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Speaker 1 (00:04):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. Michael
Very Show is.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
On the air.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Trump can't handle strong successful women.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
You can't handle women, particularly strong women.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Donald Trump, you never see him around strong intelligent women.
Speaker 4 (00:25):
A woman here me role.
Speaker 5 (00:31):
We will undertake a large job and a large duty
that we have to fulfill that the American people expect
us to do by securing our border, to make sure
that our nation is a nation with borders or we're
no nation at all, and that we are making sure
that those criminal actors that are perpetuating violence in our
communities and in our cities and towns and states are
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removed from this country. That there's consequences for breaking the
law in our country. Again, there has to be consequences,
because when Americans break the law, there's consequences, and that
will be the priority. And that is one of the
reasons that today the American people have lost their trust.
President Trump will build it back and know that their
federal government is accountable to them.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
The American people delivered quite an incredible mandate for change
in this election, with the popular vote and the electoral
vote overwhelmingly saying hey, we want Donald Trump as president.
And we've had enough of the Harris Biden regime. Of
course there's going to be resistance to change from the
swamp in Washington. I think that's kind of the point.
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The American people are saying, Hey, stop looking at yourselves.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Stop focusing on your own.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Power, your own position, your own bank accounts. How about
we have leaders in Washington who are actually looking out
for the American people and on every issue across the board.
That's really what it comes down to with what President
Trump is trying to accomplish is we have to make
sure that our government puts the interests of the American
people first.
Speaker 6 (01:55):
I will fight every day to restore confidence and integrity
to the Department of Justice and each of its components.
The partisanship, the weaponization will be gone. America will have
one tier of justice.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
I said that Charlie Kirk is a multi tool player,
five tool player, maybe more. He was an evangelist. That's
more than just quoting scriptures to make your point. We
have all seen those people who will twist and contort
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the Bible to make it say what suits their interest.
And they do it either as a non believer or
they do it as a way to sharpen the edge
of the cuts they're making, and I don't believe that
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is the appropriate use of the word of God. But
what Charlie did was like a tutor for a kid
going to school. He made the Bible live, he made
it whole, he made it human flesh. He he talked
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it and applied it. One of the great challenges with
young people is sure I know that eight oh three
Fresh has a great beat under their song, and that's fine.
There's nothing wrong with ice cream music. You know here
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today going tomorrow. The eighties was full of it. Did
he bop pop whatever, that top forty music, whatever it is.
But there is so much throughout history of art, an opinion,
and literature from which you can learn, and for young people,
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a great teacher is able to make that come alive
for kids. I had an English teacher named June Hardy,
and she told the story of William the Conqueror. Now
we were seniors in high school. We had one foot
out the door. We know everything about everything, so we
wanted to go get with girls, hang out, drive around.
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We want to hear about literature, and we didn't want
to hear about the Canterbury Tales or the passionate shepherd
to his love. But we did, and we had to
learn ten pieces per semester, and each one was worth
ten points, so you get one hundred. And once you
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had done your ten, you could do more. You get
extra credit. I think it was another ten you could do.
I can still to this day recite the opening to
the Canterbury Tales thirty seven years later, one that approu
and the shore is so to the drought of March
hath perisit to the road to and bothered every vane
and Swiss liqueur of which virtue on Jendred is the floor.
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I learned that first semester of high school year, not
because I wanted to. The hell is a prologue to
the Canterbury Tales. If it wasn't for Monty Python afterwards,
I never would have heard reference to it again. And
yet she made it come alive for me. Charlie made
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politics and faith and the Bible and principles and conviction.
He made it come alive to a group. It was.
It was like a bootcamp. Young people showed up as
as most of society is. They showed up intellectually, out
of shape and overweight, winded and flabby. Their minds, that is,
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and yet there he stood, patiently engaging them. I don't
do this to heap praise on Charlie Kirk. He doesn't
need my praise, nor frankly does his family or even
his fans. I do this to say every single one
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of us is called. We are called to do more.
Maybe not on the scale in which he did it,
maybe not founding TPUSA and speaking to thousands of people
and doing a nation wide radio show and doing nationwide
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and doing Fox Fox News. But we are all called
in our own way, in our own corners and sinews
of our society, including starting in our home, to be more,
to be the flesh of the Bible and our politics
and our convictions and that which we and our patriotism
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and that which we say we believe very So keep
it like right here. More truth on the.
Speaker 7 (07:22):
Way, more honest opinions coming at you right here, only
on the Michael Berry self and Erica.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Kirk speaking at Charlie Kirk's posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom ceremony.
You know, it's a moment like this that really hits me.
So many times when we're giving a speech, we focus
on the high minded discussions the overarching principles, the theories,
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the big words and big cons and we forget the
human element. I argue that part of Donald Trump's enduring popularity.
It's been almost ten years he's been at the top
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of the charts. It's unheard of in American political life.
This isn't heard of, and it's harder today than it's
ever been because you can't just be popular and three
months later do something that's popular. He is all day,
every day doing things to maintain this relationship with the
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broad public, including the middle but also the far right,
the base, the partisans, the Democrats who are willing to listen.
