Will Kamala be the Dem candidate?

This podcast edition of Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness features Houston conservative thought leaders Charles Blain and Alex Mealer.  ( @KennethRWebster )

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Jack gannon government sucks the Soon ofHappiness. Radio is DeLux. Liberty and
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just as cheeseburgers a liberty rise atfood greetings, good afternoon, good morning,

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in good afternoon, mostly good afternoon, depending on where you are in
the country, in the world.Joe Biden has resigned on National ice Cream
Day. He quit the campaign.Nobody's seen the guy. His brother Frank
made it sound like he's near death. Obama is not endorsing Kamala. Pelosi
and Jefferies also did not endorse Kamala. Kamala released a statement accepting the endorsement,
which is a weird thing to do, but okay uh. The FEC

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says Harris for VP is now Harrisfor President. Delegates started shifting Kamala's way.
People that told us just a weekago that Joe is the sharpest guy
alive, and now for some reasonthey don't feel that way anymore. Oh,
she Jack died, Rest in peace, no disrespect, and Kimberly cheatle
hearing happening right now on Capitol Hilland my guests for the next hour.

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In case you're wondering. We're livestreaming on social media, but we're also
on KPRC nine fifty today, sothis is both a live stream, a
podcast and a radio show. Andmy guest right now, the very brilliant
and awesome Alex Mueller, you mayknow. And Charles Blaine is in the
building right now. Charles Blaine freshfrom a meeting with Wesley Hunt and Ted
Cruz. No, it actually wasTed Cruz and Charles Cunningham. So it

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turned out, Yeah, it wasdifferent. Long, I don't know what
happened, was what was on thewhat was it for? What you just
came from that? Yes, soTed Cruz, Senator Ted Cruz had a
meeting or a press conference. Excuseme to discuss Joe Biden dropping out of
the race and with this means andwhy Democrats have covered it up for so
long, and if him not beingable to run for president should indicate that

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we have other concerns about him runningthe country for the next six months.
All right, to your point,and took to Ted Cruz's point, I
think as well. Let me seeif I set this up right. This
is a recent video we're told ofJoe Biden talking to a woman that he
thinks is his wife. Got alittle audio of this, and then his
wife walks up. Look at thelook on his face. Now this is
before he may or may he announcedhe may or may not have COVID.

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I don't know that's even true,but that supposedly is a video of him
recently talking to a woman that hethought was Jill. I don't know,
what do you think about blonde hair, blue dress, the standards too high?
I mean, that is a prettyembarrassing moment for him. All right,
So Joe is not in good shaperight now, as we're told his
brother. I don't know if youguys have seen this clip yet. His

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brother just made it sound like he'sdead. Now you're probably thinking Jim Biden.
No, we're actually referring to FrankBiden, who also has legal issues.
Interestingly enough, is there a Bidenthat doesn't have legal issues? Watch
this clip from CBS News earlier today. Younger Brothers, and here's what he
told us. He said, I'mincredibly proud of my brother. Selfishly,
I will have him back to enjoywhatever time we have left. He is

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a genuine hero. Country over selfsounds corny in our cynical political environment,
but he nor I are cynical.The goal remains the same, defeat Trump
and continued the work that Joe hasdone. My hope is that our party
rallies around this heroic all right,I'm gonna posit right here. It just
occurred to me that Alex and Charlesdon't have headphones on, so they can't

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hear this unless I mute the mics. But I just want to play that
first part one more time. Letme rewind. Listen to what Frank says
about his brother younger brothers, andhere's what he told us. He said,
I'm incredibly proud of my brother selfishly, I will have him back to
enjoy whatever time we have left,whatever time we have left. Guys,
is is Joe even alive right now? I mean nobody's heard from him.

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No, we've got a tweet,right, So, pretty monumental decision to
drop out of a race, youknow, just nullify good fourteen million votes
and nobody has seen him. Yeah, it's scary, Charles Well, and
it's weird because you could simply justlike put a thirty second video out,
like he could have sat at hisdesk and said this. He could do
it from an ice cream shop.Right, he could celebrate the holiday and

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drop out of the race at thesame time. I mean, it's very
clear that something is out. Thefact that he couldn't even be seen saying
this or holding up press conference theysaid they'd have one later in the week,
I highly doubt it. So yeah, I'm deeply concerned about what's going
on right now. Here's what's soweird about this. We have so little
faith in the trust from this partyand his administration and his campaign because Kamala
and KJP kareein. Jean Pierre toldus days ago, I see him every

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day, sharp as attack. Suddenlyhe's got COVID. Right, didn't he
just have a cold two or threeweeks ago during the debate, Right,
And now he's got COVID all ofa sudden. Well, clearly he was
doing backflips in the Oval office.We just weren't privy to it. And
now all of a sudden COVID ispossibly very severe health consequences. And only
joking just because of the obs ofthe situation where we've gone from he's running

