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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time, time, Luck and load. The Michael
Verie Show is on the air. We believe that there's an.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Encryption on the back, an encryption like a code, yes
of what, of chronograph A map, yes, ma'am, a map
of what, the location of hidden items of historic and
(00:39):
intrinsic value, a treasure map.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
What we're seeing now is an attempt by the White
House to insulate itself from any kind of congressional scrutiny,
any kind of congressional obicight, to make sure that Donald
Trump remains the authoritarian figure that he has become. We
have a compliant Congress, and he wants to ensure that,
given the fact that passed this bill that is unpopular,
that takes healthcare away from people, that gives tax breaks
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to billionaires, and it puts at risk the Republican majority,
he wants to ensure that he continues to have that
compliant Republican House of Representatives. And that, I think is
something that we need to take into account. Our democracy
is threatened. Our democracy is really threatened by what the
Republicans are proposing to do in Texas right now.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
First of all, let's to understand why Donald Trump is
asking for five more Republicans heat out of Texas. It's
because his policies, especially his economic policies, have been so bad.
Right the prior guests referenced a big, beautiful bill, wait
till people start losing their health care and their health
care costs go up. Republicans were confident on their policy agenda,
they'd be eager to defend it with the people and
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to defend it at the ballot box next November. But
they know they're in trouble, and so they're trying to
rig the system to hold on to power next November.
That's what this re districting move is really about.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
Texas Governor Greg Abbott seems set on making it happen,
threatening to remove Democrats who left the state to block
the vote from office if they don't return. Abbot also
writing in a letter late Sunday that they could face
felony charges for raising money to pay for fines and
expenses while out of state, and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton,
who who's running for Senate, also signaling his support, saying
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Democrats should be found, arrested and brought back to the
capital immediately. But Democrats from Texas and around the country
say they're ready for the fight.
Speaker 6 (03:12):
What Texas is doing right now is a craven power grab.
And as I said, we're going to fight fire with fire.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
A reflective map would look like the fact that only
thirty nine percent of this state is Anglo.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
So how in the heck do we have sixty percent of.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
The seats that go to DC are going to.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Be decided by Anglos. That's the math that doesn't work.
We need to flip the numbers in. I got to
cross two items off my bucket list last night. I
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got to see a show at Red Rocks outside of Denver,
which was a great thrill. And that show was a
band that, surprisingly I've never seen in concert. Almost made
it to the Lagrange concert a few years ago when
they blew the amps out. But I got to see
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It's easy top. You got to hang out with the
band before the show and see the show from the
side stage. They said, are you sure you would like
to go out? We got you tickets right in the front,
right in the middle, best audio, right next to the speakers. No,
I can do that anytime. I know what you sound like.
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I want to hang out on the side stage and
watch the guitars being prepared to be sent out for
the different songs. Watch the amps, see how your family
the texts for the band do what they do. It
was pretty cool. Frank Beard, the drummer, lives in Richmond, Texas,
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and Richmond would just happen to be the subject of
our first story of the day. The boys from Richmond's
Lamar Little League one win away from a trip to
Williamsport and the Little League World Series. They play Kenner,
Louisiana's East Bank Little League and let me tell you something,
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that's a good team. The game six o'clock this evening
and it'll be on ESPN and it will be streamed
on ESPN. Lamar rallied from a two to one deficit
against Tulsa the couple of runs the fourth inning to
advance of the championship game today. They ended up winning
five to two after being down two to one. They
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previously lost to East Bank Little League on Sunday seven
to five. Lamar went over East Bank. Would make it
three times in the past four years the Houston area
has sent a team to Williamsport. Lamar made it in
consecutive years in two thousand and three and four, led
by Randall for most Should I say this last name,
(06:48):
I all end up getting it wrong? G Ricchuk. Do
you know how to pronounce that? I must say Gritchup.
Could be gritchick, could be gritchup, could be green Chuck.
Could somebody email me with the fanatics of that? But anyway,
apparently this Gritschuck kid is a stud. He's currently with
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the Kansas City Royals for his twelfth season in the
big leagues. Most of the time these kids in Little
League World Series, they flame out by the time they're
eighteen or twenty one, but this kid didn't Randall. Gritschuck.
East Bank also has a rich tradition, winning the World
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Championship in Williamsport in twenty nineteen. So let's go boys
from Richmond lamar big win tonight. We would love for
you to do it. And today is Dolly Parton Day.
August fifth, twenty nineteen, David Bridley, the mayor of National, Tennessee,
signed a proclamation recognizing this day as Dolly Parton Day.
Speaker 7 (07:58):
Exotic what would they call that where you grew up
in Tennessee?
Speaker 1 (08:02):
And healthy? Healthy? I guess boos me. What would you
ask me just for that? Well, yeah, I've always been
pretty well blessed. People are always asking if they're real,
and oh, I wouldn't be never, I wouldn't never see.
Speaker 8 (08:23):
I would not I'll tell you what I have certain guide,
but I would give about a year's paid a peek
under there.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Like that. So I know you thought it was funny.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Oh no, I won't do that.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
It's too much for mon She won't go that was
so funny. Well, first of all, Red Rocks is a
pretty amazing venue. It's carved into the side of a mountain.
