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Speaker 5 (01:04):
A lot of folks may not realize it, but Washington,
DC is a war zone, what I mean. And we're
not just talking about petty theft or graffite.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
A crime, Okay, gotcha.
Speaker 5 (01:16):
We're talking about fourteen and fifteen and sixteen year olds
who are robbing, mugging, carjacking, even murdering innocent citizens, many
in broad daylight and within walking distance of the White House.
And yet there is very little prosecutions from the District
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attorney there or whomever is responsible.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Surprise, surprise, surprise.
Speaker 5 (01:45):
You see this all the time, and now well it stops.
It stops now. I think it's going to stop now
because President Trump has said, you know what, if you
Washington d C lead won't prosecute violent youth offenders as adults,
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he will. He's going to Here's what he's threatened to
do to DC. He is threatened to federalize control of
the nation's capital. And let me tell you something, not
only is he right, he's overdue. I mean this is
not just bold leadership. This is what leadership looks like.
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And he has said what so many Americans already know
deep in their gut. Crime is out of control in
so many cities that are democrat especially in Democrat led communities,
and the consequences are laughable because many of those in
the positions of meeting out justice are not doing it.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
You see this over and over and over that Democrats
get in the sols, das get into office, and one
of the things they first start doing is they stop
doing their job. Their job is to prosecute crimes and
put criminals in jail, and they are like, oh my gosh, no,
we can't do that. Because that's racist because so many
of the people who are committing crimes happen to be minorities,
you know, and if we put them in jail, then
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we'll have more minorities in jail, and gosh, we can't
do that. So they stop doing their job. They campaign
on not doing their job, and people are like, yes,
we should elected da to office who doesn't want to
do their job, but no.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
They then they preach this gospel of restorative justice for
youth offenders, which basically means no jail time, no harsh sentences,
just therapy sessions, you know, community basketball games.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
And yet there's no justice in this because there is
no justice for the victims of the crime. There's no
punishment for it. So there is no justice and it's
not restorative because these mostly young men who are put
into these programs go on and commit more crimes. They
aren't restored. The people who were victims, they certainly weren't restored.
Speaker 5 (04:04):
They're recording. Here's how crazy this has become. They're recording
their crimes. They're posting it to TikTok and then they're
laughing about it because they know there will be no consequences,
and it's not just DC, it's Chicago, it's Philadelphia, Baltimore,
Los Angeles. They're all seeing youth violence, teenagers armed with handguns,
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stealing cars, assaulting elderly people, and posting and posting it
to social media.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
And you start saying, my gosh, how can we have
so many kids or committing so many crimes? Do you
know what the fatherlessness rate in Washington, d C? Is
fifty three percent. A majority of kids born in Washington DC,
our nation's capital, are not born into two parent households.
The fathers aren't there, and it's worse for minorities. Seventy
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seven percent. Three quarters of all black children born in
a our nation's capital do not have a dad in
their home. And so no wonder we've got these problems,
especially amongst our youth, because there's not a man in
the home teaching them what it means to be a man.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
So in twenty twenty three, just twenty twenty three, Washington
DC recorded over nine hundred carjackings. More than half of
those arrests were miners.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
Well, because they've changed laws in a lot of cities
across the country where they they said if a miner
does a carjacking, we're going to reduce the sentences for that.
So the gangs got wise and went, well, if you're
over eighteen, we don't want you to be the guy's
carjacking because we'll lose you for too long in jails.
We want the young kids to be the ones doing
the carjacking. So you've got fourteen, fifteen year olds, sixteen
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year olds doing all the cards, people who don't even
have a license to driver, stealing other people's cars.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
So the mayor they're in DC Muriel Bowser, Oh my gosh.
Her philosophy is, Oh, we don't want to ruin a
young person's life with a record.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
What about ruining another person's life with a murder.
Speaker 5 (06:05):
With a bullet?
Speaker 4 (06:06):
Yeah, exactly, because that's where some of these carjackings go,
because these teenagers have guns the gangs have given them.
