November 10, 2025 • 36 mins
Jon has extended coverage of the impending end of the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, including reactions from President Trump and Dem politicians. Andrew Langer joins to offer his opinions on the shutdown news, his reaction to elections across the nation last week, and a controversial SNL host.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ill at joint face Andrews.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Suspicious package arrived at the facility.
Speaker 3 (00:05):
We've got plenty more on the other side. We will
talk much more about this again. You're looking live at
the Senate floor as the Democratic filibuster.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Has been broken.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
We have so far reached sixty. We're writing for the
official count, but right now sixty votes that would unlock
moving forward with this plan to reopen the government. On
the Senate side.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
The key thing to note there was the Democrats filibuster.
We're not out of the woods yet. We've just taken
a step forward. We can see the edge of the forest.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Or something.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
Kina City's News Talk A. I'm eleven thirty one oh
three five FM. My name is John Justice, and I
am so happy that you are with the show this morning,
joining me and the master control booth here on Twin
Cities News Talk in the sixth I have one carpet
next day install studios is Sam.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Good morning, Sam, Good morning.
Speaker 5 (01:04):
John.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
Went and saw Predator bad Lands last night, really well, yes,
yesterday afternoon, I should say, better than the Vikings game,
of which I missed the second half to go and
watch it. We would have watched it a lot earlier
or a lot sooner. Kyle's been working though, he's very busy.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
So it was great. Might be my favorite Predator movie.
H all right, I don't know about well, you gotta go.
I mean, listen, you go back to the first one.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
The first one's a classic, right, okay, So this is
in terms of modern storytelling, so next to the original,
I would say this is probably this is probably my
next favorite Predator movie.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
It was very, very very enjoyable.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
So and also a lot more enjoyable than the nonsense
regarding the shutdown, which we'll dive into on the show
today today as well.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
So's that too. Glad that you are here.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Andrew Langer, DC political insider, regulatory guru, he'll join us
at six point thirty this morning to help break some
of this down and we'll get into more of the
local reaction to everything that has transpired so far. So
let me get you have to speak, we'll set the
table if you will. The government shutdown did enter its
fortieth day over the weekend. You had senators in DC
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that we're working through the weekend. Oh so sad trying
to find a resolution to the funding fight. It's been
disrupting flights, let's federal workers without pay, mass confusion relating
to snap benefits and who is going to pay them again.
It's going to take a little bit of time to
break down what has transpired that's caused all of this confusion,
(02:47):
apart from the you know, being more specific that the Democrats,
activist judges, activists Supreme Court justices did everything they could
to sew as much chaos as possible heading into the
weekend and throughout the weekend. So prior to the vote
that took place last night, Senate Majority Leader John Thuns
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said the Chamber was a handful of votes away from
passing a bill to reopen the government, indicating that some
progress was made in negotiations. And then last night a
procedural vote was taken and the Senate voted sixty to
forty to move forward to go and reopen the government.
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Passed a continuing resolution without any guarantee on the Obamacare subsidies,
essentially leaving a handshake deal in place between Democrats and
Republicans in Congress that they will revisit the subsidies later on.
All of this is to say the Democrats could have
ended it well over thirty days ago. And what's happening
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right now is you have a handful of Democrats in
the Senate that are basic providing cover for the rest.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Of their party, many of whom are big mad.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
And I know they're big mad because they're posting videos
online and they're using a lot of profanity, which Sam
then has to go and edit, so I can play
the audio clips on the.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Air and hopefully I get them all.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
This is the Democrats and how they show that they're
powerful right among the criticism of their own party that
they're weak. They use an abundance of profanity, and they
also don't have any substance whatsoever. I have clips from
Senator Aaron may Quaid, I have Lieutenant Governor Senate candidate
Peggy Flan again. I have quotes from Tim Walls and
the Socket Wrench DFL party chair to share with you
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later on in the show. So, continuing to sort of
again set the stage on what actually has transpired here,
this procedural vote is just that it's basically a vote
of Democrats and Republicans to say, Okay, we agree that
it looks like we have enough people on board to
go ahead and move forward to vote to reopen the government,
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and this could take a couple of days for them
to get their act together to make this to make
this happen now. A lot of the confusion over the
weekend started because the US Supreme Court ended up siding
with President Donald Trump late on Friday, temporarily blocking in
order for the administration to somehow fully fun food stamps
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while Senate Democrats keep the government shut down. This caused
mass amounts of chaos. And this wasn't suddenly the Supreme
Court agreeing with the Trump administration. This was Justice Brown
who ended up issuing a ruling blocking the other activist
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judges that were forcing the Trump administration to make these
payments to snap without identifying where they were going to
go and pull the money from. It is very confusing.
I almost need the yarn and the corkboard to be
able to lay it all out. I will do the
best that I possibly can on the show this morning.
(06:10):
But basically, the activist judges went and attempted to force
Trump's hand. States responded, and then Jackson stepped in. Jackson
Brown stepped in, not the singer, the Justice. Make sure
I got that clear, and she stopped the federal judge order.
But she did that because there were already moves being
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made by states to go and pay SNAP benefits, and
now stopping it made it sound as if the Trump
administration doesn't want to pay anybody Snap benefits, to which
you had commentary after commentary, comment after comment, and post
after post online saying, oh my gosh, look the Trump
administration doesn't want to feed people. They pushed back on
this order. No, those orders were done by activist judges
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without any sort of means for the federal government to
even move forward. On top of that, if you have
states that are paying out SNAP benefits at the local
level and then suddenly we have money flowing again from DC,
I mean, do you and I really believe, do you
really believe for a moment that they're going to reconcile
the math and figure out how much money was paid
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by the states, how much money the government needs to
go and give back to the states. I mean, again,
you're talking about nothing but pure and utter chaos, and
it was all intentionally by design. So I'll dive into
more details coming up. I have a couple of interesting
audio clips to play, including Trump and I haven't mentioned
(07:39):
the filibuster aspect of this prediction kind of came true.
Republicans were getting closer and closer to coalescing with removing
the filibuster and moving forward with election integrity, and suddenly
now Democrats are coming to the table. It's one of
the many reasons why they're caving a lot of.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Ground to cover.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
On the show this morning, as always, I want to
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Speaker 6 (08:18):
Good morning, and I love your show.
Speaker 7 (08:22):
Good morning, John, Welcome to a new week, and listen
to your show this morning. And if you're talking about
Democrats being big, mad and shouting and using lots of profanity,
and I'm kind of wondering, Oh so.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
It's today's a day that ends and why yes, happy one.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
Day to Yes, it is nothing new. I still like
to go and highlight it when it happens.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
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Speaker 8 (09:03):
Good morning, John, So, as you were describing the casts
over the weekend, and am I saying that you were
making it sound bad or anything, but the first thing
that came to my mind as you were describing it
was the great quote from the original Ghostbusters, dogs and
cats living together.
Speaker 9 (09:22):
It's mass hysteria. Have a great day, guys.
Speaker 8 (09:25):
What he means as old testament yester mayor real wrath
of God type stuff.
Speaker 10 (09:29):
The fire and brimstone coming down from the skies, rivers
and seas boiling forty.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
Years of darkness, earthquakes, volcanoes, the bad rising from the
great human sacrifice.
Speaker 6 (09:38):
Dogs and cats living together, massistaria.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
And this is what the Democrats have been doing for
the past thirty, well forty days, And now that we're
close to the end without any deal to be struck
regarding the Obamacare subsidies, it just goes to show that
this was nothing but political thing for the last forty days.