It's not, you know, built from scratch, so it's an
outdoor venue into the side of a mountain. You hoof
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it and hump it up the side of a mountain
to get to the actual venue, so you're breathless by
that time. The band is down on the stage and
then it's tiered level of ninety two hundred quote unquote seats,
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but they're not seats, they're just they're layered tiers like
a hanging garden, and they're marked off where people sit
and in the top area is general admission. It's pretty cool.
We got to hang outside stage, which impressed even Crockett,
and nothing impresses Crockett as the guests of Frank Beard,
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the longtime drummer since the nineteen sixties, who, by the way,
lives in Richmond. He has twin sons, Nico and and
so we had to they are they are his drum techs.
And we had to hang out side stage from before
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the concert through the concert and the breakdown. Pretty neat
to watch that whole process work from the pre concert
to the concert to the after concert and uh, and
see all the work that goes into the show. Pretty
darn cool. And speaking of Richmond Lamar Little League, my
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friend Lance Hoffman, I asked, how do you pronounce Randall
g r I c h u K because I'm sure
the kids there they grew up knew how to pronounce that,
my friend Lance, Uh, my friend Lance Hoffman, He responded, Oh,
it's g r I space Chuck currently plays for the Royals.
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And I said, okay, that's not That doesn't tell me
how the eye is pronounced. Is it gray as it so?
Is it gritchuck? Is it greed chuck? Is it gritchuck?
And he said it's gritchuck. So that is the pride
of Lamar currently playing professional baseball, which is pretty darn cool.
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It was on this day in nineteen sixty two, you
were this day in history that Marilyn Monroe was found
dead at her home from a drug overdose. Ramon's where
that's where it is said, I don't need you to
add that. That's where you play. The audio Archive News
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announces the death of Marilyn Monroe. Nineteen sixty Yeah, this
day in history. Yeah, you can. You can find it.
You can find it. That's just it. You can find it,
all right.
Speaker 8 (12:00):
One of the most famous stars in Hollywood history is
dead at thirty six.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Marilyn Monroe was found dead in.
Speaker 8 (12:06):
Bed under circumstances that were in tragic contrast to her
glamorous career as a comic talent.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
On the surface, she seemed to have such a zest
for life.
Speaker 8 (12:15):
Her international appeal took her from command appearances to the
other side of the world and entertainment for Korean gis.
The star led a far from normal childhood and had
twelve sets of foster parents, leading her to say in
her last interview that.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
She was never used to being happy, so it.
Speaker 8 (12:32):
Wasn't something she ever took for granted. She never let
her personal feelings interfere with.
Speaker 7 (12:36):
Her job, and she was the idol of the Gis
the animation of Foxhall Dreams.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
She found no happiness in marriage.
Speaker 8 (12:49):
Her second husband was baseball immortal Joe DiMaggio, and that
marriage ended as had her first divorce. Her third husband
was playwright Arthur Miller.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
And they too separated.
Speaker 8 (13:02):
Mits Monroe played in twenty three films since her debut
in nineteen fifty, films that crossed two hundred million dollars.
The Golden Girl received five thousand fan letters a week,
and to those fans, she never let any personal problems
damn her scream glamor. Despite flashes of temperament and tantrums,
she turned in performances that kept her among the greatest
box office favorites in motion picture history.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Despite flashes of temper and tantrum. Okay, all right. Governor
Greg Abbott has not moved to expel the fleabag Democrats
who fled the state, instead ordering the arrest of them.
After the House failed to reach the one hundred member
quorum yesterday afternoon. The House will reconvene at one pm today.
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We'll see what he does. This is what he says.
Clip number eight ramon Greg Abbott on Fox.
Speaker 9 (13:58):
To run to stay slighting in Illinois to protest redistrict
and is kind of like running to Wisconsin to protest cheese.
It's just kind of outrageous. Those are New York and
Illinois to hallmark states. They've already done redistricting to eliminate Republicans.
But the second thing is far more serious, and that
is what these Democrats have done.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Just a small fraction of them were needed.
Speaker 9 (14:21):
To break a korum, and that small fraction is holding
hostage legislation in the state of Texas where we will
be able to provide assistance and reform for all of
the victims of that horrific flooding that we've had in
the state of Texas. Our fellow Texans are being let
down and not getting the flood relief they need because
these Democrats have absconded from the responsibility. And I believe
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they have forfeited their seats in the state legislature because
they're not doing the job they were elected to do.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
I'm no longer embarrassed of him. I'm now embarrassed for him.
It's just awful. You can tell he's nervous, you can
tell he's trying to sound Did he just say that's
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opening line again about Wisconsin, Ormont, please play that again.
Speaker 9 (15:16):
To run to stays like New York and Illinois to
protest redistrict and is kind of like running to Wisconsin
to protest cheese.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
It's just kind of outrageous. Oh, dear God, bless his heart.
Please don't let him do national interviews anymore. It's just
setting him up for failure. Then we've got speaker Dustin Burroughs.
Burrows was elected because the Democrats came to him in
a group and said, we'll all vote for you. You just
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need a few Republicans and then we'll have the majority.
Even though Republicans are in the majority, you'll have all
of our votes. So Dustin Burroughs is now calling on
the Democrats who all voted for him, as if they're
not best friends. This is getting really weird.