Each one is you know, giving something to everyone because
he understands that the bully pulpit is really the basis
of his power. If you saw the world leaders in
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Egypt at the signing of the peace deal, they were
signed up to meet him like you were signing up
to meet Mick Jacker. It was all rock star. It
wasn't President of the United States. And that wasn't because
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he has his finger on the nuclear option. It is
because he has created such a deep connection with who
he is and what he stands for and the results
of it and That is why the left somewhat accurately
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refers to it as a cult. It does seem to
have the makings of a cult. It's a deep and
abiding love for the man, and because of that, the
Left is unable to chip away at his armor the
way they typically would. Here's a comment with Billy Bush,
doesn't matter. Up, he doesn't like John McCain, He didn't
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like veterans. No, that's not true.
Speaker 6 (10:14):
Up.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
He raped Ejen Carroll. No, No, he really didn't. He's
a fraud. Tissue's got him on fraud charges. He's a fraud. No, no,
he's not. You're not going to do that to us anymore.
You're not going to fool us anymore. Well, he has
to maintain that deep connection and that's not easy to do.
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But because he does, he builds this star power and
it enables him. You know when when people when a
president is elected, they got, you know, their first hundred days.
It's historically been in you know, first hundred days, you
can do what you want, and then they're gonna they
can start all the infighting.
Speaker 8 (10:58):
While he's in the Middle East, while he is pulling
off the most Nobel Prize winning performance since the Nobel
Prize began.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
While he is doing that, what's going on back home?
There's Chuck Schumer stooped over with that crooked rye smile
on his face that says that he's got children in
the basement back home that he's torturing. Are that he's
got plans, evil, demented plans. He is the villain of
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a Marvel movie. And he's undertaken the Schumer shutdown. They're
continuing on with it, and they're back here just fuming,
steamed that Donald Trump is getting all this love, not
just not just from Americans that voted for him, not
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just from Steven A. Smith, Charlemagne or all these other
people didn't vote for him, but kind of pile. No,
ain't no pretty good, Bill Maher. No, No, it's more
than that. It's leaders of other countries. It is leaders
amongst their own people lining up like schoolgirls to see
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the Beatles, are Elvis to meet and have a momentary
photo with Donald Trump. This is leadership. This is power
being wielded for good, for good things. But I want
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to play this clip. I want to go back. Erica
is talking about it being Charlie Kirk's birthday yesterday she
talks about such a personal, intimate thing, such a silly
little thing. Really have a cupcake with ice cream. It's
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your birthday, and you just think to yourself at the
end of it all, Charlie Kirk is not that picture
on a T shirt. Charlie Kirk's a husband and a
father and he's gone, and he's gone. Talk about making
a sacrifice that makes what we do seem so insignificant.
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Here's what she said, Happy birthday, daddy. I want to
give you a stuffed animal. Man. I want you to
eat a cupcake with ice.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Cream, and I want you to go have a birthday surprise.
I love you.
Speaker 7 (13:48):
That's what she said.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
And while our son's precious he can't yet speak in
classic Kirk family fashion, his action spoke louder than his words.
And his gift to you, Charlie and myself for that matter,
was deciding to become the man of the house and
be fully potty trained at sixteen months.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Go ahead, Charlie, baby, I know.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
That you're celebrating in heaven today.
Speaker 7 (14:14):
But gosh, I miss you.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
We miss you, and we love you, and we promise we'll.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
I'll make you proud.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
And Charlie's life was proof that freedom is not a theory,
it's a testimony. He showed us that liberty begins not
in the wholes of power, but in the man of
a heart surrendered to God. And so today, as we
honor Charlie with this incredible Presidential Medal of Freedom on
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his birthday, I seen her with tears and just humbled
heart and spirit because his story reminds us all that
to live free is the greatest gift, but to diephree
is the greatest victory. Happy birthday, my child, Happy freedom Day.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
I was the hunted and now I'm the hunted. Michael
ferrybody down. Let's check in on how embarrassed the Democrats
are back home. Nobody's paying attention to them, so they
have to They have to bang on their highchair the
Attorney General of New York, and they know they're all
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they're all in line for the crimes they've committed. Just
gonna be a question of whether there's enough time and
resources to bring them down. New York Post editorial talking
about Letitia James now reaping what she had sown, the
piece says, quote, Democrats sound like pool stream talkie dolls
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as they line up to tremble their lower lips and
cry about what awful Orange Man is doing to their
beloved Attorney General Leticia James. It only took about five
minutes after the announcement of her federal mortgage fraud indictment
for Democrats near and far to wring their handkerchiefs about
the injustice of it all. No one should be surprised
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that Donald Trump is employing fascist tactics. Freded Mayoral want
to be Zorn Mumdani, prosecuting his opponents, weaponizing the federal government,
and attacking the very fabric of our democracy. City Comptroller
Brad Landers squeaked, keep your corrupt, grubby, abusive hands off James,
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Donald Trump pot, have you met Kettel. We have some
concerns here, but please tish. James set the pattern that
Democrats now charge President Trump and the Justice Department with following.
In her twenty eighteen run for Attorney General, she indicated
that bankrupting Donald Trump would be one of her priorities.
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I've got my eyes on Trump Towers, she smirked. During
her campaign. We need to focus on Donald Trump. We
need to follow his money, she said. I look forward
to going into the office of Attorney General every day,
suing him and then going home. The very night James won,
she announced she would be quote shining a bright light
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into every dark corner of his real estate dealings and
every dealing, demanding truthfulness at every turn end quote. And
that's exactly what she did, based on no complaint or
hint of injury to anyone. James used the power of
her office to dig through years of Trump organization business records.