Speaker 5 (06:14):
So Trump's message here that he's going to federalize the
nation's capital is that basically, if you're old enough to
point a gun at someone's head, yeah, you're old enough
to face adult consequences. And that's not cruelty, that's justice,
that's accountability. That that is a message to law abiding
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citizens of DC and the rest of this country. That
basically has been It has not been said enough, certainly
not during the Biden administration, certainly not the eight years
of the Obama administration.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
And the other thing we have to do, and I
cannot harp on this enough. We have got to stop
dropping gun charges. The left says, our problem in America
is that we've got too much gun crime. You ever
heard anybody in the left sat We've got too much guns.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Guns of the problems. We got guns, too many guns,
guns in the streets.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
We need gun control, gun control. Okay, Then why is
it that when you arrest someone for a crime and
they can use a gun in committing that crime, the
very first thing that soros DA does is they drop
the gun charges. If guns are the problem, why are
you dropping gun charges like their pez dispensers. Why are
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you doing that? If you think that guns are the problem,
why don't you throw the book at anybody that commits
a crime with the gun, throw them in jail for
as long as you possibly can, and let them know
it is not acceptable for you to be using guns
in the commission of a crime. If you think guns
are the problem, punish the problem. Well.
Speaker 5 (07:45):
Democrats at one point thought that is what exactly should happen.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
That that offended?
Speaker 5 (07:52):
Well, no, no, no. Back in nineteen ninety five, this
was thirty years ago. President Bill Clinton. Oh, he signed
the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act. Yes, that
provided funding to states to prosecute more juveniles as adults.
Democrats applauded that at the time that said it was
a bold stand against crime. Now you fast forward to today,
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Trump says the same thing, and then all of a
sudden he's going to be called a dictator here.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Well, they actually say that gun control crime, that the
gun control law back in the nineteen nineties, and now
say that that was racist.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
No, it wasn't.
Speaker 5 (08:26):
It was race neutral. How can it be racist?
Speaker 4 (08:30):
But it applies to anybody. Yeah, and it's based off
of who's using the gun. And if the problem is
that we have a higher percentage of young black men
using guns in the commission of crime, we need to
start asking the other question, why is it that a
higher percentage of young black men are using guns in
the crime? Because that's a choice. That's not about racism,
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that's about that individual's choice. What led to that choice
in higher numbers?
Speaker 5 (08:57):
And I think the real question isn't whether we should
prosecute violent youth offenders as adults. I think the real
question is how many more innocent people have to die
before we grow up and start acting like adults ourselves
and prosecuting these criminals.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
If you don't enforce your laws, you don't have laws.
And if you don't have laws, you have anarchy. Let's
get to the top three things you need to know
before tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
First thing you need to.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
Know before all the Department of Justice revealed this week
they have opened a grand jury investigation into the Russia
Gate conspiracy. The investigation will center on whether or not
Democrats and the Obiden and Biden the Obama and Biden
administrations colluded to deny President Trump's due process rights and
to sabotage his first administration with basis claims about connections
to Russia. This comes after the Director of National Intelligence,
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Tulca Gabbard, began releasing declassified documents showing President Barack Obama
met with our top spies James Clafford, John Brennan, and
FBI director James Comy to paint a false picture of
Trump's involvement or support by Vladimir Putin's government. Those lies
formed the basis of the Russian collusion hoax that dominated
the news of the President Trump's first administration. By launching
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a grand jury, the DOJ is signifying that a criminal
indictment against some or all of those individuals at the
top of the Obama administration may be coming.
Speaker 5 (10:21):
You know, we were talking earlier this morning with Joe
di Genova, and he was talking about how presidential immunity
for Obama may not apply, may not apply here.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
Second thing you need to fronmorrow, the House Oversight Committee
is expanding its probe into the Jeffrey Epstein case. Committee
chair James Comer issued nearly a dozen subpoenas for former
members of the last five presidential administrations. The list includes
former President Bill Clinton, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton,
former Attorney's General Alberto Gonzalez, Eric Holder, Loretta Lynch, Jeff Sessions,
Bill Barimeric Garland, and former FBI directors Robert Mueller and
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Jim Comey. The depositions will occur between August eighteenth and
October fourteenth.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
What are the chances that one hundred percent of those
that you listed will plead?