Speaker 8 (16:02):
Michael Berry, Well.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
That about desert wraps are all up. Justin Burroughs was
drunk Day's right hand man. So even though we managed
to dislodge the cancer that was drunk Day, his right
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hand man replaced him. And the reason is politics and
the state House, the state government in Texas is something
we want to be good. Something we watch on occasion
try to make sure the best people are there. But
for the industry that lives off of Texas government, they're
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not about to give up. They have professionals, They work
twenty four seven, three sixty five. They don't wait till
every other year when the House is in session. They
don't wait to see who they can that's are going
to be. This is their business. There is focused on this,
as Elon is SpaceX or Tesla or Starlink or the
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boring company there as focused on this as Uber is
on cars. This is what they do year round. So
they get the sixty Democrats or so, and then they
pick off a couple of Republicans and they get to
seventy six out of one hundred and fifty, and here
we are left. And it'll never stop until people understand
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that that guy that goes to church with you, that
guy's who's real swell, who went to college with you,
went to high school with you, whose wife is tweeting
my husband's just doing the best she can and canning,
and they're picking on him. That guy who wears his
suit and comes out to your event, got a flag
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on his lapel pen, That guy who keeps company with
the Democrats and chooses their guy for speaker. He's the problem.
He's the problem. He doesn't look like the problem. You know,
we want the guy that's a problem to look like
a problem. That was the problem with Ted Bundy. Ted
Bundy didn't have a sign that said monster on his forehead.
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He seemed like a nice guy with a broken army
at a fake past of Paris. Could, ma'am, could you
just help me? Just load my stuff in my VW
here you wanna get a cup of coffee, And before
you know it, that's what we've got. That's what we've
got in our state reps, the group of state reps
that sell us out. And I have conversations with friends
of mine. Hey, your buddy sold us out. I know,
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I know. I gave him grief over it. You give
him grief. We still ended up with the Democrats controlling
the House. So here we are. We've got the interesting
situation that Trump doesn't know what's going on in Texas.
Why would he? He doesn't know that the Speaker of
the House was actually elected by the Democrats. It has
been for twenty five years. This has been going on
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for a long time. You replace the speaker you don't
replace the process. The Democrats play this game better than
we do, so we get guys that we send up there,
good guys like Steve Toathan Mitch Little, and they get
there and they realize, oh my god, Republicans don't run
the state House Democrats do. Democrats in the establishment. You
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wonder why John Thune, the Senator who is majority leader
in the Senate, is calling pro forma sessions as opposed
to closing down the Senate, which would give the President
Donald Trump the ability to make recess appointments while they
weren't in session, that would allow him to stack the judiciary.
The Republican leader of the majority Republican Senate won't allow
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it to happen. Allowed it to happen under Biden, won't
allow it to happen under Trump. It's one of those
procedural issues that they do behind the scenes. In the
average worker who got up today and went and drove
a fork left, who got in his truck and drove
from site to site, who's in the office grinding away,
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doesn't realize how the process is being played and how
the pros have taken over the procedure. You can't stop
this with term limits. You've got to understand there's a
nice guy who's got a good handshake and combs his
hair real nice and says the right things by to
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America in this country. John Wayne mccorny, great example. John
Wayne mccorny has sold us down the river a thousand times,
and a lot of people don't even know it. Why
wouldn't they, Because about election time and you've seen this.
He gets in front of the camera, puts that kid
war hat back on. He says, I've come back. I'm
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here in tips. She's gonna go up our DC and
show them how it's done and support my president and yours.
Donald J. Trump, You son of a bitch. You have
sold us and Trump down the river a thousand times,
and you're gonna look into the camera. I'll never forget.
I will never as long as I live forget John
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McCain two thousand and eight. He's running for president so
that he can be the guy who makes sure that
Barack Obama's president. And McCain leaves Arizona overrun with illegal aliens,
second only to Texas with an illegal alien problem. The
Sonoran Desert has become the highway of illegals pedophiles, trafficking, cartels,
you name it. And McCain travels around the country up
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to the northeast and he says, and people are saying,
we need to build a wall, need to build a wall.
Is I never build a damn wall. Nobody wants a
damn wall. We don't want a damn wall. We're American,
we don't want a damn wall. Damn wall became his phrase.
He loses to Obama. I'm not sure he didn't vote
for Obama himself. And then he comes back and runs
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for reelection in twenty ten, and the people of Arizona said, wait,
you said you weren't going to build a damn wall.
You told the whole country you weren't. So he cuts
an ad with some ranchers down on the border and
they're all standing around cowboy hats and there's John McCain
and he says, you know what, we are going to
build the damn wall. Did you change your position because
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you've been the Senator from Arizona for decades? And then
he ran for president and said we'll never build a wall,
and now you need their vote again, and you go, yeah,
we'll go ahead and build the damn Wall. Well, of
course he didn't mean it. But you know, he's John McCain,
he's been our senator. We like him. He's the voice,
you know. And there you go, and that's John Cornyn.
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And that's these state reps. You've got state reps who
took council with the Democrats to get Dustin Burroughs elected,
and now here we are those same people. Those same
people have fled the state because they don't want redistricting,
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and and and Dustin Burroughs talking about how Anne Johnson's
a good person, his vice chair of the Judiciary Committee.
But if I have to, if she don't come back,
I'll strip her of her vice chairmanship. You know, they
put the Democrats in positions of authority so that when
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they're not there, the Democrats run the committees. And then
they don't show up on purpose and they let the
Democrats run the committee. So you're out here busting your
ass to get Republicans to be in the majority, and
Democrats still control your state House. And that's happening to
day Bush.
Speaker 10 (23:45):
Michael Berry God.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Here is the speaker of the Texas House. Dustin Boroughs
elected by the Democrats, and the Democrats have now fled.