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marathons to now he may have daysleft to live. And the whole point
is we have no idea. Whatwe got is a tweet. And we've
already seen an issue here that's happenedwith the rise of X, that staffers
can be running these accounts and youhave no idea what the actual officeholder is
saying and thinking and so obviously understandthe decision not to run. Think that

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certainly applies to his ability to holdthe office. But how do you not
show some form of proof of lifeto know that you actually made that choice?
Is it? Here's a crazy conspiracytheory? Is it possible they figured,
Look, Joe has to die ofCOVID now, or at least make
it seem like he's dying of COVIDto do something that will be as heroic
as Trump screaming fight with blood drippingdown his face. I mean, Charles,

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I what else can they do now? I mean, I you know,
the only thing I can think isthat he has some really, really
bad days. And this is whythey keep keep keeping him away from us,
because if you think about it,for the past couple of years,
we have haven't seen pictures from cabinetmeetings. We haven't seen he at the
start of the term hed bikes becausethey haven't had any cabinet meeting for years.

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Take a picture of something that doesn'thappen exactly. He was riding bikes
at the start of the turnt Wedon't see him at all other than these
very short, very scripted moments.And I think it's a sign that he
must really have some good days andsome bad days, and his good days
aren't that great. And so Imean, it's it's deeply concerning because who
is running the country in today today, Babs, And it's I would just
add what I think that the COVIDgoing away for the weekend was this was

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an opportunity for him to leave withdignity. This was the branch. It's
you know, we saw the lastfew weeks, the heat started pressing up
where you know, for all ofus on the conservative side, you've never
seen a bad news cycle for ademocrat last not like this. And this
was just keep on, you know, escalating, escalating. And so what
they did is says, listen,we can continue to drag and muddy your

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name, or we're going to giveyou a chance to leave with dignity.
And now look at the whole flipcycle. Joe, the patriots storming the
beaches of Normandy. Let's go lookat how much has just changed right Trump
right wing populism has become American populism. Young, cool, bitcoin loving people
are all just leaning towards Trump andRepublicanism. Joe's out, everybody's laughing at

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Kamala, and the Astros are infirst place all of a sudden, I
don't think. I don't think thereare coincidences you guys, hey, quick
break more with my guests, thevery awesome and beautiful Alex Meler Charles Blaine
from Urbanreform dot org. This yearit is a right wing Houston's reaction to
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of happiness. We're back from Bray. Kenny Webster here with my good friends
Alex Mieler, local Republican firebrand,right wing conservative thought leader, and Charles
Blaine. Really two very similar people. Charles and Alex and I are actually
friends in real life. We allhang out and talk to each other in
group texts about local political issues.And as I'm sure a lot of you

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would have guessed, with everything goingon right now, Sheila Jackson Lee passing
away not even the biggest news storyof the day for Houstonians, Joe Biden
stepping down, and now Kamala Harristhe rise of Kamala. It begs an
interesting question if Joe can't run forpresident right considering what the point of the
twenty fifth Amendment is, can hebe president for a few more months?

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Shouldn't we be asking the question rightnow? In fact, to save Joe's
legacy, wouldn't you think, andI'm just trying to think like a liberal,
his legacy is either pathetic ending tohis career or the guy that put
the first female, a POC,Indian, Black person into the office of
the presidency. Wouldn't you think thatwould be his move at this moment.

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I mean, it feels like,I hate to admit it, that's the
only thing that saves his legacy inhistory books, Alex First, so just
say whether or not he's sent itor not doesn't change I think the day
to day So yes, in termsof democracy, the way that you think
of the actual officeholder making decisions.But we've seen this across the spectrum.

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How long was Diane Feinstein, youknow, taking votes in office, where
I don't think there's anyone that thoughtthat she was at her full capacities till
the end. We've seen it nowwith Joe Biden. Plenty of conservatives have
made that argument, with Mitch McConnell, that what seems to matter in current
politics is just occupying that slot.And what is very alarming, especially me

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being on the liberty end of thespectrum, is this idea that no,
actually nothing changes the joke because Biden'sstaff has been running and making all those
decisions for so long, and youknow, pretty alarming. Who are those
key players? That business will continueas usual except maybe Joe gets some longer
nap time. Yeah, Charles,Look, we'll talk more about Shila in

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a bit, but just on thatnote, because you bring up such an
interesting point, Alex, Joe hasbeen incapacitated, right Shila Jackson Lee tweeting
hours before her death? Are wesupposed to be look, creston peace.
We've all lost family members to cancer. No disrespect here, but am I
to believe that Chila Jackson Lee onher deathbed is watching Trump's speech and complaining
about it on Twitter? No?No, she's not, clearly, John