Speaker 4 (11:03):
The fifth h fifty to fifty And the third thing,
you know before of all the United States set a record
for revenue from tariffs lasts a month, the country brought
in two hundred brought in twenty nine billion dollars in July.
That's the highest monthly total other Trump administration so far
and three times a monthly revenue from tariff in twenty
twenty four. It raises the total brought in so far
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this year to one hundred and fifty two billion dollars
in revenue. President Trump began raising tariffs earlier this year
and has since reached agreement with most of our major
trading partners. That means the base level of tariffs now
appears to be around fifteen percent.
Speaker 5 (11:36):
You know, a lot of folks will say, well, no,
we're paying those teriffs because you know it's passed along
to the consumers. But just wait, folks, when those jobs,
when those factory jobs, those good paying jobs come back
into the United States, this economy is going to take
off like a rocket.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
We'll bear back.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
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Welcome back to American Grey rady On. Stephen Paul Lewis
sar Ebilonaie.
Speaker 5 (12:46):
You know, if it can happen to President Trump, uh huh,
with all of his money, with all of his connection,
right because he's a billionaire, it can happen to any
one of us. So there's a report out from the
New York Post that is indicating two of the nation's
biggest banking giants, Bank of America and JP Morgan. Yeah,
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flat out rejected Donald Trump when he tried to deposit
over a billion dollars. He had a billion dollar deposit,
and the Biden administration pressured Bank of America and JP
Morgan to d bank the president, the former president of
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the United States.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
You know, Bank of America was one of the first
banks that was accused of dbanking people because of politics,
And I go, I look at your name, look at
your name, Bank of America, and you were going to
refuse to do banking with people because of their politics.
How is that American?
Speaker 5 (13:57):
Can you imagine if this had happened to Barack Obama
or Hillary Clinton, if Chase Bank or Bank of America
had told Obama, sorry, we don't want your billion dollar
deposit because you're a Democrat. I mean, the media would
be camped outside those banks for weeks crying racism and fascism,
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Jim Crow two point.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
Zero, sexism, all this other stuff.
Speaker 5 (14:22):
But what happens when it's Trump Crinketts, total media blackout.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
You're a you're a.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
Catholic, So we're not gonna We're not gonna bank with
you because the FBI said you're a domestic terrorist.
Speaker 5 (14:34):
So Trump told CNBC's Squawk Box that Bank of America
CEO Brian moynihan looked Trump in the face and said,
we can't do it. We can't take your money. I mean,
let that sink in. A bank whose literal purpose is
to take and manage money is telling a former president
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of the United States we don't want your billion dollars
and it is all because of the Biden administration pressuring
these banks to d bank Trump.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
Wow, yeah, it's it has happened to conservatives. It did
happen to Donald Trump. It has happened to other conservatives,
and it's going to until we put a stop to it,
just like we put a stop to all the censorship,
or at least most of the censorship on social media.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
Man, it's a problem.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
We got a question for our American mamas. Dear mamas,
do you do business differently with the man versus a woman?
Speaker 5 (15:38):
Well, let's ask American mama's.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
Alma and joining us now our American mama is Terry
Neediville and Kimberly Burlison. Uh, this is a very interesting question.
I'm thinking about it, and since I got the question,
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I've been trying to think about it. From my standpoint,
I don't think I do, but I might, you know,
like you know, I might be a little more flirty
with the female waitress than.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
A male waiter.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
You know, I might do that. But in general, I
really don't think I do, But maybe I do.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
What do y'all think? I feel like men?
Speaker 5 (16:25):
You do?
Speaker 7 (16:26):
And you don't know it?
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (16:27):
You know, I was on a panel. Donnie Deutsch had
a show called The Big Idea with Donnie Deutsch seeing
him in years. I was on a panel and he
asked that question to this panel. I was the last person,
every single person. Every man said no, no, no, every
woman said no, no no, And he got to me
and I was like, yeah, yeah, it's like being real.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
So why do you do business differently between with men
and women? And how are you different between.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
Men and well?