The President has shown a light spotlight on Texas where
we're trying to flip five seats, and the Speaker is
saying to the Democrats, goes are making me look bad.
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But the Democrats don't answer to Dustin Burroughs. They answer
to Hakeem Jeffreys. They answer to George Soros. And they
can't let the Texas Legislature redistrict and hand five seats
to Donald Trump. They won't be able to impeach him
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in the last two years of his presidency. So here's
Burrows looking really, really awkward, talking tough about his buddies
who all elected him.
Speaker 11 (24:49):
They've left the state, abandon their posts, and turn their
backs on the constituents they swore to represent.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
They've shirked their.
Speaker 11 (24:57):
Responsibilities under the direction pressure of out state politicians and
activists who don't know the first thing about what's right
for Texas. To be absolutely clear, leaving the state does
not stop this House from doing it to work.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
It only delays it.
Speaker 11 (25:14):
In every day this Chamber is unable to act.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
The cost grows.
Speaker 11 (25:20):
In response to this dereliction of duty and pursue it
to the rules of the House. I am prepared to
recognize a motion to place a call in the House,
and any other motions necessary to compel the return of
absent members. Should such a motion prevail, I will immediately
sign the warrants for the civil arrest of the members
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who have said they will not be here. As Speaker,
I will do everything in my power to establish quorum
and move this body forward by any and all means
available to this office. To those who are absent, return now,
show the courage to face the issues you're elected to solve.
Come back and fulfill your duty, because this House will
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not sit quietly while you obstruct the work of the people.
The people of Texas are watching, and so is the nation.
And if you choose to continue down this road, you
should know there will be consequences.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
I was trying to think of a way you could
read a speech that someone else wrote for you and
sound less serious about it. But to his credit, I
think Dustin Burrows, he's just good at this. I want
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you fellas to know that you can't stand I can't
stand for this what you are doing, and.
Speaker 12 (26:53):
You are being not nice, and so I with with
the power vested in me as the Speaker of the
House of Representatives.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
I'm saying you. You know, I'm gonna I'm gonna tell
on you if you don't come back, because you have
to come back by the power vested in me, the
state of Texas and stuff. And you you, you're what
you're doing is embarrassing me, and you better. Why do
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we need to redistrict? Well, let's look at California. California
is fifty eight point four percent Democrat in the last election,
but the state legislature or sorry, the congressional delegation to
DC forty three to nine, forty three to nine, eighty
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percent of the congressman from California are Democrats, but they
make up less than sixty percent of the overall population.
Illinois fifty two point eight percent in the last election Democrat,
yet they are fourteen Democrats three Republicans. National Review editorial says,
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entering the twenty twenty four election, Republicans control the governorship
and the state legislature in twenty three states. Across those states,
they won fifty nine point three percent of the popular
House vote and one hundred and thirty two of the
one hundred seventy six House seats. Seventy five percent of
the seats are a sixteen point advantage over purely proportional
representation in our first past, the post single member district system,
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representation is rarely precisely proportional. In the ten states with
divided government, Republicans won fifty two point three percent of
the popular House vote and forty seven of the seventy
five House seats. Sixty two point seven percent of the
seats are a ten point four percent advantage. In the
seventeen states run entirely by Democrats, the Democrats won fifty
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six point seven percent of the popular House vote, but
one hundred and forty three of the one hundred eighty
five House seats. Seventy seven percent of the seats are
a twenty one point advantage. Republican states such as Texas
and Florida are currently underrepresented in the House because the
twenty twenty census undercounted them, and if Democrats are restrained
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from gerrymandering more aggressively to their advantage, it is sometimes
because they insist that the Voting Rights Act requires majority
minority districts, which benefits them in states such as Alabama
and Louisiana, but elsewhere drains Democrat votes that could more
profitably be spread across multiple districts. Lived by racially segregating voters,
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die by racially segregating voters. The Supreme Court has just
called for a briefing in a case out of Louisiana
that it held over held over from its last term,
to consider whether racial gerrymanders are unconstitutional. The Court should
do so, and it would be refreshing if Democrats joined
the call for that salutary step instead of launching demogogic
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attacks against the justices. They're not going to do that
because they're not going to give up power. Power is everything.
Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick points out how New York, New Jersey, Illinois, California,
and Washington State are all jerrymandered by the Democrats.
Speaker 10 (30:35):
This is laughable when I hear Pritzker and hulkl speak
of the five states New York, New Jersey, Illinois, California,
and Washington State. Donald Trump received on average forty two
percent of the vote, but in Congress in those states
the Democrats have ninety representatives and Republicans.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Only have twenty seven.
Speaker 10 (30:58):
In Prisker's state, the President got forty three percent of
the vote and fourteen of seventeen our Democrats now. We
are doing what is legal, We are doing what is
right on behalf of Texans. We've had over two million
people move here in the last couple of years. They're
voting more and more Republican, and they deserve and want
Republican representation in Congress.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
It's just that simple. The Republicans are going to have
to grow us that and the Democrats fight back. They
don't do anything
It's that time time, time, Luck and load. The Michael
Verie Show is on the air. We believe that there's an.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Encryption on the back, an encryption like a code, yes
of what, of chronograph A map, yes, ma'am, a map
of what, the location of hidden items of historic and
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intrinsic value, a treasure map.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
What we're seeing now is an attempt by the White
House to insulate itself from any kind of congressional scrutiny,
any kind of congressional obicight, to make sure that Donald
Trump remains the authoritarian figure that he has become. We
have a compliant Congress, and he wants to ensure that,
given the fact that passed this bill that is unpopular,
that takes healthcare away from people, that gives tax breaks
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to billionaires, and it puts at risk the Republican majority,
he wants to ensure that he continues to have that
compliant Republican House of Representatives. And that, I think is
something that we need to take into account. Our democracy
is threatened. Our democracy is really threatened by what the
Republicans are proposing to do in Texas right now.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
First of all, let's to understand why Donald Trump is
asking for five more Republicans heat out of Texas. It's
because his policies, especially his economic policies, have been so bad.