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Fetterman. I mean, Diane Feinstein. You know, these aren't the only
people, Charles, No, notat all. I mean, and if
you remember when Diane Feinstein was kindof towards the end she lost power of
attorney, well, her daughter tookover power of attorney because she couldn't even
handle her own finances and things inher life. But yet she's supposedly making
rules and taking votes on behalf ofCalifornians. And so I think, one,

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they're not the only ones. Wehave a lot of these unelected,
pointed, and hired people who arerunning these offices. And I mean,
at some point it almost seems likecriminal that is, in a situation like
Joe Biden's where we don't know thestatus of his health and these major decisions
that have to be made on adata basis, and people who we did
not elect to make those decisions aremaking a lot of those decisions. I

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mean, it's a serious problem inall levels the government, and I think
this is somewhat exposing it, butI don't know that it's going to fix
it. That's the problem, allright. I hate to feed into conspiracy
theories, but the conspiracy theorists arepadding almost a thousand right now, something
that has been widely discussed amongst people, among people on social media, right
wingers and left ringers. Both Joe'ssignature on that resignation letter stepping down from

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the race doesn't look like a lotof his other signatures. Now that doesn't
mean anything, but does it.I just think it's the point where we
shouldn't be relying on the signature.He should have gone on camera and made
that decision. And it's a digitalsignature too, I mean the whole thing.
It's like, I'm all for thingsbeing expedited online. I wish we

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would do that with more regulations,but something this momentous, and that's the
issues, Like we're laughing about itbecause it's so absurd that this comfort new
normal for you know, any staffercan just put out a tweet and that's
policy and we don't really care ifwe ever actually know, is it the
principle making decision is just just theconstruct of it. Yeah, that's Charles

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No. I agree, and Ithink, you know, I don't think
this is going to happen, butI think in a world it could happen
where they did this, you know, someone assuming he's not where he needs
to be, and someone did thisfor him. We could go the rest
of this turm without like actually seeinghim, right, he could be tweeting
things out, you know, postingold pictures. We've seen elected officials do
that time and time again and notactually see him. And I would assume

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that come November, if Trump wins, we're going to get a statement from
the White House saying that Biden's notgoing to attend the inauguration. And so,
you know, the way, thefact that we have to have these
conversations and we can live in arealm of reality where we don't know the
status of the president and we mightnot see him, and we don't know
when we're going to see him.It's it's deeply concerning. All right,
Let's talk a little bit about whothe presumed nominee is now, and that

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of course is supposedly Kamala Harris,and I presume it will be I would
absolutely because of the financial situation.But all that being said, if that's
who it is, this is whatthey're dealing with. Here's a clip of
MSAC I think this is from yesterday. This is Jen Psase with Rachel Maddow.
What's so weird about MSNBC is theykind of say if you watch in

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the evening, they'll often say thequiet part out loud because it's like they
don't realize Republicans are watching watch this. But now the DNC and the Democratic
Party has to run, they're goingto run a process, as my understanding,
and the process is going to bethe goal of it is to make
the vice president look strong and bestrong at the end of the process.

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So that means that's what we're goingto see. Over the next couple of
days, we'll learning more a lotmore about what that looks like. What
what what kind of a process?I mean, like a like a competition,
any debate, what even Rachel Maddowcan't believe, Like no, no,
no, he's a legitimate what's thepoint of a convention if nothing else

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is to determine who's the best personfor the candidacy? But as Jen Psase,
a DNC in masquerading his immediate personality, just let out of the bag.
Actually, what we're really gonna dois just make her look strong,
Alex. This is deeply insulting tothere as slow clap for the hard working
primary Democrat voters that keep going outthere clearly when your vote doesn't mean anything,

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No, it doesn't. And therewe've talked about this off the air.
This is the same political party thathad super delegates. This is the
same political party that got sued byBernie Sanders for trying to rig the twenty
sixteen debates. Bernie lost. Bythe way, you don't the party can
rig their own debates. A courtdecided. This is the same political party
that tried to bankrupt their the leadcandidate. Trump tried to put him in

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prison, and some would argue triedto kill the guy by sending Secret Service
agents to go protect Jill in Pittsburghor go protect Zelensky. For some reason,
they took that. I mean,this is mainstream media's reporting on this
stuff. Now, you could arguethat they weren't trying to kill Trump and
that was just negligence, but itstill didn't look good. Charles, No,
not at all. And it's veryweird that they're doing this whole thing.