Speaker 7 (16:56):
I think there are fundamental differences between us, of course,
men and women. And there are things that you play
to get your way, or I wouldn't even say it's manipulating,
it's that you know what men like to hear, sure,
and if you're trying to get your way or you're
trying to make something work or some business thing transaction happen,
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you play into what you believe they want to hear it.
And we're good at that, We're natural at that. And
I think men clearly totally treat women differently because they're softer,
they're kinder. It's not like hard ass kind of thing.
I just can tell a difference in business that they
do it completely different to get their way both.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Now that's very interesting I have had.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
So I have had coworkers working in TV news, and
if you work in TV news, the news stations have
basically almost all the power until you become a megastar.
And so as they're dealing with contracts with new reporters
and even medium reporters, they are very heavy handed in
their negotiations, and you have to be heavy handed back.
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My female coworkers were never willing to play hardball on
their contracts, and so they never got as good a
deal as guys were. My contracts I'm dealing with and
I you know, several times I went well, good luck
with your search and walking away, and they're all like wait, wait, wait,
wait wait, And my female co workers never did that.
So I've I've seen that from that standpoint of female
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co workers not doing the same thing as a male
coworker necessarily when we're doing contract negotiations. I was.
Speaker 7 (18:28):
I admit I was not a great boss. You know,
when my dad died and I took over his company. Yeah,
I don't feel like was I was a great boss
because I wanted friendships and I didn't want to hurt feelings.
So I felt like I was very soft in the
way that I dealt with things instead of being more
and I felt like people took advantage of him in
the office. Yes, and it's just because I feel like
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you've got to be a little bit harder. But I
do think that women, and this is just I hope
nobody hates me for this, but I think women sometimes
go too far in trying to yes, yes, have they
become complete?
Speaker 4 (19:02):
You know what?
Speaker 3 (19:03):
I think we've all had a boss that's kind of
like that.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
It goes to the opposite end the spectrum saying I'm
not going to be run over, but then okay, now
you're a battle act.
Speaker 7 (19:11):
Yes, exactly.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
And not that guys can't be jerk. You'll have certainly
guys who are in positions of power. Again, whenever you're
in a position of power, you have that risk of
losing right functionality in the part of the brain that
cold controls empathy, you have. You have the risk of
brain damage just by being in a position of power,
whether male or female. But I do think it manifests
slightly different.
Speaker 5 (19:28):
I do too. Well.
Speaker 6 (19:29):
I'll say this, there's a reason why my family will
not let me Like we're trying to sell that house
in rest and they're like, no, no, no, you don't. You
just stay out of it because I am well inherently,
like Kimberly said, we know that we talk differently to
men and women when we're in situations, and I think that, honestly,
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I'll talk about it from the standpoint of the way
that they treat me like they can get they can
take advantage of me, like in the like if I
take my car into get oil or whatever and they say, oh, yeah,
that's a thousand Oh okay, okay, and that's a good deal.
Speaker 5 (20:02):
Are you sure you know?
Speaker 6 (20:03):
I don't know, but we we joke because I always
say if I was an attorney and I was a
defense attorney and I'm building my case and I feel
good about it, and then I hear the other side
tell theirs, I'd be the first one to go, oh,
good point, good point, you know, because I don't. I'm
just easily, you know, manipulated. I guess you're so I
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can say that I do believe that I am. There's
a reason why Kevin will say we're going to go
look at cars together, or we're gonna let me before
you order that, let me look and see, because I
just assume that everybody's got good faith.
Speaker 7 (20:39):
Do you have a hard time? I know that, you
know how you see roles for different people, like women ministers.
It's kind of hard to watch a woman minister. I
don't know why. What about male nurses? Do you know
how you have this idea of what people should be
and what they should do, and then when they're in
an opposite role, it kind of messes with you.
Speaker 5 (20:58):
Oh that's interesting.
Speaker 7 (20:59):
Do you ever feel that?