Right the prior guests referenced a big, beautiful bill, wait
till people start losing their health care and their health
care costs go up. Republicans were confident on their policy agenda,
they'd be eager to defend it with the people and
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to defend it at the ballot box next November. But
they know they're in trouble, and so they're trying to
rig the system to hold on to power next November.
That's what this re districting move is really about.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
Texas Governor Greg Abbott seems set on making it happen,
threatening to remove Democrats who left the state to block
the vote from office if they don't return. Abbot also
writing in a letter late Sunday that they could face
felony charges for raising money to pay for fines and
expenses while out of state, and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton,
who who's running for Senate, also signaling his support, saying
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Democrats should be found, arrested and brought back to the
capital immediately. But Democrats from Texas and around the country
say they're ready for the fight.
Speaker 6 (03:12):
What Texas is doing right now is a craven power grab.
And as I said, we're going to fight fire with fire.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
A reflective map would look like the fact that only
thirty nine percent of this state is Anglo.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
So how in the heck do we have sixty percent of.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
The seats that go to DC are going to.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Be decided by Anglos. That's the math that doesn't work.
We need to flip the numbers in. I got to
cross two items off my bucket list last night. I
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got to see a show at Red Rocks outside of Denver,
which was a great thrill. And that show was a
band that, surprisingly I've never seen in concert. Almost made
it to the Lagrange concert a few years ago when
they blew the amps out. But I got to see
(05:01):
It's easy top. You got to hang out with the
band before the show and see the show from the
side stage. They said, are you sure you would like
to go out? We got you tickets right in the front,
right in the middle, best audio, right next to the speakers. No,
I can do that anytime. I know what you sound like.
(05:22):
I want to hang out on the side stage and
watch the guitars being prepared to be sent out for
the different songs. Watch the amps, see how your family
the texts for the band do what they do. It
was pretty cool. Frank Beard, the drummer, lives in Richmond, Texas,
(05:44):
and Richmond would just happen to be the subject of
our first story of the day. The boys from Richmond's
Lamar Little League one win away from a trip to
Williamsport and the Little League World Series. They play Kenner,
Louisiana's East Bank Little League and let me tell you something,
(06:05):
that's a good team. The game six o'clock this evening
and it'll be on ESPN and it will be streamed
on ESPN. Lamar rallied from a two to one deficit
against Tulsa the couple of runs the fourth inning to
advance of the championship game today. They ended up winning
five to two after being down two to one. They
(06:27):
previously lost to East Bank Little League on Sunday seven
to five. Lamar went over East Bank. Would make it
three times in the past four years the Houston area
has sent a team to Williamsport. Lamar made it in
consecutive years in two thousand and three and four, led
by Randall for most Should I say this last name,
(06:48):
I all end up getting it wrong? G Ricchuk. Do
you know how to pronounce that? I must say Gritchup.
Could be gritchick, could be gritchup, could be green Chuck.
Could somebody email me with the fanatics of that? But anyway,
apparently this Gritschuck kid is a stud. He's currently with
(07:09):
the Kansas City Royals for his twelfth season in the
big leagues. Most of the time these kids in Little
League World Series, they flame out by the time they're
eighteen or twenty one, but this kid didn't Randall. Gritschuck.
East Bank also has a rich tradition, winning the World
(07:30):
Championship in Williamsport in twenty nineteen. So let's go boys
from Richmond lamar big win tonight. We would love for
you to do it. And today is Dolly Parton Day.
August fifth, twenty nineteen, David Bridley, the mayor of National, Tennessee,
signed a proclamation recognizing this day as Dolly Parton Day.
Speaker 7 (07:58):
Exotic what would they call that where you grew up
in Tennessee?
Speaker 1 (08:02):
And healthy? Healthy? I guess boos me. What would you
ask me just for that? Well, yeah, I've always been
pretty well blessed. People are always asking if they're real,
and oh, I wouldn't be never, I wouldn't never see.
Speaker 8 (08:23):
I would not I'll tell you what I have certain guide,
but I would give about a year's paid a peek
under there.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Like that. So I know you thought it was funny.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Oh no, I won't do that.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
It's too much for mon She won't go that was
so funny. Well, first of all, Red Rocks is a
pretty amazing venue. It's carved into the side of a mountain.
It's not, you know, built from scratch, so it's an
outdoor venue into the side of a mountain. You hoof
(09:04):
it and hump it up the side of a mountain
to get to the actual venue, so you're breathless by
that time. The band is down on the stage and
then it's tiered level of ninety two hundred quote unquote seats,
(09:25):
but they're not seats, they're just they're layered tiers like
a hanging garden, and they're marked off where people sit
and in the top area is general admission. It's pretty cool.
