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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
So Michael Verie Show is on the air.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Since you brought up the declassification report that was put
out by Senator Grassley today, I'm glad you brought it
up because this should be a story every outlet in
this room should be covering. This is further evidence that
Hillary Clinton approved the Russia hoax against President Trump, her
campaign financed it. Again, she approved it, and the FBI
and the CIA were both weaponized to, as our Director
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of CIA has said, accelerate this hoax against then candidate
and former President Trump.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
This has come from the highest levels of the Russian government,
clearly from Pluton himself, in an effort, as seventeen of
our intelligence agencies have confirmed, to influence our election. So
I actually think the most important question of this evening, Chris,
is fine, will Donald Trump admit and condemn that the
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Russians are doing this and make it clear that he
will not have the help of Putin in this election.
Speaker 5 (01:12):
There is no denying that the Russians interfered in the election,
right whether or not they had willing or unwitting help
from the Trump team, they interfered, and they did so
to help him and hurt me.
Speaker 6 (01:25):
Putin's principal interests relating to the twenty sixteen election were
to undermine faith in the US democratic process, not show
any preference of a certain candidate. In fact, this report
shows Putin held back from leaking compromising material on Hillary
Clinton prior to the election, instead planning to release it
after the election to weaken what Moscow viewed as an
inevitable Clinton president. High level DNC emails that detailed evidence
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of Hillary's quote psycho emotional problems, uncontrolled fits of anger, aggression,
and cheerfulness, and that then Secretary Clinton was allegedly on
a daily regiment of heavy tranquilizers.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
It's just awfully good that someone with the temperament of
Donald Trump is not in charge of the law in
our country.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Because you supported Donald Trump in twenty fifteen, maybe you
were sick and tired of Barack Obama and the Democrats.
Maybe you were sick and tired of Bush Republicans and
you didn't want Jeb to be the president, which it
looked like he would be the Republican nominee. Maybe you
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were tired of the same old politics and politicians. Maybe
you hoped that Donald Trump would storm in there like
a bull in a china shop and burn the place
of the ground, because that's the only way we could
start over and rebuild and make America great again. Whatever
your reason, or maybe maybe you weren't on that campaign,
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maybe you didn't come around until twenty twenty or twenty
twenty four. Maybe it was the first election you voted
for in a long time, or maybe it's the first
election you qualified by a to get to vote for.
Whatever your reason, pat yourself on the back. If you
weren't at an airport over the weekend, you probably didn't
see what CNN said about Donald Trump. And wait before
(03:13):
you say you don't care, trust me you do. CNN's
Harry Inton is part of the latest incarnation of CNN
trying to move back to the middle. You know, Hey,
the sky is blue, We're not going to claim it's
green or red. Hey water's wet, We're not going to
claim it's not. Hey, Trump's really popular and really effective,
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and some of what he does, no matter how much
you hate him, is going to be to your benefit
and that of America, and maybe we shouldn't deny it.
Here is Harry Inton part of the CNN's staff over
the weekend. Listen carefully, because this one's going to shock you.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
The Donald Trump at gustration is arguably the most influential
this century, and probably as well dating back a good
portion of the last century as well. Love it like it,
lump it Trump is remaking in the United States of America.
Let's talk about tariffs first, right, there's all this talk
that Donald Trump always chickens out when it comes to
taris uh uh no tacos for Trump. The effective tariffray
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get this, it's eighteen percent, the highest, the highest since
the FDR administration in the nineteen thirties, up from get this,
just two percent last year, from just two percent last year.
We're talking about a level, an effective tariff rate level
get this, nine times as high this year than last year.
But is not just on tariff's which of course Donald
Trump ran on, in which you're seeing a tremendously influential presidency.
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What about immigration. Of course Trump ran and has always
run on a very hawkish immigration platform.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Get this.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Twenty twenty five net migration in the United States down
at least sixty percent from last year. In fact, we
may be heading for the first time and at least
fifty years in which we have negative, negative migration into
the United States. And last year, of course, in twenty
twenty four, the migration in the US was two point
eight million. This year we might be talking about negative
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net migracious. My goodness, gracious. Now, of course this is
part of the larger story. As I was mentioning, we're
talking about immigration, net migration, we're talking about the effective
tariff rate. But get this, how is Donald Trump doing it?
While he is signing a ton of executive orders? Get this,
one hundred and eighty the most in a year since
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Oh, my goodness, you have to.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Go back to the first half of the twentieth century,
the last century, and to make a comparison, Joe Biden
signed get this, just seventy seven during his entire first year.
And we're only a little bit in August so far,
and Donald Trump making history with one hundred and eighty,
one hundred and eighty executive orders signed so.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Far this year.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
So that's why I said that, in my mind, Donald
Trump is the most influential president of this century and
probably dating back a good portion of the last century. That
is because he is remaking the country in terms of tariffs,
he is remaking the country in terms of net migration,
and he is remaking the country in terms of how
much policy changes he's putting through in executive orders. As
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I said, it truly is history making love it, like it,
or lump it.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
What's interesting about Trump's incredible influence and the executive orders
is they are incredibly popular. They are, you know, keeping
boys out of girls sports. Over ninety percent of Americans
support that. What Trump is doing is making Americans believe, oh,
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there is someone with common sense. What else Trump is
doing is he's making Congress irrelevant. The idea of a
bunch of speeches for a bunch of wax and then
concerns people are tired of. You don't need that. It's silly,
it's kabuki theater. Just solve the problem for all of
the Michael Verry Shaw CNN calls Donald Trump the most
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influential president of this century and much of the last,
going back all the way to FDR for pure influence.