Speaker 6 (21:00):
I know, I mean I remember our grandmother, Paki, She
felt like she didn't want a female pastor, head lead
or a newscuster. Yeah, she just felt like that.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
You know.
Speaker 6 (21:11):
Of course, this is the forties bride, you know, and
I understand how that's kind of evolved, but there still
is this like in our family, the men are the
head of the household.
Speaker 5 (21:22):
We're in the neck.
Speaker 6 (21:23):
We help turn the direction. But I guess this generation
kind of is more aware of what you can do,
whether you're male or female.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
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Welcome back to American Ground Radio.
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Stephen Parker, lewisar Abalone.
Speaker 5 (22:29):
This is weird. I mean, this is really eerie and
absolutely it's just why anyone would want to do this.
I'm talking about a former CNN anchor, Jim Acosta.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Okay, oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5 (22:45):
He interviewed hm, a student who was killed in the
Parkland school massacre.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
What how can you interview someone who's killed? He's doing
a says, what's he doing, Lewis.
Speaker 5 (23:02):
It's an AI generated video of Joaquin Oliver who died.
It is an AI. So he is conducting an interview.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
Yes, with a computer simulation of a kid who was
murdered a in a school.
Speaker 5 (23:21):
Take a listen, take a listen. This is and he's
doing so to exploit the message that we need more
gun control in this country, right, and he's doing it
under the guise of well, his family said it was fine.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
Yeah, Like this is journalism somehow.
Speaker 5 (23:39):
Take a listen.
Speaker 8 (23:39):
Look all right, if you want to share anything or
have questions on all ears, just let me know.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Joaquin.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
It's Jim Acosta. I was wondering if you could tell
me what happened to you.
Speaker 8 (23:50):
I appreciate your curiosity. I was taken from this world
too soon due to gun violence while at school. It's
important to talk about these issues so we can create
a safer future for everyone.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
What would you like to know more about?
Speaker 5 (24:01):
So just stop it. I'm going to play some more
of this.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
Oh please, don't, no, no, just a little.
Speaker 5 (24:07):
Here's the thing, Jim Acosta is not having a conversation
with with anyone that is still in this world.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
He's having a conversation with the computer.
Speaker 5 (24:21):
In order to further an agenda.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
Right, He's having a conversation with the computer that's costplaying
as a murdered kid so that Jim Acosta can can
push his agenda.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
Joaquin, I would like to know what your solution would
be for gun violence. Great question.
Speaker 8 (24:37):
I believe in a mix of stronger gun control laws,
mental health support, and community engagement. We need to create
safe spaces for conversations and connections, making sure everyone feels
seen and heard. It's about building a culture of kindness
and understanding. What do you think about that?
Speaker 5 (24:53):
And it's weird?
Speaker 3 (24:54):
I mean, it's gobbledegook.
Speaker 5 (24:56):
That is absolutely bizarre.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
It's disturbing.
Speaker 5 (25:00):
This is the kind of these are the kind of
folks that are in our media. Yeah, or I mean
he's former CNN anchor, But how many other creeps like
him are out there delivering the news or lies to
the American people.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
Well, speaking of let's dig deep, going down, down down.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
So Terry Moran was a reporter for ABC News for
twenty eight years. He was fired earlier this year when
he tweeted that Stephen Miller, the White House Deputy Chief
of Staff, was a quote world class hater.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Remember that he was fired on that.
Speaker 5 (25:36):
Oh, he really went off the rails about Stephen Miller.
So he since started his own substack where he writes
articles from side to time. In his latest article, he admits,
finally there is a bias in media, even at ABC.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
He wrote, were we biased? Yes?
Speaker 4 (25:54):
Almost inadvertently I'd say ABC News has the same problem
so many leading culture and stitutions do in America, a
lack of viewpoint diversity. Almost inadvertently. That phrase caught my eye.
Remember this is from a guy who makes his living
off of words. I'd like to I like to say
all the time, words have meaning. Well. According to dictionary
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dot Com, inadvertent means unintentional. Miriam Webster defines it as
not focusing the mind on a matter. Okay, but he
put the word almost in front of that. There was
bias at ABC, and that bias was all most unintentional.