We got to hang outside stage, which impressed even Crockett,
and nothing impresses Crockett as the guests of Frank Beard,
(09:48):
the longtime drummer since the nineteen sixties, who, by the way,
lives in Richmond. He has twin sons, Nico and and
so we had to they are they are his drum techs.
And we had to hang out side stage from before
(10:09):
the concert through the concert and the breakdown. Pretty neat
to watch that whole process work from the pre concert
to the concert to the after concert and uh, and
see all the work that goes into the show. Pretty
darn cool. And speaking of Richmond Lamar Little League, my
(10:34):
friend Lance Hoffman, I asked, how do you pronounce Randall
g r I c h u K because I'm sure
the kids there they grew up knew how to pronounce that,
my friend Lance, Uh, my friend Lance Hoffman, He responded, Oh,
it's g r I space Chuck currently plays for the Royals.
(10:56):
And I said, okay, that's not That doesn't tell me
how the eye is pronounced. Is it gray as it so?
Is it gritchuck? Is it greed chuck? Is it gritchuck?
And he said it's gritchuck. So that is the pride
of Lamar currently playing professional baseball, which is pretty darn cool.
(11:20):
It was on this day in nineteen sixty two, you
were this day in history that Marilyn Monroe was found
dead at her home from a drug overdose. Ramon's where
that's where it is said, I don't need you to
add that. That's where you play. The audio Archive News
(11:46):
announces the death of Marilyn Monroe. Nineteen sixty Yeah, this
day in history. Yeah, you can. You can find it.
You can find it. That's just it. You can find it,
all right.
Speaker 8 (12:00):
One of the most famous stars in Hollywood history is
dead at thirty six.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Marilyn Monroe was found dead in.
Speaker 8 (12:06):
Bed under circumstances that were in tragic contrast to her
glamorous career as a comic talent.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
On the surface, she seemed to have such a zest
for life.
Speaker 8 (12:15):
Her international appeal took her from command appearances to the
other side of the world and entertainment for Korean gis.
The star led a far from normal childhood and had
twelve sets of foster parents, leading her to say in
her last interview that.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
She was never used to being happy, so it.
Speaker 8 (12:32):
Wasn't something she ever took for granted. She never let
her personal feelings interfere with.
Speaker 7 (12:36):
Her job, and she was the idol of the Gis
the animation of Foxhall Dreams.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
She found no happiness in marriage.
Speaker 8 (12:49):
Her second husband was baseball immortal Joe DiMaggio, and that
marriage ended as had her first divorce. Her third husband
was playwright Arthur Miller.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
And they too separated.
Speaker 8 (13:02):
Mits Monroe played in twenty three films since her debut
in nineteen fifty, films that crossed two hundred million dollars.
The Golden Girl received five thousand fan letters a week,
and to those fans, she never let any personal problems
damn her scream glamor. Despite flashes of temperament and tantrums,
she turned in performances that kept her among the greatest
box office favorites in motion picture history.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Despite flashes of temper and tantrum. Okay, all right. Governor
Greg Abbott has not moved to expel the fleabag Democrats
who fled the state, instead ordering the arrest of them.
After the House failed to reach the one hundred member
quorum yesterday afternoon. The House will reconvene at one pm today.
(13:50):
We'll see what he does. This is what he says.
Clip number eight ramon Greg Abbott on Fox.
Speaker 9 (13:58):
To run to stay slighting in Illinois to protest redistrict
and is kind of like running to Wisconsin to protest cheese.
It's just kind of outrageous. Those are New York and
Illinois to hallmark states. They've already done redistricting to eliminate Republicans.
But the second thing is far more serious, and that
is what these Democrats have done.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Just a small fraction of them were needed.
Speaker 9 (14:21):
To break a korum, and that small fraction is holding
hostage legislation in the state of Texas where we will
be able to provide assistance and reform for all of
the victims of that horrific flooding that we've had in
the state of Texas. Our fellow Texans are being let
down and not getting the flood relief they need because
these Democrats have absconded from the responsibility. And I believe
(14:44):
they have forfeited their seats in the state legislature because
they're not doing the job they were elected to do.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
I'm no longer embarrassed of him. I'm now embarrassed for him.
It's just awful. You can tell he's nervous, you can
tell he's trying to sound Did he just say that's
(15:12):
opening line again about Wisconsin, Ormont, please play that again.
Speaker 9 (15:16):
To run to stays like New York and Illinois to
protest redistrict and is kind of like running to Wisconsin
to protest cheese.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
It's just kind of outrageous. Oh, dear God, bless his heart.
Please don't let him do national interviews anymore. It's just
setting him up for failure. Then we've got speaker Dustin Burroughs.
Burrows was elected because the Democrats came to him in
a group and said, we'll all vote for you. You just
(15:44):
need a few Republicans and then we'll have the majority.
Even though Republicans are in the majority, you'll have all
of our votes. So Dustin Burroughs is now calling on
the Democrats who all voted for him, as if they're
not best friends. This is getting really weird.