She ginned up a case alleging that Trump inflated the
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value of assets he used as collateral for loans, even
though his lender had been satisfied with the estimates, lent
him the money and was repaid in full. Her civil
prosecution of Trump was entirely political and conducted under color
of law. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, you remember his
fat ass, similarly weaponized his office to invent a criminal
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case against Trump. So it is rich to hear local
democrats vow to protect Tis James from what they're calling
an unprecedented abuse of power. Sorry, not only is it
not unprecedented, it was you who set the president just
a year or two ago. We have no desire to
see America to send into Banana republic politics, where the
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loser of every election faces prosecution by the winner. By
all means, let us avoid an endless cycle of tit
for tat political show trials. But let no one pretend
that it's not obvious who started this in the first place. Well,
I'm going to go further than that New York Post,
and I'm going to say this. If you turn the
other chief to what they did and you don't punish
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them for what they did, they will do it again.
Because I'll tell you this, For all of their talk Brennan, Obama,
Tis James Adam Schiff, they don't want to be charged.
They don't want to be thrown in prison, they don't
want to be tried. They can act tough and talk tough,
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but they don't want that to happen to them. So
if you don't prosecute these people now, if you don't
do to them what they did to you, they have
no reason not to do it to you when they're
back in power. If you do do it, you're not
sparking them to do it again. They already did it unprovoked.
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You're telling them if if you do it, let me
tell you what's going to happen the next time. Sometimes
you got to punch the bully in the nose. Chuck
Schumer was on MSNBC with a Reverend Now Sharpton when
he called for every America to forcefully rise up against
this indictment.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
It is just such a hallmark of tyrannical, autocratic dictatorship
societies that they use the prosecutorial Department as a political weapon.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
It is a disgrace, and every.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
American, I don't care if you're a Democrat, Republican, liberal, conservative,
moderate people should be forcefully rising up against this.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Oddly enough, Anderson Pooper and Jeffrey Lubin Tubin of CNN said,
you know, Leticia James said she was going after Trump.
Speaker 9 (20:33):
Jeff I mean, according to PolitiFact, the day after she
was elected in twenty eighteen, Letician James was asked by
a community activist.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
And she was going to sue President Trump.
Speaker 9 (20:41):
And she replied, quote, Oh, we're going to definitely sue him.
We're going to be a real pain in the ass.
He's going to know my name personally. I mean, that's
not a great look for somebody who has just been
elected or just been campaigning, who hasn't even looked, I
guess at deeply at any evidence.
Speaker 10 (20:58):
Well, that's you know, we live in a system where
attorneys general and district attorneys in the United States, unlike
almost any other country, are elected. Officials are politicians, so
they run for office making political statements. That's how our
system works. It's not pretty. I don't think it's a
great system, but there's nothing uncommon about it. The other
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point to make, though, is just because she made inappropriate comments,
that doesn't mean she should get indicted for fraud years later.
I mean that's We're not supposed to live in a
system of that kind of tit for tat. Criminal cases
are supposed to stand or fall on.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Their own merits. Seems reasonable to me. And we close
out with Vice President j d. Vance on Meet the
Press with Kristin Welker, when the host asked if President
Trump was directing the Department of Justice to prosecute his
political opponents.
Speaker 11 (21:53):
NBC News is covering and has confirmed the President Trump's
social media post last month calling for his Attorney general
pay Bondi to prosecute his political opponents, James Comy Pliticia
James and Adam Shiff was actually meant to be a
private message. Both Comey and James have now been indicted.
Is the Department of Justice acting on orders from the
President to prosecute his political opponents with the final thirty
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seconds we have left.
Speaker 7 (22:17):
Now, we're driven by the law and the facts of
the case. I think if you look at the case,
the fact that a far left grand jury in a
far left area indicted, Leticia James and James Comey. If
you look the fact that James Comy obviously lied under oath,
Leticia James obviously committed mortgage fraud. What we're doing is
letting the law drive the prosecution decisions in the Department
of Justice.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
You know who. We haven't prosecuted Joe.
Speaker 7 (22:39):
Biden or brought Obama with Hillary Clinton, unlike Biden's Department
of Justice Kristen, which actually went after Donald Trump in
the midst of an election. We are not doing that.
We are letting the law drive these decisions. That's exactly
as it should be.
Speaker 11 (22:52):
Vice President, just staying on this president though, my question
for you is the appearance of.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Pressure a problem.
Speaker 11 (22:59):
The fact that he has publicly called for these indictments
and now they have happened, does that not blur the
lines no.
Speaker 7 (23:06):
Christen, I think that we continue to allow the law
to drive these decisions. If the law didn't necessitate an
investigation and a prosecution in this case, it wouldn't happen.
Of course, the president is allowed to have opinions about
the law enforcement of the federal government. He is the
chief executive officer of the federal government. Him having opinions
doesn't mean that we prosecute people unless we have the.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
Legal justification to do so.
Speaker 7 (23:29):
That is the guiding light of the Trump administration's Department
of Justice.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
Did somebody break the law? If so, we're going to
prosecute you have a pig?
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Would a poll shuck up?