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It's like a dog and pony show. We know that they want to
coorinate Kamala here, but yet theycan't necessarily do that because she didn't want
a race on her own since shewas agy of California, so they have
to make it look like she canwin a race, and they're gonna throw
up candidates who don't have as muchmoney and who aren't as strong because they're
not the vice president, and thengo into this and I think one of
the rules was they're gonna refrain fromhaving the super delegates vote in the first

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round, but then they can votein the second round, and so it's
like, okay, so she justhas to kind of eat eat through the
first one, come out with thetie, and then all of a sudden,
the super delegates are hers. Imean, it's a ridiculous notion,
and it's it's I just don't understandwhy they're going through this. If this
is the case and they wanted herto be a nominee, they should have
encouraged him to step down six monthsago, let her ascend to the presidency,
and then go into this election aspresident. Why are we doing all

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this? Do you think that thepoint of having a debate in June and
then not having the point, thennot having the election their convention until August
was because they had all this plannedfor over a year. No, I
think the debate could certainly be aforcing function, and clearly they're willing to
plan the idea that everybody but Obama, one of Kamala's biggest cheerleaders, has

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endorsed. It's okay, every singleDemocrat except for party leadership, because as
long as it's not not our seniorleadership, you know, whether it's Nancy
Pelosi, a Keem Jefferies, thenthis is organic draft roots support. But
it's it's sort of noticeable that youknow the list, it's hard to think
of who has an endorsed her otherthan those few key senior positions. Well,

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Nancy did endorse, Okay, sowe're gonna hold out one or two.
But I mean, the path's beenclear right now. It's really is
going to be about who's the VPand what I think they're playing for.
Just as a former down ballot candidate, this is all about margin, and
I think margin with those battleground racesis finally what pulled them off. So
you had the debate. It clearlyshowed what they had to be knowing for

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months. Obviously Kamala's integrity called intoquestion. She's been back going about for
him. But at this point,you know, will they pick a candidate
that makes them more viable in battlegrounds, or will they can down the path?
Those are really good questions, allright, Kimberly cheatleh the head of
the Secret Service is I think they'rebreaking at the moment. But she has
been getting grilled by both Democrats andRepublicans alike. Today only two Democrats of

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all the people in their party arecalling on the head of the Secret Service
to step down. Aana Presley amazinglymaking this about race and sex. We've
got the clips. Stick around,we'll play it all when we get back.
Also the passing of a local congresswoman, Shila Jackson Lee, and the
weird intersection between Kimberly Cheatles perceived negligenceand the death of Shila Jackson. Hang

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around. I'll show you what allthat means in a minute. If you're
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anywhere. Pursuit of that penis radiocoming now, Chusk. This is Kenny
Webster's Pursuit of happiness. On KPRCnine fifty Houston. Kimberly Cheatle claims she's

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that in the Secret Service, anda lot of people are wondering right now,
how does this woman still have ajob. Imagine your main goal,
like the main thing you're supposed todo, is to keep people alive,
and on your watch, somebody almostdied. I mean, let's be clear.
Somebody died, right, an innocentperson. Two other innocent people were
seriously injured at that rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. Most people know the story

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by now, so we don't haveto walk through it. But we know
for a fact that Kimberly Cheatle's donea pretty bad job. And now there's
been some strange things that have beenclaimed over the course of the last few
days here that Jill Stein was responsiblefor putting Kimberly Cheatle in this position.
And we've heard that they took securitystaff off the Trump rally and send it

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to go protect Zelenski. Kind ofinfuriating if you're a person that thinks we've
spent too much money on the UkraineWar. Similarly, we've also heard that
apparently security staff was taken off ofthe Trump rally and sent to go watch
Jill a doctor Jill, excuse me, Jill Biden, who was in Pittsburgh
for some reason that day. Andthen and then there's this Kimberly Cheatleh headed

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the Secret Service, giving her testimonytoday, decided to pay a little tribute
to Congresswoman of Houston now the past, the late Congresswoman Rest in peace,
Sheila Jackson Lee. Listen to this. I would be remiss if I did
not also extend my condolences on thepassing of your colleague, Congresswoman Sheila Jackson
Lee. Miss Jackson Lee was alwaysengaged in the oversight of the Secret Service,

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and her passing is a great lossto this body. Was always engaged
in the oversight of the Secret Service. And look again, rest in peace.
But boy, strange timing a weirdcomment to make Alex Look, I
you know, this is a localwoman to us here in Houston, and
everybody in this room's lost somebody tocancer. We're not going to crap on

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Sheila Jackson Lee today. But whatdo you think of about what she just
said there? I don't think youshould be making accusations about what somebody's role
was when they're not present to defendthemselves. Yeah, so it seems an
awkward interjection where to be bringing upthat past performance, and you know,
obviously condolences out of the congressman's family, But to me, this is more