Speaker 8 (16:02):
Michael Berry, Well.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
That about desert wraps are all up. Justin Burroughs was
drunk Day's right hand man. So even though we managed
to dislodge the cancer that was drunk Day, his right
(16:24):
hand man replaced him. And the reason is politics and
the state House, the state government in Texas is something
we want to be good. Something we watch on occasion
try to make sure the best people are there. But
for the industry that lives off of Texas government, they're
(16:48):
not about to give up. They have professionals, They work
twenty four seven, three sixty five. They don't wait till
every other year when the House is in session. They
don't wait to see who they can that's are going
to be. This is their business. There is focused on this,
as Elon is SpaceX or Tesla or Starlink or the
(17:09):
boring company there as focused on this as Uber is
on cars. This is what they do year round. So
they get the sixty Democrats or so, and then they
pick off a couple of Republicans and they get to
seventy six out of one hundred and fifty, and here
we are left. And it'll never stop until people understand
(17:30):
that that guy that goes to church with you, that
guy's who's real swell, who went to college with you,
went to high school with you, whose wife is tweeting
my husband's just doing the best she can and canning,
and they're picking on him. That guy who wears his
suit and comes out to your event, got a flag
(17:52):
on his lapel pen, That guy who keeps company with
the Democrats and chooses their guy for speaker. He's the problem.
He's the problem. He doesn't look like the problem. You know,
we want the guy that's a problem to look like
a problem. That was the problem with Ted Bundy. Ted
Bundy didn't have a sign that said monster on his forehead.
(18:16):
He seemed like a nice guy with a broken army
at a fake past of Paris. Could, ma'am, could you
just help me? Just load my stuff in my VW
here you wanna get a cup of coffee, And before
you know it, that's what we've got. That's what we've
got in our state reps, the group of state reps
that sell us out. And I have conversations with friends
of mine. Hey, your buddy sold us out. I know,
(18:38):
I know. I gave him grief over it. You give
him grief. We still ended up with the Democrats controlling
the House. So here we are. We've got the interesting
situation that Trump doesn't know what's going on in Texas.
Why would he? He doesn't know that the Speaker of
the House was actually elected by the Democrats. It has
been for twenty five years. This has been going on
(18:59):
for a long time. You replace the speaker you don't
replace the process. The Democrats play this game better than
we do, so we get guys that we send up there,
good guys like Steve Toathan Mitch Little, and they get
there and they realize, oh my god, Republicans don't run
the state House Democrats do. Democrats in the establishment. You
(19:22):
wonder why John Thune, the Senator who is majority leader
in the Senate, is calling pro forma sessions as opposed
to closing down the Senate, which would give the President
Donald Trump the ability to make recess appointments while they
weren't in session, that would allow him to stack the judiciary.
The Republican leader of the majority Republican Senate won't allow
(19:47):
it to happen. Allowed it to happen under Biden, won't
allow it to happen under Trump. It's one of those
procedural issues that they do behind the scenes. In the
average worker who got up today and went and drove
a fork left, who got in his truck and drove
from site to site, who's in the office grinding away,
(20:07):
doesn't realize how the process is being played and how
the pros have taken over the procedure. You can't stop
this with term limits. You've got to understand there's a
nice guy who's got a good handshake and combs his
hair real nice and says the right things by to
(20:29):
America in this country. John Wayne mccorny, great example. John
Wayne mccorny has sold us down the river a thousand times,
and a lot of people don't even know it. Why
wouldn't they, Because about election time and you've seen this.
He gets in front of the camera, puts that kid
war hat back on. He says, I've come back. I'm
(20:52):
here in tips. She's gonna go up our DC and
show them how it's done and support my president and yours.
Donald J. Trump, You son of a bitch. You have
sold us and Trump down the river a thousand times,
and you're gonna look into the camera. I'll never forget.
I will never as long as I live forget John
(21:15):
McCain two thousand and eight. He's running for president so
that he can be the guy who makes sure that
Barack Obama's president. And McCain leaves Arizona overrun with illegal aliens,
second only to Texas with an illegal alien problem. The
Sonoran Desert has become the highway of illegals pedophiles, trafficking, cartels,
you name it. And McCain travels around the country up
(21:40):
to the northeast and he says, and people are saying,
we need to build a wall, need to build a wall.
Is I never build a damn wall. Nobody wants a
damn wall. We don't want a damn wall. We're American,
we don't want a damn wall. Damn wall became his phrase.
He loses to Obama. I'm not sure he didn't vote
for Obama himself. And then he comes back and runs
(22:03):
for reelection in twenty ten, and the people of Arizona said, wait,
you said you weren't going to build a damn wall.
You told the whole country you weren't. So he cuts
an ad with some ranchers down on the border and
they're all standing around cowboy hats and there's John McCain
and he says, you know what, we are going to
build the damn wall. Did you change your position because
(22:26):
you've been the Senator from Arizona for decades? And then
he ran for president and said we'll never build a wall,
and now you need their vote again, and you go, yeah,
we'll go ahead and build the damn Wall. Well, of
course he didn't mean it. But you know, he's John McCain,
he's been our senator. We like him. He's the voice,
you know. And there you go, and that's John Cornyn.
(22:48):
And that's these state reps. You've got state reps who
took council with the Democrats to get Dustin Burroughs elected,
and now here we are those same people. Those same
people have fled the state because they don't want redistricting,
(23:09):
and and and Dustin Burroughs talking about how Anne Johnson's
a good person, his vice chair of the Judiciary Committee.
But if I have to, if she don't come back,
I'll strip her of her vice chairmanship. You know, they
put the Democrats in positions of authority so that when
(23:29):
they're not there, the Democrats run the committees. And then
they don't show up on purpose and they let the
Democrats run the committee. So you're out here busting your
ass to get Republicans to be in the majority, and
Democrats still control your state House. And that's happening to
day Bush.