(10:03):
The Democrats could have done this thirty five forty days
ago easily.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
So what's changed.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
Will The elections are over this year, so that's changed,
and we'll cover this in further detail next hour. But
vulnerable Democrats caving providing cover for other Democrats.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Protests are over.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
It's getting too cold outside in certain parts of the
country to stage another No King's protests as we head
into the holidays. They're caving without getting anything that they've
been demanding in for what cheap political opportunism, spreading fear
among the voters of their base. President Donald Trump taunted
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Democrats on Saturdays, saying he believed that their caucus was
close to fracturing, and he was right. Over the government shutdown,
called on Republicans to do away with the filibuster once
and for all, clear the way for his agenda. Trump
said that they were cracking like dogs. I'm not familiar
with that phrase, but the second appearance of dogs on
(11:12):
the show this morning, I'm not sure cracking like like
is that a thing? Is that is that even? Is
that even? Is that even a phrase? I mean, I
have never I never you familiar with that crack. Yeah,
do dogs crack?
Speaker 9 (11:26):
No?
Speaker 1 (11:26):
I didn't. I didn't. I didn't think so.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
It happens sometimes when you want to go with colorful descriptions,
you don't always get him right out. Reminded of the
story that I've told on the year before when I
was talking to a local media outlet during my rock
radio days and I made a comment of an issue
being shelved under the rug. That's not how that works
at all. Trump did send a final warning heading over
the weekend.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Here's what he had to say is.
Speaker 6 (11:49):
Some of the things that we passed if we terminated
the filibuster, voter ID, no mail in voting, no cash bail,
no men in women's sports, you know, welfare for illegals.
You could go on and on. This is two pages
of things would do if you did that. Without it,
I don't know that you passed anything because you can't
deal with them. They're really irrational, they really are. But
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I was happy, happy to see that a tremendous liability
to this country, a woman that made herself rich in
this country, Nancy Pelosi is quit and she'll be out
of here pretty soon. And that I consider that to
be a great asset for America.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
Regarding the filibuster, as I said on Friday's show, I'm
on board with eliminating it because the Democrats have said
once they get back into power, they're going to do
just that. Right now, I think the opportunity is lost, unfortunately,
depending on how the next few days transpire, and I
don't know if there's going to be another opportunity heading
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into next year, because once they get past the shutdown,
we're right on the holidays. There's going to be very
little appetite between now and the end of the year
to move forward with anything with anything else. And a
part of the reasons why the reason why the Democrats
went and cave the way that they did is because
they're concerned about eliminating the filibuster and taking away the
ability of Democrats to go and pad voter rolls and
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conductionnanigans relating to the to our elections.
Speaker 11 (13:19):
Good morning, John, I'm glad you brought up the filibuster.
I think we still got to keep the gas on
the pedal to nuke that sucker. This is the soft
underbelly of the Democrat Party right now, and we've got
a lot of time between now and when we got
to slow things down for the mid terms, to cram
a lot of stuff in. We got to trifect the
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Democrats in this and get this stuff codified into law,
make it harder to get rid of.
Speaker 9 (13:46):
Good morning, Marry John.
Speaker 6 (13:49):
Let's not forget to wish the United States Marine Corps
a happy two hundred and fiftieth birthday today.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
Yes, absolutely, and thank you so much for reminding me
of that as well.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
All right, coming up, our.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
DC correspondent political insider Andrew Langer will join us. We'll
get his thoughts on the latest regarding the shutdown. Really
bizarre performance by Nicki Glazer on SNL over the weekend
rape molestation jokes. I didn't find it particularly funny. I
found it rather disturbing. Andrew Langer will share his thoughts.
(14:22):
We'll get back to more of your comments as well.
From the iHeartRadio app here on Twin Cities News Talk
Am eleven thirty and one oh three five FM, they have.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
What's called a Trump derangement problem. Have you heard about
that problem?
Speaker 12 (14:37):
Courn guys Alba Tchucker here from Salt Lake City say
the current federal state snap argument that's likely to happen
reminds me of when I was a server in college,
I'd have a table full of guys and at the
end of the night there would be one bill and
a random pile of twenties in the middle of the table.
If it was a table full of women, there would
be one bill, thirty five copies of receipts, pocket calculators, anger, recriminations,
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and nobody would go home happy.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
Yeah, it's about that confusing, just to say the to
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Speaker 4 (15:20):
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Institute for Liberty, Andrew Langer.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Good morning, Andrew.
Speaker 10 (15:34):
It's it's a mouthful, John, but you know, it's about
as confusing as trying to noodle all of this stuff
through what all is lots lots of moving parts. My
favorite part of the moving parts last night was the
fact that they were all waiting on John Cornyan to
arrive from Dallas Airport in order to actually have the
vote and say he.
Speaker 9 (15:51):
Oh, what's where's John Cornyn? Is he just being a deviatna?
He was.
Speaker 10 (15:56):
He went back to Texas and was taking taking time
from to get back from the air.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
So the Senate vote is the first in several votes needed.
So the Senate needs to modify the original House past
continuing resolution to move forward. So does it go back
to the House now? And then it's going to go
back to the Senate? Do we know what the process
is going to be at this point in time?
Speaker 10 (16:22):
It goes back to the House and and and that's
and the and the House votes that it's acceptable, and
then that's should.
Speaker 9 (16:31):
Be all well and done.
Speaker 10 (16:32):
And there's usually what happens is they've got to go
and negotiate, you know, any real fundamental changes between the
two Yeah, I mean, listen, it's it is largely what
you and I have talked about in the past. You know,
the elections, the the off cycle elections were held last week.
The Democrats won. They got you know the intent of
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their leverage of the shutdown was to you know, inflict
enough pain on the American people so that they would
take out their ground Republicans. They got that, and so
they came back last week and started negotiating. It just
took a little bit longer than I thought it was
going to at the end of the week. But but
you know, they they they, they they It's one of
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those things that's funny because you had the hue and cry.
Speaker 9 (17:17):
On MSNBC last night. Oh well, they didn't get anything.
Speaker 10 (17:22):
You know, why are we voting to reopen, which is,
by the way, an admission that it's the Democrats that
were doing this.
Speaker 9 (17:28):
Well, they did get what they wanted.
Speaker 10 (17:29):
They got they got the you know, they now control
Virginia and they continue to cur control New Jersey and
so they can move their agenda headlong there inflicting pain
in those states. Then they've got the obviously you've got
the jerry manderin situation in Virginia that's going to move
forward jerrymandering and other states. And so they are playing
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a very long game in terms of you know, maintaining
control and trying to disrupt the Trump agenda. Right and listen,
it's not as though they were hiding at John right.
The reality is that, you know, the New Jersey and
the Virginia elections were all about, you know, becoming a
bulwark against Trump. That's they were unabashed about that, certainly
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J Jones, certainly Abigail Spenberger, I think Mikey Cheryl as well.
Speaker 9 (18:19):
So anyway, so that's where we are right.
Speaker 10 (18:20):
They got what they wanted, even if they didn't get
approximately what they were claiming that they wanted, and so
now they can move forward.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
They got what they wanted narrative wise, in what they
were attempting to do by keeping it shut down for
as long as they did. I got a few different
places we can go here. So let me go here
first in terms of what they did get, and they
also got the ability in the future depending on how
Republicans move forward. Now it looks as if the philibuster
conversations seems to be shoved from the side, even though
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this is.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Going to come back up. And this is what I
wanted to mention, was.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
That if and when, let's say, the philibuster is still
in place and when Democrats do get power back in Congress,
I mean they now have just in terms of talking points,
plenty of Republicans on board with eliminating vocally the filibuster.
When they go to move forward to eliminate the filibuster,
and I changed my tune on this, Andrew. At the
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end of end of the week, I was not I
was not on board with the filibuster when you and
I spoke on Monday. By the end of the week
I had changed my tune regarding that because I think
Trump made some really good arguments relating to what he
wants to do with it. But the same time, Democrats
have been very vocal about wanting to get rid of it,
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and I'd rather go and get rid of it on
our terms and move forward with what we want to
do than allowing them the opportunity, if and when they
get in power, to go and eliminate it and do
what they want to they want to do. But as
of right now, it looks as if the conversation surrounding
the filibuster has all but died.