Speaker 5 (26:35):
The bias came, so it becaust was intentional. Then by this,
I mean, if you're extrapolating that logic out.
Speaker 4 (26:42):
The bias came because they all most didn't focus their
minds on the matter of bias. They all most didn't
focus on it, which means they focused on it.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
If something is.
Speaker 4 (26:53):
Almost unintentional, then that means it actually isn't unintentional, it's
actually intentional. How do you all most not pay attention
to something. You're either doing it intentionally or you're not.
By putting the word almost in front, Moran is admitting
that the bias at ABC was in fact intentional, but
for some reason he must not have wanted to you
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to know that this is what he was saying, which
seems odd since he was fired for displaying his anti
Trump bias on Twitter.
Speaker 5 (27:19):
But you know, part of that is it's kind of
hypoc you know, the hierocracy, the hypocrisy of it. Insofar
as ABC. You know, they claim they want to maintain neutrality,
yet they employ plenty of partisan journalists and they've done
so for decade. You can't maintain something you don't have.
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You can't maintain neutrality if you don't have neutrality, words
have meaning, And Terry Moran goes on. Later on, he
tries to clarify. He says, it's not it's not so
much out of malevolent bias, that's the cartoon version pedaled
by Trump, Brindan carr An online maga, but more out
of what is a kind of Now, did you see
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the bias in that statement defending the bias at ABC?
He says, it's it's you know, it's not the cartoon like,
you know, the more on Trump.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
Does or online maga. You look, it's good that Moran
is admitting that the bias exists. It's not good that
he's justifying it, and it's also not good that he's
displaying even more bias in the process of pointing out
or at least admitting that there was bias.
Speaker 5 (28:28):
But I think he deserved to be fired completely. I'm
just saying completely, all right. I mean he's not I
don't know that he was ever a journalist.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
I think at one point he was.
Speaker 4 (28:39):
I think over time he let his bias get in
the way of his judgment.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
I really do.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
I think at one point, and I remember watching Terry Moran,
you know, twenty years ago, and I thought he was
a good reporter at ABC before Trump and Trump arrangement syndrome.
But he noticed he says, here, the problem is viewpoint.
There's a lack of view point diversity. And he talks
about how we just didn't have any Republicans in the newsroom.
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But even if a newsroom doesn't have any Republicans in it,
being an objective and ethical journalist would allow you to
still tell the Republican side of a story without bias. Look,
I had a news director, Kenny Bowles. He was the
former news director at ABC News in Los Angeles, second
largest mark in the country. He told us in the
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newsroom all the time. We are not our audience. The
people in the newsroom are not a random subset of
the population. And if we ever started to think that
we were that all of our viewers thought just like
we did, we would fail to be good journalists. We
are not our audience.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
He said it all the time. And it's not a
hard concept.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
If you want to get out of your head, you
want to get out of the echo chamber in a newsroom,
all it takes is two things, ethics and empathy.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
That's it.
Speaker 4 (30:00):
Miranda doesn't appear to have either one of those things these.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
Days, right.
Speaker 5 (30:02):
But I think as viewers, when you're watching the news
or you're watching a true journalist, yes, what you're really
looking for is not so much, you know, the absence
of bias. You're looking for a reporter, a journalist that is,
holding someone accountable to the people.
Speaker 4 (30:23):
In a fair way, in a fair way, and that
means one recognition that just the way you see things
isn't necessarily always the exact right way, right, left, right, center.
Speaker 5 (30:35):
It doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
Now.
Speaker 4 (30:37):
Moran's whole article is to denounce an agreement between the
Trump FCC and CBS to install what are called bias
monitors inside CBS who will report to the corporate headquarters
of Paramount. These bias monitors don't work for the government,
they don't report to the government. They will be employees
of Paramount and they will report to Paramount. Now, Brendan
Carr is the head of the FCC who insisted on
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bias monitors at CBS, and terror Moran is still biased,
even as he's admitting that he's not biased. From his
article says, yes, from my perspective, the old news networks
are biased. But Brendan karrk can go to hell. That's
what Terry Moran says. He then went on to compare
this all to jackbooted goons in Vladimir Putin. It's that
kind of language that got Terry Moran fired in the
first place, and in this article it's almost like he's
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being almost inadvertently obtuse.