FDR famously wanted to pack the Supreme Court because nine
justices did not give him the ability to avoid their
review of his actions. He would be struck down on
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many things he was doing that were unconstitutional, so he
sought to add more, diluting those justices on the court
and thereby enabling himself to become a king. For all
the no kings talk that we've heard about Donald Trump,
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he's operating very much within the realm of what is
appropriate it and that's partly why he's so gnorn popular.
It's not giveaways in some sense, it's takeaways getting people
out of the country we don't need. They're many more,
many more we need to get rid of. But here
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is Michael Smerconish, I mentioned this earlier on CNN giving
very good advice to Democrats that frankly, CNN has clearly
taken because CNN is dead and they know it. They
moved too far to the left. They got too wacky,
they got too crazy, they got too weird, just as
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the Democrats did. And here's what Smerconish.
Speaker 7 (08:42):
Said, that kitchen think strategy is. It might sound counterintuitive,
but maybe what's in the party's best interest is to
dare I say, agree with Trump from time to time,
acknowledge wins on issues like NATO, trade and the border,
which have us did some positive results, even while disagreeing
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with the way in which they can. It's a good
thing that migration through our previously poorous borders has slowed
to a trickle, and that our NATO allies have agreed
to increase their contribution from two to five percent of
gross domestic product, and that the markets, despite having just
had a rough week, have done well in the year
to day.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Inflation seems to be tamed.
Speaker 7 (09:24):
Plus, while Trump's tariff policy look like it was implemented
by the seat of his pants, thus far, all the
doomsday fears have not panned out.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
He refers to the Democrat's kitchen sink strategy. This let's
just keep throwing everything but the kitchen sink at him.
Let's criticize everything he does all the time. Here's the difference.
The American people are awake now. The American people no
longer trust the media. When Trump started and he started
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criticizing the media, much as Rush Limbaugh used to remember
the drive by media, he would refer to when Trump
started criticizing the media early on, many people felt that
was a bad idea. Hey man, these are the people
who are covering you. These are the people who buy
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ink by the barrel. They're on the air twenty four
hours a day. You can't criticize them, because then they'll
go back and criticize you and never air you and
snuff you out. Trump new two things. Number One that
they wouldn't be able to turn him off if the
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American people loved to see him so much, if everyone
wanted to see everything he said all the time, you
could not afford to be a network that did not
cover him. And that's why was it Jeffrey Uh was
it kats what's the guy's name that was gosh dogg it?
(11:08):
What was the guy's name that was head of CNN
at the time, Jeffrey something Katzenburg. Yeah, So Katzenberg broke
into a medical report. He ordered that they'd break into Uh,
what's the doctor that's over there? Yeah? Uha Gupta son
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Jay Gupta. They had done some medical report that was
probably a bunch of bunk anyway, because they were big vaccinators.
But they had they were into some some medical report.
This was twenty sixteen, and they were gonna win all
these awards for it. Oh, it was gonna be such
a great medical report. And what happened, Katzenberg said, Trump
is speaking in somewhere probably Iowa and the senior brass
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there and the producers said, yeah, but this is our
our big medical report. We're going to win awards for this.
We put two years into producing this thing. We can't
cut into this for another Donald Trump's speech. He said,
that's what Americans want to see, and he was right,
bad politics, good news judgment, that's what America want to see.
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Once Americans want to see. Cut into Trump and his speech, well,
he had a walk out. A lot of people at
CNN walked out at that moment, and they had to
have a big meeting, a powwow, because all the staff
were threatening to leave. Because if all we're going to
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do is cover Trump's speeches, then how are we going
to control the American people. We hate Trump, We don't
want to give Trump any oxygen. We don't want people
to watch Trump. We don't want to promote Trump by
having him on the air. And Katzenberg said, if we
don't air Trump, everybody else will. So if they can't
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get Trump on our station, they'll get Trump somewhere else,
and they're coming to see Trump more than your little
medical report. When Trump is on, we go to Trump.
And it was just that simple Harmona, do we play
the kitchen sink strategy the second one? All right, let's
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hit that.
Speaker 7 (13:25):
Now that kitchen sink strategy isn't working so well. Actually
that's not fair. It is working. It's working well for
Donald J.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Trump.
Speaker 7 (13:34):
Two impeachments, four indictments, endless investigations, constant carping about Trump,
and condescension toward his supporters. At some point, it all
blends in the background noise, such that when something truly
egregious happens, like the firing of the person whose job
it is to track labor statistics, nobody pays attention. The
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outrage loses its edge, the tree falls, and the forest shrugs.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
But that's partly because information is more accessible. You've got
more people who do what I do. You've got more
people who are on Twitter, who are doing research. You've
got really smart people. There are lots of good people
in radio. There are lots of good people writing commentary.
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There are lots of good people podcasting. So now we know, yeah,
he fired the Bureau of Labor Statistics person, you know,
the one that was screwing things up for the last
few years. Yeah, we know. We're not upset. I know
you want us to be upset, but we're not stilled.
Michael Berry's shows nine years since the first round of
awful was done to Donald Trump, you know, we haven't
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even begun to talk about twenty to twenty yet. During
the twenty sixteen election, Democrats and let's not forget this establishment,
Republicans and the media, the cabal, the swamp, they looked
down on Trump, and frankly, let's be honest, the people
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who supported him the way that old money looks down
on new money. They're dirty, they're unsophisticated, they've not been around,
they don't know how to act. We don't want them here.