Speaker 10 (19:54):
Yeah, I mean, I think at the end of the day, right,
that's that's just it.
Speaker 9 (19:58):
It's you treade, you treade carefully.
Speaker 10 (20:04):
But you know, it's interesting because my policy fellow, the
woman I work with at SEAPEC, you know, she's long
talked to you know, her theory about a lot of
what Trump has been doing, you know, in terms of
getting the courts, you know, the courts sort of pushing
back on the various aspects of the Trumps, of the
Trump agenda.
Speaker 9 (20:25):
You know, her theory has been.
Speaker 10 (20:26):
That it's been a way of sort of laying out
precedence of that power so that when the Democrats do,
when Gavin Newsom comes back into power, there are these
other precedents that are out there to sort of say, no,
you can't do this, Yes you can do X, No
you can't do why.
Speaker 9 (20:46):
And I think there's some merit to that. I'm not
sure I agree with all of it, but you know,
it is nevertheless right.
Speaker 10 (20:51):
All of these things, uh, you know, represent the various
changes in how we conduct business.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
How much us let's go back to the last week
because you and I haven't had a chance to talk
since the since the election last week, and how much
I mean, how much do you put into the results?
I mean you're talking about mostly you know, blue states
where Democrats won in an off year election in which
Trump wasn't on the on the ballot. There wasn't a
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huge you know a lot of huge surprises. I think
the distance between some of these victories was a little
lighter than what people anticipated. And you know, something that
I discovered, you know, in the wake of the election results,
was that Abigail Spaanberger had run relatively for Democrats right now,
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comparatively speaking, moderate campaign compared to what you hear from
a lot of Democrats, including being very vocal about some
of the issues regarding trans you know, gender identity, racial issues,
saying that those were not things that Democrats were going
to be able to win elections off of. So I'm
just curious, you know, how much do you put into
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your commentary relating to the results of the election as
being negative for Republicans and a big, huge positive for Democrats.
Speaker 10 (22:08):
Well, I mean, listen, there are two ways to look
at it, John, One is on the structural side of it, right,
which is, what do these elections mean structurally for the
republic and what do they mean for the folks in
these states? And that's and what do they mean overall?
Speaker 9 (22:21):
Right? And that's that's the bad part of it, which
is that you.
Speaker 10 (22:25):
Know, if you know, the Democrat General Assembly in Virginia
which didn't pick up it, it didn't pick up as
many seats as they did, you know in twenty seventeen,
you know, the first Trump off cycle election. But nevertheless,
they have a resounding majority in the Virginia legislature. If
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they're able to gerrymander out a number of Republican seats, right,
it changes the makeup, right in the same way California
doing it changes the makeup. And it opens up the
door potentially for Maryland to do the same thing. And
they only have one Republican member of Congress. But still
it's an important thing to have, so structurally down the road,
it means a great deal politically, you're right.
Speaker 9 (23:09):
I mean, here's the thing. It wasn't in Virginia.
Speaker 10 (23:12):
It wasn't as bad as it was in twenty seventeen,
and that was bad. I would push back on Abigail's Spanberger.
Abigail Spanberger basically ran the race that Kamala Harris tried
to win in twenty twenty four, which is to say
nothing for as long as possible in the hopes of
appearing more moderate than she actually is, and with the same,
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by the way, the same sort of word salad issues
that Kamala Harris would get on the campaign trail. The
difference was there wasn't nearly as much exposure. She was
largely helped, she was able. Abigail Spaanberger was able to
define win Some Earl Series early on. And by the way,
what I love about this is we can no longer
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say that when an African American woman is not elected
to office, uh, it's racism and misogyny. Maybe it's just politics, right,
because you know, Winsom Earl Seers would have been the
first African American woman elected to become in Virginia. Not
that we play those kinds of politics, but the point is,
hopefully it puts no small measure.
Speaker 9 (24:16):
Of that to bed.
Speaker 10 (24:17):
Yeah Revant, Yeah right, so, but but you know, there
was you know, wins Earl Seers is not a great candidate.
She is a lovely woman, she's very smart, she is
uh you know, politically solid, but she's just not a
great candidate. And the campaign wasn't all that great. And
Abigail Spenberger was able to define her very early on,
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by the way, using a racist trope that nobody is
talking about, by essentially painting, uh, Winsome Earl Sears as
an angry black woman. That was the big The big
campaign ad was sort of win Some Earl Sears getting angry.
Speaker 9 (24:55):
At a at a after.
Speaker 10 (24:57):
Being heckled at a campaign speech, and so you know
that that's really what did it. You know, it was
a combination of those things, plus it really being able
to get the former federal for foreign and current foreign
and current furlough federal employees. Right, this is where the
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shutdown is so important in the Virginia race.
Speaker 9 (25:20):
Right.
Speaker 10 (25:21):
The longer that the furlough, the longer the shutdown goes on,
the more angry federal workers are going to get.
Speaker 9 (25:27):
And so they're going to vote for the change side
of it.
Speaker 10 (25:31):
And so, you know, the most less and the most disturbing,
the most disturbing aspect of the election results were not
only by how much Jason mieris, who really is a
great guy and has a real future in politics, the
attorney general, how much Jason Mars lost to Jay Jones,
the candidate who not only fantasized about killing Republican children
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but also engaged in sort of self dealing in terms
of not just a speeding ticket, but a criminal reckless
driving charge. Yeah, and by the way, given the ongoing
investigation of it, it may make him ineligible to become
attorney general. But my point is the amount by which
the amount by which Jay Jones b Jason miaris that
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that is that is a very disturbing.
Speaker 9 (26:21):
Number right there.
Speaker 10 (26:23):
But again right this gets back to the shutdown politics here.
That's what they wanted because they are looking at the
long term of what they can gain in terms of
regaining and holding onto power.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
Talking with Andrew Langer, yeah, the discourse is just atrocious
and the base of the Democrat Party just doesn't seem
to care about those types of threats. And then you
actually see that translate into I got done with my
prep early. I know you wanted to mention it. So
I went back and watched the opening monologue of Nikki Glazer,
(26:58):
the comedian on SNL from over the a can. I'm
curious what you have to say, I mean disturbing.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
You had no I thought it was funny.
Speaker 10 (27:07):
You thought it's Nicky Glazer.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
I mean, what are you gonna do?
Speaker 9 (27:11):
Nicky Lazer makes Nicky Glazer.
Speaker 10 (27:13):
Makes jokes about her about her her lady parts, she
makes jones of jokes about her sex life, she makes jokes.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
About but sex trafficking and bowl the station.
Speaker 10 (27:22):
I mean, yeah, I know, I know, listen, but that's
that's you know again, it's listen.
Speaker 9 (27:29):
Lorne Michael's wanted it up there.
Speaker 10 (27:31):
I yeah, I mean, listen, it's so funny because my
wife was just a guest at it. I'm like, it's
Nicky Glazer. This is this is standard roast level comedy.
She is the hot female equivalent of Jeff Ross, you know,
or the hot female equivalent of David tel or Jim Norton.
Speaker 9 (27:49):
That's that's what they do.
Speaker 10 (27:51):
What I did love was I we didn't even put
this in your prep but but Pete Davidson made it
a surprise appearance at which she also he poked it
at Lorne Michaels staying on as SNL producer, and you know,
Tina Fey being ready because I guess the New York
Times did a massive story. I don't know if you
know this, John Book, Pete Davidson and Colin Jost, you know,
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mister Scarlett Johanson.
Speaker 9 (28:15):
They bought a decommissioned.