Speaker 10 (23:45):
Michael Berry God.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Here is the speaker of the Texas House. Dustin Boroughs
elected by the Democrats, and the Democrats have now fled.
The President has shown a light spotlight on Texas where
we're trying to flip five seats, and the Speaker is
saying to the Democrats, goes are making me look bad.
(24:14):
But the Democrats don't answer to Dustin Burroughs. They answer
to Hakeem Jeffreys. They answer to George Soros. And they
can't let the Texas Legislature redistrict and hand five seats
to Donald Trump. They won't be able to impeach him
(24:36):
in the last two years of his presidency. So here's
Burrows looking really, really awkward, talking tough about his buddies
who all elected him.
Speaker 11 (24:49):
They've left the state, abandon their posts, and turn their
backs on the constituents they swore to represent.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
They've shirked their.
Speaker 11 (24:57):
Responsibilities under the direction pressure of out state politicians and
activists who don't know the first thing about what's right
for Texas. To be absolutely clear, leaving the state does
not stop this House from doing it to work.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
It only delays it.
Speaker 11 (25:14):
In every day this Chamber is unable to act.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
The cost grows.
Speaker 11 (25:20):
In response to this dereliction of duty and pursue it
to the rules of the House. I am prepared to
recognize a motion to place a call in the House,
and any other motions necessary to compel the return of
absent members. Should such a motion prevail, I will immediately
sign the warrants for the civil arrest of the members
(25:40):
who have said they will not be here. As Speaker,
I will do everything in my power to establish quorum
and move this body forward by any and all means
available to this office. To those who are absent, return now,
show the courage to face the issues you're elected to solve.
Come back and fulfill your duty, because this House will
(26:00):
not sit quietly while you obstruct the work of the people.
The people of Texas are watching, and so is the nation.
And if you choose to continue down this road, you
should know there will be consequences.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
I was trying to think of a way you could
read a speech that someone else wrote for you and
sound less serious about it. But to his credit, I
think Dustin Burrows, he's just good at this. I want
(26:38):
you fellas to know that you can't stand I can't
stand for this what you are doing, and.
Speaker 12 (26:53):
You are being not nice, and so I with with
the power vested in me as the Speaker of the
House of Representatives.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
I'm saying you. You know, I'm gonna I'm gonna tell
on you if you don't come back, because you have
to come back by the power vested in me, the
state of Texas and stuff. And you you, you're what
you're doing is embarrassing me, and you better. Why do
(27:33):
we need to redistrict? Well, let's look at California. California
is fifty eight point four percent Democrat in the last election,
but the state legislature or sorry, the congressional delegation to
DC forty three to nine, forty three to nine, eighty
(27:56):
percent of the congressman from California are Democrats, but they
make up less than sixty percent of the overall population.
Illinois fifty two point eight percent in the last election Democrat,
yet they are fourteen Democrats three Republicans. National Review editorial says,
(28:22):
entering the twenty twenty four election, Republicans control the governorship
and the state legislature in twenty three states. Across those states,
they won fifty nine point three percent of the popular
House vote and one hundred and thirty two of the
one hundred seventy six House seats. Seventy five percent of
the seats are a sixteen point advantage over purely proportional
representation in our first past, the post single member district system,
(28:47):
representation is rarely precisely proportional. In the ten states with
divided government, Republicans won fifty two point three percent of
the popular House vote and forty seven of the seventy
five House seats. Sixty two point seven percent of the
seats are a ten point four percent advantage. In the
seventeen states run entirely by Democrats, the Democrats won fifty
(29:08):
six point seven percent of the popular House vote, but
one hundred and forty three of the one hundred eighty
five House seats. Seventy seven percent of the seats are
a twenty one point advantage. Republican states such as Texas
and Florida are currently underrepresented in the House because the
twenty twenty census undercounted them, and if Democrats are restrained
(29:29):
from gerrymandering more aggressively to their advantage, it is sometimes
because they insist that the Voting Rights Act requires majority
minority districts, which benefits them in states such as Alabama
and Louisiana, but elsewhere drains Democrat votes that could more
profitably be spread across multiple districts. Lived by racially segregating voters,
(29:51):
die by racially segregating voters. The Supreme Court has just
called for a briefing in a case out of Louisiana
that it held over held over from its last term,
to consider whether racial gerrymanders are unconstitutional. The Court should
do so, and it would be refreshing if Democrats joined
the call for that salutary step instead of launching demogogic
(30:15):
attacks against the justices. They're not going to do that
because they're not going to give up power. Power is everything.
Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick points out how New York, New Jersey, Illinois, California,
and Washington State are all jerrymandered by the Democrats.
Speaker 10 (30:35):
This is laughable when I hear Pritzker and hulkl speak
of the five states New York, New Jersey, Illinois, California,
and Washington State. Donald Trump received on average forty two
percent of the vote, but in Congress in those states
the Democrats have ninety representatives and Republicans.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Only have twenty seven.
Speaker 10 (30:58):
In Prisker's state, the President got forty three percent of
the vote and fourteen of seventeen our Democrats now. We
are doing what is legal, We are doing what is
right on behalf of Texans. We've had over two million
people move here in the last couple of years. They're
voting more and more Republican, and they deserve and want
Republican representation in Congress.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
It's just that simple. The Republicans are going to have
to grow us that and the Democrats fight back. They
don't do anything
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