We're the club. We don't want them in it. Trump
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was an outsider. He didn't speak like them, he didn't
use the coded language. He didn't speak nicely about them
in public, even if they disagreed in private. So it
shouldn't surprise you when Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi sat
down for a fancy dinner with CNN two two thousand
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and seven to brag about how they quote outwitted Trump
on the government shutdown. I'm sorry the government shutdown was
in twenty seventeen. It shouldn't surprise you to hear them
brag on themselves on how much smarter they were than
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Donald Trump. Give this a.
Speaker 7 (16:22):
Listen, And Nancy said something to him about he didn't
understand about women.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Chuck was masterful, Well he was. She set him up
so I could go in for the kill, but he
was masterful.
Speaker 8 (16:35):
He's talking to him about the government shutdown, about the
immigrants and arrest and he says, I take ownership of.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
So, mister president, will you own the shutdown?
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Yes? I will? And that was oh, thank you very much.
Speaker 7 (16:53):
There are a series of moments that you saw.
Speaker 9 (16:57):
First hint, here's the claps, tearing up the speech, and.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Then there is the famous picture.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
It's the meeting in the cabinet room where.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
You stood up and confronted.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Looking back at those moments, what was going through your mind?
Speaker 1 (17:17):
He said, he doesn't stand a chance. What's amazing to
me is at this moment they believe they are so
much smarter and better than Trump. Well, I can tell
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you nine years later, Trump has humiliated them. He has
not just defeated them in every way, and they had
far greater resources at their disposal, including half the Republican Party,
maybe more, and he has humiliated them. And where are
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they today? Chuck Schumer is best known for a staged
burger flip where he clearly has never been in front
of a grill, in front of his life, in his life,
and of all the dumb things he's ever done and said,
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that will be remembered more than anything else. He has
become a meme. When you've become a meme, especially one
intended to humiliate you, you never recover. The meme is bigger
than you are. The meme is bigger than life. And
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Nancy Pelosi, what's happened to her? Well, her teeth keep
falling out, her husband got a DWI and then he
got something else and got hammered by Lord knows, Lord knows.
I don't even want to know what was going on
in that house, but it ain't good. There was the
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COVID shutdown where she came in and got her hair
done in a closed salon that's not supposed to be opened.
And the owner of the salon was so angry in
San Francisco that Nancy Pelosi had pushed to have everything
closed down in San Francisco and then wanted it open
just for her, that she exposed the video. Nancy Pelosi
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has become a joke. She has become a punchline. She's
no longer the speech speaker, of course, and now she's
living in fear of prison over her insider trading, which
is widely discussed and widely known. My mind, it's a
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great thing to live long enough to be proven to
be wise. It's a great thing to live long enough
to see the the adulation that your work presented. Victor Hugo,
for instance, died penniless and an outcast. Herman Melville never
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knew what would become of Moby Dick, the great American novel.
He had no idea. It was fifty years later until
it was picked back up. Fox News is reporting that
the Department of Justice has launched a major o Ramon said,
I didn't finish that sentence. Well, Trump is getting to
see that his wisdom came to pass. It all came,
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He got the victory, and he gets to savor it.
Fox News is reporting that the Department of Justice has
launched a major purge investigation of all illegals and dead
people on voter rolls across the country.
Speaker 9 (20:53):
Drop administration looking to boost election integrity as the DOJ
opens a nationwide investigation into voter roles. The department is
calling on local officials to identify felons, dead voters, and
also non citizens who might have cast a ballot. David
Spott is live from Washington with more on this one.
Speaker 10 (21:12):
Hi, David, Hi, Aisha, Good Morning Today, Next week, the
week after, and so on. DOJ officials will continue to
work on what they call the department a serious problem
with our voter rules. This all stems from a March
executive order signed by President Trump, which states, in part,
the Attorney General shall, consistent with applicable laws, coordinate with
state attorneys general to assist with state level review and
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prosecution of aliens unlawfully registered to vote or casting votes.
Attorney General Pam Bondi has directed her team to check
counties across the United States, but California is a big focus,
as is Texas and Minnesota. The DJ plans to prosecute
any foreign nationals that get caught voting. A DOJ source
tells Fox News election integrity starts with clean voter roles.
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That's the foundation for secure elections. There's been a culture
of non compliance from several states that don't keep their
roles updated. This DOJ is cracking down now. The Justice
Department wants local officials to identify and remove felons, dead voters,
non residents, and non citizens from voter roles. Recently, the
Department charged in a Rocky Man for illegal voting in
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twenty twenty in the state of New York. Took several
years to catch that one. Last year, a nineteen year
old Chinese national was charged in Michigan with perjury and
attempting to vote illegally in the twenty twenty four election.
Now I should the Department of Government Efficiency DOGE took
a big hand in stopping illegal voting. Even though Elon
Musk no longer with that agency, DOGE itself still has
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a hand in this movement. Finding illegal voters will take time,
but the Justice Department is in regular contact with the
White House about the latest progress fulfilling this executive order.
Michael Barry's show, if he doesn't say it, damn who will?
Speaker 1 (22:58):
On our morning show today have Kim Mudd, our creative director,
had commented to me that it hit him when he
had read an email from a listener that said, with
Hulk Hogan dying, And obviously this was recently with h
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Hogan dying. A piece of my childhood died because Hulk
Hogan had been very important to him as a child.