Speaker 10 (28:17):
Staten Island ferry and apparently it's turned into some major
boondoggle in terms of money spending. So he came on
to answer the New York Times story about it. Listen,
at the end of the day, right, it's SNL. We
know that SNL is out of touch with so much
in America.
Speaker 9 (28:37):
I've benefits, I said, I've benefited Nicki Glazer.
Speaker 10 (28:39):
You bring Nicky Glazer on and you have herd her
stand up for the monologue. That's what you're gonna get.
She's not Patton Oswalt, she's not John mulaney.
Speaker 9 (28:49):
She's Nicky Glazer. This is who she is.
Speaker 4 (28:51):
Speaking of Pete Davidson, we went and saw that the
youngest Kyle, like say young, he's going to be nineteen
here in a few weeks. But went to go see
the New Predator bad Lands yesterday, which was great, by
the way.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
I was really really fun movie, but totally got tracked
to the middle of the trailers.
Speaker 4 (29:10):
Pete Davidson pops up and you know, it starts off
and I'm thinking, I'm watching a trailer. It was an
ad for Alexa. I felt so deep there you go.
I felt so right in the middle of all the
other trailers. And they're spiking in ads, which I'm fine with,
by the way, if this is how movie theaters need
to go and stay alive into the future, I have
no issue with them running ads before.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
I can always show up to the movie late. It
doesn't bother me at all.
Speaker 10 (29:34):
Listen it's I logged. I logged time over the weekend
with the nineteen sixty John Sturge's classic The Magnificent Seven.
I don't even know what got it in my head,
but I decided to watch it. So yeah, that was
that was That was time well spent.
Speaker 9 (29:49):
Well.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
I'll toss a recommendation out.
Speaker 4 (29:51):
Only two episodes have been released so far, but the
new Apple Plus show Pluribus by the guy that did
Better Call Saul and Breaking Bad interesting, so I'll throw
that one.
Speaker 10 (30:01):
I hear good things about that. I hear good things
about slow horses. So you know, we're waiting for landing
and I I'm back.
Speaker 9 (30:07):
Yeah, yeah, so so so that's good. But yeah, John,
So you know, it's lots lots going on.
Speaker 10 (30:14):
I've got an interview with a guy named doctor Van Skin, economist,
former Trump Administration om BE official, talking about regulatory cost issues.
You're gonna see a lot more of this in the
coming weeks in terms of the podcast work that I'm doing.
Speaker 9 (30:29):
There's listen, there is some.
Speaker 10 (30:31):
Really exciting work being done across the country about dealing
with regulatory issues and how we look at the economic
impacts of regulation. Uh, you know, stuff coming out again
of Virginia and stuff coming out of Idaho. You know,
we're we're really, we're really in a in a renaissance
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period when it comes to looking at regulatory impacts both
directly and indirectly on the US economy.
Speaker 9 (30:59):
So stay tuned for those.
Speaker 4 (31:00):
Anything specific you want to point people out. I know
you're just doing a bit of a promo there, anything
else before I cut you? Li?
Speaker 5 (31:05):
Ye?
Speaker 10 (31:05):
No, I mean, I mean obviously, yeah, today's interview with
with with Van Skin. But you know, as always, if
you're not following me on on X, because may be
news coming up soon at Andrew Underscore Langer on X,
please check it out.
Speaker 4 (31:20):
And I know it'll be a couple of weeks until
we have a chance to talk again, so have a
good couple of weeks and well we'll talk to you
hopefully before December.
Speaker 10 (31:29):
Yeah, no, no, definitely And and yeah, so with that,
with that score, you know, because you obviously should be
tuned into John Justice in the mornings and all the
rest of the Twin Cities news programming. But you can
always find my podcast at Larry O'Connor O'Connor and company
shows online, so go go check those out too.
Speaker 4 (31:47):
Always great talking with you, and we'll talk to you
again real soon.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
Buddy.
Speaker 9 (31:50):
Happy Thanksgiving, Talk to John.
Speaker 5 (31:53):
Good morning John, Happy Monday. Hey Paul, getting rid of
the fellow buster. I can't disagree with you more. We
need to keep it. But I think what we need
to do is we need to change the rule on
the filipbuster. If you're going to filibuster, get your butt
down there in the Senate well and talk and talk
and talk and talk. It needs to be painful to
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whoever tries to filibuster as well make it work the
way it used to bring it back.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
Have a great day.
Speaker 4 (32:22):
Yeah, it'll be interesting to see where the filibuster talk goes.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
There is an assumption that can be made.
Speaker 4 (32:31):
That, seeing how Republicans could not get on board heading
into everything that's transpired over the weekend and Sunday with
this potential end to the shutdown, that if and when
Democrats were to get back into power, they would be
as reluctant as Republicans are. That's putting a lot of
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faith in Democrats right now, which I don't have, which
is why I was in support and I continue to
be in support now of getting rid of the filibuster
and moving for forward with everything that we can possibly
do to shore up our election integrity. But because of
where we are right now with the shutdown and the
fact that Republicans just did not have the votes heading
into the weekend, I think at this point in time,
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it's probably not going to happen.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
Let me get back to this though.
Speaker 4 (33:17):
President Donald Trump, as we mentioned, did taunt the Democrats
on Saturday, talking about how they were close to cracking.
His comments came just twenty four hours after Schumer put
forth a proposal to bring an end to the shutdown,
saying the Democrats would come to the table if Republicans
would sign off on a one year extension of the
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Obamacare subsidies, a move that would bring the healthcare discussion
back to the forefront just in time for the midterm elections.
You had Senator Mark Wayne Mullen already said that Schumer's
offer was dead on arrival, and we know that it
was based on that procedural vote. Senator John Kennedy on
Fox News gave a slightly more colorful take.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
Here's a bit of what he had to say.
Speaker 13 (33:59):
What is your response to Chuck Schumer's proposal here to
keep those ACA benefits going for another year, bipartisan committee
to work on those and reopen.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
The government with the clean.
Speaker 14 (34:11):
Cr Oh, God, please give me patience, because if if
you give me strength, I'm going to need bail money.
Speaker 4 (34:30):
Kennedy's the best on a CNN Dana Bash cornered Representative
Jamie Raskin on this issue. This was on Friday. He
was clearly low to answer the question.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
One of the things that he has been talking about
for the last couple of days more intensely is getting
ready to filibuster. That's actually something that you wanted to
do when Joe Biden was president. Thanks for getting through
the Senate. Looks not an area where you agree with him.
Speaker 9 (34:58):
We don't need a procedural fix at this point.
Speaker 2 (35:01):
So they wanted the filibuster to be ended when Biden
was president. But now no, you know, I'm not in
the Senate, so I've got no say in that.
Speaker 4 (35:15):
All right, coming up, I'm going to do my best
to break down all of the confusion that took place
regarding snap payments. You had activist judges attempting to force
the Trump administration to move forward with making snap payments,
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not giving any indication on where the government was supposed
to go and pull this money from so because of that,
you had the USDA telling the States, hey, we need
to move forward making snap benefits. Local media outlets were
quick to go and frame this as if it was
Governor Tim Walls announcing November snap payments. And then you
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had Justice Brown Jackson come out pausing those orders by
those activist judges, forcing the USA the USDA to go
back to the States and say stop making any sort
of payments, which, of course without the proper context, Democrats
grabbed onto and tried to paint the Trump administration as
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being horrible and awful and not wanting people to have
the ability to buy food to eat.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
We'll get some more of your thoughts.
Speaker 4 (36:26):
From the iHeartRadio app as well via the talkbacks brought
to you by Lyndahl Realty. Coming up on hour two
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Speaker 2 (00:01):
Suspicious package arrived at the facility.