Speaker 1 (23:38):
But getting slipped around, Michael Berry. That's all, folks. Earlier today,
there's a case before the Supreme Court about the Voting
Rights Act, and like many programs in this country, affirmative action,
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all of these things with the best of intentions and
supposedly to you know what, it was never really clear
whether things like affirmative action were to help people who
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would obviously benefit from them or punish people who would
be harmed by them. Well, the immediate harm was expected
to be, well, the white kids, because now they won't
be able to get into schools, and it'll be the
minority kids who do. But in time it became clear
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that many of the programs designed to help certain minorities
actually had the opposite effect. When you go on a
safari and they say, don't feed the bears, don't feed
the animals, because if if you feed the animals, they
will grow accustomed to eating what you have given them,
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and they will lose what makes them an animal, their
ability to hunt, the smell, the potential food, to lie
and wait, clandestine and ambush their prey, chasing them down,
which is exercise and health. They will basically lose who
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they were. And you don't want that, but you don't
relearn that ability. A muscle that isn't used, it's flabby.
You see that in so many aspects of life. If
you don't give your children the opportunity or requirement to
clean their room, and you clean their room for them,
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it becomes very difficult for them when they have to
do it on their own because they've not learned that skill.
And when we don't learn a skill, I give you
a great example. I'll bet you can tell me the
phone number your phone number as a child, and that
might be sixty years ago for you, but what's the
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phone number of your best friend or your child. There's
a very good chance that there is someone you call
three times from more per week and you don't even
know their phone number. You might not can even remember
their area code if you're in a big city has
multiple area codes. You lost that knowledge because you didn't
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need that knowledge. You do need it. You may need it.
You might be in a pickle where you don't have
your phone. You need to call that person for help,
but because you don't dial it, it becomes background noise,
it becomes forgotten. You know, there's that limited space in
your at it, and you took that out, put it in.
You got a storage space to bear, and you took
that out and put this in here. So the Voting
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Rights Act was intended to help minorities, Yeah, minorities where
there were Jim Crow laws. In other ways that it
was poll taxes, it was hard for minorities to vote.
But as often happens, that gets twisted by people to
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the point that they use it to basically create a
power base that is reducing equitable representation for other people.
So now you have districts that are openly referred to
as a black district. Maybe there was a time that
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that was needed. In Houston, the eighteenth Congressional district was
created with a candidate in mind, Barbara Jordan, and she
held that position until her physical health gave way, and
then Mickey Leeland, and then Craig Washington, and then Sheila
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Jackson Lee and then Sylvester Turner, and now the seat
will have a new occupant in short order. But those
districts now are not needed, and those districts are jerrymandering,
there is no doubt that they are. So now the
Trump administration is saying, we're going to do away with this.
We're not doing this anymore. This is discrimination and this
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is not an equitable way. So what the media is
going to say is the Republicans are carving up these districts.
It's not fair they're carving up these districts. No, what
the Republicans are doing is uncarving the districts. The districts
are created so that they look convoluted, like when a
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kid tries to draw something and you look at it
and go, okay, are you the basics of this thing?
But they look misshapen because they're not pla on a
map naturally, where people are in the same congressional district
as their neighbor. No, you got districts separated by twenty miles,
but they'll have a little bit sliver in between, which
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will be the river. So the land is contiguous. But
there are no people there because they don't want any
people who are not Black Democrats in that congressional district,
because they want black Democrats, they want jasmine crockets, they
want al greens. These are the worst of the worst.
If these people were representing a congressional district in another country,
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we'd make fun of them because they're jokes. They're stupid,
they pander, they're divisive, they're nasty, and they're always, always
to a person corrupt, and that's why so many of
them end up in prison or end up getting charged.
So Justice Clarence Thomas, who happens to be black, he
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makes the point that the black district that's in this
particular case before the Supreme Court in Louisiana would not
be a district except if you used race to create
the district. The Lieutenant of the Solicitor General of Louisiana,
Benjamin agwen Yango, said, we wouldn't draw the district unless
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we were forced to draw it to make a black district.
Justice Thomas said, what role did Robinson forced Louisiana to
draw another bis district? Play in SB eight the Louisiana's
map that created that, and aguin Yaga says, we drew
it because the courts told us to. We would never
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pass Senate Bill eight without that ruling. They said a
majority black district was required, and our legislature saw the
marching order. Clarence Thomas just entered into evidence using the
Socratic method, beautifully from his black robes on the bench.
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What is happening. You are creating districts to put black
Democrats in Congress. That's not representative democracy. That is tribal
and it's going to end. And we could pick up
if we don't screw it up, because we're very good
at this, we could pick up nineteen congressional seats. All
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things centers parapise, all things being equal, we could pick
up nineteen. If we get active, our candidates run good races,
we could pick up nineteen. It's projected congressional seats in
the House alone in a mid term election. I don't
want to again put the cart before the horse, but
man that would be special. Helps, good, thank you, and
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good night.
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. Michael
Very Show is.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
On the air.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Trump can't handle strong successful women.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
You can't handle women, particularly strong women.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Donald Trump, you never see him around strong intelligent women.
Speaker 4 (00:25):
A woman here me role.