And he said, we often asked questions of our show team,
you know, what was the person whose death? For instance,
our question to each other was what was the person
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whose death when you were a kid? I'm sorry, what
was the person who's death later in your life represented
a piece of your childhood dying? And Daryl Kunda said
mister Rogers. And mister Rogers didn't die until two thousand
and three, when Kunda was twenty six years old, but
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that represented that's a piece of my childhood I've kept
tucked away and now it's gone. Ramon said that his
was John Ritter, and I guess we all have a
piece of our childhood. So I asked the question of listeners,
and a lot of them, said John Wayne John Ritter.
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Lucille Ball I received an email from a listener and
he said, zar my hero was Rush Limbaugh. I was
born and raised by two Australian Labor Party voting school teachers.
I came to the US as a foreign high school student,
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and by sheer luck, changing channels came upon Rush Limbaugh.
I started listening. Then I bought his first book. My
reaction was, my parents and these school teachers are wrong.
I'm now a starch conservative, much to the horror of
my parents, all because I was randomly changing channels after school.
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One day, when he died, I got teary ad as
he played such a huge role in the man I
am today. He had such an amazing ability to explain concepts,
much like Milton Friedman, where a rational human would have
trouble not agreeing. You know, I always thought, growing up
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in a home where nobody had formal education beyond high school,
I always thought that smart people spoke in very elevated terms,
and they used the largest words in order to make
their point that could possibly be employed at the moment.
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And then I went to law school at the University
of Texas and I studied in the library, the Joe
Jamail Library, and Joe Jamail was a graduate of the
University of Texas, and he was known as the King
of Torts. Torts are when you are wrong. They're not criminal,
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they're civil, and that's where you get the big judgments.
They're not based in a contract. That's contract law, for
which a breach would be your cause of action a
tort is hey, you came up and knocked me in
the head. I can go to the cops for a
criminal case that the state brings against you, but all
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I get out of that is the joy of knowing.
At best you go to prison. In a civil case,
a tourt case, I can get paid a lot of money,
and my lawyer typically keeps about forty percent of that.
That's the captain. In the state of Texas well, Joe
Jamail was known as the King of torts. He won
the largest case to that time, which was the Pennzoil
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Texico case, and Joe Jamail, who had been a d
student in the course of law, that he would end
up making more money than most anybody else. Ever, in
practice he was very good at it, but in the
student in the classroom not so good. And Joe Jamail's
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case a ten billion dollar case at Memory Serves between
Pensil and Texico. Texico had started I think nineteen oh
nine as the Texas company, but they had moved to
New York over the years and they had wronged Pensoil.
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That was the case. Hugh Litkey, who was George Bush's
business partner. I'm going by memory. So I might be
wrong with some of this, but trust me most of
us right. And Jamail goes into the courtroom in Texico.
This multi billion this is David versus Goliath, and Jo
Jamail is representing David, and Goliath has all these lawyers Cravass,
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swam in More, you know, the big bad, tough firms
and all these lawyers. And they come in and they're
paid a lot of money per hour, and they've got
all these exhibits and all this and Jo Jamail it
comes time for him to close the case and he said,
you know, I'm just a country lawyer. I'm just a
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country lawyer. You know, these guys have gone to Harvard
and Yale and all these big fancy law schools. I
couldn't get into those law schools. I just went to
little law school down in Texas. Those the University of Texas,
pretty darn good, top ten in the country. But he's
playing a part here, and he said, I didn't go
to these fancy law schools like these for Harvard and
Yale and Columbia and Stanford and all these ivy League schools.
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I'm just a dumb country lawyer. And I'll tell you
this case. They've shown all these grass and charts. They
brought all these fancy people with PhDs and fancy degrees,
and they've put all these glossy materials in front of you,
and they've used a bunch of words that I've been
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to law school and I don't understand them. And they're
talking about breaches of this and contract says and all that.
And I'm gonna tell you what this case comes down to,
ladies and gentlemen, the jury. When you shake your hand,
When you shake hands with a man and you look
him in the eye and you tell him we got
a deal, do you believe you got a deal? Or
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in your mind do you think if I don't want
to honor this handshake, I don't have to. These people
will tell you that maybe he crossed his fingers behind
his back, Maybe he crossed his toes Texico Corporations, multi
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billion dollar corporation. They can pay lawyers to twist you
in such a pretzel you won't understand up from down
and right from wrong. They'll tell you there's legal language
in there that nobody ever reads that says that they
can break a contract, they can break a man's back,
they can destroy you because they've got the money to
hire lawyers to convince a jury that it doesn't matter
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because you don't matter. Because they're rich and you're not.
They can enter into contracts with small companies like my client,
and they got all this money and they'll destroy you
if you dare try to say that's not right. You
can't do that. We relied on you. You're going to
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send us into bankruptcy. We worked hard to build this company.
You see, this case comes down to a simple question.
When you shake a man's hand and you look him
in the eye, can you tell him we have a contract?
Do you believe you have a contract? Because Tesco doesn't
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Pennzul does. That was Joe Jamail talking directly to a jury,
making it accessible, and he made fun of the big
fancy lawyers and their big fancy words. That's what Rush did.
That is the torch he passed to us in the
University of Life as the mayor of Realville, day in
and day out, with one arm tied behind his back,
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he taught us how to understand the swamp in a
way that nobody ever has. So yeah, that was a
big loss.
It's that time.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
So Michael Verie Show is on the air.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Since you brought up the declassification report that was put
out by Senator Grassley today, I'm glad you brought it
up because this should be a story every outlet in
this room should be covering. This is further evidence that
Hillary Clinton approved the Russia hoax against President Trump, her
campaign financed it. Again, she approved it, and the FBI
and the CIA were both weaponized to, as our Director
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of CIA has said, accelerate this hoax against then candidate
and former President Trump.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
This has come from the highest levels of the Russian government,
clearly from Pluton himself, in an effort, as seventeen of
our intelligence agencies have confirmed, to influence our election. So
I actually think the most important question of this evening, Chris,
is fine, will Donald Trump admit and condemn that the
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Russians are doing this and make it clear that he
will not have the help of Putin in this election.