Speaker 3 (00:05):
We've got plenty more on the other side. We will
talk much more about this again. You're looking live at
the Senate floor as the Democratic filibuster.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Has been broken.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
We have so far reached sixty. We're writing for the
official count, but right now sixty votes that would unlock
moving forward with this plan to reopen the government. On
the Senate side.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
The key thing to note there was the Democrats filibuster.
We're not out of the woods yet. We've just taken
a step forward. We can see the edge of the forest.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Or something.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
Kina City's News Talk A. I'm eleven thirty one oh
three five FM. My name is John Justice, and I
am so happy that you are with the show this morning,
joining me and the master control booth here on Twin
Cities News Talk in the sixth I have one carpet
next day install studios is Sam.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Good morning, Sam, Good morning.
Speaker 5 (01:04):
John.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
Went and saw Predator bad Lands last night, really well, yes,
yesterday afternoon, I should say, better than the Vikings game,
of which I missed the second half to go and
watch it. We would have watched it a lot earlier
or a lot sooner. Kyle's been working though, he's very busy.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
So it was great. Might be my favorite Predator movie.
H all right, I don't know about well, you gotta go.
I mean, listen, you go back to the first one.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
The first one's a classic, right, okay, So this is
in terms of modern storytelling, so next to the original,
I would say this is probably this is probably my
next favorite Predator movie.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
It was very, very very enjoyable.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
So and also a lot more enjoyable than the nonsense
regarding the shutdown, which we'll dive into on the show
today today as well.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
So's that too. Glad that you are here.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Andrew Langer, DC political insider, regulatory guru, he'll join us
at six point thirty this morning to help break some
of this down and we'll get into more of the
local reaction to everything that has transpired so far. So
let me get you have to speak, we'll set the
table if you will. The government shutdown did enter its
fortieth day over the weekend. You had senators in DC
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that we're working through the weekend. Oh so sad trying
to find a resolution to the funding fight. It's been
disrupting flights, let's federal workers without pay, mass confusion relating
to snap benefits and who is going to pay them again.
It's going to take a little bit of time to
break down what has transpired that's caused all of this confusion,
(02:47):
apart from the you know, being more specific that the Democrats,
activist judges, activists Supreme Court justices did everything they could
to sew as much chaos as possible heading into the
weekend and throughout the weekend. So prior to the vote
that took place last night, Senate Majority Leader John Thuns
(03:07):
said the Chamber was a handful of votes away from
passing a bill to reopen the government, indicating that some
progress was made in negotiations. And then last night a
procedural vote was taken and the Senate voted sixty to
forty to move forward to go and reopen the government.
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Passed a continuing resolution without any guarantee on the Obamacare subsidies,
essentially leaving a handshake deal in place between Democrats and
Republicans in Congress that they will revisit the subsidies later on.
All of this is to say the Democrats could have
ended it well over thirty days ago. And what's happening
(03:53):
right now is you have a handful of Democrats in
the Senate that are basic providing cover for the rest.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Of their party, many of whom are big mad.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
And I know they're big mad because they're posting videos
online and they're using a lot of profanity, which Sam
then has to go and edit, so I can play
the audio clips on the.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Air and hopefully I get them all.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
This is the Democrats and how they show that they're
powerful right among the criticism of their own party that
they're weak. They use an abundance of profanity, and they
also don't have any substance whatsoever. I have clips from
Senator Aaron may Quaid, I have Lieutenant Governor Senate candidate
Peggy Flan again. I have quotes from Tim Walls and
the Socket Wrench DFL party chair to share with you
(04:47):
later on in the show. So, continuing to sort of
again set the stage on what actually has transpired here,
this procedural vote is just that it's basically a vote
of Democrats and Republicans to say, Okay, we agree that
it looks like we have enough people on board to
go ahead and move forward to vote to reopen the government,
(05:07):
and this could take a couple of days for them
to get their act together to make this to make
this happen now. A lot of the confusion over the
weekend started because the US Supreme Court ended up siding
with President Donald Trump late on Friday, temporarily blocking in
order for the administration to somehow fully fun food stamps
(05:28):
while Senate Democrats keep the government shut down. This caused
mass amounts of chaos. And this wasn't suddenly the Supreme
Court agreeing with the Trump administration. This was Justice Brown
who ended up issuing a ruling blocking the other activist
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judges that were forcing the Trump administration to make these
payments to snap without identifying where they were going to
go and pull the money from. It is very confusing.
I almost need the yarn and the corkboard to be
able to lay it all out. I will do the
best that I possibly can on the show this morning.
(06:10):
But basically, the activist judges went and attempted to force
Trump's hand. States responded, and then Jackson stepped in. Jackson
Brown stepped in, not the singer, the Justice. Make sure
I got that clear, and she stopped the federal judge order.
But she did that because there were already moves being
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made by states to go and pay SNAP benefits, and
now stopping it made it sound as if the Trump
administration doesn't want to pay anybody Snap benefits, to which
you had commentary after commentary, comment after comment, and post
after post online saying, oh my gosh, look the Trump
administration doesn't want to feed people. They pushed back on
this order. No, those orders were done by activist judges
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without any sort of means for the federal government to
even move forward. On top of that, if you have
states that are paying out SNAP benefits at the local
level and then suddenly we have money flowing again from DC,
I mean, do you and I really believe, do you
really believe for a moment that they're going to reconcile
the math and figure out how much money was paid
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by the states, how much money the government needs to
go and give back to the states. I mean, again,
you're talking about nothing but pure and utter chaos, and
it was all intentionally by design. So I'll dive into
more details coming up. I have a couple of interesting
audio clips to play, including Trump and I haven't mentioned
(07:39):
the filibuster aspect of this prediction kind of came true.
Republicans were getting closer and closer to coalescing with removing
the filibuster and moving forward with election integrity, and suddenly
now Democrats are coming to the table. It's one of
the many reasons why they're caving a lot of.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Ground to cover.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
On the show this morning, as always, I want to
hear from you. You can email me Justice at iHeartRadio
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Speaker 6 (08:18):
Good morning, and I love your show.
Speaker 7 (08:22):
Good morning, John, Welcome to a new week, and listen
to your show this morning. And if you're talking about
Democrats being big, mad and shouting and using lots of profanity,
and I'm kind of wondering, Oh so.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
It's today's a day that ends and why yes, happy one.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
Day to Yes, it is nothing new. I still like
to go and highlight it when it happens.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Thank you. JD twin City's News Talk from.
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Speaker 8 (09:03):
Good morning, John, So, as you were describing the casts
over the weekend, and am I saying that you were
making it sound bad or anything, but the first thing
that came to my mind as you were describing it
was the great quote from the original Ghostbusters, dogs and
cats living together.
Speaker 9 (09:22):
It's mass hysteria. Have a great day, guys.
Speaker 8 (09:25):
What he means as old testament yester mayor real wrath
of God type stuff.
Speaker 10 (09:29):
The fire and brimstone coming down from the skies, rivers
and seas boiling forty.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
Years of darkness, earthquakes, volcanoes, the bad rising from the
great human sacrifice.
Speaker 6 (09:38):
Dogs and cats living together, massistaria.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
And this is what the Democrats have been doing for
the past thirty, well forty days, And now that we're
close to the end without any deal to be struck
regarding the Obamacare subsidies, it just goes to show that
this was nothing but political thing for the last forty days.