Speaker 5 (00:31):
We will undertake a large job and a large duty
that we have to fulfill that the American people expect
us to do by securing our border, to make sure
that our nation is a nation with borders or we're
no nation at all, and that we are making sure
that those criminal actors that are perpetuating violence in our
communities and in our cities and towns and states are
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removed from this country. That there's consequences for breaking the
law in our country. Again, there has to be consequences,
because when Americans break the law, there's consequences, and that
will be the priority. And that is one of the
reasons that today the American people have lost their trust.
President Trump will build it back and know that their
federal government is accountable to them.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
The American people delivered quite an incredible mandate for change
in this election, with the popular vote and the electoral
vote overwhelmingly saying hey, we want Donald Trump as president.
And we've had enough of the Harris Biden regime. Of
course there's going to be resistance to change from the
swamp in Washington. I think that's kind of the point.
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The American people are saying, Hey, stop looking at yourselves.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Stop focusing on your own.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Power, your own position, your own bank accounts. How about
we have leaders in Washington who are actually looking out
for the American people and on every issue across the board.
That's really what it comes down to with what President
Trump is trying to accomplish is we have to make
sure that our government puts the interests of the American
people first.
Speaker 6 (01:55):
I will fight every day to restore confidence and integrity
to the Department of Justice and each of its components.
The partisanship, the weaponization will be gone. America will have
one tier of justice.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
I said that Charlie Kirk is a multi tool player,
five tool player, maybe more. He was an evangelist. That's
more than just quoting scriptures to make your point. We
have all seen those people who will twist and contort
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the Bible to make it say what suits their interest.
And they do it either as a non believer or
they do it as a way to sharpen the edge
of the cuts they're making, and I don't believe that
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is the appropriate use of the word of God. But
what Charlie did was like a tutor for a kid
going to school. He made the Bible live, he made
it whole, he made it human flesh. He he talked
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it and applied it. One of the great challenges with
young people is sure I know that eight oh three
Fresh has a great beat under their song, and that's fine.
There's nothing wrong with ice cream music. You know here
(03:45):
today going tomorrow. The eighties was full of it. Did
he bop pop whatever, that top forty music, whatever it is.
But there is so much throughout history of art, an opinion,
and literature from which you can learn, and for young people,
(04:10):
a great teacher is able to make that come alive
for kids. I had an English teacher named June Hardy,
and she told the story of William the Conqueror. Now
we were seniors in high school. We had one foot
out the door. We know everything about everything, so we
wanted to go get with girls, hang out, drive around.
(04:34):
We want to hear about literature, and we didn't want
to hear about the Canterbury Tales or the passionate shepherd
to his love. But we did, and we had to
learn ten pieces per semester, and each one was worth
ten points, so you get one hundred. And once you
(04:55):
had done your ten, you could do more. You get
extra credit. I think it was another ten you could do.
I can still to this day recite the opening to
the Canterbury Tales thirty seven years later, one that approu
and the shore is so to the drought of March
hath perisit to the road to and bothered every vane
and Swiss liqueur of which virtue on Jendred is the floor.
(05:18):
I learned that first semester of high school year, not
because I wanted to. The hell is a prologue to
the Canterbury Tales. If it wasn't for Monty Python afterwards,
I never would have heard reference to it again. And
yet she made it come alive for me. Charlie made
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politics and faith and the Bible and principles and conviction.
He made it come alive to a group. It was.
It was like a bootcamp. Young people showed up as
as most of society is. They showed up intellectually, out
of shape and overweight, winded and flabby. Their minds, that is,
(06:11):
and yet there he stood, patiently engaging them. I don't
do this to heap praise on Charlie Kirk. He doesn't
need my praise, nor frankly does his family or even
his fans. I do this to say every single one
(06:33):
of us is called. We are called to do more.
Maybe not on the scale in which he did it,
maybe not founding TPUSA and speaking to thousands of people
and doing a nation wide radio show and doing nationwide
(06:56):
and doing Fox Fox News. But we are all called
in our own way, in our own corners and sinews
of our society, including starting in our home, to be more,
to be the flesh of the Bible and our politics
and our convictions and that which we and our patriotism
(07:17):
and that which we say we believe very So keep
it like right here. More truth on the.
Speaker 7 (07:22):
Way, more honest opinions coming at you right here, only
on the Michael Berry self and Erica.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Kirk speaking at Charlie Kirk's posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom ceremony.
You know, it's a moment like this that really hits me.
So many times when we're giving a speech, we focus
on the high minded discussions the overarching principles, the theories,
(07:58):
the big words and big cons and we forget the
human element. I argue that part of Donald Trump's enduring popularity.
It's been almost ten years he's been at the top
(08:19):
of the charts. It's unheard of in American political life.
This isn't heard of, and it's harder today than it's
ever been because you can't just be popular and three
months later do something that's popular. He is all day,
every day doing things to maintain this relationship with the
(08:41):
broad public, including the middle but also the far right,
the base, the partisans, the Democrats who are willing to listen.
Each one is you know, giving something to everyone because
he understands that the bully pulpit is really the basis
of his power. If you saw the world leaders in
(09:07):
Egypt at the signing of the peace deal, they were
signed up to meet him like you were signing up
to meet Mick Jacker. It was all rock star. It
wasn't President of the United States. And that wasn't because
(09:28):
he has his finger on the nuclear option. It is
because he has created such a deep connection with who
he is and what he stands for and the results
of it and That is why the left somewhat accurately
(09:49):
refers to it as a cult. It does seem to
have the makings of a cult. It's a deep and
abiding love for the man, and because of that, the
Left is unable to chip away at his armor the
way they typically would. Here's a comment with Billy Bush,
doesn't matter. Up, he doesn't like John McCain, He didn't
(10:11):
like veterans. No, that's not true.