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of her dip dive ducking for accountabilitywhere whoever's supposed to be oversight, whatever
other name she wants to throw intoit. She should have been fired,
if not resigning. Yeah, Charles, No, I mean I wholeheartedly agree.
I mean, if I were inthe congress woman's family, I'd be
offender, Like, don't put mein this, Like that's ridiculous exactly,

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you know she I mean, she'sup there presumably taking responsibility for her failures
as the head of this agency,and then to kind of pull anyone else
into it just doesn't really make anysense. And it's a deflection, I
mean at that point. And soI don't know if if her intention was
to do that or if she wasactually being genuine, but either way,
you should not be pulling people inwhen it's something this massive. Yeah,
it's an odd, very strange timingfor that. Now she says she's not

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stepping down. Kimberly Cheatle is notgoing anywhere. Nancy Mace not having it
today. By the way, Ijust want to ask for a friend.
I can't play the video of this, so I just have the audio because
it's censored. Here's Nancy Mace todayquestioning uh Kimberly Cheatle during the Progressional hearing
just hours ago. I would haveto get back to you. That is

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a no. You're full of today. You're just being completely dishonest. Mister.
I don't mind. We have tomaintain decorum in this committee. Any
you provide any memos to this committeethat we've asked you on July fifteenth,
have you provided all memory ANDAs withinthe Secret Service, I would have to

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get back to you. That isa no. You are being dishonest or
lying. I just you're being dishonesthere with this committee. These are important
questions that the American people want answersto, and you're just you're just dodging
and talking around it in generalities.And we had this. It's the pan
of you to be here and youwon't even answer the questions. We have
asked you repeatedly to answer our questions. This isn't hard. These are not

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hard questions, all right. Idon't know if Nancy Mays is still single,
but if she is, i'd liketo know, just asking for a
friend. So now Similarly, LaurenBobert, another one of my favorite congresswomen,
asking questions today about how apparently KimberlyCheetle was using an encrypted app to
communicate with other people in the SecretService, and that they were aware of
the fact that they didn't follow protocol, and so Lauren Bobert asked, would

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you be willing to share your phonewith us? Kimberly Cheetle said only if
I am required to, which wasyou know, it sounds like you're guilty
as something here, Charles Hona,you start this one, what do you
think of all that? No,I mean, that's the thing. And
something like this, where you havethe attempted assassination of a president, you
would think that, especially if you'rea government official, you'd be more than
willing to turn over anything that youcould possibly take early when you're a best

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defense is a slope roof not us. Let's just put this in the you
know the scale. This wasn't somelead Iranian you know secrets right, so
from Pennsylvania, and so you wouldthink that she would be more And the
fact that they even had to subpoenaor her to get there, I mean
you would think that she jump atthe chance to come, whether it's clear
her name, clear her agency,or just apologize for the oversight, whatever

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it may be. You would expectthat government officials will be a little more
forthcoming when it comes to something likethe assassination attempt of a president. But
again, that is our government thatwe have today. Obviously this is another
representation of it. Alex No,when I saw what happened, is details
came out, I was honestly dumbfounded. You actually have some experience. For

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those that don't know who Alex Miheleris, if you're from outside of Harris
County, Alex Miller is a brilliantperson who used to run a team of
people that would diffuse bombs and explosives. And you've actually got experience with protecting
politicians. Can we tell Most peopledon't realize, and it's not a commonly
known thing, but members of thebomb squad in the military, we work

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with the Secret Service. That's perfectsense. So I've done security former President
Obama as well as a President Bush. And when I think about the lengths
we went to you get their significantadvanced kind of party details. I've kind
of crawled around in boiler rooms,been through their underwear, jars on rooftops

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of hotels, being so thorough andwhen you look and you're in the middle
of a farm field and I'm certainlyby no means the you know, elite
of the most tactical, But thiswas at such a basic level. I
mean it just that level of negligence. There's always attacks that are so well
coordinated, multifaceted that you know,understand the vulnerability. But with this,

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if you couldn't stop something as basicof this, what is your purpose?
Why are you there? Question aboutthat? So one of the things that's
getting thrown around here is this narrativethat an ion a Presley and a handful
of other people did this today.Jasmine Crockett, I think that this is
an attack on women, it's anattack to on pos which there weren't even
really any black people involved. Andwhen you watch up on stage, you

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don't see like a lot of blackwomen up there. It doesn't feel like
that has anything to do with it. But certainly people have criticized the DEI
policies that both doctor Jill and KimberlyCheadle are seen on video pushing for the
Secret Service. You're you're a woman, alle yeh know something if they person
they're attacking here, No, Sothis is the difference. And yes,
when I would work with Secret Service, I remember I'd always get kind of