(10:03):
The Democrats could have done this thirty five forty days
ago easily.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
So what's changed.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
Will The elections are over this year, so that's changed,
and we'll cover this in further detail next hour. But
vulnerable Democrats caving providing cover for other Democrats.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Protests are over.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
It's getting too cold outside in certain parts of the
country to stage another No King's protests as we head
into the holidays. They're caving without getting anything that they've
been demanding in for what cheap political opportunism, spreading fear
among the voters of their base. President Donald Trump taunted
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Democrats on Saturdays, saying he believed that their caucus was
close to fracturing, and he was right. Over the government shutdown,
called on Republicans to do away with the filibuster once
and for all, clear the way for his agenda. Trump
said that they were cracking like dogs. I'm not familiar
with that phrase, but the second appearance of dogs on
(11:12):
the show this morning, I'm not sure cracking like like
is that a thing? Is that is that even? Is
that even? Is that even a phrase? I mean, I
have never I never you familiar with that crack. Yeah,
do dogs crack?
Speaker 9 (11:26):
No?
Speaker 1 (11:26):
I didn't. I didn't. I didn't think so.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
It happens sometimes when you want to go with colorful descriptions,
you don't always get him right out. Reminded of the
story that I've told on the year before when I
was talking to a local media outlet during my rock
radio days and I made a comment of an issue
being shelved under the rug. That's not how that works
at all. Trump did send a final warning heading over
the weekend.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Here's what he had to say is.
Speaker 6 (11:49):
Some of the things that we passed if we terminated
the filibuster, voter ID, no mail in voting, no cash bail,
no men in women's sports, you know, welfare for illegals.
You could go on and on. This is two pages
of things would do if you did that. Without it,
I don't know that you passed anything because you can't
deal with them. They're really irrational, they really are. But
(12:12):
I was happy, happy to see that a tremendous liability
to this country, a woman that made herself rich in
this country, Nancy Pelosi is quit and she'll be out
of here pretty soon. And that I consider that to
be a great asset for America.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
Regarding the filibuster, as I said on Friday's show, I'm
on board with eliminating it because the Democrats have said
once they get back into power, they're going to do
just that. Right now, I think the opportunity is lost, unfortunately,
depending on how the next few days transpire, and I
don't know if there's going to be another opportunity heading
(12:49):
into next year, because once they get past the shutdown,
we're right on the holidays. There's going to be very
little appetite between now and the end of the year
to move forward with anything with anything else. And a
part of the reasons why the reason why the Democrats
went and cave the way that they did is because
they're concerned about eliminating the filibuster and taking away the
ability of Democrats to go and pad voter rolls and
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conductionnanigans relating to the to our elections.
Speaker 11 (13:19):
Good morning, John, I'm glad you brought up the filibuster.
I think we still got to keep the gas on
the pedal to nuke that sucker. This is the soft
underbelly of the Democrat Party right now, and we've got
a lot of time between now and when we got
to slow things down for the mid terms, to cram
a lot of stuff in. We got to trifect the
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Democrats in this and get this stuff codified into law,
make it harder to get rid of.
Speaker 9 (13:46):
Good morning, Marry John.
Speaker 6 (13:49):
Let's not forget to wish the United States Marine Corps
a happy two hundred and fiftieth birthday today.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
Yes, absolutely, and thank you so much for reminding me
of that as well.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
All right, coming up, our.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
DC correspondent political insider Andrew Langer will join us. We'll
get his thoughts on the latest regarding the shutdown. Really
bizarre performance by Nicki Glazer on SNL over the weekend
rape molestation jokes. I didn't find it particularly funny. I
found it rather disturbing. Andrew Langer will share his thoughts.
(14:22):
We'll get back to more of your comments as well.
From the iHeartRadio app here on Twin Cities News Talk
Am eleven thirty and one oh three five FM, they have.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
What's called a Trump derangement problem. Have you heard about
that problem?
Speaker 12 (14:37):
Courn guys Alba Tchucker here from Salt Lake City say
the current federal state snap argument that's likely to happen
reminds me of when I was a server in college,
I'd have a table full of guys and at the
end of the night there would be one bill and
a random pile of twenties in the middle of the table.
If it was a table full of women, there would
be one bill, thirty five copies of receipts, pocket calculators, anger, recriminations,
(15:01):
and nobody would go home happy.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
Yeah, it's about that confusing, just to say the to
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Speaker 4 (15:20):
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Institute for Liberty, Andrew Langer.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Good morning, Andrew.
Speaker 10 (15:34):
It's it's a mouthful, John, but you know, it's about
as confusing as trying to noodle all of this stuff
through what all is lots lots of moving parts. My
favorite part of the moving parts last night was the
fact that they were all waiting on John Cornyan to
arrive from Dallas Airport in order to actually have the
vote and say he.
Speaker 9 (15:51):
Oh, what's where's John Cornyn? Is he just being a deviatna?
He was.
Speaker 10 (15:56):
He went back to Texas and was taking taking time
from to get back from the air.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
So the Senate vote is the first in several votes needed.
So the Senate needs to modify the original House past
continuing resolution to move forward. So does it go back
to the House now? And then it's going to go
back to the Senate? Do we know what the process
is going to be at this point in time?
Speaker 10 (16:22):
It goes back to the House and and and that's
and the and the House votes that it's acceptable, and
then that's should.
Speaker 9 (16:31):
Be all well and done.
Speaker 10 (16:32):
And there's usually what happens is they've got to go
and negotiate, you know, any real fundamental changes between the
two Yeah, I mean, listen, it's it is largely what
you and I have talked about in the past. You know,
the elections, the the off cycle elections were held last week.
The Democrats won. They got you know the intent of
(16:53):
their leverage of the shutdown was to you know, inflict
enough pain on the American people so that they would
take out their ground Republicans. They got that, and so
they came back last week and started negotiating. It just
took a little bit longer than I thought it was
going to at the end of the week. But but
you know, they they they, they they It's one of
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those things that's funny because you had the hue and cry.
Speaker 9 (17:17):
On MSNBC last night. Oh well, they didn't get anything.
Speaker 10 (17:22):
You know, why are we voting to reopen, which is,
by the way, an admission that it's the Democrats that
were doing this.
Speaker 9 (17:28):
Well, they did get what they wanted.
Speaker 10 (17:29):
They got they got the you know, they now control
Virginia and they continue to cur control New Jersey and
so they can move their agenda headlong there inflicting pain
in those states. Then they've got the obviously you've got
the jerry manderin situation in Virginia that's going to move
forward jerrymandering and other states. And so they are playing
(17:52):
a very long game in terms of you know, maintaining
control and trying to disrupt the Trump agenda. Right and listen,
it's not as though they were hiding at John right.
The reality is that, you know, the New Jersey and
the Virginia elections were all about, you know, becoming a
bulwark against Trump. That's they were unabashed about that, certainly
(18:15):
J Jones, certainly Abigail Spenberger, I think Mikey Cheryl as well.
Speaker 9 (18:19):
So anyway, so that's where we are right.
Speaker 10 (18:20):
They got what they wanted, even if they didn't get
approximately what they were claiming that they wanted, and so
now they can move forward.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
They got what they wanted narrative wise, in what they
were attempting to do by keeping it shut down for
as long as they did. I got a few different
places we can go here. So let me go here
first in terms of what they did get, and they
also got the ability in the future depending on how
Republicans move forward. Now it looks as if the philibuster
conversations seems to be shoved from the side, even though
(18:52):
this is.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Going to come back up. And this is what I
wanted to mention, was.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
That if and when, let's say, the philibuster is still
in place and when Democrats do get power back in Congress,
I mean they now have just in terms of talking points,
plenty of Republicans on board with eliminating vocally the filibuster.
When they go to move forward to eliminate the filibuster,
and I changed my tune on this, Andrew. At the
(19:17):
end of end of the week, I was not I
was not on board with the filibuster when you and
I spoke on Monday. By the end of the week
I had changed my tune regarding that because I think
Trump made some really good arguments relating to what he
wants to do with it. But the same time, Democrats
have been very vocal about wanting to get rid of it,
(19:38):
and I'd rather go and get rid of it on
our terms and move forward with what we want to
do than allowing them the opportunity, if and when they
get in power, to go and eliminate it and do
what they want to they want to do. But as
of right now, it looks as if the conversation surrounding
the filibuster has all but died.