Speaker 5 (01:12):
There is no denying that the Russians interfered in the election,
right whether or not they had willing or unwitting help
from the Trump team, they interfered, and they did so
to help him and hurt me.
Speaker 6 (01:25):
Putin's principal interests relating to the twenty sixteen election were
to undermine faith in the US democratic process, not show
any preference of a certain candidate. In fact, this report
shows Putin held back from leaking compromising material on Hillary
Clinton prior to the election, instead planning to release it
after the election to weaken what Moscow viewed as an
inevitable Clinton president. High level DNC emails that detailed evidence
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of Hillary's quote psycho emotional problems, uncontrolled fits of anger, aggression,
and cheerfulness, and that then Secretary Clinton was allegedly on
a daily regiment of heavy tranquilizers.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
It's just awfully good that someone with the temperament of
Donald Trump is not in charge of the law in
our country.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Because you supported Donald Trump in twenty fifteen, maybe you
were sick and tired of Barack Obama and the Democrats.
Maybe you were sick and tired of Bush Republicans and
you didn't want Jeb to be the president, which it
looked like he would be the Republican nominee. Maybe you
(02:29):
were tired of the same old politics and politicians. Maybe
you hoped that Donald Trump would storm in there like
a bull in a china shop and burn the place
of the ground, because that's the only way we could
start over and rebuild and make America great again. Whatever
your reason, or maybe maybe you weren't on that campaign,
(02:49):
maybe you didn't come around until twenty twenty or twenty
twenty four. Maybe it was the first election you voted
for in a long time, or maybe it's the first
election you qualified by a to get to vote for.
Whatever your reason, pat yourself on the back. If you
weren't at an airport over the weekend, you probably didn't
see what CNN said about Donald Trump. And wait before
(03:13):
you say you don't care, trust me you do. CNN's
Harry Inton is part of the latest incarnation of CNN
trying to move back to the middle. You know, Hey,
the sky is blue, We're not going to claim it's
green or red. Hey water's wet, We're not going to
claim it's not. Hey, Trump's really popular and really effective,
(03:40):
and some of what he does, no matter how much
you hate him, is going to be to your benefit
and that of America, and maybe we shouldn't deny it.
Here is Harry Inton part of the CNN's staff over
the weekend. Listen carefully, because this one's going to shock you.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
The Donald Trump at gustration is arguably the most influential
this century, and probably as well dating back a good
portion of the last century as well. Love it like it,
lump it Trump is remaking in the United States of America.
Let's talk about tariffs first, right, there's all this talk
that Donald Trump always chickens out when it comes to
taris uh uh no tacos for Trump. The effective tariffray
(04:20):
get this, it's eighteen percent, the highest, the highest since
the FDR administration in the nineteen thirties, up from get this,
just two percent last year, from just two percent last year.
We're talking about a level, an effective tariff rate level
get this, nine times as high this year than last year.
But is not just on tariff's which of course Donald
Trump ran on, in which you're seeing a tremendously influential presidency.
(04:43):
What about immigration. Of course Trump ran and has always
run on a very hawkish immigration platform.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Get this.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Twenty twenty five net migration in the United States down
at least sixty percent from last year. In fact, we
may be heading for the first time and at least
fifty years in which we have negative, negative migration into
the United States. And last year, of course, in twenty
twenty four, the migration in the US was two point
eight million. This year we might be talking about negative
(05:10):
net migracious. My goodness, gracious. Now, of course this is
part of the larger story. As I was mentioning, we're
talking about immigration, net migration, we're talking about the effective
tariff rate. But get this, how is Donald Trump doing it?
While he is signing a ton of executive orders? Get this,
one hundred and eighty the most in a year since
(05:31):
Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Oh, my goodness, you have to.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Go back to the first half of the twentieth century,
the last century, and to make a comparison, Joe Biden
signed get this, just seventy seven during his entire first year.
And we're only a little bit in August so far,
and Donald Trump making history with one hundred and eighty,
one hundred and eighty executive orders signed so.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Far this year.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
So that's why I said that, in my mind, Donald
Trump is the most influential president of this century and
probably dating back a good portion of the last century. That
is because he is remaking the country in terms of tariffs,
he is remaking the country in terms of net migration,
and he is remaking the country in terms of how
much policy changes he's putting through in executive orders. As
(06:12):
I said, it truly is history making love it, like it,
or lump it.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
What's interesting about Trump's incredible influence and the executive orders
is they are incredibly popular. They are, you know, keeping
boys out of girls sports. Over ninety percent of Americans
support that. What Trump is doing is making Americans believe, oh,
(06:47):
there is someone with common sense. What else Trump is
doing is he's making Congress irrelevant. The idea of a
bunch of speeches for a bunch of wax and then
concerns people are tired of. You don't need that. It's silly,
it's kabuki theater. Just solve the problem for all of
the Michael Verry Shaw CNN calls Donald Trump the most
(07:09):
influential president of this century and much of the last,
going back all the way to FDR for pure influence.
FDR famously wanted to pack the Supreme Court because nine
justices did not give him the ability to avoid their
review of his actions. He would be struck down on
(07:33):
many things he was doing that were unconstitutional, so he
sought to add more, diluting those justices on the court
and thereby enabling himself to become a king. For all
the no kings talk that we've heard about Donald Trump,
(07:54):
he's operating very much within the realm of what is
appropriate it and that's partly why he's so gnorn popular.