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stared at a lot because there wasn'ta lot of women. But when you
make policies the lower standards to inflatenumbers, not only do you create bad
stereotypes for those that are competent,but you actually do in danger. So
yes, have there been plenty ofcompetent women, But when you have whatever
aggressive targets I think thirty percent,you know that is an acknowledgment that to
hit those targets, you are goingto be rapidly dropping standards. And it

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did come from the bomb squad,and we were there when we had a
quadruple in size because of the warranttear and that wasn't for a specific gender
or race, it was just bodies. And a lot of standards started getting
lesson and across the whole military,and we saw we started waving for behavioral
health issues, different criminal records,and that translated into performance declines. And

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so I always find it very offensivethat when you notice that people that listen
I can holster a firearm right,when I see a woman that's supposed to
be guarding our president that can't holstera firearm that is so deeply offensive that
that is supposed to represent the sortof combat veterans that I was around in
the competency that was expected. SoI don't take that as an attack on

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women. I see this as anattack on a failed administration and agency.
Well, Charles, I got toask you the same question here, because
I'm the cisgendered, heteronormative white devilthat you know. Obviously I'm not supposed
to like Dee. I'm but meritocracyI think is good for everybody. I
mean, you're you're a black Republican, You're the boogeyman to him. How
do you think about this? Imean it should be And you know,

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I watched portion of the hearing todayand Jasmine Crockett was asking one. She
was asking a bit about DEI,but then she was asking if they did
not take the shooter seriously because whenthey look at young white men, even
if they're carrying rifles, they don'tusually trigger the bias alarm as the way
that young black men who aren't carryingrifles are. It was like such a

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ridiculous statement. And so the underlyingquestion was do you guys do bias training?
And she was like, yeah,but it's ridiculous because they try to
feed all of that into it.And what's interesting is I was having a
conversation on Friday and someone had pulledup some of the physical requirements you know,
from sit ups, push ups,pull ups for the Secret Service for
men and women. And you know, I'm not one to pick on anybody

(27:40):
when it comes like lowering physical standards, but what they had on there was
it was like kind of ridiculous interms of comparison. And you would think
in a situation like that where you'reprotecting the president, you should have some
comparative figures, like you need toget a stronger woman if that is the
case, or you need to geta stronger man. It should not lower
standards because you're targ Gate is someonewho is of great importance and it needs

(28:02):
to be priority to protect them.All right, we gotta break to Jim
Wilmore thought you wanted to do.I just meant you could be most talent
and greatest, you know, butif you're five feet nothing, sorry,
you probably shouldn't be guarding well,yeah, and there's ever rules. You
want to be a sniper, great, right, but I don't want you
to be at five foot nothing standingin front of a very large president.
Right. Everybody has different skills.I can't slam dunk and I can't do

(28:26):
brain surgery. But I do tellboner jokes about politicians. That's what I'm
good at. Hey, if you'rewatching us on social media, don't go
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(28:47):
on KPRC nine point fifty Houston.Okay, we're back. If you're just
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Webster of the Walton Johnson Show,and I used to write for Breitbart,
and you might have heard me onthe Mill Barry Show in so many other
places. But or mancow, howcould I forget my former mentor? But
also in the studio right now,Alex Mueller is here, a conservative thought
leader from Houston, and Charles Blaineis here from urbanreform dot org for those

(29:11):
who don't know Charles, what isurban reform dot org. Really, we
just kind of promote and put outwhat's gone on locally so county government,
city government, sometimes school district.For people who aren't able to follow it
on a day to day basis.We kind of chop up clips and put
things out so people can understand what'shappening in hopefully use it to go and
say something because there's a lot tosay. I love that. Yeah,
Conservative, imagine how crazy that is. Conservative solutions to the giant communities around

(29:37):
the country where socialism is failing.What a radical idea, Alex, What
do you got going on lately?Also join the metro board a few months
ago, and so in Harris Countyand so, and to your point,
like that is something that needs alot of help in this city. So
I'm glad that you are doing it. We are just reacting to some of
the insane news from over the lastforty eight to thirty six hours here.