Speaker 6 (10:14):
Up.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
He raped Ejen Carroll. No, No, he really didn't. He's
a fraud. Tissue's got him on fraud charges. He's a fraud. No, no,
he's not. You're not going to do that to us anymore.
You're not going to fool us anymore. Well, he has
to maintain that deep connection and that's not easy to do.
(10:38):
But because he does, he builds this star power and
it enables him. You know when when people when a
president is elected, they got, you know, their first hundred days.
It's historically been in you know, first hundred days, you
can do what you want, and then they're gonna they
can start all the infighting.
Speaker 8 (10:58):
While he's in the Middle East, while he is pulling
off the most Nobel Prize winning performance since the Nobel
Prize began.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
While he is doing that, what's going on back home?
There's Chuck Schumer stooped over with that crooked rye smile
on his face that says that he's got children in
the basement back home that he's torturing. Are that he's
got plans, evil, demented plans. He is the villain of
(11:36):
a Marvel movie. And he's undertaken the Schumer shutdown. They're
continuing on with it, and they're back here just fuming,
steamed that Donald Trump is getting all this love, not
just not just from Americans that voted for him, not
(11:58):
just from Steven A. Smith, Charlemagne or all these other
people didn't vote for him, but kind of pile. No,
ain't no pretty good, Bill Maher. No, No, it's more
than that. It's leaders of other countries. It is leaders
amongst their own people lining up like schoolgirls to see
(12:18):
the Beatles, are Elvis to meet and have a momentary
photo with Donald Trump. This is leadership. This is power
being wielded for good, for good things. But I want
(12:42):
to play this clip. I want to go back. Erica
is talking about it being Charlie Kirk's birthday yesterday she
talks about such a personal, intimate thing, such a silly
little thing. Really have a cupcake with ice cream. It's
(13:02):
your birthday, and you just think to yourself at the
end of it all, Charlie Kirk is not that picture
on a T shirt. Charlie Kirk's a husband and a
father and he's gone, and he's gone. Talk about making
a sacrifice that makes what we do seem so insignificant.
(13:25):
Here's what she said, Happy birthday, daddy. I want to
give you a stuffed animal. Man. I want you to
eat a cupcake with ice.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Cream, and I want you to go have a birthday surprise.
I love you.
Speaker 7 (13:48):
That's what she said.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
And while our son's precious he can't yet speak in
classic Kirk family fashion, his action spoke louder than his words.
And his gift to you, Charlie and myself for that matter,
was deciding to become the man of the house and
be fully potty trained at sixteen months.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Go ahead, Charlie, baby, I know.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
That you're celebrating in heaven today.
Speaker 7 (14:14):
But gosh, I miss you.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
We miss you, and we love you, and we promise we'll.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
I'll make you proud.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
And Charlie's life was proof that freedom is not a theory,
it's a testimony. He showed us that liberty begins not
in the wholes of power, but in the man of
a heart surrendered to God. And so today, as we
honor Charlie with this incredible Presidential Medal of Freedom on
(14:44):
his birthday, I seen her with tears and just humbled
heart and spirit because his story reminds us all that
to live free is the greatest gift, but to diephree
is the greatest victory. Happy birthday, my child, Happy freedom Day.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
I was the hunted and now I'm the hunted. Michael
ferrybody down. Let's check in on how embarrassed the Democrats
are back home. Nobody's paying attention to them, so they
have to They have to bang on their highchair the
Attorney General of New York, and they know they're all
(15:35):
they're all in line for the crimes they've committed. Just
gonna be a question of whether there's enough time and
resources to bring them down. New York Post editorial talking
about Letitia James now reaping what she had sown, the
piece says, quote, Democrats sound like pool stream talkie dolls
(15:57):
as they line up to tremble their lower lips and
cry about what awful Orange Man is doing to their
beloved Attorney General Leticia James. It only took about five
minutes after the announcement of her federal mortgage fraud indictment
for Democrats near and far to wring their handkerchiefs about
the injustice of it all. No one should be surprised
(16:18):
that Donald Trump is employing fascist tactics. Freded Mayoral want
to be Zorn Mumdani, prosecuting his opponents, weaponizing the federal government,
and attacking the very fabric of our democracy. City Comptroller
Brad Landers squeaked, keep your corrupt, grubby, abusive hands off James,
(16:41):
Donald Trump pot, have you met Kettel. We have some
concerns here, but please tish. James set the pattern that
Democrats now charge President Trump and the Justice Department with following.
In her twenty eighteen run for Attorney General, she indicated
that bankrupting Donald Trump would be one of her priorities.
(17:01):
I've got my eyes on Trump Towers, she smirked. During
her campaign. We need to focus on Donald Trump. We
need to follow his money, she said. I look forward
to going into the office of Attorney General every day,
suing him and then going home. The very night James won,
she announced she would be quote shining a bright light
(17:23):
into every dark corner of his real estate dealings and
every dealing, demanding truthfulness at every turn end quote. And
that's exactly what she did, based on no complaint or
hint of injury to anyone. James used the power of
her office to dig through years of Trump organization business records.