Speaker 10 (19:54):
Yeah, I mean, I think at the end of the day, right,
that's that's just it.
Speaker 9 (19:58):
It's you treade, you treade carefully.
Speaker 10 (20:04):
But you know, it's interesting because my policy fellow, the
woman I work with at SEAPEC, you know, she's long
talked to you know, her theory about a lot of
what Trump has been doing, you know, in terms of
getting the courts, you know, the courts sort of pushing
back on the various aspects of the Trumps, of the
Trump agenda.
Speaker 9 (20:25):
You know, her theory has been.
Speaker 10 (20:26):
That it's been a way of sort of laying out
precedence of that power so that when the Democrats do,
when Gavin Newsom comes back into power, there are these
other precedents that are out there to sort of say, no,
you can't do this, Yes you can do X, No
you can't do why.
Speaker 9 (20:46):
And I think there's some merit to that. I'm not
sure I agree with all of it, but you know,
it is nevertheless right.
Speaker 10 (20:51):
All of these things, uh, you know, represent the various
changes in how we conduct business.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
How much us let's go back to the last week
because you and I haven't had a chance to talk
since the since the election last week, and how much
I mean, how much do you put into the results?
I mean you're talking about mostly you know, blue states
where Democrats won in an off year election in which
Trump wasn't on the on the ballot. There wasn't a
(21:19):
huge you know a lot of huge surprises. I think
the distance between some of these victories was a little
lighter than what people anticipated. And you know, something that
I discovered, you know, in the wake of the election results,
was that Abigail Spaanberger had run relatively for Democrats right now,
(21:40):
comparatively speaking, moderate campaign compared to what you hear from
a lot of Democrats, including being very vocal about some
of the issues regarding trans you know, gender identity, racial issues,
saying that those were not things that Democrats were going
to be able to win elections off of. So I'm
just curious, you know, how much do you put into
(22:01):
your commentary relating to the results of the election as
being negative for Republicans and a big, huge positive for Democrats.
Speaker 10 (22:08):
Well, I mean, listen, there are two ways to look
at it, John, One is on the structural side of it, right,
which is, what do these elections mean structurally for the
republic and what do they mean for the folks in
these states? And that's and what do they mean overall?
Speaker 9 (22:21):
Right? And that's that's the bad part of it, which
is that you.
Speaker 10 (22:25):
Know, if you know, the Democrat General Assembly in Virginia
which didn't pick up it, it didn't pick up as
many seats as they did, you know in twenty seventeen,
you know, the first Trump off cycle election. But nevertheless,
they have a resounding majority in the Virginia legislature. If
(22:46):
they're able to gerrymander out a number of Republican seats, right,
it changes the makeup, right in the same way California
doing it changes the makeup. And it opens up the
door potentially for Maryland to do the same thing. And
they only have one Republican member of Congress. But still
it's an important thing to have, so structurally down the road,
it means a great deal politically, you're right.
Speaker 9 (23:09):
I mean, here's the thing. It wasn't in Virginia.
Speaker 10 (23:12):
It wasn't as bad as it was in twenty seventeen,
and that was bad. I would push back on Abigail's Spanberger.
Abigail Spanberger basically ran the race that Kamala Harris tried
to win in twenty twenty four, which is to say
nothing for as long as possible in the hopes of
appearing more moderate than she actually is, and with the same,
(23:34):
by the way, the same sort of word salad issues
that Kamala Harris would get on the campaign trail. The
difference was there wasn't nearly as much exposure. She was
largely helped, she was able. Abigail Spaanberger was able to
define win Some Earl Series early on. And by the way,
what I love about this is we can no longer
(23:57):
say that when an African American woman is not elected
to office, uh, it's racism and misogyny. Maybe it's just politics, right,
because you know, Winsom Earl Seers would have been the
first African American woman elected to become in Virginia. Not
that we play those kinds of politics, but the point is,
hopefully it puts no small measure.
Speaker 9 (24:16):
Of that to bed.
Speaker 10 (24:17):
Yeah Revant, Yeah right, so, but but you know, there
was you know, wins Earl Seers is not a great candidate.
She is a lovely woman, she's very smart, she is
uh you know, politically solid, but she's just not a
great candidate. And the campaign wasn't all that great. And
Abigail Spenberger was able to define her very early on,
(24:39):
by the way, using a racist trope that nobody is
talking about, by essentially painting, uh, Winsome Earl Sears as
an angry black woman. That was the big The big
campaign ad was sort of win Some Earl Sears getting angry.
Speaker 9 (24:55):
At a at a after.
Speaker 10 (24:57):
Being heckled at a campaign speech, and so you know
that that's really what did it. You know, it was
a combination of those things, plus it really being able
to get the former federal for foreign and current foreign
and current furlough federal employees. Right, this is where the
(25:17):
shutdown is so important in the Virginia race.
Speaker 9 (25:20):
Right.
Speaker 10 (25:21):
The longer that the furlough, the longer the shutdown goes on,
the more angry federal workers are going to get.
Speaker 9 (25:27):
And so they're going to vote for the change side
of it.
Speaker 10 (25:31):
And so, you know, the most less and the most disturbing,
the most disturbing aspect of the election results were not
only by how much Jason mieris, who really is a
great guy and has a real future in politics, the
attorney general, how much Jason Mars lost to Jay Jones,
the candidate who not only fantasized about killing Republican children
(25:53):
but also engaged in sort of self dealing in terms
of not just a speeding ticket, but a criminal reckless
driving charge. Yeah, and by the way, given the ongoing
investigation of it, it may make him ineligible to become
attorney general. But my point is the amount by which
the amount by which Jay Jones b Jason miaris that
(26:17):
that is that is a very disturbing.
Speaker 9 (26:21):
Number right there.
Speaker 10 (26:23):
But again right this gets back to the shutdown politics here.
That's what they wanted because they are looking at the
long term of what they can gain in terms of
regaining and holding onto power.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
Talking with Andrew Langer, yeah, the discourse is just atrocious
and the base of the Democrat Party just doesn't seem
to care about those types of threats. And then you
actually see that translate into I got done with my
prep early. I know you wanted to mention it. So
I went back and watched the opening monologue of Nikki Glazer,
(26:58):
the comedian on SNL from over the a can. I'm
curious what you have to say, I mean disturbing.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
You had no I thought it was funny.
Speaker 10 (27:07):
You thought it's Nicky Glazer.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
I mean, what are you gonna do?
Speaker 9 (27:11):
Nicky Lazer makes Nicky Glazer.
Speaker 10 (27:13):
Makes jokes about her about her her lady parts, she
makes jones of jokes about her sex life, she makes jokes.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
About but sex trafficking and bowl the station.
Speaker 10 (27:22):
I mean, yeah, I know, I know, listen, but that's
that's you know again, it's listen.
Speaker 9 (27:29):
Lorne Michael's wanted it up there.
Speaker 10 (27:31):
I yeah, I mean, listen, it's so funny because my
wife was just a guest at it. I'm like, it's
Nicky Glazer. This is this is standard roast level comedy.
She is the hot female equivalent of Jeff Ross, you know,
or the hot female equivalent of David tel or Jim Norton.
Speaker 9 (27:49):
That's that's what they do.
Speaker 10 (27:51):
What I did love was I we didn't even put
this in your prep but but Pete Davidson made it
a surprise appearance at which she also he poked it
at Lorne Michaels staying on as SNL producer, and you know,
Tina Fey being ready because I guess the New York
Times did a massive story. I don't know if you
know this, John Book, Pete Davidson and Colin Jost, you know,
(28:13):
mister Scarlett Johanson.