It's not giveaways in some sense, it's takeaways getting people
out of the country we don't need. They're many more,
many more we need to get rid of. But here
(08:16):
is Michael Smerconish, I mentioned this earlier on CNN giving
very good advice to Democrats that frankly, CNN has clearly
taken because CNN is dead and they know it. They
moved too far to the left. They got too wacky,
they got too crazy, they got too weird, just as
(08:39):
the Democrats did. And here's what Smerconish.
Speaker 7 (08:42):
Said, that kitchen think strategy is. It might sound counterintuitive,
but maybe what's in the party's best interest is to
dare I say, agree with Trump from time to time,
acknowledge wins on issues like NATO, trade and the border,
which have us did some positive results, even while disagreeing
(09:02):
with the way in which they can. It's a good
thing that migration through our previously poorous borders has slowed
to a trickle, and that our NATO allies have agreed
to increase their contribution from two to five percent of
gross domestic product, and that the markets, despite having just
had a rough week, have done well in the year
to day.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Inflation seems to be tamed.
Speaker 7 (09:24):
Plus, while Trump's tariff policy look like it was implemented
by the seat of his pants, thus far, all the
doomsday fears have not panned out.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
He refers to the Democrat's kitchen sink strategy. This let's
just keep throwing everything but the kitchen sink at him.
Let's criticize everything he does all the time. Here's the difference.
The American people are awake now. The American people no
longer trust the media. When Trump started and he started
(10:01):
criticizing the media, much as Rush Limbaugh used to remember
the drive by media, he would refer to when Trump
started criticizing the media early on, many people felt that
was a bad idea. Hey man, these are the people
who are covering you. These are the people who buy
(10:22):
ink by the barrel. They're on the air twenty four
hours a day. You can't criticize them, because then they'll
go back and criticize you and never air you and
snuff you out. Trump new two things. Number One that
they wouldn't be able to turn him off if the
(10:44):
American people loved to see him so much, if everyone
wanted to see everything he said all the time, you
could not afford to be a network that did not
cover him. And that's why was it Jeffrey Uh was
it kats what's the guy's name that was gosh dogg it?
(11:08):
What was the guy's name that was head of CNN
at the time, Jeffrey something Katzenburg. Yeah, So Katzenberg broke
into a medical report. He ordered that they'd break into Uh,
what's the doctor that's over there? Yeah? Uha Gupta son
(11:29):
Jay Gupta. They had done some medical report that was
probably a bunch of bunk anyway, because they were big vaccinators.
But they had they were into some some medical report.
This was twenty sixteen, and they were gonna win all
these awards for it. Oh, it was gonna be such
a great medical report. And what happened, Katzenberg said, Trump
is speaking in somewhere probably Iowa and the senior brass
(11:56):
there and the producers said, yeah, but this is our
our big medical report. We're going to win awards for this.
We put two years into producing this thing. We can't
cut into this for another Donald Trump's speech. He said,
that's what Americans want to see, and he was right,
bad politics, good news judgment, that's what America want to see.
(12:18):
Once Americans want to see. Cut into Trump and his speech, well,
he had a walk out. A lot of people at
CNN walked out at that moment, and they had to
have a big meeting, a powwow, because all the staff
were threatening to leave. Because if all we're going to
(12:39):
do is cover Trump's speeches, then how are we going
to control the American people. We hate Trump, We don't
want to give Trump any oxygen. We don't want people
to watch Trump. We don't want to promote Trump by
having him on the air. And Katzenberg said, if we
don't air Trump, everybody else will. So if they can't
(13:04):
get Trump on our station, they'll get Trump somewhere else,
and they're coming to see Trump more than your little
medical report. When Trump is on, we go to Trump.
And it was just that simple Harmona, do we play
the kitchen sink strategy the second one? All right, let's
(13:24):
hit that.
Speaker 7 (13:25):
Now that kitchen sink strategy isn't working so well. Actually
that's not fair. It is working. It's working well for
Donald J.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Trump.
Speaker 7 (13:34):
Two impeachments, four indictments, endless investigations, constant carping about Trump,
and condescension toward his supporters. At some point, it all
blends in the background noise, such that when something truly
egregious happens, like the firing of the person whose job
it is to track labor statistics, nobody pays attention. The
(13:55):
outrage loses its edge, the tree falls, and the forest shrugs.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
But that's partly because information is more accessible. You've got
more people who do what I do. You've got more
people who are on Twitter, who are doing research. You've
got really smart people. There are lots of good people
in radio. There are lots of good people writing commentary.
(14:26):
There are lots of good people podcasting. So now we know, yeah,
he fired the Bureau of Labor Statistics person, you know,
the one that was screwing things up for the last
few years. Yeah, we know. We're not upset. I know
you want us to be upset, but we're not stilled.
Michael Berry's shows nine years since the first round of
awful was done to Donald Trump, you know, we haven't
(14:49):
even begun to talk about twenty to twenty yet. During
the twenty sixteen election, Democrats and let's not forget this establishment,
Republicans and the media, the cabal, the swamp, they looked
down on Trump, and frankly, let's be honest, the people
(15:12):
who supported him the way that old money looks down
on new money. They're dirty, they're unsophisticated, they've not been around,
they don't know how to act. We don't want them here.