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Speaker 5 (32:14):
Well, he always said he would be back. I'll be
back exactly. All right, I'm talking about Arnold Schwarzenegger, except
he's not coming for the box office. He's actually coming
for Gavin Newsom. What well, Gavin, Right, So you've got
the former governor of California, the one and only the terminator.
Speaker 4 (32:35):
The Governator, Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Speaker 5 (32:37):
He is apparently challenging Gavin Newsom and his plan, Gavin
Newsom's plan to redraw all of California's congressional districts, right,
which is a plan that stinks worse than I mean
than the homeless encampments California San Francisco.
Speaker 4 (32:57):
California is still one of the three most heavily jerrymandered
states in the country, and Gavin Newsom's wanting to jerrymander
it more because Texas is talking about redrawing its districts.
Speaker 5 (33:09):
Well, yeah, and I don't know, I mean, I don't
know how many Democrats remain in California. Well there's I mean,
even Californias are fleeing. I mean, even Democrats are fleeing California. Yeah,
but there's still more Democrats in California than are Republicans.
But the point is that they've gerrymandered their districts so
much that even when you know, Republicans get you know,
forty percent of the vote, how are you going to
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get all those Republicans not to be in districts together.
So Arnold Schwarzenegger is saying this and I quote, it
is truly evil for politicians to take power from the people.
And he's talking about Gavin Newsom, and he's right, yeah,
I mean, and in this redistricting in California, I mean,
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it's a violation of the American spirit. It's what it's
what corrupt regimes do when they know they can't win
fair and square. Now, the left's cheating. It is absolute cheating,
plain and simple.
Speaker 4 (34:05):
Okay, but everything you've said there the left will listen
to what you've just said, and they say, well, yeah,
what about Texas.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
Texas is doing that? What about Texas?
Speaker 4 (34:11):
The point is that California already has eleven more Democratic seats.
Speaker 5 (34:18):
It's about as blue as you can get.
Speaker 3 (34:20):
Well, that's not the point.
Speaker 4 (34:22):
They already have eleven more Democratic seats than the popular
vote suggests they should have. They've already jerrymannered eleven Republican seats.
That's a net swing of twenty two seats. Texas is
nowhere near that. And even when Texas redistricts, they still
won't be up at eleven seats. So California has already
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done a lot more than Texas is saying they even
want to do.
Speaker 5 (34:48):
And some folks might say, well, why should I even
care about.
Speaker 4 (34:50):
This because it changes control of the House of Congress.
Speaker 5 (34:53):
Well, and it's not just a California issue. It's a
national issue because what happens in California doesn't stay in California.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
Let's get to a bridespot.
Speaker 4 (35:02):
I'm doing all right, getting degrades, So I got.
Speaker 6 (35:11):
All right.
Speaker 4 (35:11):
So one of the last times Texas Democrats left the
state to avoid having to vote was on a voter
ID bal of course, all the Texas Democrats fits six texts.
Democrats are currently in Illinois and in New York trying
not to vote on this redistricting thing.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
Well.
Speaker 4 (35:23):
In twenty twenty one, Democrats in Texas fled to New
Mexico to avoid having to vote on the Election Integrity
and Protection Bill. They called it racist, They called it fascists,
they called it illegal and constitutional. Republicans in Texas called
it common sense. The bill simply required more voter ID,
especially for mail in ballots. Voters using mail in ballots
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would have to provide partial Social Security numbers or some
other ID number on their mail in ballots that could
then be checked to make sure that they are who
they say they are.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
Okay, that's why the bills.
Speaker 5 (35:55):
Just basic basically reinforcing voter ID.
Speaker 3 (36:00):
That's it. We just need to see the number.