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And I think something we really needto pay attention to is who the candidate
is probably going to be. AndI think nobody has done a better job
of explaining who the DNC's new candidateis than Tulsea Gabbard four years ago.
I want to bring the conversation backto the broken criminal justice system that is
disproportionately negatively impacting black and brown peopleall across this country. To day,

(30:25):
a Senator, Harris says she's proudof her record as a prosecutor and that
she'll be a prosecutor president. ButI'm deeply concerned about this record. There
are too many examples to cite.But she put over fifteen hundred people in
jail for marijuana violations and then laughedabout it when she was asked if she
ever smoked marijuana. She blocked evidence. She blocked evidence that would have freed

(30:47):
an innocent man from death row untilthe course forced her to do so.
She kept people in prison beyond theirsentences to use them as cheap labor for
the state of California. And shefought to keep catching system in place that
impacts poor people. And the worstkind of way I got a congresswoman,
I gotta think, if you're alaw and order Republican, even if you're

(31:08):
very authoritarian right wing, lock upthe criminals for life. That is too
extreme of a stance. For you. So, how are liberal voters supposed
to react to who their candidate justbecame? Charles Well, they're going to
turn the blind eye to and they'regoing to fall in line, because that's
often what they do. And that'sthe thing because right that came up during
the debate, and I think thatwas the same debate, or at least

(31:30):
the same year where Kamaluk, youknow, excuse racism of racism, and
yet everybody forgot all about it,and now it's Kumbayan and now she's being
pushed forward. And that's what theyoften do. They just kind of turn
a blind eye to it because alot of times, for them, power
is more important than the quality ofelected official that they have, and so
that's that's where they find themselves.Alex No agree. And I just hope

(31:52):
independents and Republicans remember this is thesame person that was bailing out violent criminals
that were burning our cities in twentytwenty. That's also on her record.
Isn't that remarkable? Like how couldthat have been the same person in the
same decade. When you believe innothing, you could say you believe in
anything at the drop of a dime, when you have no principles. Anything
can be your principles, isn't reallyYou brought up independence, and I'm glad

(32:14):
you did because it reminded me ofRFK Junior, who is still technically running
for president. Wouldn't he be?I mean, isn't he polling higher than
Kamala at this point? I hateto listen to RFK Junior's voice in a
political debate, but doesn't he kindof deserve to be there? No,
this is a party that's about commandand control. So what's so funny about
a lot of the Democrat ideology isthat you would think, you know a

(32:37):
lot of people that it attracts theSubaru drivers with the bumper stickers, But
when it comes to their politics,it's machine politics and it is a top
down I mean, how often canyou look at Joe Biden's tweet and two
minutes later Lena Hidalgo has almost theexact same thing. And that's what we
saw with Biden. You know,he's great, he's running ultra marathon.
Man's to then nope's gotta go,not go. So that they clearly have

(33:00):
strong command and control. You're notgoing to have somebody that is willing to
be Independent be the nominee. Yeah, Charles, I gotta think considering out
twenty twenty one and the fact thatKamala is not very popular and look,
there are people that will get mobilizedfor a female POC candidate in the Democrat
Party, There's no doubt about that. But she's still deeply unpopular looking at

(33:21):
how the Democrat primaries went. Butall that being said, at this point,
is this really just about down ballidcongressional seats. Nobody's passionate about Joe.
They might show up in some placesaround the country. For Kamala,
is that the strategy at this point? Well, I think for them,
they looked at the numbers and theyknow that that's not a reality for them,
and so they're trying to kind ofsave whatever they can, and I

(33:42):
think it is that a lot ofthe down ballot ones. I think their
only hope is that maybe they filterthrough some of the potential VP picks and
find someone who makes that ticket morelikable. But I don't know that anyone
that they pick is going to makethe ticket likable enough to close the gap
that Kamala brings. And so Ithink right now their hope is to just
kind of say enough of the they'restop enough of the bleeding to save some
of these down ballot races. ButI think people are waking up to it

(34:05):
again. You know, they they'velied for so long, for so many
years about this, and mind you, we're just seeing the clips here and
there, the speeches here and there. They're with him all the time,
so they know how bad this reallyis. We're just getting a glimpse of
it. And so they had anidea of how bad it was and consistently
told us otherwise. And I thinkpeople are recognizing that now, and whether
or not they go vote for Republican, I definitely think they're going to be

(34:28):
more reluctant to support Democrats in November. All right, Going from that to
this, I'm we're live streaming.We're live streaming. There's always buckle up
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(34:49):
five hundred and eighty eight people arewatching us live streaming. I don't think
that that's a coincidence. Elon Muskgot us here, Peter Thiel got us
here, and I can't even believewe're about to watch this clip over the
weekend. You guys might not evenrecognize this mixed martial arts wearing he's got?
Is he wearing? Is that whatdo the kids call that? Is

(35:10):
that drip? Is that? MarkZuckerber I've done some stuff personally in the
past. I'm not planning on doingthat this time. And that includes,
you know, not endorsing either ofthe candidates. Now, look, I
mean there's obviously a lot of crazystuff going on in the world. I
mean the historic events over the lastlike over the weekend, and I mean
a personal note, it's yeah,I mean seeing Donald Trump get get up