Speaker 9 (28:15):
They bought a decommissioned.
Speaker 10 (28:17):
Staten Island ferry and apparently it's turned into some major
boondoggle in terms of money spending. So he came on
to answer the New York Times story about it. Listen,
at the end of the day, right, it's SNL. We
know that SNL is out of touch with so much
in America.
Speaker 9 (28:37):
I've benefits, I said, I've benefited Nicki Glazer.
Speaker 10 (28:39):
You bring Nicky Glazer on and you have herd her
stand up for the monologue. That's what you're gonna get.
She's not Patton Oswalt, she's not John mulaney.
Speaker 9 (28:49):
She's Nicky Glazer. This is who she is.
Speaker 4 (28:51):
Speaking of Pete Davidson, we went and saw that the
youngest Kyle, like say young, he's going to be nineteen
here in a few weeks. But went to go see
the New Predator bad Lands yesterday, which was great, by
the way.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
I was really really fun movie, but totally got tracked
to the middle of the trailers.
Speaker 4 (29:10):
Pete Davidson pops up and you know, it starts off
and I'm thinking, I'm watching a trailer. It was an
ad for Alexa. I felt so deep there you go.
I felt so right in the middle of all the
other trailers. And they're spiking in ads, which I'm fine with,
by the way, if this is how movie theaters need
to go and stay alive into the future, I have
no issue with them running ads before.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
I can always show up to the movie late. It
doesn't bother me at all.
Speaker 10 (29:34):
Listen it's I logged. I logged time over the weekend
with the nineteen sixty John Sturge's classic The Magnificent Seven.
I don't even know what got it in my head,
but I decided to watch it. So yeah, that was
that was That was time well spent.
Speaker 9 (29:49):
Well.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
I'll toss a recommendation out.
Speaker 4 (29:51):
Only two episodes have been released so far, but the
new Apple Plus show Pluribus by the guy that did
Better Call Saul and Breaking Bad interesting, so I'll throw
that one.
Speaker 10 (30:01):
I hear good things about that. I hear good things
about slow horses. So you know, we're waiting for landing
and I I'm back.
Speaker 9 (30:07):
Yeah, yeah, so so so that's good. But yeah, John,
So you know, it's lots lots going on.
Speaker 10 (30:14):
I've got an interview with a guy named doctor Van Skin, economist,
former Trump Administration om BE official, talking about regulatory cost issues.
You're gonna see a lot more of this in the
coming weeks in terms of the podcast work that I'm doing.
Speaker 9 (30:29):
There's listen, there is some.
Speaker 10 (30:31):
Really exciting work being done across the country about dealing
with regulatory issues and how we look at the economic
impacts of regulation. Uh, you know, stuff coming out again
of Virginia and stuff coming out of Idaho. You know,
we're we're really, we're really in a in a renaissance
(30:52):
period when it comes to looking at regulatory impacts both
directly and indirectly on the US economy.
Speaker 9 (30:59):
So stay tuned for those.
Speaker 4 (31:00):
Anything specific you want to point people out. I know
you're just doing a bit of a promo there, anything
else before I cut you? Li?
Speaker 5 (31:05):
Ye?
Speaker 10 (31:05):
No, I mean, I mean obviously, yeah, today's interview with
with with Van Skin. But you know, as always, if
you're not following me on on X, because may be
news coming up soon at Andrew Underscore Langer on X,
please check it out.
Speaker 4 (31:20):
And I know it'll be a couple of weeks until
we have a chance to talk again, so have a
good couple of weeks and well we'll talk to you
hopefully before December.
Speaker 10 (31:29):
Yeah, no, no, definitely And and yeah, so with that,
with that score, you know, because you obviously should be
tuned into John Justice in the mornings and all the
rest of the Twin Cities news programming. But you can
always find my podcast at Larry O'Connor O'Connor and company
shows online, so go go check those out too.
Speaker 4 (31:47):
Always great talking with you, and we'll talk to you
again real soon.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
Buddy.
Speaker 9 (31:50):
Happy Thanksgiving, Talk to John.
Speaker 5 (31:53):
Good morning John, Happy Monday. Hey Paul, getting rid of
the fellow buster. I can't disagree with you more. We
need to keep it. But I think what we need
to do is we need to change the rule on
the filipbuster. If you're going to filibuster, get your butt
down there in the Senate well and talk and talk
and talk and talk. It needs to be painful to
(32:15):
whoever tries to filibuster as well make it work the
way it used to bring it back.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
Have a great day.
Speaker 4 (32:22):
Yeah, it'll be interesting to see where the filibuster talk goes.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
There is an assumption that can be made.
Speaker 4 (32:31):
That, seeing how Republicans could not get on board heading
into everything that's transpired over the weekend and Sunday with
this potential end to the shutdown, that if and when
Democrats were to get back into power, they would be
as reluctant as Republicans are. That's putting a lot of
(32:51):
faith in Democrats right now, which I don't have, which
is why I was in support and I continue to
be in support now of getting rid of the filibuster
and moving for forward with everything that we can possibly
do to shore up our election integrity. But because of
where we are right now with the shutdown and the
fact that Republicans just did not have the votes heading
into the weekend, I think at this point in time,
(33:13):
it's probably not going to happen.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
Let me get back to this though.
Speaker 4 (33:17):
President Donald Trump, as we mentioned, did taunt the Democrats
on Saturday, talking about how they were close to cracking.
His comments came just twenty four hours after Schumer put
forth a proposal to bring an end to the shutdown,
saying the Democrats would come to the table if Republicans
would sign off on a one year extension of the
(33:37):
Obamacare subsidies, a move that would bring the healthcare discussion
back to the forefront just in time for the midterm elections.
You had Senator Mark Wayne Mullen already said that Schumer's
offer was dead on arrival, and we know that it
was based on that procedural vote. Senator John Kennedy on
Fox News gave a slightly more colorful take.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
Here's a bit of what he had to say.
Speaker 13 (33:59):
What is your response to Chuck Schumer's proposal here to
keep those ACA benefits going for another year, bipartisan committee
to work on those and reopen.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
The government with the clean.
Speaker 14 (34:11):
Cr Oh, God, please give me patience, because if if
you give me strength, I'm going to need bail money.
Speaker 4 (34:30):
Kennedy's the best on a CNN Dana Bash cornered Representative
Jamie Raskin on this issue. This was on Friday. He
was clearly low to answer the question.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
One of the things that he has been talking about
for the last couple of days more intensely is getting
ready to filibuster. That's actually something that you wanted to
do when Joe Biden was president. Thanks for getting through
the Senate. Looks not an area where you agree with him.
Speaker 9 (34:58):
We don't need a procedural fix at this point.
Speaker 2 (35:01):
So they wanted the filibuster to be ended when Biden
was president. But now no, you know, I'm not in
the Senate, so I've got no say in that.
Speaker 4 (35:15):
All right, coming up, I'm going to do my best
to break down all of the confusion that took place
regarding snap payments. You had activist judges attempting to force
the Trump administration to move forward with making snap payments,
(35:35):
not giving any indication on where the government was supposed
to go and pull this money from so because of that,
you had the USDA telling the States, hey, we need
to move forward making snap benefits. Local media outlets were
quick to go and frame this as if it was
Governor Tim Walls announcing November snap payments. And then you
(35:58):
had Justice Brown Jackson come out pausing those orders by
those activist judges, forcing the USA the USDA to go
back to the States and say stop making any sort
of payments, which, of course without the proper context, Democrats
grabbed onto and tried to paint the Trump administration as
(36:19):
being horrible and awful and not wanting people to have
the ability to buy food to eat.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
We'll get some more of your thoughts.
Speaker 4 (36:26):
From the iHeartRadio app as well via the talkbacks brought
to you by Lyndahl Realty. Coming up on hour two
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