She ginned up a case alleging that Trump inflated the
(17:44):
value of assets he used as collateral for loans, even
though his lender had been satisfied with the estimates, lent
him the money and was repaid in full. Her civil
prosecution of Trump was entirely political and conducted under color
of law. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, you remember his
fat ass, similarly weaponized his office to invent a criminal
(18:06):
case against Trump. So it is rich to hear local
democrats vow to protect Tis James from what they're calling
an unprecedented abuse of power. Sorry, not only is it
not unprecedented, it was you who set the president just
a year or two ago. We have no desire to
see America to send into Banana republic politics, where the
(18:28):
loser of every election faces prosecution by the winner. By
all means, let us avoid an endless cycle of tit
for tat political show trials. But let no one pretend
that it's not obvious who started this in the first place. Well,
I'm going to go further than that New York Post,
and I'm going to say this. If you turn the
other chief to what they did and you don't punish
(18:54):
them for what they did, they will do it again.
Because I'll tell you this, For all of their talk Brennan, Obama,
Tis James Adam Schiff, they don't want to be charged.
They don't want to be thrown in prison, they don't
want to be tried. They can act tough and talk tough,
(19:18):
but they don't want that to happen to them. So
if you don't prosecute these people now, if you don't
do to them what they did to you, they have
no reason not to do it to you when they're
back in power. If you do do it, you're not
sparking them to do it again. They already did it unprovoked.
(19:41):
You're telling them if if you do it, let me
tell you what's going to happen the next time. Sometimes
you got to punch the bully in the nose. Chuck
Schumer was on MSNBC with a Reverend Now Sharpton when
he called for every America to forcefully rise up against
this indictment.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
It is just such a hallmark of tyrannical, autocratic dictatorship
societies that they use the prosecutorial Department as a political weapon.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
It is a disgrace, and every.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
American, I don't care if you're a Democrat, Republican, liberal, conservative,
moderate people should be forcefully rising up against this.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Oddly enough, Anderson Pooper and Jeffrey Lubin Tubin of CNN said,
you know, Leticia James said she was going after Trump.
Speaker 9 (20:33):
Jeff I mean, according to PolitiFact, the day after she
was elected in twenty eighteen, Letician James was asked by
a community activist.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
And she was going to sue President Trump.
Speaker 9 (20:41):
And she replied, quote, Oh, we're going to definitely sue him.
We're going to be a real pain in the ass.
He's going to know my name personally. I mean, that's
not a great look for somebody who has just been
elected or just been campaigning, who hasn't even looked, I
guess at deeply at any evidence.
Speaker 10 (20:58):
Well, that's you know, we live in a system where
attorneys general and district attorneys in the United States, unlike
almost any other country, are elected. Officials are politicians, so
they run for office making political statements. That's how our
system works. It's not pretty. I don't think it's a
great system, but there's nothing uncommon about it. The other
(21:22):
point to make, though, is just because she made inappropriate comments,
that doesn't mean she should get indicted for fraud years later.
I mean that's We're not supposed to live in a
system of that kind of tit for tat. Criminal cases
are supposed to stand or fall on.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Their own merits. Seems reasonable to me. And we close
out with Vice President j d. Vance on Meet the
Press with Kristin Welker, when the host asked if President
Trump was directing the Department of Justice to prosecute his
political opponents.
Speaker 11 (21:53):
NBC News is covering and has confirmed the President Trump's
social media post last month calling for his Attorney general
pay Bondi to prosecute his political opponents, James Comy Pliticia
James and Adam Shiff was actually meant to be a
private message. Both Comey and James have now been indicted.
Is the Department of Justice acting on orders from the
President to prosecute his political opponents with the final thirty
(22:16):
seconds we have left.
Speaker 7 (22:17):
Now, we're driven by the law and the facts of
the case. I think if you look at the case,
the fact that a far left grand jury in a
far left area indicted, Leticia James and James Comey. If
you look the fact that James Comy obviously lied under oath,
Leticia James obviously committed mortgage fraud. What we're doing is
letting the law drive the prosecution decisions in the Department
of Justice.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
You know who. We haven't prosecuted Joe.
Speaker 7 (22:39):
Biden or brought Obama with Hillary Clinton, unlike Biden's Department
of Justice Kristen, which actually went after Donald Trump in
the midst of an election. We are not doing that.
We are letting the law drive these decisions. That's exactly
as it should be.
Speaker 11 (22:52):
Vice President, just staying on this president though, my question
for you is the appearance of.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Pressure a problem.
Speaker 11 (22:59):
The fact that he has publicly called for these indictments
and now they have happened, does that not blur the
lines no.
Speaker 7 (23:06):
Christen, I think that we continue to allow the law
to drive these decisions. If the law didn't necessitate an
investigation and a prosecution in this case, it wouldn't happen.
Of course, the president is allowed to have opinions about
the law enforcement of the federal government. He is the
chief executive officer of the federal government. Him having opinions
doesn't mean that we prosecute people unless we have the.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
Legal justification to do so.
Speaker 7 (23:29):
That is the guiding light of the Trump administration's Department
of Justice.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
Did somebody break the law? If so, we're going to
prosecute you have a pig?