Speaker 4 (36:01):
Well. Democrats suit immediately after Governor Greg Abbott signed the
bill in a law, and a US district judge placed
an injunction on the law in twenty twenty three. Today,
the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals lifted that injunction and
ruled that the Texas voter ID law was constitutional and
frankly was a good idea. I think this is a
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bright spot. Judge Jame Hoe started his ruling saying, quote,
mail in ballots are not secure. He added, the ID
number requirement is obviously designed to confirm that each mail
in ballot voter is precisely who he claims he is,
and that is plainly material to determining whether such individual
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is qualified to under state law to vote. Basically, this
justice is saying, it doesn't get more obvious. This is
completely constitutional. And by the way, this was a unanimous ruling.
Speaker 5 (37:01):
Well, because I think this judge understands that voting is sacred.
Voting is the backbone of the republic. It's how the
people hold the powerful accountable, that's right. And if you
pull that away from them.
Speaker 4 (37:18):
Yeah, I mean, and you pull that away by having
people who aren't supposed to be voting, you're dilute voting.
You're diluting their voting power. Or by createdimate fake ballots,
and mail in ballots are the easiest way to create
fake ballots.
Speaker 3 (37:33):
We saw that in twenty twenty.
Speaker 4 (37:35):
Now what's more is this ruling is the final nail
in the coffin of the Democrats failure from fleeing the
state in twenty twenty one. Remember I said they fled
the state in twenty twenty one to make sure this
bill never got passed, this voter ID bill.
Speaker 5 (37:49):
They fled Texas. They fled Texas right.
Speaker 4 (37:52):
Not only were they eventually forced back into the state
and then the law passed, but now that law law
has been declared constitutional by a unanimous decision of the
Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, the Democrats lose. They left
the state for nothing, their failure, their efforts were completely futile.
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So whether their efforts at blocking, if their efforts at
blocking this bill failed completely, it suggests that when they
pull the same tactic trying to block redistricting in Texas, it's.
Speaker 3 (38:28):
Going to fail just as blatantly.
Speaker 4 (38:30):
The only thing this stunt they're pulling right now is
doing is wasting their own lives. And while that's sad
for them, it will not change the inevitable outcome any
more than it did in twenty twenty one.
Speaker 5 (38:41):
You know, and some folks say, well, you're just trying
to suppress the minority vote. No, you're trying to protect
it with better voter ID laws.
Speaker 4 (38:50):
We're trying to stop cheating. We're not trying to stop
legitimate voting, trying to stop cheating.
Speaker 3 (38:55):
And there's a big difference.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
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Speaker 4 (39:13):
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Speaker 5 (39:16):
So Paul Bagala, a veteran Democratic strategist, former Clinton advisor,
He had this to say on CNN. Take a listen.
Speaker 4 (39:26):
I'm telling you these people who think, oh, it's four
or five seats here, it's going to be a forty
seat landslide, and the Republicans in the Congress, I think Noah.
Speaker 5 (39:35):
He's predicting forty seat landslide, a forty seat shift in
Congress Democrat majority.
Speaker 4 (39:43):
Are they already have? Where were he's saying the Democrats
are going to.
Speaker 5 (39:46):
Get yes seats, Yes, the landslide for what? That's what
I'm wondering, I mean, because what are they voting on?
Just tell me, Just tell me. He's predicting this tsunami,
this Democrat. Why is he not blue wave?
Speaker 4 (40:01):
Okay, the polls show right now the preference just generic
ballot is plus three Democrat, Whereas every time that there's
been a Democrats wave it was at least plus seventeen
or more. We're nowhere close to that. We're actually much
closer to a Republican wave.
Speaker 3 (40:18):
I get that.
Speaker 5 (40:19):
But if you're gonna vote Democrat, what would you be
What would the issue be or issues be that would
drive you to vote Democrat?
Speaker 4 (40:27):
Okay, you want more transgenders in schools, you want more
sexually explicit books for children to be.
Speaker 5 (40:35):
Real, you want more illegal immigrants.
Speaker 4 (40:37):
You want the schools and the states to have more
power over children than parents do.
Speaker 5 (40:42):
I mean, I don't know what their issues are, but
I know that overwhelmingly folks are voting Republican today more
than ever before, saying WHOA when I say whoah mean wow.
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