(35:34):
after getting shot in the face andpump his fist in the air with the
American flag is one of the mostbadass things I've ever seen in my life.
But why wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, where where
are we do you guys not rememberZuckerbucks. We were going to pass a
law here in Texas to stop thisguy that lives in California for medaling in

(35:55):
our elections, and now he saysTrump is the most badass guy's ever seen
in his life, Charles, whydon't you start this round? Well,
I think he sees how the tideis turning. And you see this from
a lot of folks who have beenpreviously critical or at least up until this
election season really got kicked off,they were very critical, and now they're
kind of subtly, maybe not comingover, but they're at least softening the

(36:15):
language that they're using because they knowthat they're going to be in for another
four years of Trump and at thebest, they don't want to be kind
of the target. They want tojust fall under the radar. And so
I think you're seeing that from himnow. And I would also go back
to at least for me and mostthings, I go on policy issues.
But when you saw Trump do that, that was the first time I think

(36:37):
a lot of us got to beproud, like really proud after you know,
I grew up very patriotic, alwaysthrough, but in this Biden administration
is just constantly embarrassed on the worldstage over and over again, and so
to see someone show strength again Ithink was actually very inspiring and it was
nice to be like, you know, we don't just keep getting rolled over

(36:59):
and even a lot of the Rand C as they made, you know,
fun of it. I enjoyed thefact that it was less politicians,
but I mean it brought me backto being a kid to see whole Cogan.
Yeah, and part of that isjust showing that it's okay. And
you know, if you hear himactually when he's talking seriously, it's like,
listen, how long could I staysilent? I've seen the border,
I've seen inflation, and so nowwhat's happened is it's mainstreamed being able to

(37:23):
say I'm a conservative, where forso long, you know, there's a
taboo word. You brought up,Paul Cogan. Have you guys seen the
movie Idiocracy. Idiocracy is about youknow, it's a professional wrestler becomes president
in the future. Everybody's very dumb, and technology rolls over us and Mike
Judge didn't get everything right. Butearlier today, I'm running in the park.
Before I come here, I seea truck drive by. You'll get

(37:45):
this joke, you won't. Andthe truck slicense plateed is Upgrade with two
d's. So I popped next tothe woman driving and this is a character
from the movie Upgrade with two d'sfor a double dose and dyss pimpin.
And I asked her if that didyou watch the movie Idiocracy? She said,
yeah, that's why I did it. And I was like, that's
awesome, You're awesome. The thingthat's so wild about that, and I'm
a Republican is even though the RepublicanNational Convention did take little elements from the

(38:09):
movie Ediocracy, it's still the cooler, more fun political party. It's weird
to think that if Idiocracy's right,and this is the writing on the wall,
somehow, this is actually the morecompetent side of the two options.
And what I push back is,you know, we're the party that at
least has the officeholders making choices anddecisions. Yeah, you know, so

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I take a big offense when theysay, look, RNC idiocracies like no,
hul Cogan gave a very you know, cogent reason for it. But
it was a part of this goingback to American strength, being proud to
be American. When you think aboutour rallies, you know, they have
to limit probably some of their strongerVP contenders because of anti Semitism. I
mean they had that is a greatpoint. Yeah, and then the other

(38:52):
thing they kept throwing out was amberRose. Am they got to, oh,
it's an OnlyFans model at the RNC. It's hard as it is to
believe. I have liberal friends andI asked them what they thought amber Rose's
speech right after they made fun ofher, is like, did you watch
the speech? They said, yeah, actually it was a pretty good speech
they had. They begrudgingly admitted itto me, Charles Well, I mean,

(39:12):
and to be fair, I didn'twatch this speech. I saw clips
of it and heard about it.But I think the thing is, you
know, when you bring folks inlike amber Rose, and I think they
had Alice Marie Johnson, who wasone of the one women that Trump released
with the first step back, andpeople who are kind of atypical to Republican
politics coming and giving their testimony asto why they have come and joined the

(39:34):
party or at least just supporting Trump. It resonates with people because it's not
the cookie cutter person that you usuallyhear from. And so as much as
they want to talk about it,having these different faces and voices come forward
and say that I think is important. And then I saw it was either
yesterday day before that, Waka Flakaeven tweeted like, oh, we need
to support Trump or something. Soit's really interesting to see this very vocal
support from people you don't typically fundsupporting Republicans, isn't that it? And

(39:58):
some Republicans conservative activists or mad aboutthat, like, oh amber Rose supports
abortion and she's on our side.Isn't it interesting that we have a party
platform right now that's appealing to awalk of flock of flame and an amber
Rose, but also a Christian conservativefamily from Middle America. I think that's
why we're gonna win. But guysdon't write off Kamalai yet, and of

(40:19):
course we're still a long way toelection. Dame. I'm Kenny Webster.
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