We're the club. We don't want them in it. Trump
(15:34):
was an outsider. He didn't speak like them, he didn't
use the coded language. He didn't speak nicely about them
in public, even if they disagreed in private. So it
shouldn't surprise you when Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi sat
down for a fancy dinner with CNN two two thousand
(16:00):
and seven to brag about how they quote outwitted Trump
on the government shutdown. I'm sorry the government shutdown was
in twenty seventeen. It shouldn't surprise you to hear them
brag on themselves on how much smarter they were than
(16:20):
Donald Trump. Give this a.
Speaker 7 (16:22):
Listen, And Nancy said something to him about he didn't
understand about women.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Chuck was masterful, Well he was. She set him up
so I could go in for the kill, but he
was masterful.
Speaker 8 (16:35):
He's talking to him about the government shutdown, about the
immigrants and arrest and he says, I take ownership of.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
So, mister president, will you own the shutdown?
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Yes? I will? And that was oh, thank you very much.
Speaker 7 (16:53):
There are a series of moments that you saw.
Speaker 9 (16:57):
First hint, here's the claps, tearing up the speech, and.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Then there is the famous picture.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
It's the meeting in the cabinet room where.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
You stood up and confronted.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Looking back at those moments, what was going through your mind?
Speaker 1 (17:17):
He said, he doesn't stand a chance. What's amazing to
me is at this moment they believe they are so
much smarter and better than Trump. Well, I can tell
(17:37):
you nine years later, Trump has humiliated them. He has
not just defeated them in every way, and they had
far greater resources at their disposal, including half the Republican Party,
maybe more, and he has humiliated them. And where are
(17:58):
they today? Chuck Schumer is best known for a staged
burger flip where he clearly has never been in front
of a grill, in front of his life, in his life,
and of all the dumb things he's ever done and said,
(18:18):
that will be remembered more than anything else. He has
become a meme. When you've become a meme, especially one
intended to humiliate you, you never recover. The meme is bigger
than you are. The meme is bigger than life. And
(18:39):
Nancy Pelosi, what's happened to her? Well, her teeth keep
falling out, her husband got a DWI and then he
got something else and got hammered by Lord knows, Lord knows.
I don't even want to know what was going on
in that house, but it ain't good. There was the
(19:02):
COVID shutdown where she came in and got her hair
done in a closed salon that's not supposed to be opened.
And the owner of the salon was so angry in
San Francisco that Nancy Pelosi had pushed to have everything
closed down in San Francisco and then wanted it open
just for her, that she exposed the video. Nancy Pelosi
(19:25):
has become a joke. She has become a punchline. She's
no longer the speech speaker, of course, and now she's
living in fear of prison over her insider trading, which
is widely discussed and widely known. My mind, it's a
(19:51):
great thing to live long enough to be proven to
be wise. It's a great thing to live long enough
to see the the adulation that your work presented. Victor Hugo,
for instance, died penniless and an outcast. Herman Melville never
(20:14):
knew what would become of Moby Dick, the great American novel.
He had no idea. It was fifty years later until
it was picked back up. Fox News is reporting that
the Department of Justice has launched a major o Ramon said,
I didn't finish that sentence. Well, Trump is getting to
see that his wisdom came to pass. It all came,
(20:39):
He got the victory, and he gets to savor it.
Fox News is reporting that the Department of Justice has
launched a major purge investigation of all illegals and dead
people on voter rolls across the country.
Speaker 9 (20:53):
Drop administration looking to boost election integrity as the DOJ
opens a nationwide investigation into voter roles. The department is
calling on local officials to identify felons, dead voters, and
also non citizens who might have cast a ballot. David
Spott is live from Washington with more on this one.
Speaker 10 (21:12):
Hi, David, Hi, Aisha, Good Morning Today, Next week, the
week after, and so on. DOJ officials will continue to
work on what they call the department a serious problem
with our voter rules. This all stems from a March
executive order signed by President Trump, which states, in part,
the Attorney General shall, consistent with applicable laws, coordinate with
state attorneys general to assist with state level review and
(21:35):
prosecution of aliens unlawfully registered to vote or casting votes.
Attorney General Pam Bondi has directed her team to check
counties across the United States, but California is a big focus,
as is Texas and Minnesota. The DJ plans to prosecute
any foreign nationals that get caught voting. A DOJ source
tells Fox News election integrity starts with clean voter roles.
(21:57):
That's the foundation for secure elections. There's been a culture
of non compliance from several states that don't keep their
roles updated. This DOJ is cracking down now. The Justice
Department wants local officials to identify and remove felons, dead voters,
non residents, and non citizens from voter roles. Recently, the
Department charged in a Rocky Man for illegal voting in
(22:18):
twenty twenty in the state of New York. Took several
years to catch that one. Last year, a nineteen year
old Chinese national was charged in Michigan with perjury and
attempting to vote illegally in the twenty twenty four election.
Now I should the Department of Government Efficiency DOGE took
a big hand in stopping illegal voting. Even though Elon
Musk no longer with that agency, DOGE itself still has
(22:40):
a hand in this movement. Finding illegal voters will take time,
but the Justice Department is in regular contact with the
White House about the latest progress fulfilling this executive order.
Michael Barry's show, if he doesn't say it, damn who will?
Speaker 1 (22:58):
On our morning show today have Kim Mudd, our creative director,
had commented to me that it hit him when he
had read an email from a listener that said, with
Hulk Hogan dying, And obviously this was recently with h
(23:18):
Hogan dying. A piece of my childhood died because Hulk
Hogan had been very important to him as a child.