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Would a poll shuck up?
Speaker 1 (23:38):
But getting slipped around, Michael Berry. That's all, folks. Earlier today,
there's a case before the Supreme Court about the Voting
Rights Act, and like many programs in this country, affirmative action,
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all of these things with the best of intentions and
supposedly to you know what, it was never really clear
whether things like affirmative action were to help people who
(24:23):
would obviously benefit from them or punish people who would
be harmed by them. Well, the immediate harm was expected
to be, well, the white kids, because now they won't
be able to get into schools, and it'll be the
minority kids who do. But in time it became clear
(24:45):
that many of the programs designed to help certain minorities
actually had the opposite effect. When you go on a
safari and they say, don't feed the bears, don't feed
the animals, because if if you feed the animals, they
will grow accustomed to eating what you have given them,
(25:06):
and they will lose what makes them an animal, their
ability to hunt, the smell, the potential food, to lie
and wait, clandestine and ambush their prey, chasing them down,
which is exercise and health. They will basically lose who
(25:27):
they were. And you don't want that, but you don't
relearn that ability. A muscle that isn't used, it's flabby.
You see that in so many aspects of life. If
you don't give your children the opportunity or requirement to
clean their room, and you clean their room for them,
(25:50):
it becomes very difficult for them when they have to
do it on their own because they've not learned that skill.
And when we don't learn a skill, I give you
a great example. I'll bet you can tell me the
phone number your phone number as a child, and that
might be sixty years ago for you, but what's the
(26:11):
phone number of your best friend or your child. There's
a very good chance that there is someone you call
three times from more per week and you don't even
know their phone number. You might not can even remember
their area code if you're in a big city has
multiple area codes. You lost that knowledge because you didn't
(26:33):
need that knowledge. You do need it. You may need it.
You might be in a pickle where you don't have
your phone. You need to call that person for help,
but because you don't dial it, it becomes background noise,
it becomes forgotten. You know, there's that limited space in
your at it, and you took that out, put it in.
You got a storage space to bear, and you took
that out and put this in here. So the Voting
(26:56):
Rights Act was intended to help minorities, Yeah, minorities where
there were Jim Crow laws. In other ways that it
was poll taxes, it was hard for minorities to vote.
But as often happens, that gets twisted by people to
(27:20):
the point that they use it to basically create a
power base that is reducing equitable representation for other people.
So now you have districts that are openly referred to
as a black district. Maybe there was a time that
(27:43):
that was needed. In Houston, the eighteenth Congressional district was
created with a candidate in mind, Barbara Jordan, and she
held that position until her physical health gave way, and
then Mickey Leeland, and then Craig Washington, and then Sheila
(28:05):
Jackson Lee and then Sylvester Turner, and now the seat
will have a new occupant in short order. But those
districts now are not needed, and those districts are jerrymandering,
there is no doubt that they are. So now the
Trump administration is saying, we're going to do away with this.
We're not doing this anymore. This is discrimination and this
(28:27):
is not an equitable way. So what the media is
going to say is the Republicans are carving up these districts.
It's not fair they're carving up these districts. No, what
the Republicans are doing is uncarving the districts. The districts
are created so that they look convoluted, like when a
(28:48):
kid tries to draw something and you look at it
and go, okay, are you the basics of this thing?
But they look misshapen because they're not pla on a
map naturally, where people are in the same congressional district
as their neighbor. No, you got districts separated by twenty miles,
but they'll have a little bit sliver in between, which
(29:10):
will be the river. So the land is contiguous. But
there are no people there because they don't want any
people who are not Black Democrats in that congressional district,
because they want black Democrats, they want jasmine crockets, they
want al greens. These are the worst of the worst.
If these people were representing a congressional district in another country,
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we'd make fun of them because they're jokes. They're stupid,
they pander, they're divisive, they're nasty, and they're always, always
to a person corrupt, and that's why so many of
them end up in prison or end up getting charged.
So Justice Clarence Thomas, who happens to be black, he
(29:57):
makes the point that the black district that's in this
particular case before the Supreme Court in Louisiana would not
be a district except if you used race to create
the district. The Lieutenant of the Solicitor General of Louisiana,
Benjamin agwen Yango, said, we wouldn't draw the district unless
(30:22):
we were forced to draw it to make a black district.
Justice Thomas said, what role did Robinson forced Louisiana to
draw another bis district? Play in SB eight the Louisiana's
map that created that, and aguin Yaga says, we drew
it because the courts told us to. We would never
(30:44):
pass Senate Bill eight without that ruling. They said a
majority black district was required, and our legislature saw the
marching order. Clarence Thomas just entered into evidence using the
Socratic method, beautifully from his black robes on the bench.
(31:05):
What is happening. You are creating districts to put black
Democrats in Congress. That's not representative democracy. That is tribal
and it's going to end. And we could pick up
if we don't screw it up, because we're very good
at this, we could pick up nineteen congressional seats. All
(31:28):
things centers parapise, all things being equal, we could pick
up nineteen. If we get active, our candidates run good races,
we could pick up nineteen. It's projected congressional seats in
the House alone in a mid term election. I don't
want to again put the cart before the horse, but
man that would be special. Helps, good, thank you, and
(31:51):
good night.
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