicans really have to get a selling
point as to why they can help with domestic policy,
concentrating on that. I think affordability is the buzzword that
I continue to hear in the days following this November election,
and I think that's the talking point that I've seen
coming from the White House quite a bit as well.

Speaker 1 (43:03):
Yeah, it seems as if we've kind of lost the plot,
as we oftentimes do. Donald Trump's in the White House
because of inflation and immigration. He's not there because of
epstein in or foreign policy or these other things. If
once we get back on track and start focused on
making life affordable, we went again, and if we don't,
we lose. Well I had that.

Speaker 6 (43:20):
Right, yeah, I would say, so, you know, I think
it's concentrating on domestic policy.

Speaker 5 (43:25):
Of course.

Speaker 6 (43:26):
I think right now it's just obvious that you can see,
you know, contingency happening within the Republican Party right now.
People want to turn a blind eye to it. But
I think face it head on and work together on
the domestic policy, especially going into twenty twenty six midterms.
I think the results were quite telling. I don't know
how telling, but I think it should send a message
in some way of what we should be doing moving forward,

(43:48):
specifically within Congress or within the administration.

Speaker 1 (43:52):
Ashley, come back, appreciate it, all right? Lighting the move next?
All right, it is time to lighten the mood. And uh,
we've had a talk like this before. Father time is undefeated,

(44:17):
isn't he Look at me? If you've been watching this
show for a while, you'll notice I look a little
different up top. Maybe you've noticed this is getting a
little grayer. By the day, by the time, is undefeated.
He comes for all of us, of course, And for
the longest time, Nancy Pelosi, Grandma Vodka, ruled Washington, d C.

(44:38):
With an iron fist. Both parties were afraid of her.
She was sharp, she was hard as nails. Now this
is how, this is how she's doing.

Speaker 13 (44:49):
Any questions on the subject for our colleagues, Y see, yes, sir,
there I thought I saw someone over there.

Speaker 5 (44:59):
I know.

Speaker 13 (45:00):
Oh, no questions on the subject. No, no, no, yes again,
none of us have it.

Speaker 5 (45:12):
Forever.

Speaker 1 (45:13):
May hear your Grandma Vodka. I'll see them all.

Speaker 9 (45:18):
M h m hmmmm

Speaker 4 (45:23):
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