And he said, we often asked questions of our show team,
you know, what was the person whose death? For instance,
our question to each other was what was the person
(23:39):
whose death when you were a kid? I'm sorry, what
was the person who's death later in your life represented
a piece of your childhood dying? And Daryl Kunda said
mister Rogers. And mister Rogers didn't die until two thousand
and three, when Kunda was twenty six years old, but
(24:02):
that represented that's a piece of my childhood I've kept
tucked away and now it's gone. Ramon said that his
was John Ritter, and I guess we all have a
piece of our childhood. So I asked the question of listeners,
and a lot of them, said John Wayne John Ritter.
(24:28):
Lucille Ball I received an email from a listener and
he said, zar my hero was Rush Limbaugh. I was
born and raised by two Australian Labor Party voting school teachers.
I came to the US as a foreign high school student,
(24:49):
and by sheer luck, changing channels came upon Rush Limbaugh.
I started listening. Then I bought his first book. My
reaction was, my parents and these school teachers are wrong.
I'm now a starch conservative, much to the horror of
my parents, all because I was randomly changing channels after school.
(25:13):
One day, when he died, I got teary ad as
he played such a huge role in the man I
am today. He had such an amazing ability to explain concepts,
much like Milton Friedman, where a rational human would have
trouble not agreeing. You know, I always thought, growing up
(25:35):
in a home where nobody had formal education beyond high school,
I always thought that smart people spoke in very elevated terms,
and they used the largest words in order to make
their point that could possibly be employed at the moment.
(25:58):
And then I went to law school at the University
of Texas and I studied in the library, the Joe
Jamail Library, and Joe Jamail was a graduate of the
University of Texas, and he was known as the King
of Torts. Torts are when you are wrong. They're not criminal,
(26:19):
they're civil, and that's where you get the big judgments.
They're not based in a contract. That's contract law, for
which a breach would be your cause of action a
tort is hey, you came up and knocked me in
the head. I can go to the cops for a
criminal case that the state brings against you, but all
(26:43):
I get out of that is the joy of knowing.
At best you go to prison. In a civil case,
a tourt case, I can get paid a lot of money,
and my lawyer typically keeps about forty percent of that.
That's the captain. In the state of Texas well, Joe
Jamail was known as the King of torts. He won
the largest case to that time, which was the Pennzoil
(27:04):
Texico case, and Joe Jamail, who had been a d
student in the course of law, that he would end
up making more money than most anybody else. Ever, in
practice he was very good at it, but in the
student in the classroom not so good. And Joe Jamail's
(27:24):
case a ten billion dollar case at Memory Serves between
Pensil and Texico. Texico had started I think nineteen oh
nine as the Texas company, but they had moved to
New York over the years and they had wronged Pensoil.
(27:45):
That was the case. Hugh Litkey, who was George Bush's
business partner. I'm going by memory. So I might be
wrong with some of this, but trust me most of
us right. And Jamail goes into the courtroom in Texico.
This multi billion this is David versus Goliath, and Jo
Jamail is representing David, and Goliath has all these lawyers Cravass,
(28:08):
swam in More, you know, the big bad, tough firms
and all these lawyers. And they come in and they're
paid a lot of money per hour, and they've got
all these exhibits and all this and Jo Jamail it
comes time for him to close the case and he said,
you know, I'm just a country lawyer. I'm just a
(28:31):
country lawyer. You know, these guys have gone to Harvard
and Yale and all these big fancy law schools. I
couldn't get into those law schools. I just went to
little law school down in Texas. Those the University of Texas,
pretty darn good, top ten in the country. But he's
playing a part here, and he said, I didn't go
to these fancy law schools like these for Harvard and
Yale and Columbia and Stanford and all these ivy League schools.
(28:56):
I'm just a dumb country lawyer. And I'll tell you
this case. They've shown all these grass and charts. They
brought all these fancy people with PhDs and fancy degrees,
and they've put all these glossy materials in front of you,
and they've used a bunch of words that I've been
(29:16):
to law school and I don't understand them. And they're
talking about breaches of this and contract says and all that.
And I'm gonna tell you what this case comes down to,
ladies and gentlemen, the jury. When you shake your hand,
When you shake hands with a man and you look
him in the eye and you tell him we got
a deal, do you believe you got a deal? Or
(29:41):
in your mind do you think if I don't want
to honor this handshake, I don't have to. These people
will tell you that maybe he crossed his fingers behind
his back, Maybe he crossed his toes Texico Corporations, multi
(30:02):
billion dollar corporation. They can pay lawyers to twist you
in such a pretzel you won't understand up from down
and right from wrong. They'll tell you there's legal language
in there that nobody ever reads that says that they
can break a contract, they can break a man's back,
they can destroy you because they've got the money to
hire lawyers to convince a jury that it doesn't matter
(30:24):
because you don't matter. Because they're rich and you're not.
They can enter into contracts with small companies like my client,
and they got all this money and they'll destroy you
if you dare try to say that's not right. You
can't do that. We relied on you. You're going to
(30:47):
send us into bankruptcy. We worked hard to build this company.
You see, this case comes down to a simple question.
When you shake a man's hand and you look him
in the eye, can you tell him we have a contract?
Do you believe you have a contract? Because Tesco doesn't
(31:08):
Pennzul does. That was Joe Jamail talking directly to a jury,
making it accessible, and he made fun of the big
fancy lawyers and their big fancy words. That's what Rush did.
That is the torch he passed to us in the
University of Life as the mayor of Realville, day in
and day out, with one arm tied behind his back,
(31:31):
he taught us how to understand the swamp in a
way that nobody ever has. So yeah, that was a
big loss.
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